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New Matt Damon film shooting in Massachusetts LONDON — Zayn Malik says he worries that he’s let One Direction fans down by leaving the worldconquering boy band, but couldn’t carry on in a role that made him unhappy. Malik quit the group this week, saying he wanted “to be a normal 22-year-old.” He had earlier pulled out of One Direction’s world tour, citing stress. He told Friday’s edition of Britain’s Sun newspaper that “I did try to do something that I wasn’t happy doing for a while” to keep fans happy. “I only ever tried to do it for the fans, and it was only ever for them,” he said. He said he felt upset that “I may have let them down in some sort of way.” “It’s not that I’ve turned my back on them or anything, it’s just that I can’t do that anymore because it’s not real to me,” he said. And he said his bandmates had been “really supportive” of his decision. One Direction formed in 2010 after
five teenagers — Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Malik — auditioned individually for the British TV talent show “The X Factor.” Simon Cowell had the idea of putting them together as a boy band. They didn’t win the competition, but they went on to top charts and win young hearts around the world. The four remaining members say they will carry on as One Direction. “They still want to do it for a while,” Malik said. “I think they’re going to be cool.” (ap)
Moore denies racism in comments on next Bond
LONDON - James Bond legend Roger Moore insisted Saturday he had said nothing racist about fellow British actor Idris Elba -tipped to play the superspy next -in a French magazine interview. The 87-year-old star, who played the suave British agent in seven films from 1973 to 1985, insisted his meaning had been lost in translation. “An interview I gave to Paris Match implies I said something racist about Idris Elba. That is simply untrue,” Moore wrote on Twitter, using the hashtag “Lost in
translation”. He added: “When a journalist asks if ‘Bond should be English’ and you agree, then quotes you saying it about Idris Elba it’s out of context.” Reproductions of the interview have led to Moore being blasted by Twitter users. In the interview, Moore was talking about the different actors who have played agent 007 on screen. In the 23 official Bond films to date, the title role has been played in turn by Sean Connery, George
Lazenby, Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, who is currently shooting “Spectre”, due out in November. In a translation of the quotes printed in French in Paris Match, Moore told the magazine: “Though James has been played by a Scot, a Welshman, an Irishman, I think he should be English-English. It’s nonetheless an interesting idea, but unrealistic. “Some years ago, I said that Cuba Gooding Jr would make an excellent Bond but it was a joke!” (afp)
MANCHESTER-BY-THESEA, Massachusetts — Lights, camera, action: Manchester-bythe-Sea is the backdrop for a new Matt Damon movie. Damon is producing the independent film with the working title “Manchester-by-theSea.” Scenes are being shot in the Massachusetts town as well as in nearby Beverly, Gloucester and Salem. The Salem News reports that the movie tells the story of the working-class Chandler family.
Leading suspect in Tunisia museum attack killed
Croatia rout Norway 5-1 but Kovac wants more
Lee Kuan Yew eulogized at funeral as architect of Singapore
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Casey Affleck plays Lee Chandler, who gains legal guardianship of his nephew following the sudden death of his brother. Filming got underway in the coastal communities north of Boston last week and is expected to run into April. (ap)
‘Fifty Shades’ director Taylor-Johnson bows out of franchise
LOS ANGELES — Sam Taylor-Johnson will not be returning to direct the sequels to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” she announced Wednesday night. “Directing ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful,” she said in a statement to industry site Deadline in which she thanked Universal Pictures. Taylor-Johnson’s $40 million adaptation of author E L James’ erotic novel has grossed a staggering $558 million worldwide in just six weeks in theaters, but even before the film debuted, rumors circulated that she would not likely be the person ushering “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed” to the big screen. Stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are expected to return for both sequels, which have yet to be officially announced. While it is nothing new for direc-
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tors to exit franchises after the first film — “Twilight,” ‘’The Hunger Games,” and “Divergent” all made directing changes between their first and second installments — TaylorJohnson and James’ fraught on-set relationship was widely reported. Earlier this year, James, also a producer on the film, alluded to their conflicts, telling The Associated Press that she “had to fight for a lot of things really hard,” which included a disagreement over the last line of the film. Still, in her statement, TaylorJohnson made sure to note the “close and lasting relationships” she formed with the cast, producers, crew and “most especially, with Dakota and Jamie.” She added: “I wish nothing but success to whosoever takes on the exciting challenges of films two and three.” A representative for Universal Pictures had no comment. (ap)
DENPASAR - Indonesia, which is prioritizing agricultural development to achieve food and service 3 million hectares of self-sufficiency by 2017, should not nurse doubts about extending protection and subsidy to its farm land. Meanwhile, the Public Works Ministry will also support agricultural sector, a chief researcher said. “Advanced countries have since the beginning done this (award subsidies) to protect their farmers. Indonesia should also do that,” Prof. Dr Wayan Windia, the head of the Subak Research Center of the Denpasar-based University of Udayana, said. He said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has offered and even urged Indonesia to award subsidies to protect its people, mainly by imposing import taxes and enforcing export subsidy policies. The import tax policy is intended to boost the prices of imported goods, thus making them expensive at home. Such a policy is expected to boost domestic production, while the export subsidy is aimed at expediting the growth of exports. Given this situation, less developed countries, which are usually weak, will be forced to import goods whose prices in the global
market are relatively lower. The prices are lower as a result of the export subsidy. Windia said the prices of imported and cheap goods in Indonesia were usually lower than domestic products in the same categories. This was also prevalent in the agricultural sector and had resulted in disadvantages for local farmers. Even in Bali, which is an international tourist resort province, the need for food products that are dominated by foreign goods was high, Prof. Windia remarked. An official from the Agriculture Ministry said in Riau province recently that around 500,000 Indonesian farming families changed their livelihood every year for a number of reasons. Among the reasons was high production costs, the Head of Agricultural Extension and Human Resource Development at the Agriculture Ministry, Momon Resmono,
pointed out. “That is one of the problems identified by the ministry,” he said, adding that during his three months in office he had visited 22 of the country’s provinces. “We identified five problems that are potentially hampering the program and keeping us from achieving self-sufficiency in food,” Resmono said. One of the five problems was damaged infrastructure, with 52 percent of the irrigation systems being out of order, he said while addressing a meeting of the Association of Agriculture Extension (Perhiptani). Many of the both primary and secondary irrigation systems had long been left untended, he said, adding, that therefore, the repair of irrigation systems had to be prioritized during budgeting. “The ministry has set targets for making irrigation systems function
the repairs of 49 water reservoirs, including primary and secondary irrigation systems, with a budget of Rp4 trillion in 2015,” he said. The second problem was a shortage of seeds in 2014, with only 20 percent of the seed budget allocated by the government being used, he said. “Just imagine, 80 percent of the budget provided by the government for seeds failed to reach the farmers,” he said. The third problem was fertilizer supply. In a number of areas in Central Java, farmers, who were entitled to subsidized fertilizers, were forced to buy non-subsidized fertilizers, he said. The ministry had reported the case to the military and police and the perpetrators had been arrested. The fourth problem was related to labor. Based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of farm workers had narrowed from 31 million in 2003 to
26.5 million in 2013 or around 500 farm families had changed their livelihood every year. As a result there was always a shortage of labor during the harvest and planting time and an optimization of existing laborers was needed by equipping them with more farming equipment and tools, he said. The minister also found fault with Perhiptani’s role, adding that the program for agricultural extension had not been as efficiently executed as expected. “We hope that Perhiptani would enhance its role in the program of agricultural extension to support it in general,” he said. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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Indonesia, which is prioritizing agricultural development to achieve food self-sufficiency by 2017, should not nurse doubts about extending protection and subsidy to its agricultural sector, a chief researcher said.