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The “Hunger Games” star eas-ily surpassed the $35.5 million second-place Scarlett Johansson earned over the past 12 months, according to Forbes magazine’s annual estimates of the earnings of Hollywood’s top female stars, released Thursday.

All told, four women made more than $20 million from their acting and endorsements, before taxes and fees, while 21 male actors did, underlining a lingering pay gap in Tinseltown.

Forbes pointed to the discrep-

ancy in profit cuts between the male and female -- including Lawrence -- actors in the 2013 film “American Hustle” as an example. The male leads were reported to have taken home a two percent higher cut than the female leads.

The magazine also noted the lesser number of female lead roles in general, saying it was rarer for women to score the sort of big blockbusters that command huge deals won by some male counter-parts, for instance Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible” or Robert

Downey Jr. in “Iron Man.”Downey Jr. blew away his male

counterparts in Forbes’ rankings of the top-paid male stars, released earlier this month, raking in $80 million.

At 25, Lawrence is one of the youngest stars in Hollywood. She won an Oscar for her role in the 2012 comedy “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Many more established actress-es, such as Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock -- last year’s highest-earning actress -- got most of their earnings over the past 12 months from endorsements rather than movies.

One international star made the 2015 list -- Chinese actress Fan Bingbing. (afp)

LAS VEGAS — A wax figure of rapper Nicki Minaj at a Las Vegas museum is getting more security to keep away inappropri-ate visitors.

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas said in a statement Friday that employees will closely monitor the figure after images of visitors in sexual poses with the statue began appearing on social media.

The set around the statue will also undergo a redesign so similar pictures can’t be taken.

The museum says it became aware Tuesday of at least one im-age online.

The statue depicts Minaj in a pose from her “Anaconda” music video.

The Madame Tussauds museum chain is known for life-size wax replicas of celebrities that guests can interact with.

Minaj has not commented, but she recently shared Instagram photos of fans posing suggestively with the figure. (ap)

The top ten list1. Jennifer Lawrence / $52 million2. Scarlett Johansson / $35.5 million3. Melissa McCarthy / $23 million4. Fan Bingbing / $21 mill ion5. Jennifer Aniston / $16.5 million6. Julia Roberts / $16 mill ion7. Angelina Jolie / $15 million8. Reese Witherspoon / $15 million9. Anne Hathaway / $12 million10. Kristen Stewart / $12 million

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Jennifer Lawrence tops list of highest-

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LOS ANGELES - The odds really were in Jennifer Law-rence’s favor last year as she raked in $52 million, topping a ranking of the highest-paid actresses by a wide margin.

The Head of the Badung Integrated Licensing Office (BPPT), I Made Su-tama, said: “Tourism is the dominant sector demanded by investors.”

Investments in the tourism sector are also evidenced by the high num-ber of new hotel rooms: for the past

five years 5,000-6,000 new rooms were created each year, so that there is now a total of 61, 206 hotel rooms in Badung. Of that number, 98 of them are star hotels with 16,360 rooms which is about the same number as it was 5 years ago. However, non-star

hotels have seen a dramatic increase in number. In 2009 there were 505 hotels with a total of 11,463 rooms but by 2014 there were 855 hotels with 34,815 rooms.

Investment in Badung hotels, unabaiting

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Of Bali’s nine counties, Badung is by far the favourite among investors. The Bali Investment and Licensing Agency (BPMP) notes that 39 projects worth USD 13,540,700 drew foreign and domestic investors to Badung in the first quarter of 2015.

MANGUPURA - Of Bali’s nine counties, Ba-dung is by far the favourite among investors. The

Bali Investment and Licensing Agency (BPMP) notes that 39 projects worth USD 13,540,700 drew foreign and domestic investors to Badung in the first quarter of 2015. The City of Denpasar alone had 12 projects worth USD 719,500 invested in for the same period.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Ga-lungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less 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 dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beauti-fully ornaments of young 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 colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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The day at the Park included a motorized Safari Journey through free-roaming exhibits of animals from Asia, Africa and Indonesia, and ringside seats at the entertain-ing Animal and Elephant Show. An Educational Corner was also prepared for the young visitors in the Elephant Village (Kampung Gajah) where the kids fashioned hats and posters they displayed later in a group photos with the pachyderms.

During the visit, the Communica-tions Team from the Bali Safari &

Marine Park launched a new Insta-gram account inspired by a popular orangutan born and raised at the Gianyar facility. The “NamiBSMP” Instagram account has been estab-lished in honor of Nami (Tsunami) – an eleven-year-old Borneo orangutan born at the Park on the same day that the Boxing Day Tsunami swept over Aceh, North Sumatra (December 26, 2004). A celebrity animal among the hundreds of animals living at the Park in her own right, “Nami” is a popular public figure found in attendance at

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An appeal to create a future for elephants and orangutans

GIANyAr - The Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) dedicated Wednesday, August 19, 2015 to jointly mark World Orangutan Day and World Elephant Day. In keeping with the Park’s unwavering commitment to sustaining endangered wild species and inculcating a conservationist mindset among the younger generation, 50 children from the Widya Guna Beduluh – Gianyar orphanage were invited to visit the Park to experience a very special program designed by the Park’s Educational Team.

every Animal Show.William Santoso, general manager

of the Bali Safari & Marine Park said: “The commemoration of Orangutan and Elephant Day serves as a reminder not only to Bali Safari & Marine Park visitors but to the larger world of the rapidly declining populations in the wild of these two magnificent species. The future survival of these animals depends on the actions we undertake today. It is occasions like these that we hope the public, particularly those concerned with wildlife conservation,

can renew their commitment to join forces to protect the elephants and orangutans by joining the worldwide cam-paign on behalf of the conser-vation of these animals.”

The World Conservation Union (IUCN Red List 2007) lists the Borneo Orangutan as an “endangered” species, while the Sumatran orang-utan is listed as “critically endangered.” Similarly, in 2012, the World Conserva-

tion Union classified the Indonesian el-ephant as “critically endangered” – just one category away from “extinction.” The current num-ber of elephants has declined by 50% to 2,400-2,800 from the 5,000 elephants counted in 1985.

World Elephant and World Orang-utan Day at the Bali Safari and Marine

Park, like similar events held through-out the year, are designed to draw world attention to the plight of wild specials. It is ironic that mankind represents the greatest threat to wild-life, while, at the same time, it is also only mankind that will be able to save endangered animals.

While elephants and orangutans are

protected under law, the law alone will not be able to save these charismatic animal species. The conservation of el-ephants and orangutans also demands comprehensive and integrated efforts on every level – both in the field and in the political arena – if these animals are to be saved and preserved as part of the Earth’s rich bio-diversity.

However, behind the scenes of Bali’s thriving tourism is the displacement of Bali’s human resources. “Tourism in Bali con-tinues to increase and attention from the central government is also increasing, but because many of Bali’s own human resources are unable to compete, and are

becoming meer spectators of grand tourism on the island,” said Chair-man of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati.

Sukawati said that the dramatic shift in the role that Balinese peo-ple play in tourism is a direct result

of the shift away from culture-based tourism towards ‘artificial tourism’. “These days, I am seeing a lot of tourists being directed to-wards artificial tourist destinations. This is what I fear will have a huge impact on the role of Balinese people in the tourism sector and on tourism itself,” he said.

Nevertheless, Sutama said that the BPPT is still issuing hotel investment permits for Badung because according to him, there have been no studies or rules that prohibit the construction of hotel accommodations in the richest county in Bali.

“A study conducted by the local government in conjunction with technical agencies is required in order to ascertain how many hotel rooms are needed to fulfill market demands. As long as there is no moratorium placed on the construc-tion of new hotels, we will definitely continue to issue permits,” he said.

According to Sutama, as long as investors are requesting permits for projects that follow applicable rules and regulations, the BPPT will continue to issue permits for Foreign Direct Investment (PMA) or Domestic Investment (PMDN). “As long as they are eligible and there is no prohibition we will surely follow up (the application for investment permit—Ed),” he added.

The requirements for building a tourist ac-commodations in Badung have been set forth in Regent Decree No.36/2014 dated June 3, 2014, on the minimal standards of land area and hotel rooms as well as supporting facilities for hotels and condoles This decree became applicable as of August 1, 2014.

For Kuta area, for instance, the land area for new hotels must be at least 0.50 hectare, in North Kuta at least 0.75 hectare and in South Kuta at least one hectare.

Meanwhile, the room area (including bath-room) for hotels and condotels is set at 32 square meters. Besides, the decree also sets minimal standards for supporting facilities that all new hotels must have, such as; office (front office), hotel lobby, kitchen, dining room for hotel or condotel guests, security booth, CCTV and fire extinguishers. (kmb27)

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Behind the scenes of Bali’s thriving tourism is the displacement of Bali’s human resources.

Bali’s human resources marginalized by mass tourism

GIANYAR - Bali has definitely gone global, as indicated by the ever increasing number of tourists who visit this island every year. The central government has started to disburse a large budgetary fund aimed at maintaining the Island of The Gods as a major tourist destination.

The former regent of Gian-yar also invited Balinese people themselves to remember that cul-ture was what spearheaded Bali tourism in the first place, and to think clearly about the continuity of culture and tourism over the next 50 - 100 years. “Our main attraction is our culture and this is what distinguishes us from tourist attractions in other countries like Singapore,” he explained.

He added that the central gov-

ernment is ready to disburse a huge budget aimed at maintaining Bali as a tourist destination. How-ever, he said that he hopes that the budget can be used to prepare Bali’s human resources to build on culture-based tourism. “A massive budget for Bali has been prepared by the central government. It should be used to build-up cultural tourism, appropriate facilities and prepare our human resources,” he said. (kmb35)

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“We are creating a jaw-dropping new world,” Iger said.

The 14-acre attractions represent the largest single themed land expansion ever.

Iger also said that the Star Wars land will be “every bit as thrilling as the films” and will include attractions and entertainment in an area populated by aliens and droids. There will also be a Cantina and the chance to take control of the Millennium Falcon — one of the signature attractions.

One adventure also promises to put guests “in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance.”

Since 1987, Disney parks have only had the Star Tours ride as their “Star Wars” themed attraction, and

even that will be get-ting a facelift to reflect the new characters and worlds from Decem-ber’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The ride was previously updated in 2011.

More comprehen-sive brand integra-tion into the parks has been expected s ince Di sney ac -quired Lucasfilm in 2012. Disney will also be adding the interactive Star Wars Launch Bay and in-troducing a new sea-sonal event, Season of the Force, which will update Space Mountain to become Hyperspace Moun-tain where guests will participate in an X-Wing battle.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chair-man Bob Chapek an-nounced an upcom-ing Toy Story Land at Disney’s Holly-wood Studios, fea-turing exaggeratedly large objects to make guests feel as though they are actually in Andy’s backyard.

Filmmakers James Cameron and Jon Landau a l so p re -viewed the current-ly-under construction World of AVATAR at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. (ap)

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This image provided by Disney parks shows the Star Wars-themed lands will be coming to Disneyland park in Anaheim, Calif., and Dis-ney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fla., creating Disney’s largest single-themed land expansions ever at 14-acres each, transporting guests to a never-before-seen planet, a remote trading port and one of the last stops before wild space where Star Wars characters and their stories come to life.

‘Star Wars’ themed land at planned at Disney parks

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Disney theme parks have their sights on a galaxy far, far away. “Star Wars” is getting its own themed lands at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced at the D23 Fan Expo on Saturday.

Currently the Denpasar Tourism Office is looking into strategies for managing tourism in Sanur, Kuta, Nusa Dua and surrounding areas, particularly in relation to the KSPN fund. “We are currently focused on Mertasari Beach and are eager to find suitable tourism management strate-gies,” said a member of the Denpasar Tourism Office, Putu Riyastiti, in a discussion entitled “Tourism Restora-tion” that took place at Warung 63 on Jalan Veteran Denpasar on Friday (Aug. 21).

Riyastiti explained that the tourism office is still looking at ways to en-courage cultural tourism in Denpasar as well as ways of implementing ecotourism in their city tour program for which locations, tourism informa-tion and transportation are still under assessment. Another staff of the Den-pasar Tourism Office, Made Sugiani, added that Denpasar is currently facing environmental challenges in regards to tourism development in so far as how the city will manage tourism with en-vironmental preservation in mind, with cultural aspects highlighted amidst the environmental issues that Denpasar already faces including rampant land conversion (from agricultural to

buildings).“There is talk from the central gov-

ernment about how we can develop ‘inclusive tourism’ in Denpasar and other areas in Indonesia. Inclusive tourism means that local communi-ties are empowered within tourism development,” she explained.

Sugiani said that the government should be able to increase the eco-nomic creativity of local communities in regards to tourism so that people can be empowered. In this way local com-munities can receive financial benefits from the income of tourism, instead of all of it being syphoned out of the region. Inclusive tourism is one of the strategies that will be applied to Sanur with its inclusion on the KSPN.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali Chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), I Putu Suryasewana Gede Wiwin Gunawasika, argued that Bali needs to promote MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition) tourism more intensively. Revenue of MICE can be seven times more than other tourism endeavours and the negative effects of MICE tourism are would be relatively minimal for Bali.

“Most people attending a confer-

DENPASAR - A Balinese scientist, Prof. Dewa Ngurah Suprapta, who is the head of the bio-pesticides labora-tory at Udayana University, Bali, has been awarded by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

Suprapta has been awarded for his achievements and services towards strengthening friendly relations and academic exchange between Indonesia and Japan.

“This award is given to individu-als or organizations who contribute towards strengthening the friendship between two countries,” Japanese con-sulate general staffer Sokhibi said in a statement received on Friday.

Suprapta studies agricultural sci-ence, especially plant pathology (plant protection) at Kagoshima University, Japan, and had received a doctorate from the university in 1997.

He teaches at the Faculty of Agricul-ture, Udayana University, and became a professor in 2002, and served as

the Director of Postgraduate Studies at Udayana University from 2006 to 2010.

Suprapta has achieved excellence as a lecturer and has received numerous national and international awards, such as the Scientific Award given by the In-ternational Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences (ISSAAS).

The scientist has also collaborated with some universities in Japan, and proposed a joint research program with the Agricultural University of Tokyo as the lead researcher from the Udayana University for a decade (1999-2008).

Such efforts have contributed to the development of research in agriculture for Indonesia and Japan.

Since 2004, Suprapta has also dis-seminated academic study results through an academic exchange program for master’s students in the agriculture field established between the Udayana University and the University of Iba-raki, Japan. (ant)

DENPASAR - Bali will host the Sanur Village Festival (SVF) 2015 to attract tourists after many cancelled their visit due to the Mount Raug (East Java) eruption, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said.

The eruption had resulted in the closure of the Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali for a few days.

“I hope SVF 2015 can act as a tourist magnet for Bali,” the minister said.

The festival is also expected to improve Bali’s tourism sector and help contribute over 45 percent of the total foreign tourists traffic com-ing to Indonesia.

“Bali is the main attraction for foreign tourists visiting Indonesia. Bali contributes about 45 percent of the total foreign tourists visiting the country. This year we are targeting 10 million tourists, of which four million foreign tourists will come through Bali,” Yahya said.

SVF 2015 is being held for the tenth time and will be based on the theme, “Dasa Warsa” or decades, and will take place at the Segara Beach in Sanur Bali from August 26 to 30.

The festival is an annual tourism event that consists of culinary art and photography exhibitions, as well as art and culture dialogues, environmental programs, as well as tourism and fun sporting activities involving artists, locals, communities, as well as tourists.

The environmental program involves students, tourism stakeholders and local NGOs, as well as tourists, who help clean up beaches, release hatchlings, as well as plant coral reefs.

Meanwhile, the program will consist of an international kite festival, games, a fishing competition, a village cycling tour, a surfing competi-tion, yoga and the Sanur Open Golf Tournament. (ant)

Balinese scientist wins Japanese foreign affairs minister award

SVF to be held on August 26

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Women carried Balinese offering walked in Gajah Mada Heritage Area that located in Denpasar. The City of Denpasar is one of the areas within Badung where tourism activities are concen-trated, and as such, the capital of Bali receives a portion of the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) fund from the central government.

Managing tourism in Denpasar: KSPN & MICE

DENPASAR - The City of Denpasar is one of the areas within Badung where tourism activities are concentrated, and as such, the capital of Bali receives a portion of the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) fund from the central government.

ence in Bali will arrive three or four days prior to the conference and often stay three or four days after it has ended,” he said.

In addition to generating a lot of money, Wiwin also sees that MICE tourism could have other benefits for Bali. Not only do the subjects of

these conferences provide knowledge about new ideas or technologies, but perhaps more importantly MICE travellers almost always venture outside of the conference venue to other tourist destinations. “I think that this indirectly has an impact on merchants, caterers, etc., regardless

of whether the owners are from Bali or not” he said. WIwin also men-tioned that many complain that Bali is is currently only a spectator on MICE tourism. Everyone is vying for MICE travellers because they spend a huge about of money,” he explained. (kmb32)

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The meeting at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) began on Saturday evening shortly after North Korea’s deadline for Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. It broke up before dawn on Sunday.

Even as the talks restarted, the ri-vals were on high military alert, with the North deploying twice the usual artillery strength at the border and a majority of its submarine fleet - more than 50 vessels - away from bases, the South’s defence ministry said.

South Korea, whose military was also on higher alert, said it had no plans to halt the propaganda broadcasts that triggered the latest standoff.

The envoys, shown on TV ex-changing handshakes and tight smiles at the start of their meeting, discussed ways to resolve tension and improve ties, South Korea’s presidential Blue House said in a brief statement.

“Both sides are under big pressure to get something out of this,” said Jeon Young-sun, professor at the Institute of the Humanities for Unifi-cation at Konkuk University in Seoul, who said the length of the high-level meeting may be unprecedented.

The talks took place in South Korea’s Peace House, just south of Panmunjom’s often-photographed sky-blue huts, and the same venue where lower-level talks between the bitter rivals took place in February 2014, without ending in agreement.

The negotiations were interrupted with breaks for both sides to consult with their respective governments, and for snacks, the South’s Yonhap News Agency reported.

“North Korea wants to stop broad-casts, while South Korea can’t do it without achieving anything back,” Jeon said.

Sunday’s talks were open-ended, with the South’s Blue House ex-pected to announce the results after they conclude.

North Korea and South Korea have remained technically in a state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, and inter-Korean relations have been in a deep freeze since the deadly

2010 sinking of a South Korean warship. Pyongyang denied respon-sibility.

The current tensions began early this month when two South Korean soldiers were wounded by landmines along the border. The North denies laying the mines. Days later, Seoul began its propaganda broadcasts in random three-hour bursts from 11 banks of loudspeakers, including news reports and K-pop music from the South, resuming a tactic both sides halted in 2004.

The crisis escalated on Thursday when the North fired four shells into the South, according to Seoul, which responded with a barrage of 29 artil-lery rounds. North Korea declared

a “quasi-state of war” in front-line areas and made an ultimatum for Seoul to halt its broadcasts. That deadline passed on Saturday without any reported incident.

The United Nations, the United States and the North’s lone major ally, China, have all called for calm.

The United States, which has 28,500 soldiers based in South Korea, is conducting annual joint military ex-ercises with the South. North Korea regularly condemns the manoeuvres as a preparation for war.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s national security ad-viser, Kim Kwan-jin, and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo met with Hwang Pyong So, the top military

aide to the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yang Gon, a veteran North Korean official in inter-Korean affairs, on Saturday, prompting hopes for a breakthrough.

Pyongyang’s two negotiators made an unexpected visit to the South last October to attend the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, where they met Kim Kwan-jin. Those talks raised hopes for an improvement in relations, which did not materialise.

North Korea has been hit with UN and U.S. sanctions because of repeated nuclear and missile tests, moves that Pyongyang sees as an at-tack on its sovereign right to defend itself. (rtr)

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s prime minister has hinted he might resign after violent protests against gov-ernment corruption and political dysfunction focused on a month-long trash crisis.

Tammam Salam said in a news conference that security forces who used force against protesters will be held accountable and that the right to demonstrate is protected by the constitution.

Salam told the protesters he is ready to have a dialogue with them,

as around 100 protesters chanted “leave, leave.”

Salam’s comments on Sunday came a day after police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water can-nons battled thousands of protesters in downtown Beirut. The clashes wounded dozens of protesters and police.

Salam said that if next Thurs-day’s Cabinet meeting is not productive, “then there is no need for the council of minis-ters.” (ap)

Lebanese PM hints he might resign after protests

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Demonstrators gesture as Lebanese riot police use tear gas during a protest against the ongo-ing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

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A South Korean army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) (R) is deployed just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Yeoncheon, South Korea, August 23, 2015.

North, South Korea on alert as talks resume in bid to end standoff

SEOUL - Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea resumed talks on Sunday after negotiating through the night in a bid to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict.

It is not enough for a tourist des-tination to have roads, bridges, a bus terminal, airport and seaport, trans-portation vehicles is also required. In addition, supporting facilities such as hotels, bars, restaurants, money

changers, banks and public sanita-tion (toilets) are also important.

Overall infrastructure and fa-cilities must also be accompanied by people who have knowledge about the tourist destinations in

Buleleng. According to Parma an in-depth study is required to asses tourism traffic in Buleleng, with special attention to nearby tour-ism competitors, namely; Badung, Tabanan, Gianyar and Denpasar. “First we must identify what can potential tourism attractions can be developed in Buleleng and decide what kind of tourism we want to have here. Mairne tourism looks promising given that we have the longest stretch of coast and widest beaches in Bali. Do we want to develop cultural tourism or culinary tourism as well?” said Parma who is also Deputy Secretary to Panca Marga Youth of Buleleng.

The government of Buleleng has started to explore the potential of Buleleng’s art and culinary treasures of North Bali, through the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) and Twin Lakes Festival “This includes discovering of the potential to develop tourism in Buleleng, particularly culinary treasures that are a selling point,” he said.

Parma who takes part in the build-er team of the tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) with the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency added that a tourism village in Buleleng could have many positive spin off benefits.

According to Parma, cultural

tourism based on the principle of Tri Hita Karana, can be applied by pioneering village tours guided by the residents themselves. “This kind of tourism i surely sustainable eco-nomically, environmentally and in terms of socio-cultural impacts. This should serve as the foundation for our tourism development. The vil-lagers are ready to pioneer this type of tourism, and just need to prepare local tour guides who know all the ins and outs of their location, and to work in cooperation with university campuses, that can help out with English skills and how to provide friendly service to travellers,” he concluded. (kmb34)

AMLAPURA - A French citi-zen, the defendant Arash Honar Kar-Saveh, 52, frankly admitted that he has been using marijuana. On the trial in the Amlapura District Court, when delivering plea orally, the defendant Arash apologized to all parties.

He asked to be excused. To the judges, he invoked to be lightly punished. In addition, he also claimed to love Bali and could still be allowed to travel or come to Bali.

As reported earlier, Arash was arrested by police at his rented house in the area of Bias Lantang, Purwakerti village, Karangasem, few months ago. Police knew the

man working as a diving instruc-tor at Jemeluk after getting infor-mation from local community. Police got information when a number of his local friends were still drinking in living room, while the defendant came into the room. Few moments later, the defendant went out of the room and smoked a cigarette but not of a regular cigarette. The smoke was billow-ing thickly.

When searched by police, the defendant refused under various pretexts. Among other things, he did not want to be searched by police that did not put on official uniform. In the end, police with uniform were called to the loca-

tion, and the search was witnessed by witnesses. Under his bed mat-tress, police found dried leaves where based on laboratory test it is positive to marijuana. Besides, the urine lab test of the defendant also declared if it was positive to mari-juana. When questioned by police, Arash claimed to get marijuana in Gili Air, NTB. But he admitted not to know the name and do not remember the person giving him the marijuana. When raided by police, his marijuana only remains a few grams because it has been consumed.

On the trial last week, Arash was demanded by public prosecu-tor of the Amlapura District Court,

Made Santiawan, with a sentence of 18 months in prison and fines. In the meantime, legal counsel of the defendant, Made Ruspita, when reading the plea, her party agreed with the description of the demands made by the prosecutor. The defen-dant is proved to have violated the Law on Combating Drug Abuse. On that account, the defendant should be sentenced.

However, continued Ruspita, the judges is asked to give justice to the defendant in order to punish him as lenient as possible. The defendant has admitted if he was used to and acknowledged his addiction to marijuana. He consumes marijuana to make his body feel better and can

move. In addition, the defendant does not know that using marijuana in the jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia is legally prohibited, while in his country is not punished as long as he does not consume marijuana in public, give to others or traffic it.

“The defendant frankly con-fessed his act, repented and promised not to repeat it again. Providing rehabilitation of drug addiction for the defendant is also important and is in line with the current government program namely rehabilitation to 300,000 drug users,” said Ruspita in front of the judge panel chaired by Wayan Gede Rumega. (013)

Admit to using marijuana, French citizen apologizes

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Lovina Beach, one of the tourism destination in Buleleng

Buleleng has lots of potential, tourism supporting elements need improvements

SINGARAJA - Lecturer and Deputy Dean III of the Faculty of Economics and Business at Ganesha Education University (Undiksha) Singaraja, I Putu Gede Parma, assessed that the increase in the number of tourist visits to Buleleng has the potential to be developed on a regional and national scale, but must be down on a strategic manner with plans for the next few years. Parma considers it necessary to develop cultural at-tractions, art and local genius in the area. and also to improve accessibility through transportation, facilities and tourism supporting infrastructure.

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The damage has spilled across oceans, with the turmoil jolting investors in New York, Tokyo and Europe. Investors there worry that China and other major emerging economies will reduce their imports. They also fear a trade-disrupting currency war as some countries desperately lower their currencies’ value to gain a competitive edge. A lower-priced currency makes a country’s goods cheaper for foreigners.

The Dow Jones industrials plunged 530 points, more than 3 percent, Friday on top of a 358-point drop Thursday. Tokyo’s Nikkei index shed 3 percent Friday.

For all the markets’ jitters, many economists say they remain confident that the U.S. economy is resilient enough to withstand a slowdown in the developing world. And Europe’s economy appears to be emerging from its long slump.

Even so, the trouble in emerg-ing markets is a surprising and unsettling reversal.

“It’s remarkable just how things turned around so quickly,” says Neil Shearing, an economist at Capital Economics and a for-mer British Treasury official.

Consider Peru. Three years ago, its capital, Lima, was chosen to host an International Monetary

Fund’s meeting of global finance officials in what was seen as a celebration of Latin Ameri-

ca’s arrival in the economic big leagues.

But with the event six weeks away, Latin America’s outlook has descended from boom to gloom. Peru’s economy has steadily slowed, and its currency, the nuevo sol, has plunged 2.5 percent against the U.S. dollar in the past month.

It’s hardly just Latin America. Kazakhstan’s currency plum-

meted this week after the govern-ment decided to let it trade freely. The South African rand fell this week to a 14-year-low against the U.S. dollar. Turkey’s lira hit a record low against the dollar this week.

Hung Tran, an executive man-aging director at the Institute of International Finance, expects developing countries to post 3.8 percent economic growth this

year, down from 4.3 percent in 2014. The institute is on the verge of cutting that forecast further.

Analysts point to a primary culprit:

“It’s all coming from China,” says Masamichi Adachi, an econ-omist with JP Morgan Chase in Tokyo. “Brazil, South Africa, many countries are commodity exporters, and the final destina-tion is all going to China.”

The Chinese economy is slow-ing more sharply than most people had expected from the double-digit growth rates of the mid-2000s. The world’s second-biggest economy is expected to grow 7 percent this year, which would be its slowest pace since 1990.

Beijing is trying to manage a transition from rapid growth based on exports and often-wasteful spending on factories, real estate and infrastructure to slower, steadier expansion based on consumer spending.

Adding to the pressure: Ameri-ca’s Federal Reserve is expected, perhaps at its September meeting, to raise the short-term rate it controls from near zero. Investors could respond by moving even more money out of emerging markets to seek higher U.S. rates. That would lift the dollar higher and emerging market currencies even lower.

A Fed rate hike could also squeeze emerging market com-panies that have borrowed in U.S. dollars. Those companies would struggle to accumulate enough local currency to pay their now-more-expensive dollar-denominated debt. (ap)

SAN FRANSISCO - Airbnb said Friday more than 1,000 com-panies have joined its new program allowing business travelers to use the peer-to-peer-lodging service.

The San Francisco-based startup shaking up the hospitality industry said it signed up 500 companies to its “Airbnb for Business” program within 24 hours of launching the program on July 20.

Now, more than 1,000 firms from at least 35 countries have

integrated the program into their corporate travel plans, it said.

“The corporate community’s response to our Business Travel program has been staggering and confirms our findings that business travelers increasingly want to rede-fine the business trip,” said Marc McCabe, who heads the program.

“The average business travel stay on Airbnb is 6.8 days, which shows how customers are looking for a mix of business and leisure,

and often adding a weekend to explore a new destination.”

Among the companies joining the program are online storage firm Box, which now allows employees to use Airbnb accommodations, available in more than 190 coun-tries.

Jeff Mannie, controller at Box, said in the statement that his firm was “impressed that Airbnb’s new Business Travel product sui te al lows you to

uncover unique locations for temporary housing, team offsites and conventions where there is an opportunity to build closer working relationships by sharing accommodations in a casual and friendly environment.”

Facebook, Google, Salesforce and Eventbrite are also using Airbnb for corporate travel.

Airbnb allows people to rent a room or an entire home through the platform, offering flexibility

to travelers while giving property owners or renters a source of in-come.

The company was launched in 2008 and now has some 40 mil-lion users worldwide. Its valuation based on its latest funding round is some $25.5 billion.

Traditional hotel chains see Airbnb as a rival and accuse it of helping people avoid taxes and of hosting illegal hotels on its web-site. (afp)

Airbnb signs up more companies for business travel

Sinking currencies point to jitters about emerging economies

AP Photo/Emrah Gurel

In this Monday, June 8, 2015 file photo, Turkish Liras, Euros and U.S. Dollars are stacked at a currency exchange office in Istanbul, Turkey. In emerging markets worldwide, currencies are plunging over fears that developing economies are on the verge of a crippling fall.

WASHINGTON - Thailand’s baht. Kazakhstan’s tenge. South Africa’s rand. Peru’s nuevo sol. In emerging markets worldwide, currencies are plunging over fears that developing economies are on the verge of a crippling fall. Success stories until recently, emerging economies are seen as casualties now — of slower growth in China, plunging prices for commodities like oil and iron ore, the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates and homegrown threats.

Wayan Mahardika, Deputy Chairman of the IKA ITS Bali, said this car -like any other car produced by the ITS needs to be test driven before competing. The car’s Jakarta to Bali tour started on August 17, 2015 to coincide with the Indonesia’s Independence Day. This two-seater solar-powered car stopped by several major cit-ies, including Jakarta, Semarang, Banyuwangi and Denpasar.

Team member Dian Aprilia,

from the Department of Mechani-cal Engineering at ITS (class of 2012), explained that the car has a solar power of 12 x 2 kW. Widya Wahana V can drive up to a maxi-mum speed of 150 km per hour and has a mileage of 700 km / charge. “We hope the Widya Wahana V car can perform maximally at the WSC 2015, and become a world champion,” she said.

The Widya Wahana V solar-powered car was created two years

ago ( 2013), and: “was made from scratch. We started with a software simulation, then we created a tem-plate and using carbon finer needed up with this car,” she explained.

Dian said that this tour is testing two things: the car itself as well as team work. The Java-Bali tour also serves to promote the importance of alternative-powered transporta-tion -particularly solar power, to Indonesians and also serves to show that Indonesian youth are capable of creating a solar powered car. “Many obstacles and challenges were faced on this tour, especially in regards to team work,” she admitted.

The team consists of 15 me-chanical engineering, electrical engineering, physical engineering

students, and five lecturers.Dian also explained that the car

was deliberately designed for the competition in Australia, where the roads are straight, and nice and smooth like toll roads in Indonesia. The car is not suitable for Indone-sia’s geographical conditions (many steep inclines and sharp turns).

Chairman of the Bali Chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, said that Bali needs eco-friendly tourist transportation because if tourism is not eco-friendly it will stagnate and no longer be attractive. One of tourism’s supporting components is transportation. Wiraputra said that he hopes that this solar-powered

will harken further developments in this direction. “At the very least, this car can serve as an icon of Bali’s need for eco-friendly ve-hicles,” he said.

According to Wiraputra this solar powered car should be devel-oped as an eco-friendly option for tourist transportation in Bali, but added that solar power should be combined with electrical energy for nightime transportation.

“In essence, the design in pretty good, it just needs to be amended for size, proportions and such,” he said, adding that he hopes that solar power will be further developed. “If solar power can be applied to vehicles, it can surely be applied to urban power plants,” he concluded. (kmb42)

MANGUPURA - Foreigners in the area of Kuta continue to be targeted by muggers. On Thusday (Aug. 20) suspects Ketut Ngetis, (31 years old), and Kadek Jekli (18 years old) were arrested for snatching a purse from a 22 year old British student named Chloe Smart on Jalan Singosari Gang Kresek, Kuta.

Chief of Kuta Police, I.B. Dedy Januartha, accompanied by Chief of the Criminal Investiga-tion Unit, Dewa Tagel Wijasa, revealed on Friday (Aug. 21) that on Thursday around four o’clock in the morning police received a report of a purse snatching inci-dent. As a result of the incident, the victim who was staying at

Hotel Bed Bunkers on Jalan Dewi Sartika Kuta lost her bag that contained a Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone, a Sony handycam, credit cards and other valuables, estimated at a worth of IDR 12 million in total.

According to witnesses, the two culprits were riding a Honda Beat motorcycle. “One of them

fell off the bike and was immedi-ately apprehended while the other managed to escape” he said.

The officers then hunted him down. Based on Jekli’s confes-sion, police were able to deter-mine the likely location Ngetis and immediately headed to the area and at about 7 o’clock in the evening Ngetis was found on

Jalan Kusuma Bangsa I, Denpasar and arrested by the police.

“We have secured the motor-cycle as evidence, but the victim’s belongings fell on to the street with Jekli and have yet to be found. Police are investigating the possible whereabouts of rthe missing purse,” said Dewa Tagel. (kmb36)

Arrested, muggers who targeted foreigners

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The “Widya Wahana V”, solar car that is made by by students of Sepuluh November Institute of Technology (ITS)

Solar-powered car visits DenpasarDENPASAR - A solar-powered car named “Widya Wahana

V” that was produced by students of Sepuluh November Insti-tute of Technology (ITS), dropped by Warung Bali Coffee 63, Denpasar recently. The solar-powered car is in Denpasar for a test drive before competing in the World Solar Challenge 2015, Australia (WSC 2015) this October.

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JAKARTA - Hundreds of activists from vari-ous communities and organizations staged a rally on Sunday to support ratification of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

The rally staged at the Monas Square area across the Merdeka state palace lasted from 7.30am to 10am and was aimed at giving moral support to President Joko Widodo to ratify the FCTC.

“Today we hold a rally called “Action Together with FCTC to Protect Children” at the state pal-ace as a moral support to President Jokowi (Joko Widodo) so he has courage to immediately accede to FCTC,” action spokesman Yuki Wirabagja from Smoke Free Agent said.

Yuki said the ratification of FCTC would be a form of government’s protection to children as by ratifying it the government would produce regulations that would limit children’s access to cigarettes.

“There will also be a regulation to protect the children from exposure to cigarette smoke and at-tacks of cigarette ads that give wrong information about smoking,” he said.

Other spokesperson Margianta Surahman from FCTC Young Movement said the action today was part of a series of actions carried out since August 13, 2015.

On August 13, a number of activists extended more than 30,000 supports from the community and letters of support for President Jokowi to ratify FCTC as well as media clippings around FCTC and a book of facts and data about cigarette consump-tion problems in Indonesia.

“The supports come from community members given through www.change.org/dukung fctc online petition initiated by Robby Indra Wahyuda who is a larynx cancer sufferer who has smoked cigarette since childhood,” Margianta said.

Margianta said public support for the President to immediately ratify FCTC has continued to in-crease and in view of that he hoped the President would listen to it.

He said FCTC ratification is one of ways for the government to protect the constitutional right of the children put in Law Number 36 of 2009 on Health and Law Number 35 of 2014 on Child Protection.

The laws state every child has a right to survival, grow and develop and protection from discrimina-tion.

“The fact is Indonesian children have not yet received maximum protection from the impact of cigarette smoking because the number of smokers continue to increase every year. We can say that the government has allowed an impunity and is not present to give protection to assure healthy children in the future,” Margianta said.

Yuki said in the era of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the FCTC issue had been discussed by several ministers who called for the president to ratify it as told by then coordinating minister for people’s welfare Agung Laksono and minister for empowerment of women’s roles and child protection Linda Agum Gumelar.

“However until the end of his term Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono never ratified FCTC,” Yuki said. (ant)

With Southeast Asia’s biggest economy growing at its slowest pace in six years, and half its 250 million population living on less than $2 a day, price spikes on foods such as rice, sugar, beef and chillies can be devastat-ing.

“Farming is like gambling, because we never know the price,” said 32-year old Rah-mat, who farms chillies on the foothills sur-rounding Mount Salak in West Java, about 115 km (70 miles) south of the capital, Jakarta.

Fresh red chillies are as common on Indo-nesian dinner tables as salt and pepper in some countries, but over the last 12 months, prices have fluctuated between around 20,000 and 80,000 rupiah ($1.48) per kg, though Rahmat says his production costs have remained at just 10,000 rupiah/kg.

Their journey to table explains much of the volatility. Rahmat’s chillies are carried on rickety motorbikes across potholed dirt tracks, then loaded onto unrefrigerated flatbed trucks and bought and sold by up to six traders en route to Jakarta, where they can sit in the world’s most congested traffic for hours.

Farmers use traders because of the loans

and transport they offer, said Yudi Firman-syah, a chilli trader in Sukabumi who sup-plies vegetables to three regional markets on a rented truck.

About 15 percent of chillies reach their destination spoilt or too dry for Indonesian tastes, said Dadi Sudiana, chairman of the As-sociation of Indonesian Chilli Agribusiness.

Spoilage rises to almost 40 percent of fresh fruit and vegetables, according to in-dustry estimates.

President Widodo took office in October with promises to solve such problems with a massive infrastructure push, but so far his administration has failed to spend the $22 bil-lion budgeted for such projects this year due to a lack of coordination among ministries.

Widodo, whose approval rating has slumped from 72 percent to just 41 percent in July, had promised to build more dams, modernise irrigation systems, increase plant-ing areas for foods and provide easier access to credit for smallholder farmers.

To water Rahmat’s plants, he relies on rain or fills buckets and small plastic bottles at a nearby stream. It can take up to a week of one

worker’s labour to water a hectare of crops.He said he had yet to see any government

help under Widodo.Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman

said 2 trillion rupiah ($145 million) had been allocated this year for dam building in dry areas and the work was ongoing.

“Red chilli production is sufficient to cover household demand, which is 400,000 tonnes,” Suryamin, head of Indonesia’s statistics bureau, told reporters last month. “But there is demand from industries, such as for chilli sauces. So in total, we are still in deficit.”

At Jakarta’s big Kramat Jati market, chilli sellers said prices can change by the hour, and the produce easily spoils without cold storage.

“The chillies became very expensive after Hari Raya. Everything changed,” said David Emma, a restaurant owner buying chillies at a market.

“My customers won’t eat at my restaurant if I don’t make the food spicy. No matter what the sellers tell me about price, I must buy because I don’t have an option.” (rtr)

Hundreds activists stage rally to support FCTC ratification

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A worker holds harvested chillies at a chilli plantation in Pasir Datar Indah village near Sukabumi, Indonesia’s West Java province, August 6, 2015. Picture taken August 6, 2015.

Indonesia’s infrastructure promises fail the chilli challenge

SUKABUMI, Indonesia - Poor infrastructure makes stable pricing difficult at the best of times in Indonesia, but the rural poor are increasingly pinning the blame for wild fluctuations in the price of staples on the policies and unmet promises of President Joko Widodo.

Police are trying to determine who carried out the Monday eve-ning attack at one of Bangkok’s top tourist attractions. Twenty people were killed in the blast at the Erawan shrine, 14 of them foreigners including seven from mainland China and Hong Kong.

“The government insists on speeding up the investigation and bringing the bomber and network to justice,” Prayuth said in a weekly address to the nation.

The only solid evidence seems to be grainy security camera footage showing an unidentified young man with shaggy dark hair and dressed in a yellow shirt leaving a backpack at the scene.

Officials have had different theories about the identity of the man, last seen on video footage disappearing into the night on the back of a motorcycle taxi, saying he could be foreign, or a Thai man pretending to be for-eign. The reward for information leading to his arrest was raised to 3 million baht, a police spokes-man said. Initial speculation that the plot could be the work of an

international terror network has for now been set aside.

=”We still have no information on international terror groups and think there is no link to in-ternational terrorism,” Somyot Pumpanmuang said after attend-ing a multi-faith prayer ceremony outside a shopping centre near the shrine in central Bangkok.

“What is clear is that it was intended to discredit the govern-ment, destroy confidence and make tourists scared and not travel to Thailand,” he told re-porters. Asked about his sugges-tion that at least 10 plotters were probably involved, Somyot said there might only have been two.

CHINESE NOT THE TARGETThe Erawan shrine, dedicated to

a Hindu deity, is hugely popular with tourists from China. But the govern-ment has said Chinese tourists were not believed to have been specifically targeted. Announcements about the investigation have been broadcast in both Mandarin Chinese and English.

Damage to the tourist industry will not help the military government in its

REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

People ride their motorcycles past a digital billboard showing a sketch of the main suspect in Monday’s attack on Erawan shrine, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 23, 2015. Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country’s worst ever bombing.

Thailand increases reward for bombing suspect

BANGKOK - Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a re-ward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country’s worst ever bombing. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said progress in the investigation was being made, but declined to give details.

efforts to revive a flagging economy. Police have stepped up patrols in the city.

Two men spotted at the shrine on

CCTV and suspected of being the bomber’s accomplices have been cleared, but police were now suspi-cious of a woman dressed in black in

the footage, said police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri. “Police are ask-ing anyone who is in that CCTV foot-age to come forward,” he said. (rtr)

Thousands of migrants head closer to EU from MacedoniaGEVGELIJA, Macedonia —

Thousands of tired and beleaguered migrants — mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing conflict — boarded trains and buses in Mace-donia that took them one step closer to the European Union on Sunday, a day after they stormed past police trying to block them from entering the country from Greece.

On Saturday, some 2,000 rain-soaked migrants rushed past baton-wielding Macedonian officers, who had been sealing the border for three days. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were injured as the migrants leapt over barbed wire or ran across a field not protected by the fence to enter Macedonia.

After the incident, police de-cided to allow migrants to cross the border freely again from Greece, which is also overwhelmed by the human tide. Police officials said that the blockade was imposed to try and stem the overflow of people that has caused chaotic scenes at a railway station in the

Macedonian town of Gevgelija as thousands tried to secure places on overcrowded trains.

On Sunday, the migrants — many with small children and ba-bies — orderly boarded trains and buses that took them to the border with Serbia before heading farther north toward EU-member Hungary, which is building a razor wire fence on its frontier to prevent them from entering. If they manage to enter Hungary, the migrants could travel freely across the borders of most of the 28 EU-member states.

Thousands of migrants who reached Serbia overnight faced an overcrowded refugee center where they have to apply for asylum — the paper that allows them three days to reach Hungary.

Emina, a migrant from Syria who boarded an early morning train with her two-month-old baby, blamed Macedonian authorities for “harassing” the migrants, not giving them food or water, as well as hold-ing them back at the border.

“It was very hard in Macedonia,” she said. “I did not sleep or eat for three days. Just as we arrived to the border, they closed it. It was awful.”

Both Greece and Macedonia have seen an unprecedented wave of migrants this year. More than 160,000 have arrived so far in Greece, mostly crossing in inflat-able dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast — an influx that has overwhelmed Greek authori-ties and the country’s small Ae-gean islands. Some 45,000 crossed through Macedonia over the past two months.

Few, if any, want to remain in Greece, which is in the grip of a financial crisis, or impoverished Macedonia. Most of the migrants who enter from Greece want to head straight to Macedonia’s north-ern border and then north through Serbia and Hungary on their way to more prosperous EU countries such as Germany, the Netherlands or Sweden. (ap)

AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski

Migrants dry their shoes and socks while waiting to board a train towards Serbia, at the railway station in the southern Macedonia’s town of Gevgelija, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

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SEMARAPURA - The name of Buki t Jambul was g iven when the Dutch colonial com-

ing to Indonesia. At that mo-ment the tourist saw a high hill in the south way that related

the Regency of Klungkung and Besakih. In the top of mountain, there is holy place named Pun-cak Sari Temple. Uniquely, the temple surrounded by many big trees. From the top of moun-tain, the visitor can see rice the beautiful panoramaof ricefield.

The combination view of high hill and big trees make it named Bukit Jambul (crest hill).

Bukit Jambul is located in Pesaban Traditional Village, Nongan, Rendang Subdistrict. It is 8 km from Klungkung Regency and 51 km from Denpasar, while

from Besakih Temple it is just 15 km. In this tourism area, there are many restaurant and others facilities such large parking area. Bukit Jambul is very popular as a good place to feel and explore the harmony combination of hills, rice field, valley and sea.

Elsewhere on the second morn-ing at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Sta-dium, defending champion and favourite Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce eased through the opening heats of the women’s 100 metres in a very comfortable 10.88 seconds. “Today is just about getting through the rounds,” she said, sporting long green hair and a sunflower head-band.

The champion was joined in Monday’s semi-finals by a

nervous American contender Tori Bowie (10.88), who put down a marker by easily beating former Olympic champion Ve-ronica Campbell-Brown (11.04) of Jamaica in the opening heat. “I wanted to stay relaxed. This is my first major championships and I came out here extremely nervous today,” Bowie said after a quick heat time.

The experienced duo of Olym-pic champion Kirani James (44.56

seconds) of Grenada and U.S. world champion LaShawn Mer-ritt (44.51) barely strained as they safely negotiated the men’s 400m heats. “I handled business like I was supposed to in the first round,” Merritt said. “I was a little conservative, but just enough to win. I know what to do in these championships.”

Prodigious American talent Shamier Little endured a tricky opening heat in the women’s 400m hurdles, though, with the world ju-nior champion just slipping through to the semi-finals in fourth after los-ing her stride on the home stretch. American Joe Kovacs finished top

of the shot put qualifiers with a throw of 21.36 metres, just ahead of double world champion David Storl (21.26) of Germany with the final later on Sunday.

The morning drama, though, came in the heptathlon where Johnson-Thompson, an excellent long jumper, had trailed Ennis-Hill by 80 points in second place and was looking for a big jump to aid her quest for gold only for her keenness to result in three fouls and no points.

The British team appealed the narrow decision on the 22-year-old’s third jump but later withdrew the protest after viewing all evi-

dence, ending her medal hopes.Dutchwoman Nadine Broersen

moved second after a javelin throw of 53.52 metres in the penultimate discipline, with Canadian Brianne Theisen-Eaton, the 2013 silver medallist and wife of decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton, third on 5612 points.

Ennis-Hill, who gave birth to her son 13 months ago, offered 42.51m in the javelin and with 5705 points, will take an 86-point lead in to the last event, the 800 metres, in a Sunday evening session headlined by the battle between Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin for men’s 100m gold. (rtr)

SEREnA WilliAMS brushed off some serving troubles before cruising to a 6-4 6-3 win over Elina Svitolina on Saturday and will meet Simona Halep in the Western & Southern Open final.

Williams’s serve was off for a second consecutive match in Cin-cinnati and she committed 34 un-forced errors but the world number one was never under serious threat from the 14th-seeded Ukrainian.

The American will bid to com-plete a calendar grand slam at her home U.S. Open from Aug. 31, a pursuit that kept her early struggles in perspective on Saturday.

“I wanted to not worry about this match, but worry about the

next few matches and next few weeks and start playing better for that,” Williams said in an on-court interview.

“I got off to a super slow start today but I started going for it and I think that helped me out.”

She will defend her title against Romanian Halep who routed Jelena Jankovic 6-1 6-2 in the late semi-final.

Williams was broken early in the opening set, but her opponent could not keep the momentum or capitalize on the American’s eight double-faults for the match.

Williams laced two straight backhand winners to break Svito-lina’s serve to move to 3-1 in the

second set.The 20-year-old Ukrainian broke

back but Williams responded in kind to take control before seal-ing the match with an ace. Halep’s semi-final win secured her the second seeding behind Williams at the U.S. Open.

The aggressive base-liner con-verted seven of 10 break-points and was thrilled with her performance.

“I played great tennis tonight. I was confident and I think that’s why I played my best tennis,” she said.

“I have my chance tomorrow (against Williams) but I expect a tough match. With her you never know; you can win, maybe, or you can lose fast.” (rtr)

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Serena Williams (USA) charges the net to return a shot against Tsventana Pironkova (not pictured) on day five during the Western and Southern Open tennis tournament at Linder Family Tennis Center.

Williams to meet Halep in Cincinnati final

Ennis-Hill closes in on gold, Fraser-Pryce cruises

BEiJinG - Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill took charge of heptathlon after British compatriot and gold medal rival Ka-tarina Johnson-Thompson fouled out in the long jump chasing world athletics championship glory on Sunday.

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“They are a difficult team to face at home and it will be like that for the others too,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “We can say that it was an OK draw, looking at the chances.” Roma finished second last season, 17 points behind Juventus, which kicks off its bid for a fifth succes-sive league title against U d i n e s e on Sunday. Roma hosts Juventus next week.

LONDON — Callum Wilson scored a hat trick as Bournemouth got its first ever Premier League victory by edging West Ham 4-3 Saturday at Upton Park.

The 23-year-old striker volleyed home in the 11th minute for his first goal in the top flight.

Wilson then capitalized on a poor pass from Aaron Cresswell to score his second in the 28th before West Ham quickly rallied after the break with two goals — a penalty from Mark Noble and Cheikhou Kouy-ate’s tap in.

Substitute Marc Pugh put Bournemouth ahead again in the 66th and West Ham left back Carl Jenkinson got a red card for clipping Max Gradel in the box.

Wilson sealed the win by con-verting the subsequent penalty, although substitute Modibo Maiga scored in the 82nd to ensure a lively end.

It was a well-deserved victory for Bournemouth, whose fast pass-and-

move style had enabled the south coast club to win the Championship last season but not — until Saturday — score in the Premier League.

Bournemouth had endured two narrow defeats this season, includ-ing a controversial 1-0 loss to Liv-erpool on Monday that featured an offside goal from Christian Benteke which the Premier League conceded shouldn’t have stood.

For Bournemouth to survive the top tier, it will rely heavily on Wilson to carry on finding the back of the net.

The striker, who has one England Under-21 cap to his name, scored 20 league goals last season, and recently signed a new four-year contract with the south coast club .

“He was a real menace today with his pace and movement,” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said. “He’s the type of player that always ends up getting chances, and of course his challenge is to try and be clinical when they come.” (ap)

BARCELONA — Goals from free kicks gave Atletico Madrid a slim win over promoted Las Palmas and helped Espanyol edge 10-man Getafe on Saturday as the Spanish league struggled to produce scoring on its opening weekend.

Atletico settled for a 1-0 victory thanks to Antoine Griezmann’s free kick in the 16th minute at its Vicente Calderon Stadium. Las Palmas began the match looking out of its depth in its return to the top flight after 13 seasons, but the Canary Is-land club made the 2014 champions work for the win.

Griezmann’s shot deflected off a defender to wrong-foot goalkeeper Raul Lizoain, who got a touch on the ball but couldn’t keep it out. The France forward was Atletico’s most incisive player and outshone Atletico’s star signing of the sum-mer, striker Jackson Martinez, who showed he needs time to adapt to Diego Simeone’s side. Simeone, however, was pleased with what he saw from the former FC Porto star.

“Jackson did a great job, it’s not easy (for defenders) to move him,” Simeone said. “We’re happy with our first victory at home. Las Pal-mas played an interesting match and had their opportunities to score.” Outclassed in the first half, Las Palmas came close to scoring twice after halftime.

David Simon almost took ad-vantage of Atletico’s first dip in concentration during a free kick, only to head the ball off the bar in the 58th. Atletico goalie Jan Oblak then dove to get one hand on Ay-thyami Artiles try from a corner kick in the 72nd.

Atletico’s Jorge “Koke” Resur-reccion went close to widening the winning margin when he sent a free kick off the post in the last minute.

Elsewhere, the Spanish league saw two more 0-0 draws after Valencia stalled at Rayo Vallecano and Real Sociedad split the points

SARAJEVO - A Bosnian league match between Celik Ze-nica and Sarajevo was help up for 20 minutes after fans clashed with riot police and committed racist offences on Saturday.

Video footage showed visit-ing Sarajevo fans fighting with

police early in the second half, forcing officials to escort the players into the tunnel and briefly suspend play.

Bosnian media said the home supporters directed monkey chants at Sarajevo’s Nigerian forward Harmony Ikande, add-

ing that rival fans had hurled flares at each other before the interruption. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Bosnian football has been rife with violence in recent years and several fixtures have been sus-pended or abandoned. (rtr)

Bosnian league match marred by racism and crowd trouble

Free kicks give Atletico, Espanyol wins in Spanish league

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Atletico Madrid’s head coach Diego Simeone gives instructions from the side line during the Spanish La Liga soccer match be-tween Atletico Madrid and Las Palmas at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

at Deportivo La Coruna.Both matches were similar to

Friday’s league opener when Sevilla and Malaga showed more rust than punch from the summer in their 0-0 draw. In Barcelona, Espanyol midfielder Salva Sevilla secured a 1-0 win over Getafe with a dipping free kick that went in off the upright in the third minute.

It was the only clear scoring chance of the game, as Espanyol didn’t muster another effort on tar-get — not even after Getafe’s San-tiago Vergini received his second booking with eight minute to play. “We suffered, we gave it our all, we competed like animals, and this was our reward,” said Espanyol coach Sergio Gonzalez, who saw the club sell several key players this offsea-son. Saturday saw a series of woeful misses from inside the area.

Getafe striker Alvaro Vazquez had an ideal opportunity to level at Espanyol in the 87th, but failed to

tap in the ball in front of an open net, instead sending it across the goalmouth before knocking his head on the post.

In Madrid, Valencia’s Santi Mina and Pablo Piatti couldn’t score from passes that reached them inside the six-yard box in the first half.

It was then Rayo striker Manu-cho’s turn to lament his own howler in the second half when he turned Patrick Ebert’s low cross past the wrong side of the post.

And when Alvaro Negredo’s aim was true, Rayo goalkeeper An-tonio “Tono” Rodriguez made an excellent save to deny the Valencia striker a stoppage-time winner.

Valencia visits Monaco on Tuesday in the second leg of their Champions League playoff after winning their first meeting 3-1. Barcelona starts its title defense at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, be-fore Real Madrid visits Sporting Gijon. (ap)

BERLIN — Robert Lewan-dowski scored a last-minute win-ner Saturday as 10-man Bayern Munich overcame an early goal to beat Hoffenheim 2-1 in the Bundesliga.

Hoffenheim forward Kevin Vol-land scored after only nine seconds, capitalizing on a poor back pass from David Alaba and shooting through Manuel Neuer’s legs to match the fastest German league goal ever scored. Karim Bellarabi of Bayer Leverkusen managed the same feat one day short of a year ago against Borussia Dortmund.

“We can only learn from it. It’s not the best start in a game but we still had 93 minutes in which to win it,” Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said.

Douglas Costa, Arjen Robben and Thomas Mueller all went close as his side sought a response. Muel-ler forced a great save from Oliver Baumann, then struck the right post, before finally equalizing on the rebound with his right thigh in the 41st after Baumann saved Costa’s initial effort.

Costa was causing havoc on the left wing and another new signing, Arturo Vidal, struck the crossbar in the 66th before Guardiola brought on Lewandowski.

But Bayern was down to 10 men shortly afterward as Jerome Boateng gave away a penalty and was sent off for blocking a free

kick with his arm in the 73rd. The defender earned his first yellow card for a foul two minutes earlier.

However, Eugen Polanski struck the penalty against the post, prompting a final push from Bayern.

“After the penalty and the red card we knew we had to play on. We still had two or three big chances,” said Lewandowski, who was denied by Baumann, while Mueller hit the post again. Finally Costa, now on the right wing, beat two defenders and cut the ball back for Lewandowski to convert inside the left post.

“The last 10 minutes were a bit crazy,” Guardiola said. “We’ve played one of our best Bundesliga games of the last three years.”

With Boateng suspended and Mehdi Benatia going off with a thigh injury in the first half, Bay-ern has defensive issues ahead of its next game against Bayer Le-verkusen.

A perfectly struck 17th-minute free kick from specialist Hakan Calhanoglu was enough for Le-verkusen to win 1-0 at Hannover. Roger Schmidt’s side next hosts Lazio in their Champions League qualifier, hoping to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg.

Wolfsburg could only draw 1-1 at Cologne amid speculation Kevin de Bruyne was playing his last game for the club. (ap)

AP Photo/Daniel Maurer

Referee Tobias Stieler, center, suspends Bayern’s Jerome Boateng during the Germany Soccer Bundesliga match between TSG Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich in Sinsheim, southern Germany, Saturday Aug. 22, 2015.

Lewandowski scores late winner for Bayern at Hoffenheim

AP Photo/Felice Calabro’

Roma’s Edin Dzeko opens his

arms during a Serie A soccer match against

Hellas Verona at the

Bentegodi stadium in

Verona, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 22,

2015.

Roma held 1-1 at Verona in Serie A, Lazio beats Bologna 2-1

MILAN — Roma was held to a 1-1 draw at Hellas Verona on the opening day of the Serie A season on Saturday, while Lazio beat newly-promoted Bologna 2-1. Bosko Jankovic volleyed Verona into the lead on the hour but its advantage lasted barely five minutes before Alessandro Florenzi leveled with a long-range strike.

Roma had Wojciech Szczesny to thank for keeping it in the game as the Poland goalkeeper, signed on a season-long loan deal from Arsenal, pulled off a number of crucial saves. Szczesny was making his competi-tive debut for Roma, as were fellow new signings Mohamed Salah and Edin Dzeko. Leandro Castan returned after almost a year out following brain surgery.

Verona almost took the lead with barely a minute on the clock but Juanito Gomez Taleb curled just over. Rafael did well to keep out Salah’s volley, although Gervinho was offside, and the Verona goalkeeper was immediately called into action again to smother a strike from Radja

Nainggolan.Verona had the best chance

of the half minutes before the break, shortly after Szc-zesny had fingertipped Samuel Souprayen’s effort around his post. From the resulting cor-

ner, Daniele De Rossi headed Jankovic’s looping header off the line. There was no doubt whether that

had gone in or not as

goal-line technology has been intro-duced into Serie A from this season.

Verona was again the stronger side after the interval and was prevented from taking the lead in the 56th min-ute by a stunning double save from Szczesny to deny Emil Hallfredsson and Juanito Gomez. It was the home side which scored the first goal of the season when Hallfredsson won back possession and put in a cross over the top for Jankovic to volley in at the near post.

Roma was swiftly back on level terms with a 25-yard snapshot from Florenzi. The capital side could have won the match but a Miralem Pjanic screamer flew just past the right upright. Pjanic almost won the match in the final minutes but Rafael made a great save to turn the Bosnia-Herzegovina midfielder’s effort onto his post from close range.

Lazio finished a point behind Roma last season, consigning it to the Champions League playoff. It leads Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 ahead of Wednesday’s return match in Germany.

Lazio attacked from the start and took the lead in the 18th minute. The Bologna defense failed to deal with Dusan Basta’s cross and the onrush-ing Lucas Biglia — who had been given the captaincy in the summer — smashed it home.

Bologna gifted Lazio the second, too, as it allowed Antonio Candreva’s cross to go through to Ricardo Kish-na, who had plenty of time and space to control and shoot. It was a perfect

start to Serie A for the 20-year-old, who moved from Ajax in the

offseason.Matteo Mancosu re-

duced the deficit on the stroke of halftime, hold-ing off Stefan Radu to race down the pitch

be- fore unleashing a fine f in - ish off the underside of the bar for his first Serie A goal at the age of 30.

Bologna remained in the match thanks to a string of fine saves from Antonio Mirante and almost leveled in stoppage time but Lazio goalkeeper Etrit Berisha stretched to punch away Matteo Brighi’s header. (ap)

Paul Harding/PA via AP

AFC Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson, front, celebrates scor-ing his team’s second goal of the game during their English Premier League soccer match against West Ham at Upton Park, London, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

Wilson hat trick as Bournemouth edges West Ham 4-3

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“They are a difficult team to face at home and it will be like that for the others too,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “We can say that it was an OK draw, looking at the chances.” Roma finished second last season, 17 points behind Juventus, which kicks off its bid for a fifth succes-sive league title against U d i n e s e on Sunday. Roma hosts Juventus next week.

LONDON — Callum Wilson scored a hat trick as Bournemouth got its first ever Premier League victory by edging West Ham 4-3 Saturday at Upton Park.

The 23-year-old striker volleyed home in the 11th minute for his first goal in the top flight.

Wilson then capitalized on a poor pass from Aaron Cresswell to score his second in the 28th before West Ham quickly rallied after the break with two goals — a penalty from Mark Noble and Cheikhou Kouy-ate’s tap in.

Substitute Marc Pugh put Bournemouth ahead again in the 66th and West Ham left back Carl Jenkinson got a red card for clipping Max Gradel in the box.

Wilson sealed the win by con-verting the subsequent penalty, although substitute Modibo Maiga scored in the 82nd to ensure a lively end.

It was a well-deserved victory for Bournemouth, whose fast pass-and-

move style had enabled the south coast club to win the Championship last season but not — until Saturday — score in the Premier League.

Bournemouth had endured two narrow defeats this season, includ-ing a controversial 1-0 loss to Liv-erpool on Monday that featured an offside goal from Christian Benteke which the Premier League conceded shouldn’t have stood.

For Bournemouth to survive the top tier, it will rely heavily on Wilson to carry on finding the back of the net.

The striker, who has one England Under-21 cap to his name, scored 20 league goals last season, and recently signed a new four-year contract with the south coast club .

“He was a real menace today with his pace and movement,” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said. “He’s the type of player that always ends up getting chances, and of course his challenge is to try and be clinical when they come.” (ap)

BARCELONA — Goals from free kicks gave Atletico Madrid a slim win over promoted Las Palmas and helped Espanyol edge 10-man Getafe on Saturday as the Spanish league struggled to produce scoring on its opening weekend.

Atletico settled for a 1-0 victory thanks to Antoine Griezmann’s free kick in the 16th minute at its Vicente Calderon Stadium. Las Palmas began the match looking out of its depth in its return to the top flight after 13 seasons, but the Canary Is-land club made the 2014 champions work for the win.

Griezmann’s shot deflected off a defender to wrong-foot goalkeeper Raul Lizoain, who got a touch on the ball but couldn’t keep it out. The France forward was Atletico’s most incisive player and outshone Atletico’s star signing of the sum-mer, striker Jackson Martinez, who showed he needs time to adapt to Diego Simeone’s side. Simeone, however, was pleased with what he saw from the former FC Porto star.

“Jackson did a great job, it’s not easy (for defenders) to move him,” Simeone said. “We’re happy with our first victory at home. Las Pal-mas played an interesting match and had their opportunities to score.” Outclassed in the first half, Las Palmas came close to scoring twice after halftime.

David Simon almost took ad-vantage of Atletico’s first dip in concentration during a free kick, only to head the ball off the bar in the 58th. Atletico goalie Jan Oblak then dove to get one hand on Ay-thyami Artiles try from a corner kick in the 72nd.

Atletico’s Jorge “Koke” Resur-reccion went close to widening the winning margin when he sent a free kick off the post in the last minute.

Elsewhere, the Spanish league saw two more 0-0 draws after Valencia stalled at Rayo Vallecano and Real Sociedad split the points

SARAJEVO - A Bosnian league match between Celik Ze-nica and Sarajevo was help up for 20 minutes after fans clashed with riot police and committed racist offences on Saturday.

Video footage showed visit-ing Sarajevo fans fighting with

police early in the second half, forcing officials to escort the players into the tunnel and briefly suspend play.

Bosnian media said the home supporters directed monkey chants at Sarajevo’s Nigerian forward Harmony Ikande, add-

ing that rival fans had hurled flares at each other before the interruption. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Bosnian football has been rife with violence in recent years and several fixtures have been sus-pended or abandoned. (rtr)

Bosnian league match marred by racism and crowd trouble

Free kicks give Atletico, Espanyol wins in Spanish league

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Atletico Madrid’s head coach Diego Simeone gives instructions from the side line during the Spanish La Liga soccer match be-tween Atletico Madrid and Las Palmas at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

at Deportivo La Coruna.Both matches were similar to

Friday’s league opener when Sevilla and Malaga showed more rust than punch from the summer in their 0-0 draw. In Barcelona, Espanyol midfielder Salva Sevilla secured a 1-0 win over Getafe with a dipping free kick that went in off the upright in the third minute.

It was the only clear scoring chance of the game, as Espanyol didn’t muster another effort on tar-get — not even after Getafe’s San-tiago Vergini received his second booking with eight minute to play. “We suffered, we gave it our all, we competed like animals, and this was our reward,” said Espanyol coach Sergio Gonzalez, who saw the club sell several key players this offsea-son. Saturday saw a series of woeful misses from inside the area.

Getafe striker Alvaro Vazquez had an ideal opportunity to level at Espanyol in the 87th, but failed to

tap in the ball in front of an open net, instead sending it across the goalmouth before knocking his head on the post.

In Madrid, Valencia’s Santi Mina and Pablo Piatti couldn’t score from passes that reached them inside the six-yard box in the first half.

It was then Rayo striker Manu-cho’s turn to lament his own howler in the second half when he turned Patrick Ebert’s low cross past the wrong side of the post.

And when Alvaro Negredo’s aim was true, Rayo goalkeeper An-tonio “Tono” Rodriguez made an excellent save to deny the Valencia striker a stoppage-time winner.

Valencia visits Monaco on Tuesday in the second leg of their Champions League playoff after winning their first meeting 3-1. Barcelona starts its title defense at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, be-fore Real Madrid visits Sporting Gijon. (ap)

BERLIN — Robert Lewan-dowski scored a last-minute win-ner Saturday as 10-man Bayern Munich overcame an early goal to beat Hoffenheim 2-1 in the Bundesliga.

Hoffenheim forward Kevin Vol-land scored after only nine seconds, capitalizing on a poor back pass from David Alaba and shooting through Manuel Neuer’s legs to match the fastest German league goal ever scored. Karim Bellarabi of Bayer Leverkusen managed the same feat one day short of a year ago against Borussia Dortmund.

“We can only learn from it. It’s not the best start in a game but we still had 93 minutes in which to win it,” Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said.

Douglas Costa, Arjen Robben and Thomas Mueller all went close as his side sought a response. Muel-ler forced a great save from Oliver Baumann, then struck the right post, before finally equalizing on the rebound with his right thigh in the 41st after Baumann saved Costa’s initial effort.

Costa was causing havoc on the left wing and another new signing, Arturo Vidal, struck the crossbar in the 66th before Guardiola brought on Lewandowski.

But Bayern was down to 10 men shortly afterward as Jerome Boateng gave away a penalty and was sent off for blocking a free

kick with his arm in the 73rd. The defender earned his first yellow card for a foul two minutes earlier.

However, Eugen Polanski struck the penalty against the post, prompting a final push from Bayern.

“After the penalty and the red card we knew we had to play on. We still had two or three big chances,” said Lewandowski, who was denied by Baumann, while Mueller hit the post again. Finally Costa, now on the right wing, beat two defenders and cut the ball back for Lewandowski to convert inside the left post.

“The last 10 minutes were a bit crazy,” Guardiola said. “We’ve played one of our best Bundesliga games of the last three years.”

With Boateng suspended and Mehdi Benatia going off with a thigh injury in the first half, Bay-ern has defensive issues ahead of its next game against Bayer Le-verkusen.

A perfectly struck 17th-minute free kick from specialist Hakan Calhanoglu was enough for Le-verkusen to win 1-0 at Hannover. Roger Schmidt’s side next hosts Lazio in their Champions League qualifier, hoping to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg.

Wolfsburg could only draw 1-1 at Cologne amid speculation Kevin de Bruyne was playing his last game for the club. (ap)

AP Photo/Daniel Maurer

Referee Tobias Stieler, center, suspends Bayern’s Jerome Boateng during the Germany Soccer Bundesliga match between TSG Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich in Sinsheim, southern Germany, Saturday Aug. 22, 2015.

Lewandowski scores late winner for Bayern at Hoffenheim

AP Photo/Felice Calabro’

Roma’s Edin Dzeko opens his

arms during a Serie A soccer match against

Hellas Verona at the

Bentegodi stadium in

Verona, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 22,

2015.

Roma held 1-1 at Verona in Serie A, Lazio beats Bologna 2-1

MILAN — Roma was held to a 1-1 draw at Hellas Verona on the opening day of the Serie A season on Saturday, while Lazio beat newly-promoted Bologna 2-1. Bosko Jankovic volleyed Verona into the lead on the hour but its advantage lasted barely five minutes before Alessandro Florenzi leveled with a long-range strike.

Roma had Wojciech Szczesny to thank for keeping it in the game as the Poland goalkeeper, signed on a season-long loan deal from Arsenal, pulled off a number of crucial saves. Szczesny was making his competi-tive debut for Roma, as were fellow new signings Mohamed Salah and Edin Dzeko. Leandro Castan returned after almost a year out following brain surgery.

Verona almost took the lead with barely a minute on the clock but Juanito Gomez Taleb curled just over. Rafael did well to keep out Salah’s volley, although Gervinho was offside, and the Verona goalkeeper was immediately called into action again to smother a strike from Radja

Nainggolan.Verona had the best chance

of the half minutes before the break, shortly after Szc-zesny had fingertipped Samuel Souprayen’s effort around his post. From the resulting cor-

ner, Daniele De Rossi headed Jankovic’s looping header off the line. There was no doubt whether that

had gone in or not as

goal-line technology has been intro-duced into Serie A from this season.

Verona was again the stronger side after the interval and was prevented from taking the lead in the 56th min-ute by a stunning double save from Szczesny to deny Emil Hallfredsson and Juanito Gomez. It was the home side which scored the first goal of the season when Hallfredsson won back possession and put in a cross over the top for Jankovic to volley in at the near post.

Roma was swiftly back on level terms with a 25-yard snapshot from Florenzi. The capital side could have won the match but a Miralem Pjanic screamer flew just past the right upright. Pjanic almost won the match in the final minutes but Rafael made a great save to turn the Bosnia-Herzegovina midfielder’s effort onto his post from close range.

Lazio finished a point behind Roma last season, consigning it to the Champions League playoff. It leads Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 ahead of Wednesday’s return match in Germany.

Lazio attacked from the start and took the lead in the 18th minute. The Bologna defense failed to deal with Dusan Basta’s cross and the onrush-ing Lucas Biglia — who had been given the captaincy in the summer — smashed it home.

Bologna gifted Lazio the second, too, as it allowed Antonio Candreva’s cross to go through to Ricardo Kish-na, who had plenty of time and space to control and shoot. It was a perfect

start to Serie A for the 20-year-old, who moved from Ajax in the

offseason.Matteo Mancosu re-

duced the deficit on the stroke of halftime, hold-ing off Stefan Radu to race down the pitch

be- fore unleashing a fine f in - ish off the underside of the bar for his first Serie A goal at the age of 30.

Bologna remained in the match thanks to a string of fine saves from Antonio Mirante and almost leveled in stoppage time but Lazio goalkeeper Etrit Berisha stretched to punch away Matteo Brighi’s header. (ap)

Paul Harding/PA via AP

AFC Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson, front, celebrates scor-ing his team’s second goal of the game during their English Premier League soccer match against West Ham at Upton Park, London, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

Wilson hat trick as Bournemouth edges West Ham 4-3

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SEMARAPURA - The name of Buki t Jambul was g iven when the Dutch colonial com-

ing to Indonesia. At that mo-ment the tourist saw a high hill in the south way that related

the Regency of Klungkung and Besakih. In the top of mountain, there is holy place named Pun-cak Sari Temple. Uniquely, the temple surrounded by many big trees. From the top of moun-tain, the visitor can see rice the beautiful panoramaof ricefield.

The combination view of high hill and big trees make it named Bukit Jambul (crest hill).

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Elsewhere on the second morn-ing at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Sta-dium, defending champion and favourite Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce eased through the opening heats of the women’s 100 metres in a very comfortable 10.88 seconds. “Today is just about getting through the rounds,” she said, sporting long green hair and a sunflower head-band.

The champion was joined in Monday’s semi-finals by a

nervous American contender Tori Bowie (10.88), who put down a marker by easily beating former Olympic champion Ve-ronica Campbell-Brown (11.04) of Jamaica in the opening heat. “I wanted to stay relaxed. This is my first major championships and I came out here extremely nervous today,” Bowie said after a quick heat time.

The experienced duo of Olym-pic champion Kirani James (44.56

seconds) of Grenada and U.S. world champion LaShawn Mer-ritt (44.51) barely strained as they safely negotiated the men’s 400m heats. “I handled business like I was supposed to in the first round,” Merritt said. “I was a little conservative, but just enough to win. I know what to do in these championships.”

Prodigious American talent Shamier Little endured a tricky opening heat in the women’s 400m hurdles, though, with the world ju-nior champion just slipping through to the semi-finals in fourth after los-ing her stride on the home stretch. American Joe Kovacs finished top

of the shot put qualifiers with a throw of 21.36 metres, just ahead of double world champion David Storl (21.26) of Germany with the final later on Sunday.

The morning drama, though, came in the heptathlon where Johnson-Thompson, an excellent long jumper, had trailed Ennis-Hill by 80 points in second place and was looking for a big jump to aid her quest for gold only for her keenness to result in three fouls and no points.

The British team appealed the narrow decision on the 22-year-old’s third jump but later withdrew the protest after viewing all evi-

dence, ending her medal hopes.Dutchwoman Nadine Broersen

moved second after a javelin throw of 53.52 metres in the penultimate discipline, with Canadian Brianne Theisen-Eaton, the 2013 silver medallist and wife of decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton, third on 5612 points.

Ennis-Hill, who gave birth to her son 13 months ago, offered 42.51m in the javelin and with 5705 points, will take an 86-point lead in to the last event, the 800 metres, in a Sunday evening session headlined by the battle between Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin for men’s 100m gold. (rtr)

SEREnA WilliAMS brushed off some serving troubles before cruising to a 6-4 6-3 win over Elina Svitolina on Saturday and will meet Simona Halep in the Western & Southern Open final.

Williams’s serve was off for a second consecutive match in Cin-cinnati and she committed 34 un-forced errors but the world number one was never under serious threat from the 14th-seeded Ukrainian.

The American will bid to com-plete a calendar grand slam at her home U.S. Open from Aug. 31, a pursuit that kept her early struggles in perspective on Saturday.

“I wanted to not worry about this match, but worry about the

next few matches and next few weeks and start playing better for that,” Williams said in an on-court interview.

“I got off to a super slow start today but I started going for it and I think that helped me out.”

She will defend her title against Romanian Halep who routed Jelena Jankovic 6-1 6-2 in the late semi-final.

Williams was broken early in the opening set, but her opponent could not keep the momentum or capitalize on the American’s eight double-faults for the match.

Williams laced two straight backhand winners to break Svito-lina’s serve to move to 3-1 in the

second set.The 20-year-old Ukrainian broke

back but Williams responded in kind to take control before seal-ing the match with an ace. Halep’s semi-final win secured her the second seeding behind Williams at the U.S. Open.

The aggressive base-liner con-verted seven of 10 break-points and was thrilled with her performance.

“I played great tennis tonight. I was confident and I think that’s why I played my best tennis,” she said.

“I have my chance tomorrow (against Williams) but I expect a tough match. With her you never know; you can win, maybe, or you can lose fast.” (rtr)

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Serena Williams (USA) charges the net to return a shot against Tsventana Pironkova (not pictured) on day five during the Western and Southern Open tennis tournament at Linder Family Tennis Center.

Williams to meet Halep in Cincinnati final

Ennis-Hill closes in on gold, Fraser-Pryce cruises

BEiJinG - Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill took charge of heptathlon after British compatriot and gold medal rival Ka-tarina Johnson-Thompson fouled out in the long jump chasing world athletics championship glory on Sunday.

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JAKARTA - Hundreds of activists from vari-ous communities and organizations staged a rally on Sunday to support ratification of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

The rally staged at the Monas Square area across the Merdeka state palace lasted from 7.30am to 10am and was aimed at giving moral support to President Joko Widodo to ratify the FCTC.

“Today we hold a rally called “Action Together with FCTC to Protect Children” at the state pal-ace as a moral support to President Jokowi (Joko Widodo) so he has courage to immediately accede to FCTC,” action spokesman Yuki Wirabagja from Smoke Free Agent said.

Yuki said the ratification of FCTC would be a form of government’s protection to children as by ratifying it the government would produce regulations that would limit children’s access to cigarettes.

“There will also be a regulation to protect the children from exposure to cigarette smoke and at-tacks of cigarette ads that give wrong information about smoking,” he said.

Other spokesperson Margianta Surahman from FCTC Young Movement said the action today was part of a series of actions carried out since August 13, 2015.

On August 13, a number of activists extended more than 30,000 supports from the community and letters of support for President Jokowi to ratify FCTC as well as media clippings around FCTC and a book of facts and data about cigarette consump-tion problems in Indonesia.

“The supports come from community members given through www.change.org/dukung fctc online petition initiated by Robby Indra Wahyuda who is a larynx cancer sufferer who has smoked cigarette since childhood,” Margianta said.

Margianta said public support for the President to immediately ratify FCTC has continued to in-crease and in view of that he hoped the President would listen to it.

He said FCTC ratification is one of ways for the government to protect the constitutional right of the children put in Law Number 36 of 2009 on Health and Law Number 35 of 2014 on Child Protection.

The laws state every child has a right to survival, grow and develop and protection from discrimina-tion.

“The fact is Indonesian children have not yet received maximum protection from the impact of cigarette smoking because the number of smokers continue to increase every year. We can say that the government has allowed an impunity and is not present to give protection to assure healthy children in the future,” Margianta said.

Yuki said in the era of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the FCTC issue had been discussed by several ministers who called for the president to ratify it as told by then coordinating minister for people’s welfare Agung Laksono and minister for empowerment of women’s roles and child protection Linda Agum Gumelar.

“However until the end of his term Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono never ratified FCTC,” Yuki said. (ant)

With Southeast Asia’s biggest economy growing at its slowest pace in six years, and half its 250 million population living on less than $2 a day, price spikes on foods such as rice, sugar, beef and chillies can be devastat-ing.

“Farming is like gambling, because we never know the price,” said 32-year old Rah-mat, who farms chillies on the foothills sur-rounding Mount Salak in West Java, about 115 km (70 miles) south of the capital, Jakarta.

Fresh red chillies are as common on Indo-nesian dinner tables as salt and pepper in some countries, but over the last 12 months, prices have fluctuated between around 20,000 and 80,000 rupiah ($1.48) per kg, though Rahmat says his production costs have remained at just 10,000 rupiah/kg.

Their journey to table explains much of the volatility. Rahmat’s chillies are carried on rickety motorbikes across potholed dirt tracks, then loaded onto unrefrigerated flatbed trucks and bought and sold by up to six traders en route to Jakarta, where they can sit in the world’s most congested traffic for hours.

Farmers use traders because of the loans

and transport they offer, said Yudi Firman-syah, a chilli trader in Sukabumi who sup-plies vegetables to three regional markets on a rented truck.

About 15 percent of chillies reach their destination spoilt or too dry for Indonesian tastes, said Dadi Sudiana, chairman of the As-sociation of Indonesian Chilli Agribusiness.

Spoilage rises to almost 40 percent of fresh fruit and vegetables, according to in-dustry estimates.

President Widodo took office in October with promises to solve such problems with a massive infrastructure push, but so far his administration has failed to spend the $22 bil-lion budgeted for such projects this year due to a lack of coordination among ministries.

Widodo, whose approval rating has slumped from 72 percent to just 41 percent in July, had promised to build more dams, modernise irrigation systems, increase plant-ing areas for foods and provide easier access to credit for smallholder farmers.

To water Rahmat’s plants, he relies on rain or fills buckets and small plastic bottles at a nearby stream. It can take up to a week of one

worker’s labour to water a hectare of crops.He said he had yet to see any government

help under Widodo.Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman

said 2 trillion rupiah ($145 million) had been allocated this year for dam building in dry areas and the work was ongoing.

“Red chilli production is sufficient to cover household demand, which is 400,000 tonnes,” Suryamin, head of Indonesia’s statistics bureau, told reporters last month. “But there is demand from industries, such as for chilli sauces. So in total, we are still in deficit.”

At Jakarta’s big Kramat Jati market, chilli sellers said prices can change by the hour, and the produce easily spoils without cold storage.

“The chillies became very expensive after Hari Raya. Everything changed,” said David Emma, a restaurant owner buying chillies at a market.

“My customers won’t eat at my restaurant if I don’t make the food spicy. No matter what the sellers tell me about price, I must buy because I don’t have an option.” (rtr)

Hundreds activists stage rally to support FCTC ratification

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A worker holds harvested chillies at a chilli plantation in Pasir Datar Indah village near Sukabumi, Indonesia’s West Java province, August 6, 2015. Picture taken August 6, 2015.

Indonesia’s infrastructure promises fail the chilli challenge

SUKABUMI, Indonesia - Poor infrastructure makes stable pricing difficult at the best of times in Indonesia, but the rural poor are increasingly pinning the blame for wild fluctuations in the price of staples on the policies and unmet promises of President Joko Widodo.

Police are trying to determine who carried out the Monday eve-ning attack at one of Bangkok’s top tourist attractions. Twenty people were killed in the blast at the Erawan shrine, 14 of them foreigners including seven from mainland China and Hong Kong.

“The government insists on speeding up the investigation and bringing the bomber and network to justice,” Prayuth said in a weekly address to the nation.

The only solid evidence seems to be grainy security camera footage showing an unidentified young man with shaggy dark hair and dressed in a yellow shirt leaving a backpack at the scene.

Officials have had different theories about the identity of the man, last seen on video footage disappearing into the night on the back of a motorcycle taxi, saying he could be foreign, or a Thai man pretending to be for-eign. The reward for information leading to his arrest was raised to 3 million baht, a police spokes-man said. Initial speculation that the plot could be the work of an

international terror network has for now been set aside.

=”We still have no information on international terror groups and think there is no link to in-ternational terrorism,” Somyot Pumpanmuang said after attend-ing a multi-faith prayer ceremony outside a shopping centre near the shrine in central Bangkok.

“What is clear is that it was intended to discredit the govern-ment, destroy confidence and make tourists scared and not travel to Thailand,” he told re-porters. Asked about his sugges-tion that at least 10 plotters were probably involved, Somyot said there might only have been two.

CHINESE NOT THE TARGETThe Erawan shrine, dedicated to

a Hindu deity, is hugely popular with tourists from China. But the govern-ment has said Chinese tourists were not believed to have been specifically targeted. Announcements about the investigation have been broadcast in both Mandarin Chinese and English.

Damage to the tourist industry will not help the military government in its

REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

People ride their motorcycles past a digital billboard showing a sketch of the main suspect in Monday’s attack on Erawan shrine, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 23, 2015. Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country’s worst ever bombing.

Thailand increases reward for bombing suspect

BANGKOK - Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a re-ward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the country’s worst ever bombing. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said progress in the investigation was being made, but declined to give details.

efforts to revive a flagging economy. Police have stepped up patrols in the city.

Two men spotted at the shrine on

CCTV and suspected of being the bomber’s accomplices have been cleared, but police were now suspi-cious of a woman dressed in black in

the footage, said police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri. “Police are ask-ing anyone who is in that CCTV foot-age to come forward,” he said. (rtr)

Thousands of migrants head closer to EU from MacedoniaGEVGELIJA, Macedonia —

Thousands of tired and beleaguered migrants — mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing conflict — boarded trains and buses in Mace-donia that took them one step closer to the European Union on Sunday, a day after they stormed past police trying to block them from entering the country from Greece.

On Saturday, some 2,000 rain-soaked migrants rushed past baton-wielding Macedonian officers, who had been sealing the border for three days. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were injured as the migrants leapt over barbed wire or ran across a field not protected by the fence to enter Macedonia.

After the incident, police de-cided to allow migrants to cross the border freely again from Greece, which is also overwhelmed by the human tide. Police officials said that the blockade was imposed to try and stem the overflow of people that has caused chaotic scenes at a railway station in the

Macedonian town of Gevgelija as thousands tried to secure places on overcrowded trains.

On Sunday, the migrants — many with small children and ba-bies — orderly boarded trains and buses that took them to the border with Serbia before heading farther north toward EU-member Hungary, which is building a razor wire fence on its frontier to prevent them from entering. If they manage to enter Hungary, the migrants could travel freely across the borders of most of the 28 EU-member states.

Thousands of migrants who reached Serbia overnight faced an overcrowded refugee center where they have to apply for asylum — the paper that allows them three days to reach Hungary.

Emina, a migrant from Syria who boarded an early morning train with her two-month-old baby, blamed Macedonian authorities for “harassing” the migrants, not giving them food or water, as well as hold-ing them back at the border.

“It was very hard in Macedonia,” she said. “I did not sleep or eat for three days. Just as we arrived to the border, they closed it. It was awful.”

Both Greece and Macedonia have seen an unprecedented wave of migrants this year. More than 160,000 have arrived so far in Greece, mostly crossing in inflat-able dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast — an influx that has overwhelmed Greek authori-ties and the country’s small Ae-gean islands. Some 45,000 crossed through Macedonia over the past two months.

Few, if any, want to remain in Greece, which is in the grip of a financial crisis, or impoverished Macedonia. Most of the migrants who enter from Greece want to head straight to Macedonia’s north-ern border and then north through Serbia and Hungary on their way to more prosperous EU countries such as Germany, the Netherlands or Sweden. (ap)

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Migrants dry their shoes and socks while waiting to board a train towards Serbia, at the railway station in the southern Macedonia’s town of Gevgelija, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

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The damage has spilled across oceans, with the turmoil jolting investors in New York, Tokyo and Europe. Investors there worry that China and other major emerging economies will reduce their imports. They also fear a trade-disrupting currency war as some countries desperately lower their currencies’ value to gain a competitive edge. A lower-priced currency makes a country’s goods cheaper for foreigners.

The Dow Jones industrials plunged 530 points, more than 3 percent, Friday on top of a 358-point drop Thursday. Tokyo’s Nikkei index shed 3 percent Friday.

For all the markets’ jitters, many economists say they remain confident that the U.S. economy is resilient enough to withstand a slowdown in the developing world. And Europe’s economy appears to be emerging from its long slump.

Even so, the trouble in emerg-ing markets is a surprising and unsettling reversal.

“It’s remarkable just how things turned around so quickly,” says Neil Shearing, an economist at Capital Economics and a for-mer British Treasury official.

Consider Peru. Three years ago, its capital, Lima, was chosen to host an International Monetary

Fund’s meeting of global finance officials in what was seen as a celebration of Latin Ameri-

ca’s arrival in the economic big leagues.

But with the event six weeks away, Latin America’s outlook has descended from boom to gloom. Peru’s economy has steadily slowed, and its currency, the nuevo sol, has plunged 2.5 percent against the U.S. dollar in the past month.

It’s hardly just Latin America. Kazakhstan’s currency plum-

meted this week after the govern-ment decided to let it trade freely. The South African rand fell this week to a 14-year-low against the U.S. dollar. Turkey’s lira hit a record low against the dollar this week.

Hung Tran, an executive man-aging director at the Institute of International Finance, expects developing countries to post 3.8 percent economic growth this

year, down from 4.3 percent in 2014. The institute is on the verge of cutting that forecast further.

Analysts point to a primary culprit:

“It’s all coming from China,” says Masamichi Adachi, an econ-omist with JP Morgan Chase in Tokyo. “Brazil, South Africa, many countries are commodity exporters, and the final destina-tion is all going to China.”

The Chinese economy is slow-ing more sharply than most people had expected from the double-digit growth rates of the mid-2000s. The world’s second-biggest economy is expected to grow 7 percent this year, which would be its slowest pace since 1990.

Beijing is trying to manage a transition from rapid growth based on exports and often-wasteful spending on factories, real estate and infrastructure to slower, steadier expansion based on consumer spending.

Adding to the pressure: Ameri-ca’s Federal Reserve is expected, perhaps at its September meeting, to raise the short-term rate it controls from near zero. Investors could respond by moving even more money out of emerging markets to seek higher U.S. rates. That would lift the dollar higher and emerging market currencies even lower.

A Fed rate hike could also squeeze emerging market com-panies that have borrowed in U.S. dollars. Those companies would struggle to accumulate enough local currency to pay their now-more-expensive dollar-denominated debt. (ap)

SAN FRANSISCO - Airbnb said Friday more than 1,000 com-panies have joined its new program allowing business travelers to use the peer-to-peer-lodging service.

The San Francisco-based startup shaking up the hospitality industry said it signed up 500 companies to its “Airbnb for Business” program within 24 hours of launching the program on July 20.

Now, more than 1,000 firms from at least 35 countries have

integrated the program into their corporate travel plans, it said.

“The corporate community’s response to our Business Travel program has been staggering and confirms our findings that business travelers increasingly want to rede-fine the business trip,” said Marc McCabe, who heads the program.

“The average business travel stay on Airbnb is 6.8 days, which shows how customers are looking for a mix of business and leisure,

and often adding a weekend to explore a new destination.”

Among the companies joining the program are online storage firm Box, which now allows employees to use Airbnb accommodations, available in more than 190 coun-tries.

Jeff Mannie, controller at Box, said in the statement that his firm was “impressed that Airbnb’s new Business Travel product sui te al lows you to

uncover unique locations for temporary housing, team offsites and conventions where there is an opportunity to build closer working relationships by sharing accommodations in a casual and friendly environment.”

Facebook, Google, Salesforce and Eventbrite are also using Airbnb for corporate travel.

Airbnb allows people to rent a room or an entire home through the platform, offering flexibility

to travelers while giving property owners or renters a source of in-come.

The company was launched in 2008 and now has some 40 mil-lion users worldwide. Its valuation based on its latest funding round is some $25.5 billion.

Traditional hotel chains see Airbnb as a rival and accuse it of helping people avoid taxes and of hosting illegal hotels on its web-site. (afp)

Airbnb signs up more companies for business travel

Sinking currencies point to jitters about emerging economies

AP Photo/Emrah Gurel

In this Monday, June 8, 2015 file photo, Turkish Liras, Euros and U.S. Dollars are stacked at a currency exchange office in Istanbul, Turkey. In emerging markets worldwide, currencies are plunging over fears that developing economies are on the verge of a crippling fall.

WASHINGTON - Thailand’s baht. Kazakhstan’s tenge. South Africa’s rand. Peru’s nuevo sol. In emerging markets worldwide, currencies are plunging over fears that developing economies are on the verge of a crippling fall. Success stories until recently, emerging economies are seen as casualties now — of slower growth in China, plunging prices for commodities like oil and iron ore, the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates and homegrown threats.

Wayan Mahardika, Deputy Chairman of the IKA ITS Bali, said this car -like any other car produced by the ITS needs to be test driven before competing. The car’s Jakarta to Bali tour started on August 17, 2015 to coincide with the Indonesia’s Independence Day. This two-seater solar-powered car stopped by several major cit-ies, including Jakarta, Semarang, Banyuwangi and Denpasar.

Team member Dian Aprilia,

from the Department of Mechani-cal Engineering at ITS (class of 2012), explained that the car has a solar power of 12 x 2 kW. Widya Wahana V can drive up to a maxi-mum speed of 150 km per hour and has a mileage of 700 km / charge. “We hope the Widya Wahana V car can perform maximally at the WSC 2015, and become a world champion,” she said.

The Widya Wahana V solar-powered car was created two years

ago ( 2013), and: “was made from scratch. We started with a software simulation, then we created a tem-plate and using carbon finer needed up with this car,” she explained.

Dian said that this tour is testing two things: the car itself as well as team work. The Java-Bali tour also serves to promote the importance of alternative-powered transporta-tion -particularly solar power, to Indonesians and also serves to show that Indonesian youth are capable of creating a solar powered car. “Many obstacles and challenges were faced on this tour, especially in regards to team work,” she admitted.

The team consists of 15 me-chanical engineering, electrical engineering, physical engineering

students, and five lecturers.Dian also explained that the car

was deliberately designed for the competition in Australia, where the roads are straight, and nice and smooth like toll roads in Indonesia. The car is not suitable for Indone-sia’s geographical conditions (many steep inclines and sharp turns).

Chairman of the Bali Chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, said that Bali needs eco-friendly tourist transportation because if tourism is not eco-friendly it will stagnate and no longer be attractive. One of tourism’s supporting components is transportation. Wiraputra said that he hopes that this solar-powered

will harken further developments in this direction. “At the very least, this car can serve as an icon of Bali’s need for eco-friendly ve-hicles,” he said.

According to Wiraputra this solar powered car should be devel-oped as an eco-friendly option for tourist transportation in Bali, but added that solar power should be combined with electrical energy for nightime transportation.

“In essence, the design in pretty good, it just needs to be amended for size, proportions and such,” he said, adding that he hopes that solar power will be further developed. “If solar power can be applied to vehicles, it can surely be applied to urban power plants,” he concluded. (kmb42)

MANGUPURA - Foreigners in the area of Kuta continue to be targeted by muggers. On Thusday (Aug. 20) suspects Ketut Ngetis, (31 years old), and Kadek Jekli (18 years old) were arrested for snatching a purse from a 22 year old British student named Chloe Smart on Jalan Singosari Gang Kresek, Kuta.

Chief of Kuta Police, I.B. Dedy Januartha, accompanied by Chief of the Criminal Investiga-tion Unit, Dewa Tagel Wijasa, revealed on Friday (Aug. 21) that on Thursday around four o’clock in the morning police received a report of a purse snatching inci-dent. As a result of the incident, the victim who was staying at

Hotel Bed Bunkers on Jalan Dewi Sartika Kuta lost her bag that contained a Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone, a Sony handycam, credit cards and other valuables, estimated at a worth of IDR 12 million in total.

According to witnesses, the two culprits were riding a Honda Beat motorcycle. “One of them

fell off the bike and was immedi-ately apprehended while the other managed to escape” he said.

The officers then hunted him down. Based on Jekli’s confes-sion, police were able to deter-mine the likely location Ngetis and immediately headed to the area and at about 7 o’clock in the evening Ngetis was found on

Jalan Kusuma Bangsa I, Denpasar and arrested by the police.

“We have secured the motor-cycle as evidence, but the victim’s belongings fell on to the street with Jekli and have yet to be found. Police are investigating the possible whereabouts of rthe missing purse,” said Dewa Tagel. (kmb36)

Arrested, muggers who targeted foreigners

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The “Widya Wahana V”, solar car that is made by by students of Sepuluh November Institute of Technology (ITS)

Solar-powered car visits DenpasarDENPASAR - A solar-powered car named “Widya Wahana

V” that was produced by students of Sepuluh November Insti-tute of Technology (ITS), dropped by Warung Bali Coffee 63, Denpasar recently. The solar-powered car is in Denpasar for a test drive before competing in the World Solar Challenge 2015, Australia (WSC 2015) this October.

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The meeting at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) began on Saturday evening shortly after North Korea’s deadline for Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. It broke up before dawn on Sunday.

Even as the talks restarted, the ri-vals were on high military alert, with the North deploying twice the usual artillery strength at the border and a majority of its submarine fleet - more than 50 vessels - away from bases, the South’s defence ministry said.

South Korea, whose military was also on higher alert, said it had no plans to halt the propaganda broadcasts that triggered the latest standoff.

The envoys, shown on TV ex-changing handshakes and tight smiles at the start of their meeting, discussed ways to resolve tension and improve ties, South Korea’s presidential Blue House said in a brief statement.

“Both sides are under big pressure to get something out of this,” said Jeon Young-sun, professor at the Institute of the Humanities for Unifi-cation at Konkuk University in Seoul, who said the length of the high-level meeting may be unprecedented.

The talks took place in South Korea’s Peace House, just south of Panmunjom’s often-photographed sky-blue huts, and the same venue where lower-level talks between the bitter rivals took place in February 2014, without ending in agreement.

The negotiations were interrupted with breaks for both sides to consult with their respective governments, and for snacks, the South’s Yonhap News Agency reported.

“North Korea wants to stop broad-casts, while South Korea can’t do it without achieving anything back,” Jeon said.

Sunday’s talks were open-ended, with the South’s Blue House ex-pected to announce the results after they conclude.

North Korea and South Korea have remained technically in a state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, and inter-Korean relations have been in a deep freeze since the deadly

2010 sinking of a South Korean warship. Pyongyang denied respon-sibility.

The current tensions began early this month when two South Korean soldiers were wounded by landmines along the border. The North denies laying the mines. Days later, Seoul began its propaganda broadcasts in random three-hour bursts from 11 banks of loudspeakers, including news reports and K-pop music from the South, resuming a tactic both sides halted in 2004.

The crisis escalated on Thursday when the North fired four shells into the South, according to Seoul, which responded with a barrage of 29 artil-lery rounds. North Korea declared

a “quasi-state of war” in front-line areas and made an ultimatum for Seoul to halt its broadcasts. That deadline passed on Saturday without any reported incident.

The United Nations, the United States and the North’s lone major ally, China, have all called for calm.

The United States, which has 28,500 soldiers based in South Korea, is conducting annual joint military ex-ercises with the South. North Korea regularly condemns the manoeuvres as a preparation for war.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s national security ad-viser, Kim Kwan-jin, and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo met with Hwang Pyong So, the top military

aide to the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yang Gon, a veteran North Korean official in inter-Korean affairs, on Saturday, prompting hopes for a breakthrough.

Pyongyang’s two negotiators made an unexpected visit to the South last October to attend the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, where they met Kim Kwan-jin. Those talks raised hopes for an improvement in relations, which did not materialise.

North Korea has been hit with UN and U.S. sanctions because of repeated nuclear and missile tests, moves that Pyongyang sees as an at-tack on its sovereign right to defend itself. (rtr)

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s prime minister has hinted he might resign after violent protests against gov-ernment corruption and political dysfunction focused on a month-long trash crisis.

Tammam Salam said in a news conference that security forces who used force against protesters will be held accountable and that the right to demonstrate is protected by the constitution.

Salam told the protesters he is ready to have a dialogue with them,

as around 100 protesters chanted “leave, leave.”

Salam’s comments on Sunday came a day after police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water can-nons battled thousands of protesters in downtown Beirut. The clashes wounded dozens of protesters and police.

Salam said that if next Thurs-day’s Cabinet meeting is not productive, “then there is no need for the council of minis-ters.” (ap)

Lebanese PM hints he might resign after protests

AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

Demonstrators gesture as Lebanese riot police use tear gas during a protest against the ongo-ing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

REUTERS/Lim Byung-sik/Yonhap

A South Korean army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) (R) is deployed just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Yeoncheon, South Korea, August 23, 2015.

North, South Korea on alert as talks resume in bid to end standoff

SEOUL - Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea resumed talks on Sunday after negotiating through the night in a bid to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict.

It is not enough for a tourist des-tination to have roads, bridges, a bus terminal, airport and seaport, trans-portation vehicles is also required. In addition, supporting facilities such as hotels, bars, restaurants, money

changers, banks and public sanita-tion (toilets) are also important.

Overall infrastructure and fa-cilities must also be accompanied by people who have knowledge about the tourist destinations in

Buleleng. According to Parma an in-depth study is required to asses tourism traffic in Buleleng, with special attention to nearby tour-ism competitors, namely; Badung, Tabanan, Gianyar and Denpasar. “First we must identify what can potential tourism attractions can be developed in Buleleng and decide what kind of tourism we want to have here. Mairne tourism looks promising given that we have the longest stretch of coast and widest beaches in Bali. Do we want to develop cultural tourism or culinary tourism as well?” said Parma who is also Deputy Secretary to Panca Marga Youth of Buleleng.

The government of Buleleng has started to explore the potential of Buleleng’s art and culinary treasures of North Bali, through the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) and Twin Lakes Festival “This includes discovering of the potential to develop tourism in Buleleng, particularly culinary treasures that are a selling point,” he said.

Parma who takes part in the build-er team of the tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) with the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency added that a tourism village in Buleleng could have many positive spin off benefits.

According to Parma, cultural

tourism based on the principle of Tri Hita Karana, can be applied by pioneering village tours guided by the residents themselves. “This kind of tourism i surely sustainable eco-nomically, environmentally and in terms of socio-cultural impacts. This should serve as the foundation for our tourism development. The vil-lagers are ready to pioneer this type of tourism, and just need to prepare local tour guides who know all the ins and outs of their location, and to work in cooperation with university campuses, that can help out with English skills and how to provide friendly service to travellers,” he concluded. (kmb34)

AMLAPURA - A French citi-zen, the defendant Arash Honar Kar-Saveh, 52, frankly admitted that he has been using marijuana. On the trial in the Amlapura District Court, when delivering plea orally, the defendant Arash apologized to all parties.

He asked to be excused. To the judges, he invoked to be lightly punished. In addition, he also claimed to love Bali and could still be allowed to travel or come to Bali.

As reported earlier, Arash was arrested by police at his rented house in the area of Bias Lantang, Purwakerti village, Karangasem, few months ago. Police knew the

man working as a diving instruc-tor at Jemeluk after getting infor-mation from local community. Police got information when a number of his local friends were still drinking in living room, while the defendant came into the room. Few moments later, the defendant went out of the room and smoked a cigarette but not of a regular cigarette. The smoke was billow-ing thickly.

When searched by police, the defendant refused under various pretexts. Among other things, he did not want to be searched by police that did not put on official uniform. In the end, police with uniform were called to the loca-

tion, and the search was witnessed by witnesses. Under his bed mat-tress, police found dried leaves where based on laboratory test it is positive to marijuana. Besides, the urine lab test of the defendant also declared if it was positive to mari-juana. When questioned by police, Arash claimed to get marijuana in Gili Air, NTB. But he admitted not to know the name and do not remember the person giving him the marijuana. When raided by police, his marijuana only remains a few grams because it has been consumed.

On the trial last week, Arash was demanded by public prosecu-tor of the Amlapura District Court,

Made Santiawan, with a sentence of 18 months in prison and fines. In the meantime, legal counsel of the defendant, Made Ruspita, when reading the plea, her party agreed with the description of the demands made by the prosecutor. The defen-dant is proved to have violated the Law on Combating Drug Abuse. On that account, the defendant should be sentenced.

However, continued Ruspita, the judges is asked to give justice to the defendant in order to punish him as lenient as possible. The defendant has admitted if he was used to and acknowledged his addiction to marijuana. He consumes marijuana to make his body feel better and can

move. In addition, the defendant does not know that using marijuana in the jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia is legally prohibited, while in his country is not punished as long as he does not consume marijuana in public, give to others or traffic it.

“The defendant frankly con-fessed his act, repented and promised not to repeat it again. Providing rehabilitation of drug addiction for the defendant is also important and is in line with the current government program namely rehabilitation to 300,000 drug users,” said Ruspita in front of the judge panel chaired by Wayan Gede Rumega. (013)

Admit to using marijuana, French citizen apologizes

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Lovina Beach, one of the tourism destination in Buleleng

Buleleng has lots of potential, tourism supporting elements need improvements

SINGARAJA - Lecturer and Deputy Dean III of the Faculty of Economics and Business at Ganesha Education University (Undiksha) Singaraja, I Putu Gede Parma, assessed that the increase in the number of tourist visits to Buleleng has the potential to be developed on a regional and national scale, but must be down on a strategic manner with plans for the next few years. Parma considers it necessary to develop cultural at-tractions, art and local genius in the area. and also to improve accessibility through transportation, facilities and tourism supporting infrastructure.

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“We are creating a jaw-dropping new world,” Iger said.

The 14-acre attractions represent the largest single themed land expansion ever.

Iger also said that the Star Wars land will be “every bit as thrilling as the films” and will include attractions and entertainment in an area populated by aliens and droids. There will also be a Cantina and the chance to take control of the Millennium Falcon — one of the signature attractions.

One adventure also promises to put guests “in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance.”

Since 1987, Disney parks have only had the Star Tours ride as their “Star Wars” themed attraction, and

even that will be get-ting a facelift to reflect the new characters and worlds from Decem-ber’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The ride was previously updated in 2011.

More comprehen-sive brand integra-tion into the parks has been expected s ince Di sney ac -quired Lucasfilm in 2012. Disney will also be adding the interactive Star Wars Launch Bay and in-troducing a new sea-sonal event, Season of the Force, which will update Space Mountain to become Hyperspace Moun-tain where guests will participate in an X-Wing battle.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chair-man Bob Chapek an-nounced an upcom-ing Toy Story Land at Disney’s Holly-wood Studios, fea-turing exaggeratedly large objects to make guests feel as though they are actually in Andy’s backyard.

Filmmakers James Cameron and Jon Landau a l so p re -viewed the current-ly-under construction World of AVATAR at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. (ap)

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This image provided by Disney parks shows the Star Wars-themed lands will be coming to Disneyland park in Anaheim, Calif., and Dis-ney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fla., creating Disney’s largest single-themed land expansions ever at 14-acres each, transporting guests to a never-before-seen planet, a remote trading port and one of the last stops before wild space where Star Wars characters and their stories come to life.

‘Star Wars’ themed land at planned at Disney parks

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Disney theme parks have their sights on a galaxy far, far away. “Star Wars” is getting its own themed lands at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced at the D23 Fan Expo on Saturday.

Currently the Denpasar Tourism Office is looking into strategies for managing tourism in Sanur, Kuta, Nusa Dua and surrounding areas, particularly in relation to the KSPN fund. “We are currently focused on Mertasari Beach and are eager to find suitable tourism management strate-gies,” said a member of the Denpasar Tourism Office, Putu Riyastiti, in a discussion entitled “Tourism Restora-tion” that took place at Warung 63 on Jalan Veteran Denpasar on Friday (Aug. 21).

Riyastiti explained that the tourism office is still looking at ways to en-courage cultural tourism in Denpasar as well as ways of implementing ecotourism in their city tour program for which locations, tourism informa-tion and transportation are still under assessment. Another staff of the Den-pasar Tourism Office, Made Sugiani, added that Denpasar is currently facing environmental challenges in regards to tourism development in so far as how the city will manage tourism with en-vironmental preservation in mind, with cultural aspects highlighted amidst the environmental issues that Denpasar already faces including rampant land conversion (from agricultural to

buildings).“There is talk from the central gov-

ernment about how we can develop ‘inclusive tourism’ in Denpasar and other areas in Indonesia. Inclusive tourism means that local communi-ties are empowered within tourism development,” she explained.

Sugiani said that the government should be able to increase the eco-nomic creativity of local communities in regards to tourism so that people can be empowered. In this way local com-munities can receive financial benefits from the income of tourism, instead of all of it being syphoned out of the region. Inclusive tourism is one of the strategies that will be applied to Sanur with its inclusion on the KSPN.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali Chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), I Putu Suryasewana Gede Wiwin Gunawasika, argued that Bali needs to promote MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition) tourism more intensively. Revenue of MICE can be seven times more than other tourism endeavours and the negative effects of MICE tourism are would be relatively minimal for Bali.

“Most people attending a confer-

DENPASAR - A Balinese scientist, Prof. Dewa Ngurah Suprapta, who is the head of the bio-pesticides labora-tory at Udayana University, Bali, has been awarded by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

Suprapta has been awarded for his achievements and services towards strengthening friendly relations and academic exchange between Indonesia and Japan.

“This award is given to individu-als or organizations who contribute towards strengthening the friendship between two countries,” Japanese con-sulate general staffer Sokhibi said in a statement received on Friday.

Suprapta studies agricultural sci-ence, especially plant pathology (plant protection) at Kagoshima University, Japan, and had received a doctorate from the university in 1997.

He teaches at the Faculty of Agricul-ture, Udayana University, and became a professor in 2002, and served as

the Director of Postgraduate Studies at Udayana University from 2006 to 2010.

Suprapta has achieved excellence as a lecturer and has received numerous national and international awards, such as the Scientific Award given by the In-ternational Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences (ISSAAS).

The scientist has also collaborated with some universities in Japan, and proposed a joint research program with the Agricultural University of Tokyo as the lead researcher from the Udayana University for a decade (1999-2008).

Such efforts have contributed to the development of research in agriculture for Indonesia and Japan.

Since 2004, Suprapta has also dis-seminated academic study results through an academic exchange program for master’s students in the agriculture field established between the Udayana University and the University of Iba-raki, Japan. (ant)

DENPASAR - Bali will host the Sanur Village Festival (SVF) 2015 to attract tourists after many cancelled their visit due to the Mount Raug (East Java) eruption, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said.

The eruption had resulted in the closure of the Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali for a few days.

“I hope SVF 2015 can act as a tourist magnet for Bali,” the minister said.

The festival is also expected to improve Bali’s tourism sector and help contribute over 45 percent of the total foreign tourists traffic com-ing to Indonesia.

“Bali is the main attraction for foreign tourists visiting Indonesia. Bali contributes about 45 percent of the total foreign tourists visiting the country. This year we are targeting 10 million tourists, of which four million foreign tourists will come through Bali,” Yahya said.

SVF 2015 is being held for the tenth time and will be based on the theme, “Dasa Warsa” or decades, and will take place at the Segara Beach in Sanur Bali from August 26 to 30.

The festival is an annual tourism event that consists of culinary art and photography exhibitions, as well as art and culture dialogues, environmental programs, as well as tourism and fun sporting activities involving artists, locals, communities, as well as tourists.

The environmental program involves students, tourism stakeholders and local NGOs, as well as tourists, who help clean up beaches, release hatchlings, as well as plant coral reefs.

Meanwhile, the program will consist of an international kite festival, games, a fishing competition, a village cycling tour, a surfing competi-tion, yoga and the Sanur Open Golf Tournament. (ant)

Balinese scientist wins Japanese foreign affairs minister award

SVF to be held on August 26

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Women carried Balinese offering walked in Gajah Mada Heritage Area that located in Denpasar. The City of Denpasar is one of the areas within Badung where tourism activities are concen-trated, and as such, the capital of Bali receives a portion of the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) fund from the central government.

Managing tourism in Denpasar: KSPN & MICE

DENPASAR - The City of Denpasar is one of the areas within Badung where tourism activities are concentrated, and as such, the capital of Bali receives a portion of the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN) fund from the central government.

ence in Bali will arrive three or four days prior to the conference and often stay three or four days after it has ended,” he said.

In addition to generating a lot of money, Wiwin also sees that MICE tourism could have other benefits for Bali. Not only do the subjects of

these conferences provide knowledge about new ideas or technologies, but perhaps more importantly MICE travellers almost always venture outside of the conference venue to other tourist destinations. “I think that this indirectly has an impact on merchants, caterers, etc., regardless

of whether the owners are from Bali or not” he said. WIwin also men-tioned that many complain that Bali is is currently only a spectator on MICE tourism. Everyone is vying for MICE travellers because they spend a huge about of money,” he explained. (kmb32)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Ga-lungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less 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 dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beauti-fully ornaments of young 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 colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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The day at the Park included a motorized Safari Journey through free-roaming exhibits of animals from Asia, Africa and Indonesia, and ringside seats at the entertain-ing Animal and Elephant Show. An Educational Corner was also prepared for the young visitors in the Elephant Village (Kampung Gajah) where the kids fashioned hats and posters they displayed later in a group photos with the pachyderms.

During the visit, the Communica-tions Team from the Bali Safari &

Marine Park launched a new Insta-gram account inspired by a popular orangutan born and raised at the Gianyar facility. The “NamiBSMP” Instagram account has been estab-lished in honor of Nami (Tsunami) – an eleven-year-old Borneo orangutan born at the Park on the same day that the Boxing Day Tsunami swept over Aceh, North Sumatra (December 26, 2004). A celebrity animal among the hundreds of animals living at the Park in her own right, “Nami” is a popular public figure found in attendance at

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An appeal to create a future for elephants and orangutans

GIANyAr - The Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) dedicated Wednesday, August 19, 2015 to jointly mark World Orangutan Day and World Elephant Day. In keeping with the Park’s unwavering commitment to sustaining endangered wild species and inculcating a conservationist mindset among the younger generation, 50 children from the Widya Guna Beduluh – Gianyar orphanage were invited to visit the Park to experience a very special program designed by the Park’s Educational Team.

every Animal Show.William Santoso, general manager

of the Bali Safari & Marine Park said: “The commemoration of Orangutan and Elephant Day serves as a reminder not only to Bali Safari & Marine Park visitors but to the larger world of the rapidly declining populations in the wild of these two magnificent species. The future survival of these animals depends on the actions we undertake today. It is occasions like these that we hope the public, particularly those concerned with wildlife conservation,

can renew their commitment to join forces to protect the elephants and orangutans by joining the worldwide cam-paign on behalf of the conser-vation of these animals.”

The World Conservation Union (IUCN Red List 2007) lists the Borneo Orangutan as an “endangered” species, while the Sumatran orang-utan is listed as “critically endangered.” Similarly, in 2012, the World Conserva-

tion Union classified the Indonesian el-ephant as “critically endangered” – just one category away from “extinction.” The current num-ber of elephants has declined by 50% to 2,400-2,800 from the 5,000 elephants counted in 1985.

World Elephant and World Orang-utan Day at the Bali Safari and Marine

Park, like similar events held through-out the year, are designed to draw world attention to the plight of wild specials. It is ironic that mankind represents the greatest threat to wild-life, while, at the same time, it is also only mankind that will be able to save endangered animals.

While elephants and orangutans are

protected under law, the law alone will not be able to save these charismatic animal species. The conservation of el-ephants and orangutans also demands comprehensive and integrated efforts on every level – both in the field and in the political arena – if these animals are to be saved and preserved as part of the Earth’s rich bio-diversity.

However, behind the scenes of Bali’s thriving tourism is the displacement of Bali’s human resources. “Tourism in Bali con-tinues to increase and attention from the central government is also increasing, but because many of Bali’s own human resources are unable to compete, and are

becoming meer spectators of grand tourism on the island,” said Chair-man of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati.

Sukawati said that the dramatic shift in the role that Balinese peo-ple play in tourism is a direct result

of the shift away from culture-based tourism towards ‘artificial tourism’. “These days, I am seeing a lot of tourists being directed to-wards artificial tourist destinations. This is what I fear will have a huge impact on the role of Balinese people in the tourism sector and on tourism itself,” he said.

Nevertheless, Sutama said that the BPPT is still issuing hotel investment permits for Badung because according to him, there have been no studies or rules that prohibit the construction of hotel accommodations in the richest county in Bali.

“A study conducted by the local government in conjunction with technical agencies is required in order to ascertain how many hotel rooms are needed to fulfill market demands. As long as there is no moratorium placed on the construc-tion of new hotels, we will definitely continue to issue permits,” he said.

According to Sutama, as long as investors are requesting permits for projects that follow applicable rules and regulations, the BPPT will continue to issue permits for Foreign Direct Investment (PMA) or Domestic Investment (PMDN). “As long as they are eligible and there is no prohibition we will surely follow up (the application for investment permit—Ed),” he added.

The requirements for building a tourist ac-commodations in Badung have been set forth in Regent Decree No.36/2014 dated June 3, 2014, on the minimal standards of land area and hotel rooms as well as supporting facilities for hotels and condoles This decree became applicable as of August 1, 2014.

For Kuta area, for instance, the land area for new hotels must be at least 0.50 hectare, in North Kuta at least 0.75 hectare and in South Kuta at least one hectare.

Meanwhile, the room area (including bath-room) for hotels and condotels is set at 32 square meters. Besides, the decree also sets minimal standards for supporting facilities that all new hotels must have, such as; office (front office), hotel lobby, kitchen, dining room for hotel or condotel guests, security booth, CCTV and fire extinguishers. (kmb27)

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Behind the scenes of Bali’s thriving tourism is the displacement of Bali’s human resources.

Bali’s human resources marginalized by mass tourism

GIANYAR - Bali has definitely gone global, as indicated by the ever increasing number of tourists who visit this island every year. The central government has started to disburse a large budgetary fund aimed at maintaining the Island of The Gods as a major tourist destination.

The former regent of Gian-yar also invited Balinese people themselves to remember that cul-ture was what spearheaded Bali tourism in the first place, and to think clearly about the continuity of culture and tourism over the next 50 - 100 years. “Our main attraction is our culture and this is what distinguishes us from tourist attractions in other countries like Singapore,” he explained.

He added that the central gov-

ernment is ready to disburse a huge budget aimed at maintaining Bali as a tourist destination. How-ever, he said that he hopes that the budget can be used to prepare Bali’s human resources to build on culture-based tourism. “A massive budget for Bali has been prepared by the central government. It should be used to build-up cultural tourism, appropriate facilities and prepare our human resources,” he said. (kmb35)

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The “Hunger Games” star eas-ily surpassed the $35.5 million second-place Scarlett Johansson earned over the past 12 months, according to Forbes magazine’s annual estimates of the earnings of Hollywood’s top female stars, released Thursday.

All told, four women made more than $20 million from their acting and endorsements, before taxes and fees, while 21 male actors did, underlining a lingering pay gap in Tinseltown.

Forbes pointed to the discrep-

ancy in profit cuts between the male and female -- including Lawrence -- actors in the 2013 film “American Hustle” as an example. The male leads were reported to have taken home a two percent higher cut than the female leads.

The magazine also noted the lesser number of female lead roles in general, saying it was rarer for women to score the sort of big blockbusters that command huge deals won by some male counter-parts, for instance Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible” or Robert

Downey Jr. in “Iron Man.”Downey Jr. blew away his male

counterparts in Forbes’ rankings of the top-paid male stars, released earlier this month, raking in $80 million.

At 25, Lawrence is one of the youngest stars in Hollywood. She won an Oscar for her role in the 2012 comedy “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Many more established actress-es, such as Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock -- last year’s highest-earning actress -- got most of their earnings over the past 12 months from endorsements rather than movies.

One international star made the 2015 list -- Chinese actress Fan Bingbing. (afp)

LAS VEGAS — A wax figure of rapper Nicki Minaj at a Las Vegas museum is getting more security to keep away inappropri-ate visitors.

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas said in a statement Friday that employees will closely monitor the figure after images of visitors in sexual poses with the statue began appearing on social media.

The set around the statue will also undergo a redesign so similar pictures can’t be taken.

The museum says it became aware Tuesday of at least one im-age online.

The statue depicts Minaj in a pose from her “Anaconda” music video.

The Madame Tussauds museum chain is known for life-size wax replicas of celebrities that guests can interact with.

Minaj has not commented, but she recently shared Instagram photos of fans posing suggestively with the figure. (ap)

The top ten list1. Jennifer Lawrence / $52 million2. Scarlett Johansson / $35.5 million3. Melissa McCarthy / $23 million4. Fan Bingbing / $21 mill ion5. Jennifer Aniston / $16.5 million6. Julia Roberts / $16 mill ion7. Angelina Jolie / $15 million8. Reese Witherspoon / $15 million9. Anne Hathaway / $12 million10. Kristen Stewart / $12 million

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LOS ANGELES - The odds really were in Jennifer Law-rence’s favor last year as she raked in $52 million, topping a ranking of the highest-paid actresses by a wide margin.

The Head of the Badung Integrated Licensing Office (BPPT), I Made Su-tama, said: “Tourism is the dominant sector demanded by investors.”

Investments in the tourism sector are also evidenced by the high num-ber of new hotel rooms: for the past

five years 5,000-6,000 new rooms were created each year, so that there is now a total of 61, 206 hotel rooms in Badung. Of that number, 98 of them are star hotels with 16,360 rooms which is about the same number as it was 5 years ago. However, non-star

hotels have seen a dramatic increase in number. In 2009 there were 505 hotels with a total of 11,463 rooms but by 2014 there were 855 hotels with 34,815 rooms.

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Of Bali’s nine counties, Badung is by far the favourite among investors. The Bali Investment and Licensing Agency (BPMP) notes that 39 projects worth USD 13,540,700 drew foreign and domestic investors to Badung in the first quarter of 2015.

MANGUPURA - Of Bali’s nine counties, Ba-dung is by far the favourite among investors. The

Bali Investment and Licensing Agency (BPMP) notes that 39 projects worth USD 13,540,700 drew foreign and domestic investors to Badung in the first quarter of 2015. The City of Denpasar alone had 12 projects worth USD 719,500 invested in for the same period.

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