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For placing advertisment, please contact: Eka Wahyuni 0361-225764 HOTLINE CITY TEMPERATURE O C WEATHER FORECAST 25 - 32 23 - 32 23 - 28 22 - 31 25 - 33 DENPASAR JAKARTA BANDUNG YOGYAKARTA SURABAYA SUNNY BRIGHT/CLOUDY RAIN PAGE 12 Thursday, April 21, 2011 16 Pages Number 93 3 rd Year e-mail: [email protected] online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. I N T E R N A T I O N A L Price: Rp 3.000,- Black Eyed Peas to start music academy in NYC PAGE 8 In first quarter, Bali pursued by 25 investors IBP/Eka Adhiyasa Tourists spending their time at Kuta beach. The garbage problem at Kuta beach which was reported by Time magazine recently has not affected the flow of international and domestic tourists to Bali Island, a local official said. Antara JAKARTA - Malaysian and Singaporean visitors dominated tourist arrivals in Indonesia in the first two months of 2011, a min- ister said. “Admittedly, the two countries remain the main market for the Indonesian tourism,” Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said. “Looking at the number of tourist visits to Bali which is re- corded at between 5,000 and 8,000 this month, we can say there has been no decrease compared to the previous month,” said Bali Province Tourism Office chief Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu in Garbage on Kuta beach not deterring tourists Continued on page 6 Antara DENPASAR - The garbage problem at Kuta beach which was reported by Time magazine recently has not affected the flow of international and domestic tourists to Bali Island, a local official said. Denpasar. Subhiksu added that the report by Time magazine would actually not affect the number of tourist vis- its to Bali as long as all related in- stitutions take action in cleaning up the garbage scattered at some lo- cations on Kuta Beach. Bali will remain the Island of Paradise should all the related in- stitutions have the awareness to keep Bali clean, he said. On the possibility that garbage problems may impact on the image of Bali tourism, Subhiksu called on all elements of the government, pub- lic, the media and business circle to sit together and come to a common understanding that Bali is the pri- mary icon of domestic and interna- tional tourism of the country. “We don’t blame the Time jour- nalist who had written his article (on Bali) that way because it might have been the fact when he came to see Kuta beach there was a lot of gar- bage at the place,” said Subhiksu. Subhiksu said there was a for- eign lady who had also written about Bali who visited Kuta in July last year and reported Kuta as a clean destination because there was no garbage at the time. “Garbage usually floods into Kuta in the time of Monsoon sea- sons around the month of March every year,” Subhiksu said. Malaysian, Singaporean tourists dominated arrivals Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) show 88,146 Singaporean tourists visited Indo- nesia in February, a 8.17 percent increase compared to the same month last year when the figure was 81,081. Meanwhile, the number of Ma- laysian tourists visiting Indonesia in February 2011 rose 12.54 per- cent to 79,462 from 70,609 in Feb- ruary 2010. “Until February the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached 1.116 million,” he said. Compared to the same period last year, the figure represented a 9.83 percent increase, he said. About 1.016 million tourists vis- ited Indonesia in the first two months of last year. The government has set the target of tourist arrivals for 2010 at 7.7 million and their spending expected to reach US$8.5 billion. Last year, the number of tourist arrivals in the country out- stripped the government-set target of 7 million with their spending estimated at US$7.6 billion. Singapore and Malaysia were listed as Indonesia’s main sources of tourist arrivals last year, followed by China, Australia and Japan. Not Published We, the International Bali Post would like to apologize in advance that we will not be published on Friday, April 22, 2011 due to Easter Day Thank You

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Tourists spending their time at Kuta beach. The garbage problem at Kuta beach which was reported by Time magazinerecently has not affected the flow of international and domestic tourists to Bali Island, a local official said.

Antara

JAKARTA - Malaysian andSingaporean visitors dominatedtourist arrivals in Indonesia in thefirst two months of 2011, a min-ister said.

“Admittedly, the two countriesremain the main market for theIndonesian tourism,” Culture andTourism Minister Jero Wacik said.

“Looking at the number oftourist visits to Bali which is re-corded at between 5,000 and8,000 this month, we can say therehas been no decrease compared tothe previous month,” said BaliProvince Tourism Office chief IdaBagus Kade Subhiksu in

Garbage on Kuta beachnot deterring tourists

Continued on page 6

Antara

DENPASAR - The garbage problem at Kuta beach whichwas reported by Time magazine recently has not affected theflow of international and domestic tourists to Bali Island, alocal official said.

Denpasar.Subhiksu added that the report

by Time magazine would actuallynot affect the number of tourist vis-its to Bali as long as all related in-stitutions take action in cleaning upthe garbage scattered at some lo-cations on Kuta Beach.

Bali will remain the Island ofParadise should all the related in-stitutions have the awareness tokeep Bali clean, he said.

On the possibility that garbageproblems may impact on the imageof Bali tourism, Subhiksu called onall elements of the government, pub-lic, the media and business circle tosit together and come to a commonunderstanding that Bali is the pri-mary icon of domestic and interna-tional tourism of the country.

“We don’t blame the Time jour-nalist who had written his article (on

Bali) that way because it might havebeen the fact when he came to seeKuta beach there was a lot of gar-bage at the place,” said Subhiksu.

Subhiksu said there was a for-eign lady who had also writtenabout Bali who visited Kuta in Julylast year and reported Kuta as aclean destination because there wasno garbage at the time.

“Garbage usually floods intoKuta in the time of Monsoon sea-sons around the month of Marchevery year,” Subhiksu said.

Malaysian, Singaporean tourists dominated arrivalsData from the Central Statistics

Agency (BPS) show 88,146Singaporean tourists visited Indo-nesia in February, a 8.17 percentincrease compared to the samemonth last year when the figurewas 81,081.

Meanwhile, the number of Ma-laysian tourists visiting Indonesiain February 2011 rose 12.54 per-cent to 79,462 from 70,609 in Feb-

ruary 2010.“Until February the number of

foreign tourists visiting Indonesiareached 1.116 million,” he said.

Compared to the same period lastyear, the figure represented a 9.83percent increase, he said.

About 1.016 million tourists vis-ited Indonesia in the first twomonths of last year. The governmenthas set the target of tourist arrivals

for 2010 at 7.7 million and theirspending expected to reach US$8.5billion. Last year, the number oftourist arrivals in the country out-stripped the government-set targetof 7 million with their spendingestimated at US$7.6 billion.

Singapore and Malaysia werelisted as Indonesia’s main sourcesof tourist arrivals last year, followedby China, Australia and Japan.

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North Bali Airport PotentialNorth Bali Airport PotentialNorth Bali Airport PotentialNorth Bali Airport PotentialNorth Bali Airport Potentialto draw 5 million touriststo draw 5 million touriststo draw 5 million touriststo draw 5 million touriststo draw 5 million tourists

Jakarta (Bali Post)—New airport scheduled to be established in north Bali is con-

sidered very potential to attract at least 5 million foreign touriststo Bali. “Development of a new airport in Bali poses a shortcutbreakthrough to promote the equitable distribution of tourismin Bali,” said Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik inJakarta on Tuesday (Apr 19).

Minister argued that existence of theairport in modern economics had be-come the upstream of developmentwhere the airport would be a startingpoint of the economic growth. Hepointed out that with today’s conditionswhere the infrastructure including theairport only existed in South Bali hadcaused the investors reluctant to investin North Bali. “Investors will thinktwice to build a hotel in North Bali asmore tourists prefer to stay in the south-ern region. They are afraid of goingbankrupt,” he said.

On that account, Wacik had confi-dence if the construction of airport inNorth Bali would encourage the eco-nomic growth in the northern region ofBali Island. Construction of new airportin Bali had a great potential to attract atleast 5 million foreign tourists to theisland of the gods. “Now, the numberof foreign tourists to Bali throughNgurah Rai Airport averagely amountsto 2.3 million per year,” he said.

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The Ngurah Rai International Airport is seen on the picture. Another airport in the northern partof Bali will balance the development of economics on the island.

Wacik said, the southern Bali regionalong with the Ngurah Rai Airport wasoften over-crowded on holiday seasonsevery year. To that end, his party pio-neered the development of airport inNorth Bali as an effort to welcome theBali and Beyond program and madeBali and Nusa Tenggara as the nationaltourism gateway.

According to Wacik, investors fromIndia had agreed to build two airportsin Indonesia, namely in Bantul,Yogyakarta and North Bali. “We have30 engineers working to conduct thesurvey at the point where the North Baliairport will be built because there are1,000 hectares of land and they look forthe safest spot where to be built the air-port,” he said.The survey took placeabout three months and would be con-tinued with land acquisition when loca-tion had been determined at the most ap-propriate location. “I am targeting that in2014, Bali will have an airport in the northregion,” he said. (010)

Preserving old houses in SingarajaRegency govt must have long-term program

Out of some 50 old houses re-maining to exist in SingarajaCity, almost all of them belongto historic buildings whose his-torical value can still be de-scribed easily. One of them is theformer official residential houseof I Gusti Bagus Oka located onJalan Ngurah Rai. As a matter offact, such historic house can ex-plain the separation process ofLesser Sunda and transitionalperiod of the capital of Bali Prov-ince from Singaraja to Denpasar.Of course, other houses can cer-tainly explain more about the his-torical passage of Singarajaamidst the civilization of theworld since the colonial perioduntil now. It only requires a com-mitment to maintain them prop-erly because caring for the oldhouse means caring for histori-cal truth.

Residential house of GustiBagus Oka is now maintained byhis son, Wiradharma Bagus Oka,who is now an operator of a flightschool at the Lieutenant ColonelWisnu Airport, Gerokgak. GustiBagus Oka himself was a residentin the Lesser Sunda administrativegovernment in October 1958 andwas appointed Acting RegionalHead of Bali. At that time, it washeld the transitional period toimplement the Law No.164/1958concerning with the establishmentof Bali Region as an autonomousprovincial region along with theformation of eight regencies inBali, West Nusa Tenggara as wellas East Nusa Tenggara. His re-sponsibility, among others, was toform the Bali House (DPRD). Theinstitution then elected AnakAgung Bagus Sutedja as Governorof the Bali Province. At that time

the capital of Bali Province wasmoved to Denpasar. After the eu-phoria on the new fully managedcapital in Denpasar, a number ofresidential houses and offices, in-cluding the Bagus Oka’s house inSingaraja gradually changed itsfunctions. Residential house of anumber of officials turned to pri-vate property by way of purchase.

The house of Bagus Oka lo-cated on Jalan Ngurah Rai, pre-cisely in the north of the currentBuleleng Environment Agency’soffice is now indeed quiet. How-ever, the aura of past time can beperceived from inside the housealong with all stories on the de-feat and victory. Several yearsago, the house was renovatedwithout losing its original look.

Wiradharma Bagus Oka said hewould leave the house as it was.He even planned to make the

house a museum. It would showoff some objects and variousdocuments of his father related tothe history of Singaraja as thecapital of Lesser Sunda. He didhope the house and the contentswould be useful for people whowished to know more clearlyabout the existence of LesserSunda and its capital in Singarajabefore 1959. “I am still collectingthe relics of my father related tohis duties as the resident ofSingaraja,” he said.

To realize the aspirat ion,Wiradharma indeed requires akind of support from the BulelengRegency. So far, the regency gov-ernment is considered to have nolong-term program on the preser-vation of old houses in Singaraja.Though the old houses have beenowned by an individual, they re-main a national asset so that gov-ernment can have done a conser-vation measures. “Governmentcan make an approach to the own-ers about the programs that willbe implemented,” he said.

According to Wiradharma, sev-

eral other owners of the old housesin Singaraja were believed to stillhave a commitment to maintainand care for the house as its origi-nal condition. But someday thetime might change and so mighttheir confidence. When govern-ment did not pay serious attentionto conservation efforts ,homeowners could also think ofdismantling them and create a newbuilding having an economicvalue. “In the long run, peoplecould be tempted. My house wasjust continually bargained at ex-pensive price,” he said.

Wiradharma suggested theBuleleng Regency Government toimmediately formulate a long-term program, including the regu-lations to preserve those oldhouses. It should not make short-term programs that could only de-stroy the long historical journey.“Government apparently is notwilling to make a long-term pro-gram because the result will beenjoyed by the next elected regent.This thinking pattern must bechanged,” he affirmed. (ole)

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Hundreds of In Car SellersHundreds of In Car SellersHundreds of In Car SellersHundreds of In Car SellersHundreds of In Car SellersAttacked DenpasarAttacked DenpasarAttacked DenpasarAttacked DenpasarAttacked Denpasar

Denpasar (Bali Post) –In car sellers are still spreading in strategic location knowingly its legal or illegal both kinds of

it seemed to make its own profit. First Director of Denpasar Market Management, I Made Westra,when contacted last Tuesday (19/4) stated there are some in car sellers under the managementand located at three markets with 125 sellers at Badung, 60 at Kereneng and 30 at Anyar Sari.For the rest like at Gunung Kawi Street it is not under the management. “For those we don’tknow its data,” he explained.

The in car sellers in this streetwas disciplined once by DenpasarVillage and in the end they movedthe ones in Kartini Street toWangaya Terminal which so 250sellers in cars and going aroundsellers are now there from the af-ternoon until night.

Former Denpasar House ofRepresentatives member, PandeMade Arnaya, hoped that govern-ment will prepare another loca-tion for these sellers. “They giveprosperi ty to the people’seconomy and needs a location toget their income,” he stated. Sec-

retary of the Denpasar Vilalge,A.A. Putu Gede Wibawa alsostated that there are enough loca-tion for these sellers yet most ofthe time the sellers did not wantto be given a new place and theytend to choose crowded place likeGajah Mada Street. (kmb12)

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In car seller is seen on the street of Badung Market.

Finance Analyzer FoundHundreds of “Gayus” in BaliDenpasar (Bali Post)

Finance Report and Analysis Central (PPATK) Head, YunusHusein stated hundreds of corruptors and bribers are found in Baliwith at least 253 for Suspicious Transaction (LTKM) has hap-pened the past 7 years (2005-2011). “We have reported this toHead of Bali Police to be further investigated. Looking at the Fi-nance Services report seemed many occurred at banks and nonbanks such as insurance, paying services and security companies,”Yunus stated accompanied by his colleagues when coming to BaliPost Press K Nadha Building last Tuesday (19/4).

Their arrival was received by Bali Post’s Redaction Head,Nyoman Wirata, Bisnis Bali Head, Suja Adnyana and Bali TV Re-dactor, Dewi Tika. It is eplaned corruption and frauds were themost reported cases to PPATK also such as “Gayus” doings in-creased every year. “We found suspicious transaction done by 42public officials in Bali where 39 from legislative institution and 3executive or state officer,” he revealed. Besides that there are alsofrom Army, Police, Prosecutors, Civil Workers, Bank workers,housewives, commissary, directors, director assistants, managers,state officers, private company workers, entrepreneurs, lawyersand more with at least 27-28 suspicious transaction reported ev-eryday in Indonesia causing millions to billions have been addedto the LTKM.

Even so Yunus stated the suspicious transactions in Bali havebeen less than the ones in other areas with the regional autonomypolicy in here it gives a better opportunity causing less of suchcrime. Meanwhile Wirata also explained the Bali Post MediaGroup’s history and also explained that this group has been theconsistent local media that built Bali. Bali Post also received asouvenir from PPATK of the PPATK symbol. (par)

Singaraja (Bali Post) –Another Buleleng resident became a victim to rabies with this time a 6th

grade elementary pupil named Putu Edo Surya Wiranata (12) from BanjarBaingin, Dencarik Village, Banjar after treated at Buleleng Hospital

As information received last Tuesday (19/4), it is stated the boy died on13th April and planned to be buried this Wednesday (20/4). The boy diedafter having rabies symptoms and was brought also treated at Santi GrahaHospital, Seririt before sent to Buleleng Hospital where he died severalhours later.

Father of the boy, Putu Astrawan (35), stated his first son was bitten lastDecember 2010 on his left food when walking home in the street near totheir house. Director of Singaraja Hospital, dr. I Nyoman Mardana, Sp. B,stated that the hospital is still waiting for the results of if the boy positivelydied due to rabies. “It is true he was indicated to have the rabies virus butfor further clarity we are still waiting for the blood sample test in thelaboratorium,” he explained. (kmb15)

Suspected Rabies,Elementary Pupil Died

Bitten by Dog Last December

The Best Western Kuta.

Until now Best Western KutaHotel located at Kubu AnyarStreet still has time to preparetheir permits if they want to avoidbeing sealed this 28th April.Martha explained that the sealingwill be done based on the letterNo 158/2011 as Best WesternKuta hasn’t responded any of the

Best Western KutaSoon Sealed

warning letters from Badung Re-gent.

According to Martha a discus-sion has taken place connecting tothe time and security of the seal-ing to avoid any misunderstand-ing moreover it’s part of the tour-ism image. “We will give anotherletter to make sure the buildingwill be emptied four days beforethe sealing so no more businesswill be going on and also to fin-ish administration with the 217workers in it. Our hope is to haveeverything go well, discipline andfor everyone to understand whatwe’re doing,” Martha explained.(kmb25)IBP/Dedi

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International4 Thursday, April 21, 2011 News

More than a decade after Diana’sdeath, the “People’s Princess” remainsadored and the new royal bride will bemeasured against the young, shyblonde who captivated the world at herwedding to Prince Charles in 1981.

The royals are understandablywary of comparisons between thetwo women, and William himselfinsisted soon after the engagementthat “no one is trying to fill mymother’s shoes”.

Diana’s marriage was a famously

Agence France Presse

MISRATA, Libya – A rebel official inLibya’s besieged city of Misrata pleadedfor Britain and France to send troops tohelp fight Moamer Kadhafi’s forces, whilea son of the strongman said he was “veryoptimistic” his father’s regime will prevail.

A senior member of Misrata’s govern-ing council, Nuri Abdullah Abdullati, saidthey were asking for the troops on the ba-sis of “humanitarian” principles, in the firstrequest by insurgents for boots on theground.

Previously, he told reporters, “we didnot accept any foreign soldiers in our coun-try, but now, as we face these crimes ofKadhafi, we are asking on the basis of hu-manitarian and Islamic principles forsomeone to come and stop the killing.”

“Before we were asking for no foreigninterference, but that was before Kadhafiused Grad rockets and planes. Now it’s alife or death situation.” His plea came as

Reuters

KADUNA, Nigeria – Post-election riots innorthern Nigeria have killed at least 50 peoplein major cities alone, according to a tally fromwitnesses and rescue workers, but the overalldeath toll is believed to be much higher.

Hundreds have been injured and thousandsdisplaced by violence across the mostly-Mus-lim north after President Goodluck Jonathanwon weekend elections. His rival, northernerand ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, saysthe vote was rigged.

Charred corpses lay in the Gonin-Goraneighborhood of Kaduna on Tuesday, one ofthem apparently “necklaced” with a burningtyre. Health workers had already collected adozen bodies there. One picked up a severedfoot.

“We’re yet to finish, we have just started

Kate Middleton and PrincessKate Middleton and PrincessKate Middleton and PrincessKate Middleton and PrincessKate Middleton and PrincessDiana - worlds apartDiana - worlds apartDiana - worlds apartDiana - worlds apartDiana - worlds apartAgence France Presse

LONDON – From the moment Prince William put his mother’s sap-phire and diamond ring on Kate Middleton’s finger, comparisons be-tween his wife-to-be and the late princess Diana became inevitable.

unhappy union which broke downamid infidelity on both sides, end-ing in a bitter divorce and then trag-edy, when the princess died in a Pariscar crash in 1997.

It is not a tale to comfort a ner-vous bride, but fortunately, commen-tators see more differences thansimilarities between the two women.

Despite her lack of aristocraticblood, Kate will be far better pre-pared than Diana ever was for royallife when she walks down the aisleof Westminster Abbey on April 29.

“Kate’s been very carefullygroomed, it’s been a long processover a period of time and she’s gotpeople around her who understandthe modern media. “She knows ex-actly what she’s getting,” said MaxClifford, a top British PR man whohas represented many celebrities.

Kate and William have been to-gether for eight years, whereas Dianawas courted for just six months. In fact,Kate has been waiting so long for herboyfriend to pop the question that thepress dubbed her “Waity Katy”.

But Clifford says the length oftime puts their relationship on astrong footing, saying “Williamseems to be totally in love with herand vice versa”. The young couplehave had a very modern courtship.

They lived together while at StAndrews University in Scotland, wherethey met, and in recent months Kate hasstayed with William on the island ofAnglesey in Wales, where he works asa helicopter search and rescue pilot.

At the age of 29, Kate also hasconsiderable life experience com-pared to Diana, who was only 20 onher wedding day, 12 years youngerthan Charles. Just five months sepa-rate Kate and William, who is 28.

Diana had left school before fin-ishing her studies and her work ex-perience was limited to a stint at anursery.AFP PHOTO / ALASTAIR GRANT / WPA POOL

Kate Middleton, fiancee ofBritain’s Prince William, ges-tures as she meets well-wishersduring a visit with William toWitton County Park, in Darwen,north-west England, on April 11,2011.

A group of youthdemonstrate

calling forfurther westernintervention in

the besiged westLibyan city of

Misrata on April19, 2011, as

MoamerKadhafi’s forces

pounded thebesieged rebel

city with rocketsand shells.

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Libya rebels plead for help,Kadhafi son defiant

Kadhafi and rebel forces engaged in fiercefighting in southeast Misrata.

The din subsided only briefly whenNATO planes were heard overhead, butpicked up immediately afterwards.

The rebels in Misrata, which has beenunder siege for more than a month and seenhundreds killed, have no direct contact withcoalition forces. Abdullati said the requestwas sent last week to the rebel TransitionalNational Council (TNC) in Benghazi, butthere had yet been no reply.

Separately, Seif al-Islam, a son ofKadhafi, said he was confident the rebel-lion would fail. “I am very optimistic andwe will win,” Seif said on Allibya televi-sion.

“The situation changes every day in ourfavour,” he said before a group of about 50attending the television broadcast. He didnot give details.

Seif vowed that his father’s regimewould “not seek revenge” against the rebelsfighting to oust him.

Bodies in streetsafter Nigeria election riots

the work,” said Zacharia Shamaki, Kaduna stateenvironment commissioner, as health workersput corpses into an ambulance.

Churches, mosques, homes and shops wereset ablaze on Monday as Buhari’s supporters,some chanting his name, went on the rampage.“No more PDP” — a reference to Jonathan’sruling party — was written in chalk beside onebody lying in Kaduna.

Police in Bauchi state said four members ofthe National Youth Corps, which helped runelections, and two policemen were killed in anattack while the head of the local Christian as-sociation said 10 of its members were killedaround the state.

Buhari described the violence as “sad andunfortunate,” but stopped short of a clear callfor calm. “This dastardly act is not initiated byany of our supporters and therefore cannot besupported by our party,” he said in a statement,

dissociating himself from theviolence.

Soldiers patrolled thestreets, enforcing a curfew inseveral states. But there werecontinued reports of violencein smaller towns where themilitary presence was smaller,including Zonkwa andKafanchan south of Kaduna.Hospitals were overflowing.“We’re full. We’ve got injuriesranging from battering, ma-chete wounds and around fivegunshot victims,” said IbrahimGwarze, a doctor in the AminuKano Teaching Hospital.

“We had a young boy, 7years old, with a gunshotwound to the stomach,” hesaid.

AFP PHOTO / Tony KARUMBA

A picture taken on April 18, 2011 shows Nigerian youth light-ing fires on a street of Bauchi, capital of Bauchi state, nothernNigeria.

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Activities Thursday, April 21, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for March 21 through April 23, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for itannual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days accord-ing to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestralshrine which each family possesses. Because of this prac-tically every few days a ceremony of festival of somekind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are alsotimes when the entire island celebrated the same Holi-day, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswatiday, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, TumpekWayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days,depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings,decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted withgold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hungin the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placedred, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods areworshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these um-brellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributesof Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”,long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments ofyoung coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire,carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and col-ored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the gracewith which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

21 MarBetara Turun Kabeh Ceremony Besakih - KarangasemBukit Jati Temple BangliBatur Temple Kalanganyar - BangliMasceti Pejengaji Temple Tegallalang - GianyarDalem Temple Tangsud,Sukawati - GianyarPenambangan Badung Temple DenpasarLempuyang Madia Temple KarangasemBatur Temple BangliDesa Temple Singakerta,Ubud - GianyarPasek Gelgel Temple Marga - TabananGaduh Temple Ketapian, Sumerta - DenpasarPasek Bendesa Temple Tuakilang - TabananPasek Agung Temple Tatag Kelod,Peguyangan -DenpasarAgung Pasek Bendesa Temple Tonja - DenpasarPasek Gegel Angsri Temple Baturiti - TabananPasek Gelgel Baleagung Temple Braban - TabananDukuh Sakti Belatung Temple Timpag,Kerambitan-TabananPuseh Dukuh Sakti Belatung Rendang - KarangasemPitamaha Temple Palangkaraya - Kalimantan TengahCandra Praba Temple Komplek Polri,Jelambar-Jakarta BaratAgung Jagatnatha Temple DenpasarPemerajan Agung Temple Puri Petak - GianyarDadya Agung Bendesa Tangkas Abiansemal - BadungPuseh Temple Sidemen - KarangasemAgung Giri Natha Temple Semarang - Center of Java

2 AprilPuseh Temple , Village Temple Sukawati GianyarPasek Gelgel-Bebetin Temple Sawan BulelengMaspahit Temple Sesetan DenpasarPasek Bendesa Manik Mas Tegallalang GianyarPanti Pasek Gaduh Temple Sesetan - DenpasarPedarman Arya Kanuruhan Temple BesakihKarangasem

5 AprilKahyangan Tiga Temple Batur Kintamani - BangliBatur Temple Camenggaon, Sukawati Gianyar

Luhur Bhujangga Temple Canggu,Kuta BadungKawitan Kayu Selem Temple Batur, Kintamani Bangli

12 AprilPuseh Temple , Desa Temple GianyarLuhur Dalem Segening Temple Kediri TabananSanghyang Tegal Temple Taro,Tegallalang Gianyar

16 AprilDalem Tarukan Temple Cemenggon, Sukawati-GianyarPenataran Dalem Ketut Temple Pejeng Kaja GianyarPuseh Manakaji Temple Peninjoan - BangliKawitan Gusti Celuk Temple Mengwi Badung

20 AprilSegara Temple Lombok IslandDwijawarsa Temple Malang East JavaPuncak Tinggah Temple Baturiti TabananKawitan Batur Pande Tonja Temple Tonja - DenpasarPenyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri,SelemadegTabananPenataran Agung Temple Sidemen KarangasemSamuan Tiga Temple Bedulu GianyarKawitan Jati Luwih Bhujangga Jatiluwih Tabanan

21 AprilDalem Taman Temple Peguyangan Denpasar

23 AprilPuri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng,TampaksiringGianyarRambut Siwi Temple JembranaBatu Bolong Temple Canggu,Kuta BadungPasek Temple Klaci,TabananAgung Pasek Temple Dauh Waru - JembranaRatu Pasek Temple Sangsit BulelengPasek Tangkas Temple Gede TabananPedharman Batur Sari Ngiis Temple Jegu,PenebelTabananDesa Temple Banyuning BulelengSrijong Temple TabananPuncak Mundi Temple Klumpu,Nusa Penida-Klungkung

Since 1960s until these days, Kuta has be-come the busiest tourist resorts all the yearround in Bali, and increasingly identical to aresort with glamorous image of challenging andintriguing activities such as surfing, shopping,sun bathing, or just enjoying the atmosphereof the world along with all existing tourismfacilities. On that account, Kuta is also knownas a never-sleeping destination.

Such a great potency owned by Kuta makesSahid Kuta Lifestyle Resort a superb Oasis inthe Heart of Kuta enriching the venues requiredby tourists spending holidays to Kuta. Spread-ing 250 meters long, right in the heart of Kutaand overlooking the Indian Ocean, Sahid KutaLifestyle Resort poses the latest majesticproject to be undertaken in the most famoustourism area of Bali. The project consists ofSheraton Bali Kuta, a 5-star hotel accommo-dation with 200 rooms scheduled to open in2012, existing Harris Resort Kuta which wasopened in 2004, additional leisure hotel facili-ties, and a lifestyle center scheduled to open inOctober 2011 with the so-called beachwalk.

Amidst the growing concerns for environ-

Sahid Kuta Lifestyle Resort becomes Bali’s premier destinationIBP

KUTA - Kuta was formerly known as fishing and agricultural village located in thecoastal region of Indian Ocean. The region has narrow land going along the beach andforming a linear pattern strengthened by Mati River.

mental responsibility, the beachwalk will makea conscious effort to implement eco-friendlyingenuity where an open-air walkway will becooled naturally by the soft whisper of seabreeze reducing the need for air-conditioning.Indirectly, it brings every single guest closer tothe atmosphere and taste of Kuta Beach aroundthe clock.

Built pursuant to international standardsusing locally sourced materials and recycledhardwoods, every effort will be taken to pre-vent the unnecessary cutting down of trees forthe beachwalk structural and aesthetic devel-opment. By doing so, it will automatically helpmaintain the conservation of nature in general.Hence, our leisure today will remain to becomea heritage of comfort for our next generation.

The beachwalk at Sahid Kuta Lifestyle Re-sort is set to become Bali’s premier destinationthat anticipates the ever-changing leisure needsof today’s seasoned travelers while remainsfully conscious of its integration with the sur-rounding environment. Sooner or later, it isgoing to grow into an enchanting and attrac-tive destination offered by Bali.

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The moment — captured by aphotographer from leading Japanesedaily Yomiuri and published bynewspapers and websites worldwide— evoked a rare glimmer of hopeamid so much destruction and deathfrom the March 11 disasters thatkilled an estimated 26,000 people.

Weeks later, 5-month-old IrohaIshikawa is now healthy and safe,living at a shelter inside an elemen-tary school with her parents inIshinomaki, 200 miles (320 kilome-ters) northeast of Tokyo.

“I’m happy that we were rescued,but there is a lot of sadness behindit — many families didn’t make it,”the infant’s mother, Yuki Ishikawa,tells The Associated Press.

Ishikawa, 41, says she was homewith her baby daughter on the Fri-day afternoon when the magnitude-9 earthquake hit, rattling her homeand toppling furniture. She beganpacking her car to flee when her hus-band, Takatoshi, returned from workand said he heard strange noises —

Agence France Presse

PERTH, Australia – A teacherat an Australian school has beensuspended after allegedly tying afive-year-old boy to a chair with askipping rope as punishment formisbehaving, a report saidWednesday.

Police told the West Australiannewspaper they received a reportfrom a school east of Perth that afemale teacher used the rope to re-strain the child on two occasions.

She allegedly tied his hands be-hind his back for about one minutebefore releasing him and when hecontinued being disruptive, she re-portedly roped him to a chair inthe corner of the classroom forabout five minutes.

The newspaper said anothermember of staff witnessed the in-cidents and informed police, whohave asked the Education Depart-

Baby in iconic tsunamiBaby in iconic tsunamiBaby in iconic tsunamiBaby in iconic tsunamiBaby in iconic tsunamiphoto safe with parentsphoto safe with parentsphoto safe with parentsphoto safe with parentsphoto safe with parentsAssociated Press Writer

ISHINOMAKI, Japan – A Japanese soldier grins as he cradles a tiny baby in a fuzzy pinkblanket, plucked from a wreckage-blocked house three days after a powerful earthquake andtsunami flattened much of the country’s northeastern coastline.

the sounds of a powerful tsunamiblasting its way through their neigh-borhood near the shore.

The mother grabbed only Irohaand a baby bag as she ran for safety.It had a thermos with some hot wa-ter, two cans of milk, three babybottles and some diapers in it.

They fled to the second story of aneighbor’s house along with thecouple that lived there. A minute laterthe tsunami crashed through the firstfloor.

“We saw all kinds of things getwashed by in the waters — debris,cars, and to be honest, bodies,” shesays. “We stayed there for two dayswith nothing to eat or drink, exceptfor what the baby had.”

Two days after the tsunami, thewaters receded, and the two men wereable to scrounge some food. Thegroup of five was located by soldiers,who asked them to move to acrowded shelter closer to the shore.They declined, and then a powerfulaftershock sent everyone scrambling

for safety. The troops returned thenext day.

“The doors of the house wereblocked by cars and other debris, sowe had to go out through a window.The soldiers helped us out throughthe window, and that was when thepicture was taken,” Yuki Ishikawasays.

Since then, the Ishikawas havebeen living in the elementary school,with father Takatoshi so busy fix-ing pipes at damaged buildings thathe has had little time to clean uptheir own home. The mother saysshe can’t really think very far intothe future, but she hopes they canmove to temporary housing or some-where with more privacy.

As for the widely viewed photo,she says it is such a positive imagethat it masks some of the tragedy ofthe tsunami. “I don’t really have anyfeelings about the picture itself,”Iroha’s mother says. “I just wantpeople to know the reality of whathappened here.”

AP Photo/ Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroto Sekiguchi, File

FILE - In this March 14, 2011 file photo, a Japan Self-Defense Force member reacts after rescuinga four-month-old baby girl Iroha Ishikawa in Ishinomaki, northern Japan, three days after a pow-erful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country’s east coast. Iroha, five-month-old, is nowhealthy and safe, living at a shelter inside an elementary school with her parents in Ishinomaki,200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

Australia teacher suspendedfor tying up child

ment to investigate.The department said the

teacher had been suspended whiletheir Standards and Integrity Unitconduct a probe. WesternAustralia’s director general ofeducation, Sharyn O’Neil, told theAustralian Broadcasting Corpora-tion she was disappointed to hearof the incident.

“Teachers are in a special posi-tion of trust, and so this allegation isparticularly disappointing,” she said.

“Parents should be able to sendtheir children to school and under-stand that those children are go-ing to be looked after and lookedafter well. “If the allegation isproven, it will be taken most seri-ously.”

Last year, a teacher in the West-ern Australian town of Kalgoorliewas disciplined for sticky-tapingthe mouths of nine young childrento stop them talking in class.

Agence France Presse

BANGKOK – Thailand’s primeminister Wednesday pledged to helplow earners and farmers and tackledrug crime as he outlined his policyagenda ahead of an election that hehopes will heal deep politicalwounds. In a televised speech,Abhisit Vejjajiva claimed success inhis stewardship of the economysince coming to power in Decem-ber 2008 through a parliamentaryvote with the backing of theBangkok-based elite and the mili-tary.

“We will push ahead with severalpolicies which we are confident willmake Thais stronger,” he said.Abhisit, the British-born, Oxford-educated head of the establishmentDemocrat Party, has said he expectsto dissolve the lower house of par-liament in the first week of May foran election to be held by early July.

His platform includes an increaseof at least 25 percent in the mini-mum wage for labourers and factoryworkers in the next two years and a25 percent increase of guaranteedprices for agricultural products forfarmers.

“We are determined to solve andend the drug problem. Our policyon drugs will be in line with laws

Thai PM woos votersas election looms

starting with prevention, suppres-sion and healing,” he added. Thaisociety remains bitterly divided fol-lowing the worst civil violence indecades a year ago which left morethan 90 people dead in street clashesbetween “Red Shirt” oppositionprotesters and armed troops in cen-tral Bangkok.

Yingluck Shinawatra, a sister offugitive former Thai premierThaksin Shinawatra — a hero tomany Red Shirts — has emerged asa possible opposition candidate forprime minister.

In remarks which appeared to beaimed mainly at the Red Shirt lead-ers, Thailand’s army chief GeneralPrayut Chan-O-Cha warned politi-cal figures to keep the revered mon-archy out of the election debate.

“Especially with politics, do notdrag the monarchy into it. This in-stitution is above all conflicts,” hesaid, adding that the military “willdo its duty to protect the monar-chy”. Prayut has pledged to abideby the results of the poll and hasbrushed aside rumours of a militarycoup.

But that has not dampenedspeculation about possible militaryintervention in a country that hasseen 18 actual or attempted coupssince 1932.

On the accusation that garbage atKuta as garbage sent fromBanyuwangi across the sea from EastJava, or any other places in Indone-sia, Subhiksi did not take it as a prob-lem that the garbage might havecome from any place as he admittedthat Bali itself has a lot of garbage.

“Even if the garbage had indeedbeen the waste carried over (the sea)

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from the other provinces, I can onlyhope that our Governor would havetalked with those other regions onhow to solve the problem,” he said.

What is more important, he said,is the concrete action from the Ba-linese people in maintaining thecleanliness of the place, both seenfrom the perspective of the short-and long-term efforts.

“If the efforts have been takenconsistently, Bali tourism wouldnever be affected by the problem ofgarbage,” he said.

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Antara

JAKARTA - In the past fortyyears Toyota has developed Indo-nesia into a strong production basefor the domestic and export markets.

“From 1987 to last year, Toyotahas been exporting around225,382 thousand CBU (com-pletely built up) cars, exported 561thousand cars in CKD (com-pletely knocked down), 1.4 mil-lion engines, and 200 million partsfrom Indonesia,” PT Toyota AstraMotor (TAM) President DirectorJohnny Darmawan said here Tues-day (April 19).

He said that in 1987 Toyota hasbeen exporting multipurpose ve-hicles Kijang to the Philippinesand Fiji. Toyota’s exports later in-cluded other products such asMPV low Avanza and SUVFortuner, in addition to Innova.

“We continue trying to developIndonesia into a strong productionbase, because Indonesia is veryattractive with a large market. Butwe need government support es-pecially for infrastructure, goodroads, electricity, ports, and reli-able human resources,” he said.

Johnny estimated that sinceApril 12, 1971 Toyota has investedbillions of dollars, where one fac-tory could have invested upto 150million U.S. dollars. Currently,Toyota has several factories in In-donesia and has invested in its

The International Crisis Group(ICG) said a trend was emergingthat favored targeted killings overindiscriminate bombings, local overforeign targets and individual orsmall group action over more hier-archical organizations.

In a new report entitled “IndonesianJihadism: Small Groups, Big Plans”,the Brussels-based ICG said the twoapproaches were complementary.

Larger jihadi organizations havethe networks and funds to supportreligious outreach by radicals es-pousing extremist principles throughthe media and religious study ses-sions, the report said.

Groups like regional terror net-

Antara

JAKARTA - A lawmaker hasurged the government to immedi-ately review ASEAN-China FreeTrade Agreement (ACFTA) whichhe said has put local producers un-der a threat of bankruptcy due to aglut of cheaper Chinese products tothe domestic market.

“If the accord is continued, thenational industry will collapse. It isa matter of time for them to go bank-rupt,” Deputy Chairman of theHouse Commission VI NurdinTampubolon said here on Tuesday.

To prevent the accord from hurt-ing further the national industry, thegovernment must try hard to rene-gotiate it. Otherwise, the nationalindustry would collapse, he said.

Nurdin said Industry MinisterMohammad S Hidayat himself hadadmitted that the government hadno grand design to face ACFTA. Onthe other hand, the domestic mar-ket had been under pressure due toa glut of cheaper Chinese products.

What was most likely for thegovernment to deal with the matterother than renegotiating the accordwas improving the competitive edgeof national products. But this wasnot an easy job because the govern-ment had to improve various regu-

Antara

JAKARTA - Creativity was the keyto the success of Indonesian handicraftspenetration into both the domestic andinternational markets, Vice PresidentBoediono said on Wednesday.

“The creative designs of handi-crafts and their reasonable priceswill attract both domestic and for-eign buyers,” the vice president saidat a function to open “The 13thJakarta International Handicrafts

Toyota develops RIinto production base

subsidiary company Daihatsu.He said that in the next two

years the car market is expected toreach one million units a year.

“Domestic car sales in the Janu-ary-March period have reached 225thousand units, and multiplied byfour it might break the 800 thousandunit car sale and in the next two yearsIndonesian car market could reachone million units, “he said.

Currently Toyota and Daihatsuhas become a major productionbase in Indonesia. Toyota has aproduction capacity of over 100thousand units, and Daihatsu isalso producing collaboration prod-ucts of Toyota Avanza and Rush,has a production capacity of up to400 thousand units per year.

“Last year, Toyota’s salesreached more than 280 thousandunits of which 90 percent camefrom products manufactured in thecountry, and only 10 percent im-ported,” said Johnny. He said it in-dicated a strong market control ofthe cars produced in the country.

This year, Toyota continued tomaintain its target car market con-trol in Indonesia by 36 percent.

In the January-March periodToyota had sold 85,494 units or anincrease of 24.1 percent comparedlast year’s o 68,890 units.

In the first quarter of 2011Toyota leads with a market shareof 37.9 of the total national salesof 225,413 units.

MP urges governmentto review ACFTA

lations, scrap illegal levies, cut lend-ing rates, and control importedgoods, among others, he said.

Right now the implementation ofACFTA had begun to hurt the na-tional industry and affect productsin regions, he said. “I have just ar-rived from a working visit in Malukuwhere I found imported goods in-cluding fish were sold there. As amatter of fact, we are a maritimestate.”

Asked why the government hadno grand design to face the accordwhich had been put into force formore than one year now, he said thetrade minister must be held respon-sible for the matter because she wasunable to renegotiate it.

“Since the beginning the govern-ment in this case the trade ministryshould have looked at the aim of theaccord (carefully). Will we causemisery to our people? Don’t do that,”he said.

ACFTA was signed in 2004 butonly fully implemented on January1, 2010. Trade Ministry data showthat Indonesia export to China wasvalued at US$15.7 billion last yearcompared to US$11.5 billion in2009. Imports from China in 2010was US$20.4 billion, a 31 percentincrease compared to US$14 billionin 2009.

Creativity key to handicrafts’ success in marketsTrade Fair” (INACRAFT 2011) atthe Jakarta Convention Center.

Present at the event were amongothers Trade Minister Mari ElkaPangestu, Culture and Tourism Min-ister Jero Wacik, and Jakarta Gov-ernor Fauzi Bowo.

According to the vice president,could play an important role in thesuccess of handicrafts export whenthe world’s economy in 2011 wasfacing a big challenge.

Vice President Boediono said that

the world’s economy in 2011 wasmarked with difficulty, challenge,and uncertainty of financial and po-litical condition.

He said such a situation was ex-perienced not only by the craftsmenin Indonesia but also those in othercountries in all sectors.

“Therefore we should not com-plain about it but instead try to in-crease our export capability by im-proving our creativity,” the vicepresident said.

AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD

Exchange rates of the USD and various currencies are displayed at a money changers’ shop in Jakarta onApril 20, 2011 . Indonesia’s rupiah hit four-year highs against the greenback in the first week of April andinflation is running at more than 6.5 percent, underlining concerns that the region’s more successful econo-mies may be close to boiling point.

Indonesia attack showsIndonesia attack showsIndonesia attack showsIndonesia attack showsIndonesia attack shows‘individual jihad’ trend: ICG‘individual jihad’ trend: ICG‘individual jihad’ trend: ICG‘individual jihad’ trend: ICG‘individual jihad’ trend: ICGAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA – A suicide attack at a mosque in an Indonesian policestation last week fits a pattern of “individual jihad” aimed at localtargets by small groups of extremists, a think-tank said Tuesday.

work Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) andhardliner Islamic group JemaahAnshorut Tauhid (JAT) are placinggreater focus on local “enemies”seen as “oppressors”, including thepolice, Christians and the minorityIslamic sect Ahmadiyah.

ICG senior advisor Sidney Jonessaid the emergence of small groupsundertaking jihad on their own high-lighted the urgent need for preven-tion programmes “which are virtu-ally non-existent in Indonesia”.

“The critical task is to identify vul-nerable communities, starting with ar-eas that have produced extremist groupsin the recent past, and think throughpossible programmes that might

strengthen community resistance to ex-tremist teaching,” she added.

Local resident Mohammed Syarif,32, detonated explosives strapped tohis body at a mosque inside a policestation in Cirebon, West Java prov-ince, on Friday as worshippers begantheir prayers, killing himself instantlyand injuring 30 others.

Police are still investigating hismotives and links with terror groups.

The attack was the first suicidebombing inside a mosque in theworld’s largest Muslim-majoritynation of 240 million people.

Last month, bombs hidden in hol-lowed-out books were sent to sev-eral addresses including those of lib-eral Muslim figures and a counter-terrorism official, but no one waskilled. Indonesia has been rocked bya series of bombings staged by JI inrecent years, including the 2002 Balibombings which killed 202 people.

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In first quarter, Balipursued by 25 investorsBali Post

DENPASAR - Investment revenue plan during the first quarter of 2011 in Bali reached 25projects consisting of foreign direct investment (PMA) and domestic investment (PMDN) worthIDR 340,309,706. This investment was supported by the tertiary sector dominated by PMA whereamong others included the construction, trades and repair, hotels and restaurants.

Division Head of InvestmentResearch (BPM) of Bali Prov-ince, Suta Astawa, stated the re-alization of investment plan cov-ered 24 new projects and 1 expan-sion project. Meanwhile, the tar-get of investment growth for 2011reached IDR 15.79 trillion forforeign investment and IDR 4trillion for domestic investment.The number increased from theperiod of 2010 where the targetwas IDR 12.9 trillion with the re-alization of domestic and foreigninvestment worth IDR 3.1 tril-lion.

“Tertiary sector, especially inthe field of tourism remains to be-come the leading sector and evenit reaches 82 percent, agriculturefalls behind 1 percent and the re-maining is the industry sector,”Astawa said in Denpasar, Tues-day (Apr 19).

According to him, the most fa-vored regions by many investorscomprised the Badung, Gianyar,

Karangasem Regency, and the cityof Denpasar, rather than Bangli,Buleleng, Jembrana, Tabanan andKlungkung. “Investors that willinvest in Bali are from the UnitedStates, Australia, Holland, Ger-many, Canada, South Korea, andFrance,” he explained.

It was said, the BPM continu-ally attempted to promote the in-vestment in agricultural sector inBali. However, it could not havebeen able to attract investors whowere more interested to invest inthe leading sectors of Bali. Theypreferred to invest in agriculturein Sulawesi or Kalimantan.

“Investment in tourism sectorhas been quite a lot in Bali. Butwe cannot prohibit those investorsin the tourism field as long ascomplying with the exist ingrules,” he said. Bali required tem-porary moratorium to terminatethe development in the three re-gions such as Badung, Gianyarand Denpasar. Up to these days,

there had been registered 45,557hotel rooms scattered throughoutBali, while 85 percent was con-centrated on western Bali.

Prof. Dr. I Made Kembar SriBudhi, a lecturer in Faculty ofEconomics, Udayana University,previously said the impact of PMAwould result in multiplier effects.Among others, it would increasethe employment opportunities,purchasing power and demand inthe domestic market.

“Bali absolutely needs invest-ment in improving the macroeconomy. However, governmentshould sort out any investmentpermit issued whether they willresult in negative impact to the en-vironment or not,” he said.

According to him, theoreticallyinvestment was very important asthe main generator of developmentand long-term economic growth.Without investment, the long-termeconomic growth could not beachieved. (par)

Dasa Nama:A simple thesauruswith huge benefits

In Bali, the mountains have a special significance in the Hindu Philosophy.To the Balinese the mountains are holy or sacred areas and for this reason manytemples and shrines will be found among the lofty peaks.

Certain curtiousies should be followed by all mountain walkers which to theoutsider may appear odd or strange. For example woman should not visit moun-tain regions during their menstrual cycle, beef, in the form of meat should not beeaten or carried there. Also whilst in the mountain, bad language or behaviormust be avoided.

The mountains of Bali form part of a chain stretching from East to West andtwo of these mountains are in fact active volcanos. One being Mount Agung(2152 m) the highest mountain in Bali which last erupted in 1963, the otherMount Batur (1717 m) currently active. There are three other lesser mountainsmount Abang (2152 m), Mount Batuaru (2276 m) and Mount lempuyang (1058m), and several other mountains, but many f these can be “climbed” by motorcycles or cars.

Mountain climbing in Bali is something much closer to mountain walkingsince most of Blai’s mountains have gentle slopes with few difficult or steepclimbs, so the equipment required is minimal. Recommended climbing gearbeing a hat, for sun/rain protection, stout boots, gloves (ther are many thornbushes and plants), warm clothing, rain coat and rucksack. It is also advisable totake along a small first aid kit. Many of the mountain foot hills have quite anumber of leeches in particular Mount Batukaru so it is recommended to takealong cigarettes (to burn the leeches off) and to tuck your trousers into yoursocks.

There is in Bali an active students mountaineering clubs in Bali. Every Uni-versities in Bali has their own club, one of them “Mapala Wanaprastha Dharma”situated in the campus of the Udayana University on Jalan P.B Sudirman Denpasar.The following time-table gives a rough guide to some of the “climbs”, startingwith the easy climbs and progreessing to more difficult ones.

People reading Balinese manu-scripts known as lontar occasionallyfind slight difficulties especially in thematter of lexicons. This happens be-cause the manuscripts often use syn-onyms and they do not belong to com-mon words. Nevertheless, such diffi-culty may not become a hindrance tolearn the ancient heritages being richin knowledge.

There is always a solution to resolvethe problem. As other languages, Ba-linese language also has thesaurusknown as Dasa Nama. One of thebooks carrying about it is a simple 67-page book written by I Made Gambarwho deeply involves in Balinese an-cient manuscripts. Based on lexiconsobtained from several lontars he suc-cessfully classified the field into six cat-egories such as name of birds, name oftrees, things or animals, homograph,Old Javanese and ingredients of ritual.

As a matter of fact, the book re-sembles to a thesaurus, though not ar-ranged alphabetically. It is a Balinese-Balinese word equivalence that doesnot give the meaning with explanation.Uniquely, it tends to provide equiva-lent meaning belonging to uncommonvocabularies usually found in vernacu-lar language.

For readers who would like to learnmore about Balinese herbal, this the-saurus will be very helpful. In addition,it can enrich the Balinese vocabulary.For instance, in Balinese herbal manu-script, there is a word lenge (red rice).It is not common to daily Balinese lan-guage that usually uses baas barak.Secondly, equivalences of hibiscus

(pucuk—common word) arewirakusuma, landa para, sumara,jakusuma, tundapala, raktajuma,warangbang, waribang, wangewarihand jaya kesuma.

Other than thesaurus, it also carrieshomograph. For example, the wordantara can have English equivalenceto the words (1) leak, (2) good, (3)smart, (4) sky, (5) soul, and (6) inter-mediate. The word antara is oftenfound used as word formation in mak-ing Balinese individual names likeBudiantara and Sujaantara.

Hopefully, this book could helpyoung generation or whoever wishingto learn more about Balinese ancientmanuscripts. They actually cover manyaspects of life ranging from herbal heal-ing (Taru Pramana, Rukmini Tattwaetc.), architecture (Asta Kosala Kosali),agriculture (Shri Tattwa/DarmaningPemaculan), astrology (WarigaDewasa), afterlife (Atma Prasangsa),medical code of ethic (UsadaKalimosada) and many more.

As the treasure of indigenous wis-dom, the lontar manuscripts have pro-vided rich inspirations to spa treatmentespecially in terms of boreh ingredients,Balinese massage as well as elegantdesign to villa and hotel properties. Bylearning more ancient manuscripts, itwill be obtained more and more inspi-rations and if combined with modernscience and technique will engenderunique and elegant products. Last butnot least, let’s preserve and learn them.Do not let them be obsolete in keepingwith the times without an opportunityto learn them! (BTN/punia)

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Investment revenue plan during the first quarter of 2011 in Bali reached 25 projects consistingof foreign direct investment (PMA) and domestic investment (PMDN) worth IDR 340,309,706.

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BASE BE SAMPI(Spice Paste For Beef)

INGREDIENTS:250 gr large red chili, seeded and peeled40 gr bird’s eye chili, finely sliced50 gr garlic, peeled and chopped200 gr shallot, peeled and chopped50 gr ginger, peeled and chopped150 gr laos, peeled and chopped2½ tbsp black pepper corn crushed2½ tbsp coriander seed crushed100 gr candlenut40 gr palm sugar, chopped150 ml coconut oil250 ml water3 salam leaf¾ tbsp salt

PREPARATION:Combine all ingredients except salam leaf, water and

salt, place in food processor and grind coarsely. Placeground ingredients in heavy sauce pan, add allremaining ingredients and cook over medium heat forapproximately 60 minutes or until all water is evaporatedand marinade changes to golden color.

Set aside and cool.

IKAN LELE(Catfish)

OVERVIEW:The whiskered catfish, though not an attractive

looking creature, tastes excellent when cooked in thisfashion.

INGREDIENTS:1 catfish weighing 350g1 tsp salt1tsp black peppercorn crushed2 tbsp freshly squeezed limejuice1-cup spice paste for seafood2 cups coconut milk1 stalk lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATION:Season catfish with salt, pepper and limejuice and

marinate for 30 minutes. Deep fry fish over medium heatfor 10 minutes until crispy.

While the fish is marinating, combine all remainingingredients in saucepan and bring to the boil overmedium heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes,until coconut milk breaks apart and sauce becomes oilyand clear rather than creamy.

Pour the sauce over the fried fish and serve.

Helpful hint:If catfish is not available, replace with any fresh whole

fish or follow the same method with any boneless fishfillet. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Amlapura (Bali Post)—Wild silkworm species, like

Cricula triphenestrata, whosepopulation exploding in someplaces in Karangasem can actuallybe cultivated as long as the cocooncan be channeled. However, thecultivation should be carried outon other plants, not on the culti-vated crops such as cashew nutwhich has now become an indus-trial plant.

This matter was revealed by theHead of Karangasem Food Cropsand Horticulture, Wayan

Wild silkworm can becultivated on crops

Subratayasa, accompanied by theSpokesperson Nyoman Wage inKarangasem on Tuesday (Apr19).Subratayasa said the regency gov-ernment would lend a hand if therewere farmers getting interested indeveloping the wild gold silkwormsthrough breeding.

Moreover, he got information onthe matter from the Head of BaliFood Crops, Made Putra Suryawan,a few days ago who made a visit onthe existence of caterpillar popula-tion at Biok Hamlet, Tumbu Vil-lage, Karangasem. At that time,

Putra Suryawan mentioned if thegolden silkworm could have beencultivated up to dozens of hectaresin Java such as Yogyakarta. Itsgolden yellowish cocoon could bespun into gold silk thread. Addition-ally, the cocoon could also be di-rectly made into accessories such asthe quite expensive decorative hairclips.

Gold silk worm has been foundin Karangasem since last week andsome already formed a cocoon. Thehanging cocoon has producedthreads being discharged from itsanus and then braided to makechrysalis house. Meanwhile, thethread adhesive was obtained fromspittle coming out from the cater-pillars.

A number of residents at BiokHamlet, Tumbu Village, admitted toget late information if the caterpil-lars attacking the leaves of cashew,ambarella, mango and other plantswere wild silkworms. Most of thecaterpillars had been eradicated byspraying insecticide undertaken bysome 20 pest control officers fromthe Karangasem Food Crops. Mean-while, there were also caterpillarsburned directly on the cashew trees.

“We do not know if the cocoonof caterpillars can be sold expen-sively. Since the caterpillars werein great quantities and disgusting,we exterminated them and otherresidents even cut down a numberof their cashew or mango trees,”said one of the local residents atBiok Hamlet. (013)

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Kehen Temple is a beautiful Hindutemple located in foothills, south part ofBangli Regency and it is about 45 Kmfrom Denpasar town. Inside of thistemple are, there is Panyimpenan Templebuilding keep 3 inscriptions which is re-lating to its contents and temple exist-ence. It is strategically located in the highland, so we can see the beautiful view. Itis a famous temple in Bali and many visi-tors from foreign country has visited it.

The existence of the inscription atKehen Temple can be explained as fol-lows:

* Kehen Temple Inscription ‘A’ ismentioning the existence of 3 sanctumsthose are Hyang Api, Hyang Tanda, andHyang Karimama

* Kehen Temple Inscription ‘B’ from11 century is mentioning the empirefunctionary that is the Senapati Kuturanpu Kandara and it elaborate with theanathema words in oath

* The Inscription from 13 century(year 1204 M) is mentioning HyangKehen and Hyang Wukir. At the momentHyang Kehen is equal to Kehen Templeand Hyang Wukir is Puncak Bukit BangliTemple.

* It is one of Monarchic Temple, The

Kehen Templetemple under the aegis of king while cer-emony execution and construction isdelivered to local countryside custom

* As a sanctum which is used as a al-tar (oath) for empire functionary whodisloyal to his obligation will incur theSapata or very horrible anathema. Thefunction of Kehen Temple as sanctumin execution of oath ceremony is sup-ported by the existence of acircumlocutory canister by 4 dragon tailswhich is called canister Sarpantaka.Nowadays, the canister is placed in abuilding in form of Gedong

* Worshiping supremacy Siwa Godin the form of Eka Dasa Rudra utilizesto request the godsend to the good hu-man life and universe for blessing of fer-tile life, secure, prosperous and peace-ful.

The structure of Kehen Temple yardis arranged to have a terrace and it showsthe existence of tradition megalithicwhich is continued as a symbol from theexistence of mount that is one of the fer-tility sources. The temple festival can bedivided into 2 types those are PiodalanCeremony which is executed every 6month, that is on Wednesday KeliwonSinta (Balinese Calendar) and NgusabaCeremony which is executed every 5years.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO – Japan’s exports fell forthe first time in 16 months and thetrade surplus plunged after a recordearthquake and tsunami hit produc-tion, the finance ministry saidWednesday.

The country may fall into a tradedeficit in the near term amid risingprices of oil and raw materials,which inflated the value of Marchimports and ate into the trade bal-ance, analysts said.

The latest data further illustratethe emerging impact of the March11 disasters, in which a 9.0-magni-tude earthquake and the tsunami itunleashed devastated swathes of thenortheast coast and triggered anatomic emergency.

Economists see Japan sliding intoa temporary recession after the dev-astation to infrastructure and manu-facturing facilities in the northeast,amid the nation’s worst crisis sinceWorld War II.

“If Japan posts a trade deficit inApril and May, GDP is also likelyto contract in the April-June period,”said Akiyoshi Takumori, chiefeconomist at Sumitomo Mitsui As-set Management.

Japan’s trade surplus in Marchreached 196.5 billion yen ($2.37billion), down 78.9 percent but stillmanaging to stay in the black for thesecond straight month, the financeministry said.

Exports in March dropped 2.2

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Reuters

LONDON – Upbeat earnings from companies including chip maker Intel lifted stocks andboosted appetite for riskier assets on Wednesday, driving commodities higher and the Australiandollar to a 29-year high versus the dollar.

The strong showing in this quar-terly earnings season so far hashelped offset concerns of govern-ment debt problems on both sidesof the Atlantic after Standard &Poor’s on Monday cut the outlookon the United States to negative.

World equities measured byMSCI All-Country World Index ad-vanced 0.9 percent, extending theprevious session’s 0.5 percent riseand further recovering fromMonday’s 1.6 percent loss.

Emerging market stocksclimbed 1.6 percent, catching upfurther with the MSCI All-Coun-

try World Index after sharplyunderperforming the global gaugeearlier this year on concerns overhigh inflation in emerging econo-mies.

“While S&P grabbed some head-lines earlier in the week, on a fu-ture event that may or may not hap-pen, it seems things on the groundare coming up pretty good,” saidPhilip Isherwood, European equi-ties strategist at Evolution Securi-ties.

“The economic and corporatemessage is good. There is nothingto fear but fear itself.”

Intel posted better-than-ex-pected sales and forecast quarterlyrevenues well above Wall Street’sestimates, while world’s biggestcosmetics group L’Oreal andcarmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen alsocame in with robust figures.

Of the 45 S&P 500 companiesthat have reported first-quarter earn-ings so far, 79 percent of them haveeither beaten or met market expec-tations and the remainder came inbelow forecasts, data from ThomsonReuters StarMine showed.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst300 rose 1.2 percent, while

Europe’s tech stocks put on 2 per-cent.

In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei average rose1.8 percent to snap a three-day losingrun, also boosted by Intel’s results.

The improvement in sentimentalso boosted the euro and highyielding currencies, such as theAustralian dollar, which was up 0.7percent at $1.0599 after hitting afresh 29-year high of $1.0609.

“Investor focus is on the earningsseason in the U.S. and this is key indriving growth expectations andpushing stockmarkets higher. Thiskeeps focus away from the eurozone periphery right now,” saidManuel Oliveri, currency strategistat UBS in Zurich.

The euro rose 0.6 percent to$1.4422, while the dollar fell 0.4percent against a basket of curren-

cies.The soft dollar added to the boost

for commodities, with copper up 1.1percent and Brent crude up 0.5 per-cent to just below $122 a barrel afterdropping 1.7 percent in the previoustwo sessions.

Gold breached $1,500 an ouncefor the first time and silver hit a 31-year high, supported by a weak dol-lar and concerns over the euro zonesovereign debt crisis.

Spain will issue up to 3.5 billioneuros of 10- and 13-year paper laterin the day after yields for the eurozone states struggling with high debtsurged this week on the back of in-creasing speculation Greece willmove to restructure its debt.

Yields on 10-year Spanish gov-ernment bonds were steady at 5.507percent.

EU report: China shields$1 trillion market

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – Opaque biddinglaws, outright favoritism and otherpractices by China effectively barforeign companies from winningpublic procurement contracts, amarket equal to a fifth of the Chi-nese economy, a European businessgroup said Wednesday.

A study by the European UnionChamber of Commerce in Chinaadds to rising complaints from ma-jor trading partners that foreigncompanies are being treated unfairlyin the huge and rapidly growingChinese market. Public procure-ment is particularly important be-cause government agencies play amajor role in the economy, both asfunders and arbiters of bids, the EUChamber said.

In bidding on public contracts,“at every step of the process, youhave flaws and difficulties and roomfor a non-equal playing field,”chamber president Jacques deBoisseson said at a news confer-ence. A European information tech-nology executive cited in the studysaid the bidding process “can seemlike pure protectionism and it’s re-ally frustrating.”

Even after three decades of free-market reforms, the government andstate-owned companies dominatevital parts of China’s economy. TheEU Chamber’s study takes an ex-pansive view of the state involve-ment, defining public procurementas encapsulating everything from

Japan trade surplus divesafter quake and tsunami

percent to 5.87 trillion yen, fallingfor the first time in 16 months dueto reduced shipments of automo-biles, it said.

This compared with a 2.0 percentdecline expected in a joint poll byDow Jones and the Nikkei financialdaily.

The fall was led by vehicle ex-ports, which contracted 27.8 percent,the ministry said, after Japan’s lead-ing automakers were forced to haltproduction amid broken supplychains and power shortages.

The export fall is likely to con-tinue, said Japan Foreign TradeCouncil chairman Shoei Utsuda, alsoa chairman for major trading houseMitsui & Co.

“I cannot help but think the fallin April might be even sharper,” hetold Japanese reporters, calling therate of the fall in March “unprec-edented”.

The yen came under pressure inAsia on Wednesday after the tradedata, weakening to 82.90 against thedollar from 82.57 yen in New Yorklate Tuesday.

“As the data showed a clear pic-ture of sluggish exports, the marketmoved to dollar buying against theyen,” said Sumino Kamei, senioranalyst at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

“The data revealed a steep declinein automobile exports. As the sup-ply chain damaged by the quake hasnot been restored yet, it is seen totake time until automobile exports

will recover.”Many key component manufactur-

ers are based in the worst-hit regionsof Japan, their facilities damaged bythe earthquake or inundated by thegiant wave that followed. Shortagesare expected to last for months.

The parts shortage has hit compa-nies and production worldwide.

Since stopping production onMarch 11, Toyota Motor graduallyreopened factories and is now oper-ating at a 50-percent capacity, as itstruggles to secure necessary parts.

March Japanese imports rose forthe 15th straight month, increasing11.9 percent to 5.67 trillion yen, onsurging prices of oil and iron ore, theministry said.

The value of oil imports rose 14.8percent. The value of iron ore importssoared 74.9 percent. Coal imports alsorose 39.4 percent.

Procurement of manufacturingparts from overseas also boosted im-ports, analysts said.

The disaster has depressed Japan’sbusiness and consumer confidence, asTokyo Electric Power Co, which op-erates the stricken Fukushima nuclearplant, makes slow progress to stop theworld’s worst atomic disaster sincethe 1986 Chernobyl explosion.

The ministry also said Japaneseexports for the year to March rose 14.9percent to 67.8 trillion yen, while im-ports rose 15.9 percent to 62.4 trillion.

The annual trade surplus rose 3.9percent to 5.4 trillion yen, the minis-try said.

infrastructure projects to some pur-chases by state companies and pub-lic institutions.

By that measure, the study esti-mates that China’s public procure-ment totals $1 trillion, or 6.8 trillionyuan, a year — about 20 percent ofthe total economy.

In trying to win public contracts,foreign companies often have diffi-culty getting information on bid re-quirements, the study said, whilepractices outlined in laws and regu-lations are implemented unevenly,often to the favor of local firms.

Public procurement has becomeone of several prominent irritants inChina’s relations with trading part-ners in recent years as the size of theChinese market soared while devel-oped economies tottered. The au-thoritarian government has used po-tential access to the growing mar-ket as leverage, crafting policies topersuade multinational companies toturn over technology and open upmore factories and research facili-ties.

Preferences given to domesticcompanies through government pro-curement and policies have drawncomplaints from major multination-als and the U.S., Japanese and Eu-ropean governments.

Washington filed a case in theWorld Trade Organization last yearchallenging subsidies China givesclean-energy makers that the com-plaint says allows them to sell solarand wind power equipment at un-fairly low prices.

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Entertainment InternationalThursday, April 21, 201112

The six-time Grammy Awardwinners announced Tuesday thattheir Peapod Foundation togetherwith the Adobe Foundation willopen a Peapod Adobe Youth Voicesmusic and multimedia academy inlower Manhattan.

The Peapod Foundation is thehip-hop group’s charitable organi-zation; it’s administered by the En-tertainment Industry Foundation.The Adobe Foundation is the phil-

Agence France Presse

SEOUL – Shin Kyung-Sook tookSouth Koreans by storm with “PleaseLook After Mom”, her poignantnovel of family love which sold 1.7million copies domestically. Now itis going international.

The book sold more than 100,000copies in the United States just a fewdays after its debut and there areplans to publish in 24 countries intotal. The novel ranks 21st on the up-coming New York Times best-sellerlist for hardcover fiction, based onsales between April 3 to 9.

It’s the first time a Korean novelhas made it on the list, according toShin’s agent Lee Ku-Yong, presidentof KL Management.

Shin, 48, is one of South Korea’smost acclaimed novelists but “PleaseLook After Mom” is her first bookto appear in English. Now she hopes

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Actor-director Tim Robbins’ mother, musicianMary Robbins, has died. She was 78. Robbins’ father, Gil Robbins,died earlier this month.

Robbins says his mother died Sunday of a heart arrhythmia, just 12days after her husband of nearly 59 years passed away. She died at thecouple’s home in Esteban Cantu, Mexico. Mary Robbins studied musicat the University of California, Los Angeles, and performed profession-ally in the 1950s.

She successfully battled colon cancer through nutrition and alterna-tive medicine, even-tually earning abachelor’s degree inholistic nutrition.She volunteered herservices at a clinicnear the couple’sMexico home.

Robbins says hismother “had a calmand cheerful de-meanor, a sharp wit,a gentle spirit and agenerous and lovingheart.” She is sur-vived by four chil-dren and four grand-children.

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES – French ac-tress Marion Cotillard will join Jo-seph Gordon-Levitt in the cast of“The Dark Knight Rises,” the finaleto the recent Batman film series,according to Warner Brothers.

The film reunites the actorswith Christopher Nolan, who re-cently directed them in the thepopular film “Inception.”

“When you collaborate withpeople as talented as Marion andJoe, it comes as no surprise that

AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file

FILE - In this April 2, 2011 file photo, The Black Eyed Peas perform at Nickelodeon’s 24th Annual Kids’Choice Awards in Los Angeles. The band is opening a school where New York City teens will learn videoand music production using professional-quality equipment.

Black Eyed Peas to startBlack Eyed Peas to startBlack Eyed Peas to startBlack Eyed Peas to startBlack Eyed Peas to startmusic academy in NYCmusic academy in NYCmusic academy in NYCmusic academy in NYCmusic academy in NYCAsscoiated Press Writer

NEW YORK – The Black Eyed Peas are opening a school wherelocal teenagers will learn video and music production using profes-sional-quality equipment.

anthropic arm of software makerAdobe Systems Inc., whose productsinclude Acrobat, Flash andPhotoshop. The two foundations al-ready run three Youth Voices acad-emies in California — in Los Ange-les, Oakland and Redwood City.

The New York academy will offerclasses to students ages 13 to 19 start-ing this July, the foundations said.

“Our passion for music and mediawas fueled by many generous people

on our road to success,” Black EyedPeas rapper will.i.am said. “Expand-ing the network of Peapod AdobeYouth Voices academies enables us topay it forward, giving more youth theskills and encouragement they needto realize their dreams.”

The academy will be housed in afacility operated by Urban Arts Part-nership, which runs after-school artsprograms for teens who attend high-poverty schools.

Students will be accepted into theacademy based on recommenda-tions from teachers and demon-strated interests in subject areassuch as camera work, editing andgraphic design.

AFP/HO/Kl Management/File

South Korean writer Shin Kyung-Sook is seen at her home in Seoul.Shin took South Koreans by storm with “Please Look After Mom”, herpoignant novel of family love which sold 1.7 million copies domesti-cally. Now it is going international.

Korea tale of motherly love becomes US best-sellershe’s set a globalising trend for otherKorean writers.

“I am getting all these congratu-latory messages but it (the success)doesn’t feel so real yet,” she told AFPin a phone interview from the UnitedStates.

“But, if I think about it, it’s mar-vellous and I feel like I have achievedsomething new in a different world.”

The book tells the story of an eld-erly, disorientated and illiteratemother from the countryside whogets separated from her husband atSeoul’s busy train station and goesmissing.

Her grown-up children distributefliers and search the city for her,racked with guilt that none of themwent to the station to meet their par-ents. The story is told from the dif-ferent perspectives of the husband,the children and the mother herself.

Shin attributes her US success

partly to its universal theme andpartly to the meticulous translationby Chi-Young Kim. “I tried to un-derstand and analyse the mother asanother human being, the same asall of us, and to portray the burdeneveryone might have as being amother to someone else,” she said.

“Everyone has a mother, andtheir mothers have mothers, so Ithink the sentiment and symbolicmeaning behind the mother-figurewas commonly shared.” Shin, whois currently on tour to promote herbook in the United States, said greateffort went into the translation.

“Rather than simplifying Koreanbackgrounds and words for the sakeof foreign readers, my translator,Knopf (the US publisher) and Iworked on translating everythingword by word,” she said. “Overall,I am very satisfied with the Englishversion.”

Cotillard, Gordon-Levitt in ‘Batman’ finale

you would want to repeat the ex-perience,” Nolan said on Tuesday.

Cotillard, an Oscar winner, willappear as Miranda Tate, a WayneEnterprises board member eager tohelp a still-grieving Bruce Wayneresume his father’s philanthropicendeavors for Gotham.

Gordon-Levitt will play JohnBlake, a Gotham City policeman.Christian Bale stars as BruceWayne and Batman. The main castalso includes Anne Hathaway andTom Hardy. The film is due for re-lease in July 2012.

Mary Robbins dies just12 days after husband

AP Photo/Courtesy Tim Robbins

Robbins’ parents, Mary, left, and Gil Roberts,pose for a photo.

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International Thursday, April 21, 2011 13Science

“When I see an animal, I nolonger want to shoot it. I want tofilm it,” Lin said. “I feel happy ev-ery time I’m in the mountains,” headded, caressing the camera he usesto capture images of animals heencounters in Yushan National Park,one of the bears’ two major naturalhabitats in Taiwan.

Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON – Genome-se-quencing is getting cheaper and faster,and can eliminate the guesswork intreating cancer by offering personal-ized clues on how to best attack tu-mors, US doctors said on Tuesday.

The human genome was first se-quenced in 2003, followed by thefirst cancer tumor in 2008, intrigu-ing doctors with a new and unpar-alleled potential for targeting care.

However, controversy lingersover the ethical questions that ariseas people begin to learn more abouttheir genetic maps, from concernsover medical privacy to decisionsabout childbearing and scanningoffspring for genetic flaws.

Two studies in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association de-tail how one patient’s genome leddoctors to a different, life-savingleukemia treatment, while a secondpatient died but left her three chil-dren with potentially valuable infor-mation about their genetic future.

The study authors said these casesoffer hope that as technology getscheaper and researchers build up more

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO – Apple is ex-pected to report another spectacularquarter Wednesday, tempered bygrowing caution over how supplyconstraints will squeeze margins andrestrain iPhone and iPad sales.

In addition to seeking an updateon Chief Executive Steve Jobs, inves-tors will scour the results and execu-tives’ comments for clues on how thecompany is marshaling its supplychain to secure the crucial compo-nents it needs to meet torrid demand.

Analysts are betting Apple willtake a hit, either in paying higherprices for parts or even in gettingenough iPads and phones to market,at a time rivals including Research in

REUTERS/Truth Leem/Files

Models pose with the new Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphoneduring its launch ceremony at the headquarters of Samsung Elec-tronics in Seoul in this June 8, 2010 file photograph.

Japan may cloud another stellar Apple quarterMotion and Motorola Inc are flood-ing stores with tablets.

This would be the first quarterlyreport for Apple under the steward-ship of Chief Operating Officer TimCook since Jobs went on his thirdmedical leave in January.

“The biggest concern at the mo-ment is quite short term in nature andthat revolves around the supply chainthat is a global issue following thecatastrophe in Japan,” said DanielErnst, analyst with Hudson SquareResearch. “We are all interested tolearn how Apple is managing that.”

“They are in the best position tomanage it but there is virtually noway they won’t have some impact,”he added.

Apple, a big purchaser of

touchscreen displays and flashmemory, is dependent on Japan forsome of its key components, sparkingconcern that the disruption due to thecrisis there may hurt its gross margins.

Apple is working on its next-gen-eration iPhone, which will have afaster processor, and will begin toship it in September, three peoplewith direct knowledge of thecompany’s supply chain saidWednesday.

The production of the new iPhonewill start in July/August and thesmartphone will look largely similarto the iPhone 4, one of the peoplesaid. Wedbush Securities analystScott Sutherland estimates a 200-300basis point decline in margins in theJune quarter.

Hunter becomesHunter becomesHunter becomesHunter becomesHunter becomesguardian of Taiwan’s bearsguardian of Taiwan’s bearsguardian of Taiwan’s bearsguardian of Taiwan’s bearsguardian of Taiwan’s bearsAgence France Presse

YULI, Taiwan – When he was young, Taiwanese aboriginal hunterLin Yuan-yuan became a legend after he killed two ferocious Formosanblack bears. Now he has devoted his life to saving the endangered spe-cies. The 55-year-old is still revered by his tribe, the Bunun mountainpeople, as a guardian of the island’s biggest land animal as it struggles tosurvive poaching and continued degradation of its traditional habitat.

Now a ranger, Lin is in a four-member team that patrols the parkregularly, covering 40 percent of its105,000 hectares (260,000 acres)on foot every month. The transfor-mation into a government employeehas not been easy for a person whowas born into an aboriginal familyand taught hunting skills from early

childhood.Lin, better known to his Bunun

people by the name of Ison, killed hisfirst bear on a winter day when he wasjust 19 years old.

“I saw two animals in the woods,”he said, remembering the incident inthe eastern Taiwan mountains thatmade him a local hero 36 years ago.“At first, I thought they were wildboars. So I fired at one of them andonly then did I realise they were ac-tually bears.”

The bear, a male of about 70 kilo-grams (154 pounds), was only 15metres away from him, roaring withpain for about a minute before col-lapsing on the ground, he said.

AFP PHOTO / Ben YEH

This photo taken on March 1, 2011 showsa 10-year-old Formosan black bear, called“Heipi” (Black Skin), being caged at arescue centre of National PingtungUniversity of Science and Technology inTaiwan’s south on March 1, 2011.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan

DNA samples are loaded onto a gel in a search for variations in ge-netic samples that would point to someone’s succeptibility to lung,prostate, breast and colo rectal cancer at a cancer center in 2005.

Faster, cheaper genomeadvances propel cancer care

data about cancer and its various mu-tations, the oncology field will betransformed in the next five to 10years. What used to cost tens of mil-lions of dollars and took months, nowcosts about $40,000 and can offerdetailed results in about six weeks,said senior author Richard Wilson, di-rector of Washington University’sGenome Institute.

“It has been very eye openingfor me in the 10 years that I havebeen working on cancergenomics,” Wilson told AFP.

“We think about leukemia orlung cancer or breast cancer as allsort of being the same diseaseacross all patients, but that’s reallynot the way it is,” he said.

“It is a complex genetic dis-ease... for the great majority of thecases you are going to want toknow exactly what is going on inthe genome to cause the diseasein order to effectively treat it.”

One study centered on a 39-year-old woman who appeared tohave classic case of acutepromyelocytic leukemia (APL),but lacked the usual genetic signsassociated with it.

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Thursday, April 21, 201114 InternationalSport

But, with Sir Alex Fergusonserving the penultimate game ofhis five-match touchline ban, thevisitors failed to bounce back fromthe disappointment of their week-end FA Cup semi-final defeatagainst rivals Manchester City.Wayne Rooney was back from histwo-match suspension for swear-ing down the lens of a TV camera,but it was another frustrating nightfor the England forward.

Kick off was delayed for a fewseconds as Rooney’s strike partner,Javier Hernandez, knelt on thehalfway-line and completed hispre-match prayer routine. If theMexican was praying for an earlychance then he certainly got hiswish. After just 90 seconds Rooneybroke down the left wing and de-livered for what looked like a rou-tine tap-in for Hernandez.

But Dutch goalkeeper Tim Krul,in for the injured Steve Harper,read the unfolding danger and slidfrom his goal-line to smother at thefeet of the frontman, much to therelief of the home crowd. That re-lief, though, soon turned to excite-

Agence France Presse

ROME – Dejan Stankovicadded another wonder strike to hisgrowing collection of goal of theseason contenders as Inter Milanwon 1-0 at Roma in the Italian Cupsemi-final, first leg on Tuesday.

The holders are in pole positionto progress following the secondleg at the San Siro in three weekstime. And it was all thanks to theveteran midfielder Stankovic, whohit a shot to rival his volley fromthe halfway line against Schalke 04earlier this month.

Inter came into this game on theback of four defeats in five gamesin all competitions and captainJavier Zanetti said it was impor-tant to bounce back. “It was animportant victory on a difficultpitch. We came into it in a difficultmoment and tonight we gave agreat response,” said the Argentine.“We played really well, it’s noteasy to beat Roma.”

Inter coach Leonardo wasrumoured to be under pressureheading into this game with sug-gestions that former coach JoseMourinho is in line for a dramaticcomeback next season.

But the Brazilian brushed aside

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Celtic Football Club manager Neil Lennon andtwo other well-known fans have been targeted by “viable” parcelbombs designed to “kill or maim”, Scottish police have said. Thepackage addressed to Lennon was thought to be a hoax when foundat a sorting office on March 26, but Strathclyde Police said onTuesday that they would be launching an investigation after itwas found to be “designed to cause harm”.

Police said they did not believe the bombs were linked to ter-rorist organisations. The two other targets were Scottish Labourpolitician Trish Godman and lawyer Paul McBride, who has pre-viously represented Lennon.

“They were viable devices designed to cause harm,” a policespokesman said. “We are treating the matter very seriously.” Thepackage destined for Lennon was found at the Royal Mail sortingoffice in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire.

Godman’s parcel was intercepted at her constituency office onMarch 28 while the package sent to McBride was discovered onApril 15. Lennon has been on the receiving end of sectarian threatsthroughout his playing and managerial career.

United stalemate withUnited stalemate withUnited stalemate withUnited stalemate withUnited stalemate withNewcastle keeps title race aliveNewcastle keeps title race aliveNewcastle keeps title race aliveNewcastle keeps title race aliveNewcastle keeps title race aliveAgence France Presse

NEWCASTLE – Manchester United failed to score at St.James’ Park for the first time in 11seasons as a goalless draw with Newcastle United kept alive the race for the Barclays PremierLeague title. The Red Devils had the chance to move nine points clear of second-placed Arsenalwith victory over Alan Pardew’s mid-table side.

ment as the black and whites en-joyed a prolonged spell of attack-ing pressure.

First, Jonas Gutierrez dancedby three red shirts before seeing ameasured curler from 20 yards de-flected wide off Nemanja Vidic.Then, Shola Ameobi, stretching atthe far post to connect with JoeyBarton’s deep centre, could onlyturn into the hands of Edwin VanDer Sar, and Cheik Tiote smashedinto those same gloves with a 25-yard drive just seconds later as theMagpies produced a pulsatingspell.

It wasn’t the start the leagueleaders had planned but they soonbegan to settle and Rooney brokefree of marker Mike Williamsonon the edge of the area only to lifthis shot over both Krul and thecrossbar on 19 minutes.

That frenetic opening gave wayto a game of defensive contain-ment, but it was Newcastle whofinished the half the stronger ofthe sides. Skipper Barton saw a41st-minute free-kick snaffled byVan Der Sar just inside his near

post before Peter Lovenkrandsheaded wide when unmarked justeight yards out.

The second period began inmuch the same vein as the firstand Ryan Giggs, like Lovenkrandsjust before the break, should havedone better when heading wide ofgoal from an identical, close-range position.

Newcastle were being imploredforward by a vociferous homesupport and Lovenkrands saw apenalty appeal waved away justbefore the hour mark when hetumbled under the clumsy chal-lenge of Anderson. StephenIreland’s last appearance atSt.James’ was his debut for AstonVilla back in August, United the6-0 winners that day.

The 24-year-old, on loan atNewcastle from Villa, was on thetouchline waiting to come on forhis bow when Giggs missed thegame’s best chance, Patrice Evrasliding a left-wing cross into hispath only for the former Wales in-ternational to scuff woefully widefrom 10 yards.

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Manchester United’s Mexican forward Javier Hernandez (L) is tackled by Newcastle United’s Dutchgoalkeeper Tim Krul during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle Unitedand Manchester United at St James’ Park, in Newcastle, north east England, on April 19, 2011.

Stankovic gives Inter ItalianCup advantage at Roma

any questions about his future. “I’mnot worried, I live for today anddon’t even think about it,” he said.“That’s how I move forward, liv-ing life. I speak to everyone and Ihave an open relationship with thepresident.

“We need to win and that’s it.”Roma coach Vincenzo Montella saidthe result didn’t tell the full story.

“Sometimes people are fixatedon the result but in reality onechance can make the difference,”he said alluding to a shocking missby striker Mirko Vucinic early on.“When these things happen, whenyou miss easy chances it’s difficultto say anything.

“Mirko did some good thingsand others less good but it’s truethat he’s not very calm at the mo-ment.” Inter had the ball in the netearly doors but it was rightlychalked off for a foul.

Stankovic ran onto a lofted ballforward which both Roma centre-back Juan and goalkeeper Doni alsowent for.

Stankovic gave Juan the slight-est of nudges, resulting in the de-fender and keeper colliding and al-lowing the Serbian to stroke homethe loose ball, but despite his pro-tests he hadn’t fooled the referee.

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Inter Milan’s Serbian midfielder Dejan Stankovic (L) celebrateswith Brazilian coach Leonardo (R) after scoring against ASRoma during their first leg semifinal Coppa Italia footballmatch in Rome’s Olympic Stadium on April 19 ,2011 .

Celtic football managertargeted by parcel bomb

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Kevin Garnett sank the go-ahead basket with 14 seconds leftthen stole the ball with 4 secondsremaining as the Knicks gave theCeltics all they could handle infalling into an 0-2 hole in the se-ries. “I probably (have) neverbeen more proud of a team andhow they battled the circum-stances,” Knicks coach MikeD’Antoni said, “how hard theyplayed and how tough theyplayed.”

Billups had a strained left kneeand his status for Game 3 on Fri-day night at Madison Square Gar-den is uncertain. Stoudemire hadback spasms but expects to beback when the best-of-seven se-ries resumes. Rajon Rondo led theCeltics with a career playoff-high30 points, 14 of them in the firstquarter when he kept driving tothe basket.

“I tried to attack Game 1,” hesaid, “It’s just (that) my laneswere getting blocked.” Anthonymatched his career playoff highfor points and set a new high with17 rebounds as the Knicks held a53-37 advantage on the boards.Toney Douglas had 14 points inplace of Billups.

Paul Pierce had 20 points aftermissing his first five shots, andRay Allen, who hit the game-win-ning 3-pointer in Boston’s 87-85win in the opener, scored 18. Nowthe sixth-seeded Knicks, whohave tested the third-seededCeltics, must win at least one oftwo at home to bring the seriesback to Boston.

“The Celtics didn’t do anythingspecial,” Anthony said. “Theywon two games on their homecourt. Now it’s our turn to go toour home court and try to do thesame thing.

” Rivers wasn’t raving abouthis team’s play, either. “We didn’texecute very well,” he said. “Weplayed hard. ... Hard is great. Hardand smart is much better.”

Garnett hit the decisive jumphook after backing Jared Jeffriesinto the lane. “I wasn’t really in anice rhythm,” said Garnett, whohad 12 points and 10 rebounds. “Ijust remained calm, went to a shotI knew I could make.”

Anthony was the obviouschoice to shoot on New York’s fi-nal possession. So Pierce andGlen Davis swarmed him when hegot the ball just inches fromBoston’s bench, forcing him topass to Jeffries, who tried an in-terior pass instead of going upwith the shot.

Agence France Presse

BARCELONA – Third seedAndy Murray withdrew fromthe ATP Barcelona Open onTuesday to let his right elbowinjury from last week properlyheal in the run-up to RolandGarros.

“Under doctor’s advice Ihave had to withdraw from theGodo tournament due to myelbow injury. I’m going to takefour or five days of rest,” saidthe Scot, who had tested hisproblem without much successon a side court at the Real Clubde Tenis hours earlier.

The player’s fitness lookedquestionable as he tried toserve, 72 hours after he had totake a pain-killing cortisoneinjection in order to play aMonte Carlo Masters semi-fi-nal against Rafael Nadal.

Murray will hope to be fitfor the Madrid and Rome Mas-ters events, which precede theMay 22 start of the FrenchOpen. Taking his place in theSpanish field is German

Associated Press Writer

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – At least one Woods is a winnerthis year. Tiger Woods’ title slump certainly hasn’t extended tohis niece Cheyenne. After winning the Atlantic Coast Conferenceindividual golf title, the Wake Forest junior wants to keep estab-lishing her own identity during the upcoming NCAA regionals.

Cheynne Woods said Tuesday that maturing in the shadow ofher famous uncle has been a positive because it has “definitelygotten my name out there.” She says dealing with the spotlightthat comes with her lineage has made her better at dealing withthe spotlight — essential in an individual sport like golf.

She was under par for all three rounds at the par-71 SedgefieldCountry Club, shooting a 5-under 208 to win the ACC champion-ship by seven strokes.

Celtics overcome Melo’sCeltics overcome Melo’sCeltics overcome Melo’sCeltics overcome Melo’sCeltics overcome Melo’s42 for 2-0 lead on Knicks42 for 2-0 lead on Knicks42 for 2-0 lead on Knicks42 for 2-0 lead on Knicks42 for 2-0 lead on KnicksAssociated Press Writer

BOSTON – Amare Stoudemire didn’t play in the second half and Chauncey Billups didn’t playat all, and still the Boston Celtics needed more late heroics from one of their Big 3 to beat the NewYork Knicks in Game 2 of their first-round series. “We were lucky to win,” coach Doc Rivers saidafter Boston overcame Carmelo Anthony’s 42 points in a 96-93 victory on Tuesday night.

Murray quits Barcelonaevent to let elbow heal

Mischa Zverev. On the court,French ninth seed RichardGasquet booked into the sec-ond round with a 2-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 defeat of Juan IgnacioChela.

Fellow Frenchman GaelMonfils , seeded seventh,reached the third round after abye, spending two hours in de-feating Dutchman Robin Haase3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2.

The 15th-seeded Canadiansensation Milos Raonic tamedCzech Radek Stepanek 6-4, 6-2 in his Barcelona debut tomove into the second round.

Gasquet, a third-round vic-tim last week in Monte Carloagainst Nadal, fought for morethan two and a half hours to putout his Argentine opponent,overcoming six potentiallycostly double-faults againstChela.

World number 17 Gasquetfaced 11 break points, savingsix, while breaking clay-courtspecialist Chela four times. Hewill next play Slovenian BlazeKavcic.

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Andy Murray consults a physioterapist during his semi-finalagainst Rafael Nadal in the Monte-Carlo Masters on Saturday.Murray has withdrawn from the Barcelona Open to let his rightelbow injury from last week properly heal in the run-up to RolandGarros.

Cheyenne Woods: Not justTiger’s niece anymore

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Paul Pierce #34 of the Boston Celtics takes a shot as JaredJeffries #9 of the New York Knicks in Game Two of the EasternConference Quarterfinals in the 2011 NBA Playoffs on April 19,2011 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The BostonCeltics defeated the New York Knicks 96-93.

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Although a number of drivershad been sceptical about the DRSbefore the first race of the campaign- fearing it would either make over-taking too easy or not even help atall – the way it has panned out inthe first three races of the campaignhas been encouraging.

And Rosberg, who has both lostand gained position through theDRS, has gone so far as to reckonits introduction alongside the newPirelli era can be singled out as thegreatest regulation that F1 has seen.

Speaking exclusively toAUTOSPORT, Rosberg said: “F1has done a brilliant job. How excit-ing have the races been? They havebeen stunning.

“There is nobody saying we arehaving boring races. There is over-taking left, right, and centre - ev-erywhere. So, they have done a re-ally, really good job and that is themost important thing that needs tobe highlighted.

“The people in charge have madethe sport from one year to the nextso much more exciting, and that isawesome for the fans and every-thing. It is really cool, isn’t it? It isthe tyres and the rear wing. “Therear wing – best idea ever probably,for this sport. No? And tyres also.Pirelli, everybody has been

PAUL di Resta’s early-seasonperformances have been labelledas ‘exceptional’ by Mercedes-Benz motorsport boss NorbertHaug. Di Resta has caused a stirin the paddock by outqualifyingForce India team-mate AdrianSutil at all three events so far.

And although di Resta failed toadd to his points tally in China lastweekend, his speed in the car hasearned high praise from Haug -

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Mercedes Formula One driver Nico Rosberg of Germany leads Ferrari Formula One driver FelipeMassa of Brazil into a turn during the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix at the Shanghai Interna-tional Circuit in Shanghai, China, Sunday, April 17, 2011.

DRS hailed as ‘best idea ever’Nico Rosberg reckons Formula 1’s ‘Drag Reduction System’

could be up there as the best rule in the sport’s history becauseof the way it has helped spice up the racing in 2011.

criticising them, but they have madeour sport spectacular. So that iscool.”

Despite Rosberg’s enthusiasm forthe regulation, Ferrari team princi-pal Stefano Domenicali thinks it willtake a bit more time to work out ifthe DRS is a certain success.

“We’ve seen three different situ-ations in three different races, so weneed to wait more to find out whatis the right balance,” explained theItalian. “In my view, and this is apersonal view, you see the activa-tion point of the DRS has a differ-ent effect if you are at the begin-ning of the race or the end of therace, depending on the tyres thatyou have.

“So it is a tyre effect, not relatedto the speed or that you are behind.It is the way the tyres behave, so weneed to see what is the best solutionin that respect. We saw Australia,Malaysia and China were different,but the main reason in China forovertaking was that the tyres wereso different you could overtake.”

As well as drivers using the DRSto overtake at the designated zone,one consequence of the straightlinespeed boost is that it is helping carsstay closer to each other for more ofa lap - further increasing the chancesof overtaking elsewhere.

Haug praises ‘exceptional’ di Restawho saw the Scotsman capture theDTM crown for Mercedes-Benzlast year.

“I think it is exceptional and re-markable,” said Haug when askedby AUTOSPORT for his feelingson di Resta’s performances so farthis year.

“To be in his third race and takeeighth on the grid – that is verygood and very impressive, espe-cially considering he did not get a

lot of running in second practice.“We always knew he was a very

good and very talented guy, andwhen he gets in the right groove -we saw it in DTM - it can be veryspecial for him.

“F1 will be very good for him Ithink. His team-mate is tough, thespeed is quite impressive and heis doing a good job. We are pleasedwe helped him in his junior ca-reer.”

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Force India Formula One driver Paul di Resta of Scotland, right, chat with a team member at theShanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, China, Thursday, April 14, 2011 for the ChineseFormula One Grand Prix.