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‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Hooks No. 1, ‘Baywatch’ Belly Flops LOS ANGELES - Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is sailing into first place at the domestic box office this weekend, but the story the numbers dictate is not one of swashbuckling heroics.

Johnny Depp’s fifth outing as Jack Sparrow is looking at a three-day total of $62.2 million from 4,276 locations, and a four-day holiday weekend sum of $77 million. If not for international appeal, that would be a let down for a movie riding on a $230 million production budget.

The first place finish also can’t cover up a serious case of franchise fatigue. “Dead Men Tell No Tales” is the lowest opening for a Pirates movie apart from the original, which earned over $46 million in its first weekend (and was also the only installation approved by critics). Last time out in 2011, “On Stranger Tides” pulled in $90 million in its opening weekend.

That’s still less than 2007’s “At World’s End” ($114.7 million) and 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” ($135.6 million). But it’s no question why Disney is still churning out sequels -- combined, the movies have made $1.3 billion domestically and $3.8 billion worldwide.

“Dead Men Tell No Tales” centers on Sparrow battling deadly ghost sailors, led by the Javier Bardem’s Captain Salazar. Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg directed the film, which also sees the return of both Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who were absent from the fourth installment.

Over time the “Pirates” franchise has become more reliant on overseas ticket sales, and that’s certainly the case this time out. The studio should make back its production budget this weekend once worldwide ticket sales are taken into account. Since the franchise still makes money (even if U.S. grosses are dwindling) this may not be the last we see of Captain Sparrow.

Meanwhile, Paramount’s “Baywatch” was hoping to make an oceanic summer splash, but looks to have ended up in the kiddie pool. The rebooted property should land a three-day total of $18.1 million from 3,647 locations and end the four-day holiday weekend with $22 million. That’s far below early estimates. The movie carries a $60 million production budget.

This is the latest in a string of misses for the studio this year including “Ghost in the Shell,” “Rings,” “XXX: The Return of Xander Cage,” and “Monster Trucks.”

Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron star in the comedy that spawned from the 1990s NBC drama starring David Hasselhoff and a team of lifeguards who patrolled the beaches of Los Angeles. This time around it’s Johnson, an experienced and devoted lifeguard, who butts heads with a new recruit, Efron, until they uncover a criminal plot. (rtr)

Actor Johnny Depp

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A government soldier is pictured running and overlooking the Maute group stronghold in Marawi City in southern Philippines May 29, 2017.

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Director Ruben Ostlund , Palme d’Or award winner for his film “The Square”, reacts.

Swedish art gallery satire “The Square” wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

CANNES - “The Square”, a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

Critics hailed the movie by writer-director Ruben Ostlund as “high-wire cinema” that veers between comedy and thriller with moments of pure surrealism, though some said it could easily have shed part of its 2 hours and 22 minutes running time.

The film’s highlight is a dinner for the museum’s well-to-do patrons, with a performance artist leaping from table to table impersonating an ape in a bizarre, tense

and ultimately violent scene.

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, who headed the jury of nine people that included Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jessica Chastain, said the film was about “the dictatorship of being politically correct”.

“Such a serious subject is treated with an incredible imagination. It is very, very, very funny,” he said.

“BPM (Beats Per Minute)”, a French movie about AIDS aware-

ness campaigners in the 1980s, had been favourite for the award but had to settle for second place, taking the Grand Prize of the Jury, something Almodovar seemed to regret.

“This is a very democratic jury and I am the ninth part of this jury,” he said and fought back tears as he talked of the film’s portrayal of “real heroes that saved many lives”.

Sofia Coppola won best director for “The Beguiled”, a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood tale of sexual tension between an injured soldier in the American Civil War and the women and girls who take him in. (rtr)

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Philippines puts city on lockdown over fears of militant infiltration

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MARAWI - The Philippine city of Iligan was overflowing with evacuees and on lockdown on Monday over fears Islamist militants had sneaked out of nearby Marawi, where troops were battling to drive out gunmen holed up in buildings for a seventh day. The fighting in the city of Marawi with pro-Islamic State militants of the Maute group is the biggest security challenges of Rodrigo Duterte’s 11-month presidency, with gunmen still holding parts of the city and fending off helicopter air strikes and ground attacks by commandos.

Most of Marawi’s 200,000 people have left, many pouring into Iligan, some 38 km (24 miles) away, where authorities said they were stretched to the limit and worried that Maute fighters were blending in with the displaced and could launch attacks. “We don’t want what’s happening in Marawi to spill over in Iligan,” said Colonel Alex Aduca, chief of the Fourth Mechanized Infantry Battalion.

“We want to ensure the safety of people here, to prevent elements from entering and conducting terroristic activities,” he told DZMM radio.

He said some rebels had been caught trying to get into Iligan, but did not

give details. Sixty-one militants, 20 members of the security forces and 19 civilians have been killed since Tuesday, when Maute rebels went on the rampage in Marawi after a botched attempt by the military to arrest Isnilon Hapilon, who the government believes is a point man for Islamic State in the Philippines.

The ability of the Maute group to fight off the military for so long will add to fears that Islamic State’s radical ideology is spreading in the southern Philippines, and it could become a haven for militants from Indonesia, Malaysia and beyond.

The military believes the Maute carried out their assault before the

Muslim holy month of Ramadan to capture the attention of Islamic State and earn its recognition as a Southeast Asian affiliate. Witnesses in Marawi said they had seen militants flying the Islamic State flag and wearing black outfits and headbands typical of the group.

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Service and facility standards of tourist object often complained DENPASAR —

With 21 boats to serve crossing

Now, visitors finally never complain

CROSSING services by using boat to Trunyan’s cemetery and Trunyan village are often complained by visitors wishing to cross. It is said that boat captain often turns off the boat engine in the middle of the lake, arguing there is engine trouble. Inevitably, they often ask for money to visitors for the cost of boat repair. However, lately the services to visitors begin to be tightened. As a result, the guards from Kedisan Pier no longer receive any reports from visitors after using the boat services following their visit to Trunyan.

Chief of Lake Batur Crossing Unit, Bangli Transportation Agency, Ketut Nasta, said that his unit did not dismiss that previously there were many visitors complaining after crossing to Trunyan and Trunyan village because the services are not maximal. “Previously, there were indeed many complaints received from visitors. They complained about less optimal services when crossing because the boat engine was suddenly off in the middle of the lake,” said Nasta on Sunday (May 28).

Nasta added that seeing the complaints continuing to appear, gradually his unit begins to instruct to boat captains in order that they can provide services properly and maximally. Besides, they are asked to prioritize services to visitors considering that what happens will greatly affect the incoming tourist visit.

“In 1997, visitors were very booming. At that time, we lacked of parking space due to many visitors. Slowly the number of visitors began to decrease. Probably, it also became one of the factors for visitor decline due to such negative impression having spread from mouth to mouth. So, tourists can cancel their travel after hearing the issues,” he said.

He stated that lately he is diligent to ask all visitors after coming back from Trunyan cemetery and Trunyan village related to services provided during the visit. After asking about the services provided for visitors, guests stated that the services have started to be good.

“Moreover, we affirm to visitors that they should say frankly whether the services are good or poor. We do not want visitors admitted to be good here, but outside there is not good. We do not want this kind of testimony. We want visitors to be honest. For instance, if the services are still lacking, we will improve them to be better,” said Nasta.

He said that to provide maximum services for incoming visitors, his unit has given directions to boat captains so as not to make things less good when delivering visitors. Moreover, his unit has routinely provided guidance for all boat captains. This measure is taken to avoid complaints by visitors.

“We routinely provide coaching for boat captains. Besides, now we have obliged that all the boat captains should bring communication device in the form of hand phone. So, in case the boat engine is off in the middle of the lake, they can directly contact us at the pier. By that way, the officers will immediately come down to location because hand phone is a simple communication tool that can be brought by all the people,” he said.

Further, he explained that currently Kedisan Pier has a total of 21 fiber boats used to serve visitors to cross. “If leaked, fiber is more easily repaired and will not take long time to do it,” said Nasta. (nan)

All this time, the tourists visiting Bali complain about the standard of services at tourist attractions. In terms of the accommodation and services, it has actually complied with the standards. The problems happen and become a scourge is when tourists visiting the object do not get adequate services and good facilities such as arrangement, toilets, et cetera.

“This is our goal in the PUTRI (Indonesia Association of Recreation Park Entrepreneurs) to arouse the vivacity of tourist attractions. If they do not have governance yet, we will help. Of course, it is made in cooperation with local government in each region,” said I Wayan Wijana, General Secretary of PUTRI Bali, in the board meeting of PUTRI Bali on Saturday (May 27). To overcome the problems of service standards, PUTRI will also conduct some training for tourist objects so that they always operate pursuant to the standards of service. Some places have applied the service standards such as Tanah Lot, Pandawa Beach, Monkey Forest, Uluwatu, and so on.

“This is what we have to distinguish between the tourist attractions from the owners. The business owners have referred to professionalism. However, the tourist objects and the tourism village should be featured to the surface,” he explained. By doing so, tourists will get adequate services, infrastructure and facilities.

Chairman of the PUTRI Bali,

Indha Trimafo Yudha, said that the existence of PUTRI is the same as the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).

PUTRI is incorporated under GIPI (Association of Indonesia Tourism Industry) and in Bali it is called the Bali Tourism Board (BTB).

PUTRI members comprise not only recreational park business players but also the communities, museums and royal palaces.

It also includes some other tourism-related companies such as Krisna Funtastic Land making the tourism distribution to the northern part of Bali. Besides, there are Pemuteran, John Hardy, ITDC, Tanah Lot, Ubud Monkey Forest, Safari Park, Bali Zoo and some others.

General Secretary of GIPI, I Gede Nurjaya, said that tourist visit to Bali will be getting more and more. The services provided by hotels and tourist guides are good.

However, so far the complaints occurred are related to quality in the existing objects. Therefore, PUTRI is expected to focus on its activities related to improvement of the whole members. According to the statues, PUTRI has the members

consisting of recreational park, whether they are nature, religious, historical or man-made tourist destinations. He still received many complaints from tourists or other countries related to security, order, comfort and so forth.

Commercial Division Head of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Ratna, said that PUTRI must move because accommodation is inseparable from tourist destinations. It needs standards so that he advised guests to visit the tourist destinations having the standards conforming to international standards.

In the future, PUTRI should have a clear packaging so that from one district to another district can be spent within 4 days or more.

“Thus, they will not get out or go anywhere, it is enough to be spent here (in Bali),” he said.

The Board of Trustee, Anak Agung Gede Agung, said that PUTRI having existed since long time ago is expected to contribute in advancing Bali tourism because tourists that come to Bali will definitely visit tourist destinations. (kmb42)

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International Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet and Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw (L) are seen next to a scale model of the world’s largest telescope during a ceremony to inaugurate its construction in the desert of Atacama, Chile, May 26, 2017.

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Construction begins on world’s largest telescope in Chilean desert ATACAMA DESERT - Construction began in Chile on Friday on the European Extremely Large Telescope, which when completed will be the world’s largest optical telescope, some five times larger than the top observing instruments in use today.

The size of the ELT has the potential to transform our understanding of the universe, say its backers, with its main mirror that will measure some 39 meters (43 yards) across.

Located on a 3,000 meter-high

mountain in the middle of the Atacama desert, it is due to begin operating in 2024.

Among other capabilities, it will add to and refine astronomers’ burgeoning discoveries of planets orbiting other stars, with

the ability to find more smaller planets, image larger ones, and possibly characterize their atmospheres, a key step in understanding if life is present.

“What is being raised here is more than a telescope. Here we

see one of the greatest examples of the possibilities of science,” said Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in a speech to mark the beginning of construction at the site.

The dry atmosphere of the Atacama provides as near perfect observing conditions as it is possible to find on Earth, with some 70 percent of the world’s astro-

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instruments can see. Outside the band, Juno found other features in the atmosphere, rather than the expected homogeneous mix of gas.

“Jupiter is surprising us in almost every way,” lead researcher Scott Bolton, with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, said in a phone interview. “We’re seeing hints that it is pretty exotic.”

Preliminary results suggest that Jupiter may have winds at all levels creating movement, an unanticipated finding, he added.

Scientists expected Jupiter, which is more than 11 times the diameter of Earth, to be fairly uniform beneath its clouds. But “it doesn’t look like its rotating like a solid body,” Bolton said.

The findings released on Thursday were based on data collected when Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 km) around Jupiter’s poles on Aug. 27.

During Juno’s next flyby on July 11, the spacecraft will pass directly over the planet’s Great Red Spot, a massive storm south of the equator that has existed for centuries.

Scientists hope to learn how the storm maintains itself and if a mass of material underlies the churning clouds.

Juno is expected to continue its highly elliptical orbit around Jupiter for months, swooping close every 53 days to map the planet’s interior so scientists can learn more about how and where Jupiter formed.

Like the sun, the gas giant is mostly hydrogen and helium, but it also has carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and other elements, as well as organics and gases. Scientists hope that learning more about Jupiter’s evolution will illuminate how Earth – and possibly other planets – were supplied with the ingredients for life. (rtr)

Lembongan divers form community to rescue coral reef

SEMARAPURA—

Behind the stunning charm of the waters of Nusa Penida, in fact, the development of marine tourism threatens the existence of coral reef and other marine biota. It happens because of increasing number of underwater tourist service businesses followed by rampant violation against the rules in the water conservation area of Nusa Penida.

This endless polemic encountered some interrelated factors for the continuity of sustainable tourism. Besides, this condition is also aggravated by more irresponsible diving and snorkeling operators.

Responding to this problem, Lembongan local divers gathered to establish a community. This dive association is named the Lembongan Diving Community (KPL). On the occasion, this community also elected the administrators consisting of Chairman (I Wayan Gede Lama), Deputy Chairman (I Kadek Jaya Suara), Secretary (I Wayan Bagiayasa) and Treasurer (I Wayan Sujana).

The community will be addressing various issues that threaten the existence of coral reef and marine biota in the area. The divers relying on their lives from marine tourism

and the beauty of the sea revealed that a few divers and snorkeling players violate the provisions such as touching coral reef and even stepping on it.

A diver from Nusa Penida, Gede Sukayasa, accommodating diving companies in Nusa Lembongan, said this underwater observer community of Nusa Penida is indeed very much required. “The community we need is a group of people wishing to take care of the underwater environment where we work,” he said on Sunday (May 28).

In line with Sukayasa, Kadek Jaya Suara also expected the participation of divers in environmental conservation. “Here we need a legal organization that can work with the government to maintain

the survival of our marine biota,” added Jaya Suara.

Wayan Gede Lama as the Head of the Lembongan Diver Community (KPL) hoped that all members will work to rescue coral reef for the sake of marine tourism continuity. One of the real movements that can be done by the community is by providing counseling in the community or school to foster a sense of love to the beauty of marine tourism through introduction on the diving activities.

KPL will also cooperate with Lembongan Marine Association (LMA) accommodating the diving companies in Nusa Lembongan established earlier. In addition, the KPA will always support government programs to develop sustainable marine tourism. (dwa)

nomical infrastructure slated to be located in the region by the 2020s.

The ELT is being funded by the European Southern Observatory, an organization consisting of European and southern hemisphere nations. Construction costs were not available but the ESO has said previously that the ELT would cost around 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion) at 2012 prices. (rtr)

The Kamasan Painting is now created in various media.

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Kamasan puppet painting created on various media

Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Handout via REUTERS

NASA’s enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter shows a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms in this image captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on February 2, 2017, at 5:13 a.m. PDT (8:13 a.m. EDT), at an altitude of 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

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U.S. spacecraft finds cyclones, ammonia river on Jupiter CAPE CANAVERAL - Jupiter’s atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system’s largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Juno found cyclones as big as 870 miles (1,400 km) in diameter swirling over Jupiter’s north and south poles, the research published in this week’s issue of the journal Science shows.

The spacecraft also detected an ammonia belt extending from the top of the atmosphere to hundreds of miles into Juno’s interior, as far down as Juno’s

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SEMARAPURA — Kamasan classical puppet paintings, in fact, can also be presented on tissue boxes, fans and even keben or sokasi (bamboo basket) commonly used to hold offerings.

This creation is done by a Kamasan painter, Wayan Inda Anggaeni. Although presented in different media and usage, all the products decorated with typical puppet images of Kamasan style are very popular.

Not a few of Balinese people are interested in the product creation of Kamasan residents. “Most buyers are tourists from Jogja, Jakarta and

foreign tourists,” she said.

Being famous and desirable, he admitted that it is not so difficult to market her creative products. According to her, every day there are always tourists coming to purchase her products. “They (consumers— Ed) directly come to my house.

Incidentally, I also have a store in front of the house,” she said.

Regarding the price, a fan is sold for IDR 150,000 - IDR 1 million each, keben in the range of IDR100,000 - IDR 300,000, while painting in the range of IDR 300,000 to tens of millions of rupi-

ahs. “The price highly depends on the size and complexity of the puppet story desired,” she explained.

Although still having interested buyers, she told that the economic downturn has had a considerable impact on sales. Since 2015, the sales of Kamasan painting products have decreased.

Moreover, the current sales decline reaches 50 percent. “Not only sales from local Bali, the sales by foreign tourists also decreases.

Hopefully, the economic condition will soon improve,” she added. (dwa)

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By the Rice Field Festival

The human need to express gratitude to mother earth through art is not unique to Balinese humans, but most would agree that the people of this island are especially devoted to this practice and particularly creative in their expression. Most would also agree that there is currently a somewhat dire need to step things up when it comes to caring for the environment. Festival Tepi Sawah organisers Nita Aartsen, Anom Darsana and Etha Widiyanto certainly felt the call to address this need when they came up with the concept of an environmental awareness art festival set in nature.

Creating art in a spirit of cooperation for the love of mother earth, is the guiding principle of this unique festival that will bring together artists from a variety of disciplines to perform, create, display and share their talents with the specific purpose of sharing knowledge and inspiration for the good of the environment.

Nita, Anom and Etha who have backgrounds in music education & performance, sound engineering, event management, architecture and design and will be using these skills to create festival grounds that combine top notch staging and architectural installations with a creative atmosphere fueled by the desire to raise awareness and provide concrete solutions about how to better care for the environment.

A number of arts communities and environmental initiatives will be participating in the creation and unfolding of Festival Tepi Sawah, including Lingkara Photography Community who will be highlighting the importance of restoring the balance of nature working with the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and Clean Bali Series (cleanbaliseries.org) who currently hold a monthly event called “Bali Bersih” (clean Bali) that involves a number of other activists working for the environmental, education, art and culture at Omah Apik, the festival venue.

Along with workshops, food stalls and an art market Festival Tepi Sawah will also feature art works and performances by: DewaAlit, BonaAlit, Ivan Nestormam, Nita Aartsen, Kecak Kobagi, Jasmine Okubo, Doddy Sambodo, Dodot & Barok, Gustu Brahmanta, Sisca Guhzeng, Brahma Diva Kencana, Marlowe Bandem, Made Agus Wardana, Fascinating Rhythm Communtity, and many others. Festival Tepi Sawah will be held on June 3-4 at Omah Apik, Pejeng.(kmb)

N.Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests

The X-ray car used by the police officer

Parking issues and x-ray facilities get attention of AP I

Head of Communication and Legal Section, Arie Ahsanurrohim, when asked for his confirmation said that it is in accordance with the decision of the evaluation meeting on Ramadan facilities and operations carried out not long ago.

To that end, his section currently still has some findings requiring improvement and preparation that must be done. “We must prepare some obligatory facilities promptly, such as musholla (Islamic prayer room) and readiness to serve all the passengers,” he said.

Asking BUMDes to manage waste DLHK makes a waste processing pilot project Seminyak village, Kuta. Moreover, the efforts to combat the waste have been included in the perarem or local customary village rules.

“We have created a waste management pilot project by BUMDes in collaboration with Seminyak village. The waste generated by hotels, restaurants and local communities must be managed by TPST Seminyak Clean,” said Eka Merthawan, on Sunday (May 28).

According to him, the integrated waste treatment plant (TPST) of

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Ahead of Lebaran 2017

Mangupura - Entering the fasting month and welcoming Eidal-Fitr (Lebaran 2017), Angkasa Pura (AP) I, as the operator of Ngurah Rai Airport, began to make preparations. Moreover, on day ten before and day fifteen after the holiday, the AP I will start to open Lebaran transportation desk 2017.

MANGUPURA - The government of Badung desiring the garbage in every subdistrict to be managed by each village through the village-owned enterprises (BUMDes) has started to be realized. Local government through the environment and sanitation agency (DLHK) has created a pilot project for waste processing to be applied to every BUMDes. Head of the DLHK Badung, Putu Eka Merthawan, said the waste processing by BUMDes has been done at

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Seminyak Clean is fully managed

by Seminyak customary village professionally. The existence of this waste processing site has also been protected by awig-awig or local customary village bylaw.

“Garbage is fully managed by customary villages. All the villagers of Seminyak, hotel services, restaurants and trading companies are subject to the agreed customary village bylaws,” he said.

He described the garbage collected in the TPST will be divided

His section delivered that preparation of this year’s Lebaran transportation desk is not so special.

Nevertheless, the Lebaran desk should still run in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). The focus of his attention is related to the surge of passenger transportation during the Lebaran.

In the meantime, the thing needs to be evaluated this time is the X-Ray facility in the SCP I. This evaluation needs to be performed so that later on there will be no accumulation of passengers during the examination

before check-in. “The accumulation is actually natural, but passengers must be orderly. This should be maintained,” he explained.

In addition to the surge of passengers, the issues of vehicle parking will also be a concern. The accumulation of delivery or pickup vehicles at the airport during the Lebaran will surely be booming.

The vehicles left long by the owners will become the focus. “Everything depends on the situation because the parking capacity at the airport is relatively limited. For passengers entering and exiting from Bali and the proportion between incoming vehicles and pick-up guests and vehicles of passengers leaving Bali will be overcome,” he concluded. (kmb23)

into two, namely the organic and inorganic waste. Inorganic waste in the form of plastic bottles, cans and other recycled materials will be sold to collectors, while organic waste will be processed into fertilizer. “The garbage disposed by the companies and communities should be wrapped in waste plastic bag to the TPST to be further sorted out.

Which one can be sold will be resold, while the organic waste will be used to produce fertilizer. Then, their residue will be disposed to Suwung landfill,” he explained.

He said that compost fertilizer will be re-purchased by hotels, villas, restaurants and other businesses scattered across the village of Seminyak. “From the waste generated by

communities to resulting in money has been well organized,” he said.

So, what is the role of the DLHK? Merthawan said that the government plays its role in the provision of supporting infrastructure. “We help make the buildings, operation vehicles, total waste processing machine worth IDR 1 billion. All the assistance is obtained from grants,” he said.

Previously, the Head of the Community and Village Empowerment Agency, Putu Gede Sridana, said that BUMDes in Badung district is growing after the postenactment of the Regional Bylaws (Perda) of Badung No.1/2015 on the Establishment and Management of BUMDes. (kmb27)

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A woman reacts next to the debris of houses at a landslide site during a rescue mission in Athwelthota village, in Kalutara, Sri Lanka May 28, 2017.

Sri Lanka faces more landslide risks as death toll rises to 151

AGALAWATTE - Landslides and floods in Sri Lanka have killed at least 151 people and the country faces the risk of more mudslides as torrential rains continue, officials said on Sunday.

More than 100 people are still missing after the worst rains in the Indian Ocean island since 2003.

The state-run National Building Research Organization warned people in seven out of the country’s 25 districts to evacuate from unstable slopes if rains continue for the next 24 hours.

The Department of Meteorology said there could be heavy rain falls of above 100 millimeters in central Sri Lanka within the next 36 hours.

The death toll has risen to 151, while 111 people are still reported missing and 95 injured, the staterun Disaster Management Center said.

Nearly 500,000 people have been affected by the disaster, the worst since the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, and the downpours have displaced over 100,000 Sri Lankans.

People in Agalawatte, 74 km (46

miles) from the capital Colombo, said they were losing hope of water levels falling soon.

“All access to our village is cut off. A landslide took place inside the village and several houses are buried. But nobody could go to that place,” Mohomed Abdulla, 46, told Reuters in Agalawatte, a town in western coastal district of Kalutara, where 47 people have died and 62 are missing.

Rescue efforts are under way but are hampered by lack of drinking water, lack of electricity and continued rain.

Reuters witnessed some people stranded on the upper floors of their homes and some houses were flooded up to roof level.

Civilians and relief officials, sailing in boats, distributed food, water, and relief items.

Sri Lanka has already appealed for international assistance from the United Nations and neighbour-

ing countries.

Some areas in the southern coastal district of Galle, popular with foreign tourists, have not received relief materials due to lack of access.

“My entire village is cut off and nobody can come to this village,” C.M. Chandrapla, 54, told Reuters over the phone from the tourist village of Neluwa. “There are no supplies for the past two days.

Water has gone above three-storey buildings and people survive by running onto higher ground.”

Sri Lankan military and rescue teams have used boats and helicopters, but they said access to some areas was very difficult.

Military spokesman Roshan Senevirathne said more than 2,000 military personnel had been deployed to help the police and civilian agencies.

The wettest time of the year in Sri Lanka’s south is usually from May to September.

Sri Lankan meteorology officials said the rains were the worst since 2003 and they expected more in the coming days. (rtr)

SEOUL - North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a series of missile tests defying world pressure and threats of more sanctions.

The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and flew about 450 km (280 miles), South Korean officials said. North Korea has a large stockpile of the short-range missiles, originally developed by the Soviet Union.

Monday’s launch follows two successful tests of medium to long range missiles in as many weeks by Pyongyang, which has been conducting such tests at an unprecedented pace in an effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting the mainland United States.

It is the third test-launch since South Korea’s liberal President Moon Jae-in took office on May 10 pledging to engage the reclusive state in dialogue. Moon says sanctions alone have failed to resolve the growing threat from the North’s advancing nuclear and missile programme.

North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the start of 2016 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, says the programme is necessary to counter U.S. aggression.

The White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the launch. The U.S. Pacific Command said it tracked what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile for six minutes and assessed it did not pose a threat to North America.

The United States has said it was looking at discussing with China a new U.N. Security Council resolution and that Beijing, the main diplomatic ally of Pyongyang, realises time was limited to rein in the North’s weapons programme through negotiations.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, asked what a military conflict with North Korea might look like if diplomacy failed, warned on Sunday that would be “probably the worst kind of fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”

“The North Korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, which is the capital of South Korea,” Mattis told CBS news programme “Face the Nation”.

“And in the event of war, they would bring danger to China and to Russia as well.” (rtr)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the test of a new-type anti-aircraft guided weapon system organised by the Academy of National Defence Science in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 28, 2017.

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The Sukawati Art Market is quiet.

Not many visistor come to the market there days becuase there are other option to buy Balinese souvenirs such as the supermarket and otrher places.

China’s slam dunk “sharing economy” booms, but can it last?

BEIJING, May 29 (Reuters) - Fancy shooting some hoops, but don’t have a basketball? Caught in the rain with no umbrella? Smartphone run out of juice?

China’s rapidly expanding “sharing economy”, which already provides car rides and bicycle hire on demand, can help.

For just 2 yuan ($0.30) an hour, Nate Liu, a student at the Beijing Language and Culture University, rents a basketball from a court-side vending machine by scanning a barcode on his smartphone.

“I didn’t want to ask around and borrow a ball after losing mine, so I decided to give it a try,” Liu told Reuters.

Far away, in China’s wetter south, some 20,000 umbrellas have been released on to the streets of Shenzhen, and can be rented - unlocked by another smartphone barcode scan - for just half a yuan ($0.07) for 30 minutes.

The umbrellas can be dropped off “wherever convenient”, though users are encouraged to keep them, says Zhao Shuping, founder of E Umbrella Sharing, one of a handful of start-ups offering the service.

China’s government has taken notice, and expects the “sharing economy” to grow about 40 percent this year to 4.83 trillion yuan ($705 billion). By 2020, it should account for around one tenth of GDP, illustrating China’s aspiration to become a sharing economy leader on a global scale.

PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts five sharing sectors - car sharing, travel, finance, staffing, and music and video streaming - have the potential to increase global revenue to $335 billion by 2025 from $15 billion today.

Most of the money behind China’s ballooning sharing economy comes from angel investors and venture capital firms.

At least 1.69 billion yuan ($247 million) in mostly series-A, or early stage, funding was invested in AprilMay in over two dozen start-ups offering sharing services, according to Reuters calculations based on data from Chinese data firm IT Juzi.

Twelve firms renting out power banks - typically compact, mobile battery chargers - secured 1.13 billion yuan, while newer businesses such as basketball and umbrella-sharing took in about 25 million yuan ($3.65 million) combined.

While mobile-savvy, convenience-obsessed Chinese welcome the innovations, some critics question whether the demand is real, or sustainable. They say the low-revenue, capital-intensive model means profitability can be elusive.

“Young people are embracing renting as a way of life instead of possessing things,” said Emma Zhu, investment director at Beijing-based Innoangel fund, who has held off investing in any of these start-ups.

“But the sharing model won’t work in every situation.

In some cases, they’re trying to meet genuine demand, while in others they’re not.”

Some investors say the funding frenzy recalls the spectacular boom and bust of hundreds of Chinese Groupon apps in vogue in 2010-12, noting that most ultimately collapsed after fierce price wars, with losses of around $1 billion. (rtr)

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Sudaji Village Waits for Your Arrival Trekking, Culinary, Spiritual Tourism Et Cetera on Offer

Numerous potentials owned by North Bali can lure foreign tourists. If some regions offer the potential of the beach, then some others are superior to the potential of mountainous nature and culture. Now, it depends on each region to pack and present the potential at hand to tourists.

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German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel toasts during the Trudering festival in Munich, Germany, May 28, 2017.

After summits with Trump, Merkel says Europe must take fate into own hands

MUNICH - Europe can no longer completely rely on its allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, pointing to bruising meetings of G7 wealthy nations and NATO last week.

Merkel did not mention by name U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticised major NATO allies and refused to endorse a global climate change accord, but she told a packed beer tent in Munich that the days when Europe could completely count on others were “over to a certain extent”.

“I have experienced this in the last few days,” she said. “And that is why I can only say that we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands - of course in friendship with the United States of America, in friendship with Great Britain and as good neighbours wherever that is possible also with other countries, even with Russia.”

“But we have to know that we must fight for our future on our own, for our destiny as Europeans,” Merkel said.

The two-day G7 summit in Italy pitted Trump against the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan on several issues, with European diplomats frustrated at having to revisit questions they had hoped were long settled.

The American tycoon-turned-president backed a pledge to fight protectionism at the end of the G7 summit on Saturday, but refused to endorse the climate pact, saying he needed more time to decide.

But EU Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday he was more optimistic now than after the U.S. election last November after EU leaders held talks with Trump in Brussels.

“What I am absolutely sure after this meeting is that despite some extraordinary ... expressions, behaviours, etc, etc,

our partners in the G7 are much more responsible than the first impression after the election in the United States,” Tusk said in the Slovak capital.

At the NATO summit on Thursday, Trump intensified his accusations that allies were not spending enough on defence and warned of more attacks such as this week’s Manchester bombing unless the alliance did more to stop militants.

Turning to France, Merkel said she wished President Emmanuel Macron success, adding to applause: “Where Germany can help, Germany will help, because Germany can only do well if Europe is doing well.”

France is Germany’s second-biggest trading partner and the presidential election victory of the pro-European centrist reformer Macron over far-right protectionist rival Marine Le Pen in early May has sparked hopes that Berlin will ally with Paris in spearheading a broad-based economic revival in Europe. (rtr)

The farmer is working in Sudaji, Buleleng.

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One of the villages developing the potential with the characteristic owned is Sudaji village in Sawan subdistrict, Buleleng. Aside from offering durians, since several years ago Sudaji has been known as a tourism village. According to the Chief of the Sudaji tourism village, Gede Suharsana, the village was inaugurated as a tourism village by the regent of Buleleng last May 5.

Though newly inaugurated, the village has initiated and pioneered a tour package since 2008. This tourism village is managed by local tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) inaugurated by customary

village in 2012.

He said that establishment of the tourism village passed through a long process, inseparable from the mapping of the potential owned. The concept introduced and highlighted is the local wisdom with the Tri Hita Karana (three causes of happiness). Habitable homes of residents are taken advantage as an accommodation as well as a place to interact for tourists.

His group also introduces typical cuisines to visiting guests, not Western food. Not only that, in the span of a few years Sudaji tourism village has been capable

of presenting tourist activities ranging from trekking, spiritual tourism, agro-tourism and cultural performances.

Pokdarwis continues to explore the village potential, where the latest is the potential of the river.

The local river remaining natural with a fairly heavy flow can be used for rafting adventure. This rafting tour is considered as the first one in North Bali. However, his group is still constrained by equipment of the adrenalin racing adventure.

“Yesterday we tested with our self-made equipment, but we still need equipment complying with the standards,” he said. Another obstacle is the matter of weather, where rainy season is prone to flooding that will be hazardous and make tourists feel afraid to try the whitewater rafting adventure. (kmb)

Suluban Beach, a Place to Surf and Enjoy a Sunset View

Foreign travelers happily mingle together on the surface of the clear and blue seawater. Every now and then they float for a moment, then emerge again, standing on their surfboards, moving in a snake like undulations following the flow of the waves as they move toward the coast. When the water recedes, they swim out ot sea again and obeserve the movement of the water. As the waves roll in they glide towards the shore.

This is the daily spectacle that can be seen on Suluban Beach

in Pecatu Village. With its large challenging waves and white sandy beach, this is a true paradise playgournd for surfers.

Suluban Beach is located a few kilometers north of Uluwatu, next to Bingin Beach and Labuhan Sait and visitors must pass through a rock cave before reaching the broad white sandy beach. Some tourism facilities such as restaurants, bars, surf equipment rental shops and surfboard repair shops are available here.

The beach here is rather nar-

row, in contrast to Tanjung Benoa or Kuta, but it has nonetheless become a favored destination with foreign surfers for the large waves that break here. Fresh blue sea also makes this beach great for relaxing and enjoying the view.

There is plenty of sun for those who enjoy sunbathing, but there is also a shaded area behind the rocks. In addition to being a great place for surfing and relaxing, Suluban Beach is also a great spot for enjoying a great view of the sunset. (kmb)

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If SNP wins election in Scotland

PM May will have to grant independence vote -Sturgeon

LONDON - If the Scottish National Party wins the most seats in Scotland at a June 8 election, Prime Minister Theresa May’s refusal to agree to a second independence referendum will be unsustainable, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday.

The SNP, which won 56 of parliament’s 59 Scottish seats at the last election in 2015, has said Scots should get another say on independence once the terms of Britain’s EU exit are clear.

Polls show the SNP is set to easily win in Scotland in June, though May’s Conservatives are expected to take some seats from them as the issue of keeping the United Kingdom together takes centre stage.

May has said now is not the time to discuss a fresh independence vote. Scots rejected independence by 10 percentage points in 2014 and support for secession since then is little changed.

“If the SNP win the election on June 8 in Scotland, and I am taking nothing for granted, ... then I think that position of the prime minister is unsustainable,” Sturgeon said in an interview with the BBC. She said the win would add weight to the SNP’s victory in the Scottish election last year and a vote in the Scottish parliament giving her a fresh mandate to seek a new referendum.

Sturgeon pointed to other times May has changed her mind.

On Monday May was forced to backtrack on one of her Conservative Party’s most high-profile election pledges to force elderly people to pay more for their social care after her opinion poll lead halved.

“In politics positions quickly become unsustainable and we have seen in the last few days ... this is not a prime minister who is very good at holding positions under pressure. She is a prime minister that has seemed to perfect the art of the U-turn,” Sturgeon said.

The SNP will insist on Scotland’s right to decide its own future as Britain leaves the European Union when it sets out is preelection policy document on Tuesday.

Sturgeon, who said she wants an independent Scotland to be a full member of the EU, argues that a new choice is needed because Scots voted to stay in the bloc in a referendum last June, at odds with the overall vote to leave. (rtr)

CIVILIANS STRANDED...

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Troops on the streets of Marawi fired at Maute snipers as smoke poured out of several buildings.

Trucks loaded with marines arrived to reinforce soldiers guarding deserted streets as helicopters circulated above the lakeside city surrounded by jungle-clad hills.

The military said the Maute group was still present in nine of the city’s 96 Barangays, or communities.

Thousands of people were stranded, worried they could be intercepted by militants that have set up checkpoints on routes out of the city.

Civilians stuck in Marawi were without food and were as anxious about rocket strikes as much as they were the militants, said Zia Alonto Adiong, a politician coordinating efforts to evacuate civilians. He said there were still dead bodies in Marawi and civilians wanted the military to stop air strikes.

“The anticipation of death is worse than death itself,” he said in

a television interview. “We appeal to our military forces to do a different approach.” Bodies of what appeared to be executed civilians were found in a ravine outside a Marawi on Sunday as the crisis took a more sinister turn. Most of the eight men were shot in the head and some had bound hands.

The army said it was possible more “atrocities” had taken place.

Duterte imposed martial law last week on Mindanao, an island of 22 million people where both Marawi and Iligan are located, to quell the unrest and wipe out militancy.

Some rights activists and lawmakers say martial law across the island is an overreaction that will increase the risk of human rights abuses by security forces.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the imposition of martial law was necessary, and constitutional. “It started flying the flag of the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria in several areas, thereby openly attempting to remove from the allegiance to the Philippine government this part of Mindanao,” Abella told reporters. “This constitutes the crime of rebellion.”(rtr)

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European allies see the two sides of Trump

TAORMINA - In Sicily, Donald Trump listened attentively during complex G7 debates over trade and climate change, smiled for the cameras, and for the most part refrained from provocative tweets.

In Brussels, he bashed NATO partners for not spending more on defence, shoved the prime minister of Montenegro and renewed his attacks on Germany’s trade surplus with the United States.

America’s allies witnessed the two sides of Trump on his first foreign trip as U.S. president, a nineday tour that began with sword dancing in Saudi Arabia and vague pledges in Israel to deliver Middle East peace.

As Trump headed home, European officials were left with mixed feelings: relief that he had been patient enough to listen to their arguments and unsettled by a Jekylland-Hyde figure who is still finding his way on the big policy issues.

“It all fits with his strategic ambiguity approach to life,” said Julianne Smith of the Centre for a New American Security. “It may do wonders when dealing with adversaries. But it doesn’t work when dealing with allies,” she said.

Other leaders of the Group of Seven nations had viewed with trepidation their summit, held at a cliff-top hotel overlooking the Mediterranean, after four preparatory meetings failed to clear up differences with the Trump administration on trade, how to deal with Russia and climate change.

But in the end, officials said, the result was better than they had feared.

The final communique acknowledged a split between the United States and its six partners over honouring the 2015 Paris accord on climate change. That followed a debate with Trump that German Chancellor Angela Merkel described as “very dissatisfying”.

However on trade, Trump bowed to pressure from allies to retain a pledge to fight protectionism. And on Russia, he did not insist on removing - as some allies had feared - the threat of additional sanctions for Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.

“I found him very willing to en-

gage, very curious, with an ability and desire to ask questions and to learn from all his interlocutors,” said Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the G7 summit’s host.

NATO “DISASTER” Still, there was irritation at Trump’s refusal to show his hand on the Paris agreement to curb carbon emissions. Near the end of the summit, he tweeted teasingly that he would make a decision on Paris next week, leaving delegations to scratch their heads about why he could not commit in Taormina.

The most critical words were reserved for Trump’s appearance at NATO headquarters in Brussels, which was described as a “disaster” by more than one European official.

With the leaders of America’s NATO partners standing like school children behind him, Trump upbraided them for not spending more on defence and repeated the charge that some members owed “massive amounts of money” from past years - even though allied contributions are voluntary.

Most disturbingly for allies, Trump did not personally affirm his commitment to Article 5, NATO’s mutual defence doctrine, after pretrip signals from the White House that he would do just that. Trump also failed to mention Russia, which remains NATO’s raison d’etre in the eyes of most Europeans. (rtr)

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Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a family photo at the G7 Summit expanded session in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 27, 2017. Picture taken May 27, 2017.

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Some 532 planes operational for 2017 Lebaran transportation

TANGERANG - Director General of Air Transportation at the Transportation Ministry Agus Santoso said that 532 planes will be operational for the domestic and international trips during the 2017 Eid al-Fitr period.

As many as 35 airports will be involved in serving the 532 planes, Santoso said in Soekarno-Hatta international airport here on Sunday.

Santoso further said that his side has set 275,256 low additional seats (five percent) of regular capacity of 5.5 million seats since the seven days before and after (H-7 and H + 7) the Eid al-Fitr period.

Meanwhile, for the overseas flights regular capacity, there will be 886,075 seats with an additional 44,304 seats flight forecasts (five percent), so the total capacity reaches 930,379 seats since the H-7 and H + 7 of the Eid al-Fitr period, he revealed.

The airlines that have applied for the additional flights including the Garuda Indonesia, Sriwijaya Air, Indonesia AirAsia Extra, Malaysia Airline, Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, Jetstar Asia Airways and Cathay Pacific.

In addition, the airlines are required to meet the airworthiness of aircraft and check the fleet readiness periodically to be operated in 2017 the Eid al-Fitr (Lebaran) period.

The Transportation Ministry predicted that the number of Eid alFitr holidaymakers traveling by plane this year will increase by 9.8 percent to 5.5 million, from 4.9 million last year. (ant)

Indonesia, Australia cooperate to win world market access

JAKARTA - Indonesia and Australia through the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership (IA-CEPA) talks have agreed to take advantage of opportunities in third countries and world markets.

Chairman of the Indonesian Negotiation Team Deddy Saleh said the two countries were committed to cooperating in various fields, in taking advantage of not only respective markets but also of the third countries and the world, normally called the principle of economic powerhouse.

“This principle will continue to be discussed and clarified later in various programs of cooperation under the Economic Cooperation Chapter,” Deddy said, in a written statement received in Jakarta on Sunday.

Deddy said the two countries expressed the commitment at the seventh round of the IA-CEPA talks. At the talks, the two successfully completed negotiations with positive results, including issues related to economic cooperation (EC).

Both sides felt they were optimistic to complete negotiations by the end of 2017. One of the good developments of the talks is the agreement on elements that will serve as the basis for drafting economic cooperation.

“The EC is an integral part of the negotiations that distinguishes the IA-CEPA with the other free trade agreement (FTA),” said Deddy.

In the FTA, said Deddy, there was only agreement on market access, while in CEPA there are articles on Economic Cooperation which Indonesia can take positive benefits from the partner countries.

According to Deddy, in the 7th round of talks, the two countries had significant discussions, both on market access agreement and text agreement. To that end, the negotiations are expected to bring the two countries to a step closer towards completing talks.

“If in the previous round of talks, discussions were still marked with an exchange of views, the latest talks have developed into negotiations on agreement text and market access,” said Deddy.

The main issue discussed at the IA-CEPA round of talks covered trade in goods, including rules of goods origin and customs procedures, trade facilitation and technical trade barriers. It also included the question of service trade, including financial services, telecommunications, movement of persons and investment, electronic commerce, business competition, and regulation of the institutional framework. (ant)

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Government troops are seen during an assault on insurgents from the so-called Maute group, who have taken over large parts of Marawi City, in Marawi City, southern Philippines May 25, 2017.

Government to evacuate 11 Indonesians from Marawi

JAKARTA - The government is currently seeking to evacuate 11 Indonesians from the besieged Marawi City on the southern island of Mindanao, the Philippines, Head of National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Police Setyo Wasisto stated here, Monday.

“We are trying to repatriate them to Indonesia,” Wasisto remarked at the National Police Office in Jakarta.

Following intense clashes earlier, the 11 Indonesian citizens are currently reported to be in a good condition, he noted.

According to the Indonesian Consulate General in Davao City and the countrys police attache to the Philippines, the 11 Indonesian citizens are in the Philippines to spread the teachings of Islam.

“We confirmed that they are not affiliated to the IS-linked insurgents, Wasisto remarked.

On a separate occasion, Immigration Office spokesperson Agung Sampurno stated that 11 Indonesian citizens had ear-

lier informed the local authority about their activities at the citys AbuBakr As-Siddiq Mosque in the Barangay Basak Malutlut Village.

When the clash erupted, the local security personnel had evacuated them to another mosque near a police office, Sampurno stated while adding that they have been outside the city and under the protection of the local security.

“The Immigration Office and Indonesian Consulate General (KJRI) have urged them to return to Indonesia, but they are still contemplating on the suggestion,” Sampurno said.

Since last week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared an emergency status in the countrys second-largest

island, Mindanao in a bid to halt the movements of insurgents.

The clash began when the Philippine police and military troops were attempting to capture the militant Abu Sayyaf groups leader, Isnilon Hapnilon. However, before detaining Hapnilon, another militant group linked to IS, Maute raided the city.

Earlier on Thursday, the military had claimed that around 31 terrorists had died during the clash.

“As of this report, 31 terrorists were already neutralized, and six high-power firearms were recovered by the troops,” Brig. Gen. Rolly Bautista, the Philippine joint task forces head, said as quoted from the locals newspaper Manila Bulletin. (ant)

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Bali Orchid Garden DENPASAR - The Bali Orchid Garden is a must-visit for flower lovers and gardening enthusiasts.

It is located amidst the rows of local garden shops along the Bypass Tohpati road north of Sanur, which comprise a variety of lush open-air collections and stalls selling tropical flora. The Bali Orchid Garden is the only of its kind here providing tours, and inside you will encounter a world full of natural colours.

The hectare of landscaped tropical gardens are available for guided tours where you can witness from up close the abundance in orchid species and admire various exotic tropical plants such as the rafflesia, anthuriums, and heliconia. The gardens provide a relaxing environment open for individual visitors, tour groups and private functions.

Within this relaxing tropical garden haven grow many different tropical plants from Cordylines, Bromeliads, Heliconia, Aroids, Pitcher

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It is Bali’s original Orchid Garden developed specially for overseas and local tourists, complementing the government botanical garden and is situated within easy reach of the main tourist hotels.

Conservation of Indonesian species Bali Orchid Garden is committed to preserving the orchid species of Indonesia. A new partnership with Bogor Botanical Garden has been formed to propagate these species and ensure they will be available for future generations of orchid enthusiasts. Flasks of plants are available through Bali Orchid Garden, a proportion of the sale being used to promote the program of propagation and conservation.

The garden’s well stocked souvenir shop offers products as diverse as jewellery, hand painted T-shirts, paintings, candles, honey,

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Ferrari clearly favouring Vettel, says Hamilton

MONACO - Ferrari are giving Sebastian Vettel the Michael Schumacher treatment, according to the German’s main title rival Lewis Hamilton.

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Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel celebrates winning the race on the podium with the trophy.

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The Briton told reporters after the German handed Ferrari their first Monaco Grand Prix win in 16 years that the Italian team was clearly favouring the championship leader over his team mate Kimi Raikkonen.

Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion, had started on pole position but as a result of strategy ended up anchoring Ferrari’s first one-two since 2010 instead of standing on top of the podium.

“It’s clear to me that Ferrari have chosen their number one driver,” said Hamilton, who finished seventh and is now 25 points adrift.

“They are pushing everything to make sure Sebastian will maximise on all of his weekends.

“It’s very hard for the leading car to get jumped by the second car unless the team decide to favour the

other car, so that is very clear.”

Schumacher, the sport’s most successful driver who won five of his seven titles with Ferrari from 2000-2004, famously built a team around him and was seen as the clear number one at Maranello.

Hamilton had started 13th after a nightmare in qualifying, with the Briton unable to get his car’s tyres performing in the requisite window while Ferrari looked suddenly in a league of their own.

Vettel, a four-times world champion and first Ferrari winner in Monaco since Schumacher, has now won three of the six races to Hamilton’s two. Finland’s Valtteri Bottas also winning in Russia for Mercedes. Despite the setback, Hamilton saw the glass half full.

“I really am happy,” he said.

“Of course ultimately I lost a

lot of points today but looking at it as one race, and as a whole today, I came here starting 13th. I could have been in a crash, could have damaged the car, blown an engine, come away with no points.

“I think I managed it nicely and as professionally as I could.”

By the closing stages, he had turned the engine down -- happy to bank points on a circuit where overtaking was impossible and the racing processional, barring accidents.

It was the second race weekend of the season where Hamilton has struggled with his car’s handling and he recognised something had to change.

“Of course I can’t afford another weekend like this, at the going rate with the Ferraris quick,” he said.

“But because you can’t afford something doesn’t mean it is not going to happen. There is no point dwelling on the fact that you cannot afford it. (rtr)

CLEVELAND - LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers may need a Herculean effort to upset the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals but the game’s most prolific playoff scorer said he has beaten similar teams before.

James acknowledged that toppling a Warriors team boasting two-time reigning league MVP Stephen Curry, four-times scoring champion Kevin Durant, defensive specialist Draymond Green and sweet-shooting Klay Thompson will be among the toughest tasks of his career.

But the three-times NBA champion was also quick to point out that he has faced such a talent-laden squad on the NBA’s biggest stage before -- in 2013 against San Antonio while playing with Miami -- and came out on the winning side.

“It’s probably up there,” James said after practice on Sunday when asked if the upcoming Warriors clash represents the toughest task he has ever faced on court.

“Obviously, I mean, I’ve played against four Hall of Famers as well too with Manu (Ginobili), Kawhi (Leonard), Tony (Parker) and Timmy D (Tim Duncan) on the same team. And if you add Pop (Gregg Popovich) in there, that’s five Hall of Famers.”

James even brought up the Boston Celtics teams he battled in the playoffs, both as a member of Cleveland and Miami, which featured Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo and head coach Doc Rivers.

Cleveland may be the reigning champions after having beaten Golden State in last year’s Finals and are 12-1 this postseason but are underdogs against a top-seeded Warriors team sporting an unblemished playoff record.

But James is always up for a challenge and should never be ruled out. Last year he carried his team back from the brink as the Cavs became the first team to rally from a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven NBA Finals and win the title.

After Golden State failed to repeat as champions following a campaign in which they had a record 73 wins during the 82-game regular season, they acquired Durant, by far the biggest prize of the free agent market.

James knows he will have his hands full when the series opens on Thursday in Oakland but said he likes his team’s chances of pulling off what Las Vegas would consider an upset.

“Those guys are going to challenge me, they are going to challenge our ballclub,” said James, who last week surpassed Michael Jordan as the all-time playoff leading scorer. (rtr)

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Totti bids Roma goodbye after a remarkable 25-season career

ROME — It was a celebration tinged with tears, fear and love. Francesco Totti bid an emotional farewell to Roma after a remarkable 25-season career with his hometown club on Sunday, contributing to a 3-2 win over Genoa in Serie A that secured the Giallorossi a spot in the Champions League. Almost 60,000 fans inside the Stadio Olimpico stood up and cheered when the 40-year-old Totti replaced Mohamed Salah in the 54th minute. And even if Totti didn’t score or set up any goals, his mere presence was what the supporters came to see.

AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

Roma’s Francesco Totti salutes his fans after an Italian Serie A soccer match between Roma and Genoa at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Francesco Totti played his final match with Roma against Genoa after a 25-season career with his hometown club.

“Unfortunately the time has come. I’ve cried every day,” Totti said in a post-match speech from the center of the pitch. “It’s a decision I made with my wife and my family. I would stay here another 25 years. Thank you Roma.

“I would have liked to write a poem or a song but I’ve tried to express myself with my feet,” Totti added. Totti then put to rest speculation that he might end his career with another club. “Excuse me if recently I haven’t talked much or cleared up my thoughts,” Totti said. “I’m taking my shirt off for the last time and folding it up well and good. The lights are turning off now and I’m afraid.

Allow me to have a little fear.

Now I need your help.”

During the elaborate post-match ceremony, a huge No. 10 jersey with Totti’s name on it was unveiled at the center of the pitch. All of Roma’s players put on shirts featuring Totti’s No. 10 while the electronic publicity boards lining the pitch read, “Grazie Capitano.” Totti then walked around the stadium’s athletic track while holding third child Isabel in his arms, with his other two children and wife Ilary Blasi accompanying him.

At one point, Totti stopped and leaned on the publicity barriers and

just stared into the stands. Then he cried on Blasi’s shoulder. Totti also signed a ball with the words, “I’ll miss you,” on it and then kicked it into the “Curva Sud” — southern end — of the stadium where the hard-core “ultra” fans sit. At the conclusion of his speech, Totti told the fans, “I love you.”

Roma’s victory, courtesy of a 90th-minute goal from Diego Perotti, secured second place. Roma coach Luciano Spalletti received a long series of boos and whistles — linked to how he has used Totti sparingly this season — when he was introduced before the match.

Fans also reacted negatively when James Pallotta, Roma’s American owner, greeted Totti after the match. There had been speculation that Totti wanted to play another season and the club was urging him to retire. Pallotta has offered Totti an unspecified management position.

Thousands of fans wore Totti’s No. 10 shirt — in white or red — while others had T-shirts that read simply, “captain forever.” “Let it be known that I lived in the times of Totti,” one fan banner read. Roma wore special shirts featuring a dedication to Totti, and so did Genoa.

On the back of Genoa’s shirts, a message read, “25 seasons with

only one shirt, 785 appearances, 307 goals, world champion in 2006.

Francesco Totti is part of football history.”

Totti appeared in 786 matches in all competitions with Roma, third all-time in Italy for most games with a single club behind only Paolo Maldini (902 with AC Milan) and Javier Zanetti (858 with Inter Milan).

Totti also ended his career second all-time in goals scored in Serie A with 250, 24 short of the record by Silvio Piola established between 1929 and 1954. No other current player has more than 200.

Born in the working-class San Giovanni section of Rome, Totti made his debut for Roma at the age of 16, way back in 1993.

In 1998, at the age of 22, Totti became the youngest ever Serie A captain. At the 2000 European Championship, Totti’s chipped “Panenka” penalty against the Netherlands highlighted his talent and audacity. A year later, Totti led Roma to its third Serie A title and was the centerpiece of a celebration inside the Circus Maximus attended by a crowd estimated at 1 million. “I still get goosebumps thinking about June 17, 2001,” Totti said, recalling his only Serie A title.(ap)

New Barcelona coach will inherit Messi_ and the team’s flaws

BARCELONA — When you get to manage Lionel Messi, it sounds downright silly to talk about the challenges awaiting Barcelona’s coach-to-be. Yet whoever the Catalan club picks to replace Luis Enrique will not just be handed a star-studded team led by one of the best players in the world. The chosen one will also inherit a handful of small, but serious flaws whose handling will determine whether he is a success or failure.

Ernesto Valverde, who recently left Athletic Bilbao, is the leading candidate to replace a worn-out Luis Enrique. The official announcement is expected after the club’s board meeting on Monday.

“On Monday we will know officially and the coach that comes will have the qualities to carry this team forward,” Andres Iniesta said after Barcelona salvaged its otherwise disappointing season by winning the Copa del

Rey on Saturday.

“Now our task is to keep winning,” Iniesta said. “When you don’t achieve your objectives, which is to win major titles, your season wasn’t a good one. We know we have things to improve.

That’s how demanding this club is.” Here is a look at the most pressing issues facing Barcelona’s future boss:

THAT MISSING BIT Despite winning a third straight Copa del Rey, Barcelona took a step back this season. But a look at its numbers will leave Enrique’s successor the puzzle of figuring out why. Barcelona had the highest scoring attack in the Spanish league with the competition’s top two scorers in Messi and Luis Suarez. It also defended well, conceding four fewer goals than champion Real Madrid. In the Champions League it pulled off one of the most spectacular

comebacks in the history of the competition when it roared back 6-1 against Paris Saint-Germain to overturn a 4-0 first-leg deficit.

Then it promptly slumped out 3-0 to Juventus after not scoring in either leg.

The difference behind those three extra points that Madrid earned through 38 rounds and its highs and lows in Europe resides somewhere in the intangible world of keeping up the maximum levels of effort and concentrations week in, week out. Bridging that tiny gap between very good and sustained greatness is task No. 1 for Barcelona’s incoming manager.

MORE MASIA The steady stream of talent that once flowed from Barcelona’s La Masia training academy into its first team dried up under Enrique.

The only homegrown player to earn a starting role under Enrique

French midfielder Bourabia condemns Levski Sofia fan violence S O F I A - L e v s k i S o f i a ’s French midfielder Mehdi Bourabia condemned the violent behaviour of the Bulgarian club’s fans, who attacked players and forced some of them to take off their team shirts after the 3-0 league defeat by city rivals CSKA on Sunday. The ugly scenes occurred on the running track behind one of the goals at the Vasil Levski national stadium as Levski players approached a stand to salute fans after the loss in the Eternal Derby, as matches between the two most popular clubs in the Balkan country are known.

Bourabia resisted the hostile

fans and refused to take off his shirt. Some players, however, were forced to undress while Aleksandar Aleksandrov narrowly escaped being attacked by a supporter who rushed on to the track with a stick. A fan grabbed captain Veselin Minev by the neck and brutally pushed him.

“What happened after the match is unforgivable, the violence (has) no place in the stadium and in football!” 25-year-old Bourabia, who joined 25-times Bulgarian champions Levski last year, wrote in a Facebook post.

“Even through hard times the integrity of players can’t be infringed.” The other Levski

players, coaches and club’s board members refused to comment on the incidents. Levski have a history of fan violence and racism at their matches and have been fined by the Bulgarian Football Union and European soccer’s governing body UEFA on several occasions over the past few years.

In 2013 Levski fans unhappy at the appointment of coach Ivaylo Petev, who is now at the helm of Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb, interrupted a news conference and made him take off the club’s shirt before showing him the exit.(rtr) Levski Sofia fans

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Barcelona’s Paco Alcacer celebrates after scoring his team’s third goal during the Copa del Rey final soccer match between Barcelona and Alaves at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday May 27, 2017.

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was Sergi Roberto, a midfielder converted to right back. Rafinha remains a reserve after returning from Celta Vigo, while Pedro Rodriguez and youngsters Munir El Haddadi and Sandro Ramirez left to find playing time. The academy that has produced current figures Messi, Iniesta, Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets needs to reclaim its weight on the first team for the benefit of both.

BARCA’S IDENTITY Nobody can say that Enrique wasn’t a winner. He had a perfect first campaign in 2014-15, repeating the rare treble of Champions League, Spanish league and Copa del Rey first conquered by Pep Guardiola. He followed that with a double of the league and Copa del Rey in 2015-16, and then added a third cup when Barcelona beat Alaves 3-1 in his last match in charge.

Toss in a Club World Cup, a

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European Super Cup and a Spanish Super Cup, and his team won nine of a possible 13 trophies.

Those numbers are on par with Guardiola’s 14 of a possible 19 titles from 2008-2012.

But many of Barcelona’s purists complained that the team had lost its identity of dominating opponents through superior ball control by its midfield. Since the arrival of Neymar and Suarez to join Messi up front, the focus on the team has shifted from its midfield to its attack.

Before last season, the club tried to bulk up its midfield by signing Andre Gomes and Denis Suarez. But the team struggled to dictate matches when the Iniesta was off the pitch, leaving Messi as its best playmaker. If the Barcelona of old is to be the Barcelona of the future, its coach must get more from its other underperforming midfielders to help out Iniesta, who will turn 34 next season.(ap)

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Totti bids Roma goodbye after a remarkable 25-season career

ROME — It was a celebration tinged with tears, fear and love. Francesco Totti bid an emotional farewell to Roma after a remarkable 25-season career with his hometown club on Sunday, contributing to a 3-2 win over Genoa in Serie A that secured the Giallorossi a spot in the Champions League. Almost 60,000 fans inside the Stadio Olimpico stood up and cheered when the 40-year-old Totti replaced Mohamed Salah in the 54th minute. And even if Totti didn’t score or set up any goals, his mere presence was what the supporters came to see.

AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

Roma’s Francesco Totti salutes his fans after an Italian Serie A soccer match between Roma and Genoa at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Francesco Totti played his final match with Roma against Genoa after a 25-season career with his hometown club.

“Unfortunately the time has come. I’ve cried every day,” Totti said in a post-match speech from the center of the pitch. “It’s a decision I made with my wife and my family. I would stay here another 25 years. Thank you Roma.

“I would have liked to write a poem or a song but I’ve tried to express myself with my feet,” Totti added. Totti then put to rest speculation that he might end his career with another club. “Excuse me if recently I haven’t talked much or cleared up my thoughts,” Totti said. “I’m taking my shirt off for the last time and folding it up well and good. The lights are turning off now and I’m afraid.

Allow me to have a little fear.

Now I need your help.”

During the elaborate post-match ceremony, a huge No. 10 jersey with Totti’s name on it was unveiled at the center of the pitch. All of Roma’s players put on shirts featuring Totti’s No. 10 while the electronic publicity boards lining the pitch read, “Grazie Capitano.” Totti then walked around the stadium’s athletic track while holding third child Isabel in his arms, with his other two children and wife Ilary Blasi accompanying him.

At one point, Totti stopped and leaned on the publicity barriers and

just stared into the stands. Then he cried on Blasi’s shoulder. Totti also signed a ball with the words, “I’ll miss you,” on it and then kicked it into the “Curva Sud” — southern end — of the stadium where the hard-core “ultra” fans sit. At the conclusion of his speech, Totti told the fans, “I love you.”

Roma’s victory, courtesy of a 90th-minute goal from Diego Perotti, secured second place. Roma coach Luciano Spalletti received a long series of boos and whistles — linked to how he has used Totti sparingly this season — when he was introduced before the match.

Fans also reacted negatively when James Pallotta, Roma’s American owner, greeted Totti after the match. There had been speculation that Totti wanted to play another season and the club was urging him to retire. Pallotta has offered Totti an unspecified management position.

Thousands of fans wore Totti’s No. 10 shirt — in white or red — while others had T-shirts that read simply, “captain forever.” “Let it be known that I lived in the times of Totti,” one fan banner read. Roma wore special shirts featuring a dedication to Totti, and so did Genoa.

On the back of Genoa’s shirts, a message read, “25 seasons with

only one shirt, 785 appearances, 307 goals, world champion in 2006.

Francesco Totti is part of football history.”

Totti appeared in 786 matches in all competitions with Roma, third all-time in Italy for most games with a single club behind only Paolo Maldini (902 with AC Milan) and Javier Zanetti (858 with Inter Milan).

Totti also ended his career second all-time in goals scored in Serie A with 250, 24 short of the record by Silvio Piola established between 1929 and 1954. No other current player has more than 200.

Born in the working-class San Giovanni section of Rome, Totti made his debut for Roma at the age of 16, way back in 1993.

In 1998, at the age of 22, Totti became the youngest ever Serie A captain. At the 2000 European Championship, Totti’s chipped “Panenka” penalty against the Netherlands highlighted his talent and audacity. A year later, Totti led Roma to its third Serie A title and was the centerpiece of a celebration inside the Circus Maximus attended by a crowd estimated at 1 million. “I still get goosebumps thinking about June 17, 2001,” Totti said, recalling his only Serie A title.(ap)

New Barcelona coach will inherit Messi_ and the team’s flaws

BARCELONA — When you get to manage Lionel Messi, it sounds downright silly to talk about the challenges awaiting Barcelona’s coach-to-be. Yet whoever the Catalan club picks to replace Luis Enrique will not just be handed a star-studded team led by one of the best players in the world. The chosen one will also inherit a handful of small, but serious flaws whose handling will determine whether he is a success or failure.

Ernesto Valverde, who recently left Athletic Bilbao, is the leading candidate to replace a worn-out Luis Enrique. The official announcement is expected after the club’s board meeting on Monday.

“On Monday we will know officially and the coach that comes will have the qualities to carry this team forward,” Andres Iniesta said after Barcelona salvaged its otherwise disappointing season by winning the Copa del

Rey on Saturday.

“Now our task is to keep winning,” Iniesta said. “When you don’t achieve your objectives, which is to win major titles, your season wasn’t a good one. We know we have things to improve.

That’s how demanding this club is.” Here is a look at the most pressing issues facing Barcelona’s future boss:

THAT MISSING BIT Despite winning a third straight Copa del Rey, Barcelona took a step back this season. But a look at its numbers will leave Enrique’s successor the puzzle of figuring out why. Barcelona had the highest scoring attack in the Spanish league with the competition’s top two scorers in Messi and Luis Suarez. It also defended well, conceding four fewer goals than champion Real Madrid. In the Champions League it pulled off one of the most spectacular

comebacks in the history of the competition when it roared back 6-1 against Paris Saint-Germain to overturn a 4-0 first-leg deficit.

Then it promptly slumped out 3-0 to Juventus after not scoring in either leg.

The difference behind those three extra points that Madrid earned through 38 rounds and its highs and lows in Europe resides somewhere in the intangible world of keeping up the maximum levels of effort and concentrations week in, week out. Bridging that tiny gap between very good and sustained greatness is task No. 1 for Barcelona’s incoming manager.

MORE MASIA The steady stream of talent that once flowed from Barcelona’s La Masia training academy into its first team dried up under Enrique.

The only homegrown player to earn a starting role under Enrique

French midfielder Bourabia condemns Levski Sofia fan violence S O F I A - L e v s k i S o f i a ’s French midfielder Mehdi Bourabia condemned the violent behaviour of the Bulgarian club’s fans, who attacked players and forced some of them to take off their team shirts after the 3-0 league defeat by city rivals CSKA on Sunday. The ugly scenes occurred on the running track behind one of the goals at the Vasil Levski national stadium as Levski players approached a stand to salute fans after the loss in the Eternal Derby, as matches between the two most popular clubs in the Balkan country are known.

Bourabia resisted the hostile

fans and refused to take off his shirt. Some players, however, were forced to undress while Aleksandar Aleksandrov narrowly escaped being attacked by a supporter who rushed on to the track with a stick. A fan grabbed captain Veselin Minev by the neck and brutally pushed him.

“What happened after the match is unforgivable, the violence (has) no place in the stadium and in football!” 25-year-old Bourabia, who joined 25-times Bulgarian champions Levski last year, wrote in a Facebook post.

“Even through hard times the integrity of players can’t be infringed.” The other Levski

players, coaches and club’s board members refused to comment on the incidents. Levski have a history of fan violence and racism at their matches and have been fined by the Bulgarian Football Union and European soccer’s governing body UEFA on several occasions over the past few years.

In 2013 Levski fans unhappy at the appointment of coach Ivaylo Petev, who is now at the helm of Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb, interrupted a news conference and made him take off the club’s shirt before showing him the exit.(rtr) Levski Sofia fans

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Barcelona’s Paco Alcacer celebrates after scoring his team’s third goal during the Copa del Rey final soccer match between Barcelona and Alaves at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday May 27, 2017.

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was Sergi Roberto, a midfielder converted to right back. Rafinha remains a reserve after returning from Celta Vigo, while Pedro Rodriguez and youngsters Munir El Haddadi and Sandro Ramirez left to find playing time. The academy that has produced current figures Messi, Iniesta, Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets needs to reclaim its weight on the first team for the benefit of both.

BARCA’S IDENTITY Nobody can say that Enrique wasn’t a winner. He had a perfect first campaign in 2014-15, repeating the rare treble of Champions League, Spanish league and Copa del Rey first conquered by Pep Guardiola. He followed that with a double of the league and Copa del Rey in 2015-16, and then added a third cup when Barcelona beat Alaves 3-1 in his last match in charge.

Toss in a Club World Cup, a

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European Super Cup and a Spanish Super Cup, and his team won nine of a possible 13 trophies.

Those numbers are on par with Guardiola’s 14 of a possible 19 titles from 2008-2012.

But many of Barcelona’s purists complained that the team had lost its identity of dominating opponents through superior ball control by its midfield. Since the arrival of Neymar and Suarez to join Messi up front, the focus on the team has shifted from its midfield to its attack.

Before last season, the club tried to bulk up its midfield by signing Andre Gomes and Denis Suarez. But the team struggled to dictate matches when the Iniesta was off the pitch, leaving Messi as its best playmaker. If the Barcelona of old is to be the Barcelona of the future, its coach must get more from its other underperforming midfielders to help out Iniesta, who will turn 34 next season.(ap)

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The Briton told reporters after the German handed Ferrari their first Monaco Grand Prix win in 16 years that the Italian team was clearly favouring the championship leader over his team mate Kimi Raikkonen.

Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion, had started on pole position but as a result of strategy ended up anchoring Ferrari’s first one-two since 2010 instead of standing on top of the podium.

“It’s clear to me that Ferrari have chosen their number one driver,” said Hamilton, who finished seventh and is now 25 points adrift.

“They are pushing everything to make sure Sebastian will maximise on all of his weekends.

“It’s very hard for the leading car to get jumped by the second car unless the team decide to favour the

other car, so that is very clear.”

Schumacher, the sport’s most successful driver who won five of his seven titles with Ferrari from 2000-2004, famously built a team around him and was seen as the clear number one at Maranello.

Hamilton had started 13th after a nightmare in qualifying, with the Briton unable to get his car’s tyres performing in the requisite window while Ferrari looked suddenly in a league of their own.

Vettel, a four-times world champion and first Ferrari winner in Monaco since Schumacher, has now won three of the six races to Hamilton’s two. Finland’s Valtteri Bottas also winning in Russia for Mercedes. Despite the setback, Hamilton saw the glass half full.

“I really am happy,” he said.

“Of course ultimately I lost a

lot of points today but looking at it as one race, and as a whole today, I came here starting 13th. I could have been in a crash, could have damaged the car, blown an engine, come away with no points.

“I think I managed it nicely and as professionally as I could.”

By the closing stages, he had turned the engine down -- happy to bank points on a circuit where overtaking was impossible and the racing processional, barring accidents.

It was the second race weekend of the season where Hamilton has struggled with his car’s handling and he recognised something had to change.

“Of course I can’t afford another weekend like this, at the going rate with the Ferraris quick,” he said.

“But because you can’t afford something doesn’t mean it is not going to happen. There is no point dwelling on the fact that you cannot afford it. (rtr)

CLEVELAND - LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers may need a Herculean effort to upset the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals but the game’s most prolific playoff scorer said he has beaten similar teams before.

James acknowledged that toppling a Warriors team boasting two-time reigning league MVP Stephen Curry, four-times scoring champion Kevin Durant, defensive specialist Draymond Green and sweet-shooting Klay Thompson will be among the toughest tasks of his career.

But the three-times NBA champion was also quick to point out that he has faced such a talent-laden squad on the NBA’s biggest stage before -- in 2013 against San Antonio while playing with Miami -- and came out on the winning side.

“It’s probably up there,” James said after practice on Sunday when asked if the upcoming Warriors clash represents the toughest task he has ever faced on court.

“Obviously, I mean, I’ve played against four Hall of Famers as well too with Manu (Ginobili), Kawhi (Leonard), Tony (Parker) and Timmy D (Tim Duncan) on the same team. And if you add Pop (Gregg Popovich) in there, that’s five Hall of Famers.”

James even brought up the Boston Celtics teams he battled in the playoffs, both as a member of Cleveland and Miami, which featured Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo and head coach Doc Rivers.

Cleveland may be the reigning champions after having beaten Golden State in last year’s Finals and are 12-1 this postseason but are underdogs against a top-seeded Warriors team sporting an unblemished playoff record.

But James is always up for a challenge and should never be ruled out. Last year he carried his team back from the brink as the Cavs became the first team to rally from a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven NBA Finals and win the title.

After Golden State failed to repeat as champions following a campaign in which they had a record 73 wins during the 82-game regular season, they acquired Durant, by far the biggest prize of the free agent market.

James knows he will have his hands full when the series opens on Thursday in Oakland but said he likes his team’s chances of pulling off what Las Vegas would consider an upset.

“Those guys are going to challenge me, they are going to challenge our ballclub,” said James, who last week surpassed Michael Jordan as the all-time playoff leading scorer. (rtr)

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If SNP wins election in Scotland

PM May will have to grant independence vote -Sturgeon

LONDON - If the Scottish National Party wins the most seats in Scotland at a June 8 election, Prime Minister Theresa May’s refusal to agree to a second independence referendum will be unsustainable, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday.

The SNP, which won 56 of parliament’s 59 Scottish seats at the last election in 2015, has said Scots should get another say on independence once the terms of Britain’s EU exit are clear.

Polls show the SNP is set to easily win in Scotland in June, though May’s Conservatives are expected to take some seats from them as the issue of keeping the United Kingdom together takes centre stage.

May has said now is not the time to discuss a fresh independence vote. Scots rejected independence by 10 percentage points in 2014 and support for secession since then is little changed.

“If the SNP win the election on June 8 in Scotland, and I am taking nothing for granted, ... then I think that position of the prime minister is unsustainable,” Sturgeon said in an interview with the BBC. She said the win would add weight to the SNP’s victory in the Scottish election last year and a vote in the Scottish parliament giving her a fresh mandate to seek a new referendum.

Sturgeon pointed to other times May has changed her mind.

On Monday May was forced to backtrack on one of her Conservative Party’s most high-profile election pledges to force elderly people to pay more for their social care after her opinion poll lead halved.

“In politics positions quickly become unsustainable and we have seen in the last few days ... this is not a prime minister who is very good at holding positions under pressure. She is a prime minister that has seemed to perfect the art of the U-turn,” Sturgeon said.

The SNP will insist on Scotland’s right to decide its own future as Britain leaves the European Union when it sets out is preelection policy document on Tuesday.

Sturgeon, who said she wants an independent Scotland to be a full member of the EU, argues that a new choice is needed because Scots voted to stay in the bloc in a referendum last June, at odds with the overall vote to leave. (rtr)

CIVILIANS STRANDED...

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Troops on the streets of Marawi fired at Maute snipers as smoke poured out of several buildings.

Trucks loaded with marines arrived to reinforce soldiers guarding deserted streets as helicopters circulated above the lakeside city surrounded by jungle-clad hills.

The military said the Maute group was still present in nine of the city’s 96 Barangays, or communities.

Thousands of people were stranded, worried they could be intercepted by militants that have set up checkpoints on routes out of the city.

Civilians stuck in Marawi were without food and were as anxious about rocket strikes as much as they were the militants, said Zia Alonto Adiong, a politician coordinating efforts to evacuate civilians. He said there were still dead bodies in Marawi and civilians wanted the military to stop air strikes.

“The anticipation of death is worse than death itself,” he said in

a television interview. “We appeal to our military forces to do a different approach.” Bodies of what appeared to be executed civilians were found in a ravine outside a Marawi on Sunday as the crisis took a more sinister turn. Most of the eight men were shot in the head and some had bound hands.

The army said it was possible more “atrocities” had taken place.

Duterte imposed martial law last week on Mindanao, an island of 22 million people where both Marawi and Iligan are located, to quell the unrest and wipe out militancy.

Some rights activists and lawmakers say martial law across the island is an overreaction that will increase the risk of human rights abuses by security forces.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the imposition of martial law was necessary, and constitutional. “It started flying the flag of the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria in several areas, thereby openly attempting to remove from the allegiance to the Philippine government this part of Mindanao,” Abella told reporters. “This constitutes the crime of rebellion.”(rtr)

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TAORMINA - In Sicily, Donald Trump listened attentively during complex G7 debates over trade and climate change, smiled for the cameras, and for the most part refrained from provocative tweets.

In Brussels, he bashed NATO partners for not spending more on defence, shoved the prime minister of Montenegro and renewed his attacks on Germany’s trade surplus with the United States.

America’s allies witnessed the two sides of Trump on his first foreign trip as U.S. president, a nineday tour that began with sword dancing in Saudi Arabia and vague pledges in Israel to deliver Middle East peace.

As Trump headed home, European officials were left with mixed feelings: relief that he had been patient enough to listen to their arguments and unsettled by a Jekylland-Hyde figure who is still finding his way on the big policy issues.

“It all fits with his strategic ambiguity approach to life,” said Julianne Smith of the Centre for a New American Security. “It may do wonders when dealing with adversaries. But it doesn’t work when dealing with allies,” she said.

Other leaders of the Group of Seven nations had viewed with trepidation their summit, held at a cliff-top hotel overlooking the Mediterranean, after four preparatory meetings failed to clear up differences with the Trump administration on trade, how to deal with Russia and climate change.

But in the end, officials said, the result was better than they had feared.

The final communique acknowledged a split between the United States and its six partners over honouring the 2015 Paris accord on climate change. That followed a debate with Trump that German Chancellor Angela Merkel described as “very dissatisfying”.

However on trade, Trump bowed to pressure from allies to retain a pledge to fight protectionism. And on Russia, he did not insist on removing - as some allies had feared - the threat of additional sanctions for Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.

“I found him very willing to en-

gage, very curious, with an ability and desire to ask questions and to learn from all his interlocutors,” said Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the G7 summit’s host.

NATO “DISASTER” Still, there was irritation at Trump’s refusal to show his hand on the Paris agreement to curb carbon emissions. Near the end of the summit, he tweeted teasingly that he would make a decision on Paris next week, leaving delegations to scratch their heads about why he could not commit in Taormina.

The most critical words were reserved for Trump’s appearance at NATO headquarters in Brussels, which was described as a “disaster” by more than one European official.

With the leaders of America’s NATO partners standing like school children behind him, Trump upbraided them for not spending more on defence and repeated the charge that some members owed “massive amounts of money” from past years - even though allied contributions are voluntary.

Most disturbingly for allies, Trump did not personally affirm his commitment to Article 5, NATO’s mutual defence doctrine, after pretrip signals from the White House that he would do just that. Trump also failed to mention Russia, which remains NATO’s raison d’etre in the eyes of most Europeans. (rtr)

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Some 532 planes operational for 2017 Lebaran transportation

TANGERANG - Director General of Air Transportation at the Transportation Ministry Agus Santoso said that 532 planes will be operational for the domestic and international trips during the 2017 Eid al-Fitr period.

As many as 35 airports will be involved in serving the 532 planes, Santoso said in Soekarno-Hatta international airport here on Sunday.

Santoso further said that his side has set 275,256 low additional seats (five percent) of regular capacity of 5.5 million seats since the seven days before and after (H-7 and H + 7) the Eid al-Fitr period.

Meanwhile, for the overseas flights regular capacity, there will be 886,075 seats with an additional 44,304 seats flight forecasts (five percent), so the total capacity reaches 930,379 seats since the H-7 and H + 7 of the Eid al-Fitr period, he revealed.

The airlines that have applied for the additional flights including the Garuda Indonesia, Sriwijaya Air, Indonesia AirAsia Extra, Malaysia Airline, Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, Jetstar Asia Airways and Cathay Pacific.

In addition, the airlines are required to meet the airworthiness of aircraft and check the fleet readiness periodically to be operated in 2017 the Eid al-Fitr (Lebaran) period.

The Transportation Ministry predicted that the number of Eid alFitr holidaymakers traveling by plane this year will increase by 9.8 percent to 5.5 million, from 4.9 million last year. (ant)

Indonesia, Australia cooperate to win world market access

JAKARTA - Indonesia and Australia through the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership (IA-CEPA) talks have agreed to take advantage of opportunities in third countries and world markets.

Chairman of the Indonesian Negotiation Team Deddy Saleh said the two countries were committed to cooperating in various fields, in taking advantage of not only respective markets but also of the third countries and the world, normally called the principle of economic powerhouse.

“This principle will continue to be discussed and clarified later in various programs of cooperation under the Economic Cooperation Chapter,” Deddy said, in a written statement received in Jakarta on Sunday.

Deddy said the two countries expressed the commitment at the seventh round of the IA-CEPA talks. At the talks, the two successfully completed negotiations with positive results, including issues related to economic cooperation (EC).

Both sides felt they were optimistic to complete negotiations by the end of 2017. One of the good developments of the talks is the agreement on elements that will serve as the basis for drafting economic cooperation.

“The EC is an integral part of the negotiations that distinguishes the IA-CEPA with the other free trade agreement (FTA),” said Deddy.

In the FTA, said Deddy, there was only agreement on market access, while in CEPA there are articles on Economic Cooperation which Indonesia can take positive benefits from the partner countries.

According to Deddy, in the 7th round of talks, the two countries had significant discussions, both on market access agreement and text agreement. To that end, the negotiations are expected to bring the two countries to a step closer towards completing talks.

“If in the previous round of talks, discussions were still marked with an exchange of views, the latest talks have developed into negotiations on agreement text and market access,” said Deddy.

The main issue discussed at the IA-CEPA round of talks covered trade in goods, including rules of goods origin and customs procedures, trade facilitation and technical trade barriers. It also included the question of service trade, including financial services, telecommunications, movement of persons and investment, electronic commerce, business competition, and regulation of the institutional framework. (ant)

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Government troops are seen during an assault on insurgents from the so-called Maute group, who have taken over large parts of Marawi City, in Marawi City, southern Philippines May 25, 2017.

Government to evacuate 11 Indonesians from Marawi

JAKARTA - The government is currently seeking to evacuate 11 Indonesians from the besieged Marawi City on the southern island of Mindanao, the Philippines, Head of National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Police Setyo Wasisto stated here, Monday.

“We are trying to repatriate them to Indonesia,” Wasisto remarked at the National Police Office in Jakarta.

Following intense clashes earlier, the 11 Indonesian citizens are currently reported to be in a good condition, he noted.

According to the Indonesian Consulate General in Davao City and the countrys police attache to the Philippines, the 11 Indonesian citizens are in the Philippines to spread the teachings of Islam.

“We confirmed that they are not affiliated to the IS-linked insurgents, Wasisto remarked.

On a separate occasion, Immigration Office spokesperson Agung Sampurno stated that 11 Indonesian citizens had ear-

lier informed the local authority about their activities at the citys AbuBakr As-Siddiq Mosque in the Barangay Basak Malutlut Village.

When the clash erupted, the local security personnel had evacuated them to another mosque near a police office, Sampurno stated while adding that they have been outside the city and under the protection of the local security.

“The Immigration Office and Indonesian Consulate General (KJRI) have urged them to return to Indonesia, but they are still contemplating on the suggestion,” Sampurno said.

Since last week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared an emergency status in the countrys second-largest

island, Mindanao in a bid to halt the movements of insurgents.

The clash began when the Philippine police and military troops were attempting to capture the militant Abu Sayyaf groups leader, Isnilon Hapnilon. However, before detaining Hapnilon, another militant group linked to IS, Maute raided the city.

Earlier on Thursday, the military had claimed that around 31 terrorists had died during the clash.

“As of this report, 31 terrorists were already neutralized, and six high-power firearms were recovered by the troops,” Brig. Gen. Rolly Bautista, the Philippine joint task forces head, said as quoted from the locals newspaper Manila Bulletin. (ant)

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The Sukawati Art Market is quiet.

Not many visistor come to the market there days becuase there are other option to buy Balinese souvenirs such as the supermarket and otrher places.

China’s slam dunk “sharing economy” booms, but can it last?

BEIJING, May 29 (Reuters) - Fancy shooting some hoops, but don’t have a basketball? Caught in the rain with no umbrella? Smartphone run out of juice?

China’s rapidly expanding “sharing economy”, which already provides car rides and bicycle hire on demand, can help.

For just 2 yuan ($0.30) an hour, Nate Liu, a student at the Beijing Language and Culture University, rents a basketball from a court-side vending machine by scanning a barcode on his smartphone.

“I didn’t want to ask around and borrow a ball after losing mine, so I decided to give it a try,” Liu told Reuters.

Far away, in China’s wetter south, some 20,000 umbrellas have been released on to the streets of Shenzhen, and can be rented - unlocked by another smartphone barcode scan - for just half a yuan ($0.07) for 30 minutes.

The umbrellas can be dropped off “wherever convenient”, though users are encouraged to keep them, says Zhao Shuping, founder of E Umbrella Sharing, one of a handful of start-ups offering the service.

China’s government has taken notice, and expects the “sharing economy” to grow about 40 percent this year to 4.83 trillion yuan ($705 billion). By 2020, it should account for around one tenth of GDP, illustrating China’s aspiration to become a sharing economy leader on a global scale.

PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts five sharing sectors - car sharing, travel, finance, staffing, and music and video streaming - have the potential to increase global revenue to $335 billion by 2025 from $15 billion today.

Most of the money behind China’s ballooning sharing economy comes from angel investors and venture capital firms.

At least 1.69 billion yuan ($247 million) in mostly series-A, or early stage, funding was invested in AprilMay in over two dozen start-ups offering sharing services, according to Reuters calculations based on data from Chinese data firm IT Juzi.

Twelve firms renting out power banks - typically compact, mobile battery chargers - secured 1.13 billion yuan, while newer businesses such as basketball and umbrella-sharing took in about 25 million yuan ($3.65 million) combined.

While mobile-savvy, convenience-obsessed Chinese welcome the innovations, some critics question whether the demand is real, or sustainable. They say the low-revenue, capital-intensive model means profitability can be elusive.

“Young people are embracing renting as a way of life instead of possessing things,” said Emma Zhu, investment director at Beijing-based Innoangel fund, who has held off investing in any of these start-ups.

“But the sharing model won’t work in every situation.

In some cases, they’re trying to meet genuine demand, while in others they’re not.”

Some investors say the funding frenzy recalls the spectacular boom and bust of hundreds of Chinese Groupon apps in vogue in 2010-12, noting that most ultimately collapsed after fierce price wars, with losses of around $1 billion. (rtr)

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Sudaji Village Waits for Your Arrival Trekking, Culinary, Spiritual Tourism Et Cetera on Offer

Numerous potentials owned by North Bali can lure foreign tourists. If some regions offer the potential of the beach, then some others are superior to the potential of mountainous nature and culture. Now, it depends on each region to pack and present the potential at hand to tourists.

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German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel toasts during the Trudering festival in Munich, Germany, May 28, 2017.

After summits with Trump, Merkel says Europe must take fate into own hands

MUNICH - Europe can no longer completely rely on its allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, pointing to bruising meetings of G7 wealthy nations and NATO last week.

Merkel did not mention by name U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticised major NATO allies and refused to endorse a global climate change accord, but she told a packed beer tent in Munich that the days when Europe could completely count on others were “over to a certain extent”.

“I have experienced this in the last few days,” she said. “And that is why I can only say that we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands - of course in friendship with the United States of America, in friendship with Great Britain and as good neighbours wherever that is possible also with other countries, even with Russia.”

“But we have to know that we must fight for our future on our own, for our destiny as Europeans,” Merkel said.

The two-day G7 summit in Italy pitted Trump against the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan on several issues, with European diplomats frustrated at having to revisit questions they had hoped were long settled.

The American tycoon-turned-president backed a pledge to fight protectionism at the end of the G7 summit on Saturday, but refused to endorse the climate pact, saying he needed more time to decide.

But EU Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday he was more optimistic now than after the U.S. election last November after EU leaders held talks with Trump in Brussels.

“What I am absolutely sure after this meeting is that despite some extraordinary ... expressions, behaviours, etc, etc,

our partners in the G7 are much more responsible than the first impression after the election in the United States,” Tusk said in the Slovak capital.

At the NATO summit on Thursday, Trump intensified his accusations that allies were not spending enough on defence and warned of more attacks such as this week’s Manchester bombing unless the alliance did more to stop militants.

Turning to France, Merkel said she wished President Emmanuel Macron success, adding to applause: “Where Germany can help, Germany will help, because Germany can only do well if Europe is doing well.”

France is Germany’s second-biggest trading partner and the presidential election victory of the pro-European centrist reformer Macron over far-right protectionist rival Marine Le Pen in early May has sparked hopes that Berlin will ally with Paris in spearheading a broad-based economic revival in Europe. (rtr)

The farmer is working in Sudaji, Buleleng.

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One of the villages developing the potential with the characteristic owned is Sudaji village in Sawan subdistrict, Buleleng. Aside from offering durians, since several years ago Sudaji has been known as a tourism village. According to the Chief of the Sudaji tourism village, Gede Suharsana, the village was inaugurated as a tourism village by the regent of Buleleng last May 5.

Though newly inaugurated, the village has initiated and pioneered a tour package since 2008. This tourism village is managed by local tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) inaugurated by customary

village in 2012.

He said that establishment of the tourism village passed through a long process, inseparable from the mapping of the potential owned. The concept introduced and highlighted is the local wisdom with the Tri Hita Karana (three causes of happiness). Habitable homes of residents are taken advantage as an accommodation as well as a place to interact for tourists.

His group also introduces typical cuisines to visiting guests, not Western food. Not only that, in the span of a few years Sudaji tourism village has been capable

of presenting tourist activities ranging from trekking, spiritual tourism, agro-tourism and cultural performances.

Pokdarwis continues to explore the village potential, where the latest is the potential of the river.

The local river remaining natural with a fairly heavy flow can be used for rafting adventure. This rafting tour is considered as the first one in North Bali. However, his group is still constrained by equipment of the adrenalin racing adventure.

“Yesterday we tested with our self-made equipment, but we still need equipment complying with the standards,” he said. Another obstacle is the matter of weather, where rainy season is prone to flooding that will be hazardous and make tourists feel afraid to try the whitewater rafting adventure. (kmb)

Suluban Beach, a Place to Surf and Enjoy a Sunset View

Foreign travelers happily mingle together on the surface of the clear and blue seawater. Every now and then they float for a moment, then emerge again, standing on their surfboards, moving in a snake like undulations following the flow of the waves as they move toward the coast. When the water recedes, they swim out ot sea again and obeserve the movement of the water. As the waves roll in they glide towards the shore.

This is the daily spectacle that can be seen on Suluban Beach

in Pecatu Village. With its large challenging waves and white sandy beach, this is a true paradise playgournd for surfers.

Suluban Beach is located a few kilometers north of Uluwatu, next to Bingin Beach and Labuhan Sait and visitors must pass through a rock cave before reaching the broad white sandy beach. Some tourism facilities such as restaurants, bars, surf equipment rental shops and surfboard repair shops are available here.

The beach here is rather nar-

row, in contrast to Tanjung Benoa or Kuta, but it has nonetheless become a favored destination with foreign surfers for the large waves that break here. Fresh blue sea also makes this beach great for relaxing and enjoying the view.

There is plenty of sun for those who enjoy sunbathing, but there is also a shaded area behind the rocks. In addition to being a great place for surfing and relaxing, Suluban Beach is also a great spot for enjoying a great view of the sunset. (kmb)

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By the Rice Field Festival

The human need to express gratitude to mother earth through art is not unique to Balinese humans, but most would agree that the people of this island are especially devoted to this practice and particularly creative in their expression. Most would also agree that there is currently a somewhat dire need to step things up when it comes to caring for the environment. Festival Tepi Sawah organisers Nita Aartsen, Anom Darsana and Etha Widiyanto certainly felt the call to address this need when they came up with the concept of an environmental awareness art festival set in nature.

Creating art in a spirit of cooperation for the love of mother earth, is the guiding principle of this unique festival that will bring together artists from a variety of disciplines to perform, create, display and share their talents with the specific purpose of sharing knowledge and inspiration for the good of the environment.

Nita, Anom and Etha who have backgrounds in music education & performance, sound engineering, event management, architecture and design and will be using these skills to create festival grounds that combine top notch staging and architectural installations with a creative atmosphere fueled by the desire to raise awareness and provide concrete solutions about how to better care for the environment.

A number of arts communities and environmental initiatives will be participating in the creation and unfolding of Festival Tepi Sawah, including Lingkara Photography Community who will be highlighting the importance of restoring the balance of nature working with the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and Clean Bali Series (cleanbaliseries.org) who currently hold a monthly event called “Bali Bersih” (clean Bali) that involves a number of other activists working for the environmental, education, art and culture at Omah Apik, the festival venue.

Along with workshops, food stalls and an art market Festival Tepi Sawah will also feature art works and performances by: DewaAlit, BonaAlit, Ivan Nestormam, Nita Aartsen, Kecak Kobagi, Jasmine Okubo, Doddy Sambodo, Dodot & Barok, Gustu Brahmanta, Sisca Guhzeng, Brahma Diva Kencana, Marlowe Bandem, Made Agus Wardana, Fascinating Rhythm Communtity, and many others. Festival Tepi Sawah will be held on June 3-4 at Omah Apik, Pejeng.(kmb)

N.Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests

The X-ray car used by the police officer

Parking issues and x-ray facilities get attention of AP I

Head of Communication and Legal Section, Arie Ahsanurrohim, when asked for his confirmation said that it is in accordance with the decision of the evaluation meeting on Ramadan facilities and operations carried out not long ago.

To that end, his section currently still has some findings requiring improvement and preparation that must be done. “We must prepare some obligatory facilities promptly, such as musholla (Islamic prayer room) and readiness to serve all the passengers,” he said.

Asking BUMDes to manage waste DLHK makes a waste processing pilot project Seminyak village, Kuta. Moreover, the efforts to combat the waste have been included in the perarem or local customary village rules.

“We have created a waste management pilot project by BUMDes in collaboration with Seminyak village. The waste generated by hotels, restaurants and local communities must be managed by TPST Seminyak Clean,” said Eka Merthawan, on Sunday (May 28).

According to him, the integrated waste treatment plant (TPST) of

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Ahead of Lebaran 2017

Mangupura - Entering the fasting month and welcoming Eidal-Fitr (Lebaran 2017), Angkasa Pura (AP) I, as the operator of Ngurah Rai Airport, began to make preparations. Moreover, on day ten before and day fifteen after the holiday, the AP I will start to open Lebaran transportation desk 2017.

MANGUPURA - The government of Badung desiring the garbage in every subdistrict to be managed by each village through the village-owned enterprises (BUMDes) has started to be realized. Local government through the environment and sanitation agency (DLHK) has created a pilot project for waste processing to be applied to every BUMDes. Head of the DLHK Badung, Putu Eka Merthawan, said the waste processing by BUMDes has been done at

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Seminyak Clean is fully managed

by Seminyak customary village professionally. The existence of this waste processing site has also been protected by awig-awig or local customary village bylaw.

“Garbage is fully managed by customary villages. All the villagers of Seminyak, hotel services, restaurants and trading companies are subject to the agreed customary village bylaws,” he said.

He described the garbage collected in the TPST will be divided

His section delivered that preparation of this year’s Lebaran transportation desk is not so special.

Nevertheless, the Lebaran desk should still run in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). The focus of his attention is related to the surge of passenger transportation during the Lebaran.

In the meantime, the thing needs to be evaluated this time is the X-Ray facility in the SCP I. This evaluation needs to be performed so that later on there will be no accumulation of passengers during the examination

before check-in. “The accumulation is actually natural, but passengers must be orderly. This should be maintained,” he explained.

In addition to the surge of passengers, the issues of vehicle parking will also be a concern. The accumulation of delivery or pickup vehicles at the airport during the Lebaran will surely be booming.

The vehicles left long by the owners will become the focus. “Everything depends on the situation because the parking capacity at the airport is relatively limited. For passengers entering and exiting from Bali and the proportion between incoming vehicles and pick-up guests and vehicles of passengers leaving Bali will be overcome,” he concluded. (kmb23)

into two, namely the organic and inorganic waste. Inorganic waste in the form of plastic bottles, cans and other recycled materials will be sold to collectors, while organic waste will be processed into fertilizer. “The garbage disposed by the companies and communities should be wrapped in waste plastic bag to the TPST to be further sorted out.

Which one can be sold will be resold, while the organic waste will be used to produce fertilizer. Then, their residue will be disposed to Suwung landfill,” he explained.

He said that compost fertilizer will be re-purchased by hotels, villas, restaurants and other businesses scattered across the village of Seminyak. “From the waste generated by

communities to resulting in money has been well organized,” he said.

So, what is the role of the DLHK? Merthawan said that the government plays its role in the provision of supporting infrastructure. “We help make the buildings, operation vehicles, total waste processing machine worth IDR 1 billion. All the assistance is obtained from grants,” he said.

Previously, the Head of the Community and Village Empowerment Agency, Putu Gede Sridana, said that BUMDes in Badung district is growing after the postenactment of the Regional Bylaws (Perda) of Badung No.1/2015 on the Establishment and Management of BUMDes. (kmb27)

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A woman reacts next to the debris of houses at a landslide site during a rescue mission in Athwelthota village, in Kalutara, Sri Lanka May 28, 2017.

Sri Lanka faces more landslide risks as death toll rises to 151

AGALAWATTE - Landslides and floods in Sri Lanka have killed at least 151 people and the country faces the risk of more mudslides as torrential rains continue, officials said on Sunday.

More than 100 people are still missing after the worst rains in the Indian Ocean island since 2003.

The state-run National Building Research Organization warned people in seven out of the country’s 25 districts to evacuate from unstable slopes if rains continue for the next 24 hours.

The Department of Meteorology said there could be heavy rain falls of above 100 millimeters in central Sri Lanka within the next 36 hours.

The death toll has risen to 151, while 111 people are still reported missing and 95 injured, the staterun Disaster Management Center said.

Nearly 500,000 people have been affected by the disaster, the worst since the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, and the downpours have displaced over 100,000 Sri Lankans.

People in Agalawatte, 74 km (46

miles) from the capital Colombo, said they were losing hope of water levels falling soon.

“All access to our village is cut off. A landslide took place inside the village and several houses are buried. But nobody could go to that place,” Mohomed Abdulla, 46, told Reuters in Agalawatte, a town in western coastal district of Kalutara, where 47 people have died and 62 are missing.

Rescue efforts are under way but are hampered by lack of drinking water, lack of electricity and continued rain.

Reuters witnessed some people stranded on the upper floors of their homes and some houses were flooded up to roof level.

Civilians and relief officials, sailing in boats, distributed food, water, and relief items.

Sri Lanka has already appealed for international assistance from the United Nations and neighbour-

ing countries.

Some areas in the southern coastal district of Galle, popular with foreign tourists, have not received relief materials due to lack of access.

“My entire village is cut off and nobody can come to this village,” C.M. Chandrapla, 54, told Reuters over the phone from the tourist village of Neluwa. “There are no supplies for the past two days.

Water has gone above three-storey buildings and people survive by running onto higher ground.”

Sri Lankan military and rescue teams have used boats and helicopters, but they said access to some areas was very difficult.

Military spokesman Roshan Senevirathne said more than 2,000 military personnel had been deployed to help the police and civilian agencies.

The wettest time of the year in Sri Lanka’s south is usually from May to September.

Sri Lankan meteorology officials said the rains were the worst since 2003 and they expected more in the coming days. (rtr)

SEOUL - North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a series of missile tests defying world pressure and threats of more sanctions.

The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and flew about 450 km (280 miles), South Korean officials said. North Korea has a large stockpile of the short-range missiles, originally developed by the Soviet Union.

Monday’s launch follows two successful tests of medium to long range missiles in as many weeks by Pyongyang, which has been conducting such tests at an unprecedented pace in an effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting the mainland United States.

It is the third test-launch since South Korea’s liberal President Moon Jae-in took office on May 10 pledging to engage the reclusive state in dialogue. Moon says sanctions alone have failed to resolve the growing threat from the North’s advancing nuclear and missile programme.

North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the start of 2016 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, says the programme is necessary to counter U.S. aggression.

The White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the launch. The U.S. Pacific Command said it tracked what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile for six minutes and assessed it did not pose a threat to North America.

The United States has said it was looking at discussing with China a new U.N. Security Council resolution and that Beijing, the main diplomatic ally of Pyongyang, realises time was limited to rein in the North’s weapons programme through negotiations.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, asked what a military conflict with North Korea might look like if diplomacy failed, warned on Sunday that would be “probably the worst kind of fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”

“The North Korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, which is the capital of South Korea,” Mattis told CBS news programme “Face the Nation”.

“And in the event of war, they would bring danger to China and to Russia as well.” (rtr)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the test of a new-type anti-aircraft guided weapon system organised by the Academy of National Defence Science in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 28, 2017.

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International Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet and Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw (L) are seen next to a scale model of the world’s largest telescope during a ceremony to inaugurate its construction in the desert of Atacama, Chile, May 26, 2017.

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Construction begins on world’s largest telescope in Chilean desert ATACAMA DESERT - Construction began in Chile on Friday on the European Extremely Large Telescope, which when completed will be the world’s largest optical telescope, some five times larger than the top observing instruments in use today.

The size of the ELT has the potential to transform our understanding of the universe, say its backers, with its main mirror that will measure some 39 meters (43 yards) across.

Located on a 3,000 meter-high

mountain in the middle of the Atacama desert, it is due to begin operating in 2024.

Among other capabilities, it will add to and refine astronomers’ burgeoning discoveries of planets orbiting other stars, with

the ability to find more smaller planets, image larger ones, and possibly characterize their atmospheres, a key step in understanding if life is present.

“What is being raised here is more than a telescope. Here we

see one of the greatest examples of the possibilities of science,” said Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in a speech to mark the beginning of construction at the site.

The dry atmosphere of the Atacama provides as near perfect observing conditions as it is possible to find on Earth, with some 70 percent of the world’s astro-

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instruments can see. Outside the band, Juno found other features in the atmosphere, rather than the expected homogeneous mix of gas.

“Jupiter is surprising us in almost every way,” lead researcher Scott Bolton, with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, said in a phone interview. “We’re seeing hints that it is pretty exotic.”

Preliminary results suggest that Jupiter may have winds at all levels creating movement, an unanticipated finding, he added.

Scientists expected Jupiter, which is more than 11 times the diameter of Earth, to be fairly uniform beneath its clouds. But “it doesn’t look like its rotating like a solid body,” Bolton said.

The findings released on Thursday were based on data collected when Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 km) around Jupiter’s poles on Aug. 27.

During Juno’s next flyby on July 11, the spacecraft will pass directly over the planet’s Great Red Spot, a massive storm south of the equator that has existed for centuries.

Scientists hope to learn how the storm maintains itself and if a mass of material underlies the churning clouds.

Juno is expected to continue its highly elliptical orbit around Jupiter for months, swooping close every 53 days to map the planet’s interior so scientists can learn more about how and where Jupiter formed.

Like the sun, the gas giant is mostly hydrogen and helium, but it also has carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and other elements, as well as organics and gases. Scientists hope that learning more about Jupiter’s evolution will illuminate how Earth – and possibly other planets – were supplied with the ingredients for life. (rtr)

Lembongan divers form community to rescue coral reef

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Behind the stunning charm of the waters of Nusa Penida, in fact, the development of marine tourism threatens the existence of coral reef and other marine biota. It happens because of increasing number of underwater tourist service businesses followed by rampant violation against the rules in the water conservation area of Nusa Penida.

This endless polemic encountered some interrelated factors for the continuity of sustainable tourism. Besides, this condition is also aggravated by more irresponsible diving and snorkeling operators.

Responding to this problem, Lembongan local divers gathered to establish a community. This dive association is named the Lembongan Diving Community (KPL). On the occasion, this community also elected the administrators consisting of Chairman (I Wayan Gede Lama), Deputy Chairman (I Kadek Jaya Suara), Secretary (I Wayan Bagiayasa) and Treasurer (I Wayan Sujana).

The community will be addressing various issues that threaten the existence of coral reef and marine biota in the area. The divers relying on their lives from marine tourism

and the beauty of the sea revealed that a few divers and snorkeling players violate the provisions such as touching coral reef and even stepping on it.

A diver from Nusa Penida, Gede Sukayasa, accommodating diving companies in Nusa Lembongan, said this underwater observer community of Nusa Penida is indeed very much required. “The community we need is a group of people wishing to take care of the underwater environment where we work,” he said on Sunday (May 28).

In line with Sukayasa, Kadek Jaya Suara also expected the participation of divers in environmental conservation. “Here we need a legal organization that can work with the government to maintain

the survival of our marine biota,” added Jaya Suara.

Wayan Gede Lama as the Head of the Lembongan Diver Community (KPL) hoped that all members will work to rescue coral reef for the sake of marine tourism continuity. One of the real movements that can be done by the community is by providing counseling in the community or school to foster a sense of love to the beauty of marine tourism through introduction on the diving activities.

KPL will also cooperate with Lembongan Marine Association (LMA) accommodating the diving companies in Nusa Lembongan established earlier. In addition, the KPA will always support government programs to develop sustainable marine tourism. (dwa)

nomical infrastructure slated to be located in the region by the 2020s.

The ELT is being funded by the European Southern Observatory, an organization consisting of European and southern hemisphere nations. Construction costs were not available but the ESO has said previously that the ELT would cost around 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion) at 2012 prices. (rtr)

The Kamasan Painting is now created in various media.

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Kamasan puppet painting created on various media

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NASA’s enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter shows a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms in this image captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on February 2, 2017, at 5:13 a.m. PDT (8:13 a.m. EDT), at an altitude of 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

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U.S. spacecraft finds cyclones, ammonia river on Jupiter CAPE CANAVERAL - Jupiter’s atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system’s largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Juno found cyclones as big as 870 miles (1,400 km) in diameter swirling over Jupiter’s north and south poles, the research published in this week’s issue of the journal Science shows.

The spacecraft also detected an ammonia belt extending from the top of the atmosphere to hundreds of miles into Juno’s interior, as far down as Juno’s

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SEMARAPURA — Kamasan classical puppet paintings, in fact, can also be presented on tissue boxes, fans and even keben or sokasi (bamboo basket) commonly used to hold offerings.

This creation is done by a Kamasan painter, Wayan Inda Anggaeni. Although presented in different media and usage, all the products decorated with typical puppet images of Kamasan style are very popular.

Not a few of Balinese people are interested in the product creation of Kamasan residents. “Most buyers are tourists from Jogja, Jakarta and

foreign tourists,” she said.

Being famous and desirable, he admitted that it is not so difficult to market her creative products. According to her, every day there are always tourists coming to purchase her products. “They (consumers— Ed) directly come to my house.

Incidentally, I also have a store in front of the house,” she said.

Regarding the price, a fan is sold for IDR 150,000 - IDR 1 million each, keben in the range of IDR100,000 - IDR 300,000, while painting in the range of IDR 300,000 to tens of millions of rupi-

ahs. “The price highly depends on the size and complexity of the puppet story desired,” she explained.

Although still having interested buyers, she told that the economic downturn has had a considerable impact on sales. Since 2015, the sales of Kamasan painting products have decreased.

Moreover, the current sales decline reaches 50 percent. “Not only sales from local Bali, the sales by foreign tourists also decreases.

Hopefully, the economic condition will soon improve,” she added. (dwa)

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Service and facility standards of tourist object often complained DENPASAR —

With 21 boats to serve crossing

Now, visitors finally never complain

CROSSING services by using boat to Trunyan’s cemetery and Trunyan village are often complained by visitors wishing to cross. It is said that boat captain often turns off the boat engine in the middle of the lake, arguing there is engine trouble. Inevitably, they often ask for money to visitors for the cost of boat repair. However, lately the services to visitors begin to be tightened. As a result, the guards from Kedisan Pier no longer receive any reports from visitors after using the boat services following their visit to Trunyan.

Chief of Lake Batur Crossing Unit, Bangli Transportation Agency, Ketut Nasta, said that his unit did not dismiss that previously there were many visitors complaining after crossing to Trunyan and Trunyan village because the services are not maximal. “Previously, there were indeed many complaints received from visitors. They complained about less optimal services when crossing because the boat engine was suddenly off in the middle of the lake,” said Nasta on Sunday (May 28).

Nasta added that seeing the complaints continuing to appear, gradually his unit begins to instruct to boat captains in order that they can provide services properly and maximally. Besides, they are asked to prioritize services to visitors considering that what happens will greatly affect the incoming tourist visit.

“In 1997, visitors were very booming. At that time, we lacked of parking space due to many visitors. Slowly the number of visitors began to decrease. Probably, it also became one of the factors for visitor decline due to such negative impression having spread from mouth to mouth. So, tourists can cancel their travel after hearing the issues,” he said.

He stated that lately he is diligent to ask all visitors after coming back from Trunyan cemetery and Trunyan village related to services provided during the visit. After asking about the services provided for visitors, guests stated that the services have started to be good.

“Moreover, we affirm to visitors that they should say frankly whether the services are good or poor. We do not want visitors admitted to be good here, but outside there is not good. We do not want this kind of testimony. We want visitors to be honest. For instance, if the services are still lacking, we will improve them to be better,” said Nasta.

He said that to provide maximum services for incoming visitors, his unit has given directions to boat captains so as not to make things less good when delivering visitors. Moreover, his unit has routinely provided guidance for all boat captains. This measure is taken to avoid complaints by visitors.

“We routinely provide coaching for boat captains. Besides, now we have obliged that all the boat captains should bring communication device in the form of hand phone. So, in case the boat engine is off in the middle of the lake, they can directly contact us at the pier. By that way, the officers will immediately come down to location because hand phone is a simple communication tool that can be brought by all the people,” he said.

Further, he explained that currently Kedisan Pier has a total of 21 fiber boats used to serve visitors to cross. “If leaked, fiber is more easily repaired and will not take long time to do it,” said Nasta. (nan)

All this time, the tourists visiting Bali complain about the standard of services at tourist attractions. In terms of the accommodation and services, it has actually complied with the standards. The problems happen and become a scourge is when tourists visiting the object do not get adequate services and good facilities such as arrangement, toilets, et cetera.

“This is our goal in the PUTRI (Indonesia Association of Recreation Park Entrepreneurs) to arouse the vivacity of tourist attractions. If they do not have governance yet, we will help. Of course, it is made in cooperation with local government in each region,” said I Wayan Wijana, General Secretary of PUTRI Bali, in the board meeting of PUTRI Bali on Saturday (May 27). To overcome the problems of service standards, PUTRI will also conduct some training for tourist objects so that they always operate pursuant to the standards of service. Some places have applied the service standards such as Tanah Lot, Pandawa Beach, Monkey Forest, Uluwatu, and so on.

“This is what we have to distinguish between the tourist attractions from the owners. The business owners have referred to professionalism. However, the tourist objects and the tourism village should be featured to the surface,” he explained. By doing so, tourists will get adequate services, infrastructure and facilities.

Chairman of the PUTRI Bali,

Indha Trimafo Yudha, said that the existence of PUTRI is the same as the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).

PUTRI is incorporated under GIPI (Association of Indonesia Tourism Industry) and in Bali it is called the Bali Tourism Board (BTB).

PUTRI members comprise not only recreational park business players but also the communities, museums and royal palaces.

It also includes some other tourism-related companies such as Krisna Funtastic Land making the tourism distribution to the northern part of Bali. Besides, there are Pemuteran, John Hardy, ITDC, Tanah Lot, Ubud Monkey Forest, Safari Park, Bali Zoo and some others.

General Secretary of GIPI, I Gede Nurjaya, said that tourist visit to Bali will be getting more and more. The services provided by hotels and tourist guides are good.

However, so far the complaints occurred are related to quality in the existing objects. Therefore, PUTRI is expected to focus on its activities related to improvement of the whole members. According to the statues, PUTRI has the members

consisting of recreational park, whether they are nature, religious, historical or man-made tourist destinations. He still received many complaints from tourists or other countries related to security, order, comfort and so forth.

Commercial Division Head of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Ratna, said that PUTRI must move because accommodation is inseparable from tourist destinations. It needs standards so that he advised guests to visit the tourist destinations having the standards conforming to international standards.

In the future, PUTRI should have a clear packaging so that from one district to another district can be spent within 4 days or more.

“Thus, they will not get out or go anywhere, it is enough to be spent here (in Bali),” he said.

The Board of Trustee, Anak Agung Gede Agung, said that PUTRI having existed since long time ago is expected to contribute in advancing Bali tourism because tourists that come to Bali will definitely visit tourist destinations. (kmb42)

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‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Hooks No. 1, ‘Baywatch’ Belly Flops LOS ANGELES - Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is sailing into first place at the domestic box office this weekend, but the story the numbers dictate is not one of swashbuckling heroics.

Johnny Depp’s fifth outing as Jack Sparrow is looking at a three-day total of $62.2 million from 4,276 locations, and a four-day holiday weekend sum of $77 million. If not for international appeal, that would be a let down for a movie riding on a $230 million production budget.

The first place finish also can’t cover up a serious case of franchise fatigue. “Dead Men Tell No Tales” is the lowest opening for a Pirates movie apart from the original, which earned over $46 million in its first weekend (and was also the only installation approved by critics). Last time out in 2011, “On Stranger Tides” pulled in $90 million in its opening weekend.

That’s still less than 2007’s “At World’s End” ($114.7 million) and 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” ($135.6 million). But it’s no question why Disney is still churning out sequels -- combined, the movies have made $1.3 billion domestically and $3.8 billion worldwide.

“Dead Men Tell No Tales” centers on Sparrow battling deadly ghost sailors, led by the Javier Bardem’s Captain Salazar. Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg directed the film, which also sees the return of both Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who were absent from the fourth installment.

Over time the “Pirates” franchise has become more reliant on overseas ticket sales, and that’s certainly the case this time out. The studio should make back its production budget this weekend once worldwide ticket sales are taken into account. Since the franchise still makes money (even if U.S. grosses are dwindling) this may not be the last we see of Captain Sparrow.

Meanwhile, Paramount’s “Baywatch” was hoping to make an oceanic summer splash, but looks to have ended up in the kiddie pool. The rebooted property should land a three-day total of $18.1 million from 3,647 locations and end the four-day holiday weekend with $22 million. That’s far below early estimates. The movie carries a $60 million production budget.

This is the latest in a string of misses for the studio this year including “Ghost in the Shell,” “Rings,” “XXX: The Return of Xander Cage,” and “Monster Trucks.”

Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron star in the comedy that spawned from the 1990s NBC drama starring David Hasselhoff and a team of lifeguards who patrolled the beaches of Los Angeles. This time around it’s Johnson, an experienced and devoted lifeguard, who butts heads with a new recruit, Efron, until they uncover a criminal plot. (rtr)

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Director Ruben Ostlund , Palme d’Or award winner for his film “The Square”, reacts.

Swedish art gallery satire “The Square” wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

CANNES - “The Square”, a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

Critics hailed the movie by writer-director Ruben Ostlund as “high-wire cinema” that veers between comedy and thriller with moments of pure surrealism, though some said it could easily have shed part of its 2 hours and 22 minutes running time.

The film’s highlight is a dinner for the museum’s well-to-do patrons, with a performance artist leaping from table to table impersonating an ape in a bizarre, tense

and ultimately violent scene.

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, who headed the jury of nine people that included Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jessica Chastain, said the film was about “the dictatorship of being politically correct”.

“Such a serious subject is treated with an incredible imagination. It is very, very, very funny,” he said.

“BPM (Beats Per Minute)”, a French movie about AIDS aware-

ness campaigners in the 1980s, had been favourite for the award but had to settle for second place, taking the Grand Prize of the Jury, something Almodovar seemed to regret.

“This is a very democratic jury and I am the ninth part of this jury,” he said and fought back tears as he talked of the film’s portrayal of “real heroes that saved many lives”.

Sofia Coppola won best director for “The Beguiled”, a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood tale of sexual tension between an injured soldier in the American Civil War and the women and girls who take him in. (rtr)

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MARAWI - The Philippine city of Iligan was overflowing with evacuees and on lockdown on Monday over fears Islamist militants had sneaked out of nearby Marawi, where troops were battling to drive out gunmen holed up in buildings for a seventh day. The fighting in the city of Marawi with pro-Islamic State militants of the Maute group is the biggest security challenges of Rodrigo Duterte’s 11-month presidency, with gunmen still holding parts of the city and fending off helicopter air strikes and ground attacks by commandos.

Most of Marawi’s 200,000 people have left, many pouring into Iligan, some 38 km (24 miles) away, where authorities said they were stretched to the limit and worried that Maute fighters were blending in with the displaced and could launch attacks. “We don’t want what’s happening in Marawi to spill over in Iligan,” said Colonel Alex Aduca, chief of the Fourth Mechanized Infantry Battalion.

“We want to ensure the safety of people here, to prevent elements from entering and conducting terroristic activities,” he told DZMM radio.

He said some rebels had been caught trying to get into Iligan, but did not

give details. Sixty-one militants, 20 members of the security forces and 19 civilians have been killed since Tuesday, when Maute rebels went on the rampage in Marawi after a botched attempt by the military to arrest Isnilon Hapilon, who the government believes is a point man for Islamic State in the Philippines.

The ability of the Maute group to fight off the military for so long will add to fears that Islamic State’s radical ideology is spreading in the southern Philippines, and it could become a haven for militants from Indonesia, Malaysia and beyond.

The military believes the Maute carried out their assault before the

Muslim holy month of Ramadan to capture the attention of Islamic State and earn its recognition as a Southeast Asian affiliate. Witnesses in Marawi said they had seen militants flying the Islamic State flag and wearing black outfits and headbands typical of the group.

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