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Wonder Woman the star among Warner Bros’ expanding superhero franchise

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SAN DIEGO - After smashing box office records this year, Wonder Woman received the loudest cheers among the DC superheroes gathered on Saturday at San Diego’s annual Comic-Con to present new footage and trailers for Warner Bros’ expanding comic book film franchise.

A teaser of Warner Bros’ upcoming superhero films shown to the 6,500 attendees at the panel gave a glimpse of “Wonder Woman II,” a presumed sequel to June’s “Wonder Woman” movie that is on track this weekend to become the second-highest grossing movie of 2017.

No further details were revealed about “Wonder Woman II,” but star Gal Gadot joined Ben Affleck (Batman), Ezra Miller (Flash), Ray Fisher (Cyborg) and Jason Momoa (Aquaman), to present the latest trailer for November’s “Justice League” movie, which will unite the DC superheroes.

Affleck said he was “the luckiest guy in the world” and “so thrilled” to play the caped crusader, dispelling trade publication The Hollywood Reporter’s report this week that his future as Batman was uncertain.

The latest trailer picks up after the death of Superman from last year’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and shows Batman and Wonder Woman

joined by the Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman to fight supervillain Steppenwolf.

Wonder Woman says “They said age of heroes would never come again,” as Batman tells her, “it has to.”

“All of these characters are dealing with personal issues and they come together and are able to use those circumstances to save the world, which is beautiful,” Fisher said.

In his excitement after watching the new trailer, the muscle-bound Momoa threw his chair across the stage, breaking it and briefly sitting on the floor.

Momoa also debuted the first look at the standalone “Aquaman” movie, and revealed the aquatic superhero will be battling his brother, the supervillain Ocean Master, in the film due out next year.

The avid fan base at Comic-Con, a gathering of pop and nerd culture fans, were also shown footage of Warner Bros’ upcoming sci-fi films “Ready Player One” and “Blade Runner 2049.” (rtr)

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This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder Woman.”

Marvel brings hammerless Thor, new king Black Panther for Comic-Con

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Cast members Chris Hemsworth (L) and Tom Hiddleston at a panel for “Thor: Ragnarok” during the 2017 Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, California, U.S., July 22, 2017.

SAN DIEGO - Thor has lost his invincible hammer and Black Panther shoulders the responsibility of being a new king, in exclusive scenes shown from Disney’s Marvel studios’ upcoming superhero movies at San Diego’s Comic-Con. One of the most high-profile draws of the annual convention for pop and nerd culture fans, Marvel’s star-studded panel session on Saturday kicked off with “Thor: Ragnarok,” due in theaters in November.

Director Taika Waititi joined stars Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo,

Tom Hiddleston and Cate Blanchett to discuss how the Norse god has evolved in the film, specifically as he has lost his power-wielding hammer, is trapped on a planet named Sakaar and has to fight in a gladiator contest with the Hulk.

“I’ve played this character five times now ... I got a bit bored with myself and wanted to make something different,” Hemsworth said.

Comedy weaves through a trailer that shows Thor meeting the Hulk and filling him in on his status, saying “I’m doing my own thing now, I’m not really hanging out with the Avengers anymore, it

all got very corporate.”

As supervillain Hela (Blanchett) takes over Thor’s home planet of Asgard, he must recruit the help of the superheroes, including his mischievous brother Loki, to stop Hela and prevent Ragnarok - the end of the world.

Avid fans, many of whom lined up overnight to get into the 6,500seat Hall H, gave a rousing standing ovation for the first footage from 2018’s “Black Panther,” in which Chadwick Boseman plays T’Challa, the new king of fictional African nation Wakanda, who is also a deadly superhero. (rtr)

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People gather in front of the Presidential Palace during a protest against the Supreme Court legislation in Warsaw, Poland, July 24, 2017.

Polish president to veto bills that led to street protests

WARSAW — Poland’s president announced Monday that he will veto two contentious bills which were widely seen as assaults on the independence of the judicial system by the ruling party and that sparked days of nationwide protests. The decision marks the first time Andrzej Duda has broken openly with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the powerful leader of the ruling Law and Justice party. Duda was hand-picked by Kaczynski as the party’s presidential candidate in 2015 and has loyally supported the party’s conservative, nationalist agenda until now.

Duda appeared to take party leaders by surprise with a move that, at least for now, halts the party’s attempts to consolidate its power. The party’s moves over the past two years, including a successful neutralizing of the constitutional court, have raised concerns about rule of law in a country long considered a model of democratic transition.

As Kaczynski arrived at his office for an emergency party meeting following Duda’s announcement, he refused to answer reporters’ ques-

tions and appeared tense. Mateusz Morawiecki, the deputy prime minister and one of the most prominent figures in the party and government, said he was “surprised and disillusioned.” Lech Walesa — the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, democracy leader and ex-president — praised Duda’s step, calling it “a difficult and a courageous decision.”

Crowds outside the presidential palace chanted “We thank you!” and chanted the names of Polish towns where protests had erupted repeatedly over more than a week.

Duda said he would veto the two most controversial bills out of three recently passed by lawmakers aimed at overhauling the judicial system. One would have put the Supreme Court under the political control of the ruling party, giving the justice minister, who is also prosecutor general, power to appoint judges. Duda said the country’s justice system as it works now needs reform, but he said the planned overhaul threatened to create an oppressive system and that the protests of recent days

show that the changes would divide society.

He said that there is no tradition in Poland for a prosecutor general to have such large powers and he would not agree to that now.

He said that he consulted many experts before making his decision, including lawyers, sociologists, politicians and even philosophers.

He did not mention having consulted with either Kaczynski or Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, in what might be another sign of a rift with party leaders. He also noted that he had not been consulted by the ruling party on the legislation, a break with procedure. He said the person who influenced him most was Zofia Romaszewska, a leading anti-communist dissident in the 1970s and 1980s.

He said Romaszewska told him: “Mr. President, I lived in a state where the prosecutors general had an unbelievably powerful position and could practically do everything. I would not like to go back to such a state.” Duda said he was also vetoing a bill changing the functioning of the National Council of the Judiciary. The change would have given lawmakers greater power over the courts.

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Dynamics of Bali tourism

Existence of villas must be monitored

DENPASAR — Condition of Bali tourism is changing with the times. Milestone of tourism development in Bali has existed since the construction of the Hotel Inna Grand Bali Beach.

Since then, the development of tourism, hotel in particular, is increasingly growing. Yet over the times, the presence of villas began to draw the interest of tourists to stay. The superiority offered by villas is privacy.

According to an academician from the Udayana University, Prof. Nyoman Darma Putra, villa accommodation creates a special market in Bali. As evidence, a lot of villa has been established, and tourists like to stay in the villas because they are more private than staying in stared-rated hotels marked with the presence of many guests and standard rooms. In addition, guests can organize a party if necessary. In other words, by staying at villa they can hold a private party with friends and family on vacation.

Villa can be leased with time share system. It means that people can own or rent a villa, and then it is rented again to others if they do not use. With the current AirBnB booking system, many villas are offered on

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the website via the AirBnB. The presence of the villa positively provides the form of attractiveness and ‘new’ facilities in accordance with the needs of tourists.

“Negatively, they are not subject to tax coverage. It is the duty of the government to monitor them in order to operate in accordance with the provisions of taxation,” he said. In Bali, there has been an organization of villa entrepreneurs. It is expected to work together to organize the villas including its standards, criteria, and tax obligations. The IHGMA Advisory Board, Gusti Kade Sutawa, revealed that not all guests are interested in staying at villa. Actually, there are guests that like to stay at hotels, while some others like to stay at villas.

According to the Deputy Chairman of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesia Hotel General Manager Association (IHGMA), I Made Ramia Adnyana, guests do not always want to stay at villa because each guest has its own characteristics. “Some guests may choose privacy, intimacy and natural atmosphere so they tend to choose villa even though the price offered is higher because the concept offered by villa is more personalized service. Conversely, there are guests that like to stay at hotel so as to be more crowded and convenience with a more affordable price,” he explained. (kmb42)

Tanah Lot is one of the main attraction for tourists in Bali

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SO far, Bangli region still lacks of many tourism facilities. One of them is toilet at Penelokan tourist attraction. On the condition, the district government of Bangli in this case the tourism office is asked to be able to build the supporting facilities.A tour guide, I Putu Winastra, said that to develop and promote tourism, especially in Bangli, many things still need to be improved, ranging from facilities and infrastructure. He said that until now it still does not have supporting facilities such as toilet at the Penelokan tourist object.

“Until now, this tourist object absolutely has no toilet for tourists wishing to use it. All this time, tourists are very difficult to find a toilet to defecate and so forth. This should be considered by district government in the future. To attract more tourist visit, facilities and infrastructure must be considered in order to provide comfort and satisfaction for visitors,” he said.

Winastra added that so far there have been no significant changes made in Bangli although the admis-

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sion ticket to Kintamani has been increased since last few years for foreign tourists to IDR 30,000 and domestic tourist to IDR 15,000.

“Previously, the ticket price for foreign tourists was IDR 15,000 while domestic tourist at IDR 10,000,” he said.He added that there are indeed some improvements made by the government of Bangli to support tourism where visitors are no longer parking along the road side at Penelokan. However, many things still need to be improved in the future. Based on the information obtained, he said, the local government will soon set up Penelokan tourist attraction. Therefore, he hoped the plan can be realized as soon as possible. In addition, he also hoped the services provided for visiting tourists who could be better. When the given service is maximal, then visitors will feel comfortable.“If visitors have felt comfortable, they will be happy and want to come back to Bangli.

Hopefully, the tourism potential can be further improved so that tourist visit to Bangli can increase,” he hoped. (nan)

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Girl’s HIV infection seems under control without AIDS drugs

CALIFORNIA - A South African girl born with the AIDS virus has kept her infection suppressed for more than eight years after stopping anti-HIV medicines — more evidence that early treatment can occasionally cause a long remission that, if it lasts, would be a form of cure.

Her case was revealed Monday at an AIDS conference in Paris, where researchers also gave encouraging results from tests of shots every month or two instead of daily pills to treat HIV. “That’s very promising” to help people stay on treatment, the U.S.’s top AIDS scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said of the prospects for long-acting drugs.

Current treatments keep HIV under control but must be taken lifelong. Only one person is thought to be cured — the so-called Berlin patient, a man who had a bone marrow transplant in 2007 from a donor with natural resistance to HIV. But transplants are risky and impractical to try to cure the millions already infected. So some researchers have been aiming for the next best thing — long-term remission, when the immune system can control HIV without drugs even if signs of the virus remain.

Aggressive treatment soon after infection might enable that in some cases, and the South African girl is the third child who achieved a long remission after that approach.

She was in a study sponsored by the agency Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that previously found that early versus delayed treatment helped babies survive.

The girl, who researchers did not identify, started on HIV drugs when she was 2 months old and stopped 40 weeks later.

Tests when she was 9 1/2 years old found signs of virus in a small number of immune system cells, but none capable of reproducing. The girl does not have a gene mutation that gives natural resistance to HIV infection, Fauci said, so her remission seems likely due to the early treatment.

The previous cases:

—A French teen who was born with HIV and is now around 20 has had her infection under control despite no HIV medicines since she was roughly 6 years old.

—A Mississippi baby born with HIV in 2010 suppressed her infection for 27 months after stopping treatment before it reappeared in her blood. She was able to get the virus under control again after treatment resumed.

At least a dozen adults also have had remissions lasting for years after stopping HIV medicines.

A study underway now is testing whether treating HIVinfected newborns within two days of birth can control the

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This undated photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a scanning electron micrograph of multiple round bumps of the HIV-1 virus on a cell surface. virus later after treatment stops. It started in 2014 in South America, Haiti, Africa and the United States, and some of the earliest participants might be able to try stopping treatment later this year.

Treatment might get easier if two large studies underway now confirm results reported Monday from a study testing a long-acting combo of two HIV drugs — Janssen’s rilpivirine and ViiV Healthcare’s cabotegravir.

Cabotegravir is experimental; rilpivirine is sold now as Edurant and used in combination with other drugs for treating certain types of HIV patients.

After initial treatment to get their virus under control, about 300 study participants were given either daily combination therapy pills or a shot every four or eight weeks of the long-acting drug duo to maintain control.

After nearly two years, 94 percent on eight-week shots, 87 percent on four-week shots and 84 percent on daily pills had their infections suppressed, with similar rates of side effects.

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Primary Contributors to GDP

SMESCO urges public to buy SME products

DENPASAR — One of the biggest contributors to Indonesia’s GDP is the creative industry, 60 percent of which is composed of SMEs. The creative industry has contributed IDR 852 trillion or 33 percent of the total amounts of the GDP. Two main sub-sectors of the 16 creative industry sectors are cuisine and fashion. Also 99.9 percent of Indonesia’s entrepreneurs run SME’s which shows that Indonesia’s economy is predominantly supported by SME’s.

“Anyone who feels a commitment to this nation should show it by purchasing and using products made by SMEs” , said Ahmad Zabadi, Director of the Marketing Services Agency of Small-Medium Enterprise Cooperative (SMESCO) after opening the Food Truck Festival 2017. Zabadi said that the economy of Indonesia will be strong, prosperous and evenly distributed provided that Indonesian people buy and use Indonesian SME products.

He went on to say that creativity and innovations should indeed be explored by SMEs because these important aspects for ensuring

endurance. Most importantly, he added is to balance creativity with productivity. “If SMEs rely only on creativity, then art works may be created but market orientation is missing. It is not enough to have only personal satisfaction the more important point is how the market can accept the products”, said Zabadi.

For future development, he said, they cannot repeat basic level things continuously but must develop insight in SMEs. “As we know, knowledge and technology really help us start something new based on existing benchmarks. So, it is important to develop the insight of our SMEs”, he concluded.

Other than facilitating SMEs in the promotion and marketing of their products, SMESCO also helps SMEs to face the market. “So, we are not directly involved in production itself but more with promotion and capacity building. We provide experts with competencies in their respective fields who can help improve skills, knowledge, creativity and therefor various potentials so that SMEs can become productive”, he explained. (kmb42)

“The results were good regardless of whether people came monthly or every two months for their treatment. This has important policy implications,” said Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker, deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a co-leader of the conference.

The study was sponsored by the drugmakers. Results were published in the British medical journal Lancet.

Two large studies aimed at winning approval to sell the treatment are testing the monthly shots. Janssen said in a statement that good results from eight-week shots warrant reconsidering the longer approach.

If it works, “this will have a huge impact on how we manage that very important group of people who are not able to access and take drugs on a day-to-day basis,” such as those with mental health or drug abuse problems, said Dr. Steven Deeks, an AIDS specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. (ap)

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This image captured by an underwater robot provided by International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning on Saturday, July 22, 2017 shows massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Okuma town, northeastern Japan.

Locating and analyzing the fuel debris and damage in each of the plant’s three wrecked reactors is crucial for decommissioning the plant. The search for melted fuel in the two other reactors has so far been unsuccessful because of damage and extremely high radiation levels.

During this week’s probe, cameras mounted on the robot showed extensive damage caused by the core meltdown, with fuel debris mixed with broken reactor parts, suggesting the difficult challenges ahead in the decades-long decommissioning of the destroyed plant.

TEPCO spokesman Takahiro Kimoto said it would take time to analyze the debris in the images to figure out debris removal methods. (ap)

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One of the biggest contributors to Indonesia’s GDP is the creative industry, 60 percent of which is composed of SMEs.

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Rare Kual comedy act closes FTF 2017

Bulelelng comedy act Rare Kual

THE annual Food Truck Festival (FTF) 2017 organised by Bali Pos Media Group (KMB) closed its second edition with a coupon prize drawing on Sunday night (July 23). The festival closing of FTF 2017 was also enlivened with performances by famous pop singer.

Robot finds likely melted fuel heap inside Fukushima reactor TOKYO — Images captured by an underwater robot showed massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The robot found large amounts of solidified lava-like rocks and lumps in layers as thick as 1 meter (3 feet) on the bottom inside of a main structure called the pedestal that sits underneath the core inside the primary containment vessel of Fukushima’s Unit 3 reactor, said the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. On Friday, the robot spotted suspected debris of melted fuel for the first time since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused multiple meltdowns and destroyed the plant. The three-day probe of Unit 3 ended Saturday.

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The first act of the evening was a solo performance

by Bangli artist Galuh Bilen with a stirring rendition of her popular song entitled Pelet Bali and two other songs. Ayu Wiryasstuti followed with her hit songs Urutan Amah Meong (literally meaning ‘sausage eaten by cat’) and Sing Punyah Sing Mulih (won’t come home until I’m drunk). Ayu who is married to Dek Artha, had the audience melt into her songs with her distinctive voice.

Rocky N also presented his hit singles including Bali Shanti and Tuah Iluh with his unique appearance and vocal style, to which the audience responded with resounding applause. Rocky N greeted his fans with simplicity in the dialect of Buleleng and was later called on for an encore for which he sang Sing Ada Atma Bos a single off his third album that is scheduled to be released this September. He also invited some youngsters onstage to sing along with him and then presented them with small gifts.

“This year’s FTF 2017 is very lively and more festive than last year. People are very enthusiastic about attending. Hopefully this event will be held again next year as it is a great opportunity for everyone from the vendors of distinctive Balinese food to the Balinese singers who can show off their skills”, said Rocky N after his performance.

The no less entertaining was a performance by Widi Widiana who came on stage wearing trademark style and simple plastic sandals. The audience of the FTF 2017 burst into cheers and laughter as he started singing Formalin Sik Luh (Give Me Formalin, Lad) a song that has become a great hit with Balinese pop fans. With his melodious voice, this man from Kuta was able to slightly relieve the longing of his fans at that night.

Bulelelng comedy act Rare Kual also moved the audience to laughter during the closing of the FTF 2017 with their bondres show. Wah Indra played the part of Ngurah Joni, Slamet that of Bojes, Arpin acted as Ayuk Sintya and Dedek as Slowly truly entertained with their silliness and typical chatting style of their native region (Buleleng).

They also sand Bayu Cuaca’s song entitled Tunangan Langka (Rare Fiancée) that they interspersed with jokes in English which sent the audience into roars of laughter.

Rare Kual also took the opportunity to deliver a moral message to the audience inviting them not to smoke, as cigarettes are harmful to the body’s health.

At the end of their performance he advised the public to help maintain the cultural diversity of Indonesia amid the shocks of globalized culture.

Aside from the great artists mentioned above, the closing of the FTF 2017 that started at noon and went on til night also included performances by indie bands, such as Deev Band, Cricket Band, Netix Band, Vivo Band, Ball on Garis Lima n’ Band, Sunk in the Sea, Dek Bams Solo Drums, Rey Rock, Maha Band, Malaikat Band and IMAS with of their hit singles. (win)

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Plastic garbage at Lempuyang

No transportation to haul garbage, residents cranky

China warns India not to harbour illusions in border stand-off

AMLAPURA - Despite having the status as a sad kahyangan temple, apparently Lempuyang Temple is not free of the problem of waste management. The refuse from canang oblations and plastic bags and wrapping are currenly being dumped around this temple that is located Purwayu customary village, Abang, Karangasem. Such appaling condition were evident when students from the Hindu Dharma Student Union of Indonesia (KMHDI) held a cleanup action on Saturday (Jul. 22).

The garbage that has been dumped carelessly on the hillside has resulted in a derelicts impression. Plastic bottles and other garbage makes for a disturbing view. After the clean-up that was supported by personnel of Karangasem National Youth Committee of Indonesia (KNPI) hauled an entire truck load of plastic garbage from the site.

“Frankly we lack cleaning service workers. Right now we only have six people, doing this work; four from district government and two from the Customary Village”, said chief of Purwayu customary village, I Nyoman Jati, during the clean-up.

IN order for all the garbage from Ayu Temple to along the 8 kilometers between Ayu Temple and Lempuyangan Temple to be taken care of , said Jati, at least 10 workers are needed. According to Jati, they have repeatedly made such a request to Karangasem<S district government but there has been no follow-up.

Apart form the lack of cleaning service workers, the handling of garbage at Lempyangan Temple is also constrained by lack of transportation for the garbage. Because the landscaping and sanitation agency no longer

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a lower house budget committee session at the parliament in Tokyo, Japan July 24, 2017.

Students from the Hindu Dharma Student Union of Indonesia (KMHDI) held a cleanup action. provides trucks to haul away garbage, it is being discharged onto the moor or burned on site. People have therefore become lazy about collecting the garbage. “Our residents are becoming cranky and do not want to collect the garbage”, explained Jati.

Head of the Karangasem Environment Agency, I Nyoman Tari, who took part in the

clean-up a promised to forward the request of the customary village to the regent of Karangasem. In the meantime, the transportation of garbage from Purwayu to the landfill will be facilitated by the housing and settlement agency. “We will provice a truck to transport the garbage to the Linggasana landfill”, said Sanitation Section Head of the Housing and

Settlement Agency, Wayan Sukarba.

The clean-up on Saturday was also attended by the regional and branch administrator of the KMHDI Bali. The clean-up was organised to welcome the KMHDI¯s XIII national coordination meeting that will be held in Bali from August 30 through September 5. (kmb)

Muggers and pickpockets rampant in Kuta, special security needed

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MANGUPURA — In response to the increasingly widespread muggings and pickpocketing incidents in Kuta, local residents and community leaders cooperated with related authorities to conduct raids of certain parts of Kuta on Saturday night (July 22). Dozens of migrants were arrested along included those who had committed indecent acts on Kuta Beach.

One of Kuta’s community leaders, IGN Anom Gumanti, who took part in the raids said that public security conditions in Kuta

have become very worrying. The main target of the raids were the perpetrators of pick-pocking and mugging that has become all too frequent recently.

Gumanti expressed his hope for help form the government in overcoming this problem so that Kuta can be made safe again. “There should be a special security system because Kuta can be accessed by numerous different roads making it open to such crimes”, he concluded.

Security in the Kuta is less than

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optimal, he added saying that related institutions need to come up with special security as entrepreneurs in Kuta – particularly those engaged int eh hospitality industry have been loosing business as visitors have been moving to other areas like Seminyka, Canggu.

Durign the rid on Saturday night, representatives of 13 hamlets showed up to show their disappointment about present conditions.“Why are such incidents occurring every day^ this is the reason that we have come together?,

he said.

Chief of Kuta Customary Village, I Wayan Swarsa, said that the 13 hamlets of Kuta Customary Village will create a new way of strictly guarding the terrritory of Kuta and they will be putting this new system into effect over the next five months.

“We will be carrying out raids routinely over the next five months.

We started with one hamlet last night and will continue with each hamlet> he added”, he added. (kmb23)

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Japan PM Abe denies favours for friend amid falling support

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his ratings sinking over a suspected cronyism scandal, on Monday said he had never instructed officials to give preferential treatment to a long-time friend, adding that the latter had never sought favours.

Abe and his aides have repeatedly denied intervening to help Kake Gakuen, an educational institution whose director, Kotaro Kake, is a friend of the prime minister, win approval for a veterinary school in a special economic zone.

Abe’s support has plunged below 30 percent in some opinion polls, hit by the suspected scandal and a perception among many voters that his administration is taking them for granted.

The slump is encouraging rivals and casting doubt on Abe’s prospects of becoming Japan’s longest-serving prime minister by winning a third three-year term when his current tenure ends in September 2018.

Abe told a special session of parliament’s lower house budget committee that it was not surprising the

public had doubts, given that Kake had been his friend since they were students, but added that Kake had “never once” sought favours.

“There was no request or lobbying regarding the establishment of a new veterinary school,” Abe said.

Asked if he had intervened in the approval process, Abe said: “I have never issued instructions regarding specific cases.”

Abe also pledged to regain public trust by “producing results”, giving priority to the economy and diplomacy.

ELECTION LOSS, SINKING RATINGS Adding to the headaches for Abe, an opposition-backed candidate on Sunday won a mayoral election for the northern city of Sendai.

That follows this month’s historic defeat for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in elections for the Tokyo assembly, a devastating blow, since much of Abe’s clout stems from his record of stacking up poll victories for the party.

A July 22-23 Mainichi newspaper poll published on Sunday showed Abe’s support slipping 10 points to 26 percent from a previous survey in June. In addition, 56 percent of respondents did not back Abe’s government, an increase of 12 points.

Abe, known to get irritated at times when grilled, admitted that previous efforts to allay public concern had fallen short. “I want to accept this sincerely as the voice of the people,” he said of the ratings slump. (rtr)

BEIJING - China’s defence ministry on Monday warned India not to harbour any illusions about the Chinese military’s ability to defend its territory, amid a festering border dispute.

The stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighbours, who share a 3,500-km (2,175-mile) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.

“Shaking a mountain is easy but shaking the People’s Liberation Army is hard,” ministry spokesman Wu Qian told a briefing, adding that its ability to defend China’s territory and sovereignty had “constantly strengthened”.

Early in June, according to the Chinese interpretation of events, Indian guards crossed into China’s Donglang region and obstructed work on a road on the plateau.

The two sides’ troops then confronted each other close to a valley controlled by China that separates India from its close ally, Bhutan, and gives China access to the so-called Chicken’s Neck, a thin strip of land connecting India and its remote northeastern regions.

India has said it warned China that construction of the road near their common border would have serious security implications.

The withdrawal of Indian border guards was a precondition for resolving the situation, Wu reiterated.

“India should not leave things to luck and not harbour any unrealistic illusions,” Wu said, adding that the military had taken emergency measures in the region and would continue to increase focused deployments and drills.

“We strongly urge India to take practical steps to correct its mistake, cease provocations, and meet China halfway in jointly safeguarding the border region’s peace and tranquillity,” he said.

Speaking later, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Ajit Doval, India’s national security adviser, would attend a meeting in Beijing this week of security officials from the BRICS grouping that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Lu would not be drawn on whether the border issue would be discussed at the meeting, hosted by China’s top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, meant to discuss multilateral issues.

“China hopes to maintain the peace and stability of the ChinaIndia border area, but certainly will not make any compromise on issues of territorial sovereignty,” Lu said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to visit China early in September for a summit of BRICS leaders.

Indian officials say about 300 soldiers from either side are facing each other about 150 metres (yards) apart on the plateau. (rtr)

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China’s Defence Ministry spokesman Wuqian (R) and Central Military Commission officers including Senior Colonel Lu Yu (2nd L), Zhang Chengwen (2nd R) and Major General Zhou Shangping (center), attend a news conference in Beijing, China July 24, 2017.

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BUSINESS Asian shares mostly lower as attention turns to Fed meeting

TOKYO — Asian shares mostly slid Monday, with Chinese benchmarks countering the trend, as market attention turns to the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting later in the week.

Japanese shares languished as the yen strengthened against the dollar.

KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.9 percent in morning trading to 19,927.65. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.8 percent to 5,680.00. South Korea’s Kospi dipped 0.2 percent to 2,445.91.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.5 percent to 26,851.37 and the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.2 percent to 3,245.04. Shares in Southeast Asia were mixed.

FED FACTOR: The monetary policymaking body of the Federal Reserve wraps up two days of meetings Wednesday. At June’s meeting, Fed officials raised the central bank’s key interest rate for the third time in six months. The Fed also announced plans to start gradually paring its bond holdings later this year, a move that could cause long-term rates to rise. Over the last few weeks investors have focused what the European Central Bank will do as the European economy continues to improve.

U.S. POLITICS: A flurry of tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump, complaining that Republicans were failing to fully support him as they struggle to deliver on health care legislation, underscored the disarray in Washington amid investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible connections to Trump’s campaign.

THE QUOTE: “Investors continued to take into account Trump’s political setbacks including expanded investigation into his transactions regarding his Russian connections and limited progress in the health care bill. Resignation of White House Press Secretary Spicer over the weekend might further fuel USD weakness,” says Zhu Huani, Singapore Treasury Division of Mizuho Bank, of the U.S. political uncertainties.

JAPAN MANUFACTURING: A preliminary survey of factory purchasing managers showed output slowing as export orders fell to an 11-month low of 50 — the cut-off between contraction and expansion on a scale of 100. Output dropped for the second straight month.

WALL STREET: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slipped less than 1 point to 2,472.54. The Dow Jones industrial average also dipped 0.1 percent to 21,580.07. The Nasdaq composite was almost unchanged at 6,387.75. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks sank 6.52 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,435.84.

Still, all four indexes remain near record highs.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude rose 7 cents to $45.84 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It sank $1.15 to $45.77 a barrel on Friday. Brent crude, the standard for international oil prices, climbed 12 cents to $48.43 a barrel in London. CURRENCIES: The euro rose to $ 1.1672 from $1.1639. The dollar slid to 110.94 yen from 111.55 yen late Friday in Asia.(ap)

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A woman walks past an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, July 24, 2017. Asian shares mostly slid Monday, with Chinese benchmarks countering the trend, as market attention turns to the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting later in the week.

That was fun; now comes the slowdown

LONDON - For all the talk of world economies rising in sync, there does not seem to be an abundance of optimism about how long it will last. Tucked away in Reuters latest quarterly economic poll series is a projection that growth rates in nearly all of the world’s largest economies will fall over the next two years. Inflation, meanwhile, will remain benign and in some cases below target. Both findings would suggest that the current caution of central bankers is warranted. As the European Central Bank’s Mario Draghi said in the past week: “We aren’t there yet.”

The Reuters polls of economists around the world -- looking at 46 economies -- have been prescient in past years. If they prove right again, it means the United States, euro zone, Japan, Germany, France and China will all grow more slowly in 2019 than at present. Britain will be growing at this year’s rate -- but only after a 2018 Brexit-related hammering.

James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, reckons the projected growth slowdown is a natural maturing of the economic cycle, exacerbated by the gradual tightening of monetary policy measures adopted following the financial crisis.

“Consumers are getting to the point now when debt levels are starting to rise, and with central banks increasingly moving in the direction ... of tightening, then that could start to act as a brake on economic activity,” he said. There will be growth. But it will be fairly humdrum. Consider the euro zone, currently running at a projected 1.9 percent growth rate. That will drop to 1.5 percent in 2019, according to the economists.

Japan will see its 1.4 percent growth rate today halve to 0.7 percent. The U.S. economy will be down slightly, to 2.1 percent from 2.2 percent, way below the historical trend of above 3 percent.

DID YOU FEEL IT? It may come as a surprise to the average person in many of these economies that the growth cycle is maturing. In many cases it has been a very mild rebound from the Great Recession triggered by the financial crisis a decade ago. As Stephen King, senior economic adviser at HSBC, noted this month: “Economic records are there to be broken. The U.S. is on the cusp of breaking two simultaneously.

Within weeks, the U.S. may have delivered both the longest and the weakest economic upswing in postwar history.”

The new normal -- post-crisis

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

Passengers ride an overcrowded train at a station in Kawasaki, Japan June 14, 2017. and with big emerging economies having matured themselves -- may well be for less robust growth, although the Reuters polls project the world economy to grow at around 3.5 percent annually over the next three years. That is pretty much the average since 1961, according to World Bank statistics, although that of course is dragged down by the Great Recession and the big slump around 1980.

This all goes some way to explaining the extreme caution of central banks in rolling back their unprecedented monetary stimulus. They do not, as the ECB’s Draghi admitted openly this past week, want to commit a policy error.

Their dilemma is that they want to normalise monetary policy as much as possible without killing what growth trillions of dollars of stimulus have helped achieve.

So data releases are even more crucial to policymakers than usual.

The coming week will give them

a snapshot of monthly business activity, culminating in the first real look at what happened in the second quarter.

Flash purchasing managers’ indexes for Japan, Germany, France and the euro zone have already been released. All remained in expansion territory, but for the most part fell from the previous month. The United States PMI is released later.

Britain announces its preliminary second quarter growth figures on Wednesday. There is a strong consensus that it will tick up to 0.3 percent from 0.2 percent quarteron-quarter, but slip to 1.7 percent from 2.0 percent year against year.

Arguably the biggest data release comes on Friday with advance U.S. GDP numbers. An annualised rate -- that is, roughly speaking the quarterly number times four -- is seen at 2.7 percent, a large jump from the previous 1.4 percent.(rtr)

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Penting Traditional Musical Instrument, Ancient Art of Karangasem from Dutch Colonial Period

Bali is indeed a unique and interesting region because they still maintain their cultural heritage along with traditions and customs. In fact, there are still many Balinese traditions need to be developed or minimally promoted in order not to become extinct and are no longer recognizable.

Thus, it must be attempted to revive so that they can be recognized again by the community. It is very unfortunate if the culture disappears from their society, so finding and revitalizing cultural heritages having been approaching extinction can also increase the cultural wealth belonging to Balinese people and surely it will have an impact on cultural tourism in Bali.

In general, the Balinese culture having not been recognized by Balinese people is very diverse. One of them is in the form of typical musical instrument of Karangasem.

It is known as penting musical instrument.

According to A.A. Gede Krisna Dwipayana, a penting craftsman and troupe member of Merdu Komala Karangasem, it is based on the strings stretched from the tip to the base of the tool when picked will produce maklenting sound, so that it is better named as penting.

Furthermore, he said that similar musical instrument can also be found in Lombok named penteng.

Then, in Banjarmasin it is named as anting, while in Japan it is known as Taishogoto. Nevertheless, he said that such penting musical instrument indeed originates from Bali precisely in Karangasem because the name of the parts uses Balinese vocabularies. In addition to the strings called pentang, there is also a resonance box that must have a hollow (pelawah) and special keys to produce tones known as pakocet. Besides, there are canten and pangiret as parts of the string regulator.

“After I searched for information and consulted to several higher priests having close relations to Karangasem palace, it turns out that penting art has emerged along with the art of cekepung, rebana and rudat in Karangasem. Moreover, during the Dutch colonial period, this kind of art was once staged in an art event called Ngeraja Kuning or similar to the current Bali Arts Festival (BAF) held to honor the Dutch King at that time,” he said.

READ “ Lukat Gni ”, To maintain balance and purity of macro-

cosm and microcosm Furthermore, he said that condition of this art is unstable or facing ups and downs. After being observed, design of the tool and components are very simple. Then, he concluded that young generation is less interested to play it because it is designed like a box and still gives old-fashioned impression.

Actually according to him, this art is unique and has the potential to become a typical art of Karangasem like jegog in Jembrana district.

Chief of Merdu Komala Penting art troupe of Karangasem, Wayan Widana, said that based on stories of his elders, before 1963 the musical instrument was rampant and trendy but faded after the eruption of Mount Agung. After that, it reappeared and dimmed in 1965 due to the Communist 30 September Movement (G30S/PKI) in Bali.

Then, it re-emerged but in the 1990s faded again as a result of the development of new entertainment media such as radio and TV so that people feel reluctant to learn it and many senior figures already died.

Finally in the 2000s the penting art began to rise again marked by the establishment of this penting art troupe.

Widana further added that initially this penting musical instrument only used slendro musical scale. After further development, it finally becomes like the current one where it applies pelog scale and even seven-tone scale.

Uniqueness and advantages of

this instrument, according to him, is rich in tone and having many patet (tonal hierarchical system) so that it can be used to accompany various types of gamelan music such as pegongan, angklungan, pejogedan, sadur and selonding. Moreover, it can also be used to accompany modern pop songs including national songs as it can also follow the seven tones.

“So, do not be surprised if this instrument is often played in Panca Yadnya rituals and its gamelan composition will be adjusted to the designation of the play, whether it is Dewa Yadnya, Pitra Yadnya, Manusa Yadnya, Rishi Yadnya or Bhuta Yadnya because this instrument is flexible and can be categorized into Panca Gita as well,” said Wayan Widana. (was) READ Tipat Bantal War Tools, Symbol of Male and Female Stretch and Pangecet Played Together AS a traditional musical instrument, the type of music genre that can be played certainly becomes one of the important things. The no less important of a musical instrument is how to play it in order to produce a beautiful sound.

If it is not maximized, the instrument will be useless. This is also valid for penting musical instrument because other than having unique shape and producing distinctive sound, the most important is to be recognized and understood is the way or technique to play the instrument.(kmb)

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Now, Gianyar Has Botanical Garden Gianyar district now has a new tourist attraction named the Gianyar Botanical Garden (KRG). This tourist attraction is located at Pilan hamlet, Kerta, Payangan, or about 45 km northeast of Denpasar. The opening ceremony was officially conducted by Bambang Subiyanto, Deputy Head of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), on Monday (Jul. 17). At that time, the event was also filled in with the signing of inscription by Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata.

Bambang Subiyanto appreciated to the measure of Gianyar regent to build botanical garden as the 32nd botanical garden in Indonesia managed by local government.

“It is built for conservation area, reducing degradation rate of rare plant diversity as well as increasing and utilizing potential of the region optimally and sustainably,” he said.

Development of this botanical garden is also for in-situ and ex situ conservation for all rare plant species, providing research and education place as well as tropical plant laboratory. “This can also become a nature tourist attraction, develop environmental services and improve socio-economic life of the community around the botanical garden,” he continued.

Regent of Gianyar, Agung Bharata, said the KRG is a customary forest being rescued by the surrounding community, so the condition remains very well maintained, located in the state land area of 9.7163 hectares managed by Pilan customary village through generations. It has 41 kinds of native vegetation dominated by large trees up to several kinds of orchids, and 36 species of animals such as various kinds of birds, apes and deer.

Development of the KRG began with the proposal from headman of Kerta to Gianyar regent in his letter No.33/Pemb/I/2015 dated on January 14, 2015 regarding the Proposal of Forest Management at Pilan Customary Village. Then, it was followed up by a request of review to the Head of Center for Plant Conservation, Botanical Garden – LIPI, and result of the review Number: B-1158 / IPH.3 / KS / IV /

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2016 dated on April 18, 2016 states that the forest of Pilan customary village deserves to be KRG. The Regent of Gianyar, Agung Bharata, also appreciated to the goodwill of Pilan customary village to preserve customary forest by handing over customary forest management to KRG. Pilan customary villagers has contributed to donate their land without asking for compensation, where the road widening and opening of new road to KRG has a total area of ??some 15 hectares or approximately worth IDR 34,5 billion.

In the meantime, the Head of the Gianyar Environment Agency, Wayan Kujus Pawitra, said that to realize the KRG, the regional budget (APBD) 2016 approved the budget allocation for the preparation of Detailed Engineering Design (DED) of the KRG at approximately IDR 150 million, then continued to region al budget 2017 for improvement of Kerta road section to the KRG along the 4,314 km with the width of 5.5 meters approximately worth IDR 12.7 billion, construction of KRG gates (IDR 2.9 billion), construction of water connection to KRG (IDR 686 million) and the grant aid of LIPI for thematic garden development (IDR 500 million). KRG has also been proposed to ask for aid to state budget (APBN) from the ministry of public works and housing in 2018 approximately worth IDR 14 billion in accordance with the development stages in Detailed Engineering Design of the KRG. The Gianyar Botanical Garden is built in cooperation of the Gianyar government, Pilan customary village and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Structurally, it is managed by the Gianyar Botanical Garden unit under the Gianyar environment agency, and the operations management is planned to be made in collaboration with Pilan customary village. Approval or recommendation of the cooperation between the government of Gianyar and Pilan customary village on the KRG development and management is in the process of discussion in the Gianyar House of Representatives. (kmb)

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IMF cuts UK growth forecast, Treasury calls for smooth Brexit

LONDON - Britain has suffered the biggest downgrade of economic growth projections by the International Monetary Fund for the world’s rich nations this year, prompting the finance ministry to renew its call for a smooth exit from the European Union.

Britain’s economy now looks set to grow by 1.7 percent this year, down from a forecast made in April of 2.0 percent but still higher than growth in France, Italy and Japan, the IMF said.

The IMF said its downgrade reflected Britain’s weaker-than-expected growth in the early part of this year.

“The ultimate impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom remains unclear,” the Fund’s chief economist Maurice Obstfeld said.

The IMF in April raised its forecasts for British growth after the economy withstood the initial shock of the referendum decision in June last year to leave the EU. However, the world’s fifth-biggest economy grew by just 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the last three months of 2016 as accelerating inflation - caused in large by part by the fall in the value

of the pound since last year’s Brexit vote - prompted consumers to rein in their spending.

The economy is expected to have picked up only a bit of speed to 0.3 percent in the second quarter, according to the median forecast of economists polled by Reuters ahead of the release of preliminary data on Wednesday.

British finance minister Philip Hammond has stressed the need for a transition deal to ease Britain out of the EU, angering some Brexit campaigners. A spokesman for the Treasury said the weaker growth seen by the IMF was a reminder of the need to smooth Brexit as much as possible.

“This forecast underscores exactly why our plans to increase productivity and ensure we get the very best deal with the EU, are vitally important,” the spokesman said.

The 0.3 percentage-point cut to Britain’s 2017 growth forecast contrasted with upgrades for most of the big advanced economies covered by the IMF’s forecasts although the projection for U.S. growth this year was cut by 0.2 percentage points.

The IMF maintained its forecast for British economic growth to slow to 1.5 percent in 2018, slightly slower than expected growth in France and Germany next year. (rtr)

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A sign is displayed outside the Bank of England in London, Britain August 4, 2016.

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Polish...

From page 1 He said he would present new draft laws reforming the Supreme Court and the Council within two months after wide consultations with experts. However, he said he would sign a third bill that reorganizes the functioning of the lower courts.

Duda’s step mostly won the

praise of members of the political opposition who had been urging him to veto the bills.

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, a leading member of the opposition party Modern, called it a step in the right direction and an “act of courage.” She said Duda’s decision also shows the power of civic protests. Some people expressed disappointment that he accepted the third bill. (ap)

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Running with Durians Singapore - Singaporeans, it may seem, no longer run marathons just for fitness - these days, they run for fun. With each passing year, organisers introduce more creative options.

For the latest novelty run in Singapore, all 388 slots in the Run for Good Durian Run were snapped up by the weekend, less than a week after the event was first announced. The July 23 charity run is organised by the Central Singapore CDC and the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang CCC. Proceeds from the run - which costs $15 to enter - will be donated to the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang Community Development Welfare Fund.

Participants will run a 5km route while carrying a durian. After completing the run, they will be awarded with a medal, a coconut, and the choice of having their durian opened so that they may “enjoy the fruit of their labour”.

“Participants are expected to collect their durians by 7.45am and (be) ready to run with their durian at 8am,” stated the event’s website.

Participants are encouraged to make use of a backpack, plastic bag, gloves, and other creative ways to carry their durians.

Organisers have promised to do “as much as possible” to ensure the participants’ safety, in the event “a plastic bag tears”. (ap)

Trump’s son-in-law Kushner says “I did not collude” with foreign government

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday that he “did not collude” with Russia and had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.

In a written statement released ahead of his appearance before lawmakers in closed-door sessions,

Kushner said his initial security clearance form had been submitted prematurely in error and had omitted all foreign contacts.

“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government,” Kushner said.

“I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on Russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector,” he said.

Kushner faces two days of closeddoor questioning from Congress this week as lawmakers try to determine whether Trump’s campaign enlisted Russia’s help to win the White House in last year’s election.

He is expected to face questions about his contacts with Russian citizens and officials when he testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday and the House of Representatives Intelli-

gence Committee on Tuesday.

Trump has been dogged by allegations that his campaign aides worked with Russia, which U.S. intelligence agencies have accused of interfering in the election. Moscow has denied any interference, and Trump says his campaign did not collude with Russia.

Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. released emails this month that showed he appeared to welcome

the prospect of damaging information from the Russian government about Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Members of both committees say they are eager to hear about the June 2016 meeting involving Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Trump’s son, Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort all participated in the meeting. (rtr)

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Indonesia environment minister wants permanent ban on licences to use forest land

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s environment minister said on Monday she wants to make permanent a moratorium on issuing new licences to use land designated as primary forest and peatland.

The moratorium, part of an effort to reduce emissions from fires caused by deforestation, was extended by President Joko Widodo for a third time in May. “So far its only been extended, and extended again. I want a permanent (moratorium),” said Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar. “Our primary forest cannot be cleared out.”

Participants carry their durians as they start the Durian Run in Singapore July 23, 2017.

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Indonesia is prone to outbreaks of forest fires during dry seasons, often blamed on the draining of peatland forests and land clearance for agriculture such as the cultivation of palm oil.

The resulting choking smoke from the world’s biggest palm oil producer often blows across to neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia, slashing visibility and causing a health hazard.

Established in 2011, the moratorium covered an area of more than 66 million hectares (163 million acres) by November 2016. (rtr)

State apparatus minister to continue working despite call to resign

JAKARTA - Indonesias State Apparatus and Bureaucracy Reform Minister Asman Abnur said he would continue to work professionally despite a call to resign from a high-rank official of the National Mandate Party (PAN). “It is a political matter, I would not take part because my task here, as a professional, is to work,” Abnur said at the Presidential Palace complex here on Monday. He admitted that he was yet to discuss the issue with the partys official who asked him to resign.

“I will see this later, now my task is to work, work, and work,” he stressed. Earlier on Sunday, chairman of Honorary Council of the National Mandate Party (PAN), Amien Rais, called for his partys withdrawal from the cabinet, also known as the Working Cabinet.

Rais made his statement after an open house at Al-Ishlah Islamic boarding school in Bondowoso, East Java. He called on Abnur to resign from his post as the State Apparatus and Bureaucracy Reform Minister.

Responding to the call, PANs chairman Zulkifli Hasan said that the issues on cabinet members

would become the presidents prerogative rights. “It would be the presidents prerogative rights,” Hasan said. PAN, which joined the coalition of parties that supported the government, has posted Abnur as the minister.

However, it was urged to withdraw from the coalition following its disagreement on the newly approved law on general election that maintains the presidential threshold at 20-25 percent and vote conversion method.

The government and its coalition parties have opted a presidential threshold of 20-25 percent, parliamentary threshold of 4 percent, general election system (open), seat allocation (3-10 seats), and vote conversion method (Saint Lague).

PAN, as the only coalition member, preferred a presidential threshold of 0 percent, parliamentary threshold of (4 percent), general election system (open), seat allocation (3-10 seats), and vote conversion method (quota share). PAN, along with other parties not included in the coalition, including Gerindra, Demokrat, and PKS, staged a walkout from the parliaments voting on draft law on general election. (ant)

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A barge carrying pigs from Pulau Balan, Indonesia, enters the riverway to a slaughterhouse in Singapore July 24, 2017.

Vietnam says Indonesian navy shot its fishermen in South China Sea

HANOI- Indonesia’s navy shot and wounded four Vietnamese fishermen aboard a fishing boat in the South China Sea at the weekend, Vietnamese authorities said.

The Vietnamese boat was about 132 nautical miles (245 km) southeast of Vietnam’s Con Dao island when the fishermen were shot on Saturday night, the Binh Dinh provincial search and rescue committee said on its website.

Disputes over fishing rights and oil drilling have stoked tension in the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in goods is shipped each year.

China claims almost the entire sea, but Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims.

Although Indonesia says it is not a party to the dispute, it recently renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim.

The coordinates given by the Vietnamese indicated that the shooting happened close to the area Indonesia now calls the North Natuna Sea. The Vietnamese authorities said two of the fishermen had been seriously wounded. They were taken to Con Dao island for treatment.

Sahono Budianto, an official at Indonesia’s ministry of marine affairs and fisheries, said he was not aware of the alleged shooting. Indonesia’s navy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Indonesia has sunk hundreds of mostly foreign boats caught illegally fishing in its waters since President Joko Widodo launched a battle against the poaching of fish in 2014.

Indonesia and Vietnam said in May they would launch a joint investigation after reports that Vietnamese coast guards had tried to forcibly free five fishing boats and their crew detained in waters near Indonesia’s Natuna Islands. (rtr)

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Isner achieves rarity by winning event without facing break point

RHODE ISLAND - Big-serving John Isner became the first man in a decade to go through an entire ATP tournament without facing a break point as he used his dominant serve to win the Hall of Fame Open in Rhode Island on Sunday.

Top seed Isner beat Australian Matthew Ebden 6-3 7-6(4) in the final on the Newport grasscourt for his 11th career title, and his first since 2015.

“I could never imagine playing four matches and not facing a break point but I’ll certainly take it,” the

32-year-old American said in a courtside interview.

“I served well all week, played extremely well all week. This is a very good tournament for my serve and I knew it was going to be hard for my opponents to break me.

international platform for select local artists. As you enter the white tiled hallway, you’ll notice a peculiar installation that, at first glance, looks like an elaborate array of mechanical devices. Brass head busts, some that strikingly resemble the late president Soeharto, are placed over motorized mallets that hit gamelan pieces, creating an out-of-synch composition. Behind are more busts with eyes that erratically light up red. Yogyakarta visual artist Heri Dono created this surreal installation in 2009.

Further, into the gallery, designed by Italian architect Giovanni D’Ambrosio, are paintings and portraits by Arya Pandjalu and Sara Nuytemans. One, titled Bird Prayers, depicts four figures standing motionless in a rice field with their heads replaced by birdhouses. Near the staircase that leads up to the gallery’s library and restoration studio is Arya Pandjalu’s installation, which he created in 2011, comprising a papier-mâché male figure with a bird head carrying a wooden birdcage on his back, and surrounded by little bird figurines at its feet. Other notable names io the contemporary art scene include Indieguerillas, Filippo Sciascia, Ugo Untoro, Yogie A. Ginanjar, Septian Hariyoga, Nurdian Ichsan, Wiyoga

Muhardanto and Zulfa Hendra. An eyecatcher is an installation titled Kapanpun dimanapun or ‘Anytime anywhere’ by Ugo Untoro, which dates back to 2007, featuring two giant rice crackers, each set in round, clear resin 57cm in diameter.

Upstairs is a mini library where shelves filled with art books and magazines flank cosy sofas. At the other far end is the restoration studio, which started in collaboration with renowned Italian restorer, Michaela Anselmini. Anselmini is a veteran of galleries and art institutions such as Sotheby’s Milan, Galeria Pak in Milan, and Lion & O’s Art Gallery in NYC. The inclusion of the restoration studio was due to the challenging climate here in the tropics, which poses a hazard to delicate art pieces. Through this endeavour, Biasa ArtSpace aims to provide durability to works of art while increasing their quality. Stacks of wooden frames in protective wrapping were visible on our last visit, which denote the many projects that the studio already had on its roster.

Although newer exhibitions and events are not scheduled, a casual visit to this gallery from Monday to Friday adds to fascinating insights on the local contemporary art scene. (IBP/net)

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Sun cruises to victory in 400m freestyle, eyes world record

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just over two weeks ago.

He bounced back in style in Newport with the sort of form he believes he can carry forward, with the final grand slam of the year, the U.S. Open, barely a month away. (rtr)

Fourth Tour title was toughest battle, says Froome

Biasa ArtSpace

MANGUPURA - Biasa ArtSpace is a contemporary art gallery located only steps away from the Biasa fashion flagship store in Seminyak. Inconspicuous amongst the row of fashion boutiques along Jalan Raya Seminyak, it houses quirky pieces by select, up and upcoming Indonesian artists who master various forms, from paintings, figurines, to enigmatic sculpture and awe-inspiring works. The contemporary art gallery works closely with these artists and supports them by providing an international setting for wider appreciation through its high-profile exhibitions. Dedicated to the development and preservation of art, Biasa ArtSpace also features a dedicated art restoration and conservation studio on its upper level, set in collaboration with a renowned Italian art restorer.

Since opening in 2005, Biasa ArtSpace has played an important role in fostering some of the most significant new developments in contemporary Indonesian art. Its launch was a natural response of Biasa’s fashion designer and founder, Susanna Perini, to her early encounters with young Yogyakarta artists in the late 1990s. Soon it continued to act as a stage for these undiscovered art communities and as an

“It’s been a few years since I won a tournament and it always boosts your confidence, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the summer.”

Isner, who started the week ranked 21st in the world, was a second-round loser at Wimbledon

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Only when he touched the wall did the 12,000 people packed inside the Duna Arena see what it meant to the controversial 25-year-old Chinese after his power-driven victory in the men’s 400m freestyle final on Sunday.

After winning, Sun sat on the ropes, splashed the water, punched the air and then went to seek out his parents in the crowd.

Sun’s time of three minutes 41.38 seconds saw him record a record-equalling third successive 400m freestyle world title as well as keeping up Asia’s dominance at the distance since 2009.

That was the year Germany’s Paul Biedermann posted a mark 1.31 seconds quicker but back in the bodysuit days when technology aided the times.

Yet Sun, who served a retrospective three-month suspension in 2014 after testing positive for a banned stimulant, believes Biedermann’s time can be broken.

“It’s all about training and you have to keep pursuing it yourself,” the Chinese told reporters after bagging the first of a possible four individual freestyle golds.

“I have to find new ways to enhance my performance. That’s what I do in reference of my result. I am quite content and satisfied with that. I will keep training more and this I think is the way to break the world record.”

He has come close before. At the London 2012 Olympics, he finished 0.07 seconds outside the German’s record time.

But Sun has endured several mishaps along the way, notably

when a car he was driving without a licence collided with a bus in 2013.

After the incident, Sun said he was “deeply sorry”.

Since being beaten by rival Mack Horton of Australia at last year’s Rio Olympics, Sun has been working on his race plan with Australian coach Denis Cotterell.

“To design better techniques with my trainer is a never-ending process,” said Sun. “We get better with each other in our way of saying and doing things.

“When I arrived in Australia for training it was still winter, quite cold, barely a few degrees outside and I had to go do my training.

These trainings are really hard on your body.”

The hard work has paid off as on Sunday he became the second man in history - behind Australia’s Ian Thorpe - to win three successive world 400m freestyle crowns. (rtr)

Booed by the locals in Marseille 24 hours earlier, Chris Froome charmed huge crowds in Paris on Sunday with a classy victory speech after claiming his “toughest” Tour de France title.

The British rider was once showered with urine thrown by fans during the 2015 edition before wiping himself down to claim his second title in cycling’s most famous race.

Two years on he has doubled that total after riding into the capital with a 54-second advantage over Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran, with Frenchman Romain Bardet in third place.

Froome, 32, now stands just one short of the record five titles achieved by Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spain’s Miguel Indurain and French duo Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault.

While French cyclists may not flock to buy replica Team Sky jerseys any time soon, they are at least beginning to respect Froome’s astonishing achievements.

He looked emotional on the podium after being presented with the yellow jersey that Team Sky monopolised for all but two days of the three-week race, first with Geraint Thomas then with Froome who held off his rivals with the help of his team mates.

“This Tour has been my toughest challenge yet. The performances of my rivals have pushed me harder than ever before,” Froome said, reading from notes that he managed to drop while addressing the onlookers.

“I want to pay tribute to all the riders for their sportsmanship over the past three weeks. We race hard against each other, we suffer together but the most special thing is the camaraderie and friendship within the peloton.”

Froome, who silenced the boos of the partisan, Bardet-supporting Marseille fans with a time trial that effectively won him the race, failed to take a stage this year -- unlike in his 2013, 2015 and 2016 victories when he had bigger winning margins.

With team mates such as Mikel Landa, Michal Kwiatkowski and Mikel Nieve relentless at the head of the peloton virtually every day, Froome was never dealt any knockout blows -- even if he did look vulnerable in the Pyrenees.

“I want to thank my team, Team Sky,” said Froome, who has signed a new three-year contract. “I could not have achieved this victory without you. On and off the bike, your dedication and passion means this is a team I am proud to be a part of. (rtr)

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Team Sky rider and yellow jersey Chris Froome of Britain celebrates his overall win with his son Kellan on the podium.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Sp rt Jesse Gonzalez goes with heart, switches from Mexico to US

AP Photo/Jae Hong

Mexico’s Jesus Molina (5) reacts as players celebrate a goal by Jamaica’s Kemar Lawrence during the second half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal soccer match in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday, July 23, 2017.

Jamaica stuns Mexico 1-0 to reach CONCACAF Gold Cup final

PASADENA, Calif. — After Kemar Lawrence ripped an exquisite shot over Mexico’s five-man wall and into the top corner for one of the biggest goals in Jamaican soccer history, the defender hushed his teammates and refused to celebrate. These Reggae Boyz are staying cool, even after a goal that sent them into the CONCACAF Gold Cup final with a chance to make history. Lawrence scored on a clutch 24-yard free kick in the 88th minute, and Jamaica advanced to the final with a 1-0 upset victory over Mexico on Sunday night.

“I think our guys were hungry,” Jamaica coach Theodore Whitmore said. “They needed it more than the Mexicans, and we did what we had to do.” Jamaica will face the United States on Wednesday night at Santa Clara, California. With a victory over the home team, the Reggae Boyz would claim their first championship in soccer’s North and Central American and Caribbean region.

“The best way I could put it is the Biblical story,” Whitmore said. “David slew Goliath.” The Reggae Boyz have reached the final for the second straight Gold Cup, but this stunning upset at the Rose Bowl ranks among their biggest international wins. Mexico has won seven Gold Cup titles, the U.S. five and Canada one.

“That’s a cycle we want to break,” Whitmore said. “That’s something we sit and discuss. It’s always Mexico, U.S. We want to be in that group. We want to be a team, a country that someone can talk about, and that’s what we’re working

toward.” Jamaica goalkeeper Andre Blake kept this game scoreless with a series of impressive saves while Mexico dominated possession with a lineup missing most of El Tri’s most-accomplished players.

But after Lawrence repositioned the ball in a bit of shifty gamesmanship, his late strike froze Mexico goalkeeper Jesus Corona. The ball curled over the wall and slipped just below the bar for the New York Red Bulls defender’s third international goal and first in three years. The 24-year-old Lawrence doesn’t take free kicks for his MLS club, but Whitmore knew his quality from recent practices.

“The New York Red Bulls probably have a better kicker than Kemar Lawrence,” Whitmore said with a smile. “Now, Jamaica’s team needs Kemar Lawrence in dead-ball situations. It’s a totally different thing. Probably when the New York Red Bulls see this tonight, they might (want him) to take free kicks.”

Trying to win its second consecutive Gold Cup and fourth in five tournaments, Mexico used the deeper reaches of its player pool following the World Cup qualifiers and the Confederations Cup last month. While teams were allowed to make up to six substitutions for the knockout rounds, El Tri coach Juan Carlos Osorio said he was blocked by Mexico’s clubs. Mexico hadn’t trailed in the tournament before Lawrence’s late goal, but El Tri also hadn’t been impressive — no player scored more than one goal.

“This is a process, and it takes a lot of work to get a team that can compete in a World Cup,” assistant coach Luis Pompilio Paez said. “This is not a sufficient result, but this is the middle of the process. I saw a team that gave

everything. We always respect what the other team does.

We just needed to get a goal, and we didn’t have the right circumstances. Embarrassment, sadness — as a team, we feel it.”

Blake also starred 11 days ago when Mexico and Jamaica played to a 0-0 draw in Denver. With the Philadelphia Union keeper playing exceptionally well, Jamaica has allowed only two goals in the tournament. The semifinal crowd was dominated by Mexico’s vast Southern California fan base, yet the Rose Bowl was less than half-full with just 42,393 fans.

The absence of Chicharito Hernandez and other top Mexican stars, combined with El Tri’s unattractive performances in the Gold Cup to date, apparently kept many of their usual faithful at home.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino watched the semifinal from the Rose Bowl stands. So did Osorio, who served the fifth game of a six-match FIFA ban for his conduct toward officials during the Confederations Cup. Mexico beat Jamaica in the 2015 Gold Cup final, and El Tri also defeated the Reggae Boyz 2-0 at the Rose Bowl just 13 months ago during the Copa America. Jamaica finally got one back, beating Mexico for the first time in the teams’ eight Gold Cup meetings.

Blake made two brilliant saves in succession in the 12th minute, diving twice to stop close-range chances by Jesus Duenas and Erick Torres, the Houston Dynamo star and the only player on the current roster from outside Mexico’s domestic leagues. Blake did it again in the 25th minute, stopping Torres’ point-blank header from the top of the 6-yard box with improbably quick reactions. (ap)

PHILADELPHIA — Jesse Gonzalez started in the 2015 Under-20 World Cup for Mexico, his parents’ homeland. Then last month, the 22-year-old FC Dallas goalkeeper switched his affiliation to join the United States, his home country. Gonzalez just felt more comfortable in the red, white and blue. “The U.S. has given me a lot. I’m grateful for what they have given me and the opportunity they have given me,” he said after joining the U.S. roster for the knockout rounds of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Tim Howard, now 38, remains the top U.S. goalkeeper as the Americans try to qualify for next year’s World Cup. Brad Guzan, who will be 33 in September, is entrenched as the No. 2. After that, no keepers have emerged at the top level in the next generation. Gonzalez, and fellow 20-somethings Sean Johnson, Bill Hamid, Cody Cropper and Ethan Horvath all figure to compete with Guzan for the starting job in the 2019-22 World Cup cycle.

“I don’t have any doubt that he will be one of the best keepers in America,” Dallas coach Oscar Pareja said of Gonzalez after discovering the teen prospect when he was playing in a youth tournament. Gonzalez’s parents emigrated from Mexico, and he was born in Edenton, North Carolina. “My parents didn’t really find anything around North Carolina,” Gonzalez said. “They thought it was a lonely state, so they got out of there.”

His family moved to Houston and then on to Dallas when Gonzalez was a child. After spotting Gonzalez on a recreational team, Pareja persuaded the family to switch the keeper to the FC Dallas youth academy. He played there alongside midfielder Kellyn Acosta, who has broken into the U.S. starting lineup this year. “They taught me how to be more responsible,” Gonzalez said. “It was almost like a job at the time, just waking up early and being on time to training.”

Pareja, a Colombian national team midfielder in the early 1990s, said the 6-foot-4 Gonzalez’s long arms and quick reflexes immediately reminded him of late Colombian keeper Miguel Calero.

Gonzalez debuted for Dallas’ under-16 team in September 2010 and was signed to a professional homegrown player contract in March 2013. Just more than two years later, he became the youngest keeper to start in team history: at 20 years, 89 days. By then, Mexican team scouts had noticed Gonzalez at a showcase in Sarasota, Florida, and asked whether he had interest in playing for El Tri. “Richard Sanchez, one of my old teammates, he was there. He talked very well about them,” Gonzalez recalled.

Gonzalez started

Mexico’s first four matches at the 2015 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship, then had a pair of saves during penalty kicks to lift Mexico over Panama in the final.

At the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, he played in Mexico’s second and third games, The following January, Gonzalez turned down an invitation from U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann to attend a national team training camp in Carson, California. Instead, Gonzalez went to a Mexican Under-23 team camp ahead of the Olympics, but he was not picked for El Tri’s Rio de Janeiro roster.

Gonzalez spent a long time before deciding this spring to apply to FIFA for a change of affiliation.

Because he had not played a competitive match for Mexico’s senior national team, he was allowed a onetime switch. “Whatever you decide, you’re going to be right, because that’s going to be your heart,” Pareja recalled telling him.

“Any time a soccer player is making a choice, whether it’s club or country, it’s important that they analyze the options carefully, they seek input from people they trust, and that they come to a decision that they’re happy with,” said Gonzalez’s agent, Richard Motzkin.

“That’s the process Jesse took in making his decision and, rest assured, it wasn’t done lightly or without a lot of forethought. Ultimately, Jesse was fortunate in that he had two very good choices.”

After the switch was announced, Gonzalez received text messages from surprised friends. “They were funny,” he said without going into detail. Howard is the U.S. starter as the Americans head into Wednesday’s Gold Cup championship against Jamaica, and Hamid is the backup while Guzan settles in with Atlanta. For now, Gonzalez’s role is limited to training and pushing others on the practice field.

“We just want to see what he’s about,” U.S. coach Bruce Arena said. Gonzalez is with the national team to learn. A full international debut might take a while.

“He’s not much of talker, which is good. I think young guys talk too much nowadays,” Howard said. “You’re naive in a good way and you think you know it all, and really it’s the opposite. You have it all to learn. At this age they’re using their athletic ability and their raw talent to keep their head above water, and through that process you learn. It is a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operation. It’s got to be everything to you. You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices to get there.” Gonzalez is willing to wait. He just hopes his absence from Dallas doesn’t cost him playing time in Major League Soccer.

“My backup could come in and have great games. He could stay there,” he said. “It’s difficult for me. I want to be over there, but I want to be here because this is an amazing opportunity for me.” (ap)

U.S. goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez practices at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 18, 2017.

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Morata must make instant impact to fill Costa void - Fabregas

Chelsea’s record signing Alvaro Morata and Michy Batshuayi will need to make an immediate impact in the upcoming season to fill the void left by striker Diego Costa, midfielder Cesc Fabregas has said.

Morata arrived at Stamford Bridge last week for a reported fee of around 70 million pounds ($91.11 million) from Real Madrid. He will replace Chelsea’s first choice forward Diego Costa, who has been told he will not feature in the club’s plans next season.

With Chelsea returning to Champions League, Batshuayi is also expected to shoulder Chelsea’s goalscoring burden after starting only seven games in all competitions last season.

“They are two young strikers who will have to improve as quick as possible because they are our main strikers,” Fabregas told reporters. “When you are the main striker for Chelsea you need to fight

for all the competitions and if you are going to fight for all competitions you need your strikers to score lots of goals.”

“He (Morata) has a lot of potential, the same as Michy to improve.

It’s up to them how far they want to go.”

Fabregas believes the entire squad will get more chances to prove themselves next season, with manager Antonio Conte’s side hoping to challenge on domestic and European fronts.

“Last season, because of the schedule with no Champions League and we went out early in the League Cup, we were all fit for most of the season, the manager didn’t have to make a lot of changes,” Fabregas added.

“The manager has said himself it is a long season ahead with lots of games ...I’m sure we will have more opportunities ahead of us.”

Champions Chelsea will host Burnley in the opening game of their league campaign on Aug. 12. (rtr)

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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Sp rt Jesse Gonzalez goes with heart, switches from Mexico to US

AP Photo/Jae Hong

Mexico’s Jesus Molina (5) reacts as players celebrate a goal by Jamaica’s Kemar Lawrence during the second half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal soccer match in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday, July 23, 2017.

Jamaica stuns Mexico 1-0 to reach CONCACAF Gold Cup final

PASADENA, Calif. — After Kemar Lawrence ripped an exquisite shot over Mexico’s five-man wall and into the top corner for one of the biggest goals in Jamaican soccer history, the defender hushed his teammates and refused to celebrate. These Reggae Boyz are staying cool, even after a goal that sent them into the CONCACAF Gold Cup final with a chance to make history. Lawrence scored on a clutch 24-yard free kick in the 88th minute, and Jamaica advanced to the final with a 1-0 upset victory over Mexico on Sunday night.

“I think our guys were hungry,” Jamaica coach Theodore Whitmore said. “They needed it more than the Mexicans, and we did what we had to do.” Jamaica will face the United States on Wednesday night at Santa Clara, California. With a victory over the home team, the Reggae Boyz would claim their first championship in soccer’s North and Central American and Caribbean region.

“The best way I could put it is the Biblical story,” Whitmore said. “David slew Goliath.” The Reggae Boyz have reached the final for the second straight Gold Cup, but this stunning upset at the Rose Bowl ranks among their biggest international wins. Mexico has won seven Gold Cup titles, the U.S. five and Canada one.

“That’s a cycle we want to break,” Whitmore said. “That’s something we sit and discuss. It’s always Mexico, U.S. We want to be in that group. We want to be a team, a country that someone can talk about, and that’s what we’re working

toward.” Jamaica goalkeeper Andre Blake kept this game scoreless with a series of impressive saves while Mexico dominated possession with a lineup missing most of El Tri’s most-accomplished players.

But after Lawrence repositioned the ball in a bit of shifty gamesmanship, his late strike froze Mexico goalkeeper Jesus Corona. The ball curled over the wall and slipped just below the bar for the New York Red Bulls defender’s third international goal and first in three years. The 24-year-old Lawrence doesn’t take free kicks for his MLS club, but Whitmore knew his quality from recent practices.

“The New York Red Bulls probably have a better kicker than Kemar Lawrence,” Whitmore said with a smile. “Now, Jamaica’s team needs Kemar Lawrence in dead-ball situations. It’s a totally different thing. Probably when the New York Red Bulls see this tonight, they might (want him) to take free kicks.”

Trying to win its second consecutive Gold Cup and fourth in five tournaments, Mexico used the deeper reaches of its player pool following the World Cup qualifiers and the Confederations Cup last month. While teams were allowed to make up to six substitutions for the knockout rounds, El Tri coach Juan Carlos Osorio said he was blocked by Mexico’s clubs. Mexico hadn’t trailed in the tournament before Lawrence’s late goal, but El Tri also hadn’t been impressive — no player scored more than one goal.

“This is a process, and it takes a lot of work to get a team that can compete in a World Cup,” assistant coach Luis Pompilio Paez said. “This is not a sufficient result, but this is the middle of the process. I saw a team that gave

everything. We always respect what the other team does.

We just needed to get a goal, and we didn’t have the right circumstances. Embarrassment, sadness — as a team, we feel it.”

Blake also starred 11 days ago when Mexico and Jamaica played to a 0-0 draw in Denver. With the Philadelphia Union keeper playing exceptionally well, Jamaica has allowed only two goals in the tournament. The semifinal crowd was dominated by Mexico’s vast Southern California fan base, yet the Rose Bowl was less than half-full with just 42,393 fans.

The absence of Chicharito Hernandez and other top Mexican stars, combined with El Tri’s unattractive performances in the Gold Cup to date, apparently kept many of their usual faithful at home.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino watched the semifinal from the Rose Bowl stands. So did Osorio, who served the fifth game of a six-match FIFA ban for his conduct toward officials during the Confederations Cup. Mexico beat Jamaica in the 2015 Gold Cup final, and El Tri also defeated the Reggae Boyz 2-0 at the Rose Bowl just 13 months ago during the Copa America. Jamaica finally got one back, beating Mexico for the first time in the teams’ eight Gold Cup meetings.

Blake made two brilliant saves in succession in the 12th minute, diving twice to stop close-range chances by Jesus Duenas and Erick Torres, the Houston Dynamo star and the only player on the current roster from outside Mexico’s domestic leagues. Blake did it again in the 25th minute, stopping Torres’ point-blank header from the top of the 6-yard box with improbably quick reactions. (ap)

PHILADELPHIA — Jesse Gonzalez started in the 2015 Under-20 World Cup for Mexico, his parents’ homeland. Then last month, the 22-year-old FC Dallas goalkeeper switched his affiliation to join the United States, his home country. Gonzalez just felt more comfortable in the red, white and blue. “The U.S. has given me a lot. I’m grateful for what they have given me and the opportunity they have given me,” he said after joining the U.S. roster for the knockout rounds of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Tim Howard, now 38, remains the top U.S. goalkeeper as the Americans try to qualify for next year’s World Cup. Brad Guzan, who will be 33 in September, is entrenched as the No. 2. After that, no keepers have emerged at the top level in the next generation. Gonzalez, and fellow 20-somethings Sean Johnson, Bill Hamid, Cody Cropper and Ethan Horvath all figure to compete with Guzan for the starting job in the 2019-22 World Cup cycle.

“I don’t have any doubt that he will be one of the best keepers in America,” Dallas coach Oscar Pareja said of Gonzalez after discovering the teen prospect when he was playing in a youth tournament. Gonzalez’s parents emigrated from Mexico, and he was born in Edenton, North Carolina. “My parents didn’t really find anything around North Carolina,” Gonzalez said. “They thought it was a lonely state, so they got out of there.”

His family moved to Houston and then on to Dallas when Gonzalez was a child. After spotting Gonzalez on a recreational team, Pareja persuaded the family to switch the keeper to the FC Dallas youth academy. He played there alongside midfielder Kellyn Acosta, who has broken into the U.S. starting lineup this year. “They taught me how to be more responsible,” Gonzalez said. “It was almost like a job at the time, just waking up early and being on time to training.”

Pareja, a Colombian national team midfielder in the early 1990s, said the 6-foot-4 Gonzalez’s long arms and quick reflexes immediately reminded him of late Colombian keeper Miguel Calero.

Gonzalez debuted for Dallas’ under-16 team in September 2010 and was signed to a professional homegrown player contract in March 2013. Just more than two years later, he became the youngest keeper to start in team history: at 20 years, 89 days. By then, Mexican team scouts had noticed Gonzalez at a showcase in Sarasota, Florida, and asked whether he had interest in playing for El Tri. “Richard Sanchez, one of my old teammates, he was there. He talked very well about them,” Gonzalez recalled.

Gonzalez started

Mexico’s first four matches at the 2015 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship, then had a pair of saves during penalty kicks to lift Mexico over Panama in the final.

At the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, he played in Mexico’s second and third games, The following January, Gonzalez turned down an invitation from U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann to attend a national team training camp in Carson, California. Instead, Gonzalez went to a Mexican Under-23 team camp ahead of the Olympics, but he was not picked for El Tri’s Rio de Janeiro roster.

Gonzalez spent a long time before deciding this spring to apply to FIFA for a change of affiliation.

Because he had not played a competitive match for Mexico’s senior national team, he was allowed a onetime switch. “Whatever you decide, you’re going to be right, because that’s going to be your heart,” Pareja recalled telling him.

“Any time a soccer player is making a choice, whether it’s club or country, it’s important that they analyze the options carefully, they seek input from people they trust, and that they come to a decision that they’re happy with,” said Gonzalez’s agent, Richard Motzkin.

“That’s the process Jesse took in making his decision and, rest assured, it wasn’t done lightly or without a lot of forethought. Ultimately, Jesse was fortunate in that he had two very good choices.”

After the switch was announced, Gonzalez received text messages from surprised friends. “They were funny,” he said without going into detail. Howard is the U.S. starter as the Americans head into Wednesday’s Gold Cup championship against Jamaica, and Hamid is the backup while Guzan settles in with Atlanta. For now, Gonzalez’s role is limited to training and pushing others on the practice field.

“We just want to see what he’s about,” U.S. coach Bruce Arena said. Gonzalez is with the national team to learn. A full international debut might take a while.

“He’s not much of talker, which is good. I think young guys talk too much nowadays,” Howard said. “You’re naive in a good way and you think you know it all, and really it’s the opposite. You have it all to learn. At this age they’re using their athletic ability and their raw talent to keep their head above water, and through that process you learn. It is a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operation. It’s got to be everything to you. You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices to get there.” Gonzalez is willing to wait. He just hopes his absence from Dallas doesn’t cost him playing time in Major League Soccer.

“My backup could come in and have great games. He could stay there,” he said. “It’s difficult for me. I want to be over there, but I want to be here because this is an amazing opportunity for me.” (ap)

U.S. goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez practices at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 18, 2017.

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Morata must make instant impact to fill Costa void - Fabregas

Chelsea’s record signing Alvaro Morata and Michy Batshuayi will need to make an immediate impact in the upcoming season to fill the void left by striker Diego Costa, midfielder Cesc Fabregas has said.

Morata arrived at Stamford Bridge last week for a reported fee of around 70 million pounds ($91.11 million) from Real Madrid. He will replace Chelsea’s first choice forward Diego Costa, who has been told he will not feature in the club’s plans next season.

With Chelsea returning to Champions League, Batshuayi is also expected to shoulder Chelsea’s goalscoring burden after starting only seven games in all competitions last season.

“They are two young strikers who will have to improve as quick as possible because they are our main strikers,” Fabregas told reporters. “When you are the main striker for Chelsea you need to fight

for all the competitions and if you are going to fight for all competitions you need your strikers to score lots of goals.”

“He (Morata) has a lot of potential, the same as Michy to improve.

It’s up to them how far they want to go.”

Fabregas believes the entire squad will get more chances to prove themselves next season, with manager Antonio Conte’s side hoping to challenge on domestic and European fronts.

“Last season, because of the schedule with no Champions League and we went out early in the League Cup, we were all fit for most of the season, the manager didn’t have to make a lot of changes,” Fabregas added.

“The manager has said himself it is a long season ahead with lots of games ...I’m sure we will have more opportunities ahead of us.”

Champions Chelsea will host Burnley in the opening game of their league campaign on Aug. 12. (rtr)

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Isner achieves rarity by winning event without facing break point

RHODE ISLAND - Big-serving John Isner became the first man in a decade to go through an entire ATP tournament without facing a break point as he used his dominant serve to win the Hall of Fame Open in Rhode Island on Sunday.

Top seed Isner beat Australian Matthew Ebden 6-3 7-6(4) in the final on the Newport grasscourt for his 11th career title, and his first since 2015.

“I could never imagine playing four matches and not facing a break point but I’ll certainly take it,” the

32-year-old American said in a courtside interview.

“I served well all week, played extremely well all week. This is a very good tournament for my serve and I knew it was going to be hard for my opponents to break me.

international platform for select local artists. As you enter the white tiled hallway, you’ll notice a peculiar installation that, at first glance, looks like an elaborate array of mechanical devices. Brass head busts, some that strikingly resemble the late president Soeharto, are placed over motorized mallets that hit gamelan pieces, creating an out-of-synch composition. Behind are more busts with eyes that erratically light up red. Yogyakarta visual artist Heri Dono created this surreal installation in 2009.

Further, into the gallery, designed by Italian architect Giovanni D’Ambrosio, are paintings and portraits by Arya Pandjalu and Sara Nuytemans. One, titled Bird Prayers, depicts four figures standing motionless in a rice field with their heads replaced by birdhouses. Near the staircase that leads up to the gallery’s library and restoration studio is Arya Pandjalu’s installation, which he created in 2011, comprising a papier-mâché male figure with a bird head carrying a wooden birdcage on his back, and surrounded by little bird figurines at its feet. Other notable names io the contemporary art scene include Indieguerillas, Filippo Sciascia, Ugo Untoro, Yogie A. Ginanjar, Septian Hariyoga, Nurdian Ichsan, Wiyoga

Muhardanto and Zulfa Hendra. An eyecatcher is an installation titled Kapanpun dimanapun or ‘Anytime anywhere’ by Ugo Untoro, which dates back to 2007, featuring two giant rice crackers, each set in round, clear resin 57cm in diameter.

Upstairs is a mini library where shelves filled with art books and magazines flank cosy sofas. At the other far end is the restoration studio, which started in collaboration with renowned Italian restorer, Michaela Anselmini. Anselmini is a veteran of galleries and art institutions such as Sotheby’s Milan, Galeria Pak in Milan, and Lion & O’s Art Gallery in NYC. The inclusion of the restoration studio was due to the challenging climate here in the tropics, which poses a hazard to delicate art pieces. Through this endeavour, Biasa ArtSpace aims to provide durability to works of art while increasing their quality. Stacks of wooden frames in protective wrapping were visible on our last visit, which denote the many projects that the studio already had on its roster.

Although newer exhibitions and events are not scheduled, a casual visit to this gallery from Monday to Friday adds to fascinating insights on the local contemporary art scene. (IBP/net)

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Yang Sun of China reacts after winning.

Sun cruises to victory in 400m freestyle, eyes world record

BUDAPEST - Coasting through the water with methodical ease, Sun Yang hardly looked like a man carrying the weight of an expectant Chinese nation.

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just over two weeks ago.

He bounced back in style in Newport with the sort of form he believes he can carry forward, with the final grand slam of the year, the U.S. Open, barely a month away. (rtr)

Fourth Tour title was toughest battle, says Froome

Biasa ArtSpace

MANGUPURA - Biasa ArtSpace is a contemporary art gallery located only steps away from the Biasa fashion flagship store in Seminyak. Inconspicuous amongst the row of fashion boutiques along Jalan Raya Seminyak, it houses quirky pieces by select, up and upcoming Indonesian artists who master various forms, from paintings, figurines, to enigmatic sculpture and awe-inspiring works. The contemporary art gallery works closely with these artists and supports them by providing an international setting for wider appreciation through its high-profile exhibitions. Dedicated to the development and preservation of art, Biasa ArtSpace also features a dedicated art restoration and conservation studio on its upper level, set in collaboration with a renowned Italian art restorer.

Since opening in 2005, Biasa ArtSpace has played an important role in fostering some of the most significant new developments in contemporary Indonesian art. Its launch was a natural response of Biasa’s fashion designer and founder, Susanna Perini, to her early encounters with young Yogyakarta artists in the late 1990s. Soon it continued to act as a stage for these undiscovered art communities and as an

“It’s been a few years since I won a tournament and it always boosts your confidence, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the summer.”

Isner, who started the week ranked 21st in the world, was a second-round loser at Wimbledon

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Only when he touched the wall did the 12,000 people packed inside the Duna Arena see what it meant to the controversial 25-year-old Chinese after his power-driven victory in the men’s 400m freestyle final on Sunday.

After winning, Sun sat on the ropes, splashed the water, punched the air and then went to seek out his parents in the crowd.

Sun’s time of three minutes 41.38 seconds saw him record a record-equalling third successive 400m freestyle world title as well as keeping up Asia’s dominance at the distance since 2009.

That was the year Germany’s Paul Biedermann posted a mark 1.31 seconds quicker but back in the bodysuit days when technology aided the times.

Yet Sun, who served a retrospective three-month suspension in 2014 after testing positive for a banned stimulant, believes Biedermann’s time can be broken.

“It’s all about training and you have to keep pursuing it yourself,” the Chinese told reporters after bagging the first of a possible four individual freestyle golds.

“I have to find new ways to enhance my performance. That’s what I do in reference of my result. I am quite content and satisfied with that. I will keep training more and this I think is the way to break the world record.”

He has come close before. At the London 2012 Olympics, he finished 0.07 seconds outside the German’s record time.

But Sun has endured several mishaps along the way, notably

when a car he was driving without a licence collided with a bus in 2013.

After the incident, Sun said he was “deeply sorry”.

Since being beaten by rival Mack Horton of Australia at last year’s Rio Olympics, Sun has been working on his race plan with Australian coach Denis Cotterell.

“To design better techniques with my trainer is a never-ending process,” said Sun. “We get better with each other in our way of saying and doing things.

“When I arrived in Australia for training it was still winter, quite cold, barely a few degrees outside and I had to go do my training.

These trainings are really hard on your body.”

The hard work has paid off as on Sunday he became the second man in history - behind Australia’s Ian Thorpe - to win three successive world 400m freestyle crowns. (rtr)

Booed by the locals in Marseille 24 hours earlier, Chris Froome charmed huge crowds in Paris on Sunday with a classy victory speech after claiming his “toughest” Tour de France title.

The British rider was once showered with urine thrown by fans during the 2015 edition before wiping himself down to claim his second title in cycling’s most famous race.

Two years on he has doubled that total after riding into the capital with a 54-second advantage over Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran, with Frenchman Romain Bardet in third place.

Froome, 32, now stands just one short of the record five titles achieved by Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spain’s Miguel Indurain and French duo Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault.

While French cyclists may not flock to buy replica Team Sky jerseys any time soon, they are at least beginning to respect Froome’s astonishing achievements.

He looked emotional on the podium after being presented with the yellow jersey that Team Sky monopolised for all but two days of the three-week race, first with Geraint Thomas then with Froome who held off his rivals with the help of his team mates.

“This Tour has been my toughest challenge yet. The performances of my rivals have pushed me harder than ever before,” Froome said, reading from notes that he managed to drop while addressing the onlookers.

“I want to pay tribute to all the riders for their sportsmanship over the past three weeks. We race hard against each other, we suffer together but the most special thing is the camaraderie and friendship within the peloton.”

Froome, who silenced the boos of the partisan, Bardet-supporting Marseille fans with a time trial that effectively won him the race, failed to take a stage this year -- unlike in his 2013, 2015 and 2016 victories when he had bigger winning margins.

With team mates such as Mikel Landa, Michal Kwiatkowski and Mikel Nieve relentless at the head of the peloton virtually every day, Froome was never dealt any knockout blows -- even if he did look vulnerable in the Pyrenees.

“I want to thank my team, Team Sky,” said Froome, who has signed a new three-year contract. “I could not have achieved this victory without you. On and off the bike, your dedication and passion means this is a team I am proud to be a part of. (rtr)

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Team Sky rider and yellow jersey Chris Froome of Britain celebrates his overall win with his son Kellan on the podium.

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IMF cuts UK growth forecast, Treasury calls for smooth Brexit

LONDON - Britain has suffered the biggest downgrade of economic growth projections by the International Monetary Fund for the world’s rich nations this year, prompting the finance ministry to renew its call for a smooth exit from the European Union.

Britain’s economy now looks set to grow by 1.7 percent this year, down from a forecast made in April of 2.0 percent but still higher than growth in France, Italy and Japan, the IMF said.

The IMF said its downgrade reflected Britain’s weaker-than-expected growth in the early part of this year.

“The ultimate impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom remains unclear,” the Fund’s chief economist Maurice Obstfeld said.

The IMF in April raised its forecasts for British growth after the economy withstood the initial shock of the referendum decision in June last year to leave the EU. However, the world’s fifth-biggest economy grew by just 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the last three months of 2016 as accelerating inflation - caused in large by part by the fall in the value

of the pound since last year’s Brexit vote - prompted consumers to rein in their spending.

The economy is expected to have picked up only a bit of speed to 0.3 percent in the second quarter, according to the median forecast of economists polled by Reuters ahead of the release of preliminary data on Wednesday.

British finance minister Philip Hammond has stressed the need for a transition deal to ease Britain out of the EU, angering some Brexit campaigners. A spokesman for the Treasury said the weaker growth seen by the IMF was a reminder of the need to smooth Brexit as much as possible.

“This forecast underscores exactly why our plans to increase productivity and ensure we get the very best deal with the EU, are vitally important,” the spokesman said.

The 0.3 percentage-point cut to Britain’s 2017 growth forecast contrasted with upgrades for most of the big advanced economies covered by the IMF’s forecasts although the projection for U.S. growth this year was cut by 0.2 percentage points.

The IMF maintained its forecast for British economic growth to slow to 1.5 percent in 2018, slightly slower than expected growth in France and Germany next year. (rtr)

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A sign is displayed outside the Bank of England in London, Britain August 4, 2016.

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From page 1 He said he would present new draft laws reforming the Supreme Court and the Council within two months after wide consultations with experts. However, he said he would sign a third bill that reorganizes the functioning of the lower courts.

Duda’s step mostly won the

praise of members of the political opposition who had been urging him to veto the bills.

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, a leading member of the opposition party Modern, called it a step in the right direction and an “act of courage.” She said Duda’s decision also shows the power of civic protests. Some people expressed disappointment that he accepted the third bill. (ap)

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Running with Durians Singapore - Singaporeans, it may seem, no longer run marathons just for fitness - these days, they run for fun. With each passing year, organisers introduce more creative options.

For the latest novelty run in Singapore, all 388 slots in the Run for Good Durian Run were snapped up by the weekend, less than a week after the event was first announced. The July 23 charity run is organised by the Central Singapore CDC and the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang CCC. Proceeds from the run - which costs $15 to enter - will be donated to the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang Community Development Welfare Fund.

Participants will run a 5km route while carrying a durian. After completing the run, they will be awarded with a medal, a coconut, and the choice of having their durian opened so that they may “enjoy the fruit of their labour”.

“Participants are expected to collect their durians by 7.45am and (be) ready to run with their durian at 8am,” stated the event’s website.

Participants are encouraged to make use of a backpack, plastic bag, gloves, and other creative ways to carry their durians.

Organisers have promised to do “as much as possible” to ensure the participants’ safety, in the event “a plastic bag tears”. (ap)

Trump’s son-in-law Kushner says “I did not collude” with foreign government

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday that he “did not collude” with Russia and had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.

In a written statement released ahead of his appearance before lawmakers in closed-door sessions,

Kushner said his initial security clearance form had been submitted prematurely in error and had omitted all foreign contacts.

“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government,” Kushner said.

“I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on Russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector,” he said.

Kushner faces two days of closeddoor questioning from Congress this week as lawmakers try to determine whether Trump’s campaign enlisted Russia’s help to win the White House in last year’s election.

He is expected to face questions about his contacts with Russian citizens and officials when he testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday and the House of Representatives Intelli-

gence Committee on Tuesday.

Trump has been dogged by allegations that his campaign aides worked with Russia, which U.S. intelligence agencies have accused of interfering in the election. Moscow has denied any interference, and Trump says his campaign did not collude with Russia.

Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. released emails this month that showed he appeared to welcome

the prospect of damaging information from the Russian government about Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Members of both committees say they are eager to hear about the June 2016 meeting involving Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Trump’s son, Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort all participated in the meeting. (rtr)

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Indonesia environment minister wants permanent ban on licences to use forest land

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s environment minister said on Monday she wants to make permanent a moratorium on issuing new licences to use land designated as primary forest and peatland.

The moratorium, part of an effort to reduce emissions from fires caused by deforestation, was extended by President Joko Widodo for a third time in May. “So far its only been extended, and extended again. I want a permanent (moratorium),” said Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar. “Our primary forest cannot be cleared out.”

Participants carry their durians as they start the Durian Run in Singapore July 23, 2017.

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Indonesia is prone to outbreaks of forest fires during dry seasons, often blamed on the draining of peatland forests and land clearance for agriculture such as the cultivation of palm oil.

The resulting choking smoke from the world’s biggest palm oil producer often blows across to neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia, slashing visibility and causing a health hazard.

Established in 2011, the moratorium covered an area of more than 66 million hectares (163 million acres) by November 2016. (rtr)

State apparatus minister to continue working despite call to resign

JAKARTA - Indonesias State Apparatus and Bureaucracy Reform Minister Asman Abnur said he would continue to work professionally despite a call to resign from a high-rank official of the National Mandate Party (PAN). “It is a political matter, I would not take part because my task here, as a professional, is to work,” Abnur said at the Presidential Palace complex here on Monday. He admitted that he was yet to discuss the issue with the partys official who asked him to resign.

“I will see this later, now my task is to work, work, and work,” he stressed. Earlier on Sunday, chairman of Honorary Council of the National Mandate Party (PAN), Amien Rais, called for his partys withdrawal from the cabinet, also known as the Working Cabinet.

Rais made his statement after an open house at Al-Ishlah Islamic boarding school in Bondowoso, East Java. He called on Abnur to resign from his post as the State Apparatus and Bureaucracy Reform Minister.

Responding to the call, PANs chairman Zulkifli Hasan said that the issues on cabinet members

would become the presidents prerogative rights. “It would be the presidents prerogative rights,” Hasan said. PAN, which joined the coalition of parties that supported the government, has posted Abnur as the minister.

However, it was urged to withdraw from the coalition following its disagreement on the newly approved law on general election that maintains the presidential threshold at 20-25 percent and vote conversion method.

The government and its coalition parties have opted a presidential threshold of 20-25 percent, parliamentary threshold of 4 percent, general election system (open), seat allocation (3-10 seats), and vote conversion method (Saint Lague).

PAN, as the only coalition member, preferred a presidential threshold of 0 percent, parliamentary threshold of (4 percent), general election system (open), seat allocation (3-10 seats), and vote conversion method (quota share). PAN, along with other parties not included in the coalition, including Gerindra, Demokrat, and PKS, staged a walkout from the parliaments voting on draft law on general election. (ant)

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A barge carrying pigs from Pulau Balan, Indonesia, enters the riverway to a slaughterhouse in Singapore July 24, 2017.

Vietnam says Indonesian navy shot its fishermen in South China Sea

HANOI- Indonesia’s navy shot and wounded four Vietnamese fishermen aboard a fishing boat in the South China Sea at the weekend, Vietnamese authorities said.

The Vietnamese boat was about 132 nautical miles (245 km) southeast of Vietnam’s Con Dao island when the fishermen were shot on Saturday night, the Binh Dinh provincial search and rescue committee said on its website.

Disputes over fishing rights and oil drilling have stoked tension in the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in goods is shipped each year.

China claims almost the entire sea, but Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims.

Although Indonesia says it is not a party to the dispute, it recently renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim.

The coordinates given by the Vietnamese indicated that the shooting happened close to the area Indonesia now calls the North Natuna Sea. The Vietnamese authorities said two of the fishermen had been seriously wounded. They were taken to Con Dao island for treatment.

Sahono Budianto, an official at Indonesia’s ministry of marine affairs and fisheries, said he was not aware of the alleged shooting. Indonesia’s navy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Indonesia has sunk hundreds of mostly foreign boats caught illegally fishing in its waters since President Joko Widodo launched a battle against the poaching of fish in 2014.

Indonesia and Vietnam said in May they would launch a joint investigation after reports that Vietnamese coast guards had tried to forcibly free five fishing boats and their crew detained in waters near Indonesia’s Natuna Islands. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Asian shares mostly lower as attention turns to Fed meeting

TOKYO — Asian shares mostly slid Monday, with Chinese benchmarks countering the trend, as market attention turns to the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting later in the week.

Japanese shares languished as the yen strengthened against the dollar.

KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.9 percent in morning trading to 19,927.65. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.8 percent to 5,680.00. South Korea’s Kospi dipped 0.2 percent to 2,445.91.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.5 percent to 26,851.37 and the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.2 percent to 3,245.04. Shares in Southeast Asia were mixed.

FED FACTOR: The monetary policymaking body of the Federal Reserve wraps up two days of meetings Wednesday. At June’s meeting, Fed officials raised the central bank’s key interest rate for the third time in six months. The Fed also announced plans to start gradually paring its bond holdings later this year, a move that could cause long-term rates to rise. Over the last few weeks investors have focused what the European Central Bank will do as the European economy continues to improve.

U.S. POLITICS: A flurry of tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump, complaining that Republicans were failing to fully support him as they struggle to deliver on health care legislation, underscored the disarray in Washington amid investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible connections to Trump’s campaign.

THE QUOTE: “Investors continued to take into account Trump’s political setbacks including expanded investigation into his transactions regarding his Russian connections and limited progress in the health care bill. Resignation of White House Press Secretary Spicer over the weekend might further fuel USD weakness,” says Zhu Huani, Singapore Treasury Division of Mizuho Bank, of the U.S. political uncertainties.

JAPAN MANUFACTURING: A preliminary survey of factory purchasing managers showed output slowing as export orders fell to an 11-month low of 50 — the cut-off between contraction and expansion on a scale of 100. Output dropped for the second straight month.

WALL STREET: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slipped less than 1 point to 2,472.54. The Dow Jones industrial average also dipped 0.1 percent to 21,580.07. The Nasdaq composite was almost unchanged at 6,387.75. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks sank 6.52 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,435.84.

Still, all four indexes remain near record highs.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude rose 7 cents to $45.84 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It sank $1.15 to $45.77 a barrel on Friday. Brent crude, the standard for international oil prices, climbed 12 cents to $48.43 a barrel in London. CURRENCIES: The euro rose to $ 1.1672 from $1.1639. The dollar slid to 110.94 yen from 111.55 yen late Friday in Asia.(ap)

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A woman walks past an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, July 24, 2017. Asian shares mostly slid Monday, with Chinese benchmarks countering the trend, as market attention turns to the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting later in the week.

That was fun; now comes the slowdown

LONDON - For all the talk of world economies rising in sync, there does not seem to be an abundance of optimism about how long it will last. Tucked away in Reuters latest quarterly economic poll series is a projection that growth rates in nearly all of the world’s largest economies will fall over the next two years. Inflation, meanwhile, will remain benign and in some cases below target. Both findings would suggest that the current caution of central bankers is warranted. As the European Central Bank’s Mario Draghi said in the past week: “We aren’t there yet.”

The Reuters polls of economists around the world -- looking at 46 economies -- have been prescient in past years. If they prove right again, it means the United States, euro zone, Japan, Germany, France and China will all grow more slowly in 2019 than at present. Britain will be growing at this year’s rate -- but only after a 2018 Brexit-related hammering.

James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, reckons the projected growth slowdown is a natural maturing of the economic cycle, exacerbated by the gradual tightening of monetary policy measures adopted following the financial crisis.

“Consumers are getting to the point now when debt levels are starting to rise, and with central banks increasingly moving in the direction ... of tightening, then that could start to act as a brake on economic activity,” he said. There will be growth. But it will be fairly humdrum. Consider the euro zone, currently running at a projected 1.9 percent growth rate. That will drop to 1.5 percent in 2019, according to the economists.

Japan will see its 1.4 percent growth rate today halve to 0.7 percent. The U.S. economy will be down slightly, to 2.1 percent from 2.2 percent, way below the historical trend of above 3 percent.

DID YOU FEEL IT? It may come as a surprise to the average person in many of these economies that the growth cycle is maturing. In many cases it has been a very mild rebound from the Great Recession triggered by the financial crisis a decade ago. As Stephen King, senior economic adviser at HSBC, noted this month: “Economic records are there to be broken. The U.S. is on the cusp of breaking two simultaneously.

Within weeks, the U.S. may have delivered both the longest and the weakest economic upswing in postwar history.”

The new normal -- post-crisis

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Passengers ride an overcrowded train at a station in Kawasaki, Japan June 14, 2017. and with big emerging economies having matured themselves -- may well be for less robust growth, although the Reuters polls project the world economy to grow at around 3.5 percent annually over the next three years. That is pretty much the average since 1961, according to World Bank statistics, although that of course is dragged down by the Great Recession and the big slump around 1980.

This all goes some way to explaining the extreme caution of central banks in rolling back their unprecedented monetary stimulus. They do not, as the ECB’s Draghi admitted openly this past week, want to commit a policy error.

Their dilemma is that they want to normalise monetary policy as much as possible without killing what growth trillions of dollars of stimulus have helped achieve.

So data releases are even more crucial to policymakers than usual.

The coming week will give them

a snapshot of monthly business activity, culminating in the first real look at what happened in the second quarter.

Flash purchasing managers’ indexes for Japan, Germany, France and the euro zone have already been released. All remained in expansion territory, but for the most part fell from the previous month. The United States PMI is released later.

Britain announces its preliminary second quarter growth figures on Wednesday. There is a strong consensus that it will tick up to 0.3 percent from 0.2 percent quarteron-quarter, but slip to 1.7 percent from 2.0 percent year against year.

Arguably the biggest data release comes on Friday with advance U.S. GDP numbers. An annualised rate -- that is, roughly speaking the quarterly number times four -- is seen at 2.7 percent, a large jump from the previous 1.4 percent.(rtr)

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Penting Traditional Musical Instrument, Ancient Art of Karangasem from Dutch Colonial Period

Bali is indeed a unique and interesting region because they still maintain their cultural heritage along with traditions and customs. In fact, there are still many Balinese traditions need to be developed or minimally promoted in order not to become extinct and are no longer recognizable.

Thus, it must be attempted to revive so that they can be recognized again by the community. It is very unfortunate if the culture disappears from their society, so finding and revitalizing cultural heritages having been approaching extinction can also increase the cultural wealth belonging to Balinese people and surely it will have an impact on cultural tourism in Bali.

In general, the Balinese culture having not been recognized by Balinese people is very diverse. One of them is in the form of typical musical instrument of Karangasem.

It is known as penting musical instrument.

According to A.A. Gede Krisna Dwipayana, a penting craftsman and troupe member of Merdu Komala Karangasem, it is based on the strings stretched from the tip to the base of the tool when picked will produce maklenting sound, so that it is better named as penting.

Furthermore, he said that similar musical instrument can also be found in Lombok named penteng.

Then, in Banjarmasin it is named as anting, while in Japan it is known as Taishogoto. Nevertheless, he said that such penting musical instrument indeed originates from Bali precisely in Karangasem because the name of the parts uses Balinese vocabularies. In addition to the strings called pentang, there is also a resonance box that must have a hollow (pelawah) and special keys to produce tones known as pakocet. Besides, there are canten and pangiret as parts of the string regulator.

“After I searched for information and consulted to several higher priests having close relations to Karangasem palace, it turns out that penting art has emerged along with the art of cekepung, rebana and rudat in Karangasem. Moreover, during the Dutch colonial period, this kind of art was once staged in an art event called Ngeraja Kuning or similar to the current Bali Arts Festival (BAF) held to honor the Dutch King at that time,” he said.

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cosm and microcosm Furthermore, he said that condition of this art is unstable or facing ups and downs. After being observed, design of the tool and components are very simple. Then, he concluded that young generation is less interested to play it because it is designed like a box and still gives old-fashioned impression.

Actually according to him, this art is unique and has the potential to become a typical art of Karangasem like jegog in Jembrana district.

Chief of Merdu Komala Penting art troupe of Karangasem, Wayan Widana, said that based on stories of his elders, before 1963 the musical instrument was rampant and trendy but faded after the eruption of Mount Agung. After that, it reappeared and dimmed in 1965 due to the Communist 30 September Movement (G30S/PKI) in Bali.

Then, it re-emerged but in the 1990s faded again as a result of the development of new entertainment media such as radio and TV so that people feel reluctant to learn it and many senior figures already died.

Finally in the 2000s the penting art began to rise again marked by the establishment of this penting art troupe.

Widana further added that initially this penting musical instrument only used slendro musical scale. After further development, it finally becomes like the current one where it applies pelog scale and even seven-tone scale.

Uniqueness and advantages of

this instrument, according to him, is rich in tone and having many patet (tonal hierarchical system) so that it can be used to accompany various types of gamelan music such as pegongan, angklungan, pejogedan, sadur and selonding. Moreover, it can also be used to accompany modern pop songs including national songs as it can also follow the seven tones.

“So, do not be surprised if this instrument is often played in Panca Yadnya rituals and its gamelan composition will be adjusted to the designation of the play, whether it is Dewa Yadnya, Pitra Yadnya, Manusa Yadnya, Rishi Yadnya or Bhuta Yadnya because this instrument is flexible and can be categorized into Panca Gita as well,” said Wayan Widana. (was) READ Tipat Bantal War Tools, Symbol of Male and Female Stretch and Pangecet Played Together AS a traditional musical instrument, the type of music genre that can be played certainly becomes one of the important things. The no less important of a musical instrument is how to play it in order to produce a beautiful sound.

If it is not maximized, the instrument will be useless. This is also valid for penting musical instrument because other than having unique shape and producing distinctive sound, the most important is to be recognized and understood is the way or technique to play the instrument.(kmb)

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Now, Gianyar Has Botanical Garden Gianyar district now has a new tourist attraction named the Gianyar Botanical Garden (KRG). This tourist attraction is located at Pilan hamlet, Kerta, Payangan, or about 45 km northeast of Denpasar. The opening ceremony was officially conducted by Bambang Subiyanto, Deputy Head of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), on Monday (Jul. 17). At that time, the event was also filled in with the signing of inscription by Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata.

Bambang Subiyanto appreciated to the measure of Gianyar regent to build botanical garden as the 32nd botanical garden in Indonesia managed by local government.

“It is built for conservation area, reducing degradation rate of rare plant diversity as well as increasing and utilizing potential of the region optimally and sustainably,” he said.

Development of this botanical garden is also for in-situ and ex situ conservation for all rare plant species, providing research and education place as well as tropical plant laboratory. “This can also become a nature tourist attraction, develop environmental services and improve socio-economic life of the community around the botanical garden,” he continued.

Regent of Gianyar, Agung Bharata, said the KRG is a customary forest being rescued by the surrounding community, so the condition remains very well maintained, located in the state land area of 9.7163 hectares managed by Pilan customary village through generations. It has 41 kinds of native vegetation dominated by large trees up to several kinds of orchids, and 36 species of animals such as various kinds of birds, apes and deer.

Development of the KRG began with the proposal from headman of Kerta to Gianyar regent in his letter No.33/Pemb/I/2015 dated on January 14, 2015 regarding the Proposal of Forest Management at Pilan Customary Village. Then, it was followed up by a request of review to the Head of Center for Plant Conservation, Botanical Garden – LIPI, and result of the review Number: B-1158 / IPH.3 / KS / IV /

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2016 dated on April 18, 2016 states that the forest of Pilan customary village deserves to be KRG. The Regent of Gianyar, Agung Bharata, also appreciated to the goodwill of Pilan customary village to preserve customary forest by handing over customary forest management to KRG. Pilan customary villagers has contributed to donate their land without asking for compensation, where the road widening and opening of new road to KRG has a total area of ??some 15 hectares or approximately worth IDR 34,5 billion.

In the meantime, the Head of the Gianyar Environment Agency, Wayan Kujus Pawitra, said that to realize the KRG, the regional budget (APBD) 2016 approved the budget allocation for the preparation of Detailed Engineering Design (DED) of the KRG at approximately IDR 150 million, then continued to region al budget 2017 for improvement of Kerta road section to the KRG along the 4,314 km with the width of 5.5 meters approximately worth IDR 12.7 billion, construction of KRG gates (IDR 2.9 billion), construction of water connection to KRG (IDR 686 million) and the grant aid of LIPI for thematic garden development (IDR 500 million). KRG has also been proposed to ask for aid to state budget (APBN) from the ministry of public works and housing in 2018 approximately worth IDR 14 billion in accordance with the development stages in Detailed Engineering Design of the KRG. The Gianyar Botanical Garden is built in cooperation of the Gianyar government, Pilan customary village and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Structurally, it is managed by the Gianyar Botanical Garden unit under the Gianyar environment agency, and the operations management is planned to be made in collaboration with Pilan customary village. Approval or recommendation of the cooperation between the government of Gianyar and Pilan customary village on the KRG development and management is in the process of discussion in the Gianyar House of Representatives. (kmb)

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Plastic garbage at Lempuyang

No transportation to haul garbage, residents cranky

China warns India not to harbour illusions in border stand-off

AMLAPURA - Despite having the status as a sad kahyangan temple, apparently Lempuyang Temple is not free of the problem of waste management. The refuse from canang oblations and plastic bags and wrapping are currenly being dumped around this temple that is located Purwayu customary village, Abang, Karangasem. Such appaling condition were evident when students from the Hindu Dharma Student Union of Indonesia (KMHDI) held a cleanup action on Saturday (Jul. 22).

The garbage that has been dumped carelessly on the hillside has resulted in a derelicts impression. Plastic bottles and other garbage makes for a disturbing view. After the clean-up that was supported by personnel of Karangasem National Youth Committee of Indonesia (KNPI) hauled an entire truck load of plastic garbage from the site.

“Frankly we lack cleaning service workers. Right now we only have six people, doing this work; four from district government and two from the Customary Village”, said chief of Purwayu customary village, I Nyoman Jati, during the clean-up.

IN order for all the garbage from Ayu Temple to along the 8 kilometers between Ayu Temple and Lempuyangan Temple to be taken care of , said Jati, at least 10 workers are needed. According to Jati, they have repeatedly made such a request to Karangasem<S district government but there has been no follow-up.

Apart form the lack of cleaning service workers, the handling of garbage at Lempyangan Temple is also constrained by lack of transportation for the garbage. Because the landscaping and sanitation agency no longer

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a lower house budget committee session at the parliament in Tokyo, Japan July 24, 2017.

Students from the Hindu Dharma Student Union of Indonesia (KMHDI) held a cleanup action. provides trucks to haul away garbage, it is being discharged onto the moor or burned on site. People have therefore become lazy about collecting the garbage. “Our residents are becoming cranky and do not want to collect the garbage”, explained Jati.

Head of the Karangasem Environment Agency, I Nyoman Tari, who took part in the

clean-up a promised to forward the request of the customary village to the regent of Karangasem. In the meantime, the transportation of garbage from Purwayu to the landfill will be facilitated by the housing and settlement agency. “We will provice a truck to transport the garbage to the Linggasana landfill”, said Sanitation Section Head of the Housing and

Settlement Agency, Wayan Sukarba.

The clean-up on Saturday was also attended by the regional and branch administrator of the KMHDI Bali. The clean-up was organised to welcome the KMHDI¯s XIII national coordination meeting that will be held in Bali from August 30 through September 5. (kmb)

Muggers and pickpockets rampant in Kuta, special security needed

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MANGUPURA — In response to the increasingly widespread muggings and pickpocketing incidents in Kuta, local residents and community leaders cooperated with related authorities to conduct raids of certain parts of Kuta on Saturday night (July 22). Dozens of migrants were arrested along included those who had committed indecent acts on Kuta Beach.

One of Kuta’s community leaders, IGN Anom Gumanti, who took part in the raids said that public security conditions in Kuta

have become very worrying. The main target of the raids were the perpetrators of pick-pocking and mugging that has become all too frequent recently.

Gumanti expressed his hope for help form the government in overcoming this problem so that Kuta can be made safe again. “There should be a special security system because Kuta can be accessed by numerous different roads making it open to such crimes”, he concluded.

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optimal, he added saying that related institutions need to come up with special security as entrepreneurs in Kuta – particularly those engaged int eh hospitality industry have been loosing business as visitors have been moving to other areas like Seminyka, Canggu.

Durign the rid on Saturday night, representatives of 13 hamlets showed up to show their disappointment about present conditions.“Why are such incidents occurring every day^ this is the reason that we have come together?,

he said.

Chief of Kuta Customary Village, I Wayan Swarsa, said that the 13 hamlets of Kuta Customary Village will create a new way of strictly guarding the terrritory of Kuta and they will be putting this new system into effect over the next five months.

“We will be carrying out raids routinely over the next five months.

We started with one hamlet last night and will continue with each hamlet> he added”, he added. (kmb23)

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Japan PM Abe denies favours for friend amid falling support

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his ratings sinking over a suspected cronyism scandal, on Monday said he had never instructed officials to give preferential treatment to a long-time friend, adding that the latter had never sought favours.

Abe and his aides have repeatedly denied intervening to help Kake Gakuen, an educational institution whose director, Kotaro Kake, is a friend of the prime minister, win approval for a veterinary school in a special economic zone.

Abe’s support has plunged below 30 percent in some opinion polls, hit by the suspected scandal and a perception among many voters that his administration is taking them for granted.

The slump is encouraging rivals and casting doubt on Abe’s prospects of becoming Japan’s longest-serving prime minister by winning a third three-year term when his current tenure ends in September 2018.

Abe told a special session of parliament’s lower house budget committee that it was not surprising the

public had doubts, given that Kake had been his friend since they were students, but added that Kake had “never once” sought favours.

“There was no request or lobbying regarding the establishment of a new veterinary school,” Abe said.

Asked if he had intervened in the approval process, Abe said: “I have never issued instructions regarding specific cases.”

Abe also pledged to regain public trust by “producing results”, giving priority to the economy and diplomacy.

ELECTION LOSS, SINKING RATINGS Adding to the headaches for Abe, an opposition-backed candidate on Sunday won a mayoral election for the northern city of Sendai.

That follows this month’s historic defeat for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in elections for the Tokyo assembly, a devastating blow, since much of Abe’s clout stems from his record of stacking up poll victories for the party.

A July 22-23 Mainichi newspaper poll published on Sunday showed Abe’s support slipping 10 points to 26 percent from a previous survey in June. In addition, 56 percent of respondents did not back Abe’s government, an increase of 12 points.

Abe, known to get irritated at times when grilled, admitted that previous efforts to allay public concern had fallen short. “I want to accept this sincerely as the voice of the people,” he said of the ratings slump. (rtr)

BEIJING - China’s defence ministry on Monday warned India not to harbour any illusions about the Chinese military’s ability to defend its territory, amid a festering border dispute.

The stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighbours, who share a 3,500-km (2,175-mile) frontier, large parts of which are disputed.

“Shaking a mountain is easy but shaking the People’s Liberation Army is hard,” ministry spokesman Wu Qian told a briefing, adding that its ability to defend China’s territory and sovereignty had “constantly strengthened”.

Early in June, according to the Chinese interpretation of events, Indian guards crossed into China’s Donglang region and obstructed work on a road on the plateau.

The two sides’ troops then confronted each other close to a valley controlled by China that separates India from its close ally, Bhutan, and gives China access to the so-called Chicken’s Neck, a thin strip of land connecting India and its remote northeastern regions.

India has said it warned China that construction of the road near their common border would have serious security implications.

The withdrawal of Indian border guards was a precondition for resolving the situation, Wu reiterated.

“India should not leave things to luck and not harbour any unrealistic illusions,” Wu said, adding that the military had taken emergency measures in the region and would continue to increase focused deployments and drills.

“We strongly urge India to take practical steps to correct its mistake, cease provocations, and meet China halfway in jointly safeguarding the border region’s peace and tranquillity,” he said.

Speaking later, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Ajit Doval, India’s national security adviser, would attend a meeting in Beijing this week of security officials from the BRICS grouping that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Lu would not be drawn on whether the border issue would be discussed at the meeting, hosted by China’s top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, meant to discuss multilateral issues.

“China hopes to maintain the peace and stability of the ChinaIndia border area, but certainly will not make any compromise on issues of territorial sovereignty,” Lu said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to visit China early in September for a summit of BRICS leaders.

Indian officials say about 300 soldiers from either side are facing each other about 150 metres (yards) apart on the plateau. (rtr)

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China’s Defence Ministry spokesman Wuqian (R) and Central Military Commission officers including Senior Colonel Lu Yu (2nd L), Zhang Chengwen (2nd R) and Major General Zhou Shangping (center), attend a news conference in Beijing, China July 24, 2017.

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Girl’s HIV infection seems under control without AIDS drugs

CALIFORNIA - A South African girl born with the AIDS virus has kept her infection suppressed for more than eight years after stopping anti-HIV medicines — more evidence that early treatment can occasionally cause a long remission that, if it lasts, would be a form of cure.

Her case was revealed Monday at an AIDS conference in Paris, where researchers also gave encouraging results from tests of shots every month or two instead of daily pills to treat HIV. “That’s very promising” to help people stay on treatment, the U.S.’s top AIDS scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said of the prospects for long-acting drugs.

Current treatments keep HIV under control but must be taken lifelong. Only one person is thought to be cured — the so-called Berlin patient, a man who had a bone marrow transplant in 2007 from a donor with natural resistance to HIV. But transplants are risky and impractical to try to cure the millions already infected. So some researchers have been aiming for the next best thing — long-term remission, when the immune system can control HIV without drugs even if signs of the virus remain.

Aggressive treatment soon after infection might enable that in some cases, and the South African girl is the third child who achieved a long remission after that approach.

She was in a study sponsored by the agency Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that previously found that early versus delayed treatment helped babies survive.

The girl, who researchers did not identify, started on HIV drugs when she was 2 months old and stopped 40 weeks later.

Tests when she was 9 1/2 years old found signs of virus in a small number of immune system cells, but none capable of reproducing. The girl does not have a gene mutation that gives natural resistance to HIV infection, Fauci said, so her remission seems likely due to the early treatment.

The previous cases:

—A French teen who was born with HIV and is now around 20 has had her infection under control despite no HIV medicines since she was roughly 6 years old.

—A Mississippi baby born with HIV in 2010 suppressed her infection for 27 months after stopping treatment before it reappeared in her blood. She was able to get the virus under control again after treatment resumed.

At least a dozen adults also have had remissions lasting for years after stopping HIV medicines.

A study underway now is testing whether treating HIVinfected newborns within two days of birth can control the

Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP

This undated photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a scanning electron micrograph of multiple round bumps of the HIV-1 virus on a cell surface. virus later after treatment stops. It started in 2014 in South America, Haiti, Africa and the United States, and some of the earliest participants might be able to try stopping treatment later this year.

Treatment might get easier if two large studies underway now confirm results reported Monday from a study testing a long-acting combo of two HIV drugs — Janssen’s rilpivirine and ViiV Healthcare’s cabotegravir.

Cabotegravir is experimental; rilpivirine is sold now as Edurant and used in combination with other drugs for treating certain types of HIV patients.

After initial treatment to get their virus under control, about 300 study participants were given either daily combination therapy pills or a shot every four or eight weeks of the long-acting drug duo to maintain control.

After nearly two years, 94 percent on eight-week shots, 87 percent on four-week shots and 84 percent on daily pills had their infections suppressed, with similar rates of side effects.

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Primary Contributors to GDP

SMESCO urges public to buy SME products

DENPASAR — One of the biggest contributors to Indonesia’s GDP is the creative industry, 60 percent of which is composed of SMEs. The creative industry has contributed IDR 852 trillion or 33 percent of the total amounts of the GDP. Two main sub-sectors of the 16 creative industry sectors are cuisine and fashion. Also 99.9 percent of Indonesia’s entrepreneurs run SME’s which shows that Indonesia’s economy is predominantly supported by SME’s.

“Anyone who feels a commitment to this nation should show it by purchasing and using products made by SMEs” , said Ahmad Zabadi, Director of the Marketing Services Agency of Small-Medium Enterprise Cooperative (SMESCO) after opening the Food Truck Festival 2017. Zabadi said that the economy of Indonesia will be strong, prosperous and evenly distributed provided that Indonesian people buy and use Indonesian SME products.

He went on to say that creativity and innovations should indeed be explored by SMEs because these important aspects for ensuring

endurance. Most importantly, he added is to balance creativity with productivity. “If SMEs rely only on creativity, then art works may be created but market orientation is missing. It is not enough to have only personal satisfaction the more important point is how the market can accept the products”, said Zabadi.

For future development, he said, they cannot repeat basic level things continuously but must develop insight in SMEs. “As we know, knowledge and technology really help us start something new based on existing benchmarks. So, it is important to develop the insight of our SMEs”, he concluded.

Other than facilitating SMEs in the promotion and marketing of their products, SMESCO also helps SMEs to face the market. “So, we are not directly involved in production itself but more with promotion and capacity building. We provide experts with competencies in their respective fields who can help improve skills, knowledge, creativity and therefor various potentials so that SMEs can become productive”, he explained. (kmb42)

“The results were good regardless of whether people came monthly or every two months for their treatment. This has important policy implications,” said Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker, deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a co-leader of the conference.

The study was sponsored by the drugmakers. Results were published in the British medical journal Lancet.

Two large studies aimed at winning approval to sell the treatment are testing the monthly shots. Janssen said in a statement that good results from eight-week shots warrant reconsidering the longer approach.

If it works, “this will have a huge impact on how we manage that very important group of people who are not able to access and take drugs on a day-to-day basis,” such as those with mental health or drug abuse problems, said Dr. Steven Deeks, an AIDS specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. (ap)

International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning via AP

This image captured by an underwater robot provided by International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning on Saturday, July 22, 2017 shows massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Okuma town, northeastern Japan.

Locating and analyzing the fuel debris and damage in each of the plant’s three wrecked reactors is crucial for decommissioning the plant. The search for melted fuel in the two other reactors has so far been unsuccessful because of damage and extremely high radiation levels.

During this week’s probe, cameras mounted on the robot showed extensive damage caused by the core meltdown, with fuel debris mixed with broken reactor parts, suggesting the difficult challenges ahead in the decades-long decommissioning of the destroyed plant.

TEPCO spokesman Takahiro Kimoto said it would take time to analyze the debris in the images to figure out debris removal methods. (ap)

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One of the biggest contributors to Indonesia’s GDP is the creative industry, 60 percent of which is composed of SMEs.

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Rare Kual comedy act closes FTF 2017

Bulelelng comedy act Rare Kual

THE annual Food Truck Festival (FTF) 2017 organised by Bali Pos Media Group (KMB) closed its second edition with a coupon prize drawing on Sunday night (July 23). The festival closing of FTF 2017 was also enlivened with performances by famous pop singer.

Robot finds likely melted fuel heap inside Fukushima reactor TOKYO — Images captured by an underwater robot showed massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The robot found large amounts of solidified lava-like rocks and lumps in layers as thick as 1 meter (3 feet) on the bottom inside of a main structure called the pedestal that sits underneath the core inside the primary containment vessel of Fukushima’s Unit 3 reactor, said the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. On Friday, the robot spotted suspected debris of melted fuel for the first time since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused multiple meltdowns and destroyed the plant. The three-day probe of Unit 3 ended Saturday.

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The first act of the evening was a solo performance

by Bangli artist Galuh Bilen with a stirring rendition of her popular song entitled Pelet Bali and two other songs. Ayu Wiryasstuti followed with her hit songs Urutan Amah Meong (literally meaning ‘sausage eaten by cat’) and Sing Punyah Sing Mulih (won’t come home until I’m drunk). Ayu who is married to Dek Artha, had the audience melt into her songs with her distinctive voice.

Rocky N also presented his hit singles including Bali Shanti and Tuah Iluh with his unique appearance and vocal style, to which the audience responded with resounding applause. Rocky N greeted his fans with simplicity in the dialect of Buleleng and was later called on for an encore for which he sang Sing Ada Atma Bos a single off his third album that is scheduled to be released this September. He also invited some youngsters onstage to sing along with him and then presented them with small gifts.

“This year’s FTF 2017 is very lively and more festive than last year. People are very enthusiastic about attending. Hopefully this event will be held again next year as it is a great opportunity for everyone from the vendors of distinctive Balinese food to the Balinese singers who can show off their skills”, said Rocky N after his performance.

The no less entertaining was a performance by Widi Widiana who came on stage wearing trademark style and simple plastic sandals. The audience of the FTF 2017 burst into cheers and laughter as he started singing Formalin Sik Luh (Give Me Formalin, Lad) a song that has become a great hit with Balinese pop fans. With his melodious voice, this man from Kuta was able to slightly relieve the longing of his fans at that night.

Bulelelng comedy act Rare Kual also moved the audience to laughter during the closing of the FTF 2017 with their bondres show. Wah Indra played the part of Ngurah Joni, Slamet that of Bojes, Arpin acted as Ayuk Sintya and Dedek as Slowly truly entertained with their silliness and typical chatting style of their native region (Buleleng).

They also sand Bayu Cuaca’s song entitled Tunangan Langka (Rare Fiancée) that they interspersed with jokes in English which sent the audience into roars of laughter.

Rare Kual also took the opportunity to deliver a moral message to the audience inviting them not to smoke, as cigarettes are harmful to the body’s health.

At the end of their performance he advised the public to help maintain the cultural diversity of Indonesia amid the shocks of globalized culture.

Aside from the great artists mentioned above, the closing of the FTF 2017 that started at noon and went on til night also included performances by indie bands, such as Deev Band, Cricket Band, Netix Band, Vivo Band, Ball on Garis Lima n’ Band, Sunk in the Sea, Dek Bams Solo Drums, Rey Rock, Maha Band, Malaikat Band and IMAS with of their hit singles. (win)

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Dynamics of Bali tourism

Existence of villas must be monitored

DENPASAR — Condition of Bali tourism is changing with the times. Milestone of tourism development in Bali has existed since the construction of the Hotel Inna Grand Bali Beach.

Since then, the development of tourism, hotel in particular, is increasingly growing. Yet over the times, the presence of villas began to draw the interest of tourists to stay. The superiority offered by villas is privacy.

According to an academician from the Udayana University, Prof. Nyoman Darma Putra, villa accommodation creates a special market in Bali. As evidence, a lot of villa has been established, and tourists like to stay in the villas because they are more private than staying in stared-rated hotels marked with the presence of many guests and standard rooms. In addition, guests can organize a party if necessary. In other words, by staying at villa they can hold a private party with friends and family on vacation.

Villa can be leased with time share system. It means that people can own or rent a villa, and then it is rented again to others if they do not use. With the current AirBnB booking system, many villas are offered on

Newly opened Haute is adding opulence to the glamorous Seminyak dining and social scene from its perch on the rooftop studios of Alila Seminyak in Petitenget, Bali.

Fashionable and graceful, Haute is all about understated elegance and with its own special character, designed strongly in masculine vision with a dash of sexiness in ev-

ery corner, sullen-silky and glowing lighting, with leather bar-stools, warm delicate velvet couches, an inviting and refined atmosphere and a gigantic bar set-up that caters to the Seminyak vibrant lifestyle.

Indulge in an elegant array of fresh delectable dishes, specially crafted by its master chef as you enjoy panoramic rooftop ocean views and sunset celebrations while

EVERY MONDAY Movie Monday19:00-21:00 Genius Cafe- Home to the entrepreneur Beach CLub Mertasari Beach (Next to Mercure), Sanur EVERY TUESDAY Ecstatic contact dance: Transformative journey Paradiso Ubud, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud 100k includes dinner

Facilities remain less maximal

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the website via the AirBnB. The presence of the villa positively provides the form of attractiveness and ‘new’ facilities in accordance with the needs of tourists.

“Negatively, they are not subject to tax coverage. It is the duty of the government to monitor them in order to operate in accordance with the provisions of taxation,” he said. In Bali, there has been an organization of villa entrepreneurs. It is expected to work together to organize the villas including its standards, criteria, and tax obligations. The IHGMA Advisory Board, Gusti Kade Sutawa, revealed that not all guests are interested in staying at villa. Actually, there are guests that like to stay at hotels, while some others like to stay at villas.

According to the Deputy Chairman of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesia Hotel General Manager Association (IHGMA), I Made Ramia Adnyana, guests do not always want to stay at villa because each guest has its own characteristics. “Some guests may choose privacy, intimacy and natural atmosphere so they tend to choose villa even though the price offered is higher because the concept offered by villa is more personalized service. Conversely, there are guests that like to stay at hotel so as to be more crowded and convenience with a more affordable price,” he explained. (kmb42)

Tanah Lot is one of the main attraction for tourists in Bali

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SO far, Bangli region still lacks of many tourism facilities. One of them is toilet at Penelokan tourist attraction. On the condition, the district government of Bangli in this case the tourism office is asked to be able to build the supporting facilities.A tour guide, I Putu Winastra, said that to develop and promote tourism, especially in Bangli, many things still need to be improved, ranging from facilities and infrastructure. He said that until now it still does not have supporting facilities such as toilet at the Penelokan tourist object.

“Until now, this tourist object absolutely has no toilet for tourists wishing to use it. All this time, tourists are very difficult to find a toilet to defecate and so forth. This should be considered by district government in the future. To attract more tourist visit, facilities and infrastructure must be considered in order to provide comfort and satisfaction for visitors,” he said.

Winastra added that so far there have been no significant changes made in Bangli although the admis-

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sion ticket to Kintamani has been increased since last few years for foreign tourists to IDR 30,000 and domestic tourist to IDR 15,000.

“Previously, the ticket price for foreign tourists was IDR 15,000 while domestic tourist at IDR 10,000,” he said.He added that there are indeed some improvements made by the government of Bangli to support tourism where visitors are no longer parking along the road side at Penelokan. However, many things still need to be improved in the future. Based on the information obtained, he said, the local government will soon set up Penelokan tourist attraction. Therefore, he hoped the plan can be realized as soon as possible. In addition, he also hoped the services provided for visiting tourists who could be better. When the given service is maximal, then visitors will feel comfortable.“If visitors have felt comfortable, they will be happy and want to come back to Bangli.

Hopefully, the tourism potential can be further improved so that tourist visit to Bangli can increase,” he hoped. (nan)

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SAN DIEGO - After smashing box office records this year, Wonder Woman received the loudest cheers among the DC superheroes gathered on Saturday at San Diego’s annual Comic-Con to present new footage and trailers for Warner Bros’ expanding comic book film franchise.

A teaser of Warner Bros’ upcoming superhero films shown to the 6,500 attendees at the panel gave a glimpse of “Wonder Woman II,” a presumed sequel to June’s “Wonder Woman” movie that is on track this weekend to become the second-highest grossing movie of 2017.

No further details were revealed about “Wonder Woman II,” but star Gal Gadot joined Ben Affleck (Batman), Ezra Miller (Flash), Ray Fisher (Cyborg) and Jason Momoa (Aquaman), to present the latest trailer for November’s “Justice League” movie, which will unite the DC superheroes.

Affleck said he was “the luckiest guy in the world” and “so thrilled” to play the caped crusader, dispelling trade publication The Hollywood Reporter’s report this week that his future as Batman was uncertain.

The latest trailer picks up after the death of Superman from last year’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and shows Batman and Wonder Woman

joined by the Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman to fight supervillain Steppenwolf.

Wonder Woman says “They said age of heroes would never come again,” as Batman tells her, “it has to.”

“All of these characters are dealing with personal issues and they come together and are able to use those circumstances to save the world, which is beautiful,” Fisher said.

In his excitement after watching the new trailer, the muscle-bound Momoa threw his chair across the stage, breaking it and briefly sitting on the floor.

Momoa also debuted the first look at the standalone “Aquaman” movie, and revealed the aquatic superhero will be battling his brother, the supervillain Ocean Master, in the film due out next year.

The avid fan base at Comic-Con, a gathering of pop and nerd culture fans, were also shown footage of Warner Bros’ upcoming sci-fi films “Ready Player One” and “Blade Runner 2049.” (rtr)

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This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder Woman.”

Marvel brings hammerless Thor, new king Black Panther for Comic-Con

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Cast members Chris Hemsworth (L) and Tom Hiddleston at a panel for “Thor: Ragnarok” during the 2017 Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, California, U.S., July 22, 2017.

SAN DIEGO - Thor has lost his invincible hammer and Black Panther shoulders the responsibility of being a new king, in exclusive scenes shown from Disney’s Marvel studios’ upcoming superhero movies at San Diego’s Comic-Con. One of the most high-profile draws of the annual convention for pop and nerd culture fans, Marvel’s star-studded panel session on Saturday kicked off with “Thor: Ragnarok,” due in theaters in November.

Director Taika Waititi joined stars Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo,

Tom Hiddleston and Cate Blanchett to discuss how the Norse god has evolved in the film, specifically as he has lost his power-wielding hammer, is trapped on a planet named Sakaar and has to fight in a gladiator contest with the Hulk.

“I’ve played this character five times now ... I got a bit bored with myself and wanted to make something different,” Hemsworth said.

Comedy weaves through a trailer that shows Thor meeting the Hulk and filling him in on his status, saying “I’m doing my own thing now, I’m not really hanging out with the Avengers anymore, it

all got very corporate.”

As supervillain Hela (Blanchett) takes over Thor’s home planet of Asgard, he must recruit the help of the superheroes, including his mischievous brother Loki, to stop Hela and prevent Ragnarok - the end of the world.

Avid fans, many of whom lined up overnight to get into the 6,500seat Hall H, gave a rousing standing ovation for the first footage from 2018’s “Black Panther,” in which Chadwick Boseman plays T’Challa, the new king of fictional African nation Wakanda, who is also a deadly superhero. (rtr)

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WARSAW — Poland’s president announced Monday that he will veto two contentious bills which were widely seen as assaults on the independence of the judicial system by the ruling party and that sparked days of nationwide protests. The decision marks the first time Andrzej Duda has broken openly with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the powerful leader of the ruling Law and Justice party. Duda was hand-picked by Kaczynski as the party’s presidential candidate in 2015 and has loyally supported the party’s conservative, nationalist agenda until now.

Duda appeared to take party leaders by surprise with a move that, at least for now, halts the party’s attempts to consolidate its power. The party’s moves over the past two years, including a successful neutralizing of the constitutional court, have raised concerns about rule of law in a country long considered a model of democratic transition.

As Kaczynski arrived at his office for an emergency party meeting following Duda’s announcement, he refused to answer reporters’ ques-

tions and appeared tense. Mateusz Morawiecki, the deputy prime minister and one of the most prominent figures in the party and government, said he was “surprised and disillusioned.” Lech Walesa — the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, democracy leader and ex-president — praised Duda’s step, calling it “a difficult and a courageous decision.”

Crowds outside the presidential palace chanted “We thank you!” and chanted the names of Polish towns where protests had erupted repeatedly over more than a week.

Duda said he would veto the two most controversial bills out of three recently passed by lawmakers aimed at overhauling the judicial system. One would have put the Supreme Court under the political control of the ruling party, giving the justice minister, who is also prosecutor general, power to appoint judges. Duda said the country’s justice system as it works now needs reform, but he said the planned overhaul threatened to create an oppressive system and that the protests of recent days

show that the changes would divide society.

He said that there is no tradition in Poland for a prosecutor general to have such large powers and he would not agree to that now.

He said that he consulted many experts before making his decision, including lawyers, sociologists, politicians and even philosophers.

He did not mention having consulted with either Kaczynski or Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, in what might be another sign of a rift with party leaders. He also noted that he had not been consulted by the ruling party on the legislation, a break with procedure. He said the person who influenced him most was Zofia Romaszewska, a leading anti-communist dissident in the 1970s and 1980s.

He said Romaszewska told him: “Mr. President, I lived in a state where the prosecutors general had an unbelievably powerful position and could practically do everything. I would not like to go back to such a state.” Duda said he was also vetoing a bill changing the functioning of the National Council of the Judiciary. The change would have given lawmakers greater power over the courts.

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