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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

‘Game of Thrones’ author teases two possible new books in 2018

LOS ANGELES - Author George R.R. Martin has hinted at the possibility of not one but two new “Game of Thrones” books in 2018, whetting the appetites of fans who have been waiting for the next installment of the epic saga since 2011.

Martin, whose “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels were adapted into HBO’s hit medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” currently is working on the sixth installment, “Winds of Winter,” continuing the story from 2011’s “A Dance With Dragons.”

“I am still working on it, I am still months away (how many? good question), I still have good days and bad days, and that’s all I care to say,” Martin wrote on his blog, grrm.livejournal.com,

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Jim Hampshire, dressed as a character from “Game of Thrones,” attends the opening day of Comic Con International in San Diego, California, U.S., July 20, 2017.

during the weekend.

“I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018... and who knows, maybe two. A boy can dream...,” he said.

The seventh season of the television show, which premiered this month, already has advanced beyond the events of Martin’s published books.

There have been recent contradictory reports about “Winds of Winter” - that Martin had not even been started it or that he had finished it but was holding it back - and the author dismissed those as “equally false and equally moronic.”

“Game of Thrones” follows the epic story of warring families in a multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne, which rules over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Wildfires lay waste to hillsides along French Riviera

Martin has come under fire from avid “Game of Thrones” fans for taking so long to finish “Winds of Winter” and starting work on other projects. The author said in his blog post that he was working on a two-part history of Westeros’ Targaryen kings called “Fire and Blood,” with the first part to be released sometime late 2018 or early 2019.

A trailer for the HBO show, released last week, shows a brewing battle between Cersei Lannister, who currently sits on the Iron Throne, and Daenerys Targaryen, who has traveled with her army and dragons to reclaim her ancestral home.

The series will conclude next year with the eighth season, which will reveal who will sit on the Iron Throne. A series of spin-offs is being developed at HBO. (rtr)

NICE/MARSEILLE - Firefighters battled wind-whipped infernos along the French Riviera coast on Tuesday as the flames torched vegetation on hills overlooking glitzy Mediterranean resorts thronged by summer holidaymakers. Local authorities said several firefighters were injured and one hospitalised but there were no immediate reports of deaths, unlike with similar wildfires that have killed dozens elsewhere in southern Europe, notably Portugal.

Brokenhearted Linkin Park remember Bennington - and his demons LOS ANGELES - California rock band Linkin Park said on Monday the suicide of frontman Chester Bennington had left them brokenhearted but recalled it was Bennington’s demons that had made fans fall in love with the band.

In their first statement since Bennington’s suicide at his Southern California home last week, the remaining members of Linkin Park said they did not know “what path our future may take.”

The alt-rock band on Friday canceled its North American tour that had been due to start on July 27.

Bennington, 41, had a history

of alcohol and drug abuse and depression and had spoken openly in the past about his struggles when Linkin Park first found fame in 2000 with their best-selling debut album “Hybrid Theory.”

“Dear Chester, Our hearts are broken,” the band said in a statement.

“Your absence leaves a void that can never be filled - a boisterous, funny, ambitious, creative, kind, generous voice in the room is missing. We’re trying to remind ourselves that the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal. After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in

love with you in the first place. You fearlessly put them on display, and in doing so, brought us together and taught us to be more human,” the statement added.

Bennington, who was twice married, leaves six children. The band said they and the singer’s wife Talinda and his family appreciated the love and support shown by fans and other musicians over his death.

Bennington was the second American rock star to die by suicide in the last two months. Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, 52, a close friend of Bennington, hanged himself in a Detroit hotel room in May. (rtr)

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Fans gather at Revolucion monument to pay tribute to Chester Bennington, Linkin Park frontman, following the singer’s death by suicide, in Mexico City, Mexico, July 23, 2017.

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An anti-fire Canadair airplane drops water over a forest fire near La Croix-Valmer, southern France, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes fanned by high winds in more than a dozen zones in the Riviera region of southern France.

One blaze that erupted late on Monday, near the Croix Valmer resort and the yacht-filled marinas of Saint-Tropez, sent clouds of thick smoke into azure skies within view of busy beaches.

Authorities said that blaze had engulfed 650 hectares of land in one of several spots where fires prompted closure of parts of the local road network, a rail line and at one stage part of the A51 motorway in the southeastern corner of France.

Weather forecasters said strong winds would persist for another day or two days at least, heightening the risk that even spots where firefighters were close to containing the flames could fall prey to another flare-up.

One of the blazes was thought to have been started by a bolt of lightning, but carelessly discarded cigarette butts are often blamed for setting tinderbox areas of the midsummer southern coast alight.

Another fire that scorched at least 800 hectares of land in the picturesque Vaucluse region further inland was believed to be under control on Tuesday morning, local firefighters said. But a further blaze was meanwhile ripping through swathes of hillside on the island of Corsica that lies off the French coast in a corner of the Mediterranean near Italy.

Upwards of 1,400 hectares of forest and woodland had already been destroyed by fire by Monday

night, when a small number of people in the village of Mirabeau and a dozen horses were evacuated to safety, authorities said. More than 270 firefighters were forced to fight another blaze in Carros, north of Nice, which burned a house, three vehicles and a warehouse.

Experts blamed a combination of a lack of rain and the Mistral wind fanning the flames in the already tinderbox-dry conditions.

Authorities said the Var department, which includes Saint-Tropez and much of the Riviera, has been placed at an unprecedented level of threat of forest fires. The south of the department, which also includes the resorts of Frejus, Saint-Maxime and Toulon, was graded an “exceptional” risk of a blaze with the north of the department judged “very severe”.The south of the Alpesde-Haute-Provence was also “very severe” and the Bouches-du-Rhone department ordered people to stay away from several mountain areas surrounding Marseille and Aix-enProvence due to the risks. Peyrolles was among the areas hit by fire in Bouches-du-Rhone. (ap) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Bali News

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Many tourism villages underdeveloped

Do not just ask for decree, management demanded to do promotion

A farmer is harvesting his flower plant.

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Narrow land, farmers have no market orientation

DENPASAR - There are differences between farmers in Bali in particular from farmers overseas. Farmers overseas can manage farmland up to hundreds of hectares, while farmers in Bali only work on land 0.25 hectare. In terms of intensification, foreign farmers are also very advanced.

“We do not produce with the orientation for market needs. Even though the market need is available, only a little they can supply because the land area is only 0.25 hectare per farmer,” said Dewa Sadguna, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Warmadewa University, on Monday (Jul. 24).

For example, tulip farms in the Netherlands, peanut farm in Arizona and so forth are very wide. In Bali, the cultivated land remains small. “Nevertheless, it does not mean we are not concerned about it. The

most important to Balinese farmers is that he does the activities with pleasure. If the results can be accepted by community and farmers are happy, that’s enough.

Financially, they do not think about a bigger farm. Most importantly, they can eat and be happy,” he concluded.

Simplicity of the way of thinking makes Balinese farmers have no market orientation. Aside from the application of technology, Balinese farmers also lose far away from overseas farmers. The technology in use is not yet modern. “Unlike farmers overseas, they do watering by airplane,” he said. In terms of education, Balinese farmers also have low levels of education.

In the meantime, the interest of young people to be farmers has not been so high. It happens because younger generation has not seen the results of creative and innovative farming. According to him, by farming farmers can actually improve their prosperity. (kmb42)

BANGLI — In Bangli, there are 27 tourism villages developed to be made into tourist destination.

However, among the tourism villages owned, only a few of them are capable of developing, while the remaining villages are difficult as if they are still ‘dormant.’

Promotion Division Head of the Bangli Tourism and Culture Agency, I Wayan Merta, did not dismiss on Monday (Jul. 24) that of the 27 tourism villages in Bangli, only a few are able to develop, while the remaining is unable to develop maximally. “Of the many tourism villages, only a few can develop, such as Penglipuran. To advance all of them is required seriousness of all parties ranging from the management to local residents,” he said.

With such conditions, he said, the management and local community actually play an important role to promote the tourism village pursuant to their seriousness. Both parties must be more proactive to promote their tourism village in order to be able to develop well.

Thus, the management does not depend on the government to promote the tourism village. To that end, it must synergize with relevant agencies to create programs related to tourism development at the village.

According to him, actually the 27 tourism villages have very ordinary potential ranging from the aspect of nature, handicraft to agriculture. If they can be developed well, it is not impossible the tourism villages managed will develop by degrees in the future.

“The government has already issued the decree of tourism village. Having got the decree, the tourism village should more actively manage and promote their tourist village. For example, it

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can be done through social media and other ways. So, we hope the underdeveloped tourism villages can vivaciously promote theirs. At least, they can get the advantages of tourist visit in the future. Additionally, the government will also help promote them,” he said.

Furthermore, the improvement of facilities and infrastructure including human resources must also be carried out to support the development of tourist object. Without these supports, it will be difficult for them to develop. “For example, improvement of infrastructure such as parking space, application of seven charms in the field is supporting elements for the development of tourism villages,” said Merta.

In the meantime, Regent of Bangli, I Made Gianyar, previously said that many tourism villages are still underdeveloped and it is not the mistake of government. It happens because the villages have very minimal spirit to develop their tourism potential. Besides, many of them have not owned a clear management. “The regent has provided an opportunity to move forward. To be able to develop, it will depend on the spirit of the village itself, do not blame on the government,” he said.

He requested that in the future more and more tourism villages in Bangli will be developed like Penglipuran, so the underdeveloped tourism villages will start moving and vivaciously develop their potential. Moreover, the funds managed by the villages are quite large, both from village fund allocation (ADD) and village funds (DD). “Now, whether the tourism is advanced or not will highly depend on the management of the community at the local village,” concluded Made Gianyar. (kmb41)

Sweet Summertime at Beachwalk Shopping Center

FASHION STARTS HERE! Beachwalk Shopping Center is back with “SWEET SUMMERTIME” and brings up a fashion theme during this July 2017.

Beachwalk always offers a new atmosphere with a new spirit and bunch of promotions during this summer holiday. Beachwalk Shop-

ping Center as the number one fashion destination still has its’ special promo on “BEACHWALK SUMMER SALE” which cannot be missed to all shopaholics.

“BEACHWALK SUMMER SALE” is being participated by stores and restaurants that providing a variety of discounts and at-

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Penglipuran, one of the tourism villages in Bangli

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tractive promo up to 70% for the Customers. Countless discounts are given by tenants such as Topshop, TopMan, Zara, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Bershka, H&M, and many other exciting deals.

Moreover, shoppers will be pampered with a range of new store and dining options at Beachwalk Shopping Center. Brandy Melville’s first store in Indonesia that bringing the staple shoppers need to stay classy with sass. The reopening Eat & Eat and MM Juice restaurants at level 3 would bring new ambience since they are just back with the new concept which properly designed for dining with family and friends.

After the great achievement in the previous year, Beachwalk Shopping Center and HIPMI Bali come up again on annual fashion event “HIPMI Bali Fashion Week 2017” that brings new theme “Fashion in the Island”. Through this event, all fashion lovers can find out the latest trends in Bali and looking for new creative experts in the field of fashion. This event will introduce the local fashion designers in Bali and offer a line of entertaining performances, such as; fashion shows, fashion talk shows, design competitions as well as variant of multi-local product exhibition. “HIPMI Bali Fashion Week 2017” is held on 6th - 16th July 2017 at Fountain Stage Level 1.

Furthermore, Beachwalk Shopping Center also has regular activity as a tourist attraction. Every Thursday Beachwalk and HIPMI Gianyar regularly present “UBUD CULTURAL EXPERIENCE” .

Both International and Domestic Customers can interactively relish the experience and learn more about Balinese culture exclusively in Ubud regency like learning traditional Balinese dance, Balinese Drama Musical, how to create Balinese offering (Canang) and

Balinese traditional dessert called Jaja Bali. This cultural experience is conducted at the Deck Stage, Beachwalk level 1. Moreover there’s also another interactive event called “MEET THE BIRD STARS” will be held on July 9th 2017 at Deck Stage Beachwalk level 1. Customers can meet and having interaction with the exotic birds by Bali Bird Park.

Visitors always have the opportunity to win the various prizes on this July’s SHOP & WIN program; those are Instant Rewards and Lucky Draw. By spending at a minimum purchase of IDR 500,000 (single receipt), customers can get instant rewards such as beauty

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products, shopping vouchers, restaurant vouchers, Go-Pay vouchers and many more. There is something special on this SHOP & WIN July 2017. By spending at a minimum purchase of IDR 2,000,000 (max.

2 receipts), customers will get the chance to win instant rewards and special lucky draw prize 1 night stay at Natya Hotel & Resort and Holiday package 4 days 3 nights to Labuan Bajo for 2 persons.

Beachwalk Shopping Center always presents the unique experiences for tourists and shoppers. The various monthly programs offer more attractions in Kuta and emphasizing the Beachwalk Shopping Center’s tagline, “Bali Starts Here”.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Technology

International

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Japan launches “telework” campaign to ease congestion, reform work culture

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Workers inspect an electric taxi at The London Taxi Company’s new facility near Coventry, Britain March 22, 2017.

Britain launches fund to boost electric battery technology

BIRMINGHAM - Britain launched a 246 million-pound ($320 million) fund on Monday to boost the development and manufacturing of electric batteries, a major growth area for the car and energy sectors.

The scheme, which allows those in business and academia to apply for government funds to work on a range of possible electric battery schemes, is part of Britain’s industrial strategy which Prime Minister Theresa May published in January.

It is designed to take a more hands-on approach to developing key industries to help protect the economy as Britain leaves the European Union.

Automakers are racing to build greener vehicles and improve charge times in a bid to meet rising customer demand and meet air quality targets but Britain lacks sufficient manufacturing capacity, an area ministers are keen to build up.

The first tranche comprises a 45 million-pound pot of money which will help to establish a ‘Battery Institute’ for research to help improve the affordability of the technology, which needs to bolster charge and use times, reduce storage sizes and boost capacity.

Business minister Greg Clark also wants to establish a “National Battery Manufacturing Development facility” which would support the building of electric batteries for the automotive sector.

“Joining together the research, development, application and manufacture of energy storage tech-

nologies – and specifically battery storage – is a huge opportunity for the energy sector and the automotive sector alike,” Clark said in a speech in Birmingham.

In May, representatives from politics, academia and business in the central English city of Coventry pitched plans to receive part of the funds for a “National Battery Prototyping Centre” which would focus on research and development and testing.

Japan’s Nissan already builds its electric Leaf at its north of England plant but Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is building its first low-emissions model in Austria.

Its chief executive told Reuters last year that a number of factors needed to be put in place before JLR would build electric models in Britain, including pilot testing and support from science.

Germany’s BMW favours building its first electric model at its Oxford plant, two sources told Reuters last week, in a decision which is due to be announced in September.

Clark also said that up to 40 billion pounds could be saved by 2050 with a range of measures designed to better manage energy use, including allowing users to control their appliances from their smartphones.

But businesses have become more cautious about future investment in Britain ahead of Brexit, worried that the country may lose unfettered and free trade with its biggest export partner at the end of two-year divorce talks in March 2019. (rtr)

TOKYO - Japan on Monday launched a scheme to promote “telework”, or working from home, in an effort to ease congestion when Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics, as well as soften a notoriously rigid work culture.

Almost 930 companies, including Suntory Holdings, Ajinomoto Co, and Tokyu Construction Co are participating in “Telework Day,” to be held on July 24 each year from now until the Olympics opening ceremony set for July 24, 2020.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has introduced policies to shorten working hours, raise contract workers’ pay, and curb abuse of labour laws. Telework could be another way to reform working practices that some say are behind the times.

“Once the Olympics start it will be hard to get to work, so we are doing this as an experiment,” said Takashi Kozu, 61, president of the Ricoh Institute of Sustainability and Business.

“The lifestyles of younger generations are changing, so firms should offer alternative work styles to maintain employees’ incentive.”

Kozu said he worked from home on Monday morning, planned to attend an off-site meeting in the afternoon and would not show up in the office until early evening.

Telework is more common in other

countries, especially in the information technology sector, where employees regularly use teleconferencing or log on from the neighbourhood cafe.

But it has been slow to catch on in other industries in Japan, partly because firms have put a lot of emphasis on being physically present at the office, often for 12 hours or more.

But Japan, Inc. is starting to change its ways and introduce more flexible work hours. As the population ages, the labour force is shrinking at an alarming rate, and a hard-driving work culture makes it difficult to attract and retain workers.

Some companies are starting to realise that long, inflexible hours of work actually keep labour productivity low.

In some cases Japan’s working culture can be fatal, and it is not uncommon for workers to commit suicide or suffer a stroke because of excessive hours.

“We are doing this for the Olympics, but the long-term goal is to have more humane working conditions,” said Hiroshi Ohnishi, a planner at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, which is promoting “Telework Day.” “In the past, working long hours was considered a virtue, but this thinking will not hold up in the future.” (rtr)

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Passengers ride an overcrowded train at a station in Kawasaki, Japan June 14, 2017.

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Water crisis threat getting more complex

People pay less attention as being invisible

DENPASAR — The threat of water crisis in Bali can be regarded as a complex problem. It happens due to the decrease in quantity of underground water or seawater intrusion that cannot be seen by naked eyes. On the other hand, people only see who is wrong in this matter.

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Most tourists coming to the Waterblow want to see the conditions of pounding waves hitting the cliffs and resulting in splashes into the air.

Tourists still stubborn to breach Waterblow MANGUPURA — After the incident causing tourist to get injured during a visit to Waterblow area, Nusa Dua, some time ago, the area was once closed. The area better known with its pounding waves was then re-opened on Sunday (Jul. 23). Moreover, a number of tourists seemed to have visited the object.

Nevertheless, the barrier installed to prevent from crossing

by ITDC authority in the area was even much violated by tourists. So, security guards on duty seemed to be made powerless. Such offense was not only committed by one tourist, but by some tourists whereas their tour guide has reminded them there was an accident due to ferocious waves a few days ago.

“Obviously, we have warned, but they are stubborn. They may be just deterrent after there is an incident,” complained the security guard.

Most tourists coming to the Waterblow want to see the conditions of pounding waves hitting the cliffs and resulting in splashes into the air. It draws the curiosity of tourists to approach and take selfie where sometimes they take position rather close the edge of the cliff.

Managing Director of the ITDC Nusa Dua, Wayan Karioka, when confirmed cannot be questioned.

Previously, chief of Bualu customary village, Wayan Wita, had warned the ITDC management to pay attention to security aspects of tourists making a visit to the location. If there is an incident claiming fatalities, surely it will bring in a negative image for the region itself.

Actually the presence of the officers on duty at the location is expected to appeal to tourists that are still considered stubborn. They can explain about the season, the impact and risks that may occur when the rules installed are violated. If the information can be presented clearly, surely tourists will understand and obey the rules well.

“As a chief of customary village, I hope in the current season the Waterblow area can be well guarded.

Sudden spurt of water phenomenon is sometimes not known by tourists.

This should be alerted by the ITDC officers. Hopefully, with good supervision the security and comfort of tourists can be well maintained when they visit the Waterblow,” he concluded. (kmb)

“Or they may feel there is no water crisis because they can still use water and all sorts of things. However, we actually see this invisible threat, precisely under the ground where the clean water is located,” said Resource Development Manager of IDEP Foundation, Doni Marmer, in Denpasar, last Sunday (Jul. 23).

Doni added that water crisis concerns with the availability of water, water security and ease to access it. In terms of availability, the underground water reserves currently begin to decrease. This condition will be hazardous when the empty space of underground water is then filled in by seawater. If there is intrusion of seawater, the water cannot be used or consumed. In terms of security, a lot of pollution has actually been created by human unconsciously.

“For example, we are using chemicals in our waterways and littering our waterways. Apparently, the crisis will even happen faster than the solutions made to prevent the water crisis,” he added.

In means, continued Doni, even if there is water it has already been contaminated as well and can be categorized into a threat of water crisis. In the city of Denpasar in particular, the water crisis is more emerging because the amount is not enough and the water has begun to get contaminated. It also includes the area of North Denpasar having a little more green

belt compared to other areas of Denpasar.

“Although there are a lot of paddy fields (green belt—Ed.), farmers are using chemicals, and people are littering. I think these make us unable to use water or will lead us to the water crisis,” he explained.

Communication Officer of the Bali Water Protection Program at IDEP Foundation, Julien Goalabre, said that people tend to see problems arising first before thinking of how to find the solution. Actually, the existing indications today are enough to make the movement of water crisis prevention. The lack of water underground or the intrusion of seawater cannot be seen with naked eyes like the matter of plastic waste.

“People do not believe. In other words, it does not affect their lives directly because they cannot see whereas chemicals have entered their bodies and pollution has been already in the skin. Then, the water they consume has decreased in quality. Balinese people do not realize these so far,” he said.

Julien added that this basic understanding is not yet widely owned by the community. Although they have high educational background, their concern for environmental issues is still fairly low. Therefore, his institution continues to campaign for the protection of ground water of Bali to hone the public’s sensitivity. The campaigns involve more industrial sectors as they are believed to be able to help change people’s perceptions.

“Bali depends on various sectors, one of which is tourism sector. When the big industries say there is a water crisis, we have to do something. Definitely, the implications will go to the community as well because it’s their livelihood,” he concluded. (kmb32)

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The underground water reserves currently begin to decrease. This condition will be hazardous when the empty space of underground water is then filled in by seawater.

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International

Coral reefs in Nusa Lembongan damaged

SYDNEY - Australia will accept several dozen Central American refugees within the next few months, two sources familiar with the process told Reuters, the first transfers under a controversial refugee swap arrangement agreed with the United States.

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Some fishermen switch to other professions in order to get more convincing income.

Story of Kusamba fishermen

Fish catch difficult, they prefer to be porter

Canberra pledged to take an unspecified number of Central American refugees under a deal struck with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year.

In exchange, Washington said it would accept up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian immigration centres in the Pacific Island nations of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru that Australia wants to close.

A group of approximately 30 refugees from El Salvador currently being held in Costa Rica will move to Australia in the next couple of months, the two sources said, with a second group of a similar size to follow shortly afterwards.

“The group have been vetted and will likely move in the (northern hemisphere) fall,” said one source, who was not authorised to speak to media about the arrangements.

A spokesman for Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to comment.

Officials at United States Citizenship and Immigrations Services (USCIS) and the State Department’s

Population, Refugees and Migration bureau did not respond to requests for comment outside regular office hours. The U.S. Embassy in Canberra did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The transfer of the Salvadoran refugees to Australia will focus attention on U.S. steps to uphold its end of the agreement, described by President Donald Trump as a “dumb deal” for America.

None of the refugees on PNG’s Manus Island or Nauru - mostly men from the Middle East and South Asia - have been approved to move to the United States yet. Earlier this month, U.S. officials halted screening interviews after the United States reached its annual refugee intake cap.

POINT OF TENSION There are about 200 refugees in Costa Rica as part of a programme set up by former President Obama last year for people deemed too vulnerable to remain in their Central American homelands. Once vetted for criminal associations, including

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Kusamba Beach is one of the few beaches in Klungkung having black sand. It looks glowing in the sunshine. The sea wave is quite calm and not too big. It will look more beautiful when crashed to shore. Amid such scenery, a number of boats emerge. Their color is predominantly white in quite large size. The boats are used by fishermen to catch fish while struggling against staggering waves.

In warm atmosphere, a person is seen passing by and taking a number of items to be moved onto the ship that will leave for Nusa Penida islands. He is Gusti Nyoman Wata, 60. Amid his busy life, he is not awkward to tell a bit about his life as fishermen on the beach. His fate

is not different from the profession as farmers. Both are equally unable to give a hope and prosperity. Fish is no longer abundant in the middle of the ocean. Not infrequently, he has to come from the sea with empty hands, chiefly when bad weather hits. Such condition is slowly causing some residents to stop fishing.

Some fishermen are rumored to have sold their boat. “Many people quit as it is hard enough to fish,” he said, recently.

To survive, those who stopped fishing choose other profession like him. Being a porter that moves goods onto ship becomes his option. The proceedings are considered more convincing and definite, ranging from IDR 80,000 per day.

This job is carried out from the morning until noon. Occasionally he does it until the afternoon, depending on the quantity of goods.

“It is difficult to look for another job, and this becomes an option,” he said.

Head of the Klungkung Food Security and Fisheries Agency, I Wayan Durma, said that based on the latest data, the fishermen in Klungkung amounts to 73 groups.

They mostly live in Nusa Penida.

He did not dismiss if some of them have stopped lately. But according to him, it did not happen due to getting less fish catch, but due to old age. “The fishermen stopped indeed because of their old age,” he added. (sos)

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Detainees walk around the compound among water bottles inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Picture taken February 11, 2017. gangs, they are eligible for resettlement in the United States, while others can be transferred to third countries as part of a United Nations scheme.

The Trump administration has said it would honour the swap agreement to maintain its strong

relationship with Australia, subject to the refugees satisfying strict vetting checks.

Trump’s initial resistance to the deal strained relations with a key Asia Pacific ally, triggering a fractious phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

earlier this year.

Turnbull, under pressure in opinion polls and from within his own party, can ill afford for the United States to renege on the agreement, said Sean Kelly, an adviser to former Australian Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. (rtr)

Chinese jets intercept U.S. surveillance plane -U.S. officials

PROFESSION as fishermen is still pursued by a number of people in Klungkung district.

One of them can be found in the coastal village of Kusamba, Dawan subdistrict. However, in its development, the number tends to decrease. Some choose to switch to other professions in order to get more convincing income.

In order to restore damage coral reefs, investors are asked to participate in conservation.

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Regent asks investors to undertake conservation

SEMARAPURA — Damage to coral reefs in the waters of Nusa Penida gets attention from the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta. Admittedly, these days it is quite common to happen. In order to restore them, investors are asked to participate in conservation. This was confirmed amid the plenary session of the Klungkung House of Representatives on Monday (Jul. 24).

This regent from Nusa Ceningan said the damage was known when monitoring by using a speed boat. If referring to the Law No. 23/2014, the authority of marine management lies in the provincial government. It means any arising problems will be handled directly by it. Nevertheless, his government continues to perform recovery measures, one of them by asking for the third party, in this case the investor that utilize the potential of the region.

“How to involve the third parties, in this case investors, to participate, we’ll discuss. All diving guides should also educate their guests, do not only chase for quantity because our environment will be getting more threatened,” he said.

If only waiting for the funds from central government, according to Suwirta, the handling of coral reef cannot be done quickly.

Moreover, there are rules that have not been finalized and are difficult to be interpreted. For instance, the budget worth IDR 1.5 billion received from central government for conservation fund cannot be utilized. “It is just like being hungry but still having many leftovers,” he said.

To accelerate the completion of this issue, the Klungkung food security and fisheries agency has been asked to follow up. “Do not let this extraordinary potential, having been established as a marine conservation area (KKP), get no attention,” he said.

Suwirta asserted if not immediately responded, the damage to coral reef is considered to be getting more serious. Such condition is getting worse if coupled with the action of investors dumping waste into the sea. “Many pontoons are installed at the location.

Recently, there is a permit issued by the province, I cannot talk much. Water sport business is increasing,” he said.

To avoid the emergence of other problems, we will prepare a management board for tourism in Nusa Penida. “It is being prepared, we will not rush. Everything has its process, we see the potential but do not breach rules,” he said.

Chief of Nusa Penida Lovers Community, Nyoman Widana, said that to anticipate the damage, it is required a strict sanction imposed to violators. “Without hard sanction, the sustainability and other things will be less thought,” he said. (kmb45)

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A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries aircraft is directed by ground crew after a flight from Bahrain September 25, 2017.

WASHINGTON - Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane over the East China Sea at the weekend, with one jet coming within about 300 feet (91 meters) of the American aircraft, U.S. officials said on Monday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said initial reports showed one of the Chinese J-10 aircraft came close enough to the U.S. EP-3 plane on Sunday to cause the American aircraft to change direction.

One of the officials said the Chinese jet was armed and the interception happened 80 nautical miles (148 km) from the Chinese city of Qingdao.

The Pentagon said the encounter between the aircraft was unsafe, but added that the vast majority of interactions were safe.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang referred questions to the “relevant department”, a reference to the

defence ministry, which has yet to comment.

The United States had frequently carried out surveillance activities near China’s coast, Lu told a daily news briefing.

“This is not conducive to mutual trust between the Chinese and U.S. militaries, and constitutes a threat to China’s legitimate security,” Lu added.

“We hope the United States can cease this kind of surveillance activity.”

Incidents such as Sunday’s intercept are relatively common.

In May, two Chinese SU-30 aircraft intercepted a U.S. aircraft designed to detect radiation while it was flying in international air space over the East China Sea. China closely monitors any U.S. military activity around its coastline.

In 2001, an intercept of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet resulted in a collision that killed the Chinese pilot and forced

the American plane to make an emergency landing at a base on Hainan.

The 24 U.S. air crew members were held for 11 days until Washington apologized for the incident. That encounter soured U.S.-Chinese relations in the early days of President George W. Bush’s first term in office.

Separately, the Pentagon said the U.S. military would soon carry out another test of it’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

“These tests are done as a routine measure to ensure that the system is ready and... they are scheduled well in advance of any other real world geopolitical events going on,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters.

The director of the Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant General Sam Greaves, said in a statement that a test would be carried out at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska. (rtr)

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LONDON - Uganda’s new-found oil reserves may account for as much as 4 percent of its economy annually in coming years if managed well, the International Monetary Fund’s country chief says. IMF Mission Chief for Uganda Axel Schimmelpfennig writes in a blog post that the country also needs some strategic infrastructure investment and better debt management.

Uganda’s economy has taken a hit over the past decade -- particularly on a per capita basis -- but is recovering.

basis from about half a percent GDP initially to about 4 percent at peak production, he says. “The challenge that many oil producers face is to manage this well.”

Uganda discovered commercial hydrocarbon deposits in the Albertine rift basin that straddles its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006. It estimates the deposits hold around 6.5 billion barrels of oil as well as commercial deposits of natural gas.

Production is due to start in 2020, after a number of years delay. An export pipeline is being developed and work is at the early stages of field development. Schimmelpfennig said that if the government starts production as planned it could “reap the benefits” for almost 30 years. (rtr) Workers are seen at an oil exploration site in Bulisa district approximately 244km (152 miles) North-West of Kampala January 20, 2012.

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Euphoric’ exporters lift German business morale to new high nesses is euphoric,” Ifo chief Clemens Fuest said. “Germany’s economy is powering ahead.” Last year, only just over a third of German exports went to other euro area countries, official figures show. Comparisons with other euro zone states are hard to assess as export data for the whole bloc runs only to May, when the euro was weaker. But domestic statistics agency readings from Rome show Italian April-June exports to nonEU countries fell 1.5 pct from the previous three months, the first such decrease since the start of 2016.

BERLIN - German business morale hit a record high in July as “euphoric” manufacturers, shrugging off the impact of a strong euro, anticipated a surge in already robust exports from Europe’s biggest economy. The Munich-based Ifo economic institute said on Tuesday its business climate index, based on a monthly survey of some 7,000 firms, hit its third record high in as many months with a rise to 116.0 from 115.2 in June.

That beat a Reuters consensus

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IMF sees oil making up as much as 4 percent of battered Uganda economy According to IMF figures, growth was around 4.7 percent in 2016, currently above average for Africa. That was up from just 2.6 percent in 2011, but still well off its 10.4 percent high as the global financial crisis broke.

The IMF projects gross domestic product will grow at 5.7 percent in 2018, but Schimmelpfennig sees greater growth beyond.

“Drought in the Horn of Africa, regional conflict, and slow credit growth have contributed to (the decline), with per capita growth falling to half a percent from an average of 5 percent for the past 20 years,” he said in his blog post.

Per capita GDP -- a closer measure of ordinary Ugandan’s conditions -- has plunged in the past few years along with weakness in key exports such as tea, coffee and some minerals. The shilling, Uganda’s currency, has also weakened, in particular during the run up to the February 2016 presidential election. But with oil, all this could change.

“In our estimates the revenues could range on an annual

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forecast for a fall to 114.9. The news will make welcome reading for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is seeking a fourth term in office on Sept. 24.

With the economy in rude health, her conservatives are promising full employment by 2025. Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe said manufacturers were particularly optimistic, with the export sector leading the way.

Businesses expected “exports to rise significantly”, he added.

He said German businesses were

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experienced in managing exchange rates and not impeded by gains in the euro, which hit an almost two-year high against an ailing dollar on Monday. “Hardly anything seems to be able to hit the German economy,” he told Reuters. The high-end nature of much of Germany’s industrial output has made its export sector less susceptible to currency fluctuations than counterparts elsewhere, which often compete more on cost than quality.

“Sentiment among German busi-

RISKS AND CAVEATS The Ifo sub-index on manufacturing jumped. The construction and wholesaling sectors also saw morale rise, while sentiment fell only in the retail sector. Underlining the economy’s health, German chemicals and pharmaceutical companies association VCI said on Thursday it expected business to continue to do well in the second half of 2017, raising its full-year revenue growth forecast to 5 percent.

But Berenberg bank economist Florian Hense said surveys had exaggerated the underlying strength of

Germany’s economy in the first half of this year, and he expected growth in the second quarter to have matched the first quarter’s 0.6 percent rather than accelerated. The Federal Statistics Office publishes preliminary growth data for April-June in midAugust. Unicredit economist Thomas Strobel saw risks to business morale in the month ahead from diesel emissions and cartel scandals in the German auto industry and political tensions with Turkey.

The European Commission said on Saturday that antitrust regulators were investigating a possible auto industry cartel following a tip-off. But Strobel added that the overall trend was likely to remain upward “and should continue to benefit German export-dependent manufacturers in the medium term.”

Last week, Germany’s ZEW institute said the economic outlook remained positive, despite a fall in investor morale for the second consecutive month in July which economists attributed to the stronger euro. The International Monetary Fund expects the German economy to grow by 1.8 percent in 2017 and 1.6 percent in 2018. (rtr)

Presenting Atmosphere of Peace and Greatness of Ritual

Along the human lifetime, it will surely do activities related to basic needs of both food and housing. After that, it is followed by development of mindset resulting in the creation of various kinds of culture usually influenced by situation in the community.

Manifestation of the culture varies because there is a form of activity or dance movement telling about something. Moreover, sometimes they are in the form of tools that can generate a sound such as gender gamelan instrument. This gamelan instrument has a characteristic in terms of sound where it is often used to accompany the performance of shadow puppet in Bali.

According to I Made Murawan, a puppeteer from Puaya hamlet, Batuan, Sukawati, Gianyar, when staging puppet shadow featuring the storyline of Mahabharata, the gamelan instrument in use is a set of gender or four instruments only while if accompanying the performance of Ramayana epic, it will certainly use bebatelan gamelan instrument.

In addition to four pieces of gender instruments, it will use other instruments such as a pair of drum, kempur and so on. The gamelan composition played when the performance of puppet shadow begins with tabuh petegak like the Sekar Sungsang and selendro scales.

After that, the gamelan composition played is Tabuh Pamungkah used when commencing to play the klayon to finish of the klayon. Then, it is resumed with paguneman where the puppet is stabbed accompanied by gamelan composition entitled Tulang Lindung. After stabbing the puppets, it is continued with gamelan entitled Panyacah Parwa in the form of alas arum. When the puppet is told to walk or move, it will use angkat-angkatan gamelan

music. Moreover, when the puppet is crying it uses special mesem gamelan composition for slanteyed puppets. For the puppet with glowering eyes, it will use rebong gamelan music and during wartime it will use bebatelan.

“Thus, in once staging from the beginning to finish, it will use approximately 10 gamelan compositions with an average duration of two minutes except for the Tabuh Petegak whose duration is approximately 15 minutes,” he said.

In ngaben or cremation ceremony, though the carrying of bade tower has been accompanied by baleganjur gamelan music, it will also use the puppet gender. He told it is meant to provide strains of beauty, peace and comfort for the atman (soul) that will go to heaven. While the baleganjur like Gora functions to improve and raise the spirit of the community when they are obliged to lift the heavy bade. The gamelan played is usually called glagah puun meaning that it heads for fireplace or it can be bebatelan meaning the journey of the atman to the last abode.

When asked about the use of gender gamelan instrument accompanying the rituals like metatah (tooth filing), he said that Balinese Hindus believe that by chanting or playing gender in the ritual procession they will get a big influence that is able to avoid someone from thinking negatively and wishing to disrupt smoothness of a ceremony.

Dr. I Nyoman Astita, an artist and lecturer at the ISI Denpasar, also

said similar thing. Moreover, the puppet gamelan music played at that time is taken from the appropriate performances. Usually, it is begun with tabuh tegak composition which is then continued with tabuh mesem composition commonly coupled with tabuh rebong.

“Then, when devotees walk from the bale pasekeban to bale delod pavilion in the tooth filing ritual, it will be accompanied with tabuh angkat-angkatan that can also result in solemnity and sublime nuances of the ceremony,” as he explained.

Played in Makotekan and Slendro Scale Gender musical instrument becomes a compulsory accompaniment for a puppet show in Bali.

So, in the staging there are two arts played together namely the art of leather puppet along with all the plays and dialogues as well as the art of gender gamelan composition of the puppet show.

Besides, the gender is often used or played in various ritual activities such as in the implementation of tooth filing activities and when the bade tower carrying corpse is brought to cemetery. Thus, gender becomes a distinctive gamelan instrument when compared to other musical instruments.

An artist and lecturer at the ISI Denpasar, I Nyoman Astita, said although in terms of the form it is not different from other gamelan instrument, the gender of puppet is indeed the beginning or inspiration of the

iron or copper gamelan instrument fastened or tied in such a way by using a rope to float and generate a battier tone when compared to other old gamelan types commonly put on the pedestal.

When playing, the gamelan players are using both hands where left hand plays the tone or the main melody while right hand play in makotekan way namely forming series of rhythm tone of the two gamelan instruments.

Furthermore, he said that playing the puppet gender must be in pair or two pieces because gamelan play in the right hand of both players will produce a different pattern where if gamelan artist plays nyangsih, the partner will play pepolosan.

Thus, playing in pairs will result in a rhythm that integrates the sangsih and papolosan known as makotekan.

“The advantages of this puppet gender to me is in terms of technique and playing technique that are fairly sophisticated and complicated because at the same time two hands will play individually or counter point with the techniques and even a different beat can produce a different rhythm as well,” he said.

He added that in general, Balinese gamelan instrument using resonator in the form of bamboo underneath as a sound repeater will usually be set so that the pair can result in ngumbang-ngisep or waving tones. So, when the pair is played even though one tone only will produce a vibrating or waving

sound. Similar thing is also found in the puppet gender, so in addition to being able to makotekan the use of a pair of puppet gender is also aimed to produce a waving sound.

However, the main puppet gender in use in a staging consists of 4 pieces namely a pair of pamade or the gender having bass sound because of lower octave score and a pair of barangan whose octave score is higher but both will produce an interesting and harmonious tone to be heard.

He added that puppet gender has slendro-scaled instrument with single scale interval from one tone to another. In the meantime, the other gamelan instrument like gong kebyar and gong gambang using Pelog scale has two tones with higher interval.

For example, the interval is usually 1 so that when reaching 2 tones the interval becomes 1.5. If the tone dong-deng-dung-dang-ding where from dong to deng has the interval of 1, from deng to dung will be 1.5 and then from dung to dang has the interval of 1, and from dang to ding has the interval of 1.5.

Another artist, I Made Murawan, said that although the characteristics of puppet gender tend to be tender.

However, it is tailored to the designation because it also has fierce and violent gamelan composition. “For example, when accompanying puppet performances and entering war session, it surely must use a fast and fierce tempo gamelan composition like the bebatelan,” he explained. (kmb)

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Turkey’s Erdogan ends Gulf tour with no progress reported on Qatar crisis

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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in Summit Bechtel National Scout Reserve, West Virginia, U.S., July 24, 2017.

U.S. House expected to approve Russia sanctions bill limiting Trump’s influence WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote overwhelmingly on Tuesday for a bill that would slap new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, potentially complicating President Donald Trump’s hopes of pursuing improved relations with Moscow.

The bipartisan measure aims to punish Russia for its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and for alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The measure’s fate in the Senate is uncertain after a key senator said the deal announced over the weekend may not be final.

Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that deal negotiators had a “very good weekend” but the announcement “seemed somewhat premature.”

“We’re about there, there’s still some procedural issues we’re discussing but, you know, I think it worked out very, very well, we still got a couple of things to talk about on North Korea,” Corker said.

If the Republican-led Senate passes the measure, Trump will need to decide whether to sign the bill or veto it. Rejecting it would carry a risk that his veto could be overridden by lawmakers if they can muster

enough support.

The Trump administration has objected to a provision in the sanctions bill that the president obtain congressional approval before easing any sanctions on Moscow.

“He’s going to study that legislation and see what the final product looks like,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Monday when asked whether Trump would support it.

Trump’s relationship with Russia has been a focus of the first six months of his presidency as investigations continue into whether his associates colluded with Russian hackers to influence the election on his behalf.

Russia denies interfering in the U.S. election and Trump denies his campaign colluded with Moscow.

As the Republican-controlled House takes up the sanctions bill, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will visit Capitol Hill for a second straight day to be interviewed about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and the presidential transition.

An earlier version of the bill, including sanctions on Russia and Iran, passed the Senate 98-2 on June 15. A North Korea sanctions bill passed the House by 419-1 in May and House lawmakers were becoming increasingly impatient with the Senate’s failure to take up that legislation. (rtr)

DOHA - Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan left Qatar on Monday after two days in the Gulf trying to mediate in the worst row among Arab states for years but there was no sign he had made any progress.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic and travel ties with Qatar in June, accusing it of supporting Islamist militants. Doha denies that.

Turkey has been Qatar’s most powerful ally in the dispute, rushing through legislation to send more troops to its base in Doha as a sign of support.

Kuwaiti and Western efforts to end the crisis have yielded little so far. The four Arab states want Qatar to reduce ties with their arch-foe Iran, close down the Turkish military base and shut the Al Jazeera TV channel, which they view as critical of their governments.

Qatari state news agency QNA said that Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad alThani, had “reviewed regional developments, specifically the

Gulf crisis and efforts to contain it and to resolve it through diplomatic means...” in talks with Erdogan.

The agency said the talks also covered joint efforts to combat terrorism and reviewed defence and economic cooperation.

Several contingents of Turkish troops with columns of armoured vehicles have arrived in Doha since the crisis erupted on June 5.

Under a 2014 agreement, Ankara could send in as many as 1,000 troops.

Turkey and Qatar have been important backers of the Muslim Brotherhood movement that has challenged entrenched Arab rulers and Erdogan has his roots in an Islamist political party.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.

Before he arrived in Qatar, Erdogan visited Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In Saudi Arabia, he discussed with King Salman “efforts to combat terrorism and its sources of funding”, state news agency SPA said, without elaborating. (rtr)

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Indonesia speed boat capsizes, killing at least 10 - police

JAKARTA - A speed boat capsized off Indonesia’s Borneo island on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people with several others believed missing, police and rescue officials said.

Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said in a statement that 40 people were estimated to have been on board at the time of the accident off North Kalimantan province.

“For the time being the number of people on board is still an initial estimation. There could be people who are not on the manifest. We are waiting for people who may be reported

missing by family members,” a search and rescue official said.

There have been several accidents in the waterways between Indonesia and Malaysia.

In November, more than half of the 101 passengers aboard a boat died after it hit a reef and sank off the Indonesian island of Batam, south of Singapore.

Four months earlier, a boat sank while en-route to Batam. Malaysian authorities recovered eight bodies and rescued 34 people.(rtr)

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People stand atop a capsized boat near Tarakan, North Kalimantan, Indonesia, July 25, 2017 in this picture obtained from social media.

Indonesia’s disaster agency says forest fire threat to escalate

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, is welcomed by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani in Doha, Qatar, July 24, 2017.

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) has warned of an escalating threat of forest fires with the dry season expected to peak in coming months, while hot spots detected in the province of Aceh have already been causing choking smoke. Fires had spread to around 64 hectares (158 acres) of fields and forests in Aceh, a northern province on the island of Sumatra, producing haze and some residents had been taken to hospital due to breathing problem, the agency said on Tuesday.

“The peak of the dry season is predicted to be in August and September, so the threat of forest and field fires, and drought will escalate,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for BNPB said in a statement.

The fires in Aceh started on Tuesday last week and authorities are still trying to extinguish them in some areas. Meanwhile, a satellite image showed 170 hot spots across Indonesia as of Monday evening, Nugroho said. Indonesia is regularly hit by forest fires, which can result in choking smoke blowing across to neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

Indonesia suffered some its worst forest fires in 2015, hitting mainly the island of Sumatra and in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo island. The World Bank, citing government data, said that 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) of land in Indonesia burned between June and October 2015, causing $16 billion of estimated economic damage.

Draining and conversion of peatland, often driven by palm oil plantations, contributed to the intensity of haze from the fires, the World Bank said. The head of Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency told a conference in May there would be “no more haze going to the neighbours”, as authorities implemented new measure to combat fires, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry said on Monday she wanted to make permanent a current moratorium on issuing new licences to use land designated as primary forest and peatland. By November last year, the government has put more than 66 million hectares under the coverage of the moratorium. (rtr)

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Bolt, Thompson lead Jamaica’s world championships charge KINGSTON - Usain Bolt is among three Olympic champions leading a strong Jamaican team at the athletics world championships in London next month.

Bolt will chase his fourth successive 100 metres world title and a fifth consecutive 4x100m relay gold at the Aug. 4-14 meeting, his last international competition.

Olympic double sprint champion Elaine Thompson and Omar Mcleod, who won Jamaica’s first 110 metres hurdles gold at the Rio Games, were also included in the 59-member squad announced by the Jamaica’s athletics administration (JAAA) on Monday.

Hansle Parchment, who won 110m hurdles silver at the last world championships in Beijing, and rising star Ronald Levy join world leader Mcleod in the event.

Reigning 100m hurdles world champion Danielle Williams, who set a new personal best of 12.56 seconds to win the Jamaican title last month, was also included, along with Olympic and world 400m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson.

The Jamaican team have started their warmup camp in Birmingham and will aim to improve on the 12 medals secured at the 2015 world championships in Beijing. (rtr)

MANGUPURA - Nyaman Gallery is a cosy and intimate art space on the Seminyak Road of Jalan Basangkasa, where you’ll find a diverse assortment of contemporary pieces created by local Balinese and Indonesian emerging artists, as well as a variety of carefully curated international talents. Inside the subtly-lit spaces you will find bare brick walls covered in paintings and photographs, while several corners also exhibit ‘wearable art’ items and exotic décor pieces designed for your villa or living room back home.

The contemporary art gallery is an offshoot of the successful Nyaman Villas on Seminyak’s Jalan Kayu Aya, which similarly reflects its founder’s passion for arts, architecture and design. Nyaman Gallery is beautifully set up, with art pieces purposefully placed in separate sections, which allow your eyes to focus on one piece at a time. From admiring wooden carvings from the East Nusa Tenggara region in one corner, to one-off blow glass pieces or bone sculptures in another, you’re bound to spend some time browsing here. Current artists featured include Yokii, Stephane Sensey, Quint, L. Fauzi, Yoga Raharja, Bunny Bone, Evgeny Bam, Stephen Kotas, Emmanuel Cayere, Gus Till, Jean-Michel Aucler and Shaolen. Each presents very different creations, from imaginative black and white photography to classical oil paintings, including some street art techniques that are applied directly on canvas. Art is very subjective, but you might find your own personal favourite amongst the collection. Most pieces are available for purchase. (IBP/net)

Adam Peaty of Britain reacts after coming first.

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Peaty sets 50m breaststroke WR, ready to go faster BUDAPEST - Britain’s Adam Peaty broke his own world record in the 50 metres breaststroke on Tuesday, swimming 26.10 seconds in the heats at the world swimming championships in Budapest.

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Peaty, also the 100m Olympic champion and world record holder, shaved .32 seconds off the 26.42 he swam at the last world championships in Kazan in 2015.

The 22-year-old qualified fastest from the heats at the Duna Arena ahead of South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh (26.54) Brazil’s Joao Gomes Junior (26.67).

Peaty, who retained his 100m world title on Monday in a championship record time of 57.47 sec-

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onds, said he was delighted to set the new mark in a morning swim.

“Honestly, I wasn’t going out there this morning for a world record,” he said.

“It’s 10 o’clock and I’m very happy with that swim. That world record is two years old, so it’s due another push on.”

Peaty said there could be more to come before the final on Wednesday.

“That didn’t really feel like my

Elbow injury may rule Djokovic out of U.S. Open

best race, so move it on tonight, pick up a few hundredths or tenths and we’ll be very happy,” he said.

South Africa’s Van der Burgh had come within 0.12 of Peaty’s previous world record in his preliminary heat.

The former world and Olympic breaststroke champion, whose titles have been swiped by Peaty over the last three years, opted to scratch the men’s 100 to focus on the 50 dash. (rtr)

BELGRADE - Former world number one Novak Djokovic is in doubt for the U.S. Open due to his elbow injury, Serbian media reported, citing the country’s Davis Cup team doctor.

Djokovic retired hurt during the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and said he was considering taking a break from playing to recover from the longstanding injury to his right elbow.

Serbia’s Sportski Zurnal reported

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt reacts with dancers.

that the 30-year-old could face up to 12 weeks on the sidelines.

“He has a bruised bone due to excessive playing,” it quoted Zdenko Milinkovic as saying.

The 12-times grand slam champion won the U.S. Open in 2011 and 2015.

This year’s tournament begins on Aug. 28.

Britain’s The Times said Djokovic would make a decision about his play-

ing schedule over the next 24 hours and that an announcement would me made at a news conference in Belgrade this week.

“We are doing different checks and getting opinions from more than one doctor,” The Times quoted his spokesman as saying.

Djokovic has appeared in 51 straight grand slams since his debut at the 2005 Australian Open. (rtr)

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Sp rt Game on: Suning leads China’s $2 bln soccer rights frenzy

BEIJING/SHANGHAI - In the highstakes race to control soccer TV rights in China, with a potential market of hundreds of millions of fans, an electronics retailer is betting up to $2 billion that could give it a near monopoly on broadcasting the sport at home. Suning Commerce Group, a retail conglomerate with annual revenue of around $22 billion, owns Italian soccer club Inter Milan, and is fast securing the rights to air matches from Europe’s top leagues in China.

It already owns rights to Spain’s La Liga and the Chinese Super League, has bought future seasons of top-flight German and English soccer, and is looking to secure Italy’s Serie A and Asian soccer, three people familiar with its plans said. Suning’s rise to prominence is all part of China’s power-grab in world soccer, with Chinese clubs paying top dollar for star players and Chinese tycoons buying clubs across Europe.

Backed by Beijing, China’s domestic sporting market - from soccer to basketball and beyond - could be worth 5 trillion yuan ($740 billion) by 2025. Key to a share of that profit is the right to show matches from major leagues, and Suning’s PPTV video streaming website is sweeping most rivals out of the way.

Competition from Sina Sports and technology giant Tencent, though, means it’s costly to stay out in front.

“Historically in China, there was good interest from fans but not a lot of competition between media rights buyers,” said Jamie Reigle, Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific managing director for Manchester United, the world’s wealthiest soccer club. “Now you have the digital platforms that have come in and want to build an audience. That’s what

has changed the dynamic.”

PPTV paid 250 million euros ($291.4 million) in 2015 for a 5-year La Liga deal, and this year agreed to pay $700 million for

three years of English Premier League (EPL) rights from 2019, and $250 million for five years of Germany’s Bundesliga, a company source said. The Italian league hopes to gener-

REUTERS/Stringer

Ivan Perisic of Inter Milan and Kenny Tete of Olympique Lyonnais in action.

ate around 80 million euros per season from selling the China rights, suggesting a price tag of 240 million euros for a typical 3-year deal.

The sums paid for local and overseas rights

by Chinese firms have ballooned by as much as ten-fold over the last few years.

PPTV also took over the remainder of a 2-year rights deal to show Chinese Super League matches from sports media firm LeSports, which defaulted on payments due to debt problems at its parent company. It’s now also in talks to buy an up to 56 percent stake in China Sports Media (CSM) from majority shareholder China Media Capital (CMC), said a CSM official, who asked not to be named.

CSM is the primary rights holder for Chinese and Asian soccer.

CMC President Clark Xu confirmed the firm was in talks with Suning, and other parties, to sell some of its CSM stake. The chief executive of CSM, which is valued at around 5 billion yuan, acknowledged the ongoing talks. Suning and PPTV declined to comment

for this article.

BUYER BEWARE

At a time when Beijing has been openly critical of “irrational” overseas investments, the stakes are high for buyers paying above the odds. A state television programme last week on firms making risky overseas acquisitions named Suning’s Inter Milan buy as an example.

Its deals do stand out. PPTV’s $700 million deal for future EPL China rights was far above rival offers. Current rights holder Super Sports bid $400 million, a person at the firm said, reckoning anything above $500 million would mean a loss. Super Sports declined comment.

And there’s no guarantee that winning exclusive rights means immediate profits.

“Even if companies snatch exclusive content rights, in order to maintain influence and brand those companies will still have to repackage to TV stations at low prices or even for free,” Beijing Baofeng, the Chinese owner of Italian sports media rights group MP & Silva, said in a statement to Reuters.

And in China, getting fans to watch more matches, and getting them to pay, are quite different. Challenges include rampant piracy and the late-day airing of many overseas games.

Also, the introduction of strict rules on player transfers in China’s domestic league is hindering star signings - a key allure for paying fans.

Ding Li, 21, a recent graduate in Beijing, said he only pays for occasional high-profile games and “when I really can’t find free or pirated” streams. Last year, he paid about 10 yuan ($1.48) to watch Manchester United vs Arsenal on Super Sports. “I’ve no plans to buy a subscription. I like flexibility and most games can be found on pirate stream websites,” Ding, who supports England’s Arsenal and Germany’s Borussia Dortmund, told Reuters.

It’s a commonly shared attitude. Wuhan DDMC Culture Co Ltd, which acquired Super Sports this month in a $500 million deal, said in a filing that 80 percent of Super Sports’ user base paid for one-off games or single club “die-hard” membership - not full subscriptions. That means it can be a slow process to recoup the large price tags, even if Super Sports’ revenues are roughly doubling each year.

A single match costs around 10 yuan, while a “die-hard” fan membership - giving access to one club’s games for the season - is 98 yuan. Full membership for an EPL season is 298 yuan ($44) - near what it costs for just a single month in Britain.

Richard Young, Managing Director of NFL China, which promotes American football in the country, said real profits would come if platforms could dominate major sports, helping them bring in the fans and push up prices.

“The dust hasn’t settled yet, but if there is consolidation it changes things massively,” he said. “If someone really does corner the market, then you’ll see that.”(rtr)

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Man United’s Bailly gets 3-game UEFA ban, misses Super Cup

NYON — UEFA has suspended Manchester United defender Eric Bailly from the season-opening Super Cup game against Real Madrid and a Champions League group-stage game.

UEFA said Monday its disciplinary panel imposed a three-match

ban for violent conduct on Bailly, who was sent off late in United’s Europa League semifinal, secondleg game against Celta Vigo in May. Bailly missed his team’s 2-0 win over Ajax in the Europa League final when serving the first game

of the ban. United faces Champions League winner Madrid on Aug. 8 in Skopje, Macedonia.

The Champions League group stage begins in September, and United will know its first opponent when the draw is made in Monaco on Aug. 24. (ap)

Russian farmer’s straw stadium pokes fun at World Cup costs

KRASNOYE — Russia is desperate to control its spending on the 2018 World Cup, and a farmer might just have the answer — straw. In a project straight out of the “Three Little Pigs” fairytale, Roman Ponomaryov has built a straw replica of the 43 billion ruble ($700 million) stadium in St. Petersburg which will host World Cup semifinals.

His arena made of 4,500 straw bales comes with tiered seating for 300 and flagpoles. It hosted its first tournament — for local teams only — last weekend using modified soccer rules.

“It’s good to get people excited and create a sports atmosphere ahead of the World Cup,” Ponomaryov said in a recent interview.

The real St. Petersburg Stadium has drawn ire

for its cost, corruption scandals, delays, and workers’ deaths.

Ponomaryov is a fan of the Zenit St. Petersburg club and says he modeled his straw stadium on Zenit’s new home in a gentle dig at the problems around the construction.

“It seemed pretty strange ... how the cost of the stadium and its construction timeframe were increasing,” he said. Russia’s total World Cup budget is around $10.7 billion.

Zenit has accepted the straw stadium with good humor, offering Ponomaryov a ticket to a game at the real thing.

The harvest will keep him on the farm for the next few weeks, though, and he has in mind another project — organizing a Straw World Cup. (ap)

AP Photo/Oleksandr Stashevskyi

In this photo taken on Saturday, July 22, 2017, shows a view of the arena, made of 4,500 straw bales, comes complete with tiered seating and flagpoles in Krasnoye, Stavropol region, South Russia. In a project straight out of the “Three Little Pigs” fairytale, Roman Ponomarev has built a straw replica of the 643-billion-ruble ($700 million) stadium in St. Petersburg which will host World Cup semifinals.

AP Photo/Dave Thompson/File

FILE - This is a Thursday, May 11, 2017 file photo of referee Ovidiu Hategan, second right, as he shows the red card and sends off both Manchester United’s Eric Bailly, centre, and Celta’s Facundo Roncaglia, left, during the Europa League semifinal second leg soccer match between Manchester United and Celta Vigo at Old Trafford in Manchester, England.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Sp rt Game on: Suning leads China’s $2 bln soccer rights frenzy

BEIJING/SHANGHAI - In the highstakes race to control soccer TV rights in China, with a potential market of hundreds of millions of fans, an electronics retailer is betting up to $2 billion that could give it a near monopoly on broadcasting the sport at home. Suning Commerce Group, a retail conglomerate with annual revenue of around $22 billion, owns Italian soccer club Inter Milan, and is fast securing the rights to air matches from Europe’s top leagues in China.

It already owns rights to Spain’s La Liga and the Chinese Super League, has bought future seasons of top-flight German and English soccer, and is looking to secure Italy’s Serie A and Asian soccer, three people familiar with its plans said. Suning’s rise to prominence is all part of China’s power-grab in world soccer, with Chinese clubs paying top dollar for star players and Chinese tycoons buying clubs across Europe.

Backed by Beijing, China’s domestic sporting market - from soccer to basketball and beyond - could be worth 5 trillion yuan ($740 billion) by 2025. Key to a share of that profit is the right to show matches from major leagues, and Suning’s PPTV video streaming website is sweeping most rivals out of the way.

Competition from Sina Sports and technology giant Tencent, though, means it’s costly to stay out in front.

“Historically in China, there was good interest from fans but not a lot of competition between media rights buyers,” said Jamie Reigle, Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific managing director for Manchester United, the world’s wealthiest soccer club. “Now you have the digital platforms that have come in and want to build an audience. That’s what

has changed the dynamic.”

PPTV paid 250 million euros ($291.4 million) in 2015 for a 5-year La Liga deal, and this year agreed to pay $700 million for

three years of English Premier League (EPL) rights from 2019, and $250 million for five years of Germany’s Bundesliga, a company source said. The Italian league hopes to gener-

REUTERS/Stringer

Ivan Perisic of Inter Milan and Kenny Tete of Olympique Lyonnais in action.

ate around 80 million euros per season from selling the China rights, suggesting a price tag of 240 million euros for a typical 3-year deal.

The sums paid for local and overseas rights

by Chinese firms have ballooned by as much as ten-fold over the last few years.

PPTV also took over the remainder of a 2-year rights deal to show Chinese Super League matches from sports media firm LeSports, which defaulted on payments due to debt problems at its parent company. It’s now also in talks to buy an up to 56 percent stake in China Sports Media (CSM) from majority shareholder China Media Capital (CMC), said a CSM official, who asked not to be named.

CSM is the primary rights holder for Chinese and Asian soccer.

CMC President Clark Xu confirmed the firm was in talks with Suning, and other parties, to sell some of its CSM stake. The chief executive of CSM, which is valued at around 5 billion yuan, acknowledged the ongoing talks. Suning and PPTV declined to comment

for this article.

BUYER BEWARE

At a time when Beijing has been openly critical of “irrational” overseas investments, the stakes are high for buyers paying above the odds. A state television programme last week on firms making risky overseas acquisitions named Suning’s Inter Milan buy as an example.

Its deals do stand out. PPTV’s $700 million deal for future EPL China rights was far above rival offers. Current rights holder Super Sports bid $400 million, a person at the firm said, reckoning anything above $500 million would mean a loss. Super Sports declined comment.

And there’s no guarantee that winning exclusive rights means immediate profits.

“Even if companies snatch exclusive content rights, in order to maintain influence and brand those companies will still have to repackage to TV stations at low prices or even for free,” Beijing Baofeng, the Chinese owner of Italian sports media rights group MP & Silva, said in a statement to Reuters.

And in China, getting fans to watch more matches, and getting them to pay, are quite different. Challenges include rampant piracy and the late-day airing of many overseas games.

Also, the introduction of strict rules on player transfers in China’s domestic league is hindering star signings - a key allure for paying fans.

Ding Li, 21, a recent graduate in Beijing, said he only pays for occasional high-profile games and “when I really can’t find free or pirated” streams. Last year, he paid about 10 yuan ($1.48) to watch Manchester United vs Arsenal on Super Sports. “I’ve no plans to buy a subscription. I like flexibility and most games can be found on pirate stream websites,” Ding, who supports England’s Arsenal and Germany’s Borussia Dortmund, told Reuters.

It’s a commonly shared attitude. Wuhan DDMC Culture Co Ltd, which acquired Super Sports this month in a $500 million deal, said in a filing that 80 percent of Super Sports’ user base paid for one-off games or single club “die-hard” membership - not full subscriptions. That means it can be a slow process to recoup the large price tags, even if Super Sports’ revenues are roughly doubling each year.

A single match costs around 10 yuan, while a “die-hard” fan membership - giving access to one club’s games for the season - is 98 yuan. Full membership for an EPL season is 298 yuan ($44) - near what it costs for just a single month in Britain.

Richard Young, Managing Director of NFL China, which promotes American football in the country, said real profits would come if platforms could dominate major sports, helping them bring in the fans and push up prices.

“The dust hasn’t settled yet, but if there is consolidation it changes things massively,” he said. “If someone really does corner the market, then you’ll see that.”(rtr)

9

Man United’s Bailly gets 3-game UEFA ban, misses Super Cup

NYON — UEFA has suspended Manchester United defender Eric Bailly from the season-opening Super Cup game against Real Madrid and a Champions League group-stage game.

UEFA said Monday its disciplinary panel imposed a three-match

ban for violent conduct on Bailly, who was sent off late in United’s Europa League semifinal, secondleg game against Celta Vigo in May. Bailly missed his team’s 2-0 win over Ajax in the Europa League final when serving the first game

of the ban. United faces Champions League winner Madrid on Aug. 8 in Skopje, Macedonia.

The Champions League group stage begins in September, and United will know its first opponent when the draw is made in Monaco on Aug. 24. (ap)

Russian farmer’s straw stadium pokes fun at World Cup costs

KRASNOYE — Russia is desperate to control its spending on the 2018 World Cup, and a farmer might just have the answer — straw. In a project straight out of the “Three Little Pigs” fairytale, Roman Ponomaryov has built a straw replica of the 43 billion ruble ($700 million) stadium in St. Petersburg which will host World Cup semifinals.

His arena made of 4,500 straw bales comes with tiered seating for 300 and flagpoles. It hosted its first tournament — for local teams only — last weekend using modified soccer rules.

“It’s good to get people excited and create a sports atmosphere ahead of the World Cup,” Ponomaryov said in a recent interview.

The real St. Petersburg Stadium has drawn ire

for its cost, corruption scandals, delays, and workers’ deaths.

Ponomaryov is a fan of the Zenit St. Petersburg club and says he modeled his straw stadium on Zenit’s new home in a gentle dig at the problems around the construction.

“It seemed pretty strange ... how the cost of the stadium and its construction timeframe were increasing,” he said. Russia’s total World Cup budget is around $10.7 billion.

Zenit has accepted the straw stadium with good humor, offering Ponomaryov a ticket to a game at the real thing.

The harvest will keep him on the farm for the next few weeks, though, and he has in mind another project — organizing a Straw World Cup. (ap)

AP Photo/Oleksandr Stashevskyi

In this photo taken on Saturday, July 22, 2017, shows a view of the arena, made of 4,500 straw bales, comes complete with tiered seating and flagpoles in Krasnoye, Stavropol region, South Russia. In a project straight out of the “Three Little Pigs” fairytale, Roman Ponomarev has built a straw replica of the 643-billion-ruble ($700 million) stadium in St. Petersburg which will host World Cup semifinals.

AP Photo/Dave Thompson/File

FILE - This is a Thursday, May 11, 2017 file photo of referee Ovidiu Hategan, second right, as he shows the red card and sends off both Manchester United’s Eric Bailly, centre, and Celta’s Facundo Roncaglia, left, during the Europa League semifinal second leg soccer match between Manchester United and Celta Vigo at Old Trafford in Manchester, England.

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International

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International

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Bolt, Thompson lead Jamaica’s world championships charge KINGSTON - Usain Bolt is among three Olympic champions leading a strong Jamaican team at the athletics world championships in London next month.

Bolt will chase his fourth successive 100 metres world title and a fifth consecutive 4x100m relay gold at the Aug. 4-14 meeting, his last international competition.

Olympic double sprint champion Elaine Thompson and Omar Mcleod, who won Jamaica’s first 110 metres hurdles gold at the Rio Games, were also included in the 59-member squad announced by the Jamaica’s athletics administration (JAAA) on Monday.

Hansle Parchment, who won 110m hurdles silver at the last world championships in Beijing, and rising star Ronald Levy join world leader Mcleod in the event.

Reigning 100m hurdles world champion Danielle Williams, who set a new personal best of 12.56 seconds to win the Jamaican title last month, was also included, along with Olympic and world 400m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson.

The Jamaican team have started their warmup camp in Birmingham and will aim to improve on the 12 medals secured at the 2015 world championships in Beijing. (rtr)

MANGUPURA - Nyaman Gallery is a cosy and intimate art space on the Seminyak Road of Jalan Basangkasa, where you’ll find a diverse assortment of contemporary pieces created by local Balinese and Indonesian emerging artists, as well as a variety of carefully curated international talents. Inside the subtly-lit spaces you will find bare brick walls covered in paintings and photographs, while several corners also exhibit ‘wearable art’ items and exotic décor pieces designed for your villa or living room back home.

The contemporary art gallery is an offshoot of the successful Nyaman Villas on Seminyak’s Jalan Kayu Aya, which similarly reflects its founder’s passion for arts, architecture and design. Nyaman Gallery is beautifully set up, with art pieces purposefully placed in separate sections, which allow your eyes to focus on one piece at a time. From admiring wooden carvings from the East Nusa Tenggara region in one corner, to one-off blow glass pieces or bone sculptures in another, you’re bound to spend some time browsing here. Current artists featured include Yokii, Stephane Sensey, Quint, L. Fauzi, Yoga Raharja, Bunny Bone, Evgeny Bam, Stephen Kotas, Emmanuel Cayere, Gus Till, Jean-Michel Aucler and Shaolen. Each presents very different creations, from imaginative black and white photography to classical oil paintings, including some street art techniques that are applied directly on canvas. Art is very subjective, but you might find your own personal favourite amongst the collection. Most pieces are available for purchase. (IBP/net)

Adam Peaty of Britain reacts after coming first.

REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Peaty sets 50m breaststroke WR, ready to go faster BUDAPEST - Britain’s Adam Peaty broke his own world record in the 50 metres breaststroke on Tuesday, swimming 26.10 seconds in the heats at the world swimming championships in Budapest.

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Peaty, also the 100m Olympic champion and world record holder, shaved .32 seconds off the 26.42 he swam at the last world championships in Kazan in 2015.

The 22-year-old qualified fastest from the heats at the Duna Arena ahead of South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh (26.54) Brazil’s Joao Gomes Junior (26.67).

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onds, said he was delighted to set the new mark in a morning swim.

“Honestly, I wasn’t going out there this morning for a world record,” he said.

“It’s 10 o’clock and I’m very happy with that swim. That world record is two years old, so it’s due another push on.”

Peaty said there could be more to come before the final on Wednesday.

“That didn’t really feel like my

Elbow injury may rule Djokovic out of U.S. Open

best race, so move it on tonight, pick up a few hundredths or tenths and we’ll be very happy,” he said.

South Africa’s Van der Burgh had come within 0.12 of Peaty’s previous world record in his preliminary heat.

The former world and Olympic breaststroke champion, whose titles have been swiped by Peaty over the last three years, opted to scratch the men’s 100 to focus on the 50 dash. (rtr)

BELGRADE - Former world number one Novak Djokovic is in doubt for the U.S. Open due to his elbow injury, Serbian media reported, citing the country’s Davis Cup team doctor.

Djokovic retired hurt during the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and said he was considering taking a break from playing to recover from the longstanding injury to his right elbow.

Serbia’s Sportski Zurnal reported

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt reacts with dancers.

that the 30-year-old could face up to 12 weeks on the sidelines.

“He has a bruised bone due to excessive playing,” it quoted Zdenko Milinkovic as saying.

The 12-times grand slam champion won the U.S. Open in 2011 and 2015.

This year’s tournament begins on Aug. 28.

Britain’s The Times said Djokovic would make a decision about his play-

ing schedule over the next 24 hours and that an announcement would me made at a news conference in Belgrade this week.

“We are doing different checks and getting opinions from more than one doctor,” The Times quoted his spokesman as saying.

Djokovic has appeared in 51 straight grand slams since his debut at the 2005 Australian Open. (rtr)

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Turkey’s Erdogan ends Gulf tour with no progress reported on Qatar crisis

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in Summit Bechtel National Scout Reserve, West Virginia, U.S., July 24, 2017.

U.S. House expected to approve Russia sanctions bill limiting Trump’s influence WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote overwhelmingly on Tuesday for a bill that would slap new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, potentially complicating President Donald Trump’s hopes of pursuing improved relations with Moscow.

The bipartisan measure aims to punish Russia for its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and for alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The measure’s fate in the Senate is uncertain after a key senator said the deal announced over the weekend may not be final.

Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that deal negotiators had a “very good weekend” but the announcement “seemed somewhat premature.”

“We’re about there, there’s still some procedural issues we’re discussing but, you know, I think it worked out very, very well, we still got a couple of things to talk about on North Korea,” Corker said.

If the Republican-led Senate passes the measure, Trump will need to decide whether to sign the bill or veto it. Rejecting it would carry a risk that his veto could be overridden by lawmakers if they can muster

enough support.

The Trump administration has objected to a provision in the sanctions bill that the president obtain congressional approval before easing any sanctions on Moscow.

“He’s going to study that legislation and see what the final product looks like,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Monday when asked whether Trump would support it.

Trump’s relationship with Russia has been a focus of the first six months of his presidency as investigations continue into whether his associates colluded with Russian hackers to influence the election on his behalf.

Russia denies interfering in the U.S. election and Trump denies his campaign colluded with Moscow.

As the Republican-controlled House takes up the sanctions bill, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will visit Capitol Hill for a second straight day to be interviewed about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and the presidential transition.

An earlier version of the bill, including sanctions on Russia and Iran, passed the Senate 98-2 on June 15. A North Korea sanctions bill passed the House by 419-1 in May and House lawmakers were becoming increasingly impatient with the Senate’s failure to take up that legislation. (rtr)

DOHA - Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan left Qatar on Monday after two days in the Gulf trying to mediate in the worst row among Arab states for years but there was no sign he had made any progress.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic and travel ties with Qatar in June, accusing it of supporting Islamist militants. Doha denies that.

Turkey has been Qatar’s most powerful ally in the dispute, rushing through legislation to send more troops to its base in Doha as a sign of support.

Kuwaiti and Western efforts to end the crisis have yielded little so far. The four Arab states want Qatar to reduce ties with their arch-foe Iran, close down the Turkish military base and shut the Al Jazeera TV channel, which they view as critical of their governments.

Qatari state news agency QNA said that Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad alThani, had “reviewed regional developments, specifically the

Gulf crisis and efforts to contain it and to resolve it through diplomatic means...” in talks with Erdogan.

The agency said the talks also covered joint efforts to combat terrorism and reviewed defence and economic cooperation.

Several contingents of Turkish troops with columns of armoured vehicles have arrived in Doha since the crisis erupted on June 5.

Under a 2014 agreement, Ankara could send in as many as 1,000 troops.

Turkey and Qatar have been important backers of the Muslim Brotherhood movement that has challenged entrenched Arab rulers and Erdogan has his roots in an Islamist political party.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.

Before he arrived in Qatar, Erdogan visited Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In Saudi Arabia, he discussed with King Salman “efforts to combat terrorism and its sources of funding”, state news agency SPA said, without elaborating. (rtr)

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Indonesia speed boat capsizes, killing at least 10 - police

JAKARTA - A speed boat capsized off Indonesia’s Borneo island on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people with several others believed missing, police and rescue officials said.

Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said in a statement that 40 people were estimated to have been on board at the time of the accident off North Kalimantan province.

“For the time being the number of people on board is still an initial estimation. There could be people who are not on the manifest. We are waiting for people who may be reported

missing by family members,” a search and rescue official said.

There have been several accidents in the waterways between Indonesia and Malaysia.

In November, more than half of the 101 passengers aboard a boat died after it hit a reef and sank off the Indonesian island of Batam, south of Singapore.

Four months earlier, a boat sank while en-route to Batam. Malaysian authorities recovered eight bodies and rescued 34 people.(rtr)

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People stand atop a capsized boat near Tarakan, North Kalimantan, Indonesia, July 25, 2017 in this picture obtained from social media.

Indonesia’s disaster agency says forest fire threat to escalate

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, is welcomed by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani in Doha, Qatar, July 24, 2017.

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) has warned of an escalating threat of forest fires with the dry season expected to peak in coming months, while hot spots detected in the province of Aceh have already been causing choking smoke. Fires had spread to around 64 hectares (158 acres) of fields and forests in Aceh, a northern province on the island of Sumatra, producing haze and some residents had been taken to hospital due to breathing problem, the agency said on Tuesday.

“The peak of the dry season is predicted to be in August and September, so the threat of forest and field fires, and drought will escalate,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for BNPB said in a statement.

The fires in Aceh started on Tuesday last week and authorities are still trying to extinguish them in some areas. Meanwhile, a satellite image showed 170 hot spots across Indonesia as of Monday evening, Nugroho said. Indonesia is regularly hit by forest fires, which can result in choking smoke blowing across to neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

Indonesia suffered some its worst forest fires in 2015, hitting mainly the island of Sumatra and in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo island. The World Bank, citing government data, said that 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) of land in Indonesia burned between June and October 2015, causing $16 billion of estimated economic damage.

Draining and conversion of peatland, often driven by palm oil plantations, contributed to the intensity of haze from the fires, the World Bank said. The head of Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency told a conference in May there would be “no more haze going to the neighbours”, as authorities implemented new measure to combat fires, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry said on Monday she wanted to make permanent a current moratorium on issuing new licences to use land designated as primary forest and peatland. By November last year, the government has put more than 66 million hectares under the coverage of the moratorium. (rtr)

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LONDON - Uganda’s new-found oil reserves may account for as much as 4 percent of its economy annually in coming years if managed well, the International Monetary Fund’s country chief says. IMF Mission Chief for Uganda Axel Schimmelpfennig writes in a blog post that the country also needs some strategic infrastructure investment and better debt management.

Uganda’s economy has taken a hit over the past decade -- particularly on a per capita basis -- but is recovering.

basis from about half a percent GDP initially to about 4 percent at peak production, he says. “The challenge that many oil producers face is to manage this well.”

Uganda discovered commercial hydrocarbon deposits in the Albertine rift basin that straddles its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006. It estimates the deposits hold around 6.5 billion barrels of oil as well as commercial deposits of natural gas.

Production is due to start in 2020, after a number of years delay. An export pipeline is being developed and work is at the early stages of field development. Schimmelpfennig said that if the government starts production as planned it could “reap the benefits” for almost 30 years. (rtr) Workers are seen at an oil exploration site in Bulisa district approximately 244km (152 miles) North-West of Kampala January 20, 2012.

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Euphoric’ exporters lift German business morale to new high nesses is euphoric,” Ifo chief Clemens Fuest said. “Germany’s economy is powering ahead.” Last year, only just over a third of German exports went to other euro area countries, official figures show. Comparisons with other euro zone states are hard to assess as export data for the whole bloc runs only to May, when the euro was weaker. But domestic statistics agency readings from Rome show Italian April-June exports to nonEU countries fell 1.5 pct from the previous three months, the first such decrease since the start of 2016.

BERLIN - German business morale hit a record high in July as “euphoric” manufacturers, shrugging off the impact of a strong euro, anticipated a surge in already robust exports from Europe’s biggest economy. The Munich-based Ifo economic institute said on Tuesday its business climate index, based on a monthly survey of some 7,000 firms, hit its third record high in as many months with a rise to 116.0 from 115.2 in June.

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IMF sees oil making up as much as 4 percent of battered Uganda economy According to IMF figures, growth was around 4.7 percent in 2016, currently above average for Africa. That was up from just 2.6 percent in 2011, but still well off its 10.4 percent high as the global financial crisis broke.

The IMF projects gross domestic product will grow at 5.7 percent in 2018, but Schimmelpfennig sees greater growth beyond.

“Drought in the Horn of Africa, regional conflict, and slow credit growth have contributed to (the decline), with per capita growth falling to half a percent from an average of 5 percent for the past 20 years,” he said in his blog post.

Per capita GDP -- a closer measure of ordinary Ugandan’s conditions -- has plunged in the past few years along with weakness in key exports such as tea, coffee and some minerals. The shilling, Uganda’s currency, has also weakened, in particular during the run up to the February 2016 presidential election. But with oil, all this could change.

“In our estimates the revenues could range on an annual

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forecast for a fall to 114.9. The news will make welcome reading for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is seeking a fourth term in office on Sept. 24.

With the economy in rude health, her conservatives are promising full employment by 2025. Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe said manufacturers were particularly optimistic, with the export sector leading the way.

Businesses expected “exports to rise significantly”, he added.

He said German businesses were

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experienced in managing exchange rates and not impeded by gains in the euro, which hit an almost two-year high against an ailing dollar on Monday. “Hardly anything seems to be able to hit the German economy,” he told Reuters. The high-end nature of much of Germany’s industrial output has made its export sector less susceptible to currency fluctuations than counterparts elsewhere, which often compete more on cost than quality.

“Sentiment among German busi-

RISKS AND CAVEATS The Ifo sub-index on manufacturing jumped. The construction and wholesaling sectors also saw morale rise, while sentiment fell only in the retail sector. Underlining the economy’s health, German chemicals and pharmaceutical companies association VCI said on Thursday it expected business to continue to do well in the second half of 2017, raising its full-year revenue growth forecast to 5 percent.

But Berenberg bank economist Florian Hense said surveys had exaggerated the underlying strength of

Germany’s economy in the first half of this year, and he expected growth in the second quarter to have matched the first quarter’s 0.6 percent rather than accelerated. The Federal Statistics Office publishes preliminary growth data for April-June in midAugust. Unicredit economist Thomas Strobel saw risks to business morale in the month ahead from diesel emissions and cartel scandals in the German auto industry and political tensions with Turkey.

The European Commission said on Saturday that antitrust regulators were investigating a possible auto industry cartel following a tip-off. But Strobel added that the overall trend was likely to remain upward “and should continue to benefit German export-dependent manufacturers in the medium term.”

Last week, Germany’s ZEW institute said the economic outlook remained positive, despite a fall in investor morale for the second consecutive month in July which economists attributed to the stronger euro. The International Monetary Fund expects the German economy to grow by 1.8 percent in 2017 and 1.6 percent in 2018. (rtr)

Presenting Atmosphere of Peace and Greatness of Ritual

Along the human lifetime, it will surely do activities related to basic needs of both food and housing. After that, it is followed by development of mindset resulting in the creation of various kinds of culture usually influenced by situation in the community.

Manifestation of the culture varies because there is a form of activity or dance movement telling about something. Moreover, sometimes they are in the form of tools that can generate a sound such as gender gamelan instrument. This gamelan instrument has a characteristic in terms of sound where it is often used to accompany the performance of shadow puppet in Bali.

According to I Made Murawan, a puppeteer from Puaya hamlet, Batuan, Sukawati, Gianyar, when staging puppet shadow featuring the storyline of Mahabharata, the gamelan instrument in use is a set of gender or four instruments only while if accompanying the performance of Ramayana epic, it will certainly use bebatelan gamelan instrument.

In addition to four pieces of gender instruments, it will use other instruments such as a pair of drum, kempur and so on. The gamelan composition played when the performance of puppet shadow begins with tabuh petegak like the Sekar Sungsang and selendro scales.

After that, the gamelan composition played is Tabuh Pamungkah used when commencing to play the klayon to finish of the klayon. Then, it is resumed with paguneman where the puppet is stabbed accompanied by gamelan composition entitled Tulang Lindung. After stabbing the puppets, it is continued with gamelan entitled Panyacah Parwa in the form of alas arum. When the puppet is told to walk or move, it will use angkat-angkatan gamelan

music. Moreover, when the puppet is crying it uses special mesem gamelan composition for slanteyed puppets. For the puppet with glowering eyes, it will use rebong gamelan music and during wartime it will use bebatelan.

“Thus, in once staging from the beginning to finish, it will use approximately 10 gamelan compositions with an average duration of two minutes except for the Tabuh Petegak whose duration is approximately 15 minutes,” he said.

In ngaben or cremation ceremony, though the carrying of bade tower has been accompanied by baleganjur gamelan music, it will also use the puppet gender. He told it is meant to provide strains of beauty, peace and comfort for the atman (soul) that will go to heaven. While the baleganjur like Gora functions to improve and raise the spirit of the community when they are obliged to lift the heavy bade. The gamelan played is usually called glagah puun meaning that it heads for fireplace or it can be bebatelan meaning the journey of the atman to the last abode.

When asked about the use of gender gamelan instrument accompanying the rituals like metatah (tooth filing), he said that Balinese Hindus believe that by chanting or playing gender in the ritual procession they will get a big influence that is able to avoid someone from thinking negatively and wishing to disrupt smoothness of a ceremony.

Dr. I Nyoman Astita, an artist and lecturer at the ISI Denpasar, also

said similar thing. Moreover, the puppet gamelan music played at that time is taken from the appropriate performances. Usually, it is begun with tabuh tegak composition which is then continued with tabuh mesem composition commonly coupled with tabuh rebong.

“Then, when devotees walk from the bale pasekeban to bale delod pavilion in the tooth filing ritual, it will be accompanied with tabuh angkat-angkatan that can also result in solemnity and sublime nuances of the ceremony,” as he explained.

Played in Makotekan and Slendro Scale Gender musical instrument becomes a compulsory accompaniment for a puppet show in Bali.

So, in the staging there are two arts played together namely the art of leather puppet along with all the plays and dialogues as well as the art of gender gamelan composition of the puppet show.

Besides, the gender is often used or played in various ritual activities such as in the implementation of tooth filing activities and when the bade tower carrying corpse is brought to cemetery. Thus, gender becomes a distinctive gamelan instrument when compared to other musical instruments.

An artist and lecturer at the ISI Denpasar, I Nyoman Astita, said although in terms of the form it is not different from other gamelan instrument, the gender of puppet is indeed the beginning or inspiration of the

iron or copper gamelan instrument fastened or tied in such a way by using a rope to float and generate a battier tone when compared to other old gamelan types commonly put on the pedestal.

When playing, the gamelan players are using both hands where left hand plays the tone or the main melody while right hand play in makotekan way namely forming series of rhythm tone of the two gamelan instruments.

Furthermore, he said that playing the puppet gender must be in pair or two pieces because gamelan play in the right hand of both players will produce a different pattern where if gamelan artist plays nyangsih, the partner will play pepolosan.

Thus, playing in pairs will result in a rhythm that integrates the sangsih and papolosan known as makotekan.

“The advantages of this puppet gender to me is in terms of technique and playing technique that are fairly sophisticated and complicated because at the same time two hands will play individually or counter point with the techniques and even a different beat can produce a different rhythm as well,” he said.

He added that in general, Balinese gamelan instrument using resonator in the form of bamboo underneath as a sound repeater will usually be set so that the pair can result in ngumbang-ngisep or waving tones. So, when the pair is played even though one tone only will produce a vibrating or waving

sound. Similar thing is also found in the puppet gender, so in addition to being able to makotekan the use of a pair of puppet gender is also aimed to produce a waving sound.

However, the main puppet gender in use in a staging consists of 4 pieces namely a pair of pamade or the gender having bass sound because of lower octave score and a pair of barangan whose octave score is higher but both will produce an interesting and harmonious tone to be heard.

He added that puppet gender has slendro-scaled instrument with single scale interval from one tone to another. In the meantime, the other gamelan instrument like gong kebyar and gong gambang using Pelog scale has two tones with higher interval.

For example, the interval is usually 1 so that when reaching 2 tones the interval becomes 1.5. If the tone dong-deng-dung-dang-ding where from dong to deng has the interval of 1, from deng to dung will be 1.5 and then from dung to dang has the interval of 1, and from dang to ding has the interval of 1.5.

Another artist, I Made Murawan, said that although the characteristics of puppet gender tend to be tender.

However, it is tailored to the designation because it also has fierce and violent gamelan composition. “For example, when accompanying puppet performances and entering war session, it surely must use a fast and fierce tempo gamelan composition like the bebatelan,” he explained. (kmb)

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Coral reefs in Nusa Lembongan damaged

SYDNEY - Australia will accept several dozen Central American refugees within the next few months, two sources familiar with the process told Reuters, the first transfers under a controversial refugee swap arrangement agreed with the United States.

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Some fishermen switch to other professions in order to get more convincing income.

Story of Kusamba fishermen

Fish catch difficult, they prefer to be porter

Canberra pledged to take an unspecified number of Central American refugees under a deal struck with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year.

In exchange, Washington said it would accept up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian immigration centres in the Pacific Island nations of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru that Australia wants to close.

A group of approximately 30 refugees from El Salvador currently being held in Costa Rica will move to Australia in the next couple of months, the two sources said, with a second group of a similar size to follow shortly afterwards.

“The group have been vetted and will likely move in the (northern hemisphere) fall,” said one source, who was not authorised to speak to media about the arrangements.

A spokesman for Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to comment.

Officials at United States Citizenship and Immigrations Services (USCIS) and the State Department’s

Population, Refugees and Migration bureau did not respond to requests for comment outside regular office hours. The U.S. Embassy in Canberra did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The transfer of the Salvadoran refugees to Australia will focus attention on U.S. steps to uphold its end of the agreement, described by President Donald Trump as a “dumb deal” for America.

None of the refugees on PNG’s Manus Island or Nauru - mostly men from the Middle East and South Asia - have been approved to move to the United States yet. Earlier this month, U.S. officials halted screening interviews after the United States reached its annual refugee intake cap.

POINT OF TENSION There are about 200 refugees in Costa Rica as part of a programme set up by former President Obama last year for people deemed too vulnerable to remain in their Central American homelands. Once vetted for criminal associations, including

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Kusamba Beach is one of the few beaches in Klungkung having black sand. It looks glowing in the sunshine. The sea wave is quite calm and not too big. It will look more beautiful when crashed to shore. Amid such scenery, a number of boats emerge. Their color is predominantly white in quite large size. The boats are used by fishermen to catch fish while struggling against staggering waves.

In warm atmosphere, a person is seen passing by and taking a number of items to be moved onto the ship that will leave for Nusa Penida islands. He is Gusti Nyoman Wata, 60. Amid his busy life, he is not awkward to tell a bit about his life as fishermen on the beach. His fate

is not different from the profession as farmers. Both are equally unable to give a hope and prosperity. Fish is no longer abundant in the middle of the ocean. Not infrequently, he has to come from the sea with empty hands, chiefly when bad weather hits. Such condition is slowly causing some residents to stop fishing.

Some fishermen are rumored to have sold their boat. “Many people quit as it is hard enough to fish,” he said, recently.

To survive, those who stopped fishing choose other profession like him. Being a porter that moves goods onto ship becomes his option. The proceedings are considered more convincing and definite, ranging from IDR 80,000 per day.

This job is carried out from the morning until noon. Occasionally he does it until the afternoon, depending on the quantity of goods.

“It is difficult to look for another job, and this becomes an option,” he said.

Head of the Klungkung Food Security and Fisheries Agency, I Wayan Durma, said that based on the latest data, the fishermen in Klungkung amounts to 73 groups.

They mostly live in Nusa Penida.

He did not dismiss if some of them have stopped lately. But according to him, it did not happen due to getting less fish catch, but due to old age. “The fishermen stopped indeed because of their old age,” he added. (sos)

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Detainees walk around the compound among water bottles inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Picture taken February 11, 2017. gangs, they are eligible for resettlement in the United States, while others can be transferred to third countries as part of a United Nations scheme.

The Trump administration has said it would honour the swap agreement to maintain its strong

relationship with Australia, subject to the refugees satisfying strict vetting checks.

Trump’s initial resistance to the deal strained relations with a key Asia Pacific ally, triggering a fractious phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

earlier this year.

Turnbull, under pressure in opinion polls and from within his own party, can ill afford for the United States to renege on the agreement, said Sean Kelly, an adviser to former Australian Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. (rtr)

Chinese jets intercept U.S. surveillance plane -U.S. officials

PROFESSION as fishermen is still pursued by a number of people in Klungkung district.

One of them can be found in the coastal village of Kusamba, Dawan subdistrict. However, in its development, the number tends to decrease. Some choose to switch to other professions in order to get more convincing income.

In order to restore damage coral reefs, investors are asked to participate in conservation.

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Regent asks investors to undertake conservation

SEMARAPURA — Damage to coral reefs in the waters of Nusa Penida gets attention from the Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta. Admittedly, these days it is quite common to happen. In order to restore them, investors are asked to participate in conservation. This was confirmed amid the plenary session of the Klungkung House of Representatives on Monday (Jul. 24).

This regent from Nusa Ceningan said the damage was known when monitoring by using a speed boat. If referring to the Law No. 23/2014, the authority of marine management lies in the provincial government. It means any arising problems will be handled directly by it. Nevertheless, his government continues to perform recovery measures, one of them by asking for the third party, in this case the investor that utilize the potential of the region.

“How to involve the third parties, in this case investors, to participate, we’ll discuss. All diving guides should also educate their guests, do not only chase for quantity because our environment will be getting more threatened,” he said.

If only waiting for the funds from central government, according to Suwirta, the handling of coral reef cannot be done quickly.

Moreover, there are rules that have not been finalized and are difficult to be interpreted. For instance, the budget worth IDR 1.5 billion received from central government for conservation fund cannot be utilized. “It is just like being hungry but still having many leftovers,” he said.

To accelerate the completion of this issue, the Klungkung food security and fisheries agency has been asked to follow up. “Do not let this extraordinary potential, having been established as a marine conservation area (KKP), get no attention,” he said.

Suwirta asserted if not immediately responded, the damage to coral reef is considered to be getting more serious. Such condition is getting worse if coupled with the action of investors dumping waste into the sea. “Many pontoons are installed at the location.

Recently, there is a permit issued by the province, I cannot talk much. Water sport business is increasing,” he said.

To avoid the emergence of other problems, we will prepare a management board for tourism in Nusa Penida. “It is being prepared, we will not rush. Everything has its process, we see the potential but do not breach rules,” he said.

Chief of Nusa Penida Lovers Community, Nyoman Widana, said that to anticipate the damage, it is required a strict sanction imposed to violators. “Without hard sanction, the sustainability and other things will be less thought,” he said. (kmb45)

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A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries aircraft is directed by ground crew after a flight from Bahrain September 25, 2017.

WASHINGTON - Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane over the East China Sea at the weekend, with one jet coming within about 300 feet (91 meters) of the American aircraft, U.S. officials said on Monday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said initial reports showed one of the Chinese J-10 aircraft came close enough to the U.S. EP-3 plane on Sunday to cause the American aircraft to change direction.

One of the officials said the Chinese jet was armed and the interception happened 80 nautical miles (148 km) from the Chinese city of Qingdao.

The Pentagon said the encounter between the aircraft was unsafe, but added that the vast majority of interactions were safe.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang referred questions to the “relevant department”, a reference to the

defence ministry, which has yet to comment.

The United States had frequently carried out surveillance activities near China’s coast, Lu told a daily news briefing.

“This is not conducive to mutual trust between the Chinese and U.S. militaries, and constitutes a threat to China’s legitimate security,” Lu added.

“We hope the United States can cease this kind of surveillance activity.”

Incidents such as Sunday’s intercept are relatively common.

In May, two Chinese SU-30 aircraft intercepted a U.S. aircraft designed to detect radiation while it was flying in international air space over the East China Sea. China closely monitors any U.S. military activity around its coastline.

In 2001, an intercept of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet resulted in a collision that killed the Chinese pilot and forced

the American plane to make an emergency landing at a base on Hainan.

The 24 U.S. air crew members were held for 11 days until Washington apologized for the incident. That encounter soured U.S.-Chinese relations in the early days of President George W. Bush’s first term in office.

Separately, the Pentagon said the U.S. military would soon carry out another test of it’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

“These tests are done as a routine measure to ensure that the system is ready and... they are scheduled well in advance of any other real world geopolitical events going on,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters.

The director of the Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant General Sam Greaves, said in a statement that a test would be carried out at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska. (rtr)

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Japan launches “telework” campaign to ease congestion, reform work culture

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Workers inspect an electric taxi at The London Taxi Company’s new facility near Coventry, Britain March 22, 2017.

Britain launches fund to boost electric battery technology

BIRMINGHAM - Britain launched a 246 million-pound ($320 million) fund on Monday to boost the development and manufacturing of electric batteries, a major growth area for the car and energy sectors.

The scheme, which allows those in business and academia to apply for government funds to work on a range of possible electric battery schemes, is part of Britain’s industrial strategy which Prime Minister Theresa May published in January.

It is designed to take a more hands-on approach to developing key industries to help protect the economy as Britain leaves the European Union.

Automakers are racing to build greener vehicles and improve charge times in a bid to meet rising customer demand and meet air quality targets but Britain lacks sufficient manufacturing capacity, an area ministers are keen to build up.

The first tranche comprises a 45 million-pound pot of money which will help to establish a ‘Battery Institute’ for research to help improve the affordability of the technology, which needs to bolster charge and use times, reduce storage sizes and boost capacity.

Business minister Greg Clark also wants to establish a “National Battery Manufacturing Development facility” which would support the building of electric batteries for the automotive sector.

“Joining together the research, development, application and manufacture of energy storage tech-

nologies – and specifically battery storage – is a huge opportunity for the energy sector and the automotive sector alike,” Clark said in a speech in Birmingham.

In May, representatives from politics, academia and business in the central English city of Coventry pitched plans to receive part of the funds for a “National Battery Prototyping Centre” which would focus on research and development and testing.

Japan’s Nissan already builds its electric Leaf at its north of England plant but Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is building its first low-emissions model in Austria.

Its chief executive told Reuters last year that a number of factors needed to be put in place before JLR would build electric models in Britain, including pilot testing and support from science.

Germany’s BMW favours building its first electric model at its Oxford plant, two sources told Reuters last week, in a decision which is due to be announced in September.

Clark also said that up to 40 billion pounds could be saved by 2050 with a range of measures designed to better manage energy use, including allowing users to control their appliances from their smartphones.

But businesses have become more cautious about future investment in Britain ahead of Brexit, worried that the country may lose unfettered and free trade with its biggest export partner at the end of two-year divorce talks in March 2019. (rtr)

TOKYO - Japan on Monday launched a scheme to promote “telework”, or working from home, in an effort to ease congestion when Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics, as well as soften a notoriously rigid work culture.

Almost 930 companies, including Suntory Holdings, Ajinomoto Co, and Tokyu Construction Co are participating in “Telework Day,” to be held on July 24 each year from now until the Olympics opening ceremony set for July 24, 2020.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has introduced policies to shorten working hours, raise contract workers’ pay, and curb abuse of labour laws. Telework could be another way to reform working practices that some say are behind the times.

“Once the Olympics start it will be hard to get to work, so we are doing this as an experiment,” said Takashi Kozu, 61, president of the Ricoh Institute of Sustainability and Business.

“The lifestyles of younger generations are changing, so firms should offer alternative work styles to maintain employees’ incentive.”

Kozu said he worked from home on Monday morning, planned to attend an off-site meeting in the afternoon and would not show up in the office until early evening.

Telework is more common in other

countries, especially in the information technology sector, where employees regularly use teleconferencing or log on from the neighbourhood cafe.

But it has been slow to catch on in other industries in Japan, partly because firms have put a lot of emphasis on being physically present at the office, often for 12 hours or more.

But Japan, Inc. is starting to change its ways and introduce more flexible work hours. As the population ages, the labour force is shrinking at an alarming rate, and a hard-driving work culture makes it difficult to attract and retain workers.

Some companies are starting to realise that long, inflexible hours of work actually keep labour productivity low.

In some cases Japan’s working culture can be fatal, and it is not uncommon for workers to commit suicide or suffer a stroke because of excessive hours.

“We are doing this for the Olympics, but the long-term goal is to have more humane working conditions,” said Hiroshi Ohnishi, a planner at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, which is promoting “Telework Day.” “In the past, working long hours was considered a virtue, but this thinking will not hold up in the future.” (rtr)

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Passengers ride an overcrowded train at a station in Kawasaki, Japan June 14, 2017.

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Water crisis threat getting more complex

People pay less attention as being invisible

DENPASAR — The threat of water crisis in Bali can be regarded as a complex problem. It happens due to the decrease in quantity of underground water or seawater intrusion that cannot be seen by naked eyes. On the other hand, people only see who is wrong in this matter.

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Most tourists coming to the Waterblow want to see the conditions of pounding waves hitting the cliffs and resulting in splashes into the air.

Tourists still stubborn to breach Waterblow MANGUPURA — After the incident causing tourist to get injured during a visit to Waterblow area, Nusa Dua, some time ago, the area was once closed. The area better known with its pounding waves was then re-opened on Sunday (Jul. 23). Moreover, a number of tourists seemed to have visited the object.

Nevertheless, the barrier installed to prevent from crossing

by ITDC authority in the area was even much violated by tourists. So, security guards on duty seemed to be made powerless. Such offense was not only committed by one tourist, but by some tourists whereas their tour guide has reminded them there was an accident due to ferocious waves a few days ago.

“Obviously, we have warned, but they are stubborn. They may be just deterrent after there is an incident,” complained the security guard.

Most tourists coming to the Waterblow want to see the conditions of pounding waves hitting the cliffs and resulting in splashes into the air. It draws the curiosity of tourists to approach and take selfie where sometimes they take position rather close the edge of the cliff.

Managing Director of the ITDC Nusa Dua, Wayan Karioka, when confirmed cannot be questioned.

Previously, chief of Bualu customary village, Wayan Wita, had warned the ITDC management to pay attention to security aspects of tourists making a visit to the location. If there is an incident claiming fatalities, surely it will bring in a negative image for the region itself.

Actually the presence of the officers on duty at the location is expected to appeal to tourists that are still considered stubborn. They can explain about the season, the impact and risks that may occur when the rules installed are violated. If the information can be presented clearly, surely tourists will understand and obey the rules well.

“As a chief of customary village, I hope in the current season the Waterblow area can be well guarded.

Sudden spurt of water phenomenon is sometimes not known by tourists.

This should be alerted by the ITDC officers. Hopefully, with good supervision the security and comfort of tourists can be well maintained when they visit the Waterblow,” he concluded. (kmb)

“Or they may feel there is no water crisis because they can still use water and all sorts of things. However, we actually see this invisible threat, precisely under the ground where the clean water is located,” said Resource Development Manager of IDEP Foundation, Doni Marmer, in Denpasar, last Sunday (Jul. 23).

Doni added that water crisis concerns with the availability of water, water security and ease to access it. In terms of availability, the underground water reserves currently begin to decrease. This condition will be hazardous when the empty space of underground water is then filled in by seawater. If there is intrusion of seawater, the water cannot be used or consumed. In terms of security, a lot of pollution has actually been created by human unconsciously.

“For example, we are using chemicals in our waterways and littering our waterways. Apparently, the crisis will even happen faster than the solutions made to prevent the water crisis,” he added.

In means, continued Doni, even if there is water it has already been contaminated as well and can be categorized into a threat of water crisis. In the city of Denpasar in particular, the water crisis is more emerging because the amount is not enough and the water has begun to get contaminated. It also includes the area of North Denpasar having a little more green

belt compared to other areas of Denpasar.

“Although there are a lot of paddy fields (green belt—Ed.), farmers are using chemicals, and people are littering. I think these make us unable to use water or will lead us to the water crisis,” he explained.

Communication Officer of the Bali Water Protection Program at IDEP Foundation, Julien Goalabre, said that people tend to see problems arising first before thinking of how to find the solution. Actually, the existing indications today are enough to make the movement of water crisis prevention. The lack of water underground or the intrusion of seawater cannot be seen with naked eyes like the matter of plastic waste.

“People do not believe. In other words, it does not affect their lives directly because they cannot see whereas chemicals have entered their bodies and pollution has been already in the skin. Then, the water they consume has decreased in quality. Balinese people do not realize these so far,” he said.

Julien added that this basic understanding is not yet widely owned by the community. Although they have high educational background, their concern for environmental issues is still fairly low. Therefore, his institution continues to campaign for the protection of ground water of Bali to hone the public’s sensitivity. The campaigns involve more industrial sectors as they are believed to be able to help change people’s perceptions.

“Bali depends on various sectors, one of which is tourism sector. When the big industries say there is a water crisis, we have to do something. Definitely, the implications will go to the community as well because it’s their livelihood,” he concluded. (kmb32)

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The underground water reserves currently begin to decrease. This condition will be hazardous when the empty space of underground water is then filled in by seawater.

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Many tourism villages underdeveloped

Do not just ask for decree, management demanded to do promotion

A farmer is harvesting his flower plant.

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Narrow land, farmers have no market orientation

DENPASAR - There are differences between farmers in Bali in particular from farmers overseas. Farmers overseas can manage farmland up to hundreds of hectares, while farmers in Bali only work on land 0.25 hectare. In terms of intensification, foreign farmers are also very advanced.

“We do not produce with the orientation for market needs. Even though the market need is available, only a little they can supply because the land area is only 0.25 hectare per farmer,” said Dewa Sadguna, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Warmadewa University, on Monday (Jul. 24).

For example, tulip farms in the Netherlands, peanut farm in Arizona and so forth are very wide. In Bali, the cultivated land remains small. “Nevertheless, it does not mean we are not concerned about it. The

most important to Balinese farmers is that he does the activities with pleasure. If the results can be accepted by community and farmers are happy, that’s enough.

Financially, they do not think about a bigger farm. Most importantly, they can eat and be happy,” he concluded.

Simplicity of the way of thinking makes Balinese farmers have no market orientation. Aside from the application of technology, Balinese farmers also lose far away from overseas farmers. The technology in use is not yet modern. “Unlike farmers overseas, they do watering by airplane,” he said. In terms of education, Balinese farmers also have low levels of education.

In the meantime, the interest of young people to be farmers has not been so high. It happens because younger generation has not seen the results of creative and innovative farming. According to him, by farming farmers can actually improve their prosperity. (kmb42)

BANGLI — In Bangli, there are 27 tourism villages developed to be made into tourist destination.

However, among the tourism villages owned, only a few of them are capable of developing, while the remaining villages are difficult as if they are still ‘dormant.’

Promotion Division Head of the Bangli Tourism and Culture Agency, I Wayan Merta, did not dismiss on Monday (Jul. 24) that of the 27 tourism villages in Bangli, only a few are able to develop, while the remaining is unable to develop maximally. “Of the many tourism villages, only a few can develop, such as Penglipuran. To advance all of them is required seriousness of all parties ranging from the management to local residents,” he said.

With such conditions, he said, the management and local community actually play an important role to promote the tourism village pursuant to their seriousness. Both parties must be more proactive to promote their tourism village in order to be able to develop well.

Thus, the management does not depend on the government to promote the tourism village. To that end, it must synergize with relevant agencies to create programs related to tourism development at the village.

According to him, actually the 27 tourism villages have very ordinary potential ranging from the aspect of nature, handicraft to agriculture. If they can be developed well, it is not impossible the tourism villages managed will develop by degrees in the future.

“The government has already issued the decree of tourism village. Having got the decree, the tourism village should more actively manage and promote their tourist village. For example, it

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can be done through social media and other ways. So, we hope the underdeveloped tourism villages can vivaciously promote theirs. At least, they can get the advantages of tourist visit in the future. Additionally, the government will also help promote them,” he said.

Furthermore, the improvement of facilities and infrastructure including human resources must also be carried out to support the development of tourist object. Without these supports, it will be difficult for them to develop. “For example, improvement of infrastructure such as parking space, application of seven charms in the field is supporting elements for the development of tourism villages,” said Merta.

In the meantime, Regent of Bangli, I Made Gianyar, previously said that many tourism villages are still underdeveloped and it is not the mistake of government. It happens because the villages have very minimal spirit to develop their tourism potential. Besides, many of them have not owned a clear management. “The regent has provided an opportunity to move forward. To be able to develop, it will depend on the spirit of the village itself, do not blame on the government,” he said.

He requested that in the future more and more tourism villages in Bangli will be developed like Penglipuran, so the underdeveloped tourism villages will start moving and vivaciously develop their potential. Moreover, the funds managed by the villages are quite large, both from village fund allocation (ADD) and village funds (DD). “Now, whether the tourism is advanced or not will highly depend on the management of the community at the local village,” concluded Made Gianyar. (kmb41)

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Penglipuran, one of the tourism villages in Bangli

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‘Game of Thrones’ author teases two possible new books in 2018

LOS ANGELES - Author George R.R. Martin has hinted at the possibility of not one but two new “Game of Thrones” books in 2018, whetting the appetites of fans who have been waiting for the next installment of the epic saga since 2011.

Martin, whose “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels were adapted into HBO’s hit medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” currently is working on the sixth installment, “Winds of Winter,” continuing the story from 2011’s “A Dance With Dragons.”

“I am still working on it, I am still months away (how many? good question), I still have good days and bad days, and that’s all I care to say,” Martin wrote on his blog, grrm.livejournal.com,

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Jim Hampshire, dressed as a character from “Game of Thrones,” attends the opening day of Comic Con International in San Diego, California, U.S., July 20, 2017.

during the weekend.

“I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018... and who knows, maybe two. A boy can dream...,” he said.

The seventh season of the television show, which premiered this month, already has advanced beyond the events of Martin’s published books.

There have been recent contradictory reports about “Winds of Winter” - that Martin had not even been started it or that he had finished it but was holding it back - and the author dismissed those as “equally false and equally moronic.”

“Game of Thrones” follows the epic story of warring families in a multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne, which rules over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

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Wildfires lay waste to hillsides along French Riviera

Martin has come under fire from avid “Game of Thrones” fans for taking so long to finish “Winds of Winter” and starting work on other projects. The author said in his blog post that he was working on a two-part history of Westeros’ Targaryen kings called “Fire and Blood,” with the first part to be released sometime late 2018 or early 2019.

A trailer for the HBO show, released last week, shows a brewing battle between Cersei Lannister, who currently sits on the Iron Throne, and Daenerys Targaryen, who has traveled with her army and dragons to reclaim her ancestral home.

The series will conclude next year with the eighth season, which will reveal who will sit on the Iron Throne. A series of spin-offs is being developed at HBO. (rtr)

NICE/MARSEILLE - Firefighters battled wind-whipped infernos along the French Riviera coast on Tuesday as the flames torched vegetation on hills overlooking glitzy Mediterranean resorts thronged by summer holidaymakers. Local authorities said several firefighters were injured and one hospitalised but there were no immediate reports of deaths, unlike with similar wildfires that have killed dozens elsewhere in southern Europe, notably Portugal.

Brokenhearted Linkin Park remember Bennington - and his demons LOS ANGELES - California rock band Linkin Park said on Monday the suicide of frontman Chester Bennington had left them brokenhearted but recalled it was Bennington’s demons that had made fans fall in love with the band.

In their first statement since Bennington’s suicide at his Southern California home last week, the remaining members of Linkin Park said they did not know “what path our future may take.”

The alt-rock band on Friday canceled its North American tour that had been due to start on July 27.

Bennington, 41, had a history

of alcohol and drug abuse and depression and had spoken openly in the past about his struggles when Linkin Park first found fame in 2000 with their best-selling debut album “Hybrid Theory.”

“Dear Chester, Our hearts are broken,” the band said in a statement.

“Your absence leaves a void that can never be filled - a boisterous, funny, ambitious, creative, kind, generous voice in the room is missing. We’re trying to remind ourselves that the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal. After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in

love with you in the first place. You fearlessly put them on display, and in doing so, brought us together and taught us to be more human,” the statement added.

Bennington, who was twice married, leaves six children. The band said they and the singer’s wife Talinda and his family appreciated the love and support shown by fans and other musicians over his death.

Bennington was the second American rock star to die by suicide in the last two months. Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, 52, a close friend of Bennington, hanged himself in a Detroit hotel room in May. (rtr)

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Fans gather at Revolucion monument to pay tribute to Chester Bennington, Linkin Park frontman, following the singer’s death by suicide, in Mexico City, Mexico, July 23, 2017.

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An anti-fire Canadair airplane drops water over a forest fire near La Croix-Valmer, southern France, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes fanned by high winds in more than a dozen zones in the Riviera region of southern France.

One blaze that erupted late on Monday, near the Croix Valmer resort and the yacht-filled marinas of Saint-Tropez, sent clouds of thick smoke into azure skies within view of busy beaches.

Authorities said that blaze had engulfed 650 hectares of land in one of several spots where fires prompted closure of parts of the local road network, a rail line and at one stage part of the A51 motorway in the southeastern corner of France.

Weather forecasters said strong winds would persist for another day or two days at least, heightening the risk that even spots where firefighters were close to containing the flames could fall prey to another flare-up.

One of the blazes was thought to have been started by a bolt of lightning, but carelessly discarded cigarette butts are often blamed for setting tinderbox areas of the midsummer southern coast alight.

Another fire that scorched at least 800 hectares of land in the picturesque Vaucluse region further inland was believed to be under control on Tuesday morning, local firefighters said. But a further blaze was meanwhile ripping through swathes of hillside on the island of Corsica that lies off the French coast in a corner of the Mediterranean near Italy.

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