Sustainability pillars of Bali: Balinese people

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Brosnan said he doubted Bond producer Barbara Broccoli would allow a gay Bond to happen in her lifetime.

“But it would certainly make for interesting viewing,” he added.

“Let’s start with a great black actor being James Bond. Idris Elba certainly has the physicality, the charisma, the presence.”

Elba, 42, is seen as a frontrunner to succeed Daniel Craig, who has played the suave British agent for the last 10 years.

Brosnan played Bond in movies

Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day in the 1990s.

His remarks were published five months after another previous 007 actor, Roger Moore, was blasted on social media for suggesting race should be a factor when casting the next Bond.

French magazine Paris Match quoted him as saying: “Though James has been played by a Scot, a Welshman, an Irishman, I think he should be English-English. It’s nonetheless an interesting idea, but

unrealistic.The 87-year-old star, who played

007 in seven films from 1973 to 1985, said his remarks were lost in translation.

“An interview I gave to Paris Match implies I said something rac-ist about Idris Elba. That is simply untrue,” Moore wrote on Twitter.

“When a journalist asks if ‘Bond should be English’ and you agree, then quotes you saying it about Idris Elba, it’s out of context,” he added.

London-born Elba is the son of a Sierra Leonean father and a Ghanaian mother. His most famous role to date is playing former South African presi-dent Nelson Mandela in “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”. (afp)

NEW YORK — Sean Hayes will play God Almighty in the City of Angels next year.

Producers of the “An Act of God” said Wednesday that the Emmy Award-winning former “Will and Grace” star will step into the big role starting Jan. 30 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. The divine part was filled this sum-mer by Jim Parsons on Broadway.

The 90-minute play is a chance

for the Almighty to set the record straight — like that he doesn’t hate gays and he can’t help anyone sing better — and update his 10 Com-mandments.

It was written by David Javer-baum, former head writer and execu-tive producer of “The Daily Show” and a producer of “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” He’s also the power behind the Twitter handle @TheTweetofGod. (ap)

NEW YORK — Phar re l l and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, where Kanye West will receive a spe-cial award.

West will earn the Michael Jack-son Video Vanguard Award at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles for his memorable music videos and live performances.

The Weeknd, Demi Lovato, A$AP Rocky, Tori Kelly and Twen-

ty One Pilots also will perform during the two-hour show.

Miley Cyrus will host the event, which airs live at 9 p.m. Eastern time (0100 GMT) on MTV.

Taylor Swift is the top contender with 10 nominations. Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and Mark Ronson also are up for mul-tiple awards.

Additional performers and pre-senters will be announced later this week. (ap)

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Time for black or gay 007, says Brosnan

NEW YORK - The next James Bond could be black or gay, argues 007 veteran Pierce Brosnan. “Sure. Why not?” the Irish star was quoted as telling men’s magazine Details when asked if he could picture a gay Bond.

Pharrell to perform at MTV VMAs, Kanye to get special honor

Sean Hayes to be divine in ‘An Act of God’ in Los Angeles

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Dr. I Gusti Made Putra explained that there are four main pillars that sustain Bali and that direct changes towards positivity, there are: humans, nature, culture and the economy of Bali. “There are challenges to all four pil-lars, but these challenges must be faced and resolved so as to improve conditions. Other-wise, there are sure to be negative impacts for everyone,” he said.

In regards to Balinese people as one of the

pillars of sustainability, Dr Putra said that if the Balinese population diminishes, we need to: ‘ask who else can maintain Balinese cul-ture?’ “Also the percentage of Balinese people who are in touch with their culture could also diminish. If there are no more Balinese people to practice the culture, how will it survive?” he asked.

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Hindus people held Melasti ceremony, a ritual to purify Bhuana Alit (small world) and Bhuana Agung (the universe). Dr. I Gusti Made Putra explained that there are four main pillars that sustain Bali and that direct changes towards positivity, there are: humans, nature, culture and the economy of Bali.

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TABANAN - A discussion en-titled “Sustainable Bali” took place

over the weekend at the Tabanan Grand Palace, where the sustainability of both nature and culture in Bali was described as a condition wherein the supporting pillars remain upright and harmoni-ous, despite inevitable changes. These changes, it was said, must be good for Balinese nature and culture so that neither becomes ‘endangered’.

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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 Galungan, 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 beau-tifully 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 beautifully 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 event is held every Friday from 21.00 pm until 23.30 pm. Not only can the tourists who stay in The Sunset Hotel Bali, but anybody come there to enjoy the unique strains of music. The reg-gae music is played by Kingston Soul Band with their dreadlocked

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night? Try to drop in The Sunset Hotel Bali which is located in Dewi Sri Street, Kuta. Garamerica restaurant has an ec-centric reggae music program. While enjoying many kinds of food and beverages, we can enjoy the atmosphere of the night, accompanied by the strains of the reggae music.

and Bali in general. Not only drinks, various main-

stay menus which the reastaurant owned is also presented to the visitors. The regular menu which

usually ordered is pizza and of course a suitable menu for gath-ering with friends. “There were also ordered fried crips duck as well as other menu,” said Yanti

Rastiti, the Banquet Sales Execu-tive of The Sunset Hotel Bali.

Yanti Rastiti said, this event has been going on for 4 months and able to become the new mu-

sic icon in D e w i S r i Street which is still rela-tively new. “Soon, our r e s t a u r a n t will open all you can eat buffet every Friday from 18.00 pm – 2 1 . 0 0 p m which aims t o e n l i v e n this event,” a d d e d t h e woman who is f r iendly w i t h t h e guests.

“To achieve a sustainable Bali, Bali’s hu-man resources must constantly be improving themselves and take advantage of opportuni-ties so that they can compete with migrants,” he said.

Djaya Wirata added that local govern-ments bodies, including the executive and legislative branches at the provincial, county and municipalle level all play very important roles in creating conditions of sustainability. This is primarily done through the creation and implementation of regulations that tighten the requirements on migrants so that Balinese people can be less prone to marginalization.

“When we look at what is happening today, we see that Balinese people play a very im-portant and necessary role. The development of Bali, has become extremely excessive, uncontrollable and apparently subservient to whoever has capital,” he continued.

Diaya Wirata pointed out that the of ex-cessive construction of hotels has led to an oversupply of rooms, that in turns drives the prices down, creating a cheapened image of tourism on the island. This has append de-spite there already being a moratorium of the construction of new hotels. Such detrimental development is now being aggravated by the inclusion of Besakih into the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN), as well as the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

“With Besakih as part of the KSPN, inves-tors are bound to be tempted to build tourism facilities by means of collusion with the ruling government through the loop hole that has thus been created. Besakih being designated as part of the KSPN opens opportunities to degrade the sacred zone of Besakih,” he explained.

Djaya Wirata went on to say that the Benoa Bay reclamation plan has been rejected by various circles in Bali, Indonesia and people overseas, because it runs contrary to the phi-losophy of Tri Hita Karana. The plan to backfill 700 hectares of Benoa Bay will potentially de-grades Balinese customs and culture as well as marginalizes Balinese people. “Moreover, the process by which the Benoa Bay reclamation plan has come about took place in an under-handed manner and there is information that states that up to IDR 1 trillion was submitted by investors. This is a most unworthy act, just like a whore- we Balinese people can be bought,” affirmed this member of Love Bali Forum.

Former Chairman of the 11 KSPN Assess-ment Team, Prof. Dr. I Made Bakta, said that the definition of the KSPN is not in line with what Besakih is according to Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on the Bali Provincial Regional Spatial Planning (RTRWP). According to this regional bylaw, Besakih is classified as a sacred zone so by including it into the KSPN there is a conflict of norms.

“There is a change in the main function of the sacred area into tourism strategic area, which means that the main function is for tourism,” he said. This former rector of the Udayana University confirmed that the region of Besakih should be maintained as the most sanctified region in Bali because Besakih has a central role in preserving the values of Hinduism and has become the spirit of Bali over the years.

Wirata is nevertheless, aware that the inclu-sion of Besakih into the KSPN will provide material benefits. However, the material value obtained is not comparable to the potential negative impacts.

Regarding to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan, member of Commission II, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, has previously said that the plan has violated Government Regulation No. 50/2011 on the national tourism development master plan and Law No.10/2009 on tourism. Additionally the investors’ bait of providing 250,000 jobs to labourers, will only lead to social inequality in Bali. In the the governor of Bali’s accountability report for 2014, it is stated that there are only 44,000 unemployed people on the island of the gods. “What we are worried about is that the industrialization of tourism will change the pattern of cultural tourism and result in the elimination of Balinese people,” he explained. (kmb32)

Dr.Putra added that in the case of a sustainable Bali, the Balinese community would be highly dedicated to upholding Balinese values that main-tains nature and not destroy it nor sell or destroy their own culture.

In terms of nature as a pillar of sustainability, Dr. Putra spoke of current drought and flood conditions that clearly need be addressed through spatial plan-ning and the wise use of natural resources, so as to allow for life to be safe, comfortable, productive and sustainable. “The use of natural resources must always take into consideration what sustains life so as to avoid a nature resource crisis in the future,” said Dr. Putra.

As for the cultural and economic pillars, he said that there must be a form of screening done to determine which foreign influences have a posi-tive or negative impact on cultural development in Bali. There also needs to be a master plan for Bali’s economy so that Balinese people can pros-per. “Solution must be sought for these challenges in order to avoid negative impacts in the future,” added Dr. Putra.

In response to Dr. Putras statements, I Gusti Ngurah Anom expressed his agreement about the need to maintain these pillars in order to avoid threats to a sustainable Bali. According to Anom, in order to sustain Bali we need to get back to our roots as Balinese. “Like all things, we need to start with small things first. We need to look at our own small actions and ask ourselves whether this action is contributing to sustaining Bali,” he explained.

Gusti Gede Putra Wirasana presented similar opinions. According to Wirasana, Bali is a sweet place and as such is bound to be the target of myriad fortune seekers. Therefore, no one can be blamed for the arrival of so many migrants, who come to Bali to earn a living. “If we look at the agricultural sector for example, rice harvesting laborers are mostly brought in from the outside. We cannot blame these migrants, but our people need to maintain what has been bequeathed to us, including sekaa manyi or rice harvesting groups,” said Wirasana.

If the harvesting groups remain in existence, out-siders cannot dominate this sector. “People need to be given information about the fact that rice harvest laborers earn a reasonably high income with many benefits,” he urged.

I Gusti Bagus Suryadi exposed the fact that if the sustainability of Bali is threatened, we have no one to blame but ourselves, and we must first consider whether we have self-awareness and whether the concept of Tri Hita Karana and introspection has been applied properly.

From this “Sustainable Bali” discussion, the initial solutions that emerged, were the need for the active role of the public at large as well as self-awareness on the part of Balinese people, so as to ensure that all actions are contributing to a sustain-able Bali. Putra added that the legislative and execu-tive arms of the government play an important role in the commitment to maintain the sustainability of Bali. “These two branches of government along with all other members of the Balinese community need to work jointly to maintain the sustainability of Bali,” concluded Dr. Putra. (kmb24)

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A limestone dredging activity increasingly rampant due to excessive development in Bali. Sustainable Bali should be understood as a dynamic condition with the Tri Hita Karana philosophy as foundation. Correspondingly, Ba-linese people may not be left behind and marginalized by various internal and external strikes.

Excessive Development of Bali threatens Balinese

DENPASAr - A sustainable Bali should be understood as a dynamic condition with the concept of Tri Hita Karana as its foundation. Correspondingly, Balinese people cannot be left behind and marginalized by various internal and external impacts. Businessman, I Gusti Kade Djaya Wirata, elaborated on this view in Denpasar on Wednesday.

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The Spanish capital receives an average of 2,749 hours of sun-shine per year, according to the Spanish weather agency, double the amount received by London. That does not stop Macarena Garcia, a university student, from seeking out UV rays.

“My family does not like it, they tell me it is not healthy... but they live near the beach! I work here and I also want to tan,” she said as she left the Solmania tanning salon in the centre of Madrid.

She is not alone. Jose Manuel Rodriguez, a handsome 36-year-old dancer, said he comes to the salon up to three times a week “in order not to lose (his) natural tan”.

Jose Carlos Moreno of Spain’s academy of dermatology, (AEDV), does not hesitate to call this need to be tanned an addiction.

“They are people who never feel that they are tanned enough,” he said before comparing them to “anorexics who always feel like they are too fat”.

Their profile: mainly women and people under the age of 40 -- based on study participants -- who tan more than two times a week to the point of obtaining an excessively orange or chocolatey skin tone.

Tanning salons emerged in the 1980s in the United States, and researchers in the United States have been talking about tanning addictions -- dubbed “tanorexia” -- since the 2000s.

The symptoms are similar to those of heroin addiction, accord-ing to Joel Hillhouse, a professor of public health at East Tennessee State University in the United States who has studied the psy-

PARIS - Scientists have taken a major step towards creating a vac-cine that works against multiple strains of influenza, according to two studies published Monday in top journals.

A “universal vaccine” is the holy grail of immunisation efforts against the flu, a shape-shifting virus which kills up to half a mil-

lion people each year, according the World Health Organization.

There have been several killer pandemics in the last century -- the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak claimed at least 20 million lives.

Existing vaccines target a part of the virus that mutates constantly, forcing drug makers and health officials to concoct new anti-flu

cocktails every year.In the two studies, published in

Nature and Science, researchers tested new vaccines on mice, ferrets and monkeys that duplicate another, more stable, part of the virus.

Scientists have long known that the stem of haemagglutinin -- a spike-like protein, known as HA, on the surface of the virus -- remains

largely the same even when the tip, or “head”, changes.

But until now, they have not been able to use the stem to provoke an immune reaction in lab animals or humans that would either neutralise the virus, or allow the body to attack and destroy infected cells.

To make that happen, a team led by Hadi Yassine of the Vaccine

Research Center at the US National Institutes of Health grafted a nano-particle-sized protein called ferritin onto a headless HA stem.

The next step was to immunise mice and ferrets, then injecting them with the H5N1 “bird flu” that has a mortality rate of more than 50 percent among people but is not very contagious. (afp)

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‘Major step’ toward universal flu vaccine: studies

Tanorexia: when getting a tan becomes an addiction

MADRID - On a warm August evening in Madrid a steady stream of tanned cus-tomers parade out of a tanning salon -- even in sunny Spain, the need to catch some rays can turn into an addiction.

chology of tanning.They include a desire to tan on

waking, a needed for increasingly bigger “doses”, feelings of anxiety when not tanning and annoyance when friends and family com-ment on their excessive tanning, he said.

Some people continue to using tanning beds even though they have skin cancer, Hillhouse said.

“We even had a few that were willing to admit to us that they had done things like steal money in order to do indoor tanning. They would actually take their room-

mate’s or their parents’ money,” he said.

Researchers say that exposure to ultraviolet rays itself can be addictive.

“One of the reasons why the tanners tan is not only how they look, but how it makes them feel,” said Steve Feldman, a professor of dermatology at Wake Forest University in South Carolina.

Sunlight stimulates the release of endorphins, hormones that result in feelings of relaxation or euphoria very similar to that generated by morphine, Feld-

man said.The World Health Organiza-

tion has since 2012 classified UV-emitting tanning devices as carcinogenic to humans.

Brazil became the first country in the world to ban indoor tan-ning bed in 2009, followed by Australia in 2014.

Australia has the highest rate of melanoma in the world with 11,000 cases per year. Melanoma is the deadliest kind of skin can-cer, and is highly linked to sun exposure.

According to Vanessa Rock,

the chair of the National Skin Cancer Committee in Australia, studies have shown that sunbeds increase melanoma risk by 20 percent, regardless of age at first use.

But skin cancer rates have stabilised among those under the age of 45 thanks to “public education campaigns and greater awareness”, Rock said.

In Spain 3,600 cases of mela-noma are diagnosed each year. “Tanning booths abound, in beau-ty centres and gyms,” Moreno said. (afp)

Currently AIDS and TB are the real threats. In 2014, there were 3,034 new cases of new TB and old TB. A total of 1,057 TB cases occurred in Denpasar, 662 cases in Buleleng, and 333 cases in Badung. “Bangli only has 75 cases, because it also has a very small population” he said. Considering that TB is spread through the air, known as ‘droplet infection’, transmission can happen easily in densely popu-lated areas such as Denpasar. Apart from population density, lack of proper hygiene is also a contribut-ing factor. “People infected with TB who have no received adequate treatment can pass on the disease,” he added.

In fact, TB that is caused by bacteria, is a curable disease and anti- tuberculosis medicines are available. The problem is that TB treatment takes a long time -at least six months. Wira is confident that people with TB and said that there is an 85 percent success rate in cur-ing the disease in Bali. “However, if 15 percent of those infected are not treated, they will transmit it to others. We are therefore seeking

a 100 percent success rate in the treatment of TB.”

AIDS and TB have a correlation. Wira said that if a TB patient does not recover after seeking treatment they are advised to be tested for HIV, because TB has three forms: drug resistant or multi-drug resis-tant (MDR), HIV-TB and child TB. A person with TB needs to take their medicine everyday and not stop until there prescription is done. Otherwise, the patient can become resistant to the drugs and rewire even stronger drugs. “If patients stop taking their drugs they can still transmit the disease because not all the germs are killed,” he explained.

People TB drug-resistant, have a recovery rate of 50-70 percent, while child TB occurred because its parents are not successfully treated so that they transmit it to their children. HIV-TB is common in Bali because of the large number of people with HIV. “Many HIV-positive patients are living with TB,” he said.

Therefore, TB patients are re-quired to conduct a HIV checkup,

and so do pregnant women and spouses of patient living with TB. Data for 2014 showed that of the 3,034 patients with TB, 20.7 percent also have HIV. However, Wira asserted that TB patients do not necessarily have HIV and con-versely, people living with HIV do not necessarily suffer from TB.

Bali is not yet free of TB be-cause the discovery of TB cases has not reached the national target, for either case notification rates (CNR) or case detection rates (CDR). If TB is discovered early on recovery rates reache 90 per-cent. Another problem is that there are counties that have not reached the targeted success rate (SR) or a minimum recovery rate of 85 percent and conversion rates have not reached the minimum target of 80 percent. “We admit that our lab conversion is weak because the ex-amined point of TB is the sputum. The continued existence of TB in Bali is also due to the increasing burden of MDR-TB and HIV-TB as well as limited manpower and health facilities serving the MDR-TB,” he explained. (kmb42)

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A fisherman sails his traditional boat during a boat rac-ing at the local Sanur village festival in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

KUTA - The Ministry of Mari-time and Fishery Affairs has formu-lated guidelines for the protection of small fishermen in the Southeast Asian region, the Director General of Fisheries, Gellwynn Jusuf, re-vealed it.

He said the guidelines are related to aspects of ownership, capital, society, gender, fishing rights guar-antee, access to natural resources, as

well as the government’s concern for the fishermen.

Jusuf said small fishermen, whose catch is below five gross tons, are an integral part of the economic backbone of a number of ASEAN countries.

“The extent of small-scale fish-ery production in Indonesia has reached 60 percent, or about four to five million tons per year. Unfortu-nately, they are supervised less, in terms of sanitation, hygiene and quality,” he said.

The sustainable protection guidelines for small-scale fisheries are aimed at reducing poverty and building food security and were agreed upon by a number of coun-tries in Rome, Italy, during a meet-ing in June, 2014.

Their implementation is now being discussed by a number of countries, including Indonesia, which has included them in a medi-um-term national development plan and in the national legislation by drafting specific laws of protection and empowerment for small-scale fishermen.

Fishery planning analyst Nicole Franz, from the Department of Fish-eries at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, welcomed the initiative adopted by Indonesia.

“Indonesia has included the small fishing guidelines into its national development plan. We recognize that their implementa-tion in Indonesia is not just on the paper, but part of a direct action,” she stated. (ant)

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People hold candle during a reflection night event to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS that took place in Renon, recently. Behind the glamour of Bali tourism, there are threatening diseases. At the national and regional level of Bali, there are three priority diseases, namely AIDS, tu-berculosis (TB), malaria.

AIDS and TB threaten Bali

DENPASAR - Behind the glamour of Bali tourism, there are threatening diseases, the top three are: AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. “Malaria was eliminated from Bali in 2014, but there are people from outside of Bali, from places such as NTB and NTT that are still affected by malaria,” said the Division Head of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Bali Health Office, Gde Wira Sunertra, on Wednesday.

Indonesia steps up Asean fishermen protection

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NASIK, India — Thousands of devout Hindus began splashing into a west Indian river for the first official day Wednesday of bath-ing at one of the country’s largest festivals.

Hindus believe taking a dip in the waters of a holy river during the Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Fes-tival, will cleanse them of their sins. Wednesday marked the first day of bathing for those attending this year’s festival on the banks of

the Godavari River in Maharashtra state.

Millions are expected to attend this year’s two-month festival, which began in mid-July and runs until the end of September.

The Kumbh Mela derives its name from a mythical fight over a pitcher of holy nectar. According to Hindu mythology, gods and demons waged a furious battle over the nec-tar they needed to achieve immor-tality. Four drops spilled, landing in the four cities that alternatively host the festival: Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythic Saraswati rivers; Harid-war, on the banks of the Ganges; Ujjain, in central India; and Nasik. The festival is held four times every 12 years. (ap)

Unrest flared briefly at a crowded reception centre in the border region of Roszke, with a police spokesman saying tear gas had been fired.

Police said a record 2,533 mi-grants - most of them from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan - were caught entering Hungary from Ser-bia on Tuesday. Another 1,300 were detained just by 9.30 a.m. (0730 GMT) on Wednesday.

More will have passed unno-ticed, walking through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe grop-ing for answers to its worst refugee crisis since World War Two.

Hungary, which is part of Eu-rope’s Schengen passport-free travel zone, is building a fence along its 175-km (110-mile) border with Serbia in a bid to keep them out, taking a hard line on what right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban says is a threat to European security, prosperity and identity.

Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said parliament would de-bate next week whether to employ the army in the border effort.

“Hungary’s government and national security cabinet ... has discussed the question of how the army could be used to help protect Hungary’s border and the EU’s border,” Kovacs said.

Authorities said over 140,000 migrants had entered Hungary from

Serbia to far this year. The numbers travelling through the Balkans have soared in recent weeks, with 3,000 crossing into Macedonia daily from Greece then whisked by train and bus north to Serbia and beyond.

“IT’S FOR FREEDOM”The chief commissioner of Hun-

garian police, Karoly Papp, said police were readying six special border patrol units of an initial 2,106 officers, equipped with heli-copters, horses and dogs, to be sent in depending on the situation on the Serbian border. “They don’t have and will not get an order to shoot,” Papp told a news conference.

In Roszke, the police spokes-man said some 200 migrants at the reception centre where unrest flared had refused to be fingerprinted.

Almost all hope to reach the more affluent countries of north-ern and western Europe such as Germany and Sweden, but being fingerprinted in Hungary means that, under EU rules, they risk be-ing returned to Budapest as their official point of entry into the 28-nation EU.

“I want a country to be part of, I want a country to belong to, I want a culture, a civilisation,” said Rabie Hajouk, a 29-year-old IT engineer who said he was from the devas-tated Syrian city of Homs.

“It’s not for money or for food, it’s for freedom, freedom of mind, for education. To be part of the civilised world.”

Embroiled in a debilitating eco-nomic crisis, Greece has taken to fer-rying mainly Syrian migrants from its overwhelmed islands to Athens. Some 50,000 hit Greek shores by

boat from Turkey in July alone.Some European leaders have

complained that Greece fails to register its arrivals, meaning their first recognised point of entry is often elsewhere and Athens does not risk them being sent back.

Serbia said around 10,000 mi-grants were passing through the

country at any time, their stay lengthening as Hungary nears completion of its border fence.

“The situation will get worse, when winter arrives. We’re get-ting ready to look after double that number,” Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told the Frank-furter Allgemeine Zeitung. (rtr)

Thousands bathe at riverside festival in India

Indian pilgrims offer prayers as they perform rituals in the Godavari River during Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Fes-tival, in Nasik, India, Wednes-day, Aug. 26, 2015.AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal

Hungary moves to secure border as migrants stream in

REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Syrian migrants cross under a fence into Hungary at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, Au-gust 26, 2015. Hungary’s government has started to construct a 175-km-long (110-mile-long) fence on its border with Serbia in order to halt a massive flow of migrants who enter the EU via Hungary and head to western Europe.

ROSZKE, Hungary - Hungary made plans on Wednesday to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army to confront a record number of migrants trekking into Europe, many flee-ing war in Syria.

“In general, the PHDI’s concept specifies 40 percent as the core zone. Then, 30 percent as the buffer zone and remaining 30 percent as the utilization zone. But, the draft-ing team has already suggested that these figures will be tailored to the characteristics of each sacred area. The percentage cannot be general-ized on a whole, and the PHDI has been flexible about this,” he said.

Diana added that zones that are agreed to as sacred are only intended for the sanctum area.

Building in these zones must be limited to the construction of supporting facilities for religious activities. Spatial utilization for residential as well as business and economic activities has begun to be done in the buffer zone. How-ever, the scope is still limited to local residents, but not as free as in the utilization zone.

“The scale is still ton a level that is meant to revive the economy of local people with a limited concept in the area. For example, if it is for

tourism business, hotels are not al-lowed. Only allowed buildings like cottage or guesthouses are allowed. The utilization zone is free and can be utilized for that purpose as it is located far form the sacred zone,” he explained.

Diana pointed out that sad kahyangan temples have a sacred area that extends to a radius of five km. Meaning that the core zone will spread out for 2 km and a buffer zone is at a distance of 1.5 km. When added together, the area still extends for 3.5 km before the space can be used for economic activities for the next 1.5 km. And what about buildings, especially tourist accommodations like hotels that have been established in the forbidden zone?

“Regional Bylaw No.16 (on

provincial spatial planning—Ed) already addresses this issue, but so far enforcement is very difficult. The transitional provision has been very steady where the build-ings established in a zone that does not correspond to the spatial designation will be allowed to wait until the building expires. If the buildings have a building permit (IMB), then we wait until the permit validity expires, after which it should be adjusted to the new spatial planning. For ex-ample, if the building is no longer allowed to be in that area, it can-not stay there,” he explained while adding enforcement is hampered by the amount of compensation charged to the respective local governments.

Chairman of the PHDI Bali, I

Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, hopes that Regional Bylaw Draft on the APZ can protect the temple areas from exploitation. In addition, local residents must not be made to loose their livelihoods, either. Otherwise, eventually no one will be willing to live there. To that end, his party agreed to allow local residents to build homes for themselves as well as Dharma Sala or lodging sfor the purposes of spiritual tourism in the buffer zone.

“Hence, there is an opportu-nity for Dharma Sala. In order that those who take care of the temples do not fall into poverty, there are allowances for them to engage in business opportunities so as to earn a living, but these businesses are still related to religious activities,” he said. (kmb32)

NEGARA - Refusal action against the Benoa Bay reclamation echoed from the west side of the Island of Bali. Through the recent music performance at Melaya Sta-dium, Jembrana, young generation of Melaya voiced their rejection against the reclamation. Dozens of local bands of Jembrana showed off their capability by singing songs on the struggle and rejection against the reclamation.

With a fairly simple stage on the basketball court of the Melaya

Stadium, the participants spontane-ously unfolded a banner saying Re-ject Benoa Bay Reclamation. Each participant is required to present a song with struggle theme using their own arrangement. “Actually, this is our annual event every Inde-pendence Day. We spontaneously organize a band parade. And this time we are also voicing rejection against the Benoa Bay reclama-tion,” said I Ketut Ardika, 36, or Dikok, the initiator of the event.

Dikok has his own reasons for

the refusal against the reclamation. Ardika also known as Chairman of the Independent Army Community does not only accumulate young people to express their creativity in music, but also in caring about the environment.

This young generation commu-nity also establishes an environ-ment-caring community in what the so-called the Environmental Awareness Group (Darling). Pe-riodically, the music community also contributes to preserve the coastal environment and marine

life. Previously, Reject Reclama-tion action has also been carried out spontaneously by putting up a billboard in Melaya. “Actually this is the second time and we want to arouse again so as jointly reject the reclamation,” he added.

Dikok has his own reasons to re-ject the reclamation. Other than not taking side in the environment, they equally do not agree with the reasons for job opportunities in Bali. Accord-ing to Dikok, to tell the truth without any additional land, there have been

many job opportunities in Bali that can be taken by younger generation of Bali. It is not necessarily related to tourism sector, many other sectors can still be worked on as long as there is willingness.

After each band made per-formance for two-three songs, a number of bands spontaneously joined the band onstage to sing the song entitled Reject Reclamation. Similarly, the banner on Reject Reclamation is also stretched. (kmb26)

Dozens of Jembrana bands perform to reject reclamation

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The Hindus pray in Besakih Temple

Regional bylaw draft on APZ

Economic activity starts in buffer zoneDENPASAR - Special Committee of Zoning Regulation

Directive (APZ) and the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indone-sia (PHDI) Bali finally agreed on the zoning for sacred areas, during a meeting at the Assembly Room of the Bali House, on Tuesday (Aug. 25). Chairman of the Bali House APZ Special Committee, I Kadek Diana, said there are three zones set forth in such a way to allow and disallow specific activities.

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In Tokyo, the dollar changed hands at 119.62 yen, up from 118.84 yen in New York late Tuesday, as investor confidence picked up.

Fears over slowing growth in China had pushed traders into the yen -- a safe haven during times of turmoil -- sending the dollar tum-bling to 116.18 yen this week, its lowest level since February.

In other trading Wednesday, the euro gave up early gains to buy $1.1481 against $1.1518 in US trading, while it fetched 137.34 yen, compared with 136.87 yen in New York.

China on Tuesday cut interest rates and lowered how much cash banks must hold for the second time in as many months in the latest effort to stem an equities rout that began in June.

US stocks finished lower for the sixth straight session Tuesday, with the Dow posting another triple-digit decline after a morning rally fizzled.

Tokyo led a broad Asian market recovery on Wednesday, although dealers remained nervous and trade was choppy, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 ending 3.20 percent higher after six days of China-linked losses.

The recent market turmoil has sparked speculation that the Federal

Reserve will delay lifting its bench-mark federal funds rate from the zero level, where it has been parked since the 2008 financial crisis to support the US economy’s recovery.

Analysts’ predictions the Fed would raise interest rates in Sep-tember have faded after a rate cut to the Chinese yuan this month, and some now think the central bank may decide to wait until 2016. A rate rise is a plus for the greenback.

On Wednesday, the Australian dollar led declines in currencies of commodity producing nations amid concerns about China, a ma-jor importer of raw materials, with the Aussie weakening to 71.19 US cents from 73.05 US cents in Tues-day Asian trade.

“There will be a lot of volatil-ity” in currency markets, Nizam Idris, the Singapore-based head of foreign exchange and fixed-income strategy at Macquarie Bank, told Bloomberg News.

“The two policy uncertainties -- one in China and the other one in the US -- will likely continue to weigh on emerging-market, as well as Antipodean currencies, including the Aussie.”

The dollar was mostly lower against other Asia-Pacific curren-cies. (afp)

WASHINGTON — Congress’ official budget analyst projected Tuesday that this year’s U.S. gov-ernment deficit will drop to $426 billion, the lowest shortfall of Barack Obama’s presidency, in a re-port providing political ammunition to Democrats and Republicans.

But the annual summertime update by the nonpartisan Congres-sional Budget Office also contained words of warning. It cautioned that without action by lawmakers, a graying population and growing health care costs will push annual federal deficits upward again later this decade, spiking back above $1 trillion in 2025.

That would push the govern-ment’s total debt, accumulated

over decades, to $21 trillion by 2025, or 77 percent of the country’s projected economic output that year. Economists say such amounts could drive up interest rates, boost government debt costs and hinder lawmakers from using tax and spending changes to ease the impact of future recessions.

“The growth in debt is not sus-tainable,” budget office chief Keith Hall told reporters. “You can’t predict tipping points, but at some point this becomes a problem.”

The budget office released its figures two weeks before lawmak-ers return from a summer break steering toward a budget clash. The Republican-led Congress has approved a blueprint that uses

spending curbs on Medicare, Med-icaid and other programs to claim a balanced budget in a decade, a plan Democrats have derided as harsh and unrealistic.

“I would caution those who would use this report as an oppor-tunity to take these short-term sav-ings and push for more spending,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, a Republican. He said “real, substantive budget reforms and savings will have to be on the table during any spending negotiations.”

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said the report shows that Congress has made “important progress on rebuilding our economy

and reducing our deficit.” He said Congress should make “necessary investments” in education and other programs and said serious nego-tiations will be needed to avoid a government shutdown this fall.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has repeatedly said partisan spending clashes will not lead to a govern-ment closure. But it could be hard for the Republican leaders to win conservative votes for spending bills unless they cutting federal payments to Planned Parenthood. Secretly filmed videos have shown the organization’s officials discuss-ing how they provide fetal tissue to medical researchers.

In March, the budget office

projected a $486 billion deficit for this fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30. The analysis said the $60 billion reduction was largely be-cause collections of individual and corporate taxes have been higher than expected.

Annual deficits peaked at a his-toric high of $1.4 trillion in 2009 as the Great Recession reduced federal tax revenue and drove up govern-ment costs for helping low-income and jobless people. Deficits have dropped since then, falling to $485 billion last year.

This year’s $426 billion pro-jected deficit, if realized, would be the government’s smallest since it was $161 billion in the red in 2007. (ap)

US analysts lower 2015 budget deficit forecast to $426B

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

Chinese men chat on the street near a billboard promoting deposit rates for the U.S. dollar in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

Dollar ticks up after China moves to calm market turmoil

TOKYO - The dollar rose against the yen and euro on Wednesday as Chinese authorities moved to shore up the world’s number two economy and reverse a global stock mar-ket bloodbath.

BANGLI - Regional landfill (TPA) at Landih village, Bangli, be-gins to draw the interest of foreign investors for waste power plant. Responding to this, the Bangli Regional Development Planning and Investment Board (Bappeda–PM) indirectly gives green light, but it will carry out assessments in advance.

As information collected by Bali Post recently, the foreign investor wishing to invest in the sector is from Australia. The interest is driven by the existence of quite spacious landfill in Bangli County and the

amount of garbage accommodated is fairly high. On that account, it is pos-sible for the development of waste power plant. Later on, the presence of waste power plant is planned to create new job opportunities for the community. To be able to operate, the foreign investor requires a land area of eight hectares for the con-struction of the waste power plant and if possible, it is also needed additional ten hectares of land for industrial development.

In response to this, the Head of the Bangli Regional Development Plan-ning and Investment Board (Bappe-

da–PM, I Nyoman Widiana, said on Monday (Aug. 24) that his party will conduct further studies, mainly related to the request of land reach-ing 18 hectares, considering the land around the regional landfill is owned by residents. “We will examine first the proposal of investor. Moreover, it also includes the discussion on the land needed. It must be considered carefully,” he explained.

Provision to open investment policies, especially the waste power plant, needs to be communicated to central government, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

“We have to coordinate the interest of foreign investor to Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to ask for consideration,” he said.

Further, Widiana added if the landfill is allowed to be used for location of waste power plant, the number of investors given the op-portunity to invest will be certainly more than one. “For example, if this landfill is possible for waste power plant, we will definitely look for another investor, not just one. It is intended for comparison,” he said.

From different sides, the Head of the Bangli Environment Agency,

I Made Alit Parwata, said that in-vestor focusing on waste is a good thing. If the rubbish is processed for power generation, automatically the piles of rubbish will be on the wane and landfill will not quickly be filled to capacity. “If there are investors dealing in rubbish, definitely it is very good. However, it needs a study,” he added. The regional landfill is a program of provincial government of Bali realized in 2008 spreading across 4.75 hectares of land with a capacity of approxi-mately 550,000 cubic meters of waste. (kmb45)

Headman of Songan B, Jro Lanang, confirmed that the agate search activities on Mount Batur lately begin to proliferate. The search is not only done by local residents, but also by those from outside Bangli.

To his knowledge, the agate search is usually rife in the morning

and afternoon. To get their favorite stone, the agate seekers, admitted Jro Lanang, are even carrying tools such as a crowbar and a small hoe.

Related to rampant agate search on Mount Batur, Jro Lanang admit-ted that it is quite worried. He was worried if the search continues to be done without any control,

it is not impossible over time the area of Mount Batur will be dam-aged. “What we worry is if the agate search is done continuously especially with excavation by us-ing crowbar because it can trigger landslides,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he cannot do much to prohibit the agate search. He just hoped that the agate seekers can re-duce their activity and in the taking process of the agate they can pay attention to the environment.

In the meantime, the Section Head of Conservation for Region II, Natural Resources Conservation

Agency (BKSDA), Ketut Catur Marbawa, when contacted sepa-rately did not dismiss if the agate seeking activities on Mount Batur is getting rife lately.

As information received, the agate searchers climb the Mount Batur through climbing path at Tampuryang Temple. Related to the increasing number of agate search-ing activity, his party also admitted to be quite worried. “Yes, it is the same as quarrying activities. Al-though the agate search is in small scale but over time it can damage the environment,” he explained.

To anticipate the environmental damage caused by the agate search on Mount Batur, he claimed to be conducting operations in the area of Mount Batur. Besides, he will also make persuasive approach to the community especially the agate searchers. However, if the appeal is also ignored, the agate searchers on Mount Batur proved to have dam-aged the environment will be dealt with prevailing laws. “We’re going to make an approach to the commu-nity first. If they cannot be appealed to, we will surely take action against them,” he said. (kmb40)

Regional landfill at Bangli draws interest of foreign investor

IBP/Suasrina

Agate search on Mount Batur feared to result in environmental destruction

BANGLI - Rampant search of agate in the area of Mount Batur, Kintamani, happened lately is feared to cause environ-mental damages. It happens because the agate search in the area of Mount Batur is no longer done by picking it in the area of watershed (loloan) but people begin doing it through excavation by using a crowbar and hoe.

The beautiful scenery of Mount

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JAKARTA - China and Japan are locked in an increas-ingly heated contest to build Indonesia’s first high-speed railway, with the Asian giants sweetening deals and turning up the charm as time runs out to woo Jakarta.

The rivalry over this major project is just the latest to flare up as China challenges Japan’s long-standing dominance in Southeast Asia as a key source of infrastructure funding.

Japan, a top-three investor in Indonesia with huge stakes in the automotive and mining sectors, seemed destined to build the high-speed railway until China muscled in with a counter offer earlier this year.

President Joko Widodo stoked the competitive spirit of the two Asian powerhouses as he toured China and Japan in April trying to drum up much-needed investment for a multi-billion dollar overhaul of Indonesia’s ageing infrastructure.

In both Beijing and Tokyo, he boarded bullet trains and declared his vision for high-speed rail in Indonesia: a line connecting the sprawling capital Jakarta with Bandung, a mountain-fringed city famed for its universities and IT expertise about 160 kilometres (100 miles) away.

If it was a stunt to grab the attention of his hosts, it cer-tainly worked. A steady stream of diplomats and envoys from Tokyo and Beijing have been pouring in since April to pitch the Widodo administration, and Jakarta is enjoying the limelight.

“Let them race to invest in Indonesia. It’s good for us,” Luhut Panjaitan, chief political minister and a close aide to Widodo, told AFP.

“It’s like a girl wanted by many guys, the girl then can pick whoever she likes.”

The line, if completed, will not only slash travel time between Jakarta and Bandung but pave the way for an expanded network linking the capital with Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya in East Java.

The schmoozing has been ratcheting up ahead of August 31, when Widodo is expected to announce the successful bidder.

China is not seeking any funding guarantees from the Indonesian government and has promised construction would begin this year, with the network up and running no later than 2019.

Beijing recently showcased its high-speed rail prowess in an exhibition at a plush Jakarta mall, where China’s am-bassador to Indonesia likened the project to a child reared by Jakarta and Beijing.

“Our number one priority is to ensure the baby’s health and growth, rather than to rush him to make money to sup-port the family,” Xie Feng said, playing down suggestions China’s main motive in this project was profit.

Japan’s proposal is slightly more expensive than its rival, and it is only promising trains will hit the tracks in 2021. On the plus side, it has offered a lower interest rate of 0.1 per-cent, a fraction of the 2.0 percent China has put forward.

Japan also has history on its side. The country is famous for its legendary shinkansen, its impressive high-speed network that for decades has whizzed commuters between cities at great speed without a single fatal accident on the rails.

China has countered this by arguing it has built 17,000 kilometres of high-speed railway -- or 55 percent of the world total -- in the 12 years since it began constructing bullet trains.

However, a 2011 crash that killed at least 40 people and injured 200 more highlighted what critics say is a tendency to overlook safety in the rush to lay track. (afp)

China, Japan battle to build Indonesia’s first bullet train

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism is exploring the Taiwan tourism market and will attract at least 250,000 tourists until the end of this year.

Deputy Foreign Tourism Marketing of the Tourism Ministry I Gde Pitana said Taiwan is a potential market and relatively stable.

“Taiwan is a mature market and the number of tourists coming to Indonesia is relatively stable,” Pitana said.

This fact shows that Taiwan’s economy is quite stable with a high number of the medium-class community.

According to the World Tourism Orga-nization (UNWTO), in 2013 the number of outbound Taiwan tourists reached 11,053 million.

Last year the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting Indonesia was 201,225 or increase by 17.95 percent from the previous year.

The Ministry continues to promote In-donesian tourism, one of them by holding Taiwan Sales Mission 2015 which will be held on August 26 in Taipei, and August 27 in Taichung. This program aims to gather the Indonesian tourism industry with the tourism industry of Taiwan.

Assistant Deputy for Asia Pacific Market Development, Vincent Jemadu, said the Sales Mission Taiwan 2015 is aimed to increase the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting to preferred destinations in Indonesia.

“The Taiwanese tourists’ characteristics is almost the same as the Chinese, they like island tour. The main preference is Bali, but we hope that in addition to Bali they also like

“We will still observe this upheaval until September when the FOMC (the Federal Open Market Committee) holds its meet-ing. Therefore, our task is to maintain the economic stability during this upheaval,” he affirmed. He noted that the current con-dition of the Indonesian economy is still under control, with all macro indicators showing no signs of crisis.”Our economy recorded a positive growth of 4.7 percent in the first semester. The trade balance has shown a surplus, and the current account deficit has gone down. So, the macro con-ditions are still good. Furthermore, in the banking industry, NPL (non-performing loans) and CAR (capital adequacy ratio)

are in a sound condition. The condition is totally different from that noticed in 1998,” he pointed out.

The rupiah closed stronger at 14,024 per US dollar on Tuesday, gaining from an earlier level of 14,049 per US dollar after it came under pressure over the past few days.

PT Platon Niaga Berjangka analyst Lukman Leong has attributed the rupiah’s rise partly to Bank Indonesia buying back state securities in the secondary market.

The share price index of the Indonesian stock exchange closed 64.77 points, or 1.56 percent higher at 4,228.5 points on Tuesday.

The index rebounded after a sharp fall earlier, with the 45 most liquid stocks jumping 2.32 percent to 708.26 points.

HD Capital analyst Yuganur Wijanarko stated that the market players had bought back shares that were earlier oversold.

Responding to the decision taken by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) to cut its interest rate by 25 basis points, the finance minister said it had no direct impact on the Indonesian economy.

The decision had an impact on the in-ternal situation in China and was intended to boost the public consumption sector to push up its economic performance, he added. (ant)

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

East Timor’s Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo, left, talks with In-donesian President Joko Widodo during their meeting at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

Economic upheaval to continue until Fed issues decision

JAKARTA - The current global economic upheaval will continue until the US Federal Reserve adjusts its benchmark rate, according to Indonesian Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro.

Tourism ministry to explore Taiwan marketto visit other destinations,” he said.

The ministry facilitates business to busi-ness meeting to bring together the Indonesian tourism industry with the Taiwanese tourism industry that is interested in buying tourism packages to Indonesia.

The tour packages offered including Batam and Bintan (Riau Islands), Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Semarang (Central Java), Lom-bok (West Nusa Tenggara), Bandung (West Bandung) and East Java.

Another strategy to increase the number of Taiwanese tourist visits is through visa-free policy.

“Next year the government will issue visa-free policy for 30 countries. Taiwan is one of the countries proposed for the policy,” Jemadu said.

The direct flight of Taiwan - Jakarta served by Eva Air, China Airlines and Air Asia is expected to boost Taiwanese tourist visits to Indonesia. (ant)

“This event shows the interna-tional community that Thailand intends to tackle the illegal ivory trade,” said Nipol Chotiban, head of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Con-servation.

To emphasize the point, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha presided over the event, loading the first tusk into the crushing machine. Thailand’s record on ivory is poor. The United Na-tions body that tries to tackle the illegal ivory trade, known as CITES, lists Thailand as the world’s second-biggest end-user market, behind China.

The Southeast Asian country is a major transit hub and desti-

nation for smuggled tusks, which are often carved into tourist trin-kets and ornaments.

Part of the problem has been a Thai law that allows ivory from its own domesticated elephants to be worked into ornaments and sold. The law has created a loophole through which ivory from African animals can be laundered. In 2013 CITES put Thailand on notice to sort out the situation or face economic sanc-tions. Since then Thailand has passed new laws and made major seizures at ports and airports. But the pressure remains. In less than a week, Thailand must submit an update of its progress to CITES.

Several wildlife and conserva-tion groups audited the stockpile before it was destroyed and wel-comed the event while noting that there is still much to do, includ-ing continuous law enforcement and the tackling of the gangs behind the trade.

“This is not over yet,” said Tom Milliken, one of the world experts on the illicit trade in ivory. “This is just one event that will definitely signal to the world that the Thai government is committed but the impact on the market is really the critical element.” More than 14 tons of ivory remains in Thai stockpiles, kept as part of court cases against smugglers. (ap)

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has asked the U.S. mil-itary to help protect the transport of fresh Filipino troops and supplies in the disputed South China Sea by flying American patrol planes to discourage Chinese moves to stop the resupply missions.

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin says he relayed the Phil-ippine request on Wednesday to visiting U.S. Pacific Commander Adm. Harry Harris Jr. According

to Gazmin, Harris assured him of U.S. readiness to provide as-sistance.

The Philippines has protested past attempts by Chinese coast guard ships to block smaller Fili-pino motor boats transporting fresh military personnel, food and other supplies to a Philippine military ship outpost at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, which is also being claimed and guarded by Chinese vessels. (ap)

BUCHAREST — Officials in Romania say 25 miners are protest-ing more than 200 meters (650 feet) down in a mine, complaining that authorities will not give them an operating license.

Mine manager Gabriela Dobrota said a further 79 miners joined the protest on Wednesday, gathering outside the Baita Plai mine some 520 kilometers (325 miles) north-west of Bucharest.

Economy Minister Mihai Tudose told Romania TV that authorities were investigating suspected cases of illegal mining at the site, which was why the National Agency for Mineral Resources had not issued a mining permit.

The mine has ores which contain gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead and tungsten. The mine was recently ac-quired by British mining company Vast Resources PLC. (ap)

BRUSSELS — A Belgian nurse who helped save hundreds of American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge at the end of World War II has died. She was 94.

Augusta Chiwy died on Sunday and will be buried in the town of Bastogne, southeast Belgium on Saturday following a civilian and military ceremony, according to her family.

The Battle of the Bulge came during the final stages of World

War II when Adolf Hitler launched a major offensive against Allied forces. About 80,000 American soldiers were killed, captured or wounded.

Chiwy volunteered in 1944 to assist in an aid station in Bastogne, where wounded and dying U.S. soldiers in their thousands were being treated by a single doctor. She received a Belgian knight-hood and a U.S award for valor in 2011. (ap)

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

Thai officials arrange seized elephant tusks to be displayed before destruction in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Thai authorities destroyed more than 2 tons of seized and smuggled ivory on Wednesday, the latest move by the government to avoid possible economic sanctions over its perceived failure to tackle the illicit trade.

Thailand destroys more than 2 tons of illegal ivory

BANGKOK — Thai authorities destroyed more than 2 tons of seized and smuggled ivory Wednesday, in the latest move by the government to avoid possible economic sanctions over a perceived failure to tackle the illicit trade. Tusks from more than 200 dead African elephants and other items made from ivory, such as jewelry and statues, were spread across viewing tables before being crushed by a machine into small pieces that were to be incinerated later in the day.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

U.S. Navy Admiral Harry B Harris salutes during welcoming ceremony at the armed forces headquarters at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

Dozens of miners protest at metal mine in northwest Romania

Belgian WWII nurse who helped save many US troops dies

Philippines seeks US help to protect troops in disputed sea

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Berawa Beach

“Nearly went down, that’s twice. I hope it doesn’t become third time bad luck,” Farah said after he qualified second from his heat for Saturday’s final. “I just have to recover now and get ready.”

For the top distance racers, get-ting through the heats usually means keeping out of trouble among the web of legs from competitors jock-eying for position.

Farah first lost his balance with six laps to go, but 150 meters from the finish he came much closer to actually crashing in a tangle with Mohmmed Ahmed of Canada and Galen Rupp of the United States, Farah’s training partner. It broke Farah’s stride and he had to work some to recover and cross second behind Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia. Rupp fell so far back he finished outside the automatic qualifying

spots but still advanced to the final by time.

“Somebody just caught my legs. The way I run, I’ve got long strides. I don’t blame anyone,” said Farah, who had a little cut on his leg but was fine otherwise. “It just hap-pens, that’s why I have to be at the front or the back and just stay on the outside.”

After getting silver in the 10,000 at the 2011 worlds, Farah bounced back with gold in the 5,000 and hasn’t lost a big race since, one of the most impressive runs in the sport.

There was also excitement in the 110-meter hurdles when Ronnie Ash was disqualified for a false start and then refused to leave the track for several minutes, protesting he should still be in the race.

Once he had left, there was

another false start for Czech hur-dler Petr Svoboda before Pascal Martinot-Lagarde of France finally won the heat in a slow 13.35 sec-onds. Svoboda was later reinstated after a protest and will run in the semifinals.

David Oliver, the best American hope for gold in the event, advanced easily in 13.16, as did world-record holder Aries Merritt in 13.25. The top performer of the year, Cuban-born Orlando Ortega, could not compete since he only recently became a Spanish citizen.

Later Wednesday, Bolt will be back in action, seeking to reach the final of the 200. The evening program also includes finals in the men’s javelin and the 400, and women’s pole vault, 400-meter hurdles and steeplechase.(ap)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Caro-line Wozniacki is feeling healthy, and it showed in another victory at the Connecticut Open. The four-time champion opened play Tues-day night by cruising past American Alison Riske 6-0, 6-4 to advance to the third round at the Connecticut Tennis Center.

“I felt pretty well out there,” said Wozniacki, who is ranked No. 4 in the world. “I felt a little rusty, but I felt like I was hitting the ball well, working hard and my body is feeling good finally. That’s the main part I am really happy about.”

Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko, who was the Lucky Loser entry after top seed Simona Halep withdrew due to injury, won her first match despite a brief rain delay. She eliminated Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-0.

Also winning singles match-es were Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova, who defeated Kristina Mladenovic 2-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5, and France’s Caroline Garcia, who won in straight sets 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 over Slovakia’s Magdalena Ryba-rikova. Sixth-ranked Czech Lucie Safarova closed out the night with a 6-3, 6-4 win, which was delayed for three-plus minutes due to a fire alarm, over Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu. Wozniacki made quick work of Riske in a stadium that she dominated from 2008-11 with four straight titles.

“When I am healthy I know I can play at a high level and I showed that today,” said Wozniacki, who has been bothered by lower back and calf injuries. “I was returning well and serving all right and I just had a game plan in mind. I’ve been working and training on a few things that I really wanted to do out there today. It’s either going to work or it’s not, but this is the way I want to play moving forward.”

The 25-year-old Odense, Den-mark native doesn’t have much time to celebrate. Since Wozniacki got a late start after spending Mon-day in New York City, she will be back on the court late Wednesday afternoon against Italy’s Roberta Vinci.

“I’ll be fine,” she said. “I love New York, it always gives me a big buzz of energy, so I felt good this morning. (Monday) was fun, but I’m ready to play tennis now.” Tsurenko also had an easy time with Strycova, who never led in either set.

“It was really exciting for me to get into the main draw, and I was really happy,” said Tsurenko, who is ranked 46th in the world. “I was really happy, because the last match in the (qualifier) was not a great match for me, and I felt like I am not really ready to play matches like I am out of shape. I don’t know, it was a strange feeling on court.” (ap)

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Britain’s Mohamed Farah stumbles and almost falls in a men’s 5000m round one heat at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

Mo Farah stumbles twice,

advances to 5,000 final at worlds

BEIJING — Mo Farah stumbled once, then again, and still qualified easily for the 5,000-meter final at world championships. With his dominance over the 5,000 and 10,000 over the past five years, Farah is becoming the Usain Bolt of long-distance running. And like the Jamaican sprinter who stumbled over the weekend in the 100 semifinals, Farah survived a couple of scares on Wednesday.

Wozniacki advances at Connecticut Open

Tennis great and Godiva Global Ambas-sador Caroline Wozni-acki “serves up” Soft Serve and introduces

the limited edition “Caroline” chocolate

at Godiva in New York, Monday, Aug.

24, 2015, ahead of her appearance in the U.S.

Open.

Photo by Diane Bondareff/Invision for Godiva/AP Images

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Defoe’s treble in a 6-3 win over Exeter compensated for defensive gaffes which allowed the fourth-tier side to draw level at 3-3 at half time.

“I am totally unhappy with the goals we gave away at this level,” Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat said. “I never had the feeling they would beat us.”

There were eight goals at Aston Villa. Scott Sinclair’s treble ensured the hosts ousted fourth-tier Notts County 5-3 in extra time after it finished 3-3 at the end of 90

minutes.Watford was Tuesday’s only second-

round Premier League casualty, with second-tier Preston winning 1-0. Miguel Britos was sent off on his debut for Watford, which is still searching for its first win after returning to the Premier League. West Bro-mwich Albion and Stoke only advanced to the third round by winning on penalties.

After being held 0-0 by Port Vale, West Brom beat the third-tier side 5-3 in the shootout. Stoke edged fourth-tier Luton

8-7 on penalties after being held 1-1 over 120 minutes.

The third round, when the Premier League teams involved in European competitions enter, should offer more drama with two derbies: Tottenham-Arsenal and Aston Villa-Birmingham.

Here is a look at the other Premier League teams in action on Tuesday, with Defoe not the only hat trick scorer. (ap)

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal hinted he could play Bel-gium international midfielder Ma-rouane Fellaini, who scored seven goals last season, higher up the field this campaign.

The former Barcelona manager hopes Fellaini will help solve United’s strike problems, with the club manag-ing two goals in their first three Pre-mier League games. “He can play in a nine position and a 10,” Van Gaal, who lead Netherlands to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Brazil, said.

“He can also play at six and eight, but this year he shall play more at nine and 10 because there we have other players,” he added. Fellaini is confident he can handle the job.

“In the past I have played number 10 and number nine sometimes so I can play there and help my team-mates and my team,” the 27-year-old was quoted as saying by the British media.

“It is different to play midfield and striker but I enjoy all the positions I can play,” the former Everton midfielder added.

Van Gaal termed the second leg of their Champions League qualifier against Club Bruges later on Wednes-day as the most important game of his United career.

The Red Devils travel to the Jan Breydel Stadium with a 3-1 lead from the first leg at Old Trafford courtesy of a brace of goals from Memphis Depay and Fellaini’s late header.

“Yes, because it was our aim for the last year to participate in the Champions League and still we are not participating,” he told the club website (www.manutd.com) when asked if this is the most important game of his United career.

“It is a preliminary round so it’s very important. You have to play the game,” added the 64-year-old Dutch-man. (rtr)

Reuters / Jason Cairnduff Livepic

Marouane Fellaini celebrates after scoring the third goal for Manchester United

Van Gaal tips United’s Fellaini to succeed up frontBUENOS AIRES — Angel Di

Maria and Javier Pastore, team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain, have been left off Argentina’s na-tional team for friendly matches next month in the United States against Bolivia and Mexico.

Coach Gerardo Martino an-nounced the team Tuesday. It will also be without Lucas Biglia of Lazio and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City.

The Argentina Football As-sociation said Pastore and Biglia have right-leg injuries, and Za-baleta has a sprained left knee. Di Maria, who recently moved from Manchester United, is be-ing excluded so he can get into top playing condition for his French club.

Di Maria has not played since being injured in the final of the Copa America in July. Argentina lost to Chile on penalties.

The two friendlies are Argen-tina’s last before South American World Cup qualifying starts in October. (ap)

MONACO — Valencia lost 2-1 at Monaco but advanced from their Champions League playoff on an aggregate 4-3 score Tuesday, giv-ing Spain a record five teams in the group phase of Europe’s top-tier competition. Valencia had won the

first leg 3-1, and Alvaro Negredo gave the visiting

side a great start in the fourth minute at Stade Louis II.

The former Man-ches ter Ci ty s t r iker

poached Fabinho’s misplaced backpass and stroked an exquisite chipped shot that goalkeeper Dani-jel Subasic could only watch as it floated over his head before landing in the net.

Andrea Raggi made it 1-1 for Monaco in the 18th and Elderson netted in the 75th to leave the hosts one goal from forcing extra time.

A former two-time finalist, Va-lencia met new owner Peter Lim’s objective of returning to the Cham-pions League after a two-year ab-

sence. “In life, you have to suffer to reach one’s goals,” Valencia coach Nuno Espirito Santo said. “This is the first game of our future. Valencia is a Champions League team. We wanted to be here and here we are.”

Already the undisputed power in the Champions League, Spain is now the first country to send five sides to Europe’s premier tourna-ment.

Valencia will join defending champion Barcelona, 2014 win-ner Real Madrid, 2014 runner-up Atletico Madrid and Sevilla— the first team to qualify by winning the Europa League the previous sea-son— as the five-team contingent from la Liga in Thursday’s group phase draw.

Even before Negredo’s great goal, Valencia had gone close to scoring when Subasic stretched his leg to deny Shkodran Mustafi from a corner kick. But he was helpless to stop Negredo’s sublime shot.

Negredo wasted no time after

picking up Fabinho’s pass as he dribbled forward with his head down before surprising Subasic with a gentle strike from the left side of the area. “Conceding a goal in the first five minutes wasn’t the best thing for a team that needed to turn around a result,” Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim said.

After Negredo narrowly missed scoring a second when he shot high in the 10th, Monaco responded against the flow of play as Raggi slotted a ball the defense failed to clear inside the upright.

Valencia, however, remained in control and went close to scoring again through headers by Dani Parejo and Rodrigo Moreno before halftime.

Valencia then faded in the last half hour, and Elderson ensured a tense finale after he finished off a rebound off goalkeeper Matthew Ryan’s save from a deflected free kick. Monaco pressed Valencia into its area but couldn’t level the tie. (ap)

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) new Argentinean winger Angel Di Maria, right, and Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari president Nasser Al-Khelaifi shake hands as they pose with Di Maria’s PSG jersey during his official presentation in Paris, France. Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015.

Di Maria, Pastore, Biglia, Zabaleta left off Argentina team

Valencia eliminates Monaco in Champions League playoff

Sunderland’s Jermin Defoe

celebrates his goal during the English Premier League

soccer match between Sunderland and Swansea

City at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England,

Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Italian soccer forward Mario Balotelli meets reporters after undergoing medical checks in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. AC Milan’s vice president Adriano Galliani said the club is in talks with Liverpool about bringing striker Mario Balotelli back to Serie A.

Balotelli to have good behaviour clause in Milan contract

Sunderland wins 9-goal thriller, Watford ousted

LONDON — On a frenzied, big-scoring night in the League Cup, Jermain Defoe’s hat trick settled Sunderland’s nine-goal thriller as Premier League teams were given a rough ride by lower-league opponents on Tuesday.

AP Photo/Scott H

eppell

MILAN - Maverick striker Mario Balotelli will have a good behaviour clause inserted into his contract with AC Milan, ban-ning extravagant haircuts and clothing and committing him to a healthy lifestyle. Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport said on Wednesday that the club’s chief ex-ecutive Adriano Galliani had based the clause on regulations which are applied to people who serve in the Italian air force.

The 25-year-old, repeatedly criticised for his poor work rate, is set to return to Milan just one year after leaving for Liverpool, where he had a dismal season. He underwent a medical in Milan on Tues-day ahead of an unexpected loan move, although the deal has not yet been of-ficially confirmed.

According to Gazzetta, Balotelli must not damage the image of the club and his Twitter, Face-book and Instagram posts will be closely monitored.

He will be banned from ext ravagant haircuts and clothing, from

smoking and from visiting night clubs a n d m u s t turn up on time from t r a i n i n g . His drink-ing will also be limited. Balotelli’s first spell at Milan

w a s relatively

s u c c e s s -ful and un-

eventful with a respectable

scoring rate al-though there were

some misdemeanors. He lost his temper in

front of the cameras after his performance in was

criticised by Italian television pundits, telling his interview-

ers that they did not understand football and throwing his micro-phone down.

He was also booked for making a vulgar gesture

at Cagliari supporters, served two three-match bans and was caught smoking in the toilet of a train by a ticket collector.

However, these incidents paled in comparison to some of his antics at Manchester City earlier in his career, where he famously set fire to his house after letting off fireworks in his bathroom. (rtr)

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Defoe’s treble in a 6-3 win over Exeter compensated for defensive gaffes which allowed the fourth-tier side to draw level at 3-3 at half time.

“I am totally unhappy with the goals we gave away at this level,” Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat said. “I never had the feeling they would beat us.”

There were eight goals at Aston Villa. Scott Sinclair’s treble ensured the hosts ousted fourth-tier Notts County 5-3 in extra time after it finished 3-3 at the end of 90

minutes.Watford was Tuesday’s only second-

round Premier League casualty, with second-tier Preston winning 1-0. Miguel Britos was sent off on his debut for Watford, which is still searching for its first win after returning to the Premier League. West Bro-mwich Albion and Stoke only advanced to the third round by winning on penalties.

After being held 0-0 by Port Vale, West Brom beat the third-tier side 5-3 in the shootout. Stoke edged fourth-tier Luton

8-7 on penalties after being held 1-1 over 120 minutes.

The third round, when the Premier League teams involved in European competitions enter, should offer more drama with two derbies: Tottenham-Arsenal and Aston Villa-Birmingham.

Here is a look at the other Premier League teams in action on Tuesday, with Defoe not the only hat trick scorer. (ap)

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal hinted he could play Bel-gium international midfielder Ma-rouane Fellaini, who scored seven goals last season, higher up the field this campaign.

The former Barcelona manager hopes Fellaini will help solve United’s strike problems, with the club manag-ing two goals in their first three Pre-mier League games. “He can play in a nine position and a 10,” Van Gaal, who lead Netherlands to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Brazil, said.

“He can also play at six and eight, but this year he shall play more at nine and 10 because there we have other players,” he added. Fellaini is confident he can handle the job.

“In the past I have played number 10 and number nine sometimes so I can play there and help my team-mates and my team,” the 27-year-old was quoted as saying by the British media.

“It is different to play midfield and striker but I enjoy all the positions I can play,” the former Everton midfielder added.

Van Gaal termed the second leg of their Champions League qualifier against Club Bruges later on Wednes-day as the most important game of his United career.

The Red Devils travel to the Jan Breydel Stadium with a 3-1 lead from the first leg at Old Trafford courtesy of a brace of goals from Memphis Depay and Fellaini’s late header.

“Yes, because it was our aim for the last year to participate in the Champions League and still we are not participating,” he told the club website (www.manutd.com) when asked if this is the most important game of his United career.

“It is a preliminary round so it’s very important. You have to play the game,” added the 64-year-old Dutch-man. (rtr)

Reuters / Jason Cairnduff Livepic

Marouane Fellaini celebrates after scoring the third goal for Manchester United

Van Gaal tips United’s Fellaini to succeed up frontBUENOS AIRES — Angel Di

Maria and Javier Pastore, team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain, have been left off Argentina’s na-tional team for friendly matches next month in the United States against Bolivia and Mexico.

Coach Gerardo Martino an-nounced the team Tuesday. It will also be without Lucas Biglia of Lazio and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City.

The Argentina Football As-sociation said Pastore and Biglia have right-leg injuries, and Za-baleta has a sprained left knee. Di Maria, who recently moved from Manchester United, is be-ing excluded so he can get into top playing condition for his French club.

Di Maria has not played since being injured in the final of the Copa America in July. Argentina lost to Chile on penalties.

The two friendlies are Argen-tina’s last before South American World Cup qualifying starts in October. (ap)

MONACO — Valencia lost 2-1 at Monaco but advanced from their Champions League playoff on an aggregate 4-3 score Tuesday, giv-ing Spain a record five teams in the group phase of Europe’s top-tier competition. Valencia had won the

first leg 3-1, and Alvaro Negredo gave the visiting

side a great start in the fourth minute at Stade Louis II.

The former Man-ches ter Ci ty s t r iker

poached Fabinho’s misplaced backpass and stroked an exquisite chipped shot that goalkeeper Dani-jel Subasic could only watch as it floated over his head before landing in the net.

Andrea Raggi made it 1-1 for Monaco in the 18th and Elderson netted in the 75th to leave the hosts one goal from forcing extra time.

A former two-time finalist, Va-lencia met new owner Peter Lim’s objective of returning to the Cham-pions League after a two-year ab-

sence. “In life, you have to suffer to reach one’s goals,” Valencia coach Nuno Espirito Santo said. “This is the first game of our future. Valencia is a Champions League team. We wanted to be here and here we are.”

Already the undisputed power in the Champions League, Spain is now the first country to send five sides to Europe’s premier tourna-ment.

Valencia will join defending champion Barcelona, 2014 win-ner Real Madrid, 2014 runner-up Atletico Madrid and Sevilla— the first team to qualify by winning the Europa League the previous sea-son— as the five-team contingent from la Liga in Thursday’s group phase draw.

Even before Negredo’s great goal, Valencia had gone close to scoring when Subasic stretched his leg to deny Shkodran Mustafi from a corner kick. But he was helpless to stop Negredo’s sublime shot.

Negredo wasted no time after

picking up Fabinho’s pass as he dribbled forward with his head down before surprising Subasic with a gentle strike from the left side of the area. “Conceding a goal in the first five minutes wasn’t the best thing for a team that needed to turn around a result,” Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim said.

After Negredo narrowly missed scoring a second when he shot high in the 10th, Monaco responded against the flow of play as Raggi slotted a ball the defense failed to clear inside the upright.

Valencia, however, remained in control and went close to scoring again through headers by Dani Parejo and Rodrigo Moreno before halftime.

Valencia then faded in the last half hour, and Elderson ensured a tense finale after he finished off a rebound off goalkeeper Matthew Ryan’s save from a deflected free kick. Monaco pressed Valencia into its area but couldn’t level the tie. (ap)

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) new Argentinean winger Angel Di Maria, right, and Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari president Nasser Al-Khelaifi shake hands as they pose with Di Maria’s PSG jersey during his official presentation in Paris, France. Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015.

Di Maria, Pastore, Biglia, Zabaleta left off Argentina team

Valencia eliminates Monaco in Champions League playoff

Sunderland’s Jermin Defoe

celebrates his goal during the English Premier League

soccer match between Sunderland and Swansea

City at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England,

Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Italian soccer forward Mario Balotelli meets reporters after undergoing medical checks in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. AC Milan’s vice president Adriano Galliani said the club is in talks with Liverpool about bringing striker Mario Balotelli back to Serie A.

Balotelli to have good behaviour clause in Milan contract

Sunderland wins 9-goal thriller, Watford ousted

LONDON — On a frenzied, big-scoring night in the League Cup, Jermain Defoe’s hat trick settled Sunderland’s nine-goal thriller as Premier League teams were given a rough ride by lower-league opponents on Tuesday.

AP Photo/Scott H

eppell

MILAN - Maverick striker Mario Balotelli will have a good behaviour clause inserted into his contract with AC Milan, ban-ning extravagant haircuts and clothing and committing him to a healthy lifestyle. Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport said on Wednesday that the club’s chief ex-ecutive Adriano Galliani had based the clause on regulations which are applied to people who serve in the Italian air force.

The 25-year-old, repeatedly criticised for his poor work rate, is set to return to Milan just one year after leaving for Liverpool, where he had a dismal season. He underwent a medical in Milan on Tues-day ahead of an unexpected loan move, although the deal has not yet been of-ficially confirmed.

According to Gazzetta, Balotelli must not damage the image of the club and his Twitter, Face-book and Instagram posts will be closely monitored.

He will be banned from ext ravagant haircuts and clothing, from

smoking and from visiting night clubs a n d m u s t turn up on time from t r a i n i n g . His drink-ing will also be limited. Balotelli’s first spell at Milan

w a s relatively

s u c c e s s -ful and un-

eventful with a respectable

scoring rate al-though there were

some misdemeanors. He lost his temper in

front of the cameras after his performance in was

criticised by Italian television pundits, telling his interview-

ers that they did not understand football and throwing his micro-phone down.

He was also booked for making a vulgar gesture

at Cagliari supporters, served two three-match bans and was caught smoking in the toilet of a train by a ticket collector.

However, these incidents paled in comparison to some of his antics at Manchester City earlier in his career, where he famously set fire to his house after letting off fireworks in his bathroom. (rtr)

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This beach is only 2 kilometers away from Kuta Beach or 30 minutes from Denpasar Airport by driving a vehicle. The beautiful beach is featured by good access that facilitates every visitor to visit this place. The location of this beach is strategic existing among the other famous surfing points such as Seminyak Beach, Batu Bolong Beach, Echo Beach and Pererenan Beach that make this beach as one of the best choice surfing points in the island of god.

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“Nearly went down, that’s twice. I hope it doesn’t become third time bad luck,” Farah said after he qualified second from his heat for Saturday’s final. “I just have to recover now and get ready.”

For the top distance racers, get-ting through the heats usually means keeping out of trouble among the web of legs from competitors jock-eying for position.

Farah first lost his balance with six laps to go, but 150 meters from the finish he came much closer to actually crashing in a tangle with Mohmmed Ahmed of Canada and Galen Rupp of the United States, Farah’s training partner. It broke Farah’s stride and he had to work some to recover and cross second behind Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia. Rupp fell so far back he finished outside the automatic qualifying

spots but still advanced to the final by time.

“Somebody just caught my legs. The way I run, I’ve got long strides. I don’t blame anyone,” said Farah, who had a little cut on his leg but was fine otherwise. “It just hap-pens, that’s why I have to be at the front or the back and just stay on the outside.”

After getting silver in the 10,000 at the 2011 worlds, Farah bounced back with gold in the 5,000 and hasn’t lost a big race since, one of the most impressive runs in the sport.

There was also excitement in the 110-meter hurdles when Ronnie Ash was disqualified for a false start and then refused to leave the track for several minutes, protesting he should still be in the race.

Once he had left, there was

another false start for Czech hur-dler Petr Svoboda before Pascal Martinot-Lagarde of France finally won the heat in a slow 13.35 sec-onds. Svoboda was later reinstated after a protest and will run in the semifinals.

David Oliver, the best American hope for gold in the event, advanced easily in 13.16, as did world-record holder Aries Merritt in 13.25. The top performer of the year, Cuban-born Orlando Ortega, could not compete since he only recently became a Spanish citizen.

Later Wednesday, Bolt will be back in action, seeking to reach the final of the 200. The evening program also includes finals in the men’s javelin and the 400, and women’s pole vault, 400-meter hurdles and steeplechase.(ap)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Caro-line Wozniacki is feeling healthy, and it showed in another victory at the Connecticut Open. The four-time champion opened play Tues-day night by cruising past American Alison Riske 6-0, 6-4 to advance to the third round at the Connecticut Tennis Center.

“I felt pretty well out there,” said Wozniacki, who is ranked No. 4 in the world. “I felt a little rusty, but I felt like I was hitting the ball well, working hard and my body is feeling good finally. That’s the main part I am really happy about.”

Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko, who was the Lucky Loser entry after top seed Simona Halep withdrew due to injury, won her first match despite a brief rain delay. She eliminated Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-0.

Also winning singles match-es were Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova, who defeated Kristina Mladenovic 2-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5, and France’s Caroline Garcia, who won in straight sets 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 over Slovakia’s Magdalena Ryba-rikova. Sixth-ranked Czech Lucie Safarova closed out the night with a 6-3, 6-4 win, which was delayed for three-plus minutes due to a fire alarm, over Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu. Wozniacki made quick work of Riske in a stadium that she dominated from 2008-11 with four straight titles.

“When I am healthy I know I can play at a high level and I showed that today,” said Wozniacki, who has been bothered by lower back and calf injuries. “I was returning well and serving all right and I just had a game plan in mind. I’ve been working and training on a few things that I really wanted to do out there today. It’s either going to work or it’s not, but this is the way I want to play moving forward.”

The 25-year-old Odense, Den-mark native doesn’t have much time to celebrate. Since Wozniacki got a late start after spending Mon-day in New York City, she will be back on the court late Wednesday afternoon against Italy’s Roberta Vinci.

“I’ll be fine,” she said. “I love New York, it always gives me a big buzz of energy, so I felt good this morning. (Monday) was fun, but I’m ready to play tennis now.” Tsurenko also had an easy time with Strycova, who never led in either set.

“It was really exciting for me to get into the main draw, and I was really happy,” said Tsurenko, who is ranked 46th in the world. “I was really happy, because the last match in the (qualifier) was not a great match for me, and I felt like I am not really ready to play matches like I am out of shape. I don’t know, it was a strange feeling on court.” (ap)

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Britain’s Mohamed Farah stumbles and almost falls in a men’s 5000m round one heat at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

Mo Farah stumbles twice,

advances to 5,000 final at worlds

BEIJING — Mo Farah stumbled once, then again, and still qualified easily for the 5,000-meter final at world championships. With his dominance over the 5,000 and 10,000 over the past five years, Farah is becoming the Usain Bolt of long-distance running. And like the Jamaican sprinter who stumbled over the weekend in the 100 semifinals, Farah survived a couple of scares on Wednesday.

Wozniacki advances at Connecticut Open

Tennis great and Godiva Global Ambas-sador Caroline Wozni-acki “serves up” Soft Serve and introduces

the limited edition “Caroline” chocolate

at Godiva in New York, Monday, Aug.

24, 2015, ahead of her appearance in the U.S.

Open.

Photo by Diane Bondareff/Invision for Godiva/AP Images

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JAKARTA - China and Japan are locked in an increas-ingly heated contest to build Indonesia’s first high-speed railway, with the Asian giants sweetening deals and turning up the charm as time runs out to woo Jakarta.

The rivalry over this major project is just the latest to flare up as China challenges Japan’s long-standing dominance in Southeast Asia as a key source of infrastructure funding.

Japan, a top-three investor in Indonesia with huge stakes in the automotive and mining sectors, seemed destined to build the high-speed railway until China muscled in with a counter offer earlier this year.

President Joko Widodo stoked the competitive spirit of the two Asian powerhouses as he toured China and Japan in April trying to drum up much-needed investment for a multi-billion dollar overhaul of Indonesia’s ageing infrastructure.

In both Beijing and Tokyo, he boarded bullet trains and declared his vision for high-speed rail in Indonesia: a line connecting the sprawling capital Jakarta with Bandung, a mountain-fringed city famed for its universities and IT expertise about 160 kilometres (100 miles) away.

If it was a stunt to grab the attention of his hosts, it cer-tainly worked. A steady stream of diplomats and envoys from Tokyo and Beijing have been pouring in since April to pitch the Widodo administration, and Jakarta is enjoying the limelight.

“Let them race to invest in Indonesia. It’s good for us,” Luhut Panjaitan, chief political minister and a close aide to Widodo, told AFP.

“It’s like a girl wanted by many guys, the girl then can pick whoever she likes.”

The line, if completed, will not only slash travel time between Jakarta and Bandung but pave the way for an expanded network linking the capital with Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya in East Java.

The schmoozing has been ratcheting up ahead of August 31, when Widodo is expected to announce the successful bidder.

China is not seeking any funding guarantees from the Indonesian government and has promised construction would begin this year, with the network up and running no later than 2019.

Beijing recently showcased its high-speed rail prowess in an exhibition at a plush Jakarta mall, where China’s am-bassador to Indonesia likened the project to a child reared by Jakarta and Beijing.

“Our number one priority is to ensure the baby’s health and growth, rather than to rush him to make money to sup-port the family,” Xie Feng said, playing down suggestions China’s main motive in this project was profit.

Japan’s proposal is slightly more expensive than its rival, and it is only promising trains will hit the tracks in 2021. On the plus side, it has offered a lower interest rate of 0.1 per-cent, a fraction of the 2.0 percent China has put forward.

Japan also has history on its side. The country is famous for its legendary shinkansen, its impressive high-speed network that for decades has whizzed commuters between cities at great speed without a single fatal accident on the rails.

China has countered this by arguing it has built 17,000 kilometres of high-speed railway -- or 55 percent of the world total -- in the 12 years since it began constructing bullet trains.

However, a 2011 crash that killed at least 40 people and injured 200 more highlighted what critics say is a tendency to overlook safety in the rush to lay track. (afp)

China, Japan battle to build Indonesia’s first bullet train

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism is exploring the Taiwan tourism market and will attract at least 250,000 tourists until the end of this year.

Deputy Foreign Tourism Marketing of the Tourism Ministry I Gde Pitana said Taiwan is a potential market and relatively stable.

“Taiwan is a mature market and the number of tourists coming to Indonesia is relatively stable,” Pitana said.

This fact shows that Taiwan’s economy is quite stable with a high number of the medium-class community.

According to the World Tourism Orga-nization (UNWTO), in 2013 the number of outbound Taiwan tourists reached 11,053 million.

Last year the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting Indonesia was 201,225 or increase by 17.95 percent from the previous year.

The Ministry continues to promote In-donesian tourism, one of them by holding Taiwan Sales Mission 2015 which will be held on August 26 in Taipei, and August 27 in Taichung. This program aims to gather the Indonesian tourism industry with the tourism industry of Taiwan.

Assistant Deputy for Asia Pacific Market Development, Vincent Jemadu, said the Sales Mission Taiwan 2015 is aimed to increase the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting to preferred destinations in Indonesia.

“The Taiwanese tourists’ characteristics is almost the same as the Chinese, they like island tour. The main preference is Bali, but we hope that in addition to Bali they also like

“We will still observe this upheaval until September when the FOMC (the Federal Open Market Committee) holds its meet-ing. Therefore, our task is to maintain the economic stability during this upheaval,” he affirmed. He noted that the current con-dition of the Indonesian economy is still under control, with all macro indicators showing no signs of crisis.”Our economy recorded a positive growth of 4.7 percent in the first semester. The trade balance has shown a surplus, and the current account deficit has gone down. So, the macro con-ditions are still good. Furthermore, in the banking industry, NPL (non-performing loans) and CAR (capital adequacy ratio)

are in a sound condition. The condition is totally different from that noticed in 1998,” he pointed out.

The rupiah closed stronger at 14,024 per US dollar on Tuesday, gaining from an earlier level of 14,049 per US dollar after it came under pressure over the past few days.

PT Platon Niaga Berjangka analyst Lukman Leong has attributed the rupiah’s rise partly to Bank Indonesia buying back state securities in the secondary market.

The share price index of the Indonesian stock exchange closed 64.77 points, or 1.56 percent higher at 4,228.5 points on Tuesday.

The index rebounded after a sharp fall earlier, with the 45 most liquid stocks jumping 2.32 percent to 708.26 points.

HD Capital analyst Yuganur Wijanarko stated that the market players had bought back shares that were earlier oversold.

Responding to the decision taken by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) to cut its interest rate by 25 basis points, the finance minister said it had no direct impact on the Indonesian economy.

The decision had an impact on the in-ternal situation in China and was intended to boost the public consumption sector to push up its economic performance, he added. (ant)

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

East Timor’s Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo, left, talks with In-donesian President Joko Widodo during their meeting at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

Economic upheaval to continue until Fed issues decision

JAKARTA - The current global economic upheaval will continue until the US Federal Reserve adjusts its benchmark rate, according to Indonesian Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro.

Tourism ministry to explore Taiwan marketto visit other destinations,” he said.

The ministry facilitates business to busi-ness meeting to bring together the Indonesian tourism industry with the Taiwanese tourism industry that is interested in buying tourism packages to Indonesia.

The tour packages offered including Batam and Bintan (Riau Islands), Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Semarang (Central Java), Lom-bok (West Nusa Tenggara), Bandung (West Bandung) and East Java.

Another strategy to increase the number of Taiwanese tourist visits is through visa-free policy.

“Next year the government will issue visa-free policy for 30 countries. Taiwan is one of the countries proposed for the policy,” Jemadu said.

The direct flight of Taiwan - Jakarta served by Eva Air, China Airlines and Air Asia is expected to boost Taiwanese tourist visits to Indonesia. (ant)

“This event shows the interna-tional community that Thailand intends to tackle the illegal ivory trade,” said Nipol Chotiban, head of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Con-servation.

To emphasize the point, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha presided over the event, loading the first tusk into the crushing machine. Thailand’s record on ivory is poor. The United Na-tions body that tries to tackle the illegal ivory trade, known as CITES, lists Thailand as the world’s second-biggest end-user market, behind China.

The Southeast Asian country is a major transit hub and desti-

nation for smuggled tusks, which are often carved into tourist trin-kets and ornaments.

Part of the problem has been a Thai law that allows ivory from its own domesticated elephants to be worked into ornaments and sold. The law has created a loophole through which ivory from African animals can be laundered. In 2013 CITES put Thailand on notice to sort out the situation or face economic sanc-tions. Since then Thailand has passed new laws and made major seizures at ports and airports. But the pressure remains. In less than a week, Thailand must submit an update of its progress to CITES.

Several wildlife and conserva-tion groups audited the stockpile before it was destroyed and wel-comed the event while noting that there is still much to do, includ-ing continuous law enforcement and the tackling of the gangs behind the trade.

“This is not over yet,” said Tom Milliken, one of the world experts on the illicit trade in ivory. “This is just one event that will definitely signal to the world that the Thai government is committed but the impact on the market is really the critical element.” More than 14 tons of ivory remains in Thai stockpiles, kept as part of court cases against smugglers. (ap)

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has asked the U.S. mil-itary to help protect the transport of fresh Filipino troops and supplies in the disputed South China Sea by flying American patrol planes to discourage Chinese moves to stop the resupply missions.

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin says he relayed the Phil-ippine request on Wednesday to visiting U.S. Pacific Commander Adm. Harry Harris Jr. According

to Gazmin, Harris assured him of U.S. readiness to provide as-sistance.

The Philippines has protested past attempts by Chinese coast guard ships to block smaller Fili-pino motor boats transporting fresh military personnel, food and other supplies to a Philippine military ship outpost at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, which is also being claimed and guarded by Chinese vessels. (ap)

BUCHAREST — Officials in Romania say 25 miners are protest-ing more than 200 meters (650 feet) down in a mine, complaining that authorities will not give them an operating license.

Mine manager Gabriela Dobrota said a further 79 miners joined the protest on Wednesday, gathering outside the Baita Plai mine some 520 kilometers (325 miles) north-west of Bucharest.

Economy Minister Mihai Tudose told Romania TV that authorities were investigating suspected cases of illegal mining at the site, which was why the National Agency for Mineral Resources had not issued a mining permit.

The mine has ores which contain gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead and tungsten. The mine was recently ac-quired by British mining company Vast Resources PLC. (ap)

BRUSSELS — A Belgian nurse who helped save hundreds of American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge at the end of World War II has died. She was 94.

Augusta Chiwy died on Sunday and will be buried in the town of Bastogne, southeast Belgium on Saturday following a civilian and military ceremony, according to her family.

The Battle of the Bulge came during the final stages of World

War II when Adolf Hitler launched a major offensive against Allied forces. About 80,000 American soldiers were killed, captured or wounded.

Chiwy volunteered in 1944 to assist in an aid station in Bastogne, where wounded and dying U.S. soldiers in their thousands were being treated by a single doctor. She received a Belgian knight-hood and a U.S award for valor in 2011. (ap)

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

Thai officials arrange seized elephant tusks to be displayed before destruction in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Thai authorities destroyed more than 2 tons of seized and smuggled ivory on Wednesday, the latest move by the government to avoid possible economic sanctions over its perceived failure to tackle the illicit trade.

Thailand destroys more than 2 tons of illegal ivory

BANGKOK — Thai authorities destroyed more than 2 tons of seized and smuggled ivory Wednesday, in the latest move by the government to avoid possible economic sanctions over a perceived failure to tackle the illicit trade. Tusks from more than 200 dead African elephants and other items made from ivory, such as jewelry and statues, were spread across viewing tables before being crushed by a machine into small pieces that were to be incinerated later in the day.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

U.S. Navy Admiral Harry B Harris salutes during welcoming ceremony at the armed forces headquarters at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

Dozens of miners protest at metal mine in northwest Romania

Belgian WWII nurse who helped save many US troops dies

Philippines seeks US help to protect troops in disputed sea

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In Tokyo, the dollar changed hands at 119.62 yen, up from 118.84 yen in New York late Tuesday, as investor confidence picked up.

Fears over slowing growth in China had pushed traders into the yen -- a safe haven during times of turmoil -- sending the dollar tum-bling to 116.18 yen this week, its lowest level since February.

In other trading Wednesday, the euro gave up early gains to buy $1.1481 against $1.1518 in US trading, while it fetched 137.34 yen, compared with 136.87 yen in New York.

China on Tuesday cut interest rates and lowered how much cash banks must hold for the second time in as many months in the latest effort to stem an equities rout that began in June.

US stocks finished lower for the sixth straight session Tuesday, with the Dow posting another triple-digit decline after a morning rally fizzled.

Tokyo led a broad Asian market recovery on Wednesday, although dealers remained nervous and trade was choppy, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 ending 3.20 percent higher after six days of China-linked losses.

The recent market turmoil has sparked speculation that the Federal

Reserve will delay lifting its bench-mark federal funds rate from the zero level, where it has been parked since the 2008 financial crisis to support the US economy’s recovery.

Analysts’ predictions the Fed would raise interest rates in Sep-tember have faded after a rate cut to the Chinese yuan this month, and some now think the central bank may decide to wait until 2016. A rate rise is a plus for the greenback.

On Wednesday, the Australian dollar led declines in currencies of commodity producing nations amid concerns about China, a ma-jor importer of raw materials, with the Aussie weakening to 71.19 US cents from 73.05 US cents in Tues-day Asian trade.

“There will be a lot of volatil-ity” in currency markets, Nizam Idris, the Singapore-based head of foreign exchange and fixed-income strategy at Macquarie Bank, told Bloomberg News.

“The two policy uncertainties -- one in China and the other one in the US -- will likely continue to weigh on emerging-market, as well as Antipodean currencies, including the Aussie.”

The dollar was mostly lower against other Asia-Pacific curren-cies. (afp)

WASHINGTON — Congress’ official budget analyst projected Tuesday that this year’s U.S. gov-ernment deficit will drop to $426 billion, the lowest shortfall of Barack Obama’s presidency, in a re-port providing political ammunition to Democrats and Republicans.

But the annual summertime update by the nonpartisan Congres-sional Budget Office also contained words of warning. It cautioned that without action by lawmakers, a graying population and growing health care costs will push annual federal deficits upward again later this decade, spiking back above $1 trillion in 2025.

That would push the govern-ment’s total debt, accumulated

over decades, to $21 trillion by 2025, or 77 percent of the country’s projected economic output that year. Economists say such amounts could drive up interest rates, boost government debt costs and hinder lawmakers from using tax and spending changes to ease the impact of future recessions.

“The growth in debt is not sus-tainable,” budget office chief Keith Hall told reporters. “You can’t predict tipping points, but at some point this becomes a problem.”

The budget office released its figures two weeks before lawmak-ers return from a summer break steering toward a budget clash. The Republican-led Congress has approved a blueprint that uses

spending curbs on Medicare, Med-icaid and other programs to claim a balanced budget in a decade, a plan Democrats have derided as harsh and unrealistic.

“I would caution those who would use this report as an oppor-tunity to take these short-term sav-ings and push for more spending,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, a Republican. He said “real, substantive budget reforms and savings will have to be on the table during any spending negotiations.”

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said the report shows that Congress has made “important progress on rebuilding our economy

and reducing our deficit.” He said Congress should make “necessary investments” in education and other programs and said serious nego-tiations will be needed to avoid a government shutdown this fall.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has repeatedly said partisan spending clashes will not lead to a govern-ment closure. But it could be hard for the Republican leaders to win conservative votes for spending bills unless they cutting federal payments to Planned Parenthood. Secretly filmed videos have shown the organization’s officials discuss-ing how they provide fetal tissue to medical researchers.

In March, the budget office

projected a $486 billion deficit for this fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30. The analysis said the $60 billion reduction was largely be-cause collections of individual and corporate taxes have been higher than expected.

Annual deficits peaked at a his-toric high of $1.4 trillion in 2009 as the Great Recession reduced federal tax revenue and drove up govern-ment costs for helping low-income and jobless people. Deficits have dropped since then, falling to $485 billion last year.

This year’s $426 billion pro-jected deficit, if realized, would be the government’s smallest since it was $161 billion in the red in 2007. (ap)

US analysts lower 2015 budget deficit forecast to $426B

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

Chinese men chat on the street near a billboard promoting deposit rates for the U.S. dollar in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

Dollar ticks up after China moves to calm market turmoil

TOKYO - The dollar rose against the yen and euro on Wednesday as Chinese authorities moved to shore up the world’s number two economy and reverse a global stock mar-ket bloodbath.

BANGLI - Regional landfill (TPA) at Landih village, Bangli, be-gins to draw the interest of foreign investors for waste power plant. Responding to this, the Bangli Regional Development Planning and Investment Board (Bappeda–PM) indirectly gives green light, but it will carry out assessments in advance.

As information collected by Bali Post recently, the foreign investor wishing to invest in the sector is from Australia. The interest is driven by the existence of quite spacious landfill in Bangli County and the

amount of garbage accommodated is fairly high. On that account, it is pos-sible for the development of waste power plant. Later on, the presence of waste power plant is planned to create new job opportunities for the community. To be able to operate, the foreign investor requires a land area of eight hectares for the con-struction of the waste power plant and if possible, it is also needed additional ten hectares of land for industrial development.

In response to this, the Head of the Bangli Regional Development Plan-ning and Investment Board (Bappe-

da–PM, I Nyoman Widiana, said on Monday (Aug. 24) that his party will conduct further studies, mainly related to the request of land reach-ing 18 hectares, considering the land around the regional landfill is owned by residents. “We will examine first the proposal of investor. Moreover, it also includes the discussion on the land needed. It must be considered carefully,” he explained.

Provision to open investment policies, especially the waste power plant, needs to be communicated to central government, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

“We have to coordinate the interest of foreign investor to Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to ask for consideration,” he said.

Further, Widiana added if the landfill is allowed to be used for location of waste power plant, the number of investors given the op-portunity to invest will be certainly more than one. “For example, if this landfill is possible for waste power plant, we will definitely look for another investor, not just one. It is intended for comparison,” he said.

From different sides, the Head of the Bangli Environment Agency,

I Made Alit Parwata, said that in-vestor focusing on waste is a good thing. If the rubbish is processed for power generation, automatically the piles of rubbish will be on the wane and landfill will not quickly be filled to capacity. “If there are investors dealing in rubbish, definitely it is very good. However, it needs a study,” he added. The regional landfill is a program of provincial government of Bali realized in 2008 spreading across 4.75 hectares of land with a capacity of approxi-mately 550,000 cubic meters of waste. (kmb45)

Headman of Songan B, Jro Lanang, confirmed that the agate search activities on Mount Batur lately begin to proliferate. The search is not only done by local residents, but also by those from outside Bangli.

To his knowledge, the agate search is usually rife in the morning

and afternoon. To get their favorite stone, the agate seekers, admitted Jro Lanang, are even carrying tools such as a crowbar and a small hoe.

Related to rampant agate search on Mount Batur, Jro Lanang admit-ted that it is quite worried. He was worried if the search continues to be done without any control,

it is not impossible over time the area of Mount Batur will be dam-aged. “What we worry is if the agate search is done continuously especially with excavation by us-ing crowbar because it can trigger landslides,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he cannot do much to prohibit the agate search. He just hoped that the agate seekers can re-duce their activity and in the taking process of the agate they can pay attention to the environment.

In the meantime, the Section Head of Conservation for Region II, Natural Resources Conservation

Agency (BKSDA), Ketut Catur Marbawa, when contacted sepa-rately did not dismiss if the agate seeking activities on Mount Batur is getting rife lately.

As information received, the agate searchers climb the Mount Batur through climbing path at Tampuryang Temple. Related to the increasing number of agate search-ing activity, his party also admitted to be quite worried. “Yes, it is the same as quarrying activities. Al-though the agate search is in small scale but over time it can damage the environment,” he explained.

To anticipate the environmental damage caused by the agate search on Mount Batur, he claimed to be conducting operations in the area of Mount Batur. Besides, he will also make persuasive approach to the community especially the agate searchers. However, if the appeal is also ignored, the agate searchers on Mount Batur proved to have dam-aged the environment will be dealt with prevailing laws. “We’re going to make an approach to the commu-nity first. If they cannot be appealed to, we will surely take action against them,” he said. (kmb40)

Regional landfill at Bangli draws interest of foreign investor

IBP/Suasrina

Agate search on Mount Batur feared to result in environmental destruction

BANGLI - Rampant search of agate in the area of Mount Batur, Kintamani, happened lately is feared to cause environ-mental damages. It happens because the agate search in the area of Mount Batur is no longer done by picking it in the area of watershed (loloan) but people begin doing it through excavation by using a crowbar and hoe.

The beautiful scenery of Mount

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NASIK, India — Thousands of devout Hindus began splashing into a west Indian river for the first official day Wednesday of bath-ing at one of the country’s largest festivals.

Hindus believe taking a dip in the waters of a holy river during the Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Fes-tival, will cleanse them of their sins. Wednesday marked the first day of bathing for those attending this year’s festival on the banks of

the Godavari River in Maharashtra state.

Millions are expected to attend this year’s two-month festival, which began in mid-July and runs until the end of September.

The Kumbh Mela derives its name from a mythical fight over a pitcher of holy nectar. According to Hindu mythology, gods and demons waged a furious battle over the nec-tar they needed to achieve immor-tality. Four drops spilled, landing in the four cities that alternatively host the festival: Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythic Saraswati rivers; Harid-war, on the banks of the Ganges; Ujjain, in central India; and Nasik. The festival is held four times every 12 years. (ap)

Unrest flared briefly at a crowded reception centre in the border region of Roszke, with a police spokesman saying tear gas had been fired.

Police said a record 2,533 mi-grants - most of them from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan - were caught entering Hungary from Ser-bia on Tuesday. Another 1,300 were detained just by 9.30 a.m. (0730 GMT) on Wednesday.

More will have passed unno-ticed, walking through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe grop-ing for answers to its worst refugee crisis since World War Two.

Hungary, which is part of Eu-rope’s Schengen passport-free travel zone, is building a fence along its 175-km (110-mile) border with Serbia in a bid to keep them out, taking a hard line on what right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban says is a threat to European security, prosperity and identity.

Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said parliament would de-bate next week whether to employ the army in the border effort.

“Hungary’s government and national security cabinet ... has discussed the question of how the army could be used to help protect Hungary’s border and the EU’s border,” Kovacs said.

Authorities said over 140,000 migrants had entered Hungary from

Serbia to far this year. The numbers travelling through the Balkans have soared in recent weeks, with 3,000 crossing into Macedonia daily from Greece then whisked by train and bus north to Serbia and beyond.

“IT’S FOR FREEDOM”The chief commissioner of Hun-

garian police, Karoly Papp, said police were readying six special border patrol units of an initial 2,106 officers, equipped with heli-copters, horses and dogs, to be sent in depending on the situation on the Serbian border. “They don’t have and will not get an order to shoot,” Papp told a news conference.

In Roszke, the police spokes-man said some 200 migrants at the reception centre where unrest flared had refused to be fingerprinted.

Almost all hope to reach the more affluent countries of north-ern and western Europe such as Germany and Sweden, but being fingerprinted in Hungary means that, under EU rules, they risk be-ing returned to Budapest as their official point of entry into the 28-nation EU.

“I want a country to be part of, I want a country to belong to, I want a culture, a civilisation,” said Rabie Hajouk, a 29-year-old IT engineer who said he was from the devas-tated Syrian city of Homs.

“It’s not for money or for food, it’s for freedom, freedom of mind, for education. To be part of the civilised world.”

Embroiled in a debilitating eco-nomic crisis, Greece has taken to fer-rying mainly Syrian migrants from its overwhelmed islands to Athens. Some 50,000 hit Greek shores by

boat from Turkey in July alone.Some European leaders have

complained that Greece fails to register its arrivals, meaning their first recognised point of entry is often elsewhere and Athens does not risk them being sent back.

Serbia said around 10,000 mi-grants were passing through the

country at any time, their stay lengthening as Hungary nears completion of its border fence.

“The situation will get worse, when winter arrives. We’re get-ting ready to look after double that number,” Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told the Frank-furter Allgemeine Zeitung. (rtr)

Thousands bathe at riverside festival in India

Indian pilgrims offer prayers as they perform rituals in the Godavari River during Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher Fes-tival, in Nasik, India, Wednes-day, Aug. 26, 2015.AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal

Hungary moves to secure border as migrants stream in

REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Syrian migrants cross under a fence into Hungary at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, Au-gust 26, 2015. Hungary’s government has started to construct a 175-km-long (110-mile-long) fence on its border with Serbia in order to halt a massive flow of migrants who enter the EU via Hungary and head to western Europe.

ROSZKE, Hungary - Hungary made plans on Wednesday to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army to confront a record number of migrants trekking into Europe, many flee-ing war in Syria.

“In general, the PHDI’s concept specifies 40 percent as the core zone. Then, 30 percent as the buffer zone and remaining 30 percent as the utilization zone. But, the draft-ing team has already suggested that these figures will be tailored to the characteristics of each sacred area. The percentage cannot be general-ized on a whole, and the PHDI has been flexible about this,” he said.

Diana added that zones that are agreed to as sacred are only intended for the sanctum area.

Building in these zones must be limited to the construction of supporting facilities for religious activities. Spatial utilization for residential as well as business and economic activities has begun to be done in the buffer zone. How-ever, the scope is still limited to local residents, but not as free as in the utilization zone.

“The scale is still ton a level that is meant to revive the economy of local people with a limited concept in the area. For example, if it is for

tourism business, hotels are not al-lowed. Only allowed buildings like cottage or guesthouses are allowed. The utilization zone is free and can be utilized for that purpose as it is located far form the sacred zone,” he explained.

Diana pointed out that sad kahyangan temples have a sacred area that extends to a radius of five km. Meaning that the core zone will spread out for 2 km and a buffer zone is at a distance of 1.5 km. When added together, the area still extends for 3.5 km before the space can be used for economic activities for the next 1.5 km. And what about buildings, especially tourist accommodations like hotels that have been established in the forbidden zone?

“Regional Bylaw No.16 (on

provincial spatial planning—Ed) already addresses this issue, but so far enforcement is very difficult. The transitional provision has been very steady where the build-ings established in a zone that does not correspond to the spatial designation will be allowed to wait until the building expires. If the buildings have a building permit (IMB), then we wait until the permit validity expires, after which it should be adjusted to the new spatial planning. For ex-ample, if the building is no longer allowed to be in that area, it can-not stay there,” he explained while adding enforcement is hampered by the amount of compensation charged to the respective local governments.

Chairman of the PHDI Bali, I

Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, hopes that Regional Bylaw Draft on the APZ can protect the temple areas from exploitation. In addition, local residents must not be made to loose their livelihoods, either. Otherwise, eventually no one will be willing to live there. To that end, his party agreed to allow local residents to build homes for themselves as well as Dharma Sala or lodging sfor the purposes of spiritual tourism in the buffer zone.

“Hence, there is an opportu-nity for Dharma Sala. In order that those who take care of the temples do not fall into poverty, there are allowances for them to engage in business opportunities so as to earn a living, but these businesses are still related to religious activities,” he said. (kmb32)

NEGARA - Refusal action against the Benoa Bay reclamation echoed from the west side of the Island of Bali. Through the recent music performance at Melaya Sta-dium, Jembrana, young generation of Melaya voiced their rejection against the reclamation. Dozens of local bands of Jembrana showed off their capability by singing songs on the struggle and rejection against the reclamation.

With a fairly simple stage on the basketball court of the Melaya

Stadium, the participants spontane-ously unfolded a banner saying Re-ject Benoa Bay Reclamation. Each participant is required to present a song with struggle theme using their own arrangement. “Actually, this is our annual event every Inde-pendence Day. We spontaneously organize a band parade. And this time we are also voicing rejection against the Benoa Bay reclama-tion,” said I Ketut Ardika, 36, or Dikok, the initiator of the event.

Dikok has his own reasons for

the refusal against the reclamation. Ardika also known as Chairman of the Independent Army Community does not only accumulate young people to express their creativity in music, but also in caring about the environment.

This young generation commu-nity also establishes an environ-ment-caring community in what the so-called the Environmental Awareness Group (Darling). Pe-riodically, the music community also contributes to preserve the coastal environment and marine

life. Previously, Reject Reclama-tion action has also been carried out spontaneously by putting up a billboard in Melaya. “Actually this is the second time and we want to arouse again so as jointly reject the reclamation,” he added.

Dikok has his own reasons to re-ject the reclamation. Other than not taking side in the environment, they equally do not agree with the reasons for job opportunities in Bali. Accord-ing to Dikok, to tell the truth without any additional land, there have been

many job opportunities in Bali that can be taken by younger generation of Bali. It is not necessarily related to tourism sector, many other sectors can still be worked on as long as there is willingness.

After each band made per-formance for two-three songs, a number of bands spontaneously joined the band onstage to sing the song entitled Reject Reclamation. Similarly, the banner on Reject Reclamation is also stretched. (kmb26)

Dozens of Jembrana bands perform to reject reclamation

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The Hindus pray in Besakih Temple

Regional bylaw draft on APZ

Economic activity starts in buffer zoneDENPASAR - Special Committee of Zoning Regulation

Directive (APZ) and the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indone-sia (PHDI) Bali finally agreed on the zoning for sacred areas, during a meeting at the Assembly Room of the Bali House, on Tuesday (Aug. 25). Chairman of the Bali House APZ Special Committee, I Kadek Diana, said there are three zones set forth in such a way to allow and disallow specific activities.

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The Spanish capital receives an average of 2,749 hours of sun-shine per year, according to the Spanish weather agency, double the amount received by London. That does not stop Macarena Garcia, a university student, from seeking out UV rays.

“My family does not like it, they tell me it is not healthy... but they live near the beach! I work here and I also want to tan,” she said as she left the Solmania tanning salon in the centre of Madrid.

She is not alone. Jose Manuel Rodriguez, a handsome 36-year-old dancer, said he comes to the salon up to three times a week “in order not to lose (his) natural tan”.

Jose Carlos Moreno of Spain’s academy of dermatology, (AEDV), does not hesitate to call this need to be tanned an addiction.

“They are people who never feel that they are tanned enough,” he said before comparing them to “anorexics who always feel like they are too fat”.

Their profile: mainly women and people under the age of 40 -- based on study participants -- who tan more than two times a week to the point of obtaining an excessively orange or chocolatey skin tone.

Tanning salons emerged in the 1980s in the United States, and researchers in the United States have been talking about tanning addictions -- dubbed “tanorexia” -- since the 2000s.

The symptoms are similar to those of heroin addiction, accord-ing to Joel Hillhouse, a professor of public health at East Tennessee State University in the United States who has studied the psy-

PARIS - Scientists have taken a major step towards creating a vac-cine that works against multiple strains of influenza, according to two studies published Monday in top journals.

A “universal vaccine” is the holy grail of immunisation efforts against the flu, a shape-shifting virus which kills up to half a mil-

lion people each year, according the World Health Organization.

There have been several killer pandemics in the last century -- the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak claimed at least 20 million lives.

Existing vaccines target a part of the virus that mutates constantly, forcing drug makers and health officials to concoct new anti-flu

cocktails every year.In the two studies, published in

Nature and Science, researchers tested new vaccines on mice, ferrets and monkeys that duplicate another, more stable, part of the virus.

Scientists have long known that the stem of haemagglutinin -- a spike-like protein, known as HA, on the surface of the virus -- remains

largely the same even when the tip, or “head”, changes.

But until now, they have not been able to use the stem to provoke an immune reaction in lab animals or humans that would either neutralise the virus, or allow the body to attack and destroy infected cells.

To make that happen, a team led by Hadi Yassine of the Vaccine

Research Center at the US National Institutes of Health grafted a nano-particle-sized protein called ferritin onto a headless HA stem.

The next step was to immunise mice and ferrets, then injecting them with the H5N1 “bird flu” that has a mortality rate of more than 50 percent among people but is not very contagious. (afp)

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‘Major step’ toward universal flu vaccine: studies

Tanorexia: when getting a tan becomes an addiction

MADRID - On a warm August evening in Madrid a steady stream of tanned cus-tomers parade out of a tanning salon -- even in sunny Spain, the need to catch some rays can turn into an addiction.

chology of tanning.They include a desire to tan on

waking, a needed for increasingly bigger “doses”, feelings of anxiety when not tanning and annoyance when friends and family com-ment on their excessive tanning, he said.

Some people continue to using tanning beds even though they have skin cancer, Hillhouse said.

“We even had a few that were willing to admit to us that they had done things like steal money in order to do indoor tanning. They would actually take their room-

mate’s or their parents’ money,” he said.

Researchers say that exposure to ultraviolet rays itself can be addictive.

“One of the reasons why the tanners tan is not only how they look, but how it makes them feel,” said Steve Feldman, a professor of dermatology at Wake Forest University in South Carolina.

Sunlight stimulates the release of endorphins, hormones that result in feelings of relaxation or euphoria very similar to that generated by morphine, Feld-

man said.The World Health Organiza-

tion has since 2012 classified UV-emitting tanning devices as carcinogenic to humans.

Brazil became the first country in the world to ban indoor tan-ning bed in 2009, followed by Australia in 2014.

Australia has the highest rate of melanoma in the world with 11,000 cases per year. Melanoma is the deadliest kind of skin can-cer, and is highly linked to sun exposure.

According to Vanessa Rock,

the chair of the National Skin Cancer Committee in Australia, studies have shown that sunbeds increase melanoma risk by 20 percent, regardless of age at first use.

But skin cancer rates have stabilised among those under the age of 45 thanks to “public education campaigns and greater awareness”, Rock said.

In Spain 3,600 cases of mela-noma are diagnosed each year. “Tanning booths abound, in beau-ty centres and gyms,” Moreno said. (afp)

Currently AIDS and TB are the real threats. In 2014, there were 3,034 new cases of new TB and old TB. A total of 1,057 TB cases occurred in Denpasar, 662 cases in Buleleng, and 333 cases in Badung. “Bangli only has 75 cases, because it also has a very small population” he said. Considering that TB is spread through the air, known as ‘droplet infection’, transmission can happen easily in densely popu-lated areas such as Denpasar. Apart from population density, lack of proper hygiene is also a contribut-ing factor. “People infected with TB who have no received adequate treatment can pass on the disease,” he added.

In fact, TB that is caused by bacteria, is a curable disease and anti- tuberculosis medicines are available. The problem is that TB treatment takes a long time -at least six months. Wira is confident that people with TB and said that there is an 85 percent success rate in cur-ing the disease in Bali. “However, if 15 percent of those infected are not treated, they will transmit it to others. We are therefore seeking

a 100 percent success rate in the treatment of TB.”

AIDS and TB have a correlation. Wira said that if a TB patient does not recover after seeking treatment they are advised to be tested for HIV, because TB has three forms: drug resistant or multi-drug resis-tant (MDR), HIV-TB and child TB. A person with TB needs to take their medicine everyday and not stop until there prescription is done. Otherwise, the patient can become resistant to the drugs and rewire even stronger drugs. “If patients stop taking their drugs they can still transmit the disease because not all the germs are killed,” he explained.

People TB drug-resistant, have a recovery rate of 50-70 percent, while child TB occurred because its parents are not successfully treated so that they transmit it to their children. HIV-TB is common in Bali because of the large number of people with HIV. “Many HIV-positive patients are living with TB,” he said.

Therefore, TB patients are re-quired to conduct a HIV checkup,

and so do pregnant women and spouses of patient living with TB. Data for 2014 showed that of the 3,034 patients with TB, 20.7 percent also have HIV. However, Wira asserted that TB patients do not necessarily have HIV and con-versely, people living with HIV do not necessarily suffer from TB.

Bali is not yet free of TB be-cause the discovery of TB cases has not reached the national target, for either case notification rates (CNR) or case detection rates (CDR). If TB is discovered early on recovery rates reache 90 per-cent. Another problem is that there are counties that have not reached the targeted success rate (SR) or a minimum recovery rate of 85 percent and conversion rates have not reached the minimum target of 80 percent. “We admit that our lab conversion is weak because the ex-amined point of TB is the sputum. The continued existence of TB in Bali is also due to the increasing burden of MDR-TB and HIV-TB as well as limited manpower and health facilities serving the MDR-TB,” he explained. (kmb42)

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A fisherman sails his traditional boat during a boat rac-ing at the local Sanur village festival in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

KUTA - The Ministry of Mari-time and Fishery Affairs has formu-lated guidelines for the protection of small fishermen in the Southeast Asian region, the Director General of Fisheries, Gellwynn Jusuf, re-vealed it.

He said the guidelines are related to aspects of ownership, capital, society, gender, fishing rights guar-antee, access to natural resources, as

well as the government’s concern for the fishermen.

Jusuf said small fishermen, whose catch is below five gross tons, are an integral part of the economic backbone of a number of ASEAN countries.

“The extent of small-scale fish-ery production in Indonesia has reached 60 percent, or about four to five million tons per year. Unfortu-nately, they are supervised less, in terms of sanitation, hygiene and quality,” he said.

The sustainable protection guidelines for small-scale fisheries are aimed at reducing poverty and building food security and were agreed upon by a number of coun-tries in Rome, Italy, during a meet-ing in June, 2014.

Their implementation is now being discussed by a number of countries, including Indonesia, which has included them in a medi-um-term national development plan and in the national legislation by drafting specific laws of protection and empowerment for small-scale fishermen.

Fishery planning analyst Nicole Franz, from the Department of Fish-eries at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, welcomed the initiative adopted by Indonesia.

“Indonesia has included the small fishing guidelines into its national development plan. We recognize that their implementa-tion in Indonesia is not just on the paper, but part of a direct action,” she stated. (ant)

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People hold candle during a reflection night event to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS that took place in Renon, recently. Behind the glamour of Bali tourism, there are threatening diseases. At the national and regional level of Bali, there are three priority diseases, namely AIDS, tu-berculosis (TB), malaria.

AIDS and TB threaten Bali

DENPASAR - Behind the glamour of Bali tourism, there are threatening diseases, the top three are: AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. “Malaria was eliminated from Bali in 2014, but there are people from outside of Bali, from places such as NTB and NTT that are still affected by malaria,” said the Division Head of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Bali Health Office, Gde Wira Sunertra, on Wednesday.

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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 Galungan, 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 beau-tifully 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 beautifully 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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The event is held every Friday from 21.00 pm until 23.30 pm. Not only can the tourists who stay in The Sunset Hotel Bali, but anybody come there to enjoy the unique strains of music. The reg-gae music is played by Kingston Soul Band with their dreadlocked

vocalist. The situation in this event would be very crowded, but the security is maintained. So far, the guests who attend, not only who stay in the 77 rooms which this hotel owned, but also enjoyed by the reggae music lovers com-munity in the tourist area of Kuta

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Reggae Night at Garamerica RestaurantKUTA - Are you confused looking for a place to hang out at

night? Try to drop in The Sunset Hotel Bali which is located in Dewi Sri Street, Kuta. Garamerica restaurant has an ec-centric reggae music program. While enjoying many kinds of food and beverages, we can enjoy the atmosphere of the night, accompanied by the strains of the reggae music.

and Bali in general. Not only drinks, various main-

stay menus which the reastaurant owned is also presented to the visitors. The regular menu which

usually ordered is pizza and of course a suitable menu for gath-ering with friends. “There were also ordered fried crips duck as well as other menu,” said Yanti

Rastiti, the Banquet Sales Execu-tive of The Sunset Hotel Bali.

Yanti Rastiti said, this event has been going on for 4 months and able to become the new mu-

sic icon in D e w i S r i Street which is still rela-tively new. “Soon, our r e s t a u r a n t will open all you can eat buffet every Friday from 18.00 pm – 2 1 . 0 0 p m which aims t o e n l i v e n this event,” a d d e d t h e woman who is f r iendly w i t h t h e guests.

“To achieve a sustainable Bali, Bali’s hu-man resources must constantly be improving themselves and take advantage of opportuni-ties so that they can compete with migrants,” he said.

Djaya Wirata added that local govern-ments bodies, including the executive and legislative branches at the provincial, county and municipalle level all play very important roles in creating conditions of sustainability. This is primarily done through the creation and implementation of regulations that tighten the requirements on migrants so that Balinese people can be less prone to marginalization.

“When we look at what is happening today, we see that Balinese people play a very im-portant and necessary role. The development of Bali, has become extremely excessive, uncontrollable and apparently subservient to whoever has capital,” he continued.

Diaya Wirata pointed out that the of ex-cessive construction of hotels has led to an oversupply of rooms, that in turns drives the prices down, creating a cheapened image of tourism on the island. This has append de-spite there already being a moratorium of the construction of new hotels. Such detrimental development is now being aggravated by the inclusion of Besakih into the National Tourism Strategic Area (KSPN), as well as the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

“With Besakih as part of the KSPN, inves-tors are bound to be tempted to build tourism facilities by means of collusion with the ruling government through the loop hole that has thus been created. Besakih being designated as part of the KSPN opens opportunities to degrade the sacred zone of Besakih,” he explained.

Djaya Wirata went on to say that the Benoa Bay reclamation plan has been rejected by various circles in Bali, Indonesia and people overseas, because it runs contrary to the phi-losophy of Tri Hita Karana. The plan to backfill 700 hectares of Benoa Bay will potentially de-grades Balinese customs and culture as well as marginalizes Balinese people. “Moreover, the process by which the Benoa Bay reclamation plan has come about took place in an under-handed manner and there is information that states that up to IDR 1 trillion was submitted by investors. This is a most unworthy act, just like a whore- we Balinese people can be bought,” affirmed this member of Love Bali Forum.

Former Chairman of the 11 KSPN Assess-ment Team, Prof. Dr. I Made Bakta, said that the definition of the KSPN is not in line with what Besakih is according to Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on the Bali Provincial Regional Spatial Planning (RTRWP). According to this regional bylaw, Besakih is classified as a sacred zone so by including it into the KSPN there is a conflict of norms.

“There is a change in the main function of the sacred area into tourism strategic area, which means that the main function is for tourism,” he said. This former rector of the Udayana University confirmed that the region of Besakih should be maintained as the most sanctified region in Bali because Besakih has a central role in preserving the values of Hinduism and has become the spirit of Bali over the years.

Wirata is nevertheless, aware that the inclu-sion of Besakih into the KSPN will provide material benefits. However, the material value obtained is not comparable to the potential negative impacts.

Regarding to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan, member of Commission II, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, has previously said that the plan has violated Government Regulation No. 50/2011 on the national tourism development master plan and Law No.10/2009 on tourism. Additionally the investors’ bait of providing 250,000 jobs to labourers, will only lead to social inequality in Bali. In the the governor of Bali’s accountability report for 2014, it is stated that there are only 44,000 unemployed people on the island of the gods. “What we are worried about is that the industrialization of tourism will change the pattern of cultural tourism and result in the elimination of Balinese people,” he explained. (kmb32)

Dr.Putra added that in the case of a sustainable Bali, the Balinese community would be highly dedicated to upholding Balinese values that main-tains nature and not destroy it nor sell or destroy their own culture.

In terms of nature as a pillar of sustainability, Dr. Putra spoke of current drought and flood conditions that clearly need be addressed through spatial plan-ning and the wise use of natural resources, so as to allow for life to be safe, comfortable, productive and sustainable. “The use of natural resources must always take into consideration what sustains life so as to avoid a nature resource crisis in the future,” said Dr. Putra.

As for the cultural and economic pillars, he said that there must be a form of screening done to determine which foreign influences have a posi-tive or negative impact on cultural development in Bali. There also needs to be a master plan for Bali’s economy so that Balinese people can pros-per. “Solution must be sought for these challenges in order to avoid negative impacts in the future,” added Dr. Putra.

In response to Dr. Putras statements, I Gusti Ngurah Anom expressed his agreement about the need to maintain these pillars in order to avoid threats to a sustainable Bali. According to Anom, in order to sustain Bali we need to get back to our roots as Balinese. “Like all things, we need to start with small things first. We need to look at our own small actions and ask ourselves whether this action is contributing to sustaining Bali,” he explained.

Gusti Gede Putra Wirasana presented similar opinions. According to Wirasana, Bali is a sweet place and as such is bound to be the target of myriad fortune seekers. Therefore, no one can be blamed for the arrival of so many migrants, who come to Bali to earn a living. “If we look at the agricultural sector for example, rice harvesting laborers are mostly brought in from the outside. We cannot blame these migrants, but our people need to maintain what has been bequeathed to us, including sekaa manyi or rice harvesting groups,” said Wirasana.

If the harvesting groups remain in existence, out-siders cannot dominate this sector. “People need to be given information about the fact that rice harvest laborers earn a reasonably high income with many benefits,” he urged.

I Gusti Bagus Suryadi exposed the fact that if the sustainability of Bali is threatened, we have no one to blame but ourselves, and we must first consider whether we have self-awareness and whether the concept of Tri Hita Karana and introspection has been applied properly.

From this “Sustainable Bali” discussion, the initial solutions that emerged, were the need for the active role of the public at large as well as self-awareness on the part of Balinese people, so as to ensure that all actions are contributing to a sustain-able Bali. Putra added that the legislative and execu-tive arms of the government play an important role in the commitment to maintain the sustainability of Bali. “These two branches of government along with all other members of the Balinese community need to work jointly to maintain the sustainability of Bali,” concluded Dr. Putra. (kmb24)

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A limestone dredging activity increasingly rampant due to excessive development in Bali. Sustainable Bali should be understood as a dynamic condition with the Tri Hita Karana philosophy as foundation. Correspondingly, Ba-linese people may not be left behind and marginalized by various internal and external strikes.

Excessive Development of Bali threatens Balinese

DENPASAr - A sustainable Bali should be understood as a dynamic condition with the concept of Tri Hita Karana as its foundation. Correspondingly, Balinese people cannot be left behind and marginalized by various internal and external impacts. Businessman, I Gusti Kade Djaya Wirata, elaborated on this view in Denpasar on Wednesday.

Sustainability pillars of Bali: Balinese people

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Brosnan said he doubted Bond producer Barbara Broccoli would allow a gay Bond to happen in her lifetime.

“But it would certainly make for interesting viewing,” he added.

“Let’s start with a great black actor being James Bond. Idris Elba certainly has the physicality, the charisma, the presence.”

Elba, 42, is seen as a frontrunner to succeed Daniel Craig, who has played the suave British agent for the last 10 years.

Brosnan played Bond in movies

Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day in the 1990s.

His remarks were published five months after another previous 007 actor, Roger Moore, was blasted on social media for suggesting race should be a factor when casting the next Bond.

French magazine Paris Match quoted him as saying: “Though James has been played by a Scot, a Welshman, an Irishman, I think he should be English-English. It’s nonetheless an interesting idea, but

unrealistic.The 87-year-old star, who played

007 in seven films from 1973 to 1985, said his remarks were lost in translation.

“An interview I gave to Paris Match implies I said something rac-ist about Idris Elba. That is simply untrue,” Moore wrote on Twitter.

“When a journalist asks if ‘Bond should be English’ and you agree, then quotes you saying it about Idris Elba, it’s out of context,” he added.

London-born Elba is the son of a Sierra Leonean father and a Ghanaian mother. His most famous role to date is playing former South African presi-dent Nelson Mandela in “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”. (afp)

NEW YORK — Sean Hayes will play God Almighty in the City of Angels next year.

Producers of the “An Act of God” said Wednesday that the Emmy Award-winning former “Will and Grace” star will step into the big role starting Jan. 30 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. The divine part was filled this sum-mer by Jim Parsons on Broadway.

The 90-minute play is a chance

for the Almighty to set the record straight — like that he doesn’t hate gays and he can’t help anyone sing better — and update his 10 Com-mandments.

It was written by David Javer-baum, former head writer and execu-tive producer of “The Daily Show” and a producer of “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” He’s also the power behind the Twitter handle @TheTweetofGod. (ap)

NEW YORK — Phar re l l and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, where Kanye West will receive a spe-cial award.

West will earn the Michael Jack-son Video Vanguard Award at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles for his memorable music videos and live performances.

The Weeknd, Demi Lovato, A$AP Rocky, Tori Kelly and Twen-

ty One Pilots also will perform during the two-hour show.

Miley Cyrus will host the event, which airs live at 9 p.m. Eastern time (0100 GMT) on MTV.

Taylor Swift is the top contender with 10 nominations. Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and Mark Ronson also are up for mul-tiple awards.

Additional performers and pre-senters will be announced later this week. (ap)

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Time for black or gay 007, says Brosnan

NEW YORK - The next James Bond could be black or gay, argues 007 veteran Pierce Brosnan. “Sure. Why not?” the Irish star was quoted as telling men’s magazine Details when asked if he could picture a gay Bond.

Pharrell to perform at MTV VMAs, Kanye to get special honor

Sean Hayes to be divine in ‘An Act of God’ in Los Angeles

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Sunderland wins 9-goal thriller, Watford ousted

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Dr. I Gusti Made Putra explained that there are four main pillars that sustain Bali and that direct changes towards positivity, there are: humans, nature, culture and the economy of Bali. “There are challenges to all four pil-lars, but these challenges must be faced and resolved so as to improve conditions. Other-wise, there are sure to be negative impacts for everyone,” he said.

In regards to Balinese people as one of the

pillars of sustainability, Dr Putra said that if the Balinese population diminishes, we need to: ‘ask who else can maintain Balinese cul-ture?’ “Also the percentage of Balinese people who are in touch with their culture could also diminish. If there are no more Balinese people to practice the culture, how will it survive?” he asked.

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Hindus people held Melasti ceremony, a ritual to purify Bhuana Alit (small world) and Bhuana Agung (the universe). Dr. I Gusti Made Putra explained that there are four main pillars that sustain Bali and that direct changes towards positivity, there are: humans, nature, culture and the economy of Bali.

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TABANAN - A discussion en-titled “Sustainable Bali” took place

over the weekend at the Tabanan Grand Palace, where the sustainability of both nature and culture in Bali was described as a condition wherein the supporting pillars remain upright and harmoni-ous, despite inevitable changes. These changes, it was said, must be good for Balinese nature and culture so that neither becomes ‘endangered’.