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Timo Glock has admitted that he is concerned at not having completed a deal with Toyota for 2010. The Japanese manufacturer has been expected to take up its option on the German, which it still holds, for some time, but has yet to do so. Amid renewed speculation about Toyota’s long-term participation in F1, Glock is keen to get his future with the marque secured as soon as possible. “A little bit, yes,” said Glock when asked by AUTOSPORT about whether he is concerned not to have completed a deal. It is a bit of a worry at the moment and if you look at the situation with BMW - I think that all of the manufacturers are in a difficult situation. Everybody keeps the window open and you never know what is happening.” Glock added that he has been considering what alternatives are out there for discussions when his contract option expires. But his first choice is to remain at Toyota for a third season. “For me, it’s not an easy situation,” said Glock. “You have to look at what options you could have if it goes wrong. But hopefully everything goes as we planned it and I can stay at Toyota.” Teammate Jarno Trulli is looking increasingly unlikely to remain at Toyota next year, despite his willingness to take a pay-cut of what is understood to be around 50 percent. However, as Glock is on a relatively modest wage for an established F1 driver, his salary is unlikely to be such a stumbling block.
Timo Glock has admitted that he is concerned at not having completed a deal with Toyota for 2010
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of the top seats already being locked out when he became free for 2010, there is still a good chance of him being in a winning car. “I hope that I will be in a competitive car next year,” said Kubica. “Most of the teams have already contracted drivers so there are not a lot of places to go. But there are a few opportunities that look promising for the future.” The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner added that he was in no hurry to commit himself to a deal, and that the development progress teams make in the coming races could play a key role. “I’m in the early stages of talking because it wasn’t long ago that we got the news of BMW stopping,” he said. “I’m not in a hurry.”
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Robert Kubica says he is unconcerned by the prospect of joining a team for 2010 that has not won a race this year, as he closes on a move to Renault. Kubica is a free agent next year, following BMW’s decision to withdraw from Formula 1 at the end of the season. He insists that it is difficult to know which teams will be the strongest and claims the potential of the team he joins is more important. “Even if you are not on the pace straight away, if you are working with a good group you can move forward in winter testing,” said Kubica when asked by AUTOSPORT about whether he is concerned at the prospect of racing for a team that is not currently winning races. Nobody can guarantee a quick car, but you can have a guarantee of maximum effort and motivation.” “It’s difficult to judge which team will win races next year. You can have some idea because the teams that finish this year well would most probably have a good start to next season because the cars stay the same aerodynamically.” Kubica is confident that despite several
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Ship’s crews at Nusa Penida carrying luggage of passengers to offshore after they arrive at Kusamba beach, Klungkung, Bali on Thursday, August 27. Crossing using speed boat still becomes an alternative for passengers that want to cross Nusa Penida because they think it’s more practical than Roro Ship that have big capacity and only cross one time per day. Yesterday, a traditional passenger boat sank off when crossing to Nusa Penida from Kusamba beach, Klungkung, killing nine people.
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DENPASAR - The State Logistics Agency Bulog) has been channeling about 2,022 tons of rice for the poor (Raskin) every month, the chief of Bulog’s Bali branch, Tuti Sutiati, said. “We have been channeling 2,002 tons of Raskin for 134,804 poor families each month,” Sutiati said here on Thursday. She said that each of the poor families got 15 kg of
Raskin with a price of 1,600 per kg. The biggest number of families receiving the Raskin assistance was that of Buleleng district with the number of targeted families of
45,187, followed by Karangasem with 35,921 families, Bangli 13,451 families, Tabanan 11,624 families, Klungkung 7,988 families, Gianyar 7,509 families, Jembrana 5,727 families, Badung 3,826 families and Denpasar city 3,571 families. “The market price of rice are between IDR5,800 and IDR5,900 per kg at the trader level ranges at between. But the Raskin is sold at
IDR1,600 per kg with a government subsidy,” she said On rice stocks in Bali in the current fasting month, Sutiati said that stocks were enough to meet the need of consumers until the postfasting Lebaran festivity. “Our rice stocks at warehouses in various districts in Bali reach 21,500 tons which are enough for the need until nine months ahead,” she said.
Mid-Eastern tourists to Bali increasing Antara
DENPASAR - The number of tourists from the Middle East to Bali has been increasing lately, and therefore the number of tourist guides to serve them also need to be increased especially those wellversed in matters relating to Islam. Many tourists from countries in
he Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Syria, have come to the island paradise in increasing flocks, a tourist guide of Bali Made Kawiana said here Thursday. According to the Bali Tourism Agency, the number of tourists from the Middle East to Bali, has been increasing substantially, especially
in the early months of this year. Those who came to Bali in June 2009 for instance reached 481, while in June they totaled only 268, and now their total in the first semester of 2009 had reached 1,656. Efforts at further increasing the number of tourists coming to Bali particularly, and to Indonesia in general, may include convincing
the peoples in the Arab countries that Bali is also very suitable and attractive for the development of Islamic religious centers. The relations between Hindu and Islam in Bali had been growing harmoniously since the distant past, which is also a factor which may attract tourists to come to Bali, Made Kawi said.
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Badung Regent instructed Bali government asked Minister of Forestry to to close Wild Catz and withdraw the license Holiday Discotheque Bali Post
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DENPASAR - Two entertainment spots, namely Wild Catz and Holiday Discotheque, will be closed immediately after the issuance of instruction of Badung Regent, AA Gde Agung, to Badung Civil Servant Police Unit. The regent felt indignant because both entertainment spots were considered undisciplined and unable to be educated. http://3.bp.blogspot.com
Logo of Wild Catz. Two entertainment spots, namely Wild Catz and Holiday Discotheque, will be closed immediately after the issuance of instruction of Badung Regent, AA Gde Agung, to Badung Civil Servant Police Unit. The regent felt indignant because both entertainment spots were considered undisciplined and unable to be educated. at location before closing those business sites. “I have assigned my subordinates to re-check to location.” Holiday Discotheque has violated the operational permit. Meanwhile, Wild Catz has proven to have no permit. Badung Civil Servant Police Unit and Government Tourism Office have warned both business sites. In the meantime, other than the record on violation of nightclub business, Badung Government should also give special attention to
violator of green belt. Internal source in Badung Civil Servant Police Unit mentioned the number of violation has reached 100s. The most frequent violations encountered were in Northern Kuta. There are three kinds of building located at green belt stripe namely permanent building, semi-permanent building and hut. However, up to now the violations have not been followed up yet. According to the resource person, his party should wait for the regent’s instruction to take action. (ded)
DENPASAR - Pressure of the community to discontinue the development of villa in the Dasong forest near Lake Buyan seemed to have been responded by Bali Provincial Government. Governor promised to learn and observe to what extent the violation has been made by the development of villa in Dasong forest. This respond was different than the statement from Division Head of Public Relation and Protocol of Bali Province, Putu Suardika. He, who was met several days before, firmly stated that the Bali Provincial Government was waiting for the withdrawing of license of Dasong forest utilization. “We have sent a letter to Minister of Forestry to withdraw the utilization of Dasong forest intended for villas,” he observed. Issuance of license by Minister of Forestry on the utilization of Dasong forest becomes the highlight of the member of Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Rudis. He certified that the appearance of villa at the area of forest reserve indicated the weakness of law enforcement. It was driven by shortterm interests. He added the issuance of license from Minister of Forestry on the utilization of Dasong forest did not emerge suddenly, but all based on the agreement of the lowest official. That matter was justified by another member of Commission
IV, Sartono. However, both would not like to say that Regional Legislation on Bali Provincial Spatial Layout Plan (RTRWP) that was just stipulated turned powerless as the previous Regional Legislation. Rudis mentioned that it is not enough by making its sanction firmer and severer; its implementation should also be firm. “The most important thing is the courage of the official to firmly act in securing the Regional Legislation on the Bali’s RTRWP,” he affirmed. Both expected what delivered by Governor of Bali on the law enforcement regarding to RTRWP could be consistent and responsible. “Do not make any discrimination,” he reminded. Rudis admitted that there remained many officials of regency that was mistakenly interpreted the authority of regional autonomy. There is an assumption that Regency Territory has greater authority than that of the province. As consequence, it raised smaller kings in the regency level. Seemingly, they acted arrogantly without paying attention to the higher regulations. Ideally, this condition might not have occurred if they referred to the same regional legislation. In other words, the regency government may not take any contrary action to the provincial regulations. Similarly, provincial government would also refer to the higher regulations namely the national spatial layout plan. (029)
Security on Airport remains strict Bali Post
DENPASAR – Security over the entry and exit of vehicles and people to Ngurah Rai Airport remains strict. Non-private fourwheeled vehicle is examined at special post near the entrance gate of Ngurah Rai Airport. The security officer (police and air forces) as well as the security staff of the Ngurah Rai Airport authority will perform regular duties on checking the vehicle.
At particular hours, this examination causes traffic jam on the way to the airport starting from the Tjunction of Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai to Denpasar and Nusa Dua. Generally, the traffic jam occurs at 11:00 to 14:00 Local Time. Even, this condition prolongs to 19:00 Local Time where the air traffic increases. General Manager of PAP (airport authority), Ngurah Rai Airport, Heru Legowo, expressed his apologies to the road users for the incon-
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Gde Agung on Wednesday said that both venues which located in Legian and Jalan Sunset Road, Kuta have been warned by the Badung government to meet the requirements. However, up to these days, they never obey. “It has been so long I received a direct report from the community, but to take action we need a process. As they persist to be stubborn, I handed over the case to the Civil Servant Police Unit to make coordination with Badung Government Tourism Office to close them,” he stated. In separated location, the Head of Badung Civil Servant Police Unit, I Wayan Adi Arnawa, justified the existence of instruction to close Wild Catz and Holiday Discotheque. Nevertheless, Adi Arnawa remained to re-check the condition
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venience that may have been caused. Security check is performed for the sake of common convenience. “To diminish the traffic jam, the road users from Nusa Dua to Kuta are suggested to pass through the airport route,” Heru said. From Bali Post’s monitoring at Ngurah Rai Airport on Wednesday, the pacification at the entrance gate of the airport remained strict. Local security staff assisted by a number of police and personnel of air
forces in uniform looked to check every four-wheeled vehicle entering into the airport, chiefly those not belonging to private vehicle. Inside parts of the car were also checked. Heru Legowo said that the system has been fixed and would be undertaken persistently though the bomb terror has subsided. He expected the support from the community, particularly the users of air transportation to acknowledge the condition. “Hopefully, after the terminal has been expanded and road
access opened, the condition would be better,” he expected. Domestic terminal existing today would be used for international terminal. Meanwhile, international terminal would be expanded into 120,000 square meters with budget allocation of some IDR 1.5 trillion. Its Detailed Engineering Design is under process at Department of Transportation and its construction work is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2010. (056)
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Arsenal’s Brazilian forward Eduardo (L) scores a penalty as team mate, Brazilian midfielder Denilson (R) looks on during their UEFA Champions League Play-Off Round second leg against Celtic at home to Arsenal at the Emirates football stadium, London on August 26, 2009.
Eduardo’s deception helps Arsenal beat Celtic Agence France - Presse
LONDON – Arsenal moved into the Champions League group stages in controversial fashion as Eduardo’s dive helped secure a 3-1 victory over Celtic in Wednesday’s play-off second leg. Arsene Wenger’s team went through 5-1 on aggregate after outclassing the Scots for the second time in the tie, but they needed a moment of deception from Eduardo to end Celtic’s hopes. The Croatia striker won and converted a first half penalty when he exaggerated his fall as Celtic keeper Artur Boruc came out to make a save. In truth, Arsenal were always in control and second half goals from Emmanuel Eboue and Andrey Arshavin rubbed salt into Celtic’s wounds as the Premier League team comfortably secured their place in Thursday’s group stage draw. Wenger said: “Having seen it again on television it doesn’t look to be a penalty but we were likely to score the first goal and we always looked in control of the game. “I believe it was not a penalty but I’m not sure if the keeper touched him. Eduardo might be a bit cautious because of the injury that he had. He might have jumped out of the way. “I never asked in my life any player to dive to get a penalty but sometimes the player goes down because there is no way to get out of the way.” Hoops boss Tony
Mowbray added: “I haven’t seen the reruns but all the boys felt there wasn’t any contact for the penalty. “But we can’t say Arsenal didn’t deserve to go through.” Mowbray had no option but to go for broke as his side chased an unlikely comeback and he restored Scott McDonald and MarcAntoine Fortune to the starting line-up after surprisingly dropping his most potent forwards for the first leg. With the tie effectively wrapped up in Glasgow last week and Saturday’s visit to Manchester United in mind, Wenger left Arshavin and Robin van Persie on the bench, while captain Cesc Fabregas missed out with a hamstring injury. Although Arsenal benefited from a deflection and an own goal to win the first leg, there was no doubting their superiority and they were quickly back in the ascendency. Eboue flicked a Gael Clichy cross into Nicklas
Bendtner’s path and the Dane’s shot was parried by Boruc. The rebound dropped towards Eduardo but he somehow managed to poke a lunging effort wide from no more than four yards. The speed of Arsenal’s passing and movement bewildered Celtic at time and Mowbray’s defence stood statuesque as Eboue’s flick sent Denilson clear for a shot that crashed past the near post. Arsenal were well on top but it took Eduardo’s exploitation of the game’s dark arts to open the scoring in the 28th minute. He raced onto Bendtner’s pass and waited for Boruc to come sliding off his line before tumbling theatrically to the turf. To Boruc’s disbelief Spanish referee Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez ruled that the incident was worthy of a penalty. Eduardo dusted himself down, ignored the chants of cheat from the Celtic fans behind Boruc’s goal and calmly sent the Polish keeper the wrong way from the spot.
LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger plans to go on the attack as his team bid for revenge in Saturday’s Premier League showdown at Manchester United. Wenger believes Arsenal were too timid as they slumped to a 4-1 aggregate defeat against United in the Champions League semi-finals last season. But the Gunners have made a flying start to the new campaign and travel to Old Trafford on the back of four successive wins after securing their place in the Champions League group stages with a 3-1 win over Celtic on Wednesday. That play-off second leg victory followed hot on the heels of crushing Premier League victories over Everton and Portsmouth and Wenger is convinced Arsenal are in the right frame of mind to make amends for that lacklustre European exit against United. Wenger was encouraged by the way his young team set the tempo during a goalless draw at Old Trafford in the league late last season and will send them out to do the same again on Saturday. “In the Champions League we were too passive but in the league game we went forward more. It is more mental than tactical,” Wenger said. “I’m happy to go there now because it is the first big, big test. You want always to have a high level of confidence when you go to Old Trafford.
“Beating Celtic is the perfect way to prepare. We are organised and structured to go forward and score. The price we pay is we concede occasionally but as long as we score we don’t worry too much. Someone told me that our team’s average age is 23. We still have things to improve and we want to show we have made a big improvement by the end of the match against Manchester United.” After confounding the critics who wrote off Arsenal as also-rans this season, Wenger knows his team need a strong performance at United to underline their title credentials. But the French coach may have to do without captain Cesc Fabregas as admitting the Spain midfielder, who missed the Celtic game with a hamstring injury, is not certain to recover in time for the United clash. Wenger will give Fabregas until the last minute to prove his fitness but he was at least able to rest Robin van Persie against Celtic, while Andrey Arshavin only made a late appearance as a substitute. “We have to recover quickly physically because Man United didn’t play this week,” Wenger said. “Cesc looks to be short for Saturday. Aaron Ramsey has an injury as well, I don’t know how serious it is yet. They checked his knee.” Arsenal, who are among the top seeds for Thursday’s Champions League group stage draw, took the lead in controversial circumstances when Eduardo dived to win a penalty that he converted himself.
Sneijder says leaving Real with head held high Agence France – Presse
MADRID - Dutch international midfielder Wesley Sneijder said in an interview published Thursday that he is leaving Real Madrid for Inter Milan with his “head held high”. “I am going with my head held high,” the 25-yearold, who had reportedly been refusing to budge from the Spanish giants, told sports daily Marca. Asked if leaving a newly revitalised Real for the Italian side was a good move, he replied: “Yes, I am going to a great club. There is no doubt about it.” Inter Milan have agreed to sign Sneijder from Real for five years in a deal worth around 16 million euros which will see the player earn four million euros per year, some 500,000 euros more than he currently earns in Spain, Spanish and Italian media reported Wednesday. Sneijder, who joined Real from Ajax in the summer of 2007 on a five-year deal worth 27 million euros, is one of several players who the Spanish side are trying to offload to counterbalance the mega-millions purchase of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso. Earlier this month Real sold Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to Italian side AC Milan and two other Dutch players, Rafael Van der Vart and Arjen Robben, could also be sold before the summer transfer period ends But Real’s Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini hinted in July that Sneijder could be one of the Dutch players who
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Wesley Sneijder would stay at the club. Sneijder told Marca that Pellegrini told him as recently. “What happened was really bizarre. The coach said he was counting on me but there are people at the club who did not count on me,” he said. Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho, who has been after an attacking midfielder all summer to play at the point of his diamond formation in the centre of the park, had hoped to have Sneijder contracted before the Italian season started last weekend. Sneijder’s move will complete an impressive set of aquisitions during the off-season by Inter, who have already added Samuel Eto’o, Diego Milito, Thiago Motta, Lucio and Marco Arnautovic to the squad. He played 52 league matches for Real, scoring 11 goals, and played nine times in the Champions League.
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Pengambengan port estimated become narcotic’s transit point
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Tiger Woods’ final-round putting problems probably cost him the PGA Championship two weeks ago at Hazeltine. He was still trying to find his usual deft touch on the eve of The Barclays. In his pro-am round Wednesday at Liberty National, his first look at the $250 million course a couple of par 5s from the Statue of Liberty, he struggled on the undulating greens, then spent about 45 minutes on the practice green.
NEGARA - The capture of users and dealers of narcotic, like shabu-shabu or methamphetamine, by the circle of Jemberana Resort Police recently proved that the distribution of such illegal drugs is getting more serious in Jemberana. Head of Jemberana BNK, I Putu Artha, admitted to feel worried of the increasing number of drugs distribution in Jemberana. It was estimated the Pengambengan Port has been made as transit point of drug distribution.
“They are tough. They are going to be severe this week,” Woods said. “If the wind blows like this, it’s going to be tough — tough to get the ball close. Some of the more severe greens actually are the longest holes.” Winless in the four majors for the first time since 2004, Woods is playing the FedEx Cup opener for the first time — and making his first start in the event since 2003 at Westchester Country Club. He leads the tour with five victories, earnings of $7,688,163 and tops the Cup standings with 3,431 points. Asked why he was playing, Woods replied, “I qualified.” Oneliners aside, he also is chasing his second FedEx Cup — the only important title left this season — and is stepping up at a time when PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem is asking players to do more for sponsors in a tough economy. Woods played
“Probably, the distribution was performed through illegal coastal port,” he stated. Artha explained that his party would promptly respond this matter in order to minimize the distribution of methamphetamine in Jemberana. He emphasized that this matter should be responded seriously. Head of the Jembrana Resort Police, Ketut Suardana, affirmed that he would improve the control at coastal
territory. It did not only relate to the security against terrorism but also against other matters such as smuggling. Though it belongs to the responsibility of Waters Police, his party expected the community could proactively perform a control and provide information. Meanwhile, the Unit Head of Criminal Researcher of Jembrana Resort Police, Ketut Suparta, justified if his party has received provisional result from the laboratory that
such drug was positively methamphetamine. Previously, the police captured three suspected of methamphetamine. They were Nengah Wrd alias Radi (41) from Tegalasih, Jembrana, and Putu Bds alias Badol (34) from Batuagung and Sr Rhs N (43), a dealer from Tengah Hamlet, Negara. They were secured at Jembrana Resort Police and trapped by article 62 Law No.5/1997 on psychotropic with threat of 5-year punishment. (sur/kmb)
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by Megumi Cooperative. After few years, it did not work and was taken over by regency government and then delivered to Jemberana Regional Enterprise. In its passage of time, the business has not made profit at all, until the cooperation was made between PT Dairin Indonesia since last February. The agreement of Regional Enterprise with such PT
obliged the Dairin to recruit employees from Regional Enterprise and if the processing machine is out of order, Dairin will be responsible for it. Out of 35 employees that previously worked at Megumi was selected until it obtained 25 qualified candidates. His party admitted that he did not know the visa used by Kazumi because he worked at PT Dairin Indonesia. (sur)
the Buick Open, even though his endorsement contract with the automaker ended last year. That meant playing three weeks in a row, and Woods said Wednesday that being in contention three straight weeks — two victories and blowing a two-shot lead at Hazeltine to Y.E. Yang — took its toll. “I think we have to support the tour,” Woods said. He tops the 125 players who qualified for the $65 million playoff bonanza — a $7.5 million purse at each of the four events, with $35 million in bonus money for the FedEx Cup. The points system has been tweaked to put more emphasis on the regular season, with quintuple the value of points during the playoffs, then a reset that allows for a shootout at the Tour Championship for the $10 million prize.” “You want to be here. You want to be in the playoffs,” said Woods, playing seven events in a nine-week
stretch. “And ultimately, this is our opportunity to get in the Tour Championship.” Woods could have skipped The Barclays and won the FedEx Cup, as he did in 2007. He learned Wednesday that it was possible for him to win the next three tournaments, finish second at the Tour Championship and not capture the title. Or that someone could take the big prize without winning a single tournament this year. “It is different, there’s no doubt,” he said. Liberty National is different, too. The links-style course sits on the site of an old oil refinery, a toxic area once dotted with empty tanks and 12 rotting warehouses. “The first time we showed up here, it was a nightmare,” said Bob Cupp, the course architect who teamed with Tom Kite to design the layout. “We were pretty sure any travesty known to man was on this property.”
Megumi manager only have expired visa (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Tiger Woods chips to the third green, with the Statue of Liberty seen in the background, during a practice round for The Barclays golf tournament on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, in Jersey City, N.J.
Kuznetsova, Davydenko reach New Haven quarter-finals
Desperate Safina seeks US Open title to stop Serena
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - Top-seeded Russians Nikolay Davydenko and Svetlana Kuznetsova booked their quarter-final berths Wednesday at the Pilot Pen hardcourt tournament, last tune-up for the US Open. Davydenko, who heads the men’s field, defeated France’s Fabrice Santoro 7-5, 6-3 to advance. In the quarters he’ll face sixth-seeded American Sam Querrey, who downed Germany’s Bjorn Phau 7-5, 6-3. Querrey also claimed the US Open series crown rewarding his performance in a series of tournaments throughout the year. With his win on Wednesday, Querrey matched the 145 points of world number two Andy Murray, but he earned the title over the Scot because he won a total of 14 matches to Murray’s eight. The title gives Querrey a chance to earn a bonus of between 15,000 dollars and one million dollars, depending on his finish at the US Open. French Open champion Kuznetsova clawed her way past Belgian teenager Yanina Wickmayer 64, 5-7, 7-6 (7/2). Defending women’s champion and second seed Caroline Wozniacki also advanced to the quarter-finals, defeating rising Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 6-4. Kuznetsova, who won here two years ago, will play eighth-seeded Amelie Mauresmo of France in the quarter-finals on Thursday. Kuznetsova admitted she lost focus at times, and said she knows she’ll need to do better if she wants a shot at another Grand Slam title in New York. “I still have it, so I appreciate that I have it, but I have to work on closing out things when I have the chance to,” she said. Wickmayer earned a break in the third set to give herself a chance to
NEW YORK - World number one Dinara Safina tries to show she deserves her ranking by taking her first Grand Slam title at the US Open, but secondranked defending champion Serena Williams also eyes the top spot. The year’s final Grand Slam begins Monday with Williams having already won the Australian Open and Wimbledon crowns, giving the 27-year-old American three of the past four majors and 11 career Slam titles. But the rankings, based on a 52week performance, show Safina on top and the 23-year-old Russian - who lost to Williams in the Australian Open final and to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French Open final - hopes for a Flushing Meadows breakthrough. “I believe that I am number one,” Safina said. “This is a sport that you compete the whole year. I’m working hard day by day. I compete every day. I’m improving every day. I’m doing my best. I want to get a Grand Slam. There’s no doubt about that. It’s not that I’m number one and I want to stop. I will do my best to win at the US Open. If not, next year I will work even harder to get it.” “To get two dreams at the same time, finish number one and win a Grand Slam, it would be too easy. I got to number one. Now my goal is to win a Grand Slam.” Williams said there is always a lag between success on the
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Svetlana Kuznetsova serve for the match, but Kuznetsova broke her back and went on to force the tiebreaker.”I knew at fiveall that if I wanted to win the match, I would have to play perfect,” Wickmayer said. “And I almost played perfectly, but I guess in the tiebreaker she was just too good for me.” Denmark’s Wozniacki will play unseeded Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano, who advanced when fifth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland retired. Radwanska won the first set 6-3 but had dropped the second 6-4 when she retired with a hand injury. French sixth seed Marion Bartoli retired while trailing in the third set against Slovakian qualifier Magdalena Rybarikova, who had dropped the first set but held on and was leading 1-6, 7-6 (7/ 5), 2-0 when Bartoli retired with a strained left thigh.
court being reflected in the rankings, but after a disappointing 6-3 showing at US Open tune-up events added she must play better to defend her crown. “I obviously have to play better,” Williams said. “Hopefully I will be ready.” Venus Williams, Serena’s older sister and a five-time Wimbledon champion, is seeded third and seeking more consistency to make her own run at the top ranking. “I just have to keep playing consistently,” she said. “That’s what it takes to be number one so I’m going to try to do that.” Olympic champion Elena Dementieva of Russia is seeded fourth with Serbian Jelena Jankovic, last year’s US Open runner-up, seeded fifth.
Dinara Safina tries to show she deserves her ranking by taking her first Grand Slam title at the US Open, but second-ranked defending champion Serena Williams also eyes the top spot
NEGARA - Visa of the Japanese expatriate becoming the Manager of PT Dairin Indonesia was estimated to have expired. Kazumi Hanamura (40) poses the accused in the striking toward the victim I Wayan Astina (28), a Perancak’s villager that is also his employee remains to be investigated by Jembrana Resort Police. According to a anonymous source the visa of Kazumi was only used to visit Indonesia for two months. Other information, after the Director of Regional Enterprise visited the Negara Sector Police, one of the higher officials of Jemberana Government visited the Jembrana Resort Police. Unit Head of Criminal Researcher of Jemberana Resort Police Ketut Suparta under permission of the Head of Jemberana Resort Police, Ketut Suardana on Wednesday said that the detention of such foreigner has been pursuant to the mechanism and procedure. Detention letter of Kazumi has also been sent to Japanese Consulate and family of the accused. Director of Regional Enterprise, IGK Mulyarta, said to the press that Hanamura is the employee of PT Dairin Indonesia where his status in the company is the owner of share. It was also explained that Hanamura is not the main owner of the company. The agreement of cooperation between Megumi and PT Dairin Indonesia was commenced in last February until the next ten years. The agreement was made because the company whose asset owned by Jemberana Regency Government has not worked since it was established. Originally, such bottle water drinking business using the raw material of seawater was managed
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Car’s tire deflated, tens of million rupiah vanished Bali Post
GIANYAR - Theft case with violence experienced by Muhan Bestralian (39) from Tegalgundul Hamlet, Tibubeneng Village, North Kuta, Badung at the territory of Ubud Sector Police on Wednesday truly made amazed. The incident occurred at midday at a sufficiently busy place. Tens of million of cash that being drawn from Bank Central Asia (BCA) were vanished as its have been taken away by robber gang whose number was estimated to reach three persons. Based on the information obtained, the victim just withdrew cash amounting to IDR 44,070,000 from BCA of Ubud branch. By driving a van Panther DK 723 XF, the tens of million of rupiahs wrapped in plastic pouch was put under his car’s seat. Originally, after withdrawing the money, he would like to go home to Kuta. Not far from the location where he withdrew the money, in front of Tino Minimarket located on Jalan Raya Ubud, suddenly the rearleft tire of his car was flat. The victim then attempted to repair his flat tire. At the same time, the three doers were estimated to have spied the victim that he has come and took the
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money retained under the chair of his car. The loss of such money was just known when the victim has completed the reparation of his flat tire. With the permission of Spokesperson of Gianyar Resort Police, I Gede Sujana, accompanied by Chief of Ubud Sector Police, AA Gede Seno, said that after receiving the report, the police directly inspected the location to make reconstruction. From the eyewitnesses’ informations, police suspected theft already planned the robbery. This matter was indicated by the chronology prior to the incident and evidences in the form of nails found on the flat tire. Provisional estimation, the victim has been known that he would withdraw his money and was watched surreptitiously since he left the bank. According to the information from local dwellers, the thefts were using two vehicles. They took the victim’s money under his car’s seat and went away immediately to west direction. “The police are now still pursuing the doers,” he said. The Spokesman of the Resort Police appealed the community to be careful when withdrawing the money or the like. If required, it should be accompanied by security officer or police. (kmb16)
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Leader in Malaysian ruling coalition sacked over sex tape Agence France-Presse
KUALA LUMPUR - The ethnic Chinese party in Malaysia’s ruling coalition has sacked a top leader over a sex-video scandal, triggering infighting that could erode the support of the minority community. The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) decided overnight to expel Chua Soi Lek, who was forced to quit as health minister last year after being caught on tape having sex with an unidentified woman in a hotel room. Chua, 62, who is married with three children, was the deputy president of the MCA, the secondlargest party in the Barisan Nasional coalition which rules the Muslim-majority nation. “We did so with a heavy heart after giving much consideration to the damage inflicted upon the party image brought about by his sex scandal featured in the DVD,” MCA president Ong Tee Keat said as he announced the sacking. The move comes as the Barisan Nasional attempts to regain support from minority Chinese and Indians, who swung away from the
coalition in national elections last year. Prime Minister Najib Razak called on the MCA to resolve its problems quickly. “We need to handle it so that its effect does not hurt Barisan Nasional,” he told reporters. “We want a strong MCA, no doubt about it. We want an MCA that can represent the aspirations of the Chinese community.” In the wake of the sex scandal, Chua resigned as the party’s number three but was voted back in by party members to the number-two post last year. That set off a running battle with Ong, whom Chua said felt threatened by the support he had, and in recent months the sex scandal was revived with new questions over the legality of the acts depicted in the tape. Chua has previously accused his political “enemies” of orchestrating the release of the widely circulated video. Chua said Thursday he was surprised by the decision to expel him and urged MCA members to remove Ong, saying the party was “still drifting without direction and purpose.”
Khamenei hails Iraq Shiite leader’s battle against Saddam Agence France-Presse
TEHRAN - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised leading Iraqi Shiite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim as the symbol of the struggle against Saddam Hussein’s regime on Thursday as Iranians mourned his death. “His death is a big loss for the Iraqi people and government, and is a painful incident for the Islamic Republic (of Iran),” said Khamenei, in a message read at the mourning ceremony in Tehran where Hakim died in hospital on Wednesday. The Iraqi politician, who was one of the principal leaders in exile of the opposition to Saddam’s regime which mounted a devastating 198088 war against Iran, died of lung cancer after a 28-month battle.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“He symbolised the hardship involved in jihad in fighting tyranny,” said Khamenei as hundreds of Iranians gathered at the Iraqi embassy to mourn Hakim’s death. “The efforts and endeavour of this hardworking cleric are unique and unforgettable both in Iraq and Iran. “I pay my condolences to the Iraqi government, Hakim’s family and especially Ammar Hakim,” he added, referring to Hakim’s son, who has said he is prepared to take on his father’s mantle. Leading Iranian officials such as parliament speaker Ali Larijani and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki were also present at the mourning ceremony. “He had an admirable devotion and deference to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei,” said Larijani, dressed in black, in an address to the mourners. “We hope his sacred way continues more powerfully and we will witness our brother’s (Ammar Hakim) increasingly effective role on the scene.” The coffin carrying Hakim’s body was wrapped in the Iraqi flag and borne by pallbearers a short distance from the embassy in tribute. “Death to America. Death to Israel,” the mourners chanted. The body was to be taken to Iran’s Shiite clerical capital of Qom before being flown to Iraq later Thursday for burial in the central shrine city of Najaf, where Shiites from around the world are traditionally taken for interment.
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New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) is greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin on August 27, 2009. Benjamin Netanyahu, on a two-day visit to Germany, was set to discuss peace efforts with German leaders and make an emotional visit to the place where Nazi leaders plotted the “final solution”.
Israeli PM to discuss peace in ‘emotional’ Berlin visit Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed fresh Middle East peace efforts with German leaders Thursday ahead of an emotional visit to the lakeside villa where top Nazis plotted the Holocaust. The hawkish Israeli leader sat down to talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel focused on the latest USbacked drive to revive the Middle East peace talks as well as attempts to halt Iran’s disputed nuclear programme. Netanyahu warned of the threat posed by Tehran as he earlier accepted a gift of original blueprints of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz for Jerusalem’s Holocaust memorial from a German publisher. “We cannot allow those who call for the destruction of the Jewish state to go unchallenged,” he said in a clear reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly said that Israel is doomed to be “wiped off the map” and that the Nazi genocide of Euro-
pean Jewry was a “myth.” “We cannot allow evil to prepare the mass deaths of innocents. It should be nipped in the bud.” The blueprints, which date from 1941-42 and include plans drawn with cool technical precision of a gas chamber and a crematorium, were discovered in a Berlin apartment last year and then bought by the Bild newspaper. More than one million Jews, Roma and others deemed “subhuman” by Adolf Hitler’s regime were killed at Auschwitz, near the Polish city of Krakow, out of a total six million slaughtered by the end of World War II in 1945. Netanyahu earlier met Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Merkel’s
challenger in September 27 elections in Germany, on the second and final leg of a four-day European tour — his first since taking office in March. “Minister Steinmeier stressed the importance of a resumption of substantial Israel-Palestinian negotiations,” his ministry said. “Both sides must undertake concrete steps in this context.” After meeting Merkel, Netanyahu will visit a villa on the Wannsee lake on the outskirts of Berlin where senior Nazis adopted in January 1942 the “final solution” — plans to exterminate all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. Netanyahu, who has described the upcoming visit to Wannsee as “emotional,” will be the first Israeli prime minister to visit the site’s museum which was opened in 1992 on the 50th anniversary of the “final solution” conference. He lauded the Jewish state’s close ties with Germany, which were officially established in 1965 following a fraught debate in Israel, a country deeply scarred by the Holocaust.
ANA plane makes emergency landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Agence France-Presse
TOKYO - An All Nippon Airways (ANA) plane made an emergency landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Thursday after cabin air pressure dropped, but no one was injured, a transport official said.
Flight 584, carrying 265 passengers and crew on a Boeing 767-300, was en route from the southwestern Japanese city of Matsuyama to Tokyo when the pressure dropped temporarily and oxygen masks dropped from overhead compartments. “The pilot descended the plane to
10,000 feet (3,000 metres) from an altitude of 20,000 feet to cope with the situation,” said the official at the transport ministry’s Haneda office. “No one was hurt although two or three passengers felt sick,” he said. The exact cause of the drop in air pressure was being investigated.
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In this Aug. 14, 2009 photo, a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. The final segments of the Ares I-X rocket, including the simulated crew module and launch abort system, were stacked on Aug. 13 on a mobile launcher platform, completing the 327-foot launch vehicle and providing the first entire look of Ares I-X’s distinctive shape. The Ares I-X flight test is targeted for Oct. 31.
To the moon, NASA? Not on this budget, experts say Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that has already spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use. When that first stage is tested, it will be mounted horizontally. The engine will fire, shake and make lots of noise. But by design, it will not leave the ground. The same could be said for NASA’s plans to go to the moon, Mars or beyond Earth orbit. It’s not so much a physical challenge for engineers as it is a financial challenge for budgeteers. The $108 billion program to return to the moon by 2020 was started five years ago by then-President George W. Bush. But a special independent panel commissioned by President Barack Obama concluded that the plan cannot work on the existing budget schedule because it’s likely to cost at least an extra $30 billion through 2020. Even NASA’s soon-to-be-retired space shuttle fleet has proved that getting off the ground isn’t a given, with two launch scrubs this week of a mission to the international space station. The space station is finally finished. Yet NASA’s long-standing plans call for junking the outpost in about seven years. If the agency keeps that schedule, it would mean that in the next decade NASA’s astronauts could be going nowhere if there’s no moon mission. Obama’s special panel looked at other options available for the space program — such as skipping the moon and go-
ing directly to Mars or an asteroid, or just cruising in the solar system. But they kept using words like “least worst scenario” during their final public deliberations earlier this month. In their report due Monday, they will also give advice about the end of the shuttle and space station programs. The White House told the panel to aim to stay within current budget estimates. “If you want to do something, you have to have the money to do it,” said panel member and former astronaut Sally Ride. “This budget is very, very, very hard to fit and still have an exploration program.” The options that face the White House come down to variations and combinations of these themes: Pay more, do less or radically change American space policy. The most radical idea would be to hand much of NASA’s duties to private companies. “The problem is the size 14 foot
in the size 10 shoe,” said American University public policy professor Howard McCurdy, author of several books about the American space program. “It’s just really hard to fit it all in. A lot of the assumptions made in 2004 (for the Bush plan) have just not materialized.” The panel will not tell the president which choice to make. That will be up to Obama. Until NASA is told to change course, it will continue with the Bush plan. Thus, the first big test of moon program hardware is the rocket stage firing Thursday in Promontory, Utah. That test is of the main getoff-the-ground engine in the Ares I rocket. The full test rocket, complete with a dummy crew capsule and escape system, Ares I-X, is supposed to get a launch test at Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 31. That rocket will be taller than the space shuttle, illustrating an agency eager to launch something new.
Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University, who plan to discuss further details at a technical conference set for Sept. 25 in Hiroshima. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken the attack to a new level, according to Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec security conference where the first WPA hack was demonstrated. “They took this stuff which was fairly theoretical and they’ve made it much more practical,” he said. They Japanese researchers discuss their attack in a paper presented at the Joint Workshop on Information Security, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan earlier this month. The earlier attack, developed by researchers Martin Beck and Erik Tews, worked on a smaller range of WPA devices and took between 12 and 15 minutes to work. Both
attacks work only on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They do not work on newer WPA 2 devices or on WPA systems that use the stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The encryption systems used by wireless routers have a long history of security problems. The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) system, introduced in 1997, was cracked just a few years later and is now considered to be completely insecure by security experts. WPA with TKIP “was developed as kind of an interim encryption method as Wi-Fi security was evolving several years ago,” said Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director with the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that certifies Wi-Fi devices. People should now use WPA 2, she said. Wi-Fi-certified products have had to support WPA 2 since March 2006. “There’s certainly a decent amount of WPA with TKIP out in the installed base today, but a better alternative has been out for a long time,” DavisFelner said. Enterprise Wi-Fi networks typically include security software that would detect the type of man-inthe-middle attack described by the Japanese researchers, said Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security.
Microsoft cutting price of high-end Xbox 360 Microsoft Corp. is slashing the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony’s $100 price cut for the PlayStation 3 last week. Now, both the Xbox 360 Elite and the PS3 will cost $299. The price cuts in both cases are worldwide, though the exact amounts vary by region depending on currencies. Microsoft, which has had three versions of its Xbox 360 available at three different prices, also was to announce Thursday it is phasing out the midrange, Pro, version of the console. It will be available for $249, down from $299, while supplies last. The cheapest Xbox, the Arcade, which comes without a hard drive, will still cost $199. The price cuts are effective Friday, said David Dennis, a spokesman for Microsoft. Video game companies hope the price cuts will re-ignite sales in time for the holiday rush. For the bulk of this year, the industry has suffered from weak sales — hurt by the recession and lackluster game release schedules, which have kept consumers waiting to spend money on new titles. The announcement from Microsoft leaves only Nintendo Co. without a price cut for the fall, at least for now. The Wii has cost $250 since its launch nearly three years ago. Redmond, Wash.-based
Microsoft has sold more than 31.4 million of the Xbox 360 machines globally, compared with 23.7 million PS3 machines sold by Sony Corp. and 52.6 million Wiis
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Microsoft Xbox 360 is on display at the the annual Microsoft shareholder meeting in Bellevue Wash. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. Microsoft is cutting the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony’s PlayStation 3, which saw its price slashed by $100 last week.
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Miley Cyrus Back With Ex Carter Jenkins? Miley Cyrus has sparked rumors she’s back with ex-boyfriend Carter Jenkins after the two were spotted at a Kings of Leon concert in Los Angeles over the weekend.
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Jenkins, who briefly dated the teen sensation in between boyfriends Nick Jonas and model/singer Justin Gaston, even blogged about his night out with his ex on Twitter.com. He wrote, “Awesome show & very fun night with @mileycyrus.” Cyrus and the actor, who is currently shooting romantic comedy Valentine’s Day with the singer’s pal Taylor Swift, joined Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel in the technician’s booth at the Forum concert. The foursome attended the backstage VIP party after the show, according to Eonline.com. Kings of Leon shows have become a hotbed for new celebrity romances Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian went public with their link up at the Los Angeles show on Saturday night and Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were reportedly spotted kissing at a Canadian show earlier this month
‘Survivor’ winner still in jail after hearing A lawyer for “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is threatening to go to court if her client is not released soon from a Massachusetts county jail. Hatch had been serving the remainder of a prison term for tax evasion on home confinement at his sister’s Newport, R.I., home. He was jailed Aug. 18 after granting two TV interviews for which the federal Bureau of Prisons says he didn’t have proper permission. Hatch remained behind bars at the Barnstable County jail in Bourne after a hearing Wednesday with sheriff’s deputies, said his Los Angeles-based lawyer, Cynthia Ribas. She said the information gathered at the hearing will be passed on to federal prisons authorities, who will then decide whether Hatch will be moved back to a prison, to a halfway house or returned to home confinement. Bureau of Prisons spokeswomen Felicia Ponce said she could not confirm where Hatch is being held, but said he remains under the super-
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vision of the department’s Philadelphia office. “It’s awful. It’s been eight days. He’s tormented. It makes no sense,” Ribas said. “We’ll file something in a real court of law if they don’t get him out of there.” Hatch was not allowed to have a lawyer present at Wednesday’s hearing with two sheriff’s deputies, Ribas said. She and the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union submitted witness statements. The ACLU claims that Hatch’s constitutional free speech rights are being trampled. “It is appalling that he would actually be sent to jail for engaging in quintessential free speech activity,” the ACLU said in a statement. Hatch granted three television interviews last week — to NBC’s “Today” show, NBC affiliate WJAR-TV in Providence, R.I., and the NBC-owned “Access Hollywood.” He claimed in each interview that the judge in his case discriminated against him because he is gay, and accused federal prosecutors of misconduct. A Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said last week that the department bar prisoners on home confinement from granting media interviews without first getting permission. Ribas said she received the proper permission for the “Today” interview and thought it extended to all NBC properties. But federal rules consider each media outlet separate. Hatch was convicted in 2006 of failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize he got for winning the first season of the CBS reality show. He was given extra prison time for lying on the stand. He has maintained his innocence. His sentence is scheduled to end Oct. 7.
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Beyonce Named Billboard’s Woman Of The Year Billboard announced today that Grammy Award-winning artist and pop culture icon Beyoncé will accept its coveted Woman Of The Year Award at the 2009 Billboard Women In Music Event, taking place on October 2nd in New York City. This award is given to a trailblazing female recording artist that has inspired the music business with her success, leadership and new ideas. The honor also acknowledges the achievements of the artist over the past 12 months. Beyoncé established herself as a founding member and frontwoman of Destiny’s Child - the topselling female recording group of all-time - and is now a multi-platinum solo artist who has been recognized with Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, ASCAP Awards, BET Awards and many other honors. She is also the only performer in the 51-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to top the chart for 10 weeks or more with a group and as a solo artist. Over the past 12 months, Beyoncé kicked off her world tour “I Am…” in support of her third solo album “I Am…Sasha Fierce,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in November and features the hit singles “If I Were A Boy,” “Single Ladies,” “Halo,” “Ego” and “Sweet Dreams.” The tour also showcases Beyoncé’s philanthropic side as she gave 2500 tickets to families hit hard by the auto industry crisis in Detroit, and joined forces with General Mills Hamburger Helper and Feeding America to deliver 3.5 million meals to local food banks. In addition to her work as an artist and philanthropist, Beyoncé has also enjoyed tremendous success with her fashion lines House of Deréon and Deréon; through her endorsements deals with L’Oreal Paris, Nintendo DSi, General Mills, Crystal Geyser in Japan and Samantha Thavasa in Japan; and with her acting career. “Obsessed,” her sixth theatrical release, opened at No.1 at the box office in April. Beyoncé was also a producer on the film. “Beyoncé is multi-platinum artist and a multi-talented woman who clearly embodies the qualities of excellence and achievement that the Billboard Woman Of The Year Award was created to honor,” said Bill Werde, Billboard’s Editorial Director. “She has not only influenced pop culture with her hit songs and signature dance moves, but has inspired women everywhere with her unique style, business savvy and dedication to charitable causes.”
International IMIGRATION Australian Consulate Jalan Hayam Wuruk 88, Br Tanjung Bungkak, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 118 Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426
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Kim Kardashian & Reggie Bush Together Again? Kim Kardashian has reunited with her American football star beau Reggie Bush, according to reports. The pair ended their romance back in July, amid rumors both had cheated on each other - but they reportedly reconciled after an August rendezvous in New Orleans, where Bush plays for National Football League team The New Orleans Saints. According to the National Enquirer, they met for dinner in the city, prompting Kardashian to buy the sportsman a pedigree puppy as a make-up gift. A source tells the tabloid, “Reggie initiated the reconciliation - he’s been trying to get back with Kim since the second week of the breakup. And when he asked to see her while she was in New Orleans, Kim seized the moment.” The insider adds that the gift sealed the deal, and Kardashian is currently staying with Bush in New Orleans while he prepares for the new football season, explaining, “They say they love each other and want to give it another try.” Are Kim Kardashian&Reggie BUsh Getting Back Together? VIDEO
Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520
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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.
HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar
RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar. Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690. Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar. Phone : 222 142. Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali. PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361. Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood. Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali. Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service. Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501
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Ciudad Juarez, deadliest city in the world: watchdog Agence France-Presse
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Devotees of Sindhi community carry earthen pots covered in red clothes on their heads during a religious procession to mark the end of Chaliho Sahib festival in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Atheists on the march in America Agence France-Presse
DAVIE - When South Florida atheists held their first meeting, they were just five friends, having a beer at a bar. Four years later, they’ve moved to a bigger place — still a bar — to hold their weekly meet-and-greets. Membership is up to almost 500, Darwin Day is in the planning stages and bumper stickers are on sale. “There is no God, but ice-cream is great,” reads one. “What schools need is a moment of science,” reads another. Atheist groups are growing all over the United States, challenging stereotypes and confronting what they consider a big backslide in the separation of church and state. They are chatting online, picking up trash along “adopted” highways, and advertising on buses and billboards. In South Florida, they recently picketed a prayer meeting in a public safety building paid for with tax dollars. “We’re growing by leaps and bounds,” said Bob Senatore, a retired teacher and one of the early members of the Florida Atheists and Secular Humanists, or FLASH. “The attitude is, ‘If we don’t do something about it now, we’ll be living under a theocracy.’” Polls show non-believers are on the rise in the United States, even in places like Florida, where, as Senatore sees it, “There’s a church on every corner and a fish on every car.” The fish is one of the most common symbols of Christianity. The American Religious Identification Survey recently found the number of people who claimed “no religion” had nearly doubled nationally over the last 18 years, to 15 percent. They were the only demographic that increased in all 50 states. Some attribute the surge to outrage over former president George W. Bush and his courting of the religious right.
Others mention a slew of best-selling books about atheism that have recently fueled debate. But there’s no doubt the Internet is playing a role too. It offers atheist dating services, and helps nonbelievers meet up — people who might otherwise remain “loners.” “To have a non-belief is not much to build a social group on,” acknowledged FLASH member Jay Berman, a computer trainer and self-described Jewish atheist. Berman said he wasn’t looking to convert anyone to atheism, and takes a non-confrontational stance with religious friends. “I’m happy to attend any religious observances where the food is good,” he said. For others, atheism is a cause. Along with freethinking and agnostic groups, they are beginning to lobby Congress on everything from stem cell research to civil rights. The Secular Coalition for America represents 10 such organizations. Executive director Sean Faircloth said the coalition was particularly interested in bringing down state laws that give special privileges to religious-based services. Groups like his took note when President Barack Obama nodded to “nonbelievers” during his inaugural speech. “We’ve gone from where we essentially could communicate only with Congress, to now, where we have some open doors at the White House as well,” Faircloth said. “I see tremendous progress and I feel real hope for the future, that you’re going to hear more of us.” In fact, one of the biggest hurdles to political recognition for atheists may be their own free-thinking spirit. “If a politician were to come out and
say they were an atheist, I would be proud someone had the guts to do it,” said Peter Ragona, a wedding photographer and member of FLASH. “But I would not vote for them just because they’re an atheist.” According to the coalition, just one US lawmaker has gone on record as a “non-theist” — California Democrat Peter Stark. As they work to crack stereotypes, atheists are sometimes encountering resistance. Last month, when FLASH erected a billboard stating, “Being a good person doesn’t require God,” a local woman led children in chants calling for the sign to come down. Owners of a nearby beauty supply shop complained business was suffering. In Iowa, the transit authority removed atheist ads from the sides of buses after complaints from riders. Authorities later put them back up, after talking to atheist organizers. When a Christian driver refused to drive a bus bearing the ad she was suspended. FLASH president and firefighter Ken Loukinen said he regularly receives hate mail. “I’ve had some threats to blow up my truck,” said Loukinen, who is also state director of the national group American Atheists. But, he added, “We’d rather spread information than complain about stuff. We want to dispel myths about atheists, myths about science.” Taking a page from the playbook of the gay-rights movement, some atheists say “coming out” will drive up membership all by itself, as other atheists realize they are not alone. “There are many people in misery, emotionally torn apart by their doubts. I’ve been there,” said Ronelle Delmont, a book reviewer and former bellydancer at the Davie meet-up. Delmont started studying science and atheism 15 years ago. Carl Sagan became her hero. “I found courage by finding other people,” she said. “I’m now unashamed to say I’m an atheist.”
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s volatile border city of Ciudad Juarez has the world’s highest murder rate, followed by Caracas, Venezuela, and the US city of New Orleans, a Mexican security watchdog said Wednesday. Ciudad Juarez — the scene of regular and brutal score-settling between rival drug gangs — has 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, said the Citizen’s Council for Public Security (CCSP) in a statement. Caracas has 96 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and New Orleans registers 95, said the Mexican non-governmental organization, which based its figures on media reports and an FBI report for the United States. Caracas was listed as the murder capital of the world in the Sep-
tember 2008 Foreign Policy magazine, quoting official figures of 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. The Mexican NGO put Baghdad, Iraq, in 10th position with 40 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and another Mexican border city, Tijuana, in fourth place with 73. Cape Town, South Africa, was fifth with 62, and the east coast US city of Baltimore was in eighth position with 45 murders per 100,000 people, according to the NGO. In Ciudad Juarez, 1,362 people have been murdered so far this year up to August 21, the NGO said, as violence spirals among powerful cartels fighting for control of lucrative drug routes into the United States. The deployment of 8,500 troops in the border city — part of a nationwide crackdown involving more than 36,000 troops — has failed to quell the violence.
Schwarzenegger drops in on Twitter Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCO - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a call at Twitter on Wednesday, praising the microblogging sensation as a way to stay in tune with what voters are thinking. Schwarzenegger’s chat with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams in the Internet firm’s San Francisco offices was streamed online in a “tweetcast” and ranged from bodybuilding to the state’s budget woes. “Social networking, I think, is something you have brought to the ultimate level,” Schwarzenegger told Stone and Williams. “It is brilliant what you came up with, staggering.” Schwarzenegger voiced certainty that the pair weren’t thinking about a role in an Iranian revolution when they created the microblogging service. “It was low on the list,” Williams quipped as Stone emphatically shook his head to indicate “No.” In July, Twitter became a key communications tool for Iranians protesting the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Twitter users outside Iran changed time and location settings to make it appear they were messaging from Tehran to make it harder for authorities to find those really tweeting from that country. Schwarzenegger, whose office is well-wired into Internet technologies, described Twitter as an effective way for politicians to get realtime feedback from voters. “You always try to reach out and
touch the people; you need to know always what they are feeling and it changes so quickly,” the governor said. “We see it with health care reform.” Talk inevitably touched on exercise, with Stone telling the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor that Twitter workers are more into running than weightlifting. Some Twitter workers slip out of the office for midnight marathon runs along San Francisco streets, said Stone. Twitter also invites workers from local technology firms to join in a weekly run along the Embarcadero. “Now I realize we need a weight room,” Stone noted after Schwarzenegger commented that workout centers have flourished in the aftermath of his days as Mr. Universe. Schwarzenegger was nicknamed “The Austrian Oak” during a bodybuilding career that included winning a series of Mr. Olympia crowns. He parlayed his bodybuilding glory into a film career. Schwarzenegger said he has turned to Twitter users for ideas about how to fix California’s daunting budget deficit. Suggestions he is using include having a “garage sale” to raise money from bicycles, cars and other property the state doesn’t need. Fittingly, Stone scanned Twitter for questions to ask Schwarzenegger, coming up with “Why can’t other states have a governor this awesome.” “That’s why I’m the one and only,” Schwarzenegger quickly retorted. After the governor left Twitter, Stone fired off a tweet thanking him for stopping by for a chat.
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BUSINESS (FILES) Picture taken on June 10, 2009 in Paris shows a man holding a IPhone. A French security guard said on August 25, 2009 he had received a faceful of glass when the screen of his iPhone exploded, the second such reported incident in France. AFP PHOTO LOIC VENANCE
Apple in hot water in France over ‘exploding iPhones’ Agence France-Presse
PARIS - Half a dozen new cases of “exploding iPhones” emerged in France on Wednesday, as Apple faced an official inquiry and calls to come clean over possible risks linked to its wildly popular smartphone. An 80-year-old pensioner from the Paris suburbs said Wednesday his iPhone screen cracked up in his hands, a day after a supermarket watchman claimed he was hurt in the eye when his screen suddenly shattered this week. Ten French consumers have now come forward saying their iPhone screens exploded or cracked without explanation, according to an AFP tally, including a first case in mid-August in which a teenager suffered an eye injury. Apple is accused of trying to hush up 15 cases of iPod music players heating up and bursting into flames in the United States and in one similar British case, all apparently due to overheated lithium ion batteries. None of the incidents has caused a serious injury but Apple was forced to defend the safety of its flagship smartphone before the European Union this month, insisting the exploding screen cases were “isolated incidents”. The US technology giant, which has sold 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods to date, said it been informed of the French cases, but would not comment until it had examined the damaged phones. “We are aware of these reports and we are waiting to receive the iPhones from the customers. Until we have the full details, we don’t have anything further to add,” Alan Hely, head of
communications at Apple Europe, told AFP. But France’s official competition, consumer affairs and fraud watchdog, the DGCCRF, has launched an investigation to find out whether the Apple smartphone could pose a threat to consumers. “An investigation is under way. We have been alerted to the problem and we are looking into it closely,” a spokesman said Tuesday. France’s consumer rights group, UFC-Que Choisir, also called on Apple to come clean about possible faults with its iPod and iPhone devices. “We want to know if this is an isolated incident as they claim, or a real problem involving the iPhone — in which case, what are they planning by way of compensation and to prevent it happening again?” said a spokesman. In the British case Apple came under fire for allegedly asking the young girl’s family to sign a confidentiality agreement — slammed as a “gagging order” — before it would agree to refund her. In the latest French incident, Rolland Caufman, a pensioner from the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec, says his iPhone screen broke up on July 21, the week after he bought it. “I went out shopping, with my iPhone in my left pocket, when I suddenly felt it heat up and start vibrating — even though I never use the vibrate
setting. “I took it out of my pocket and held it to my ear — and saw the screen crack up like a car windscreen,” he told AFP. Caufman says Apple initially refused to believe him, before finally sending him a free replacement. On Tuesday, 26-year-old security guard Yassine Bouhadi, claimed he was hit in the eye with a glass shard when the screen of his iPhone cracked up. He said he would seek a full refund and file suit for damages. French mobile phone operator Orange said it had been contacted by two customers with shattered iPhone screens, out of 1.2 million iPhones sold. The European Commission has asked all 27 EU nations to keep it informed of any problems, under the community’s rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products, known as RAPEX. Commission spokeswoman Helen Kearns said “Apple has been very cooperative”, stressing that RAPEX alerts were issued every week — sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but at other times with no consequence. “We’re not there yet. We just need to monitor closely now and see if these are isolated incidents,” she told AFP. “We’ll be vigilant and if necessary we’ll take further actions. But we need to examine the situation better.”
Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books in a move the Internet giant dismissed as “sour grapes.” The three technology heavyweights are among the members of a coalition called the Open Book Alliance which expressed concern about “serious legal, competitive, and policy issues” surrounding Google’s book scanning project. In a statement, the alliance said its members, which include the San Francisco-based non-profit the Internet Archive, publishers and library associations, will counter the Google book settlement “in its current form.” Google reached a class action settlement in October of last year with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to a copyright infringement suit they filed against the Internet powerhouse in 2005. Under the settlement, Google agreed to pay 125 million dollars to resolve outstanding claims and establish an independent “Book Rights Registry,” which will provide revenue from sales and advertising to authors and publishers who agree to digitize their books. Alliance co-chairs Peter Brantley and Gary Reback said in a blog post on a website created by the coalition, openbookalliance.org, that the settlement “creates an unprecedented monopoly and price fixing cartel.” “Just as Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press more than 700 years ago ushered in a new era of knowledge sharing, the mass digitization of books promises to once again revolutionize how we read and discover books. “But a digital library controlled by a single company and small group of colluding publishers would inevitably lead to higher prices and subpar service for consumers, libraries, scholars, and students,” they said. “Public interest demands that any mass book digitization and distribution effort be undertaken in the open, grounded in sound public policy, and mindful of the need to promote long-term benefits for consumers rather than those of a few commercial interests,” they
added. Brantley is a director of the Internet Archive, which maintains a digital library of websites and has its own book scanning project, while Rebak is an anti-trust lawyer in Silicon Valley who ironically helped persuade the Justice Department to file its anti-trust case against Microsoft in the 1990s. Google, whose book project is already facing anti-trust scrutiny from the US Justice Department, a court review and privacy concerns, dismissed the move by the coalition. “This sounds like the Sour Grapes Alliance,” it said in a statement. “The Google Books settlement is injecting more competition into the digital books space, so it’s understandable why our competitors might fight hard to prevent more competition.” Other members of the alliance include the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, the New York Library Association, Small Press Distribution and the Special Libraries Association. The settlement still needs the approval of a US District Court judge, who is to hold a “fairness hearing” on the deal in New York on October 7. Microsoft, which entered into a 10-year Web search partnership with Yahoo! last month that set the stage for a joint offensive against Google, also had a project to create a vast digital library but shut it down in May of last year. Online retail giant Amazon is a major player in the electronic book sector through its popular e-reader, the Kindle. Google announced, meanwhile, it was making over one million public domain books available for free in ePub format, an open industry standard for electronic books, in addition to the current PDF versions. “We founded Google Books on the premise that anyone, anywhere, anytime should have the tools to explore the great works of history and culture,” Google said in a blog post. “This feature takes us one step closer towards realizing that goal by helping support open standards that enable people to access these books in more places, on more devices and through more applications,” it said.
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HONG KONG - China Telecom said Thursday that its net profit dropped 29 percent in the first half of this year on the back of an increase in marketing expenses for its newly acquired mobile operation.
Tulungagung - Indri Mulyati, an Indonesian migrant domestic helper from Notorejo village, Gondang subdistrict, Tulungagung regency, East Java, had died following rough treatment by her employee in Saudi Arabia.
China’s largest fixed-line operator by subscribers said in a statement that its net profit for the six months ending June 30 was 9 billion yuan (1.32 billion US), down from 12.63 billion yuan for the same period last year. Its revenue rose 14 percent to 103.15 billion from 90.38 billion yuan.
Suryanto, her husband said he received the bad news on Monday morning from his wife’s fellow migrant worker. He said he still did not know
Wang Xiaochu, chairman and chief executive of China Telecom speaks to the press after the company announced its 2009 interim results in Hong Kong on August 27, 2009. China Telecom said on August 27 that its net profit dropped 29 percent in the first half of this year on the back of an increase in marketing expenses for its newly acquired mobile operation.
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The firm has embarked on a series of marketing initiatives after acquiring China Unicom (Hong Kong)’s CDMA (code division multiple access) technology business in October to access the 3G segment of the Chinese mobile market. Wang Ziaochu, chairman of the company, said in the statement that the firm’s increase in marketing spending “for the profitable scale development of its mobile services will significantly enhance future sustainable development and value creation.” Wang said the company would place more resources on developing integrated wireline and mobile services, and roll out its 3G products in the second half of the year to cope with the intensified competition in the mid-to-high-end market.
what had really caused his wife’s death. But he had reports that his wife had worked only three months with a family in Saudi Arabia. And that she had been roughtly treated
for two days, and eventually passed away. Suryanto said he also contacted the company which had recruited her, namely PT. Kemuning Bunga
Jakarta’s civil service police check the site where a government achievement banner collapsed in strong winds in downtown Jakarta on August 27, 2009. The 30 metre-long banner showing pictures of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla and their achievements, specially their combat against corruption, came crashing down amid strong gusts on August 27.
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Timika - All drivers of trailer trucks and shuttle buses of PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua province should wear the bulletproof vests and steel helmets when passing through the connecting road of Portsite to mile 74 Tembagapura. Markus Toto, one of the cargo transport crew of PT Kuala Pelabuhan Indonesia (KPI) here Thursday said the use of the bulletproof vests and steel helmets is to avoid of a possible gunshots committed by unidentified men along the Portsite-Tembagapura road. “It has been a month that all buses and cargo truck drivers were obliged to wear bulletproof vests and steel helmets,” Markus said. Markus colleague, Frans Sumampouw felt comfortable enough to wear the bulletproof vests and steel helmets although the bulletproof vests weight reaches 18 kg eaqch. “It is comfortable enough (to use
such vest), at least the company takes care of the employees’ safety,” Sumampouw said. Both employees requested the Timika Amole security guard in the Freeport area to arrest and launch legal process against the identified men who frequently opened fire against the company’s busses and trailers. “We ask police to immediately arrest the open-fire terrorists, so we can work peacefully,” Markus said. The gun shot terror which has been happening since early July, 2009 has left two PT Freeport employees and one of the regional police personnel killed. Report said an armed group shot at a PT Freeport Indonesia bus at mile 41-42 of the TimikaTembagapura at 3 pm local time on Sunday (Aug.16), wounding five passengers. ANTARA learned from Timika, the bus was heading from mile 21 towards mile 50 but it was shot at on its way to the destination.
Sejati, in Rawangmangun, South Jakarta, but their answers were disappointing, so that he remained in the dark about the death of his wife. The only thing that he knew is that his wife left for Saudi Arabia about three months ago, to work with a family of Al Amai Hamdaedh Al Syamri in Al Jubeil, Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, Head of the
Notorejo village Mustakim said he had tried several time to seek information from the foreign ministry and the Indonesian embassy in Cairo, but no results. In the meantime, Head of the Tulungagung regency manpower office Bangun Hermanto promised to follow up on the reports that a migrant worker from Tulungagung had died.
Number of Diarrhea Patients in Kotawaringin Timur Up 250 Percent ANTARA
Sampit - The number of diarrhea patients admitted to Dr Murjadi Sampit General Hospital, Kotawaringin Timur District, Central Kalimantan, has increased 250 percent over the past three months. “During the last three months, diarrhea sufferers are the largest number of patients being hospitalized in dr Murjadi Sampit hospital,” Ratna Yuniarti, director of dr Murjani Sampit Public Hospital, said here on Thursday. The diarrhea cases have increased significantly because the public have not yet followed a healthy life style, she said. More than 50 percent of the diarrhea sufferers were children at the age of between two and 12 years old, she said. In July alone, Kotawaringin
Timur District recorded a total of 224 cases of diarrhea, up three folds from 88 cases a month earlier, according to her. “However, despite the significant increase in the number of diarrhea patients, there is no fatality so far, as all patients have been saved,” he said. But the diarrhea cases in August alone (until Aug. 25), decreased from 224 cases to 112 cases. She called on the public to maintain cleanliness and apply a healthy life style in their routine daily activities. Meanwhile, Nineteen infants were infected with diarrhea virus in Merangin District, Jambi province, Sumatra, from August 1 to 14, 2009. Diarrhea not only affected children but also adults in the current seasonal transition, Abdul Rahman, director of dr. Mahmulsyah Munthe Merangin public hospital, said in Jambi recently.
Jibril’s Father Visits Police HQ for Third Time ANTARA
Jakarta - Abu Jibril, the father of Mohammad Jibril who was arrested for alleged involvement in terrorism funding, came to the National Police Headquarters on Thursday to inquire about his son’s whereabouts. Abu Jibril’s visit to the National Police Headquarters on Thursday was the third he had made since his son’s arrest a few days ago. When he came to the Police Headquarters on Tuesday and Wednesday, Abu Jibril failed to meet his son who was arrested by the police anti-terror Detachment88 on Tuesday. This time, Abu Jibril was accompanied by around 10 activists of the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), an umbrella organization of several Indonesian Islamic groups. Meanwhile, MMI spokesman Irfan Awwas said Abu and the MMI activists had come to the Police Headquarters to meet Mohammad Jibril. “Mohamad Jibril has a family
and a clear address but why have the police arrested him. Therefore, we want a clarification from the National Police chief,” Irfan said. The police on Wednesday examined Mohamad Jibril for his alleged involvement in terrorism funding. Mohamad Jibril was alleged to be involved in funding terrorism along with Al Khalil Ali, a Saudi national who was taken into police custody earlier. The police had earlier put Jibril on their wanted list in connection with the bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta last July 17 that left nine people dead including the two suicide bombers and more than 50 others wounded. In connection with the bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels the police have so far held two suspects namely Aris and Hendra, who were caught in Temanggung, Central Java. Meanwhile, two other suspects Eko Sarjono and Air Setiawan - were killed during a raid at a house used as their hideout in Jatiasih, Bekasi. Another suspect, Ibrahim, was
killed during a raid on a house in Temanggung, Central Java. The two suicide bombers at the two hotels were known as Dani and Nana. Police are now still searching four suspects in connection with the bombings. One of them is believed to have recruited Dani and Nana.
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Indonesian cleric Abu Jibril, the father of Mohamad Jibril Abdurahman.
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The CEO of Bali Post Media Group (KMB), Satria Naradha (4 from the left) pictured with when the Committee of Kuta Carnival. The seventh Kuta Carnival is designed as a medium of collaboration of devotee’s appreciation to culture, ritual and nature. Collaboration to maintain this balance will be interpreted by presentation of art and culture, spiritual activity as well as environmental care action.
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DENPASAR - The seventh Kuta Carnival is designed as a medium of collaboration of devotee’s appreciation to culture, ritual and nature. Collaboration to maintain this balance will be interpreted by presentation of art and culture, spiritual activity as well as environmental care action. Even, to improve and encourage the national identity and to appreciate the national culture, Kuta Carnival will also perform the colossal Pendet Dance. Thus was revealed when the Committee of Kuta Carnival was received by the CEO of Bali Post Media Group (KMB), Satria Naradha, at K Nadha Bali Press Building, Wednesday (Aug 26). According to the Head of the Committee of Kuta Carnival, Ketut Nugra, the event of this year would be organized on the upcoming September 19-27. Opening ceremony would be centralized at Kuta Beach starting from 15:00 Local Time with a variety of activities. “The current Carnival has cultural spirit, spiritual and appreciation to the environment. By featuring the theme “Ecological Creative” we would like to invite
the public to care of the environment including the spirit of culture and life,” he said. Similar affirmation was delivered by Puspa Negara. He said that the concern with culture, nature including the spirit of rituals should be echoed continuously. Diversity of cultural style that we believe has ritual values including the business potential that should be preserved. “We wish to construct an acculturation of life rhythm, either that gets in touch with the nature, cultural or ritual life,” he expressed. CEO OF Bali Post Media Group, Satria Naradha, responded the event positively. He expected that all components of community awaked to maintain their national identity and culture. By this aware-
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ness, he expected the awakening of nationalism and establishment of appreciation to traditional arts. National identity could be accommodated by providing space, and facilitating the artist to express their creations, including protecting the forms of their creativity. Agenda of the Kuta Carnival will be graced by cultural parade, spiritual activity in the form of pasepan agung, yoga and food festival. Other agenda consists of the presentation of colossal Pendet Dance including environmental care action and will be organized at different locations like at Seminyak, Legian and Kuta Beach. (044)
Dance does not fall in from heaven. Even dreaming of any publiser or advertiser in one night. It is cultivated in its history. It is part of culture, fruit of reflection human and its surrounding. Talking on Pendet Dance, also it is one part of reflection Balinese on Bali Island. As shortly explained by Bali Vision.Com,Pendet is the presentation of an offering in theform of a ritual dance. Unlike the exhibition dances that demand arduous training, Pendet may be danced by everyone: male and female pemangkus, women and girls of the village. It is taught simply by imitation and is seldom practiced in the banjars. Younger girls follow the movements of the elder women who recognize their responsibility in setting a good example. Proficiency comes with age, and often, t is the grandmothers who possess the most Man of the grouli. As a religious daqce, Pendet is usually performed during temple ceremonies. All dancers carry in their right hand a small offering of incense, cakes, water vessels, or flower formations set in palm leaf with these they dance from shrine to shrine within the
temple. Pendet, thus, may be performed as a serial and continue intermittently through, the day and late into the night during temple feasts. In 1968, a huge religious procession in Tabanan produced many versions of Pendet. One was danced by a member of the household, who presented the family’s offerings in a slow Pendet before the approaching wave of thousands of people. In larger villages, a selected group of young girls, bare-shouldered and formally dressed in wraps of gold cloth, carried silver bowls of flowers as they danced a more elaborate Pendet, choreographed in interweaving rows and files (see page 103). When the procession settled before a small temple, old women dressed in ordinary clothes began to dance still another form of Pendet. They carried no offerings but moved feverishly as if possessed by the music. Recently, Pendet was introduced to open the Legong. Here, the young girls are accomplished members of a dance troupe, and their movements are coordinated and exact. Toward the finish of the dance, the girls make praying gestures and throw flowers to the audience-a welcome and blessing to the public.
ISI builds international cooperation network Antara
DENPASAR - Denpasar’s Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI Denpasar) has built an international cooperation network in its efforts to “go international.” “We have built international cooperation network with various institute of arts in a number of countries,” ISI Rector Prof I Wayan Rai S said here on Wednesday. He said memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with tens of art institutes in Asia, Australia, and the United States in lecturers and students exchange programs had been signed. According to Wayan Rai, some of the cooperation agreements were already being realized and some others were still under process. “For ISI Denpasar to go international, Wayan Rai said the institute was also exploring the possobility of cooperation with Indonesian embassies in foreign countries. In that kind of cooperation, ISI Denpasar would send its lecturers and alumni to a number of Indonesian overseas embassies to teach Indonesian dances to the local people there. Wayan Rai said that ISI Denpasar was also exploring the possibility of cooperation with three art universities in Thailand. “The cooperation agreement with two of the three universities has
been signed and the rest will follow later,” he said. Wayan Rai has just arrived here from Thailand after leading a 25member group of artists, made up of ISI lecturers and students, to sign the agreement. He said two cooperation agreements respectively with the University of Sonkla Rajabath Thailand and Suratani University of Thailand, while the third would soon be signed with an art institute in South Thailand. “If the two sides have reached an agreement, the memorandum of understanding on the cooperation will soon be signed in the near future,” Wayan Rai said. He said the cooperation with the University of Sonkla Rajabath Thailand and Suratani University of Thailand which has been signed would soon be followed up. According to Wayan Rai, the interstate art cooperation with Thailand would involve lectures and student exchange programs for the participants to carry out teaching and learning process. He said that in the future the students form the three universities in Thailand could continue their study on art at ISI Denpasar, while ISI students could also make the same thing in Thailand for several semesters in accordance with mutual agreement.
Pevonia Tropical Treats at Spa at Maya IBP
UBUD - Maya Ubud Resort & Spa is pleased to announce the introduction of Tropical Rejuvenation by Pevonia Botanica, an elite spa care line chosen by prestigious spas worldwide. The Spa at Maya in conjuction with Pevonia Botanica has carefully created five new spa treatments using these tropical spa care products. The Tropical Rejuvenation range includes three facial treatments; Rescue & Repair Facial, Detailing Facial for Him and Hydration Infusion Facial, and two body treatments; Tropical Escape Papaya-Pineapple Crème Fraiche Wrap and Slimming Green Coffee Body Wrap (anti cellulite). ‘’Each of these 75-minutes facial treatments has its own power to invigorate the skin, depending on your needs,’’ advised Made Suarini, Director of Spa at the Spa at Maya. ‘’The Rescue and Repair Facial is perfect for ladies who suffer from heat and redness, the Hydrating Infusion Facial is suitable for those who have a problem with humidity or dehydration caused by long flights, while the male visitor will enjoy the Detail-
ing Facial for Him with its calming, healing and skin enrichment propertie,’’ she continued. Tropical Escape PapayaPineapple Crème Fraiche Wrap (90 minutes), is a wonderful treatment compatible with the setting of Spa at Maya, using a body wrap of papaya and pineapple enriched with crème rraiche natural butter containing of calcium and vitamin A. This treatment is an absolute tropical sensory escape. The Slimming Green Coffee Body Wrap (120 minutes) has an anti cellulite effect on the body that has the ability to reduce fat, increase metabolism and eliminate water retention. The pure 100% Micronized Green Coffee has the ability to enhance the skin’s overall texture and visibly reduce spongy, dimply cellulite areas. With these new Tropical Rejuvenation treatments by Pevonia Botanica, the Spa at Maya will provide premium quality ingredients connected with a spa tropical experience. Our well-known signature treatment, “Riverside Special” as well as other original spa treatments remains available for those seeking the Balinese spa experience at the Spa at Maya.
Buah kacang mekuah (Long Bean with Coconut Sauce)
Overview: This soupy vegetable dish has plenty of savory liquid, which can be spooned over rice. Ingredients: 2 cups chicken stock ½ cup basic spice paste 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised 3 salam leaves 600 gr long beans cut in 2.5 cm pieces Salt and pepper to taste Fried shallots to garnish Preparation: Heat chicken stock in saucepan. Add spice paste, lemon grass and salam leaves and simmer for 5 minutes. Add beans and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer until beans are cooked. Season to taste with salt. Garnish with fried shallots. Helpful hints: Any type of green bean can be used instead of the long Asian variety. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)
Pesan be pasih
(Grilled Fish in Banana Leaf) Overview: This is the Balinese version of a popular Javanese dish, Ikan Pepes. If banana leaves are not available, replace with greased aluminum foil. Small whole fish are often used in Bali instead of fillets cut from a large fish; just adjust the size of the banana leaf wrapping. Ingredients: 500 gr (1 lb) skinned boneless snapper fillet, cut in 4 1 tsp salt 1 cup seafood spice paste 8 sprigs lemon basil 4 Salam leaves 1 tomato, sliced 4 banana leaves, cut in 15 cm (6 in) squares Preparation: 1. Season fish fillet with salt and cover evenly with seafood spice paste. 2. Cover and leave to marinate in cool place for 6 hours 3. Place fish in center of banana leaves, top each with 2 springs of lemon basil and 1 salam leaf and tomato slice. 4. Fold banana leaves around fillets in shape of a small parcel, fasten with toothpick 5. Steam parcels for 7 minutes, then place on charcoal cooker or under a grill and cook for 5 minutes until banana leaves are evenly browned. (http:// www.baliguide.com/balifood)
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The CEO of Bali Post Media Group (KMB), Satria Naradha (4 from the left) pictured with when the Committee of Kuta Carnival. The seventh Kuta Carnival is designed as a medium of collaboration of devotee’s appreciation to culture, ritual and nature. Collaboration to maintain this balance will be interpreted by presentation of art and culture, spiritual activity as well as environmental care action.
The Seventh Kuta Carnival Collaborates Ritual, Culture and Environment Bali Post
DENPASAR - The seventh Kuta Carnival is designed as a medium of collaboration of devotee’s appreciation to culture, ritual and nature. Collaboration to maintain this balance will be interpreted by presentation of art and culture, spiritual activity as well as environmental care action. Even, to improve and encourage the national identity and to appreciate the national culture, Kuta Carnival will also perform the colossal Pendet Dance. Thus was revealed when the Committee of Kuta Carnival was received by the CEO of Bali Post Media Group (KMB), Satria Naradha, at K Nadha Bali Press Building, Wednesday (Aug 26). According to the Head of the Committee of Kuta Carnival, Ketut Nugra, the event of this year would be organized on the upcoming September 19-27. Opening ceremony would be centralized at Kuta Beach starting from 15:00 Local Time with a variety of activities. “The current Carnival has cultural spirit, spiritual and appreciation to the environment. By featuring the theme “Ecological Creative” we would like to invite
the public to care of the environment including the spirit of culture and life,” he said. Similar affirmation was delivered by Puspa Negara. He said that the concern with culture, nature including the spirit of rituals should be echoed continuously. Diversity of cultural style that we believe has ritual values including the business potential that should be preserved. “We wish to construct an acculturation of life rhythm, either that gets in touch with the nature, cultural or ritual life,” he expressed. CEO OF Bali Post Media Group, Satria Naradha, responded the event positively. He expected that all components of community awaked to maintain their national identity and culture. By this aware-
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ness, he expected the awakening of nationalism and establishment of appreciation to traditional arts. National identity could be accommodated by providing space, and facilitating the artist to express their creations, including protecting the forms of their creativity. Agenda of the Kuta Carnival will be graced by cultural parade, spiritual activity in the form of pasepan agung, yoga and food festival. Other agenda consists of the presentation of colossal Pendet Dance including environmental care action and will be organized at different locations like at Seminyak, Legian and Kuta Beach. (044)
Dance does not fall in from heaven. Even dreaming of any publiser or advertiser in one night. It is cultivated in its history. It is part of culture, fruit of reflection human and its surrounding. Talking on Pendet Dance, also it is one part of reflection Balinese on Bali Island. As shortly explained by Bali Vision.Com,Pendet is the presentation of an offering in theform of a ritual dance. Unlike the exhibition dances that demand arduous training, Pendet may be danced by everyone: male and female pemangkus, women and girls of the village. It is taught simply by imitation and is seldom practiced in the banjars. Younger girls follow the movements of the elder women who recognize their responsibility in setting a good example. Proficiency comes with age, and often, t is the grandmothers who possess the most Man of the grouli. As a religious daqce, Pendet is usually performed during temple ceremonies. All dancers carry in their right hand a small offering of incense, cakes, water vessels, or flower formations set in palm leaf with these they dance from shrine to shrine within the
temple. Pendet, thus, may be performed as a serial and continue intermittently through, the day and late into the night during temple feasts. In 1968, a huge religious procession in Tabanan produced many versions of Pendet. One was danced by a member of the household, who presented the family’s offerings in a slow Pendet before the approaching wave of thousands of people. In larger villages, a selected group of young girls, bare-shouldered and formally dressed in wraps of gold cloth, carried silver bowls of flowers as they danced a more elaborate Pendet, choreographed in interweaving rows and files (see page 103). When the procession settled before a small temple, old women dressed in ordinary clothes began to dance still another form of Pendet. They carried no offerings but moved feverishly as if possessed by the music. Recently, Pendet was introduced to open the Legong. Here, the young girls are accomplished members of a dance troupe, and their movements are coordinated and exact. Toward the finish of the dance, the girls make praying gestures and throw flowers to the audience-a welcome and blessing to the public.
ISI builds international cooperation network Antara
DENPASAR - Denpasar’s Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI Denpasar) has built an international cooperation network in its efforts to “go international.” “We have built international cooperation network with various institute of arts in a number of countries,” ISI Rector Prof I Wayan Rai S said here on Wednesday. He said memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with tens of art institutes in Asia, Australia, and the United States in lecturers and students exchange programs had been signed. According to Wayan Rai, some of the cooperation agreements were already being realized and some others were still under process. “For ISI Denpasar to go international, Wayan Rai said the institute was also exploring the possobility of cooperation with Indonesian embassies in foreign countries. In that kind of cooperation, ISI Denpasar would send its lecturers and alumni to a number of Indonesian overseas embassies to teach Indonesian dances to the local people there. Wayan Rai said that ISI Denpasar was also exploring the possibility of cooperation with three art universities in Thailand. “The cooperation agreement with two of the three universities has
been signed and the rest will follow later,” he said. Wayan Rai has just arrived here from Thailand after leading a 25member group of artists, made up of ISI lecturers and students, to sign the agreement. He said two cooperation agreements respectively with the University of Sonkla Rajabath Thailand and Suratani University of Thailand, while the third would soon be signed with an art institute in South Thailand. “If the two sides have reached an agreement, the memorandum of understanding on the cooperation will soon be signed in the near future,” Wayan Rai said. He said the cooperation with the University of Sonkla Rajabath Thailand and Suratani University of Thailand which has been signed would soon be followed up. According to Wayan Rai, the interstate art cooperation with Thailand would involve lectures and student exchange programs for the participants to carry out teaching and learning process. He said that in the future the students form the three universities in Thailand could continue their study on art at ISI Denpasar, while ISI students could also make the same thing in Thailand for several semesters in accordance with mutual agreement.
Pevonia Tropical Treats at Spa at Maya IBP
UBUD - Maya Ubud Resort & Spa is pleased to announce the introduction of Tropical Rejuvenation by Pevonia Botanica, an elite spa care line chosen by prestigious spas worldwide. The Spa at Maya in conjuction with Pevonia Botanica has carefully created five new spa treatments using these tropical spa care products. The Tropical Rejuvenation range includes three facial treatments; Rescue & Repair Facial, Detailing Facial for Him and Hydration Infusion Facial, and two body treatments; Tropical Escape Papaya-Pineapple Crème Fraiche Wrap and Slimming Green Coffee Body Wrap (anti cellulite). ‘’Each of these 75-minutes facial treatments has its own power to invigorate the skin, depending on your needs,’’ advised Made Suarini, Director of Spa at the Spa at Maya. ‘’The Rescue and Repair Facial is perfect for ladies who suffer from heat and redness, the Hydrating Infusion Facial is suitable for those who have a problem with humidity or dehydration caused by long flights, while the male visitor will enjoy the Detail-
ing Facial for Him with its calming, healing and skin enrichment propertie,’’ she continued. Tropical Escape PapayaPineapple Crème Fraiche Wrap (90 minutes), is a wonderful treatment compatible with the setting of Spa at Maya, using a body wrap of papaya and pineapple enriched with crème rraiche natural butter containing of calcium and vitamin A. This treatment is an absolute tropical sensory escape. The Slimming Green Coffee Body Wrap (120 minutes) has an anti cellulite effect on the body that has the ability to reduce fat, increase metabolism and eliminate water retention. The pure 100% Micronized Green Coffee has the ability to enhance the skin’s overall texture and visibly reduce spongy, dimply cellulite areas. With these new Tropical Rejuvenation treatments by Pevonia Botanica, the Spa at Maya will provide premium quality ingredients connected with a spa tropical experience. Our well-known signature treatment, “Riverside Special” as well as other original spa treatments remains available for those seeking the Balinese spa experience at the Spa at Maya.
Buah kacang mekuah (Long Bean with Coconut Sauce)
Overview: This soupy vegetable dish has plenty of savory liquid, which can be spooned over rice. Ingredients: 2 cups chicken stock ½ cup basic spice paste 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised 3 salam leaves 600 gr long beans cut in 2.5 cm pieces Salt and pepper to taste Fried shallots to garnish Preparation: Heat chicken stock in saucepan. Add spice paste, lemon grass and salam leaves and simmer for 5 minutes. Add beans and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer until beans are cooked. Season to taste with salt. Garnish with fried shallots. Helpful hints: Any type of green bean can be used instead of the long Asian variety. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)
Pesan be pasih
(Grilled Fish in Banana Leaf) Overview: This is the Balinese version of a popular Javanese dish, Ikan Pepes. If banana leaves are not available, replace with greased aluminum foil. Small whole fish are often used in Bali instead of fillets cut from a large fish; just adjust the size of the banana leaf wrapping. Ingredients: 500 gr (1 lb) skinned boneless snapper fillet, cut in 4 1 tsp salt 1 cup seafood spice paste 8 sprigs lemon basil 4 Salam leaves 1 tomato, sliced 4 banana leaves, cut in 15 cm (6 in) squares Preparation: 1. Season fish fillet with salt and cover evenly with seafood spice paste. 2. Cover and leave to marinate in cool place for 6 hours 3. Place fish in center of banana leaves, top each with 2 springs of lemon basil and 1 salam leaf and tomato slice. 4. Fold banana leaves around fillets in shape of a small parcel, fasten with toothpick 5. Steam parcels for 7 minutes, then place on charcoal cooker or under a grill and cook for 5 minutes until banana leaves are evenly browned. (http:// www.baliguide.com/balifood)
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Indonesia’ House Maid Dies of Rough Treatment by Saudi Employee
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HONG KONG - China Telecom said Thursday that its net profit dropped 29 percent in the first half of this year on the back of an increase in marketing expenses for its newly acquired mobile operation.
Tulungagung - Indri Mulyati, an Indonesian migrant domestic helper from Notorejo village, Gondang subdistrict, Tulungagung regency, East Java, had died following rough treatment by her employee in Saudi Arabia.
China’s largest fixed-line operator by subscribers said in a statement that its net profit for the six months ending June 30 was 9 billion yuan (1.32 billion US), down from 12.63 billion yuan for the same period last year. Its revenue rose 14 percent to 103.15 billion from 90.38 billion yuan.
Suryanto, her husband said he received the bad news on Monday morning from his wife’s fellow migrant worker. He said he still did not know
Wang Xiaochu, chairman and chief executive of China Telecom speaks to the press after the company announced its 2009 interim results in Hong Kong on August 27, 2009. China Telecom said on August 27 that its net profit dropped 29 percent in the first half of this year on the back of an increase in marketing expenses for its newly acquired mobile operation.
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The firm has embarked on a series of marketing initiatives after acquiring China Unicom (Hong Kong)’s CDMA (code division multiple access) technology business in October to access the 3G segment of the Chinese mobile market. Wang Ziaochu, chairman of the company, said in the statement that the firm’s increase in marketing spending “for the profitable scale development of its mobile services will significantly enhance future sustainable development and value creation.” Wang said the company would place more resources on developing integrated wireline and mobile services, and roll out its 3G products in the second half of the year to cope with the intensified competition in the mid-to-high-end market.
what had really caused his wife’s death. But he had reports that his wife had worked only three months with a family in Saudi Arabia. And that she had been roughtly treated
for two days, and eventually passed away. Suryanto said he also contacted the company which had recruited her, namely PT. Kemuning Bunga
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Timika - All drivers of trailer trucks and shuttle buses of PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua province should wear the bulletproof vests and steel helmets when passing through the connecting road of Portsite to mile 74 Tembagapura. Markus Toto, one of the cargo transport crew of PT Kuala Pelabuhan Indonesia (KPI) here Thursday said the use of the bulletproof vests and steel helmets is to avoid of a possible gunshots committed by unidentified men along the Portsite-Tembagapura road. “It has been a month that all buses and cargo truck drivers were obliged to wear bulletproof vests and steel helmets,” Markus said. Markus colleague, Frans Sumampouw felt comfortable enough to wear the bulletproof vests and steel helmets although the bulletproof vests weight reaches 18 kg eaqch. “It is comfortable enough (to use
such vest), at least the company takes care of the employees’ safety,” Sumampouw said. Both employees requested the Timika Amole security guard in the Freeport area to arrest and launch legal process against the identified men who frequently opened fire against the company’s busses and trailers. “We ask police to immediately arrest the open-fire terrorists, so we can work peacefully,” Markus said. The gun shot terror which has been happening since early July, 2009 has left two PT Freeport employees and one of the regional police personnel killed. Report said an armed group shot at a PT Freeport Indonesia bus at mile 41-42 of the TimikaTembagapura at 3 pm local time on Sunday (Aug.16), wounding five passengers. ANTARA learned from Timika, the bus was heading from mile 21 towards mile 50 but it was shot at on its way to the destination.
Sejati, in Rawangmangun, South Jakarta, but their answers were disappointing, so that he remained in the dark about the death of his wife. The only thing that he knew is that his wife left for Saudi Arabia about three months ago, to work with a family of Al Amai Hamdaedh Al Syamri in Al Jubeil, Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, Head of the
Notorejo village Mustakim said he had tried several time to seek information from the foreign ministry and the Indonesian embassy in Cairo, but no results. In the meantime, Head of the Tulungagung regency manpower office Bangun Hermanto promised to follow up on the reports that a migrant worker from Tulungagung had died.
Number of Diarrhea Patients in Kotawaringin Timur Up 250 Percent ANTARA
Sampit - The number of diarrhea patients admitted to Dr Murjadi Sampit General Hospital, Kotawaringin Timur District, Central Kalimantan, has increased 250 percent over the past three months. “During the last three months, diarrhea sufferers are the largest number of patients being hospitalized in dr Murjadi Sampit hospital,” Ratna Yuniarti, director of dr Murjani Sampit Public Hospital, said here on Thursday. The diarrhea cases have increased significantly because the public have not yet followed a healthy life style, she said. More than 50 percent of the diarrhea sufferers were children at the age of between two and 12 years old, she said. In July alone, Kotawaringin
Timur District recorded a total of 224 cases of diarrhea, up three folds from 88 cases a month earlier, according to her. “However, despite the significant increase in the number of diarrhea patients, there is no fatality so far, as all patients have been saved,” he said. But the diarrhea cases in August alone (until Aug. 25), decreased from 224 cases to 112 cases. She called on the public to maintain cleanliness and apply a healthy life style in their routine daily activities. Meanwhile, Nineteen infants were infected with diarrhea virus in Merangin District, Jambi province, Sumatra, from August 1 to 14, 2009. Diarrhea not only affected children but also adults in the current seasonal transition, Abdul Rahman, director of dr. Mahmulsyah Munthe Merangin public hospital, said in Jambi recently.
Jibril’s Father Visits Police HQ for Third Time ANTARA
Jakarta - Abu Jibril, the father of Mohammad Jibril who was arrested for alleged involvement in terrorism funding, came to the National Police Headquarters on Thursday to inquire about his son’s whereabouts. Abu Jibril’s visit to the National Police Headquarters on Thursday was the third he had made since his son’s arrest a few days ago. When he came to the Police Headquarters on Tuesday and Wednesday, Abu Jibril failed to meet his son who was arrested by the police anti-terror Detachment88 on Tuesday. This time, Abu Jibril was accompanied by around 10 activists of the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), an umbrella organization of several Indonesian Islamic groups. Meanwhile, MMI spokesman Irfan Awwas said Abu and the MMI activists had come to the Police Headquarters to meet Mohammad Jibril. “Mohamad Jibril has a family
and a clear address but why have the police arrested him. Therefore, we want a clarification from the National Police chief,” Irfan said. The police on Wednesday examined Mohamad Jibril for his alleged involvement in terrorism funding. Mohamad Jibril was alleged to be involved in funding terrorism along with Al Khalil Ali, a Saudi national who was taken into police custody earlier. The police had earlier put Jibril on their wanted list in connection with the bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta last July 17 that left nine people dead including the two suicide bombers and more than 50 others wounded. In connection with the bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels the police have so far held two suspects namely Aris and Hendra, who were caught in Temanggung, Central Java. Meanwhile, two other suspects Eko Sarjono and Air Setiawan - were killed during a raid at a house used as their hideout in Jatiasih, Bekasi. Another suspect, Ibrahim, was
killed during a raid on a house in Temanggung, Central Java. The two suicide bombers at the two hotels were known as Dani and Nana. Police are now still searching four suspects in connection with the bombings. One of them is believed to have recruited Dani and Nana.
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Indonesian cleric Abu Jibril, the father of Mohamad Jibril Abdurahman.
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Ciudad Juarez, deadliest city in the world: watchdog Agence France-Presse
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Devotees of Sindhi community carry earthen pots covered in red clothes on their heads during a religious procession to mark the end of Chaliho Sahib festival in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Atheists on the march in America Agence France-Presse
DAVIE - When South Florida atheists held their first meeting, they were just five friends, having a beer at a bar. Four years later, they’ve moved to a bigger place — still a bar — to hold their weekly meet-and-greets. Membership is up to almost 500, Darwin Day is in the planning stages and bumper stickers are on sale. “There is no God, but ice-cream is great,” reads one. “What schools need is a moment of science,” reads another. Atheist groups are growing all over the United States, challenging stereotypes and confronting what they consider a big backslide in the separation of church and state. They are chatting online, picking up trash along “adopted” highways, and advertising on buses and billboards. In South Florida, they recently picketed a prayer meeting in a public safety building paid for with tax dollars. “We’re growing by leaps and bounds,” said Bob Senatore, a retired teacher and one of the early members of the Florida Atheists and Secular Humanists, or FLASH. “The attitude is, ‘If we don’t do something about it now, we’ll be living under a theocracy.’” Polls show non-believers are on the rise in the United States, even in places like Florida, where, as Senatore sees it, “There’s a church on every corner and a fish on every car.” The fish is one of the most common symbols of Christianity. The American Religious Identification Survey recently found the number of people who claimed “no religion” had nearly doubled nationally over the last 18 years, to 15 percent. They were the only demographic that increased in all 50 states. Some attribute the surge to outrage over former president George W. Bush and his courting of the religious right.
Others mention a slew of best-selling books about atheism that have recently fueled debate. But there’s no doubt the Internet is playing a role too. It offers atheist dating services, and helps nonbelievers meet up — people who might otherwise remain “loners.” “To have a non-belief is not much to build a social group on,” acknowledged FLASH member Jay Berman, a computer trainer and self-described Jewish atheist. Berman said he wasn’t looking to convert anyone to atheism, and takes a non-confrontational stance with religious friends. “I’m happy to attend any religious observances where the food is good,” he said. For others, atheism is a cause. Along with freethinking and agnostic groups, they are beginning to lobby Congress on everything from stem cell research to civil rights. The Secular Coalition for America represents 10 such organizations. Executive director Sean Faircloth said the coalition was particularly interested in bringing down state laws that give special privileges to religious-based services. Groups like his took note when President Barack Obama nodded to “nonbelievers” during his inaugural speech. “We’ve gone from where we essentially could communicate only with Congress, to now, where we have some open doors at the White House as well,” Faircloth said. “I see tremendous progress and I feel real hope for the future, that you’re going to hear more of us.” In fact, one of the biggest hurdles to political recognition for atheists may be their own free-thinking spirit. “If a politician were to come out and
say they were an atheist, I would be proud someone had the guts to do it,” said Peter Ragona, a wedding photographer and member of FLASH. “But I would not vote for them just because they’re an atheist.” According to the coalition, just one US lawmaker has gone on record as a “non-theist” — California Democrat Peter Stark. As they work to crack stereotypes, atheists are sometimes encountering resistance. Last month, when FLASH erected a billboard stating, “Being a good person doesn’t require God,” a local woman led children in chants calling for the sign to come down. Owners of a nearby beauty supply shop complained business was suffering. In Iowa, the transit authority removed atheist ads from the sides of buses after complaints from riders. Authorities later put them back up, after talking to atheist organizers. When a Christian driver refused to drive a bus bearing the ad she was suspended. FLASH president and firefighter Ken Loukinen said he regularly receives hate mail. “I’ve had some threats to blow up my truck,” said Loukinen, who is also state director of the national group American Atheists. But, he added, “We’d rather spread information than complain about stuff. We want to dispel myths about atheists, myths about science.” Taking a page from the playbook of the gay-rights movement, some atheists say “coming out” will drive up membership all by itself, as other atheists realize they are not alone. “There are many people in misery, emotionally torn apart by their doubts. I’ve been there,” said Ronelle Delmont, a book reviewer and former bellydancer at the Davie meet-up. Delmont started studying science and atheism 15 years ago. Carl Sagan became her hero. “I found courage by finding other people,” she said. “I’m now unashamed to say I’m an atheist.”
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s volatile border city of Ciudad Juarez has the world’s highest murder rate, followed by Caracas, Venezuela, and the US city of New Orleans, a Mexican security watchdog said Wednesday. Ciudad Juarez — the scene of regular and brutal score-settling between rival drug gangs — has 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, said the Citizen’s Council for Public Security (CCSP) in a statement. Caracas has 96 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and New Orleans registers 95, said the Mexican non-governmental organization, which based its figures on media reports and an FBI report for the United States. Caracas was listed as the murder capital of the world in the Sep-
tember 2008 Foreign Policy magazine, quoting official figures of 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. The Mexican NGO put Baghdad, Iraq, in 10th position with 40 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and another Mexican border city, Tijuana, in fourth place with 73. Cape Town, South Africa, was fifth with 62, and the east coast US city of Baltimore was in eighth position with 45 murders per 100,000 people, according to the NGO. In Ciudad Juarez, 1,362 people have been murdered so far this year up to August 21, the NGO said, as violence spirals among powerful cartels fighting for control of lucrative drug routes into the United States. The deployment of 8,500 troops in the border city — part of a nationwide crackdown involving more than 36,000 troops — has failed to quell the violence.
Schwarzenegger drops in on Twitter Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCO - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a call at Twitter on Wednesday, praising the microblogging sensation as a way to stay in tune with what voters are thinking. Schwarzenegger’s chat with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams in the Internet firm’s San Francisco offices was streamed online in a “tweetcast” and ranged from bodybuilding to the state’s budget woes. “Social networking, I think, is something you have brought to the ultimate level,” Schwarzenegger told Stone and Williams. “It is brilliant what you came up with, staggering.” Schwarzenegger voiced certainty that the pair weren’t thinking about a role in an Iranian revolution when they created the microblogging service. “It was low on the list,” Williams quipped as Stone emphatically shook his head to indicate “No.” In July, Twitter became a key communications tool for Iranians protesting the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Twitter users outside Iran changed time and location settings to make it appear they were messaging from Tehran to make it harder for authorities to find those really tweeting from that country. Schwarzenegger, whose office is well-wired into Internet technologies, described Twitter as an effective way for politicians to get realtime feedback from voters. “You always try to reach out and
touch the people; you need to know always what they are feeling and it changes so quickly,” the governor said. “We see it with health care reform.” Talk inevitably touched on exercise, with Stone telling the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor that Twitter workers are more into running than weightlifting. Some Twitter workers slip out of the office for midnight marathon runs along San Francisco streets, said Stone. Twitter also invites workers from local technology firms to join in a weekly run along the Embarcadero. “Now I realize we need a weight room,” Stone noted after Schwarzenegger commented that workout centers have flourished in the aftermath of his days as Mr. Universe. Schwarzenegger was nicknamed “The Austrian Oak” during a bodybuilding career that included winning a series of Mr. Olympia crowns. He parlayed his bodybuilding glory into a film career. Schwarzenegger said he has turned to Twitter users for ideas about how to fix California’s daunting budget deficit. Suggestions he is using include having a “garage sale” to raise money from bicycles, cars and other property the state doesn’t need. Fittingly, Stone scanned Twitter for questions to ask Schwarzenegger, coming up with “Why can’t other states have a governor this awesome.” “That’s why I’m the one and only,” Schwarzenegger quickly retorted. After the governor left Twitter, Stone fired off a tweet thanking him for stopping by for a chat.
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BUSINESS (FILES) Picture taken on June 10, 2009 in Paris shows a man holding a IPhone. A French security guard said on August 25, 2009 he had received a faceful of glass when the screen of his iPhone exploded, the second such reported incident in France. AFP PHOTO LOIC VENANCE
Apple in hot water in France over ‘exploding iPhones’ Agence France-Presse
PARIS - Half a dozen new cases of “exploding iPhones” emerged in France on Wednesday, as Apple faced an official inquiry and calls to come clean over possible risks linked to its wildly popular smartphone. An 80-year-old pensioner from the Paris suburbs said Wednesday his iPhone screen cracked up in his hands, a day after a supermarket watchman claimed he was hurt in the eye when his screen suddenly shattered this week. Ten French consumers have now come forward saying their iPhone screens exploded or cracked without explanation, according to an AFP tally, including a first case in mid-August in which a teenager suffered an eye injury. Apple is accused of trying to hush up 15 cases of iPod music players heating up and bursting into flames in the United States and in one similar British case, all apparently due to overheated lithium ion batteries. None of the incidents has caused a serious injury but Apple was forced to defend the safety of its flagship smartphone before the European Union this month, insisting the exploding screen cases were “isolated incidents”. The US technology giant, which has sold 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods to date, said it been informed of the French cases, but would not comment until it had examined the damaged phones. “We are aware of these reports and we are waiting to receive the iPhones from the customers. Until we have the full details, we don’t have anything further to add,” Alan Hely, head of
communications at Apple Europe, told AFP. But France’s official competition, consumer affairs and fraud watchdog, the DGCCRF, has launched an investigation to find out whether the Apple smartphone could pose a threat to consumers. “An investigation is under way. We have been alerted to the problem and we are looking into it closely,” a spokesman said Tuesday. France’s consumer rights group, UFC-Que Choisir, also called on Apple to come clean about possible faults with its iPod and iPhone devices. “We want to know if this is an isolated incident as they claim, or a real problem involving the iPhone — in which case, what are they planning by way of compensation and to prevent it happening again?” said a spokesman. In the British case Apple came under fire for allegedly asking the young girl’s family to sign a confidentiality agreement — slammed as a “gagging order” — before it would agree to refund her. In the latest French incident, Rolland Caufman, a pensioner from the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec, says his iPhone screen broke up on July 21, the week after he bought it. “I went out shopping, with my iPhone in my left pocket, when I suddenly felt it heat up and start vibrating — even though I never use the vibrate
setting. “I took it out of my pocket and held it to my ear — and saw the screen crack up like a car windscreen,” he told AFP. Caufman says Apple initially refused to believe him, before finally sending him a free replacement. On Tuesday, 26-year-old security guard Yassine Bouhadi, claimed he was hit in the eye with a glass shard when the screen of his iPhone cracked up. He said he would seek a full refund and file suit for damages. French mobile phone operator Orange said it had been contacted by two customers with shattered iPhone screens, out of 1.2 million iPhones sold. The European Commission has asked all 27 EU nations to keep it informed of any problems, under the community’s rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products, known as RAPEX. Commission spokeswoman Helen Kearns said “Apple has been very cooperative”, stressing that RAPEX alerts were issued every week — sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but at other times with no consequence. “We’re not there yet. We just need to monitor closely now and see if these are isolated incidents,” she told AFP. “We’ll be vigilant and if necessary we’ll take further actions. But we need to examine the situation better.”
Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books in a move the Internet giant dismissed as “sour grapes.” The three technology heavyweights are among the members of a coalition called the Open Book Alliance which expressed concern about “serious legal, competitive, and policy issues” surrounding Google’s book scanning project. In a statement, the alliance said its members, which include the San Francisco-based non-profit the Internet Archive, publishers and library associations, will counter the Google book settlement “in its current form.” Google reached a class action settlement in October of last year with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to a copyright infringement suit they filed against the Internet powerhouse in 2005. Under the settlement, Google agreed to pay 125 million dollars to resolve outstanding claims and establish an independent “Book Rights Registry,” which will provide revenue from sales and advertising to authors and publishers who agree to digitize their books. Alliance co-chairs Peter Brantley and Gary Reback said in a blog post on a website created by the coalition, openbookalliance.org, that the settlement “creates an unprecedented monopoly and price fixing cartel.” “Just as Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press more than 700 years ago ushered in a new era of knowledge sharing, the mass digitization of books promises to once again revolutionize how we read and discover books. “But a digital library controlled by a single company and small group of colluding publishers would inevitably lead to higher prices and subpar service for consumers, libraries, scholars, and students,” they said. “Public interest demands that any mass book digitization and distribution effort be undertaken in the open, grounded in sound public policy, and mindful of the need to promote long-term benefits for consumers rather than those of a few commercial interests,” they
added. Brantley is a director of the Internet Archive, which maintains a digital library of websites and has its own book scanning project, while Rebak is an anti-trust lawyer in Silicon Valley who ironically helped persuade the Justice Department to file its anti-trust case against Microsoft in the 1990s. Google, whose book project is already facing anti-trust scrutiny from the US Justice Department, a court review and privacy concerns, dismissed the move by the coalition. “This sounds like the Sour Grapes Alliance,” it said in a statement. “The Google Books settlement is injecting more competition into the digital books space, so it’s understandable why our competitors might fight hard to prevent more competition.” Other members of the alliance include the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, the New York Library Association, Small Press Distribution and the Special Libraries Association. The settlement still needs the approval of a US District Court judge, who is to hold a “fairness hearing” on the deal in New York on October 7. Microsoft, which entered into a 10-year Web search partnership with Yahoo! last month that set the stage for a joint offensive against Google, also had a project to create a vast digital library but shut it down in May of last year. Online retail giant Amazon is a major player in the electronic book sector through its popular e-reader, the Kindle. Google announced, meanwhile, it was making over one million public domain books available for free in ePub format, an open industry standard for electronic books, in addition to the current PDF versions. “We founded Google Books on the premise that anyone, anywhere, anytime should have the tools to explore the great works of history and culture,” Google said in a blog post. “This feature takes us one step closer towards realizing that goal by helping support open standards that enable people to access these books in more places, on more devices and through more applications,” it said.
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Miley Cyrus Back With Ex Carter Jenkins? Miley Cyrus has sparked rumors she’s back with ex-boyfriend Carter Jenkins after the two were spotted at a Kings of Leon concert in Los Angeles over the weekend.
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Jenkins, who briefly dated the teen sensation in between boyfriends Nick Jonas and model/singer Justin Gaston, even blogged about his night out with his ex on Twitter.com. He wrote, “Awesome show & very fun night with @mileycyrus.” Cyrus and the actor, who is currently shooting romantic comedy Valentine’s Day with the singer’s pal Taylor Swift, joined Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel in the technician’s booth at the Forum concert. The foursome attended the backstage VIP party after the show, according to Eonline.com. Kings of Leon shows have become a hotbed for new celebrity romances Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian went public with their link up at the Los Angeles show on Saturday night and Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were reportedly spotted kissing at a Canadian show earlier this month
‘Survivor’ winner still in jail after hearing A lawyer for “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is threatening to go to court if her client is not released soon from a Massachusetts county jail. Hatch had been serving the remainder of a prison term for tax evasion on home confinement at his sister’s Newport, R.I., home. He was jailed Aug. 18 after granting two TV interviews for which the federal Bureau of Prisons says he didn’t have proper permission. Hatch remained behind bars at the Barnstable County jail in Bourne after a hearing Wednesday with sheriff’s deputies, said his Los Angeles-based lawyer, Cynthia Ribas. She said the information gathered at the hearing will be passed on to federal prisons authorities, who will then decide whether Hatch will be moved back to a prison, to a halfway house or returned to home confinement. Bureau of Prisons spokeswomen Felicia Ponce said she could not confirm where Hatch is being held, but said he remains under the super-
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vision of the department’s Philadelphia office. “It’s awful. It’s been eight days. He’s tormented. It makes no sense,” Ribas said. “We’ll file something in a real court of law if they don’t get him out of there.” Hatch was not allowed to have a lawyer present at Wednesday’s hearing with two sheriff’s deputies, Ribas said. She and the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union submitted witness statements. The ACLU claims that Hatch’s constitutional free speech rights are being trampled. “It is appalling that he would actually be sent to jail for engaging in quintessential free speech activity,” the ACLU said in a statement. Hatch granted three television interviews last week — to NBC’s “Today” show, NBC affiliate WJAR-TV in Providence, R.I., and the NBC-owned “Access Hollywood.” He claimed in each interview that the judge in his case discriminated against him because he is gay, and accused federal prosecutors of misconduct. A Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said last week that the department bar prisoners on home confinement from granting media interviews without first getting permission. Ribas said she received the proper permission for the “Today” interview and thought it extended to all NBC properties. But federal rules consider each media outlet separate. Hatch was convicted in 2006 of failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize he got for winning the first season of the CBS reality show. He was given extra prison time for lying on the stand. He has maintained his innocence. His sentence is scheduled to end Oct. 7.
International
Beyonce Named Billboard’s Woman Of The Year Billboard announced today that Grammy Award-winning artist and pop culture icon Beyoncé will accept its coveted Woman Of The Year Award at the 2009 Billboard Women In Music Event, taking place on October 2nd in New York City. This award is given to a trailblazing female recording artist that has inspired the music business with her success, leadership and new ideas. The honor also acknowledges the achievements of the artist over the past 12 months. Beyoncé established herself as a founding member and frontwoman of Destiny’s Child - the topselling female recording group of all-time - and is now a multi-platinum solo artist who has been recognized with Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, ASCAP Awards, BET Awards and many other honors. She is also the only performer in the 51-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to top the chart for 10 weeks or more with a group and as a solo artist. Over the past 12 months, Beyoncé kicked off her world tour “I Am…” in support of her third solo album “I Am…Sasha Fierce,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in November and features the hit singles “If I Were A Boy,” “Single Ladies,” “Halo,” “Ego” and “Sweet Dreams.” The tour also showcases Beyoncé’s philanthropic side as she gave 2500 tickets to families hit hard by the auto industry crisis in Detroit, and joined forces with General Mills Hamburger Helper and Feeding America to deliver 3.5 million meals to local food banks. In addition to her work as an artist and philanthropist, Beyoncé has also enjoyed tremendous success with her fashion lines House of Deréon and Deréon; through her endorsements deals with L’Oreal Paris, Nintendo DSi, General Mills, Crystal Geyser in Japan and Samantha Thavasa in Japan; and with her acting career. “Obsessed,” her sixth theatrical release, opened at No.1 at the box office in April. Beyoncé was also a producer on the film. “Beyoncé is multi-platinum artist and a multi-talented woman who clearly embodies the qualities of excellence and achievement that the Billboard Woman Of The Year Award was created to honor,” said Bill Werde, Billboard’s Editorial Director. “She has not only influenced pop culture with her hit songs and signature dance moves, but has inspired women everywhere with her unique style, business savvy and dedication to charitable causes.”
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Kim Kardashian & Reggie Bush Together Again? Kim Kardashian has reunited with her American football star beau Reggie Bush, according to reports. The pair ended their romance back in July, amid rumors both had cheated on each other - but they reportedly reconciled after an August rendezvous in New Orleans, where Bush plays for National Football League team The New Orleans Saints. According to the National Enquirer, they met for dinner in the city, prompting Kardashian to buy the sportsman a pedigree puppy as a make-up gift. A source tells the tabloid, “Reggie initiated the reconciliation - he’s been trying to get back with Kim since the second week of the breakup. And when he asked to see her while she was in New Orleans, Kim seized the moment.” The insider adds that the gift sealed the deal, and Kardashian is currently staying with Bush in New Orleans while he prepares for the new football season, explaining, “They say they love each other and want to give it another try.” Are Kim Kardashian&Reggie BUsh Getting Back Together? VIDEO
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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.
HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar
RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar. Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690. Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar. Phone : 222 142. Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali. PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361. Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood. Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali. Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service. Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501
Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026
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Leader in Malaysian ruling coalition sacked over sex tape Agence France-Presse
KUALA LUMPUR - The ethnic Chinese party in Malaysia’s ruling coalition has sacked a top leader over a sex-video scandal, triggering infighting that could erode the support of the minority community. The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) decided overnight to expel Chua Soi Lek, who was forced to quit as health minister last year after being caught on tape having sex with an unidentified woman in a hotel room. Chua, 62, who is married with three children, was the deputy president of the MCA, the secondlargest party in the Barisan Nasional coalition which rules the Muslim-majority nation. “We did so with a heavy heart after giving much consideration to the damage inflicted upon the party image brought about by his sex scandal featured in the DVD,” MCA president Ong Tee Keat said as he announced the sacking. The move comes as the Barisan Nasional attempts to regain support from minority Chinese and Indians, who swung away from the
coalition in national elections last year. Prime Minister Najib Razak called on the MCA to resolve its problems quickly. “We need to handle it so that its effect does not hurt Barisan Nasional,” he told reporters. “We want a strong MCA, no doubt about it. We want an MCA that can represent the aspirations of the Chinese community.” In the wake of the sex scandal, Chua resigned as the party’s number three but was voted back in by party members to the number-two post last year. That set off a running battle with Ong, whom Chua said felt threatened by the support he had, and in recent months the sex scandal was revived with new questions over the legality of the acts depicted in the tape. Chua has previously accused his political “enemies” of orchestrating the release of the widely circulated video. Chua said Thursday he was surprised by the decision to expel him and urged MCA members to remove Ong, saying the party was “still drifting without direction and purpose.”
Khamenei hails Iraq Shiite leader’s battle against Saddam Agence France-Presse
TEHRAN - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised leading Iraqi Shiite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim as the symbol of the struggle against Saddam Hussein’s regime on Thursday as Iranians mourned his death. “His death is a big loss for the Iraqi people and government, and is a painful incident for the Islamic Republic (of Iran),” said Khamenei, in a message read at the mourning ceremony in Tehran where Hakim died in hospital on Wednesday. The Iraqi politician, who was one of the principal leaders in exile of the opposition to Saddam’s regime which mounted a devastating 198088 war against Iran, died of lung cancer after a 28-month battle.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“He symbolised the hardship involved in jihad in fighting tyranny,” said Khamenei as hundreds of Iranians gathered at the Iraqi embassy to mourn Hakim’s death. “The efforts and endeavour of this hardworking cleric are unique and unforgettable both in Iraq and Iran. “I pay my condolences to the Iraqi government, Hakim’s family and especially Ammar Hakim,” he added, referring to Hakim’s son, who has said he is prepared to take on his father’s mantle. Leading Iranian officials such as parliament speaker Ali Larijani and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki were also present at the mourning ceremony. “He had an admirable devotion and deference to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei,” said Larijani, dressed in black, in an address to the mourners. “We hope his sacred way continues more powerfully and we will witness our brother’s (Ammar Hakim) increasingly effective role on the scene.” The coffin carrying Hakim’s body was wrapped in the Iraqi flag and borne by pallbearers a short distance from the embassy in tribute. “Death to America. Death to Israel,” the mourners chanted. The body was to be taken to Iran’s Shiite clerical capital of Qom before being flown to Iraq later Thursday for burial in the central shrine city of Najaf, where Shiites from around the world are traditionally taken for interment.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) is greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin on August 27, 2009. Benjamin Netanyahu, on a two-day visit to Germany, was set to discuss peace efforts with German leaders and make an emotional visit to the place where Nazi leaders plotted the “final solution”.
Israeli PM to discuss peace in ‘emotional’ Berlin visit Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed fresh Middle East peace efforts with German leaders Thursday ahead of an emotional visit to the lakeside villa where top Nazis plotted the Holocaust. The hawkish Israeli leader sat down to talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel focused on the latest USbacked drive to revive the Middle East peace talks as well as attempts to halt Iran’s disputed nuclear programme. Netanyahu warned of the threat posed by Tehran as he earlier accepted a gift of original blueprints of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz for Jerusalem’s Holocaust memorial from a German publisher. “We cannot allow those who call for the destruction of the Jewish state to go unchallenged,” he said in a clear reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly said that Israel is doomed to be “wiped off the map” and that the Nazi genocide of Euro-
pean Jewry was a “myth.” “We cannot allow evil to prepare the mass deaths of innocents. It should be nipped in the bud.” The blueprints, which date from 1941-42 and include plans drawn with cool technical precision of a gas chamber and a crematorium, were discovered in a Berlin apartment last year and then bought by the Bild newspaper. More than one million Jews, Roma and others deemed “subhuman” by Adolf Hitler’s regime were killed at Auschwitz, near the Polish city of Krakow, out of a total six million slaughtered by the end of World War II in 1945. Netanyahu earlier met Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Merkel’s
challenger in September 27 elections in Germany, on the second and final leg of a four-day European tour — his first since taking office in March. “Minister Steinmeier stressed the importance of a resumption of substantial Israel-Palestinian negotiations,” his ministry said. “Both sides must undertake concrete steps in this context.” After meeting Merkel, Netanyahu will visit a villa on the Wannsee lake on the outskirts of Berlin where senior Nazis adopted in January 1942 the “final solution” — plans to exterminate all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. Netanyahu, who has described the upcoming visit to Wannsee as “emotional,” will be the first Israeli prime minister to visit the site’s museum which was opened in 1992 on the 50th anniversary of the “final solution” conference. He lauded the Jewish state’s close ties with Germany, which were officially established in 1965 following a fraught debate in Israel, a country deeply scarred by the Holocaust.
ANA plane makes emergency landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Agence France-Presse
TOKYO - An All Nippon Airways (ANA) plane made an emergency landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Thursday after cabin air pressure dropped, but no one was injured, a transport official said.
Flight 584, carrying 265 passengers and crew on a Boeing 767-300, was en route from the southwestern Japanese city of Matsuyama to Tokyo when the pressure dropped temporarily and oxygen masks dropped from overhead compartments. “The pilot descended the plane to
10,000 feet (3,000 metres) from an altitude of 20,000 feet to cope with the situation,” said the official at the transport ministry’s Haneda office. “No one was hurt although two or three passengers felt sick,” he said. The exact cause of the drop in air pressure was being investigated.
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In this Aug. 14, 2009 photo, a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. The final segments of the Ares I-X rocket, including the simulated crew module and launch abort system, were stacked on Aug. 13 on a mobile launcher platform, completing the 327-foot launch vehicle and providing the first entire look of Ares I-X’s distinctive shape. The Ares I-X flight test is targeted for Oct. 31.
To the moon, NASA? Not on this budget, experts say Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that has already spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use. When that first stage is tested, it will be mounted horizontally. The engine will fire, shake and make lots of noise. But by design, it will not leave the ground. The same could be said for NASA’s plans to go to the moon, Mars or beyond Earth orbit. It’s not so much a physical challenge for engineers as it is a financial challenge for budgeteers. The $108 billion program to return to the moon by 2020 was started five years ago by then-President George W. Bush. But a special independent panel commissioned by President Barack Obama concluded that the plan cannot work on the existing budget schedule because it’s likely to cost at least an extra $30 billion through 2020. Even NASA’s soon-to-be-retired space shuttle fleet has proved that getting off the ground isn’t a given, with two launch scrubs this week of a mission to the international space station. The space station is finally finished. Yet NASA’s long-standing plans call for junking the outpost in about seven years. If the agency keeps that schedule, it would mean that in the next decade NASA’s astronauts could be going nowhere if there’s no moon mission. Obama’s special panel looked at other options available for the space program — such as skipping the moon and go-
ing directly to Mars or an asteroid, or just cruising in the solar system. But they kept using words like “least worst scenario” during their final public deliberations earlier this month. In their report due Monday, they will also give advice about the end of the shuttle and space station programs. The White House told the panel to aim to stay within current budget estimates. “If you want to do something, you have to have the money to do it,” said panel member and former astronaut Sally Ride. “This budget is very, very, very hard to fit and still have an exploration program.” The options that face the White House come down to variations and combinations of these themes: Pay more, do less or radically change American space policy. The most radical idea would be to hand much of NASA’s duties to private companies. “The problem is the size 14 foot
in the size 10 shoe,” said American University public policy professor Howard McCurdy, author of several books about the American space program. “It’s just really hard to fit it all in. A lot of the assumptions made in 2004 (for the Bush plan) have just not materialized.” The panel will not tell the president which choice to make. That will be up to Obama. Until NASA is told to change course, it will continue with the Bush plan. Thus, the first big test of moon program hardware is the rocket stage firing Thursday in Promontory, Utah. That test is of the main getoff-the-ground engine in the Ares I rocket. The full test rocket, complete with a dummy crew capsule and escape system, Ares I-X, is supposed to get a launch test at Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 31. That rocket will be taller than the space shuttle, illustrating an agency eager to launch something new.
Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University, who plan to discuss further details at a technical conference set for Sept. 25 in Hiroshima. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken the attack to a new level, according to Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec security conference where the first WPA hack was demonstrated. “They took this stuff which was fairly theoretical and they’ve made it much more practical,” he said. They Japanese researchers discuss their attack in a paper presented at the Joint Workshop on Information Security, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan earlier this month. The earlier attack, developed by researchers Martin Beck and Erik Tews, worked on a smaller range of WPA devices and took between 12 and 15 minutes to work. Both
attacks work only on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They do not work on newer WPA 2 devices or on WPA systems that use the stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The encryption systems used by wireless routers have a long history of security problems. The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) system, introduced in 1997, was cracked just a few years later and is now considered to be completely insecure by security experts. WPA with TKIP “was developed as kind of an interim encryption method as Wi-Fi security was evolving several years ago,” said Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director with the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that certifies Wi-Fi devices. People should now use WPA 2, she said. Wi-Fi-certified products have had to support WPA 2 since March 2006. “There’s certainly a decent amount of WPA with TKIP out in the installed base today, but a better alternative has been out for a long time,” DavisFelner said. Enterprise Wi-Fi networks typically include security software that would detect the type of man-inthe-middle attack described by the Japanese researchers, said Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security.
Microsoft cutting price of high-end Xbox 360 Microsoft Corp. is slashing the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony’s $100 price cut for the PlayStation 3 last week. Now, both the Xbox 360 Elite and the PS3 will cost $299. The price cuts in both cases are worldwide, though the exact amounts vary by region depending on currencies. Microsoft, which has had three versions of its Xbox 360 available at three different prices, also was to announce Thursday it is phasing out the midrange, Pro, version of the console. It will be available for $249, down from $299, while supplies last. The cheapest Xbox, the Arcade, which comes without a hard drive, will still cost $199. The price cuts are effective Friday, said David Dennis, a spokesman for Microsoft. Video game companies hope the price cuts will re-ignite sales in time for the holiday rush. For the bulk of this year, the industry has suffered from weak sales — hurt by the recession and lackluster game release schedules, which have kept consumers waiting to spend money on new titles. The announcement from Microsoft leaves only Nintendo Co. without a price cut for the fall, at least for now. The Wii has cost $250 since its launch nearly three years ago. Redmond, Wash.-based
Microsoft has sold more than 31.4 million of the Xbox 360 machines globally, compared with 23.7 million PS3 machines sold by Sony Corp. and 52.6 million Wiis
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Microsoft Xbox 360 is on display at the the annual Microsoft shareholder meeting in Bellevue Wash. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. Microsoft is cutting the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony’s PlayStation 3, which saw its price slashed by $100 last week.
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Tiger Woods set for FedEx Cup opener at Barclays
Pengambengan port estimated become narcotic’s transit point
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Tiger Woods’ final-round putting problems probably cost him the PGA Championship two weeks ago at Hazeltine. He was still trying to find his usual deft touch on the eve of The Barclays. In his pro-am round Wednesday at Liberty National, his first look at the $250 million course a couple of par 5s from the Statue of Liberty, he struggled on the undulating greens, then spent about 45 minutes on the practice green.
NEGARA - The capture of users and dealers of narcotic, like shabu-shabu or methamphetamine, by the circle of Jemberana Resort Police recently proved that the distribution of such illegal drugs is getting more serious in Jemberana. Head of Jemberana BNK, I Putu Artha, admitted to feel worried of the increasing number of drugs distribution in Jemberana. It was estimated the Pengambengan Port has been made as transit point of drug distribution.
“They are tough. They are going to be severe this week,” Woods said. “If the wind blows like this, it’s going to be tough — tough to get the ball close. Some of the more severe greens actually are the longest holes.” Winless in the four majors for the first time since 2004, Woods is playing the FedEx Cup opener for the first time — and making his first start in the event since 2003 at Westchester Country Club. He leads the tour with five victories, earnings of $7,688,163 and tops the Cup standings with 3,431 points. Asked why he was playing, Woods replied, “I qualified.” Oneliners aside, he also is chasing his second FedEx Cup — the only important title left this season — and is stepping up at a time when PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem is asking players to do more for sponsors in a tough economy. Woods played
“Probably, the distribution was performed through illegal coastal port,” he stated. Artha explained that his party would promptly respond this matter in order to minimize the distribution of methamphetamine in Jemberana. He emphasized that this matter should be responded seriously. Head of the Jembrana Resort Police, Ketut Suardana, affirmed that he would improve the control at coastal
territory. It did not only relate to the security against terrorism but also against other matters such as smuggling. Though it belongs to the responsibility of Waters Police, his party expected the community could proactively perform a control and provide information. Meanwhile, the Unit Head of Criminal Researcher of Jembrana Resort Police, Ketut Suparta, justified if his party has received provisional result from the laboratory that
such drug was positively methamphetamine. Previously, the police captured three suspected of methamphetamine. They were Nengah Wrd alias Radi (41) from Tegalasih, Jembrana, and Putu Bds alias Badol (34) from Batuagung and Sr Rhs N (43), a dealer from Tengah Hamlet, Negara. They were secured at Jembrana Resort Police and trapped by article 62 Law No.5/1997 on psychotropic with threat of 5-year punishment. (sur/kmb)
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by Megumi Cooperative. After few years, it did not work and was taken over by regency government and then delivered to Jemberana Regional Enterprise. In its passage of time, the business has not made profit at all, until the cooperation was made between PT Dairin Indonesia since last February. The agreement of Regional Enterprise with such PT
obliged the Dairin to recruit employees from Regional Enterprise and if the processing machine is out of order, Dairin will be responsible for it. Out of 35 employees that previously worked at Megumi was selected until it obtained 25 qualified candidates. His party admitted that he did not know the visa used by Kazumi because he worked at PT Dairin Indonesia. (sur)
the Buick Open, even though his endorsement contract with the automaker ended last year. That meant playing three weeks in a row, and Woods said Wednesday that being in contention three straight weeks — two victories and blowing a two-shot lead at Hazeltine to Y.E. Yang — took its toll. “I think we have to support the tour,” Woods said. He tops the 125 players who qualified for the $65 million playoff bonanza — a $7.5 million purse at each of the four events, with $35 million in bonus money for the FedEx Cup. The points system has been tweaked to put more emphasis on the regular season, with quintuple the value of points during the playoffs, then a reset that allows for a shootout at the Tour Championship for the $10 million prize.” “You want to be here. You want to be in the playoffs,” said Woods, playing seven events in a nine-week
stretch. “And ultimately, this is our opportunity to get in the Tour Championship.” Woods could have skipped The Barclays and won the FedEx Cup, as he did in 2007. He learned Wednesday that it was possible for him to win the next three tournaments, finish second at the Tour Championship and not capture the title. Or that someone could take the big prize without winning a single tournament this year. “It is different, there’s no doubt,” he said. Liberty National is different, too. The links-style course sits on the site of an old oil refinery, a toxic area once dotted with empty tanks and 12 rotting warehouses. “The first time we showed up here, it was a nightmare,” said Bob Cupp, the course architect who teamed with Tom Kite to design the layout. “We were pretty sure any travesty known to man was on this property.”
Megumi manager only have expired visa (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Tiger Woods chips to the third green, with the Statue of Liberty seen in the background, during a practice round for The Barclays golf tournament on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, in Jersey City, N.J.
Kuznetsova, Davydenko reach New Haven quarter-finals
Desperate Safina seeks US Open title to stop Serena
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - Top-seeded Russians Nikolay Davydenko and Svetlana Kuznetsova booked their quarter-final berths Wednesday at the Pilot Pen hardcourt tournament, last tune-up for the US Open. Davydenko, who heads the men’s field, defeated France’s Fabrice Santoro 7-5, 6-3 to advance. In the quarters he’ll face sixth-seeded American Sam Querrey, who downed Germany’s Bjorn Phau 7-5, 6-3. Querrey also claimed the US Open series crown rewarding his performance in a series of tournaments throughout the year. With his win on Wednesday, Querrey matched the 145 points of world number two Andy Murray, but he earned the title over the Scot because he won a total of 14 matches to Murray’s eight. The title gives Querrey a chance to earn a bonus of between 15,000 dollars and one million dollars, depending on his finish at the US Open. French Open champion Kuznetsova clawed her way past Belgian teenager Yanina Wickmayer 64, 5-7, 7-6 (7/2). Defending women’s champion and second seed Caroline Wozniacki also advanced to the quarter-finals, defeating rising Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 6-4. Kuznetsova, who won here two years ago, will play eighth-seeded Amelie Mauresmo of France in the quarter-finals on Thursday. Kuznetsova admitted she lost focus at times, and said she knows she’ll need to do better if she wants a shot at another Grand Slam title in New York. “I still have it, so I appreciate that I have it, but I have to work on closing out things when I have the chance to,” she said. Wickmayer earned a break in the third set to give herself a chance to
NEW YORK - World number one Dinara Safina tries to show she deserves her ranking by taking her first Grand Slam title at the US Open, but secondranked defending champion Serena Williams also eyes the top spot. The year’s final Grand Slam begins Monday with Williams having already won the Australian Open and Wimbledon crowns, giving the 27-year-old American three of the past four majors and 11 career Slam titles. But the rankings, based on a 52week performance, show Safina on top and the 23-year-old Russian - who lost to Williams in the Australian Open final and to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French Open final - hopes for a Flushing Meadows breakthrough. “I believe that I am number one,” Safina said. “This is a sport that you compete the whole year. I’m working hard day by day. I compete every day. I’m improving every day. I’m doing my best. I want to get a Grand Slam. There’s no doubt about that. It’s not that I’m number one and I want to stop. I will do my best to win at the US Open. If not, next year I will work even harder to get it.” “To get two dreams at the same time, finish number one and win a Grand Slam, it would be too easy. I got to number one. Now my goal is to win a Grand Slam.” Williams said there is always a lag between success on the
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Svetlana Kuznetsova serve for the match, but Kuznetsova broke her back and went on to force the tiebreaker.”I knew at fiveall that if I wanted to win the match, I would have to play perfect,” Wickmayer said. “And I almost played perfectly, but I guess in the tiebreaker she was just too good for me.” Denmark’s Wozniacki will play unseeded Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano, who advanced when fifth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland retired. Radwanska won the first set 6-3 but had dropped the second 6-4 when she retired with a hand injury. French sixth seed Marion Bartoli retired while trailing in the third set against Slovakian qualifier Magdalena Rybarikova, who had dropped the first set but held on and was leading 1-6, 7-6 (7/ 5), 2-0 when Bartoli retired with a strained left thigh.
court being reflected in the rankings, but after a disappointing 6-3 showing at US Open tune-up events added she must play better to defend her crown. “I obviously have to play better,” Williams said. “Hopefully I will be ready.” Venus Williams, Serena’s older sister and a five-time Wimbledon champion, is seeded third and seeking more consistency to make her own run at the top ranking. “I just have to keep playing consistently,” she said. “That’s what it takes to be number one so I’m going to try to do that.” Olympic champion Elena Dementieva of Russia is seeded fourth with Serbian Jelena Jankovic, last year’s US Open runner-up, seeded fifth.
Dinara Safina tries to show she deserves her ranking by taking her first Grand Slam title at the US Open, but second-ranked defending champion Serena Williams also eyes the top spot
NEGARA - Visa of the Japanese expatriate becoming the Manager of PT Dairin Indonesia was estimated to have expired. Kazumi Hanamura (40) poses the accused in the striking toward the victim I Wayan Astina (28), a Perancak’s villager that is also his employee remains to be investigated by Jembrana Resort Police. According to a anonymous source the visa of Kazumi was only used to visit Indonesia for two months. Other information, after the Director of Regional Enterprise visited the Negara Sector Police, one of the higher officials of Jemberana Government visited the Jembrana Resort Police. Unit Head of Criminal Researcher of Jemberana Resort Police Ketut Suparta under permission of the Head of Jemberana Resort Police, Ketut Suardana on Wednesday said that the detention of such foreigner has been pursuant to the mechanism and procedure. Detention letter of Kazumi has also been sent to Japanese Consulate and family of the accused. Director of Regional Enterprise, IGK Mulyarta, said to the press that Hanamura is the employee of PT Dairin Indonesia where his status in the company is the owner of share. It was also explained that Hanamura is not the main owner of the company. The agreement of cooperation between Megumi and PT Dairin Indonesia was commenced in last February until the next ten years. The agreement was made because the company whose asset owned by Jemberana Regency Government has not worked since it was established. Originally, such bottle water drinking business using the raw material of seawater was managed
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Car’s tire deflated, tens of million rupiah vanished Bali Post
GIANYAR - Theft case with violence experienced by Muhan Bestralian (39) from Tegalgundul Hamlet, Tibubeneng Village, North Kuta, Badung at the territory of Ubud Sector Police on Wednesday truly made amazed. The incident occurred at midday at a sufficiently busy place. Tens of million of cash that being drawn from Bank Central Asia (BCA) were vanished as its have been taken away by robber gang whose number was estimated to reach three persons. Based on the information obtained, the victim just withdrew cash amounting to IDR 44,070,000 from BCA of Ubud branch. By driving a van Panther DK 723 XF, the tens of million of rupiahs wrapped in plastic pouch was put under his car’s seat. Originally, after withdrawing the money, he would like to go home to Kuta. Not far from the location where he withdrew the money, in front of Tino Minimarket located on Jalan Raya Ubud, suddenly the rearleft tire of his car was flat. The victim then attempted to repair his flat tire. At the same time, the three doers were estimated to have spied the victim that he has come and took the
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money retained under the chair of his car. The loss of such money was just known when the victim has completed the reparation of his flat tire. With the permission of Spokesperson of Gianyar Resort Police, I Gede Sujana, accompanied by Chief of Ubud Sector Police, AA Gede Seno, said that after receiving the report, the police directly inspected the location to make reconstruction. From the eyewitnesses’ informations, police suspected theft already planned the robbery. This matter was indicated by the chronology prior to the incident and evidences in the form of nails found on the flat tire. Provisional estimation, the victim has been known that he would withdraw his money and was watched surreptitiously since he left the bank. According to the information from local dwellers, the thefts were using two vehicles. They took the victim’s money under his car’s seat and went away immediately to west direction. “The police are now still pursuing the doers,” he said. The Spokesman of the Resort Police appealed the community to be careful when withdrawing the money or the like. If required, it should be accompanied by security officer or police. (kmb16)
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Badung Regent instructed Bali government asked Minister of Forestry to to close Wild Catz and withdraw the license Holiday Discotheque Bali Post
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DENPASAR - Two entertainment spots, namely Wild Catz and Holiday Discotheque, will be closed immediately after the issuance of instruction of Badung Regent, AA Gde Agung, to Badung Civil Servant Police Unit. The regent felt indignant because both entertainment spots were considered undisciplined and unable to be educated. http://3.bp.blogspot.com
Logo of Wild Catz. Two entertainment spots, namely Wild Catz and Holiday Discotheque, will be closed immediately after the issuance of instruction of Badung Regent, AA Gde Agung, to Badung Civil Servant Police Unit. The regent felt indignant because both entertainment spots were considered undisciplined and unable to be educated. at location before closing those business sites. “I have assigned my subordinates to re-check to location.” Holiday Discotheque has violated the operational permit. Meanwhile, Wild Catz has proven to have no permit. Badung Civil Servant Police Unit and Government Tourism Office have warned both business sites. In the meantime, other than the record on violation of nightclub business, Badung Government should also give special attention to
violator of green belt. Internal source in Badung Civil Servant Police Unit mentioned the number of violation has reached 100s. The most frequent violations encountered were in Northern Kuta. There are three kinds of building located at green belt stripe namely permanent building, semi-permanent building and hut. However, up to now the violations have not been followed up yet. According to the resource person, his party should wait for the regent’s instruction to take action. (ded)
DENPASAR - Pressure of the community to discontinue the development of villa in the Dasong forest near Lake Buyan seemed to have been responded by Bali Provincial Government. Governor promised to learn and observe to what extent the violation has been made by the development of villa in Dasong forest. This respond was different than the statement from Division Head of Public Relation and Protocol of Bali Province, Putu Suardika. He, who was met several days before, firmly stated that the Bali Provincial Government was waiting for the withdrawing of license of Dasong forest utilization. “We have sent a letter to Minister of Forestry to withdraw the utilization of Dasong forest intended for villas,” he observed. Issuance of license by Minister of Forestry on the utilization of Dasong forest becomes the highlight of the member of Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Rudis. He certified that the appearance of villa at the area of forest reserve indicated the weakness of law enforcement. It was driven by shortterm interests. He added the issuance of license from Minister of Forestry on the utilization of Dasong forest did not emerge suddenly, but all based on the agreement of the lowest official. That matter was justified by another member of Commission
IV, Sartono. However, both would not like to say that Regional Legislation on Bali Provincial Spatial Layout Plan (RTRWP) that was just stipulated turned powerless as the previous Regional Legislation. Rudis mentioned that it is not enough by making its sanction firmer and severer; its implementation should also be firm. “The most important thing is the courage of the official to firmly act in securing the Regional Legislation on the Bali’s RTRWP,” he affirmed. Both expected what delivered by Governor of Bali on the law enforcement regarding to RTRWP could be consistent and responsible. “Do not make any discrimination,” he reminded. Rudis admitted that there remained many officials of regency that was mistakenly interpreted the authority of regional autonomy. There is an assumption that Regency Territory has greater authority than that of the province. As consequence, it raised smaller kings in the regency level. Seemingly, they acted arrogantly without paying attention to the higher regulations. Ideally, this condition might not have occurred if they referred to the same regional legislation. In other words, the regency government may not take any contrary action to the provincial regulations. Similarly, provincial government would also refer to the higher regulations namely the national spatial layout plan. (029)
Security on Airport remains strict Bali Post
DENPASAR – Security over the entry and exit of vehicles and people to Ngurah Rai Airport remains strict. Non-private fourwheeled vehicle is examined at special post near the entrance gate of Ngurah Rai Airport. The security officer (police and air forces) as well as the security staff of the Ngurah Rai Airport authority will perform regular duties on checking the vehicle.
At particular hours, this examination causes traffic jam on the way to the airport starting from the Tjunction of Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai to Denpasar and Nusa Dua. Generally, the traffic jam occurs at 11:00 to 14:00 Local Time. Even, this condition prolongs to 19:00 Local Time where the air traffic increases. General Manager of PAP (airport authority), Ngurah Rai Airport, Heru Legowo, expressed his apologies to the road users for the incon-
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Gde Agung on Wednesday said that both venues which located in Legian and Jalan Sunset Road, Kuta have been warned by the Badung government to meet the requirements. However, up to these days, they never obey. “It has been so long I received a direct report from the community, but to take action we need a process. As they persist to be stubborn, I handed over the case to the Civil Servant Police Unit to make coordination with Badung Government Tourism Office to close them,” he stated. In separated location, the Head of Badung Civil Servant Police Unit, I Wayan Adi Arnawa, justified the existence of instruction to close Wild Catz and Holiday Discotheque. Nevertheless, Adi Arnawa remained to re-check the condition
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venience that may have been caused. Security check is performed for the sake of common convenience. “To diminish the traffic jam, the road users from Nusa Dua to Kuta are suggested to pass through the airport route,” Heru said. From Bali Post’s monitoring at Ngurah Rai Airport on Wednesday, the pacification at the entrance gate of the airport remained strict. Local security staff assisted by a number of police and personnel of air
forces in uniform looked to check every four-wheeled vehicle entering into the airport, chiefly those not belonging to private vehicle. Inside parts of the car were also checked. Heru Legowo said that the system has been fixed and would be undertaken persistently though the bomb terror has subsided. He expected the support from the community, particularly the users of air transportation to acknowledge the condition. “Hopefully, after the terminal has been expanded and road
access opened, the condition would be better,” he expected. Domestic terminal existing today would be used for international terminal. Meanwhile, international terminal would be expanded into 120,000 square meters with budget allocation of some IDR 1.5 trillion. Its Detailed Engineering Design is under process at Department of Transportation and its construction work is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2010. (056)
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Arsenal’s Brazilian forward Eduardo (L) scores a penalty as team mate, Brazilian midfielder Denilson (R) looks on during their UEFA Champions League Play-Off Round second leg against Celtic at home to Arsenal at the Emirates football stadium, London on August 26, 2009.
Eduardo’s deception helps Arsenal beat Celtic Agence France - Presse
LONDON – Arsenal moved into the Champions League group stages in controversial fashion as Eduardo’s dive helped secure a 3-1 victory over Celtic in Wednesday’s play-off second leg. Arsene Wenger’s team went through 5-1 on aggregate after outclassing the Scots for the second time in the tie, but they needed a moment of deception from Eduardo to end Celtic’s hopes. The Croatia striker won and converted a first half penalty when he exaggerated his fall as Celtic keeper Artur Boruc came out to make a save. In truth, Arsenal were always in control and second half goals from Emmanuel Eboue and Andrey Arshavin rubbed salt into Celtic’s wounds as the Premier League team comfortably secured their place in Thursday’s group stage draw. Wenger said: “Having seen it again on television it doesn’t look to be a penalty but we were likely to score the first goal and we always looked in control of the game. “I believe it was not a penalty but I’m not sure if the keeper touched him. Eduardo might be a bit cautious because of the injury that he had. He might have jumped out of the way. “I never asked in my life any player to dive to get a penalty but sometimes the player goes down because there is no way to get out of the way.” Hoops boss Tony
Mowbray added: “I haven’t seen the reruns but all the boys felt there wasn’t any contact for the penalty. “But we can’t say Arsenal didn’t deserve to go through.” Mowbray had no option but to go for broke as his side chased an unlikely comeback and he restored Scott McDonald and MarcAntoine Fortune to the starting line-up after surprisingly dropping his most potent forwards for the first leg. With the tie effectively wrapped up in Glasgow last week and Saturday’s visit to Manchester United in mind, Wenger left Arshavin and Robin van Persie on the bench, while captain Cesc Fabregas missed out with a hamstring injury. Although Arsenal benefited from a deflection and an own goal to win the first leg, there was no doubting their superiority and they were quickly back in the ascendency. Eboue flicked a Gael Clichy cross into Nicklas
Bendtner’s path and the Dane’s shot was parried by Boruc. The rebound dropped towards Eduardo but he somehow managed to poke a lunging effort wide from no more than four yards. The speed of Arsenal’s passing and movement bewildered Celtic at time and Mowbray’s defence stood statuesque as Eboue’s flick sent Denilson clear for a shot that crashed past the near post. Arsenal were well on top but it took Eduardo’s exploitation of the game’s dark arts to open the scoring in the 28th minute. He raced onto Bendtner’s pass and waited for Boruc to come sliding off his line before tumbling theatrically to the turf. To Boruc’s disbelief Spanish referee Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez ruled that the incident was worthy of a penalty. Eduardo dusted himself down, ignored the chants of cheat from the Celtic fans behind Boruc’s goal and calmly sent the Polish keeper the wrong way from the spot.
LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger plans to go on the attack as his team bid for revenge in Saturday’s Premier League showdown at Manchester United. Wenger believes Arsenal were too timid as they slumped to a 4-1 aggregate defeat against United in the Champions League semi-finals last season. But the Gunners have made a flying start to the new campaign and travel to Old Trafford on the back of four successive wins after securing their place in the Champions League group stages with a 3-1 win over Celtic on Wednesday. That play-off second leg victory followed hot on the heels of crushing Premier League victories over Everton and Portsmouth and Wenger is convinced Arsenal are in the right frame of mind to make amends for that lacklustre European exit against United. Wenger was encouraged by the way his young team set the tempo during a goalless draw at Old Trafford in the league late last season and will send them out to do the same again on Saturday. “In the Champions League we were too passive but in the league game we went forward more. It is more mental than tactical,” Wenger said. “I’m happy to go there now because it is the first big, big test. You want always to have a high level of confidence when you go to Old Trafford.
“Beating Celtic is the perfect way to prepare. We are organised and structured to go forward and score. The price we pay is we concede occasionally but as long as we score we don’t worry too much. Someone told me that our team’s average age is 23. We still have things to improve and we want to show we have made a big improvement by the end of the match against Manchester United.” After confounding the critics who wrote off Arsenal as also-rans this season, Wenger knows his team need a strong performance at United to underline their title credentials. But the French coach may have to do without captain Cesc Fabregas as admitting the Spain midfielder, who missed the Celtic game with a hamstring injury, is not certain to recover in time for the United clash. Wenger will give Fabregas until the last minute to prove his fitness but he was at least able to rest Robin van Persie against Celtic, while Andrey Arshavin only made a late appearance as a substitute. “We have to recover quickly physically because Man United didn’t play this week,” Wenger said. “Cesc looks to be short for Saturday. Aaron Ramsey has an injury as well, I don’t know how serious it is yet. They checked his knee.” Arsenal, who are among the top seeds for Thursday’s Champions League group stage draw, took the lead in controversial circumstances when Eduardo dived to win a penalty that he converted himself.
Sneijder says leaving Real with head held high Agence France – Presse
MADRID - Dutch international midfielder Wesley Sneijder said in an interview published Thursday that he is leaving Real Madrid for Inter Milan with his “head held high”. “I am going with my head held high,” the 25-yearold, who had reportedly been refusing to budge from the Spanish giants, told sports daily Marca. Asked if leaving a newly revitalised Real for the Italian side was a good move, he replied: “Yes, I am going to a great club. There is no doubt about it.” Inter Milan have agreed to sign Sneijder from Real for five years in a deal worth around 16 million euros which will see the player earn four million euros per year, some 500,000 euros more than he currently earns in Spain, Spanish and Italian media reported Wednesday. Sneijder, who joined Real from Ajax in the summer of 2007 on a five-year deal worth 27 million euros, is one of several players who the Spanish side are trying to offload to counterbalance the mega-millions purchase of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso. Earlier this month Real sold Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to Italian side AC Milan and two other Dutch players, Rafael Van der Vart and Arjen Robben, could also be sold before the summer transfer period ends But Real’s Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini hinted in July that Sneijder could be one of the Dutch players who
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Wesley Sneijder would stay at the club. Sneijder told Marca that Pellegrini told him as recently. “What happened was really bizarre. The coach said he was counting on me but there are people at the club who did not count on me,” he said. Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho, who has been after an attacking midfielder all summer to play at the point of his diamond formation in the centre of the park, had hoped to have Sneijder contracted before the Italian season started last weekend. Sneijder’s move will complete an impressive set of aquisitions during the off-season by Inter, who have already added Samuel Eto’o, Diego Milito, Thiago Motta, Lucio and Marco Arnautovic to the squad. He played 52 league matches for Real, scoring 11 goals, and played nine times in the Champions League.
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Timo Glock has admitted that he is concerned at not having completed a deal with Toyota for 2010. The Japanese manufacturer has been expected to take up its option on the German, which it still holds, for some time, but has yet to do so. Amid renewed speculation about Toyota’s long-term participation in F1, Glock is keen to get his future with the marque secured as soon as possible. “A little bit, yes,” said Glock when asked by AUTOSPORT about whether he is concerned not to have completed a deal. It is a bit of a worry at the moment and if you look at the situation with BMW - I think that all of the manufacturers are in a difficult situation. Everybody keeps the window open and you never know what is happening.” Glock added that he has been considering what alternatives are out there for discussions when his contract option expires. But his first choice is to remain at Toyota for a third season. “For me, it’s not an easy situation,” said Glock. “You have to look at what options you could have if it goes wrong. But hopefully everything goes as we planned it and I can stay at Toyota.” Teammate Jarno Trulli is looking increasingly unlikely to remain at Toyota next year, despite his willingness to take a pay-cut of what is understood to be around 50 percent. However, as Glock is on a relatively modest wage for an established F1 driver, his salary is unlikely to be such a stumbling block.
Timo Glock has admitted that he is concerned at not having completed a deal with Toyota for 2010
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of the top seats already being locked out when he became free for 2010, there is still a good chance of him being in a winning car. “I hope that I will be in a competitive car next year,” said Kubica. “Most of the teams have already contracted drivers so there are not a lot of places to go. But there are a few opportunities that look promising for the future.” The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner added that he was in no hurry to commit himself to a deal, and that the development progress teams make in the coming races could play a key role. “I’m in the early stages of talking because it wasn’t long ago that we got the news of BMW stopping,” he said. “I’m not in a hurry.”
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Robert Kubica says he is unconcerned by the prospect of joining a team for 2010 that has not won a race this year, as he closes on a move to Renault. Kubica is a free agent next year, following BMW’s decision to withdraw from Formula 1 at the end of the season. He insists that it is difficult to know which teams will be the strongest and claims the potential of the team he joins is more important. “Even if you are not on the pace straight away, if you are working with a good group you can move forward in winter testing,” said Kubica when asked by AUTOSPORT about whether he is concerned at the prospect of racing for a team that is not currently winning races. Nobody can guarantee a quick car, but you can have a guarantee of maximum effort and motivation.” “It’s difficult to judge which team will win races next year. You can have some idea because the teams that finish this year well would most probably have a good start to next season because the cars stay the same aerodynamically.” Kubica is confident that despite several
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Ship’s crews at Nusa Penida carrying luggage of passengers to offshore after they arrive at Kusamba beach, Klungkung, Bali on Thursday, August 27. Crossing using speed boat still becomes an alternative for passengers that want to cross Nusa Penida because they think it’s more practical than Roro Ship that have big capacity and only cross one time per day. Yesterday, a traditional passenger boat sank off when crossing to Nusa Penida from Kusamba beach, Klungkung, killing nine people.
Robert Kubica says he is unconcerned by the prospect of joining a team for 2010 that has not won a race this year, as he closes on a move to Renault
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DENPASAR - The State Logistics Agency Bulog) has been channeling about 2,022 tons of rice for the poor (Raskin) every month, the chief of Bulog’s Bali branch, Tuti Sutiati, said. “We have been channeling 2,002 tons of Raskin for 134,804 poor families each month,” Sutiati said here on Thursday. She said that each of the poor families got 15 kg of
Raskin with a price of 1,600 per kg. The biggest number of families receiving the Raskin assistance was that of Buleleng district with the number of targeted families of
45,187, followed by Karangasem with 35,921 families, Bangli 13,451 families, Tabanan 11,624 families, Klungkung 7,988 families, Gianyar 7,509 families, Jembrana 5,727 families, Badung 3,826 families and Denpasar city 3,571 families. “The market price of rice are between IDR5,800 and IDR5,900 per kg at the trader level ranges at between. But the Raskin is sold at
IDR1,600 per kg with a government subsidy,” she said On rice stocks in Bali in the current fasting month, Sutiati said that stocks were enough to meet the need of consumers until the postfasting Lebaran festivity. “Our rice stocks at warehouses in various districts in Bali reach 21,500 tons which are enough for the need until nine months ahead,” she said.
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DENPASAR - The number of tourists from the Middle East to Bali has been increasing lately, and therefore the number of tourist guides to serve them also need to be increased especially those wellversed in matters relating to Islam. Many tourists from countries in
he Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Syria, have come to the island paradise in increasing flocks, a tourist guide of Bali Made Kawiana said here Thursday. According to the Bali Tourism Agency, the number of tourists from the Middle East to Bali, has been increasing substantially, especially
in the early months of this year. Those who came to Bali in June 2009 for instance reached 481, while in June they totaled only 268, and now their total in the first semester of 2009 had reached 1,656. Efforts at further increasing the number of tourists coming to Bali particularly, and to Indonesia in general, may include convincing
the peoples in the Arab countries that Bali is also very suitable and attractive for the development of Islamic religious centers. The relations between Hindu and Islam in Bali had been growing harmoniously since the distant past, which is also a factor which may attract tourists to come to Bali, Made Kawi said.