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Tuesday, August 29, 2017 Katy Perry (c), who made her entrance from the ceiling wearing a space suit and ended the threehour event with a performance of single “Swish Swish” with Nicki Minaj.

Kendrick Lamar wins big, but absent Taylor Swift steals VMA show

LOS ANGELES - Kendrick Lamar and Ed Sheeran won the top prizes at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday, but an absent Taylor Swift and lifetime achievement honoree Pink dominated the show.

An angry Swift took on her critics in the world premiere of the music video for her first solo single in three years, “Look What You Made Me Do.” The satirical music video depicted Swift, 27, crawling out of a grave and declaring her old self dead in a portrayal of a hard-edged artist with nothing left to lose, drawing more than 470,000 views on Youtube within an hour of its premiere.

Lamar, who went into Sunday’s event in Los Angeles with a leading eight nominations, kicked off the show with a medley that featured dancers in flames.

The California rapper went home with six statuettes, including the top award for video of the year and best hip hop video for “Humble.”

British singer-songwriter Sheeran was voted artist of the year.

Despite days of fevered speculation, Swift herself was a no-show, though she won the only category in which she had been nominated - best collaboration for “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with Zayn Malik.

Nevertheless, her new video quickly became one of the show’s most talked-about moments, largely overshadowing performances by the likes of Sheeran, Fifth Harmony and Lorde.

The video ended with Swift reviving all the personas of her music career - from gawky, guitar playing 16-year old to poised Grammy winner - and having them call each other out for being fake, pretending to be nice and playing the victim.

Hosting the VMA show was Swift’s long-time rival, Katy Perry, who made her entrance from the ceiling wearing a space suit and ended the three-hour event with a performance of single “Swish Swish” with Nicki Minaj.

Pink, the winner of the 2017 Vanguard Award, gave a speech about beauty and acceptance directed to her six year-old daughter Willow, who was in the audience, that moved many to tears.

“Baby girl, we don’t change,” the singer said. “We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl, and we help other people to change so they can see other kinds of beauty.”

The event also showcased social issues. Six transgender military service men and woman walked

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Interstate highway 45 is submerged from the effects of Hurricane Harvey seen during widespread flooding in Houston, Texas, U.S. August 27, 2017.

Houston crippled by catastrophic flood, mass evacuations ordered

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Kendrick Lamar with his awards. the VMA red carpet, and a group of suicide survivors stood silently on stage during a performance of the

song “1-800 273-8255”, the number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. (rtr)

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HOUSTON - Tropical Storm Harvey was set to dump more rain on Houston on Monday, adding to catastrophic flooding that paralyzed the fourth most populous U.S. city and prompted mass evacuations in nearby counties as rivers hit crests not seen for centuries. Harvey came ashore late on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years and has killed at least two people. It has since sat in the same general area around Texas’ Gulf of Mexico Coast where it is forecast to remain for several more days, drenching parts of the region with a year’s worth of rainfall in the span of a week.

Schools, airports and office buildings in Houston were ordered shut on Monday as scores of roads were turned into rivers by floods and chest-high water filled numerous neighborhoods in the low-lying city. Torrential rain from Harvey hit areas more than 150 miles (240 km) away, swelling rivers upstream and causing a surge that was heading toward the Houston area.

More than 50,000 people were ordered to leave parts of Fort Bend County, about 35 miles (55 km) southwest of Houston, as the Brazos

River was set to crest at a record high of 59 feet (18 m) this week, 14 feet (4.3 m) above its flood stage. Brazos County Judge Robert Hebert told reporters the forecast crest represents a high not seen in at least 800 years.

Steve Bowen, chief meteorologist at reinsurance firm Aon Benfield, said: “What we’re seeing is the most devastating flood event in Houston’s recorded history. We’re seeing levels of rainfall that are unprecedented.”

Total precipitation could reach 50 inches (127 cm) in some coastal areas of Texas by the end of the week, or

the average rainfall for an entire year, forecasters said.

“Water started flooding our house and by last night we were unable to leave,” said Maria Davila, one of about 1,000 people in a makeshift shelter at Houston’s sprawling convention center.U.S. President Donald Trump plans to go to Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the storm, a White House spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Trump, facing the first big U.S. natural disaster since he took office in January, signed a disaster proclama-

tion on Friday, triggering federal relief efforts. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday 54 counties had been declared state disaster areas and he plans to add 1,000 more National Guard personnel to the flood battle.

MASSIVE DAMAGE The Harris County Sheriff’s Office rescued more than 2,000 people in the greater Houston area using vehicles including motorboats, airboats and humvees on Sunday, a spokesman said. The U.S. Coast Guard and Houston police rescued hundreds more as residents brought boats to staging centers to help.

The Gulf is home to almost half of the nation’s refining capacity, and the reduced supply could affect gasoline supplies across the U.S. Southeast and other parts of the country. Shutdowns extended

across the coast, including Exxon Mobil’s Baytown refinery, the second largest U.S. refinery.

Gasoline futures rose as much as 7 percent in early trading on Sunday evening. Heating oil futures, a proxy for distillates like diesel fuel, were up as much as 3 percent, with supplies expected to be curtailed. The outages will limit the availability of U.S. crude, gasoline and other refined products for global consumers and further push up prices, analysts said.

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Three springs in Gianyar draw many visitors GIANYAR —Gianyar district has a number of springs that are not only functioned to perform melukat (purificatory rite), but also to be a tourist attraction. Today, there are three springs commonly visited by tourists, namely the Dalem Pingit bathing place (Sebatu village, Tegallalang), Goa Rang Reng waterfall (Bakbakan village, Gianyar) and Tirta Empul (Tampaksiring) as the most famous.

Secretary of Sebatu village, I Wayan Kerta, some time ago explained that Dalem Pingit Temple bathing at Sebatu village is widely visited by Balinese people all this time to perform melukat. Lately, it also began to be crowded by domestic and foreign visitors. “Visitors always come not only in morning to evening, but also at night,” he said.

According to Kerta, this holy bathing place is lately more crowded by residents, especially on school holidays, and on Hindu auspicious days like full moon, new moon, kajeng kliwon and other important days. When visitors are booming, the parking lot cannot accommodate visitors’ vehicle. Ultimately, the parking uses road body.

In addition, there are other tourist attractions like Goa Rang Reng waterfall introduced by residents of Gitgit, Bakbakan village, to foreign and local tourists. This object is also often used for melukat or just for releasing tiredness.

According to a local resident, I Made Sutama, in the Goa Rang Reng sits the Taman Manik Mas Temple. The water flows from inside the cave is taken advantage by residents for drinking water and purificatory rite before performing religious ceremonies.

“Upstream of this water flow is taken advantage as tourist attraction here,” said Sutama, last Saturday.

Inside the cave there is a very large spring named Telaga Embeng. From this lake, the water flows to the waterfall whose slope can be climbed by visitors. The waterfall also becomes a magnet to visitors, either for taking a bath or taking photographs.

Sutama who is also a tour guide said this object is still managed independently, without any follow-up from the government.

The village also tries to develop this tourist object independently.

“However, it would be better if the government can land a hand,” he said.

In the Goa Rang Reng sits the Taman Manik Mas Temple. Right in front of the temple, there is a flow of water running from a cave that forms a confluence. Two branches of the river are called Male Cangkir River and Female Cangkir River. Balinese people call this water campuhan or confluence. The couples that will be getting married usually do purificatory rite beforehand at this campuhan because the river water is believed as a symbol of union between men and women. “The left flow symbolize women, while the right symbolizes male,” added Sutama. (kmb35)

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Amnaya Resort Kuta Debuts in Bali The popular 116-roomBali hotel in South Kuta is celebrating a new journey as the first hotel brand in a series of 4-star boutique properties owned and operated by PT Tibi Modern Sentosa.

Halim Soetanto, CEO of Amnaya Hotels & Resorts, said: “Today’s rebrand of Alaya Resort Kuta to Amnaya Resort Kuta is a significant milestone in our commitment to Balinese hospitality ourstaff, whose carrying the new

philosophy of Family Values.”

The new logo of Amnaya tells the story about harmony, endless bond of family, generation and cultures of heritage. All are reflected in our humble, sincere services from the heart that worth remembering. All start from the heart.

Jeffrey Wibisono, General Manager of Amnaya Resort Kuta, added: “True to the brand, team are embracing and driving the changing demands of today’s

more onerous travelers: who seek a memorable service to take home. I firmly believe that our hotel become guest’s second home.” Amnaya Resort Kuta keeps the concept of a haven of relaxation in amidst the upbeat energy of Bali’s most colourful tourism district - a sense of calmness and oasis in the middle of South Kuta, Bali. Find us, we have so much story to share, tell us your story?

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Mobile library grows reading interest, ‘competes’ against internet

MOBILE library still becomes one of the alternatives to foster people’s interest in reading, no exception in Klungkung district. This mobile library can be found in public places. However, amid the increasingly advanced technology, the breakthrough of the regional archives and library agency is like experiencing a dilemma. Its existence must ‘compete’ against the sophistication of technology in the form of internet.

Approaching the evening, the atmosphere of Semarapura town, Klungkung, starts to be crowded.

Many residents gather in public space. One of them is at the Puputan Klungkung Monument.

People come alone or with family. Amid the warm atmosphere, at the road side emerges a blue minivan. Immediately, a number of children approach, look and sort out various kinds of books that have been neatly arranged on the shelf. They search for titles in accordance with their favorite. It is the mobile library encouraged by the regional archives and library agency of Klungkung.

Amid his busyness, a librarian, Ketut Agus Gunawan, does not hesitate to tell stories. This reading service starts at 18:30 until 21:00. Puputan Klungkung Monument has become a regular place to hang out. Interacting with

children just like kindergarten teacher has become a commonplace. “Coinciding with car-free day and weekdays, I must be here.

Sometimes in the morning or afternoon I come to public events, looking for the crowd,” he said recently.

Having carried out this profession since six years ago, certainly it provides a lot of experience.

People’s interest in reading is well known. Lately, this mobile library drew more interest of children, while the adults just escort their children. Not infrequently, they just look back, without opening any single book cover lined neatly. However, it does not make him frustrated in carrying out the duty. His obligation as a medium to channel science remains to continue. “The readers are dominated by children. At least, there are about 20 people who read,”

said the man from Gunaksa village, Dawan.

The existence amid the increasingly advanced technology makes this library as being twisted by dilemma. The library must ‘compete’ against internet whose access is getting wider. It is able to provide the public with access to various kinds of information without being limited by space and time. “Indeed, the easy access to information can influence people’s reading interest to library,” he said. evertheless, the existence of this simple library remains to be maintained with an innovative touch. The book provided varies, adjusted to the public interest.

“The books are routinely replaced to avoid monotonous. There are still people preferring to read books directly,” he affirmed. (sos)

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Worker loads part for welding in robot

Drug emergency

All components of the nation must fight against it

bay at Alfield Industries, a subsidiary of Martinrea, one of three global auto parts makers in Canada, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada April 28, 2017.

Robot makers slow to address cyber risk - researchers

SINGAPORE - Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly 50 vulnerabilities in their home, business and industrial robots, say only a few of the problems have been addressed.

The researchers, Cesar Cerrudo and Lucas Apa of cybersecurity firm IOActive, said the vulnerabilities would allow hackers to spy on users, disable safety features and make robots lurch and move violently, putting users and bystanders in danger.

While they say there are no signs that hackers have exploited the vulnerabilities, they say the fact that the robots were hacked so easily and the manufacturers’ lack of response raise questions about allowing robots in homes, offices

and factories.

“Our research shows proof that even non-military robots could be weaponized to cause harm,” Apa said in an interview.

“These robots don’t use bullets or explosives, but microphones, cameras, arms and legs. The difference is that they will be soon around us and we need to secure them now before it’s too late.”

Some of the robot manufacturers defended themselves, saying they had fixed some or all of the issues raised.

Apa’s comments come in the wake of a letter signed by more than 100 leading robotic experts urging the United Nations to ban the development of killer military robots, or autonomous weapons.

Apa, a senior security consultant, said that of the six manufacturers contacted, only one, Rethink Robotics, said some of the problems had been fixed. He said he had not been able to confirm that as his team does not have access to that particular robot.

A spokesman for Rethink Robotics, which makes the Baxter and

Sawyer assembly-line robots, said all but two issues - in the education and research versions of its robots had been fixed.

Apa said a review of updates from the other five manufacturers - Universal Robots of Denmark, SoftBank Robotics and Asratec Corp of Japan, Ubtech of China, and Robotis Inc of South Korea - led him to believe none of the issues he had raised had been fixed.

Asratec said that software released for its robots so far was limited to “hobby use sample programs”, and it believed IOActive was pointing to security vulnerabilities in those. Software it planned to release for commercial

use would be different, it said.

SoftBank Robotics said it had already identified the vulnerabilities and fixed them. Ubtech said it had “fully addressed any concerns raised by IOActive that do not limit our developers from programming” their robots.

Universal Robots did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Robotis Inc declined to comment. The slow reaction by the robot industry was not surprising, said Joshua Ziering, founder of Kittyhawk.io, a commercial drone software company. “A new technology bursts on to the market and people fail to secure it,” he said. (rtr)

In Japan, robot-for-hire programmed to perform Buddhist funeral rites

TOKYO - A Japanese company has introduced a new role for SoftBank’s humanoid robot “Pepper” - a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals.

Chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a drum, the robot was on display on Wednesday at a funeral industry fair - the Life Ending Industry Expo - in Tokyo.

Nissei Eco Co., an unlisted plastic molding maker, wrote the chanting software for “Pepper”, which was introduced by SoftBank Group Corp. in 2014.

With Japan’s population ageing and shrinking, many Buddhist priests receive less financial support from their communities, prompting some to find part-time work outside their temple duties, said Michio Inamura, Nissei’s executive adviser.

The funeral robot could step in when a priest was not available, he said. It also cost less at 50,000 yen (about $450) per funeral compared to more than 240,000 yen ($2,200) for a human priest.

Buddhist priest Tetsugi Matsuo said he came to the expo to see if Pepper could “impart the ‘heart’ aspect to a machine because I believe that the ‘heart’ is the foundation of religion.”

The robot has not yet been hired for a funeral. (rtr)

A ‘robot priest’ wearing a Buddhist robe chants sutras at it beats a wooden fish during its demonstration at Life Ending Industry EXPO 2017 in Tokyo, Japan August 23, 2017.

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Beware of UN Swissindo voucher fraud

It claims 40 victims in Bali

DENPASAR — Having been designated as a fraud investment, the UN Swissindo is now shifting the way to deceive the public.

The new way used is human obligation voucher (VM1) that can be cashed at Bank Mandiri. In Bali, there have been 40 people becoming the victims of the UN Swissindo investment fraud.

Head of the Office of Financial Services Authority (OJK) for Regional 8 Bali and Nusa Tenggara, Zulmi, said that pursuant to the last information received for Bali there are a total of about 40 people asking for information to Bank Mandiri related to their investment.

Having been explained by the bank that there is no cooperation with this illegal company in the fund disbursement through voucher, the public immediately realized if they have been cheated.

“Once explained, they just realized that there is no such cooperation and return home. Well, actually there is a plan to come again on August 18 and August 21. However, it was canceled because the bank has clarified the matter,” he said, not long ago.

In Bali, he said, we should be grateful because the number of people tempted by the seduction of the UN Swissindo is much lower than other regions such as Makassar and Jaya Pura. Moreover, in both regions hundreds of people are queuing to exchange the vouchers having been purchased. “A local resident even already purchased worth millions of rupiahs in the hope of getting more money, but in fact it is not true,” he said.

Furthermore, he said the operation mode of the UN Swissindo is that people wishing to get M1 voucher must submit a copy of their electronic identity card and pay administrative fee worth IDR 10,000-IDR 30,000 for one voucher. The illegal company claimed if the vouchers purchased can be redeemed to Bank Mandiri with the amount of funds of USD 1,200 or approximately IDR 15.6 million.

“Certainly this is not true because Bank Mandiri has clarified there is no cooperation between the bank and UN Swissindo.

Besides, Bank Indonesia has released that there is no SBI in the form of certificates,” he said.

Thus, he appealed to the public not to easily believe in such an offer whose truth remains uncertain. Moreover, the offer does not make sense. So, to get clear information related to investment as well as other things such as the offer of debt repayment and the purchase of disbursable voucher, people are expected to ask for information to OJK office, law enforcement apparatus and task force handling alleged unlawful action in the field of fund raising and investment management.

He added that previously there was a mode of debt repayment agreement in bank. Until July 2017, the OJK has received approximately 15 reports. They were submitted by the public as well as financial service institutions. “Once again, we reiterate there is no debt repayment of customers by using documents only from the UN Swissindo that claimed debt repayment from the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. To that end, we appeal to the public especially those having a debt should not easily trust such an offer because it is not true,” he affirmed. (kmb42)

MANGUPURA — Indonesia is in a state of drug emergency because the circulation is very massive to rural corners. Similarly, it happens in Bali where these illicit goods have penetrated into villages and targeted all lines including students. Therefore, all components of the nation must commit to fighting against and countering them. This was conveyed by the Head of District National Narcotic Agency (BNNK) Badung, Ni Ketut Masmini.

“Drugs users and dealers are mostly committed by private sector this time. Therefore, both civil servants and private employees must be introspective in order not to fall into drug abuse,” said Masmini after attending interactive dialog on the hazards of drugs with the theme of ‘the role of employees in the efforts of the P4GN’ at the office of PLN Mengwi, Badung, on Friday (Aug. 25).

To improve and achieve the working target, it needs to be supported by reliable and excellent human resources. In this regard,

both state-owned and private companies must participate in the fight against drugs, starting from their respective workplace.

It should be done in order to realize the human resources with drug-clean environment.

“In order to overcome Indonesia’s emergency of drug condition, it is required a comprehensive efforts and involvement of all components of the nation, both the government and private sector including all levels of society,” she said.

Thus, employees better un-

derstand about the impact of drug abuse and trafficking, so they have the preventability and will not get involved as abusers and drug dealers. Most importantly, the community participates in countermeasures, especially in the family and workplace environment.“We will never get bored to always remind and invite people to stay away from drugs.

Besides, we are determined to continue growing and do antidrug movement so that the circulation can be minimized,” she said. (kmb36)

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To overcome Indonesia’s emergency of drug condition, it is required a comprehensive efforts and involvement of all components of the nation.

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Kuta, as global kampong can preserve Hindu culture and traditions

Philippines’ Duterte says police can kill “idiots” who resist arrest

DENPASAR — Based on the research of I Gede Rudia Adiputra about the survival of Hinduism in Kuta, in fact it is capable of maintaining Hinduism in the middle of the frenetic Kuta tourism. For more than half a century, the people of Kuta have been interacting with foreign and domestic tourists.

Actually in terms of population, it is fewer than the incoming tourists.

“There is concern of Kuta community that unless doing a strategic survivalism, one day it will disappear,” said I Gede Rudia Adiputra, a researcher from the Udayana University, recently. Thus, Bali tourism based on Balinese culture and Hinduism will disappear.

There is a strategy performed

by Kuta residents in surviving Hinduism internally and externally. This defense is carried out by improving the understanding on religion, philosophy, ethics and rituals that will have an implication on the way how Kuta community practices its religion effectively, efficiently, socially and in balanced manner. “Besides, it can conduct religious life efficiently in terms of time, energy and various kinds of rituals,” he said. On that account, Kuta community will be able to adaptive with the development.

Private sector also makes an effort for the surviving of Hinduism.

They participate in two forms of measure, namely by donations to Kuta customary village and trying to employ local human resources of Kuta. In recent years, the hotels around Kartika Plaza routinely provide coaching through religious contests.

Kuta community also has a desire to move forward. It wants to get a more comprehensive and clearer understanding on the religious practice both in terms of social and ritual aspect. “They are interested in anticipating globalization, resulting in a synergy between the practice of religion as a whole with the development of technology and globalization,” he said.

Therefore, the next generation must be vigilant because Kuta (Bali) remains the target of globalization. “We want to go forward and join to live modern life in the global era but without losing the identity in the form of culture respected by Hindu,” he said.

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Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 2017.

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For more than half a century, the people of Kuta have been interacting with foreign and domestic tourists.

On that account, the existing dance studios in Kuta and all elements of Kuta society are expected to preserve their culture and reli-

gion. “Do not let younger generations of Kuta become a spectator at their home and then lose their identity,” he hoped.

Losing the identity and being a spectator at home are the beginning of Bali that loses Kuta in the long run. (kmb42)

Management of traditional market asked to keep sanitation

DENPASAR- The existence of traditional market at every village can be a driving force in supporting the people’s economy. Therefore, the Denpasar municipality gives serious attention to maintenance of this market. Moreover, the onslaught of modern market is increasingly massive and reaching

the nooks and crannies of village.

One of the efforts that can be done to maintain customers is keeping the market sanitation.

This continues to be submitted to all market management in Denpasar. The appeal was also submitted during the evaluation and monitoring of traditional market

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Denpasar municipality gives serious attention to maintenance of traditional market.

conducted by a number of related agencies in Denpasar that will last for eight days since last Thursday (Aug. 24).

Another effort having been made is the revitalization of traditional markets managed by village government on an ongoing basis.

So far, it has been able to revitalize a total of 26 village markets.

Strengthening of traditional market is not just limited to the revitalization program, but also through the community empowerment and village government (DPMD) agency of Denpasar by regularly monitoring the development program of the rural economic institutions.

The monitoring and evaluation program of this time targets 33 village markets.

“On the first day, we target Tegal Harum Market, Padang Sambian village market, Ubung customary village market and Poh Gading Market by involving a team of relevant agencies in the Denpasar municipality and Denpasar Food and Drug Administration (BPOM),” said the Division Head of the Denpasar Community Empowerment and Self-Reliance (DPMD), Ni

Made Puspita Sari.

Furthermore, she said the monitoring and evaluation is also accompanied with empowerment to improve mutual understanding among the market management and merchants leading to the concept of Indonesian people market, namely the friendly, fresh and reliable markets. The involvement of the monitoring and evaluation team is able to provide inputs from various sides for the improvement of traditional markets such as environmental sanitation by involving the Denpasar environment and sanitation agency, the supervision of meat health involves the livestock agency, and the BPOM Denpasar in the monitoring of food containing hazardous substances.

Her party also involves the village market management forum (FPD) in conducting discussions with village market empowerment.

Results of this monitoring and evaluation are expected to become a reference in increasing community visits to village markets.

In addition to this strengthening measure, the DPMD routinely holds traditional market festival

by involving dozens of traditional market by selecting the best market. “From this monitoring and evaluation, we can provide the attention for traditional market according to the expectation of Mayor Rai Mantra by not only improving physical market, but also arranging the sanitation, healthy environment and building entrepreneurship spirit of traditional market,” she added.

In the meantime, Chief of Padangsambian Market, I Made Mustika Subawa, said that revitalization of Padangsambian Market is fully supported by Denpasar municipality in 2014 and currently it has 96 kiosks and 96 stalls. He said that market management faces challenges in the merchants’ mindset to maintain market sanitation. This matter has also been disseminated regularly where each merchant is required to have a dust bin and to clean up their stall and kiosk after selling activities. “Although we have prepared sanitation workers, the empowerment of merchants should be carried out for the sake of comfort and creation of friendly, fresh and reliable market,” he said. (kmb12)

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Whereabouts of former Thai PM Yingluck unknown, defence minister says

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told police on Monday they could kill “idiots” who violently resist arrest, two days after hundreds of people turned the funeral of a slain teenager into a protest against his deadly war on drugs.

Duterte met the parents of the schoolboy, 17-year-old Kian Loyd delos Santos, at the presidential palace in Manila on Monday, officials said. Details of the meeing were not immediately available.

Earlier, Duterte broke off midway through a prepared speech at the Hero’s Cemetery on the outskirts of Manila and addressed impromptu comments to Jovie Espenido, the police chief of a town in the south where the mayor was killed in an anti-drugs raid.

“Your duty requires you to overcome the resistance of the person you are arresting... (if) he resists, and it is a violent one... you are free to kill the idiots, that is my order to you,” uterte told the police officer.

Duterte added that “murder and homicide and unlawful killings” were not allowed and that police had to uphold the rule of law while carrying out their duties.

Duterte unleashed the anti-drugs war after taking office in June last year following an election campaign in which he vowed to use deadly force to wipe out crime and drugs.

Thousands of people have been killed and the violence has been criticised by much of the international community.

Domestic opposition has been largely muted but the killing of delos Santos by anti-drugs officers on Aug 16 has sparked rare public outrage.

More than 1,000 people, including nuns, priests and hundreds of children, joined his funeral procession on Saturday, turning the march into one of the biggest protests yet against Duterte’s antidrugs campaign.

Delos Santos was dragged by plain-clothes policemen to a dark, trash-filled alley in northern Manila before he was shot in the head and left next to a pigsty, according to witnesses whose accounts appeared to be backed up by CCTV footage.

Police say they acted in self defence after delos Santos opened fire on them, and Duterte’s spokesman and the justice minister have described the killing of the teenager as an “isolated” case. (rtr)

BANGKOK - Thailand’s defence minister on Monday said he did not know the whereabouts of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, days after she failed to show up for a verdict in her trial for negligence at which she faced up to 10 years in prison.

Yingluck, whose government was ousted in a 2014 coup, fled to Dubai via Singapore, sources in her Puea Thai Party said on the weekend. Her departure leaves the populist movement that has dominated Thai politics for more than a decade leaderless.

Her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by the military in 2006 and also fled Thailand to avoid a 2008 jail sentence for corruption, has a home in Dubai.

“We don’t know where Yingluck fled and whether she has asked for asylum anywhere,” Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, who is also a deputy prime minister, told reporters.

“We haven’t asked for her extradition yet.”

Yingluck was often followed by plain-clothes police, her aides said. During a provincial tour last year men in military uniform would often follow her as she greeted supporters.

Critics are now asking how a

person under close scrutiny by security forces could leave the country without being noticed.

“How should I know?” was Prawit’s response to reporters who asked him that on Monday.

Deputy national police chief General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul told reporters police intelligence showed Yingluck was still in her Bangkok home at least up until 2 p.m. on Wednesday. He did not elaborate.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Yingluck, 50, who had been due to appear at the Supreme Court on Friday to hear a verdict in a case against her, involving a rice buying scheme introduced by her government that lost an estimated $8 billion.

A former commerce minister in her government was jailed for 42 years on Friday for falsifying government-to-government rice deals in connection with the same subsidy scheme.

Reuters could not reach either Thaksin or Yingluck for comment

on Monday. Yingluck, who is usually active on social media, has not posted on her Facebook page since Thursday, when she told supporters she would see them at the court.

Defence ministry spokesman Kongcheep Tanatravanich told reporters he was confident Yingluck was no longer in Thailand.

“We have to see first which country she’s in. The security side is working on this,” Kongcheep said.

Srisuwan Janya, secretary-general of the Association to Protect the Thai Constitution political group, said he would file a complaint on Monday with the National Anti Corruption Commission over what he called government officials’ failure to prevent Yingluck from fleeing.

By mid-morning on Monday Janya had yet filed the complaint.

Sentencing in Yingluck’s case has been moved to Sept. 27 and is expected to be delivered in absentia. (rtr)

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Protesters and residents hold lighted candles and placards at the wake of Kian Loyd delos Santos, a 17-year-old high school student, who was among the people shot dead last week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs in Caloocan city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 25, 2017.

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LAHORE, Pakistan/ SHANGHAI - Zhang Yang, a businessman from Chongqing in southwest China, is searching online forums for fellow stouthearted entrepreneurs willing to cast aside security concerns and join him on a scouting mission to Pakistan. Zhang, 48, is one of a growing number of Chinese pioneers sensing an opportunity across the Himalayas in Pakistan, where Beijing has pledged to spend $57 billion on infrastructure projects as part of its “Belt and Road” initiative.

Biu Lalung, Used to Fill Surya Shrine and Symbolize Natural Offerings

In Balinese life, bananas play an important role. Apart from their use as a source of food, bananas are also used in various forms of banten (oblations), presented in the form of slices, piece and bunches. The Balinese also commonly use other parts of the banana for a variety of purposes.

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Women walk out of a village house slated for demolition near Shahezi in rural Shaanxi province, China, June 12, 2017. Picture taken June 12, 2017.

2015, suggesting more are staying in the country for longer.

For Pakistan, the stakes in keeping all those Chinese nationals safe are high. Beijing’s infrastructure splurge has helped revive Pakistan’s sputtering economy, and deepening ties between the two nations have turned Pakistan into a key cog in China’s grand plan to build a modern-day “Silk Road” of land and sea trade routes linking Asia with Europe and Africa.

While the first phase of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as the Pakistan leg of this new Silk Road is called, concentrated on infrastructure projects, the second part will focus on setting up special economic zones and integrating Chinese firms into the local economy to help Pakistan develop its industries ranging from mining to agriculture.

China has also surged to become by far the biggest source of foreign

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Braving security fears, Chinese seek ‘Silk Road’ riches in Pakistan

Numbering in the thousands, this second wave of Chinese arrivals are following in the wake of workers on Belt and Road projects.

Some are opening restaurants and language schools, while others are working out what products they could sell to a market of 208 million people, or what goods they could make cheaply in Pakistan to sell around the world.

“A lot of industries are already saturated in China,” said Zhang, who has worked in property, electrical appliances and household goods in China and says he wants to explore the potential for setting up factories or importing Chinese goods. “Pakistan’s development is behind China, so it will hold better opportunities compared to home.”

But the new arrivals face dangers, creating a headache for Pakistani security officials.

Islamic State’s killing of two Chinese nationals in the restive Baluchistan province in June highlighted the risks posed by Islamist militants, who may see them as soft targets in their war with the state.

Beijing has also long fretted about hardened Pakistani Islamist fighters linking up with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a Uigher militant group Beijing accuses of seeking to split off its western region of Xinjiang, Pakistani officials say. Islamabad does not release immigration data but a source in the foreign ministry said about 71,000 Chinese nationals visited in 2016. A senior immigration official added 27,596 visa extensions were granted to Chinese that year, a 41 percent increase on

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direct investment (FDI) for Pakistan, topping $1 billion in 2016/17, and is betting on its neighbour at a time when many Western companies are still put off by security concerns and corruption. “Pakistan really needs foreign investment and we are not going to miss out on this because of some idiots with a gun,” said Miftah Ismail, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. “We won’t let them mess with the Chinese.”

SECURITY CHALLENGE Pakistan receives friendly coverage in Chinese media and regularly features in state broadcaster CCTV’s programmes on the Belt and Road initiative, which include promotions of CPEC and interviews with Chinese workers living in the country. That has not been enough to assuage concerns about security for Zhang and other Chinese businessmen and women who

spoke to Reuters. “It’s a big lesson for us,” said Derek Wang, referring to the Baluchistan killings.

Wang, deputy chief executive of Infoshare, an Islamabad-based consultancy assisting Chinese entrepreneurs and businesses, said security was the number one concern of Chinese newcomers.

Pakistan is taking the threat seriously. Guards and police with automatic rifles shield Chinese-staffed offices and language schools, while security officials say plainclothes officers form a less visible layer of protection at such sites.

Unlike the engineers and construction workers who reside in heavily-guarded compounds while building the roads and power plants that make up CPEC, the entrepreneurs seeking riches on the back of it mostly arrive on their own and disperse across the country. Few inform authorities of their plans.

“This is the biggest challenge right

now,” said Muhammad Faisal Rana, who heads an 8,000-strong Special Protection Unit set up by Punjab province in 2014 to guard foreigners.

Ninety percent of those it protects are Chinese, he said. Rana said growing numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs turn up with tourist visas. Many are conducting market research, while some launch their products and then flit back to China.

“All these elements are sometimes out of our radar, and we have no idea from which flight they are coming in and where they are heading towards,” he said.

SPU officials have cultivated ties with guesthouses popular with Chinese and set up liaison desks at airports to register the Chinese entrepreneurs before they vanish, while governments in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces are accelerating plans to build up special protection units akin to the one in Punjab.(rtr)

For example, banana tree leaves are used to wrap food and are also used for bebantenan ingredients and banana tree trunks are used as fodder. Almost all parts of this plant ate used in the life of the Balinese Hindu Community.

Banana is also used in yadnya or sacrificial ceremonies when it is known as biu lalung. Ni Nengah Kompyang explained that the biu lalung along with fishtail palm, sacred fig and banyan tree leaves are placed on the pillar of the surya shrine usually in the northeast point of ??the ritual location Any type of banana – expect for seedy banana and saba banana can be used for biu lalung. ,The former should never be used in rituals, she said “Not all rituals require biu lalung on its surya shrine. If the

oblation presented in the ritual use pulagembal paraphernalia, there is no need to use biu lalung. However, if bebangkit oblations are required, then biu lalung must be added to the surya shrine’ she added.

Biu lalung is composed of banana coming from a tree that has only 2 or 3 bunches that only have 4-5 pieces and cannot bear more fruit. The banana heart or flower must remain intact at the end of each bunch. The stem and some pieces of banana leaf are also included.

Dr. I Gusti Made Ngurah explained similar criteria adding that height of biu lalung is approximately 60 cm because the banana plant is still growing. Biu lalung is only complete he said, if the heart, fruit (phalam) and little leaves (patram) are intact. In the ritual procession,

Pura Luhur Besi Kalung, located in Utu Customary Village, Penebel Tabanan has the distinct feature of being home to a Linga Yoni with a chainlike necklace that gongs when struck. It is therefore assumed that the chain necklace is made of steel from which the name “Besi” (steel) comes from. It is believed that if the Linga Yoni slants to one side it foretells a national disaster.

Head of Pura Luhur Besi Kalung, accompanied by public relations officer Made Subagia said on Monday that the Linga Yoni in fact slanted in 2013 just before earthquakes and volcanic eruptions shook the island of Java. The Lina Yoni had been slanting for a month before the natural disasters and came back to its straightened position on its own. “It slanted in 1932, 1945, 1965 and again in 1998 just before the national reformation”, he said.

The Linga Yoni stands in the innermost sanctum of the temple at the main shrine (Linggih Ageng) .There is a stepped stone structure leading up to the Lingga Yoni and at its base there is special ‘tabernacle’ where officiating priests sit. This area cannot be approached by just anyone and even those who do so, do not dare touch the Lingga Yoni.

The only person who steps on the stone step structure is Tabanan Palace’s Ida Tjokorda Tabanan, the head priest of Pura Luhur Besi Kalung and the head priest of Pura Luhur Batukaru Temple with permission from Ageng Luhur Besi Kalung, Someone once accidently sat on the ‘tabernacle’ and as Subagia describes, the person was immediately possessed and died two weeks later.

READ Biu Lalung, Used to Fill Surya Shrine and Symbolize Natural Offerings It is also forbidden to prune the tree that grows next to the Lingga Yonia as it is believed that it is Ida Batara’s hair. Pruning only takes place after a special ceremony held on the Sunday after Saraswati day and the cuttings are buried in Bambang Temple.

Also the trees that grow near the temple must not be cut down so as to give the impression of the temple being surrounded by forest.

Even rotting trees are not uprooted. “They are left to rot and are then replanted”, said Subagia.

Pura Luhur Besi Kalung, anniversary (piodalan) is celebrated every Pagerwesi day. Pura Luhur Besi Kalung holds the status of “Sad Kahyangan” and is part of the ranks of Kemiri Pura Luhur Batukaru temple. It is also known as a place to request safety and prosperity. (kmb24)

the banana will surely be sprinkled with holy water as the toyam.

He added that it is imperative that biu lalung be available because the offerings on the surya shrine are the head of all the offerings in the yadnya or ritual implemented.

All the ayaban-ayaban represent the body, while the bottom starting from the stage, caru to segehan including sate gelar sanga plays an important role as the legs. The head should be filled in with proper offerings on the surya shrine.

“In this case, biu lalung is an offering and serves as a representation of something remaining natural that we can use as is. Having been used, the biu lalung cannot be used again or planted though it can be used to make organic fetilizer”, he concluded. (kmb)

Wow … Luscious Duck with Spices Awaits You

Used to enjoying duck menus?

Once upon a time, try to taste luscious duck menu served in local rich spices. This is indeed a traditional menu, but when processed modernly it feels very tasty and delicious. Spiced duck menu also offers distinctive taste, so that it is in great demand among the communities including domestic and foreign tourists. This spiced duck becomes prominent menu

of Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant located on Jalan Raya Campuhan 888, Ubud.

This duck menu is really tasty, as if the bone was also nice to be chewed. The meat does not feel fishy ??because it is a genuine Balinese duck. Moreover, it is processed with selected spices cultivated by farmers at villages in mountainous area. Similarly, the process applies the original

Balinese-style cooking methods.

In the preparation, it does not use artificial seasonings. When ordering, it will not be too long prepared because it is handled by professional chef. A package of spiced duck has included rice, organic flavored vegetables, crackers and three types of chili.

Its preparation process does not take too long, so consumers do

not get bored to wait.

The duck menu in Bali is very special because it is usually served to a saint, like sulinggih (Brahmin priest). It is also an offering to God Almighty equipped with sacred banten oblations. In Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant, this original Balinese food makes the ambience cool because the menu and all the facilities are still natural.

This restaurant offers the concept of the original Balinese arrangement. There are crops, such as padi sigih (rice stalk), conical hat, coconut, pestle and mortar used to pound rice supporting the atmosphere. There is a river concept characterized with the presence of rocks, water and others. Other menus are roasted duck, favorite Bebek Sungai and crispy duck. (kmb)

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Britain pushes for talks about the future, EU wants divorce first

BRUSSELS - British officials arrive in Brussels on Monday to push the EU towards talks about their post-Brexit ties, which the bloc refuses to do without an agreement first on London’s exit bill and other divorce issues.

A third round of Brexit talks takes place more than a year after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, delivering an unprecedented blow to the post-World War Two European integration.

Chief Brexit negotiators, the EU’s Michel Barnier and Britain’s David Davis, will meet at 1500 GMT before more talks on Tuesday and Wednesday convene on technical level on expatriate rights, divorce bill and “other separation issues”.

Senior officials will also tackle the conundrum of the future border between EU state Ireland and the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland, and a news conference is due on Thursday, according to a schedule published by Brussels.

Britain will present in detail its several papers released last week on issues ranging from customs arrangements to data sharing. They have often ventured out into the future relationship between London and what will become a 27-state EU. Britain will be urging the bloc to show “imagination” and focus discussion on these future ties rather than just on the divorce settlement.

On Sunday, the opposition Labour Party said it would keep Britain in the European single market and customs union for a transitional period after Brexit, offering a clear alternative to the policies of Prime Minister Theresa May. The bloc wants to settle chief separation aspects first and has already signalled the slow progress so far means jumpstarting talks about a new accord with Britain is now less likely in October, as had been expected.

“Both the UK and the EU have an interest to move forward quickly in negotiations and that requires us to make sufficient progress on citizens’ rights, on the financial settlement on Ireland,” said a senior EU official involved in the talks.

“The divorce issues should be relatively straightforward to sort out.

So it is not a matter of time needed in terms of the technical complexity, it is a matter of political will.”

While there is some convergence on safeguarding the rights of EU citizens residing in Britain and Britons living on the continent, more technical work is needed, EU sources say.

The Irish issue, extremely delicate because of the violent history between the two communities there, is fraught with economic consequences and politically complex.

On money, the EU and Britain seem to be seas apart on agreeing how much London should pay the bloc on departure to account for previous commitments. Sides expect no major leaps forward this week in the talks aimed at unravelling more than 40 years of union.

But both highlight that time is scarce as the negotiations should conclude well before the provisional Brexit date of March 2019 to leave time for ratification and approval procedures of any deal by Britain, EU states and the bloc’s parliament. (rtr)

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All Houston port facilities will be closed on Monday because of the weather threat, a port spokeswoman said on Sunday night. More than 220,000 customers in the Houston area were without power on Monday morning, utilities CenterPoint Energy and AEP Texas said.

Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, one of the nation’s busiest, and William P. Hobby airport halted all commercial flights on Sunday.

The airports remained closed to commercial traffic on Monday.

Forecasters could only draw on a few comparisons to the storm, recalling Hurricane

Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and killed 1,800 people in 2005. Katrina resulted in more than $15 billion in flood insurance losses in Louisiana and Mississippi. Flood damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey may equal that from Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, an insurance research group said on Sunday.

Jose Rengel, a 47-year-old construction worker who lives in Galveston, helped rescue efforts in Dickinson, southeast of Houston, where he saw water cresting the tops of cars. “I am blessed that not much has happened to me, but these people lost everything. And it keeps raining,” he said. “The water has nowhere to go.”(rtr)

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Dian Yulia Novi (2nd L), arrested last year on suspicion of plotting to blow herself up outside the presidential palace in Jakarta during a changing of the guard ceremony, stands trial along with her husband Muhammad Nur Solihin (2nd R) and co-defendants Ika Puspita Sari (L), Agus Supriyadi (R) in a court in Jakarta, Indonesia June 21, 2017. Picture taken June 21, 2017.

Indonesian woman jailed for suicide bomb plot at Jakarta palace REUTERS/Agoes Rudianto

JAKARTA - A Jakarta court has sentenced a female would-be suicide bomber to seven and a half years in prison, prosecutors and her lawyer said, the first time a woman has been convicted in Indonesia for planning such an attack.

REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Employees remove plastic bags found in cows’ stomachs at a slaughterhouse near Nairobi, Kenya August 25, 2017. Picture taken August 25, 2017.

Kenya imposes world’s toughest law against plastic bags

NAIROBI - Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Monday, as the world’s toughest law aimed at reducing plastic pollution came into effect.

The East African nation joins more than 40 other countries that have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda, and Italy.

Many bags drift into the ocean, strangling turtles, suffocating seabirds and filling the stomachs of dolphins and whales with waste until they die of starvation.

“If we continue like this, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish,” said Habib El-Habr, an expert on marine litter working with the U.N. Environment Programme in Kenya.

Plastic bags, which El-Habr says take between 500 to 1,000 years to break down, also enter the human food chain through fish and

other animals. In Nairobi’s slaughterhouses, some cows destined for human consumption had 20 bags removed from their stomachs.

“This is something we didn’t get ten years ago but now its almost on a daily basis,” said county vet Mbuthi Kinyanjui as he watched men in bloodied white uniforms scoop sodden plastic bags from the stomachs of cow carcases.

Kenya’s law allows police to go after anyone even carrying a plastic bag. But Judy Wakhungu, Kenya’s environment minister, said enforcement would initially be directed at manufacturers and suppliers.

“Ordinary wananchi will not be harmed,” she told Reuters, using a Kiswahili word for “com-

mon man”.

It took Kenya three attempts over ten years to finally pass the ban, and not everyone is a fan.

Samuel Matonda, spokesman for the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, said it would cost 60,000 jobs and force 176 manufacturers to close. Kenya is a major exporter of plastic bags to the region.

“The knock-on effects will be very severe,” Matonda said.

“It will even affect the women who sell vegetables in the market - how will their customers carry their shopping home?”

Big Kenyan supermarket chains like France’s Carrefour and Nakumatt have already started offering customers cloth bags as alternatives. (rtr)

Dian Yulia Novi, 28, was arrested late last year on suspicion of plotting to blow herself up outside Jakarta’s presidential palace during the changing of the guard. She was arrested along with her husband, Muhamad Nur Solikin.

Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has seen

a surge in homegrown militancy inspired by Islamic State, and has grappled with a series of small-scale attacks in the past two years.

Prosecutors had demanded a 10year sentence for Novi, whom they said received instructions to carry out the attack from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant believed to be

fighting with Islamic State in Syria.

“Her sentence was reduced because she admitted to her actions,” Novi’s lawyer Kamsi told Reuters on Monday. He said the verdict was handed down by East Jakarta District Court on Aug. 25.

Judges delivered the verdict earlier than expected because Novi is

pregnant and due to give birth in early September, her lawyer said. She is detained at a Jakarta area facility.

Her husband is on trial for the same plot. His next hearing, at which he is expected to enter a plea, is scheduled for Sept. 6.

Kamsi said Novi, who was believed to be radicalized through social media while employed as a domestic worker in Taiwan, did not intend to appeal her verdict.

Police said they had intercepted

a letter that Novi intended to send to her parents stating her intention to carry out jihad. Later an unexploded bomb was found in a room the woman had rented in Bekasi, about an hour outside Jakarta.

Counter-terrorism forces are worried that militants may be using new and more sophisticated tactics to try and carry out attacks - like recruiting female suicide bombers or using dangerous chemicals to make “dirty bombs”.(rtr)

Anti-graft body detains another director general of sea transportation JAKARTA - Within two years in a row, two director generals of sea transportation of the Transportation Ministry have been arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

In February 2016, the anti-graft agency had detained Bobby Reynold Mamahit, the then director general, in a corruption case. In August 2016, the anti-corruption court had sentenced Mamahit to five years imprisonment.

The Indonesian public was in shock when the KPK made an announcement on August 24, 2017, that it had detained Antonius Tonny Budiono, the successor of Mamahit, for allegedly receiving bribes in connection with the issuance of permits and procurement for projects under his supervision during the 2016-2017 period.

“Antonius Tonny Budiono (ATB), a suspect in his capacity as the sea transportation director general, and Adiputra Kurniawan (APK), as com-

missioner of PT Adhi Guna Keruktama (AGK), have been detained for the initial 20 days,” Febri Diansyah, the KPK spokesman, had noted on Aug 24.

The anti-graft agency had closely monitored and investigated Budiono for seven months before naming him a suspect.

“After an initial examination and questioning, it was concluded that Director General of Sea Transportation Budiono had allegedly committed corruption in the goods and services procurement projects at the Directorate General of Sea Transportation in the 2016-2017 budget year,” KPK Deputy Chairman Basaria Panjaitan had stated at a press conference at the KPK building in Jakarta, Aug 24.

During an impromptu operation conducted by the KPK on Aug 2324, the agency confiscated money and automatic teller machine (ATM) cards from Budionos bags.

The agency confiscated three

ATM cards issued by different banks, 33 bags containing money in rupiah, US dollar, pound sterling, euro, and Malaysian ringgit currencies, with a total value of Rp18.9 billion in cash, and an account in Bank Mandiri having a balance of Rp1.174 billion.

“Hence, the total money recovered by the KPK in the case is valued at Rp20 billion,” Panjaitan noted. It was suspected that Kurniawan had given the money to Budiono in connection with the dredging project at the Tanjung Mas Port in Semarang, Central Java.

“The money is for my operational activities. I have violated the laws. On my behalf, I offer my apology to the public,” Budiono informed the press, explaining that he had spent some of the money on social activities, such as to help orphans and renovate damaged churches and schools, among other things.

He denied that some of the money had been channeled to Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.

The minister is a kind individual and did not know about the money, he explained.

Born in Pekalongan, Central Java, in 1958, Bodiono, who has worked as a civil servant for 30 years, was bestowed the “Satyalancana Karya Satya” award last year by the government for his loyalty and dedication.

A recipient of the prestigious award is considered to be a national role model. Following his appointment as the director general of sea transportation in August 2016, he had reported to the KPK that his total assets were nearly Rp2.7 billion.

Meanwhile, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has extended his apologies to the public over the alleged corruption in the ministry.

Sumadi vowed to closely supervise and monitor all projects of the ministry.

“Earlier, I had focused on monitoring, but in future, I will watch them closely and scrutinize all projects of the ministry,” Sumadi emphasized.

He has urged all ranks of the ministry to eliminate practices of corruption.

“Once again I remind all employees of the Ministry of Transportation to eliminate practices of corruption and illegal levies or else they will face criminal sanctions,” Sumadi remarked following the arrest of Budiono.

“I am very concerned that since the start, I have been working hard to prevent the Transportation Ministrys officials from engaging in corruption or accepting bribes, but in fact, these illegal practices still exist,” Sumadi stated.

He noted that Budionos arrest by the KPK should offer the required momentum to improve consistency in eradicating corruption.

“Last year, we had foiled graft attempts in Medan, Jakarta, Surabaya, and Samarinda, with significant findings,” he recalled.

The minister claimed that the project in question under the sea transportation directorate general has run through its legal procedures.(ant)

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Hamilton questions safety car deployment

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS - Lewis Hamilton took issue with Formula One’s race direction on Sunday, suggesting the safety car was deployed for longer than necessary at the Belgian Grand Prix to make the race more exciting.

Andakasa Temple KARANGASEM - Pura Luhur Andakasa situated on the summit of Mount Andakasa, Angantelu village, Manggis district, Karangasem regency, at the height of 200 meters above sea level. From the city of Denpasar, the temple is located about 60 km or are located approxiametly 20 km east of Semarapura City, the capital of Klungkung regency. From Denpasar, this temple was reached in the distance around 60 km – the direction to the east, or 20 km in east the Semarapura city – the capital of the Klungkung Regency.

Additionally Andakasa Temple also belongs to Bali’s 9 key directional temples, although it is not very popular with tourists and could have been listed in the category of hidden Treasures instead.

Pura Luhur Andakasa stana of Brahma is also known as ‘Ida Bhatara Hyang Tugu’. Brahma controlled southern region in the structure or the manifestation of

Dewata Nawasanga or the nine manifestation of Hyang Widhi who inhabit the nine cardinal directions.

Pura Andakasa is just a short drive inland from Pura Goa Lawah. From the car park we walk along a path through the forest and arrive after a few minutes at a small altar next to a sacred spring where we gather holy water for the ceremony. Here we pray and ask for permission to enter sacred ground. We arrive at Pura Andakasa after having ascended a series of steps for maybe 10 minutes.

Here we perform our ceremony and meditate on Brahma and the Divine Mother represented by Saraswati. The views and Divine presence fill us with peace and an appreciation of all things living on this most beautiful planet.

Not known for sure about the year of establishment Pura Luhur Andakasa. In the Papyrus Usana Bali, the temple estimated was

founded by the Mpu Kuturan around 10th century AD during the reign of King Marakata in Bali.

Piodalan or the temple ceremony in Pura Luhur Andakasa held once every 210 days or six month of the calendar of Bali, on Anggara Kliwon Wuku Medangsia. Once a year, precisely on Purnama Sada or the 12th full moon, performed the ceremony ‘Usaba Pengurip Bumi’.

On the journey from the car park to your final destination, you will need to walk for a few minutes through the rain forest to reach a small alter that is next to a sacred spring where the locals get there holy water. After another 10 minutes walk and clambering up plenty of stairs, you will finally arrive at Pura Andakasa. Little Warung (restaurants) can provide you food after your excursion.

Pura Andakasa is extremely important to the Balinese people as it is a great place for praying and

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but denying the Ferrari driver a chance to get a subsequent run at him downhill to Eau Rouge.

Immediately after the race he suggested the safety car deployment had been a bit “like NASCAR where they keep pulling out the safety cars for no reason”.

“I guess they (the stewards) wanted to see a race, so that’s for sure the reason they did that because there was hardly any debris,” he said.

Hamilton eased off a little on the criticism later.

“At the end of the day it doesn’t matter now, but there was no-one in harm’s way on track,” he said.

“You could say the marshals had to come on to clean up but they did it quite quickly.

“Then we did all those laps behind the safety car and it just opened up doors.

“At the moment I was frustrated.

I’ve led the race and it’s been this close and then we do that stop and I’ve not got ultra-softs available to me and it feels a little bit weighed up against you. But it’s cool. I just sucked it up and kept pushing.” (rtr)

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The Mercedes driver won from pole position, slashing the championship lead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to seven points.

The safety car was deployed on the 30th of 44 laps and stayed out for four while marshals cleared up debris from a collision between Force India’s Sergio Perez and Frenchman Esteban Ocon.

The re-start proved a key moment of the race, with both Hamilton and Vettel on fresh tyres after pitting but with the German on the faster ultra-softs that threatened to give him an advantage over the softs.

“Why’s the Safety Car out?”

Hamilton asked his team over the radio. “There literally is no debris.

“That is a BS call from the stewards,” he added.

Hamilton managed to hold off Vettel at the re-start, but only just, and then pulled away with the race settling down as before.

The Briton told reporters that he had actually benefited from an error which left him in the wrong power mode, allowing Vettel to pull level at the first La Source corner

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NEW YORK - Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka have reputations for being supreme athletes but a gruelling tennis season that offers little time to recover has left them among a number of big-name players who will be missing from the U.S. Open with injuries.

Despite medical advances and a greater understanding by the players on how their bodies work, there is little down time for anyone who wants to be a regular competitor during the ATP and WTA seasons, which last approximately 11 and 10 months, respectively.

“Most of the injuries in tennis are what are classified as overuse,” Todd Ellenbecker, the ATP’s Vice President of Medical Services, said in an email interview.

“Not one particular force or trauma but a continued, repeated overload of smaller forces that lead to a breakdown in the player’s body.”

Five top 11 men’s players are among those who have said they will miss the year’s final grand slam, which starts on Monday in New York: former world number one Djokovic (elbow), Andy Murray (hip), 2016 champion Wawrinka (knee), Canada’s Milos

Raonic (wrist) and Japan’s Kei Nishikori (wrist).

The women’s draw has not been robbed of the same level of star power with the most high-profile withdrawal due to injury being 2011 U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur (hand).

With a non-stop stream of tournaments on hard courts, grass and clay, coupled with racket technology that allows players to hit the ball harder than ever before, the physical toll on bodies can mount up.

“Tennis is indeed unique in that it is one of the only high level sports played on multiple surfaces at the elite level,” said Ellenbecker. “We know that different ball speeds, and trajectories/court surface interfaces do affect the player’s body ... however definitive injury risk research is scant.”

Ellenbecker said after matches, a player’s focus shifts immediately from performance to recovery, which means replacing fluid and vital nutrients and for some, ice baths, compression garments and other recovery methods that work for them.

Kathleen Stroia, the WTA’s Senior Vice President of Sport

Sciences & Medicine and Transitions, said the schedule’s setup helps players limit changes in court surfaces but they must still plan accordingly for the transitions.

“Education on proper scheduling and preparation leading up to a surface change is key,” said Stroia.

“The style of play and pace of the game require players to adapt to the demands of the court and this can take time to adjust to, therefore it is not ideal for players to change

surfaces week in and week out.

“Adaptation is required but a change of surface is of benefit as well, as some surfaces are more forgiving on the body.”

Former world number one Roger Federer, who had been blessed with a body that seemed bullet-proof against the aches, pains and injuries suffered by most top athletes, is in the midst of one of the greatest ever comebacks from injury.

After missing the second half of last season with a knee problem,

Federer has won five titles this year, including the Australian Open and Wimbledon trophies.

The Swiss is also aware that now aged 36, he not only needs to be judicious with his schedule but also has to be cautious about how far he should push his body.

Hence opting to skip the claycourt season, including the French Open despite being fully fit, paid off for the Swiss as just weeks later he became the first man to win eight Wimbledon titles. (rtr)

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Liverpool shine on bad day for North London

LIVERPOOL - Liverpool delivered a clear statement of their attacking potency by crushing Arsenal 4-0 at Anfield on Sunday as Tottenham Hotspur’s Wembley worries continued in a 1-1 draw with Burnley. Champions Chelsea picked up a second successive victory with a 2-0 win over Everton and unbeaten West Bromwich Albion drew 1-1 at home with Stoke City.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described his team’s hammering at the hands of Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool as “absolutely disastrous” and the Gunners’ fans who chanted for his removal would doubtless agree.

Confident from the outset, Liverpool went ahead in the 17th minute when full back Joe Gomez drifted in a cross from the right and unmarked Brazilian Roberto Firmino converted with a straightforward header. Five minutes before the break, Liverpool broke with a flowing, passing move which ended with Sadio Mane cutting in from the left and driving a low shot into the far corner.

The contest was over in the 57th minute when the ever-dangerous Mohamed Salah stole the ball from a hesitant Hector Bellerin and burst from deep in his own half before slipping the ball home. Egyptian winger Salah created the fourth with a cross from the left which was headed home by substitute Daniel Sturridge.

“From the first to the last minute, not physically, not technically not mentally we were not at the level and we were punished,” Wenger said. At Tottenham’s temporary home of Wembley, Dele Alli’s close-range effort shortly after halftime looked to have sealed victory for Spurs but they were made to pay for not converting enough of their chances. Burnley subsittute Chris Wood, signed last week from Leeds, struck in stoppage time on his debut, getting on the end of a fine sweeping pass from Robbie Brady to claim a debut goal.

The result extended Tottenham’s record to two wins in their last 12 games at the national stadium. “That is football. It was a tough game. Difficult for us to play. We had the chance to score a second or third but we missed.

Sometimes you pay,” said Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino.

SHOCK WIN The draw gave Burnley four points from early season trips to the capital following their shock opening day win at Chelsea. That result appears to have been shrugged off by the champions and goals from Spaniards Cesc Fabregas and Alvaro Morata earned Antonio Conte’s side victory over a disappointing Everton at Stamford Bridge. Morata’s clever header set up Fabregas to give Chelsea the lead in the 27th minute, the former Arsenal player sliding the ball past keeper Jordan Pickford with a deft finish.

Chelsea doubled their advantage five minutes before the break when Morata climbed to head home Cesar Azpilicueta’s inviting cross for his second goal for his new club since signing from Real Madrid.

A game of few chances looked to be heading West Brom’s way after new signing Jay Rodriguez stooped to head them into the lead after 61 minutes - his first Premier League goal for the club. Stoke were gifted a point in 77th minute, however, when Ahmed Hegazi and keeper Ben Foster went for the same ball, leaving Peter Crouch the simple task of heading it into an open goal. Manchester United lead the standings with nine points from three games, two clear of Liverpool, Huddersfield Town, Manchester City and West Brom.(rtr)

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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring their third goal

Belotti off the mark with scissors kick in Torino win

Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio celebrates scoring their first goal

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Asensio magic rescues Real against Valencia, Sevilla win

BARCELONA - Spanish champions Real Madrid had to rely on two stunning strikes from a relentless Marco Asensio as they drew 2-2 at home to Valencia on Sunday while Sevilla grabbed a scarcely deserved first win of the campaign by beating Getafe 1-0.

Asensio, 21, delighted the Santiago Bernabeu with a longrange opening strike but Valencia scored two impressive team goals either side of the break through homegrown youngster Carlos Soler and debutant Geoffrey Kondogbia.

Marcelino’s side led with 13 minutes to go, forcing Asensio to rescue Real with a superb free kick in the 83rd minute.

Madrid missed the presence of their talisman Cristiano Ronaldo and captain Sergio Ramos through suspension but almost stole the three points in stoppage-time when Karim Benzema’s shot was turned on to the post by Valencia goalkeeper Neto.

“We’ve paid for the intense month we’ve had,” said Real defender Dani Carvajal after his side’s fifth competitive game in 20 days.

“We had all types of chances and we could have got more from the game but Valencia are very strong opponents and they’ve taken a point off us.” Valencia coach Marcelino added: “We have to congratulate ourselves for how we played and the result. We leave here feeling very good about ourselves.”

Real Madrid have four points

from two games heading into the international break while Barcelona, Real Sociedad and Leganes won both their opening matches.

Asensio, who is proving to be a specialist at sensational goals, struck for the third time this season to give Madrid the lead in the 10th minute.

The Mallorcan picked the ball up 30 metres out and headed straight towards the goal, pinging it into the bottom corner with an exquisite finish from outside the area.

TEAM MOVE Valencia responded with a perfectly executed team move between three academy graduates. Jose Gaya began the play with a darting run down the left and released 19-year-old Toni Lato who delivered the cross which Soler crashed past Keylor Navas.

Madrid took a while to digest the equaliser but nearly went ahead again before the break, as Karim Benzema was denied by a fine low save by Neto.

Madrid spurned two further chances before the interval but in the second half they found it much harder to get through this organised Valencia side, who look vastly im-

proved from last season.

Luka Modric fired a shot at Neto from range which the Brazilian tipped away but Valencia did most of the attacking, with Kondogbia and Simone Zaza missing the target and Navas tipping away a rocket from visiting captain Dani Parejo.

Their second goal was another expertly crafted move, with Gaya bursting into the box and working the ball to Rodrigo Moreno who held it up for Kondogbia to crash the ball beyond Navas. Asensio, however, had other ideas.

Sevilla, who finished fourth last season, produced another unconvincing display at Getafe and are still finding their feet under Berizzo, but earned the win thanks to a moment of inspiration from Ganso.

The Brazilian was being tightly marked when Gabriel Mercado’s cross came his way in the area and he nonchalantly stuck out his right foot to flick the ball into the far corner in the 83rd minute.

Athletic Bilbao earned a first win under coach Jose Angel Ziganda by beating fellow Basque side Eibar 1-0 away and Leganes won 1-0 at Espanyol.(rtr)

MILAN - Torino forward Andrea Belotti got off the mark in style by scoring his first Serie A goal of the season with an outrageous scissors kick as they beat Sassuolo 3-0 on Sunday while Milan and Napoli kept up their winning starts. A majestic Suso free kick gave AC Milan a 2-1 win over stubborn Cagliari while Napoli, like Milan, have six points from two games after scoring three second-half goals to beat Atalanta 3-1.

Three other teams have maximum points - Juventus and Inter Milan, who won on Saturday, and Sampdoria who beat Fiorentina 2-1 away. Torino’s eventful match also saw two penalties over-turned - one for each side - after consultations with the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).

Belotti, who scored 26 league goals last season and is one of the hottest properties in Italian football, opened the scoring in the 45th minute with a truly outstanding effort.

Nicolas N’Koulou flicked the

ball over a defender, slipped it to Lorenzo De Silvestri who sent over a long cross to the far post where Belotti, with his back to goal, launched himself into the air and connected with a perfectly-executed overhead volley. The 23-year-old Italy forward also set up the third when he slalomed through the Sassuolo defence for Joel Obi to score in the 88th minute. Adem Ljajic had added the second minutes earlier.

To r i n o c o a c h S i n i s a M i hajlovic had wanted to substitute Obi in the 81st minute - and was livid with his assistants when they mistakenly took off Tomas Rincon instead. Torino were awarded a penalty just before the hour for handball by Paolo Cannavaro but the referee changed his mind after consulting the VAR and deciding that it was accidental.

LATE OFFSIDE Sassuolo were also awarded a penalty which was then revoked after the VAR spotted an

offside late in the game. Milan, who have won their first five games of the season in the Europa League and Serie A, took an early lead at San Siro when Patrick Cutrone tapped in Suso’s wicked cross at the far post. But Cagliari would not lie down and Joao Pedro equalised in the 56th minute after Milan lost possession while trying to play the ball out of defence.

Suso, one of only three survivors from last season in the Milan starting line-up, restored their lead by curling in a free kick with 20 minutes left. Napoli fell behind to a 15th minute header

by Bryan Cristante at home to Atalanta and, despite playing with their usual panache, struggled to break down the visitors.

Piotr Zielinski finally levelled with an unstoppable shot in the 56th minute and they turned the game around five minutes later when Allan’s chipped pass was headed on by Lorenzo Insigne for Dries Mertens to volley in at the far post.

U.S. bank on experience for World Cup qualifiers Head coach Bruce Arena has opted for a tried-and-tested group of players for the United States’ upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica and Honduras. Third in the final CONCACAF qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup, the United States face Costa Rica in New Jersey on Friday and then visit Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula for a Sept. 5 clash with Honduras. The top three sides qualify automatically for Russia with the fourth-best side going into an intercontinental playoff against a team from the Asian confederation for another berth.

All 26 players in the U.S. squad have been on international duty this year, and Arena said that experience would be vital.

“Everyone here is experienced inside the group, they know what needs to be done, what’s expected of them, our style of play, and how we go about doing things,” Arena said in comments published by U.S. Soccer Federation.

“I think since everyone’s been with us now in 2017, it’ll make what is a really difficult week a little bit easier.” Forward Clint Dempsey is the most experienced player in the squad with 39 caps.

Arena has also called up Jozy Altidore (38 caps), Tim Howard (36) and captain Michael Bradley (35), who won the Golden Ball as the Gold Cup’s top player in July.

Arena, who was handed a tall order of getting their qualifying campaign back on track when he

returned as coach last November, will have to do without talented defenders John Brooks and DeAndre Yedlin due to injuries.

Arena has guided the side to eight points from four qualifiers since taking over from Juergen Klinsmann, who was fired after back-to-back losses to Mexico and Costa Rica left the United States dead last in qualifying.

“We’ve experienced injuries throughout the year and that’s all part of it with national teams or club teams, but I have enough confidence in these players,” said Arena. “The experiences we’ve had together during the year will allow us to deal with any kind of issues that may arise as we get involved in these next two qualifying matches.”(rtr)

Marko Rog finished off a well-worked move for the third in the 87th minute.

Gianluca Caprari and Fabio Quagliarella, from a penalty, scored twice in a three-minute spell in the first half for Sampdoria, who survived several scares after Mil a n Badelj pulled one back early in the second half for Fiorentina.

Promoted Spal won their first game when a stoppage-time goal

by Luca Rizzo sunk Udinese 3-2 after the visitors had clawed back a two-goal deficit, with Cyril Thereau equalising from a penalty in the 87th minute.(rtr)

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Liverpool shine on bad day for North London

LIVERPOOL - Liverpool delivered a clear statement of their attacking potency by crushing Arsenal 4-0 at Anfield on Sunday as Tottenham Hotspur’s Wembley worries continued in a 1-1 draw with Burnley. Champions Chelsea picked up a second successive victory with a 2-0 win over Everton and unbeaten West Bromwich Albion drew 1-1 at home with Stoke City.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described his team’s hammering at the hands of Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool as “absolutely disastrous” and the Gunners’ fans who chanted for his removal would doubtless agree.

Confident from the outset, Liverpool went ahead in the 17th minute when full back Joe Gomez drifted in a cross from the right and unmarked Brazilian Roberto Firmino converted with a straightforward header. Five minutes before the break, Liverpool broke with a flowing, passing move which ended with Sadio Mane cutting in from the left and driving a low shot into the far corner.

The contest was over in the 57th minute when the ever-dangerous Mohamed Salah stole the ball from a hesitant Hector Bellerin and burst from deep in his own half before slipping the ball home. Egyptian winger Salah created the fourth with a cross from the left which was headed home by substitute Daniel Sturridge.

“From the first to the last minute, not physically, not technically not mentally we were not at the level and we were punished,” Wenger said. At Tottenham’s temporary home of Wembley, Dele Alli’s close-range effort shortly after halftime looked to have sealed victory for Spurs but they were made to pay for not converting enough of their chances. Burnley subsittute Chris Wood, signed last week from Leeds, struck in stoppage time on his debut, getting on the end of a fine sweeping pass from Robbie Brady to claim a debut goal.

The result extended Tottenham’s record to two wins in their last 12 games at the national stadium. “That is football. It was a tough game. Difficult for us to play. We had the chance to score a second or third but we missed.

Sometimes you pay,” said Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino.

SHOCK WIN The draw gave Burnley four points from early season trips to the capital following their shock opening day win at Chelsea. That result appears to have been shrugged off by the champions and goals from Spaniards Cesc Fabregas and Alvaro Morata earned Antonio Conte’s side victory over a disappointing Everton at Stamford Bridge. Morata’s clever header set up Fabregas to give Chelsea the lead in the 27th minute, the former Arsenal player sliding the ball past keeper Jordan Pickford with a deft finish.

Chelsea doubled their advantage five minutes before the break when Morata climbed to head home Cesar Azpilicueta’s inviting cross for his second goal for his new club since signing from Real Madrid.

A game of few chances looked to be heading West Brom’s way after new signing Jay Rodriguez stooped to head them into the lead after 61 minutes - his first Premier League goal for the club. Stoke were gifted a point in 77th minute, however, when Ahmed Hegazi and keeper Ben Foster went for the same ball, leaving Peter Crouch the simple task of heading it into an open goal. Manchester United lead the standings with nine points from three games, two clear of Liverpool, Huddersfield Town, Manchester City and West Brom.(rtr)

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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring their third goal

Belotti off the mark with scissors kick in Torino win

Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio celebrates scoring their first goal

REUTERS/Javier Barbancho

Asensio magic rescues Real against Valencia, Sevilla win

BARCELONA - Spanish champions Real Madrid had to rely on two stunning strikes from a relentless Marco Asensio as they drew 2-2 at home to Valencia on Sunday while Sevilla grabbed a scarcely deserved first win of the campaign by beating Getafe 1-0.

Asensio, 21, delighted the Santiago Bernabeu with a longrange opening strike but Valencia scored two impressive team goals either side of the break through homegrown youngster Carlos Soler and debutant Geoffrey Kondogbia.

Marcelino’s side led with 13 minutes to go, forcing Asensio to rescue Real with a superb free kick in the 83rd minute.

Madrid missed the presence of their talisman Cristiano Ronaldo and captain Sergio Ramos through suspension but almost stole the three points in stoppage-time when Karim Benzema’s shot was turned on to the post by Valencia goalkeeper Neto.

“We’ve paid for the intense month we’ve had,” said Real defender Dani Carvajal after his side’s fifth competitive game in 20 days.

“We had all types of chances and we could have got more from the game but Valencia are very strong opponents and they’ve taken a point off us.” Valencia coach Marcelino added: “We have to congratulate ourselves for how we played and the result. We leave here feeling very good about ourselves.”

Real Madrid have four points

from two games heading into the international break while Barcelona, Real Sociedad and Leganes won both their opening matches.

Asensio, who is proving to be a specialist at sensational goals, struck for the third time this season to give Madrid the lead in the 10th minute.

The Mallorcan picked the ball up 30 metres out and headed straight towards the goal, pinging it into the bottom corner with an exquisite finish from outside the area.

TEAM MOVE Valencia responded with a perfectly executed team move between three academy graduates. Jose Gaya began the play with a darting run down the left and released 19-year-old Toni Lato who delivered the cross which Soler crashed past Keylor Navas.

Madrid took a while to digest the equaliser but nearly went ahead again before the break, as Karim Benzema was denied by a fine low save by Neto.

Madrid spurned two further chances before the interval but in the second half they found it much harder to get through this organised Valencia side, who look vastly im-

proved from last season.

Luka Modric fired a shot at Neto from range which the Brazilian tipped away but Valencia did most of the attacking, with Kondogbia and Simone Zaza missing the target and Navas tipping away a rocket from visiting captain Dani Parejo.

Their second goal was another expertly crafted move, with Gaya bursting into the box and working the ball to Rodrigo Moreno who held it up for Kondogbia to crash the ball beyond Navas. Asensio, however, had other ideas.

Sevilla, who finished fourth last season, produced another unconvincing display at Getafe and are still finding their feet under Berizzo, but earned the win thanks to a moment of inspiration from Ganso.

The Brazilian was being tightly marked when Gabriel Mercado’s cross came his way in the area and he nonchalantly stuck out his right foot to flick the ball into the far corner in the 83rd minute.

Athletic Bilbao earned a first win under coach Jose Angel Ziganda by beating fellow Basque side Eibar 1-0 away and Leganes won 1-0 at Espanyol.(rtr)

MILAN - Torino forward Andrea Belotti got off the mark in style by scoring his first Serie A goal of the season with an outrageous scissors kick as they beat Sassuolo 3-0 on Sunday while Milan and Napoli kept up their winning starts. A majestic Suso free kick gave AC Milan a 2-1 win over stubborn Cagliari while Napoli, like Milan, have six points from two games after scoring three second-half goals to beat Atalanta 3-1.

Three other teams have maximum points - Juventus and Inter Milan, who won on Saturday, and Sampdoria who beat Fiorentina 2-1 away. Torino’s eventful match also saw two penalties over-turned - one for each side - after consultations with the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).

Belotti, who scored 26 league goals last season and is one of the hottest properties in Italian football, opened the scoring in the 45th minute with a truly outstanding effort.

Nicolas N’Koulou flicked the

ball over a defender, slipped it to Lorenzo De Silvestri who sent over a long cross to the far post where Belotti, with his back to goal, launched himself into the air and connected with a perfectly-executed overhead volley. The 23-year-old Italy forward also set up the third when he slalomed through the Sassuolo defence for Joel Obi to score in the 88th minute. Adem Ljajic had added the second minutes earlier.

To r i n o c o a c h S i n i s a M i hajlovic had wanted to substitute Obi in the 81st minute - and was livid with his assistants when they mistakenly took off Tomas Rincon instead. Torino were awarded a penalty just before the hour for handball by Paolo Cannavaro but the referee changed his mind after consulting the VAR and deciding that it was accidental.

LATE OFFSIDE Sassuolo were also awarded a penalty which was then revoked after the VAR spotted an

offside late in the game. Milan, who have won their first five games of the season in the Europa League and Serie A, took an early lead at San Siro when Patrick Cutrone tapped in Suso’s wicked cross at the far post. But Cagliari would not lie down and Joao Pedro equalised in the 56th minute after Milan lost possession while trying to play the ball out of defence.

Suso, one of only three survivors from last season in the Milan starting line-up, restored their lead by curling in a free kick with 20 minutes left. Napoli fell behind to a 15th minute header

by Bryan Cristante at home to Atalanta and, despite playing with their usual panache, struggled to break down the visitors.

Piotr Zielinski finally levelled with an unstoppable shot in the 56th minute and they turned the game around five minutes later when Allan’s chipped pass was headed on by Lorenzo Insigne for Dries Mertens to volley in at the far post.

U.S. bank on experience for World Cup qualifiers Head coach Bruce Arena has opted for a tried-and-tested group of players for the United States’ upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica and Honduras. Third in the final CONCACAF qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup, the United States face Costa Rica in New Jersey on Friday and then visit Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula for a Sept. 5 clash with Honduras. The top three sides qualify automatically for Russia with the fourth-best side going into an intercontinental playoff against a team from the Asian confederation for another berth.

All 26 players in the U.S. squad have been on international duty this year, and Arena said that experience would be vital.

“Everyone here is experienced inside the group, they know what needs to be done, what’s expected of them, our style of play, and how we go about doing things,” Arena said in comments published by U.S. Soccer Federation.

“I think since everyone’s been with us now in 2017, it’ll make what is a really difficult week a little bit easier.” Forward Clint Dempsey is the most experienced player in the squad with 39 caps.

Arena has also called up Jozy Altidore (38 caps), Tim Howard (36) and captain Michael Bradley (35), who won the Golden Ball as the Gold Cup’s top player in July.

Arena, who was handed a tall order of getting their qualifying campaign back on track when he

returned as coach last November, will have to do without talented defenders John Brooks and DeAndre Yedlin due to injuries.

Arena has guided the side to eight points from four qualifiers since taking over from Juergen Klinsmann, who was fired after back-to-back losses to Mexico and Costa Rica left the United States dead last in qualifying.

“We’ve experienced injuries throughout the year and that’s all part of it with national teams or club teams, but I have enough confidence in these players,” said Arena. “The experiences we’ve had together during the year will allow us to deal with any kind of issues that may arise as we get involved in these next two qualifying matches.”(rtr)

Marko Rog finished off a well-worked move for the third in the 87th minute.

Gianluca Caprari and Fabio Quagliarella, from a penalty, scored twice in a three-minute spell in the first half for Sampdoria, who survived several scares after Mil a n Badelj pulled one back early in the second half for Fiorentina.

Promoted Spal won their first game when a stoppage-time goal

by Luca Rizzo sunk Udinese 3-2 after the visitors had clawed back a two-goal deficit, with Cyril Thereau equalising from a penalty in the 87th minute.(rtr)

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Hamilton questions safety car deployment

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS - Lewis Hamilton took issue with Formula One’s race direction on Sunday, suggesting the safety car was deployed for longer than necessary at the Belgian Grand Prix to make the race more exciting.

Andakasa Temple KARANGASEM - Pura Luhur Andakasa situated on the summit of Mount Andakasa, Angantelu village, Manggis district, Karangasem regency, at the height of 200 meters above sea level. From the city of Denpasar, the temple is located about 60 km or are located approxiametly 20 km east of Semarapura City, the capital of Klungkung regency. From Denpasar, this temple was reached in the distance around 60 km – the direction to the east, or 20 km in east the Semarapura city – the capital of the Klungkung Regency.

Additionally Andakasa Temple also belongs to Bali’s 9 key directional temples, although it is not very popular with tourists and could have been listed in the category of hidden Treasures instead.

Pura Luhur Andakasa stana of Brahma is also known as ‘Ida Bhatara Hyang Tugu’. Brahma controlled southern region in the structure or the manifestation of

Dewata Nawasanga or the nine manifestation of Hyang Widhi who inhabit the nine cardinal directions.

Pura Andakasa is just a short drive inland from Pura Goa Lawah. From the car park we walk along a path through the forest and arrive after a few minutes at a small altar next to a sacred spring where we gather holy water for the ceremony. Here we pray and ask for permission to enter sacred ground. We arrive at Pura Andakasa after having ascended a series of steps for maybe 10 minutes.

Here we perform our ceremony and meditate on Brahma and the Divine Mother represented by Saraswati. The views and Divine presence fill us with peace and an appreciation of all things living on this most beautiful planet.

Not known for sure about the year of establishment Pura Luhur Andakasa. In the Papyrus Usana Bali, the temple estimated was

founded by the Mpu Kuturan around 10th century AD during the reign of King Marakata in Bali.

Piodalan or the temple ceremony in Pura Luhur Andakasa held once every 210 days or six month of the calendar of Bali, on Anggara Kliwon Wuku Medangsia. Once a year, precisely on Purnama Sada or the 12th full moon, performed the ceremony ‘Usaba Pengurip Bumi’.

On the journey from the car park to your final destination, you will need to walk for a few minutes through the rain forest to reach a small alter that is next to a sacred spring where the locals get there holy water. After another 10 minutes walk and clambering up plenty of stairs, you will finally arrive at Pura Andakasa. Little Warung (restaurants) can provide you food after your excursion.

Pura Andakasa is extremely important to the Balinese people as it is a great place for praying and

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but denying the Ferrari driver a chance to get a subsequent run at him downhill to Eau Rouge.

Immediately after the race he suggested the safety car deployment had been a bit “like NASCAR where they keep pulling out the safety cars for no reason”.

“I guess they (the stewards) wanted to see a race, so that’s for sure the reason they did that because there was hardly any debris,” he said.

Hamilton eased off a little on the criticism later.

“At the end of the day it doesn’t matter now, but there was no-one in harm’s way on track,” he said.

“You could say the marshals had to come on to clean up but they did it quite quickly.

“Then we did all those laps behind the safety car and it just opened up doors.

“At the moment I was frustrated.

I’ve led the race and it’s been this close and then we do that stop and I’ve not got ultra-softs available to me and it feels a little bit weighed up against you. But it’s cool. I just sucked it up and kept pushing.” (rtr)

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The Mercedes driver won from pole position, slashing the championship lead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to seven points.

The safety car was deployed on the 30th of 44 laps and stayed out for four while marshals cleared up debris from a collision between Force India’s Sergio Perez and Frenchman Esteban Ocon.

The re-start proved a key moment of the race, with both Hamilton and Vettel on fresh tyres after pitting but with the German on the faster ultra-softs that threatened to give him an advantage over the softs.

“Why’s the Safety Car out?”

Hamilton asked his team over the radio. “There literally is no debris.

“That is a BS call from the stewards,” he added.

Hamilton managed to hold off Vettel at the re-start, but only just, and then pulled away with the race settling down as before.

The Briton told reporters that he had actually benefited from an error which left him in the wrong power mode, allowing Vettel to pull level at the first La Source corner

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NEW YORK - Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka have reputations for being supreme athletes but a gruelling tennis season that offers little time to recover has left them among a number of big-name players who will be missing from the U.S. Open with injuries.

Despite medical advances and a greater understanding by the players on how their bodies work, there is little down time for anyone who wants to be a regular competitor during the ATP and WTA seasons, which last approximately 11 and 10 months, respectively.

“Most of the injuries in tennis are what are classified as overuse,” Todd Ellenbecker, the ATP’s Vice President of Medical Services, said in an email interview.

“Not one particular force or trauma but a continued, repeated overload of smaller forces that lead to a breakdown in the player’s body.”

Five top 11 men’s players are among those who have said they will miss the year’s final grand slam, which starts on Monday in New York: former world number one Djokovic (elbow), Andy Murray (hip), 2016 champion Wawrinka (knee), Canada’s Milos

Raonic (wrist) and Japan’s Kei Nishikori (wrist).

The women’s draw has not been robbed of the same level of star power with the most high-profile withdrawal due to injury being 2011 U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur (hand).

With a non-stop stream of tournaments on hard courts, grass and clay, coupled with racket technology that allows players to hit the ball harder than ever before, the physical toll on bodies can mount up.

“Tennis is indeed unique in that it is one of the only high level sports played on multiple surfaces at the elite level,” said Ellenbecker. “We know that different ball speeds, and trajectories/court surface interfaces do affect the player’s body ... however definitive injury risk research is scant.”

Ellenbecker said after matches, a player’s focus shifts immediately from performance to recovery, which means replacing fluid and vital nutrients and for some, ice baths, compression garments and other recovery methods that work for them.

Kathleen Stroia, the WTA’s Senior Vice President of Sport

Sciences & Medicine and Transitions, said the schedule’s setup helps players limit changes in court surfaces but they must still plan accordingly for the transitions.

“Education on proper scheduling and preparation leading up to a surface change is key,” said Stroia.

“The style of play and pace of the game require players to adapt to the demands of the court and this can take time to adjust to, therefore it is not ideal for players to change

surfaces week in and week out.

“Adaptation is required but a change of surface is of benefit as well, as some surfaces are more forgiving on the body.”

Former world number one Roger Federer, who had been blessed with a body that seemed bullet-proof against the aches, pains and injuries suffered by most top athletes, is in the midst of one of the greatest ever comebacks from injury.

After missing the second half of last season with a knee problem,

Federer has won five titles this year, including the Australian Open and Wimbledon trophies.

The Swiss is also aware that now aged 36, he not only needs to be judicious with his schedule but also has to be cautious about how far he should push his body.

Hence opting to skip the claycourt season, including the French Open despite being fully fit, paid off for the Swiss as just weeks later he became the first man to win eight Wimbledon titles. (rtr)

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Britain pushes for talks about the future, EU wants divorce first

BRUSSELS - British officials arrive in Brussels on Monday to push the EU towards talks about their post-Brexit ties, which the bloc refuses to do without an agreement first on London’s exit bill and other divorce issues.

A third round of Brexit talks takes place more than a year after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, delivering an unprecedented blow to the post-World War Two European integration.

Chief Brexit negotiators, the EU’s Michel Barnier and Britain’s David Davis, will meet at 1500 GMT before more talks on Tuesday and Wednesday convene on technical level on expatriate rights, divorce bill and “other separation issues”.

Senior officials will also tackle the conundrum of the future border between EU state Ireland and the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland, and a news conference is due on Thursday, according to a schedule published by Brussels.

Britain will present in detail its several papers released last week on issues ranging from customs arrangements to data sharing. They have often ventured out into the future relationship between London and what will become a 27-state EU. Britain will be urging the bloc to show “imagination” and focus discussion on these future ties rather than just on the divorce settlement.

On Sunday, the opposition Labour Party said it would keep Britain in the European single market and customs union for a transitional period after Brexit, offering a clear alternative to the policies of Prime Minister Theresa May. The bloc wants to settle chief separation aspects first and has already signalled the slow progress so far means jumpstarting talks about a new accord with Britain is now less likely in October, as had been expected.

“Both the UK and the EU have an interest to move forward quickly in negotiations and that requires us to make sufficient progress on citizens’ rights, on the financial settlement on Ireland,” said a senior EU official involved in the talks.

“The divorce issues should be relatively straightforward to sort out.

So it is not a matter of time needed in terms of the technical complexity, it is a matter of political will.”

While there is some convergence on safeguarding the rights of EU citizens residing in Britain and Britons living on the continent, more technical work is needed, EU sources say.

The Irish issue, extremely delicate because of the violent history between the two communities there, is fraught with economic consequences and politically complex.

On money, the EU and Britain seem to be seas apart on agreeing how much London should pay the bloc on departure to account for previous commitments. Sides expect no major leaps forward this week in the talks aimed at unravelling more than 40 years of union.

But both highlight that time is scarce as the negotiations should conclude well before the provisional Brexit date of March 2019 to leave time for ratification and approval procedures of any deal by Britain, EU states and the bloc’s parliament. (rtr)

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All Houston port facilities will be closed on Monday because of the weather threat, a port spokeswoman said on Sunday night. More than 220,000 customers in the Houston area were without power on Monday morning, utilities CenterPoint Energy and AEP Texas said.

Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, one of the nation’s busiest, and William P. Hobby airport halted all commercial flights on Sunday.

The airports remained closed to commercial traffic on Monday.

Forecasters could only draw on a few comparisons to the storm, recalling Hurricane

Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and killed 1,800 people in 2005. Katrina resulted in more than $15 billion in flood insurance losses in Louisiana and Mississippi. Flood damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey may equal that from Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, an insurance research group said on Sunday.

Jose Rengel, a 47-year-old construction worker who lives in Galveston, helped rescue efforts in Dickinson, southeast of Houston, where he saw water cresting the tops of cars. “I am blessed that not much has happened to me, but these people lost everything. And it keeps raining,” he said. “The water has nowhere to go.”(rtr)

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Dian Yulia Novi (2nd L), arrested last year on suspicion of plotting to blow herself up outside the presidential palace in Jakarta during a changing of the guard ceremony, stands trial along with her husband Muhammad Nur Solihin (2nd R) and co-defendants Ika Puspita Sari (L), Agus Supriyadi (R) in a court in Jakarta, Indonesia June 21, 2017. Picture taken June 21, 2017.

Indonesian woman jailed for suicide bomb plot at Jakarta palace REUTERS/Agoes Rudianto

JAKARTA - A Jakarta court has sentenced a female would-be suicide bomber to seven and a half years in prison, prosecutors and her lawyer said, the first time a woman has been convicted in Indonesia for planning such an attack.

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Employees remove plastic bags found in cows’ stomachs at a slaughterhouse near Nairobi, Kenya August 25, 2017. Picture taken August 25, 2017.

Kenya imposes world’s toughest law against plastic bags

NAIROBI - Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Monday, as the world’s toughest law aimed at reducing plastic pollution came into effect.

The East African nation joins more than 40 other countries that have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda, and Italy.

Many bags drift into the ocean, strangling turtles, suffocating seabirds and filling the stomachs of dolphins and whales with waste until they die of starvation.

“If we continue like this, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish,” said Habib El-Habr, an expert on marine litter working with the U.N. Environment Programme in Kenya.

Plastic bags, which El-Habr says take between 500 to 1,000 years to break down, also enter the human food chain through fish and

other animals. In Nairobi’s slaughterhouses, some cows destined for human consumption had 20 bags removed from their stomachs.

“This is something we didn’t get ten years ago but now its almost on a daily basis,” said county vet Mbuthi Kinyanjui as he watched men in bloodied white uniforms scoop sodden plastic bags from the stomachs of cow carcases.

Kenya’s law allows police to go after anyone even carrying a plastic bag. But Judy Wakhungu, Kenya’s environment minister, said enforcement would initially be directed at manufacturers and suppliers.

“Ordinary wananchi will not be harmed,” she told Reuters, using a Kiswahili word for “com-

mon man”.

It took Kenya three attempts over ten years to finally pass the ban, and not everyone is a fan.

Samuel Matonda, spokesman for the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, said it would cost 60,000 jobs and force 176 manufacturers to close. Kenya is a major exporter of plastic bags to the region.

“The knock-on effects will be very severe,” Matonda said.

“It will even affect the women who sell vegetables in the market - how will their customers carry their shopping home?”

Big Kenyan supermarket chains like France’s Carrefour and Nakumatt have already started offering customers cloth bags as alternatives. (rtr)

Dian Yulia Novi, 28, was arrested late last year on suspicion of plotting to blow herself up outside Jakarta’s presidential palace during the changing of the guard. She was arrested along with her husband, Muhamad Nur Solikin.

Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has seen

a surge in homegrown militancy inspired by Islamic State, and has grappled with a series of small-scale attacks in the past two years.

Prosecutors had demanded a 10year sentence for Novi, whom they said received instructions to carry out the attack from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant believed to be

fighting with Islamic State in Syria.

“Her sentence was reduced because she admitted to her actions,” Novi’s lawyer Kamsi told Reuters on Monday. He said the verdict was handed down by East Jakarta District Court on Aug. 25.

Judges delivered the verdict earlier than expected because Novi is

pregnant and due to give birth in early September, her lawyer said. She is detained at a Jakarta area facility.

Her husband is on trial for the same plot. His next hearing, at which he is expected to enter a plea, is scheduled for Sept. 6.

Kamsi said Novi, who was believed to be radicalized through social media while employed as a domestic worker in Taiwan, did not intend to appeal her verdict.

Police said they had intercepted

a letter that Novi intended to send to her parents stating her intention to carry out jihad. Later an unexploded bomb was found in a room the woman had rented in Bekasi, about an hour outside Jakarta.

Counter-terrorism forces are worried that militants may be using new and more sophisticated tactics to try and carry out attacks - like recruiting female suicide bombers or using dangerous chemicals to make “dirty bombs”.(rtr)

Anti-graft body detains another director general of sea transportation JAKARTA - Within two years in a row, two director generals of sea transportation of the Transportation Ministry have been arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

In February 2016, the anti-graft agency had detained Bobby Reynold Mamahit, the then director general, in a corruption case. In August 2016, the anti-corruption court had sentenced Mamahit to five years imprisonment.

The Indonesian public was in shock when the KPK made an announcement on August 24, 2017, that it had detained Antonius Tonny Budiono, the successor of Mamahit, for allegedly receiving bribes in connection with the issuance of permits and procurement for projects under his supervision during the 2016-2017 period.

“Antonius Tonny Budiono (ATB), a suspect in his capacity as the sea transportation director general, and Adiputra Kurniawan (APK), as com-

missioner of PT Adhi Guna Keruktama (AGK), have been detained for the initial 20 days,” Febri Diansyah, the KPK spokesman, had noted on Aug 24.

The anti-graft agency had closely monitored and investigated Budiono for seven months before naming him a suspect.

“After an initial examination and questioning, it was concluded that Director General of Sea Transportation Budiono had allegedly committed corruption in the goods and services procurement projects at the Directorate General of Sea Transportation in the 2016-2017 budget year,” KPK Deputy Chairman Basaria Panjaitan had stated at a press conference at the KPK building in Jakarta, Aug 24.

During an impromptu operation conducted by the KPK on Aug 2324, the agency confiscated money and automatic teller machine (ATM) cards from Budionos bags.

The agency confiscated three

ATM cards issued by different banks, 33 bags containing money in rupiah, US dollar, pound sterling, euro, and Malaysian ringgit currencies, with a total value of Rp18.9 billion in cash, and an account in Bank Mandiri having a balance of Rp1.174 billion.

“Hence, the total money recovered by the KPK in the case is valued at Rp20 billion,” Panjaitan noted. It was suspected that Kurniawan had given the money to Budiono in connection with the dredging project at the Tanjung Mas Port in Semarang, Central Java.

“The money is for my operational activities. I have violated the laws. On my behalf, I offer my apology to the public,” Budiono informed the press, explaining that he had spent some of the money on social activities, such as to help orphans and renovate damaged churches and schools, among other things.

He denied that some of the money had been channeled to Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.

The minister is a kind individual and did not know about the money, he explained.

Born in Pekalongan, Central Java, in 1958, Bodiono, who has worked as a civil servant for 30 years, was bestowed the “Satyalancana Karya Satya” award last year by the government for his loyalty and dedication.

A recipient of the prestigious award is considered to be a national role model. Following his appointment as the director general of sea transportation in August 2016, he had reported to the KPK that his total assets were nearly Rp2.7 billion.

Meanwhile, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has extended his apologies to the public over the alleged corruption in the ministry.

Sumadi vowed to closely supervise and monitor all projects of the ministry.

“Earlier, I had focused on monitoring, but in future, I will watch them closely and scrutinize all projects of the ministry,” Sumadi emphasized.

He has urged all ranks of the ministry to eliminate practices of corruption.

“Once again I remind all employees of the Ministry of Transportation to eliminate practices of corruption and illegal levies or else they will face criminal sanctions,” Sumadi remarked following the arrest of Budiono.

“I am very concerned that since the start, I have been working hard to prevent the Transportation Ministrys officials from engaging in corruption or accepting bribes, but in fact, these illegal practices still exist,” Sumadi stated.

He noted that Budionos arrest by the KPK should offer the required momentum to improve consistency in eradicating corruption.

“Last year, we had foiled graft attempts in Medan, Jakarta, Surabaya, and Samarinda, with significant findings,” he recalled.

The minister claimed that the project in question under the sea transportation directorate general has run through its legal procedures.(ant)

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LAHORE, Pakistan/ SHANGHAI - Zhang Yang, a businessman from Chongqing in southwest China, is searching online forums for fellow stouthearted entrepreneurs willing to cast aside security concerns and join him on a scouting mission to Pakistan. Zhang, 48, is one of a growing number of Chinese pioneers sensing an opportunity across the Himalayas in Pakistan, where Beijing has pledged to spend $57 billion on infrastructure projects as part of its “Belt and Road” initiative.

Biu Lalung, Used to Fill Surya Shrine and Symbolize Natural Offerings

In Balinese life, bananas play an important role. Apart from their use as a source of food, bananas are also used in various forms of banten (oblations), presented in the form of slices, piece and bunches. The Balinese also commonly use other parts of the banana for a variety of purposes.

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Women walk out of a village house slated for demolition near Shahezi in rural Shaanxi province, China, June 12, 2017. Picture taken June 12, 2017.

2015, suggesting more are staying in the country for longer.

For Pakistan, the stakes in keeping all those Chinese nationals safe are high. Beijing’s infrastructure splurge has helped revive Pakistan’s sputtering economy, and deepening ties between the two nations have turned Pakistan into a key cog in China’s grand plan to build a modern-day “Silk Road” of land and sea trade routes linking Asia with Europe and Africa.

While the first phase of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as the Pakistan leg of this new Silk Road is called, concentrated on infrastructure projects, the second part will focus on setting up special economic zones and integrating Chinese firms into the local economy to help Pakistan develop its industries ranging from mining to agriculture.

China has also surged to become by far the biggest source of foreign

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Braving security fears, Chinese seek ‘Silk Road’ riches in Pakistan

Numbering in the thousands, this second wave of Chinese arrivals are following in the wake of workers on Belt and Road projects.

Some are opening restaurants and language schools, while others are working out what products they could sell to a market of 208 million people, or what goods they could make cheaply in Pakistan to sell around the world.

“A lot of industries are already saturated in China,” said Zhang, who has worked in property, electrical appliances and household goods in China and says he wants to explore the potential for setting up factories or importing Chinese goods. “Pakistan’s development is behind China, so it will hold better opportunities compared to home.”

But the new arrivals face dangers, creating a headache for Pakistani security officials.

Islamic State’s killing of two Chinese nationals in the restive Baluchistan province in June highlighted the risks posed by Islamist militants, who may see them as soft targets in their war with the state.

Beijing has also long fretted about hardened Pakistani Islamist fighters linking up with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a Uigher militant group Beijing accuses of seeking to split off its western region of Xinjiang, Pakistani officials say. Islamabad does not release immigration data but a source in the foreign ministry said about 71,000 Chinese nationals visited in 2016. A senior immigration official added 27,596 visa extensions were granted to Chinese that year, a 41 percent increase on

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direct investment (FDI) for Pakistan, topping $1 billion in 2016/17, and is betting on its neighbour at a time when many Western companies are still put off by security concerns and corruption. “Pakistan really needs foreign investment and we are not going to miss out on this because of some idiots with a gun,” said Miftah Ismail, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. “We won’t let them mess with the Chinese.”

SECURITY CHALLENGE Pakistan receives friendly coverage in Chinese media and regularly features in state broadcaster CCTV’s programmes on the Belt and Road initiative, which include promotions of CPEC and interviews with Chinese workers living in the country. That has not been enough to assuage concerns about security for Zhang and other Chinese businessmen and women who

spoke to Reuters. “It’s a big lesson for us,” said Derek Wang, referring to the Baluchistan killings.

Wang, deputy chief executive of Infoshare, an Islamabad-based consultancy assisting Chinese entrepreneurs and businesses, said security was the number one concern of Chinese newcomers.

Pakistan is taking the threat seriously. Guards and police with automatic rifles shield Chinese-staffed offices and language schools, while security officials say plainclothes officers form a less visible layer of protection at such sites.

Unlike the engineers and construction workers who reside in heavily-guarded compounds while building the roads and power plants that make up CPEC, the entrepreneurs seeking riches on the back of it mostly arrive on their own and disperse across the country. Few inform authorities of their plans.

“This is the biggest challenge right

now,” said Muhammad Faisal Rana, who heads an 8,000-strong Special Protection Unit set up by Punjab province in 2014 to guard foreigners.

Ninety percent of those it protects are Chinese, he said. Rana said growing numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs turn up with tourist visas. Many are conducting market research, while some launch their products and then flit back to China.

“All these elements are sometimes out of our radar, and we have no idea from which flight they are coming in and where they are heading towards,” he said.

SPU officials have cultivated ties with guesthouses popular with Chinese and set up liaison desks at airports to register the Chinese entrepreneurs before they vanish, while governments in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces are accelerating plans to build up special protection units akin to the one in Punjab.(rtr)

For example, banana tree leaves are used to wrap food and are also used for bebantenan ingredients and banana tree trunks are used as fodder. Almost all parts of this plant ate used in the life of the Balinese Hindu Community.

Banana is also used in yadnya or sacrificial ceremonies when it is known as biu lalung. Ni Nengah Kompyang explained that the biu lalung along with fishtail palm, sacred fig and banyan tree leaves are placed on the pillar of the surya shrine usually in the northeast point of ??the ritual location Any type of banana – expect for seedy banana and saba banana can be used for biu lalung. ,The former should never be used in rituals, she said “Not all rituals require biu lalung on its surya shrine. If the

oblation presented in the ritual use pulagembal paraphernalia, there is no need to use biu lalung. However, if bebangkit oblations are required, then biu lalung must be added to the surya shrine’ she added.

Biu lalung is composed of banana coming from a tree that has only 2 or 3 bunches that only have 4-5 pieces and cannot bear more fruit. The banana heart or flower must remain intact at the end of each bunch. The stem and some pieces of banana leaf are also included.

Dr. I Gusti Made Ngurah explained similar criteria adding that height of biu lalung is approximately 60 cm because the banana plant is still growing. Biu lalung is only complete he said, if the heart, fruit (phalam) and little leaves (patram) are intact. In the ritual procession,

Pura Luhur Besi Kalung, located in Utu Customary Village, Penebel Tabanan has the distinct feature of being home to a Linga Yoni with a chainlike necklace that gongs when struck. It is therefore assumed that the chain necklace is made of steel from which the name “Besi” (steel) comes from. It is believed that if the Linga Yoni slants to one side it foretells a national disaster.

Head of Pura Luhur Besi Kalung, accompanied by public relations officer Made Subagia said on Monday that the Linga Yoni in fact slanted in 2013 just before earthquakes and volcanic eruptions shook the island of Java. The Lina Yoni had been slanting for a month before the natural disasters and came back to its straightened position on its own. “It slanted in 1932, 1945, 1965 and again in 1998 just before the national reformation”, he said.

The Linga Yoni stands in the innermost sanctum of the temple at the main shrine (Linggih Ageng) .There is a stepped stone structure leading up to the Lingga Yoni and at its base there is special ‘tabernacle’ where officiating priests sit. This area cannot be approached by just anyone and even those who do so, do not dare touch the Lingga Yoni.

The only person who steps on the stone step structure is Tabanan Palace’s Ida Tjokorda Tabanan, the head priest of Pura Luhur Besi Kalung and the head priest of Pura Luhur Batukaru Temple with permission from Ageng Luhur Besi Kalung, Someone once accidently sat on the ‘tabernacle’ and as Subagia describes, the person was immediately possessed and died two weeks later.

READ Biu Lalung, Used to Fill Surya Shrine and Symbolize Natural Offerings It is also forbidden to prune the tree that grows next to the Lingga Yonia as it is believed that it is Ida Batara’s hair. Pruning only takes place after a special ceremony held on the Sunday after Saraswati day and the cuttings are buried in Bambang Temple.

Also the trees that grow near the temple must not be cut down so as to give the impression of the temple being surrounded by forest.

Even rotting trees are not uprooted. “They are left to rot and are then replanted”, said Subagia.

Pura Luhur Besi Kalung, anniversary (piodalan) is celebrated every Pagerwesi day. Pura Luhur Besi Kalung holds the status of “Sad Kahyangan” and is part of the ranks of Kemiri Pura Luhur Batukaru temple. It is also known as a place to request safety and prosperity. (kmb24)

the banana will surely be sprinkled with holy water as the toyam.

He added that it is imperative that biu lalung be available because the offerings on the surya shrine are the head of all the offerings in the yadnya or ritual implemented.

All the ayaban-ayaban represent the body, while the bottom starting from the stage, caru to segehan including sate gelar sanga plays an important role as the legs. The head should be filled in with proper offerings on the surya shrine.

“In this case, biu lalung is an offering and serves as a representation of something remaining natural that we can use as is. Having been used, the biu lalung cannot be used again or planted though it can be used to make organic fetilizer”, he concluded. (kmb)

Wow … Luscious Duck with Spices Awaits You

Used to enjoying duck menus?

Once upon a time, try to taste luscious duck menu served in local rich spices. This is indeed a traditional menu, but when processed modernly it feels very tasty and delicious. Spiced duck menu also offers distinctive taste, so that it is in great demand among the communities including domestic and foreign tourists. This spiced duck becomes prominent menu

of Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant located on Jalan Raya Campuhan 888, Ubud.

This duck menu is really tasty, as if the bone was also nice to be chewed. The meat does not feel fishy ??because it is a genuine Balinese duck. Moreover, it is processed with selected spices cultivated by farmers at villages in mountainous area. Similarly, the process applies the original

Balinese-style cooking methods.

In the preparation, it does not use artificial seasonings. When ordering, it will not be too long prepared because it is handled by professional chef. A package of spiced duck has included rice, organic flavored vegetables, crackers and three types of chili.

Its preparation process does not take too long, so consumers do

not get bored to wait.

The duck menu in Bali is very special because it is usually served to a saint, like sulinggih (Brahmin priest). It is also an offering to God Almighty equipped with sacred banten oblations. In Bebek Sungai Ubud Restaurant, this original Balinese food makes the ambience cool because the menu and all the facilities are still natural.

This restaurant offers the concept of the original Balinese arrangement. There are crops, such as padi sigih (rice stalk), conical hat, coconut, pestle and mortar used to pound rice supporting the atmosphere. There is a river concept characterized with the presence of rocks, water and others. Other menus are roasted duck, favorite Bebek Sungai and crispy duck. (kmb)

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Kuta, as global kampong can preserve Hindu culture and traditions

Philippines’ Duterte says police can kill “idiots” who resist arrest

DENPASAR — Based on the research of I Gede Rudia Adiputra about the survival of Hinduism in Kuta, in fact it is capable of maintaining Hinduism in the middle of the frenetic Kuta tourism. For more than half a century, the people of Kuta have been interacting with foreign and domestic tourists.

Actually in terms of population, it is fewer than the incoming tourists.

“There is concern of Kuta community that unless doing a strategic survivalism, one day it will disappear,” said I Gede Rudia Adiputra, a researcher from the Udayana University, recently. Thus, Bali tourism based on Balinese culture and Hinduism will disappear.

There is a strategy performed

by Kuta residents in surviving Hinduism internally and externally. This defense is carried out by improving the understanding on religion, philosophy, ethics and rituals that will have an implication on the way how Kuta community practices its religion effectively, efficiently, socially and in balanced manner. “Besides, it can conduct religious life efficiently in terms of time, energy and various kinds of rituals,” he said. On that account, Kuta community will be able to adaptive with the development.

Private sector also makes an effort for the surviving of Hinduism.

They participate in two forms of measure, namely by donations to Kuta customary village and trying to employ local human resources of Kuta. In recent years, the hotels around Kartika Plaza routinely provide coaching through religious contests.

Kuta community also has a desire to move forward. It wants to get a more comprehensive and clearer understanding on the religious practice both in terms of social and ritual aspect. “They are interested in anticipating globalization, resulting in a synergy between the practice of religion as a whole with the development of technology and globalization,” he said.

Therefore, the next generation must be vigilant because Kuta (Bali) remains the target of globalization. “We want to go forward and join to live modern life in the global era but without losing the identity in the form of culture respected by Hindu,” he said.

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Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 2017.

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For more than half a century, the people of Kuta have been interacting with foreign and domestic tourists.

On that account, the existing dance studios in Kuta and all elements of Kuta society are expected to preserve their culture and reli-

gion. “Do not let younger generations of Kuta become a spectator at their home and then lose their identity,” he hoped.

Losing the identity and being a spectator at home are the beginning of Bali that loses Kuta in the long run. (kmb42)

Management of traditional market asked to keep sanitation

DENPASAR- The existence of traditional market at every village can be a driving force in supporting the people’s economy. Therefore, the Denpasar municipality gives serious attention to maintenance of this market. Moreover, the onslaught of modern market is increasingly massive and reaching

the nooks and crannies of village.

One of the efforts that can be done to maintain customers is keeping the market sanitation.

This continues to be submitted to all market management in Denpasar. The appeal was also submitted during the evaluation and monitoring of traditional market

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Denpasar municipality gives serious attention to maintenance of traditional market.

conducted by a number of related agencies in Denpasar that will last for eight days since last Thursday (Aug. 24).

Another effort having been made is the revitalization of traditional markets managed by village government on an ongoing basis.

So far, it has been able to revitalize a total of 26 village markets.

Strengthening of traditional market is not just limited to the revitalization program, but also through the community empowerment and village government (DPMD) agency of Denpasar by regularly monitoring the development program of the rural economic institutions.

The monitoring and evaluation program of this time targets 33 village markets.

“On the first day, we target Tegal Harum Market, Padang Sambian village market, Ubung customary village market and Poh Gading Market by involving a team of relevant agencies in the Denpasar municipality and Denpasar Food and Drug Administration (BPOM),” said the Division Head of the Denpasar Community Empowerment and Self-Reliance (DPMD), Ni

Made Puspita Sari.

Furthermore, she said the monitoring and evaluation is also accompanied with empowerment to improve mutual understanding among the market management and merchants leading to the concept of Indonesian people market, namely the friendly, fresh and reliable markets. The involvement of the monitoring and evaluation team is able to provide inputs from various sides for the improvement of traditional markets such as environmental sanitation by involving the Denpasar environment and sanitation agency, the supervision of meat health involves the livestock agency, and the BPOM Denpasar in the monitoring of food containing hazardous substances.

Her party also involves the village market management forum (FPD) in conducting discussions with village market empowerment.

Results of this monitoring and evaluation are expected to become a reference in increasing community visits to village markets.

In addition to this strengthening measure, the DPMD routinely holds traditional market festival

by involving dozens of traditional market by selecting the best market. “From this monitoring and evaluation, we can provide the attention for traditional market according to the expectation of Mayor Rai Mantra by not only improving physical market, but also arranging the sanitation, healthy environment and building entrepreneurship spirit of traditional market,” she added.

In the meantime, Chief of Padangsambian Market, I Made Mustika Subawa, said that revitalization of Padangsambian Market is fully supported by Denpasar municipality in 2014 and currently it has 96 kiosks and 96 stalls. He said that market management faces challenges in the merchants’ mindset to maintain market sanitation. This matter has also been disseminated regularly where each merchant is required to have a dust bin and to clean up their stall and kiosk after selling activities. “Although we have prepared sanitation workers, the empowerment of merchants should be carried out for the sake of comfort and creation of friendly, fresh and reliable market,” he said. (kmb12)

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Whereabouts of former Thai PM Yingluck unknown, defence minister says

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told police on Monday they could kill “idiots” who violently resist arrest, two days after hundreds of people turned the funeral of a slain teenager into a protest against his deadly war on drugs.

Duterte met the parents of the schoolboy, 17-year-old Kian Loyd delos Santos, at the presidential palace in Manila on Monday, officials said. Details of the meeing were not immediately available.

Earlier, Duterte broke off midway through a prepared speech at the Hero’s Cemetery on the outskirts of Manila and addressed impromptu comments to Jovie Espenido, the police chief of a town in the south where the mayor was killed in an anti-drugs raid.

“Your duty requires you to overcome the resistance of the person you are arresting... (if) he resists, and it is a violent one... you are free to kill the idiots, that is my order to you,” uterte told the police officer.

Duterte added that “murder and homicide and unlawful killings” were not allowed and that police had to uphold the rule of law while carrying out their duties.

Duterte unleashed the anti-drugs war after taking office in June last year following an election campaign in which he vowed to use deadly force to wipe out crime and drugs.

Thousands of people have been killed and the violence has been criticised by much of the international community.

Domestic opposition has been largely muted but the killing of delos Santos by anti-drugs officers on Aug 16 has sparked rare public outrage.

More than 1,000 people, including nuns, priests and hundreds of children, joined his funeral procession on Saturday, turning the march into one of the biggest protests yet against Duterte’s antidrugs campaign.

Delos Santos was dragged by plain-clothes policemen to a dark, trash-filled alley in northern Manila before he was shot in the head and left next to a pigsty, according to witnesses whose accounts appeared to be backed up by CCTV footage.

Police say they acted in self defence after delos Santos opened fire on them, and Duterte’s spokesman and the justice minister have described the killing of the teenager as an “isolated” case. (rtr)

BANGKOK - Thailand’s defence minister on Monday said he did not know the whereabouts of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, days after she failed to show up for a verdict in her trial for negligence at which she faced up to 10 years in prison.

Yingluck, whose government was ousted in a 2014 coup, fled to Dubai via Singapore, sources in her Puea Thai Party said on the weekend. Her departure leaves the populist movement that has dominated Thai politics for more than a decade leaderless.

Her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by the military in 2006 and also fled Thailand to avoid a 2008 jail sentence for corruption, has a home in Dubai.

“We don’t know where Yingluck fled and whether she has asked for asylum anywhere,” Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, who is also a deputy prime minister, told reporters.

“We haven’t asked for her extradition yet.”

Yingluck was often followed by plain-clothes police, her aides said. During a provincial tour last year men in military uniform would often follow her as she greeted supporters.

Critics are now asking how a

person under close scrutiny by security forces could leave the country without being noticed.

“How should I know?” was Prawit’s response to reporters who asked him that on Monday.

Deputy national police chief General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul told reporters police intelligence showed Yingluck was still in her Bangkok home at least up until 2 p.m. on Wednesday. He did not elaborate.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Yingluck, 50, who had been due to appear at the Supreme Court on Friday to hear a verdict in a case against her, involving a rice buying scheme introduced by her government that lost an estimated $8 billion.

A former commerce minister in her government was jailed for 42 years on Friday for falsifying government-to-government rice deals in connection with the same subsidy scheme.

Reuters could not reach either Thaksin or Yingluck for comment

on Monday. Yingluck, who is usually active on social media, has not posted on her Facebook page since Thursday, when she told supporters she would see them at the court.

Defence ministry spokesman Kongcheep Tanatravanich told reporters he was confident Yingluck was no longer in Thailand.

“We have to see first which country she’s in. The security side is working on this,” Kongcheep said.

Srisuwan Janya, secretary-general of the Association to Protect the Thai Constitution political group, said he would file a complaint on Monday with the National Anti Corruption Commission over what he called government officials’ failure to prevent Yingluck from fleeing.

By mid-morning on Monday Janya had yet filed the complaint.

Sentencing in Yingluck’s case has been moved to Sept. 27 and is expected to be delivered in absentia. (rtr)

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Protesters and residents hold lighted candles and placards at the wake of Kian Loyd delos Santos, a 17-year-old high school student, who was among the people shot dead last week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs in Caloocan city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 25, 2017.

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Worker loads part for welding in robot

Drug emergency

All components of the nation must fight against it

bay at Alfield Industries, a subsidiary of Martinrea, one of three global auto parts makers in Canada, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada April 28, 2017.

Robot makers slow to address cyber risk - researchers

SINGAPORE - Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly 50 vulnerabilities in their home, business and industrial robots, say only a few of the problems have been addressed.

The researchers, Cesar Cerrudo and Lucas Apa of cybersecurity firm IOActive, said the vulnerabilities would allow hackers to spy on users, disable safety features and make robots lurch and move violently, putting users and bystanders in danger.

While they say there are no signs that hackers have exploited the vulnerabilities, they say the fact that the robots were hacked so easily and the manufacturers’ lack of response raise questions about allowing robots in homes, offices

and factories.

“Our research shows proof that even non-military robots could be weaponized to cause harm,” Apa said in an interview.

“These robots don’t use bullets or explosives, but microphones, cameras, arms and legs. The difference is that they will be soon around us and we need to secure them now before it’s too late.”

Some of the robot manufacturers defended themselves, saying they had fixed some or all of the issues raised.

Apa’s comments come in the wake of a letter signed by more than 100 leading robotic experts urging the United Nations to ban the development of killer military robots, or autonomous weapons.

Apa, a senior security consultant, said that of the six manufacturers contacted, only one, Rethink Robotics, said some of the problems had been fixed. He said he had not been able to confirm that as his team does not have access to that particular robot.

A spokesman for Rethink Robotics, which makes the Baxter and

Sawyer assembly-line robots, said all but two issues - in the education and research versions of its robots had been fixed.

Apa said a review of updates from the other five manufacturers - Universal Robots of Denmark, SoftBank Robotics and Asratec Corp of Japan, Ubtech of China, and Robotis Inc of South Korea - led him to believe none of the issues he had raised had been fixed.

Asratec said that software released for its robots so far was limited to “hobby use sample programs”, and it believed IOActive was pointing to security vulnerabilities in those. Software it planned to release for commercial

use would be different, it said.

SoftBank Robotics said it had already identified the vulnerabilities and fixed them. Ubtech said it had “fully addressed any concerns raised by IOActive that do not limit our developers from programming” their robots.

Universal Robots did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Robotis Inc declined to comment. The slow reaction by the robot industry was not surprising, said Joshua Ziering, founder of Kittyhawk.io, a commercial drone software company. “A new technology bursts on to the market and people fail to secure it,” he said. (rtr)

In Japan, robot-for-hire programmed to perform Buddhist funeral rites

TOKYO - A Japanese company has introduced a new role for SoftBank’s humanoid robot “Pepper” - a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals.

Chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a drum, the robot was on display on Wednesday at a funeral industry fair - the Life Ending Industry Expo - in Tokyo.

Nissei Eco Co., an unlisted plastic molding maker, wrote the chanting software for “Pepper”, which was introduced by SoftBank Group Corp. in 2014.

With Japan’s population ageing and shrinking, many Buddhist priests receive less financial support from their communities, prompting some to find part-time work outside their temple duties, said Michio Inamura, Nissei’s executive adviser.

The funeral robot could step in when a priest was not available, he said. It also cost less at 50,000 yen (about $450) per funeral compared to more than 240,000 yen ($2,200) for a human priest.

Buddhist priest Tetsugi Matsuo said he came to the expo to see if Pepper could “impart the ‘heart’ aspect to a machine because I believe that the ‘heart’ is the foundation of religion.”

The robot has not yet been hired for a funeral. (rtr)

A ‘robot priest’ wearing a Buddhist robe chants sutras at it beats a wooden fish during its demonstration at Life Ending Industry EXPO 2017 in Tokyo, Japan August 23, 2017.

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Beware of UN Swissindo voucher fraud

It claims 40 victims in Bali

DENPASAR — Having been designated as a fraud investment, the UN Swissindo is now shifting the way to deceive the public.

The new way used is human obligation voucher (VM1) that can be cashed at Bank Mandiri. In Bali, there have been 40 people becoming the victims of the UN Swissindo investment fraud.

Head of the Office of Financial Services Authority (OJK) for Regional 8 Bali and Nusa Tenggara, Zulmi, said that pursuant to the last information received for Bali there are a total of about 40 people asking for information to Bank Mandiri related to their investment.

Having been explained by the bank that there is no cooperation with this illegal company in the fund disbursement through voucher, the public immediately realized if they have been cheated.

“Once explained, they just realized that there is no such cooperation and return home. Well, actually there is a plan to come again on August 18 and August 21. However, it was canceled because the bank has clarified the matter,” he said, not long ago.

In Bali, he said, we should be grateful because the number of people tempted by the seduction of the UN Swissindo is much lower than other regions such as Makassar and Jaya Pura. Moreover, in both regions hundreds of people are queuing to exchange the vouchers having been purchased. “A local resident even already purchased worth millions of rupiahs in the hope of getting more money, but in fact it is not true,” he said.

Furthermore, he said the operation mode of the UN Swissindo is that people wishing to get M1 voucher must submit a copy of their electronic identity card and pay administrative fee worth IDR 10,000-IDR 30,000 for one voucher. The illegal company claimed if the vouchers purchased can be redeemed to Bank Mandiri with the amount of funds of USD 1,200 or approximately IDR 15.6 million.

“Certainly this is not true because Bank Mandiri has clarified there is no cooperation between the bank and UN Swissindo.

Besides, Bank Indonesia has released that there is no SBI in the form of certificates,” he said.

Thus, he appealed to the public not to easily believe in such an offer whose truth remains uncertain. Moreover, the offer does not make sense. So, to get clear information related to investment as well as other things such as the offer of debt repayment and the purchase of disbursable voucher, people are expected to ask for information to OJK office, law enforcement apparatus and task force handling alleged unlawful action in the field of fund raising and investment management.

He added that previously there was a mode of debt repayment agreement in bank. Until July 2017, the OJK has received approximately 15 reports. They were submitted by the public as well as financial service institutions. “Once again, we reiterate there is no debt repayment of customers by using documents only from the UN Swissindo that claimed debt repayment from the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. To that end, we appeal to the public especially those having a debt should not easily trust such an offer because it is not true,” he affirmed. (kmb42)

MANGUPURA — Indonesia is in a state of drug emergency because the circulation is very massive to rural corners. Similarly, it happens in Bali where these illicit goods have penetrated into villages and targeted all lines including students. Therefore, all components of the nation must commit to fighting against and countering them. This was conveyed by the Head of District National Narcotic Agency (BNNK) Badung, Ni Ketut Masmini.

“Drugs users and dealers are mostly committed by private sector this time. Therefore, both civil servants and private employees must be introspective in order not to fall into drug abuse,” said Masmini after attending interactive dialog on the hazards of drugs with the theme of ‘the role of employees in the efforts of the P4GN’ at the office of PLN Mengwi, Badung, on Friday (Aug. 25).

To improve and achieve the working target, it needs to be supported by reliable and excellent human resources. In this regard,

both state-owned and private companies must participate in the fight against drugs, starting from their respective workplace.

It should be done in order to realize the human resources with drug-clean environment.

“In order to overcome Indonesia’s emergency of drug condition, it is required a comprehensive efforts and involvement of all components of the nation, both the government and private sector including all levels of society,” she said.

Thus, employees better un-

derstand about the impact of drug abuse and trafficking, so they have the preventability and will not get involved as abusers and drug dealers. Most importantly, the community participates in countermeasures, especially in the family and workplace environment.“We will never get bored to always remind and invite people to stay away from drugs.

Besides, we are determined to continue growing and do antidrug movement so that the circulation can be minimized,” she said. (kmb36)

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To overcome Indonesia’s emergency of drug condition, it is required a comprehensive efforts and involvement of all components of the nation.

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Three springs in Gianyar draw many visitors GIANYAR —Gianyar district has a number of springs that are not only functioned to perform melukat (purificatory rite), but also to be a tourist attraction. Today, there are three springs commonly visited by tourists, namely the Dalem Pingit bathing place (Sebatu village, Tegallalang), Goa Rang Reng waterfall (Bakbakan village, Gianyar) and Tirta Empul (Tampaksiring) as the most famous.

Secretary of Sebatu village, I Wayan Kerta, some time ago explained that Dalem Pingit Temple bathing at Sebatu village is widely visited by Balinese people all this time to perform melukat. Lately, it also began to be crowded by domestic and foreign visitors. “Visitors always come not only in morning to evening, but also at night,” he said.

According to Kerta, this holy bathing place is lately more crowded by residents, especially on school holidays, and on Hindu auspicious days like full moon, new moon, kajeng kliwon and other important days. When visitors are booming, the parking lot cannot accommodate visitors’ vehicle. Ultimately, the parking uses road body.

In addition, there are other tourist attractions like Goa Rang Reng waterfall introduced by residents of Gitgit, Bakbakan village, to foreign and local tourists. This object is also often used for melukat or just for releasing tiredness.

According to a local resident, I Made Sutama, in the Goa Rang Reng sits the Taman Manik Mas Temple. The water flows from inside the cave is taken advantage by residents for drinking water and purificatory rite before performing religious ceremonies.

“Upstream of this water flow is taken advantage as tourist attraction here,” said Sutama, last Saturday.

Inside the cave there is a very large spring named Telaga Embeng. From this lake, the water flows to the waterfall whose slope can be climbed by visitors. The waterfall also becomes a magnet to visitors, either for taking a bath or taking photographs.

Sutama who is also a tour guide said this object is still managed independently, without any follow-up from the government.

The village also tries to develop this tourist object independently.

“However, it would be better if the government can land a hand,” he said.

In the Goa Rang Reng sits the Taman Manik Mas Temple. Right in front of the temple, there is a flow of water running from a cave that forms a confluence. Two branches of the river are called Male Cangkir River and Female Cangkir River. Balinese people call this water campuhan or confluence. The couples that will be getting married usually do purificatory rite beforehand at this campuhan because the river water is believed as a symbol of union between men and women. “The left flow symbolize women, while the right symbolizes male,” added Sutama. (kmb35)

Tirta Empul

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Amnaya Resort Kuta Debuts in Bali The popular 116-roomBali hotel in South Kuta is celebrating a new journey as the first hotel brand in a series of 4-star boutique properties owned and operated by PT Tibi Modern Sentosa.

Halim Soetanto, CEO of Amnaya Hotels & Resorts, said: “Today’s rebrand of Alaya Resort Kuta to Amnaya Resort Kuta is a significant milestone in our commitment to Balinese hospitality ourstaff, whose carrying the new

philosophy of Family Values.”

The new logo of Amnaya tells the story about harmony, endless bond of family, generation and cultures of heritage. All are reflected in our humble, sincere services from the heart that worth remembering. All start from the heart.

Jeffrey Wibisono, General Manager of Amnaya Resort Kuta, added: “True to the brand, team are embracing and driving the changing demands of today’s

more onerous travelers: who seek a memorable service to take home. I firmly believe that our hotel become guest’s second home.” Amnaya Resort Kuta keeps the concept of a haven of relaxation in amidst the upbeat energy of Bali’s most colourful tourism district - a sense of calmness and oasis in the middle of South Kuta, Bali. Find us, we have so much story to share, tell us your story?

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

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Mobile library grows reading interest, ‘competes’ against internet

MOBILE library still becomes one of the alternatives to foster people’s interest in reading, no exception in Klungkung district. This mobile library can be found in public places. However, amid the increasingly advanced technology, the breakthrough of the regional archives and library agency is like experiencing a dilemma. Its existence must ‘compete’ against the sophistication of technology in the form of internet.

Approaching the evening, the atmosphere of Semarapura town, Klungkung, starts to be crowded.

Many residents gather in public space. One of them is at the Puputan Klungkung Monument.

People come alone or with family. Amid the warm atmosphere, at the road side emerges a blue minivan. Immediately, a number of children approach, look and sort out various kinds of books that have been neatly arranged on the shelf. They search for titles in accordance with their favorite. It is the mobile library encouraged by the regional archives and library agency of Klungkung.

Amid his busyness, a librarian, Ketut Agus Gunawan, does not hesitate to tell stories. This reading service starts at 18:30 until 21:00. Puputan Klungkung Monument has become a regular place to hang out. Interacting with

children just like kindergarten teacher has become a commonplace. “Coinciding with car-free day and weekdays, I must be here.

Sometimes in the morning or afternoon I come to public events, looking for the crowd,” he said recently.

Having carried out this profession since six years ago, certainly it provides a lot of experience.

People’s interest in reading is well known. Lately, this mobile library drew more interest of children, while the adults just escort their children. Not infrequently, they just look back, without opening any single book cover lined neatly. However, it does not make him frustrated in carrying out the duty. His obligation as a medium to channel science remains to continue. “The readers are dominated by children. At least, there are about 20 people who read,”

said the man from Gunaksa village, Dawan.

The existence amid the increasingly advanced technology makes this library as being twisted by dilemma. The library must ‘compete’ against internet whose access is getting wider. It is able to provide the public with access to various kinds of information without being limited by space and time. “Indeed, the easy access to information can influence people’s reading interest to library,” he said. evertheless, the existence of this simple library remains to be maintained with an innovative touch. The book provided varies, adjusted to the public interest.

“The books are routinely replaced to avoid monotonous. There are still people preferring to read books directly,” he affirmed. (sos)

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LOS ANGELES - Kendrick Lamar and Ed Sheeran won the top prizes at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday, but an absent Taylor Swift and lifetime achievement honoree Pink dominated the show.

An angry Swift took on her critics in the world premiere of the music video for her first solo single in three years, “Look What You Made Me Do.” The satirical music video depicted Swift, 27, crawling out of a grave and declaring her old self dead in a portrayal of a hard-edged artist with nothing left to lose, drawing more than 470,000 views on Youtube within an hour of its premiere.

Lamar, who went into Sunday’s event in Los Angeles with a leading eight nominations, kicked off the show with a medley that featured dancers in flames.

The California rapper went home with six statuettes, including the top award for video of the year and best hip hop video for “Humble.”

British singer-songwriter Sheeran was voted artist of the year.

Despite days of fevered speculation, Swift herself was a no-show, though she won the only category in which she had been nominated - best collaboration for “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with Zayn Malik.

Nevertheless, her new video quickly became one of the show’s most talked-about moments, largely overshadowing performances by the likes of Sheeran, Fifth Harmony and Lorde.

The video ended with Swift reviving all the personas of her music career - from gawky, guitar playing 16-year old to poised Grammy winner - and having them call each other out for being fake, pretending to be nice and playing the victim.

Hosting the VMA show was Swift’s long-time rival, Katy Perry, who made her entrance from the ceiling wearing a space suit and ended the three-hour event with a performance of single “Swish Swish” with Nicki Minaj.

Pink, the winner of the 2017 Vanguard Award, gave a speech about beauty and acceptance directed to her six year-old daughter Willow, who was in the audience, that moved many to tears.

“Baby girl, we don’t change,” the singer said. “We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl, and we help other people to change so they can see other kinds of beauty.”

The event also showcased social issues. Six transgender military service men and woman walked

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HOUSTON - Tropical Storm Harvey was set to dump more rain on Houston on Monday, adding to catastrophic flooding that paralyzed the fourth most populous U.S. city and prompted mass evacuations in nearby counties as rivers hit crests not seen for centuries. Harvey came ashore late on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years and has killed at least two people. It has since sat in the same general area around Texas’ Gulf of Mexico Coast where it is forecast to remain for several more days, drenching parts of the region with a year’s worth of rainfall in the span of a week.

Schools, airports and office buildings in Houston were ordered shut on Monday as scores of roads were turned into rivers by floods and chest-high water filled numerous neighborhoods in the low-lying city. Torrential rain from Harvey hit areas more than 150 miles (240 km) away, swelling rivers upstream and causing a surge that was heading toward the Houston area.

More than 50,000 people were ordered to leave parts of Fort Bend County, about 35 miles (55 km) southwest of Houston, as the Brazos

River was set to crest at a record high of 59 feet (18 m) this week, 14 feet (4.3 m) above its flood stage. Brazos County Judge Robert Hebert told reporters the forecast crest represents a high not seen in at least 800 years.

Steve Bowen, chief meteorologist at reinsurance firm Aon Benfield, said: “What we’re seeing is the most devastating flood event in Houston’s recorded history. We’re seeing levels of rainfall that are unprecedented.”

Total precipitation could reach 50 inches (127 cm) in some coastal areas of Texas by the end of the week, or

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“Water started flooding our house and by last night we were unable to leave,” said Maria Davila, one of about 1,000 people in a makeshift shelter at Houston’s sprawling convention center.U.S. President Donald Trump plans to go to Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the storm, a White House spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Trump, facing the first big U.S. natural disaster since he took office in January, signed a disaster proclama-

tion on Friday, triggering federal relief efforts. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday 54 counties had been declared state disaster areas and he plans to add 1,000 more National Guard personnel to the flood battle.

MASSIVE DAMAGE The Harris County Sheriff’s Office rescued more than 2,000 people in the greater Houston area using vehicles including motorboats, airboats and humvees on Sunday, a spokesman said. The U.S. Coast Guard and Houston police rescued hundreds more as residents brought boats to staging centers to help.

The Gulf is home to almost half of the nation’s refining capacity, and the reduced supply could affect gasoline supplies across the U.S. Southeast and other parts of the country. Shutdowns extended

across the coast, including Exxon Mobil’s Baytown refinery, the second largest U.S. refinery.

Gasoline futures rose as much as 7 percent in early trading on Sunday evening. Heating oil futures, a proxy for distillates like diesel fuel, were up as much as 3 percent, with supplies expected to be curtailed. The outages will limit the availability of U.S. crude, gasoline and other refined products for global consumers and further push up prices, analysts said.

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