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’Dunkirk’ Beats Out ’Emoji Movie,’ ’Atomic Blonde’ to Repeat No. 1

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LOS ANGELES - An unlikely battle emerged at the box office this weekend between “The Emoji Movie” and “Dunkirk.”

As of Saturday morning the animated feature and war epic seemed to be in a dead heat. But by Sunday morning, most of the dust had settled, and it appears “Dunkirk” will once again be the weekend’s first place film.

Christopher Nolan’s latest from Warner Bros. over-performed last weekend when it opened to over $50 million, showing that the director, combined with positive critical reception, still has a strong draw -- even for a movie lacking movie star power, and at risk of being written off as yet another World War II movie. This time around it looks to take in $28.1 million from 3,748 locations, for a strong hold.

It’s the first time that a movie has been first place two weekends in a row since the same studio’s “Wonder Woman” in early June.

Patty Jenkins’ movie has had a phenomenal run since, and is currently closing in on $400 million domestic (right now it’s at $395.4 million).

That means Sony’s “Emoji Movie” is in second for the weekend with $25.7 million from 4,075 locations. The animated adven-

ture took a lot of heat from critics -- reaction ranged from meh to horrible, earning its current Rotten Tomatoes score of 8%. Its B CinemaScore is also quite low for an animated movie, meaning audiences aren’t particularly enjoying the movie either.

T.J. Miller plays the central character, a “Meh” emoji who has “no filter,” meaning his expression can change. The same cannot be said for the rest of the cast, which includes James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Christina Aguilera, and Sofia Vergara. Oh yeah, and Sir Patrick Stewart plays “Poop.”

“We’re thrilled,” said Sony’s marketing chief Josh Greenstein.

“The audience has spoken and made the ‘Emoji Movie’ a family event.”

That leaves this week’s other major release, “Atomic Blonde” somewhat straggling. Focus Fea-

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows a scene from “Dunkirk.” tures and Sierra/Affinity is looking at a decent, but slightly below expectations launch for the Charlize Theron-starrer with $18.5 million from 3,304 locations.

Earlier in the week “Blonde” was pegged at $20 million, but the opening weekend result is still solid considering its $30 million budget. It’s also one of the largest

launches for Focus, behind only “Insidious Chapter 3” ($22.7 million); “London Has Fallen” ($21.6 million); and “Burn After Reading” ($19.1 million). (rtr)

Thousands evacuated from Barcelona festival after stage fire MADRID - More than 22,000 people were evacuated from an electronic music festival in Barcelona on Saturday night after a huge fire broke out on one of the stages during a sequence of the show involving fireworks, emergency services said.

They said no one was injured. Footage circulated on social media showed big flames leaping from the stage, creating big plumes of black smoke in front of a crowd.

The festival, known as “Tomorrowland”, was taking place just north of Barcelona, in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the first time it has been held in Spain. The festival has previously been held in Belgium. (rtr)

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Smoke is seen rising from flames engulfing the stage after a fire broke out at Tomorrowland Unite Spain festival in Barcelona, Spain July 29, 2017, in this still image from a video obtained from social media.

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Chinese nationals suspected of involvement in cyber crime are pictured in Jakarta police headquarters, Indonesia

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Indonesia detains 153 over $450-mln scam targeting Chinese

JAKARTA- Indonesian police on Monday said they had detained more than 150 Chinese nationals accused of carrying out a sophisticated scam that netted around $450 million by tricking their compatriots into paying to make legal cases go away.

“This is an international syndicate of online fraud,” Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono told a news conference. “The information first came from China’s police department, so this is a joint investigation.”

Police said the suspects, 148 of whom were Chinese nationals and the rest Indonesian, had been detained during weekend raids in the capital Jakarta, the city of Surabaya and the islands of Batam and Bali.

“The perpetrators are Chinese. The victims are Chinese. It just happens that they operate from Indonesia,” Yuwono added.

The syndicate operated by first tracking down information on wealthy Chinese officials or businessmen em-

broiled in legal problems, he said.

The victims were then contacted and told by the suspects that they were from the Attorney General’s office or the police and could “negotiate to stop the case” on payment of a certain sum.

“The information we got from China is that they have been in operation since the start of the year, and their profit has reached 6 trillion rupiah,” Yuwono said, a figure equivalent to $450 million. Television broadcast images of telephones and office equipment in a house raided by police.

“According to the suspects, it was easier to hide in Indonesia because of its geography,” Yuwono said. “If they

did it in China, it would be easier to identify them.”

The suspects entered Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago on tourist visas and will most probably be handed over to immigration officials.

“Most likely they will be deported after we’re done with the investigation,” said Herry Rudolf of Indonesia’s National Police. (rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Gram-negative bacteria tend to be bigger

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The coral reef in Nusa Penida

Monitoring of coral reefs of Nusa Penida waters

will also be more complex,” she said.

Like the use of antibiotics belonging to Ceftriaxone is the first line to treat diseases caused by these bacteria. However, the sensitivity of the drug to bacteria has decreased from 50 percent.

“So, now we have to move and change it. All over Bali, the Ceftriaxone is still used for the first line. We have got 50 percent after coming to us,” she said. By that way, it means to require better drugs, and the healing tends be more difficult.

She hoped that antibiotics administration on the first line at Sanglah Hospital as a tertiary education hospital should be more careful. “The pattern of our germs has changed, while the antibiotics in use are very wide. So, please be careful, where we should go for the first line?” she added. In the first line, it usually remains to apply single therapy. However, if having entered the ICU, the drug administration will be combined. (kmb42)

The monitoring conducted last Thursday involved three divers as well as a number of related institutions including the Bali Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.

The results indicated that on average damage to coral reef occurs under the pontoon used as marine tourism facilities.

Although the damage is not yet severe, action still needs to be taken to prevent further damage. Such action cannot be taken until the provincial fisheries and maritime affairs makes a decision on the matter as according to Law No. 23/2014, such action falls under their authority. “The damage is not severe yet, some of the coral is still in good condition. Previously reports only highlighted the damage. We are still waiting for the province to examine the pictures that were taken”, said Karyawan.

Previously, residents of Jungut Batu had complained

about the damage to the coral as it is park of a marine park that is a valuable asset that serve as a source of income for the village. The government is being asked to tighten supervision of marine tourism facilities and to look carefully at zoning so that the coral is not damaged any further “We hope the supervision will be tightened. Regarding the damage, we are still asking for the data from the KKP”, said headman of Jungut Batu, I Made Gede Suryawan.

Similar complaints were also revealed by headman of Lembongan, Ketut Gede Arjaya. “As lower government, we hope this (the use of pontoon—Ed) can be minimized. At least there is should be strict rules applied to pontoon entrepreneurs. Please look into this. Unlicensed businesses should not be allowed to operate. It should be arranged as soon as possible and there must be clear zoning as well as clarity about who has the authority to give permission supervise, and manage these pontoons”, he said.

If the presence of the illegal and other pontoons are left as they are now thee is fear that the damage to the coral will become severe and as a result tourism will fade. “I am quite sad and I am not an entrepreneur because only a headman. But I worry that if the coral is damaged – what will we leave to the next generation?

If this is not well maintained, what will the future of tourism in Nusa Penida look like?”, added Arjaya. (kmb45)

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damage mostly occurs under pontoons

SEMARAPURA - Damaged coral reefs in the waters of Nusa Penida have been monitored by related institution who have found that damage occurs I areas with marine tourism as a result of the use of pontoons. The extend of such damage has not however reached severe levels said Head of Nusa Penida Waters Marine Conservation (KKP), I Nyoman Karyawan, on Sunday (Jul. 30).

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Bacterial patterns change

DENPASAR - In a research on bacteria during the period of 2015-2016, the gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria are almost identical. But the more years, the existence of gramnegative bacteria experiences a larger trend of about 46.5 percent. Among the gram-negative bacteria, the highest is Pseudomonas bacteria reaching around 16 percent.

“It is less than a quarter, but high enough among all types of germs in hospital, especially in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU),” said Dyah Kanya Wati, a pediatrician at Sanglah Hospital, recently. Pseudomonas is one of the most common causes of gram-negative germs in ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).

If the gram-negative bacterial infection is higher, the impact on drug selection should be more selective. “It should be covered with the availability of existing drugs related to this pattern of germs, and the effects to patients

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Police have Tegenungan waterfall fenced permanently

GIANYAR — Throughout this year, the Tegenungan waterfall visited by hundreds of tourists each day has claimed two casualties.

Seeing this condition, Gianyar police also asked the management to install a permanent fence.

In the meantime, Sukawati police officers investigating the death of Wilfredus alias Fred, 25, under the waterfall as high as 30 meters, has scheduled the summon to management of the tourist attraction.

Researchers creating warning system for toxic algae in lakes

It’s one of the most wide-ranging freshwater monitoring systems in the U.S., researchers say, and some of its pieces soon will be watching for harmful algae on hundreds of lakes nationwide.

Researchers are creating an early warning system using real-time data from satellites that in recent years have tracked algae bloom hotpots such as Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and the East Coast’s Chesapeake Bay. The plan is to have it in place within two years so that states in the continental U.S. can be alerted to where toxic algae is appearing before they might detect it on the surface, said Blake Schaeffer, a researcher with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“You don’t have to wait until someone gets sick,” said Schaeffer, one of the leaders of the project.

Across the nation, farm runoff, sewage overflows and lawn fertilizers have washed into lakes and rivers and left behind unsightly algae blooms that can sicken people and

pets and harm wildlife.

But often the first reports of harmful algae on a lake come from boaters seeing something strange in the water, said Rick Stumpf, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

He began using satellites in 2008 to monitor algae on Lake Erie. That work took on a new urgency after a bloom near Toledo’s shoreline contaminated the drinking water for more than 400,000 people three years ago.

The EPA in recent years has been testing using the satellite data to watch for algae in lakes in California, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Earlier this year, the data helped detect an algae bloom in a Utah Lake near Salt Lake City before officials on the ground knew about it.

“That’s exactly what we we’re trying to accomplish,” Schaeffer said.

The system in development will cast a wider net at a time when many states can’t afford to monitor every lake threatened by harmful algae. The goal is to use the satellite data to watch for algae on 1,800 lakes across the nation and provide four different types of water quality measurements

on close to 170,000 lakes.

What satellites can’t measure is the amount of toxins in the water. That’s where samples gathered by researchers come into play. That too can be expensive so researchers have developed an underwater lab that sits at the bottom of Lake Erie and both collects water and tests the levels of toxins before sending the results back remotely.

The whole process takes four hours — much less than the day or two it takes to test samples from a boat.

“We call it the ‘lab in a can,’” said Tim Davis, a Great Lakes researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

The first robotic lab was launched this summer and two more are in the works. While it’s still in the early stages, Davis said it could work in other lakes plagued by algae.

Other researchers are testing drones on Lake Erie to see if digital images they capture can be effective monitoring the algae blooms. Already in use on the lake are buoys that measure algae in the water.

Those leading all of these research efforts say the key is provide as much information as possible. “It’s really about using a combination of all of these,” Schaeffer said. (ap)

Study finds aardvarks suffering as African climate heats up

JOHANNESBURG — A new study says hotter temperatures caused by climate change are taking their toll on the aardvark, whose diet of ants and termites is becoming scarcer because of reduced rainfall.

The University of Witwatersrand in South Africa said Monday that drought in the Kalahari desert killed five out of six aardvarks that were being monitored for a year, as well as 11 others in the area.

Aardvarks are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Andrea Fuller says the body temperatures of the aardvarks

in the study plummeted during the night because they were not getting enough energy from their diminished food sources.

Fuller says the aardvarks tried to conserve energy by looking for insects during the warmer daytime instead of at night, but their efforts to adapt could not save them. (ap) In this photo supplied by the University of the Witwatersrand an aardvark is captured on camera in the dark at the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa, in April 2012.

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Claim victim successively

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In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the water intake crib for the city of Toledo, Ohio, is surrounded by an algae bloom on Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio.

TOLEDO — Satellites in space and a robot under Lake Erie’s surface are part of a network of scientific tools trying to keep algae toxins out of drinking water supplies in the shallowest of the Great Lakes.

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The motorcycles are crowded on the street.

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Vehicle growth difficult to be stopped AS a developing country Indonesia including Bali will be faced with congestion condition. Moreover, from the beginning our spatial planning has not been prepared to anticipate the congestion so that it is difficult to find a solution.

According to Chief of Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs Unit, Heri Supriawan, when talking about congestion, it actually refers to demand and supply. This means that vehicle growth is not balanced with road capacity. Related to this, Denpasar police become a barometer in terms of overcoming congestion.

“Actually what can be done to overcome the congestion is to narrow the vehicle growth. This means that vehicle growth rate is reduced or the road is expanded.

Both ways are actually the most effective,” he said.

However, if both solutions cannot be implemented, the solution is traffic engineering management to look for the obstacles causing the congestion. Another effort that can be done is the presence of central parking so the traffic can run smoothly. For example, Heri added that Jalan Teuku Umar is clean from parking and no more congestion occurs there. Yet the effort always gets constrained and many parties disagree.

“One of the parties to be harmed in this case is the PD Parkir because its income will decrease if all the

roads in Denpasar and Badung are sterile from the use as parking space,” said this former deputy chief of Gianyar police traffic affairs unit.

For the Kuta area, the same problem faced is parking. In the world of traffic, parking is called the side constraint. Cars and motorbikes parked on the road will reduce the passable area. If forced to be freed from parking, it will result in polemic, especially from entrepreneurs.

“The only way to do is diversion or changes of traffic. It is impossible to add the road section, and stopping the vehicle speed is obviously unable, while the roads remain the same. Auto dealers sell vehicles, in the long run they will cause congestion,” he said.

Every year, the congestion will surely increase due to the growth of vehicles and the addition of unbalanced roads. Annual growth of vehicles reaches 10 percent, while the addition of road capacity is only 3 percent let alone be in holiday season. Another way to be done is the placement of personnel at the points or intersection prone to congestions. Since the number of personnel has not been able to cover all the congestion-prone points, there is a mapping area, carrying the location of congestion and the time of congestion so that personnel can be alerted there. (rah)

Operations Division Head of Gianyar Police, Ida Bagus Deddy, urged the waterfall management to immediately fence the tourist attraction. It happens because under the waterfall splash sits two deep riverbeds. The first riverbed is eight feet deep, while the depth of second one cannot be measured. “It should be fenced permanently with iron and filled with a signboard containing the prohibition from taking bath.

Do not just put up red flag,” affirmed Deddy.

This insistence is based on the death incident to visitors at this Tegenungan waterfall that is not for the first time. Four months ago, a student of SMPN 1 Kuta junior high school was also sucked into the riverbed because he was desperate to go under the splash. When entering the riverbed, the evacuation process lasted long. “Do not let it claim another victim, so I have it immediately fenced,” he said.

Separately, Chief of Sukawati Police, Pande Sugiharta, stated that to ensure the incident, police scheduled a summons. “Immediately, we summon the management because there is an incident report,” he said.

He explained that based on examination and initial information on the scene, the management of the waterfall has conducted its duty where it already prohibited the victim from bathing at the location. Moreover, the victim’s companions already tried to stop Fred’s intention to enter the splash of the waterfall. “From the testimony of his companions, the victim was drunk after drinking. He was desperate to ignore the prohibition and broke through,” he said.

As a result, the desperate Fred entered the splashes and was directly sucked into the riverbed and found dead on Friday afternoon. If indeed the management is negligent, surely there is a law that ensnares it. “It includes the return of the management to the government. So far, it is managed by customary village,” he explained.

The management who is also Operations Manager

Tegenungan waterfall

of the Tegenungan waterfall, Kemenuh village, Sukawati, Gusti Raka, could not be contacted last Sunday.

The second call had been answered and mentioned that he was on the way. But when contacted again, his mobile phone was not active. Moreover, the short message of this newspaper asking about his responsibility was not responded until Sunday evening.

Previously, it was reported that Tegenungan waterfall, Sukawati, claimed another casualty on Friday (Jul. 28). The dead visitor this time is Wilfredus alias Fred, 25. The victim from Flores, NTT (East Nusa Tenggara) was found after a long search by joint officers.

As information compiled at the scene, the victim along with ten companions came to the attraction on Friday afternoon around 12:30. This group was then bathed under the waterfall having a height of about 30 meters. After playing water for a few minutes, suddenly the victim Fred approached the waterfall and immediately disappeared. His seven companions were shocked and then went straight up to the rocky riverbank. “He had no time to ask for help, but suddenly disappeared. The others immediately went up and did not dare to get closer,” said Hisman Batubara, 28, one of the victim’s companions.

A few minutes later, Hisman saw the victim waving his hands, where part of his body was already drowned.

Before taking a bath, according to Hisman, they had time to warn his companion not to bathe. However, it was ignored, and he even approached the splashes while carrying his mobile phone to take selfie.

Seeing this condition, Hisman and some companions were panicked and then shouted for help. A number of tourists who were swimming at the location already attempted to rescue, but they failed. In the meantime, the officer of local tourist attraction contacted the police.

Not long after that, a joint team came to do searching process. The incident of the drowning of the victim Fred suddenly became a spectacle, even for tourists that were on vacation and local residents deliberately coming in the hope to witness the evacuation of the victim directly. However, the swift waterfall caused the search process to be constrained.

To accelerate the search, the team also attempted to divert the current above the waterfall to minimize the water flow, but failed. The search process continued until Saturday afternoon. Approximately at five o’clock then, the victim was finally found by a joint officer.

The finding was greeted by the sobs of a number of victim’s families and companions. (kmb35)

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Banner installation case on closure of Ulun Danu Beratan

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Planned to be brought to legal domain TABANAN - The case on the installation of banners containing the closure of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple for tourism on Wednesday (Jul. 26) is going to be forwarded to legal domain by the management of tourist attraction and gebok pesatakan (a group of customary hamlets). For the time being, there are two points to be reported, namely the case of banner installation and allegation on the misappropriation of temple funds.

Regarding the certainty of the demand by Pemuger of Ulun Danu Beratan representing the Gebog Pesatakan, I Putu Sama Artha, accompanied by Operations Manager of Ulun Danu Beratan, Wayan Mustika, headman of Candi Kuning, I Made Mudita, and Secretary of the Operations Management of Ulun Danu Beratan, Wayan Parwata, said on Sunday (Jul. 30) that his side is currently consulting to the lawyer team of the government of Tabanan district about the points to be reported and waiting for the audit of temple funds.

Sama Arta also explained about the contents of the letter signed by three chiefs of Pesatakan and one person doing it on behalf of the Candi Kuning customary village and supporting devotees (penyungsung) of the Beratan Pande Temple.

In the letter addressed to the regent of Tabanan and copies sent to governor of Bali are mentioned the issues becoming the background of the banner installation.

Regarding the complaint about the dismissal of temple priest as stated in the letter was denied by Sama Arta. “The right fact is the change of the schedule for the temple priests.

All this time, the schedule is set up every seven days, but now it has become six days,” he said.

The change of schedule is in accordance with the quarterly meeting held on June 9 where 18 priests already agreed to pay devotional works (ngayah) at Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. The schedule change is meant to avoid monotony namely serving the pilgrims on the same days. Another problem complained in the letter is the matter of padlocking of the Prajapati Pande Beratan Temple. According to Sama Artha, the temple has been indeed padlocked every night since the past time to keep valuable relics in the temple. But if there are pilgrims coming at night to say prayers, certainly it will not be closed and accompanied by the priest on duty that day.

Another problem is about the dismantling of compound wall in the middle courtyard of Ulun Danu Beratan along 20 meters. Based on the quarterly meeting of Gebok Pesatakan attended by the management of tourist attraction, Gebog Pesatakan, headman and community leaders was decided to restore the structure of the temple to the original style.

Sama Arta said the compound wall was built two years ago without coordination with Gebok Pesatakan.

“The construction was initiated by Klian Pesatakan (chief of hamlet

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Ulun Danu Beratan Temple groups) who is currently not active and without coordination. As results of the meeting, the temple compound wall was dismantled to restore it to the original style. If it indeed requires a compound wall, of course the ancestors have built it in the past,” explained Sama Arta.

In the letter is also explained about the non-activation of Klian Pesatakan where according to Sama Arta it was based on the decision of meeting held on January 31, 2017 and April 2, 2017 where management of the temple will be returned to Gebog Pesatakan that means Kelian Pesatakan becomes

non-active. “These points have been decided in the meeting, so there is no unilateral dismissal,” he explained.

Return of the temple management to Gebog Pesatakan and non-activation of Kelian Pesatakan, added the headman of Candi Kuning, Made Mudita, was based on the absence of the accountability report on the use of temple funds from four pesatakan groups since 2009. Gebog Pesatakan has given a chance for one week to Kelian Pesatakan to prepare the accountability report but it ended with the action of banner installation.

The banner installation, added Operations Manager of Ulun Danu Beratan, Wayan Mustika, surely had impact on the tourist visit where it drops about five to ten percent from the usual. Since the case of banner installation, many travel agencies questioned about the truth of information regarding the temple closure for tourism and security.

“There are even travel agencies canceling their visit. In addition to submitting to legal domain, it will also hold a pecaruan ritual both at the temple and Ganesha statue where the banner was installed,” he explained. (kmb24)

Innovation of Putra Wisatawan

Taking advantage of bamboo to make radio

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The innovation of processing bamboo into radio has been started since the past three months.

BANGLI — Bamboo crafters in Bangli continue to innovate and create various interesting handicraft products. One of them is I Made Putra Wisatawan. The craftsman who opens his business at Nyalian hamlet, Kawan, Bangli, is now making an innovation to process bamboo into radio. What does it look like?

When met at his home on Sunday (Jul. 30), Wisatawan said the innovation of processing bamboo into radio has been started since the past three months. Previously, he only processed bamboo into handicrafts such as trays, lampshades, and other bamboo crafts.

He claimed to have the skills of making radio because before getting

involved in the bamboo handicraft business he ever studied electrics. So far, he produces the radio by using tali and petung bamboo raw materials.

Both types of bamboo are chosen because they are not too thick and do not contain much water. “I bring in this raw material from Gianyar region,” he said.

Furthermore, he added that to make a radio will take him up to one day. He does not work alone, but is assisted by his employees. Wisatawan who has basic in electrics assembles his own radio components, while his employees will help prepare the radio casing.

Each unit of the radio he produces is sold at the prices ranging from IDR

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300,000. “The price depends on the model and wattage quantity. The bigger the wattage, the more expensive will be,” he said.

Since the capital needed to make a radio is quite expensive, so far he is unable to produce in large quantities.

He will make a radio after receiving an order. In the meantime, to market the radio of his product, this man having pursued bamboo handicraft business since a dozen years ago is utilizing social media like Facebook.

Besides, he also markets it through exhibitions. “I was once offered to make a power bank where the components are prepared directly by the order giver,” he added. (kmb40)

China hits back at Trump criticism over N.Korea

YANGON - Four more people have died in an outbreak of H1N1 influenza in Myanmar, a health official said on Monday, taking the death toll in the latest outbreak to 10 as the government stepped up public awareness campaigns about the swine flu virus.

The latest H1N1 outbreak began more than a week ago, said Thinzar Aung, deputy director of the infectious diseases department at the Ministry of Health and Sport, with Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, the worst affected area.

Authorities have carried out health awareness campaigns and sought to calm public fears over the outbreak, although stores have sold out of surgical masks in Yangon. Authorities have told the public not to panic and described the latest outbreak as a regular seasonal occurrence.

“We have never withheld any information about the infection of the disease,” heath minister Myint Htwe was quoted as saying by state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar on Monday.

“We are releasing real information on the seasonal influenza H1N1 in real time,” he said.

H1N1 has been among the strains of flu circulating in Myanmar seasonally since a global pandemic in 2009, although deaths from the virus had not been reported in recent years, heath officials have said.

Aside from those killed by the virus, 51 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease, according to the health ministry. It has called on hospitals and clinics to report patients showing signs of influenza-like illness.

Separately, Myanmar’s livestock ministry has also reported an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the south. More than 1,800 chickens were culled after the virus was detected at a farm in the southern town of Dawei last month. (rtr)

BEIJING - China hit back on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted he was “very disappointed” in China following Pyongyang’s latest missile test, saying the problem did not arise in China and that all sides need to work for a solution.

China has become increasingly frustrated with American and Japanese criticism that it should do more to rein in Pyongyang. China is North Korea’s closest ally, but Beijing is angry with its continued nuclear and missile tests.

North Korea said on Saturday it had conducted another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that proved its ability to strike the U.S. mainland, drawing a sharp warning from Trump and a rebuke from China.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke with Trump on Monday and agreed on the need for more action on North Korea just hours after the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said Washington is “done talking about North Korea”.

A White House statement after the phone call said the two leaders “agreed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and other countries near and far”.

It said Trump “reaffirmed our ironclad commitment” to defend Japan and South Korea from any attack, “using the full range of United States capabilities”.

Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday after the missile test that he was “very disappointed” in China

and that Beijing profits from U.S. trade but had done “nothing” for the United States with regards to North Korea, something he would not allow to continue.

China’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement sent to Reuters responding to Trump’s tweets, said the North Korean nuclear issue did not arise because of China and that everyone needed to work together to seek a resolution.

“All parties should have a correct understanding of this,” it said, adding the international community widely recognised China’s efforts to seek a resolution.

The essence of Sino-U.S. trade is mutual benefit and win-win, with a vast amount of facts proving the healthy development of business and trade ties is good for both countries, the ministry added.

Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming, weighed in too, telling a news conference there was no link between the North Korea issue and China-U.S. trade.

“We think the North Korea nuclear issue and China-US trade are issues that are in two completely different domains. They aren’t related. They should not be discussed together,” Qian said.

China, with which North Korea does the large majority of its trade,

has repeatedly said it strictly follows U.N. resolutions on North Korea and has denounced unilateral U.S. sanctions as unhelpful.

Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger U.N. sanctions on North Korea over Friday night’s long-range missile test, the North’s second this month.

Any new U.N. Security Council resolution “that does not significantly increase the international pressure on North Korea is of no value”, Haley said, adding that Japan and South Korea also needed to do more.

Abe told reporters after his conversation with Trump that repeated efforts by the international community to find a peaceful solution to the North Korean issue had yet to bear fruit in the face of Pyongyang’s unilateral “escalation”.

“International society, including Russia and China, need to take this seriously and increase pressure,” Abe said. He said Japan and the United States would take steps towards concrete action but did not give details.

Abe and Trump did not discuss military action against North Korea, nor what would constitute the crossing of a “red line” by Pyongyang, Deputy Chief Cabinet spokesman Koichi Hagiuda told reporters. (rtr)

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Men wear masks to protect themselves from H1N1 in Yangon, Myanmar July 25, 2017.

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BUSINESS South Africa’s stock market defies recession, scales record highs

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s main stock index scaled a record high on Monday, underscoring the market’s disconnect from an economy mired in recession, hobbled by damaging ratings downgrades, and still largely defined by apartheid’s income inequalities. Skewed ownership patterns have made the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), which has been mostly lifted by the offshore earnings of a few companies, a prime target of political resentment in a country where the divisions between haves and have-nots still run largely along racial lines.

Almost half of the market is foreign owned, according to JSE data, and black people who account for 80 percent of the population only hold 23 percent of the top 100 companies, much of it through the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) which manages the pensions of civil servants.

“There is white dominance and control of our economy. Today when you remove the ownership by the (PIC) pension fund from the stock exchange, the remaining 90 percent belongs to white families,” the leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters party Julius Malema said at a weekend rally.

Those who don’t hold equities would include the vast majority of the 17 million people, a third of the population, who reside in the former Homelands, islands of rural poverty where most black South Africans were confined under white rule.

South Africa’s official unemployment rate is around 28 percent but widely regarded to be well over 40 percent and few of those without a job, the vast majority of whom are REUTERS/Rogan Ward/File Photo Unemployed men wait on a street corner in black people, would hold any shares.

The starkness of the divide is highlighted the hope of getting casual work in Pietermaby the financial district of Sandton where ritzburg, South Africa June 28, 2017. the JSE is located: a bustle of construction

activity where ornate office towers are being erected on every block and huge cranes reach skyward, a fitting metaphor for a market at historic highs.

SOUTH AFRICA INC NOT BEHIND RALLY Sandton’s apparent prosperity is a contrast to the JSE’s construction index. Ground firmly in the wider local economy, it is down about 20 percent from its year highs reached in March and is almost 80 percent off its life high hit in 2007. The bourse’s performance the All-share index rose 0.85 percent in early trade on Monday to a new peak of 55,366.74 - has been driven by foreign flows into equities and earnings garnered offshore.

“It is the case that a handful of shares not linked to the South African economy’s fortunes have done well,” said Feroz Basa, head of Old Mutual’s Global Emerging Markets Fund. Naspers, a newspaper publisher turned global e-commerce giant which accounts for over 20 percent of the JSE’s market capitalisation, was largely responsible for the JSE’s run, having risen sharply as investors see it trading at a large discount to its one-third stake in China’s Tencent.

Naspers, trading close to an all-time high and up 42 percent so far this year, has its primary listing on the JSE, and luxury goods group Richemont, which has a secondary listings on the bourse, is up 21 percent.

Only about 35 percent of the companies listed on the JSE derive all their earnings from South Africa, said Gryphon Asset Management analyst Cassie Treurnicht.

“Our [locally focused companies] have really underperformed recently and if you look at small and medium cap shares it is hard not to notice the effect of the recession,” said Treurnicht.

And big companies exposed to South Africa’s battle-bruised consumers, such as retailers and banks, have “underperformed significantly”, Basa said.

Consumer sentiment is plumbing multiyear lows and most retailers have flagged lower or stalling profits, with the demise of unlisted department store Stuttafords an ominous sign for other retailers. South Africa fell into recession in the first quarter of 2017 for the first time in eight years, with high unemployment and stagnant wages dragging down the once resilient consumer sector. (rtr)

China July factory growth cools but construction boom fortifies economy

BEIJING - Growth in China’s manufacturing sector cooled slightly in July as foreign demand for Chinese goods slackened, but a government-led infrastructure push kept construction humming and helped prop up the world’s second-largest economy. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) held above the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction for the 12th straight month, as China poured funds into a construction boom that has fuelled demand for everything from cement to steel and other building materials.

But the broad consensus among China watchers is that economic growth will cool in coming months as a government crackdown on financial risks raises borrowing costs for businesses and squeezes profits.

The official PMI stood at 51.4 in July, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, down from the previous month’s 51.7 and a touch below the 51.6 forecast in

a Reuters poll.

Export orders, which helped Chinese factories stage a strong recovery in June, had ebbed this month, with manufacturers reporting slackening foreign demand.

Overall factory production expanded less quickly compared with June.

New export orders slipped to 50.9 in July from 52.0 in June, helping drag the index for overall factory orders to 52.8 from 53.1.

“The breakdown suggests weaker foreign demand is partly to blame - the new export orders fell by a larger margin than overall new orders,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, a Singapore-based China economist at Capital Economics.

While China’s foreign trade faces a mostly positive environment in the second half of the year, uncertainties still exist, Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming said in Beijing on Monday.

The United States and China failed earlier this month to agree on major new steps to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China, casting doubt over President Donald Trump’s economic and security relations with Beijing.

Domestically, the construction sector remained robust as the government stepped up investment in infrastructure projects.

Separate data showed China’s steel sector in rude health, expanding in July at its fastest pace since April 2016.

The PMI reading on the construction sector showed a solid pickup to 62.5 in July from 61.4 in June. Raw material inventories eased just slightly in July, according to the survey, while imports were almost steady and suggested stable domestic demand.

Activity at large factories gathered steam in July, with the sub-index for big manufacturers rising to 52.9 from 52.7. (rtr)

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Togog Pemaon, a Symbol of Lingam and Yoni, Believed to be Catastrophe Repellent

Pujawali or festival at Dalem Temple of Munduk Bestala customary village, Seririt, Buleleng, looks different from the other regions. The preparation performed by residents is not only limited to ceremonial paraphernalia. However, they also make a unique thing, namely the Togog Pemaon in the kitchen. In addition to being a symbol of lingam-yoni, the togog or statue is believed to function as catastrophe repellent function.

From outside, the location of ritual at this temple looks usual.

Zinc-roofed shelter with bamboo frame stands firmly at the temple outermost courtyard. As decoration, it is also filled with young palm leaves.

However, when entering this location, the atmosphere will feel slightly different. Amid the busy residents who are preparing for the ceremony, the eyes are faced with the presence of two female statues in the corner of the kitchen building. Local people name it the Togog Pemaon.

The statue is very simple as only made of earth. There is no carving like a common statue mounted on the temple building. Position of both statues sits side by side. At a glance, it has no meaning whatsoever. For

layman, possibly it is only considered as an expression of the art, even leads to the impression of porn.

According to Ida Bawati Putu Nata, a follower of Hindu Saiva Siddhanta who glorifies Shiva, this statue is symbol of lingam and yoni.

However, in the society the symbol has been drifted off into an art. “Possibly, there was no a temple long time ago. So, the worship was only held with the yoni and phallus. In society, it is refracted as an art showed by this statue,” he explained.

READ Tirta Sudamala Temple Though showing off a porn impression, people believe that the statues made spontaneously by some residents function as a repellent of catastrophes.

Since it is closely related to the cer-

emony, the statues are also ritually inaugurated and eliminated. “For example, if people get angry, when asked to look at the statue, they will no longer get angry and will even laugh. It can be said it also entertains,” he said.

The statues, added Ida Bawati, are always present in the pujawali at the local village temple and great ceremony held by the residents, where one of them is otonan or pawukonbased birthday (every 210 days) completed with guling babangkit or roasted suckling pig. “If the ceremony belongs to small scale (nista) and medium, it is not made,” he said.

The pujawali cer emony at the village located in the plateau also has other uniqueness. At the temple is also mounted a propeller, not for spectacle,

Wow … it is delicious and steady.

This is the comment given after tasting these two traditional menus, namely Pelalah Manuk and Jukut Gedang Mekuah. Both inviting menus are the result of cooking demonstration by a hotel chef, I Wayan Sudarpa, in the Festival ke Uma 2017 in Subak Uma Ole, Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Marga – Tabanan. In addition to using local ingredients, the two menus are also very close to farmers and paddy fields in the village.

Pelalah Manuk and Jukut Gedang Mekuah are often presented by farmers while doing a mutual work in paddy fields. But the presentation is very simple and often incomplete.

Pelalah Manuk classified into an elite and expensive menu is rarely served to farmers. They feel well fed with Jukut Gedang Mekuah (young papaya vegetable with gravy) only, except for on

certain days. Even if the presentation is complete, it will not be as good as the presentation to hotel guests.

In the past, both menus were usually presented at the time of plowing paddy fields using cattle and transplanting rice, erecting a house and other mutual works. “Both menus indeed have existed before, I just show off back with professional touch like the cooking at hotel,” said Chef Wayan Sudarpa.

With casual clothes like farmers, the hotel chef hotel having a wealth of experience since 1992 came up in front of children posing the festival visitors. Understandably, the festival held by Buratwangi and Wintang Rare art studio is indeed aimed at bringing children to traditional games and having a closer look at paddy fields.

Then, it becomes more complete when they are invited to know more

about countryside food. “To make it more appropriate, children are playing in paddy fields and then tasting food usually served by farmers in the fields,” he added.

READ Batu Bolong Bar & Restaurant, Griska “Come Here to Enjoy” In the preparation, Chef Wayan Sudarpa used sophisticated and modern equipment. Nevertheless, the ingredients and the seasoning still utilize local products, so the distinctiveness of taste can still be maintained. He began the demo when the festival began, and ended around 14:00 or after the game was over. After cooking, visitors were invited to taste it.

but serves as a symbol of harmonious thought of the leaders with their residents. “In the propeller, the head turns, while the tail follows. Analogically, a commander must be in single word with its residents,” he said.

In addition, there is also a me-

lodious sound of sunari (perforated bamboo log blown by wind). It symbolizes the sound of nature giving revelation on the execution of ceremony. “At the base of sunari, there is also a monkey statue symbolizing Lord Vayu,” he said. (kmb)

typical and has a different taste as well.

It uses ingredients such as ½ breast of chicken meat, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, 3 tablespoons of red spice, a lemon, pepper and salt to taste.

The preparation is started by heating pan. Then, grill the chicken meat having been covered with red pepper spice and salt until looking brownish and mature. Heat the pan again and then add half a spoon of cooking oil, pour the red spices and a little water.

Next, serve the chicken and white rice and garnish it according to taste.

The ingredients used to make red spices are 5 cloves of shallot, 4 cloves of garlic, ½ piece of tomato, 3 candlenuts, and 6 red chilies. After all the ingredients are cleansed, fry with a small fire so it will not become burnt. Then, drain, chill and refine by means of blender, so that it becomes smooth.

Jukut Gedang Mekuah This type of Balinese vegetable uses ingredient like 1/2 piece of young papaya, chicken meat, 100 gram of shallot, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of Balinese spice, lemongrass, 2 bay leaves, 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, salt and pepper.Preparation: first of all, pre-heat the frying pan and then sauté garlic, onion, chopped spice, and lemongrass. Then, pour 500 ml of water as well as add salt and pepper.

Put the chopped chicken and rounded and then filled in with sliced ??shallot inside it, garlic, celery and yellow spice.

Furthermore, put young papaya vegetable having been cut like dice.Then, cook it for about 15 minutes. Having been cooked, Jukut Gedang Mekuah is ready to serve. However, before enjoying it will be more delicious if sprinkled with fried shallot and sliced celery as topping of the gravy. (kmb)

ficial bird –the Bali starling (jalak bali) can be found in the wild.

The park is made up of dry savanna, acacia scrub, lowland forests, mountains forest and some pockets of dense mangrove forest. Some of the distinctive fauna of the West Bali National Park includes: banteng (Bos javanicus), barking deer (Muntiacus muntjac), mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus), rusa (Cervus timorensis), forest cat (Felis bengalensis), grey monkey (Macaca fascicularis), black monkey (Presbytis Criscata), white starling (Stunus melanopterus),

yellow-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier), orioles (Oriolus chinensis) kingfisher (Halcyon Chloris).

Visitors can access the park by way of Lovina that is 90 minutes away, or though Pemuteran or Gilimanuk both of which are 15 minutes away from one of the park’s entrances.

All visitors must check in at one of the two park offices (PHPA) that are located in Cekik Village and Albuan Lalang respectively. Here visitors can further information, purchase an entrance ticket and arrange for a guide guide.(kmb)

Pelalah Manuk and Jukut Gedang Mekuah, Two Menus in Cooking Demo at Festival ke Uma

Pelalah Manuk This menu is very different when processed by a professional chef. It feels

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West Bali National Park is a nature conservation area that covers 190 square kilometers with another 580 square kilometers of protected reserve. The park is used for educational, research and recreational purposes and startles the border between the districts of Jembrana and Buleleng. The West Bali National Park is the only place where Bali’s of-

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Korolev as they attend the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 30, 2017.

Putin says U.S. must cut 755 diplomatic staff, more measures possible

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said the United States would have to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 people and that Moscow could consider additional measures against Washington as a response to new U.S. sanctions approved by Congress.

Moscow ordered the United States on Friday to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties after the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate overwhelmingly approved new sanctions on Russia. The White House said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump would sign the sanctions bill.

Putin said in an interview with Vesti TV released on Sunday that the United States would have to cut its diplomatic and technical staff by 755 people by Sept. 1.

“Because more than 1,000 workers - diplomats and support staff - were working and are still working in Russia, 755 must stop their activity in the Russian Federation,” he said.

The new U.S. sanctions were partly a response to conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia

meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and to punish Russia further for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Russia’s response suggested it had set aside initial hopes of better ties with Washington under Trump, something the Republican president, before he was elected, had said he wanted to achieve.

A federal law enforcement investigation and multiple U.S. congressional probes looking into the possibility that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia have made it harder for Trump to open a new chapter with Putin. Russia denies it interfered in the election and Trump has said there was no collusion.

Moscow said on Friday that the United States had until Sept. 1 to reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia to 455 people, matching the number of Russian diplomats left in the United States after Washington expelled 35 Russians in December.

On Friday, an official at the U.S. Embassy, who did not wish to be identified, said the embassy employed about 1,100 diplomatic and support staff in Russia, including Russian and U.S. citizens. (rtr)

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Stranded Yemenis, thousands of others stand to lose “golden ticket” to U.S.

NEW YORK - Yemen is urging the U.S. government to take in dozens of Yemenis who traveled to Malaysia in recent months expecting to immigrate to the United States, only to find themselves stranded by President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban.

The ban, which was blocked by lower courts before being partially reinstated by the Supreme Court in June, temporarily bars citizens of Yemen and five other Muslimmajority countries with no “bona fide” connections to the United States from traveling there.

The Supreme Court ruling sharply limited the number of people affected by the ban. Largely unreported has been the fate of one group - thousands of citizens of the six countries who won a randomized U.S. government lottery last year that enabled them to apply for a so-called green card granting them permanent residence in the United States.

In a stroke of bad luck for the lottery winners, the 90-day travel ban will expire on Sept. 27, just three days before their eligibility for the green cards expires. Given the slow pace of the immigration process, the State Department will likely struggle to issue their visas in time.

A recent email from the U.S. government to lottery winners still awaiting their visas warned “it is plausible that your case will not be issuable” due to the travel ban.

The lottery attracts about 14 million applicants each year, many of whom view it as a chance at the

“American Dream.” It serves as a potent symbol of U.S. openness abroad, despite the fact that the chance of success is miniscule about 0.3 percent, or slightly fewer than 50,000, of lottery entrants actually got a green card in 2015.

The program helps to foster an image of America “as a country which welcomes immigrants and immigration from around the world, but also especially from Africa,” said Johnnie Carson, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs during the Obama administration.

Some former diplomats worry the travel ban’s impact on the lottery could tarnish that image of inclusiveness.

“Taking this away from people who have won it is the cruelest possible thing this administration could do,” said Stephen Pattison, a former senior State Department consular official. “It makes us look petty and cruel as a society.”

Reuters spoke to dozens of lottery winners from Yemen, Iran and Syria, including about 20 who are still waiting for their visas to be issued. Many declined to be named so as not to risk their applications but provided emails and other documents to help confirm their accounts.

They described having spent thousands of dollars on the application process, and many said they had delayed having children, sold property and turned down lucrative job offers at home because they assumed they would soon be moving to the United States. (rtr)

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Yemeni Rafek Ahmed Mohammed Al-Sanani, 22, looks through documents as he speaks with Reuters in Serdang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia July 20, 2017. Picture taken July 20, 2017.

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President Jokowi invites Church Council to discuss nationality

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has invited delegates from Council of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) to Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, to discuss nationality and national unity.

“PGI gives lots of attention to the problems regarding our national living, regarding how we preserve our diversity together and how we build Indonesia together,” Henriette Hutabarat, PGIs Head said at Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Monday.

According to Henriette, the president also discussed the effort to preserve peace by building Pancasila values.

Meanwhile, PGIs General Secretary, Pastor Gomar Gultom, added that the president has also stated about infrastructure improvement, which could improve the prosperity of Papua.

“The infrastructure development currently underway is considered as an effort to boost Indonesias ability to compete with other countries around,” Gomar added.

During the meeting, Jokowi also extended investment invitation from the government to build the infrastructures because of national budget limitation.

According to PGI, the government has already taken the option towards national infrastructure development.

Meanwhile, amid the spread of hoaxes in social media, PGI has asked the government to inform people regarding the development.

“PGI has also delivered this message, so that whatever is being done so far, with this nations improvement, could be followed and continued by the president and not receive drawbacks from those who do not want this country to be better,” Gomar said.

Other than that, PGI has also stated their wish to the president regarding the government rule (Perppu) Number 2/2017 on Community Organization to make the application in a structured manner and without selfishness. (ant)

Aceh police foil attempt of smuggling 480 kg of hashish

ACEH - Police in Gayo Lues district, Aceh province, has arrested a 59-year old farmer on charge of smuggling 480 kilograms of hashish.

“The suspect has been arrested, along with 480 kilograms of hashish in front of Blangkejeren police station in Gayo Lues on Saturday (July 29) at around 07.30 p.m. local time,” spokesman for the Aceh provincial police Senior Commissioner Goenawan said here on Sunday.

The police also seized a L300 pickup and a mobile phone from the suspect, identified by his initial as S. The suspect was arrested after the police received on Saturday (July 29) a tip-off from the public that a L300 pickup carrying hashish would move past the police station.

“Based on the tip-off, personnel of the crime investigation unit at the Gayo Lues district police spied on the car and stopped it in front of the Blangkejeren police station,” he said. Police officers later searched the car and found 480 kilograms of hashish, he said.

“At that time the suspect, along with evidence was detained at the Gayo Lues district police station and later was handed over to the drug crime investigation unit at the Gayo Lues district police for further investigation,” he said. (ant)

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FILE - An Indonesian soldier stands guard near detained Vietnamese fisherman onboard Indonesian warship, KRI

Vietnam asks Indonesia to investigate South China Sea shooting

HANOI- Vietnam has asked Indonesia to investigate and clarify reports that the Indonesian navy shot and wounded two Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea. Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh told Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi by telephone that the reported incident was “very serious ... and not appropriate with the strategic partnership relationship between Vietnam and Indonesia,” the Vietnamese foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.

“Vietnam is deeply concerned about this incident and proposes Indonesia to quickly investigate and clarify the incident and inform Vietnam of the results and to stop repeating similar acts,” Minh was quoting as saying. Earlier this week, a local Vietnamese sea rescue committee said Indonesia’s navy had shot and wounded the Vietnamese fishermen last weekend.

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

The report was pulled off the website the next day. Indonesia’s foreign minister told Reuters the information provided by her country’s navy on the

incident was different and said illegal fishing involving Vietnam had been a long-term issue. Marsudi said in a text message she had underlined to Vietnam’s foreign minister the importance of the countries settling negotiations on their exclusive economic zones. She said the two would meet in Manila during a regional forum next month.

The Indonesian navy has yet to comment on the incident. Disputes over fishing rights and oil drilling have stoked tension in the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in goods is shipped each year.

China claims almost the entire sea, but Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims. Although Indonesia says it is not a party to the dispute, it recently renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim. The coordinates given by the Vietnamese search and rescue committee indicated that the shooting happened close to the area Indonesia now calls the North Natuna Sea. Indonesia has sunk hundreds of mostly foreign boats caught illegally fishing in its waters since President Joko Widodo launched a crackdown on the poaching of fish in 2014. Indonesia and Vietnam said in May they would launch a joint investigation after reports that Vietnamese coast guards had tried to forcibly free five fishing boats and their crew detained in waters near Indonesia’s Natuna Islands. (rtr)

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Ricciardo slams “amateur” team mate Verstappen

House of Alaia MANGUPURA - House of Alaia is a small studio on the main Jalan Batu Bolong route in Canggu that offers jewellery making and art classes. Besides showcasing its own collection of exquisite jewellery pieces by its two designer founders, Nea and Christy, the workshop lets you bring your own design and make your own precious keepsake or a gift meant for someone special. Classes cater to individuals or couples, kids and groups, and you can also go for multiple sessions to learn techniques in-depth. Those with the slightest idea about jewellerymaking can gain a whole new perspective and appreciation for the art upon completing an intricate ring, pendant or bracelet that they have created all by themselves. House of

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In this Aug. 12, 2013, file photo, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt gestures on the podium before receiving his gold medal for the men’s 100-meter at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia. The man who reshaped the record book and saved his sport along the way is saying goodbye. His runs through the 100 meters and Jamaica’s 4x100 relay at next week’s world championships are expected to produce golds yet again, along with leaving people to wonder who could possibly take his place.

Bolt departure great for rivals, bad for athletics

BUDAPEST - Australian Daniel Ricciardo blasted Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen for ‘amateur’ driving on Sunday after the Dutch teenager shunted him out of the Hungarian Grand Prix on the opening lap.

The two started together on the third row and Ricciardo’s car was smashed into by Verstappen at turn two with the Australian ahead.

The impact sent him into a spin, damaged the radiator and left the Red Bull stranded on track with the safety car deployed.

“It was amateur to say the least,” Ricciardo fumed to Sky Sports television.

It’s not like he was trying to pass -- there was no room to pass...

I don’t think he likes when a team mate gets in front,” he added.

“You’ve got the whole race to try and repair the mistake but the pass was never on. It wasn’t even a pass, it was a very poor mistake.”

Ricciardo, a past winner in Hungary, had been fastest in Friday practice and had hopes of a good result with a car benefiting from aerodynamic updates and well suited to the circuit.

He said the team would sort things out between the two but suggested Verstappen needed to change his attitude.

“There isn’t an excuse for it,” he said. “He tried the outside at Turn One and all of a sudden what was a good start is a bad start.

He sees me go past and thinks ‘I’ve got to fix this’ and then we crash.”

Verstappen, who was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty but still finished fifth, said he would be apologising.

“It is never my intention to hit anyone, but especially not your team mate, and especially with the relationship I have with Daniel -- it’s always really good and we can always have a laugh,” said the 19-year-old.

“This is not nice and I apologise to Daniel for that and also to the team because we could have scored some good points here. I’ll speak with Daniel in private and we’ll sort it out.” (rtr)

ZURICH - Usain Bolt’s rivals will, for once, be glad to see the back of a man who has dominated global sprinting for the last decade but the sport of athletics will be far less enthusiastic about bidding a final farewell to the charismatic Jamaican.

Bolt has completed the sprint double at the last three Olympics and had he not been disqualified ahead of the 100 metres final at Daegu in 2011, the 30-year-old could have matched that feat at the last four world championships. In an era blighted by doping scandals, the Jamaican has almost single-handedly kept the sport afloat but his commanding reign will come to an end when he retires after next month’s world championships, finally allowing other sprinters a look-in.

In the simple matter of who will take his place at the top of the 100 metres podium either at or after London, Canada’s Olympic sprint medallist Andre de Grasse appears to be just ahead of the pack as the leading candidate. “(De Grasse) shows up when it counts. That’s the mark of a veteran.

Even though he has been in the sport not too long,” Justin Gatlin, Olympic gold medallist in 2004 and runnerup behind Bolt in Rio last year, told Reuters.

South Africa also has a new gen-

eration of stars, led by Akani Simbine and Thando Roto, although with their national championships taking place in March, peaking twice in one season could hinder their hopes of victory in London.

“It’s difficult to be running fast in March and having to peak for your nationals and still find a away to be ready at the middle of August,” former 200m world champion Ato Boldon told Reuters.

The door could also open for the United States, a traditional sprint powerhouse but largely forgotten as a threat for a decade since Gatlin and Tyson Gay tested positive for illegal drugs. However, Christian Coleman put himself on the map when he ran 9.82 seconds, the fastest time this year, during the U.S. collegiate championships, while Trayvon Bromell won bronze at the world championships two years ago aged just 20.

SOMETHING SPECIAL But whether any athlete can come close to matching Bolt’s dominance

and charisma is a different matter.

“You would have to have someone who is dominating, no one is doing that,” said Michael Johnson, former Olympic champion in the 200 metres and 400 metres.

“You would have to have someone who has something special he has in terms of personality,” the American told Reuters.

“In track and field, after I left, it wasn’t like somebody just stepped in. It was eight years before Bolt came along.

Johnson is one of those who feel the sport needs to work harder at promoting itself rather than waiting for a “new Bolt” to burst on the scene.

“I don’t think the sport should depend on that,” he said.

“If the federations don’t want to have to promote the sport itself, want to just ride the coattails of a great athlete, yeah it’s going to be hard.

“It’s a great sport right here in front of all of us, if we would just promote that, but that takes some work. It’s not that easy.” (rtr)

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Australian Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull meets fans on the Hungaroring circuit in Mogyorod, 23 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, July 27, 2017. The Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix will be held on Sunday July 30.

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Julie Ertz caps late US comeback in 4-3 win over Brazil

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FILE- In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 file photo, Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo looks on during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Valencia at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. Ronaldo has arrived at a Spanish court to answer questions as part of an investigation to determine whether the Real Madrid forward committed tax fraud.

Ronaldo appears before judge in tax fraud investigation

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo appeared before a Spanish judge Monday as part of an investigation to determine whether the Portugal forward committed tax fraud. The Real Madrid player spent more than 90 minutes answering the questions of investigating judge Monica Gomez. The session at Pozuelo de Alarcon Court No. 1 on the outskirts of Madrid was closed to the public because it is part of an ongoing investigation.

The 32-year-old Ronaldo used an alternative entrance to avoid a large swarm of journalists gathered near the main door to the court. Court officials had said that either Ronaldo or his lawyer would speak to the media after he saw the judge, but neither stepped up to the temporary podium in front of the courthouse. Judge Gomez took Ronaldo’s testimony as part of an investigation to determine if there are grounds to charge him.

In June, a state prosecutor accused Ronaldo of four counts of tax fraud from 2011-14 worth 14.7 million euros ($16.5 million). The prosecutor accused the Portugal forward of having used shell companies outside Spain to hide income made from image rights. The accusation does not involve his salary from Real Madrid.

Ronaldo denied any wrongdoing. The prosecutor alleged that Ronaldo used what was deemed a shell company in the Virgin Islands to “create a screen in order to hide his total income from Spain’s Tax Office.”

The prosecutor accused Ronaldo of declaring 11.5 million euros ($12.8 million) earned from 2011-14 in a tax return filed in 2014, when the prosecutor said Ronaldo’s real income during that period was almost 43 million euros ($48 million). It added that Ronaldo falsely claimed the income as coming from real estate,

which “greatly” reduced his tax rate.

The prosecutor also said that Ronaldo did not declare income of 28.4 million euros ($31.8 million) made from the cession of image rights from 2015-20 to another company located in Spain. Ronaldo’s agency, Gestifute, said he was up to date on his taxes and that he had maintained the same financial planning in Spain that he had while playing for Manchester United before joining Madrid in 2009.

A four-time Ballon d’Or winner, Ronaldo is one of Europe’s best soccer players. He has led Madrid to back-to-back Champions League titles and helped Portugal to win last year’s European Championship.

Last month, Spain’s state prosecutor also accused former Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho of defrauding 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million) in 2011 and 2012 from income made from image rights. Mourinho, now coach of Manchester United, has yet to be summoned for questioning and through his agent has denied any wrongdoing. The probes into Ronaldo and Mourinho’s financial arrangements are the most recent high-profile tax cases involving soccer’s top names in Spain.

Last year, Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, were found guilty on three counts of defrauding tax authorities of 4.1 million euros ($4.6 million) from income made from image rights.

They have both paid additional fines in exchange for their 21-month jail sentences to be suspended.

Both former Real Madrid forward Angel Di Maria and Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano have admitted to tax fraud in exchange for lighter treatment from the law, and prosecutors have also opened tax fraud investigations into former Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao and former Real Madrid defender Fabio Coentrao. In Spain, a judge can suspend sentences of less than two years for first-time offenders. (ap)

SAN DIEGO — Julie Ertz came in off the bench and scored in the 89th minute and the United States overcame a late two-goal deficit to beat Brazil 4-3 on Sunday night in the Tournament of Nations. The United States was in danger of losing for the fourth time this year before the threegoal flurry in about nine minutes.

Two minutes after Brazil’s Andressinha scored on a free kick in the 78th minute for her second goal of the game, Christen Press countered to make it 3-2 with her 43rd career goal and second of the year.

Press fed Megan Rapinoe for a spectacular running blast that tied it in the 85th minute, and Ertz put the Americans ahead four minutes later. Ertz is using her married name after playing as Julie Johnston.

Rapinoe, who was recovering from knee surgery for much of last year, had not scored for the national team since the 2015 World Cup. She has rebounded this season with the NWSL’s Seattle Reign and leads the league with 12 goals.

The United States was coming off a 1-0 loss to Australia in the team’s Tournament of Nations

opener in Seattle on Thursday night. It was the first time that the Australians beat the Americans 28 previous matches. Coach Jill Ellis tinkered with her lineup against Brazil, surprisingly moving Becky Sauerbrunn to a defensive midfielder role rather than her usual spot at center back.

The United States has never dropped four games on home soil in a single season. In addition to Australia on Thursday, the Americans fell to England and France in the She Believes Cup in March.

The Americans have won just four matches when they’ve allowed an opponent three goals.

In Sunday’s early game at Qualcomm Stadium, Sam Kerr scored three goals for her first international hat trick and the Australian women’s national team beat Japan 4-2. Kerr scored in the 10th, 14th and 43rd minutes, capping the trio of goals with a backflip.

Australia, ranked No. 7 in the world, leads the tournament standings. The Matildas will wrap up the round-robin tournament against Brazil on Thursday in Carson, California. The United States will face Japan.(ap)

AP Photo/Gregory Bull

United States midfielder Megan Rapinoe, right, reacts after scoring a goal against Brazil during the second half of a Tournament of Nations women’s soccer match Sunday, July 30, 2017, in San Diego.

Fan wants more Chinese to follow Zhang’s overseas adventure HONG KONG - China World Cup defender Fan Zhiyi has called for more players from the country to follow in the footsteps of striker Zhang Yuning and test themselves in Europe’s leading leagues. Zhang, who spent the last two seasons playing in the Netherlands with Vitesse, signed a three-year contract with West Bromwich Albion in early July before being immediately sent on a two-year loan to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.

The 20-year-old is the only member of China’s national squad currently playing in Europe and Fan, who played a key role in qualifying China for their only World Cup appearance in 2002, wants to see more players from the country follow suit.

“For me, they should try,” Fan, who had spells at Crystal Palace, Dundee and Cardiff City during his playing career, told Reuters. “They shouldn’t only say that I can play in Europe, they should try. There’s a difference. “If they are good they can stay there, but if they don’t have a chance then they can come back. But they have to try.”

China’s domestic league has experienced a significant influx of foreign talent in recent years, with big-name South Americans such as Oscar and Carlos Tevez moving to the Chinese Super

League for huge salaries.

The country’s best talent has also benefited financially, with national team players seeing increases in the amounts they can earn as clubs seek to ensure the best Chinese players remain at home. While players such as Zhang Linpeng and Wu Lei were linked with moves abroad, they have stayed at Guangzhou Evergrande and Shanghai SIPG respectively, but Zhang Yuning has bucked that trend and Fan believes his development will benefit.

“I think Zhang Yuning will be ok because he was in the Dutch league for two years,” said Fan, who was named Asia’s Player of the Year in 2001.

“He always tries to use his body and I think he’ll be ok. He’ll try to do his best in Germany.

He’s the only Chinese player so I hope he can do well there. I really want Yuning to concentrate there 100 percent.

“It’s difficult going there and playing as a striker, either in the UK or Germany. But I think he’s ready because he’s had two years’ experience in the Dutch league. “There’s only one thing he must do: every training session, every game he must give 100 percent.” (rtr)

Players running down contracts will become a norm, says Wenger

Players running down their contracts will become the norm in years to come due to skyrocketing transfer fees, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said.

Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil have both entered the final year of their deals, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Santi Cazorla, Jack Wilshere and Kieran Gibbs could also leave Arsenal for free in 12 months’ time.

Wenger tried to see the positive side, saying it could be an “ideal situation” for the club as the players would be motivated to perform to impress potential suitors. “I think in the future, you will see it more and more. Why? Because the transfers are so high, even for normal players,” he told reporters on Sunday.

“You will see more and more players going into the final year of the contract because no club will want to pay the amount demanded... in the next 10 years, it will become usual.

“I think the performance on the day does not depend on the length of the contract, if that was true we would sign everyone for 20 years and be happy.”

Sanchez, who was Arsenal’s top scorer in the Premier League with 24 goals last season, has been linked with a move to Paris St Germain in the French media, but Wenger was adamant he would stay at the Emirates Stadium. “Do I think he will stay? Yes, of course. How many times did I tell you that?,” the Frenchman added.

“One day, he will go and Arsenal will go on. We will all go one day and Arsenal, hopefully, will go on.” Arsenal kick off their league campaign against Leicester City on Aug. 11. (rtr)

REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra

Werder Bremen’s Yuning Zhang in action against West Ham United’s Moses Makasi (R)

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Julie Ertz caps late US comeback in 4-3 win over Brazil

AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File

FILE- In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 file photo, Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo looks on during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Valencia at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. Ronaldo has arrived at a Spanish court to answer questions as part of an investigation to determine whether the Real Madrid forward committed tax fraud.

Ronaldo appears before judge in tax fraud investigation

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo appeared before a Spanish judge Monday as part of an investigation to determine whether the Portugal forward committed tax fraud. The Real Madrid player spent more than 90 minutes answering the questions of investigating judge Monica Gomez. The session at Pozuelo de Alarcon Court No. 1 on the outskirts of Madrid was closed to the public because it is part of an ongoing investigation.

The 32-year-old Ronaldo used an alternative entrance to avoid a large swarm of journalists gathered near the main door to the court. Court officials had said that either Ronaldo or his lawyer would speak to the media after he saw the judge, but neither stepped up to the temporary podium in front of the courthouse. Judge Gomez took Ronaldo’s testimony as part of an investigation to determine if there are grounds to charge him.

In June, a state prosecutor accused Ronaldo of four counts of tax fraud from 2011-14 worth 14.7 million euros ($16.5 million). The prosecutor accused the Portugal forward of having used shell companies outside Spain to hide income made from image rights. The accusation does not involve his salary from Real Madrid.

Ronaldo denied any wrongdoing. The prosecutor alleged that Ronaldo used what was deemed a shell company in the Virgin Islands to “create a screen in order to hide his total income from Spain’s Tax Office.”

The prosecutor accused Ronaldo of declaring 11.5 million euros ($12.8 million) earned from 2011-14 in a tax return filed in 2014, when the prosecutor said Ronaldo’s real income during that period was almost 43 million euros ($48 million). It added that Ronaldo falsely claimed the income as coming from real estate,

which “greatly” reduced his tax rate.

The prosecutor also said that Ronaldo did not declare income of 28.4 million euros ($31.8 million) made from the cession of image rights from 2015-20 to another company located in Spain. Ronaldo’s agency, Gestifute, said he was up to date on his taxes and that he had maintained the same financial planning in Spain that he had while playing for Manchester United before joining Madrid in 2009.

A four-time Ballon d’Or winner, Ronaldo is one of Europe’s best soccer players. He has led Madrid to back-to-back Champions League titles and helped Portugal to win last year’s European Championship.

Last month, Spain’s state prosecutor also accused former Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho of defrauding 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million) in 2011 and 2012 from income made from image rights. Mourinho, now coach of Manchester United, has yet to be summoned for questioning and through his agent has denied any wrongdoing. The probes into Ronaldo and Mourinho’s financial arrangements are the most recent high-profile tax cases involving soccer’s top names in Spain.

Last year, Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, were found guilty on three counts of defrauding tax authorities of 4.1 million euros ($4.6 million) from income made from image rights.

They have both paid additional fines in exchange for their 21-month jail sentences to be suspended.

Both former Real Madrid forward Angel Di Maria and Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano have admitted to tax fraud in exchange for lighter treatment from the law, and prosecutors have also opened tax fraud investigations into former Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao and former Real Madrid defender Fabio Coentrao. In Spain, a judge can suspend sentences of less than two years for first-time offenders. (ap)

SAN DIEGO — Julie Ertz came in off the bench and scored in the 89th minute and the United States overcame a late two-goal deficit to beat Brazil 4-3 on Sunday night in the Tournament of Nations. The United States was in danger of losing for the fourth time this year before the threegoal flurry in about nine minutes.

Two minutes after Brazil’s Andressinha scored on a free kick in the 78th minute for her second goal of the game, Christen Press countered to make it 3-2 with her 43rd career goal and second of the year.

Press fed Megan Rapinoe for a spectacular running blast that tied it in the 85th minute, and Ertz put the Americans ahead four minutes later. Ertz is using her married name after playing as Julie Johnston.

Rapinoe, who was recovering from knee surgery for much of last year, had not scored for the national team since the 2015 World Cup. She has rebounded this season with the NWSL’s Seattle Reign and leads the league with 12 goals.

The United States was coming off a 1-0 loss to Australia in the team’s Tournament of Nations

opener in Seattle on Thursday night. It was the first time that the Australians beat the Americans 28 previous matches. Coach Jill Ellis tinkered with her lineup against Brazil, surprisingly moving Becky Sauerbrunn to a defensive midfielder role rather than her usual spot at center back.

The United States has never dropped four games on home soil in a single season. In addition to Australia on Thursday, the Americans fell to England and France in the She Believes Cup in March.

The Americans have won just four matches when they’ve allowed an opponent three goals.

In Sunday’s early game at Qualcomm Stadium, Sam Kerr scored three goals for her first international hat trick and the Australian women’s national team beat Japan 4-2. Kerr scored in the 10th, 14th and 43rd minutes, capping the trio of goals with a backflip.

Australia, ranked No. 7 in the world, leads the tournament standings. The Matildas will wrap up the round-robin tournament against Brazil on Thursday in Carson, California. The United States will face Japan.(ap)

AP Photo/Gregory Bull

United States midfielder Megan Rapinoe, right, reacts after scoring a goal against Brazil during the second half of a Tournament of Nations women’s soccer match Sunday, July 30, 2017, in San Diego.

Fan wants more Chinese to follow Zhang’s overseas adventure HONG KONG - China World Cup defender Fan Zhiyi has called for more players from the country to follow in the footsteps of striker Zhang Yuning and test themselves in Europe’s leading leagues. Zhang, who spent the last two seasons playing in the Netherlands with Vitesse, signed a three-year contract with West Bromwich Albion in early July before being immediately sent on a two-year loan to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.

The 20-year-old is the only member of China’s national squad currently playing in Europe and Fan, who played a key role in qualifying China for their only World Cup appearance in 2002, wants to see more players from the country follow suit.

“For me, they should try,” Fan, who had spells at Crystal Palace, Dundee and Cardiff City during his playing career, told Reuters. “They shouldn’t only say that I can play in Europe, they should try. There’s a difference. “If they are good they can stay there, but if they don’t have a chance then they can come back. But they have to try.”

China’s domestic league has experienced a significant influx of foreign talent in recent years, with big-name South Americans such as Oscar and Carlos Tevez moving to the Chinese Super

League for huge salaries.

The country’s best talent has also benefited financially, with national team players seeing increases in the amounts they can earn as clubs seek to ensure the best Chinese players remain at home. While players such as Zhang Linpeng and Wu Lei were linked with moves abroad, they have stayed at Guangzhou Evergrande and Shanghai SIPG respectively, but Zhang Yuning has bucked that trend and Fan believes his development will benefit.

“I think Zhang Yuning will be ok because he was in the Dutch league for two years,” said Fan, who was named Asia’s Player of the Year in 2001.

“He always tries to use his body and I think he’ll be ok. He’ll try to do his best in Germany.

He’s the only Chinese player so I hope he can do well there. I really want Yuning to concentrate there 100 percent.

“It’s difficult going there and playing as a striker, either in the UK or Germany. But I think he’s ready because he’s had two years’ experience in the Dutch league. “There’s only one thing he must do: every training session, every game he must give 100 percent.” (rtr)

Players running down contracts will become a norm, says Wenger

Players running down their contracts will become the norm in years to come due to skyrocketing transfer fees, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said.

Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil have both entered the final year of their deals, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Santi Cazorla, Jack Wilshere and Kieran Gibbs could also leave Arsenal for free in 12 months’ time.

Wenger tried to see the positive side, saying it could be an “ideal situation” for the club as the players would be motivated to perform to impress potential suitors. “I think in the future, you will see it more and more. Why? Because the transfers are so high, even for normal players,” he told reporters on Sunday.

“You will see more and more players going into the final year of the contract because no club will want to pay the amount demanded... in the next 10 years, it will become usual.

“I think the performance on the day does not depend on the length of the contract, if that was true we would sign everyone for 20 years and be happy.”

Sanchez, who was Arsenal’s top scorer in the Premier League with 24 goals last season, has been linked with a move to Paris St Germain in the French media, but Wenger was adamant he would stay at the Emirates Stadium. “Do I think he will stay? Yes, of course. How many times did I tell you that?,” the Frenchman added.

“One day, he will go and Arsenal will go on. We will all go one day and Arsenal, hopefully, will go on.” Arsenal kick off their league campaign against Leicester City on Aug. 11. (rtr)

REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra

Werder Bremen’s Yuning Zhang in action against West Ham United’s Moses Makasi (R)

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Ricciardo slams “amateur” team mate Verstappen

House of Alaia MANGUPURA - House of Alaia is a small studio on the main Jalan Batu Bolong route in Canggu that offers jewellery making and art classes. Besides showcasing its own collection of exquisite jewellery pieces by its two designer founders, Nea and Christy, the workshop lets you bring your own design and make your own precious keepsake or a gift meant for someone special. Classes cater to individuals or couples, kids and groups, and you can also go for multiple sessions to learn techniques in-depth. Those with the slightest idea about jewellerymaking can gain a whole new perspective and appreciation for the art upon completing an intricate ring, pendant or bracelet that they have created all by themselves. House of

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Alaia has three-hour introductory classes, where you can pick up the basics of metalwork and work your way through with provided wires or sheets and under the guidance of their team of local silversmiths, to form your own masterpiece.

This beginner’s class is available Monday to Friday, and is suitable for kids aged seven and up.

A beginner’s class at House of Alaia is at USD 150 per person. A typical course is broken down as follows. Firstly, you get acquainted with the basics; different sets of tools required for sawing and shaping, then a bit of stamping and hammering to acquire the desired shapes to start off with. Then there’s a bit of soldering, followed by sanding and polishing, and whole

lot of other techniques. Mostly throughout the process, you’ll get to know how to handle silver, and most importantly, how to do them safely. To keep the learning curve great, class sizes are usually kept small, with no more than six students per session. You only need to bring along an idea or inspiration, perhaps in a sketch, for your own special design, and all the tools are provided to make your dream design a reality. Or, check out House of Alaia’s own collection for some inspiration. There’s ‘The Anchor’ collection inspired by the seafaring spirit, or the ‘Fabrics of Life’ with intricate nature and leaf designs in pendants and earrings.

After a session, you’ll be able to take your very own unique piece of jewellery back home. (IBP/net)

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In this Aug. 12, 2013, file photo, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt gestures on the podium before receiving his gold medal for the men’s 100-meter at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia. The man who reshaped the record book and saved his sport along the way is saying goodbye. His runs through the 100 meters and Jamaica’s 4x100 relay at next week’s world championships are expected to produce golds yet again, along with leaving people to wonder who could possibly take his place.

Bolt departure great for rivals, bad for athletics

BUDAPEST - Australian Daniel Ricciardo blasted Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen for ‘amateur’ driving on Sunday after the Dutch teenager shunted him out of the Hungarian Grand Prix on the opening lap.

The two started together on the third row and Ricciardo’s car was smashed into by Verstappen at turn two with the Australian ahead.

The impact sent him into a spin, damaged the radiator and left the Red Bull stranded on track with the safety car deployed.

“It was amateur to say the least,” Ricciardo fumed to Sky Sports television.

It’s not like he was trying to pass -- there was no room to pass...

I don’t think he likes when a team mate gets in front,” he added.

“You’ve got the whole race to try and repair the mistake but the pass was never on. It wasn’t even a pass, it was a very poor mistake.”

Ricciardo, a past winner in Hungary, had been fastest in Friday practice and had hopes of a good result with a car benefiting from aerodynamic updates and well suited to the circuit.

He said the team would sort things out between the two but suggested Verstappen needed to change his attitude.

“There isn’t an excuse for it,” he said. “He tried the outside at Turn One and all of a sudden what was a good start is a bad start.

He sees me go past and thinks ‘I’ve got to fix this’ and then we crash.”

Verstappen, who was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty but still finished fifth, said he would be apologising.

“It is never my intention to hit anyone, but especially not your team mate, and especially with the relationship I have with Daniel -- it’s always really good and we can always have a laugh,” said the 19-year-old.

“This is not nice and I apologise to Daniel for that and also to the team because we could have scored some good points here. I’ll speak with Daniel in private and we’ll sort it out.” (rtr)

ZURICH - Usain Bolt’s rivals will, for once, be glad to see the back of a man who has dominated global sprinting for the last decade but the sport of athletics will be far less enthusiastic about bidding a final farewell to the charismatic Jamaican.

Bolt has completed the sprint double at the last three Olympics and had he not been disqualified ahead of the 100 metres final at Daegu in 2011, the 30-year-old could have matched that feat at the last four world championships. In an era blighted by doping scandals, the Jamaican has almost single-handedly kept the sport afloat but his commanding reign will come to an end when he retires after next month’s world championships, finally allowing other sprinters a look-in.

In the simple matter of who will take his place at the top of the 100 metres podium either at or after London, Canada’s Olympic sprint medallist Andre de Grasse appears to be just ahead of the pack as the leading candidate. “(De Grasse) shows up when it counts. That’s the mark of a veteran.

Even though he has been in the sport not too long,” Justin Gatlin, Olympic gold medallist in 2004 and runnerup behind Bolt in Rio last year, told Reuters.

South Africa also has a new gen-

eration of stars, led by Akani Simbine and Thando Roto, although with their national championships taking place in March, peaking twice in one season could hinder their hopes of victory in London.

“It’s difficult to be running fast in March and having to peak for your nationals and still find a away to be ready at the middle of August,” former 200m world champion Ato Boldon told Reuters.

The door could also open for the United States, a traditional sprint powerhouse but largely forgotten as a threat for a decade since Gatlin and Tyson Gay tested positive for illegal drugs. However, Christian Coleman put himself on the map when he ran 9.82 seconds, the fastest time this year, during the U.S. collegiate championships, while Trayvon Bromell won bronze at the world championships two years ago aged just 20.

SOMETHING SPECIAL But whether any athlete can come close to matching Bolt’s dominance

and charisma is a different matter.

“You would have to have someone who is dominating, no one is doing that,” said Michael Johnson, former Olympic champion in the 200 metres and 400 metres.

“You would have to have someone who has something special he has in terms of personality,” the American told Reuters.

“In track and field, after I left, it wasn’t like somebody just stepped in. It was eight years before Bolt came along.

Johnson is one of those who feel the sport needs to work harder at promoting itself rather than waiting for a “new Bolt” to burst on the scene.

“I don’t think the sport should depend on that,” he said.

“If the federations don’t want to have to promote the sport itself, want to just ride the coattails of a great athlete, yeah it’s going to be hard.

“It’s a great sport right here in front of all of us, if we would just promote that, but that takes some work. It’s not that easy.” (rtr)

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Australian Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull meets fans on the Hungaroring circuit in Mogyorod, 23 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, July 27, 2017. The Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix will be held on Sunday July 30.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Korolev as they attend the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 30, 2017.

Putin says U.S. must cut 755 diplomatic staff, more measures possible

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said the United States would have to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 people and that Moscow could consider additional measures against Washington as a response to new U.S. sanctions approved by Congress.

Moscow ordered the United States on Friday to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties after the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate overwhelmingly approved new sanctions on Russia. The White House said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump would sign the sanctions bill.

Putin said in an interview with Vesti TV released on Sunday that the United States would have to cut its diplomatic and technical staff by 755 people by Sept. 1.

“Because more than 1,000 workers - diplomats and support staff - were working and are still working in Russia, 755 must stop their activity in the Russian Federation,” he said.

The new U.S. sanctions were partly a response to conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia

meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and to punish Russia further for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Russia’s response suggested it had set aside initial hopes of better ties with Washington under Trump, something the Republican president, before he was elected, had said he wanted to achieve.

A federal law enforcement investigation and multiple U.S. congressional probes looking into the possibility that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia have made it harder for Trump to open a new chapter with Putin. Russia denies it interfered in the election and Trump has said there was no collusion.

Moscow said on Friday that the United States had until Sept. 1 to reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia to 455 people, matching the number of Russian diplomats left in the United States after Washington expelled 35 Russians in December.

On Friday, an official at the U.S. Embassy, who did not wish to be identified, said the embassy employed about 1,100 diplomatic and support staff in Russia, including Russian and U.S. citizens. (rtr)

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Stranded Yemenis, thousands of others stand to lose “golden ticket” to U.S.

NEW YORK - Yemen is urging the U.S. government to take in dozens of Yemenis who traveled to Malaysia in recent months expecting to immigrate to the United States, only to find themselves stranded by President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban.

The ban, which was blocked by lower courts before being partially reinstated by the Supreme Court in June, temporarily bars citizens of Yemen and five other Muslimmajority countries with no “bona fide” connections to the United States from traveling there.

The Supreme Court ruling sharply limited the number of people affected by the ban. Largely unreported has been the fate of one group - thousands of citizens of the six countries who won a randomized U.S. government lottery last year that enabled them to apply for a so-called green card granting them permanent residence in the United States.

In a stroke of bad luck for the lottery winners, the 90-day travel ban will expire on Sept. 27, just three days before their eligibility for the green cards expires. Given the slow pace of the immigration process, the State Department will likely struggle to issue their visas in time.

A recent email from the U.S. government to lottery winners still awaiting their visas warned “it is plausible that your case will not be issuable” due to the travel ban.

The lottery attracts about 14 million applicants each year, many of whom view it as a chance at the

“American Dream.” It serves as a potent symbol of U.S. openness abroad, despite the fact that the chance of success is miniscule about 0.3 percent, or slightly fewer than 50,000, of lottery entrants actually got a green card in 2015.

The program helps to foster an image of America “as a country which welcomes immigrants and immigration from around the world, but also especially from Africa,” said Johnnie Carson, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs during the Obama administration.

Some former diplomats worry the travel ban’s impact on the lottery could tarnish that image of inclusiveness.

“Taking this away from people who have won it is the cruelest possible thing this administration could do,” said Stephen Pattison, a former senior State Department consular official. “It makes us look petty and cruel as a society.”

Reuters spoke to dozens of lottery winners from Yemen, Iran and Syria, including about 20 who are still waiting for their visas to be issued. Many declined to be named so as not to risk their applications but provided emails and other documents to help confirm their accounts.

They described having spent thousands of dollars on the application process, and many said they had delayed having children, sold property and turned down lucrative job offers at home because they assumed they would soon be moving to the United States. (rtr)

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Yemeni Rafek Ahmed Mohammed Al-Sanani, 22, looks through documents as he speaks with Reuters in Serdang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia July 20, 2017. Picture taken July 20, 2017.

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President Jokowi invites Church Council to discuss nationality

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has invited delegates from Council of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) to Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, to discuss nationality and national unity.

“PGI gives lots of attention to the problems regarding our national living, regarding how we preserve our diversity together and how we build Indonesia together,” Henriette Hutabarat, PGIs Head said at Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Monday.

According to Henriette, the president also discussed the effort to preserve peace by building Pancasila values.

Meanwhile, PGIs General Secretary, Pastor Gomar Gultom, added that the president has also stated about infrastructure improvement, which could improve the prosperity of Papua.

“The infrastructure development currently underway is considered as an effort to boost Indonesias ability to compete with other countries around,” Gomar added.

During the meeting, Jokowi also extended investment invitation from the government to build the infrastructures because of national budget limitation.

According to PGI, the government has already taken the option towards national infrastructure development.

Meanwhile, amid the spread of hoaxes in social media, PGI has asked the government to inform people regarding the development.

“PGI has also delivered this message, so that whatever is being done so far, with this nations improvement, could be followed and continued by the president and not receive drawbacks from those who do not want this country to be better,” Gomar said.

Other than that, PGI has also stated their wish to the president regarding the government rule (Perppu) Number 2/2017 on Community Organization to make the application in a structured manner and without selfishness. (ant)

Aceh police foil attempt of smuggling 480 kg of hashish

ACEH - Police in Gayo Lues district, Aceh province, has arrested a 59-year old farmer on charge of smuggling 480 kilograms of hashish.

“The suspect has been arrested, along with 480 kilograms of hashish in front of Blangkejeren police station in Gayo Lues on Saturday (July 29) at around 07.30 p.m. local time,” spokesman for the Aceh provincial police Senior Commissioner Goenawan said here on Sunday.

The police also seized a L300 pickup and a mobile phone from the suspect, identified by his initial as S. The suspect was arrested after the police received on Saturday (July 29) a tip-off from the public that a L300 pickup carrying hashish would move past the police station.

“Based on the tip-off, personnel of the crime investigation unit at the Gayo Lues district police spied on the car and stopped it in front of the Blangkejeren police station,” he said. Police officers later searched the car and found 480 kilograms of hashish, he said.

“At that time the suspect, along with evidence was detained at the Gayo Lues district police station and later was handed over to the drug crime investigation unit at the Gayo Lues district police for further investigation,” he said. (ant)

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FILE - An Indonesian soldier stands guard near detained Vietnamese fisherman onboard Indonesian warship, KRI

Vietnam asks Indonesia to investigate South China Sea shooting

HANOI- Vietnam has asked Indonesia to investigate and clarify reports that the Indonesian navy shot and wounded two Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea. Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh told Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi by telephone that the reported incident was “very serious ... and not appropriate with the strategic partnership relationship between Vietnam and Indonesia,” the Vietnamese foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.

“Vietnam is deeply concerned about this incident and proposes Indonesia to quickly investigate and clarify the incident and inform Vietnam of the results and to stop repeating similar acts,” Minh was quoting as saying. Earlier this week, a local Vietnamese sea rescue committee said Indonesia’s navy had shot and wounded the Vietnamese fishermen last weekend.

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

The report was pulled off the website the next day. Indonesia’s foreign minister told Reuters the information provided by her country’s navy on the

incident was different and said illegal fishing involving Vietnam had been a long-term issue. Marsudi said in a text message she had underlined to Vietnam’s foreign minister the importance of the countries settling negotiations on their exclusive economic zones. She said the two would meet in Manila during a regional forum next month.

The Indonesian navy has yet to comment on the incident. Disputes over fishing rights and oil drilling have stoked tension in the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in goods is shipped each year.

China claims almost the entire sea, but Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims. Although Indonesia says it is not a party to the dispute, it recently renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim. The coordinates given by the Vietnamese search and rescue committee indicated that the shooting happened close to the area Indonesia now calls the North Natuna Sea. Indonesia has sunk hundreds of mostly foreign boats caught illegally fishing in its waters since President Joko Widodo launched a crackdown on the poaching of fish in 2014. Indonesia and Vietnam said in May they would launch a joint investigation after reports that Vietnamese coast guards had tried to forcibly free five fishing boats and their crew detained in waters near Indonesia’s Natuna Islands. (rtr)

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BUSINESS South Africa’s stock market defies recession, scales record highs

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s main stock index scaled a record high on Monday, underscoring the market’s disconnect from an economy mired in recession, hobbled by damaging ratings downgrades, and still largely defined by apartheid’s income inequalities. Skewed ownership patterns have made the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), which has been mostly lifted by the offshore earnings of a few companies, a prime target of political resentment in a country where the divisions between haves and have-nots still run largely along racial lines.

Almost half of the market is foreign owned, according to JSE data, and black people who account for 80 percent of the population only hold 23 percent of the top 100 companies, much of it through the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) which manages the pensions of civil servants.

“There is white dominance and control of our economy. Today when you remove the ownership by the (PIC) pension fund from the stock exchange, the remaining 90 percent belongs to white families,” the leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters party Julius Malema said at a weekend rally.

Those who don’t hold equities would include the vast majority of the 17 million people, a third of the population, who reside in the former Homelands, islands of rural poverty where most black South Africans were confined under white rule.

South Africa’s official unemployment rate is around 28 percent but widely regarded to be well over 40 percent and few of those without a job, the vast majority of whom are REUTERS/Rogan Ward/File Photo Unemployed men wait on a street corner in black people, would hold any shares.

The starkness of the divide is highlighted the hope of getting casual work in Pietermaby the financial district of Sandton where ritzburg, South Africa June 28, 2017. the JSE is located: a bustle of construction

activity where ornate office towers are being erected on every block and huge cranes reach skyward, a fitting metaphor for a market at historic highs.

SOUTH AFRICA INC NOT BEHIND RALLY Sandton’s apparent prosperity is a contrast to the JSE’s construction index. Ground firmly in the wider local economy, it is down about 20 percent from its year highs reached in March and is almost 80 percent off its life high hit in 2007. The bourse’s performance the All-share index rose 0.85 percent in early trade on Monday to a new peak of 55,366.74 - has been driven by foreign flows into equities and earnings garnered offshore.

“It is the case that a handful of shares not linked to the South African economy’s fortunes have done well,” said Feroz Basa, head of Old Mutual’s Global Emerging Markets Fund. Naspers, a newspaper publisher turned global e-commerce giant which accounts for over 20 percent of the JSE’s market capitalisation, was largely responsible for the JSE’s run, having risen sharply as investors see it trading at a large discount to its one-third stake in China’s Tencent.

Naspers, trading close to an all-time high and up 42 percent so far this year, has its primary listing on the JSE, and luxury goods group Richemont, which has a secondary listings on the bourse, is up 21 percent.

Only about 35 percent of the companies listed on the JSE derive all their earnings from South Africa, said Gryphon Asset Management analyst Cassie Treurnicht.

“Our [locally focused companies] have really underperformed recently and if you look at small and medium cap shares it is hard not to notice the effect of the recession,” said Treurnicht.

And big companies exposed to South Africa’s battle-bruised consumers, such as retailers and banks, have “underperformed significantly”, Basa said.

Consumer sentiment is plumbing multiyear lows and most retailers have flagged lower or stalling profits, with the demise of unlisted department store Stuttafords an ominous sign for other retailers. South Africa fell into recession in the first quarter of 2017 for the first time in eight years, with high unemployment and stagnant wages dragging down the once resilient consumer sector. (rtr)

China July factory growth cools but construction boom fortifies economy

BEIJING - Growth in China’s manufacturing sector cooled slightly in July as foreign demand for Chinese goods slackened, but a government-led infrastructure push kept construction humming and helped prop up the world’s second-largest economy. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) held above the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction for the 12th straight month, as China poured funds into a construction boom that has fuelled demand for everything from cement to steel and other building materials.

But the broad consensus among China watchers is that economic growth will cool in coming months as a government crackdown on financial risks raises borrowing costs for businesses and squeezes profits.

The official PMI stood at 51.4 in July, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, down from the previous month’s 51.7 and a touch below the 51.6 forecast in

a Reuters poll.

Export orders, which helped Chinese factories stage a strong recovery in June, had ebbed this month, with manufacturers reporting slackening foreign demand.

Overall factory production expanded less quickly compared with June.

New export orders slipped to 50.9 in July from 52.0 in June, helping drag the index for overall factory orders to 52.8 from 53.1.

“The breakdown suggests weaker foreign demand is partly to blame - the new export orders fell by a larger margin than overall new orders,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, a Singapore-based China economist at Capital Economics.

While China’s foreign trade faces a mostly positive environment in the second half of the year, uncertainties still exist, Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming said in Beijing on Monday.

The United States and China failed earlier this month to agree on major new steps to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China, casting doubt over President Donald Trump’s economic and security relations with Beijing.

Domestically, the construction sector remained robust as the government stepped up investment in infrastructure projects.

Separate data showed China’s steel sector in rude health, expanding in July at its fastest pace since April 2016.

The PMI reading on the construction sector showed a solid pickup to 62.5 in July from 61.4 in June. Raw material inventories eased just slightly in July, according to the survey, while imports were almost steady and suggested stable domestic demand.

Activity at large factories gathered steam in July, with the sub-index for big manufacturers rising to 52.9 from 52.7. (rtr)

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Togog Pemaon, a Symbol of Lingam and Yoni, Believed to be Catastrophe Repellent

Pujawali or festival at Dalem Temple of Munduk Bestala customary village, Seririt, Buleleng, looks different from the other regions. The preparation performed by residents is not only limited to ceremonial paraphernalia. However, they also make a unique thing, namely the Togog Pemaon in the kitchen. In addition to being a symbol of lingam-yoni, the togog or statue is believed to function as catastrophe repellent function.

From outside, the location of ritual at this temple looks usual.

Zinc-roofed shelter with bamboo frame stands firmly at the temple outermost courtyard. As decoration, it is also filled with young palm leaves.

However, when entering this location, the atmosphere will feel slightly different. Amid the busy residents who are preparing for the ceremony, the eyes are faced with the presence of two female statues in the corner of the kitchen building. Local people name it the Togog Pemaon.

The statue is very simple as only made of earth. There is no carving like a common statue mounted on the temple building. Position of both statues sits side by side. At a glance, it has no meaning whatsoever. For

layman, possibly it is only considered as an expression of the art, even leads to the impression of porn.

According to Ida Bawati Putu Nata, a follower of Hindu Saiva Siddhanta who glorifies Shiva, this statue is symbol of lingam and yoni.

However, in the society the symbol has been drifted off into an art. “Possibly, there was no a temple long time ago. So, the worship was only held with the yoni and phallus. In society, it is refracted as an art showed by this statue,” he explained.

READ Tirta Sudamala Temple Though showing off a porn impression, people believe that the statues made spontaneously by some residents function as a repellent of catastrophes.

Since it is closely related to the cer-

emony, the statues are also ritually inaugurated and eliminated. “For example, if people get angry, when asked to look at the statue, they will no longer get angry and will even laugh. It can be said it also entertains,” he said.

The statues, added Ida Bawati, are always present in the pujawali at the local village temple and great ceremony held by the residents, where one of them is otonan or pawukonbased birthday (every 210 days) completed with guling babangkit or roasted suckling pig. “If the ceremony belongs to small scale (nista) and medium, it is not made,” he said.

The pujawali cer emony at the village located in the plateau also has other uniqueness. At the temple is also mounted a propeller, not for spectacle,

Wow … it is delicious and steady.

This is the comment given after tasting these two traditional menus, namely Pelalah Manuk and Jukut Gedang Mekuah. Both inviting menus are the result of cooking demonstration by a hotel chef, I Wayan Sudarpa, in the Festival ke Uma 2017 in Subak Uma Ole, Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Marga – Tabanan. In addition to using local ingredients, the two menus are also very close to farmers and paddy fields in the village.

Pelalah Manuk and Jukut Gedang Mekuah are often presented by farmers while doing a mutual work in paddy fields. But the presentation is very simple and often incomplete.

Pelalah Manuk classified into an elite and expensive menu is rarely served to farmers. They feel well fed with Jukut Gedang Mekuah (young papaya vegetable with gravy) only, except for on

certain days. Even if the presentation is complete, it will not be as good as the presentation to hotel guests.

In the past, both menus were usually presented at the time of plowing paddy fields using cattle and transplanting rice, erecting a house and other mutual works. “Both menus indeed have existed before, I just show off back with professional touch like the cooking at hotel,” said Chef Wayan Sudarpa.

With casual clothes like farmers, the hotel chef hotel having a wealth of experience since 1992 came up in front of children posing the festival visitors. Understandably, the festival held by Buratwangi and Wintang Rare art studio is indeed aimed at bringing children to traditional games and having a closer look at paddy fields.

Then, it becomes more complete when they are invited to know more

about countryside food. “To make it more appropriate, children are playing in paddy fields and then tasting food usually served by farmers in the fields,” he added.

READ Batu Bolong Bar & Restaurant, Griska “Come Here to Enjoy” In the preparation, Chef Wayan Sudarpa used sophisticated and modern equipment. Nevertheless, the ingredients and the seasoning still utilize local products, so the distinctiveness of taste can still be maintained. He began the demo when the festival began, and ended around 14:00 or after the game was over. After cooking, visitors were invited to taste it.

but serves as a symbol of harmonious thought of the leaders with their residents. “In the propeller, the head turns, while the tail follows. Analogically, a commander must be in single word with its residents,” he said.

In addition, there is also a me-

lodious sound of sunari (perforated bamboo log blown by wind). It symbolizes the sound of nature giving revelation on the execution of ceremony. “At the base of sunari, there is also a monkey statue symbolizing Lord Vayu,” he said. (kmb)

typical and has a different taste as well.

It uses ingredients such as ½ breast of chicken meat, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, 3 tablespoons of red spice, a lemon, pepper and salt to taste.

The preparation is started by heating pan. Then, grill the chicken meat having been covered with red pepper spice and salt until looking brownish and mature. Heat the pan again and then add half a spoon of cooking oil, pour the red spices and a little water.

Next, serve the chicken and white rice and garnish it according to taste.

The ingredients used to make red spices are 5 cloves of shallot, 4 cloves of garlic, ½ piece of tomato, 3 candlenuts, and 6 red chilies. After all the ingredients are cleansed, fry with a small fire so it will not become burnt. Then, drain, chill and refine by means of blender, so that it becomes smooth.

Jukut Gedang Mekuah This type of Balinese vegetable uses ingredient like 1/2 piece of young papaya, chicken meat, 100 gram of shallot, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of Balinese spice, lemongrass, 2 bay leaves, 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, salt and pepper.Preparation: first of all, pre-heat the frying pan and then sauté garlic, onion, chopped spice, and lemongrass. Then, pour 500 ml of water as well as add salt and pepper.

Put the chopped chicken and rounded and then filled in with sliced ??shallot inside it, garlic, celery and yellow spice.

Furthermore, put young papaya vegetable having been cut like dice.Then, cook it for about 15 minutes. Having been cooked, Jukut Gedang Mekuah is ready to serve. However, before enjoying it will be more delicious if sprinkled with fried shallot and sliced celery as topping of the gravy. (kmb)

ficial bird –the Bali starling (jalak bali) can be found in the wild.

The park is made up of dry savanna, acacia scrub, lowland forests, mountains forest and some pockets of dense mangrove forest. Some of the distinctive fauna of the West Bali National Park includes: banteng (Bos javanicus), barking deer (Muntiacus muntjac), mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus), rusa (Cervus timorensis), forest cat (Felis bengalensis), grey monkey (Macaca fascicularis), black monkey (Presbytis Criscata), white starling (Stunus melanopterus),

yellow-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier), orioles (Oriolus chinensis) kingfisher (Halcyon Chloris).

Visitors can access the park by way of Lovina that is 90 minutes away, or though Pemuteran or Gilimanuk both of which are 15 minutes away from one of the park’s entrances.

All visitors must check in at one of the two park offices (PHPA) that are located in Cekik Village and Albuan Lalang respectively. Here visitors can further information, purchase an entrance ticket and arrange for a guide guide.(kmb)

Pelalah Manuk and Jukut Gedang Mekuah, Two Menus in Cooking Demo at Festival ke Uma

Pelalah Manuk This menu is very different when processed by a professional chef. It feels

West Bali National Park REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

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West Bali National Park is a nature conservation area that covers 190 square kilometers with another 580 square kilometers of protected reserve. The park is used for educational, research and recreational purposes and startles the border between the districts of Jembrana and Buleleng. The West Bali National Park is the only place where Bali’s of-

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Banner installation case on closure of Ulun Danu Beratan

Myanmar H1N1 swine flu death toll rises to 10

Planned to be brought to legal domain TABANAN - The case on the installation of banners containing the closure of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple for tourism on Wednesday (Jul. 26) is going to be forwarded to legal domain by the management of tourist attraction and gebok pesatakan (a group of customary hamlets). For the time being, there are two points to be reported, namely the case of banner installation and allegation on the misappropriation of temple funds.

Regarding the certainty of the demand by Pemuger of Ulun Danu Beratan representing the Gebog Pesatakan, I Putu Sama Artha, accompanied by Operations Manager of Ulun Danu Beratan, Wayan Mustika, headman of Candi Kuning, I Made Mudita, and Secretary of the Operations Management of Ulun Danu Beratan, Wayan Parwata, said on Sunday (Jul. 30) that his side is currently consulting to the lawyer team of the government of Tabanan district about the points to be reported and waiting for the audit of temple funds.

Sama Arta also explained about the contents of the letter signed by three chiefs of Pesatakan and one person doing it on behalf of the Candi Kuning customary village and supporting devotees (penyungsung) of the Beratan Pande Temple.

In the letter addressed to the regent of Tabanan and copies sent to governor of Bali are mentioned the issues becoming the background of the banner installation.

Regarding the complaint about the dismissal of temple priest as stated in the letter was denied by Sama Arta. “The right fact is the change of the schedule for the temple priests.

All this time, the schedule is set up every seven days, but now it has become six days,” he said.

The change of schedule is in accordance with the quarterly meeting held on June 9 where 18 priests already agreed to pay devotional works (ngayah) at Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. The schedule change is meant to avoid monotony namely serving the pilgrims on the same days. Another problem complained in the letter is the matter of padlocking of the Prajapati Pande Beratan Temple. According to Sama Artha, the temple has been indeed padlocked every night since the past time to keep valuable relics in the temple. But if there are pilgrims coming at night to say prayers, certainly it will not be closed and accompanied by the priest on duty that day.

Another problem is about the dismantling of compound wall in the middle courtyard of Ulun Danu Beratan along 20 meters. Based on the quarterly meeting of Gebok Pesatakan attended by the management of tourist attraction, Gebog Pesatakan, headman and community leaders was decided to restore the structure of the temple to the original style.

Sama Arta said the compound wall was built two years ago without coordination with Gebok Pesatakan.

“The construction was initiated by Klian Pesatakan (chief of hamlet

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Ulun Danu Beratan Temple groups) who is currently not active and without coordination. As results of the meeting, the temple compound wall was dismantled to restore it to the original style. If it indeed requires a compound wall, of course the ancestors have built it in the past,” explained Sama Arta.

In the letter is also explained about the non-activation of Klian Pesatakan where according to Sama Arta it was based on the decision of meeting held on January 31, 2017 and April 2, 2017 where management of the temple will be returned to Gebog Pesatakan that means Kelian Pesatakan becomes

non-active. “These points have been decided in the meeting, so there is no unilateral dismissal,” he explained.

Return of the temple management to Gebog Pesatakan and non-activation of Kelian Pesatakan, added the headman of Candi Kuning, Made Mudita, was based on the absence of the accountability report on the use of temple funds from four pesatakan groups since 2009. Gebog Pesatakan has given a chance for one week to Kelian Pesatakan to prepare the accountability report but it ended with the action of banner installation.

The banner installation, added Operations Manager of Ulun Danu Beratan, Wayan Mustika, surely had impact on the tourist visit where it drops about five to ten percent from the usual. Since the case of banner installation, many travel agencies questioned about the truth of information regarding the temple closure for tourism and security.

“There are even travel agencies canceling their visit. In addition to submitting to legal domain, it will also hold a pecaruan ritual both at the temple and Ganesha statue where the banner was installed,” he explained. (kmb24)

Innovation of Putra Wisatawan

Taking advantage of bamboo to make radio

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The innovation of processing bamboo into radio has been started since the past three months.

BANGLI — Bamboo crafters in Bangli continue to innovate and create various interesting handicraft products. One of them is I Made Putra Wisatawan. The craftsman who opens his business at Nyalian hamlet, Kawan, Bangli, is now making an innovation to process bamboo into radio. What does it look like?

When met at his home on Sunday (Jul. 30), Wisatawan said the innovation of processing bamboo into radio has been started since the past three months. Previously, he only processed bamboo into handicrafts such as trays, lampshades, and other bamboo crafts.

He claimed to have the skills of making radio because before getting

involved in the bamboo handicraft business he ever studied electrics. So far, he produces the radio by using tali and petung bamboo raw materials.

Both types of bamboo are chosen because they are not too thick and do not contain much water. “I bring in this raw material from Gianyar region,” he said.

Furthermore, he added that to make a radio will take him up to one day. He does not work alone, but is assisted by his employees. Wisatawan who has basic in electrics assembles his own radio components, while his employees will help prepare the radio casing.

Each unit of the radio he produces is sold at the prices ranging from IDR

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300,000. “The price depends on the model and wattage quantity. The bigger the wattage, the more expensive will be,” he said.

Since the capital needed to make a radio is quite expensive, so far he is unable to produce in large quantities.

He will make a radio after receiving an order. In the meantime, to market the radio of his product, this man having pursued bamboo handicraft business since a dozen years ago is utilizing social media like Facebook.

Besides, he also markets it through exhibitions. “I was once offered to make a power bank where the components are prepared directly by the order giver,” he added. (kmb40)

China hits back at Trump criticism over N.Korea

YANGON - Four more people have died in an outbreak of H1N1 influenza in Myanmar, a health official said on Monday, taking the death toll in the latest outbreak to 10 as the government stepped up public awareness campaigns about the swine flu virus.

The latest H1N1 outbreak began more than a week ago, said Thinzar Aung, deputy director of the infectious diseases department at the Ministry of Health and Sport, with Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, the worst affected area.

Authorities have carried out health awareness campaigns and sought to calm public fears over the outbreak, although stores have sold out of surgical masks in Yangon. Authorities have told the public not to panic and described the latest outbreak as a regular seasonal occurrence.

“We have never withheld any information about the infection of the disease,” heath minister Myint Htwe was quoted as saying by state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar on Monday.

“We are releasing real information on the seasonal influenza H1N1 in real time,” he said.

H1N1 has been among the strains of flu circulating in Myanmar seasonally since a global pandemic in 2009, although deaths from the virus had not been reported in recent years, heath officials have said.

Aside from those killed by the virus, 51 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease, according to the health ministry. It has called on hospitals and clinics to report patients showing signs of influenza-like illness.

Separately, Myanmar’s livestock ministry has also reported an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the south. More than 1,800 chickens were culled after the virus was detected at a farm in the southern town of Dawei last month. (rtr)

BEIJING - China hit back on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted he was “very disappointed” in China following Pyongyang’s latest missile test, saying the problem did not arise in China and that all sides need to work for a solution.

China has become increasingly frustrated with American and Japanese criticism that it should do more to rein in Pyongyang. China is North Korea’s closest ally, but Beijing is angry with its continued nuclear and missile tests.

North Korea said on Saturday it had conducted another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that proved its ability to strike the U.S. mainland, drawing a sharp warning from Trump and a rebuke from China.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke with Trump on Monday and agreed on the need for more action on North Korea just hours after the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said Washington is “done talking about North Korea”.

A White House statement after the phone call said the two leaders “agreed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and other countries near and far”.

It said Trump “reaffirmed our ironclad commitment” to defend Japan and South Korea from any attack, “using the full range of United States capabilities”.

Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday after the missile test that he was “very disappointed” in China

and that Beijing profits from U.S. trade but had done “nothing” for the United States with regards to North Korea, something he would not allow to continue.

China’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement sent to Reuters responding to Trump’s tweets, said the North Korean nuclear issue did not arise because of China and that everyone needed to work together to seek a resolution.

“All parties should have a correct understanding of this,” it said, adding the international community widely recognised China’s efforts to seek a resolution.

The essence of Sino-U.S. trade is mutual benefit and win-win, with a vast amount of facts proving the healthy development of business and trade ties is good for both countries, the ministry added.

Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming, weighed in too, telling a news conference there was no link between the North Korea issue and China-U.S. trade.

“We think the North Korea nuclear issue and China-US trade are issues that are in two completely different domains. They aren’t related. They should not be discussed together,” Qian said.

China, with which North Korea does the large majority of its trade,

has repeatedly said it strictly follows U.N. resolutions on North Korea and has denounced unilateral U.S. sanctions as unhelpful.

Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger U.N. sanctions on North Korea over Friday night’s long-range missile test, the North’s second this month.

Any new U.N. Security Council resolution “that does not significantly increase the international pressure on North Korea is of no value”, Haley said, adding that Japan and South Korea also needed to do more.

Abe told reporters after his conversation with Trump that repeated efforts by the international community to find a peaceful solution to the North Korean issue had yet to bear fruit in the face of Pyongyang’s unilateral “escalation”.

“International society, including Russia and China, need to take this seriously and increase pressure,” Abe said. He said Japan and the United States would take steps towards concrete action but did not give details.

Abe and Trump did not discuss military action against North Korea, nor what would constitute the crossing of a “red line” by Pyongyang, Deputy Chief Cabinet spokesman Koichi Hagiuda told reporters. (rtr)

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Police have Tegenungan waterfall fenced permanently

GIANYAR — Throughout this year, the Tegenungan waterfall visited by hundreds of tourists each day has claimed two casualties.

Seeing this condition, Gianyar police also asked the management to install a permanent fence.

In the meantime, Sukawati police officers investigating the death of Wilfredus alias Fred, 25, under the waterfall as high as 30 meters, has scheduled the summon to management of the tourist attraction.

Researchers creating warning system for toxic algae in lakes

It’s one of the most wide-ranging freshwater monitoring systems in the U.S., researchers say, and some of its pieces soon will be watching for harmful algae on hundreds of lakes nationwide.

Researchers are creating an early warning system using real-time data from satellites that in recent years have tracked algae bloom hotpots such as Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and the East Coast’s Chesapeake Bay. The plan is to have it in place within two years so that states in the continental U.S. can be alerted to where toxic algae is appearing before they might detect it on the surface, said Blake Schaeffer, a researcher with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“You don’t have to wait until someone gets sick,” said Schaeffer, one of the leaders of the project.

Across the nation, farm runoff, sewage overflows and lawn fertilizers have washed into lakes and rivers and left behind unsightly algae blooms that can sicken people and

pets and harm wildlife.

But often the first reports of harmful algae on a lake come from boaters seeing something strange in the water, said Rick Stumpf, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

He began using satellites in 2008 to monitor algae on Lake Erie. That work took on a new urgency after a bloom near Toledo’s shoreline contaminated the drinking water for more than 400,000 people three years ago.

The EPA in recent years has been testing using the satellite data to watch for algae in lakes in California, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Earlier this year, the data helped detect an algae bloom in a Utah Lake near Salt Lake City before officials on the ground knew about it.

“That’s exactly what we we’re trying to accomplish,” Schaeffer said.

The system in development will cast a wider net at a time when many states can’t afford to monitor every lake threatened by harmful algae. The goal is to use the satellite data to watch for algae on 1,800 lakes across the nation and provide four different types of water quality measurements

on close to 170,000 lakes.

What satellites can’t measure is the amount of toxins in the water. That’s where samples gathered by researchers come into play. That too can be expensive so researchers have developed an underwater lab that sits at the bottom of Lake Erie and both collects water and tests the levels of toxins before sending the results back remotely.

The whole process takes four hours — much less than the day or two it takes to test samples from a boat.

“We call it the ‘lab in a can,’” said Tim Davis, a Great Lakes researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

The first robotic lab was launched this summer and two more are in the works. While it’s still in the early stages, Davis said it could work in other lakes plagued by algae.

Other researchers are testing drones on Lake Erie to see if digital images they capture can be effective monitoring the algae blooms. Already in use on the lake are buoys that measure algae in the water.

Those leading all of these research efforts say the key is provide as much information as possible. “It’s really about using a combination of all of these,” Schaeffer said. (ap)

Study finds aardvarks suffering as African climate heats up

JOHANNESBURG — A new study says hotter temperatures caused by climate change are taking their toll on the aardvark, whose diet of ants and termites is becoming scarcer because of reduced rainfall.

The University of Witwatersrand in South Africa said Monday that drought in the Kalahari desert killed five out of six aardvarks that were being monitored for a year, as well as 11 others in the area.

Aardvarks are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Andrea Fuller says the body temperatures of the aardvarks

in the study plummeted during the night because they were not getting enough energy from their diminished food sources.

Fuller says the aardvarks tried to conserve energy by looking for insects during the warmer daytime instead of at night, but their efforts to adapt could not save them. (ap) In this photo supplied by the University of the Witwatersrand an aardvark is captured on camera in the dark at the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa, in April 2012.

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Claim victim successively

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In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the water intake crib for the city of Toledo, Ohio, is surrounded by an algae bloom on Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio.

TOLEDO — Satellites in space and a robot under Lake Erie’s surface are part of a network of scientific tools trying to keep algae toxins out of drinking water supplies in the shallowest of the Great Lakes.

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The motorcycles are crowded on the street.

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Vehicle growth difficult to be stopped AS a developing country Indonesia including Bali will be faced with congestion condition. Moreover, from the beginning our spatial planning has not been prepared to anticipate the congestion so that it is difficult to find a solution.

According to Chief of Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs Unit, Heri Supriawan, when talking about congestion, it actually refers to demand and supply. This means that vehicle growth is not balanced with road capacity. Related to this, Denpasar police become a barometer in terms of overcoming congestion.

“Actually what can be done to overcome the congestion is to narrow the vehicle growth. This means that vehicle growth rate is reduced or the road is expanded.

Both ways are actually the most effective,” he said.

However, if both solutions cannot be implemented, the solution is traffic engineering management to look for the obstacles causing the congestion. Another effort that can be done is the presence of central parking so the traffic can run smoothly. For example, Heri added that Jalan Teuku Umar is clean from parking and no more congestion occurs there. Yet the effort always gets constrained and many parties disagree.

“One of the parties to be harmed in this case is the PD Parkir because its income will decrease if all the

roads in Denpasar and Badung are sterile from the use as parking space,” said this former deputy chief of Gianyar police traffic affairs unit.

For the Kuta area, the same problem faced is parking. In the world of traffic, parking is called the side constraint. Cars and motorbikes parked on the road will reduce the passable area. If forced to be freed from parking, it will result in polemic, especially from entrepreneurs.

“The only way to do is diversion or changes of traffic. It is impossible to add the road section, and stopping the vehicle speed is obviously unable, while the roads remain the same. Auto dealers sell vehicles, in the long run they will cause congestion,” he said.

Every year, the congestion will surely increase due to the growth of vehicles and the addition of unbalanced roads. Annual growth of vehicles reaches 10 percent, while the addition of road capacity is only 3 percent let alone be in holiday season. Another way to be done is the placement of personnel at the points or intersection prone to congestions. Since the number of personnel has not been able to cover all the congestion-prone points, there is a mapping area, carrying the location of congestion and the time of congestion so that personnel can be alerted there. (rah)

Operations Division Head of Gianyar Police, Ida Bagus Deddy, urged the waterfall management to immediately fence the tourist attraction. It happens because under the waterfall splash sits two deep riverbeds. The first riverbed is eight feet deep, while the depth of second one cannot be measured. “It should be fenced permanently with iron and filled with a signboard containing the prohibition from taking bath.

Do not just put up red flag,” affirmed Deddy.

This insistence is based on the death incident to visitors at this Tegenungan waterfall that is not for the first time. Four months ago, a student of SMPN 1 Kuta junior high school was also sucked into the riverbed because he was desperate to go under the splash. When entering the riverbed, the evacuation process lasted long. “Do not let it claim another victim, so I have it immediately fenced,” he said.

Separately, Chief of Sukawati Police, Pande Sugiharta, stated that to ensure the incident, police scheduled a summons. “Immediately, we summon the management because there is an incident report,” he said.

He explained that based on examination and initial information on the scene, the management of the waterfall has conducted its duty where it already prohibited the victim from bathing at the location. Moreover, the victim’s companions already tried to stop Fred’s intention to enter the splash of the waterfall. “From the testimony of his companions, the victim was drunk after drinking. He was desperate to ignore the prohibition and broke through,” he said.

As a result, the desperate Fred entered the splashes and was directly sucked into the riverbed and found dead on Friday afternoon. If indeed the management is negligent, surely there is a law that ensnares it. “It includes the return of the management to the government. So far, it is managed by customary village,” he explained.

The management who is also Operations Manager

Tegenungan waterfall

of the Tegenungan waterfall, Kemenuh village, Sukawati, Gusti Raka, could not be contacted last Sunday.

The second call had been answered and mentioned that he was on the way. But when contacted again, his mobile phone was not active. Moreover, the short message of this newspaper asking about his responsibility was not responded until Sunday evening.

Previously, it was reported that Tegenungan waterfall, Sukawati, claimed another casualty on Friday (Jul. 28). The dead visitor this time is Wilfredus alias Fred, 25. The victim from Flores, NTT (East Nusa Tenggara) was found after a long search by joint officers.

As information compiled at the scene, the victim along with ten companions came to the attraction on Friday afternoon around 12:30. This group was then bathed under the waterfall having a height of about 30 meters. After playing water for a few minutes, suddenly the victim Fred approached the waterfall and immediately disappeared. His seven companions were shocked and then went straight up to the rocky riverbank. “He had no time to ask for help, but suddenly disappeared. The others immediately went up and did not dare to get closer,” said Hisman Batubara, 28, one of the victim’s companions.

A few minutes later, Hisman saw the victim waving his hands, where part of his body was already drowned.

Before taking a bath, according to Hisman, they had time to warn his companion not to bathe. However, it was ignored, and he even approached the splashes while carrying his mobile phone to take selfie.

Seeing this condition, Hisman and some companions were panicked and then shouted for help. A number of tourists who were swimming at the location already attempted to rescue, but they failed. In the meantime, the officer of local tourist attraction contacted the police.

Not long after that, a joint team came to do searching process. The incident of the drowning of the victim Fred suddenly became a spectacle, even for tourists that were on vacation and local residents deliberately coming in the hope to witness the evacuation of the victim directly. However, the swift waterfall caused the search process to be constrained.

To accelerate the search, the team also attempted to divert the current above the waterfall to minimize the water flow, but failed. The search process continued until Saturday afternoon. Approximately at five o’clock then, the victim was finally found by a joint officer.

The finding was greeted by the sobs of a number of victim’s families and companions. (kmb35)

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Gram-negative bacteria tend to be bigger

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The coral reef in Nusa Penida

Monitoring of coral reefs of Nusa Penida waters

will also be more complex,” she said.

Like the use of antibiotics belonging to Ceftriaxone is the first line to treat diseases caused by these bacteria. However, the sensitivity of the drug to bacteria has decreased from 50 percent.

“So, now we have to move and change it. All over Bali, the Ceftriaxone is still used for the first line. We have got 50 percent after coming to us,” she said. By that way, it means to require better drugs, and the healing tends be more difficult.

She hoped that antibiotics administration on the first line at Sanglah Hospital as a tertiary education hospital should be more careful. “The pattern of our germs has changed, while the antibiotics in use are very wide. So, please be careful, where we should go for the first line?” she added. In the first line, it usually remains to apply single therapy. However, if having entered the ICU, the drug administration will be combined. (kmb42)

The monitoring conducted last Thursday involved three divers as well as a number of related institutions including the Bali Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.

The results indicated that on average damage to coral reef occurs under the pontoon used as marine tourism facilities.

Although the damage is not yet severe, action still needs to be taken to prevent further damage. Such action cannot be taken until the provincial fisheries and maritime affairs makes a decision on the matter as according to Law No. 23/2014, such action falls under their authority. “The damage is not severe yet, some of the coral is still in good condition. Previously reports only highlighted the damage. We are still waiting for the province to examine the pictures that were taken”, said Karyawan.

Previously, residents of Jungut Batu had complained

about the damage to the coral as it is park of a marine park that is a valuable asset that serve as a source of income for the village. The government is being asked to tighten supervision of marine tourism facilities and to look carefully at zoning so that the coral is not damaged any further “We hope the supervision will be tightened. Regarding the damage, we are still asking for the data from the KKP”, said headman of Jungut Batu, I Made Gede Suryawan.

Similar complaints were also revealed by headman of Lembongan, Ketut Gede Arjaya. “As lower government, we hope this (the use of pontoon—Ed) can be minimized. At least there is should be strict rules applied to pontoon entrepreneurs. Please look into this. Unlicensed businesses should not be allowed to operate. It should be arranged as soon as possible and there must be clear zoning as well as clarity about who has the authority to give permission supervise, and manage these pontoons”, he said.

If the presence of the illegal and other pontoons are left as they are now thee is fear that the damage to the coral will become severe and as a result tourism will fade. “I am quite sad and I am not an entrepreneur because only a headman. But I worry that if the coral is damaged – what will we leave to the next generation?

If this is not well maintained, what will the future of tourism in Nusa Penida look like?”, added Arjaya. (kmb45)

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SEMARAPURA - Damaged coral reefs in the waters of Nusa Penida have been monitored by related institution who have found that damage occurs I areas with marine tourism as a result of the use of pontoons. The extend of such damage has not however reached severe levels said Head of Nusa Penida Waters Marine Conservation (KKP), I Nyoman Karyawan, on Sunday (Jul. 30).

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Bacterial patterns change

DENPASAR - In a research on bacteria during the period of 2015-2016, the gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria are almost identical. But the more years, the existence of gramnegative bacteria experiences a larger trend of about 46.5 percent. Among the gram-negative bacteria, the highest is Pseudomonas bacteria reaching around 16 percent.

“It is less than a quarter, but high enough among all types of germs in hospital, especially in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU),” said Dyah Kanya Wati, a pediatrician at Sanglah Hospital, recently. Pseudomonas is one of the most common causes of gram-negative germs in ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).

If the gram-negative bacterial infection is higher, the impact on drug selection should be more selective. “It should be covered with the availability of existing drugs related to this pattern of germs, and the effects to patients

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

LOS ANGELES - An unlikely battle emerged at the box office this weekend between “The Emoji Movie” and “Dunkirk.”

As of Saturday morning the animated feature and war epic seemed to be in a dead heat. But by Sunday morning, most of the dust had settled, and it appears “Dunkirk” will once again be the weekend’s first place film.

Christopher Nolan’s latest from Warner Bros. over-performed last weekend when it opened to over $50 million, showing that the director, combined with positive critical reception, still has a strong draw -- even for a movie lacking movie star power, and at risk of being written off as yet another World War II movie. This time around it looks to take in $28.1 million from 3,748 locations, for a strong hold.

It’s the first time that a movie has been first place two weekends in a row since the same studio’s “Wonder Woman” in early June.

Patty Jenkins’ movie has had a phenomenal run since, and is currently closing in on $400 million domestic (right now it’s at $395.4 million).

That means Sony’s “Emoji Movie” is in second for the weekend with $25.7 million from 4,075 locations. The animated adven-

ture took a lot of heat from critics -- reaction ranged from meh to horrible, earning its current Rotten Tomatoes score of 8%. Its B CinemaScore is also quite low for an animated movie, meaning audiences aren’t particularly enjoying the movie either.

T.J. Miller plays the central character, a “Meh” emoji who has “no filter,” meaning his expression can change. The same cannot be said for the rest of the cast, which includes James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Christina Aguilera, and Sofia Vergara. Oh yeah, and Sir Patrick Stewart plays “Poop.”

“We’re thrilled,” said Sony’s marketing chief Josh Greenstein.

“The audience has spoken and made the ‘Emoji Movie’ a family event.”

That leaves this week’s other major release, “Atomic Blonde” somewhat straggling. Focus Fea-

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows a scene from “Dunkirk.” tures and Sierra/Affinity is looking at a decent, but slightly below expectations launch for the Charlize Theron-starrer with $18.5 million from 3,304 locations.

Earlier in the week “Blonde” was pegged at $20 million, but the opening weekend result is still solid considering its $30 million budget. It’s also one of the largest

launches for Focus, behind only “Insidious Chapter 3” ($22.7 million); “London Has Fallen” ($21.6 million); and “Burn After Reading” ($19.1 million). (rtr)

Thousands evacuated from Barcelona festival after stage fire MADRID - More than 22,000 people were evacuated from an electronic music festival in Barcelona on Saturday night after a huge fire broke out on one of the stages during a sequence of the show involving fireworks, emergency services said.

They said no one was injured. Footage circulated on social media showed big flames leaping from the stage, creating big plumes of black smoke in front of a crowd.

The festival, known as “Tomorrowland”, was taking place just north of Barcelona, in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the first time it has been held in Spain. The festival has previously been held in Belgium. (rtr)

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Smoke is seen rising from flames engulfing the stage after a fire broke out at Tomorrowland Unite Spain festival in Barcelona, Spain July 29, 2017, in this still image from a video obtained from social media.

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Chinese nationals suspected of involvement in cyber crime are pictured in Jakarta police headquarters, Indonesia

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Indonesia detains 153 over $450-mln scam targeting Chinese

JAKARTA- Indonesian police on Monday said they had detained more than 150 Chinese nationals accused of carrying out a sophisticated scam that netted around $450 million by tricking their compatriots into paying to make legal cases go away.

“This is an international syndicate of online fraud,” Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono told a news conference. “The information first came from China’s police department, so this is a joint investigation.”

Police said the suspects, 148 of whom were Chinese nationals and the rest Indonesian, had been detained during weekend raids in the capital Jakarta, the city of Surabaya and the islands of Batam and Bali.

“The perpetrators are Chinese. The victims are Chinese. It just happens that they operate from Indonesia,” Yuwono added.

The syndicate operated by first tracking down information on wealthy Chinese officials or businessmen em-

broiled in legal problems, he said.

The victims were then contacted and told by the suspects that they were from the Attorney General’s office or the police and could “negotiate to stop the case” on payment of a certain sum.

“The information we got from China is that they have been in operation since the start of the year, and their profit has reached 6 trillion rupiah,” Yuwono said, a figure equivalent to $450 million. Television broadcast images of telephones and office equipment in a house raided by police.

“According to the suspects, it was easier to hide in Indonesia because of its geography,” Yuwono said. “If they

did it in China, it would be easier to identify them.”

The suspects entered Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago on tourist visas and will most probably be handed over to immigration officials.

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