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Actor Geoffrey Rush accused of belittling actress

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SYDNEY - Academy award-winner Geoffrey Rush was accused in court on Tuesday of inappropriately touching a female costar during an Australian rendition of ‘King Lear.’

Eryn Jean Norvill said that the ‘Tailor of Panama’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star had made her feel “belittled, embarrassed and shamed” when the pair acted together in the Shakespeare play in 2015-2016.

She told a court hearing that he stood over her during rehearsal “licking his lips” and once on stage deliberately ran his hand in a manner that was “slow, light and pressured across my breast.”

“I believed that he had done it deliberately,” national broadcaster ABC reported Norvill as saying.

Rush, who won a best actor Oscar award for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott in

the film ‘Shine’, is not being charged with any misconduct.

The testimony came because he is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for defamation after they printed allegations that he behaved inappropriately toward a female actress.

Norvill is the latest in a series of witnesses to take the stand in the case.

Most have testified that they saw no evidence of Rush behaving improperly. (afp)

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Johnny Depp ‘dropped from Pirates Of The Caribbean’ LOS ANGELES - Johnny Depp has been dropped from new Pirates Of The Caribbean films, according to reports.

The actor, 55, has starred in five films over the past 15 years, but it seems he may have made his last appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Original scriptwriter Stuart Beattie appeared to confirm the news to DailyMail TV as he revealed Disney has plans to rework the franchise.

While he did not confirm or deny when it was put to him that it seemed Depp is “finished as the lead of these movies”, Beattie nodded when it was suggested the star was out, and said: “I think he’s had a great run.

Johnny Depp has played Captain Jack Sparrow in five Pirates Of The Caribbean films.

“Obviously, he’s made that character his own and it’s become the thing that he’s most famous for now.

“And kids all over the world love him as that character so I think it’s been great for him, it’s been great for us, so I’m just very, very happy about it.”

Beattie, who will not be working on the new films, said: “There’s that saying, ‘don’t frown because it’s over, smile because it happened’.

“The fact they’re rebooting something that you did means that you did something that is worth rebooting. I tend to look at it as the glass half full and I just think it’s an honour to be rebooted.”

Depp’s personal life has made headlines over the past few years.

He split from now ex-wife Amber Heard in 2016 amid highly publicised claims of domestic violence and counter-claims of financial blackmail. (IBP/ net)

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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (L), Indonesia’s Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi (C), and National Search and Rescue head Muhammad Syaugi (R) inspect recovered debris from the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 while touring the operations centre at a port in northern Jakarta on October 30, 2018.

Indonesia sifts through plane debris, orders jet inspection

Indonesia ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-MAX airliners on Tuesday as rescue teams recovered more human remains from a brand new Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people on board.

There were 178 adult passengers, one child, two infants, two pilots and six cabin crew on board.

On a Jakarta dockside, officials took up the grim task of separating human remains from plane debris and recovered personal effects, sending the body parts -- including from an infant -- to hospital for DNA testing.

Stretched out along the dock was a growing collection of items plucked from the sea -- single shoes, torn pieces of clothing, wallets and bags scattered among aircraft seats stripped of their blue covers by the sheer impact of the crash.

- Grieving relatives Scores of relatives thronged a hospital building being used for victim identification. “My daughter has no husband, my grandchild no longer has a father,” a grieving Hari Setiyono said at the police hospital, referring to his missing son-in-law.

Febby Mellysa had four relatives aboard the doomed jet, including her cousin, his wife and their five-year-old son. “We tried to call my cousin and his wife so

The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just a few months ago, crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia’s northern coast moments after it had asked to return to Jakarta on Monday. Flight JT610 sped up as it suddenly lost altitude and then vanished from radar 12 minutes after take-off, with witnesses saying the single-aisle jet plunged into the water.

The accident has resurrected concerns about Indonesia’s patchy air safety record which led to a

now-lifted ban on its planes entering US and European airspace.

On Tuesday Indonesia’s transport minister ordered an inspection of all 737-MAX aircraft but he stopped short of grounding the new models.

Dozens of divers were taking part in the recovery effort along with helicopters and ships. Authorities are trying to pinpoint the smashed jet’s location and flight data recorders expected to be crucial to the crash investigation.

many times, but their phone wasn’t active,” she told AFP. “The whole family is confused about what to do next.” Indonesia’s search and rescue agency has all but ruled out finding any survivors from the high-impact crash in water some 30-40 metres deep.

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Make water conservation areas a blue economy foundation

BALI-Indonesia sets a target to allocate 20 million hectares of its territorial waters into conservation areas and expects to fully meet its ambitious marine biodiversity goals. However, the country needs a help to achieve this target.

Government’s data show that Indonesia has declared 19.14 million hectares of water conservation

areas until December 2017 or 96 percent of its commitment to build 20 million hectares of conservation

areas by 2020.

“This is a very commendable achievement, but we must now

Riki Frindos, Executive Director of the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI)

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move beyond the declaration and focus on ensuring that these areas are managed effectively,” said Ketut Sujana Putra, Vice President of Conservation International Indonesia, who is also the FKKI’s spokesperson in the Our Ocean Conference 2018 in Bali. The FKKI consists of a number of prominent local and international environmental organizations that aim to have a large impact on conservation in Indonesia.

Aquatic Conservation Areas are a cornerstone of ‘blue economy,’ one of the themes discussed in the Our Ocean Conference on the investment in Aquatic Conservation Areas. “We need a holistic approach to manage our marine resources. And the blue economy approach provides a set of principles that can guide the government to benefit from the sea without damaging it,” said Ketut Putra.

The focus of the Our Ocean Conference is to produce commitments and take concrete actions to protect the oceans with a budget commitment of around USD 18 billion and a total protection of 12.4 million square kilometers of marine conservation areas having existed since 2014.

“We are committed to strengthening cooperation with government institutions at national and subnational levels together with communities and private sector to fulfill this commitment to protected areas.

They need to become the backbone of sustainable fisheries and marinebased industries,” said Rizal Malik, CEO of WWF-Indonesia (one of the NGOs coalesced into the members of the FKKI).

The areas such as aquaculture, offshore renewable energy, blue biotechnology and responsible

tourism have great opportunities to encourage “blue growth” and promote inclusive development by creating new employment opportunities. Meanwhile, at the same time it ensures that marine resources are used and managed sustainably.

In another session, Riki Frindos, Executive Director of the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI), highlighted the need for stronger partnerships between NGOs, the private sector and the government to support the management of protected areas by creating opportunities for sustainable financing, especially through marine sustainability management, by creating collaborative measures such as sustainable finance.

Globally, more than 25 million square kilometers of marine area have been protected, representing at least 15,600 points, or nearly seven percent of the world’s ocean.

With the recent commitments made by governments around the world, the world is on track to protect more than 10 percent of the oceans by 2020. This endeavor is considered important to protect the oceans and coastal areas from the effects of climate change and overfishing, among another.

Our Ocean Conference 2018 aims to enhance partnerships between various marine stakeholders, and produce a commitment to maintain the sustainability of the oceans. This year’s conference focuses on marine conservation areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution and the impacts of climate change on the oceans as well as cross-sectoral themes such as sustainable blue economy and maritime resilience. (kmb)

Entangled in cocaine cases

Russian man charged with six years in prison

DENPASAR - A man from Russia, the defendant Rybinikov Vladimir Aleksandrovich, 41, charged with a cocaine-type narcotic case on Monday (Oct. 29), was sentenced to six-year imprisonment.

Prosecutor Putu Gede Juliarsana stated the defendant’s actions were found guilty in the first charge. He has violated Article 112 paragraph 1 of the Republic of Indonesia’s

Law No. 35/2009 concerning Narcotics. Other than being physically punished for six years, the defendant was also charged with paying a fine of IDR 1 billion, with subsidiary confinement of three months in jail for the case of five packages of cocaine weighing 4.32 grams.

Previously, the prosecutor explained that the case began with

information obtained by police that there was foreigner getting involved in drugs. On April 27, 2018, police conducted an investigation and found the defendant in front of Miranda Shop on Jalan Majapahit, Kuta. Based on the information, Mohamad Sjarani and Nyoman Oka Risnawan, posing police personnel, saw the defendant calling at road side. On

the suspicion, they immediately arrested the Russian citizen. From the search, they found a number of plastic clips containing cocaine found in the shorts worn by the defendant.

With the evidence, police then searched the defendant’s residence at the Bali Vie Apartment Room #2014 on Jalan Nakula, Legian.

Again, police also found two

plastic clips containing suspected cocaine powder inserted into the defendant’s reading book. “Based on the results of investigation, the defendant claimed to purchase the cocaine from someone at the F Bar with a price of IDR 3 million per package,” said the prosecutor while adding the total price of the five packages was IDR 15 million. (kmb37)

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Oceana supports fishery transparency and reduction of plastic production

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Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun.

NASA spacecraft breaks record for coming closest to Sun

TAMPA - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, the US space agency announced Monday.

“The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles (42.73 million kilometers) from the Sun’s surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 pm EDT (1704 GMT),” said a NASA statement.

“The previous record for closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976.”

The $1.5 billion unmanned spacecraft launched in August, on

a strategic mission to protect the Earth by unveiling the mysteries of dangerous solar storms.

Its goal is make a series of 24 flybys past our scorching star.

Another record is in sight for the

Parker Solar Probe.

The spaceship is “expected to break the record for fastest spacecraft traveling relative to the Sun on Oct. 29 at about 10:54 pm EDT (Tuesday 0254 GMT),” NASA said.

“The current record for heliocentric speed is 153,454 miles

(246,960 kilometers) per hour, set

by Helios 2 in April 1976.”

Parker’s first close encounter with the Sun is scheduled for October 31.

Its final close approach -- coming just 3.83 million miles from the Sun’s surface -- is expected in 2024, NASA said. (afp)

‘A cyber-attack could stop the country’

SAN FRANCISCO - Superfast 5G mobile broadband could power smart cities and the internet of things, (IoT) but as more devices get connected, telecoms and security experts are warning that cyber-attacks could increase in number and severity.

Our homes and cities are getting “smarter” - thermostats, video doorbells, sprinkler systems, street

lights, traffic cameras, cars. all connected to the internet, collecting and transmitting useful data.

And 5G superfast mobile is seen as a catalyst that will light up this massive network.

GSMA Intelligence forecasts that there will be more than 25 billion “internet of things” connections by 2025.

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The internet of things promises great benefits but comes with higher security risks.

But experts are queuing up to issue stark warnings about security.

“Security around IoT devices hasn’t been very good, so if they’re opened up to better connectivity they’re opened up to more hackers, too,” says Cody Brocious, education lead at security consultancy HackerOne. “Not enough is being done to improve their security, and it’s only going to get worse when they become 5G-connected. We’ll see increases in spam and cyber-attacks.”

Steve Buck, chief operating officer at telecoms security company Evolved Intelligence, goes so far as to say that “5G will power critical infrastructure, so a cyber-attack could stop the country.”

The problem is that a lot of these IoT devices - think small sensors measuring air humidity or temperature, for example - are cheap and need to have a very long battery life.

“Implementing good security into such devices will require more processing power and this drives

up costs and drains power,” says 5G expert Dave Burstein, editor of WirelessOne.news.

Which is why it won’t happen.

The danger is that insecure devices will provide rich pickings for hackers. Just this month, internet security firm Sophos Labs warned about a new “family of denial-ofservice bots we’re calling Chalubo” targeting IoT devices.

The malware tries to recruit insecure devices into a botnet that can be commanded to bombard websites with requests and knock them out. Hackers then normally ask for a ransom to stop the attack.

“Google and Facebook spend billions on security and both have recently been hacked,” says Mr Burstein.

“If they can’t be fully protected, how can an ordinary person be expected to secure the dozen or more connected devices many of us will soon have?”

This is why Jeff Lipton, vice president of WaterSmart in San

Francisco, a company that makes connected programmable water meters, thinks “these systems need to be very carefully thought through before rushing to make every device in a city smart”.

And it isn’t just the devices themselves that are vulnerable - the network potentially is, too.

“With 5G we’ll be consuming services from all over the place, so we want to deliver those services very quickly as close to the customer as possible to reduce latency [delay],” says Adam MacHale, managing director of technology strategy at IT and networking firm Cisco Systems.

So instead of one central delivery centre serving an entire country, there’ll be thousands of local ones, he explains.

“But this increases the threat surface [the number of potential weak points in a network that hackers can attack] and the risk.”

It’s a point reiterated by Michele Zarri, technical director at GSMA, the organisation representing the global mobile industry. (IBP/net)

MANGUPURA — In the Our Ocean Conference taking place on October 29-30 in Nusa Dua, the Oceana global marine conservation organization fully supports the efforts to increase transparency in world fisheries and reduce plastic production. The conference attended by leaders from a number of countries in the world aims to make real and applicable commitments to safeguard and save our oceans.

According to Joshua Jackson, an actor and marine activist, the participation of Oceana in the conference serves as a commitment to saving the ocean from the threat of overfishing, illegal fishing, and destroying habitats. “We have polluted our oceans, taken excessive fish, and killed too many valuable species and life under the sea,” he said in Nusa Dua on Sunday (Oct. 28).

Chief Executive Officer of Oceana, Andrew Sharpless, stated that Oceana noted there is about a third of the world’s fish stock having been overfished. Modern pirates continue to loot our oceans, threatening countries that depend on seafood as their main source of protein. Destructive fishing methods such as trawling (bottom trawling) continue to damage the corals that are old and the species below them.

Besides, fishermen continue to dispose of seafood and wildlife that are accidentally caught as bait. Important marine life, such as sharks, continues to decline in number due to excessive shark fishing and the practice of brutal shark fin cutting followed by the disposal of shark bodies into the sea.

The Oceana Campaign means to improve transparency in fisheries management and use international approach to win and get policies that can restore and increase the abundance of the sea. Indonesia has adopted an important example by creating Vessel Tracking Data so that it can be open to the public sphere and now Peru has followed it. The global movement for transparency starts here in Indonesia,” he said.

Meanwhile, Jacqueline Savitz as Chief Policy Officer of the Oceana added that currently the threat faced every day is plastic. At least, there are 17.6 billion pounds of plastic waste entering the ocean each year.

However, Indonesia, like other countries in the world, sees threats directly in the ocean.

The actor who is also a marine activist, environmentalist and member of Oceana’s celebrity supporter Nadine Chandrawinata, said the efforts to overcome plastic waste and other pollution are very important for our marine ecosystems and for the future of our economy. “On that account, I am very pleased that Indonesia is given the trust to host the Fifth Our Ocean Conference in Bali,” she said.

Approximately 1.29 million metric tons of plastic are estimated to enter the ocean from Indonesia every year. This is an important role to help find solutions to the plastic crisis. “We can start by refusing to use plastic bottles, straws, and single-use bags, but it is not just our job. We have to demand the companies to stop producing more plastic in our country and sea,” he added. (kmb23)

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The Our Ocean Conference taking place on October 29-30 in Nusa Dua.

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Governor of Bali, I Wayan Koster (c), during the National Electricity Day (HLN) ceremony held in Renon Square on Saturday (Oct. 27).

Other than renewable energy, Bali also needs energy independency LNG hub to be built in Bali

DENPASAR — The government launched a mix of renewable energy (EBT) of 23 percent in 2025. In accordance with the vision of the governor of Bali, it is expected to be the largest renewable energy contribution from Bali. Thus, the renewable energy mix in Bali is targeted to be more than 23 percent.

Governor of Bali, I Wayan Koster, in his remarks during the National Electricity Day (HLN) ceremony held in Renon Square on Saturday (Oct. 27) said that Bali Province does not have conventional energy resources (oil, gas and coal) and has relatively not too big renewable energy potential.

So, the concept of Bali Energy Independency will try to be fully realized. However, it does not rule out the possibility of also utilizing technological breakthroughs and the utilization of renewable energy will be able to fulfill partially of the Bali’s energy needs in a sustainable manner.

According to him, the use of renewable energy is not optimal due to land problems. There are insufficient regulations governing energy and electricity in the region, availability of competent human resources as well as limited technology resulting in relatively expensive costs that causes investment to be less attractive.

On the same occasion, GM of the PLN Bali Distribution, I Ny-

oman Suwarjoni Astawa, said that from several hearings with the governor of Bali, there are several big plans to be carried out, where one of which is the construction of LNG hub in Bali. This will be one of the ways to reduce fuel consumption for plants in Bali. “Then, surely it is how to utilize the potential of renewable energy in Bali,” he said. If the LNG hub is built, Bali can build a large gas-fueled plant in Bali and it will be even able to supply for Java.

Other than LNG Hub, Bali will also utilize renewable energy from the Suwung landfill waste plant (PLTSa). It takes 2-3 years to build so the waste power plant with the capacity of 20 MW is expected be built in 2021.

President Director of PT Indonesia Power, Sripeni Inten Cahyani, in the recent general lecture of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources at Udayana University said the search for investors to collaborate with Indonesia Power can be obtained this October.

“At least, the deadline is this

November, and the winner has been determined so that the next process can be followed up, for example starting with detailed engineering design,” said Astawa. More than 10 investors already applied for the waste power plant project at the Suwung Landfill.

Most of them are foreign investment such as from China, Japan and Europe. In addition to waste power plant, Bali also opened an investment opportunity for the construction of a solar power plant (PLTS) with the capacity of 25 MW. “There are already 2x25 auction plans in East and West Bali, where each of which has the capacity of 25 MW,” he said.

The auction will be carried out in November, and in 2020 the solar power plants are expected to start operating. He stated that currently a total of six investors have submitted their proposals. Although Bali will build a number of large capacities of renewable energy sources, it remains to needs a companion generator. So, the power connection to Java is still needed. (kmb42)

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Worker’s salary of hotel must be more than SMEs MANGUPURA - The Badung district government stipulated salaries for tourism workers, especially those of star-rated hotels, to get salaries more than the district minimum wage (UMK). The amount of income for three-, four- and five-star hotels is set forth at 5 percent above the district minimum wage.

The Head of the Badung Industry and Manpower Agency, Ida Bagus Oka Dirga, said the revenue for tourism workers is determined based on sectoral minimum wages (UMS).

“Nominally, it is 5 percent above the district minimum wage and temporarily only implemented by three-, four- and five-star hotels in Badung,” said Oka Dirga, recently.

According to him, the sectoral minimum wage is one of the government’s alignments to the workers in Badung. Nevertheless, the sectoral minimum wages is still applied to certain sectors. However, currently the regulation has only been established in the tourism sector because it has the opportunity and allows applying the sectoral minimum wages.

“The sectoral minimum wages are implemented based on eight indicators. Initially, it was finalized by the Wage Council and continued to be submitted to the organization overseeing the hotels, namely the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).

After being approved by the PHRI, the sectoral minimum wages is implemented,” he explained.

This former Head of Mengwi subdistrict said the sectoral minimum wages policy had been carried out by all the five-star hotels having agreed it.

Previously, Chairman of the FSP Bali of Badung district, Wayan Suyasa, asserted his organization will plan an inspection or field coordination and come down to the company to see closely why the company does not implement the provisions of the district minimum wage and sectoral minimum wages.

“If this has not been implemented, definitely the company has sacrificed the most vital assets, namely the workers. We will coordinate with the legislative, especially the Commission IV, which handles labor issues,” he said.

This Golkar Party politician said the sectoral minimum wage should have been implemented by three-star hotels and upwards.

Indeed, this provision was just implemented last year so there are still obstacles hampering the application of this provision in the field.

“Like the district minimum wage having not been implemented, it will soon be coordinated with tripartite and with a careful and closer look at the company,” he explained, while adding that at present the district minimum wage in Badung approaches IDR 2.5 million or to be exact, IDR 2,499,580 per month. As for sectoral minimum wages, the amount is about 5 percent greater than the district minimum wage. (kmb27)

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A tale of two islands: Brexit blues hit Caribbean cousins

THE VALLEY - The tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla lives in harmony with neighbouring Saint Martin but the borders could soon be going up in this sun-soaked paradise due to Brexit.

Robusta coffee of Pupuan is positive to be exported.

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Farmer groups to meet 18 tons of coffee export demand

ROBUSTA coffee of Pupuan is positive to be exported by Ventura Coffee or Fortanium as much as 18 tons or one container.

To fulfill this demand, the exporting company is going to work with farmers that are ready, especially those that have applied red picking. Some farmers in Pupuan claimed to be unready because the application of the red picking had not been done.

Division Head of Plantation, Dewa Budidana Susila, stated on Sunday (Oct. 28) that certainty of this export has been confirmed that Ventura Coffee (Fortanium) has agreed to buy Robusta coffee of Pupuan for export purposes. “This has been coordinated. Later on, the coffee will be taken from farmers having included in the Community of Geographical Indications (MPIG) under coordination of one person, namely the Chairperson of the MPIG,” said Dewa Budi.

The requirement requested by Ventura Coffee is the red picking coffee. To fulfill this, farmers have to harvest when the coffee bean remains red. Dewa Budi added that farmers in Pupuan should be prepared with this export demand. The establishment of the MPIG in 2018 is indeed intended for this purpose. “Why do we establish the MPIG whose members are 30 subak abian (garden farmer cooperative) groups in Pupuan? This has the purpose to meet export demand. With the MPIG means the maintenance to the coffee harvest has been in accordance with the SOP requested for export,” explained Dewa Budi.

Therefore, the fulfillment of this year’s export demand will be prioritized for farmers who are genuinely ready. For export demand

in 2019, all the farmers in subak abian group included in the MPIG are expected to be able to comply with the export requirements.

For the fulfillment of exports, Dewa Budi added that farmers do not get direct cash payment, but only get down payment as much as 10 percent. Full payment will be made if the demanded coffee has complied with the requirements as requested. He said that farmers used to get cash when selling their coffee.

Therefore, they are not yet familiar with such payment system so that some choose to sell their coffee directly to collectors. Actually, by meeting the export quota, the price received by farmers is higher than the market price.

One of the coffee farmers at Belatungan village, Pupuan, I Ketut Ringin, claimed that he cannot fulfill the quota because the coffee harvest at Belatungan village is not as good as usual. “The weather is not good so the coffee beans fall down before harvest time,” he said.

Currently, he can only harvest 700 kilograms for an area of 0.80 hectare where in normal harvest and good weather he normally can get one ton. Besides, he has not applied the red picking harvest optimally and still sells his mixed coffee to collectors. “Red picking

can only be applied as much as 10 percent because last year the price of red picking in mixed bean was not much different. Currently the price of mixed coffee is IDR 22,000 per kilogram,” said Ringin.

By becoming a member of the MPIG in 2018, Ringin hoped to be able to apply larger red picking in next year’s harvest. Besides, he hoped that the price of red picking coffee will be more competitive, A different matter was explained by the Head of Pajahan BUMDes, Made Marsudi Cahyadi.

According to him the coffee harvest at Pajahan village is actually very good. One hectare can produce two tons of coffee. This is possible because the weather at Pajahan village supports.

“The weather in Pupuan is not the same. Some are good while some others are not. So, the coffee harvest is also like that,” he said.

Regarding the export demand, although he has not heard, according to Cahyadi, farmers at Pajahan will be ready because BUMDes had been guided to implement red picking. ”I personally have not got any information about such exports. However, if asked to do red picking, Pajahan village is ready because local farmers have applied it,” he explained. (kmb24)

Five miles (eight kilometres) of turquoise sea separate the British overseas territory of Anguilla from Saint Martin, a larger island split between two European Union states: France in the northern half and the Dutch-run south.

Chief Minister Victor Banks said Anguillians consider Saint Martin as “downtown Anguilla”.

“People go there to go to shopping, to make business, or get, for example, medical services,” he told AFP. Britain is more than 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometres) away from the pristine white beaches fringing Anguilla, an island 16 miles (26 km) long by three miles (five km) wide, with a 15,000-strong population.

After a 25-minute ferry ride, visitors from Saint Martin stroll straight through the entry checks at what is left of the port at Blowing Point. Anguilla and its neighbour were ravaged by Hurricane Irma in September last year.

“People here in this part of the world have very, very, very close family ties,” said Tim Foy, the British civil servant who is the head of state Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in the territory.

The 2017 records were partially lost in Hurricane Irma but he said there were around 300,000 movements of people between Anguilla and Saint Martin in 2016.

Free movement of goods and

people between the three administrations is a historical mainstay, said Sherman Williams, finance manager of the Anguilla Air and Sea Ports Authority, which runs Anguilla’s three harbours and its small airstrip.

The traditional arrangement was legally reinforced by EU rules but is now in question due to Britain’s decision to leave the bloc. Internally self-governing Anguilla did not take part in the 2016 vote.

Anguilla’s capital and largest town, The Valley, is strung out around three main roads, punctuated with occasional administrative buildings, small grocery stores and some under-occupied modern buildings with herds of goats occasionally roaming by.

- ‘Separation of families’ There are few immediate concerns about the island’s economic health.

EU development aid accounts for only one to two percent of Anguilla’s budget at $6-7 million and the island’s government is planning on negotiating post-Brexit replacement money with London.

Around 80 percent of Anguilla’s economy is based on services, notably offshore finance and tourism, which rely on smooth cross-border flows.

Most longer-haul tourists come via the bigger airport on Saint Mar-

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A picture taken on October 23, 2018 shows a neighbourood in Anguilla, a British overseas territory. The tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla lives in harmony with neighbouring Saint Martin but the borders could soon be going up in this sun-soaked paradise due to Brexit. tin, famous for its runway right by the beach.

“We don’t know exactly what Brexit means for Anguilla,” said Shellya Rogers, the Anguilla Tourist Board’s corporate affairs manager.

While 80 percent of the island’s tourists come from the United States, European visitors “may have a few more restrictions on travelling”, including possibly visas, she said.

There are also concerns in Britain’s other Caribbean overseas territories: the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Banks said they were working together but none faced the same challenges as Anguilla, relying so closely as it does on its neighbour split between EU states.

Daniel Gibbs, the president of the territorial council of French Saint-Martin, is Banks’s cousin and

shares his point of view.

He hopes Brexit will not impose dramatic changes on the two islands.

“We are determined to put in place a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the exchanges that have always characterised our relationship,” said Gibbs.

Williams summed up how citizens in the three jurisdictions see themselves as one and the same. (afp)

Quake rattles New Zealand as Harry and Meghan visit

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Britain’s Prince Harry (2nd R) and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (2nd L) attend a reception hosted by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (R) at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland on October 30, 2018.

WELLINGTON - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of central New Zealand Tuesday, where British royals Meghan and Harry are on tour, but officials said it caused no major damage.

The quake was felt in Wellington during a session of parliament, prompting lawmakers to stop deliberations and seek refuge as a precaution.

There was no tsunami threat and the quake was not strongly felt in Auckland, where the touring royals continued with a public walkabout on the city’s waterfront.

Reporters travelling with the couple said they did not feel any tremors during the quake, which the US Geological Survey (USGS) gave a magnitude of 6.1.

New Zealand’s official GeoNet

seismic monitoring service said a 6.2 quake struck at a depth of 207 kilometres (128 miles) in the central North Island about 340 kilometres northeast of Wellington.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was widely felt across the centre of the country, despite the depth of the epicentre, and urged Kiwis to “check on those around you”.

Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi said there had been no reports of damage or injuries.

“I think some people might be a little nervy and that’s understandable but it’s just a case of following those safety messages and being prepared,” he told reporters.

“I think if there was anything major we’d know by now.”

Faafoi said proceedings in par-

liament house were temporarily suspended because of heavy shaking in the building.

“We all felt it in the house, I was in there at the time... and just for the immediate safety of those in the house (the speaker) saw fit to suspend proceedings,” he said.

“I think that was the wise thing to do as we felt it quite heavily.”

New Zealand lies on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, which form part of the so-called “Ring of Fire”, and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year.

A shallow 6.3 quake in the South Island city of Christchurch killed 185 people in 2011, while a 7.8 shake slightly further north in 2016 was the second strongest ever recorded in the country. (afp)

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BUSINESS UK to start taxing big internet companies

LONDON - Britain’s Treasury chief unveiled Monday a new tax on big internet companies’ revenues, insisting it is time that the global tech giants with profitable business in the U.K. pay their fair share for public services.

Philip Hammond made the announcement as he outlined his budget, explaining that while he preferred trying to find a global solution to address the borderless nature of the wealth of the likes of Google and Facebook, negotiations with other countries had been too slow.

He said the tax will be “narrowly-targeted” on the U.K.-generated revenues of specific digital platform business models.

“The rules have simply not kept pace with changing business models,” Hammond said. “And it’s clearly not sustainable, or fair, that digital platform businesses can generate substantial value in the U.K. without paying tax here in respect of that business.”

Companies typically pay their taxes where they are based. But while local governments can impose a sales tax on physical goods in shops and restaurants, that has not been the case with online service providers.

And in the European Union, foreign companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook pay what tax they owe in the country where they have their regional base — usually a low tax haven like Ireland. So their business generates little to no tax revenue in countries, like the U.K., where they have significant operations.

Hammond said the digital sales tax will be structured to apply to “established tech giants” rather than tech startups and was at pains to emphasize that it was “not a online-sales tax on goods ordered over the internet.” It will only apply to firms making 500 million pounds ($640 million) a year in global revenues. The text will come into effect in April 2020 and is forecast to bring in 400 million

pounds a year.

Dan Neidle, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, said the tax could chill innovation and, given the dominance of the tech giants in the United States, would likely be met with a hostile reception by the Trump administration.

“For 100 years, businesses have been taxed based on where they are, not where their customers are,” he said. “The digital tax represents a revolutionary change - it taxes digital companies, regardless of their legal structure, if they have users in the U.K. There are many - particularly in the U.S. - who will regard limiting that revolution to one particular sector as opportunistic, particularly when it’s a sector where the U.K. (and Europe as a whole) have conspicuously failed to create world-beating businesses.”

The announcement came as Hammond splashed out on health services in a spending plan signaling the easing of eight years of austerity with a modest uplift in public spending and few major tax increases.

Hammond declared the end is in sight for the budget cuts implemented by a series of Conservativeled governments after the global financial crisis, reiterating a commitment made by Prime Minister Theresa May this month. But he cautioned that the government’s plans to end austerity could be thrown off track if Britain fails to secure a deal that protects trade with the EU. Hammond said improving public finances after years of belttightening meant he could give government departments a realterms spending boost next year.

Beneficiaries include the Ministry of Defense, which will get an extra

both rose 1.2 percent, with the former at 2,681.01 and the latter at 7,250.97.

Some analysts attributed the gains to bargain-hunting as a bruising month for Wall Street nears its conclusion. The S&P 500 was down 8.7 percent for the month through Friday due to a broad-based selloff on worries over slowing earnings

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and the People’s Government of Guilin, China held the 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook on 25-27 October 2018. This year’s edition – ‘The Future of Tourism: Road to 2030´, aligns with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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1 billion pounds.

There was also more money for mental-health services and social care, and 1 billion pounds to ease the transition to a simplified benefits system known as Universal Credit. Small businesses got a cut in property tax rates, and workers will see an increase in the amount they can earn before paying income tax.

“Austerity is coming to an end - but discipline will remain,” Hammond said.

The pressure has been on for May’s administration. Government workers and the public have been agitating to end years of austerity

that have slashed funding for everything from law and order to schools as May and her predecessor sought to close the budget deficit.

Police are warning they don’t have the resources to fight crime; school principals are marching with demands to help children; and the military is concerned about its eroding ability to defend the nation. Further complicating the picture, the government is pushing ahead with plans to roll out a new comprehensive welfare program that critics say will leave the most vulnerable worse off.

Hammond got some help in

meeting the demands from an unexpected increase in tax revenue.

The independent Office of Budget Responsibility upgraded its forecast for economic growth in 2019 from 1.3 percent to 1.6 percent, then expects 1.4 percent in 2020 and 2021, 1.5 percent in 2022, and 1.6 percent in 2023.

But Hammond said further specifics on which programs would get more money would have to wait until next year — after Brexit talks are completed. If the negotiations collapse, a no-deal scenario would represent a “very big transition” in the way the economy operates. (ap)

growth, higher interest rates and rising geopolitical tensions.

“There is a bid in the stock market this morning that has been aided by the belief the market is due for a meaningful bounce from short-term oversold conditions,” said Briefing. com analyst Patrick O’Hare.

Sentiment was also lifted by reports that China is weighing a tax

cut on car purchases, lifting Ford by 5.8 percent and General Motors 4.5 percent. Analysts also cited IBM’s plan to buy open source software company Rad Hat for $34 billion as lifting investor optimism. Red Hat surged 48.8 percent, while Dow member IBM shed 2.8 percent.

This week’s calendar includes reports from Apple, Facebook and

Exxon Mobil, as well key US economic reports such as the October US jobs report.

The Commerce Department also reported Monday that inflation pressures remained tame in September, something investors were likely to welcome as it would not add to pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates. (afp)

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The 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum Looks Into the Future of Tourism

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses for the media as he holds up the traditional red dispatch box, outside his official residence 11 Downing Street before delivering his annual budget speech to Parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.

US stocks bounce after big IBM acquisition

US stocks rose early Monday, bouncing from multi-month lows following a big IBM acquisition and reports that China is weighing a tax cut on car purchases. About 12 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.8 percent at 24,875.68.

The broad-based S&P 500 and tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index

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“Digital advances provide opportunities to tourism in order to enhance inclusiveness, community empowerment and efficient resource management to achieve the SDGs. Yet to do so, we need to better understand where tourism is heading so we can adopt the adequate policies and business strategies.” said UNWTO Executive Director Shanzhong Zhu at the event.

International tourist arrivals in Asia and the Pacific grew 6% in 2017 to reach a total of 323 million. Rapid economic growth in emerging economy markets, rising air connectivity, more affordable travel and enhanced visa facilitation continue to fuel tourism from within and outside the region. Asian destinations earned USD 390 billion in international tourism receipts in 2017, 29% of the global figure, a share that has steadily increased from 17% in 2000. China, the world´s top spender in international tourism and fourth largest destination, has been one of the main drivers behind this growth.

Dr. Ian Yeoman, travel and tourism futurologist, delivered the keynote speech on the future of tourism, highlighting the importance of societal behaviours towards a sustainable future and the distribution of wealth generated by tourism, as main drivers of change.

Furthermore, topics covered at the Forum included how digital advances and data can be used to support sustainable tourism for development. Presentations were made by Google, TripAdvisor, Vynn Capital, STR, the European Travel Commission as well as research and policymakers from across different countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Forum concluded by emphasising the need for transformation and seize the opportunities brought by innovation and technology to move sustainability to the next level.

The 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook drew more than 220 experts from 22 countries, among which representatives from National Tourism Administrations, National Tourism Organizations, tourism businesses and academics.

With the longstanding collaboration of the HongKong Polytechnic University, the Forum has become over the last 12 years a reference platform on global and regional tourism trends. (r)

Black Roasted Suckling Pig, Have You Ever Tried?

Foodies of Balinese delicacies have certainly been familiar with the name of the roasted suckling pig. One of the culinary centers of roasted suckling pig can be found in Kerambitan subdistrict, Tabanan.

Unfortunately, to date the basic ingredient of this roasted suckling pig is not the black Bali pig posing typical Balinese pig.

Most culinary entrepreneurs tend to prefer landrace due to faster harvest whereas the taste is much different. What are the steps of preservation of the black Balinese pig suspected of getting rarer?.

Black pig (local pig of Bali) is provided with organic feed, so the texture of the meat is very chewy.

Indeed, it requires longer raising period than landrace pigs.

Unfortunately this black pig is now getting very rare, even almost

extinct. The desire to preserve Balinese black pig population eventually emerged from the Kerambitan sub-district head, I Gede Sukanada.

He wanted in the Kerambitan Festival IV to be held next October; the cuisine of Balinese black pig can be enjoyed by foodies of roasted suckling pig in particular.

“Earlier, we invite a number of foodies of roasted suckling pig to enjoy the taste of black pork that we name free event,” said I Gede Sukanada amid the event of black roasted suckling pig at Mandung hamlet, Sembung Gede, Kerambitan, Sunday (Apr. 8).

Through this event he would like to get some inputs so the taste of black roasted suckling pig can be accepted by the tongue of foodies.

The efforts to preserve Balinese black pigs will be initiated by

giving black piglets to the poor whose funding source is supported

by UPK funds (formerly PNPM).

“Next month, we are going to launch black pig breeding to the poor and the piglets are ready,” he explained.

Provision of Balinese pig breeding in May is expected to support the Kerambitan Festival IV to be held in October. “On the one hand, we give the piglets. After growing bigger, we plan to make a bazaar in October that will serve the black Balinese roasted suckling pig. Meanwhile, the benefits of this activity will be allocated for the conservation of Tyto Alba owl population at Timpag village,” he said.

As understood, Timpag village keeps trying to maintain the population of Tyto Alba owls. The owl

is taken advantage to prevent the occurrence of rodent pests. Indeed it is very good. Besides, it does not harm the natural potential, and can overcome the pest attack of rats with owls. At the same time, it

also maintains the balance of nature itself. One of the most urgent things is the intention to build the home to the owl breeding because this owl is not proficient in looking for a place to stay. (kmb)

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Brazil enters new era with far-right president-elect

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil entered a new era Monday after electing its next president, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman who vowed a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country.

Bolsonaro, who openly admires Brazil’s former military dictatorship and shocked many with his derogatory remarks on women, gays and blacks, won 55 percent of the vote in a run-off election Sunday -- more than 10 points ahead of leftist opponent Fernando Haddad.

Having channeled voters’ anger with corruption, crime and economic malaise, the man dubbed the “Tropical Trump” will now get down to work seeking to “change Brazil’s destiny” -- the promise he made in his victory speech.

Markets reacted positively to the

win by the business-world favorite, who will take office on January 1 -- though profit-taking set in later in the day.

The Sao Paulo stock exchange’s main index opened up more than three percent, after adding 10 percent in a month as Bolsonaro surged in the polls, before falling 2.24 percent into the red at the close.

The Brazilian real hit its strongest in six months against the dollar, then retreated slightly.

After a deeply polarizing election, many Brazilians seem eager to turn the page, hoping for the best as

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Supporters of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, celebrate in front of his house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after he won Brazil’s presidential election, on October 28, 2018.

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“We are prioritising finding the main wreckage of the plane using five war ships equipped with sonar to detect metal underwater,” said Yusuf Latif, spokesman of the Indonesian search and rescue agency.

The plane was en route to Pangkal Pinang city, a jumping off point for beach-and-sun seeking tourists on nearby Belitung island, when it dropped out of contact around 6:30 am (2330 GMT).

The pilot and co-pilot had more than 11,000 hours flying time between them and had undergone

recent medical checkups and drug testing, the carrier said. Aviation analysts said it was too early to determine what caused the accident.

But they said investigators would look at everything from catastrophic mechanical failure and pilot error to weather conditions or unusual cockpit activity that could point to a hijacking or pilot suicide.

“Locating the so-called black boxes is most important now -- both the voice and data recorders,” said Terence Fan, an aviation expert at the Singapore Management University. “That should show how the aircraft and pilots

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the country takes what even many Bolsonaro supporters acknowledge is a leap into the unknown.

“Maybe now, with this renewal, things will improve in this country,” Bolsonaro voter Jocemil Clacino, a 66-year-old shopkeeper in Rio de Janeiro, told AFP. For Bolsonaro’s opponents, however, the bitterness runs deep.

“These elections revealed the worst in humanity. People let out everything they had been too afraid to talk about. It made me feel terrible. But we’ll have to carry on,” said Adriana Calvi, 55.

- ‘What’s a minority?’ -

Bolsonaro, 63, has outraged many with his overtly misogynistic, homophobic and racist rhetoric.

But he vowed in his first interview as president-elect to govern for all Brazilians.

Asked if he would respect the rights of minorities, he asked, “What’s a minority?”

“We’re all the same. I’m no different from you. I don’t care what color your skin is, your sexual orientation, where you’re from, your gender. We’re the same,” he told TV network Record.

“I think if we achieve that equality for all, everyone will be satisfied.”

He appeared relaxed at his home in Rio, where he has mostly remained since leaving the hospital after an attacker stabbed him in the belly at a rally on September 6. (afp) actually behaved.”

On Monday, Lion Air acknowledged the plane had an unspecified technical issue fixed in Bali before it was flown back to Jakarta, calling it “normal procedure”.

Data from that flight suggested the plane may have flown erratically and a technical log circulating on social media pointed to different speed and altitude readings on the captain and first officer’s instruments.

“It is not clear whether the problem was really resolved since the doomed flight was the first departure after the problem was supposedly fixed,” Fan said. On

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In Mexico, skull faces to scare away US-style Halloween MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s Day of the Dead is almost here, so on weekends the streets teem with Catrinas -- people dressed up with elaborate skull faces that recall an old symbol of Mexican political and social satire in a bid to fight an invasion of US-style Halloween celebrations.

AFP took photos of some of the thousands of parade-goers who wore wild, colorful costumes and had their faces turned into that of death itself by expert body painters.

Jessica Esquivias, a procession organizer, was dressed all in black, with a big red-and-white flower arrangement atop a fancy hair-do and a thick string of pearls around her neck. Her skeleton face features huge teeth and eyes.

Last weekend saw the first of several parades planned for the Day of the Dead, which is November 2.

It was the fifth year of these processions, which seek to rekindle Mexican traditions that are under pressure from Halloween festivities.

The Catrina craze started when promoters saw that in Mexican markets, most of the party-oriented garb for sale at this time of year was witch, monster and vampire costumes.

They called in body painting experts to help people dress up as Catrinas at a reasonable price.

So what is a Catrina?

Originally it was the name of an etching by the artist Jose Guadalupe Posada in the early 20th century, as the Mexican Revolution that would topple dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1911 was gaining steam.

The first of these illustrations was of a skeleton, meant to depict a high-society lady wearing only a fancy French-style hat -- a satirical barb aimed at the rich. Diaz was known to love extravagance and all things European. The image was also used to make fun of many other human foibles.

Posada’s original name for the caricature was the “Catrina Garbancera,” using a term for poor Mexicans who were ashamed of their indigenous roots and tried to come across as European.

The image had a powerful influence on other arts and artists including the muralist Diego Rivera.

In the parade, a reveler named Jossy Javier wore her hair down, a tight-fitting black outfit with a sash like that of a beauty queen, her face decorated with different shades of white and flowers on her head.

Donovan Sanchez, a tall and muscular man sporting tattoos, donned an indigenous-style headdress with feathers in various shades of blue that matched the tones of his striking skull face.

Anna Miller, a German who came to Mexico to live with her Mexican boyfriend, chose something a bit more simple, wearing her hair in the style of the artist Frida Kahlo. (afp)

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Sony Setiawan (C) speaks to journalists at Pangkal Pinang airport in Bangka Belitung province on October 29, 2018, following his arrival on another airline after missing his pre-planned flight on Lion Air flight JT 610 which crashed off the coast north of Jakarta.

Traffic saved Indonesian man from doomed Lion Air flight

An Indonesian man has described how Jakarta’s notorious traffic inadvertently saved his life on Monday after he arrived too late to catch the doomed Lion Air plane which plunged into the sea minutes after taking off. its last flight, the jet was travelling at a much faster speed than would be expected, but the pilot did not declare an emergency or attempt a water landing.”That might mean the plane was out of control,” said aviation analyst Dudi Sudibyo.

Boeing suspended release of the fuel-efficient 737 MAX just days before its first commercial delivery last year due to an issue with engines.

Lion Air, Indonesia’s biggest budget airline which has been engaged in huge expansion, announced earlier this year it was buying 50 Boeing 737 MAX 10 jets for $6.24 billion.

- Fake news, safety woes -

Indonesia’s air travel industry is booming but regulation and safety woes remain a major concern. In 2014, an AirAsia crash in the Java Sea during stormy weather killed 162 people.

Lion has been involved in a number of incidents including a fatal 2004 crash and a collision between two Lion Air planes at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta airport.

A string of fake news stories have been circulating about the crash, including one that falsely claims to show a baby who survived. (afp)

Sony Setiawan, an official in Indonesia’s finance ministry, had meant to be on board the ill-fated flight JT610, a journey he and his colleagues caught on a weekly basis.

But while his friends battled their way through Jakarta’s daily congestion to make the flight, Sony found himself stuck on a toll road for hours. “I usually take (flight) JT610 -- my friends and I always take this plane,” Setiawan told AFP. “I don’t know why the traffic at the toll road was so bad. I usually arrive in Jakarta at 3am but this morning I arrived at the airport at 6:20 and I missed the flight.”

That gridlock likely saved Setiawan’s life as officials warned it was

unlikely anyone would have survived such a crash.

But Setiawan said any gratitude he felt was tinged with the knowledge so many people, including six of his colleagues, were not so fortunate. “The first time I heard I cried,” he said. “I know my friends were on that flight.”

Setiawan, who is from Bandung in West Java, said he managed to catch a second flight to Pangkal Pinang city and only learned of the crash once he landed safely.

The call he made to his briefly stricken family was filled with emotion.

“My family was in shock and my mother cried, but I told them I was safe, so I just have to be grateful,” he said.

Some 189 people on board the plane when it vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the Java Sea off Indonesia’s most populous island.

The finance ministry said around 20 of its employees were on the plane.

Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said it was “likely” all passengers and crew were killed in the accident, as it found body parts of some victims.

A sprawling and haphazardly planned megacity, Jakarta is known for having some of Southeast Asia’s worst traffic congestion with lengthy tailbacks and hours-long delays a daily frustrating ritual for commuters. (afp)

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Thompson breaks three-point record as Warriors gore Bulls CHICAGO - Klay Thompson scored a record-breaking 14 threepointers as the Golden State Warriors maintained their blistering start to the season with a 149-124 demolition of the Chicago Bulls on Monday.

Thompson broke teammate Stephen Curry’s NBA record for most three-point field goals in a single game of 13 when he nailed his 14th three of the night midway through the third quarter at the United Center.

The 28-year-old Thompson -- who has struggled to find his scoring touch in the opening weeks of the season -finished the game with 52 points as the Warriors improved to 6-1 in the Western Conference.

Thompson later revealed Curry had urged him to go for his record as he continued to drain a series of threepointers.

“Before I went out for the second half, Steph just looked at the box score and said ‘Go get it,’” Thompson told reporters.

“That shows the unselfishness that’s within him. Same with K.D (Kevin Durant), Draymond (Green) and everyone else that was out there on the floor with me, just trying to find me and give me good looks,” he added.

“I forced a few bad shots, but I was so anxious. Anytime there’s an NBA record at stake you kind of get a little nervous.

“I’m just so blessed to be able to play with the guys I do. It was an amazing night that I’ll never forget.”

Thompson had set the tone for a superb display in the first quarter when he exploded for 22 points to help the reigning NBA champions surge into a

Dreamland Beach PECATU - Dreamland Beach is among the collection of ‘hidden’ beaches of Bali: stretches of white sand secluded by limestone cliffs that line the rugged coastline of the southern Bukit Peninsula. The beach became highly accessible following the mega development of the Pecatu Graha and Pecatu Indah Resort projects that, at the turn of the millennium, transformed the 400Ha hilly terrain into the ‘New Kuta’, with Klapa beach club, resorts and the New Kuta Golf course onsite.

This beach is located in the area Pecatu, a region in the south of Bali. The beach is located not far from the Uluwatu in Bali is very famous for its beauty. The beauty and cleanliness of the beach add to the attraction of visitors, not only from domestic but also foreign tourists.

Dreamland Beach was in the village of Pecatu, Badung regency, located in the southern island of Bali. You can reach this beach is about 30 minutes from Kuta Beach at Jimbaran. The beach is still beautiful and natural is located at

the southern tip of South Badung.

You’ll find this beach on the way to the famous temple in Bali, Pura Uluwatu.

Dreamland Beach is a beautiful beach with white sand stretch 100 meters and leaned on a steep of white stone cliff overlooking to the amazing view of Indian Ocean.

This beach is very attractive for tourist including the surfers offering the elegant, tranquility and spectacular sunset view that create the romantic nuance that make it as one of the place many visited by tourist every day.

Dreamland Beach is located in strategic area of Pecatu Graha, the

huge area of luxurious residences, hotels, villas, world-class golf course (New Kuta Golf), water fun game and more that finally make this beach is increasingly popular.

The advantages of this beach are big and powerful wave that make it as one of the most demanded surfing points in Bali Island by the experience until professional surfers. You will be very easy to locate the public facilities at this surfing point like restaurant and accommodations. This beach is also suitable for family holidays where you can do relax at the beach while enjoying the warm tropical atmosphere.

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44-28 lead.

The Dubs put up another 48 points in the second quarter, and reached the halftime buzzer leading by an incredible 42-point margin at 92-50.

With the game as good as won, it became simply a question of whether the red-hot Thompson would surpass Curry’s three-pointer benchmark.

Thompson tied Curry’s mark with his 13th three of the night with 7:12 remaining in the third quarter and then bagged his 14th with just under five minutes left after coolly draining a shot from the edge of the arc.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr meanwhile said he was unaware that the team were doing their best to engineer Thompson’s record-breaking night.

“I didn’t even realise what was happening record-wise until they called a time out in the third quarter,” Kerr said.

“I heard Klay saying ‘two more, two more’ and I didn’t even know who had the record at that point...At that point the guys were just feeding Klay and felt for him because he’s had a rough start to the season. But he got it going tonight to say the least.”

Unsurprisingly, Thompson’s 52-point haul led the scoring with Curry adding 23 points and laying on five assists.

Durant had 14 points while Alfonzo McKinnie came off the bench to weigh in with 19 points. Quinn Cook also had 14 points off the bench. (afp)

Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors shoots a three pointer against the Chicago Bulls on October 29, 2018 at United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

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PARIS - Roger Federer is poised to seek his 100th ATP title at the Paris Masters this week with organisers announcing the Swiss great “arrives” on Tuesday.

If the holder of 20 Grand Slam titles lines up at Bercy it will be his first appearance at the last Masters event of the season since 2015.

The 37-year-old Swiss star won his 99th career title at the weekend in Basel but hasn’t played in Paris in three years due to injury and selective scheduling.

Federer “arrives tomorrow” organisers tweeted on Monday. He faces either Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Milos Raonic on Wednesday.

Portugal’s Joao Sousa will meet Novak Djokovic in the second round after defeating Marco Cecchinato 7-5, 6-3 in his opening match.

Cecchinato stunned Djokovic in the quarter-finals of the French Open in June, but the Italian missed out on a rematch with Djokovic as he fell apart after losing his serve at 5-5 in the opening set.

Second seed Djokovic is a fourtime champion in Paris and is bidding to reclaim the world number one ranking from Rafael Nadal this week.

The Spaniard, who has never won the indoor tournament, is

making his return from the knee injury that scuppered his US Open chances.

Filip Krajinovic, last year’s runner-up in Paris, slid to a firstround defeat by Karen Khachanov that will send the Serb spiralling down the rankings.

The 34th-ranked Krajinovic served for the first set but rapidly came unstuck and suffered a 7-5, 6-2 loss that will see him tumble outside the top 90.

Richard Gasquet beat Denis Shapovalov but Gasquet’s fellow Frenchman Nicoals Mahut went out 7-6 (7/1), 6-2 to American Frances Taifoe. (afp)

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Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns a ball to Romania’s Marius Copil during their final match at the Swiss Indoors ATP 500 tennis tournament on October 28, 2018 in Basel.

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City win pitch battle as Mahrez sinks Spurs

Pep Guardiola claimed Manchester City’s 1-0 win over Tottenham was extra special because of the problems posed by Wembley’s damaged pitch.

Playing on the scarred Wembley turf just 24 hours after it was torn up by an NFL fixture, City’s peer-

less quality and a predatory finish from Riyad Mahrez helped them win the pitch battle.

A sixth victory from their last seven league games lifted Guardiola’s unbeaten side back above Liverpool on goal difference.

And the City manager admitted he was relieved to see his players cope with the treacherous condi-

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian midfielder Erik Lamela (L) vies with Manchester City’s Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London, on October 29, 2018.

tions. “It was a great victory in special conditions, against one of the most physical teams in Europe,” he said.

“It was not football conditions to play. We reacted well. For our players and the players of Tottenham, hopefully they will sort the problem for the future.

“It’s a question for the Premier League and Tottenham. We were invited to come here today for the fixture hopefully they can solve that problem.” Guardiola hailed City’s Champions League win over Shakhtar Donetsk last week as the finest display of his reign in Manchester.

This was a far more prosaic performance as City’s defenders took centre stage, equalling the club record of six consecutive league clean-sheets.

Guardiola was frustrated that City wasted several chances to kill off Tottenham and warned them they must improve if they want to retain the title and win the Champions League. “We had many chances. We needed to score and we didn’t. We have a lot of things to improve,” he said.

“Of course we are very good side, I’m not saying the opposite, but if you are going to play in the later stages of big competitions we need things we don’t have at the moment. “We will talk and work and hopefully we can improve.”

It was a dispiriting evening for fifth placed Tottenham, who now trail City by five points after their first league defeat in five games.

Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld blamed the pitch, saying: “I have to be honest, the pitch wasn’t good. “Both teams like to play out from the back and to play football in these circumstances, it was very difficult.”

But his manager Mauricio Pochettino was more frustrated by the woeful defending that led to City’s goal.

“The circumstances of the pitch

were the same for both sides. It was the kind of cheap goal you cannot concede in this type of game.

Football will punish you,” Pochettino said. “I’m proud of the effort, we created a lot of chances. Last season it was difficult to compete against Manchester City, but today the level was closer.”

- Flowing move -

Pochettino’s cause wasn’t helped by the presence of the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Philadelphia Eagles at Tottenham’s temporary home a day earlier.

There were large areas of worn brown turf down the middle and both flanks, while the NFL logo in the centre circle and yard-line markers the length of the pitch were all still visible.

But City were unfazed as they raced into the lead after just six minutes. Tottenham defender Kieran Trippier misjudged a long kick from City goalkeeper Ederson, his errant header allowing Raheem Sterling to steal possession and cut past him into the penalty area.

Sterling showed tremendous composure as he picked out Mahrez’s run and the Algerian finished the raid with a clinical close-range finish.

It was an emotional moment for former Leicester star Mahrez just 48 hours after the death of Foxes owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash outside the club’s King Power Stadium on Saturday.

Mahrez pointed his fingers to the sky in what appeared to be a tribute to Vichai. City seemed less troubled by the surface and they scythed through the Tottenham defence with a flowing move that ended with Hugo Lloris pushing Mahrez’s drive onto a post.

Sent clean through on goal by Erik Lamela’s pass, Harry Kane had a golden chance to equalise but his poor first touch, which couldn’t be blamed on the turf, allowed Ederson to block with his legs. (afp)

Ranieri ‘shaken’ by death of Leicester’s Thai boss

Claudio Ranieri revealed on Monday he had been “terribly shaken” by the death of Leicester City boss Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Ranieri, 66, was hired

by Vichai in 2015 and led Leicester to their historic Premier League title success the following year.

Billionaire Vichai, 60, died along with four others when his helicopter plummeted into a car

park outside the King Power stadium shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday.

“I was terribly shaken by the news,” Ranieri told Sky Sport Italia in his first public reaction since the tragedy.

“He was a good man and always had a positive word for everyone.

His positivity and ability to make everybody love him was clear for all to see. He came into the locker

room only to dispense kind words, never to reproach you.

“One time soon after my birthday, he arrived in the locker room with a huge cake and made everyone sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ “He was an illuminated man and everything he touched became better.”

Ranieri said it was now up to Vichai’s son “who has always been in love with football” to carry on in

his father’s footsteps. He recalled his first meeting with Vichai.

“I immediately thought he was a positive person, full of energy.

My objective when I arrived at Leicester was to secure Premier League safety, then we all know what happened.

“Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha made a very important contribution to the Premier League victory, as

he’d arrive 30 minutes before the game to embrace everyone. He never said a word out of turn, was always happy with a smile on his face. “I am so sad right now, I want to join the family in their grief.”

After Ranieri was sacked by Leicester in February 2017 he took charge of French Ligue 1 side Nantes for the 2017-2018 season.(afp)

Icardi double lifts Inter Milan second in Serie A

Mauro Icardi scored in either half as Inter Milan beat Lazio 3-0 under the rain in Rome on Monday to move ahead of Napoli and into second place behind Juventus in Serie A. Inter skipper Icardi tapped in the opener after 28 minutes with Marcelo Brozovic adding a second before the break.

The Argentine snatched the third after 70 minutes in the Stadio Olimpico, as Inter with 22 points from 10 games overtook Napoli on goal difference. Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli were held 1-1 by Roma on Sunday.

Inter and Napoli are both six points behind Juventus who beat Empoli 2-1 on Saturday thanks to

a Cristiano Ronaldo double. “We’re on the right track,” said Icardi after his side’s sixth straight league win.

It was also his sixth league goal this season. “I’m going through a good period of form along with Inter. We’re playing well, apart from the game with Barcelona (2-0 Champions League defeat), and want to do even better.”

“We’re not the anti-Juventus, as we’re a few steps away to reach what they’ve done in recent years, but we are happy with what we are doing.” Luciano Spalletti’s side controlled the game which had been in doubt all afternoon because of strong winds and rain in Rome.

With just one point separating the two sides the match was also

an important step in the race for Champions League places next season.

Inter had snatched the final Champions League spot from Lazio on the last day of last season, condemning Simone Inzaghi’s side to the Europa League. Under sudden bursts of torrential rain, the game sprung to life with I c a r d i ’s o p e n e r after 28 minutes.

Perisic crossed for Matias Vecino, who flicked on to Icardi to finish off. Shortly afterwards

Lopetegui sacked as Real Madrid coach, Solari put in temporary charge Real Madrid have sacked their coach Julen Lopetegui after just 139 days in charge, the club con-

firmed on Monday. Lopetegui was appointed in June but five defeats in seven games, the last of them a 5-1 thrashing by Barcelona on Sunday, have convinced Madrid to make a change.

Santiago Solari, the club’s B team coach, has been put in temporary charge. The decision was announced following a meeting of Madrid’s board of directors on Monday night.

A club statement read: “This decision, adopted from the highest level of responsibility, aims to change the dynamics of the first team, when all the objectives of this season are still achievable.

“The Board of Directors understands that there is a great disproportion between the quality of the staff of Real Madrid, which has eight players nominated for the next Golden Ball, something unprecedented in the history of the club, and the results obtained to date.”

Solari will lead the first team from Tuesday and is expected to be in charge for the Copa del Rey game against Melilla on Wednesday.

The Argentinian could also remain in post for Saturday’s La Liga match at home to Real Valladolid.

In his two seasons with Castilla, Solari oversaw them finishing 11th and eighth in the Spanish third tier.

Lopetegui’s time as coach of Real Madrid lasted just 139 days, with his decision to join the club also costing him his job as Spain boss at last summer’s World Cup. Real have managed only one win in their last seven matches, sit ninth in La Liga, and earlier this month went more than eight hours without a goal.

Antonio Conte is the frontrunner to be Lopetegui’s permanent successor, although early talks have not gone smoothly, according to reports. Belgium coach Roberto Martinez and former Madrid midfielder Guti have also been linked with the position. (afp)

the rain began to bucket down with Lazio’s Croatian midfielder Milan Badelj going off injured to be replaced by Danilo

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Inter Milan’s Argentinan forward Mauro Icardi celebrates after scoring during Italian Serie A football match Lazio between Inter Milan at the Olympic stadium in Roma, on October 29, 2018.

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Cataldi.

But Inter continued their charge with Brozovic getting the the second after 41 minutes, firing into the bottom left corner.

The visitors seemed more at ease on the water logged pitch continuing to dictate play. Lazio did not give up with Samir Handanovic pushing an Adam Marusic effort over the bar.

But they were only sporadic signs of a fightback with Icardi drilling in the third with ease from a distance. Lazio remain fourth but have not lost to all their leading rivals -- Juventus, Napoli, Roma and now Inter.

“I admit we deserved to lose this evening,” said coach Inzaghi.

“Against the big teams Lazio lack the conviction we have in other matches. These teams are built to win titles. “Now we want to get back on track against SPAL.” (afp)

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City win pitch battle as Mahrez sinks Spurs

Pep Guardiola claimed Manchester City’s 1-0 win over Tottenham was extra special because of the problems posed by Wembley’s damaged pitch.

Playing on the scarred Wembley turf just 24 hours after it was torn up by an NFL fixture, City’s peer-

less quality and a predatory finish from Riyad Mahrez helped them win the pitch battle.

A sixth victory from their last seven league games lifted Guardiola’s unbeaten side back above Liverpool on goal difference.

And the City manager admitted he was relieved to see his players cope with the treacherous condi-

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian midfielder Erik Lamela (L) vies with Manchester City’s Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London, on October 29, 2018.

tions. “It was a great victory in special conditions, against one of the most physical teams in Europe,” he said.

“It was not football conditions to play. We reacted well. For our players and the players of Tottenham, hopefully they will sort the problem for the future.

“It’s a question for the Premier League and Tottenham. We were invited to come here today for the fixture hopefully they can solve that problem.” Guardiola hailed City’s Champions League win over Shakhtar Donetsk last week as the finest display of his reign in Manchester.

This was a far more prosaic performance as City’s defenders took centre stage, equalling the club record of six consecutive league clean-sheets.

Guardiola was frustrated that City wasted several chances to kill off Tottenham and warned them they must improve if they want to retain the title and win the Champions League. “We had many chances. We needed to score and we didn’t. We have a lot of things to improve,” he said.

“Of course we are very good side, I’m not saying the opposite, but if you are going to play in the later stages of big competitions we need things we don’t have at the moment. “We will talk and work and hopefully we can improve.”

It was a dispiriting evening for fifth placed Tottenham, who now trail City by five points after their first league defeat in five games.

Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld blamed the pitch, saying: “I have to be honest, the pitch wasn’t good. “Both teams like to play out from the back and to play football in these circumstances, it was very difficult.”

But his manager Mauricio Pochettino was more frustrated by the woeful defending that led to City’s goal.

“The circumstances of the pitch

were the same for both sides. It was the kind of cheap goal you cannot concede in this type of game.

Football will punish you,” Pochettino said. “I’m proud of the effort, we created a lot of chances. Last season it was difficult to compete against Manchester City, but today the level was closer.”

- Flowing move -

Pochettino’s cause wasn’t helped by the presence of the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Philadelphia Eagles at Tottenham’s temporary home a day earlier.

There were large areas of worn brown turf down the middle and both flanks, while the NFL logo in the centre circle and yard-line markers the length of the pitch were all still visible.

But City were unfazed as they raced into the lead after just six minutes. Tottenham defender Kieran Trippier misjudged a long kick from City goalkeeper Ederson, his errant header allowing Raheem Sterling to steal possession and cut past him into the penalty area.

Sterling showed tremendous composure as he picked out Mahrez’s run and the Algerian finished the raid with a clinical close-range finish.

It was an emotional moment for former Leicester star Mahrez just 48 hours after the death of Foxes owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash outside the club’s King Power Stadium on Saturday.

Mahrez pointed his fingers to the sky in what appeared to be a tribute to Vichai. City seemed less troubled by the surface and they scythed through the Tottenham defence with a flowing move that ended with Hugo Lloris pushing Mahrez’s drive onto a post.

Sent clean through on goal by Erik Lamela’s pass, Harry Kane had a golden chance to equalise but his poor first touch, which couldn’t be blamed on the turf, allowed Ederson to block with his legs. (afp)

Ranieri ‘shaken’ by death of Leicester’s Thai boss

Claudio Ranieri revealed on Monday he had been “terribly shaken” by the death of Leicester City boss Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Ranieri, 66, was hired

by Vichai in 2015 and led Leicester to their historic Premier League title success the following year.

Billionaire Vichai, 60, died along with four others when his helicopter plummeted into a car

park outside the King Power stadium shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday.

“I was terribly shaken by the news,” Ranieri told Sky Sport Italia in his first public reaction since the tragedy.

“He was a good man and always had a positive word for everyone.

His positivity and ability to make everybody love him was clear for all to see. He came into the locker

room only to dispense kind words, never to reproach you.

“One time soon after my birthday, he arrived in the locker room with a huge cake and made everyone sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ “He was an illuminated man and everything he touched became better.”

Ranieri said it was now up to Vichai’s son “who has always been in love with football” to carry on in

his father’s footsteps. He recalled his first meeting with Vichai.

“I immediately thought he was a positive person, full of energy.

My objective when I arrived at Leicester was to secure Premier League safety, then we all know what happened.

“Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha made a very important contribution to the Premier League victory, as

he’d arrive 30 minutes before the game to embrace everyone. He never said a word out of turn, was always happy with a smile on his face. “I am so sad right now, I want to join the family in their grief.”

After Ranieri was sacked by Leicester in February 2017 he took charge of French Ligue 1 side Nantes for the 2017-2018 season.(afp)

Icardi double lifts Inter Milan second in Serie A

Mauro Icardi scored in either half as Inter Milan beat Lazio 3-0 under the rain in Rome on Monday to move ahead of Napoli and into second place behind Juventus in Serie A. Inter skipper Icardi tapped in the opener after 28 minutes with Marcelo Brozovic adding a second before the break.

The Argentine snatched the third after 70 minutes in the Stadio Olimpico, as Inter with 22 points from 10 games overtook Napoli on goal difference. Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli were held 1-1 by Roma on Sunday.

Inter and Napoli are both six points behind Juventus who beat Empoli 2-1 on Saturday thanks to

a Cristiano Ronaldo double. “We’re on the right track,” said Icardi after his side’s sixth straight league win.

It was also his sixth league goal this season. “I’m going through a good period of form along with Inter. We’re playing well, apart from the game with Barcelona (2-0 Champions League defeat), and want to do even better.”

“We’re not the anti-Juventus, as we’re a few steps away to reach what they’ve done in recent years, but we are happy with what we are doing.” Luciano Spalletti’s side controlled the game which had been in doubt all afternoon because of strong winds and rain in Rome.

With just one point separating the two sides the match was also

an important step in the race for Champions League places next season.

Inter had snatched the final Champions League spot from Lazio on the last day of last season, condemning Simone Inzaghi’s side to the Europa League. Under sudden bursts of torrential rain, the game sprung to life with I c a r d i ’s o p e n e r after 28 minutes.

Perisic crossed for Matias Vecino, who flicked on to Icardi to finish off. Shortly afterwards

Lopetegui sacked as Real Madrid coach, Solari put in temporary charge Real Madrid have sacked their coach Julen Lopetegui after just 139 days in charge, the club con-

firmed on Monday. Lopetegui was appointed in June but five defeats in seven games, the last of them a 5-1 thrashing by Barcelona on Sunday, have convinced Madrid to make a change.

Santiago Solari, the club’s B team coach, has been put in temporary charge. The decision was announced following a meeting of Madrid’s board of directors on Monday night.

A club statement read: “This decision, adopted from the highest level of responsibility, aims to change the dynamics of the first team, when all the objectives of this season are still achievable.

“The Board of Directors understands that there is a great disproportion between the quality of the staff of Real Madrid, which has eight players nominated for the next Golden Ball, something unprecedented in the history of the club, and the results obtained to date.”

Solari will lead the first team from Tuesday and is expected to be in charge for the Copa del Rey game against Melilla on Wednesday.

The Argentinian could also remain in post for Saturday’s La Liga match at home to Real Valladolid.

In his two seasons with Castilla, Solari oversaw them finishing 11th and eighth in the Spanish third tier.

Lopetegui’s time as coach of Real Madrid lasted just 139 days, with his decision to join the club also costing him his job as Spain boss at last summer’s World Cup. Real have managed only one win in their last seven matches, sit ninth in La Liga, and earlier this month went more than eight hours without a goal.

Antonio Conte is the frontrunner to be Lopetegui’s permanent successor, although early talks have not gone smoothly, according to reports. Belgium coach Roberto Martinez and former Madrid midfielder Guti have also been linked with the position. (afp)

the rain began to bucket down with Lazio’s Croatian midfielder Milan Badelj going off injured to be replaced by Danilo

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Inter Milan’s Argentinan forward Mauro Icardi celebrates after scoring during Italian Serie A football match Lazio between Inter Milan at the Olympic stadium in Roma, on October 29, 2018.

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Cataldi.

But Inter continued their charge with Brozovic getting the the second after 41 minutes, firing into the bottom left corner.

The visitors seemed more at ease on the water logged pitch continuing to dictate play. Lazio did not give up with Samir Handanovic pushing an Adam Marusic effort over the bar.

But they were only sporadic signs of a fightback with Icardi drilling in the third with ease from a distance. Lazio remain fourth but have not lost to all their leading rivals -- Juventus, Napoli, Roma and now Inter.

“I admit we deserved to lose this evening,” said coach Inzaghi.

“Against the big teams Lazio lack the conviction we have in other matches. These teams are built to win titles. “Now we want to get back on track against SPAL.” (afp)

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Thompson breaks three-point record as Warriors gore Bulls CHICAGO - Klay Thompson scored a record-breaking 14 threepointers as the Golden State Warriors maintained their blistering start to the season with a 149-124 demolition of the Chicago Bulls on Monday.

Thompson broke teammate Stephen Curry’s NBA record for most three-point field goals in a single game of 13 when he nailed his 14th three of the night midway through the third quarter at the United Center.

The 28-year-old Thompson -- who has struggled to find his scoring touch in the opening weeks of the season -finished the game with 52 points as the Warriors improved to 6-1 in the Western Conference.

Thompson later revealed Curry had urged him to go for his record as he continued to drain a series of threepointers.

“Before I went out for the second half, Steph just looked at the box score and said ‘Go get it,’” Thompson told reporters.

“That shows the unselfishness that’s within him. Same with K.D (Kevin Durant), Draymond (Green) and everyone else that was out there on the floor with me, just trying to find me and give me good looks,” he added.

“I forced a few bad shots, but I was so anxious. Anytime there’s an NBA record at stake you kind of get a little nervous.

“I’m just so blessed to be able to play with the guys I do. It was an amazing night that I’ll never forget.”

Thompson had set the tone for a superb display in the first quarter when he exploded for 22 points to help the reigning NBA champions surge into a

Dreamland Beach PECATU - Dreamland Beach is among the collection of ‘hidden’ beaches of Bali: stretches of white sand secluded by limestone cliffs that line the rugged coastline of the southern Bukit Peninsula. The beach became highly accessible following the mega development of the Pecatu Graha and Pecatu Indah Resort projects that, at the turn of the millennium, transformed the 400Ha hilly terrain into the ‘New Kuta’, with Klapa beach club, resorts and the New Kuta Golf course onsite.

This beach is located in the area Pecatu, a region in the south of Bali. The beach is located not far from the Uluwatu in Bali is very famous for its beauty. The beauty and cleanliness of the beach add to the attraction of visitors, not only from domestic but also foreign tourists.

Dreamland Beach was in the village of Pecatu, Badung regency, located in the southern island of Bali. You can reach this beach is about 30 minutes from Kuta Beach at Jimbaran. The beach is still beautiful and natural is located at

the southern tip of South Badung.

You’ll find this beach on the way to the famous temple in Bali, Pura Uluwatu.

Dreamland Beach is a beautiful beach with white sand stretch 100 meters and leaned on a steep of white stone cliff overlooking to the amazing view of Indian Ocean.

This beach is very attractive for tourist including the surfers offering the elegant, tranquility and spectacular sunset view that create the romantic nuance that make it as one of the place many visited by tourist every day.

Dreamland Beach is located in strategic area of Pecatu Graha, the

huge area of luxurious residences, hotels, villas, world-class golf course (New Kuta Golf), water fun game and more that finally make this beach is increasingly popular.

The advantages of this beach are big and powerful wave that make it as one of the most demanded surfing points in Bali Island by the experience until professional surfers. You will be very easy to locate the public facilities at this surfing point like restaurant and accommodations. This beach is also suitable for family holidays where you can do relax at the beach while enjoying the warm tropical atmosphere.

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44-28 lead.

The Dubs put up another 48 points in the second quarter, and reached the halftime buzzer leading by an incredible 42-point margin at 92-50.

With the game as good as won, it became simply a question of whether the red-hot Thompson would surpass Curry’s three-pointer benchmark.

Thompson tied Curry’s mark with his 13th three of the night with 7:12 remaining in the third quarter and then bagged his 14th with just under five minutes left after coolly draining a shot from the edge of the arc.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr meanwhile said he was unaware that the team were doing their best to engineer Thompson’s record-breaking night.

“I didn’t even realise what was happening record-wise until they called a time out in the third quarter,” Kerr said.

“I heard Klay saying ‘two more, two more’ and I didn’t even know who had the record at that point...At that point the guys were just feeding Klay and felt for him because he’s had a rough start to the season. But he got it going tonight to say the least.”

Unsurprisingly, Thompson’s 52-point haul led the scoring with Curry adding 23 points and laying on five assists.

Durant had 14 points while Alfonzo McKinnie came off the bench to weigh in with 19 points. Quinn Cook also had 14 points off the bench. (afp)

Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors shoots a three pointer against the Chicago Bulls on October 29, 2018 at United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Federer due in town as Sousa lines up Djokovic at Paris Masters

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PARIS - Roger Federer is poised to seek his 100th ATP title at the Paris Masters this week with organisers announcing the Swiss great “arrives” on Tuesday.

If the holder of 20 Grand Slam titles lines up at Bercy it will be his first appearance at the last Masters event of the season since 2015.

The 37-year-old Swiss star won his 99th career title at the weekend in Basel but hasn’t played in Paris in three years due to injury and selective scheduling.

Federer “arrives tomorrow” organisers tweeted on Monday. He faces either Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Milos Raonic on Wednesday.

Portugal’s Joao Sousa will meet Novak Djokovic in the second round after defeating Marco Cecchinato 7-5, 6-3 in his opening match.

Cecchinato stunned Djokovic in the quarter-finals of the French Open in June, but the Italian missed out on a rematch with Djokovic as he fell apart after losing his serve at 5-5 in the opening set.

Second seed Djokovic is a fourtime champion in Paris and is bidding to reclaim the world number one ranking from Rafael Nadal this week.

The Spaniard, who has never won the indoor tournament, is

making his return from the knee injury that scuppered his US Open chances.

Filip Krajinovic, last year’s runner-up in Paris, slid to a firstround defeat by Karen Khachanov that will send the Serb spiralling down the rankings.

The 34th-ranked Krajinovic served for the first set but rapidly came unstuck and suffered a 7-5, 6-2 loss that will see him tumble outside the top 90.

Richard Gasquet beat Denis Shapovalov but Gasquet’s fellow Frenchman Nicoals Mahut went out 7-6 (7/1), 6-2 to American Frances Taifoe. (afp)

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Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns a ball to Romania’s Marius Copil during their final match at the Swiss Indoors ATP 500 tennis tournament on October 28, 2018 in Basel.

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Brazil enters new era with far-right president-elect

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil entered a new era Monday after electing its next president, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman who vowed a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country.

Bolsonaro, who openly admires Brazil’s former military dictatorship and shocked many with his derogatory remarks on women, gays and blacks, won 55 percent of the vote in a run-off election Sunday -- more than 10 points ahead of leftist opponent Fernando Haddad.

Having channeled voters’ anger with corruption, crime and economic malaise, the man dubbed the “Tropical Trump” will now get down to work seeking to “change Brazil’s destiny” -- the promise he made in his victory speech.

Markets reacted positively to the

win by the business-world favorite, who will take office on January 1 -- though profit-taking set in later in the day.

The Sao Paulo stock exchange’s main index opened up more than three percent, after adding 10 percent in a month as Bolsonaro surged in the polls, before falling 2.24 percent into the red at the close.

The Brazilian real hit its strongest in six months against the dollar, then retreated slightly.

After a deeply polarizing election, many Brazilians seem eager to turn the page, hoping for the best as

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Supporters of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, celebrate in front of his house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after he won Brazil’s presidential election, on October 28, 2018.

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“We are prioritising finding the main wreckage of the plane using five war ships equipped with sonar to detect metal underwater,” said Yusuf Latif, spokesman of the Indonesian search and rescue agency.

The plane was en route to Pangkal Pinang city, a jumping off point for beach-and-sun seeking tourists on nearby Belitung island, when it dropped out of contact around 6:30 am (2330 GMT).

The pilot and co-pilot had more than 11,000 hours flying time between them and had undergone

recent medical checkups and drug testing, the carrier said. Aviation analysts said it was too early to determine what caused the accident.

But they said investigators would look at everything from catastrophic mechanical failure and pilot error to weather conditions or unusual cockpit activity that could point to a hijacking or pilot suicide.

“Locating the so-called black boxes is most important now -- both the voice and data recorders,” said Terence Fan, an aviation expert at the Singapore Management University. “That should show how the aircraft and pilots

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the country takes what even many Bolsonaro supporters acknowledge is a leap into the unknown.

“Maybe now, with this renewal, things will improve in this country,” Bolsonaro voter Jocemil Clacino, a 66-year-old shopkeeper in Rio de Janeiro, told AFP. For Bolsonaro’s opponents, however, the bitterness runs deep.

“These elections revealed the worst in humanity. People let out everything they had been too afraid to talk about. It made me feel terrible. But we’ll have to carry on,” said Adriana Calvi, 55.

- ‘What’s a minority?’ -

Bolsonaro, 63, has outraged many with his overtly misogynistic, homophobic and racist rhetoric.

But he vowed in his first interview as president-elect to govern for all Brazilians.

Asked if he would respect the rights of minorities, he asked, “What’s a minority?”

“We’re all the same. I’m no different from you. I don’t care what color your skin is, your sexual orientation, where you’re from, your gender. We’re the same,” he told TV network Record.

“I think if we achieve that equality for all, everyone will be satisfied.”

He appeared relaxed at his home in Rio, where he has mostly remained since leaving the hospital after an attacker stabbed him in the belly at a rally on September 6. (afp) actually behaved.”

On Monday, Lion Air acknowledged the plane had an unspecified technical issue fixed in Bali before it was flown back to Jakarta, calling it “normal procedure”.

Data from that flight suggested the plane may have flown erratically and a technical log circulating on social media pointed to different speed and altitude readings on the captain and first officer’s instruments.

“It is not clear whether the problem was really resolved since the doomed flight was the first departure after the problem was supposedly fixed,” Fan said. On

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In Mexico, skull faces to scare away US-style Halloween MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s Day of the Dead is almost here, so on weekends the streets teem with Catrinas -- people dressed up with elaborate skull faces that recall an old symbol of Mexican political and social satire in a bid to fight an invasion of US-style Halloween celebrations.

AFP took photos of some of the thousands of parade-goers who wore wild, colorful costumes and had their faces turned into that of death itself by expert body painters.

Jessica Esquivias, a procession organizer, was dressed all in black, with a big red-and-white flower arrangement atop a fancy hair-do and a thick string of pearls around her neck. Her skeleton face features huge teeth and eyes.

Last weekend saw the first of several parades planned for the Day of the Dead, which is November 2.

It was the fifth year of these processions, which seek to rekindle Mexican traditions that are under pressure from Halloween festivities.

The Catrina craze started when promoters saw that in Mexican markets, most of the party-oriented garb for sale at this time of year was witch, monster and vampire costumes.

They called in body painting experts to help people dress up as Catrinas at a reasonable price.

So what is a Catrina?

Originally it was the name of an etching by the artist Jose Guadalupe Posada in the early 20th century, as the Mexican Revolution that would topple dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1911 was gaining steam.

The first of these illustrations was of a skeleton, meant to depict a high-society lady wearing only a fancy French-style hat -- a satirical barb aimed at the rich. Diaz was known to love extravagance and all things European. The image was also used to make fun of many other human foibles.

Posada’s original name for the caricature was the “Catrina Garbancera,” using a term for poor Mexicans who were ashamed of their indigenous roots and tried to come across as European.

The image had a powerful influence on other arts and artists including the muralist Diego Rivera.

In the parade, a reveler named Jossy Javier wore her hair down, a tight-fitting black outfit with a sash like that of a beauty queen, her face decorated with different shades of white and flowers on her head.

Donovan Sanchez, a tall and muscular man sporting tattoos, donned an indigenous-style headdress with feathers in various shades of blue that matched the tones of his striking skull face.

Anna Miller, a German who came to Mexico to live with her Mexican boyfriend, chose something a bit more simple, wearing her hair in the style of the artist Frida Kahlo. (afp)

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Sony Setiawan (C) speaks to journalists at Pangkal Pinang airport in Bangka Belitung province on October 29, 2018, following his arrival on another airline after missing his pre-planned flight on Lion Air flight JT 610 which crashed off the coast north of Jakarta.

Traffic saved Indonesian man from doomed Lion Air flight

An Indonesian man has described how Jakarta’s notorious traffic inadvertently saved his life on Monday after he arrived too late to catch the doomed Lion Air plane which plunged into the sea minutes after taking off. its last flight, the jet was travelling at a much faster speed than would be expected, but the pilot did not declare an emergency or attempt a water landing.”That might mean the plane was out of control,” said aviation analyst Dudi Sudibyo.

Boeing suspended release of the fuel-efficient 737 MAX just days before its first commercial delivery last year due to an issue with engines.

Lion Air, Indonesia’s biggest budget airline which has been engaged in huge expansion, announced earlier this year it was buying 50 Boeing 737 MAX 10 jets for $6.24 billion.

- Fake news, safety woes -

Indonesia’s air travel industry is booming but regulation and safety woes remain a major concern. In 2014, an AirAsia crash in the Java Sea during stormy weather killed 162 people.

Lion has been involved in a number of incidents including a fatal 2004 crash and a collision between two Lion Air planes at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta airport.

A string of fake news stories have been circulating about the crash, including one that falsely claims to show a baby who survived. (afp)

Sony Setiawan, an official in Indonesia’s finance ministry, had meant to be on board the ill-fated flight JT610, a journey he and his colleagues caught on a weekly basis.

But while his friends battled their way through Jakarta’s daily congestion to make the flight, Sony found himself stuck on a toll road for hours. “I usually take (flight) JT610 -- my friends and I always take this plane,” Setiawan told AFP. “I don’t know why the traffic at the toll road was so bad. I usually arrive in Jakarta at 3am but this morning I arrived at the airport at 6:20 and I missed the flight.”

That gridlock likely saved Setiawan’s life as officials warned it was

unlikely anyone would have survived such a crash.

But Setiawan said any gratitude he felt was tinged with the knowledge so many people, including six of his colleagues, were not so fortunate. “The first time I heard I cried,” he said. “I know my friends were on that flight.”

Setiawan, who is from Bandung in West Java, said he managed to catch a second flight to Pangkal Pinang city and only learned of the crash once he landed safely.

The call he made to his briefly stricken family was filled with emotion.

“My family was in shock and my mother cried, but I told them I was safe, so I just have to be grateful,” he said.

Some 189 people on board the plane when it vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the Java Sea off Indonesia’s most populous island.

The finance ministry said around 20 of its employees were on the plane.

Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said it was “likely” all passengers and crew were killed in the accident, as it found body parts of some victims.

A sprawling and haphazardly planned megacity, Jakarta is known for having some of Southeast Asia’s worst traffic congestion with lengthy tailbacks and hours-long delays a daily frustrating ritual for commuters. (afp)

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BUSINESS UK to start taxing big internet companies

LONDON - Britain’s Treasury chief unveiled Monday a new tax on big internet companies’ revenues, insisting it is time that the global tech giants with profitable business in the U.K. pay their fair share for public services.

Philip Hammond made the announcement as he outlined his budget, explaining that while he preferred trying to find a global solution to address the borderless nature of the wealth of the likes of Google and Facebook, negotiations with other countries had been too slow.

He said the tax will be “narrowly-targeted” on the U.K.-generated revenues of specific digital platform business models.

“The rules have simply not kept pace with changing business models,” Hammond said. “And it’s clearly not sustainable, or fair, that digital platform businesses can generate substantial value in the U.K. without paying tax here in respect of that business.”

Companies typically pay their taxes where they are based. But while local governments can impose a sales tax on physical goods in shops and restaurants, that has not been the case with online service providers.

And in the European Union, foreign companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook pay what tax they owe in the country where they have their regional base — usually a low tax haven like Ireland. So their business generates little to no tax revenue in countries, like the U.K., where they have significant operations.

Hammond said the digital sales tax will be structured to apply to “established tech giants” rather than tech startups and was at pains to emphasize that it was “not a online-sales tax on goods ordered over the internet.” It will only apply to firms making 500 million pounds ($640 million) a year in global revenues. The text will come into effect in April 2020 and is forecast to bring in 400 million

pounds a year.

Dan Neidle, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, said the tax could chill innovation and, given the dominance of the tech giants in the United States, would likely be met with a hostile reception by the Trump administration.

“For 100 years, businesses have been taxed based on where they are, not where their customers are,” he said. “The digital tax represents a revolutionary change - it taxes digital companies, regardless of their legal structure, if they have users in the U.K. There are many - particularly in the U.S. - who will regard limiting that revolution to one particular sector as opportunistic, particularly when it’s a sector where the U.K. (and Europe as a whole) have conspicuously failed to create world-beating businesses.”

The announcement came as Hammond splashed out on health services in a spending plan signaling the easing of eight years of austerity with a modest uplift in public spending and few major tax increases.

Hammond declared the end is in sight for the budget cuts implemented by a series of Conservativeled governments after the global financial crisis, reiterating a commitment made by Prime Minister Theresa May this month. But he cautioned that the government’s plans to end austerity could be thrown off track if Britain fails to secure a deal that protects trade with the EU. Hammond said improving public finances after years of belttightening meant he could give government departments a realterms spending boost next year.

Beneficiaries include the Ministry of Defense, which will get an extra

both rose 1.2 percent, with the former at 2,681.01 and the latter at 7,250.97.

Some analysts attributed the gains to bargain-hunting as a bruising month for Wall Street nears its conclusion. The S&P 500 was down 8.7 percent for the month through Friday due to a broad-based selloff on worries over slowing earnings

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and the People’s Government of Guilin, China held the 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook on 25-27 October 2018. This year’s edition – ‘The Future of Tourism: Road to 2030´, aligns with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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1 billion pounds.

There was also more money for mental-health services and social care, and 1 billion pounds to ease the transition to a simplified benefits system known as Universal Credit. Small businesses got a cut in property tax rates, and workers will see an increase in the amount they can earn before paying income tax.

“Austerity is coming to an end - but discipline will remain,” Hammond said.

The pressure has been on for May’s administration. Government workers and the public have been agitating to end years of austerity

that have slashed funding for everything from law and order to schools as May and her predecessor sought to close the budget deficit.

Police are warning they don’t have the resources to fight crime; school principals are marching with demands to help children; and the military is concerned about its eroding ability to defend the nation. Further complicating the picture, the government is pushing ahead with plans to roll out a new comprehensive welfare program that critics say will leave the most vulnerable worse off.

Hammond got some help in

meeting the demands from an unexpected increase in tax revenue.

The independent Office of Budget Responsibility upgraded its forecast for economic growth in 2019 from 1.3 percent to 1.6 percent, then expects 1.4 percent in 2020 and 2021, 1.5 percent in 2022, and 1.6 percent in 2023.

But Hammond said further specifics on which programs would get more money would have to wait until next year — after Brexit talks are completed. If the negotiations collapse, a no-deal scenario would represent a “very big transition” in the way the economy operates. (ap)

growth, higher interest rates and rising geopolitical tensions.

“There is a bid in the stock market this morning that has been aided by the belief the market is due for a meaningful bounce from short-term oversold conditions,” said Briefing. com analyst Patrick O’Hare.

Sentiment was also lifted by reports that China is weighing a tax

cut on car purchases, lifting Ford by 5.8 percent and General Motors 4.5 percent. Analysts also cited IBM’s plan to buy open source software company Rad Hat for $34 billion as lifting investor optimism. Red Hat surged 48.8 percent, while Dow member IBM shed 2.8 percent.

This week’s calendar includes reports from Apple, Facebook and

Exxon Mobil, as well key US economic reports such as the October US jobs report.

The Commerce Department also reported Monday that inflation pressures remained tame in September, something investors were likely to welcome as it would not add to pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates. (afp)

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The 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum Looks Into the Future of Tourism

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses for the media as he holds up the traditional red dispatch box, outside his official residence 11 Downing Street before delivering his annual budget speech to Parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.

US stocks bounce after big IBM acquisition

US stocks rose early Monday, bouncing from multi-month lows following a big IBM acquisition and reports that China is weighing a tax cut on car purchases. About 12 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.8 percent at 24,875.68.

The broad-based S&P 500 and tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index

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“Digital advances provide opportunities to tourism in order to enhance inclusiveness, community empowerment and efficient resource management to achieve the SDGs. Yet to do so, we need to better understand where tourism is heading so we can adopt the adequate policies and business strategies.” said UNWTO Executive Director Shanzhong Zhu at the event.

International tourist arrivals in Asia and the Pacific grew 6% in 2017 to reach a total of 323 million. Rapid economic growth in emerging economy markets, rising air connectivity, more affordable travel and enhanced visa facilitation continue to fuel tourism from within and outside the region. Asian destinations earned USD 390 billion in international tourism receipts in 2017, 29% of the global figure, a share that has steadily increased from 17% in 2000. China, the world´s top spender in international tourism and fourth largest destination, has been one of the main drivers behind this growth.

Dr. Ian Yeoman, travel and tourism futurologist, delivered the keynote speech on the future of tourism, highlighting the importance of societal behaviours towards a sustainable future and the distribution of wealth generated by tourism, as main drivers of change.

Furthermore, topics covered at the Forum included how digital advances and data can be used to support sustainable tourism for development. Presentations were made by Google, TripAdvisor, Vynn Capital, STR, the European Travel Commission as well as research and policymakers from across different countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Forum concluded by emphasising the need for transformation and seize the opportunities brought by innovation and technology to move sustainability to the next level.

The 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook drew more than 220 experts from 22 countries, among which representatives from National Tourism Administrations, National Tourism Organizations, tourism businesses and academics.

With the longstanding collaboration of the HongKong Polytechnic University, the Forum has become over the last 12 years a reference platform on global and regional tourism trends. (r)

Black Roasted Suckling Pig, Have You Ever Tried?

Foodies of Balinese delicacies have certainly been familiar with the name of the roasted suckling pig. One of the culinary centers of roasted suckling pig can be found in Kerambitan subdistrict, Tabanan.

Unfortunately, to date the basic ingredient of this roasted suckling pig is not the black Bali pig posing typical Balinese pig.

Most culinary entrepreneurs tend to prefer landrace due to faster harvest whereas the taste is much different. What are the steps of preservation of the black Balinese pig suspected of getting rarer?.

Black pig (local pig of Bali) is provided with organic feed, so the texture of the meat is very chewy.

Indeed, it requires longer raising period than landrace pigs.

Unfortunately this black pig is now getting very rare, even almost

extinct. The desire to preserve Balinese black pig population eventually emerged from the Kerambitan sub-district head, I Gede Sukanada.

He wanted in the Kerambitan Festival IV to be held next October; the cuisine of Balinese black pig can be enjoyed by foodies of roasted suckling pig in particular.

“Earlier, we invite a number of foodies of roasted suckling pig to enjoy the taste of black pork that we name free event,” said I Gede Sukanada amid the event of black roasted suckling pig at Mandung hamlet, Sembung Gede, Kerambitan, Sunday (Apr. 8).

Through this event he would like to get some inputs so the taste of black roasted suckling pig can be accepted by the tongue of foodies.

The efforts to preserve Balinese black pigs will be initiated by

giving black piglets to the poor whose funding source is supported

by UPK funds (formerly PNPM).

“Next month, we are going to launch black pig breeding to the poor and the piglets are ready,” he explained.

Provision of Balinese pig breeding in May is expected to support the Kerambitan Festival IV to be held in October. “On the one hand, we give the piglets. After growing bigger, we plan to make a bazaar in October that will serve the black Balinese roasted suckling pig. Meanwhile, the benefits of this activity will be allocated for the conservation of Tyto Alba owl population at Timpag village,” he said.

As understood, Timpag village keeps trying to maintain the population of Tyto Alba owls. The owl

is taken advantage to prevent the occurrence of rodent pests. Indeed it is very good. Besides, it does not harm the natural potential, and can overcome the pest attack of rats with owls. At the same time, it

also maintains the balance of nature itself. One of the most urgent things is the intention to build the home to the owl breeding because this owl is not proficient in looking for a place to stay. (kmb)

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Worker’s salary of hotel must be more than SMEs MANGUPURA - The Badung district government stipulated salaries for tourism workers, especially those of star-rated hotels, to get salaries more than the district minimum wage (UMK). The amount of income for three-, four- and five-star hotels is set forth at 5 percent above the district minimum wage.

The Head of the Badung Industry and Manpower Agency, Ida Bagus Oka Dirga, said the revenue for tourism workers is determined based on sectoral minimum wages (UMS).

“Nominally, it is 5 percent above the district minimum wage and temporarily only implemented by three-, four- and five-star hotels in Badung,” said Oka Dirga, recently.

According to him, the sectoral minimum wage is one of the government’s alignments to the workers in Badung. Nevertheless, the sectoral minimum wages is still applied to certain sectors. However, currently the regulation has only been established in the tourism sector because it has the opportunity and allows applying the sectoral minimum wages.

“The sectoral minimum wages are implemented based on eight indicators. Initially, it was finalized by the Wage Council and continued to be submitted to the organization overseeing the hotels, namely the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI).

After being approved by the PHRI, the sectoral minimum wages is implemented,” he explained.

This former Head of Mengwi subdistrict said the sectoral minimum wages policy had been carried out by all the five-star hotels having agreed it.

Previously, Chairman of the FSP Bali of Badung district, Wayan Suyasa, asserted his organization will plan an inspection or field coordination and come down to the company to see closely why the company does not implement the provisions of the district minimum wage and sectoral minimum wages.

“If this has not been implemented, definitely the company has sacrificed the most vital assets, namely the workers. We will coordinate with the legislative, especially the Commission IV, which handles labor issues,” he said.

This Golkar Party politician said the sectoral minimum wage should have been implemented by three-star hotels and upwards.

Indeed, this provision was just implemented last year so there are still obstacles hampering the application of this provision in the field.

“Like the district minimum wage having not been implemented, it will soon be coordinated with tripartite and with a careful and closer look at the company,” he explained, while adding that at present the district minimum wage in Badung approaches IDR 2.5 million or to be exact, IDR 2,499,580 per month. As for sectoral minimum wages, the amount is about 5 percent greater than the district minimum wage. (kmb27)

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A tale of two islands: Brexit blues hit Caribbean cousins

THE VALLEY - The tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla lives in harmony with neighbouring Saint Martin but the borders could soon be going up in this sun-soaked paradise due to Brexit.

Robusta coffee of Pupuan is positive to be exported.

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Farmer groups to meet 18 tons of coffee export demand

ROBUSTA coffee of Pupuan is positive to be exported by Ventura Coffee or Fortanium as much as 18 tons or one container.

To fulfill this demand, the exporting company is going to work with farmers that are ready, especially those that have applied red picking. Some farmers in Pupuan claimed to be unready because the application of the red picking had not been done.

Division Head of Plantation, Dewa Budidana Susila, stated on Sunday (Oct. 28) that certainty of this export has been confirmed that Ventura Coffee (Fortanium) has agreed to buy Robusta coffee of Pupuan for export purposes. “This has been coordinated. Later on, the coffee will be taken from farmers having included in the Community of Geographical Indications (MPIG) under coordination of one person, namely the Chairperson of the MPIG,” said Dewa Budi.

The requirement requested by Ventura Coffee is the red picking coffee. To fulfill this, farmers have to harvest when the coffee bean remains red. Dewa Budi added that farmers in Pupuan should be prepared with this export demand. The establishment of the MPIG in 2018 is indeed intended for this purpose. “Why do we establish the MPIG whose members are 30 subak abian (garden farmer cooperative) groups in Pupuan? This has the purpose to meet export demand. With the MPIG means the maintenance to the coffee harvest has been in accordance with the SOP requested for export,” explained Dewa Budi.

Therefore, the fulfillment of this year’s export demand will be prioritized for farmers who are genuinely ready. For export demand

in 2019, all the farmers in subak abian group included in the MPIG are expected to be able to comply with the export requirements.

For the fulfillment of exports, Dewa Budi added that farmers do not get direct cash payment, but only get down payment as much as 10 percent. Full payment will be made if the demanded coffee has complied with the requirements as requested. He said that farmers used to get cash when selling their coffee.

Therefore, they are not yet familiar with such payment system so that some choose to sell their coffee directly to collectors. Actually, by meeting the export quota, the price received by farmers is higher than the market price.

One of the coffee farmers at Belatungan village, Pupuan, I Ketut Ringin, claimed that he cannot fulfill the quota because the coffee harvest at Belatungan village is not as good as usual. “The weather is not good so the coffee beans fall down before harvest time,” he said.

Currently, he can only harvest 700 kilograms for an area of 0.80 hectare where in normal harvest and good weather he normally can get one ton. Besides, he has not applied the red picking harvest optimally and still sells his mixed coffee to collectors. “Red picking

can only be applied as much as 10 percent because last year the price of red picking in mixed bean was not much different. Currently the price of mixed coffee is IDR 22,000 per kilogram,” said Ringin.

By becoming a member of the MPIG in 2018, Ringin hoped to be able to apply larger red picking in next year’s harvest. Besides, he hoped that the price of red picking coffee will be more competitive, A different matter was explained by the Head of Pajahan BUMDes, Made Marsudi Cahyadi.

According to him the coffee harvest at Pajahan village is actually very good. One hectare can produce two tons of coffee. This is possible because the weather at Pajahan village supports.

“The weather in Pupuan is not the same. Some are good while some others are not. So, the coffee harvest is also like that,” he said.

Regarding the export demand, although he has not heard, according to Cahyadi, farmers at Pajahan will be ready because BUMDes had been guided to implement red picking. ”I personally have not got any information about such exports. However, if asked to do red picking, Pajahan village is ready because local farmers have applied it,” he explained. (kmb24)

Five miles (eight kilometres) of turquoise sea separate the British overseas territory of Anguilla from Saint Martin, a larger island split between two European Union states: France in the northern half and the Dutch-run south.

Chief Minister Victor Banks said Anguillians consider Saint Martin as “downtown Anguilla”.

“People go there to go to shopping, to make business, or get, for example, medical services,” he told AFP. Britain is more than 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometres) away from the pristine white beaches fringing Anguilla, an island 16 miles (26 km) long by three miles (five km) wide, with a 15,000-strong population.

After a 25-minute ferry ride, visitors from Saint Martin stroll straight through the entry checks at what is left of the port at Blowing Point. Anguilla and its neighbour were ravaged by Hurricane Irma in September last year.

“People here in this part of the world have very, very, very close family ties,” said Tim Foy, the British civil servant who is the head of state Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in the territory.

The 2017 records were partially lost in Hurricane Irma but he said there were around 300,000 movements of people between Anguilla and Saint Martin in 2016.

Free movement of goods and

people between the three administrations is a historical mainstay, said Sherman Williams, finance manager of the Anguilla Air and Sea Ports Authority, which runs Anguilla’s three harbours and its small airstrip.

The traditional arrangement was legally reinforced by EU rules but is now in question due to Britain’s decision to leave the bloc. Internally self-governing Anguilla did not take part in the 2016 vote.

Anguilla’s capital and largest town, The Valley, is strung out around three main roads, punctuated with occasional administrative buildings, small grocery stores and some under-occupied modern buildings with herds of goats occasionally roaming by.

- ‘Separation of families’ There are few immediate concerns about the island’s economic health.

EU development aid accounts for only one to two percent of Anguilla’s budget at $6-7 million and the island’s government is planning on negotiating post-Brexit replacement money with London.

Around 80 percent of Anguilla’s economy is based on services, notably offshore finance and tourism, which rely on smooth cross-border flows.

Most longer-haul tourists come via the bigger airport on Saint Mar-

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A picture taken on October 23, 2018 shows a neighbourood in Anguilla, a British overseas territory. The tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla lives in harmony with neighbouring Saint Martin but the borders could soon be going up in this sun-soaked paradise due to Brexit. tin, famous for its runway right by the beach.

“We don’t know exactly what Brexit means for Anguilla,” said Shellya Rogers, the Anguilla Tourist Board’s corporate affairs manager.

While 80 percent of the island’s tourists come from the United States, European visitors “may have a few more restrictions on travelling”, including possibly visas, she said.

There are also concerns in Britain’s other Caribbean overseas territories: the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Banks said they were working together but none faced the same challenges as Anguilla, relying so closely as it does on its neighbour split between EU states.

Daniel Gibbs, the president of the territorial council of French Saint-Martin, is Banks’s cousin and

shares his point of view.

He hopes Brexit will not impose dramatic changes on the two islands.

“We are determined to put in place a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the exchanges that have always characterised our relationship,” said Gibbs.

Williams summed up how citizens in the three jurisdictions see themselves as one and the same. (afp)

Quake rattles New Zealand as Harry and Meghan visit

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Britain’s Prince Harry (2nd R) and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (2nd L) attend a reception hosted by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (R) at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland on October 30, 2018.

WELLINGTON - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of central New Zealand Tuesday, where British royals Meghan and Harry are on tour, but officials said it caused no major damage.

The quake was felt in Wellington during a session of parliament, prompting lawmakers to stop deliberations and seek refuge as a precaution.

There was no tsunami threat and the quake was not strongly felt in Auckland, where the touring royals continued with a public walkabout on the city’s waterfront.

Reporters travelling with the couple said they did not feel any tremors during the quake, which the US Geological Survey (USGS) gave a magnitude of 6.1.

New Zealand’s official GeoNet

seismic monitoring service said a 6.2 quake struck at a depth of 207 kilometres (128 miles) in the central North Island about 340 kilometres northeast of Wellington.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was widely felt across the centre of the country, despite the depth of the epicentre, and urged Kiwis to “check on those around you”.

Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi said there had been no reports of damage or injuries.

“I think some people might be a little nervy and that’s understandable but it’s just a case of following those safety messages and being prepared,” he told reporters.

“I think if there was anything major we’d know by now.”

Faafoi said proceedings in par-

liament house were temporarily suspended because of heavy shaking in the building.

“We all felt it in the house, I was in there at the time... and just for the immediate safety of those in the house (the speaker) saw fit to suspend proceedings,” he said.

“I think that was the wise thing to do as we felt it quite heavily.”

New Zealand lies on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, which form part of the so-called “Ring of Fire”, and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year.

A shallow 6.3 quake in the South Island city of Christchurch killed 185 people in 2011, while a 7.8 shake slightly further north in 2016 was the second strongest ever recorded in the country. (afp)

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Oceana supports fishery transparency and reduction of plastic production

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Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun.

NASA spacecraft breaks record for coming closest to Sun

TAMPA - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, the US space agency announced Monday.

“The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles (42.73 million kilometers) from the Sun’s surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 pm EDT (1704 GMT),” said a NASA statement.

“The previous record for closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976.”

The $1.5 billion unmanned spacecraft launched in August, on

a strategic mission to protect the Earth by unveiling the mysteries of dangerous solar storms.

Its goal is make a series of 24 flybys past our scorching star.

Another record is in sight for the

Parker Solar Probe.

The spaceship is “expected to break the record for fastest spacecraft traveling relative to the Sun on Oct. 29 at about 10:54 pm EDT (Tuesday 0254 GMT),” NASA said.

“The current record for heliocentric speed is 153,454 miles

(246,960 kilometers) per hour, set

by Helios 2 in April 1976.”

Parker’s first close encounter with the Sun is scheduled for October 31.

Its final close approach -- coming just 3.83 million miles from the Sun’s surface -- is expected in 2024, NASA said. (afp)

‘A cyber-attack could stop the country’

SAN FRANCISCO - Superfast 5G mobile broadband could power smart cities and the internet of things, (IoT) but as more devices get connected, telecoms and security experts are warning that cyber-attacks could increase in number and severity.

Our homes and cities are getting “smarter” - thermostats, video doorbells, sprinkler systems, street

lights, traffic cameras, cars. all connected to the internet, collecting and transmitting useful data.

And 5G superfast mobile is seen as a catalyst that will light up this massive network.

GSMA Intelligence forecasts that there will be more than 25 billion “internet of things” connections by 2025.

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The internet of things promises great benefits but comes with higher security risks.

But experts are queuing up to issue stark warnings about security.

“Security around IoT devices hasn’t been very good, so if they’re opened up to better connectivity they’re opened up to more hackers, too,” says Cody Brocious, education lead at security consultancy HackerOne. “Not enough is being done to improve their security, and it’s only going to get worse when they become 5G-connected. We’ll see increases in spam and cyber-attacks.”

Steve Buck, chief operating officer at telecoms security company Evolved Intelligence, goes so far as to say that “5G will power critical infrastructure, so a cyber-attack could stop the country.”

The problem is that a lot of these IoT devices - think small sensors measuring air humidity or temperature, for example - are cheap and need to have a very long battery life.

“Implementing good security into such devices will require more processing power and this drives

up costs and drains power,” says 5G expert Dave Burstein, editor of WirelessOne.news.

Which is why it won’t happen.

The danger is that insecure devices will provide rich pickings for hackers. Just this month, internet security firm Sophos Labs warned about a new “family of denial-ofservice bots we’re calling Chalubo” targeting IoT devices.

The malware tries to recruit insecure devices into a botnet that can be commanded to bombard websites with requests and knock them out. Hackers then normally ask for a ransom to stop the attack.

“Google and Facebook spend billions on security and both have recently been hacked,” says Mr Burstein.

“If they can’t be fully protected, how can an ordinary person be expected to secure the dozen or more connected devices many of us will soon have?”

This is why Jeff Lipton, vice president of WaterSmart in San

Francisco, a company that makes connected programmable water meters, thinks “these systems need to be very carefully thought through before rushing to make every device in a city smart”.

And it isn’t just the devices themselves that are vulnerable - the network potentially is, too.

“With 5G we’ll be consuming services from all over the place, so we want to deliver those services very quickly as close to the customer as possible to reduce latency [delay],” says Adam MacHale, managing director of technology strategy at IT and networking firm Cisco Systems.

So instead of one central delivery centre serving an entire country, there’ll be thousands of local ones, he explains.

“But this increases the threat surface [the number of potential weak points in a network that hackers can attack] and the risk.”

It’s a point reiterated by Michele Zarri, technical director at GSMA, the organisation representing the global mobile industry. (IBP/net)

MANGUPURA — In the Our Ocean Conference taking place on October 29-30 in Nusa Dua, the Oceana global marine conservation organization fully supports the efforts to increase transparency in world fisheries and reduce plastic production. The conference attended by leaders from a number of countries in the world aims to make real and applicable commitments to safeguard and save our oceans.

According to Joshua Jackson, an actor and marine activist, the participation of Oceana in the conference serves as a commitment to saving the ocean from the threat of overfishing, illegal fishing, and destroying habitats. “We have polluted our oceans, taken excessive fish, and killed too many valuable species and life under the sea,” he said in Nusa Dua on Sunday (Oct. 28).

Chief Executive Officer of Oceana, Andrew Sharpless, stated that Oceana noted there is about a third of the world’s fish stock having been overfished. Modern pirates continue to loot our oceans, threatening countries that depend on seafood as their main source of protein. Destructive fishing methods such as trawling (bottom trawling) continue to damage the corals that are old and the species below them.

Besides, fishermen continue to dispose of seafood and wildlife that are accidentally caught as bait. Important marine life, such as sharks, continues to decline in number due to excessive shark fishing and the practice of brutal shark fin cutting followed by the disposal of shark bodies into the sea.

The Oceana Campaign means to improve transparency in fisheries management and use international approach to win and get policies that can restore and increase the abundance of the sea. Indonesia has adopted an important example by creating Vessel Tracking Data so that it can be open to the public sphere and now Peru has followed it. The global movement for transparency starts here in Indonesia,” he said.

Meanwhile, Jacqueline Savitz as Chief Policy Officer of the Oceana added that currently the threat faced every day is plastic. At least, there are 17.6 billion pounds of plastic waste entering the ocean each year.

However, Indonesia, like other countries in the world, sees threats directly in the ocean.

The actor who is also a marine activist, environmentalist and member of Oceana’s celebrity supporter Nadine Chandrawinata, said the efforts to overcome plastic waste and other pollution are very important for our marine ecosystems and for the future of our economy. “On that account, I am very pleased that Indonesia is given the trust to host the Fifth Our Ocean Conference in Bali,” she said.

Approximately 1.29 million metric tons of plastic are estimated to enter the ocean from Indonesia every year. This is an important role to help find solutions to the plastic crisis. “We can start by refusing to use plastic bottles, straws, and single-use bags, but it is not just our job. We have to demand the companies to stop producing more plastic in our country and sea,” he added. (kmb23)

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The Our Ocean Conference taking place on October 29-30 in Nusa Dua.

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Governor of Bali, I Wayan Koster (c), during the National Electricity Day (HLN) ceremony held in Renon Square on Saturday (Oct. 27).

Other than renewable energy, Bali also needs energy independency LNG hub to be built in Bali

DENPASAR — The government launched a mix of renewable energy (EBT) of 23 percent in 2025. In accordance with the vision of the governor of Bali, it is expected to be the largest renewable energy contribution from Bali. Thus, the renewable energy mix in Bali is targeted to be more than 23 percent.

Governor of Bali, I Wayan Koster, in his remarks during the National Electricity Day (HLN) ceremony held in Renon Square on Saturday (Oct. 27) said that Bali Province does not have conventional energy resources (oil, gas and coal) and has relatively not too big renewable energy potential.

So, the concept of Bali Energy Independency will try to be fully realized. However, it does not rule out the possibility of also utilizing technological breakthroughs and the utilization of renewable energy will be able to fulfill partially of the Bali’s energy needs in a sustainable manner.

According to him, the use of renewable energy is not optimal due to land problems. There are insufficient regulations governing energy and electricity in the region, availability of competent human resources as well as limited technology resulting in relatively expensive costs that causes investment to be less attractive.

On the same occasion, GM of the PLN Bali Distribution, I Ny-

oman Suwarjoni Astawa, said that from several hearings with the governor of Bali, there are several big plans to be carried out, where one of which is the construction of LNG hub in Bali. This will be one of the ways to reduce fuel consumption for plants in Bali. “Then, surely it is how to utilize the potential of renewable energy in Bali,” he said. If the LNG hub is built, Bali can build a large gas-fueled plant in Bali and it will be even able to supply for Java.

Other than LNG Hub, Bali will also utilize renewable energy from the Suwung landfill waste plant (PLTSa). It takes 2-3 years to build so the waste power plant with the capacity of 20 MW is expected be built in 2021.

President Director of PT Indonesia Power, Sripeni Inten Cahyani, in the recent general lecture of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources at Udayana University said the search for investors to collaborate with Indonesia Power can be obtained this October.

“At least, the deadline is this

November, and the winner has been determined so that the next process can be followed up, for example starting with detailed engineering design,” said Astawa. More than 10 investors already applied for the waste power plant project at the Suwung Landfill.

Most of them are foreign investment such as from China, Japan and Europe. In addition to waste power plant, Bali also opened an investment opportunity for the construction of a solar power plant (PLTS) with the capacity of 25 MW. “There are already 2x25 auction plans in East and West Bali, where each of which has the capacity of 25 MW,” he said.

The auction will be carried out in November, and in 2020 the solar power plants are expected to start operating. He stated that currently a total of six investors have submitted their proposals. Although Bali will build a number of large capacities of renewable energy sources, it remains to needs a companion generator. So, the power connection to Java is still needed. (kmb42)

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Make water conservation areas a blue economy foundation

BALI-Indonesia sets a target to allocate 20 million hectares of its territorial waters into conservation areas and expects to fully meet its ambitious marine biodiversity goals. However, the country needs a help to achieve this target.

Government’s data show that Indonesia has declared 19.14 million hectares of water conservation

areas until December 2017 or 96 percent of its commitment to build 20 million hectares of conservation

areas by 2020.

“This is a very commendable achievement, but we must now

Riki Frindos, Executive Director of the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI)

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move beyond the declaration and focus on ensuring that these areas are managed effectively,” said Ketut Sujana Putra, Vice President of Conservation International Indonesia, who is also the FKKI’s spokesperson in the Our Ocean Conference 2018 in Bali. The FKKI consists of a number of prominent local and international environmental organizations that aim to have a large impact on conservation in Indonesia.

Aquatic Conservation Areas are a cornerstone of ‘blue economy,’ one of the themes discussed in the Our Ocean Conference on the investment in Aquatic Conservation Areas. “We need a holistic approach to manage our marine resources. And the blue economy approach provides a set of principles that can guide the government to benefit from the sea without damaging it,” said Ketut Putra.

The focus of the Our Ocean Conference is to produce commitments and take concrete actions to protect the oceans with a budget commitment of around USD 18 billion and a total protection of 12.4 million square kilometers of marine conservation areas having existed since 2014.

“We are committed to strengthening cooperation with government institutions at national and subnational levels together with communities and private sector to fulfill this commitment to protected areas.

They need to become the backbone of sustainable fisheries and marinebased industries,” said Rizal Malik, CEO of WWF-Indonesia (one of the NGOs coalesced into the members of the FKKI).

The areas such as aquaculture, offshore renewable energy, blue biotechnology and responsible

tourism have great opportunities to encourage “blue growth” and promote inclusive development by creating new employment opportunities. Meanwhile, at the same time it ensures that marine resources are used and managed sustainably.

In another session, Riki Frindos, Executive Director of the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI), highlighted the need for stronger partnerships between NGOs, the private sector and the government to support the management of protected areas by creating opportunities for sustainable financing, especially through marine sustainability management, by creating collaborative measures such as sustainable finance.

Globally, more than 25 million square kilometers of marine area have been protected, representing at least 15,600 points, or nearly seven percent of the world’s ocean.

With the recent commitments made by governments around the world, the world is on track to protect more than 10 percent of the oceans by 2020. This endeavor is considered important to protect the oceans and coastal areas from the effects of climate change and overfishing, among another.

Our Ocean Conference 2018 aims to enhance partnerships between various marine stakeholders, and produce a commitment to maintain the sustainability of the oceans. This year’s conference focuses on marine conservation areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution and the impacts of climate change on the oceans as well as cross-sectoral themes such as sustainable blue economy and maritime resilience. (kmb)

Entangled in cocaine cases

Russian man charged with six years in prison

DENPASAR - A man from Russia, the defendant Rybinikov Vladimir Aleksandrovich, 41, charged with a cocaine-type narcotic case on Monday (Oct. 29), was sentenced to six-year imprisonment.

Prosecutor Putu Gede Juliarsana stated the defendant’s actions were found guilty in the first charge. He has violated Article 112 paragraph 1 of the Republic of Indonesia’s

Law No. 35/2009 concerning Narcotics. Other than being physically punished for six years, the defendant was also charged with paying a fine of IDR 1 billion, with subsidiary confinement of three months in jail for the case of five packages of cocaine weighing 4.32 grams.

Previously, the prosecutor explained that the case began with

information obtained by police that there was foreigner getting involved in drugs. On April 27, 2018, police conducted an investigation and found the defendant in front of Miranda Shop on Jalan Majapahit, Kuta. Based on the information, Mohamad Sjarani and Nyoman Oka Risnawan, posing police personnel, saw the defendant calling at road side. On

the suspicion, they immediately arrested the Russian citizen. From the search, they found a number of plastic clips containing cocaine found in the shorts worn by the defendant.

With the evidence, police then searched the defendant’s residence at the Bali Vie Apartment Room #2014 on Jalan Nakula, Legian.

Again, police also found two

plastic clips containing suspected cocaine powder inserted into the defendant’s reading book. “Based on the results of investigation, the defendant claimed to purchase the cocaine from someone at the F Bar with a price of IDR 3 million per package,” said the prosecutor while adding the total price of the five packages was IDR 15 million. (kmb37)

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SYDNEY - Academy award-winner Geoffrey Rush was accused in court on Tuesday of inappropriately touching a female costar during an Australian rendition of ‘King Lear.’

Eryn Jean Norvill said that the ‘Tailor of Panama’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star had made her feel “belittled, embarrassed and shamed” when the pair acted together in the Shakespeare play in 2015-2016.

She told a court hearing that he stood over her during rehearsal “licking his lips” and once on stage deliberately ran his hand in a manner that was “slow, light and pressured across my breast.”

“I believed that he had done it deliberately,” national broadcaster ABC reported Norvill as saying.

Rush, who won a best actor Oscar award for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott in

the film ‘Shine’, is not being charged with any misconduct.

The testimony came because he is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for defamation after they printed allegations that he behaved inappropriately toward a female actress.

Norvill is the latest in a series of witnesses to take the stand in the case.

Most have testified that they saw no evidence of Rush behaving improperly. (afp)

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Johnny Depp ‘dropped from Pirates Of The Caribbean’ LOS ANGELES - Johnny Depp has been dropped from new Pirates Of The Caribbean films, according to reports.

The actor, 55, has starred in five films over the past 15 years, but it seems he may have made his last appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Original scriptwriter Stuart Beattie appeared to confirm the news to DailyMail TV as he revealed Disney has plans to rework the franchise.

While he did not confirm or deny when it was put to him that it seemed Depp is “finished as the lead of these movies”, Beattie nodded when it was suggested the star was out, and said: “I think he’s had a great run.

Johnny Depp has played Captain Jack Sparrow in five Pirates Of The Caribbean films.

“Obviously, he’s made that character his own and it’s become the thing that he’s most famous for now.

“And kids all over the world love him as that character so I think it’s been great for him, it’s been great for us, so I’m just very, very happy about it.”

Beattie, who will not be working on the new films, said: “There’s that saying, ‘don’t frown because it’s over, smile because it happened’.

“The fact they’re rebooting something that you did means that you did something that is worth rebooting. I tend to look at it as the glass half full and I just think it’s an honour to be rebooted.”

Depp’s personal life has made headlines over the past few years.

He split from now ex-wife Amber Heard in 2016 amid highly publicised claims of domestic violence and counter-claims of financial blackmail. (IBP/ net)

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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (L), Indonesia’s Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi (C), and National Search and Rescue head Muhammad Syaugi (R) inspect recovered debris from the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 while touring the operations centre at a port in northern Jakarta on October 30, 2018.

Indonesia sifts through plane debris, orders jet inspection

Indonesia ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-MAX airliners on Tuesday as rescue teams recovered more human remains from a brand new Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people on board.

There were 178 adult passengers, one child, two infants, two pilots and six cabin crew on board.

On a Jakarta dockside, officials took up the grim task of separating human remains from plane debris and recovered personal effects, sending the body parts -- including from an infant -- to hospital for DNA testing.

Stretched out along the dock was a growing collection of items plucked from the sea -- single shoes, torn pieces of clothing, wallets and bags scattered among aircraft seats stripped of their blue covers by the sheer impact of the crash.

- Grieving relatives Scores of relatives thronged a hospital building being used for victim identification. “My daughter has no husband, my grandchild no longer has a father,” a grieving Hari Setiyono said at the police hospital, referring to his missing son-in-law.

Febby Mellysa had four relatives aboard the doomed jet, including her cousin, his wife and their five-year-old son. “We tried to call my cousin and his wife so

The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just a few months ago, crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia’s northern coast moments after it had asked to return to Jakarta on Monday. Flight JT610 sped up as it suddenly lost altitude and then vanished from radar 12 minutes after take-off, with witnesses saying the single-aisle jet plunged into the water.

The accident has resurrected concerns about Indonesia’s patchy air safety record which led to a

now-lifted ban on its planes entering US and European airspace.

On Tuesday Indonesia’s transport minister ordered an inspection of all 737-MAX aircraft but he stopped short of grounding the new models.

Dozens of divers were taking part in the recovery effort along with helicopters and ships. Authorities are trying to pinpoint the smashed jet’s location and flight data recorders expected to be crucial to the crash investigation.

many times, but their phone wasn’t active,” she told AFP. “The whole family is confused about what to do next.” Indonesia’s search and rescue agency has all but ruled out finding any survivors from the high-impact crash in water some 30-40 metres deep.

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