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District of Columbia contestant named Miss USA

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People walk past the installation “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” by artist Shu Yong set up ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China May 10, 2017.

LAS VEGAS - A 25-year-old scientist representing the District of Columbia was crowned winner of the Miss USA pageant on Sunday, the second consecutive year that the contestant from the nation’s capital won the annual competition.

Kara McCullough, who holds a degree in chemistry and works at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, triumphed over 50 other contestants, including first runner-up Chhavi Verg, representing New Jersey, to claim victory in the contest which was held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

For her question as one of three finalists, McCullough was asked about healthcare rights, and replied that affordable healthcare was a privilege for people who held jobs.

The response drew some stinging criticism on social media platforms such as Twitter, but also had its defenders.

“Twitter is like a war zone,”

posted one user, referring to opposing reactions to the winner’s remarks.

McCullough also took hits for saying she does not call herself a feminist, preferring “equalism,” before adding “Women, we are just as equal as men, especially in the workplace.”

The pageant’s other finalist, Meridith Gould, represented Minnesota.

McCullough will go on to compete as the U.S. representative at the annual Miss Universe pageant. (rtr)

Beyonce, Bruno Mars lead BET Awards nominations

NEW YORK — Beyonce dominated last year’s BET Awards with “Lemonade,” but there’s more juice in her cup. The pop star is nominated for seven awards at the 2017 BET Awards, the network told The Associated Press on Monday. The show will take place June 25 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Bruno Mars follows Beyonce with five nominations.

Beyonce, who won video of the year with “Formation” last year, is nominated for the top prize again with Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File “Sorry.” Her competition includes her In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Bruno Mars performs sister Solange (“Cranes In the Sky”); at the 59th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Mars’ playful “24K Magic”; Migos’

No. 1 hit “Bad and Boujee”; and Big Sean’s anthemic “Bounce Back.”

Beyonce and Solange — who has four nominations — will go head-tohead for best female R&B/pop artist, along with Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Kehlani. Beyonce’s other nominations include album of the year for “Lemonade,” the viewer’s choice award and video director of the year. She’s nominated twice for best collaboration with the songs “Freedom” (with Kendrick Lamar) and “Shining” (shared with Jay Z and DJ Khaled).

The winners in the 19 categories, including film and sports awards, will be selected by BET’s Voting Academy,

comprised of entertainment professionals and fans.

Mars, whose latest album was inspired by ‘90s R&B, is also nominated for best male R&B/pop artist, album of the year, the viewer’s choice award and video director of the year.

Chance the Rapper, who scored four nominations and won three Grammys this year, will battle Lamar, Drake, J. Cole, Future and Big Sean for best male hip-hop artist. Nicki Minaj will compete with rival Remy Ma for best female hip-hop artist, an award Minaj has won since 2010.

Hip-hop trio Migos also scored four nominations. (ap)

China’s new Silk Road promises trade and riches, with President Xi at helm Announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Silk Road initiative, also known as China’s Belt and Road initiative, aims to invest in infrastructure projects including railways and power grids in central, west and southern Asia, as well as Africa and Europe.

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Projects subsumed under China’s Belt and Road initiative

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Railroad Proposed economic corridors

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Prague Budapest

Usan Angren

Kashgar

CHINA

Gorgan

EGYPT

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Kasese

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Luau

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BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping and 29 other heads building infrastructure and trade of state on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to build an links between Asia, Africa, Europe open economy and ensure free and inclusive trade, under the and beyond.

Some Western diplomats have ambitious Belt and Road initiative led by Beijing.

Reviving the Silk Road

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As a two-day summit on the project in Beijing wound up, the 30 nations also agreed to promote a rules-based, non-discriminatory trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core and to oppose protectionism, according to a joint communique signed by their leaders.

In the communique, China and other nations underlined the importance of expanding trade and investment based on a level playing field.

“It is our hope through the Belt and Road development, we will unleash new economic forces for global growth, build new plat-

forms for global development, and rebalance economic globalisation so mankind will move closer to a community of common destiny,” Xi said at the close of the event.

The inclusive tone of China’s Belt and Road push stands in stark contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, which included the scrapping of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, a regional trade pact involving Pacific Rim countries but excluding China.

Xi on Sunday pledged $124 billion for the new “Silk Road”, which aims to bolster China’s global leadership ambitions by

expressed unease about the initiative, seeing it as an attempt to promote Chinese influence globally. They are also concerned about transparency and access for foreign companies. Germany said its firms were willing to support the Belt and Road initiative, but more transparency was needed.

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Sanglah Hospital anticipates Wanna Cry virus attack

DENPASAR - Sanglah Hospital is taking precautions against malware virus that has attacked two hospital network systems in Indonesia. “We are still making anticipation to prevent it,” said Nining Setyawati, Director of General Affairs and Operations of Sanglah Hospital, on Sunday (May 14).

She admitted that this time her department has made coordination with IT team of Sanglah Hospital.

“Our colleagues are taking overtime here to make the prevention,” she said.

She hoped the malware attack called Wanna Cry virus will not infect the network system of Sanglah Hospital. So far, the Sanglah Hospital has implemented online system for patient registration and hospital management information system to bridge the results of patient investigation such as in laboratory, clinic nurse, microbiology, anatomic pathology and radiology so that it can be directly integrated with the

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Equalization of tourism development, Tabanan focuses on tourism village

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hospital system.

In connection with the prevention of the transmission of Wanna Cry ransomeware virus in the computer network of Sanglah Hospital, on Monday the SIM application of the hospital is not accessible for 30 minutes for several times. It is done to update the SIM server.

On Monday (May 15) at 07:00 until 09:00, all the internet and network accesses will be disabled except for the computer of patient care.

During that period, she urged employees to back up important data on their respective flash disk. “If there is an indication of virus attack on the monitor, please immediately turn off the computer and contact the IT department,” she explained.

She ensured the services to patients will not get disturbed because they do not use the internet, but only use a Local Area Network (LAN). “Computer of patient services will not be disturbed because they do not use internet connection but only use a LAN network,” she added. (kmb42)

Patients wait near a banner informing about the delay in service put up at the registration desks at Dharmais Cancer Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 15, 2017. Dozens of the hospital’s computer were hit by the global “ransomware” cyberattack on Saturday causing disruption to services and making patients had to wait longer while staff had to work with paper records.

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TABANAN - The development of tourist accommodation is currently focused on Badung.

Investors are still eyeing Badung as a strategic location in terms of investment for tourism development, in this case the tourist accommodation like hotel. Construction of hotels more focused on Badung must certainly be reviewed again because many negative things can occur due to population density, environmental damage and the limited source of water.

Deputy Regent of Tabanan, Komang Gede Sanjaya, argued on Friday (May 12) that in terms of tourism development there should be equality in Bali. The equity certainly raises many positive things where one of them is economic equity. “This equity can also suppress the number of congestion occurred all this time,” he said.

Tabanan itself has the potential in terms of building tourist accom-

modation like hotel because it has tourist destinations having been well known to domestic and international travelers. Though having the potential, added Sanjaya, the government will further focus on the development of accommodation by more optimizing the role of society and the importance of environment such as tourism village concept, eco-tourism and environment-based tourism.

Admittedly, investors are still competing to invest in Badung in terms of accommodation development. Nevertheless, Sanjaya continued that Tabanan will not insist on attracting investors to Tabanan to build tourist accommodation.

According to him, the district government prioritized investors that focus on the development of tourism villages and apply environmental tourism. “In essence, Tabanan is more focused on tourism featuring natural charms,” he concluded. (kmb24)

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NASA delays debut launch of $23 billion moon rocket and capsule

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA has delayed the first launch of its heavy-payload rocket until 2019 and decided against an idea floated by the White House to put astronauts aboard the capsule that is set to fly around the moon, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had hoped to launch the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket in November 2018. The rocket will send the deep-space Orion capsule on a high lunar orbit.

The launch is part of NASA’s long-term program to use the rocket to get astronauts and equipment to Mars.

In February, at the behest of President Donald Trump’s administration, NASA began to weigh the implications of adding a two-person crew for the trial flight.

The conclusion of the study was to wait until a second flight before adding a crew, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said.

The research “really reaffirmed that the baseline plan we have in place was the best way for us to go,” he told reporters on a conference call.

Adding systems to support a crew would have cost NASA $600 million to $900 million more and would likely have delayed the flight to 2020, he said.

Even without a crew, the SLS will not be ready to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida un-

til 2019, Lightfoot said, adding that the agency would have a more specific timeframe in about a month.

The delay would push back the rocket’s second flight beyond 2021, said NASA Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier.

The delays are largely due to technical issues encountered during the development of SLS and Orion, as well as tornado damage to the rocket’s manufacturing plant in New Orleans.

By the end of the next fiscal year on September 30, 2018, NASA will have spent $23 billion on the rocket, capsule, launch site and support systems, according to an audit by NASA’s Office of Inspector General.

That excludes $9 billion spent on the mothballed Constellation lunar exploration program, which included initial development of the Orion and a second heavy-lift rocket.

Initially, the SLS rocket, which uses engines left over from the space shuttle program and shuttlederived solid rocket boosters, will have the capacity to put about 77 tons (70 metric tons) into an orbit about 100 miles (160 km) above Earth.

Later versions are expected to carry nearly twice that load.

“We’re really building a system,” Gerstenmaier said. “It is much, much more than one flight.” (rtr)

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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton configuration is seen launching to space in this undated artist’s rendering released August 2, 2014.

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Liquid waste left to flow for two years

MANGUPURA - For almost two years, the waste flowing from drainage channels on Jalan Gelora Samudera in Kuta has not been dealt with. Although the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency has investigated the matter first hand several times, the problem remains unresolved. As seen on Sunday (May 14), the thick white liquid waste was still flowing from the sewer, although it only flows intermittently.

Chairman of LPM Kuta, Gusti Agung Made Agung, is aware of the problem. He has received reports from the public and from travellers enquiring about the problem. If the problem is not dealt with, there is fear that Kuta will become known as an area that does not care about the environment. In addition to polluting the local river, this waste also directly damages the surrounding environment.

Relevant agencies have therefore been asked to fully resolve

the problem as soon as possible.

“We hope the entire drain can be checked so that it can be made clear where the source of the problem is.

Once the drain is closed, we that a written statement will be made”, he urged.

Agung affirmed that sanitation and environmental issues are the main focuses of the LPM Kuta at this time. Therefore related agencies are being asked to work together to support this program.

During the period of working with LPM Kuta, the issue of waste will also be getting attention with frequent checking and maintaining the environment. This is especially important as Kuta is one of Bali’S tourist destination that surely needs to be well preserved.

“Hopefully, the agency will immediate start collecting data.

Whether the agency comes down to the field, we will certainly be present during the cooperative work period” he concluded. (kmb23)

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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is seen during a spacewalk during Expedition 50 aboard the International Space Station.

U.S. spacewalkers overcome glitch on 200th station outing

CAPE CANAVERAL - Two U.S. astronauts overcame an early equipment glitch to complete an abbreviated spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, accomplishing all the major tasks initially planned for a longer excursion in four hours, NASA said.

Station commander Peggy Whitson and rookie flier Jack Fischer began what was expected to be a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk more than an hour late, after a cable supplying power and cooling water to Fischer’s spacesuit developed a leak.

The spacewalk was the 200th outing in support of station assembly and maintenance since construction of the $100 billion laboratory, which flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, began in 1998.

Fischer ended up sharing Whitson’s spacesuit servicing system, which caused both to burn through their spacesuits’ battery power faster than usual. That prompted the U.S. space agency to shorten the outing and assign the astronauts just one task.

The pair breezed through their first priority, replacing a faulty, 200-pound (90 kg) electronics box that routes commands and data to experiments. With time to spare, they then tackled chores slated for the original spacewalk, including installing a cable to troubleshoot a cooling system problem with the station’s $2 billion dark matter detector, mission commentator Rob Navias said.

They also attached a debris shield onto an exposed docking port that is being prepared for commercial space taxis under development

by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, and Boeing Co. It was Fischer’s first spacewalk, and the ninth for Whitson, who last month broke the record for cumulative time in orbit by a U.S. astronaut.

“All of the major work has been accomplished,” Navias said.

“It’s been an highly successful spacewalk in spite of a somewhat uncertain beginning.” (rtr)

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Based on information from the past week, there will be an increase of 12.43 percent in the tariffs for passengers boarding ferries, including the Ketapang- Gilimanuk crossing.

Tariff of KetapangGilimanuk crossing increases 12 percent

NEGARA - The Ministry of Transportation will officially announce the increase in the the tarif for the ferry crossings on 14 routes throughout the archipelago at 00:00 on Monday (May 15).

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The thick white liquid waste was still flowing from the sewer, although it only flows intermittently.

Based on information from the past week, there will be an increase of 12.43 percent in the tariffs for passengers boarding ferries, including the KetapangGilimanuk crossing. There will also be a 11.53 percent increase for vehicles.

These announcements were made during a recent meeting Ketapang Harbor between the river, lake and crossing transportation services (ASDP), Indonesia Ferry (Persero) and the Directorate of ASDP at the Ministry of Transportation and the Association of river, lake and crossing transportation services (GAPASDAP) of Banyuwangi.

The increas from IDR 6,000 to IDR 6,500 for passengers crossing between Ketapang- Gilimanuk is based on the Decision of the Board of Directors of PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) following Minister of Transportation Decree No.30/2017 on Tariff of Crossing Transportation. There will also be an increase in the tariff for children from IDR 4,000 to IDR 4,500 , as well as an 11.53 percent increase for vehicles: class I (push bike) will increase from IDR 7,000 to IDR 7,500 while the tariff for class II (motorcycle under 500 cc) will go up from IDR 22,00 to IDR 24,000.

The tariff for class III (motorcycles over 500 cc) will go up from IDR 34,000 to IDR 37,000. Then, class IV vehicles (length up to 5 meters) consisting of class IV A chiefly for passenger vehicle will have their tariffs increased from IDR 138,000 to IDR 159,000, while class IV B freight vehicles will have their tariffs increase from IDR 124,000 to IDR 141,000.

For class V (length of more than 5 meters to 7 meters) consisting of class V A for passenger vehicle the increase will go from IDR 262,000 to IDR 302,000, while class V B freight vehicles will see an increase from IDR 210,000 to IDR 242,000.

Vehicles with a length of more than 7 meters to 10 meters belonging to class VI consisting of class VI A for passenger vehicle will see an increase from IDR 436,000 to IDR 495,000 and class VI B freight vehicles will see their tariff go from IDR 247,000 to IDR 395,000.

For class VII vehicles (10 - 12 meters long) the increased will be from IDR 458,000 to IDR 505,000, class VIII (length of more than 12 - 16 meters) from IDR 690,000 to IDR 732,000 and finally, for class IX vehicles(length of more than 16 meters) the increase will go from 1,000,000 to IDR 1,045,000.

General Manager of PT. ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) of Ketapang-Gilimanuk Harbor Branch, Elvi Yosa, said that the decision to adjust the tariffs is also based on the Decree of the Board of Directors of PT. ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) No. KD.88./OP.404/ ASDP 2017 dated May 2, 2017.

Yosa explained that various steps ave been taken to inform the public about the adjustments, including printing banners, handing brochures and posting announcement before the new tariffs took effect on Monday (May 15).

The average tariff increase will be about 10.97 for vehicles and an average of 10. 42 for passengers. The smallest increase in of 7.14 percent while the highest is 15. 27 percent.

The tariff increase she said took effect on May 15, 2017 at 00:00 and there has been coordination between all relevant stakeholders such as shipping companies and police authorities has also been ongoing. (kmb)

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Business rampant, order of shrine building at Kalisada sluggish

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SINGARAJA - Shrine craftsmen and other carved buildings at Kalisada village, Seririt, have been frustrated since several years ago. It happens following the sluggish order due to the mushrooming of similar business.

One of the handicrafts requiring high artistic talent can be found at Tegallenga hamlet, Kalisada. The crafts made are not only shrines, but also other Balinese buildings.

One of the craftsmen, Gusti Ketut Partika, said that such craft has existed since tens of years ago. He has been cultivating the craftwork since 1979.

Having run the business for 30 years, the orders received are quite a lot. They do not only come from Buleleng district, but also from other districts, such as Jembrana.

Moreover, for several times there are orders from Jakarta. “Due to being overwhelmed to meet the order, I must reject,” he said on Sunday (May 14).

Such orders do not continue.

Since three years ago, his orders have begun to be flagging. This is triggered by the proliferation of similar businesses in some areas.

Such condition also affected the losses of job to some residents.

“In the past, we even hired some

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Cables and computers are seen inside a data centre at an office in the heart of the financial district in London, Britain May 15, 2017. The ransomware, which has locked up over 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries, has been mainly spread by e-mail, and in China has hit schools and colleges, energy giant PetroChina’s payment systems and local government.

One of the handicrafts requiring high artistic talent can be found at Tegallenga hamlet, Kalisada. carvers, but now I just work it on alone,” he said.

This home business is also often faced with difficulty to fulfill raw

materials. Various types of local wood, one of which is jackfruit wood, begins to be difficult to obtain. Besides, the price is also likely

Foreign instructors dominate diving activities at Amed AMLAPURA - Amed Beach in Abang subdistrict, Karangasem, is known to have a very exotic underwater panorama attracting thousands of foreign travelers every year. However, lately many complaints emerged because diving activities on the beach no longer provide benefits for local residents. The presence of foreign diving instructors or guides has dominated the activities and grabbed most of the money spent by travelers.

Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, I Wayan Astika, said on Sunday (May 14) that he did not dismiss such condition.

Foreign travelers no longer utilize services of local instructors for diving activities undertaken. Astika even claimed to have received an oral complaint from the people seeking luck in the sector. “They said to have a diver community, but why their service is not utilized,” he said.

Ironically, the ‘domination’ by foreign instructors has been going on for a long time. As information in the field, foreign instructors or master divers have been rampant since the past two years. However, so far there have been no concrete measures

from relevant agencies so that the underwater tourism potential can really provide prosperity for local communities.

Astika considered the phenomenon of foreign workers should be addressed.

However, according to him, everything requires a process believed to be unable to be resolved in a short time. The matter of foreign workers should be coordinated with many agencies, not only in Karangasem but also with the immigration office.

Before going further, at the initial stages, the tourism office will make data collection about the existence of the diving instructor community. If the legality has formally qualified and there is indeed a work visa violation by the foreigners.

Astika ensured that his office will take firm action. However, since the foreigners are not subject to regional authority, the prosecution will remain to be coordinated with relevant agencies primarily the immigration office.

“We have a monitoring team. However, the monitoring alone does not resolve the problem. We need to communicate with some components,” he explained. (kmb)

to experience a surge. “We should often wait to get wood materials and the price tends to increase.

We the businessmen do not dare

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to increase the selling price due to worrying if this will increasingly aggravate the condition,” said this skinny man. (kmb45)

After snorkeling at Lembongan, a Chinese traveler dies SEMARAPURA - A Chinese traveler on behalf of Li Guang Sheng, 68, died after a snorkeling activity on the Song Lambung Beach, Lembongan village, Nusa Penida, on Sunday (May 14). It is not clear what caused this elderly traveler to die. There is an allegation if the victim (Li Guang Sheng—Ed) died of heart disease. Before the incident, the victim had fallen and vomited when rushed to Jungutbatu community health center.

Pursuant to field information, before the death, the victim had time to snorkel with four members of his family on the Song Lambung Beach around 09:00. At that time, they were snorkeling under guidance of Gede Sutawan around the local mangrove. After snorkeling around 11:30, the victim then returned to his villa where he was staying with family at Darzan Villa.

The victim walked from Song Lambung Beach to his villa.

However, just after a distance of 225 meters from the beach, the victim suddenly fell down with the knee position

in the concrete pathway. As a result, the victims suffered blisters on the right temple. The people seeing the incident then took the victim to Jungut Batu public health center by a car to get medical assistance. On the way to the health center, the victim experienced vomiting.

After arriving at the local health center, the victim has been declared dead by the doctor on duty.

This incident is confirmed by Chief of Nusa Penida Police, Ketut Suastika.

However, police chief did not know exactly the cause of the victim’s death. There are allegations if the victim died from heart disease. According to the family’s information, the victim carried heart disease medicine. However, the family refused to conduct an autopsy on the victim’s body.

So, the victim was immediately taken to Sanglah Hospital.

“The family refused an autopsy. Just now it has been renting a boat to bring the victim’s body to Denpasar,” said police chief. (kmb)

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Cyber attack hits China government, schools, but spread slows

BEIJING - Chinese local authorities from traffic police to industry regulators were hobbled on Monday by a massive global ransomware attack, but the spread of the WannaCry worm in the country appeared less aggressive than initially feared.

Dozens of local Chinese authorities said they had suspended some of their services due to the attack that has disrupted operations at car factories, hospitals, shops and schools around the world.

However, officials and security firms said the spread was starting to slow in the country, which has the world’s largest number of Internet users.

“The growth rate of infected institutions on Monday has slowed significantly compared to the previous two days,” said Chinese Internet security company Qihoo 360.

“Previous concerns of a widescale infection of domestic institutions did not eventuate.”

Qihoo has previously said the attack had infected close to 30,000

organizations by Saturday evening.

Of that, over 4,000 were educational institutions.

An official from Cybersecurity Administration China (CAC) told local media on Monday that while the ransomware was still spreading and had affected industry and government computer systems, the spread was slowing.

China remained a major source of attack from infected computers, at least during the Asian day, said Michael Gazeley, managing director of Network Box, a Hong Kongbased cybersecurity firm.

At about noon (0400 GMT), nearly 47 percent of attacks on Network Box’s clients came from China. This would change, Gazeley said, as Europe and U.S. computers

are turned on, but it indicated the scale of the problem there.

Chinese government bodies from transport, social security, industry watchdogs and immigration said they had suspended services ranging from processing applications to traffic crime enforcement.

It’s not clear whether the services were suspended due to attacks or for emergency patching to prevent infection. Even then, adding a patch was no simple task, experts said.

“If a system supports some kind critical processes those systems typically are very hard to patch...

We don’t have a precedent from something of this scale (in China),” said Marin Ivezic, a cybersecurity expert at PwC in Hong Kong.

Affected bodies included a social security department in the city of Changsha, the exit-entry bureau in Dalian, a housing fund in Zhuhai and an industry watchdog in Xuzhou. (rtr)

MANILA - A Congressional panel of Philippine lawmakers on Monday found an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte lacked substance and should go no further, a widely expected outcome underlining the maverick leader’s steadfast legislative support.

Committee members unanimously voted to shoot down the complaint by Gary Alejano, a member of a minority block, and will recommend its dismissal by the 292-seat Congress, where Duterte enjoys a super-majority.

Alejano accused Duterte of high crimes and betrayal of public trust by concealing assets, supporting summary executions of thousands of Filipinos in his war on drugs, and having a “defeatist” approach towards Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. The panel’s decision to declare the complaint insufficient in substance came a few hours into proceedings that focused heavily on Alejano’s admission that he had not personally witnessed the drugs-related killings that he was accusing Duterte of sponsoring.

Alejano was furious that the panel was unwilling to hear what he said was extensive evidence from witnesses and survivors of drugs-related violence that would prove “the government is killing them”.

He said the committee made a decision based purely on Duterte’s popularity and would be responsible for a dictatorship taking shape.

“I assure you if we allow the president that kind of power in violation of the constitution ... If we allow it further, it will be a dictatorship,” he told reporters.

“We are sending the message to the president, ‘yes, you continue, we will allow you’.”

Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the junking of the complaint was expected because it was built on falsehoods and intended to “besmirch the reputation” of Duterte.

POPULAR PRESIDENT The early rejection of the complaint demonstrates the challenges faced by opponents in using democratic mechanisms to take on Duterte, who enjoys a public approval rating of 82 percent, and a massive social media support base.

Alejano was aware his bid was a long shot but had aimed to embolden the public to speak up over the war on drugs and over Duterte’s failure to pressure China to abide by an international arbitration ruling last year that declared some of Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea illegal.

Numerous committee members said Alejano’s complaint was deeply flawed. Harry Roque said “at best it’s a misrepresentation, at worst it’s a falsity”.

Deputy house speaker Fredenil Castro said Alejano was using “hearsay” to try to oust a president with a huge electoral mandate. (rtr)

REUTERS/Erik De Castro

Philippine lawmakers stand to affirm the rejection of an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte at the House of Congress in Quezon City, Metro Manila in the Philippines May 15, 2017.

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Puri Anyar Kerambitan

A visit to Tabanan would not be complete without stopping by Puri Anyar in Kerambitan village, located about 28 km from Denpasar and 80 minutes form Ngurah Rai airport. Puri Anyar Kerambitan is the former palace of the Kingdom of Tabanan and was built in the seventeenth century in distinctive Balinese style and the buildings are still well maintained to this day. Puri Anyar Kerambitan houses many heritage objects including several famous paintings. Visitors to Puri Anyar Kerambitan are welcomed with a variety of Balinese art performances such as Tektekan, Joged Bumbung, Andir and Legong Leko and a ‘royal’ banquet-style dinner.

Thus, visitors can feel like royalty in ancient times.

Puri Anyar Kerambitan lies adjacent to Puri Agung Kerambitan which is also a royal heritage of Bali. In typical Balinese royal architecture fashion, Puri Anyar Kerambitan is divided into several areas called palebahan or courtyards.

They include; the Cangem Kodok, Bencingah Puri, Jaba Tengah, Tandakan Puri, Seren Agung and the Pemerajan Agung Puri Anyar Kerambitan located at Baturiti village, Kerambitan subdistrict, Tabanan.(kmb)

UK employers plan smallest pay rises since 2013 - survey

LONDON - British employers plan to increase pay at the weakest rate since 2013, a survey showed on Monday, offering poor prospects for British households already strained by higher inflation since last year’s Brexit vote. Employers on average expected to raise basic pay awards in the year ahead by 1.0 percent, down from 1.5 percent in the previous quarter’s survey, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said.

REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: A souvenir shop sells British themed goods alongside a Spanish flamenco style dress in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, historically claimed by Spain, April 21, 2017.

Last week Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned that households faced a challenging time, as wage growth was set to turn negative in inflationadjusted terms. Rising inflation, fuelled by rising energy costs and the pound’s post Brexit vote plunge, almost completely cancelled out the growth in pay of British workers during the three months to February, official data showed last month.

Living standards are a hot political topic ahead of a June 8 national election. Prime Minister Theresa May will promise on Monday to extend British workers’ rights in a push to win over supporters of the opposition Labour Party. While the BoE’s expectation for solid economic growth in the

next few years hinges on wage growth picking up significantly, the CIPD survey showed no sign that employers are thinking about ratcheting up pay as yet.

Gerwyn Davies, labour market adviser at the CIPD, said weak pay partly reflected British businesses’ long-standing difficulties at raising productivity, and said he expected living standards would fall for many employees this year.

“This could create higher levels of economic insecurity and could have serious implications for consumer spending, which has helped to support economic growth in recent months,” . Other indicators of future wage growth, like the monthly REC survey and the Bank of England’s regional agents’ report, have pointed to a dearth of

upward pressure on pay.

The government capped annual basic pay rises for most public-sector workers at 1 percent in 2013, after a three-year pay freeze.

The CIPD said pay expectations for the private sector held steady at 2.0 percent, but weakened in the voluntary sector and were stuck at 1.0 percent in the public sector. Still, the survey suggested employment will continue to increase in the second quarter, albeit at a slower rate than at the start of this year.

Official monthly labour market data are due on Wednesday.

Economists polled by Reuters expect growth in average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses, held steady at 2.2 percent in the three months to March.(rtr)

GM’s Maven car-sharing service launches in New York

DETROIT — Want to borrow a Cadillac Escalade for your weekend in the Hamptons? Now you can. General Motors Co. launched its Maven car-sharing service in New York on Monday. The service lets members rent a variety of GM vehicles for whatever they need, from a 30-minute errand to a 28day road trip.

Maven will park 80 vehicles around Manhattan. Members — who can join Maven for free — can choose an SUVs like the Escalade or the Chevrolet Equinox or smaller cars like the Chevrolet Cruze. Using Maven’s smartphone app, members can see where vehicles are parked, reserve a time and unlock and start the car when they arrive.

Prices vary by vehicle, but it will cost about $100 to use a Cruze for a full day. Maven takes care of the insurance and leaves a gas card in the car to pay for fill-ups.

For now, Maven members in New York can’t use the cars for gigs like Uber driving or Grubhub food deliveries, since that would require different insurance, said Julia Steyn, GM’s vice president of urban mobility and Maven. But that

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capability will likely come in the future. Maven recently launched a separate service called Maven Gig in San Diego that lets drivers rent cars for side jobs. It also has rental agreements in a handful of cities for Lyft and Uber drivers.

GM isn’t the only automaker experimenting with mobility services. Daimler AG, the parent of Mercedes-Benz, founded car2go in 2008. It’s now operating in 27 cities in North America, Europe and China. BMW AG’s ReachNow car-sharing service is operating in Seattle, New York and Portland, Oregon; it has a larger service, called DriveNow, in Europe.

Toyota Motor Corp. announced a partnership with San Francisco car-sharing service Getaround late last year.

Automakers have to keep up with consumers’ changing wants and mobility needs, the consulting firm McKinsey and Co. said in a report last year. McKinsey estimates that one out of ten new cars sold in 2030 may likely be a shared vehicle, which could reduce sales of private-use vehicles. By 2050, one out of three new cars sold could

potentially be a shared vehicle.

For now, automakers say carsharing services are helping them learn how people use their cars.

For example, Steyn said Maven was surprised when people rented an all-electric Chevrolet Bolt and drove it from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Maven had assumed that people would only use electrics for short trips around town because of concerns about where to charge it.

Maven’s launch in New York is a full-circle moment for the upstart service, Steyn says. About 18 months ago, GM started providing rental vehicles to private apartment buildings in New York. That service grew into Maven, which officially launched a year ago with a small fleet of cars in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Maven now has 35,000 members and more than 530 cars on the road in 13 U.S. cities and Kitchener, Ontario. Until now, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C. have been Maven’s biggest markets, with around 60 vehicles each.

“We are serving the luxury real estate market as well as the gig economy,” Steyn told The Associated Press. “In my mind, that

underscores the breadth of the potential for mobility services and the importance of the role they play.”

Steyn won’t say if Maven is making a profit. Steyn also said it’s too soon to tell if Maven will

persuade users to buy a GM car or truck for themselves. Steyn said 76 percent of Maven drivers are millennials. “We’re not trying to take their names and start monetizing that information,” she said.(ap)

AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File

FILE - This April 27, 2016, file photo, shows the Maven logo on a General Motors car-sharing service automobile, in Ann Arbor, Mich. General Motors Co. launched its Maven car-sharing service in New York on Monday, May 15, 2017. The service lets members rent a variety of GM vehicles for whatever they need, from a 30-minute errand to a 28-day road trip.

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Traffic jam now often happen throughout Denpasar. The increasing number of vehicles is the main reason why this is happening.

Learn About Culture at Blahbatuh Grand Palace

When getting bored with crowded tourist atmosphere, try to make a visit to Blahbatuh Grand Palace in Gianyar. This palace is relatively cool and can give positive aura. This palace poses the house of ancient Blahbatuh king. All materials and design of building are selected from the best quality, unique design and hard to imitate. On entering the royal palace area, visitors will feel different aura and taksu or divine vibration.

The palace is located at Kebon hamlet, Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

Approximately, it is 18 km from Denpasar. Now, the function is preserved as cultural art preservation.

On Saturdays and Sundays or at any given time, the royal palace area is full of children preserving Balinese culture. “We provide space for children to preserve cultural activities,” said Wayan Aksara, Spokesperson of Blahbatuh Grand Palace.

Elementary and junior high school students learn to dance, play gamelan and paint. In a certain time, there are also activities of making ritual paraphernalia.

Participating children coming from various regions are free of charge.

“We bring in coach from the royal palace. We want to preserve the

function of royal palace as the center for art conservation and invite young people to love their ancestral culture,” said Aksara.

Meanwhile, A.A. Kakarsana, one of the descendants of the king of Blahbatuh said that Blahbatuh Royal Palace still preserves all the existing buildings. The location designed pursuant to kosalakosali (Balinese geomancy) is still sustainable. If there is a damaged building, it is repaired in accordance with the original style.

Great, wise and dignified atmosphere can still be felt. Spatial division remains beautiful as it is divided into the outermost, middle and innermost courtyard. Originality of the building architecture remains to be well maintained. Uniquely, there is a carving

motif that cannot be imitated, even though done by a skilled sculptor.

Gunung Rata located in the Rajadani building (king’s room) is still original and no one can imitate it.

All the ornaments contain the philosophy of life. The material of red brick is neatly arranged to form a slash. Because of its sacredness, women who are in their period are not allowed to enter this area, and

this ban is also valid for the members of royal family. A veteran of Vietnam War from America, General Tropel, has seen the architecture four times. “We once asked people to imitate the wall design, but none of them succeeded,” he said.

People entering the palace area must pass the entrance gate with traditional architectural style. It is beautifully decorated with colorful

flower garden posing the native plants to the Island of the Gods.

Likewise, the existing big trees are rare plants that grow sustainably.

“We deliberately plant the rare plants belonging to the ancestors of Balinese people. In addition to preserving, these trees can also spread positive aura,” he said.

Loji, a building to receive guests, is still solid and traditionally embellished. Beside it, there is a set of gamelan instrument commonly played by natural artists from local village. Manual weaving activities are still done by old ladies. However, they are craftsmen living nearby the royal neighborhood.

Two sacred objects in the form of Gajah Mada mask and Ki Tunjung Tutur weapon in the form of big blowpipe and wayang gambuh make this palace become more unique. This palace is also frequented by community leaders, government officials and travelers.

“We remain open for travelers who want to make a visit, but there are still certain rules to be followed,” he concluded. (kmb)

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Merkron? France’s Macron seeks close ties with Germany to shore up EU

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts new French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin on Monday for talks in which they will seek to reinvigorate the Franco-German relationship and the troubled European project that it underpins.

Macron, who was inaugurated on Sunday, will ram home the message that the European Union is resilient despite Britain’s vote to leave and a spate of financial and migration crises that have boosted the far-right across the bloc.

The 39-year-old former investment banker meets Merkel a day after her conservatives won a regional vote in Germany’s most populous state, boosting her quest for a fourth term in office after a national election due on Sept. 24.

With Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, outperforming that of France, the traditional Franco-German motor at the heart of the EU project has begun to misfire. Merkel and Macron want to kick-start ties with an alliance some German media have dubbed “Merkron”.

Merkel said at the weekend she wanted close cooperation with Macron and that their two countries would do everything to shape European policy. But her ruling coalition is at odds over how to respond to his calls for closer EU integration.

“Demands like a euro zone finance minister are really dreams,” European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, a German conservative, said before a meeting of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin.

But he added: “The euro zone must be strengthened. The euro zone needs a more coherent, common approach.”

GERMAN FEARS

Many conservatives around Merkel, fearful the

China’s new Silk Road...

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European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen told Reuters on Monday that EU member states would not be signing ministerial statements connected to the summit, though he downplayed the significance. “The European Commission, who has a mandate, who has the capacity to negotiate on behalf of member states on trade-related issues, we were not given a chance to negotiate on the text,” he said.

“But it’s not an issue. The event, what Chinese authorities have organised here, and the joint understanding of what should be done

euro zone could develop into a “transfer union” in which Germany is asked to pay for struggling states that resist reforms, are sceptical of Macron’s calls for closer integration.

Last week Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) - junior partner in Merkel’s coalition - accused Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble of the CDU of trying to “torpedo” Macron’s EU reform plans for political reasons ahead of Germany’s election in September.

Gabriel was reacting to comments from Schaeuble suggesting that Macron’s idea of creating a budget and finance minister for the euro zone were unrealistic because they would require politically thorny changes to the EU treaty.

Macron, a convinced European integrationist, pledged after taking office on Sunday to restore France’s standing on the world stage, strengthen national self-confidence and heal divisions that the bitterly-fought campaign had opened up. (rtr)

REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneux enter the Elysee Palace during Macron’s inauguration ceremony in Paris, France, May 14, 2017.

and what must be done, is very positive.” Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo said on Sunday Canberra was receptive to exploring commercial opportunities presented by the initiative, but any decisions would remain incumbent on national interest.

India refused to send an official delegation to Beijing, reflecting displeasure with China for developing a $57 billion trade corridor through Pakistan that also crosses the disputed territory of Kashmir.

A spokesman for its foreign ministry also said there were concerns about host countries taking on too much debt to fund Silk Road infrastructure.

Questions for investors in host countries include whether new

infrastructure is useful for the local economy, what the recurring costs are and whether it creates opportunities for local suppliers of materials, labour and finance, Exotix Partners wrote in a note on Monday.

“And ultimately how much political sovereignty is sacrificed, and what is the risk to completion of projects in the event of a disorderly slowdown in the domestic Chinese economy,” said the U.S. investment firm specialising in frontier and illiquid markets.

INCLUSIVE TONE

Earlier on Monday, Xi urged major multilateral institutions to join the Belt and Road initiative, stressing the importance of rejecting protectionism in seeking global

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Heavy gunfire erupts in Ivory Coast’s two main cities

YAMOUSSOUKRO - Heavy gunfire erupted on Monday in Ivory Coast’s two largest cities Abidjan and Bouake, witnesses said, as the military pressed an operation aimed at ending a fourday nationwide army mutiny over bonus payments.

Loyalist troops began advancing towards Bouake, the epicentre of the revolt, on Sunday and sporadic gunfire was heard overnight there as well as at military camps in Abidjan. Shooting in both cities intensified before dawn.

“There was heavy shooting at the northern entrance to the city and in the city centre. It’s calmed a bit but we’re still hearing gunfire,” said one Bouake resident.

Other residents confirmed the shooting.

Heavy shooting was also heard in Daloa, a hub for the western cocoa growing regions. It was not immediately clear what impact the unrest might have on the flow of cocoa supplies.

The soldiers were revolting over delayed bonus payments, promised by the government after an earlier mutiny in January but not fully paid after a collapse in the price of cocoa, Ivory Coast’s main export, caused a revenue crunch.

A spokesman for the mutiny denied that any clashes had occurred in Bouake and said the renegade soldiers were firing in the air to dissuade any advance on the city.

But on Sunday, the group’s leaders rejected the army’s demand that they disarm and surrender.

“We can no longer turn back,” said their spokesman Sergeant Seydou Kone. “We don’t know

what will happen to us, so we just want our money so we can start a new life. But we can’t give up now that we’ve reached this point.”

economic growth. “We need to improve policy coordination and reject beggar-thy-neighbour practices,” Xi told the forum.

Xi, seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was speaking at a convention centre by a lake in northern Beijing on the summit’s second and final day. “We need to seek win-win results through greater openness and cooperation, avoid fragmentation, refrain from setting inhibitive thresholds for cooperation or pursuing exclusive arrangements and reject protectionism,” he said.

Xi said China’s Belt and Road plan would be and open to all.

He said deep-seated problems in global development had yet to be addressed effectively, with international trade and investment slug-

gish, and economic globalisation encountering headwinds.

“In a world of growing interdependency and challenges, no country can tackle the challenges, also the world’s problems, on its own,” Xi said.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni were also at the meeting, as were the heads of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Xi said China would host the second Belt and Road Forum in 2019.

“We have every reason to be confident in the future of the Belt and Road,” Xi said. “That said, there is still a long way to go as the Belt and Road is a long-term undertaking.” (rtr)

DIVIDED SOCIETY

Ivory Coast has been touted as a post-war success story after emerging from a 2002-2011 political crisis as one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

But society remains deeply divided and a wave of mutinies that began earlier this year has exposed the lack of unity in a military assembled from former rebel and loyalist combatants.

The 8,400 mutineers, most of them former rebels who said they were promised bonuses for fighting to bring President Alassane Ouattara to power, received 5 million CFA francs ($8,400) each to end the January uprising.

But the government has struggled to pay remaining bonuses of 7 million CFA francs.

A spokesman for the group said on Thursday they would drop demands for the remaining money, an announcement rejected by many of the soldiers who sparked the current revolt.

An Abidjan resident said mutinying soldiers came out of the West African nation’s largest military camp and erected barricades early on Monday, blocking traffic along one of the main thoroughfares in the east of the city.

Several schools near the camp did not open and the Abidjanbased African Development Bank, which employs several thousand people - many of them international staff - told its employees to stay home. (rtr)

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Even in faraway US, Indonesian seafood enforcer wins acclaim

WASHINGTON — A high school dropout turned seafood entrepreneur is leading Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing, winning plaudits from conservationists and awards as far away as Washington despite her explosive methods. A favorite tactic is seizing foreign fishing vessels and then blowing up the empty boats into smithereens to send a message to her country’s neighbors.

Susi Pudjiastuti, honored this week in Washington for her ecological work, has led the charge in destroying hundreds of fishing vessels in the past two years as the Indonesian government’s minister for maritime affairs and fisheries. Her efforts haven’t eliminated a problem that has plagued the archipelago nation for decades, she said, but they have boosted fish stocks and curbed smuggling.

Catches of anchovies, king prawns and yellow fin tuna are up, helping local fishermen and reducing food prices, Pudjiastuti said.

“What we actually earn also is respect,” Pudjiastuti said in the American capital, where she joined other recipients of the annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards — named for the author of “Jaws.” She was cited for her efforts in protecting Indonesia’s marine ecosystem, and tackling poachers and organized crime.

“They cannot just do anything anymore,” Pudjiastuti added. Whereas 10,000 foreign vessels used to fish in Indonesian waters “like in their own country,” she said the new reality was clear: “Not anymore.”

For China and others in the region, sensitive politics also are at play. Indonesia’s uncompromising approach has irked neighbors whose boats have been caught up in the dragnet for operating in seas plagued by territorial disputes. The campaign may partly reflect Indonesia’s desire to show it is in control of its vast territory of 17,000 islands.

Pudjiastuti, 52, has won popularity at home as the campaign’s leader, defying initial skepticism when she was tapped as minister in 2014. She had no political experience and hadn’t even graduated high school.

But she spent three decades as a seafood entrepreneur and knew the business. She also had run her own charter airline, Susi Air, to distribute and export produce.

On taking office, she quickly declared a fishing moratorium for foreign vessels that had often operated under Indonesian flags.

“The state’s sovereignty has to be upheld,” she declared. And to ram the point home, Indonesian authorities have sunk more than 300 foreign fishing vessels.

In the most recent mass-destruction in early April, Indonesian authorities destroyed

81 empty ships in a single weekend. Most were from Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. In March 2016, a large Nigerian-flagged vessel was caught poaching toothfish and, after being evacuated, blown up with great fanfare. Pudjiastuti posed on the beach afterward with navy officials, their fists raised in the air with the smoking boat behind them.

“The visuals and press that comes from her tough practices on blowing these ships up has really helped educate the world,” said Sally Yozell, director of the environmental security program at Washington’s Stimson Center think tank, speaking of the global scourge of overfishing. She recognized, however, the regional frictions of the campaign, which included several incidents last year of Indonesia firing warning shots and seizing Chinese fishing vessels in waters off its Natuna islands.

Pudjiastuti also acknowledged some tensions. She said she briefed ambassadors of neighboring countries, including China, before the crackdown and sought support.

“Poaching is not a part of good bilateral relations,” she said Friday at the Stimson Center.

Indonesian authorities have another 100

seized fishing vessels waiting to be destroying and they are impounding another dozen or so each week, she said. Few are Chinese fishing vessels, which are bigger, faster and often accompanied by the nation’s coast guard, making it harder to police their activities, she added.

The United States and Australia are providing support to Indonesia, including satellite technology to help surveillance of waters. Indonesia hopes for Japanese technical help, too.

Indonesia isn’t among the half-dozen governments contesting control of reefs and islands in the South China Sea, an emerging Asian flashpoint. But it has reason to be wary of China’s claims. The so-called nine-dash line that Beijing uses to demarcate its expansive territorial claims extends into Indonesia’s internationally-recognized exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, that extends 200 nautical miles off its coast.

Pudjiastuti said she is less concerned over the subtleties over Indonesia’s stance than her diplomat colleagues. “For me it’s more clear.

Once it’s in my EEZ, that’s my fish,” she said.

Her moratorium on foreign fishing vessels ended up playing a pivotal role in The Associated Press’ “Seafood from Slaves”

investigation, which in 2015 helped to free more than 2,000 foreign fishermen enslaved in Indonesia. The AP found their seafood was bound for consumers in the U.S. and other countries, tainting the supply chains of major companies and pet food brands including Wal-Mart, Sysco and Kroger, Fancy Feast and Iams.

The moratorium grounded fishing boats that normally would have been almost constantly at sea, giving AP reporters the opportunity to first speak to enslaved fishermen on the remote Indonesian island of Benjina.

Once the story was published, Pudjiastuti quickly dispatched a task force to Benjina, rescuing hundreds of abused workers mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia.

In a moderate Muslim-majority country, where religious conservatives have growing political clout, Pudjiastuti has defied conventional gender roles. She’s divorced, smokes and has a tattoo. She even inspired a character in one of Japan’s most reputed manga comic books, “Golgo 13.”

In one strip, a woman in a beret and sunglasses had an unmistakable resemblance to Pudjiastuti. She was depicted overseeing the destruction of fishing boats, blown asunder with a “BOOM.” (ap)

AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, Indonesia’s Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti speaks in Washington. Pudjiastuti, a high school dropout turned seafood entrepreneur is leading an Indonesian government crackdown of illegal fishing that has winning plaudits from conservationists despite its explosive methods.

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Pandora Experience

MANGUPURA - Pandora Experience Bali offers fun escape game adventures with its specially designed rooms in Kuta. Designed for teams of 2 to 10 people, you are put into thrilling scenarios where you’ll have to work as a team to solve puzzles, face endless surprises and discover hidden passages in order to escape the room in 2 hours or less. The games are bound to give your brains a good workout and get your adrenaline rushing. The games also serve as a great teambuilding activities, making it ideal for family vacations as well as corporate outings.

Each adventure at Pandora Experience Bali has a specific theme as its premise: you might be running away from Jack the Ripper or trying to escape from Alcatraz. There are 16 different scenarios to choose from altogether. Each game takes place in rooms that have been customised to fit the specific theme, and with meticulous attention to detail.

Pandora Experience prides itself for creating an authentic and immersive experience and combines modern technology and innovative sound design with ambitious set decoration to create as realistic of a setting as possible. (IBP/net)

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Nadal overpowers Thiem to win fifth Madrid title

MADRID - Rafael Nadal consolidated his flying start to the clay-court season by taking a record-extending fifth Madrid Open title on Sunday, battling past a determined Dominic Thiem to win 7-6(10-8) 6-4.

The Spaniard, who snapped a sevenmatch losing streak against Novak Djokovic to win their semi-final on Saturday, was given a much sterner test by Thiem than in last month’s final of the Barcelona Open.

Nadal had easily beaten Thiem 6-4 6-1 in Barcelona but got an early scare when he was broken in Sunday’s third game, soon falling 3-1 behind as the Austrian held.

Nadal broke back to win the sixth game and earned three set points at 5-4 but world number nine Thiem saved each one to eventually hold and force the tie-break.

The pair stayed neck and neck until Thiem lost his nerve and made two unforced errors in a row, gifting Nadal the set.

The 14-times grand-slam winner broke in the opening game of the second set and saved a break point in the next, maintaining a two-game advantage until a thrilling 10th game.

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Bakung Sari. Those coming in from Legian and heading south towards Kartika Plaza also use Kuta Square as a shortcut.

The Matahari Kuta Square shopping mall on the eastern side of the avenue is the largest building in the vicinity. On the western side, the Grand Inna Kuta Beach Hotel divides Kuta Square and Kuta Beach.

The mall features two entrances with the main entry on Kuta Square and a drive-up entrance from Jalan Kartika Plaza.

Designer items such as Armani, Gucci, Versace and Donna Karan New York highlight the street sides with posters and mannequins in glass displays. Local quality brands such as Animale,

Milo’s and Body & Soul can also be found here. Local jewellers such as Suarti and high-end batik outlets also offer unique items to visitors.

Most of the surfing and sport brands line the western side of Kuta Square, with big names like Dreamland Surf, Kuta Lines, Quiksilver, Volcom Stone, Nike, Adidas, Rip Curl and Billabong being the most prevalent.

Restaurants line the eastern side, with the likes of Kentucky Fried Chicken, MacDonald’s, HaagenDazs and others adding to the variety of choices. Dulang Kafe is a great choice of you’re looking for some local and Indonesian dishes.

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The 23-year-old Thiem earned two break points which Nadal saved to move within a point of the title.

Thiem resisted three championship points but Nadal seized the fourth with a drop shot to the back of the court to clinch his third consecutive clay-court crown, after winning in Monte Carlo and Barcelona in April, and the 72nd tournament win of his career.

“The truth is I was up against an opponent who in the next five to 10 years will be fighting for the most important titles so I’m very happy to have won; it was a very exciting game,” Nadal told Television Espanola.

“It was a very important final for both of us -- for him as it was the first in the Masters 1000 and for me it’s always special to play here in Madrid in this unique tournament.

REUTERS/Susana Vera You never know when it might be the last Nadal reacts after posing with ball boys and girls after his match. so I always try to enjoy it.” (rtr)

NASCAR driver Almirola fractures back vertebra in crash

KANSAS - NASCAR Cup Series driver Aric Almirola was released from hospital on Sunday after fracturing a vertebra in a fiery crash Saturday night at Kansas Speedway. The Richard Petty Motorsports driver was airlifted to hospital where he remained overnight for observation.

Almirola was conscious and alert

after the three-car wreck on lap 200 of the Go Bowling 400 race while being put on a backboard after the roof was cut out of his No. 43 Ford.

Joey Logano and Danica Patrick also were involved in the crash that started when Logano experienced a brake problem that sent him into Patrick’s car. Patrick’s car caught fire and was hit by Almirola’s car.

Logano and Patrick climbed from their cars under their own power and were treated and released from the track’s infield care center.

Almirola, though, was cut from his car and placed on a stretcher to be airlifted to the hospital.

Richard Petty Motorsports said in a statement Sunday morning that Almirola suffered a compression

fracture to his T5 vertebra -- located in the middle of the back. He is scheduled to fly to his home in North Carolina on Sunday and his driving status is undetermined.

“Almirola is mobile and will follow-up with his doctors in Charlotte,” the team statement said.

The 33-year-old Almirola, in his sixth full season in the series driving

for Richard Petty Motorsports, is 23rd in the NASCAR Cup standings, 62 points outside the current cutoff for the 16-driver NASCAR playoffs with 17 races left in the regular season.

Almirola has one career win and 10 top-5 finished in 226 career starts, and he won the Xfinity Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on May 6. (rtr)

Aric Almirola (43), Danica Patrick and Joey Logano, back left, crash during the NASCAR Monster Cup auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Saturday, May 13, 2017.

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Monaco routs Lille 4-0 to effectively seal French title

PARIS — Monaco celebrated a century of league goals with the win that all but sealed the French title, beating Lille 4-0 on Sunday to leave Paris Saint-Germain needing a spectacular Monaco collapse in order to defend its title. Monaco leads by three points with a goal difference that is +17 better than that of PSG, and also has a game in hand. PSG needs to win its last match and hope Monaco loses its remaining two games by huge margins.

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Monaco’s Radamel Falcao celebrates after scoring during a League One soccer match between Monaco and Lille, at the Louis II stadium, in Monaco, Sunday, May, 14 2017.

Top scorer Radamel Falcao scored twice and attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva added one to make it 101 league goals and 153 in all competitions for Monaco.

Monaco can officially raise the trophy with a draw at home to Saint-Etienne on Wednesday — hardly a fearsome prospect.

PSG won 5-0 at Saint-Etienne on Sunday, with striker Edinson Cavani scoring twice to reach 35 league goals. Brazilian winger Lucas also got two and Germany winger Julian Draxler completed the scoring late on.

It was a sad farewell to fans for Saint-Etienne coach Christophe Galtier, taking charge of his 359th game and his last one at home before leaving at the end of

the season. The popular Galtier even got a sympathetic hug from PSG left back Maxwell, who set up Cavani’s first goal after just two minutes with a pinpoint cross.

Over at Stade Louis II, Falcao headed in Thomas Lemar’s cross from the left in the sixth minute to reach 20 league goals for the fourth time in his career. Last season, he got just one during a miserable loan spell at Premier League Chelsea. The second goal came on the stroke of halftime.

Bernardo Silva fed forward Kylian Mbappe down the right, and the 18-year-old showed tremendous pace to surge past defender Franck Beria and then return the pass for Silva to thump home. After it went in, Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim — normally a reserved character — jumped off the bench and pumped his fist vigorously as he shuffled along the touchline. Job done — pretty much.

Mbappe turned provider again midway through the second half with a wonderful cushioned pass that Falcao volleyed home for his 30th goal in all competitions, and a late own-goal from defender Junior Alonso completed the rout. “We don’t have the trophy in our hands yet ... We’ll celebrate the title with a great win on Wednesday,” Monaco left back Benjamin Mendy said. “We have a great collective strength, and you can only enjoy yourself when you’re in this team.” (ap)

Kuyt has last laugh as Feyenoord take title

ROTTERDAM - Dirk Kuyt remembers being ridiculed when he returned to an ordinary Feyenoord side two years ago and said they could win the Dutch title. But the veteran forward, who will turn 37 in July, had the last laugh on Sunday when he scored a hat-trick in a 3-1 home win over Heracles Almelo that clinched the championship on the last day of the season.

In a career full of highlights, Kuyt said this title topped the lot. “I knew when I came back two years ago that we could win the championship. And everyone laughed at me when I said so,” Kuyt told reporters as Feyenoord celebrated their first title success since 1999.

“I’ve played in a Champions League final and in a World Cup final and at very popular clubs. But this is the best moment of my career,” added Kuyt, who started out at Feyenoord before signing for Liverpool in 2006 and also played at Fenerbahce.

His goal after 40 seconds on Sunday was his 100th in two spells with the club and settled the nerves for Feyenoord, who had blown a chance a week earlier to take the title when they were stunned 3-0 by

neighbours Excelsior Rotterdam.

Kuyt said he had been determined to restore Feyenoord to their former glory.

The former European Cup winners, one of Dutch football’s biggest clubs alongside Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven, have failed to deliver too often over the last 18 years.

“When Feyenoord were in the top half of the log everyone used to celebrate. When we drew 1-1 with Ajax people were dancing on the table. That shouldn’t happen.

You should only be satisfied when you are winning trophies,” Kuyt said.

Kuyt has not been a regular in recent months despite scoring 31 goals over the last two seasons and only played on Sunday because Tonny Vilhena was suspended.

While there has been speculation he might decide now is the right time to quit, Kuyt was playing his cards close to his chest. “I have a clear picture of my future and so whatever happened in this game was never going to be an influencing factor,” he added. “But I think it is respectful to first speak with the coach and the club before saying anything.” (rtr) Feyenoord’d Dirk Kuyt celebrates his goal with fans.

Malaysia appoint Vingada as new head coach

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia have appointed Nelo Vingada as head coach of their national side, the football association announced on Monday, entrusting the Portuguese with the task of reviving the fortunes of the team languishing at 158th in the FIFA rankings.

The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) did not reveal details of the 64-year-old’s contract but Vingada’s immediate task will be to oversee the 2019 Asian Cup qualification campaign.

Malaysia have appealed against playing their June 8 qualifier against North Korea in Pyongyang over security concerns, so Vingada’s first match in charge may be on Malaysian soil against Lebanon on June 13.

“I wanted the coach to also be a teacher,” FAM president Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim said in a statement announcing the appointment of the coach nicknamed ‘The Professor’.

Vingada replaces Ong Kim Swee, who has been put

in charge of Malaysia’s under-22 squad, and will arrive in Malaysia on May 25 to begin his tenure.

“With his experience and age, we see him as the best coach to guide the national team to success,” the FAM chief added.

“His work with previous national teams -- both youth and senior sides -- and the clubs he has coached speak volumes of his work ethics. We look forward to working with Vingada and, hopefully, enjoy newfound success.”

Vingada has more than 35 years of coaching experience, including stints with K-League side FC Seoul, Iranian powerhouse Persepolis FC and Chinese Super League side Dalian Shide FC, as well as the Saudi Arabia and Jordan national teams.

“It will be an honour to coach the Malaysian national team,” the coach said. “There is a lot of work to be done and I cannot wait to get started.” (rtr)

Lavezzi apologizes to Chinese fans over leaked photo BEIJING — Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi has apologized to his Chinese fans over a photo leaked online in which he pulls back his eyes with his fingers in a gesture widely seen as offensive.

The Hebei China Fortune forward said in a statement on the team’s microblog that he had intended no offense or “any wish to insult the Chinese people” when the picture was taken as part of a pre-season photo shoot.

“I have been extremely happy since coming to China and striving on behalf of Hebei China Fortune,” Lavezzi wrote in the statement published in Chinese and Spanish and dated Sunday. “I sincerely apologize if this photograph caused any offense or misunderstanding to the Chinese public and

football fans as a whole and I will carry this lesson into the future.”

In an accompanying statement, the club said the photo had never been publicly released, displayed or used for promotional purposes.

Lavezzi joined Hebei last year from Paris SaintGermain as one of a clutch of high-priced signings by teams in the Chinese league. Hebei is coached by former Real Madrid and Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini and also features Ivory Coast forward Gervinho.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Spain’s basketball team sparked controversy after the entire team was shown in promotional materials making the slit-eyed gesture. (ap)

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In this March 4, 2016 photo, Hebei China Fortune forward Ezequiel Lavezzi smiles as he plays in a Chinese Super League soccer match against Guangzhou R&F in Guangzhou in southern China’s Guangdong Province.

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Monaco routs Lille 4-0 to effectively seal French title

PARIS — Monaco celebrated a century of league goals with the win that all but sealed the French title, beating Lille 4-0 on Sunday to leave Paris Saint-Germain needing a spectacular Monaco collapse in order to defend its title. Monaco leads by three points with a goal difference that is +17 better than that of PSG, and also has a game in hand. PSG needs to win its last match and hope Monaco loses its remaining two games by huge margins.

AP Photo/Claude Paris

Monaco’s Radamel Falcao celebrates after scoring during a League One soccer match between Monaco and Lille, at the Louis II stadium, in Monaco, Sunday, May, 14 2017.

Top scorer Radamel Falcao scored twice and attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva added one to make it 101 league goals and 153 in all competitions for Monaco.

Monaco can officially raise the trophy with a draw at home to Saint-Etienne on Wednesday — hardly a fearsome prospect.

PSG won 5-0 at Saint-Etienne on Sunday, with striker Edinson Cavani scoring twice to reach 35 league goals. Brazilian winger Lucas also got two and Germany winger Julian Draxler completed the scoring late on.

It was a sad farewell to fans for Saint-Etienne coach Christophe Galtier, taking charge of his 359th game and his last one at home before leaving at the end of

the season. The popular Galtier even got a sympathetic hug from PSG left back Maxwell, who set up Cavani’s first goal after just two minutes with a pinpoint cross.

Over at Stade Louis II, Falcao headed in Thomas Lemar’s cross from the left in the sixth minute to reach 20 league goals for the fourth time in his career. Last season, he got just one during a miserable loan spell at Premier League Chelsea. The second goal came on the stroke of halftime.

Bernardo Silva fed forward Kylian Mbappe down the right, and the 18-year-old showed tremendous pace to surge past defender Franck Beria and then return the pass for Silva to thump home. After it went in, Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim — normally a reserved character — jumped off the bench and pumped his fist vigorously as he shuffled along the touchline. Job done — pretty much.

Mbappe turned provider again midway through the second half with a wonderful cushioned pass that Falcao volleyed home for his 30th goal in all competitions, and a late own-goal from defender Junior Alonso completed the rout. “We don’t have the trophy in our hands yet ... We’ll celebrate the title with a great win on Wednesday,” Monaco left back Benjamin Mendy said. “We have a great collective strength, and you can only enjoy yourself when you’re in this team.” (ap)

Kuyt has last laugh as Feyenoord take title

ROTTERDAM - Dirk Kuyt remembers being ridiculed when he returned to an ordinary Feyenoord side two years ago and said they could win the Dutch title. But the veteran forward, who will turn 37 in July, had the last laugh on Sunday when he scored a hat-trick in a 3-1 home win over Heracles Almelo that clinched the championship on the last day of the season.

In a career full of highlights, Kuyt said this title topped the lot. “I knew when I came back two years ago that we could win the championship. And everyone laughed at me when I said so,” Kuyt told reporters as Feyenoord celebrated their first title success since 1999.

“I’ve played in a Champions League final and in a World Cup final and at very popular clubs. But this is the best moment of my career,” added Kuyt, who started out at Feyenoord before signing for Liverpool in 2006 and also played at Fenerbahce.

His goal after 40 seconds on Sunday was his 100th in two spells with the club and settled the nerves for Feyenoord, who had blown a chance a week earlier to take the title when they were stunned 3-0 by

neighbours Excelsior Rotterdam.

Kuyt said he had been determined to restore Feyenoord to their former glory.

The former European Cup winners, one of Dutch football’s biggest clubs alongside Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven, have failed to deliver too often over the last 18 years.

“When Feyenoord were in the top half of the log everyone used to celebrate. When we drew 1-1 with Ajax people were dancing on the table. That shouldn’t happen.

You should only be satisfied when you are winning trophies,” Kuyt said.

Kuyt has not been a regular in recent months despite scoring 31 goals over the last two seasons and only played on Sunday because Tonny Vilhena was suspended.

While there has been speculation he might decide now is the right time to quit, Kuyt was playing his cards close to his chest. “I have a clear picture of my future and so whatever happened in this game was never going to be an influencing factor,” he added. “But I think it is respectful to first speak with the coach and the club before saying anything.” (rtr) Feyenoord’d Dirk Kuyt celebrates his goal with fans.

Malaysia appoint Vingada as new head coach

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia have appointed Nelo Vingada as head coach of their national side, the football association announced on Monday, entrusting the Portuguese with the task of reviving the fortunes of the team languishing at 158th in the FIFA rankings.

The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) did not reveal details of the 64-year-old’s contract but Vingada’s immediate task will be to oversee the 2019 Asian Cup qualification campaign.

Malaysia have appealed against playing their June 8 qualifier against North Korea in Pyongyang over security concerns, so Vingada’s first match in charge may be on Malaysian soil against Lebanon on June 13.

“I wanted the coach to also be a teacher,” FAM president Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim said in a statement announcing the appointment of the coach nicknamed ‘The Professor’.

Vingada replaces Ong Kim Swee, who has been put

in charge of Malaysia’s under-22 squad, and will arrive in Malaysia on May 25 to begin his tenure.

“With his experience and age, we see him as the best coach to guide the national team to success,” the FAM chief added.

“His work with previous national teams -- both youth and senior sides -- and the clubs he has coached speak volumes of his work ethics. We look forward to working with Vingada and, hopefully, enjoy newfound success.”

Vingada has more than 35 years of coaching experience, including stints with K-League side FC Seoul, Iranian powerhouse Persepolis FC and Chinese Super League side Dalian Shide FC, as well as the Saudi Arabia and Jordan national teams.

“It will be an honour to coach the Malaysian national team,” the coach said. “There is a lot of work to be done and I cannot wait to get started.” (rtr)

Lavezzi apologizes to Chinese fans over leaked photo BEIJING — Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi has apologized to his Chinese fans over a photo leaked online in which he pulls back his eyes with his fingers in a gesture widely seen as offensive.

The Hebei China Fortune forward said in a statement on the team’s microblog that he had intended no offense or “any wish to insult the Chinese people” when the picture was taken as part of a pre-season photo shoot.

“I have been extremely happy since coming to China and striving on behalf of Hebei China Fortune,” Lavezzi wrote in the statement published in Chinese and Spanish and dated Sunday. “I sincerely apologize if this photograph caused any offense or misunderstanding to the Chinese public and

football fans as a whole and I will carry this lesson into the future.”

In an accompanying statement, the club said the photo had never been publicly released, displayed or used for promotional purposes.

Lavezzi joined Hebei last year from Paris SaintGermain as one of a clutch of high-priced signings by teams in the Chinese league. Hebei is coached by former Real Madrid and Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini and also features Ivory Coast forward Gervinho.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Spain’s basketball team sparked controversy after the entire team was shown in promotional materials making the slit-eyed gesture. (ap)

Color China Photo via AP

In this March 4, 2016 photo, Hebei China Fortune forward Ezequiel Lavezzi smiles as he plays in a Chinese Super League soccer match against Guangzhou R&F in Guangzhou in southern China’s Guangdong Province.

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Each adventure at Pandora Experience Bali has a specific theme as its premise: you might be running away from Jack the Ripper or trying to escape from Alcatraz. There are 16 different scenarios to choose from altogether. Each game takes place in rooms that have been customised to fit the specific theme, and with meticulous attention to detail.

Pandora Experience prides itself for creating an authentic and immersive experience and combines modern technology and innovative sound design with ambitious set decoration to create as realistic of a setting as possible. (IBP/net)

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Nadal overpowers Thiem to win fifth Madrid title

MADRID - Rafael Nadal consolidated his flying start to the clay-court season by taking a record-extending fifth Madrid Open title on Sunday, battling past a determined Dominic Thiem to win 7-6(10-8) 6-4.

The Spaniard, who snapped a sevenmatch losing streak against Novak Djokovic to win their semi-final on Saturday, was given a much sterner test by Thiem than in last month’s final of the Barcelona Open.

Nadal had easily beaten Thiem 6-4 6-1 in Barcelona but got an early scare when he was broken in Sunday’s third game, soon falling 3-1 behind as the Austrian held.

Nadal broke back to win the sixth game and earned three set points at 5-4 but world number nine Thiem saved each one to eventually hold and force the tie-break.

The pair stayed neck and neck until Thiem lost his nerve and made two unforced errors in a row, gifting Nadal the set.

The 14-times grand-slam winner broke in the opening game of the second set and saved a break point in the next, maintaining a two-game advantage until a thrilling 10th game.

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Bakung Sari. Those coming in from Legian and heading south towards Kartika Plaza also use Kuta Square as a shortcut.

The Matahari Kuta Square shopping mall on the eastern side of the avenue is the largest building in the vicinity. On the western side, the Grand Inna Kuta Beach Hotel divides Kuta Square and Kuta Beach.

The mall features two entrances with the main entry on Kuta Square and a drive-up entrance from Jalan Kartika Plaza.

Designer items such as Armani, Gucci, Versace and Donna Karan New York highlight the street sides with posters and mannequins in glass displays. Local quality brands such as Animale,

Milo’s and Body & Soul can also be found here. Local jewellers such as Suarti and high-end batik outlets also offer unique items to visitors.

Most of the surfing and sport brands line the western side of Kuta Square, with big names like Dreamland Surf, Kuta Lines, Quiksilver, Volcom Stone, Nike, Adidas, Rip Curl and Billabong being the most prevalent.

Restaurants line the eastern side, with the likes of Kentucky Fried Chicken, MacDonald’s, HaagenDazs and others adding to the variety of choices. Dulang Kafe is a great choice of you’re looking for some local and Indonesian dishes.

(IBP/net)

The 23-year-old Thiem earned two break points which Nadal saved to move within a point of the title.

Thiem resisted three championship points but Nadal seized the fourth with a drop shot to the back of the court to clinch his third consecutive clay-court crown, after winning in Monte Carlo and Barcelona in April, and the 72nd tournament win of his career.

“The truth is I was up against an opponent who in the next five to 10 years will be fighting for the most important titles so I’m very happy to have won; it was a very exciting game,” Nadal told Television Espanola.

“It was a very important final for both of us -- for him as it was the first in the Masters 1000 and for me it’s always special to play here in Madrid in this unique tournament.

REUTERS/Susana Vera You never know when it might be the last Nadal reacts after posing with ball boys and girls after his match. so I always try to enjoy it.” (rtr)

NASCAR driver Almirola fractures back vertebra in crash

KANSAS - NASCAR Cup Series driver Aric Almirola was released from hospital on Sunday after fracturing a vertebra in a fiery crash Saturday night at Kansas Speedway. The Richard Petty Motorsports driver was airlifted to hospital where he remained overnight for observation.

Almirola was conscious and alert

after the three-car wreck on lap 200 of the Go Bowling 400 race while being put on a backboard after the roof was cut out of his No. 43 Ford.

Joey Logano and Danica Patrick also were involved in the crash that started when Logano experienced a brake problem that sent him into Patrick’s car. Patrick’s car caught fire and was hit by Almirola’s car.

Logano and Patrick climbed from their cars under their own power and were treated and released from the track’s infield care center.

Almirola, though, was cut from his car and placed on a stretcher to be airlifted to the hospital.

Richard Petty Motorsports said in a statement Sunday morning that Almirola suffered a compression

fracture to his T5 vertebra -- located in the middle of the back. He is scheduled to fly to his home in North Carolina on Sunday and his driving status is undetermined.

“Almirola is mobile and will follow-up with his doctors in Charlotte,” the team statement said.

The 33-year-old Almirola, in his sixth full season in the series driving

for Richard Petty Motorsports, is 23rd in the NASCAR Cup standings, 62 points outside the current cutoff for the 16-driver NASCAR playoffs with 17 races left in the regular season.

Almirola has one career win and 10 top-5 finished in 226 career starts, and he won the Xfinity Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on May 6. (rtr)

Aric Almirola (43), Danica Patrick and Joey Logano, back left, crash during the NASCAR Monster Cup auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Saturday, May 13, 2017.

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Merkron? France’s Macron seeks close ties with Germany to shore up EU

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts new French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin on Monday for talks in which they will seek to reinvigorate the Franco-German relationship and the troubled European project that it underpins.

Macron, who was inaugurated on Sunday, will ram home the message that the European Union is resilient despite Britain’s vote to leave and a spate of financial and migration crises that have boosted the far-right across the bloc.

The 39-year-old former investment banker meets Merkel a day after her conservatives won a regional vote in Germany’s most populous state, boosting her quest for a fourth term in office after a national election due on Sept. 24.

With Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, outperforming that of France, the traditional Franco-German motor at the heart of the EU project has begun to misfire. Merkel and Macron want to kick-start ties with an alliance some German media have dubbed “Merkron”.

Merkel said at the weekend she wanted close cooperation with Macron and that their two countries would do everything to shape European policy. But her ruling coalition is at odds over how to respond to his calls for closer EU integration.

“Demands like a euro zone finance minister are really dreams,” European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, a German conservative, said before a meeting of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin.

But he added: “The euro zone must be strengthened. The euro zone needs a more coherent, common approach.”

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European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen told Reuters on Monday that EU member states would not be signing ministerial statements connected to the summit, though he downplayed the significance. “The European Commission, who has a mandate, who has the capacity to negotiate on behalf of member states on trade-related issues, we were not given a chance to negotiate on the text,” he said.

“But it’s not an issue. The event, what Chinese authorities have organised here, and the joint understanding of what should be done

euro zone could develop into a “transfer union” in which Germany is asked to pay for struggling states that resist reforms, are sceptical of Macron’s calls for closer integration.

Last week Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) - junior partner in Merkel’s coalition - accused Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble of the CDU of trying to “torpedo” Macron’s EU reform plans for political reasons ahead of Germany’s election in September.

Gabriel was reacting to comments from Schaeuble suggesting that Macron’s idea of creating a budget and finance minister for the euro zone were unrealistic because they would require politically thorny changes to the EU treaty.

Macron, a convinced European integrationist, pledged after taking office on Sunday to restore France’s standing on the world stage, strengthen national self-confidence and heal divisions that the bitterly-fought campaign had opened up. (rtr)

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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneux enter the Elysee Palace during Macron’s inauguration ceremony in Paris, France, May 14, 2017.

and what must be done, is very positive.” Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo said on Sunday Canberra was receptive to exploring commercial opportunities presented by the initiative, but any decisions would remain incumbent on national interest.

India refused to send an official delegation to Beijing, reflecting displeasure with China for developing a $57 billion trade corridor through Pakistan that also crosses the disputed territory of Kashmir.

A spokesman for its foreign ministry also said there were concerns about host countries taking on too much debt to fund Silk Road infrastructure.

Questions for investors in host countries include whether new

infrastructure is useful for the local economy, what the recurring costs are and whether it creates opportunities for local suppliers of materials, labour and finance, Exotix Partners wrote in a note on Monday.

“And ultimately how much political sovereignty is sacrificed, and what is the risk to completion of projects in the event of a disorderly slowdown in the domestic Chinese economy,” said the U.S. investment firm specialising in frontier and illiquid markets.

INCLUSIVE TONE

Earlier on Monday, Xi urged major multilateral institutions to join the Belt and Road initiative, stressing the importance of rejecting protectionism in seeking global

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Heavy gunfire erupts in Ivory Coast’s two main cities

YAMOUSSOUKRO - Heavy gunfire erupted on Monday in Ivory Coast’s two largest cities Abidjan and Bouake, witnesses said, as the military pressed an operation aimed at ending a fourday nationwide army mutiny over bonus payments.

Loyalist troops began advancing towards Bouake, the epicentre of the revolt, on Sunday and sporadic gunfire was heard overnight there as well as at military camps in Abidjan. Shooting in both cities intensified before dawn.

“There was heavy shooting at the northern entrance to the city and in the city centre. It’s calmed a bit but we’re still hearing gunfire,” said one Bouake resident.

Other residents confirmed the shooting.

Heavy shooting was also heard in Daloa, a hub for the western cocoa growing regions. It was not immediately clear what impact the unrest might have on the flow of cocoa supplies.

The soldiers were revolting over delayed bonus payments, promised by the government after an earlier mutiny in January but not fully paid after a collapse in the price of cocoa, Ivory Coast’s main export, caused a revenue crunch.

A spokesman for the mutiny denied that any clashes had occurred in Bouake and said the renegade soldiers were firing in the air to dissuade any advance on the city.

But on Sunday, the group’s leaders rejected the army’s demand that they disarm and surrender.

“We can no longer turn back,” said their spokesman Sergeant Seydou Kone. “We don’t know

what will happen to us, so we just want our money so we can start a new life. But we can’t give up now that we’ve reached this point.”

economic growth. “We need to improve policy coordination and reject beggar-thy-neighbour practices,” Xi told the forum.

Xi, seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was speaking at a convention centre by a lake in northern Beijing on the summit’s second and final day. “We need to seek win-win results through greater openness and cooperation, avoid fragmentation, refrain from setting inhibitive thresholds for cooperation or pursuing exclusive arrangements and reject protectionism,” he said.

Xi said China’s Belt and Road plan would be and open to all.

He said deep-seated problems in global development had yet to be addressed effectively, with international trade and investment slug-

gish, and economic globalisation encountering headwinds.

“In a world of growing interdependency and challenges, no country can tackle the challenges, also the world’s problems, on its own,” Xi said.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni were also at the meeting, as were the heads of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Xi said China would host the second Belt and Road Forum in 2019.

“We have every reason to be confident in the future of the Belt and Road,” Xi said. “That said, there is still a long way to go as the Belt and Road is a long-term undertaking.” (rtr)

DIVIDED SOCIETY

Ivory Coast has been touted as a post-war success story after emerging from a 2002-2011 political crisis as one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

But society remains deeply divided and a wave of mutinies that began earlier this year has exposed the lack of unity in a military assembled from former rebel and loyalist combatants.

The 8,400 mutineers, most of them former rebels who said they were promised bonuses for fighting to bring President Alassane Ouattara to power, received 5 million CFA francs ($8,400) each to end the January uprising.

But the government has struggled to pay remaining bonuses of 7 million CFA francs.

A spokesman for the group said on Thursday they would drop demands for the remaining money, an announcement rejected by many of the soldiers who sparked the current revolt.

An Abidjan resident said mutinying soldiers came out of the West African nation’s largest military camp and erected barricades early on Monday, blocking traffic along one of the main thoroughfares in the east of the city.

Several schools near the camp did not open and the Abidjanbased African Development Bank, which employs several thousand people - many of them international staff - told its employees to stay home. (rtr)

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Even in faraway US, Indonesian seafood enforcer wins acclaim

WASHINGTON — A high school dropout turned seafood entrepreneur is leading Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing, winning plaudits from conservationists and awards as far away as Washington despite her explosive methods. A favorite tactic is seizing foreign fishing vessels and then blowing up the empty boats into smithereens to send a message to her country’s neighbors.

Susi Pudjiastuti, honored this week in Washington for her ecological work, has led the charge in destroying hundreds of fishing vessels in the past two years as the Indonesian government’s minister for maritime affairs and fisheries. Her efforts haven’t eliminated a problem that has plagued the archipelago nation for decades, she said, but they have boosted fish stocks and curbed smuggling.

Catches of anchovies, king prawns and yellow fin tuna are up, helping local fishermen and reducing food prices, Pudjiastuti said.

“What we actually earn also is respect,” Pudjiastuti said in the American capital, where she joined other recipients of the annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards — named for the author of “Jaws.” She was cited for her efforts in protecting Indonesia’s marine ecosystem, and tackling poachers and organized crime.

“They cannot just do anything anymore,” Pudjiastuti added. Whereas 10,000 foreign vessels used to fish in Indonesian waters “like in their own country,” she said the new reality was clear: “Not anymore.”

For China and others in the region, sensitive politics also are at play. Indonesia’s uncompromising approach has irked neighbors whose boats have been caught up in the dragnet for operating in seas plagued by territorial disputes. The campaign may partly reflect Indonesia’s desire to show it is in control of its vast territory of 17,000 islands.

Pudjiastuti, 52, has won popularity at home as the campaign’s leader, defying initial skepticism when she was tapped as minister in 2014. She had no political experience and hadn’t even graduated high school.

But she spent three decades as a seafood entrepreneur and knew the business. She also had run her own charter airline, Susi Air, to distribute and export produce.

On taking office, she quickly declared a fishing moratorium for foreign vessels that had often operated under Indonesian flags.

“The state’s sovereignty has to be upheld,” she declared. And to ram the point home, Indonesian authorities have sunk more than 300 foreign fishing vessels.

In the most recent mass-destruction in early April, Indonesian authorities destroyed

81 empty ships in a single weekend. Most were from Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. In March 2016, a large Nigerian-flagged vessel was caught poaching toothfish and, after being evacuated, blown up with great fanfare. Pudjiastuti posed on the beach afterward with navy officials, their fists raised in the air with the smoking boat behind them.

“The visuals and press that comes from her tough practices on blowing these ships up has really helped educate the world,” said Sally Yozell, director of the environmental security program at Washington’s Stimson Center think tank, speaking of the global scourge of overfishing. She recognized, however, the regional frictions of the campaign, which included several incidents last year of Indonesia firing warning shots and seizing Chinese fishing vessels in waters off its Natuna islands.

Pudjiastuti also acknowledged some tensions. She said she briefed ambassadors of neighboring countries, including China, before the crackdown and sought support.

“Poaching is not a part of good bilateral relations,” she said Friday at the Stimson Center.

Indonesian authorities have another 100

seized fishing vessels waiting to be destroying and they are impounding another dozen or so each week, she said. Few are Chinese fishing vessels, which are bigger, faster and often accompanied by the nation’s coast guard, making it harder to police their activities, she added.

The United States and Australia are providing support to Indonesia, including satellite technology to help surveillance of waters. Indonesia hopes for Japanese technical help, too.

Indonesia isn’t among the half-dozen governments contesting control of reefs and islands in the South China Sea, an emerging Asian flashpoint. But it has reason to be wary of China’s claims. The so-called nine-dash line that Beijing uses to demarcate its expansive territorial claims extends into Indonesia’s internationally-recognized exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, that extends 200 nautical miles off its coast.

Pudjiastuti said she is less concerned over the subtleties over Indonesia’s stance than her diplomat colleagues. “For me it’s more clear.

Once it’s in my EEZ, that’s my fish,” she said.

Her moratorium on foreign fishing vessels ended up playing a pivotal role in The Associated Press’ “Seafood from Slaves”

investigation, which in 2015 helped to free more than 2,000 foreign fishermen enslaved in Indonesia. The AP found their seafood was bound for consumers in the U.S. and other countries, tainting the supply chains of major companies and pet food brands including Wal-Mart, Sysco and Kroger, Fancy Feast and Iams.

The moratorium grounded fishing boats that normally would have been almost constantly at sea, giving AP reporters the opportunity to first speak to enslaved fishermen on the remote Indonesian island of Benjina.

Once the story was published, Pudjiastuti quickly dispatched a task force to Benjina, rescuing hundreds of abused workers mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia.

In a moderate Muslim-majority country, where religious conservatives have growing political clout, Pudjiastuti has defied conventional gender roles. She’s divorced, smokes and has a tattoo. She even inspired a character in one of Japan’s most reputed manga comic books, “Golgo 13.”

In one strip, a woman in a beret and sunglasses had an unmistakable resemblance to Pudjiastuti. She was depicted overseeing the destruction of fishing boats, blown asunder with a “BOOM.” (ap)

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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, Indonesia’s Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti speaks in Washington. Pudjiastuti, a high school dropout turned seafood entrepreneur is leading an Indonesian government crackdown of illegal fishing that has winning plaudits from conservationists despite its explosive methods.

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Puri Anyar Kerambitan

A visit to Tabanan would not be complete without stopping by Puri Anyar in Kerambitan village, located about 28 km from Denpasar and 80 minutes form Ngurah Rai airport. Puri Anyar Kerambitan is the former palace of the Kingdom of Tabanan and was built in the seventeenth century in distinctive Balinese style and the buildings are still well maintained to this day. Puri Anyar Kerambitan houses many heritage objects including several famous paintings. Visitors to Puri Anyar Kerambitan are welcomed with a variety of Balinese art performances such as Tektekan, Joged Bumbung, Andir and Legong Leko and a ‘royal’ banquet-style dinner.

Thus, visitors can feel like royalty in ancient times.

Puri Anyar Kerambitan lies adjacent to Puri Agung Kerambitan which is also a royal heritage of Bali. In typical Balinese royal architecture fashion, Puri Anyar Kerambitan is divided into several areas called palebahan or courtyards.

They include; the Cangem Kodok, Bencingah Puri, Jaba Tengah, Tandakan Puri, Seren Agung and the Pemerajan Agung Puri Anyar Kerambitan located at Baturiti village, Kerambitan subdistrict, Tabanan.(kmb)

UK employers plan smallest pay rises since 2013 - survey

LONDON - British employers plan to increase pay at the weakest rate since 2013, a survey showed on Monday, offering poor prospects for British households already strained by higher inflation since last year’s Brexit vote. Employers on average expected to raise basic pay awards in the year ahead by 1.0 percent, down from 1.5 percent in the previous quarter’s survey, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said.

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FILE PHOTO: A souvenir shop sells British themed goods alongside a Spanish flamenco style dress in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, historically claimed by Spain, April 21, 2017.

Last week Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned that households faced a challenging time, as wage growth was set to turn negative in inflationadjusted terms. Rising inflation, fuelled by rising energy costs and the pound’s post Brexit vote plunge, almost completely cancelled out the growth in pay of British workers during the three months to February, official data showed last month.

Living standards are a hot political topic ahead of a June 8 national election. Prime Minister Theresa May will promise on Monday to extend British workers’ rights in a push to win over supporters of the opposition Labour Party. While the BoE’s expectation for solid economic growth in the

next few years hinges on wage growth picking up significantly, the CIPD survey showed no sign that employers are thinking about ratcheting up pay as yet.

Gerwyn Davies, labour market adviser at the CIPD, said weak pay partly reflected British businesses’ long-standing difficulties at raising productivity, and said he expected living standards would fall for many employees this year.

“This could create higher levels of economic insecurity and could have serious implications for consumer spending, which has helped to support economic growth in recent months,” . Other indicators of future wage growth, like the monthly REC survey and the Bank of England’s regional agents’ report, have pointed to a dearth of

upward pressure on pay.

The government capped annual basic pay rises for most public-sector workers at 1 percent in 2013, after a three-year pay freeze.

The CIPD said pay expectations for the private sector held steady at 2.0 percent, but weakened in the voluntary sector and were stuck at 1.0 percent in the public sector. Still, the survey suggested employment will continue to increase in the second quarter, albeit at a slower rate than at the start of this year.

Official monthly labour market data are due on Wednesday.

Economists polled by Reuters expect growth in average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses, held steady at 2.2 percent in the three months to March.(rtr)

GM’s Maven car-sharing service launches in New York

DETROIT — Want to borrow a Cadillac Escalade for your weekend in the Hamptons? Now you can. General Motors Co. launched its Maven car-sharing service in New York on Monday. The service lets members rent a variety of GM vehicles for whatever they need, from a 30-minute errand to a 28day road trip.

Maven will park 80 vehicles around Manhattan. Members — who can join Maven for free — can choose an SUVs like the Escalade or the Chevrolet Equinox or smaller cars like the Chevrolet Cruze. Using Maven’s smartphone app, members can see where vehicles are parked, reserve a time and unlock and start the car when they arrive.

Prices vary by vehicle, but it will cost about $100 to use a Cruze for a full day. Maven takes care of the insurance and leaves a gas card in the car to pay for fill-ups.

For now, Maven members in New York can’t use the cars for gigs like Uber driving or Grubhub food deliveries, since that would require different insurance, said Julia Steyn, GM’s vice president of urban mobility and Maven. But that

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capability will likely come in the future. Maven recently launched a separate service called Maven Gig in San Diego that lets drivers rent cars for side jobs. It also has rental agreements in a handful of cities for Lyft and Uber drivers.

GM isn’t the only automaker experimenting with mobility services. Daimler AG, the parent of Mercedes-Benz, founded car2go in 2008. It’s now operating in 27 cities in North America, Europe and China. BMW AG’s ReachNow car-sharing service is operating in Seattle, New York and Portland, Oregon; it has a larger service, called DriveNow, in Europe.

Toyota Motor Corp. announced a partnership with San Francisco car-sharing service Getaround late last year.

Automakers have to keep up with consumers’ changing wants and mobility needs, the consulting firm McKinsey and Co. said in a report last year. McKinsey estimates that one out of ten new cars sold in 2030 may likely be a shared vehicle, which could reduce sales of private-use vehicles. By 2050, one out of three new cars sold could

potentially be a shared vehicle.

For now, automakers say carsharing services are helping them learn how people use their cars.

For example, Steyn said Maven was surprised when people rented an all-electric Chevrolet Bolt and drove it from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Maven had assumed that people would only use electrics for short trips around town because of concerns about where to charge it.

Maven’s launch in New York is a full-circle moment for the upstart service, Steyn says. About 18 months ago, GM started providing rental vehicles to private apartment buildings in New York. That service grew into Maven, which officially launched a year ago with a small fleet of cars in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Maven now has 35,000 members and more than 530 cars on the road in 13 U.S. cities and Kitchener, Ontario. Until now, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C. have been Maven’s biggest markets, with around 60 vehicles each.

“We are serving the luxury real estate market as well as the gig economy,” Steyn told The Associated Press. “In my mind, that

underscores the breadth of the potential for mobility services and the importance of the role they play.”

Steyn won’t say if Maven is making a profit. Steyn also said it’s too soon to tell if Maven will

persuade users to buy a GM car or truck for themselves. Steyn said 76 percent of Maven drivers are millennials. “We’re not trying to take their names and start monetizing that information,” she said.(ap)

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FILE - This April 27, 2016, file photo, shows the Maven logo on a General Motors car-sharing service automobile, in Ann Arbor, Mich. General Motors Co. launched its Maven car-sharing service in New York on Monday, May 15, 2017. The service lets members rent a variety of GM vehicles for whatever they need, from a 30-minute errand to a 28-day road trip.

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Traffic jam now often happen throughout Denpasar. The increasing number of vehicles is the main reason why this is happening.

Learn About Culture at Blahbatuh Grand Palace

When getting bored with crowded tourist atmosphere, try to make a visit to Blahbatuh Grand Palace in Gianyar. This palace is relatively cool and can give positive aura. This palace poses the house of ancient Blahbatuh king. All materials and design of building are selected from the best quality, unique design and hard to imitate. On entering the royal palace area, visitors will feel different aura and taksu or divine vibration.

The palace is located at Kebon hamlet, Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

Approximately, it is 18 km from Denpasar. Now, the function is preserved as cultural art preservation.

On Saturdays and Sundays or at any given time, the royal palace area is full of children preserving Balinese culture. “We provide space for children to preserve cultural activities,” said Wayan Aksara, Spokesperson of Blahbatuh Grand Palace.

Elementary and junior high school students learn to dance, play gamelan and paint. In a certain time, there are also activities of making ritual paraphernalia.

Participating children coming from various regions are free of charge.

“We bring in coach from the royal palace. We want to preserve the

function of royal palace as the center for art conservation and invite young people to love their ancestral culture,” said Aksara.

Meanwhile, A.A. Kakarsana, one of the descendants of the king of Blahbatuh said that Blahbatuh Royal Palace still preserves all the existing buildings. The location designed pursuant to kosalakosali (Balinese geomancy) is still sustainable. If there is a damaged building, it is repaired in accordance with the original style.

Great, wise and dignified atmosphere can still be felt. Spatial division remains beautiful as it is divided into the outermost, middle and innermost courtyard. Originality of the building architecture remains to be well maintained. Uniquely, there is a carving

motif that cannot be imitated, even though done by a skilled sculptor.

Gunung Rata located in the Rajadani building (king’s room) is still original and no one can imitate it.

All the ornaments contain the philosophy of life. The material of red brick is neatly arranged to form a slash. Because of its sacredness, women who are in their period are not allowed to enter this area, and

this ban is also valid for the members of royal family. A veteran of Vietnam War from America, General Tropel, has seen the architecture four times. “We once asked people to imitate the wall design, but none of them succeeded,” he said.

People entering the palace area must pass the entrance gate with traditional architectural style. It is beautifully decorated with colorful

flower garden posing the native plants to the Island of the Gods.

Likewise, the existing big trees are rare plants that grow sustainably.

“We deliberately plant the rare plants belonging to the ancestors of Balinese people. In addition to preserving, these trees can also spread positive aura,” he said.

Loji, a building to receive guests, is still solid and traditionally embellished. Beside it, there is a set of gamelan instrument commonly played by natural artists from local village. Manual weaving activities are still done by old ladies. However, they are craftsmen living nearby the royal neighborhood.

Two sacred objects in the form of Gajah Mada mask and Ki Tunjung Tutur weapon in the form of big blowpipe and wayang gambuh make this palace become more unique. This palace is also frequented by community leaders, government officials and travelers.

“We remain open for travelers who want to make a visit, but there are still certain rules to be followed,” he concluded. (kmb)

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Business rampant, order of shrine building at Kalisada sluggish

Philippine panel throws out impeachment complaint vs Duterte

SINGARAJA - Shrine craftsmen and other carved buildings at Kalisada village, Seririt, have been frustrated since several years ago. It happens following the sluggish order due to the mushrooming of similar business.

One of the handicrafts requiring high artistic talent can be found at Tegallenga hamlet, Kalisada. The crafts made are not only shrines, but also other Balinese buildings.

One of the craftsmen, Gusti Ketut Partika, said that such craft has existed since tens of years ago. He has been cultivating the craftwork since 1979.

Having run the business for 30 years, the orders received are quite a lot. They do not only come from Buleleng district, but also from other districts, such as Jembrana.

Moreover, for several times there are orders from Jakarta. “Due to being overwhelmed to meet the order, I must reject,” he said on Sunday (May 14).

Such orders do not continue.

Since three years ago, his orders have begun to be flagging. This is triggered by the proliferation of similar businesses in some areas.

Such condition also affected the losses of job to some residents.

“In the past, we even hired some

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Cables and computers are seen inside a data centre at an office in the heart of the financial district in London, Britain May 15, 2017. The ransomware, which has locked up over 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries, has been mainly spread by e-mail, and in China has hit schools and colleges, energy giant PetroChina’s payment systems and local government.

One of the handicrafts requiring high artistic talent can be found at Tegallenga hamlet, Kalisada. carvers, but now I just work it on alone,” he said.

This home business is also often faced with difficulty to fulfill raw

materials. Various types of local wood, one of which is jackfruit wood, begins to be difficult to obtain. Besides, the price is also likely

Foreign instructors dominate diving activities at Amed AMLAPURA - Amed Beach in Abang subdistrict, Karangasem, is known to have a very exotic underwater panorama attracting thousands of foreign travelers every year. However, lately many complaints emerged because diving activities on the beach no longer provide benefits for local residents. The presence of foreign diving instructors or guides has dominated the activities and grabbed most of the money spent by travelers.

Head of the Karangasem Tourism Office, I Wayan Astika, said on Sunday (May 14) that he did not dismiss such condition.

Foreign travelers no longer utilize services of local instructors for diving activities undertaken. Astika even claimed to have received an oral complaint from the people seeking luck in the sector. “They said to have a diver community, but why their service is not utilized,” he said.

Ironically, the ‘domination’ by foreign instructors has been going on for a long time. As information in the field, foreign instructors or master divers have been rampant since the past two years. However, so far there have been no concrete measures

from relevant agencies so that the underwater tourism potential can really provide prosperity for local communities.

Astika considered the phenomenon of foreign workers should be addressed.

However, according to him, everything requires a process believed to be unable to be resolved in a short time. The matter of foreign workers should be coordinated with many agencies, not only in Karangasem but also with the immigration office.

Before going further, at the initial stages, the tourism office will make data collection about the existence of the diving instructor community. If the legality has formally qualified and there is indeed a work visa violation by the foreigners.

Astika ensured that his office will take firm action. However, since the foreigners are not subject to regional authority, the prosecution will remain to be coordinated with relevant agencies primarily the immigration office.

“We have a monitoring team. However, the monitoring alone does not resolve the problem. We need to communicate with some components,” he explained. (kmb)

to experience a surge. “We should often wait to get wood materials and the price tends to increase.

We the businessmen do not dare

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to increase the selling price due to worrying if this will increasingly aggravate the condition,” said this skinny man. (kmb45)

After snorkeling at Lembongan, a Chinese traveler dies SEMARAPURA - A Chinese traveler on behalf of Li Guang Sheng, 68, died after a snorkeling activity on the Song Lambung Beach, Lembongan village, Nusa Penida, on Sunday (May 14). It is not clear what caused this elderly traveler to die. There is an allegation if the victim (Li Guang Sheng—Ed) died of heart disease. Before the incident, the victim had fallen and vomited when rushed to Jungutbatu community health center.

Pursuant to field information, before the death, the victim had time to snorkel with four members of his family on the Song Lambung Beach around 09:00. At that time, they were snorkeling under guidance of Gede Sutawan around the local mangrove. After snorkeling around 11:30, the victim then returned to his villa where he was staying with family at Darzan Villa.

The victim walked from Song Lambung Beach to his villa.

However, just after a distance of 225 meters from the beach, the victim suddenly fell down with the knee position

in the concrete pathway. As a result, the victims suffered blisters on the right temple. The people seeing the incident then took the victim to Jungut Batu public health center by a car to get medical assistance. On the way to the health center, the victim experienced vomiting.

After arriving at the local health center, the victim has been declared dead by the doctor on duty.

This incident is confirmed by Chief of Nusa Penida Police, Ketut Suastika.

However, police chief did not know exactly the cause of the victim’s death. There are allegations if the victim died from heart disease. According to the family’s information, the victim carried heart disease medicine. However, the family refused to conduct an autopsy on the victim’s body.

So, the victim was immediately taken to Sanglah Hospital.

“The family refused an autopsy. Just now it has been renting a boat to bring the victim’s body to Denpasar,” said police chief. (kmb)

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Cyber attack hits China government, schools, but spread slows

BEIJING - Chinese local authorities from traffic police to industry regulators were hobbled on Monday by a massive global ransomware attack, but the spread of the WannaCry worm in the country appeared less aggressive than initially feared.

Dozens of local Chinese authorities said they had suspended some of their services due to the attack that has disrupted operations at car factories, hospitals, shops and schools around the world.

However, officials and security firms said the spread was starting to slow in the country, which has the world’s largest number of Internet users.

“The growth rate of infected institutions on Monday has slowed significantly compared to the previous two days,” said Chinese Internet security company Qihoo 360.

“Previous concerns of a widescale infection of domestic institutions did not eventuate.”

Qihoo has previously said the attack had infected close to 30,000

organizations by Saturday evening.

Of that, over 4,000 were educational institutions.

An official from Cybersecurity Administration China (CAC) told local media on Monday that while the ransomware was still spreading and had affected industry and government computer systems, the spread was slowing.

China remained a major source of attack from infected computers, at least during the Asian day, said Michael Gazeley, managing director of Network Box, a Hong Kongbased cybersecurity firm.

At about noon (0400 GMT), nearly 47 percent of attacks on Network Box’s clients came from China. This would change, Gazeley said, as Europe and U.S. computers

are turned on, but it indicated the scale of the problem there.

Chinese government bodies from transport, social security, industry watchdogs and immigration said they had suspended services ranging from processing applications to traffic crime enforcement.

It’s not clear whether the services were suspended due to attacks or for emergency patching to prevent infection. Even then, adding a patch was no simple task, experts said.

“If a system supports some kind critical processes those systems typically are very hard to patch...

We don’t have a precedent from something of this scale (in China),” said Marin Ivezic, a cybersecurity expert at PwC in Hong Kong.

Affected bodies included a social security department in the city of Changsha, the exit-entry bureau in Dalian, a housing fund in Zhuhai and an industry watchdog in Xuzhou. (rtr)

MANILA - A Congressional panel of Philippine lawmakers on Monday found an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte lacked substance and should go no further, a widely expected outcome underlining the maverick leader’s steadfast legislative support.

Committee members unanimously voted to shoot down the complaint by Gary Alejano, a member of a minority block, and will recommend its dismissal by the 292-seat Congress, where Duterte enjoys a super-majority.

Alejano accused Duterte of high crimes and betrayal of public trust by concealing assets, supporting summary executions of thousands of Filipinos in his war on drugs, and having a “defeatist” approach towards Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. The panel’s decision to declare the complaint insufficient in substance came a few hours into proceedings that focused heavily on Alejano’s admission that he had not personally witnessed the drugs-related killings that he was accusing Duterte of sponsoring.

Alejano was furious that the panel was unwilling to hear what he said was extensive evidence from witnesses and survivors of drugs-related violence that would prove “the government is killing them”.

He said the committee made a decision based purely on Duterte’s popularity and would be responsible for a dictatorship taking shape.

“I assure you if we allow the president that kind of power in violation of the constitution ... If we allow it further, it will be a dictatorship,” he told reporters.

“We are sending the message to the president, ‘yes, you continue, we will allow you’.”

Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the junking of the complaint was expected because it was built on falsehoods and intended to “besmirch the reputation” of Duterte.

POPULAR PRESIDENT The early rejection of the complaint demonstrates the challenges faced by opponents in using democratic mechanisms to take on Duterte, who enjoys a public approval rating of 82 percent, and a massive social media support base.

Alejano was aware his bid was a long shot but had aimed to embolden the public to speak up over the war on drugs and over Duterte’s failure to pressure China to abide by an international arbitration ruling last year that declared some of Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea illegal.

Numerous committee members said Alejano’s complaint was deeply flawed. Harry Roque said “at best it’s a misrepresentation, at worst it’s a falsity”.

Deputy house speaker Fredenil Castro said Alejano was using “hearsay” to try to oust a president with a huge electoral mandate. (rtr)

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Philippine lawmakers stand to affirm the rejection of an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte at the House of Congress in Quezon City, Metro Manila in the Philippines May 15, 2017.

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NASA delays debut launch of $23 billion moon rocket and capsule

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA has delayed the first launch of its heavy-payload rocket until 2019 and decided against an idea floated by the White House to put astronauts aboard the capsule that is set to fly around the moon, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had hoped to launch the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket in November 2018. The rocket will send the deep-space Orion capsule on a high lunar orbit.

The launch is part of NASA’s long-term program to use the rocket to get astronauts and equipment to Mars.

In February, at the behest of President Donald Trump’s administration, NASA began to weigh the implications of adding a two-person crew for the trial flight.

The conclusion of the study was to wait until a second flight before adding a crew, NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said.

The research “really reaffirmed that the baseline plan we have in place was the best way for us to go,” he told reporters on a conference call.

Adding systems to support a crew would have cost NASA $600 million to $900 million more and would likely have delayed the flight to 2020, he said.

Even without a crew, the SLS will not be ready to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida un-

til 2019, Lightfoot said, adding that the agency would have a more specific timeframe in about a month.

The delay would push back the rocket’s second flight beyond 2021, said NASA Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier.

The delays are largely due to technical issues encountered during the development of SLS and Orion, as well as tornado damage to the rocket’s manufacturing plant in New Orleans.

By the end of the next fiscal year on September 30, 2018, NASA will have spent $23 billion on the rocket, capsule, launch site and support systems, according to an audit by NASA’s Office of Inspector General.

That excludes $9 billion spent on the mothballed Constellation lunar exploration program, which included initial development of the Orion and a second heavy-lift rocket.

Initially, the SLS rocket, which uses engines left over from the space shuttle program and shuttlederived solid rocket boosters, will have the capacity to put about 77 tons (70 metric tons) into an orbit about 100 miles (160 km) above Earth.

Later versions are expected to carry nearly twice that load.

“We’re really building a system,” Gerstenmaier said. “It is much, much more than one flight.” (rtr)

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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton configuration is seen launching to space in this undated artist’s rendering released August 2, 2014.

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Liquid waste left to flow for two years

MANGUPURA - For almost two years, the waste flowing from drainage channels on Jalan Gelora Samudera in Kuta has not been dealt with. Although the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency has investigated the matter first hand several times, the problem remains unresolved. As seen on Sunday (May 14), the thick white liquid waste was still flowing from the sewer, although it only flows intermittently.

Chairman of LPM Kuta, Gusti Agung Made Agung, is aware of the problem. He has received reports from the public and from travellers enquiring about the problem. If the problem is not dealt with, there is fear that Kuta will become known as an area that does not care about the environment. In addition to polluting the local river, this waste also directly damages the surrounding environment.

Relevant agencies have therefore been asked to fully resolve

the problem as soon as possible.

“We hope the entire drain can be checked so that it can be made clear where the source of the problem is.

Once the drain is closed, we that a written statement will be made”, he urged.

Agung affirmed that sanitation and environmental issues are the main focuses of the LPM Kuta at this time. Therefore related agencies are being asked to work together to support this program.

During the period of working with LPM Kuta, the issue of waste will also be getting attention with frequent checking and maintaining the environment. This is especially important as Kuta is one of Bali’S tourist destination that surely needs to be well preserved.

“Hopefully, the agency will immediate start collecting data.

Whether the agency comes down to the field, we will certainly be present during the cooperative work period” he concluded. (kmb23)

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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is seen during a spacewalk during Expedition 50 aboard the International Space Station.

U.S. spacewalkers overcome glitch on 200th station outing

CAPE CANAVERAL - Two U.S. astronauts overcame an early equipment glitch to complete an abbreviated spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, accomplishing all the major tasks initially planned for a longer excursion in four hours, NASA said.

Station commander Peggy Whitson and rookie flier Jack Fischer began what was expected to be a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk more than an hour late, after a cable supplying power and cooling water to Fischer’s spacesuit developed a leak.

The spacewalk was the 200th outing in support of station assembly and maintenance since construction of the $100 billion laboratory, which flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, began in 1998.

Fischer ended up sharing Whitson’s spacesuit servicing system, which caused both to burn through their spacesuits’ battery power faster than usual. That prompted the U.S. space agency to shorten the outing and assign the astronauts just one task.

The pair breezed through their first priority, replacing a faulty, 200-pound (90 kg) electronics box that routes commands and data to experiments. With time to spare, they then tackled chores slated for the original spacewalk, including installing a cable to troubleshoot a cooling system problem with the station’s $2 billion dark matter detector, mission commentator Rob Navias said.

They also attached a debris shield onto an exposed docking port that is being prepared for commercial space taxis under development

by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, and Boeing Co. It was Fischer’s first spacewalk, and the ninth for Whitson, who last month broke the record for cumulative time in orbit by a U.S. astronaut.

“All of the major work has been accomplished,” Navias said.

“It’s been an highly successful spacewalk in spite of a somewhat uncertain beginning.” (rtr)

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Based on information from the past week, there will be an increase of 12.43 percent in the tariffs for passengers boarding ferries, including the Ketapang- Gilimanuk crossing.

Tariff of KetapangGilimanuk crossing increases 12 percent

NEGARA - The Ministry of Transportation will officially announce the increase in the the tarif for the ferry crossings on 14 routes throughout the archipelago at 00:00 on Monday (May 15).

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The thick white liquid waste was still flowing from the sewer, although it only flows intermittently.

Based on information from the past week, there will be an increase of 12.43 percent in the tariffs for passengers boarding ferries, including the KetapangGilimanuk crossing. There will also be a 11.53 percent increase for vehicles.

These announcements were made during a recent meeting Ketapang Harbor between the river, lake and crossing transportation services (ASDP), Indonesia Ferry (Persero) and the Directorate of ASDP at the Ministry of Transportation and the Association of river, lake and crossing transportation services (GAPASDAP) of Banyuwangi.

The increas from IDR 6,000 to IDR 6,500 for passengers crossing between Ketapang- Gilimanuk is based on the Decision of the Board of Directors of PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) following Minister of Transportation Decree No.30/2017 on Tariff of Crossing Transportation. There will also be an increase in the tariff for children from IDR 4,000 to IDR 4,500 , as well as an 11.53 percent increase for vehicles: class I (push bike) will increase from IDR 7,000 to IDR 7,500 while the tariff for class II (motorcycle under 500 cc) will go up from IDR 22,00 to IDR 24,000.

The tariff for class III (motorcycles over 500 cc) will go up from IDR 34,000 to IDR 37,000. Then, class IV vehicles (length up to 5 meters) consisting of class IV A chiefly for passenger vehicle will have their tariffs increased from IDR 138,000 to IDR 159,000, while class IV B freight vehicles will have their tariffs increase from IDR 124,000 to IDR 141,000.

For class V (length of more than 5 meters to 7 meters) consisting of class V A for passenger vehicle the increase will go from IDR 262,000 to IDR 302,000, while class V B freight vehicles will see an increase from IDR 210,000 to IDR 242,000.

Vehicles with a length of more than 7 meters to 10 meters belonging to class VI consisting of class VI A for passenger vehicle will see an increase from IDR 436,000 to IDR 495,000 and class VI B freight vehicles will see their tariff go from IDR 247,000 to IDR 395,000.

For class VII vehicles (10 - 12 meters long) the increased will be from IDR 458,000 to IDR 505,000, class VIII (length of more than 12 - 16 meters) from IDR 690,000 to IDR 732,000 and finally, for class IX vehicles(length of more than 16 meters) the increase will go from 1,000,000 to IDR 1,045,000.

General Manager of PT. ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) of Ketapang-Gilimanuk Harbor Branch, Elvi Yosa, said that the decision to adjust the tariffs is also based on the Decree of the Board of Directors of PT. ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) No. KD.88./OP.404/ ASDP 2017 dated May 2, 2017.

Yosa explained that various steps ave been taken to inform the public about the adjustments, including printing banners, handing brochures and posting announcement before the new tariffs took effect on Monday (May 15).

The average tariff increase will be about 10.97 for vehicles and an average of 10. 42 for passengers. The smallest increase in of 7.14 percent while the highest is 15. 27 percent.

The tariff increase she said took effect on May 15, 2017 at 00:00 and there has been coordination between all relevant stakeholders such as shipping companies and police authorities has also been ongoing. (kmb)

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Sanglah Hospital anticipates Wanna Cry virus attack

DENPASAR - Sanglah Hospital is taking precautions against malware virus that has attacked two hospital network systems in Indonesia. “We are still making anticipation to prevent it,” said Nining Setyawati, Director of General Affairs and Operations of Sanglah Hospital, on Sunday (May 14).

She admitted that this time her department has made coordination with IT team of Sanglah Hospital.

“Our colleagues are taking overtime here to make the prevention,” she said.

She hoped the malware attack called Wanna Cry virus will not infect the network system of Sanglah Hospital. So far, the Sanglah Hospital has implemented online system for patient registration and hospital management information system to bridge the results of patient investigation such as in laboratory, clinic nurse, microbiology, anatomic pathology and radiology so that it can be directly integrated with the

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hospital system.

In connection with the prevention of the transmission of Wanna Cry ransomeware virus in the computer network of Sanglah Hospital, on Monday the SIM application of the hospital is not accessible for 30 minutes for several times. It is done to update the SIM server.

On Monday (May 15) at 07:00 until 09:00, all the internet and network accesses will be disabled except for the computer of patient care.

During that period, she urged employees to back up important data on their respective flash disk. “If there is an indication of virus attack on the monitor, please immediately turn off the computer and contact the IT department,” she explained.

She ensured the services to patients will not get disturbed because they do not use the internet, but only use a Local Area Network (LAN). “Computer of patient services will not be disturbed because they do not use internet connection but only use a LAN network,” she added. (kmb42)

Patients wait near a banner informing about the delay in service put up at the registration desks at Dharmais Cancer Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 15, 2017. Dozens of the hospital’s computer were hit by the global “ransomware” cyberattack on Saturday causing disruption to services and making patients had to wait longer while staff had to work with paper records.

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TABANAN - The development of tourist accommodation is currently focused on Badung.

Investors are still eyeing Badung as a strategic location in terms of investment for tourism development, in this case the tourist accommodation like hotel. Construction of hotels more focused on Badung must certainly be reviewed again because many negative things can occur due to population density, environmental damage and the limited source of water.

Deputy Regent of Tabanan, Komang Gede Sanjaya, argued on Friday (May 12) that in terms of tourism development there should be equality in Bali. The equity certainly raises many positive things where one of them is economic equity. “This equity can also suppress the number of congestion occurred all this time,” he said.

Tabanan itself has the potential in terms of building tourist accom-

modation like hotel because it has tourist destinations having been well known to domestic and international travelers. Though having the potential, added Sanjaya, the government will further focus on the development of accommodation by more optimizing the role of society and the importance of environment such as tourism village concept, eco-tourism and environment-based tourism.

Admittedly, investors are still competing to invest in Badung in terms of accommodation development. Nevertheless, Sanjaya continued that Tabanan will not insist on attracting investors to Tabanan to build tourist accommodation.

According to him, the district government prioritized investors that focus on the development of tourism villages and apply environmental tourism. “In essence, Tabanan is more focused on tourism featuring natural charms,” he concluded. (kmb24)

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District of Columbia contestant named Miss USA

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LAS VEGAS - A 25-year-old scientist representing the District of Columbia was crowned winner of the Miss USA pageant on Sunday, the second consecutive year that the contestant from the nation’s capital won the annual competition.

Kara McCullough, who holds a degree in chemistry and works at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, triumphed over 50 other contestants, including first runner-up Chhavi Verg, representing New Jersey, to claim victory in the contest which was held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

For her question as one of three finalists, McCullough was asked about healthcare rights, and replied that affordable healthcare was a privilege for people who held jobs.

The response drew some stinging criticism on social media platforms such as Twitter, but also had its defenders.

“Twitter is like a war zone,”

posted one user, referring to opposing reactions to the winner’s remarks.

McCullough also took hits for saying she does not call herself a feminist, preferring “equalism,” before adding “Women, we are just as equal as men, especially in the workplace.”

The pageant’s other finalist, Meridith Gould, represented Minnesota.

McCullough will go on to compete as the U.S. representative at the annual Miss Universe pageant. (rtr)

Beyonce, Bruno Mars lead BET Awards nominations

NEW YORK — Beyonce dominated last year’s BET Awards with “Lemonade,” but there’s more juice in her cup. The pop star is nominated for seven awards at the 2017 BET Awards, the network told The Associated Press on Monday. The show will take place June 25 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Bruno Mars follows Beyonce with five nominations.

Beyonce, who won video of the year with “Formation” last year, is nominated for the top prize again with Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File “Sorry.” Her competition includes her In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Bruno Mars performs sister Solange (“Cranes In the Sky”); at the 59th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Mars’ playful “24K Magic”; Migos’

No. 1 hit “Bad and Boujee”; and Big Sean’s anthemic “Bounce Back.”

Beyonce and Solange — who has four nominations — will go head-tohead for best female R&B/pop artist, along with Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Kehlani. Beyonce’s other nominations include album of the year for “Lemonade,” the viewer’s choice award and video director of the year. She’s nominated twice for best collaboration with the songs “Freedom” (with Kendrick Lamar) and “Shining” (shared with Jay Z and DJ Khaled).

The winners in the 19 categories, including film and sports awards, will be selected by BET’s Voting Academy,

comprised of entertainment professionals and fans.

Mars, whose latest album was inspired by ‘90s R&B, is also nominated for best male R&B/pop artist, album of the year, the viewer’s choice award and video director of the year.

Chance the Rapper, who scored four nominations and won three Grammys this year, will battle Lamar, Drake, J. Cole, Future and Big Sean for best male hip-hop artist. Nicki Minaj will compete with rival Remy Ma for best female hip-hop artist, an award Minaj has won since 2010.

Hip-hop trio Migos also scored four nominations. (ap)

China’s new Silk Road promises trade and riches, with President Xi at helm Announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Silk Road initiative, also known as China’s Belt and Road initiative, aims to invest in infrastructure projects including railways and power grids in central, west and southern Asia, as well as Africa and Europe.

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Projects subsumed under China’s Belt and Road initiative

1 Kuta Beach Club Jl. Bakung Sari Kuta 2 Wen Dys Kuta the Coffe Bear Jl. Pantai Kuta 3 Seminyak Paradiso Bali Hotel Jl. Camplung Tanduk 4 Ramayana Resort&Spa Jl. Bakung Sari Kuta 5 The Lokha Legian Resort&Spa Jl. Padma Legian Kuta 6 66 Corner Live Sport Emtertaiment Jl. Doble Six/Werkudara 23 7 Leghawa Grill Jl. D.Tamblingan No. 51 8 Retno Barr dan Restoran Jl. D.Tamblingan No.126 A Sanur 9 Elkomedor Jl. D.Tamblingan 140

10 Malaika Scret 11 Snack Shack 12 Warung Lokal 13 Cokro Cafee 14 T.J.Bar 15 J & N Kebab 16 Goanna Bar 17 Batu Jimbar 18 Ramayana Cafee

Jl. D.Poso No 68 Jl. D.Poso No. 50D Jl. D.Poso No. 39 Jl. D.Poso Sanur Jl. D.Poso Sanur Jl. D.Poso Sanur Jl. D.Poso Sanur Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur Jl. D.Tamblingan

19 Smirnof Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 20 Legwa Hotel Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 21 Nu Laser Cafee Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 22 Ganesa Book Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 23 All For Daiving Jl. D.Tamblingan Sanur 24 Barocca Jl.Petitenget 17 DKerobokan 25 Lantern Jl.Petitenget 17E Kerobokan 26 Shearlock Jl.Petitenget 17C Kerobokan Klod 27 Cafe Degan Jl.Petitenget 9 Kerobokan Klod

Gas pipelines Oil pipelines

Silk Road Economic Belt New Maritime Silk Road

Ports with Chinese engagement Planned or under construction

Railroad Proposed economic corridors

SPAIN Madrid

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Prague Budapest

Usan Angren

Kashgar

CHINA

Gorgan

EGYPT

SAUDI ARABIA

Kasese

Lobito

Luau

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BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping and 29 other heads building infrastructure and trade of state on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to build an links between Asia, Africa, Europe open economy and ensure free and inclusive trade, under the and beyond.

Some Western diplomats have ambitious Belt and Road initiative led by Beijing.

Reviving the Silk Road

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As a two-day summit on the project in Beijing wound up, the 30 nations also agreed to promote a rules-based, non-discriminatory trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core and to oppose protectionism, according to a joint communique signed by their leaders.

In the communique, China and other nations underlined the importance of expanding trade and investment based on a level playing field.

“It is our hope through the Belt and Road development, we will unleash new economic forces for global growth, build new plat-

forms for global development, and rebalance economic globalisation so mankind will move closer to a community of common destiny,” Xi said at the close of the event.

The inclusive tone of China’s Belt and Road push stands in stark contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, which included the scrapping of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, a regional trade pact involving Pacific Rim countries but excluding China.

Xi on Sunday pledged $124 billion for the new “Silk Road”, which aims to bolster China’s global leadership ambitions by

expressed unease about the initiative, seeing it as an attempt to promote Chinese influence globally. They are also concerned about transparency and access for foreign companies. Germany said its firms were willing to support the Belt and Road initiative, but more transparency was needed.

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