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Clooney gives up serial romance for engagement Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Looks like George Clooney owes Michelle Pfeiffer a lot of money.

The 52-year-old actor — Hollywood’s most determined bachelor, famous for a litany of fleeting loves — has taken himself off the romantic market, even though he once bet Pfeiffer $100,000 that he’d never marry again.

After dating a string of actresses, models, a cocktail waitress and a former professional wrestler, Clooney recently proposed to 36-year-old international law attorney Amal Alamuddin — despite repeated protestations that marriage wasn’t for him.

“This fascination with my love life is really something,” he told the British

newspaper The Express earlier this year.

“I keep saying I’ll never get married again or have children, but people just don’t want to believe me.”

News of the engagement was announced by the human-rights law firm where Alamuddin works. Doughty Street Chambers said Monday its lawyers and staff “offer their best wishes and congratulations to Ms. Amal Alamuddin ... and Mr. George Clooney on their engagement to be married.”

Alamuddin has advised former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Syria, helped ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko challenge her imprisonment and represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he fought extradition to Sweden.

Though they may seem like opposites,

BEIJING — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says he was misled in lending his name and image to an independent science-fiction film that sought to raise funds on the Kickstarter website. In a letter to director Jason Wishnow, Ai said he didn’t approve of the way in which he was being used to promote “The Sandstorm.” The film-in-progress has been described as a dystopian tale of a future China in which water has become scarce with Ai playing a smuggler who evades authorities.

Ai said in the letter that he did not give consent for Wishnow to use his name and image to promote the film and that he agreed only to take a minor role in the

project but was now being advertised as the film’s star.

“Ai Weiwei considers that you have not only misled him in this regard, but

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FILE - In this May 22, 2013 file photo, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei speaks to journalists at his studio in Beijing, China.

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, actor George Clooney, left, and Stacy Keibler arrive at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

are also potentially deceiving providers of funds to your project as to the extent of Ai Weiwei’s involvement in the project, potentially implicating Ai Weiwei in your deception without his knowledge or consent,” said the letter, sent on Ai’s behalf on April 23.

The letter called on Wishnow to direct Kickstarter to cancel and remove the advertised project, a demand he apparently agreed to. The website currently carries a notice saying the film was the subject of an intellectual property dispute and presently unavailable.

Ai representative Darryl Leung said in an email on Tuesday that the letter was authentic, and that no response had yet been received from Wishnow. “We don’t know what the final resolution will be and we don’t know whether the film will be shown,” Leung wrote. New York-based Wishnow did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

The film dispute marks the latest controversy surrounding Ai, whose international renown has soared in recent years, along with the prices of his artworks. A sculptor, designer and documentary-maker, Ai has irked Beijing by using his art and online profile to draw attention to injustices in China and the need for greater transparency and rule of law.

Despite his fame, Ai has been banned from leaving China since being secretly detained for 81 days three years ago

by China’s authoritarian communist government for reasons that were never specified. After his release in June 2011, Ai’s design firm was slapped with a $2.4 million tax bill, which he fought unsuccessfully in Chinese courts.

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the pair, who were first photographed together late last year, have more in common than some might think.

Clooney has shown increasing interest in international affairs and human-rights issues, campaigning for a resolution to the conflict in Darfur and organizing a starry telethon to help Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. He’s also hosted fundraisers for President Obama, and recently made headlines for defending the president during an argument with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.

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UNWTO predicts 1.8 billion travelers to visit Asia-Pacific Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates that tourist arrivals to Asia-Pacific region including Indonesia will reach 1.8 billion of people in 2030. Meanwhile, foreign tourists visiting Indonesia in 2013 will reach 8.8 million people.

Tourists crowded at Tanjung Benoa, Badung, Bali Island, to do water sport activities. The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates that tourist arrivals to Asia-Pacific region including Indonesia will reach 1.8 billion of people in 2030.

It means that it has just reached about 0.008 percent of international travelers although the increase is above the world average or the average in the Asia-Pacific region coming to 9.42 percent.

Director of the UNWTO Asia-Pacific Regional Program, Xu Jing, amidst the 8th UNWTO Asia-Pacific Executive Training Program for MICE in Kuta on Monday

(Apr 28) stated the largest tourism growth occurred in Asia-Pacific where the growth reached 6 percent, namely 248 million people (234 million in 2012). “There will be 1.8 billion travelers in 2030 and 535 million in the Asia-Pacific region.

The segment becoming the focus is the development of MICE and special interest tourism,” he said.

He said the contribution of Meeting,

Incentive, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) denoting the part of a major segment of the tourism industry had been recognized in the economic development as a whole. Apparently it also increased the level of tourist expenditure, reduced seasonal tourism and increased the knowledge, innovation and creativity.

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Buleleng lacks thousands of elementary school teachers Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Up until this year, the Buleleng County still lacks primary school teachers. Buleleng severely lacks classroom teachers whom could serve 1,066 people.

To address the shortage of educators, local government employs contracted and apprentice teachers. This happens because the fulfillment of educators through recruitment of civil servant applicant (CPNS) from year to year is not enough to meet the needs of teachers in North Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Education Agency, Dewa Ketut Manuaba, said on Monday (Apr 28) that based on existing data on the amount of teacher, it was still needed a total of 408 classroom teachers of primary schools in Buleleng. One of the triggers on the diminishing of teachers was that many teachers had already retired. Meanwhile, the fulfillment through recruitment of civil servant by public applicants always failed. Even though there were passing applicants, they were not yet able to meet the needs of elementary school teachers. If the elementary school teachers were still lacking to thousands of people, junior high school (including Islamic school) and high school/vocation school teacher could have been met and even

the number had exceeded the requirements.

“Indeed, there was an appointment to the apprentice teachers for category 2 (K2) sometime ago, but we have not received the data regarding how many teachers qualify. In addition, the recruitment of civil servant of public applicants did not adequately cover the shortage of teachers in our region so far,” he said.

According to Manuaba, so far the shortage of elementary school teachers did not have an impact on the learning and teaching process and the graduation achievement of elementary school students. He pointed out that graduation achievement of elementary school students in Buleleng County in 2013 reached 100 percent. To that end, his party hoped the county government to recruit civil servant applicants this year or to struggle for the contracted and apprentice teachers amounting to 5,000 people in order they could be appointed as civil servant applicants. Thus, this effort would be able to meet the shortage of classroom teach-

ers at elementary school and the implementation of education could run maximally.

“So far, the teacher shortage has

not had an impact on the teaching and learning process and we expect this condition can get an immediate solution to increase the number

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of teachers from both recruitment of civil servant applicants and appointment of contracted teachers,” he explained. (mud)

UBUD - A British guest, David Victor Moss, 69, who traveled to Ubud, was found dead in a decaying condition in a bungalow room, at Ubud Kelod hamlet, Ubud, Sunday night (Apr 27). The corpse of the traveler who had made a visit to Ubud three times already ands staying at the same place was estimated to have died more than 24 hoursbefore being found.

Allegedly, the victim died due to a drug overdose. From the results of external medical examination at

crime scene, no signs of violence were found on the victim’s body.

From the data gathered, the victim’s death was first known to the room maid of Cabera Bungalow. The room maid screamed when she found the victim dead and rotting. The victim was found lying dead in his bed with a bleeding mouth. Beside him a number of medical drugs were found As attested by the room maid, Ni Nyoman Lempiawati, 35, the victim was a repeat guest at the bungalow. He came alone and

stayed on Friday night (Apr 25) at 11:30 p.m. Since then, the victim never came out of his room.

Finally, on Sunday (Apr 27) around 7:00 p.m., Lempiawati found the light in front of the room going out. Precisely it was on the second floor, room number seven where the victim stayed. So, she had an initiative and went upstairs to turn on the light. Although she had asked for permission, nobody answered. She then tried to knock at the door.

Pearing through a slit in the

window, the victim was found sprawling motionless. Afraid of something happened to the victim Lempiawati went down and reported the matter to the bungalow owner, namely I Wayan Lanus, 56. After that, they tried jointly to wake up the victim, but the victim still did not answer. It was then reported to police.

Chief of Ubud Police, I Wayan Sumara, and his staff then conducted an examination at the scene by deploying technology assistance team of Gianyar Police. Addition-

ally, it was also assisted by medical personnel to check the condition of the victim and the drugs found beside the victim’s body.

Police found no signs of violence on the victim’s body. Regarding the blood coming out of the victim’s mouth, the victim was estimated to experience a medical drug overdose. Furthermore, after coordinating with the British Consulate, the victim’s body was evacuated to Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, at that night. (kmb16)

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KUTA - Changing the reputation that a picturesque Bali honeymoon is only for the rich and famous, Neo Kuta – Jelantik has introduced an affordable romantic getaway package for young honeymooning couples on a budget.

Bali is one of the world’s most acclaimed tourist destinations, and with its exotic charm, natural beauty and cultural uniqueness, many couples dream of spending their honeymoon on the Island of the Gods. However, some couples believe they cannot afford such an extravagant getaway, but at Neo Kuta – Jelantik, the new “Honeymoon” package is dedicated to offering newlyweds a honeymoon that is both affordable and luxurious.

The Honeymoon package includes a 2 night stay in a Select Room category together with airport pick up or drop off, a honeymoon cake upon check-in and a flower petal display on the bed. Couples can also enjoy a number of romantic activities such as a 1-hour Balinese massage, a romantic dinner, a daily buffet breakfast at Noodles Now Café as well

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Neo Kuta offers honeymoon package as 2 days motorcycle rental to explore the island.

Neo Kuta – Jelantik is a designated nonsmoking superior select service hotel. It is located around the corner from the buzzing Jalan Legian and within easy walking distance to the center of Kuta, famous for its vibrant atmosphere and endless entertainment options for young couples.

“Archipelago International understands that not everyone can afford the ultra-luxurious private pool villas for their honeymoon, so we are pleased to offer the option of our Honeymoon package at Neo Kuta – Jelantik. This Bali Neo hotel offers a full set of luxurious amenities and upmarket facilities for every guest and every honeymooning couple, yet it is available at a very affordable price.” Says Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing Archipelago International.

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Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014

A British guest found dead at bungalow

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8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Abiansemal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Jakarta Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Pura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat 9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang Bangli Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 11 Mar Sabuh Mas 12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Gianyar Pura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Denpasar Pura Siwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Sliki Banyuwangi Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Sukawati 15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani 17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu Gianyar Pura Bhujangga Jembrana Pura Dalem pingit Tegalalang Pura Penataran Pande Pandean Mengwi Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran AGung Tulikup Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Tabanan 23 Mar Radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel Kelungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta Badung Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung Pura Puseh Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung 28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga 30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari Raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Besakih Merajan Saloding Besakih 6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Baratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen 7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian Semal Pura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tambahan Bangli Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa Malang Pura Pucak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Luwih Penebel Pura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem Pura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar 15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih 16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan 21 May Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Google: Driverless cars are mastering city streets

Tourism management pursuant to principles in Bali

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NUSA DUA - Even though tourism has negative impact, the development must be carried out. On that account, the tourism management should be in accordance with the principles of Balinese community, either that related to customs, culture, environment or religion. It was revealed by the Head of Resource Development, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Prof. Dr. I Gede Pitana.

LOS ANGELES — Google says that cars it is programming to drive themselves have started to master the navigation of city streets and the challenges they bring, from jaywalkers to weaving bicyclists — a critical milestone for any commercially available self-driving car technology. Despite the progress over the past year, the cars have plenty of learning to do before 2017, when the Silicon Valley tech giant hopes to get “autonomous driving” technology to the public.

None of the traditional automakers has been so bullish.

Instead, they have rolled out features incrementally, including technology that brakes and accelerates in stop-and-go traffic, or keeps cars in their lanes.

“I think the Google technology is great stuff. But I just don’t see a quick pathway to the market,” said David Alexander, a senior analyst with Navigant Research who specializes in autonomous vehicles. His projection is that self-driving cars will not be commercially available until 2025.

Google Inc.’s self-driving cars already can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. In a new blog post, the project’s leader said test cars now can handle thousands of urban situations that would have stumped them a year or two ago. “We’re growing more optimistic that we’re heading

toward an achievable goal — a vehicle that operates fully without human intervention,” project director Chris Urmson wrote. The benefits would include fewer accidents, since in principle machines can drive more safely than people.

Urmson’s post was the first official update since 2012 on a project that is part of the company’s secretive Google X lab.

In initial iterations, human drivers would be expected to take control if the computer fails. The promise is that, eventually, there would be no need for a driver.

Passengers could read, daydream, even sleep — or work — while the car drives.

That day is still years away, cautioned Navigant’s Alexander.

He noted that Google’s retrofitted Lexus RX450H SUVs have a small tower on the roof that uses lasers to map the surround-

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This Wednesday, April 23, 2014 photo provided by Google shows the Google driverless car navigating along a street in Mountain View, Calif. ing area. Automakers want to hide that technology in a car’s existing shape, he said. And even once cars are better than humans at driving, it will still take sev-

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FILE - In this May 21, 2013, file photo, Nancy Tellem, right, the entertainment and digital media president of Microsoft, and Bonnie Ross, left, general manager and studio head of 343 Industries, announce a new “Halo” live-action TV series for Xbox Live, during an event to unveil the next-generation Xbox One entertainment and gaming console system, in Redmond, Wash.

“Therefore, we should not avoid or turn away from tourism, but we must manage it properly,” said Pitana.

Similarly, he also admitted that the other sectors needed to be established but it did not necessarily mean to leave tourism because of the existing weaknesses.

According to the data of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the number of foreign tourists coming to Bali in January 2014 reached 279,257 people. Australian travelers dominated the arrival with the

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cot, of course, it had a different meaning.

Made Sidia told on Monday (Apr 28) that as an artist he was requested by Gianyar government through the regent to compose the Kebo Iwa Dance that would become the county mascot dance.

The process of composing the Kebo Iwa mascot dance was not easy. It passed through a process accompanied by a number of rituals to temples having relation to Kebo Iwa such as the Maya Dalem Temple, Desa Temple of Blahbatuh (Gaduh) and Karang Buncing Temple. “If it’s currently ignored, it does not matter,” he said.

However, as an artist, it raised a question. Was the dance composition ugly or inappropriate?

County government, in this regard, was asked to be transparent so as an artist he could make an evaluation. If the dance composition was indeed inappropriate, assuredly it could be made an adjustment.

County government should not keep quiet and ignore the things having become the pride of the village community and the government itself had set it to be a mascot dance. Moreover, the making process had spent substantial funds, he said.

Meanwhile, the First Assistant to Regional Secretary of Gianyar doubling as Chairman of the Gianyar Town Anniversary Committee, Cokorda Rai Widiarsa,

amount of around 25.53 percent, China (8.64 percent), Malaysia (5.61 percent), Japan (5.1 percent) and South Korea (4.38 percent).

Most foreigner travelers came to this Island of the Gods through Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, reaching about 278,685 people or 99.80 percent. Meanwhile, those arriving by harbor came to 572 people. In the meantime, the room occupancy rate of star-hotel reached 57.76 percent.

This figure was down 4.77 points over the previous room occupancy rate. (rah)

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DENPASAR - Bali exported 119.4 tons of skipjack worth US$1.08 million in the first two months of the year. The export volume shrank from 156.48 tons with value down 35.13 percent from US$1.66 million in the same period last year, chief spokesman of the Bali provincial administration I Ketut Teneng said on Tuesday.

Ketut Teneng said skipjack is only one of 8 products of maritime and fishery from Bali, which is more known as a tourist island.

Bali’s exports of maritime and fisheries commodities totaled US$19.39 million in the January-February period, down from US$20.08 million in the same period last year.

Other fishery products exported by Bali include live decorative fishes, tuna, crabs, the grouper and lobsters. He said Bali exports skipjack mainly to Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, the United States and Malaysia.

Celebration of Gianyar anniversary minus Kebo Iwa dance

eral years to get the technology from development to large-scale production.

Google has not said how it plans to market the technology.

Options include collaborating with major carmakers or giving away the software, as the company did with its Android operating system.

Xbox moves ahead with original programming plan

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“Bali tourism must be always maintained properly for the sake of our future and our grandchildren.

Importantly, the management should be in accordance with the principles in Bali,” said Pitana.

Pitana added the improvement of tourism management was very important. Evidently, 33 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) of Bali at this time was obtained from tourism. In addition, approximately 51 percent of the workforce in Bali directly and indirectly enjoyed the results of tourism.

Skipjack’s export shrank on volume

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When it comes to original programming, Microsoft is going to throw it at the Xbox and see what sticks.

After nearly two years since launching a studio to create new shows to be streamed on Xbox consoles, Microsoft is finally ready to serve an assorted helping of original programming this summer for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. However, viewers shouldn’t expect Xbox Originals, as they’re called, to be available the same way that content is provided on Netflix and Hulu.

“We don’t necessarily know what approach will work, and we don’t necessarily know what approach won’t work,” noted Nancy Tellem, the president of Xbox Entertainment Studios during a recent press preview

of Xbox Originals at Microsoft’s offices in Santa Monica, California.

The event was organized by Microsoft ahead of the company’s presentation Monday at the “newfronts” in New York — a digital take on the annual “upfronts,” where broadcast and cable networks unveil their upcoming schedules for advertisers. Others set to participate in this week’s “newfronts” include Hulu, Crackle, Maker, AOL and Yahoo!

Tellem, who previously was president of CBS Entertainment, said no decisions have been made as to how each Xbox series will be available — either as part of the $5-a-month Xbox Live subscription, for sale individually or available for free through advertising partnerships. She said an Xbox Originals app would be added to the consoles’ user interface, and each new

Xbox series might be differently distributed.

Among the shows coming to Xbox this year are the street soccer docu-series “Every Street United,” which will be the first to debut in July, and the six-part tech-centric documentary series “Signal to Noise.” The first installment — “Atari: Game Over” — chronicles this past weekend’s excavation of a landfill thought to be filled with copies of Atari’s infamous “E.T.” game.

The studio previously announced it was working on a live-action series based on the “Halo” sci-fi video game, with filmmaker Steven Spielberg serving as an executive producer, as well as a multi-part “Halo” movie to be executive produced by Ridley Scott, similar to “Forward Unto Dawn,” a “Halo”-based Internet series released alongside the last “Halo” game.

GIANYAR - Celebration of the 243rd anniversary of Gianyar town held nearly for two weeks with festive entertainment, MURI record achievement and bringing in the top national band Noah became something special in this year’s celebration.

However, behind the excitement, one thing denoting the pride of Gianyar residents disappeared during the anniversary celebration. It was the Kebo Iwa Dance becoming the mascot dance of Gianyar. The dance was set to be a mascot by the Gianyar government several years ago. Even, the values of spirit containing in the figure of Kebo Iwa was immortalized through a monumental sculpture on Jalan Dharmagiri, Buruan village, Blahbatuh, posing the entrance into the town of Gianyar.

Whether the mascot dance was presented or not in the celebration of the Gianyar town anniversary raised a big question mark for the artist I Made Sidia. As a mascot dance, it surely had an important significance and essence for Gianyar having been known as the region of the arts. As an artist who composed the Kebo Iwa mascot dance, on the request of the regent at that time, in this case his party did not have any intention. Being staged or not, it was the right and authority of the committee. But as a mas-

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Artists performed Kebo Iwa Dance that dubbed as Gianyar’s mascot dance. The dance was set to be a mascot by the Gianyar government several years ago. dismissed if the Kebo Iwa Dance was the mascot dance of Gianyar.

The Kebo Iwa Dance had not been set forth in the Regional Bylaw as the mascot dance of Gianyar.

He explained that during the administration of the Regent

Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati the heroic spirit of Kebo Iwa was raised in the form of seminars and staged in the fragmentary dance in the celebration of the 241st anniversary of Gianyar town. “So, without being set forth in the regional

bylaw, to encourage the creativity of the artists and prevent the monotonous presentation for the audience, each artist is given the space of expression to work on an entertaining presentation for the people of Gianyar,” he said. (kmb16)

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Burglarize a villa, recurrent recidivist arrested Bali Post

KUTA - A re-offender, I Gusti Putu Subawa, 41, was sent back to the custody of North Kuta Police. The man born at Kesiut village, Kerambitan, Tabanan, was arrested because he burglarized the Villa Alizee located on Jalan Braban, Kerobokan, Badung and occupied by a French guest, Caroline, 50. The rench victim was estimated to ave sufferd losses of IDR 80 million.

Chief of North Kuta Police, Reinhard Habonaran Nainggolan, said on Monday (Apr 28) that the villa which Caroline ccupied was accessed by the buglar on Tuesday (Apr 22) by climbing the wall.

Then, the offender poked hole in the window of her workspace by using a knife. “The suspect took action around 7:00 p.m. when the villa’s occupant was out,” he said.

Having been able to go into the villa, this man who had been arrested twice already, immediately stole off with some of the victim’s possessions such as dozens of pieces of gold and silver jewelry of different models, a TV and a laptop. In the end, the suspect transported the victim’s goods by using a Karimun Estilo vehicle which was parked near the security post of Villa Alizee

during the robbery. “Unfortunatly, the local security did not feel that anything was suspicious at that time”, he said.

Furthermore, he said that the case was only reported a day later, once the victim had returned to the villa and was shocked to find her possesions gone. “So, the night of incident the victim was away. The robbery was only known of the next day,” he said while adding that the case had been reported to North Kuta Police.

Following an investigation at the scene of the crime, including viewing the CCTV footage, said Renhard, the officers of North Kuta Police could instantly identify the suspect of the theft, namely I Gusti Putu Subawa. In

the eyes of the North Kuta Police officers, the suspect was a familiar face because he had been arrested twice for his involvement in the similar cases,” he said.”

A search for the victim was conducted and he was found and arrested in his residence at Vista Housing, Tabanan, without resistance, Friday (Apr 25). A search of the premises yielded, four gold necklaces, four gold bracelets, six pairs of gold earrings, three gold and silver rings. “He was arrested around 3:30 p.m. It was later ascertained to be the victims jewellery. We found more of the victim’s jewelries in his car,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the other items such as the TV and laptop were

also confiscated by the officers after the items had been sold for IDR 2 million at Kreneng Market.

Meanwhile, based on the results of examination, a month before the suspect was secured for an attempt of theft at Villa Umalas inhabited by foreigners. However, he was only sentenced to misdemeanor for two weeks. “In 2008, the suspect was also arrested for a theft at a villa and was sentenced to six months in prison,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the suspect admitted to stealing to provide for two children who were still attending school. In addition, this father of three children also often spent money at cockfight gambling.

“I have a lot of debt in cockfight arena,” he said. (nik)

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South Koreans bow in memory of the victims and missing passengers aboard the sunken ferry boat Sewol, while demanding the government take responsibility on matters of food safety and public safety with regards to disasters and full-scale accidents, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

SKorean president apologizes for ferry response

Village hall changes into parking space Bali Post

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JINDO, South Korea — South Korea’s president apologized Tuesday for the government’s inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking as divers fought strong currents in their search for nearly 100 passengers still missing nearly two weeks after the accident. The government also raised the death toll for what has become a point of national mourning and shame to 204. Most of the dead and missing are high school students.

The dirty condition of Pohsanten Village Hall in Jembrana

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At Pohsanten Village

NEGARA - The condition of Pohsanten village hall is very alarming and has been transformed into a parking space. It is quite different from the condition of head office and the rural credit agency (LPD) building that is newer and higher. This ceramicfloored meeting hall is still frequently used for village meetings. However, when the building is not used for daily activities, it serves as a motorcycle parking space. Other than motorcycles of employees or residents coming to head office, it is also used for parking motorcycles owned by junior high students whose school is located next to the head office.

As seen on Monday (Apr 28), the tile floor looked very dirty as covered with bat and dogdroppings. The building seemed to have never been touched or cleaned up. Actually, this building was still located at the same area as the head office. It was in contrast to the two new and magnificent buildings. Apparently, the building was left and only used for parking space whereas it was not intended for parking space.

Meanwhile, the Headman of Pohsanten, I Gusti Ketut Wiarta, said the village hall was indeed an old building and needed to be renovated.

The current condition was no longer representative. He admitted that the hall was rarely cleaned up and only occasionally cleaned when there would be a meeting. The droppings that covered the tile floor, according to him, was that of bats. (kmb26)

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Divers are largely using their hands to feel for remaining bodies as they make their way through a maze of dark cabins, stairwells, storage rooms, lounges and restaurants in the submerged ferry, which flipped upside down as it sank April 16. But they must fight strong currents swirling around the ferry and, once inside, overturned furniture, mattresses and other debris floating in the murky, sediment-heavy waters.

President Park Geun-hye’s apology, and the earlier resignation of her prime minister, comes amid rising indignation over claims by the victims’ relatives that the government did not do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones.

Park said at a Cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House that South Korea has “lost many precious lives because of the accident, and I am

sorry to the public and am heavyhearted.” She says the government couldn’t prevent the accident and “the initial response and remedy were insufficient.”

Park had earlier visited a memorial set up in Ansan, the city near Seoul where the high school students are from, to pay her respects to victims.

Wearing a black dress and white gloves, she laid flowers at an altar and bowed her head. According to local media, some angry family members of victims shouted at her and demanded an apology. She listened to them for 10 minutes before leaving.

Investigators, meanwhile, are expanding their probe into both the cause of the ship’s sinking and the initial response by emergency workers. Prosecutors are also analyzing calls exchanged between crew members of the sunken ferry

and the offices of the owner, Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd., senior prosecutor Ahn Sang-don said Tuesday.

Multiple crew members on the sinking ferry communicated about seven times by phone with the owner’s offices, Ahn said. The first call to the owner was placed at 9:01 a.m. on April 16, just 6 minutes after the ferry reported a distress call to a vessel traffic services center.

The last call by a crew member to the employer was made around 9:40 a.m.

South Korean media reports said the captain of the sinking ferry was seeking approval from the CEO of Chonghaejin to be able to evacuate the ship, but Ahn said investigators are still looking into why the calls were made. Crew members initially asked passengers to stay put and wear life jackets. It is unclear whether an evacuation order was relayed to passengers, although crew members interviewed by The Associated Press said the captain sent an evacuation order. Of the 475 people believed to have been aboard at the time of the sinking, only 174 people survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members.

VILONIA, Arkansas — Emergency officials were searching for survivors Monday in the debris left by a powerful tornado that carved a huge path of destruction through several Midwestern and Southern states including Arkansas, where at least 15 people were killed.

The tornado that slammed into a town about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the Arkansas state capital of Little Rock on Sunday evening, killing at least 15 people, grew to about half a mile (800 meters) wide and was among a rash of tornadoes and heavy storms that rumbled across the center and south of the U.S. overnight, ending a lull in violent weather across America with a fury. The National Weather Service warned that more tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail would strike in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana on Monday.

It was among a rash of twisters and violent storms across the Midwest and South that killed 17 people in all on Sunday.

On Monday, tornados flattened homes and businesses and flipped trucks over on highways, killing two people in Alabama and one in Mississippi.

Most of the dead in Arkansas were killed in their homes in and around Vilonia, population 3,800. Firefighters on Monday searched for anyone trapped amid the piles of splintered wood and belongings strewn across yards. Hospitals took in more than 100 patients.

The tornado that hit the town and nearby Mayflower was probably the nation’s strongest so far this year on the 0-to-5 EF scale, with the potential to be at least an EF3, which means winds greater than 136 mph, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Hood said.

It wrecked cars and trucks along Interstate 40 north of Little Rock.

Also among the ruins was a new $14 million intermediate school that had been set to open this fall.

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A home is covered by debris from a tornado in Baxter Springs, Kan., Monday, April 28, 2014. Sunday’s tornado damaged dozens of buildings and injured at least 25 people.

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BUSINESS Samsung Q1 net profit hits $7.3 billion

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In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, office workers walk past China Dream propaganda boards, showing messages pushed by the current Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration, on display near a construction site in Beijing, China. Economists fear a lending bubble in China could threaten the global economy unless the Chinese government shores up its financial system, according to an Associated Press survey.

Survey: China’s lending bubble a global threat Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Just as the global economy has all but recovered from debt-fueled crises in the United States and Europe, economists have a new worry: China. They see a lending bubble there that threatens global growth unless Beijing defuses it.

That’s the view that emerges from an Associated Press survey this month of 30 economists. Still, the economists remain optimistic that Beijing’s high-stakes drive to reform its economy — the world’s second-largest — will bolster Chinese banks, ease the lending bubble and benefit U.S. exporters in the long run.

“They’ve really got to change the way they do business,” said William Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Asset Management. “But they have a good track record of doing just that. I’m an optimist about their ability to make this transition.”

The source of concern is a surge

in lending by Chinese banks. The lending was initially encouraged by the government during the 2008 global financial crisis to fuel growth. Big state-owned banks financed construction of homes, railroads and office towers. But much of the lending was directed by local officials for pet projects rather than to meet business needs.

On Monday, the International Monetary Fund issued a warning about China’s private debt.

It released a report citing “rising vulnerabilities” in China’s financial system, including lending outside traditional banks. Lending by that “shadow” banking system now equals one-quarter of China’s

economy, the report said.

The IMF also pointed to recent defaults in credit card and other debt sold to investors by banks and heavy debts owed by local governments.

If it continues, “this could spark adverse financial market reaction both in China and globally,” the IMF said.

The bubble has caused land prices in China to double in five years, according to an estimate

by Nomura, a Japanese bank.

Outstanding credit surged from 130 percent of the economy in 2008 to 200 percent in 2013, according to Capital Economics, a forecasting firm.

When debt has built up that fast in the past — as in the United States during the housing bubble — financial crises have typically followed.

“That should be setting alarm bells off,” said Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics.

When debt finances excessive building, eventually too few people or companies are willing to buy all the houses, apartments and offices. That can send prices sinking and trigger loan defaults by developers and property owners.

Banks typically then curtail lending, thereby slowing growth.

Most economists think China’s government would bail out its state owned banks and provide enough money so they could continue lending. It would also support any companies whose bankruptcy would threaten growth.

SEOUL - Samsung Electronics reported Tuesday its net profit had risen 5.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to 7.57 trillion won ($7.3 billion) but operating profit declined for a second straight quarter on slowing smartphone revenue.

Alarm bells have been sounding for a while over Samsung’s reliance on smartphone sales in mature markets such as Europe and the United States, and increasingly competitive emerging markets such as China.

The world’s largest smartphone maker has a diverse product line ranging from memory chips to home appliances, but more than half its profits are generated by mobile devices.

This month saw the global roll-out of the latest version of its flagship Galaxy series smartphone, the S5, whose performance will be closely watched over the coming months.

While reviews have rated the S5 a top-class product, they note that it offers little in the way of real innovation that would set it apart from previous versions and models offered by competitors such as Apple.

Samsung made margin concessions with the S5, launching it at a slightly lower price than its predecessor the S4 and throwing in a premium software bundle estimated at more than $500.

The strategy appeared to have met with some success, as the net profit figure released on Tuesday beat most analyst estimates.

However, operating profit stood at 8.49 trillion won for the January-March period, down 3.3 percent year on year and following a 6.0 percent decline in the fourth quarter.

Overall sales in the first three months of the year inched up 1.53 percent to 53.7 trillion won, but were down 2.5 percent for the mobile business unit.

The firm’s Seoul-listed shares were down 1.66 percent in the morning, while the broader KOSPI market was 0.22 percent lower.

Samsung on Tuesday acknowledged it was faced with a tough road ahead as demand would remain sluggish in the second quarter.

Kim Hyun-Joon, Samsung’s senior vice president for the mobile business, said the market for smartphones and tablet computers would “grow slightly” in the second quarter.

“But we will try to continue solid earnings growth by expanding sales of Galaxy S5,” Kim said.

The company was expecting sales of Galaxy S5 to beat its predecessor S4, he said, despite some scepticism from observers.

Samsung rarely discloses sales figures for its smartphones but J.K Shin -- the head of the firm’s mobile unit -- said in October that S4 sales had reached 40 million globally since its release in April 2013.

Seoul-based Korea Investment & Securities recently estimated its worldwide tally stood at 57 million units.

But sales of the S5 will likely be limited to around 51 million, it said, while another researcher HMC Investment & Securities put the estimated figure at 44 million.

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Police arrest drunk Korean for sequence of accidents Antara

DENPASAR - The Denpasar City Police Department has arrested a 29-year-old South Korean, Shin Hyun Yi, for driving under alcohol influence and caused a sequence of accidents in Denpasar, Bali, on Monday, March 28.

“He was caught for speed driving under the influence of alcohol and also hitting other drivers,” pointed out the Denpasar City Police Department’s Head of Public Relation, Adjunct Commissioner Ida Bagus Made Sarjana in Denpasar, on Tuesday.

Sarjana explained that the accident sequence started when the suspect drove a car with a license plat DK1628-AH, at a high speed from the south to the west line of Ngurah Rai Sanur by Pass, and then crashed into a motorbike with a license plate DK-5625-IP, being driven by I Gede Supariasa.

After that, Shin tried to run away in his unstable condition under alcohol influence, when he crashed into a city car, with license plate DK-1876-

IV, that was parked by the roadside.

Instead of stopping his car, the Korean once again tried to escape and then hit a jeep with an unidentified license plate.

Finally, Shin stopped when he hit a tree on the road, after which, the Traffic Management of Denpasar Police Department’s officers reached the spot and secured him.

Adjunct Commissioner Sarjana assured that there were no causalities in the accident sequence. However, the three drivers who were hit were hurt, and the suspect himself had wounded his nose.

The sequence of accidents is still under an on-going prosecution and the suspect and witnesses will be called for further testimony.

Tawan Karang Rights

Tawan karang or the right to plunder vessels that foundered off the reefs surrounding Bali is one of the legal traditions or customs prevailing in Bali in the ancient time. This law allowed a king or a coastal community to seize the stranded vessels along with its cargo in their territory and make the passengers as slaves or sometimes killed.

The right is applicable if there was a vessel stranded on the rocks or the coastal territories, including its passengers and cargo, and only local people who could help or save them. The right aimed at maintaining and protecting the territorial jurisdiction from foreign enemies. It is considered as the local genius and becomes an embryo and the birth of international customary law giving birth to the nationalistic perspective. (kmb)

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File photo showed police officer showing evidence that confiscated from a Frenchman, Thierry Vercherry. Vercherry got a light sentenced, 10 months in jail, over the possesion of drugs.

Frenchman jailed for 10 months Agence France-Presse

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DENPASAR - A Frenchman caught with almost $50,000 worth of cocaine on Bali was jailed for 10 months on Monday.

Thierry Verchere, 46, was found with the drugs in January during a police raid on a house in the Balinese capital of Denpasar.

Officers discovered plastic bags and capsules containing 112 grammes (four ounces) of the drug, with an estimated street value of 560 million rupiah ($48,000), according to police.

He was found guilty of drug

abuse, which carries a far lighter sentence than possession or smuggling.

Prosecutors recommended a one-year sentence but a Denpasar court handed him a 10-month term as he was a first-time offender and confessed to the crime.

“His action was contrary to the government’s anti-narcotics programme,” said presiding Judge Parulian Saragih.

Verchere, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, did not speak to reporters after the trial.

Foreigners are regularly caught with drugs on Bali and a

death sentence can be imposed on those found trying to smuggle drugs weighing more than five grammes into the popular holiday island.

Another Frenchman, Francois Giuily, is currently on trial in Bali accused of smuggling a large stash of crystal methamphetamine into the island, and could face the death penalty.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in January last year after cocaine with an estimated street value of $2.4 million was found in her suitcase as she arrived on a flight from Bangkok.

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Bombs kill at least 11 people at Iraq market Associated Press Writer

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In this photo taken Thursday, April 17, 2014, Kazuhiro Onuki wearing a white protective gear and a filtered mask walks by a fence blocking the traffic in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

Fukushima residents unsure of return to no-go zone

BAGHDAD — A pair of back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, officials said, the latest spasm of violence to convulse Iraq ahead of parliamentary elections. The attacks are an apparent effort by the militants to discourage Iraqi voters from going to the polls on Wednesday in the first nationwide balloting since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Tuesday’s attack took place in the town of al-Saadiyah, 140 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a police officer said. One of the bombs was placed in the middle of the town’s main vegetable and meat market, he said, while the second was put near one of the exits — presumably trying to strike people fleeing from the first blast, a tactic widely used by insurgents in order to inflict as many casualties as possible.

A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. None immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida-inspired Sunni militants seeking to undermine the Shiite-led government’s efforts to maintain security across the country ahead of Wednesday’s polling.

Earlier Tuesday, the al-Qaida splinter group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks across Iraq on Monday, including a massive suicide bombing in a Kurdish town northeast of Baghdad that killed at least 25 people.

The bomber in the Monday evening attack in the Kurdish town of Khanaqin in the turbulent Diyala province blew himself up among a group of Kurds who were celebrating the appearance on local TV of Iraq’s ailing president, Jalal Talabani, also a Kurd. That explosion also wounded 35 people and sent the day’s overall death toll from Iraq attacks to at least 46 people.

Talabani was shown after casting his ballot abroad as part of early and expat voting in his first public appearance since 2012. He has been in Germany for medical treatment following a stroke.

Associated Press Writer

TOMIOKA, Japan — Whenever Kazuhiro Onuki goes home, to his real home that is, the 66-year-old former librarian dons protective gear from head to toe and hangs a dosimeter around his neck. Grass grows wild in the backyard. The ceiling leaks. Thieves have ransacked the shelves, leaving papers and clothing all over the floor so there is barely room to walk. Mouse dung is scattered like raisins. There is no running water or electricity.

Above all, radiation is everywhere. It’s difficult to imagine ever living again in Tomioka, a ghost town about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the former Fukushima Dai-chi nuclear plant. And yet more than three years after meltdowns at the plant forced this community of 16,000 people to flee, Onuki can’t quite make the psychological break to start anew.

His family lived here for four generations. Every time he goes back, he is overcome by emotion. Especially during that brief time in the spring when the cherry blossoms bloom. “They flower as though nothing has happened,” he said. “They are weeping because all the people have left.”

The Japanese government is pushing ahead with efforts to decontaminate and reopen as much of a 20-kilometer (12-mile) no-go

zone around the plant as it can.

Authorities declared a tiny corner of the zone safe for living as of April 1, and hope to lift evacuation orders in more areas in the coming months and years.

Former residents have mixed feelings. In their hearts, many want their old lives back. But distrust about the decontamination program runs deep. Will it really be safe? Others among the more than 100,000 displaced have established new lives elsewhere, in the years since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami sent three of Fukushima’s reactors into meltdown.

If the evacuation order is lifted for their area, they will lose a monthly stipend of 100,000 yen ($1,000) they receive from Tokyo Electric Power Co., the owner of the Fukushima plant.

A survey last year found that

16 percent of Tomioka residents wanted to return, 40 percent had decided never to return, and 43 percent were undecided. Two-thirds said they were working before the disaster, but only one-third had jobs at the time of the survey, underlining the challenges to starting over.

Former resident Shigetoshi Suzuki, a friend of Onuki, is outraged the government would even ask such a question: Do you want to go back?

Of course, we all want to return, he said. People like him were effectively forced into retirement, the 65-year-old land surveyor said.

If he hadn’t evacuated to a Tokyo suburb with his wife, he would have continued working for his longtime clients. “It is a ridiculous question,” Suzuki said. “We could have led normal lives. What we have lost can’t be measured in money.”

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Civilians inspect damage in the aftermath of a Monday car bomb attack in a crowded commercial street in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Tuesday, April 22, 2014.

UNWTO...

From page 1 “In keeping with the increasing role of tourism in the development, the role of MICE continues to grow in the tourism industry and becomes diversification of tourism products constantly developed by various countries,” said Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar.

He mentioned that Asia-Pacific was the region whose MICE industry grew quite rapidly. The countries like Australia, Japan, Korea and Singapore had a very high MICE activity each year. To that end, the training aimed to improve the ability of participants in developing strategies and programs for the MICE development.

“A total of 23 people from 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region participated in this conference. Such amount is the highest number since it has been implemented for eight times,” he said.

Sapta recognized it showed the great the attractiveness of Indonesia, especially Bali, to the interest of foreign people to visit. “Bali has the greatest potential to increase MICE tourist arrivals in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Manado and Medan,” he affirmed. (kmb27)

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Five companies move from Tangerang Antara

TANGERANG - An official of the industry ministry said five companies had moved to other areas from Tangerang, Banten, over high labor cost.

“The increase in the urban minimum wage has forced five companies from Tangerang to operate in other areas where labor cost is cheaper,” head of the city industry and trade office Mohammad Noor said here on Tuesday.

A businessman considers a number of factors including labor cost, availability of basic material and market potential before opening a company in a city, Mohammad Noor said.

The five companies abandoned business operations in Tangerang because of the higher labor cost although workers are easily available in the city, he said.

With workers demanding pay hike every year and the plan to raise the electric tariff , it would not be feasible for the five companies to continue operations in Tangerang, he added.

The hardest hit is the workers, themselves, with more people losing jobs, he said.

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thousands of dancers are also dancing at various other locations such as at General Sudirman Solo street, Paragon Mall, Solo Grand Mall, Solo Square Mall, Adi Sumarmo Airport, and Solo State Vocational School 8.

The dance show on General Sudirman Street will be enlivened by 500 dancers and 750 scouts from across 34 provinces in Indonesia.

“While the ISI campus is involving our all dance students,” clarified Rochana.

World Dance Day celebration is conducted in cooperation with the ISI Surakarta, Jakarta Erasmus Huis, and the International Dansteater Amsterdam.

From this cooperation, several dance repertoires will be on stage; one of the repertoires is the result of the collaboration between ISI Surakarta students with International Dansteater students.

Thousands dancers support “Solo 24 hours dancing”

SOLO - As many as 5 thousand dancers will enliven ‘Solo 24 Hour Dancing ‘ in order to celebrate World Dance Day on Tuesday. The dancers are come from the Indonesian Art Institute of Surakarta (ISI Surakarta), Solo State Vocational School 8, as well from across all dance studios in Solo.

The opening event was marked by offering flower garlands for the five dancers’ who will be dancing for 24 hours nonstop.

The flower necklace was presented by the Rector of ISI Surakarta, Prof. Sri Rochana in the campus.

“Five dancers will dance in the ISI Surakarta campus from 6 a.m. until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning,” pointed out Rochana.

This event is being held for the fifth time at ISI Surakarta.

Not only at the ISI campus,

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Fruit vendors wait for customers at their stalls at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

School abuse scandal sparks soul-searching

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JAKARTA - A sex abuse scandal at one of Indonesia’s most prestigious international schools has sparked a heated debate about the failure to protect youngsters in the country and prompted calls for harsher punishments for paedophiles.

Accusations that a six-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by cleaning staff at the nursery of the Jakarta International School, a favourite with the capital’s expatriates and wealthy Indonesians, sparked widespread anger this month.

A second child has since come forward claiming to have been assaulted at the nursery -- which the government has now ordered to be closed -- and the school has also disclosed it used to employ an American teacher who was suspected of being a prolific paedophile.

Police have arrested six cleaners contracted from an outside company over the recent abuse accusations, one of whom has committed suicide, and the school has pledged to cooperate with the investigation.

Beyond public anger over the alleged abuse at the elite school, the scandal has focused attention on a subject previously little discussed in Indonesia -- the high incidence of child sex attacks, particularly in schools.

The national commission for child protection says it received around 3,000 reports of sexual abuse of minors in 2013, double the figure from five years ago, with some 30 percent of cases in educational institutions.

Commission member Seto Mulyadi said the figures were “only the tip

of the iceberg”.

“Many cases still go unreported because victims’ families feel ashamed,” he added.

There has been much soul-searching in the national media on the subject following the Jakarta case, with commentators demanding that more action be taken to guarantee the safety of youngsters.

Media have also focused intensely on other sex abuse stories in the wake of the scandal, such as one involving a six-year-old girl allegedly assaulted by a policeman in Aceh province, on western Sumatra island.

The child’s mother initially said she felt too “ashamed” to report the matter but when accusations surfaced the policeman abused a second girl, she decided to go to the police.

The accused officer has since been arrested.

However even when attackers are caught, child safety campaigners say that sentences are typically too short to deter potential paedophiles.

The maximum sentence for a child sex offender in Indonesia is 15 years and a fine of up to $26,000 -- but most who are convicted typically only receive three to five years in jail, campaigners say.

However the debate sparked by the Jakarta case has led to calls for tougher punishment and politicians have started discussing increasing sentences for people who sexually assault youngsters.

“The sentence should be increased to 20 years in prison at the minimum and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment,” said minister Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar, whose portfo-

lio includes child protection.

Senior education ministry official Lydia Freyani Hawadi added the case was a “golden opportunity” to improve checks on people applying to become teachers at schools.

Adding to the sense of crisis at Jakarta International School, news emerged last week that William James Vahey, a 64-year-old US citizen described by the FBI as a “suspected serial child predator”, taught at the institution for a decade until 2002.

However there have been no allegations that Vahey, who committed suicide last month when his then employer discovered a thumb drive containing graphic images of boys, carried out abuse at the Indonesian school.

The institution has moved to try and put a lid on the controversy, with the head Tim Carr insisting in regular media appearances the school is committed to child protection.

The school says it has strengthened security by adding extra security cameras and improving its child protection measures.

While there is hope that something good may come out of a horrible case in the form of stronger legislation to protect children, activists say for many youngsters across Indonesia, it is already too late.

Children who have been abused “develop esteem problems, become withdrawn, have problems studying, and may be so disturbed that they grow up modelling the same behaviour as their perpetrators,” said Mulyadi from the child protection commission.

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James, Heat complete sweep of Bobcats, 109-98 Associated Press Writer

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — LeBron James scored 31 points as Miami completed a first-round sweep of Charlotte with a 109-98 victory Monday. James scored 19 points after slightly injuring his thigh in the third quarter.

He finished the game 10 of 19 from the field and had nine assists. The two-time defending NBA champions will next play the winner of the Brooklyn-Toronto series, which is level 2-2.

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TABANAN - Jatiluwih, located on the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, is some 27 km north of Tabanan town. As a tourism village, Jatiluwih is one of the most beautiful objects in Bali. It offers broad panoramic views and unmatched terraced rice fields. In the north, it is backed by the densely forested mountains with a cool and clean air.

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Chris Bosh added 17 points and Dwyane Wade battled through foul trouble and finished with 15 as Miami won its 20th straight game over Charlotte. Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 29 points. The Bobcats played without Al Jefferson, their leading scorer and rebounder who has been bothered by a foot injury since the first quarter of Game 1.

Atlanta’s Mike Scott made five 3-pointers during a 30-6 second-quarter run as the Hawks fended off a furious fourthquarter rally to beat the top-seeded Indiana Pacers 107-97 to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Atlanta can clinch the first-round series at home Thursday.

Scott scored all 17 of his points during a 12-minute stretch when Atlanta went 13 of 16 from the field and outscored Indiana 41-19 to take a 61-40 halftime lead. Shelvin Mack led the eighth-seeded Hawks with 20 points. Paul George had 26 for Indiana, which got as close as eight points in the final minute.

At Dallas, Manu Ginobili scored 23 points and Boris Diaw hit a go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute as the San Antonio Spurs held off a second-half surge by Dallas to win 93-89 and level the first-round playoff series. The Spurs regained the home-court advantage by getting a split of two games in Dallas, matching what the eighth-seeded Mavericks did in San Antonio.

The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks pulled even midway through the fourth quarter of Game 4. The score was still tied when Diaw hit from long range over Dirk Nowitzki at the top of the key for a 90-87 lead.

Monta Ellis led Dallas with 20 points but missed two potential tying shots after Diaw’s basket. Game 5 is Wednesday night in San Antonio. Nowitzki had 19 points and was held under 20 in a fourth straight playoff game for the first time since his first postseason in 2001.

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Miami Heat’s LeBron James (6) goes up to dunk against the Charlotte Bobcats during the first half in Game 4 of an opening-round NBA basketball playoff series in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2014.

Delbonis beats Davydenko at BMW Open

Federico Delbonis

Associated Press Writer

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MUNICH — Federico Delbonis of Argentina beat two-time champion Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 7-6 (4) Monday to reach the second round of the BMW Open.

The 44th-ranked Delbonis never faced a break point and broke the Russian twice in the first set to take control of the match.

German wild-card entry Dustin Brown also advanced by ousting big-serving Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (4),

7-6 (5) in a match that saw no breaks of serve and only one break point for each player.

Brown will play top-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy in the second round.

In Monday’s other matches, Alejandro Falla of Colombia defeated Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-2, 6-1, and Marinko Matosevic of Australia advanced when Michal Przysiezny of Poland retired when leading 6-2, 5-6.

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Mourinho aiming to knock Atletico off their “cloud”

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LONDON - The tepid 0-0 draw in the Vicente Calderon resembled a phoney war but Chelsea and Atletico Madrid will surely up the ante at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday when a place in the Champions League final is on the line. That semi-final first leg stalemate left Chelsea marginal favourites to progress although with no away goal in their pocket, Jose Mourinho’s side will be vulnerable against an Atletico side capable of much more than they produced at home. referencing a weakened Chelsea’s 2-0 win at Premier League leaders Liverpool at the weekend. “Chelsea has a great team, the possibility of rotating and winning 0-2. We face a very powerful team that will make it very hard for us.”

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Mourinho is a past master at knocking teams off clouds and while Simeone will demand more imagination from his side at Stamford Bridge where an away goal could prove vital, Mourinho may elect to adopt the tactics that so stifled Atletico and Liverpool in the space of a few days. The onus is on Chelsea to score a goal this time but Mourinho is unlikely to become all gung-ho even if the creative talents of Eden Hazard and the scoring prowess of Samuel Eto’o are at his disposal after they missed the first leg injured.

Former Porto and Inter Milan boss Mourinho is attempting to reach his third Champions League final with a third club, having fallen in three consecutive semifinals while in charge of Real Madrid.

He also lost semi-finals with Chelsea in 2005 and 2007 during his first spell in charge so no wonder he appears to have demoted his side’s Premier League challenge below that of winning the Champions League. The omens look good for Chelsea too. They are

unbeaten in their last 16 clashes with Spanish sides in the Champions League, winning six and drawing 10 since losing to Barcelona in February 2006.

Atletico’s only victory in nine European ties on English soil came at Leicester City in 1997 although they have proved formidable foes in this year’s Champions League and reached the semi-finals unbeaten.

Chelsea skipper Terry, suspended for his side’s Champions League triumph in Munich in 2012, will be assessed on Tuesday to see if he can lead his side to a third final. “He has a chance for Wednesday’s game,” Mourinho said.

AP Photo/Paul White

Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho gestures to his team as he watches from the technical area during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 .

Belgium to include Januzaj in World Cup warm-up squad Reuters

BRUSSELS - Manchester United winger Adnan Januzaj will feature in a preliminary Belgium squad for World Cup warm-ups against Luxembourg and Sweden, national coach Marc Wilmots was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Wilmots, who last week made known Januzaj’s decision to play for Belgium, said he had not given any guarantees to the 19-year-old that he would be in the final squad in Brazil.

Wilmots told Belgian newspaper De Morgen that Januzaj had shown he could also play as a centre

forward, a useful option given the unavailability of Christian Benteke due to injury.

The coach said he would select Januzaj in an initial squad of 26 or 27 for training camps, including friendlies against Luxembourg in Belgium on May 26 and Sweden in Stockholm on June 1.

“I first want to see how he is in training. I’ll pick 26 or 27 players and say there’s only one thing that counts - the pitch. Come on guys, show me what you can do,” Wilmots said. “That I’ll take him on the camp is certain. I think that’s normal given his performances in the last year.” Each football association must submit a list of up to 30 players of potential squad members

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Arsenal beats Newcastle 3-0 to cement fourth spot

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Atletico, closing in on a first Spanish league title since 1996, ran out of ideas against a resolute Chelsea rearguard in which John Terry and Gary Cahill spent most of the evening heading away hopeful crosses into the area. The Londoners are sweating on the fitness of Terry, who turned his ankle in the first leg and they will be without injured goalkeeper Petr Cech and suspended midfielders Frank Lampard and John Obi Mikel.

Whoever plays, Atletico coach Diego Simeone needs a different game plan if his club are to reach the final for the first time since 1974. They enjoyed 64 percent of the ball last week but leading striker Diego Costa barely got a sniff of a chance as the two sides effectively cancelled each other out.

Simeone’s side, who have conceded the fewest goals in La Liga this season, have won their last nine Spanish top-flight games and are on a 14-match unbeaten run in all competitions. With a relatively thin squad he was unable to rest any of his regulars in the 1-0 win at Valencia at the weekend, although Gabi played down talk of heavy legs as the season reaches its climax.

“We are up on a cloud from which we don’t want to get down,” Gabi, who will miss the second leg through suspension, told reporters. “The team has a level of conviction that has rarely been seen.” Simeone, however, issued a word of caution. “La Liga is nothing like the Champions League,” he said before

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by May 13, with the final 23 names sent to FIFA by June 2.

Born in Belgium to ethnic Albanian parents from Kosovo, Januzaj was eligible to play for a number of countries including Belgium, England, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Turkey.

He scored two fine goals in his first Premier League start at Sunderland and has shown great potential in an otherwise poor season for Manchester United.

Belgium, playing in their first World Cup in 12 years, will face Algeria, Russia and South Korea in the group phase in Brazil.

LONDON — Arsenal remains on course for another season in the Champions League after beating Newcastle 3-0 at home on Monday. The win puts Arsenal four points clear of Everton in fourth place with two games to play in the Premier League, a position which would qualify the club for Europe’s top competition for the 17th straight year.

Having been contained for the first quarter of the match, the hosts found their rhythm after defender Laurent Koscielny gave the Gunners the lead in the 26th minute when he poked in from close range a wellplaced free kick from Santi Cazorla.

Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski went close to doubling the lead, notably when his powerful header from sixyards out was parried away

by Newcastle goal-

keeper Tim Krul.

Arsenal went two up in the 42nd minute when midfielder Mesut Ozil tapped in from close range after Krul saved two efforts from Olivier Giroud, the second of which fell comfortably into the path of the Germany international. Ozil then became the provider in the 66th minute when his whipped cross was powerfully headed into the net by Giroud.

The win means that one more victory in the final two games will be enough to confirm a Champions League spot for Arsenal next season.

Everton takes on Manchester City at home on Saturday in a game that also has huge implications for the title race between City, Liverpool and Chelsea. Arsenal then plays West Bromwich Albion at home on Sunday. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is taking nothing for granted, though. “To get over the line is always difficult,” he said.

As well as qualifying for the lucrative Champions League, Arsenal is hoping to lift its first trophy in nine years when it takes on Hull in the FA Cup Final on May 17 at Wembley Stadium.

Newcastle chances were few and far though winger Yoan Gouffran had a good chance to halve the

deficit early on in the second half but he shot straight at Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny when through on goal.

The defeat was Newcastle’s sixth straight loss and ratcheted up the pressure on manager Alan Pardew.

Despite that ignominious run, the club remains in ninth place following a strong first half to the season.

The match was also Pardew’s first on the touchline since a seven-game suspension for head-butting Hull’s David Meyler — the longest suspension ever handed down to a Premier League manager.

A section of the 2,000 or so Newcastle fans who made the trip down from the northeast of England turned against Pardew in the second half.

“We want Pardew out” and “Six in a row” boomed down from the away section as they grew increasingly restless. Pardew conceded the second half of the season has not been good enough and said the fans had the right to vent their frustrations.

“They’ve seen us lose again and they’re not happy and I have to respect that,” he said. “We’ve been top 10 all year, this recent run is not something I’m hiding from, we should have performed better in this run and we’ve got to finish in the top 10.”

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta, bottom, is out jumped by Newcastle’s Shola Ameobi during their English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Newcastle United at the Emirates stadium in London, Monday, April 28, 2014.

IOC vice president says Rio Alves slams “backward” Spain, wants preps are “worst” ever banana-thrower shamed Associated Press Writer

Reuters

BARCELONA - Dani Alves has hit out at Spain for being “very backward” in its approach towards racism and believes the fan who hurled a banana on the pitch in Barcelona’s game away to Villarreal on Sunday should be publicly shamed.

Images of the Brazilian picking up the banana and taking a bite were beamed around the world and he was widely backed by the football community and celebrities.

Villarreal subsequently announced they had given the supporter a life ban but Alves, who has criticised the level of racism in Spain before, felt it was not enough.

“If I could, I would put a photo of the fan on the internet so that he would be shamed,” AP Photo/Alberto Saiz

Alves told Brazil’s Radio Globo.

“There is racism against foreigners. They sell the country as being first world but in certain things they are very backward.”

Alves admitted he did not expect his actions to receive so much attention. “I have been surprised by everyone’s support. I did it without thinking. The world has evolved and we must evolve with it.”

FIFA president Sepp Blatter was among those who backed the player and tweeted that racism cannot be tolerated. Alves said that the world governing body should be more proactive.

“FIFA must concentrate on things more important than La Masia. They need to give their attention to more serious things,” he said, referring to the recent verdict that Barcelona were guilty of breaching regulations over the transfer of underage players.

Barcelona’s Daniel Alves from Brazil celebrates after scoring against Villarreal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Madrigal stadium in Villarreal, Spain, on Sunday, April 27, 2014.

In an unusually blunt public warning, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday called the delayed preparations for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro “the worst I have experienced.” John Coates, who has made six trips to Brazil as part of the IOC’s coordination commission for Rio, said the Brazilians are behind “in many, many ways” and are in worse shape than Greek organizers were in preparing for the 2004 Olympics.

Despite the critical delays, the Australian said there is no backup plan and the games will take place in Rio. Coates noted that the IOC had taken the unprecedented step of embedding experts in the host city to help the local organizing committee deliver the games. “The IOC has formed a special task force to try and speed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground,” Coates told an Olympic forum in Sydney, outlining that construction delays are just part of the problem. “The IOC has adopted a more hands-on role. It is unprecedented for the IOC, but there is no plan B. We are going to Rio.” Brazil has also come under fire from football’s world governing body, FIFA, for long delays in construction of stadiums and other infrastructure and the overdue delivery of venues for the World Cup, which kicks off in June. Two years out from the 2016 Olympics, the situation on the construction front is just as bleak.

“We have become very concerned. They are not ready in many, many ways,” Coates said. “And this is against a city that’s got social issues that also have to be addressed; a country that’s also trying to deal with the FIFA World Cup coming up in a few months.”

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Mourinho aiming to knock Atletico off their “cloud”

Associated Press Writer

LONDON - The tepid 0-0 draw in the Vicente Calderon resembled a phoney war but Chelsea and Atletico Madrid will surely up the ante at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday when a place in the Champions League final is on the line. That semi-final first leg stalemate left Chelsea marginal favourites to progress although with no away goal in their pocket, Jose Mourinho’s side will be vulnerable against an Atletico side capable of much more than they produced at home. referencing a weakened Chelsea’s 2-0 win at Premier League leaders Liverpool at the weekend. “Chelsea has a great team, the possibility of rotating and winning 0-2. We face a very powerful team that will make it very hard for us.”

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Mourinho is a past master at knocking teams off clouds and while Simeone will demand more imagination from his side at Stamford Bridge where an away goal could prove vital, Mourinho may elect to adopt the tactics that so stifled Atletico and Liverpool in the space of a few days. The onus is on Chelsea to score a goal this time but Mourinho is unlikely to become all gung-ho even if the creative talents of Eden Hazard and the scoring prowess of Samuel Eto’o are at his disposal after they missed the first leg injured.

Former Porto and Inter Milan boss Mourinho is attempting to reach his third Champions League final with a third club, having fallen in three consecutive semifinals while in charge of Real Madrid.

He also lost semi-finals with Chelsea in 2005 and 2007 during his first spell in charge so no wonder he appears to have demoted his side’s Premier League challenge below that of winning the Champions League. The omens look good for Chelsea too. They are

unbeaten in their last 16 clashes with Spanish sides in the Champions League, winning six and drawing 10 since losing to Barcelona in February 2006.

Atletico’s only victory in nine European ties on English soil came at Leicester City in 1997 although they have proved formidable foes in this year’s Champions League and reached the semi-finals unbeaten.

Chelsea skipper Terry, suspended for his side’s Champions League triumph in Munich in 2012, will be assessed on Tuesday to see if he can lead his side to a third final. “He has a chance for Wednesday’s game,” Mourinho said.

AP Photo/Paul White

Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho gestures to his team as he watches from the technical area during the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 .

Belgium to include Januzaj in World Cup warm-up squad Reuters

BRUSSELS - Manchester United winger Adnan Januzaj will feature in a preliminary Belgium squad for World Cup warm-ups against Luxembourg and Sweden, national coach Marc Wilmots was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Wilmots, who last week made known Januzaj’s decision to play for Belgium, said he had not given any guarantees to the 19-year-old that he would be in the final squad in Brazil.

Wilmots told Belgian newspaper De Morgen that Januzaj had shown he could also play as a centre

forward, a useful option given the unavailability of Christian Benteke due to injury.

The coach said he would select Januzaj in an initial squad of 26 or 27 for training camps, including friendlies against Luxembourg in Belgium on May 26 and Sweden in Stockholm on June 1.

“I first want to see how he is in training. I’ll pick 26 or 27 players and say there’s only one thing that counts - the pitch. Come on guys, show me what you can do,” Wilmots said. “That I’ll take him on the camp is certain. I think that’s normal given his performances in the last year.” Each football association must submit a list of up to 30 players of potential squad members

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Arsenal beats Newcastle 3-0 to cement fourth spot

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Atletico, closing in on a first Spanish league title since 1996, ran out of ideas against a resolute Chelsea rearguard in which John Terry and Gary Cahill spent most of the evening heading away hopeful crosses into the area. The Londoners are sweating on the fitness of Terry, who turned his ankle in the first leg and they will be without injured goalkeeper Petr Cech and suspended midfielders Frank Lampard and John Obi Mikel.

Whoever plays, Atletico coach Diego Simeone needs a different game plan if his club are to reach the final for the first time since 1974. They enjoyed 64 percent of the ball last week but leading striker Diego Costa barely got a sniff of a chance as the two sides effectively cancelled each other out.

Simeone’s side, who have conceded the fewest goals in La Liga this season, have won their last nine Spanish top-flight games and are on a 14-match unbeaten run in all competitions. With a relatively thin squad he was unable to rest any of his regulars in the 1-0 win at Valencia at the weekend, although Gabi played down talk of heavy legs as the season reaches its climax.

“We are up on a cloud from which we don’t want to get down,” Gabi, who will miss the second leg through suspension, told reporters. “The team has a level of conviction that has rarely been seen.” Simeone, however, issued a word of caution. “La Liga is nothing like the Champions League,” he said before

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by May 13, with the final 23 names sent to FIFA by June 2.

Born in Belgium to ethnic Albanian parents from Kosovo, Januzaj was eligible to play for a number of countries including Belgium, England, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Turkey.

He scored two fine goals in his first Premier League start at Sunderland and has shown great potential in an otherwise poor season for Manchester United.

Belgium, playing in their first World Cup in 12 years, will face Algeria, Russia and South Korea in the group phase in Brazil.

LONDON — Arsenal remains on course for another season in the Champions League after beating Newcastle 3-0 at home on Monday. The win puts Arsenal four points clear of Everton in fourth place with two games to play in the Premier League, a position which would qualify the club for Europe’s top competition for the 17th straight year.

Having been contained for the first quarter of the match, the hosts found their rhythm after defender Laurent Koscielny gave the Gunners the lead in the 26th minute when he poked in from close range a wellplaced free kick from Santi Cazorla.

Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski went close to doubling the lead, notably when his powerful header from sixyards out was parried away

by Newcastle goal-

keeper Tim Krul.

Arsenal went two up in the 42nd minute when midfielder Mesut Ozil tapped in from close range after Krul saved two efforts from Olivier Giroud, the second of which fell comfortably into the path of the Germany international. Ozil then became the provider in the 66th minute when his whipped cross was powerfully headed into the net by Giroud.

The win means that one more victory in the final two games will be enough to confirm a Champions League spot for Arsenal next season.

Everton takes on Manchester City at home on Saturday in a game that also has huge implications for the title race between City, Liverpool and Chelsea. Arsenal then plays West Bromwich Albion at home on Sunday. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is taking nothing for granted, though. “To get over the line is always difficult,” he said.

As well as qualifying for the lucrative Champions League, Arsenal is hoping to lift its first trophy in nine years when it takes on Hull in the FA Cup Final on May 17 at Wembley Stadium.

Newcastle chances were few and far though winger Yoan Gouffran had a good chance to halve the

deficit early on in the second half but he shot straight at Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny when through on goal.

The defeat was Newcastle’s sixth straight loss and ratcheted up the pressure on manager Alan Pardew.

Despite that ignominious run, the club remains in ninth place following a strong first half to the season.

The match was also Pardew’s first on the touchline since a seven-game suspension for head-butting Hull’s David Meyler — the longest suspension ever handed down to a Premier League manager.

A section of the 2,000 or so Newcastle fans who made the trip down from the northeast of England turned against Pardew in the second half.

“We want Pardew out” and “Six in a row” boomed down from the away section as they grew increasingly restless. Pardew conceded the second half of the season has not been good enough and said the fans had the right to vent their frustrations.

“They’ve seen us lose again and they’re not happy and I have to respect that,” he said. “We’ve been top 10 all year, this recent run is not something I’m hiding from, we should have performed better in this run and we’ve got to finish in the top 10.”

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta, bottom, is out jumped by Newcastle’s Shola Ameobi during their English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Newcastle United at the Emirates stadium in London, Monday, April 28, 2014.

IOC vice president says Rio Alves slams “backward” Spain, wants preps are “worst” ever banana-thrower shamed Associated Press Writer

Reuters

BARCELONA - Dani Alves has hit out at Spain for being “very backward” in its approach towards racism and believes the fan who hurled a banana on the pitch in Barcelona’s game away to Villarreal on Sunday should be publicly shamed.

Images of the Brazilian picking up the banana and taking a bite were beamed around the world and he was widely backed by the football community and celebrities.

Villarreal subsequently announced they had given the supporter a life ban but Alves, who has criticised the level of racism in Spain before, felt it was not enough.

“If I could, I would put a photo of the fan on the internet so that he would be shamed,” AP Photo/Alberto Saiz

Alves told Brazil’s Radio Globo.

“There is racism against foreigners. They sell the country as being first world but in certain things they are very backward.”

Alves admitted he did not expect his actions to receive so much attention. “I have been surprised by everyone’s support. I did it without thinking. The world has evolved and we must evolve with it.”

FIFA president Sepp Blatter was among those who backed the player and tweeted that racism cannot be tolerated. Alves said that the world governing body should be more proactive.

“FIFA must concentrate on things more important than La Masia. They need to give their attention to more serious things,” he said, referring to the recent verdict that Barcelona were guilty of breaching regulations over the transfer of underage players.

Barcelona’s Daniel Alves from Brazil celebrates after scoring against Villarreal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Madrigal stadium in Villarreal, Spain, on Sunday, April 27, 2014.

In an unusually blunt public warning, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday called the delayed preparations for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro “the worst I have experienced.” John Coates, who has made six trips to Brazil as part of the IOC’s coordination commission for Rio, said the Brazilians are behind “in many, many ways” and are in worse shape than Greek organizers were in preparing for the 2004 Olympics.

Despite the critical delays, the Australian said there is no backup plan and the games will take place in Rio. Coates noted that the IOC had taken the unprecedented step of embedding experts in the host city to help the local organizing committee deliver the games. “The IOC has formed a special task force to try and speed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground,” Coates told an Olympic forum in Sydney, outlining that construction delays are just part of the problem. “The IOC has adopted a more hands-on role. It is unprecedented for the IOC, but there is no plan B. We are going to Rio.” Brazil has also come under fire from football’s world governing body, FIFA, for long delays in construction of stadiums and other infrastructure and the overdue delivery of venues for the World Cup, which kicks off in June. Two years out from the 2016 Olympics, the situation on the construction front is just as bleak.

“We have become very concerned. They are not ready in many, many ways,” Coates said. “And this is against a city that’s got social issues that also have to be addressed; a country that’s also trying to deal with the FIFA World Cup coming up in a few months.”

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James, Heat complete sweep of Bobcats, 109-98 Associated Press Writer

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — LeBron James scored 31 points as Miami completed a first-round sweep of Charlotte with a 109-98 victory Monday. James scored 19 points after slightly injuring his thigh in the third quarter.

He finished the game 10 of 19 from the field and had nine assists. The two-time defending NBA champions will next play the winner of the Brooklyn-Toronto series, which is level 2-2.

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TABANAN - Jatiluwih, located on the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, is some 27 km north of Tabanan town. As a tourism village, Jatiluwih is one of the most beautiful objects in Bali. It offers broad panoramic views and unmatched terraced rice fields. In the north, it is backed by the densely forested mountains with a cool and clean air.

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Chris Bosh added 17 points and Dwyane Wade battled through foul trouble and finished with 15 as Miami won its 20th straight game over Charlotte. Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 29 points. The Bobcats played without Al Jefferson, their leading scorer and rebounder who has been bothered by a foot injury since the first quarter of Game 1.

Atlanta’s Mike Scott made five 3-pointers during a 30-6 second-quarter run as the Hawks fended off a furious fourthquarter rally to beat the top-seeded Indiana Pacers 107-97 to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Atlanta can clinch the first-round series at home Thursday.

Scott scored all 17 of his points during a 12-minute stretch when Atlanta went 13 of 16 from the field and outscored Indiana 41-19 to take a 61-40 halftime lead. Shelvin Mack led the eighth-seeded Hawks with 20 points. Paul George had 26 for Indiana, which got as close as eight points in the final minute.

At Dallas, Manu Ginobili scored 23 points and Boris Diaw hit a go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute as the San Antonio Spurs held off a second-half surge by Dallas to win 93-89 and level the first-round playoff series. The Spurs regained the home-court advantage by getting a split of two games in Dallas, matching what the eighth-seeded Mavericks did in San Antonio.

The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks pulled even midway through the fourth quarter of Game 4. The score was still tied when Diaw hit from long range over Dirk Nowitzki at the top of the key for a 90-87 lead.

Monta Ellis led Dallas with 20 points but missed two potential tying shots after Diaw’s basket. Game 5 is Wednesday night in San Antonio. Nowitzki had 19 points and was held under 20 in a fourth straight playoff game for the first time since his first postseason in 2001.

AP Photo/Chuck Burton

Miami Heat’s LeBron James (6) goes up to dunk against the Charlotte Bobcats during the first half in Game 4 of an opening-round NBA basketball playoff series in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2014.

Delbonis beats Davydenko at BMW Open

Federico Delbonis

Associated Press Writer

IBP/ist

MUNICH — Federico Delbonis of Argentina beat two-time champion Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 7-6 (4) Monday to reach the second round of the BMW Open.

The 44th-ranked Delbonis never faced a break point and broke the Russian twice in the first set to take control of the match.

German wild-card entry Dustin Brown also advanced by ousting big-serving Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (4),

7-6 (5) in a match that saw no breaks of serve and only one break point for each player.

Brown will play top-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy in the second round.

In Monday’s other matches, Alejandro Falla of Colombia defeated Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-2, 6-1, and Marinko Matosevic of Australia advanced when Michal Przysiezny of Poland retired when leading 6-2, 5-6.

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Bombs kill at least 11 people at Iraq market Associated Press Writer

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In this photo taken Thursday, April 17, 2014, Kazuhiro Onuki wearing a white protective gear and a filtered mask walks by a fence blocking the traffic in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

Fukushima residents unsure of return to no-go zone

BAGHDAD — A pair of back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, officials said, the latest spasm of violence to convulse Iraq ahead of parliamentary elections. The attacks are an apparent effort by the militants to discourage Iraqi voters from going to the polls on Wednesday in the first nationwide balloting since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Tuesday’s attack took place in the town of al-Saadiyah, 140 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a police officer said. One of the bombs was placed in the middle of the town’s main vegetable and meat market, he said, while the second was put near one of the exits — presumably trying to strike people fleeing from the first blast, a tactic widely used by insurgents in order to inflict as many casualties as possible.

A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. None immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida-inspired Sunni militants seeking to undermine the Shiite-led government’s efforts to maintain security across the country ahead of Wednesday’s polling.

Earlier Tuesday, the al-Qaida splinter group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks across Iraq on Monday, including a massive suicide bombing in a Kurdish town northeast of Baghdad that killed at least 25 people.

The bomber in the Monday evening attack in the Kurdish town of Khanaqin in the turbulent Diyala province blew himself up among a group of Kurds who were celebrating the appearance on local TV of Iraq’s ailing president, Jalal Talabani, also a Kurd. That explosion also wounded 35 people and sent the day’s overall death toll from Iraq attacks to at least 46 people.

Talabani was shown after casting his ballot abroad as part of early and expat voting in his first public appearance since 2012. He has been in Germany for medical treatment following a stroke.

Associated Press Writer

TOMIOKA, Japan — Whenever Kazuhiro Onuki goes home, to his real home that is, the 66-year-old former librarian dons protective gear from head to toe and hangs a dosimeter around his neck. Grass grows wild in the backyard. The ceiling leaks. Thieves have ransacked the shelves, leaving papers and clothing all over the floor so there is barely room to walk. Mouse dung is scattered like raisins. There is no running water or electricity.

Above all, radiation is everywhere. It’s difficult to imagine ever living again in Tomioka, a ghost town about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the former Fukushima Dai-chi nuclear plant. And yet more than three years after meltdowns at the plant forced this community of 16,000 people to flee, Onuki can’t quite make the psychological break to start anew.

His family lived here for four generations. Every time he goes back, he is overcome by emotion. Especially during that brief time in the spring when the cherry blossoms bloom. “They flower as though nothing has happened,” he said. “They are weeping because all the people have left.”

The Japanese government is pushing ahead with efforts to decontaminate and reopen as much of a 20-kilometer (12-mile) no-go

zone around the plant as it can.

Authorities declared a tiny corner of the zone safe for living as of April 1, and hope to lift evacuation orders in more areas in the coming months and years.

Former residents have mixed feelings. In their hearts, many want their old lives back. But distrust about the decontamination program runs deep. Will it really be safe? Others among the more than 100,000 displaced have established new lives elsewhere, in the years since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami sent three of Fukushima’s reactors into meltdown.

If the evacuation order is lifted for their area, they will lose a monthly stipend of 100,000 yen ($1,000) they receive from Tokyo Electric Power Co., the owner of the Fukushima plant.

A survey last year found that

16 percent of Tomioka residents wanted to return, 40 percent had decided never to return, and 43 percent were undecided. Two-thirds said they were working before the disaster, but only one-third had jobs at the time of the survey, underlining the challenges to starting over.

Former resident Shigetoshi Suzuki, a friend of Onuki, is outraged the government would even ask such a question: Do you want to go back?

Of course, we all want to return, he said. People like him were effectively forced into retirement, the 65-year-old land surveyor said.

If he hadn’t evacuated to a Tokyo suburb with his wife, he would have continued working for his longtime clients. “It is a ridiculous question,” Suzuki said. “We could have led normal lives. What we have lost can’t be measured in money.”

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Civilians inspect damage in the aftermath of a Monday car bomb attack in a crowded commercial street in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Tuesday, April 22, 2014.

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From page 1 “In keeping with the increasing role of tourism in the development, the role of MICE continues to grow in the tourism industry and becomes diversification of tourism products constantly developed by various countries,” said Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar.

He mentioned that Asia-Pacific was the region whose MICE industry grew quite rapidly. The countries like Australia, Japan, Korea and Singapore had a very high MICE activity each year. To that end, the training aimed to improve the ability of participants in developing strategies and programs for the MICE development.

“A total of 23 people from 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region participated in this conference. Such amount is the highest number since it has been implemented for eight times,” he said.

Sapta recognized it showed the great the attractiveness of Indonesia, especially Bali, to the interest of foreign people to visit. “Bali has the greatest potential to increase MICE tourist arrivals in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Manado and Medan,” he affirmed. (kmb27)

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INDONESIA Over high labor cost

Five companies move from Tangerang Antara

TANGERANG - An official of the industry ministry said five companies had moved to other areas from Tangerang, Banten, over high labor cost.

“The increase in the urban minimum wage has forced five companies from Tangerang to operate in other areas where labor cost is cheaper,” head of the city industry and trade office Mohammad Noor said here on Tuesday.

A businessman considers a number of factors including labor cost, availability of basic material and market potential before opening a company in a city, Mohammad Noor said.

The five companies abandoned business operations in Tangerang because of the higher labor cost although workers are easily available in the city, he said.

With workers demanding pay hike every year and the plan to raise the electric tariff , it would not be feasible for the five companies to continue operations in Tangerang, he added.

The hardest hit is the workers, themselves, with more people losing jobs, he said.

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thousands of dancers are also dancing at various other locations such as at General Sudirman Solo street, Paragon Mall, Solo Grand Mall, Solo Square Mall, Adi Sumarmo Airport, and Solo State Vocational School 8.

The dance show on General Sudirman Street will be enlivened by 500 dancers and 750 scouts from across 34 provinces in Indonesia.

“While the ISI campus is involving our all dance students,” clarified Rochana.

World Dance Day celebration is conducted in cooperation with the ISI Surakarta, Jakarta Erasmus Huis, and the International Dansteater Amsterdam.

From this cooperation, several dance repertoires will be on stage; one of the repertoires is the result of the collaboration between ISI Surakarta students with International Dansteater students.

Thousands dancers support “Solo 24 hours dancing”

SOLO - As many as 5 thousand dancers will enliven ‘Solo 24 Hour Dancing ‘ in order to celebrate World Dance Day on Tuesday. The dancers are come from the Indonesian Art Institute of Surakarta (ISI Surakarta), Solo State Vocational School 8, as well from across all dance studios in Solo.

The opening event was marked by offering flower garlands for the five dancers’ who will be dancing for 24 hours nonstop.

The flower necklace was presented by the Rector of ISI Surakarta, Prof. Sri Rochana in the campus.

“Five dancers will dance in the ISI Surakarta campus from 6 a.m. until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning,” pointed out Rochana.

This event is being held for the fifth time at ISI Surakarta.

Not only at the ISI campus,

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Fruit vendors wait for customers at their stalls at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

School abuse scandal sparks soul-searching

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A sex abuse scandal at one of Indonesia’s most prestigious international schools has sparked a heated debate about the failure to protect youngsters in the country and prompted calls for harsher punishments for paedophiles.

Accusations that a six-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by cleaning staff at the nursery of the Jakarta International School, a favourite with the capital’s expatriates and wealthy Indonesians, sparked widespread anger this month.

A second child has since come forward claiming to have been assaulted at the nursery -- which the government has now ordered to be closed -- and the school has also disclosed it used to employ an American teacher who was suspected of being a prolific paedophile.

Police have arrested six cleaners contracted from an outside company over the recent abuse accusations, one of whom has committed suicide, and the school has pledged to cooperate with the investigation.

Beyond public anger over the alleged abuse at the elite school, the scandal has focused attention on a subject previously little discussed in Indonesia -- the high incidence of child sex attacks, particularly in schools.

The national commission for child protection says it received around 3,000 reports of sexual abuse of minors in 2013, double the figure from five years ago, with some 30 percent of cases in educational institutions.

Commission member Seto Mulyadi said the figures were “only the tip

of the iceberg”.

“Many cases still go unreported because victims’ families feel ashamed,” he added.

There has been much soul-searching in the national media on the subject following the Jakarta case, with commentators demanding that more action be taken to guarantee the safety of youngsters.

Media have also focused intensely on other sex abuse stories in the wake of the scandal, such as one involving a six-year-old girl allegedly assaulted by a policeman in Aceh province, on western Sumatra island.

The child’s mother initially said she felt too “ashamed” to report the matter but when accusations surfaced the policeman abused a second girl, she decided to go to the police.

The accused officer has since been arrested.

However even when attackers are caught, child safety campaigners say that sentences are typically too short to deter potential paedophiles.

The maximum sentence for a child sex offender in Indonesia is 15 years and a fine of up to $26,000 -- but most who are convicted typically only receive three to five years in jail, campaigners say.

However the debate sparked by the Jakarta case has led to calls for tougher punishment and politicians have started discussing increasing sentences for people who sexually assault youngsters.

“The sentence should be increased to 20 years in prison at the minimum and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment,” said minister Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar, whose portfo-

lio includes child protection.

Senior education ministry official Lydia Freyani Hawadi added the case was a “golden opportunity” to improve checks on people applying to become teachers at schools.

Adding to the sense of crisis at Jakarta International School, news emerged last week that William James Vahey, a 64-year-old US citizen described by the FBI as a “suspected serial child predator”, taught at the institution for a decade until 2002.

However there have been no allegations that Vahey, who committed suicide last month when his then employer discovered a thumb drive containing graphic images of boys, carried out abuse at the Indonesian school.

The institution has moved to try and put a lid on the controversy, with the head Tim Carr insisting in regular media appearances the school is committed to child protection.

The school says it has strengthened security by adding extra security cameras and improving its child protection measures.

While there is hope that something good may come out of a horrible case in the form of stronger legislation to protect children, activists say for many youngsters across Indonesia, it is already too late.

Children who have been abused “develop esteem problems, become withdrawn, have problems studying, and may be so disturbed that they grow up modelling the same behaviour as their perpetrators,” said Mulyadi from the child protection commission.

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BUSINESS Samsung Q1 net profit hits $7.3 billion

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In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, office workers walk past China Dream propaganda boards, showing messages pushed by the current Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration, on display near a construction site in Beijing, China. Economists fear a lending bubble in China could threaten the global economy unless the Chinese government shores up its financial system, according to an Associated Press survey.

Survey: China’s lending bubble a global threat Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Just as the global economy has all but recovered from debt-fueled crises in the United States and Europe, economists have a new worry: China. They see a lending bubble there that threatens global growth unless Beijing defuses it.

That’s the view that emerges from an Associated Press survey this month of 30 economists. Still, the economists remain optimistic that Beijing’s high-stakes drive to reform its economy — the world’s second-largest — will bolster Chinese banks, ease the lending bubble and benefit U.S. exporters in the long run.

“They’ve really got to change the way they do business,” said William Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Asset Management. “But they have a good track record of doing just that. I’m an optimist about their ability to make this transition.”

The source of concern is a surge

in lending by Chinese banks. The lending was initially encouraged by the government during the 2008 global financial crisis to fuel growth. Big state-owned banks financed construction of homes, railroads and office towers. But much of the lending was directed by local officials for pet projects rather than to meet business needs.

On Monday, the International Monetary Fund issued a warning about China’s private debt.

It released a report citing “rising vulnerabilities” in China’s financial system, including lending outside traditional banks. Lending by that “shadow” banking system now equals one-quarter of China’s

economy, the report said.

The IMF also pointed to recent defaults in credit card and other debt sold to investors by banks and heavy debts owed by local governments.

If it continues, “this could spark adverse financial market reaction both in China and globally,” the IMF said.

The bubble has caused land prices in China to double in five years, according to an estimate

by Nomura, a Japanese bank.

Outstanding credit surged from 130 percent of the economy in 2008 to 200 percent in 2013, according to Capital Economics, a forecasting firm.

When debt has built up that fast in the past — as in the United States during the housing bubble — financial crises have typically followed.

“That should be setting alarm bells off,” said Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics.

When debt finances excessive building, eventually too few people or companies are willing to buy all the houses, apartments and offices. That can send prices sinking and trigger loan defaults by developers and property owners.

Banks typically then curtail lending, thereby slowing growth.

Most economists think China’s government would bail out its state owned banks and provide enough money so they could continue lending. It would also support any companies whose bankruptcy would threaten growth.

SEOUL - Samsung Electronics reported Tuesday its net profit had risen 5.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to 7.57 trillion won ($7.3 billion) but operating profit declined for a second straight quarter on slowing smartphone revenue.

Alarm bells have been sounding for a while over Samsung’s reliance on smartphone sales in mature markets such as Europe and the United States, and increasingly competitive emerging markets such as China.

The world’s largest smartphone maker has a diverse product line ranging from memory chips to home appliances, but more than half its profits are generated by mobile devices.

This month saw the global roll-out of the latest version of its flagship Galaxy series smartphone, the S5, whose performance will be closely watched over the coming months.

While reviews have rated the S5 a top-class product, they note that it offers little in the way of real innovation that would set it apart from previous versions and models offered by competitors such as Apple.

Samsung made margin concessions with the S5, launching it at a slightly lower price than its predecessor the S4 and throwing in a premium software bundle estimated at more than $500.

The strategy appeared to have met with some success, as the net profit figure released on Tuesday beat most analyst estimates.

However, operating profit stood at 8.49 trillion won for the January-March period, down 3.3 percent year on year and following a 6.0 percent decline in the fourth quarter.

Overall sales in the first three months of the year inched up 1.53 percent to 53.7 trillion won, but were down 2.5 percent for the mobile business unit.

The firm’s Seoul-listed shares were down 1.66 percent in the morning, while the broader KOSPI market was 0.22 percent lower.

Samsung on Tuesday acknowledged it was faced with a tough road ahead as demand would remain sluggish in the second quarter.

Kim Hyun-Joon, Samsung’s senior vice president for the mobile business, said the market for smartphones and tablet computers would “grow slightly” in the second quarter.

“But we will try to continue solid earnings growth by expanding sales of Galaxy S5,” Kim said.

The company was expecting sales of Galaxy S5 to beat its predecessor S4, he said, despite some scepticism from observers.

Samsung rarely discloses sales figures for its smartphones but J.K Shin -- the head of the firm’s mobile unit -- said in October that S4 sales had reached 40 million globally since its release in April 2013.

Seoul-based Korea Investment & Securities recently estimated its worldwide tally stood at 57 million units.

But sales of the S5 will likely be limited to around 51 million, it said, while another researcher HMC Investment & Securities put the estimated figure at 44 million.

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Police arrest drunk Korean for sequence of accidents Antara

DENPASAR - The Denpasar City Police Department has arrested a 29-year-old South Korean, Shin Hyun Yi, for driving under alcohol influence and caused a sequence of accidents in Denpasar, Bali, on Monday, March 28.

“He was caught for speed driving under the influence of alcohol and also hitting other drivers,” pointed out the Denpasar City Police Department’s Head of Public Relation, Adjunct Commissioner Ida Bagus Made Sarjana in Denpasar, on Tuesday.

Sarjana explained that the accident sequence started when the suspect drove a car with a license plat DK1628-AH, at a high speed from the south to the west line of Ngurah Rai Sanur by Pass, and then crashed into a motorbike with a license plate DK-5625-IP, being driven by I Gede Supariasa.

After that, Shin tried to run away in his unstable condition under alcohol influence, when he crashed into a city car, with license plate DK-1876-

IV, that was parked by the roadside.

Instead of stopping his car, the Korean once again tried to escape and then hit a jeep with an unidentified license plate.

Finally, Shin stopped when he hit a tree on the road, after which, the Traffic Management of Denpasar Police Department’s officers reached the spot and secured him.

Adjunct Commissioner Sarjana assured that there were no causalities in the accident sequence. However, the three drivers who were hit were hurt, and the suspect himself had wounded his nose.

The sequence of accidents is still under an on-going prosecution and the suspect and witnesses will be called for further testimony.

Tawan Karang Rights

Tawan karang or the right to plunder vessels that foundered off the reefs surrounding Bali is one of the legal traditions or customs prevailing in Bali in the ancient time. This law allowed a king or a coastal community to seize the stranded vessels along with its cargo in their territory and make the passengers as slaves or sometimes killed.

The right is applicable if there was a vessel stranded on the rocks or the coastal territories, including its passengers and cargo, and only local people who could help or save them. The right aimed at maintaining and protecting the territorial jurisdiction from foreign enemies. It is considered as the local genius and becomes an embryo and the birth of international customary law giving birth to the nationalistic perspective. (kmb)

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File photo showed police officer showing evidence that confiscated from a Frenchman, Thierry Vercherry. Vercherry got a light sentenced, 10 months in jail, over the possesion of drugs.

Frenchman jailed for 10 months Agence France-Presse

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DENPASAR - A Frenchman caught with almost $50,000 worth of cocaine on Bali was jailed for 10 months on Monday.

Thierry Verchere, 46, was found with the drugs in January during a police raid on a house in the Balinese capital of Denpasar.

Officers discovered plastic bags and capsules containing 112 grammes (four ounces) of the drug, with an estimated street value of 560 million rupiah ($48,000), according to police.

He was found guilty of drug

abuse, which carries a far lighter sentence than possession or smuggling.

Prosecutors recommended a one-year sentence but a Denpasar court handed him a 10-month term as he was a first-time offender and confessed to the crime.

“His action was contrary to the government’s anti-narcotics programme,” said presiding Judge Parulian Saragih.

Verchere, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, did not speak to reporters after the trial.

Foreigners are regularly caught with drugs on Bali and a

death sentence can be imposed on those found trying to smuggle drugs weighing more than five grammes into the popular holiday island.

Another Frenchman, Francois Giuily, is currently on trial in Bali accused of smuggling a large stash of crystal methamphetamine into the island, and could face the death penalty.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in January last year after cocaine with an estimated street value of $2.4 million was found in her suitcase as she arrived on a flight from Bangkok.

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Burglarize a villa, recurrent recidivist arrested Bali Post

KUTA - A re-offender, I Gusti Putu Subawa, 41, was sent back to the custody of North Kuta Police. The man born at Kesiut village, Kerambitan, Tabanan, was arrested because he burglarized the Villa Alizee located on Jalan Braban, Kerobokan, Badung and occupied by a French guest, Caroline, 50. The rench victim was estimated to ave sufferd losses of IDR 80 million.

Chief of North Kuta Police, Reinhard Habonaran Nainggolan, said on Monday (Apr 28) that the villa which Caroline ccupied was accessed by the buglar on Tuesday (Apr 22) by climbing the wall.

Then, the offender poked hole in the window of her workspace by using a knife. “The suspect took action around 7:00 p.m. when the villa’s occupant was out,” he said.

Having been able to go into the villa, this man who had been arrested twice already, immediately stole off with some of the victim’s possessions such as dozens of pieces of gold and silver jewelry of different models, a TV and a laptop. In the end, the suspect transported the victim’s goods by using a Karimun Estilo vehicle which was parked near the security post of Villa Alizee

during the robbery. “Unfortunatly, the local security did not feel that anything was suspicious at that time”, he said.

Furthermore, he said that the case was only reported a day later, once the victim had returned to the villa and was shocked to find her possesions gone. “So, the night of incident the victim was away. The robbery was only known of the next day,” he said while adding that the case had been reported to North Kuta Police.

Following an investigation at the scene of the crime, including viewing the CCTV footage, said Renhard, the officers of North Kuta Police could instantly identify the suspect of the theft, namely I Gusti Putu Subawa. In

the eyes of the North Kuta Police officers, the suspect was a familiar face because he had been arrested twice for his involvement in the similar cases,” he said.”

A search for the victim was conducted and he was found and arrested in his residence at Vista Housing, Tabanan, without resistance, Friday (Apr 25). A search of the premises yielded, four gold necklaces, four gold bracelets, six pairs of gold earrings, three gold and silver rings. “He was arrested around 3:30 p.m. It was later ascertained to be the victims jewellery. We found more of the victim’s jewelries in his car,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the other items such as the TV and laptop were

also confiscated by the officers after the items had been sold for IDR 2 million at Kreneng Market.

Meanwhile, based on the results of examination, a month before the suspect was secured for an attempt of theft at Villa Umalas inhabited by foreigners. However, he was only sentenced to misdemeanor for two weeks. “In 2008, the suspect was also arrested for a theft at a villa and was sentenced to six months in prison,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the suspect admitted to stealing to provide for two children who were still attending school. In addition, this father of three children also often spent money at cockfight gambling.

“I have a lot of debt in cockfight arena,” he said. (nik)

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South Koreans bow in memory of the victims and missing passengers aboard the sunken ferry boat Sewol, while demanding the government take responsibility on matters of food safety and public safety with regards to disasters and full-scale accidents, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

SKorean president apologizes for ferry response

Village hall changes into parking space Bali Post

Associated Press Writer

JINDO, South Korea — South Korea’s president apologized Tuesday for the government’s inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking as divers fought strong currents in their search for nearly 100 passengers still missing nearly two weeks after the accident. The government also raised the death toll for what has become a point of national mourning and shame to 204. Most of the dead and missing are high school students.

The dirty condition of Pohsanten Village Hall in Jembrana

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Tornadoes kill at least 17 in US

Associated Press Writer

At Pohsanten Village

NEGARA - The condition of Pohsanten village hall is very alarming and has been transformed into a parking space. It is quite different from the condition of head office and the rural credit agency (LPD) building that is newer and higher. This ceramicfloored meeting hall is still frequently used for village meetings. However, when the building is not used for daily activities, it serves as a motorcycle parking space. Other than motorcycles of employees or residents coming to head office, it is also used for parking motorcycles owned by junior high students whose school is located next to the head office.

As seen on Monday (Apr 28), the tile floor looked very dirty as covered with bat and dogdroppings. The building seemed to have never been touched or cleaned up. Actually, this building was still located at the same area as the head office. It was in contrast to the two new and magnificent buildings. Apparently, the building was left and only used for parking space whereas it was not intended for parking space.

Meanwhile, the Headman of Pohsanten, I Gusti Ketut Wiarta, said the village hall was indeed an old building and needed to be renovated.

The current condition was no longer representative. He admitted that the hall was rarely cleaned up and only occasionally cleaned when there would be a meeting. The droppings that covered the tile floor, according to him, was that of bats. (kmb26)

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Divers are largely using their hands to feel for remaining bodies as they make their way through a maze of dark cabins, stairwells, storage rooms, lounges and restaurants in the submerged ferry, which flipped upside down as it sank April 16. But they must fight strong currents swirling around the ferry and, once inside, overturned furniture, mattresses and other debris floating in the murky, sediment-heavy waters.

President Park Geun-hye’s apology, and the earlier resignation of her prime minister, comes amid rising indignation over claims by the victims’ relatives that the government did not do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones.

Park said at a Cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House that South Korea has “lost many precious lives because of the accident, and I am

sorry to the public and am heavyhearted.” She says the government couldn’t prevent the accident and “the initial response and remedy were insufficient.”

Park had earlier visited a memorial set up in Ansan, the city near Seoul where the high school students are from, to pay her respects to victims.

Wearing a black dress and white gloves, she laid flowers at an altar and bowed her head. According to local media, some angry family members of victims shouted at her and demanded an apology. She listened to them for 10 minutes before leaving.

Investigators, meanwhile, are expanding their probe into both the cause of the ship’s sinking and the initial response by emergency workers. Prosecutors are also analyzing calls exchanged between crew members of the sunken ferry

and the offices of the owner, Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd., senior prosecutor Ahn Sang-don said Tuesday.

Multiple crew members on the sinking ferry communicated about seven times by phone with the owner’s offices, Ahn said. The first call to the owner was placed at 9:01 a.m. on April 16, just 6 minutes after the ferry reported a distress call to a vessel traffic services center.

The last call by a crew member to the employer was made around 9:40 a.m.

South Korean media reports said the captain of the sinking ferry was seeking approval from the CEO of Chonghaejin to be able to evacuate the ship, but Ahn said investigators are still looking into why the calls were made. Crew members initially asked passengers to stay put and wear life jackets. It is unclear whether an evacuation order was relayed to passengers, although crew members interviewed by The Associated Press said the captain sent an evacuation order. Of the 475 people believed to have been aboard at the time of the sinking, only 174 people survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members.

VILONIA, Arkansas — Emergency officials were searching for survivors Monday in the debris left by a powerful tornado that carved a huge path of destruction through several Midwestern and Southern states including Arkansas, where at least 15 people were killed.

The tornado that slammed into a town about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the Arkansas state capital of Little Rock on Sunday evening, killing at least 15 people, grew to about half a mile (800 meters) wide and was among a rash of tornadoes and heavy storms that rumbled across the center and south of the U.S. overnight, ending a lull in violent weather across America with a fury. The National Weather Service warned that more tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail would strike in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana on Monday.

It was among a rash of twisters and violent storms across the Midwest and South that killed 17 people in all on Sunday.

On Monday, tornados flattened homes and businesses and flipped trucks over on highways, killing two people in Alabama and one in Mississippi.

Most of the dead in Arkansas were killed in their homes in and around Vilonia, population 3,800. Firefighters on Monday searched for anyone trapped amid the piles of splintered wood and belongings strewn across yards. Hospitals took in more than 100 patients.

The tornado that hit the town and nearby Mayflower was probably the nation’s strongest so far this year on the 0-to-5 EF scale, with the potential to be at least an EF3, which means winds greater than 136 mph, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Hood said.

It wrecked cars and trucks along Interstate 40 north of Little Rock.

Also among the ruins was a new $14 million intermediate school that had been set to open this fall.

AP Photo/Orlin Wagner

A home is covered by debris from a tornado in Baxter Springs, Kan., Monday, April 28, 2014. Sunday’s tornado damaged dozens of buildings and injured at least 25 people.

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Google: Driverless cars are mastering city streets

Tourism management pursuant to principles in Bali

Associated Press Writer

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NUSA DUA - Even though tourism has negative impact, the development must be carried out. On that account, the tourism management should be in accordance with the principles of Balinese community, either that related to customs, culture, environment or religion. It was revealed by the Head of Resource Development, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Prof. Dr. I Gede Pitana.

LOS ANGELES — Google says that cars it is programming to drive themselves have started to master the navigation of city streets and the challenges they bring, from jaywalkers to weaving bicyclists — a critical milestone for any commercially available self-driving car technology. Despite the progress over the past year, the cars have plenty of learning to do before 2017, when the Silicon Valley tech giant hopes to get “autonomous driving” technology to the public.

None of the traditional automakers has been so bullish.

Instead, they have rolled out features incrementally, including technology that brakes and accelerates in stop-and-go traffic, or keeps cars in their lanes.

“I think the Google technology is great stuff. But I just don’t see a quick pathway to the market,” said David Alexander, a senior analyst with Navigant Research who specializes in autonomous vehicles. His projection is that self-driving cars will not be commercially available until 2025.

Google Inc.’s self-driving cars already can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. In a new blog post, the project’s leader said test cars now can handle thousands of urban situations that would have stumped them a year or two ago. “We’re growing more optimistic that we’re heading

toward an achievable goal — a vehicle that operates fully without human intervention,” project director Chris Urmson wrote. The benefits would include fewer accidents, since in principle machines can drive more safely than people.

Urmson’s post was the first official update since 2012 on a project that is part of the company’s secretive Google X lab.

In initial iterations, human drivers would be expected to take control if the computer fails. The promise is that, eventually, there would be no need for a driver.

Passengers could read, daydream, even sleep — or work — while the car drives.

That day is still years away, cautioned Navigant’s Alexander.

He noted that Google’s retrofitted Lexus RX450H SUVs have a small tower on the roof that uses lasers to map the surround-

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This Wednesday, April 23, 2014 photo provided by Google shows the Google driverless car navigating along a street in Mountain View, Calif. ing area. Automakers want to hide that technology in a car’s existing shape, he said. And even once cars are better than humans at driving, it will still take sev-

Associated Press Writer

FILE - In this May 21, 2013, file photo, Nancy Tellem, right, the entertainment and digital media president of Microsoft, and Bonnie Ross, left, general manager and studio head of 343 Industries, announce a new “Halo” live-action TV series for Xbox Live, during an event to unveil the next-generation Xbox One entertainment and gaming console system, in Redmond, Wash.

“Therefore, we should not avoid or turn away from tourism, but we must manage it properly,” said Pitana.

Similarly, he also admitted that the other sectors needed to be established but it did not necessarily mean to leave tourism because of the existing weaknesses.

According to the data of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the number of foreign tourists coming to Bali in January 2014 reached 279,257 people. Australian travelers dominated the arrival with the

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cot, of course, it had a different meaning.

Made Sidia told on Monday (Apr 28) that as an artist he was requested by Gianyar government through the regent to compose the Kebo Iwa Dance that would become the county mascot dance.

The process of composing the Kebo Iwa mascot dance was not easy. It passed through a process accompanied by a number of rituals to temples having relation to Kebo Iwa such as the Maya Dalem Temple, Desa Temple of Blahbatuh (Gaduh) and Karang Buncing Temple. “If it’s currently ignored, it does not matter,” he said.

However, as an artist, it raised a question. Was the dance composition ugly or inappropriate?

County government, in this regard, was asked to be transparent so as an artist he could make an evaluation. If the dance composition was indeed inappropriate, assuredly it could be made an adjustment.

County government should not keep quiet and ignore the things having become the pride of the village community and the government itself had set it to be a mascot dance. Moreover, the making process had spent substantial funds, he said.

Meanwhile, the First Assistant to Regional Secretary of Gianyar doubling as Chairman of the Gianyar Town Anniversary Committee, Cokorda Rai Widiarsa,

amount of around 25.53 percent, China (8.64 percent), Malaysia (5.61 percent), Japan (5.1 percent) and South Korea (4.38 percent).

Most foreigner travelers came to this Island of the Gods through Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, reaching about 278,685 people or 99.80 percent. Meanwhile, those arriving by harbor came to 572 people. In the meantime, the room occupancy rate of star-hotel reached 57.76 percent.

This figure was down 4.77 points over the previous room occupancy rate. (rah)

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DENPASAR - Bali exported 119.4 tons of skipjack worth US$1.08 million in the first two months of the year. The export volume shrank from 156.48 tons with value down 35.13 percent from US$1.66 million in the same period last year, chief spokesman of the Bali provincial administration I Ketut Teneng said on Tuesday.

Ketut Teneng said skipjack is only one of 8 products of maritime and fishery from Bali, which is more known as a tourist island.

Bali’s exports of maritime and fisheries commodities totaled US$19.39 million in the January-February period, down from US$20.08 million in the same period last year.

Other fishery products exported by Bali include live decorative fishes, tuna, crabs, the grouper and lobsters. He said Bali exports skipjack mainly to Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, the United States and Malaysia.

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eral years to get the technology from development to large-scale production.

Google has not said how it plans to market the technology.

Options include collaborating with major carmakers or giving away the software, as the company did with its Android operating system.

Xbox moves ahead with original programming plan

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“Bali tourism must be always maintained properly for the sake of our future and our grandchildren.

Importantly, the management should be in accordance with the principles in Bali,” said Pitana.

Pitana added the improvement of tourism management was very important. Evidently, 33 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) of Bali at this time was obtained from tourism. In addition, approximately 51 percent of the workforce in Bali directly and indirectly enjoyed the results of tourism.

Skipjack’s export shrank on volume

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When it comes to original programming, Microsoft is going to throw it at the Xbox and see what sticks.

After nearly two years since launching a studio to create new shows to be streamed on Xbox consoles, Microsoft is finally ready to serve an assorted helping of original programming this summer for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. However, viewers shouldn’t expect Xbox Originals, as they’re called, to be available the same way that content is provided on Netflix and Hulu.

“We don’t necessarily know what approach will work, and we don’t necessarily know what approach won’t work,” noted Nancy Tellem, the president of Xbox Entertainment Studios during a recent press preview

of Xbox Originals at Microsoft’s offices in Santa Monica, California.

The event was organized by Microsoft ahead of the company’s presentation Monday at the “newfronts” in New York — a digital take on the annual “upfronts,” where broadcast and cable networks unveil their upcoming schedules for advertisers. Others set to participate in this week’s “newfronts” include Hulu, Crackle, Maker, AOL and Yahoo!

Tellem, who previously was president of CBS Entertainment, said no decisions have been made as to how each Xbox series will be available — either as part of the $5-a-month Xbox Live subscription, for sale individually or available for free through advertising partnerships. She said an Xbox Originals app would be added to the consoles’ user interface, and each new

Xbox series might be differently distributed.

Among the shows coming to Xbox this year are the street soccer docu-series “Every Street United,” which will be the first to debut in July, and the six-part tech-centric documentary series “Signal to Noise.” The first installment — “Atari: Game Over” — chronicles this past weekend’s excavation of a landfill thought to be filled with copies of Atari’s infamous “E.T.” game.

The studio previously announced it was working on a live-action series based on the “Halo” sci-fi video game, with filmmaker Steven Spielberg serving as an executive producer, as well as a multi-part “Halo” movie to be executive produced by Ridley Scott, similar to “Forward Unto Dawn,” a “Halo”-based Internet series released alongside the last “Halo” game.

GIANYAR - Celebration of the 243rd anniversary of Gianyar town held nearly for two weeks with festive entertainment, MURI record achievement and bringing in the top national band Noah became something special in this year’s celebration.

However, behind the excitement, one thing denoting the pride of Gianyar residents disappeared during the anniversary celebration. It was the Kebo Iwa Dance becoming the mascot dance of Gianyar. The dance was set to be a mascot by the Gianyar government several years ago. Even, the values of spirit containing in the figure of Kebo Iwa was immortalized through a monumental sculpture on Jalan Dharmagiri, Buruan village, Blahbatuh, posing the entrance into the town of Gianyar.

Whether the mascot dance was presented or not in the celebration of the Gianyar town anniversary raised a big question mark for the artist I Made Sidia. As a mascot dance, it surely had an important significance and essence for Gianyar having been known as the region of the arts. As an artist who composed the Kebo Iwa mascot dance, on the request of the regent at that time, in this case his party did not have any intention. Being staged or not, it was the right and authority of the committee. But as a mas-

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Artists performed Kebo Iwa Dance that dubbed as Gianyar’s mascot dance. The dance was set to be a mascot by the Gianyar government several years ago. dismissed if the Kebo Iwa Dance was the mascot dance of Gianyar.

The Kebo Iwa Dance had not been set forth in the Regional Bylaw as the mascot dance of Gianyar.

He explained that during the administration of the Regent

Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati the heroic spirit of Kebo Iwa was raised in the form of seminars and staged in the fragmentary dance in the celebration of the 241st anniversary of Gianyar town. “So, without being set forth in the regional

bylaw, to encourage the creativity of the artists and prevent the monotonous presentation for the audience, each artist is given the space of expression to work on an entertaining presentation for the people of Gianyar,” he said. (kmb16)

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Buleleng lacks thousands of elementary school teachers Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Up until this year, the Buleleng County still lacks primary school teachers. Buleleng severely lacks classroom teachers whom could serve 1,066 people.

To address the shortage of educators, local government employs contracted and apprentice teachers. This happens because the fulfillment of educators through recruitment of civil servant applicant (CPNS) from year to year is not enough to meet the needs of teachers in North Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Education Agency, Dewa Ketut Manuaba, said on Monday (Apr 28) that based on existing data on the amount of teacher, it was still needed a total of 408 classroom teachers of primary schools in Buleleng. One of the triggers on the diminishing of teachers was that many teachers had already retired. Meanwhile, the fulfillment through recruitment of civil servant by public applicants always failed. Even though there were passing applicants, they were not yet able to meet the needs of elementary school teachers. If the elementary school teachers were still lacking to thousands of people, junior high school (including Islamic school) and high school/vocation school teacher could have been met and even

the number had exceeded the requirements.

“Indeed, there was an appointment to the apprentice teachers for category 2 (K2) sometime ago, but we have not received the data regarding how many teachers qualify. In addition, the recruitment of civil servant of public applicants did not adequately cover the shortage of teachers in our region so far,” he said.

According to Manuaba, so far the shortage of elementary school teachers did not have an impact on the learning and teaching process and the graduation achievement of elementary school students. He pointed out that graduation achievement of elementary school students in Buleleng County in 2013 reached 100 percent. To that end, his party hoped the county government to recruit civil servant applicants this year or to struggle for the contracted and apprentice teachers amounting to 5,000 people in order they could be appointed as civil servant applicants. Thus, this effort would be able to meet the shortage of classroom teach-

ers at elementary school and the implementation of education could run maximally.

“So far, the teacher shortage has

not had an impact on the teaching and learning process and we expect this condition can get an immediate solution to increase the number

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of teachers from both recruitment of civil servant applicants and appointment of contracted teachers,” he explained. (mud)

UBUD - A British guest, David Victor Moss, 69, who traveled to Ubud, was found dead in a decaying condition in a bungalow room, at Ubud Kelod hamlet, Ubud, Sunday night (Apr 27). The corpse of the traveler who had made a visit to Ubud three times already ands staying at the same place was estimated to have died more than 24 hoursbefore being found.

Allegedly, the victim died due to a drug overdose. From the results of external medical examination at

crime scene, no signs of violence were found on the victim’s body.

From the data gathered, the victim’s death was first known to the room maid of Cabera Bungalow. The room maid screamed when she found the victim dead and rotting. The victim was found lying dead in his bed with a bleeding mouth. Beside him a number of medical drugs were found As attested by the room maid, Ni Nyoman Lempiawati, 35, the victim was a repeat guest at the bungalow. He came alone and

stayed on Friday night (Apr 25) at 11:30 p.m. Since then, the victim never came out of his room.

Finally, on Sunday (Apr 27) around 7:00 p.m., Lempiawati found the light in front of the room going out. Precisely it was on the second floor, room number seven where the victim stayed. So, she had an initiative and went upstairs to turn on the light. Although she had asked for permission, nobody answered. She then tried to knock at the door.

Pearing through a slit in the

window, the victim was found sprawling motionless. Afraid of something happened to the victim Lempiawati went down and reported the matter to the bungalow owner, namely I Wayan Lanus, 56. After that, they tried jointly to wake up the victim, but the victim still did not answer. It was then reported to police.

Chief of Ubud Police, I Wayan Sumara, and his staff then conducted an examination at the scene by deploying technology assistance team of Gianyar Police. Addition-

ally, it was also assisted by medical personnel to check the condition of the victim and the drugs found beside the victim’s body.

Police found no signs of violence on the victim’s body. Regarding the blood coming out of the victim’s mouth, the victim was estimated to experience a medical drug overdose. Furthermore, after coordinating with the British Consulate, the victim’s body was evacuated to Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, at that night. (kmb16)

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KUTA - Changing the reputation that a picturesque Bali honeymoon is only for the rich and famous, Neo Kuta – Jelantik has introduced an affordable romantic getaway package for young honeymooning couples on a budget.

Bali is one of the world’s most acclaimed tourist destinations, and with its exotic charm, natural beauty and cultural uniqueness, many couples dream of spending their honeymoon on the Island of the Gods. However, some couples believe they cannot afford such an extravagant getaway, but at Neo Kuta – Jelantik, the new “Honeymoon” package is dedicated to offering newlyweds a honeymoon that is both affordable and luxurious.

The Honeymoon package includes a 2 night stay in a Select Room category together with airport pick up or drop off, a honeymoon cake upon check-in and a flower petal display on the bed. Couples can also enjoy a number of romantic activities such as a 1-hour Balinese massage, a romantic dinner, a daily buffet breakfast at Noodles Now Café as well

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Neo Kuta offers honeymoon package as 2 days motorcycle rental to explore the island.

Neo Kuta – Jelantik is a designated nonsmoking superior select service hotel. It is located around the corner from the buzzing Jalan Legian and within easy walking distance to the center of Kuta, famous for its vibrant atmosphere and endless entertainment options for young couples.

“Archipelago International understands that not everyone can afford the ultra-luxurious private pool villas for their honeymoon, so we are pleased to offer the option of our Honeymoon package at Neo Kuta – Jelantik. This Bali Neo hotel offers a full set of luxurious amenities and upmarket facilities for every guest and every honeymooning couple, yet it is available at a very affordable price.” Says Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing Archipelago International.

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Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu Gianyar Pura Bhujangga Jembrana Pura Dalem pingit Tegalalang Pura Penataran Pande Pandean Mengwi Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran AGung Tulikup Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Tabanan 23 Mar Radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel Kelungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta Badung Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung Pura Puseh Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung 28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga 30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari Raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Besakih Merajan Saloding Besakih 6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Baratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen 7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian Semal Pura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tambahan Bangli Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa Malang Pura Pucak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Luwih Penebel Pura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem Pura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar 15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih 16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan 21 May Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Clooney gives up serial romance for engagement Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Looks like George Clooney owes Michelle Pfeiffer a lot of money.

The 52-year-old actor — Hollywood’s most determined bachelor, famous for a litany of fleeting loves — has taken himself off the romantic market, even though he once bet Pfeiffer $100,000 that he’d never marry again.

After dating a string of actresses, models, a cocktail waitress and a former professional wrestler, Clooney recently proposed to 36-year-old international law attorney Amal Alamuddin — despite repeated protestations that marriage wasn’t for him.

“This fascination with my love life is really something,” he told the British

newspaper The Express earlier this year.

“I keep saying I’ll never get married again or have children, but people just don’t want to believe me.”

News of the engagement was announced by the human-rights law firm where Alamuddin works. Doughty Street Chambers said Monday its lawyers and staff “offer their best wishes and congratulations to Ms. Amal Alamuddin ... and Mr. George Clooney on their engagement to be married.”

Alamuddin has advised former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Syria, helped ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko challenge her imprisonment and represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he fought extradition to Sweden.

Though they may seem like opposites,

BEIJING — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says he was misled in lending his name and image to an independent science-fiction film that sought to raise funds on the Kickstarter website. In a letter to director Jason Wishnow, Ai said he didn’t approve of the way in which he was being used to promote “The Sandstorm.” The film-in-progress has been described as a dystopian tale of a future China in which water has become scarce with Ai playing a smuggler who evades authorities.

Ai said in the letter that he did not give consent for Wishnow to use his name and image to promote the film and that he agreed only to take a minor role in the

project but was now being advertised as the film’s star.

“Ai Weiwei considers that you have not only misled him in this regard, but

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FILE - In this May 22, 2013 file photo, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei speaks to journalists at his studio in Beijing, China.

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are also potentially deceiving providers of funds to your project as to the extent of Ai Weiwei’s involvement in the project, potentially implicating Ai Weiwei in your deception without his knowledge or consent,” said the letter, sent on Ai’s behalf on April 23.

The letter called on Wishnow to direct Kickstarter to cancel and remove the advertised project, a demand he apparently agreed to. The website currently carries a notice saying the film was the subject of an intellectual property dispute and presently unavailable.

Ai representative Darryl Leung said in an email on Tuesday that the letter was authentic, and that no response had yet been received from Wishnow. “We don’t know what the final resolution will be and we don’t know whether the film will be shown,” Leung wrote. New York-based Wishnow did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

The film dispute marks the latest controversy surrounding Ai, whose international renown has soared in recent years, along with the prices of his artworks. A sculptor, designer and documentary-maker, Ai has irked Beijing by using his art and online profile to draw attention to injustices in China and the need for greater transparency and rule of law.

Despite his fame, Ai has been banned from leaving China since being secretly detained for 81 days three years ago

by China’s authoritarian communist government for reasons that were never specified. After his release in June 2011, Ai’s design firm was slapped with a $2.4 million tax bill, which he fought unsuccessfully in Chinese courts.

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the pair, who were first photographed together late last year, have more in common than some might think.

Clooney has shown increasing interest in international affairs and human-rights issues, campaigning for a resolution to the conflict in Darfur and organizing a starry telethon to help Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. He’s also hosted fundraisers for President Obama, and recently made headlines for defending the president during an argument with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.

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UNWTO predicts 1.8 billion travelers to visit Asia-Pacific Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates that tourist arrivals to Asia-Pacific region including Indonesia will reach 1.8 billion of people in 2030. Meanwhile, foreign tourists visiting Indonesia in 2013 will reach 8.8 million people.

Tourists crowded at Tanjung Benoa, Badung, Bali Island, to do water sport activities. The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates that tourist arrivals to Asia-Pacific region including Indonesia will reach 1.8 billion of people in 2030.

It means that it has just reached about 0.008 percent of international travelers although the increase is above the world average or the average in the Asia-Pacific region coming to 9.42 percent.

Director of the UNWTO Asia-Pacific Regional Program, Xu Jing, amidst the 8th UNWTO Asia-Pacific Executive Training Program for MICE in Kuta on Monday

(Apr 28) stated the largest tourism growth occurred in Asia-Pacific where the growth reached 6 percent, namely 248 million people (234 million in 2012). “There will be 1.8 billion travelers in 2030 and 535 million in the Asia-Pacific region.

The segment becoming the focus is the development of MICE and special interest tourism,” he said.

He said the contribution of Meeting,

Incentive, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) denoting the part of a major segment of the tourism industry had been recognized in the economic development as a whole. Apparently it also increased the level of tourist expenditure, reduced seasonal tourism and increased the knowledge, innovation and creativity.

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