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Stone lauds Billie Jean King at ‘Battle of the Sexes’ screening TORONTO - Academy Award winner Emma Stone praised tennis great Billie Jean King’s for pushing social change for women while battling her own insecurities at the Toronto premiere of “Battle of the Sexes” on Sunday night.

Stone plays King in the story of her famous 1973 tennis match against retired former champion and male chauvinist Bobby Riggs, played by Steve Carell.

“I think the thing that was most inspiring to me...was that Billie Jean was going through so many personal trials at the time and discovering so much about herself,” Stone said on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Along with the highly-publicized grudge match, the film also covers King’s sexual exploration via a off-court relationship with a woman. She did not publicly identify as a lesbian until 1981.

“In this time period she was confused and scared and still was able to effect such massive social change,” said Stone, who won an Oscar earlier this year for “La La Land”.

King, who won the match, played a pivotal role in the fight for equal pay for female athletes and is considered a major influence on the women’s liberation movement as a whole.

But more than 40 years later, the issue of equal pay, both in tennis and the wider working world, is still simmering.

“It’s eerily relevant these days, and sadly it’s, I think, more relevant than it should be at this point,” Carell said ahead of the screening.

A tennis tournament executive, Raymond Moore of the BNP Paribas Open, last year said that top-level women’s players rode “on the coattails of the men” and were “very, very lucky” to have equal prize money.

He stepped down from the role several months later amid heavy criticism, with tournament owner Larry Ellison citing King’s “historic campaign for the equal treatment of women in tennis” when announcing the move.

The film has received early awards-season buzz since first screening at Telluride earlier this month, with Stone’s performance especially well-received. (rtr)

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Thousands of homes wrecked by huge Mexican quake, death toll at 91

MEXICO CITY - A massive earthquake off southern Mexico on Thursday night that killed at least 91 people damaged tens of thousands of homes and afflicted upwards of two million people in the poorer south, state officials said, as more details of the disaster emerged.

Earthquake strikes off the coast of Mexico

A massive 8.1 magnitude earthquake, one of the biggest recorded in Mexico, struck off the country's southern coast late on Thursday, causing cracks in buildings and triggering a small tsunami, authorities said.

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Actors Julianne Moore and Matt Damon attend a news conference to promote the film “Suburbicon” at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada, September 10, 2017.

Damon, Clooney defend black family’s portrayal in ‘Suburbicon’

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The 8.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Chiapas state was stronger than a 1985 temblor that flattened swaths of Mexico City and killed thousands. However, its greater depth and distance helped save the capital from more serious damage.

On Saturday, authorities in the southern state of Oaxaca said there were 71 confirmed fatalities there, many of them in the town of Juchitan, where the rush to bury victims crowded a local cemetery at the weekend.

Another death was confirmed in neighboring Chiapas late on Sunday, bringing the total there to 16, a spokesman for local emergency services said. A further four deaths have also been registered in Tabasco state to the north.

Television footage from parts of

Oaxaca showed small homes and buildings completely leveled by the quake, which struck the narrowest portion of Mexico on the isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Aftershocks continued into Sunday, and scores of people were wary about returning to fragile buildings hammered by the initial tremor, sleeping in gardens, patios and in the open air.

Piles of rubble lay strewn around damaged streets, where the shock was still visible on the faces of residents. Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat told Mexican television the quake hit 41 municipalities and had likely affected around one in five of the state’s 4 million-strong population.

“We’re talking about more than 800,000 people who potentially lost everything, and some their loved

ones,” he said on Sunday.

In Juchitan alone, more than 5,000 homes were destroyed.

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were temporarily left without electricity or water, and many in the south were evacuated from coastal dwellings when the quake sparked tsunami warnings.

In Chiapas, some 41,000 houses were damaged, governor Manuel Velasco said, estimating nearly 1.5 million people were affected.

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TORONTO - The African-American family struggling to fit in to an all-white suburb in 1950s America in the George Clooney-directed dark satire “Suburbicon” was intentionally portrayed in a one-dimensional way, actor Matt Damon said on Sunday.

The film, based on a script written

by Joel and Ethan Coen, stars Damon and Julianne Moore and depicts the violent efforts of the neighborhood’s white residents to oust a black family, the Meyers, after blaming them for a deadly break-in.

The film has received mixed reviews since its world premiere in Venice earlier this month, with some critics hammering its superficial treatment of the black characters.

“The Meyers family, you never

know them, right, and that’s the point,” Damon told a news conference at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Because the town didn’t get to know them, they just freaked out.”

Moore added: “They blamed them for absolutely everything and then you see us in our little house quietly going about our dirty business.”

Moore plays both Damon’s wife and her sister, who hatches a plot with Damon’s character Gardner

Lodge to stage a home invasion and get rid of the wife to start a new life together.

The film lands at a time of deep unease over race in America after white supremacists clashed with anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia last month, leaving one dead.

“Its bigger problem is a timely subplot about virulent racism among white Americans that comes off as a mishandled afterthought,” Hollywood Reporter said. (rtr)

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Content procurement of Masceti Subak Museum worth IDR 6.5 billion GIANYAR —Procurement of the content for subak museum located around the Masceti Beach, Blahbatuh, is ensured to be realized before the end of this year. This considers the disbursement of the budget worth IDR 6.5 billion from amended national state budget (APBN) 2017.

Currently, the use of the funds has entered tender stage.

Head of the Gianyar Culture Agency, Gusti Ngurah Wijana, through the Division Head of Cultural Heritage and Museum, Wayan Suda, said the funds from the ministry of culture and education of the RI amounting to IDR 6.5 billion is being processed through the procurement services unit (ULP). “Later on, this unit will inform the partner that can help the procurement of content for the museum,” he said when met on Wednesday (Sep. 6).

Suda said that procurement of the content includes agricultural equipment having a cultural heritage value. To look for equipment aged 50 years has also been followed up by making data collection to a number of farmers in Gianyar.

“Some properties have been available in the data. Then, they will be requested by the agency by giving compensation,” he explained.

He said the content also includes the procurement of dioramas featuring agricultural system in Gianyar. A Balinese traditional house will also equip the museum that remains to be made from clay. “Later on, there is also a Balinese ancient house. To be sure, it is different from the contemporary Balinese house,” he said.

All the contents describing about the local wealth of Gianyar will be packed using information technology, so that they will be more easily understood by visitors. “All displays will adopt information technology, but its traditional spirit remains to be maintained,” he said.

Suda said that procurement of all the contents using the budget worth IDR 6.5 billion has the deadline until December 15. Then, there are fears on the lack of partners that dare to take the offer considering the time limit is short. “We are aware that it is not only Gianyar proposing the assistance request to central government but also the other regions throughout Indonesia. We cannot do much after the budget is disbursed in the amended state budget, while now the time limit is very short,” he said.

As scheduled, the museum will be launched in February 2018, before the term of office of Gianyar Regent, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, ends. Related to the museum name, it will be reviewed again considering that the identity of subak museum has been available in Tabanan. “Our leadership is going to give slightly different identity because the name of subak museum has existed in Tabanan,” he said.

Suda reminded that physical construction of the subak museum uses the budget from central government started in 2014. It was begun with building structures worth about IDR 2 billion followed by a two-tiered structure in 2015 worth about IDR 10 billion. Finishing of the third stage was also funded by state budget in 2016 amounting IDR 9 billion.

“They are added to the current budget worth IDR 6.5 billion, so they totally cost IDR 27.5 billion,” he said.

Besides, this project also obtained budget from regional budget of Gianyar in 2016 worth approximately IDR 1.6 billion for workmanship of parking space. Furthermore, this museum will be integrated with the One-Day River Tour managed by the Gianyar tourism office. He said that in the draft, visitors will take day trip in Gianyar district. The visit starts at the Subak Museum, resumed with the exploration to Pakerisan River watershed getting recognition as the World Cultural Heritage from the UNESCO and ultimately ends with a culinary tour to Gianyar Market. (kmb35)

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Double swipe

Payment gateway provider must apply information security standards

DENPASAR —In accordance with the Regulation of Bank Indonesia (PBI) No. 18/40 / PBI / 2016 concerning the Implementation of Payment Transaction Processing, if providers of payment system are proved to have committed double swipe, they shall be liable to administrative sanctions in the form of reprimands, fines, suspensions of all activities of the payment system services, and / or revocation of licenses as payment service providers. This was conveyed by the Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) Representative Office for Bali Region, Causa Iman Karana, recently.

He said that in the processing of payment transactions, each payment system service provider must apply risk management effectively and consistently. Service providers are also required to apply information security system standards, conduct payment processing domestically, apply consumer protection and comply with statutory regulations.

“Provider of the payment system services shall also submit a report on the processing of payment transactions to Bank Indonesia consisting of periodic reports and incidental reports,” he said.

Bank Indonesia conducts a direct and indirect supervision against payment system providers. If required, Bank Indonesia shall also supervise the supporting operators in cooperation with the service providers of payment systems.

Related to that matter, providers of the payment system services are prohibited from processing payment transactions by using virtual currency, misusing data and information of customers as well as the data of payment transaction information, having and or managing a value that can be equalized to the value of money that can be used outside the scope of the respective payment system service provider.

In the meantime, Chairman of Consumer Protection Institution Foundation (YLPK) Bali, I Putu Armaya, supported the measures of BI related to the prohibition of double swipe in non-cash transactions. “In every transaction, the card should only be swiped once in the Electronic Data Capture (EDC) machine, and does no other scraping, including on the

cash register. It is meant to protect consumers,” said Armaya.

Bank Indonesia is expected more intensively do dissemination, not only to consumers but also to business players either banking or merchants having something to do with non-cash payment process.

He also hoped business players in Bali to protect consumers.

Armaya appealed that banks and merchants to be obedient to the rules and ban on double swiping.

The YLPK Bali supported the measures of BI that terminates the cooperation with the merchants remaining to practice such double swiping. For reconciliation purposes, the transaction of payment and acquirers are expected to use other methods that do not involve double swiping. (kmb42)

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Case of persecution causing victim to die

About to appealing, prosecutor finally receives 1.5-year sentence DENPASAR — What was said by public prosecutor I Kadek Wahyudi, who immediately appealed for the 1.5-year sentence against the punishment received by the foreigner from Germany, Giuliano Lemoine, 21, was just a fairy tale.

In fact, at the same time, the Section Head of General Crime at the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, last week told a number of journalists to accept the judge’s verdict on a 1.5-year sentence for the young German man, indicted for torture to

A waiter serves beer in the traditional Schweizerhaus beer garden in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2017.

Drinks industry distorts alcohol cancer risk - scientists

LONDON - The alcohol industry uses denial, distortion and distraction to mislead people about the risks of developing cancer from drinking, often employing similar tactics to those of the tobacco industry, a study said on Thursday.

Drinks industry organisations often present the relationship between alcohol and cancer as highly complex, implying there is no clear evidence of a consistent link, said the study led by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet.

Other strategies include denying any relationship exists, or saying inaccurately that there is no risk with moderate drinking, the study found. The industry also seeks to mention a wide range of other real and potential cancer risk factors in an effort to present alcohol as just one of many, it added.

Responding to the study, the

Distilled Spirits Council, a U.S. alcohol trade association, said it was “a highly selective” review authored by researchers with “antialcohol biases”.

“The Council does not recommend that people drink alcohol for potential health benefits,” it said in a statement. “Drinking in moderation may pose health risks for some people, and some individuals should not drink at all.”

The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, which represents large brewers and distillers including Anheuser-Busch InBev and Diageo, said it disagreed with the study’s conclusions. “We ... stand by the information that we

publish on drinking and health,” it said.

RISING RISK The World Health Organization says drinking alcohol is a wellestablished risk factor for a range of cancers, including tumours of the mouth, liver, breast and colon and bowel. And the risk of cancer rises with levels of alcohol consumed.

The research team behind Thursday’s study analysed the information relating to cancer on the websites and documents of nearly 30 alcohol industry organisations around the world between September 2016 and December 2016.

“The weight of scientific evidence

is clear - drinking alcohol increases the risk of some of the most common forms of cancer,” said Mark Petticrew, a professor of public Health at the LSHTM who co-led the study.

“It has been argued that greater public awareness, particularly of the risk of breast cancer, poses a significant threat to the alcohol industry.

Our analysis suggests that the major global alcohol producers may attempt to mitigate this by disseminating misleading information.”

Petticrew’s team identified three main industry strategies: Denying any link with cancer, or selective omission of the relationship; distortion by mentioning some risk of cancer, but misrepresenting or obfuscating its size; and distraction by seeking to draw focus away from the risks of alcohol and towards other cancer risks.

One of the most significant find-

ings was that industry materials omitted or misrepresented evidence on breast and bowel cancer, both of which are linked to drinking. When breast cancer was mentioned, 21 of the organisations studied gave no, or misleading, information about it, the study said.

Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said the study “clearly shows the alcohol industry misleading the public”.

“With only 1 in 10 people aware of the link between alcohol and cancer, people have both a need and a right to clear information about the health risks of drinking alcohol.” Petticrew said the study’s findings, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review on Thursday, were important partly because the alcohol industry is often involved in spreading health information to people around the world. (rtr)

the death of Steven Djingga, 49. As a result, the appeal was cancelled to be filed.

With the acceptance of the 1.5year sentence, the case will have a permanent legal force. In last week’s publication, the German tourist was convicted by a panel of judges led by Esthar Oktavi.

However, the defendant was only sentenced to a year and six months or 1.5 years in a trial in the Denpasar District Court.

Responding to the verdict of the

death case of Steven, the prosecutor initially appealed against the decision of the judge panel led by Esthar Oktavi. At that time, the defendant’s legal counsel, Simon Trombine et al., stated to think of it first.

In the case of the persecution, previously the German tourist was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison from the threat of a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.

The panel of judges stated that the defendant was proven legally and convincingly guilty of com-

mitting the acts as regulated in Article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code concerning the persecution. In this case alone, the defendant was tried in the case of persecution that resulted in the victim Steven Djingga, 49, to die.

The element supporting the article, as in the previous trials, is that the defendant was judged to have an intention or element of deliberate to beat the victim.

Giuliano was brought to trial for alleged persecution of beating the

visitor bar in front of Paddy’s Club, Steven Djingga. He died after a few days of hospitalization.

According to the defendant as mentioned in his defense memo, this defendant from Germany admitted to have hit the victim once.

If was intended for a self-defense.

The defendant’s legal counsel suspected there were other perpetrators because the victim suffered many injuries, while the defendant only beat once. At that time, the victim was drunk. (kmb37)

Fishermen of Kampong Kepiting reluctant to be crab supplier

MANGUPURA — Fishermen of Kampong Kepiting at Tuban village, Kuta, are reluctant to sell their crabs to suppliers. It happens because this Wana Sari fishermen group was once fooled by suppliers that dispatched their farming products to foreign countries.

In addition, the 93-members of the Wana Sari group are also reluctant to supply their marine farming products to nearby hotels and restaurants.

They consider the bureaucracy of payment at hotel and restaurant is quite complicated. On that account, their catches are processed by them-

selves to be served at the Kampong Kepiting ecotourism food stall. “So far, we receive many demands from hotel supply, but we have not served yet,” said Made Sumasa, Leader of the Wana Sari Fishermen Group, recently.

Actually, the crabs produced from

the cultivation at mangrove area can reach 4,500 heads per month. At Kampong Kepiting, there are five crab floating boxes respectively containing 4,000 crabs. All fishermen catches such as in the form of fish, shrimp and crabs are sold to Kampong Kepiting ecotourism food stall.

At early hours, fishermen will start to go to sea and be back to mainland around 10:00 to take a rest. “In the afternoon, fishermen will keep crabs such as feeding them and so forth,” he said. Cultivating crab is considerably easy. To reach harvest time, crabs take a long time namely 8-9 months. “The maintenance indeed takes long time, but fattening only takes two months,” he said.

Each crab floating box is man-

aged by nine fishermen through shift system to feed the crabs. He and other fishermen have arranged in such a way so that the crabs captured every day will not exceed 300 heads. It is done to avoid overstock and shortage of crab stock. “We harvest by applying sorting system, no longer massive harvest as carried out before,” he said.

In addition to breeding mangrove crabs, this Wana Sari fishermen group also makes crab nursery. (kmb42)

Spectacular Northern Light display illuminates Finnish sky FINLAND - Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on Friday.

Travel magazine ‘All About Lapland’ posted a video on social media of the impressive light show seen from Pallas, in the Muonio region, adding it had

rarely seen anything on this scale.

The Northern Lights are a result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the Earth’s atmosphere. A strong geomagnetic storm was behind this week’s particularly stunning show.

Known as aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, in the north-

ern hemisphere, they go by aurora australis, or the Southern Lights, in the southern hemisphere. (rtr) The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near the village of Pallas (Muonio region) of Lapland, Finland September 8, 2017.

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Fishermen are reluctant to sell their crabs because was once fooled by suppliers that dispatched their farming products to foreign countries.

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Preparing for retirement, Made Sumerta breeds ducks

NEGARA - Simple and unpretentious figure is the personality of Made Sumerta. This man from Pasar hamlet, Yehembang, Mendoyo, is a member of Pekutatan subdistrict police, Jembrana police and serves as village commissioned officer (Bhabinkamtibmas) at Manggis Sari village, Pekutatan.

This police officer born on March 12, 1961 has been on duty for decades. Now, ahead of his retirement period, he has made preparation for the future of his family. Sumerta was graduated from SPN Singaraja police school.

In the period of 1979-1980, he was directly assigned in a conflicting area, namely the Aileu district police, East Timor. He served in East Timor from 1980 to 1988.

Having been successful in carrying out the tasks in the conflicting area, this father of three sons was also awarded the Satya Lencana Sroja, an award given by the state to police officers that have performed their duties well in the conflicting area.

Then after completing the assignment in East Timor, he married to Ni Komang Yuliani, 55, a civil

servant at the Gilimanuk harbor administration and in 1988 he was transferred to the West Lombok Police, NTB. After serving in West Lombok Police, Sumerta was transferred to this home region in Jembrana in 2000. Because of his proximity to the community, he was then entrusted to carry out his duties as Bhabinkamtibmas.

Since transferred to Jembrana district police and living in his hometown, at Pasar hamlet, Yehembang, Mendoyo, he had looked for new job in order to get additional income.

He chose to be a duck breeder.

At the beginning, this side job was carried out by hiring some local residents to raise his ducks. He said that his job as a member of Bhabinkamtibmas is very crowded

and takes a lot of time to get down to the community. So, he entrusts his ducks to some residents.

Other than raising ducks, he also raises pigs, chickens for caru oblation and rooster. In fact, the results are good to cover additional household expenses, including helping to pay school tuition fee for the undergraduate education of his children. Moreover, the first son was successful and got a civil servant position at Singaraja harbor administration. Since the breeding adequately helps the family’s economy, from 2015 he began to focus on his own breeding at backyard with the help of his wife.

At this time, he is raising 600 ducks with the production of averagely 450 eggs per day sold for IDR 1,500 each. So, every day he earns IDR 675,000 from the sales of duck eggs. From the proceeds, Sumerta gets a profit of IDR 275,000 per day because daily production cost for his duck reaches IDR 400,000.

According to him, such income is quite good to increase family’s

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U.N. sees “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar

GENEVA - The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar’s “brutal security operation” against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, saying it was disproportionate to insurgent attacks carried out last month.

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Ahead of his retirement period, he has made preparation for the future of his family. income. Moreover, with such earning he can make a saving for the future of his sons as well as the provision of retirement later.

He added that in the future he

will focus as duck breeder after getting retired because the income as a breeder is quite promising. He does not want to keep silent and only relies on pension salary. (kmb)

Lacking public facilities

Tourism office proposes tourist object arrangement to central govt AMLAPURA — A number of tourist attractions in Karangasem still lack public facilities. It is often complained by local and foreign tourists such as at Tulamben, Jemeluk, Yeh Malet and Ujung Water Palace. To add public facilities at the location, the Karangasem tourism office proposed the arrangement of the tourist objects and provision of supporting facilities, such as toilet, information centers and gazebo.

Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, I Wayan Astika, recently said that many tourist objects in Karangasem have not yet been organized.

However, due to budget constraints, the tourism office should be able to seize the funds of central government, especially the special allocation fund (DAK) from the ministry of tourism. For the arrangement of Tulamben tourist attraction, the proposed amount is IDR 9.1 billion; Jemeluk (IDR 9.8 billion), Yeh Malet (IDR 5 billion) and the largest amount is for the arrangement of the Ujung Water Palace totally coming to IDR 35 billion.

“The draft we propose amounts to that size. However, later on the approved amount is not necessarily the same as that,” he said.

Such a measure should be realized amid the budget constraints of the local government. This public facility is

important to support the convenience of tourists while making a visit.

“For example, information board is required by travelers to get the right information about the objects they visit,” Astika said.

This proposal is expected to have been realized in 2018 because many other objects must also be arranged for the addition of similar supporting facilities. This shows the effort of district government of Karangasem to provide security and comfort for visitors. “Some other proposals are intended for Candidasa and Padangbai. Hopefully, everything could be realized next year,” said Wayan Edy Gautama, the Destination Section Head.

Currently the tourism office continues to be a major public highlight.

This is related to the mission of the regent of Karangasem who wanted to make tourism the main spearhead of the regionally generated revenue (PAD). The entire potential of Karangasem tourism is currently being overhauled. The listed and proposed tourist objects continue to grow. Besides, tourism office is also preparing various regulations related to tourist objects and other regulations related to tourism villages along with their academic studies. “We target to accomplish them next year,” he said. (kmb31)

Communal tensions appeared to be rising across Myanmar on Monday after two weeks of violence in Rakhine state that have triggered an exodus of about 300,000 Rohingya Muslims, prompting the government to tighten security at Buddhist pagodas.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.

“We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians,” Zeid told the Geneva forum.

He cited reports that Myanmar authorities had begun to lay landmines along the border with Bangladesh and would require returnees to provide “proof of

citizenship”.

Rohingya have been stripped of civil and political rights including citizenship rights for decades, he added.

“I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,” Zeid said.

“The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Last year Zeid’s office issued a report, based on interviews with Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh after a previous military assault, which he said on Monday had “suggested a widespread or systematic attack against the community, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity”.

“I deplore current measures in India to deport Rohingyas at a time of such violence against them in their country,” Zeid said, noting that some 40,000 Rohing-

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Rohingya refugees wait at a jetty after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017. yas had settled in India, including 16,000 who have received refugee documentation.

Noting India’s obligations under international law, he said: “India cannot carry out collective

expulsions, or return people to a place where they risk torture or other serious violations.” (rtr)

Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of suspected ISIS fighters

SOUTH OF MOSUL - Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters

in a camp after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid

officials said.

Many of them say they are from Russia, Turkey and Central Asia, but there are also some from

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Iraqi army are seen in Al Karma north of Basra, Iraq September 8, 2017. Picture taken September 8, 2017.

European countries, the officials said. They have mostly arrived at the camp south of Mosul since Aug 30.

An Iraqi intelligence officer said that they were in the process of verifying their nationalities with their home countries, since many of the women no longer had their original documents.

It is the largest group of foreigners linked to Islamic State to be held by Iraqi forces since they started expelling the militants from Mosul and other areas in northern Iraq last year, an aid official said.

Thousands of foreigners have been fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

A senior security officer said the authorities were trying to find a safe place to house the families while negotiating with embassies for their return home. They are not allowed to leave the camp.

Reuters reporters saw hundreds of the women and children sitting on mattresses crawling with bugs in tents in what aid workers called a “militarized site”. Turkish, French and Rus-

sian were among the languages spoken.

“I want to go back (to France) but don’t know how,” said a Frenchspeaking veiled woman of Chechen origin who said she had lived in Paris before.

She said she did not know what had happened to her husband, who had brought her to Iraq when he joined Islamic State.

The security officer said the women and children had mostly surrendered to the Kurdish Peshmerga near the northern city of Tal Afar, along with their husbands.

The Kurds handed the women and children over to Iraqi forces, but kept the men - all presumed to be fighters - in their custody.

Many of the families had fled to Tal Afar after Iraqi troops pushed Islamic State out of Mosul on Aug 30.

Iraqi forces retook Tal Afar, a city of predominantly ethnic Turkmen that has produced some of Islamic State’s most senior commanders, last month. Most of its pre-war population of 200,000 have fled. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Greek PM vows bailout exit in 2018, help for workers, youth

ATHENS - Greece will exit successfully its bailout programme in 2018 helped by strong growth, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday, vowing to support workers, young Greeks and small businesses as the economy recovers.

Addressing a Greek public worn out by austerity and sceptical after years of reform efforts have failed to fix the country’s woes, Tsipras said his leftist-led government would do whatever it takes to end lenders’ supervision next year.

“The country, after eight whole years, will have exited bailouts and suffocating supervision. That’s our aim,” Tsipras said in his annual policy speech in the northern city of Thessaloniki. “We are determined to do everything we can.”

Greece’s current international bailout, worth 86 billion euros, expires next year. Tsipras’ term ends a year later.

Tsipras said Athens would continue to outperform its fiscal targets and fight endemic tax evasion to create fiscal room for tax cuts that would alleviate the burden on businesses and households, long squeezed by the debt crisis.

Greece has received about 260 billion euros in bailout aid from its eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund since 2010 in return for draconian austerity which has wiped out a quarter of its output and cut tens of thousands of jobs.

Unemployment stood at 21.2 percent in June, the euro zone’s highest, with young Greeks the hardest hit.

Greece’s economy is expected to grow by about two percent in 2018, a sign that sacrifices are bearing fruit, Tsipras said outlining initiatives to boost employment and fight a brain drain. A march of thousands of workers was largely peaceful outside the venue where he spoke.

Tsipras said the state would give financial incentives to employers to hire more younger workers and spend 156 million euros to subsidise social security contributions of employers who will turn contractors into full-time staff.

Unregistered work and contract jobs have increased during the debt crisis, as businesses are desperate to cut costs.

The government will also pay 100 million euros to subsidise unpaid workers in struggling sectors and businesses, he said, promising to fight labour law violations.

The 43-year old leader, whose Syriza party is sagging in opinion polls, was catapulted to power in 2015 promising to end the belttightening and tear up the bailouts. After months of tough talks with lenders, he signed up to a new bailout in exchange for further austerity.(rtr)

A worker rides a bicycle in a container area at a port in Tokyo April 21, 2014.

Inflation targets still proving elusive

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LONDON - Bank of England rate setters won’t shock markets with any policy moves when they meet next week as a struggling economy and Brexit fears offset any concerns over inflation sailing well above target. Britain’s economy initially withstood the shock of last year’s decision to quit the European Union but slowed sharply in early 2017 and is expected to grow by just 0.3 percent this quarter, half the rate of the euro zone.

That poses a challenge for the central bank as, rather than targeting growth, its main remit is to keep inflation -- currently running at 2.6 percent -- at 2 percent. “We expect the Bank of England to leave monetary policy unchanged, given the subdued growth story and ongoing Brexit uncertainty,” said James Knightley at ING. “Nonetheless, there are going to be members who continue to vote for a rate hike, given that consumer price inflation is likely to move higher once again.”

At the last meeting two members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase rock-bottom interest rates, but none of their seven colleagues are expected to join them on Thursday in calling for higher borrowing costs.

“Our own view is that rates won’t rise this year or next. But that doesn’t mean the rollercoaster ride for expectations is over,” said Liz Martins at HSBC. “An unexpectedly hawkish tilt from the MPC in September could mean a kneejerk reaction which pushes sterling and rates higher -- if only temporarily.” The risk of a “bumpy Brexit” does not mean the Bank should keep interest rates at their record low, MPC member

Michael Saunders said last week, as the central bank risked being rushed into sharper rate hikes in future, potentially hurting growth.

Inflation broke through target earlier this year, largely because sterling’s plunge in value since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June 2016 has pushed up import prices. Policymakers at the European Central Bank are facing the opposite problem -- they are struggling to get inflation up to their 2 percent target ceiling as a strengthening euro has kept price rises in check.

They left their own ultra-easy monetary policy alone on Thursday but will decide next month how to proceed with the Bank’s massive stimulus programme in 2018. ECB President Mario Draghi said the euro’s exchange rate is “very important” and needs careful monitoring.

His cautious comments raise the chances the ECB will opt to phase out its 2.3 trillion euro bond buying scheme only very slowly next year, despite solid economic growth.

“The current economic conditions warrant a slightly less accommodative monetary policy in the near future, provided the euro or any other disturbing element do not derail the

euro zone’s recovery,” said Louis Harreau at Credit Agricole. In the United States, the Federal Reserve has already started on a tightening cycle but appears to be getting more dovish in the face of weak economic data.

Recent comments from Fed policymakers show a split on the outlook for inflation and how that will play out for future interest rate increases so August price data due on Thursday should give markets more of a steer. The Swiss National Bank also meets on Thursday but is unlikely to move, with political tensions and low inflation keeping their hands tied.

Switzerland’s franc is susceptible to appreciation during periods of increased geopolitical tension and the potential for conflict in the Korean peninsula will weigh on minds.

North Korea has stepped up the development of weapons in defiance of U.N. sanctions and tested several missiles this year, including one that flew over Japan. Pyongyang conducted its sixth and biggest nuclear test on Sept. 3. A survey on Friday showed most South Koreans doubt North Korea will start a war, although President Donald Trump again highlighted the possibility of a U.S. military response.(rtr)

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Tugun Karang, a Psychical Gateway to House Compound

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According to Balinese people, especially the Hindus, every sacred building or shrine placed in the yard of a house or family temple must be respectively functioned according to its location and name. In addition, the sacred buildings are not only functioned, but also believed to be the abode of deities, ancestral spirits and other psychical beings. Moreover, the Tugun Karang shrine or often called as Pengijeng Karang is very often associated with the psychical and haunted thing.

Tugun Karang comes from the word tuhu meaning ‘to know’ or ‘have knowledge.’ Karang means ‘yard’ or house yard or human body.

Who can understand and know about one’s body well, and then he or she is the one who reaches the balance of physical and psychical realm. In the Hindu mysticism and philosophy, Tugun Karang is the ultimate mantra. Tugun is Tang, Ang and Ung; summarized into Karang, namely Ang and Ah. Ang and Ah are double syllables symbolizing

the life and death.

Tugun Karang made by the elders of Balinese people is not just a sacred and simple building. It is a sanctified building made and put at a special location through magical and mystical calculation. Thus, the Tugun Karang serves as a pecalang or guardian in a house compound that keeps safety psychically.

Each sikut satak of home yard must have two kinds of shrine, namely the Pangulun Karang in the form of kemulan or three-

chambered shrine and Panunggun Karang functioned as mentioned before. According to I Gusti Ketut Dalem, a permanent lecturer at the Dharma Duta Faculty of the IHDN Denpasar, Tugun Karang shrine is the abode of Ida Ratu Sedahan Panunggun Karang, in charge of security guard in the house compound.

“Actually, he has existed before there are people taking advantage of the land area either intended for housing or moors. According to the elders, they have diverse manifes-

tations according to the place and position. There is manifestation as Jero Dukuh or elder figure, elephant, horse, tiger and other forms,” he said.

Many people do not know that Tugun Karang is the gateway of psychical beings coming from psychical world to physical world.

Moreover, if a human is willing to enter the psychical dimension must seek permission and pass through this gateway. The deity abiding in the Tungun Karang shrine also

plays an important role to protect residents from psychical attacks, such as witch.

However, lately many people are ignorant and do not believe in the power of psychical beings in Tugun Karang. The Kala Tattwa palm-leaf manuscript carries that Ida Bhatara Kala changes its form into Sedahan Karang / Sawah / Abian with the function as Pecalang, having the same function as Pangerurah, Penganggit Lawang or Patih in family temple or public temple. (kmb)

Enjoying Nature of Paddy Fields at Sengkiding Agrotourism Sengkiding hamlet, Aan, Klungkung has a tourist attraction created by Wahyu Para Studio that combines agrotoursim with cultural tourism. Despite providing a variety of attractions and exotic natural scenery, there is not admission fee for visiting the attraction.

Sukanta Wahyu who is known as a fine artist, came up with the concpet of this unique attraction that offers a pristine natural environment that spreads over 40 hectares of lands as well as variety of cultural attractions and artistic products.

Wahyu who also decorared the Japanese Cave attraction explained that Sengkiding opened in early January 2016.

Visitors are invited to have a tour of the site where they can enjoy hundreds of sculptures and paintings set in a beautiful natiural environment. They can also enjoy walking amongst the vegetables that grow here including eggplant, chilies, bananas, papayas and other crops. For those who like a longer walk, there are nearby paddy fields that russle with the sound of the flow of irrigation water. “We also present a painting demonstration, traditional music, bamboo

traditional music and the Barong Bangkung dance” said Sukanta Wahyu.

Since the site has opened, many foreign travelers from contries including Australia (Aborigine), Belgium, Germany to Spain have visited. Unlike many other tourist attractions, here visitors to not need to spend a singel penny to enter this beautiful 4.000 square meters land that offers unspoiled views and a bulding to sit back and relax or take a short 1 km treck. “It’s up to travelers if they want to make a donation or not, regarldess we still serve them well” explained Wahyu.

One visitor named Miss Dorothy Summers, said that she brought her student here so that they could enjoy nature first hand. “I am very happy to bring my students here.

Apart from being able to enjoy nature, they can also learn about Balinese culture and lcoal activities”, Miss Dee. Dee added that what she liked best was what was presented by the Wahyu Para Studio. The arrangement of the agrotourism and culture is very integrated with nature, she said. “The site remains natural and our students are very pleased to learn while playing”, concluded Miss Dee.(kmb)

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People carry a giant Estelada (Catalan separatist flag) during a torch march in Vilafranca del Penedes, Spain, September 10, 2017.

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Indonesia ready to be mediator to settle Myanmar crisis

ASTANA - Vice president Jusuf Kalla said Indonesia is ready to be the mediator to bridge Islamic countries to settle crisis in Myanmar. “The OIC wishes to invite Indonesia to cooperate to settle the Rohingya case. I said we can talk about the program later with the OIC secretary general,” he said after the first summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on science and technology at the Palace of Independence here on Sunday.

Hundreds of thousands to rally for Catalan independence from Spain

MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to rally in the streets of Barcelona on Monday in what campaigners hope will be a show of support for independence after Madrid moved to block a planned referendum on the region’s split from Spain.

The ‘Diada’ day of Sept. 11, which commemorates the fall of Barcelona to Spain in 1714, is often used by activists to voice their demands for an independent state. Coachloads of demonstrators travel to Barcelona from villages in the region.

Hostility between Madrid and Barcelona has ramped up since Spain’s Constitutional Court last Thursday suspended the referendum,

planned for Oct. 1, following a legal challenge by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The government says the referendum contravenes the constitution, which states that Spain is indivisible.

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has urged ‘independentistas’ to take to the streets on Monday in a massive show of support for the referendum.

“It’s vital that we come out in

force for this Diada for the Oct. 1 referendum to be successful,” he said on Twitter. “I’ll be there.”

Spain’s state prosecutor has begun criminal proceedings against Puigdemont and 13 members of his cabinet on charges of misuse of public money, disobedience and abuse of office after the Catalan parliament approved the referendum last Wednesday.

Rajoy has urged Catalan civil servants and mayors to uphold the law and to stop any preparations for the referendum over the next three weeks.

However, around two-thirds of Catalonia’s mayors have so far said they will allow the use of municipal facilities for the vote, with one mayor ripping up a court order warning of legal repercussions in front of a cheering crowd.

Puigdemont has said he has ballot boxes and voting papers hidden and ready to deploy at any moment. Over the weekend, police searched a print-

TAMPA - Hurricane Irma pounded heavily populated areas of central Florida on Monday as it carved through the state with high winds, storm surges and torrential rains that left millions without power, ripped roofs off homes and flooded city streets.

Irma, once ranked as one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic, came ashore in Florida on Sunday and battered towns as it worked its way up the state.

The storm gradually lost strength, weakening to a Category 1 hurricane overnight, the National Hurricane Center said. By 5 a.m. ET (0900 GMT), Irma was churning northwest in the center of the state and was about 60 miles (100 km) north of Tampa, with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour.)

Much of the state’s east and west coasts remained vulnerable to storm surges, when hurricanes push ocean water dangerously over normal levels. That risk extended to the coast of Georgia and parts of South Carolina, the hurricane center said. Officials planned to wait until first light on Monday to begin rescue efforts and assess damage, the Miami Herald cited Florida Director of Emergency Management Bryan Koon as saying.

He did not give any numbers on possible fatalities.

Damage appeared to be severe in the Florida Keys, where Irma first came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of up to 130 mph (215 kph) in the early hours of Sunday, the paper quoted Monroe County Emergency Director Martin Senterfitt as saying.

A large military airborne relief

operation was being prepared to take help to the chain of islands, which are linked by a dramatic series of bridges and causeways from Key Largo almost 100 miles (160 km) southwest to the city of Key West, Senterfitt told a teleconference.Early on Monday, Irma brought gusts of up to 100 mph (160 kph) and torrential rain to areas around Orlando, one of the most popular areas for tourism in Florida because of its cluster of theme parks, the National Weather Service said.

In Daytona Beach, a city on the east coast about 55 miles (90 km) northeast of Orlando, city streets were flooded and emergency authorities carried out several water rescues, the Daytona Beach Police Department said on Twitter. Over the weekend, Irma claimed its first U.S. fatality - a man found dead in a pickup truck that had crashed into

a tree in high winds in the town of Marathon, in the Florida Keys, local officials said.

The storm killed at least 28 people as it raged westward through the Caribbean en route to Florida. Irma was ranked a Category 5, the rare top end of the scale of hurricane intensity, for days, and carried maximum sustained winds of up to 185 mph (295 kph) when it crashed into the island of Barbuda on Wednesday.

Ahead of Irma’s arrival, some 6.5 million people in southern Florida, about a third of the state’s population, were ordered to evacuate their homes.

Jonathan Brubaker, 51, waited out the storm bunkered in a recently constructed house in Bradenton, on the state’s west coast, with hurricane shutters drawn, flashlights and candles ready. As a radar app on his

Kalla said with regard to the crisis in Rakhine state in Myanmar Indonesia actually has already done what other countries cannot do because of inavailability of access for them to Myanmar. “Indonesia can any time communicate with the Myanmar government,” he said. At the opening of the meeting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev

also touched the Myanmar issue.

“We care for Myanmar. We will also open a dialog to discuss the issue at a UN forum,” he said. He said the case would also be referred to the UN Human Rights Commission with regard to finding the truth of the problem and independently investigating the violence and violation of international laws that

have happened.

The OIC also hoped that the Myanmar government could settle the core problems including the citizenship and rights of the Rohingya. The OIC meeting produced a conclusion that it was important for the Myanmar government to return the refugees back to Rakhine state safely, honorably and

ing press and the offices of a local newspaper for signs of preparation for the referendum.

At the height of pro-independence fervour in 2012, during a deep economic recession in Spain, around one million people took to the streets waving the Catalan flag and singing the Catalan anthem.

Polls have shown support for independence waning since then, and those wanting a separate state are in a minority. However, a majority of Catalans want to hold a referendum on the issue. (rtr)

Hurricane Irma pounds Florida; extent of damage not yet clear

phone showed Irma passing by, he had seen little more than gusty winds.

He still had power.“I feel like we kind of dodged bullet on this one,” he said, adding that he would wait until Monday morning before trying to sleep. “And then, I think we’re OK, knock on wood.” (rtr)

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President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of national mourning and pledged to rebuild shattered towns and villages.

However, some residents interviewed expressed frustration that the poor southern regions were still not getting the help they needed from the richer north and center of Mexico.(rtr)

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People rally near the Myanmar embassy during a protest against the treatment of the Rohingya Muslims minority by the Myanmar government in Jakarta, Indonesia September 8, 2017.

Anti-graft body ready to face Novanto`s pretrial suit

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is ready to face a pretrial motion filed

by House of Representatives (DPR) Chairman Setya Novanto against its decision to name him a suspect in an ID-card graft case.

“The legal bureau has received a letter from the South Jakarta District Court, and the court hearing is scheduled to be held on Tuesday (Sept 12). Hence, we have received and read the application for the pretrial,” KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah noted here on Friday.

The court hearing will be led by judge Chepy Iskandar at the South

Jakarta District Court, he revealed.

“We are still studying it. Of course, we will face whatever he demands during the hearing, as in our view, everything has been clear from the legal standpoint,” he noted.

Spokesman for the district court Made Sutrisna said here on Sept 5 that Novanto had filed a pretrial suit with the court the day before.

The anti-graft body had named him a suspect in the ID-card graft case on July 17, 2017. He is accused of inflicting Rp2.3 trillion in losses to the state in connection with the Rp5.9 trillion project.

Diansyah said the KPK named Novanto a suspect in the case after conducting prosecution and investigation processes since 2014.

On July 20, the Jakarta Corruption Court had sentenced the former director general of demography and vital statistics at the Home Affairs Ministry, identified by his initial as I, to seven years in prison, and former director of administrative information management of demography and vital statistics directorate general at the Home Affairs Ministry, identified by his initial as S, to five years in jail, for their involvement in the case.(rtr)

under protection. The OIC urged member countries and international organizations to seek the return of the regugees with the UN. The OIC summit which was attended by a number of heads of state including President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Presi-

dent Abdul Hamid of Bangladesh, President Alpha Conde of Guinea, Pakistani President Mamnoo. Hussain and also President Mohamed Oukd Abdel Aziz of Mauritania also called for the international community to continue cooperating with the Myanmar government for the protection of Muslim minority in that country.(ant)

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Jambangan Waterfall Awaits Your Coming

SINGARAJA - Tourist objects relying on natural beauty remaining pristine increasingly emerge in Buleleng. One of them is Jambangan waterfall at Kelampuak, Tamblang village, Kubutambahan.

This adds to the number of waterfall attractions in North Bali, other than the existing ones such as the waterfall at Gitgit village, Sukasada, waterfall at Sambangan and Lemukih village, Sawan subdistrict.

To get to the location of Jambangan waterfall, visitors simply walk along the path. This journey

requires little caution because it has steep and slippery terrain.

Otherwise, visitors can slip. After trying to conquer the steep path, visitors will get paid after arriving at the location. Nature at this waterfall stays natural and is not much known to visitors. This superiority is an attraction for tourists making a visit. In addition to seeing the water flow from a height, visitors also choose to swim in the pool of waterfall.

Chief of Kelampuak customary village, Made Suka Astawa, recently encountered said that Jambangan

waterfall is a tourist attraction starting to be developed independently.

The location very close to the main road of Singaraja-Kintamani (Bangli) makes this tourist attraction easy to be reached by visitors. The arrangement made by local people is the opening of the path to the location. Next year (2018), the village government plans the development of Jambangan waterfall object into a priority agenda.

Related to the name of the waterfall, Astawa claimed the residents name it Jambangan because the puddles under the waterfall

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In the meantime, Secretary of Tamblang village, Made Wasuyutha, said that potential of this tourist object is managed seriously so as to bring in positive benefits for the village itself. This tourist attraction is believed to be able to stimulate domestic and foreign tourists to visit because of its pristine nature. In order to have more values, the original atmosphere will

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Team Sky rider Chris Froome of Britain holds a plaque as winner of both the Tour de France and Vuelta Tour of Spain after the last stage of the Vuelta between Arroyomolinos and Madrid, September 10, 2017.

Froome makes history as he is crowned Vuelta champion

MADRID - Chris Froome became the first Briton to win the Vuelta a Espana and the third rider to win a double of the Tour de France and Vuelta in the same season when he finished the race by retaining his advantage over Vincenzo Nibali on Sunday.

Froome and Nibali crossed the Madrid finish line together, allowing Team Sky rider Froome to stay two minutes 15 seconds ahead of the Italian after the processional, 117.5-km stage.

Italian Matteo Trentin took the stage victory, his fourth of this year’s Vuelta, but narrowly missed out to Froome on the green jersey for the points classification.

Froome is the third cyclist to win the Tour and the Vuelta in the same year, after Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault in 1978.

He is also the first to win both races since 1995 when the Vuelta was shifted from its old start date in late April to late August, when temperatures in Spain are at their highest and put an extra strain on riders.

“What Chris Froome has achieved over the last 12 months has cemented his place as one of Britain’s greatest sportsmen,” said British Cycling’s chief executive

Julie Harrington.

“To win the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same year puts him up there with the best Grand Tour riders in the history of the sport. The cycling community in this country and indeed the whole nation are extremely proud of him.”

Although the general classification victory was in the bag, Froome did not let up in the final stage and joined the bunch sprint at the end, coming 11th, the best finish of the general classification group, with Russian Ilnur Zakarin, third overall, 18th and runner-up Nibali 22nd.

CONTADOR SERENADED Alberto Contador came in seven seconds behind in the final professional stage of his career a day after winning the punishing last mountain stage at the Alto de l’Angliru to bow out in style.

The three-time Vuelta winner was serenaded by Spanish supporters on the podium by the Cibeles

palace in Madrid, while his Trek Segafredo team mates jokingly urged him to postpone his imminent retirement, chanting: “One more year for Alberto”.

“I don’t have words to explain the feeling I have in this moment, it was incredible, to see all the fans at the finish line, to be here in my home city,” Contador told reporters.

“I passed all the cars and the road was only for me. After 15 hard years of fighting this is a very special day, a dream; I couldn’t have wished for a better goodbye than this.”

The Spaniard said he had no second thoughts about calling time on his career and alluded to the daredevil attitude he is renowned for.

“I said when I started that I wanted to finish at the top level and I think now it’s the (right) moment. I think I gave the maximum in every race in all these 15 years, I trained very hard and I did it with my heart,” he said. (rtr)

NEW YORK - Rafa Nadal is hungrier than Roger Federer and is likely to overhaul his Swiss rival’s grand slam title tally to become the most decorated player ever, according to former world number one Mats Wilander.

The Spanish juggernaut crushed South African Kevin Anderson 6-3 6-3 6-4 in a one-sided U.S. Open final on Sunday to claim his 16th major, leaving him three shy of Federer’s record.

The two players each won two of the grand slams in 2017 and with his performance at Flushing Meadows, Nadal has already laid down a marker for 2018.

“It was as easy as winning the French Open for Nadal. These guys are not even close, but he didn’t play one player in the top 20,” Wilander, at the U.S. Open as an analyst for Eurosport, said in his daily chat with Reuters on Sunday.

“But somebody’s gotta be the best player in the world and Rafa Nadal is the best player in the world. There’s nothing you can do to hurt him when they play on slow hard courts.

“Maybe you’d have to go to someone like Novak Djokovic to maybe beat him.”

Djokovic, as well as his fellow multiple grand slam champions Stan Wawrinka and Andy Murray, skipped the tournament because of injury.

“Nadal’s playing better than he ever has,” Wilander, a U.S. Open

champion in 1988, added.

“He’s made changes to the serve, he’s been varying more and he’s also taken the backhand much earlier as he doesn’t play as far from the baseline when the rally is in play.

“I think the lesson he’s that he’s always learning and he’s always gonna be changing things because he has that hunger to play the perfect tennis match.

“We’ve never had a hungrier player than Federer and Nadal and I would say that Nadal is probably much hungrier than Federer,” the Swede added.

Nadal’s utter dominance on clay, which earned him a record 10 French Open titles, means that he is likely to prevail again at Roland Garros while Federer’s age might a concern.

Nadal has time on his side as he will turn 32 next year while Federer will celebrate his 37th birthday.

“I think that Nadal has a very good chance to catch Roger because he’s gonna win the French Open again at least once or twice and suddenly you’re one or two away,” said Wilander.

“Do we think that Federer is going to win another slam next year when he turns 37? I don’t know.

“He can win another one maybe but Nadal has another four or five years and people are wrong when they think that he’s physically wearing himself down.”

Nadal, instead, is using his time off to further improve. (rtr)

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Rafael Nadal of Spain holds the trophy after defeating Kevin Anderson of South Africa.

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Steinhaus becomes Bundeliga’s first female ref

BERLIN - Bibiana Steinhaus enjoyed a debut free of major incidents as she became the first woman to referee a Bundesliga match in the 1-1 draw between Hertha Berlin and Werder Bremen on Sunday.

A second-half strike from Thomas Delaney gave Bremen their first goal and point of the season in a match which produced one yellow card and no sendings-off or controversial penalty incidents.

Steinhaus, a 38-year-old police officer, has been a German FA referee since 1999 and taken charge of 80 second division matches

MILAN - Lazio forward Ciro Immobile scored a 10-minute hat-trick to lead his side to a 4-1 demolition of AC Milan whose perfect start to the season was left in tatters on Sunday. Milan had won their first six matches of the season -- two in Serie A and four in the Europa League -- but found themselves four goals behind in less than an hour at a soggy Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Inter Milan made it nine points from three games with a 2-0 win over promoted SPAL, the first goal scored by Mauro Icardi from a penalty which took the referee five minutes to award after consulting with the video assistant.

Lazio’s Ciro Immobile celebrates scoring their first goal

Napoli joined Inter and champions Juventus on nine points after Jose Callejon, Dries Mertens and Piotr Zielinski scored in the final half-hour to give them a 3-0 win at Bologna. Juventus beat Chievo by the same score on Saturday.

Fiorentina thumped Verona 5-0 away to claim their first win of the season in style and Cagliari also broke their duck with a 1-0 win over Crotone in the first match at the temporary Sardegna Arena which will host their games for the next four years. Atalanta, 2-1 winners over Sassuolo, and Udinese, who beat Genoa 1-0, also won for the first time.

Lazio’s match was in danger of being postponed due to torrential rain in Rome before it was decided to delay kickoff for an hour. The hosts went ahead with an Immobile penalty in

the 38th minute after Franck Kessie fouled Luis Alberto. Immobile struck again four minutes later with a brilliant volley from Senad Lulic’s cross, and completed his hat-trick three minutes into the second half after Marco Parolo’s clever pass sent him clear.

One minute after that, Immobile burst down the left and set up Luis Alberto who tapped in the fourth before Milan finally pulled themselves together and Riccardo Montolivo got a goal back. “It was a bad defeat with many negative aspects,” said Milan coach Vincenzo Montella. “Lazio’s goal changed the game psychologically and we weren’t capable of reacting well enough.” Inter handed promoted SPAL their first defeat thanks to Icardi’s third goal in five games and a thumping volley from Ivan Perisic in the 87th minute.

Mourinho says Man Utd failed to evolve under predecessors

Manchester United failed to progress under the leadership of David Moyes and Louis van Gaal following the departure of Alex Ferguson in 2013, according to the club’s current manager Jose Mourinho.

United, who enjoyed a triumphant era under Ferguson, struggled in the transition after the Scottish manager left Old Trafford following the annexation of their 20th and most recent Premier League title.

“There was an evolution in the other clubs; there was no evolution in this club. In all the areas that make a team successful I think we stopped in time,” Mourinho told the Sunday Times in an interview.

“That was quite an empty

period in this club with no evolution in areas that are important,” added the man who has taken United back to the top of the Premier League early in the new season.

David Moyes replaced Ferguson but was sacked after 10 months following poor league results and the team’s exit from domestic cup competitions and the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Dutchman Van Gaal took over but was replaced with Mourinho after two seasons as United failed to challenge for the Premier League title and did not qualify for the 2016-17 Champions League. “Of course, in the first season I was trying to improve (this)... That’s why I fought hard

for trophies,” said Mourinho who won England’s League Cup and Europe’s second-tier trophy, the Europa League, in his first season.

“And that’s why I prefer a Europa League victory than a third or fourth spot in the championship. Because the best way to accelerate the process is to do the process winning ...

Because winning gets you smiles.”(rtr)

Stoke City’s Kurt Zouma tries to retrieve the ball from Manchester United manager Jose

The first goal raised more questions over the time taken to reach decisions using video replays after Joao Mario was fouled on the edge of the area in the 22nd minute and Icardi finally scored in the 27th. Fiorentina took advantage of a nightmare start by opposing goalkeeper Nicolas as they handed Verona their heaviest-ever Serie A home defeat.

The Brazilian failed to hold Marco Benassi’s shot and Giovanni Simeone tapped in after two minutes, then crashed into Federico Chiesa and gave away a penalty which Cyril Thereau converted on his Fiorentina debut in the 10th.

Davide Astori added the third in the 24th minute after he was left totally unmarked, Jordan Veretout scored the fourth with a spectacular free kick in the 62nd minute and Gil Dias completed the rout.(rtr)

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In 2015, Kerem Demirbay, playing for Fortuna Duesseldorf at the time, was banned for five weeks for making a sexist remark after he was sent off in a second division game by Steinhaus, who mentioned the remark in her match report.

Hertha went ahead in the 38th minute when Vladimir Darida was bundled over, but the referee played the advantage and Mathew Leckie lashed home the loose ball.

Werder, somewhat unlucky to be behind, levelled in the 59th minute when Delaney rifled home from the edge of the penalty area.(rtr)

Referee Bibiana Steinhaus

Pellegrini’s Hebei move into CSL’s top three

HONG KONG - Manuel Pellegrini’s Hebei CFFC beat Guangzhou R&F 2-1 to secure their third win in a row on Sunday and move into third place in the Chinese Super League as the battle for places in next season’s Asian Champions League heats up.

First-half goals from Brazilian striker Aloisio and Zhang Lifeng effectively secured all three points for Hebei, with Yi Teng’s effort for Dragan Stojkovic’s team proving little more than a consolation.

The win moves Hebei on to 42 points, one clear of Tianjin Quanjian, who beat Guizhou Zhicheng 3-1 on Sunday, with Fabio Cannavaro’s side having played one game fewer than Hebei. Only the top three teams in the Chinese Super League standings will qualify for the continental club championship and Pellegrini’s side lead the way in a five-team fight for the final spot. “I told my players before the game that we were playing for six points,” said Pellegrini.

“Both sides are tight to each other

on the rankings so we had to win...

“There are five teams fighting for the Asian Champions League slots and this competition will become very intense in the final three games of the season.” Five points cover the teams from third to seventh and Shandong Luneng were one of the biggest losers of the weekend with Felix Magath’s side slipping to fifth following their 0-0 draw with Jiangsu Suning.

Beijing Guoan also slipped up when Roger Schmidt’s side shared a 4-4 draw with bottom side Yanbian Funde, with Babacar Trawally completing his hat-trick for Yanbian in the 90th minute to deny Beijing all three points. Guangzhou Evergrande maintained their eight-point lead over second placed Shanghai SIPG at the summit as both teams won their respective fixtures over Changchun Yatai and Tianjin Teda.

Evergrande had a Ricardo Goulart double to thank for their 3-1 success over Changchun while SIPG pushed Tianjin deeper into relegation trouble

as goals from Wu Lei, Yu Hai and Elkeson gave Andre Villas-Boas’s side a 3-1 win. Guangzhou coach Luiz Felipe Scolari hailed the influence of veteran midfielder Zheng Zhi, who was instrumental in his team’s win once again despite his age. “Zheng Zhi’s fighting spirit and professional attitude are an example to all Chinese players,” said Scolari.

“He played for the national team but, no matter his state of mind, he always gives his best. “He’s 37 years old but he’s like an 18-year-old and he works so hard. He is an example to everyone and it’s a pleasure for me to be able to work with such a player.”

With just six games remaining in the season, time is running out for Villas-Boas and his team to close the gap on Evergrande as they seek their maiden league title. Carlos Tevez’s introduction off the bench could not stop Shanghai Shenhua from falling to a 2-1 loss against Henan Jianye while Chongqing Lifan handed Liaoning Whowin a 2-0 defeat.(rtr)

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BERLIN - Bibiana Steinhaus enjoyed a debut free of major incidents as she became the first woman to referee a Bundesliga match in the 1-1 draw between Hertha Berlin and Werder Bremen on Sunday.

A second-half strike from Thomas Delaney gave Bremen their first goal and point of the season in a match which produced one yellow card and no sendings-off or controversial penalty incidents.

Steinhaus, a 38-year-old police officer, has been a German FA referee since 1999 and taken charge of 80 second division matches

MILAN - Lazio forward Ciro Immobile scored a 10-minute hat-trick to lead his side to a 4-1 demolition of AC Milan whose perfect start to the season was left in tatters on Sunday. Milan had won their first six matches of the season -- two in Serie A and four in the Europa League -- but found themselves four goals behind in less than an hour at a soggy Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Inter Milan made it nine points from three games with a 2-0 win over promoted SPAL, the first goal scored by Mauro Icardi from a penalty which took the referee five minutes to award after consulting with the video assistant.

Lazio’s Ciro Immobile celebrates scoring their first goal

Napoli joined Inter and champions Juventus on nine points after Jose Callejon, Dries Mertens and Piotr Zielinski scored in the final half-hour to give them a 3-0 win at Bologna. Juventus beat Chievo by the same score on Saturday.

Fiorentina thumped Verona 5-0 away to claim their first win of the season in style and Cagliari also broke their duck with a 1-0 win over Crotone in the first match at the temporary Sardegna Arena which will host their games for the next four years. Atalanta, 2-1 winners over Sassuolo, and Udinese, who beat Genoa 1-0, also won for the first time.

Lazio’s match was in danger of being postponed due to torrential rain in Rome before it was decided to delay kickoff for an hour. The hosts went ahead with an Immobile penalty in

the 38th minute after Franck Kessie fouled Luis Alberto. Immobile struck again four minutes later with a brilliant volley from Senad Lulic’s cross, and completed his hat-trick three minutes into the second half after Marco Parolo’s clever pass sent him clear.

One minute after that, Immobile burst down the left and set up Luis Alberto who tapped in the fourth before Milan finally pulled themselves together and Riccardo Montolivo got a goal back. “It was a bad defeat with many negative aspects,” said Milan coach Vincenzo Montella. “Lazio’s goal changed the game psychologically and we weren’t capable of reacting well enough.” Inter handed promoted SPAL their first defeat thanks to Icardi’s third goal in five games and a thumping volley from Ivan Perisic in the 87th minute.

Mourinho says Man Utd failed to evolve under predecessors

Manchester United failed to progress under the leadership of David Moyes and Louis van Gaal following the departure of Alex Ferguson in 2013, according to the club’s current manager Jose Mourinho.

United, who enjoyed a triumphant era under Ferguson, struggled in the transition after the Scottish manager left Old Trafford following the annexation of their 20th and most recent Premier League title.

“There was an evolution in the other clubs; there was no evolution in this club. In all the areas that make a team successful I think we stopped in time,” Mourinho told the Sunday Times in an interview.

“That was quite an empty

period in this club with no evolution in areas that are important,” added the man who has taken United back to the top of the Premier League early in the new season.

David Moyes replaced Ferguson but was sacked after 10 months following poor league results and the team’s exit from domestic cup competitions and the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Dutchman Van Gaal took over but was replaced with Mourinho after two seasons as United failed to challenge for the Premier League title and did not qualify for the 2016-17 Champions League. “Of course, in the first season I was trying to improve (this)... That’s why I fought hard

for trophies,” said Mourinho who won England’s League Cup and Europe’s second-tier trophy, the Europa League, in his first season.

“And that’s why I prefer a Europa League victory than a third or fourth spot in the championship. Because the best way to accelerate the process is to do the process winning ...

Because winning gets you smiles.”(rtr)

Stoke City’s Kurt Zouma tries to retrieve the ball from Manchester United manager Jose

The first goal raised more questions over the time taken to reach decisions using video replays after Joao Mario was fouled on the edge of the area in the 22nd minute and Icardi finally scored in the 27th. Fiorentina took advantage of a nightmare start by opposing goalkeeper Nicolas as they handed Verona their heaviest-ever Serie A home defeat.

The Brazilian failed to hold Marco Benassi’s shot and Giovanni Simeone tapped in after two minutes, then crashed into Federico Chiesa and gave away a penalty which Cyril Thereau converted on his Fiorentina debut in the 10th.

Davide Astori added the third in the 24th minute after he was left totally unmarked, Jordan Veretout scored the fourth with a spectacular free kick in the 62nd minute and Gil Dias completed the rout.(rtr)

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since 2007.

In 2015, Kerem Demirbay, playing for Fortuna Duesseldorf at the time, was banned for five weeks for making a sexist remark after he was sent off in a second division game by Steinhaus, who mentioned the remark in her match report.

Hertha went ahead in the 38th minute when Vladimir Darida was bundled over, but the referee played the advantage and Mathew Leckie lashed home the loose ball.

Werder, somewhat unlucky to be behind, levelled in the 59th minute when Delaney rifled home from the edge of the penalty area.(rtr)

Referee Bibiana Steinhaus

Pellegrini’s Hebei move into CSL’s top three

HONG KONG - Manuel Pellegrini’s Hebei CFFC beat Guangzhou R&F 2-1 to secure their third win in a row on Sunday and move into third place in the Chinese Super League as the battle for places in next season’s Asian Champions League heats up.

First-half goals from Brazilian striker Aloisio and Zhang Lifeng effectively secured all three points for Hebei, with Yi Teng’s effort for Dragan Stojkovic’s team proving little more than a consolation.

The win moves Hebei on to 42 points, one clear of Tianjin Quanjian, who beat Guizhou Zhicheng 3-1 on Sunday, with Fabio Cannavaro’s side having played one game fewer than Hebei. Only the top three teams in the Chinese Super League standings will qualify for the continental club championship and Pellegrini’s side lead the way in a five-team fight for the final spot. “I told my players before the game that we were playing for six points,” said Pellegrini.

“Both sides are tight to each other

on the rankings so we had to win...

“There are five teams fighting for the Asian Champions League slots and this competition will become very intense in the final three games of the season.” Five points cover the teams from third to seventh and Shandong Luneng were one of the biggest losers of the weekend with Felix Magath’s side slipping to fifth following their 0-0 draw with Jiangsu Suning.

Beijing Guoan also slipped up when Roger Schmidt’s side shared a 4-4 draw with bottom side Yanbian Funde, with Babacar Trawally completing his hat-trick for Yanbian in the 90th minute to deny Beijing all three points. Guangzhou Evergrande maintained their eight-point lead over second placed Shanghai SIPG at the summit as both teams won their respective fixtures over Changchun Yatai and Tianjin Teda.

Evergrande had a Ricardo Goulart double to thank for their 3-1 success over Changchun while SIPG pushed Tianjin deeper into relegation trouble

as goals from Wu Lei, Yu Hai and Elkeson gave Andre Villas-Boas’s side a 3-1 win. Guangzhou coach Luiz Felipe Scolari hailed the influence of veteran midfielder Zheng Zhi, who was instrumental in his team’s win once again despite his age. “Zheng Zhi’s fighting spirit and professional attitude are an example to all Chinese players,” said Scolari.

“He played for the national team but, no matter his state of mind, he always gives his best. “He’s 37 years old but he’s like an 18-year-old and he works so hard. He is an example to everyone and it’s a pleasure for me to be able to work with such a player.”

With just six games remaining in the season, time is running out for Villas-Boas and his team to close the gap on Evergrande as they seek their maiden league title. Carlos Tevez’s introduction off the bench could not stop Shanghai Shenhua from falling to a 2-1 loss against Henan Jianye while Chongqing Lifan handed Liaoning Whowin a 2-0 defeat.(rtr)

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Jambangan Waterfall Awaits Your Coming

SINGARAJA - Tourist objects relying on natural beauty remaining pristine increasingly emerge in Buleleng. One of them is Jambangan waterfall at Kelampuak, Tamblang village, Kubutambahan.

This adds to the number of waterfall attractions in North Bali, other than the existing ones such as the waterfall at Gitgit village, Sukasada, waterfall at Sambangan and Lemukih village, Sawan subdistrict.

To get to the location of Jambangan waterfall, visitors simply walk along the path. This journey

requires little caution because it has steep and slippery terrain.

Otherwise, visitors can slip. After trying to conquer the steep path, visitors will get paid after arriving at the location. Nature at this waterfall stays natural and is not much known to visitors. This superiority is an attraction for tourists making a visit. In addition to seeing the water flow from a height, visitors also choose to swim in the pool of waterfall.

Chief of Kelampuak customary village, Made Suka Astawa, recently encountered said that Jambangan

waterfall is a tourist attraction starting to be developed independently.

The location very close to the main road of Singaraja-Kintamani (Bangli) makes this tourist attraction easy to be reached by visitors. The arrangement made by local people is the opening of the path to the location. Next year (2018), the village government plans the development of Jambangan waterfall object into a priority agenda.

Related to the name of the waterfall, Astawa claimed the residents name it Jambangan because the puddles under the waterfall

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Team Sky rider Chris Froome of Britain holds a plaque as winner of both the Tour de France and Vuelta Tour of Spain after the last stage of the Vuelta between Arroyomolinos and Madrid, September 10, 2017.

Froome makes history as he is crowned Vuelta champion

MADRID - Chris Froome became the first Briton to win the Vuelta a Espana and the third rider to win a double of the Tour de France and Vuelta in the same season when he finished the race by retaining his advantage over Vincenzo Nibali on Sunday.

Froome and Nibali crossed the Madrid finish line together, allowing Team Sky rider Froome to stay two minutes 15 seconds ahead of the Italian after the processional, 117.5-km stage.

Italian Matteo Trentin took the stage victory, his fourth of this year’s Vuelta, but narrowly missed out to Froome on the green jersey for the points classification.

Froome is the third cyclist to win the Tour and the Vuelta in the same year, after Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault in 1978.

He is also the first to win both races since 1995 when the Vuelta was shifted from its old start date in late April to late August, when temperatures in Spain are at their highest and put an extra strain on riders.

“What Chris Froome has achieved over the last 12 months has cemented his place as one of Britain’s greatest sportsmen,” said British Cycling’s chief executive

Julie Harrington.

“To win the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same year puts him up there with the best Grand Tour riders in the history of the sport. The cycling community in this country and indeed the whole nation are extremely proud of him.”

Although the general classification victory was in the bag, Froome did not let up in the final stage and joined the bunch sprint at the end, coming 11th, the best finish of the general classification group, with Russian Ilnur Zakarin, third overall, 18th and runner-up Nibali 22nd.

CONTADOR SERENADED Alberto Contador came in seven seconds behind in the final professional stage of his career a day after winning the punishing last mountain stage at the Alto de l’Angliru to bow out in style.

The three-time Vuelta winner was serenaded by Spanish supporters on the podium by the Cibeles

palace in Madrid, while his Trek Segafredo team mates jokingly urged him to postpone his imminent retirement, chanting: “One more year for Alberto”.

“I don’t have words to explain the feeling I have in this moment, it was incredible, to see all the fans at the finish line, to be here in my home city,” Contador told reporters.

“I passed all the cars and the road was only for me. After 15 hard years of fighting this is a very special day, a dream; I couldn’t have wished for a better goodbye than this.”

The Spaniard said he had no second thoughts about calling time on his career and alluded to the daredevil attitude he is renowned for.

“I said when I started that I wanted to finish at the top level and I think now it’s the (right) moment. I think I gave the maximum in every race in all these 15 years, I trained very hard and I did it with my heart,” he said. (rtr)

NEW YORK - Rafa Nadal is hungrier than Roger Federer and is likely to overhaul his Swiss rival’s grand slam title tally to become the most decorated player ever, according to former world number one Mats Wilander.

The Spanish juggernaut crushed South African Kevin Anderson 6-3 6-3 6-4 in a one-sided U.S. Open final on Sunday to claim his 16th major, leaving him three shy of Federer’s record.

The two players each won two of the grand slams in 2017 and with his performance at Flushing Meadows, Nadal has already laid down a marker for 2018.

“It was as easy as winning the French Open for Nadal. These guys are not even close, but he didn’t play one player in the top 20,” Wilander, at the U.S. Open as an analyst for Eurosport, said in his daily chat with Reuters on Sunday.

“But somebody’s gotta be the best player in the world and Rafa Nadal is the best player in the world. There’s nothing you can do to hurt him when they play on slow hard courts.

“Maybe you’d have to go to someone like Novak Djokovic to maybe beat him.”

Djokovic, as well as his fellow multiple grand slam champions Stan Wawrinka and Andy Murray, skipped the tournament because of injury.

“Nadal’s playing better than he ever has,” Wilander, a U.S. Open

champion in 1988, added.

“He’s made changes to the serve, he’s been varying more and he’s also taken the backhand much earlier as he doesn’t play as far from the baseline when the rally is in play.

“I think the lesson he’s that he’s always learning and he’s always gonna be changing things because he has that hunger to play the perfect tennis match.

“We’ve never had a hungrier player than Federer and Nadal and I would say that Nadal is probably much hungrier than Federer,” the Swede added.

Nadal’s utter dominance on clay, which earned him a record 10 French Open titles, means that he is likely to prevail again at Roland Garros while Federer’s age might a concern.

Nadal has time on his side as he will turn 32 next year while Federer will celebrate his 37th birthday.

“I think that Nadal has a very good chance to catch Roger because he’s gonna win the French Open again at least once or twice and suddenly you’re one or two away,” said Wilander.

“Do we think that Federer is going to win another slam next year when he turns 37? I don’t know.

“He can win another one maybe but Nadal has another four or five years and people are wrong when they think that he’s physically wearing himself down.”

Nadal, instead, is using his time off to further improve. (rtr)

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Rafael Nadal of Spain holds the trophy after defeating Kevin Anderson of South Africa.

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Indonesia ready to be mediator to settle Myanmar crisis

ASTANA - Vice president Jusuf Kalla said Indonesia is ready to be the mediator to bridge Islamic countries to settle crisis in Myanmar. “The OIC wishes to invite Indonesia to cooperate to settle the Rohingya case. I said we can talk about the program later with the OIC secretary general,” he said after the first summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on science and technology at the Palace of Independence here on Sunday.

Hundreds of thousands to rally for Catalan independence from Spain

MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to rally in the streets of Barcelona on Monday in what campaigners hope will be a show of support for independence after Madrid moved to block a planned referendum on the region’s split from Spain.

The ‘Diada’ day of Sept. 11, which commemorates the fall of Barcelona to Spain in 1714, is often used by activists to voice their demands for an independent state. Coachloads of demonstrators travel to Barcelona from villages in the region.

Hostility between Madrid and Barcelona has ramped up since Spain’s Constitutional Court last Thursday suspended the referendum,

planned for Oct. 1, following a legal challenge by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The government says the referendum contravenes the constitution, which states that Spain is indivisible.

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has urged ‘independentistas’ to take to the streets on Monday in a massive show of support for the referendum.

“It’s vital that we come out in

force for this Diada for the Oct. 1 referendum to be successful,” he said on Twitter. “I’ll be there.”

Spain’s state prosecutor has begun criminal proceedings against Puigdemont and 13 members of his cabinet on charges of misuse of public money, disobedience and abuse of office after the Catalan parliament approved the referendum last Wednesday.

Rajoy has urged Catalan civil servants and mayors to uphold the law and to stop any preparations for the referendum over the next three weeks.

However, around two-thirds of Catalonia’s mayors have so far said they will allow the use of municipal facilities for the vote, with one mayor ripping up a court order warning of legal repercussions in front of a cheering crowd.

Puigdemont has said he has ballot boxes and voting papers hidden and ready to deploy at any moment. Over the weekend, police searched a print-

TAMPA - Hurricane Irma pounded heavily populated areas of central Florida on Monday as it carved through the state with high winds, storm surges and torrential rains that left millions without power, ripped roofs off homes and flooded city streets.

Irma, once ranked as one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic, came ashore in Florida on Sunday and battered towns as it worked its way up the state.

The storm gradually lost strength, weakening to a Category 1 hurricane overnight, the National Hurricane Center said. By 5 a.m. ET (0900 GMT), Irma was churning northwest in the center of the state and was about 60 miles (100 km) north of Tampa, with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour.)

Much of the state’s east and west coasts remained vulnerable to storm surges, when hurricanes push ocean water dangerously over normal levels. That risk extended to the coast of Georgia and parts of South Carolina, the hurricane center said. Officials planned to wait until first light on Monday to begin rescue efforts and assess damage, the Miami Herald cited Florida Director of Emergency Management Bryan Koon as saying.

He did not give any numbers on possible fatalities.

Damage appeared to be severe in the Florida Keys, where Irma first came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of up to 130 mph (215 kph) in the early hours of Sunday, the paper quoted Monroe County Emergency Director Martin Senterfitt as saying.

A large military airborne relief

operation was being prepared to take help to the chain of islands, which are linked by a dramatic series of bridges and causeways from Key Largo almost 100 miles (160 km) southwest to the city of Key West, Senterfitt told a teleconference.Early on Monday, Irma brought gusts of up to 100 mph (160 kph) and torrential rain to areas around Orlando, one of the most popular areas for tourism in Florida because of its cluster of theme parks, the National Weather Service said.

In Daytona Beach, a city on the east coast about 55 miles (90 km) northeast of Orlando, city streets were flooded and emergency authorities carried out several water rescues, the Daytona Beach Police Department said on Twitter. Over the weekend, Irma claimed its first U.S. fatality - a man found dead in a pickup truck that had crashed into

a tree in high winds in the town of Marathon, in the Florida Keys, local officials said.

The storm killed at least 28 people as it raged westward through the Caribbean en route to Florida. Irma was ranked a Category 5, the rare top end of the scale of hurricane intensity, for days, and carried maximum sustained winds of up to 185 mph (295 kph) when it crashed into the island of Barbuda on Wednesday.

Ahead of Irma’s arrival, some 6.5 million people in southern Florida, about a third of the state’s population, were ordered to evacuate their homes.

Jonathan Brubaker, 51, waited out the storm bunkered in a recently constructed house in Bradenton, on the state’s west coast, with hurricane shutters drawn, flashlights and candles ready. As a radar app on his

Kalla said with regard to the crisis in Rakhine state in Myanmar Indonesia actually has already done what other countries cannot do because of inavailability of access for them to Myanmar. “Indonesia can any time communicate with the Myanmar government,” he said. At the opening of the meeting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev

also touched the Myanmar issue.

“We care for Myanmar. We will also open a dialog to discuss the issue at a UN forum,” he said. He said the case would also be referred to the UN Human Rights Commission with regard to finding the truth of the problem and independently investigating the violence and violation of international laws that

have happened.

The OIC also hoped that the Myanmar government could settle the core problems including the citizenship and rights of the Rohingya. The OIC meeting produced a conclusion that it was important for the Myanmar government to return the refugees back to Rakhine state safely, honorably and

ing press and the offices of a local newspaper for signs of preparation for the referendum.

At the height of pro-independence fervour in 2012, during a deep economic recession in Spain, around one million people took to the streets waving the Catalan flag and singing the Catalan anthem.

Polls have shown support for independence waning since then, and those wanting a separate state are in a minority. However, a majority of Catalans want to hold a referendum on the issue. (rtr)

Hurricane Irma pounds Florida; extent of damage not yet clear

phone showed Irma passing by, he had seen little more than gusty winds.

He still had power.“I feel like we kind of dodged bullet on this one,” he said, adding that he would wait until Monday morning before trying to sleep. “And then, I think we’re OK, knock on wood.” (rtr)

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President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of national mourning and pledged to rebuild shattered towns and villages.

However, some residents interviewed expressed frustration that the poor southern regions were still not getting the help they needed from the richer north and center of Mexico.(rtr)

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People rally near the Myanmar embassy during a protest against the treatment of the Rohingya Muslims minority by the Myanmar government in Jakarta, Indonesia September 8, 2017.

Anti-graft body ready to face Novanto`s pretrial suit

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is ready to face a pretrial motion filed

by House of Representatives (DPR) Chairman Setya Novanto against its decision to name him a suspect in an ID-card graft case.

“The legal bureau has received a letter from the South Jakarta District Court, and the court hearing is scheduled to be held on Tuesday (Sept 12). Hence, we have received and read the application for the pretrial,” KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah noted here on Friday.

The court hearing will be led by judge Chepy Iskandar at the South

Jakarta District Court, he revealed.

“We are still studying it. Of course, we will face whatever he demands during the hearing, as in our view, everything has been clear from the legal standpoint,” he noted.

Spokesman for the district court Made Sutrisna said here on Sept 5 that Novanto had filed a pretrial suit with the court the day before.

The anti-graft body had named him a suspect in the ID-card graft case on July 17, 2017. He is accused of inflicting Rp2.3 trillion in losses to the state in connection with the Rp5.9 trillion project.

Diansyah said the KPK named Novanto a suspect in the case after conducting prosecution and investigation processes since 2014.

On July 20, the Jakarta Corruption Court had sentenced the former director general of demography and vital statistics at the Home Affairs Ministry, identified by his initial as I, to seven years in prison, and former director of administrative information management of demography and vital statistics directorate general at the Home Affairs Ministry, identified by his initial as S, to five years in jail, for their involvement in the case.(rtr)

under protection. The OIC urged member countries and international organizations to seek the return of the regugees with the UN. The OIC summit which was attended by a number of heads of state including President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Presi-

dent Abdul Hamid of Bangladesh, President Alpha Conde of Guinea, Pakistani President Mamnoo. Hussain and also President Mohamed Oukd Abdel Aziz of Mauritania also called for the international community to continue cooperating with the Myanmar government for the protection of Muslim minority in that country.(ant)

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BUSINESS Greek PM vows bailout exit in 2018, help for workers, youth

ATHENS - Greece will exit successfully its bailout programme in 2018 helped by strong growth, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday, vowing to support workers, young Greeks and small businesses as the economy recovers.

Addressing a Greek public worn out by austerity and sceptical after years of reform efforts have failed to fix the country’s woes, Tsipras said his leftist-led government would do whatever it takes to end lenders’ supervision next year.

“The country, after eight whole years, will have exited bailouts and suffocating supervision. That’s our aim,” Tsipras said in his annual policy speech in the northern city of Thessaloniki. “We are determined to do everything we can.”

Greece’s current international bailout, worth 86 billion euros, expires next year. Tsipras’ term ends a year later.

Tsipras said Athens would continue to outperform its fiscal targets and fight endemic tax evasion to create fiscal room for tax cuts that would alleviate the burden on businesses and households, long squeezed by the debt crisis.

Greece has received about 260 billion euros in bailout aid from its eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund since 2010 in return for draconian austerity which has wiped out a quarter of its output and cut tens of thousands of jobs.

Unemployment stood at 21.2 percent in June, the euro zone’s highest, with young Greeks the hardest hit.

Greece’s economy is expected to grow by about two percent in 2018, a sign that sacrifices are bearing fruit, Tsipras said outlining initiatives to boost employment and fight a brain drain. A march of thousands of workers was largely peaceful outside the venue where he spoke.

Tsipras said the state would give financial incentives to employers to hire more younger workers and spend 156 million euros to subsidise social security contributions of employers who will turn contractors into full-time staff.

Unregistered work and contract jobs have increased during the debt crisis, as businesses are desperate to cut costs.

The government will also pay 100 million euros to subsidise unpaid workers in struggling sectors and businesses, he said, promising to fight labour law violations.

The 43-year old leader, whose Syriza party is sagging in opinion polls, was catapulted to power in 2015 promising to end the belttightening and tear up the bailouts. After months of tough talks with lenders, he signed up to a new bailout in exchange for further austerity.(rtr)

A worker rides a bicycle in a container area at a port in Tokyo April 21, 2014.

Inflation targets still proving elusive

REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo

LONDON - Bank of England rate setters won’t shock markets with any policy moves when they meet next week as a struggling economy and Brexit fears offset any concerns over inflation sailing well above target. Britain’s economy initially withstood the shock of last year’s decision to quit the European Union but slowed sharply in early 2017 and is expected to grow by just 0.3 percent this quarter, half the rate of the euro zone.

That poses a challenge for the central bank as, rather than targeting growth, its main remit is to keep inflation -- currently running at 2.6 percent -- at 2 percent. “We expect the Bank of England to leave monetary policy unchanged, given the subdued growth story and ongoing Brexit uncertainty,” said James Knightley at ING. “Nonetheless, there are going to be members who continue to vote for a rate hike, given that consumer price inflation is likely to move higher once again.”

At the last meeting two members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase rock-bottom interest rates, but none of their seven colleagues are expected to join them on Thursday in calling for higher borrowing costs.

“Our own view is that rates won’t rise this year or next. But that doesn’t mean the rollercoaster ride for expectations is over,” said Liz Martins at HSBC. “An unexpectedly hawkish tilt from the MPC in September could mean a kneejerk reaction which pushes sterling and rates higher -- if only temporarily.” The risk of a “bumpy Brexit” does not mean the Bank should keep interest rates at their record low, MPC member

Michael Saunders said last week, as the central bank risked being rushed into sharper rate hikes in future, potentially hurting growth.

Inflation broke through target earlier this year, largely because sterling’s plunge in value since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June 2016 has pushed up import prices. Policymakers at the European Central Bank are facing the opposite problem -- they are struggling to get inflation up to their 2 percent target ceiling as a strengthening euro has kept price rises in check.

They left their own ultra-easy monetary policy alone on Thursday but will decide next month how to proceed with the Bank’s massive stimulus programme in 2018. ECB President Mario Draghi said the euro’s exchange rate is “very important” and needs careful monitoring.

His cautious comments raise the chances the ECB will opt to phase out its 2.3 trillion euro bond buying scheme only very slowly next year, despite solid economic growth.

“The current economic conditions warrant a slightly less accommodative monetary policy in the near future, provided the euro or any other disturbing element do not derail the

euro zone’s recovery,” said Louis Harreau at Credit Agricole. In the United States, the Federal Reserve has already started on a tightening cycle but appears to be getting more dovish in the face of weak economic data.

Recent comments from Fed policymakers show a split on the outlook for inflation and how that will play out for future interest rate increases so August price data due on Thursday should give markets more of a steer. The Swiss National Bank also meets on Thursday but is unlikely to move, with political tensions and low inflation keeping their hands tied.

Switzerland’s franc is susceptible to appreciation during periods of increased geopolitical tension and the potential for conflict in the Korean peninsula will weigh on minds.

North Korea has stepped up the development of weapons in defiance of U.N. sanctions and tested several missiles this year, including one that flew over Japan. Pyongyang conducted its sixth and biggest nuclear test on Sept. 3. A survey on Friday showed most South Koreans doubt North Korea will start a war, although President Donald Trump again highlighted the possibility of a U.S. military response.(rtr)

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Tugun Karang, a Psychical Gateway to House Compound

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According to Balinese people, especially the Hindus, every sacred building or shrine placed in the yard of a house or family temple must be respectively functioned according to its location and name. In addition, the sacred buildings are not only functioned, but also believed to be the abode of deities, ancestral spirits and other psychical beings. Moreover, the Tugun Karang shrine or often called as Pengijeng Karang is very often associated with the psychical and haunted thing.

Tugun Karang comes from the word tuhu meaning ‘to know’ or ‘have knowledge.’ Karang means ‘yard’ or house yard or human body.

Who can understand and know about one’s body well, and then he or she is the one who reaches the balance of physical and psychical realm. In the Hindu mysticism and philosophy, Tugun Karang is the ultimate mantra. Tugun is Tang, Ang and Ung; summarized into Karang, namely Ang and Ah. Ang and Ah are double syllables symbolizing

the life and death.

Tugun Karang made by the elders of Balinese people is not just a sacred and simple building. It is a sanctified building made and put at a special location through magical and mystical calculation. Thus, the Tugun Karang serves as a pecalang or guardian in a house compound that keeps safety psychically.

Each sikut satak of home yard must have two kinds of shrine, namely the Pangulun Karang in the form of kemulan or three-

chambered shrine and Panunggun Karang functioned as mentioned before. According to I Gusti Ketut Dalem, a permanent lecturer at the Dharma Duta Faculty of the IHDN Denpasar, Tugun Karang shrine is the abode of Ida Ratu Sedahan Panunggun Karang, in charge of security guard in the house compound.

“Actually, he has existed before there are people taking advantage of the land area either intended for housing or moors. According to the elders, they have diverse manifes-

tations according to the place and position. There is manifestation as Jero Dukuh or elder figure, elephant, horse, tiger and other forms,” he said.

Many people do not know that Tugun Karang is the gateway of psychical beings coming from psychical world to physical world.

Moreover, if a human is willing to enter the psychical dimension must seek permission and pass through this gateway. The deity abiding in the Tungun Karang shrine also

plays an important role to protect residents from psychical attacks, such as witch.

However, lately many people are ignorant and do not believe in the power of psychical beings in Tugun Karang. The Kala Tattwa palm-leaf manuscript carries that Ida Bhatara Kala changes its form into Sedahan Karang / Sawah / Abian with the function as Pecalang, having the same function as Pangerurah, Penganggit Lawang or Patih in family temple or public temple. (kmb)

Enjoying Nature of Paddy Fields at Sengkiding Agrotourism Sengkiding hamlet, Aan, Klungkung has a tourist attraction created by Wahyu Para Studio that combines agrotoursim with cultural tourism. Despite providing a variety of attractions and exotic natural scenery, there is not admission fee for visiting the attraction.

Sukanta Wahyu who is known as a fine artist, came up with the concpet of this unique attraction that offers a pristine natural environment that spreads over 40 hectares of lands as well as variety of cultural attractions and artistic products.

Wahyu who also decorared the Japanese Cave attraction explained that Sengkiding opened in early January 2016.

Visitors are invited to have a tour of the site where they can enjoy hundreds of sculptures and paintings set in a beautiful natiural environment. They can also enjoy walking amongst the vegetables that grow here including eggplant, chilies, bananas, papayas and other crops. For those who like a longer walk, there are nearby paddy fields that russle with the sound of the flow of irrigation water. “We also present a painting demonstration, traditional music, bamboo

traditional music and the Barong Bangkung dance” said Sukanta Wahyu.

Since the site has opened, many foreign travelers from contries including Australia (Aborigine), Belgium, Germany to Spain have visited. Unlike many other tourist attractions, here visitors to not need to spend a singel penny to enter this beautiful 4.000 square meters land that offers unspoiled views and a bulding to sit back and relax or take a short 1 km treck. “It’s up to travelers if they want to make a donation or not, regarldess we still serve them well” explained Wahyu.

One visitor named Miss Dorothy Summers, said that she brought her student here so that they could enjoy nature first hand. “I am very happy to bring my students here.

Apart from being able to enjoy nature, they can also learn about Balinese culture and lcoal activities”, Miss Dee. Dee added that what she liked best was what was presented by the Wahyu Para Studio. The arrangement of the agrotourism and culture is very integrated with nature, she said. “The site remains natural and our students are very pleased to learn while playing”, concluded Miss Dee.(kmb)

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Preparing for retirement, Made Sumerta breeds ducks

NEGARA - Simple and unpretentious figure is the personality of Made Sumerta. This man from Pasar hamlet, Yehembang, Mendoyo, is a member of Pekutatan subdistrict police, Jembrana police and serves as village commissioned officer (Bhabinkamtibmas) at Manggis Sari village, Pekutatan.

This police officer born on March 12, 1961 has been on duty for decades. Now, ahead of his retirement period, he has made preparation for the future of his family. Sumerta was graduated from SPN Singaraja police school.

In the period of 1979-1980, he was directly assigned in a conflicting area, namely the Aileu district police, East Timor. He served in East Timor from 1980 to 1988.

Having been successful in carrying out the tasks in the conflicting area, this father of three sons was also awarded the Satya Lencana Sroja, an award given by the state to police officers that have performed their duties well in the conflicting area.

Then after completing the assignment in East Timor, he married to Ni Komang Yuliani, 55, a civil

servant at the Gilimanuk harbor administration and in 1988 he was transferred to the West Lombok Police, NTB. After serving in West Lombok Police, Sumerta was transferred to this home region in Jembrana in 2000. Because of his proximity to the community, he was then entrusted to carry out his duties as Bhabinkamtibmas.

Since transferred to Jembrana district police and living in his hometown, at Pasar hamlet, Yehembang, Mendoyo, he had looked for new job in order to get additional income.

He chose to be a duck breeder.

At the beginning, this side job was carried out by hiring some local residents to raise his ducks. He said that his job as a member of Bhabinkamtibmas is very crowded

and takes a lot of time to get down to the community. So, he entrusts his ducks to some residents.

Other than raising ducks, he also raises pigs, chickens for caru oblation and rooster. In fact, the results are good to cover additional household expenses, including helping to pay school tuition fee for the undergraduate education of his children. Moreover, the first son was successful and got a civil servant position at Singaraja harbor administration. Since the breeding adequately helps the family’s economy, from 2015 he began to focus on his own breeding at backyard with the help of his wife.

At this time, he is raising 600 ducks with the production of averagely 450 eggs per day sold for IDR 1,500 each. So, every day he earns IDR 675,000 from the sales of duck eggs. From the proceeds, Sumerta gets a profit of IDR 275,000 per day because daily production cost for his duck reaches IDR 400,000.

According to him, such income is quite good to increase family’s

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U.N. sees “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar

GENEVA - The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar’s “brutal security operation” against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, saying it was disproportionate to insurgent attacks carried out last month.

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Ahead of his retirement period, he has made preparation for the future of his family. income. Moreover, with such earning he can make a saving for the future of his sons as well as the provision of retirement later.

He added that in the future he

will focus as duck breeder after getting retired because the income as a breeder is quite promising. He does not want to keep silent and only relies on pension salary. (kmb)

Lacking public facilities

Tourism office proposes tourist object arrangement to central govt AMLAPURA — A number of tourist attractions in Karangasem still lack public facilities. It is often complained by local and foreign tourists such as at Tulamben, Jemeluk, Yeh Malet and Ujung Water Palace. To add public facilities at the location, the Karangasem tourism office proposed the arrangement of the tourist objects and provision of supporting facilities, such as toilet, information centers and gazebo.

Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, I Wayan Astika, recently said that many tourist objects in Karangasem have not yet been organized.

However, due to budget constraints, the tourism office should be able to seize the funds of central government, especially the special allocation fund (DAK) from the ministry of tourism. For the arrangement of Tulamben tourist attraction, the proposed amount is IDR 9.1 billion; Jemeluk (IDR 9.8 billion), Yeh Malet (IDR 5 billion) and the largest amount is for the arrangement of the Ujung Water Palace totally coming to IDR 35 billion.

“The draft we propose amounts to that size. However, later on the approved amount is not necessarily the same as that,” he said.

Such a measure should be realized amid the budget constraints of the local government. This public facility is

important to support the convenience of tourists while making a visit.

“For example, information board is required by travelers to get the right information about the objects they visit,” Astika said.

This proposal is expected to have been realized in 2018 because many other objects must also be arranged for the addition of similar supporting facilities. This shows the effort of district government of Karangasem to provide security and comfort for visitors. “Some other proposals are intended for Candidasa and Padangbai. Hopefully, everything could be realized next year,” said Wayan Edy Gautama, the Destination Section Head.

Currently the tourism office continues to be a major public highlight.

This is related to the mission of the regent of Karangasem who wanted to make tourism the main spearhead of the regionally generated revenue (PAD). The entire potential of Karangasem tourism is currently being overhauled. The listed and proposed tourist objects continue to grow. Besides, tourism office is also preparing various regulations related to tourist objects and other regulations related to tourism villages along with their academic studies. “We target to accomplish them next year,” he said. (kmb31)

Communal tensions appeared to be rising across Myanmar on Monday after two weeks of violence in Rakhine state that have triggered an exodus of about 300,000 Rohingya Muslims, prompting the government to tighten security at Buddhist pagodas.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.

“We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians,” Zeid told the Geneva forum.

He cited reports that Myanmar authorities had begun to lay landmines along the border with Bangladesh and would require returnees to provide “proof of

citizenship”.

Rohingya have been stripped of civil and political rights including citizenship rights for decades, he added.

“I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,” Zeid said.

“The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Last year Zeid’s office issued a report, based on interviews with Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh after a previous military assault, which he said on Monday had “suggested a widespread or systematic attack against the community, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity”.

“I deplore current measures in India to deport Rohingyas at a time of such violence against them in their country,” Zeid said, noting that some 40,000 Rohing-

REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Rohingya refugees wait at a jetty after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017. yas had settled in India, including 16,000 who have received refugee documentation.

Noting India’s obligations under international law, he said: “India cannot carry out collective

expulsions, or return people to a place where they risk torture or other serious violations.” (rtr)

Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of suspected ISIS fighters

SOUTH OF MOSUL - Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters

in a camp after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid

officials said.

Many of them say they are from Russia, Turkey and Central Asia, but there are also some from

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Iraqi army are seen in Al Karma north of Basra, Iraq September 8, 2017. Picture taken September 8, 2017.

European countries, the officials said. They have mostly arrived at the camp south of Mosul since Aug 30.

An Iraqi intelligence officer said that they were in the process of verifying their nationalities with their home countries, since many of the women no longer had their original documents.

It is the largest group of foreigners linked to Islamic State to be held by Iraqi forces since they started expelling the militants from Mosul and other areas in northern Iraq last year, an aid official said.

Thousands of foreigners have been fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

A senior security officer said the authorities were trying to find a safe place to house the families while negotiating with embassies for their return home. They are not allowed to leave the camp.

Reuters reporters saw hundreds of the women and children sitting on mattresses crawling with bugs in tents in what aid workers called a “militarized site”. Turkish, French and Rus-

sian were among the languages spoken.

“I want to go back (to France) but don’t know how,” said a Frenchspeaking veiled woman of Chechen origin who said she had lived in Paris before.

She said she did not know what had happened to her husband, who had brought her to Iraq when he joined Islamic State.

The security officer said the women and children had mostly surrendered to the Kurdish Peshmerga near the northern city of Tal Afar, along with their husbands.

The Kurds handed the women and children over to Iraqi forces, but kept the men - all presumed to be fighters - in their custody.

Many of the families had fled to Tal Afar after Iraqi troops pushed Islamic State out of Mosul on Aug 30.

Iraqi forces retook Tal Afar, a city of predominantly ethnic Turkmen that has produced some of Islamic State’s most senior commanders, last month. Most of its pre-war population of 200,000 have fled. (rtr)

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Case of persecution causing victim to die

About to appealing, prosecutor finally receives 1.5-year sentence DENPASAR — What was said by public prosecutor I Kadek Wahyudi, who immediately appealed for the 1.5-year sentence against the punishment received by the foreigner from Germany, Giuliano Lemoine, 21, was just a fairy tale.

In fact, at the same time, the Section Head of General Crime at the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, last week told a number of journalists to accept the judge’s verdict on a 1.5-year sentence for the young German man, indicted for torture to

A waiter serves beer in the traditional Schweizerhaus beer garden in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2017.

Drinks industry distorts alcohol cancer risk - scientists

LONDON - The alcohol industry uses denial, distortion and distraction to mislead people about the risks of developing cancer from drinking, often employing similar tactics to those of the tobacco industry, a study said on Thursday.

Drinks industry organisations often present the relationship between alcohol and cancer as highly complex, implying there is no clear evidence of a consistent link, said the study led by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet.

Other strategies include denying any relationship exists, or saying inaccurately that there is no risk with moderate drinking, the study found. The industry also seeks to mention a wide range of other real and potential cancer risk factors in an effort to present alcohol as just one of many, it added.

Responding to the study, the

Distilled Spirits Council, a U.S. alcohol trade association, said it was “a highly selective” review authored by researchers with “antialcohol biases”.

“The Council does not recommend that people drink alcohol for potential health benefits,” it said in a statement. “Drinking in moderation may pose health risks for some people, and some individuals should not drink at all.”

The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, which represents large brewers and distillers including Anheuser-Busch InBev and Diageo, said it disagreed with the study’s conclusions. “We ... stand by the information that we

publish on drinking and health,” it said.

RISING RISK The World Health Organization says drinking alcohol is a wellestablished risk factor for a range of cancers, including tumours of the mouth, liver, breast and colon and bowel. And the risk of cancer rises with levels of alcohol consumed.

The research team behind Thursday’s study analysed the information relating to cancer on the websites and documents of nearly 30 alcohol industry organisations around the world between September 2016 and December 2016.

“The weight of scientific evidence

is clear - drinking alcohol increases the risk of some of the most common forms of cancer,” said Mark Petticrew, a professor of public Health at the LSHTM who co-led the study.

“It has been argued that greater public awareness, particularly of the risk of breast cancer, poses a significant threat to the alcohol industry.

Our analysis suggests that the major global alcohol producers may attempt to mitigate this by disseminating misleading information.”

Petticrew’s team identified three main industry strategies: Denying any link with cancer, or selective omission of the relationship; distortion by mentioning some risk of cancer, but misrepresenting or obfuscating its size; and distraction by seeking to draw focus away from the risks of alcohol and towards other cancer risks.

One of the most significant find-

ings was that industry materials omitted or misrepresented evidence on breast and bowel cancer, both of which are linked to drinking. When breast cancer was mentioned, 21 of the organisations studied gave no, or misleading, information about it, the study said.

Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said the study “clearly shows the alcohol industry misleading the public”.

“With only 1 in 10 people aware of the link between alcohol and cancer, people have both a need and a right to clear information about the health risks of drinking alcohol.” Petticrew said the study’s findings, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review on Thursday, were important partly because the alcohol industry is often involved in spreading health information to people around the world. (rtr)

the death of Steven Djingga, 49. As a result, the appeal was cancelled to be filed.

With the acceptance of the 1.5year sentence, the case will have a permanent legal force. In last week’s publication, the German tourist was convicted by a panel of judges led by Esthar Oktavi.

However, the defendant was only sentenced to a year and six months or 1.5 years in a trial in the Denpasar District Court.

Responding to the verdict of the

death case of Steven, the prosecutor initially appealed against the decision of the judge panel led by Esthar Oktavi. At that time, the defendant’s legal counsel, Simon Trombine et al., stated to think of it first.

In the case of the persecution, previously the German tourist was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison from the threat of a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.

The panel of judges stated that the defendant was proven legally and convincingly guilty of com-

mitting the acts as regulated in Article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code concerning the persecution. In this case alone, the defendant was tried in the case of persecution that resulted in the victim Steven Djingga, 49, to die.

The element supporting the article, as in the previous trials, is that the defendant was judged to have an intention or element of deliberate to beat the victim.

Giuliano was brought to trial for alleged persecution of beating the

visitor bar in front of Paddy’s Club, Steven Djingga. He died after a few days of hospitalization.

According to the defendant as mentioned in his defense memo, this defendant from Germany admitted to have hit the victim once.

If was intended for a self-defense.

The defendant’s legal counsel suspected there were other perpetrators because the victim suffered many injuries, while the defendant only beat once. At that time, the victim was drunk. (kmb37)

Fishermen of Kampong Kepiting reluctant to be crab supplier

MANGUPURA — Fishermen of Kampong Kepiting at Tuban village, Kuta, are reluctant to sell their crabs to suppliers. It happens because this Wana Sari fishermen group was once fooled by suppliers that dispatched their farming products to foreign countries.

In addition, the 93-members of the Wana Sari group are also reluctant to supply their marine farming products to nearby hotels and restaurants.

They consider the bureaucracy of payment at hotel and restaurant is quite complicated. On that account, their catches are processed by them-

selves to be served at the Kampong Kepiting ecotourism food stall. “So far, we receive many demands from hotel supply, but we have not served yet,” said Made Sumasa, Leader of the Wana Sari Fishermen Group, recently.

Actually, the crabs produced from

the cultivation at mangrove area can reach 4,500 heads per month. At Kampong Kepiting, there are five crab floating boxes respectively containing 4,000 crabs. All fishermen catches such as in the form of fish, shrimp and crabs are sold to Kampong Kepiting ecotourism food stall.

At early hours, fishermen will start to go to sea and be back to mainland around 10:00 to take a rest. “In the afternoon, fishermen will keep crabs such as feeding them and so forth,” he said. Cultivating crab is considerably easy. To reach harvest time, crabs take a long time namely 8-9 months. “The maintenance indeed takes long time, but fattening only takes two months,” he said.

Each crab floating box is man-

aged by nine fishermen through shift system to feed the crabs. He and other fishermen have arranged in such a way so that the crabs captured every day will not exceed 300 heads. It is done to avoid overstock and shortage of crab stock. “We harvest by applying sorting system, no longer massive harvest as carried out before,” he said.

In addition to breeding mangrove crabs, this Wana Sari fishermen group also makes crab nursery. (kmb42)

Spectacular Northern Light display illuminates Finnish sky FINLAND - Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on Friday.

Travel magazine ‘All About Lapland’ posted a video on social media of the impressive light show seen from Pallas, in the Muonio region, adding it had

rarely seen anything on this scale.

The Northern Lights are a result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the Earth’s atmosphere. A strong geomagnetic storm was behind this week’s particularly stunning show.

Known as aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, in the north-

ern hemisphere, they go by aurora australis, or the Southern Lights, in the southern hemisphere. (rtr) The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near the village of Pallas (Muonio region) of Lapland, Finland September 8, 2017.

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Content procurement of Masceti Subak Museum worth IDR 6.5 billion GIANYAR —Procurement of the content for subak museum located around the Masceti Beach, Blahbatuh, is ensured to be realized before the end of this year. This considers the disbursement of the budget worth IDR 6.5 billion from amended national state budget (APBN) 2017.

Currently, the use of the funds has entered tender stage.

Head of the Gianyar Culture Agency, Gusti Ngurah Wijana, through the Division Head of Cultural Heritage and Museum, Wayan Suda, said the funds from the ministry of culture and education of the RI amounting to IDR 6.5 billion is being processed through the procurement services unit (ULP). “Later on, this unit will inform the partner that can help the procurement of content for the museum,” he said when met on Wednesday (Sep. 6).

Suda said that procurement of the content includes agricultural equipment having a cultural heritage value. To look for equipment aged 50 years has also been followed up by making data collection to a number of farmers in Gianyar.

“Some properties have been available in the data. Then, they will be requested by the agency by giving compensation,” he explained.

He said the content also includes the procurement of dioramas featuring agricultural system in Gianyar. A Balinese traditional house will also equip the museum that remains to be made from clay. “Later on, there is also a Balinese ancient house. To be sure, it is different from the contemporary Balinese house,” he said.

All the contents describing about the local wealth of Gianyar will be packed using information technology, so that they will be more easily understood by visitors. “All displays will adopt information technology, but its traditional spirit remains to be maintained,” he said.

Suda said that procurement of all the contents using the budget worth IDR 6.5 billion has the deadline until December 15. Then, there are fears on the lack of partners that dare to take the offer considering the time limit is short. “We are aware that it is not only Gianyar proposing the assistance request to central government but also the other regions throughout Indonesia. We cannot do much after the budget is disbursed in the amended state budget, while now the time limit is very short,” he said.

As scheduled, the museum will be launched in February 2018, before the term of office of Gianyar Regent, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, ends. Related to the museum name, it will be reviewed again considering that the identity of subak museum has been available in Tabanan. “Our leadership is going to give slightly different identity because the name of subak museum has existed in Tabanan,” he said.

Suda reminded that physical construction of the subak museum uses the budget from central government started in 2014. It was begun with building structures worth about IDR 2 billion followed by a two-tiered structure in 2015 worth about IDR 10 billion. Finishing of the third stage was also funded by state budget in 2016 amounting IDR 9 billion.

“They are added to the current budget worth IDR 6.5 billion, so they totally cost IDR 27.5 billion,” he said.

Besides, this project also obtained budget from regional budget of Gianyar in 2016 worth approximately IDR 1.6 billion for workmanship of parking space. Furthermore, this museum will be integrated with the One-Day River Tour managed by the Gianyar tourism office. He said that in the draft, visitors will take day trip in Gianyar district. The visit starts at the Subak Museum, resumed with the exploration to Pakerisan River watershed getting recognition as the World Cultural Heritage from the UNESCO and ultimately ends with a culinary tour to Gianyar Market. (kmb35)

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Payment gateway provider must apply information security standards

DENPASAR —In accordance with the Regulation of Bank Indonesia (PBI) No. 18/40 / PBI / 2016 concerning the Implementation of Payment Transaction Processing, if providers of payment system are proved to have committed double swipe, they shall be liable to administrative sanctions in the form of reprimands, fines, suspensions of all activities of the payment system services, and / or revocation of licenses as payment service providers. This was conveyed by the Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) Representative Office for Bali Region, Causa Iman Karana, recently.

He said that in the processing of payment transactions, each payment system service provider must apply risk management effectively and consistently. Service providers are also required to apply information security system standards, conduct payment processing domestically, apply consumer protection and comply with statutory regulations.

“Provider of the payment system services shall also submit a report on the processing of payment transactions to Bank Indonesia consisting of periodic reports and incidental reports,” he said.

Bank Indonesia conducts a direct and indirect supervision against payment system providers. If required, Bank Indonesia shall also supervise the supporting operators in cooperation with the service providers of payment systems.

Related to that matter, providers of the payment system services are prohibited from processing payment transactions by using virtual currency, misusing data and information of customers as well as the data of payment transaction information, having and or managing a value that can be equalized to the value of money that can be used outside the scope of the respective payment system service provider.

In the meantime, Chairman of Consumer Protection Institution Foundation (YLPK) Bali, I Putu Armaya, supported the measures of BI related to the prohibition of double swipe in non-cash transactions. “In every transaction, the card should only be swiped once in the Electronic Data Capture (EDC) machine, and does no other scraping, including on the

cash register. It is meant to protect consumers,” said Armaya.

Bank Indonesia is expected more intensively do dissemination, not only to consumers but also to business players either banking or merchants having something to do with non-cash payment process.

He also hoped business players in Bali to protect consumers.

Armaya appealed that banks and merchants to be obedient to the rules and ban on double swiping.

The YLPK Bali supported the measures of BI that terminates the cooperation with the merchants remaining to practice such double swiping. For reconciliation purposes, the transaction of payment and acquirers are expected to use other methods that do not involve double swiping. (kmb42)

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Stone lauds Billie Jean King at ‘Battle of the Sexes’ screening TORONTO - Academy Award winner Emma Stone praised tennis great Billie Jean King’s for pushing social change for women while battling her own insecurities at the Toronto premiere of “Battle of the Sexes” on Sunday night.

Stone plays King in the story of her famous 1973 tennis match against retired former champion and male chauvinist Bobby Riggs, played by Steve Carell.

“I think the thing that was most inspiring to me...was that Billie Jean was going through so many personal trials at the time and discovering so much about herself,” Stone said on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Along with the highly-publicized grudge match, the film also covers King’s sexual exploration via a off-court relationship with a woman. She did not publicly identify as a lesbian until 1981.

“In this time period she was confused and scared and still was able to effect such massive social change,” said Stone, who won an Oscar earlier this year for “La La Land”.

King, who won the match, played a pivotal role in the fight for equal pay for female athletes and is considered a major influence on the women’s liberation movement as a whole.

But more than 40 years later, the issue of equal pay, both in tennis and the wider working world, is still simmering.

“It’s eerily relevant these days, and sadly it’s, I think, more relevant than it should be at this point,” Carell said ahead of the screening.

A tennis tournament executive, Raymond Moore of the BNP Paribas Open, last year said that top-level women’s players rode “on the coattails of the men” and were “very, very lucky” to have equal prize money.

He stepped down from the role several months later amid heavy criticism, with tournament owner Larry Ellison citing King’s “historic campaign for the equal treatment of women in tennis” when announcing the move.

The film has received early awards-season buzz since first screening at Telluride earlier this month, with Stone’s performance especially well-received. (rtr)

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Thousands of homes wrecked by huge Mexican quake, death toll at 91

MEXICO CITY - A massive earthquake off southern Mexico on Thursday night that killed at least 91 people damaged tens of thousands of homes and afflicted upwards of two million people in the poorer south, state officials said, as more details of the disaster emerged.

Earthquake strikes off the coast of Mexico

A massive 8.1 magnitude earthquake, one of the biggest recorded in Mexico, struck off the country's southern coast late on Thursday, causing cracks in buildings and triggering a small tsunami, authorities said.

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Actors Julianne Moore and Matt Damon attend a news conference to promote the film “Suburbicon” at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada, September 10, 2017.

Damon, Clooney defend black family’s portrayal in ‘Suburbicon’

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The 8.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Chiapas state was stronger than a 1985 temblor that flattened swaths of Mexico City and killed thousands. However, its greater depth and distance helped save the capital from more serious damage.

On Saturday, authorities in the southern state of Oaxaca said there were 71 confirmed fatalities there, many of them in the town of Juchitan, where the rush to bury victims crowded a local cemetery at the weekend.

Another death was confirmed in neighboring Chiapas late on Sunday, bringing the total there to 16, a spokesman for local emergency services said. A further four deaths have also been registered in Tabasco state to the north.

Television footage from parts of

Oaxaca showed small homes and buildings completely leveled by the quake, which struck the narrowest portion of Mexico on the isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Aftershocks continued into Sunday, and scores of people were wary about returning to fragile buildings hammered by the initial tremor, sleeping in gardens, patios and in the open air.

Piles of rubble lay strewn around damaged streets, where the shock was still visible on the faces of residents. Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat told Mexican television the quake hit 41 municipalities and had likely affected around one in five of the state’s 4 million-strong population.

“We’re talking about more than 800,000 people who potentially lost everything, and some their loved

ones,” he said on Sunday.

In Juchitan alone, more than 5,000 homes were destroyed.

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were temporarily left without electricity or water, and many in the south were evacuated from coastal dwellings when the quake sparked tsunami warnings.

In Chiapas, some 41,000 houses were damaged, governor Manuel Velasco said, estimating nearly 1.5 million people were affected.

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TORONTO - The African-American family struggling to fit in to an all-white suburb in 1950s America in the George Clooney-directed dark satire “Suburbicon” was intentionally portrayed in a one-dimensional way, actor Matt Damon said on Sunday.

The film, based on a script written

by Joel and Ethan Coen, stars Damon and Julianne Moore and depicts the violent efforts of the neighborhood’s white residents to oust a black family, the Meyers, after blaming them for a deadly break-in.

The film has received mixed reviews since its world premiere in Venice earlier this month, with some critics hammering its superficial treatment of the black characters.

“The Meyers family, you never

know them, right, and that’s the point,” Damon told a news conference at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Because the town didn’t get to know them, they just freaked out.”

Moore added: “They blamed them for absolutely everything and then you see us in our little house quietly going about our dirty business.”

Moore plays both Damon’s wife and her sister, who hatches a plot with Damon’s character Gardner

Lodge to stage a home invasion and get rid of the wife to start a new life together.

The film lands at a time of deep unease over race in America after white supremacists clashed with anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia last month, leaving one dead.

“Its bigger problem is a timely subplot about virulent racism among white Americans that comes off as a mishandled afterthought,” Hollywood Reporter said. (rtr)

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