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Joint personnel of Bali Policeand Jemberana Police were de-ployed openly to inspect. Densus88 antiterrorism squad of BaliPolice that had been standby pre-viously at Gilimanuk was thenmore intensified by performingmore sweepings. This measureposed preventive action as well asminimization of security threats,especially terrorism.

Besides, closed monitoring wasalso implemented by a number ofintelligence agent incorporated inthe Regional Intelligence Com-munity (Kominda). Based onmonitoring carried out within fewdays at Gilimanuk, other thanregular inspection by the rank ofjoint police officers at Post I(ticket booth) and Post II (seaportexit), a number of apparatus ofKominda consisting of com-mander of intelligence of the IXUdayana Military Command,State Intelligence Agency (BIN),

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - An explosion at acolliery in central China has killed17 workers, a provincial officialsaid Sunday, in the latest deadlyaccident to hit the nation’s notori-ously dangerous mining industry.

The blast happened on Satur-day in Hunan province’s RuchengCounty, an official with the pro-vincial work safety bureau, whorefused to be named, told AFP.

“Rescue work has ended,” hesaid, without providing furtherdetails.

According to the officialXinhua news agency, the explo-sion happened inside the pitwhere dynamite was being storedand there was also a build-up ofpoisonous gas.

A total of 18 people wereworking underground at the time,and one survived with injuries,Xinhua said.

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Plan on the arrival of the U.S. President, Barack Hussein Obama, to Indonesia and Bali in particular made the security forcesbusy. Entry point of Bali through the Gilimanuk Harbor becoming the main route from the Island of Java appeared to besupervised more closely since last week.

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NEGARA - Plan on the arrival of the U.S. President, BarackHussein Obama, to Indonesia and Bali in particular madethe security forces busy. Entry point of Bali through theGilimanuk Harbor becoming the main route from the Islandof Java appeared to be supervised more closely since last week.

intelligence and security unit(Satinteldim 1617/Jembrana) andSatiltelkam of Jembrana Police,District Attorney Intelligence(Kejari) as well as the nationalunion, politics and Public Protec-tion (Kesbangpollinmas) ofJembrana Regency alternately scru-tinized the people entering into Balisecretly.

In addition, surveillance at illegalpaths was also conducted in private.Allegedly, there were still immigrantswho could enter into Bali withouthaving identity or a problem with IDcards. Such illegal immigrants tookadvantage of the usual pickup serviceby motorbike taxi from the harbor.This motorcycle taxi plus service wasalleged to pass illegal residents at plusservice charge, too. Any bribery ef-forts were often made by those re-gional immigrants. This situationwould be monitored more intensivelyby Kominda. Continued on page 6

China coal mineexplosion kills 17 workers

Police and work safety offi-cials are investigating the causeof the blast, the report said.

Around 2,600 people werekilled last year in China’s vast min-ing industry due mainly to lax regu-lation, corruption and inefficiency,according to official figures.

Earlier this month, 21 work-ers were killed in a gas blast at acolliery in the southwestern prov-ince of Guizhou.

In March, a flood at the huge,unfinished Wangjialing mine inthe northern province of Shanxileft 153 workers trapped under-ground. A total of 115 were re-covered alive in a rare successfulrescue for the industry.

Zhao Tiechui, head of theState Administration of CoalMine Safety, said in February thatChina would need at least 10years to “fundamentally im-prove” safety.

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Dennis Hopper,Hollywood heroand antihero, dies

India Maoist trainsabotage tollclimbs to 146

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Bali - The national news agencyAntara quotes Indonesia’s Vice-President Boediono as declaring thatevery time he visits the island of Balihe discovers his mind is clearer andmore refreshed after his visit. Speak-ing at a meeting with Bali’s gover-nor, Boediono said: “I’m not justpaying lip service. Every time I cometo Bali, my thoughts become moreserene and relaxed.”

The Vice-President’s endorse-ment received a round of applausefrom all in attendance, including theRegents and Mayors from acrossBali who attended the meeting. En-couraged, Boediono continued bysaying Bali is a “paradise island”which possession a “special magne-

Bertiabali .com quotes thespokesman of the Bali provincialgovernment, Ketut Teneng, whosays that if clinical studied findthat rabies have infected domes-tic cats then local authoritieswould have to weigh the meritsof exterminating stray cats andvaccinating those kept as pets.

Teneng said such measuremight become necessary for Bali

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AMLAPURA - From thepast time, Bali was never well-ordered, despite it had regula-tions on provincial spatial lay-out plan (RTRWP) and regula-tion of detailed spatial layoutplan (RDTR) for each regency/city. However, the regulationswere only like toothless lion.Violation by violation was dis-regarded so the conditions ofspatial layout became unorga-nized as today.

It was announced by par-liament member ofKarangasem, I Nyoman Sadra,last Saturday (May 29), inKarangasem, in response to theunobvious implementation ofregulations of RTRWP Bali af-ter the rejection made by Re-gent/Mayor in Bali. Now, itseems the RTRWP is left in thestatus quo.

Sadra who is also an en-vironmental activist, exempli-fied the violations inKarangasem, which until nowwere allowed, namely the con-struction of hotels in BukitMimba, Padangbai. The projectwas standstill and threatened tobe left unorganized. The sameviolation occurred on the south-eastern slopes of the BukitGumang, Bugbug Village. In-

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Bali - The provincial government of Bali is considering introducing mass vaccination for catsafter initial reports of a rabies death in Buleleng, North Bali, tied to a young girl bitten by a cat.Follow-up reports, however, have discounted those reports, linking the death to a non-rabies-related infection of the brain.

to meet its goal of becoming ra-bies free by 2012.

The Bali spokesman said whatmatters most at the present timeis for the general population to un-derstand the importance of pro-viding the proper care to house-hold pets, such as dogs, cats andmonkeys.

Reviewing government effortsto date, Teneng said 280,000 dogs

have been vaccinated in Bali and78,000 stray dogs have been ex-terminated. He also revealed thatsince the outbreak of rabies beganin Bali in late 2009 there havebeen an estimated 44,000 dog biteincidents. Those who have diedfollowing dog bite in Bali is putat 57 people, 26 of which wereclinically shown to have died dueto rabies.

Violations stillhaunted Bali’s RTRWP

deed, for the case of mega projecton Bukit Mimba, the regency gov-ernment violated its own laws onregional RDTR where theCandidasa also belonged toPadangbai tourism area and the lo-cal regulations mentioned the areaas protected green area functionedas agricultural work, but in the Re-gent Regulation of KarangasemNo. 1/2008 concerning withRDTR, one of the articles had beenamended where it declared BukitMimba as exclusive tourist area.

Today, Sadra said, the en-forcement of the new regulation onRTRWP Bali would make every-thing into difficult situation or di-lemma. Regional regulation onRTRWP was difficult to enforce,let alone the Regent/Mayor ex-pressed their objection. If executedby force, those who objected werearguing that some clauses were dif-ficult to be implemented such thematter related to radii of the sanc-tity of sad kahyangan temple hav-ing the length of 2.5 km from thetemple’s compound wall and pro-hibited the existence of commer-cial buildings such as tourist ac-commodation. As consequence, itthreatened many hotels and restau-rant buildings that had to be dis-mantled if the laws were appliedretroactively.

Furthermore, the authority ofKarangasem Regency claiming to

have many sad kahyangantemples said to fear because itcould not build because its spaceran out as all existed within theradii of the temple’s sanctity andcoastal border of 100 meters. “Ifso, it would be difficult for invest-ment of tourism accommodationin Karangasem in years to comein due to limited land availabil-ity. In fact, regionally generatedrevenue (PAD) is mostly contrib-uted by tourism,” he said.

The solution, said Sadra,the development of hotels andrestaurants in Karangasem wasindeed necessary to terminate.Further, it should be reviewedfirst, how many hotel rooms al-ready existed and correctly cal-culated how many foreign anddomestic tourists visitedKarangasem that would reallylike to stay. According to him,the development should meet theexact needs of hotel rooms andrestaurants. “If they are suffi-cient even more, the develop-ment should be stopped. Pleasedo not ever think the more newhotels or hotel rooms built, thehigher local revenue will be ob-tained. Of course, it will not doso if there is no tourist attractionas the aftermath of poor environ-mental conditions. At the end,tourists will leave the destinationas well,” he added. (013)

Express.co.uk reveals that whileHollywood star Julia Roberts was inIndia and Bali last year to film hersoon-to-be-released Hollywoodblockbuster “Eat, Pray, Love”, shewas also busily training for a half-marathon.

Roberts is said to have found thetropical climate of the two locationsprovided a valuable training bonus.

Bali: The Pausethat Refreshes

tism.”“Maybe Bali possesses a differ-

ent atmosphere,” said Boediono,who was accompanied at the meet-ing by his wife, Herawati Boediono;Minister of Religion, SuryadharmaAli; and the Minister of Industry,Marie Elka Pangestu.

The Jakarta V.I.P. visitors also lav-ished praise on Bali’s administrationwhich, they said, achieves a level ofpublic administration proficiencyabove the national average.

Boediono called on Bali to ad-dress the economic imbalances be-tween various regions of Bali, an ef-forts in which he promised supportfrom the central government inJakarta.

Julia Roberts: Come to Balito Run, Bike and Swim

Roberts said: “‘I trained a lot while Iwas doing the movie and it was sohot there, I think it was to my ad-vantage that I had trained under suchdire circumstances.’

According to her husband, DannyModer, Roberts completed a 21.7 ki-lometer charity run in California inDecember 2009, five months afterher departure from Bali.

3Monday, May 31, 2010International Bali News

Mandala Airlines is awaiting6 to 8 new Airbus 320 aircraftdue for delivery in 2011. Thehead of corporate communica-t ions for Mandala, TrisiaMegawati, said the new planesare part of the requirements toremain a scheduled airline un-der Indonesian law. Indonesianlaw requires that domestic car-riers operating scheduled ser-vices must operate 10 aircraft;a minimum 5 of which must beowned by the airline and withthe remaining five aunder their

Such old aged sacred objectswere known to have vanished ataround 12:00 am Local Time. Lo-cal temple priest named MenWetri, 65, came to the temple toserve the existing resident whowould like to invoke holy water.In fact, the door of shrine build-ing was damaged due to pried off.Having been checked inside care-fully, in fact, the content of thebuildings was in a mess. It wasimmediately notified to priest ofmerajapati (graveyard) temple,Wayan Jarna, 51. Later on, the re-port was resumed to customaryvillage head of Kelaci Kelod,Dakdakan Hamlet, Wayan RekaArnata, 50. The information im-mediately spread out to some lo-cal villagers. As consequence,they thronged to see the conditionof the two buildings.

At least, four types of sa-cred paraphernalia disappearingfrom these two buildings. Abrown-sugar-colored horse effigylost from the penataran dalembuilding. Meanwhile, other sa-cred effigies in the form of redlion, silver bowls and 800 perfo-rated coins also lost from thekahyangan dalem building. Theauthority of customary village re-ported the incident to Kediri Po- Bali Post

DENPASAR - Rheumatism orosteoarthritis poses a disease caus-ing pain and movement disabilityin the circle of the elderly. Preva-lence for the age above 65 yearsold is 60-90 percent. At the agebelow 45 years, men and womenhad the same possibility of suffer-ing from the same disease and atthe age above 55 years more caseshappen to women.

According to I Gede PandeSastrawan, one of the internistteam at the Kasih Ibu Hospital saidthat women had greater chances ofsuffering from rheumatism be-cause women underwent a preg-nancy. “Women are prone to rheu-matism due to undergo a preg-nancy process that is directly ex-periencing the addition of weightbecoming one of the risk factorsfor the occurrence of rheumatism,”said Pande.

In addition, women alsoexperienced menopause causingosteoporosis and finally resultingin rheumatic pain. For prevention,

Theft of sacred effigy relapses:

Pura Dalem temple of DakdakanPura Dalem temple of DakdakanPura Dalem temple of DakdakanPura Dalem temple of DakdakanPura Dalem temple of Dakdakanburglarized by thiefburglarized by thiefburglarized by thiefburglarized by thiefburglarized by thiefBali Post

TABANAN - Pura Dalem temple of Dakdakan, AbiantuwungVillage, Kediri was burglarized by a thief. A number of sacredobjects were vanished due to burglarized by a thief. The inci-dent was just known by local temple priest last Friday (May 28)afternoon and it was reported to Kediri Police later on. At least,four sacred objects were missing from the two buildings in thetemple with a loss estimated to reach IDR 25 million.

lice. Immediately, police made in-vestigation to crime scene.

As a result of the crimescene investigation and informa-tion of witnesses, allegedly thetheft took place at night or earlymorning. It was discernible fromthe damage of MCB circuit caus-ing the lightings at the Pura Dalemtemple to go out. At that time, thecondition was very quiet becausefrom the night until early morn-ing incessant rain engulfed thearea.

In the meantime, Head ofKelaci Kelod Customary Village,Wayan Reka Arnata, when met atthe temple revealed that the ma-terial loss due to the theft of sa-cred effigies reached IDR 25 mil-lion. According to him, the losswas only in material. To replacethe sacred effigies, his partywould require greater funds forthe cost of ritual procession. Butmore importantly, he said, was thenon-material losses because theydenoted consecrated objects andthe theft were carried out at thesanctum. It was said the sacredobjects were mostly of decadesold and have been existed aroundsince 1940. Meanwhile, police arecurrently performing intensive in-vestigation to the case. (kmb14)

IBP/Surpi Aryadharma

Pura Dalem temple of Dakdakan, Abiantuwung Village, Kediri was burglarized by a thief. A num-ber of sacred objects were vanished due to burglarized by a thief.

The elderly haunted byrheumatism disease

Pande suggested that womenshould more frequently consumesupplements containing calcium inthe form of food, tablets or milk.Moreover, women should also re-main active in conducting the ac-tivity or sport.

Basically, rheumatism de-noted a disease of degenerativejoints. The damage was caused bythe loss of cartilaginous joint and theformation of new bone or osteogen-esis at the joint space. This causedpain and stiffness in the joints,where it sometimes resulted incrackling sound in the joints, swell-ing, limited joint movement, pain atthe joints when moved and pain ifthere was a change in temperature.

Several factors triggeringrheumatoid factors other than agewere overweight, metabolic abnor-malities, trauma, gender, geneticsand inflammation. “Arthritis doesnot only attack the old age. Even,younger people can also be af-fected by this disease. Its factorcould be caused by excessiveweight, experiencing trauma ormetabolic disorders,” said Pande.

Metabolic disorders might be, forinstance, ureic acid disorder up totriggering rheumatism at earlystage.

Rheumatism was usuallymore focused on the joint motion.Hwever, it could also affect otherjoints. “For those who are over-weight will usually result in arthri-tis in the joint motion like knee be-cause this part is supporting morebodily weight,” added Pande.

Then how to cure rheuma-tism? Pande proceeded that therewere two ways to do so, namelyby using drugs and non-drugs suchas physiotherapy. “But for severecase, it can be overcome by sur-gery up to joint replacement,” hesaid. Rheumatism itself could hap-pen repeatedly even though thepatient was doing joint replace-ment surgery. “Risk factors such asexcessive body weight and uricacid can not disappear at all. So,to prevent from the rapid recurrent,keeping and maintaining the healththrough consumption patterns re-mains to become a major solution,”he concluded. (kmb24)

6-8 New Airbus320 Aircraft Due forDelivery to MandalaAirlines in 2011.

under their control (i.e. char-tered or leased).

Trisia said the 6 to 8 airplanesdue for delivery next year forma part of a total 25 new A320Airbus ordered in 2007 and duefor delivery between 2011 and2014.

Starting in 2010, Mandalahas “gone international” byopening new routes fromJakarta to Singapore, Macaoand Singapore and another ser-vice from Balikpapan(Kalimantan) to Singapore.

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BANGALORE - At least 30people, including 10 children,were burnt alive on Sundaywhen a bus bound for the south-ern Indian city of Bangaloreploughed into a roadblock andcaught fire, police said.

The state-owned vehicleveered off a small bridge aftercolliding with the roadblock inthe dark and fell into a ditch,local superintendent of policeLabhu Ram told AFP from theaccident site by phone.

“The bus caught fire whenthe diesel tank exploded on im-pact,” he said.

The bus had 64 passengerson board and was on its wayfrom Surpur in southernKarnataka state to the IT hubof Bangalore, 600 kilometres(400 miles) away.

At least three surviving pas-sengers were in a serious con-dition. State transport ministerR. Ashok, who visited the acci-dent site, told reporters that pre-liminary reports suggested thedriver was at fault.

“Negligent driving is sus-pected to have caused the acci-dent as the bus was speedingand hit a road barrier on thebridge and skidded into theditch,” Ashok said.

Police had registered a caseagainst the driver, who survivedthe accident, Ram added.

India has the highest annualroad death toll in the world, big-ger than the more populous China,according to the World Health Or-ganization, with accidents causedby speeding, bad roads, over-crowding and poor vehicle main-tenance. Police figures show thatnationwide more than 110,000people die annually on the roads.

AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI

Commercial vessels are seen at sea while a group of Israelis watch the sunset near the port in the south-ern Israeli city of Ashdod May 29, 2010. A convoy of ships containing pro-Palestinian activists and aiddestined for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday steamed south from Cyprus towards Israeli naval ves-sels determined to stop them.

The move came after Hatoyamaon Friday dismissed Social Demo-cratic Party (SDP) leader MizuhoFukushima as his consumer affairsminister.

Fukushima had denouncedHatoyama’s decision to retain theMarine base despite a pre-electionpromise by the centre-left primeminister to move it off Okinawa


GAZA CITY - A convoy of shipscontaining pro-Palestinian activists andaid destined for the blockaded GazaStrip on Sunday prepared to steam southfrom Cyprus towards Israeli naval ves-sels determined to stop them.

The five ships, carrying more than700 passengers, are readying for the lastleg of a high-profile mission to delivertonnes of aid to Gaza, which has beensubjected to a crippling Israeli block-ade since 2007.

Audrey Bomse, legal adviser to theFree Gaza Movement that organised theflotilla, earlier told AFP the convoy hadset sail heading south at 5:00 am (0200GMT) on Thursday. She said it was ex-pected to reach Gaza territorial waterssome time after 4:00 pm (1300 GMT).

But the group’s Greta Berlin latersaid the ships had moved just 25 nauti-cal miles.

“We looked at the little blue bubblethis morning and saw that it had moved25 nautical miles, so we thought theyhad set off,” she told AFP, referring tothe flotilla’s website http://witnessgaza.com/ which marks its po-sition with a blue arrow every time itmoves.

“But nobody was answering becausetheir satellite are blocked,” she said. “Wehave only just got hold of them via ra-dio phone.”

She said the convoy had apparentlytaken a strategic decision to change po-sition because it was “dangerous to stayin the same place.”

AFP was also unable to reach any ofthe activists on board.

Israel has slammed as “illegal” theconvoy’s attempt to break its blockadeon Gaza, and has naval forces at theready to intercept the ships and detainthe pro-Palestinian activists on board.

Several Israeli warships could beseen massing off the Gaza coast, an AFPphotographer said.

Jamal Al-Khudari, an independentPalestinian MP who heads the Gaza-based Committee to Lift the Siege, saidthe convoy would stop just outsideGaza’s territorial waters and only try todock early on Monday.

The boats will travel “in two stages,”he said: “First they will stop in interna-tional waters 30 nautical miles from

Socialists quit Japan coalition over US base rowSocialists quit Japan coalition over US base rowSocialists quit Japan coalition over US base rowSocialists quit Japan coalition over US base rowSocialists quit Japan coalition over US base rowAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan’s small socialist party Sunday walked out of theruling coalition in a row over a US military base in Okinawa, heapingpressure on embattled Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ahead of Julyelections.

island, where the US military presenceis hugely unpopular.

“We decided to leave the govern-ment at an executive meeting,”Fukushima told a televised news con-ference. “Everybody told me it wasgood that I have stuck to my beliefs,”she said.

The SDP has only minimal repre-sentation in parliament, with seven

seats in the lower house and fiveseats in the upper chamber.

But Hatoyama’s DemocraticParty of Japan (DPJ), which domi-nates the lower house, needs thehelp of other parties to secure amajority in the upper house.

The SDP’s departure could fur-ther damage Hatoyama’s standingas his approval ratings hover at all-time lows of around 20 percent be-fore the July elections, in which halfof the 242 upper house seats willbe contested.

Hatoyama has been roundly as-sailed for indecisive leadership overOkinawa and the enfeebled

economy, and also faces attacks overparty political funding scandals.

Pressure is reportedly growingwithin the DPJ for Hatoyama tostand down, but he insists he is go-ing nowhere.

“I want to gain the people’s un-derstanding over my determinationto work in this position,” he toldJapanese media late Saturday as heattended a summit with the presidentof South Korea and the Chinese pre-mier.

Hatoyama formed a coalition withthe SDP and the People’s New Partyafter the DPJ ended half a century ofalmost unbroken conservative rule in

elections last August.Hatoyama promised to relocate

the US Marine Corps Futenma airstation off Okinawa entirely, but theUnited States insisted that both sidesstick to a 2006 deal to keep the baseon the southern island.

After months of tension, Tokyoand Washington said in a joint state-ment last week the base would bemoved, as first agreed in 2006, froma crowded urban area to a coastalregion of Okinawa.

On Friday, Hatoyama publiclyapologised for his U-turn on the basebut Japanese dailies railed againsthis lack of leadership.

30 burntalive inIndia busaccident

Aid ships poised to defy Gaza blockade

(Gaza waters), and tomorrow (Mon-day) they will reach the shores ofGaza.”

In Gaza City, fishing boats at theport were decked with Palestinian,Turkish and Greek flags to greet theso-called “Freedom Flotilla” whichis carrying hundreds of civilians anda handful of European MPs.

Demonstrators were also planningto release scores of balloons with pic-tures tied to them of children whowere killed during Israel’s huge 22-day offensive against Gaza whichended in January last year.

Bomse said two vessels which hadbeen due to join flotilla had been un-able to set sail after sustaining dam-age over the weekend, in a move theconvoy’s organisers claimed was“sabotage.”

“Now we are thinking of sendinga second wave of boats includingthese two and the Rachel Corrie,which is still en route” from Ireland,

she said, adding that the second con-voy would probably set off aroundTuesday.

“We’re going to see how the othersget on — either they will reach Gazaor Israel will stop them and there willbe a confrontation,” Bomse added.

The flotilla of cargo and passengerships, which is carrying 10,000 tonnesof aid, had originally been due to reachthe besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday.

But its departure was delayed be-cause of technical problems affectingtwo vessels.

Israel has made clear its intentionto prevent the convoy from reachingGaza, accusing the organisers ofmounting a cynical political campaign.

“This is a provocation intended todelegitimise Israel,” deputy foreignminister Danny Ayalon said late onSaturday.

“If the flotilla had a genuine hu-manitarian goal, then its organisersshould have transferred something for

the abducted soldier Gilad Shalit aswell,” he said of the Israeli soldiersnatched by militants in 2006 and heldcaptive by the Hamas Islamist move-ment which runs the enclave.

Hamas’s refusal to release Shalitis cited by Israel as one of the mainreasons for imposing the economicblockade on Gaza in 2007

“Their refusal to do so clearly in-dicates that humanitarian issues werenot their goal. We will not allow theflotilla to enter Gaza, as this is an in-fringement of Israel’s sovereignty,”Ayalon said. Pro-Palestinian activistshave landed in Gaza five times, withanother three unsuccessful attemptssince their first such voyage in Au-gust 2008. The latest is their biggestoperation.

To date, the amount of aid has beenlargely symbolic, but organisers saythis convoy is laden with 10,000tonnes of supplies, ranging from pre-fabricated homes to pencils.

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Denpasar

There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongayaand Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance& Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone: 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta,Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com

International SOS Clinic BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : [email protected] ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

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Monday, May 31, 20106 News


KATHMANDU - Nepal’s threemain parties held talks on Sundayto try to hammer out a new coali-tion government after the primeminister agreed to resign to averta political crisis.

Madhav Kumar Nepal said hewould step down in a last-minutedeal to secure support of Maoistlawmakers for a bill to extendparliament’s term, which was dueto expire Friday, leaving the coun-try without a functioning legisla-ture.

The opposition Maoists won2008 elections, but their govern-ment fell last year in a disagree-ment over the integration of theirformer fighters into the nationalarmy, and they have been agitat-ing for a return to power eversince.

“Leaders of the Nepali Con-gress, Communist Party of Nepal(UML) and the Maoists are indeep discussions on how to takeFriday’s agreement forward,”UML leader Pradeep Gyawali toldAFP.

“They are also discussing thePM’s resignation and they hope tocreate a workplan on the next pos-sible steps.”

As the largest party in parlia-ment the Maoists are likely to takea lead role in the next power-shar-ing government, but the primeminister’s office said that manyissues needed to be addressed first.

The Maoists fought a decade-long civil war against the state be-fore agreeing to lay down theirarms in a 2006 peace agreement.However four years later, many ofthe terms of that deal remain un-fulfilled.

These include the integration ofthousands of former Maoist fight-ers into the national army and thedisbanding of the party’s armedyouth wing, the Young Commu-nist League (YCL), which rivalparties say is an obstacle to last-

The crash occurred on Fridaywhen a Mumbai-bound high-speedpassenger express from Kolkataveered off the tracks into the path ofan oncoming freight train in a remotepart of West Bengal state.

If confirmed as a Maoist strike,it would be the deadliest attack bythe rebels in recent memory.

The government has recentlybeen severely criticised for its han-dling of the worsening left-wing in-surgency.

“Teams have pulled 146 bodiesfrom the damaged carriages of thetrain. Now we are concentrating onhospitals because more than 200 in-jured are still there,” West Bengalcivil defence minister SrikumarMukherjee told AFP.

Relief and rescue workers rushed


SYDNEY - Homes were dam-aged and thousands of people werewithout power Sunday as a fiercestorm lashed Australia’s south eastcoast, officials said.

Winds gusting at up to 120kilometres (75 miles) per hour hadsmashed into coastal areas near theNew South Wales town of Moruyaand were now moving north towards

AFP PHOTO/Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY/FILES

In this picture taken on May 29, 2010, Indian rescue workers work at the site of the train wreckagein Sardiha, some 135 kms west of Kolkata. Indian rescue workers completed search operationson May 30 after pulling out 146 bodies from the site of a train wreck blamed on Maoist saboteurs,a state minister said.

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“Awareness of safety and rule oflaw is still low in some coal-rich ar-eas and some coal enterprises,” hesaid.

As part of its efforts to increasesafety standards, the central govern-ment has levied heavy fines and

According to Head of theKesbangpol l inmas Off ice ofJembrana Regency, Suherman,the surveillance was conductedunder the direction of the Chiefof Kominda Jembrana, I PutuArtha, intended as early detec-


KOLKATA - Indian rescue workers completed search operations on Sunday after pulling out146 bodies from the site of a train wreck blamed on Maoist saboteurs, a state minister said.

to the site — a Maoist strongholdaround 135 kilometres (85 miles)west of Kolkata — and used me-chanical cutters to reach the in-jured and the dead inside the badlymangled carriages.

The precise cause of the derail-ment was still unclear.

Railways Minister MamataBanerjee initially said Maoists hadblown up the track with explosives,while police pointed to evidence thata section of rail had been manuallyremoved.

The Times of India on Sunday saidpolice believed a “rogue Maoistgang” was behind the carnage.

Mukherjee said many of the bod-ies were badly dismembered andidentification of the remains by rela-tives was proving to be a big chal-

lenge. “We have urged the next of kin

of the victims to donate blood to theCentral Forensic Laboratory inKolkata so that the bodies can beidentified” by DNA testing, he said.

The Indian Railways Board re-sponded to the disaster by cancellingnighttime services in a number ofMaoist-affected areas until furthernotice.

The rebels say they are fightingfor the rights of landless tribespeopleand farmers left behind by India’srapid economic expansion.

The Maoist rebellion, whichPrime Minister Manmohan Singhhas labelled the biggest threat to thecountry’s internal security, began inWest Bengal in 1967 and has sincespread to 20 of India’s 29 states.

Fierce storm lashes eastern AustraliaSydney, some 300 kilometres away.

The government has warned peopleliving in coastal regions south ofSydney to be prepared for the storm.

“We just reiterate the warningto people not to go into flooded wa-terways or creeks, make sure they’restaying a bit back from the coast,obviously the waves on the coast arepretty severe,” state Emergency Ser-vices Minister Steve Whan said.

About 9,000 homes are without

power while emergency officialshave received about 160 calls forhelp, including from home ownerswhose roofs have been ripped off.

Officials said the storm could in-tensify later Sunday.

“The communities will have animpact of heaving rain or wind orboth, then there may be a lull, thenthere may be a follow on after that,”a State Emergency Services’ spokes-man told ABC radio.

Nepal’s leaders meetto thrash out new govt

ing peace.The prime minister had been in

discussions with many of thecountry’s smaller parties whichmade up the coalition governmentthat ruled since May 2009, hisspokesman Bishnu Rijal told AFP.

“They agreed that army inte-gration, YCL disbandment and theappointment of a new leader tohead the national unity govern-ment are urgent,” Rijal said onSunday.

“The prime minister’s resigna-tion will come only after all thisis agreed.”

Analysts said that although theextension of the parliament, or“Constituent Assembly”, hadaverted a political crisis, therenow was a risk of further paraly-sis.

“All sides are battling it out,”Prashant Jha, a political analyst,told AFP. “Until there is compro-mise on an alternative candidate(for prime minister), the politicaldeadlock will continue.”

Karin Landgren, representativeof the UN Secretary-General toNepal, welcomed the extension ofthe Constituent Assembly as it“secures the continuation of thepeace process.”

She urged the parties to con-tinue in the spirit of compromiseto draft Nepal’s new constitutionand to seek solutions to peace pro-cess issues such as a “dignified”resolution of the future of theMaoist army.

Maoist leader Pushpa KamalDahal, who is better known asPrachanda, led the rebel insur-gency before 2006 and earlier thismonth he brought the country to astandstill by holding a nationwidegeneral strike to press the party’sdemands.

The strike was called off aftersix days following internationalpressure and a mass rally in thecapital Kathmandu protestingagainst the disruption of schoolsand businesses.

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Monday, May 31, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational


PORONG - Four years after iterupted from the well of a gas com-pany linked to one of Indonesia’srichest men, the mud volcano knownas “Lusi” is still spewing its toxic

The parents of a two-year-old boyseen smoking in a clip posted on TheSun newspaper’s website are to beinvestigated, Indonesian officials saidafter the video drew worldwide at-tention.

Chubby Ardi Rizal laughs and re-sponds to the adults around him ashe sits on his plastic tricycle and in-hales deeply from frequent drags ona cigarette.

His father reportedly gave him hisfirst cigarette when he was 18 monthsold and now he smokes 40 a day. Hismother says he beats his head againstthe wall unless he gets nicotine, buthis father insists he is “healthy”.

Child Protection Ministry officialHeru Kasidi said the family wouldbe investigated for what would beconsidered a clear case of child abusein many countries.

It’s the second time this year In-donesia has been embarrassed bysuch media coverage.

Another video was posted on theInternet last month showing an In-donesian boy aged about four puff-ing on a locally made clove cigarette,blowing smoke rings and swearingwith the encouragement of adults.

Weak regulations — Indonesia isthe only country in Southeast Asianot to have signed the FrameworkConvention on Tobacco Control —

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JAKARTA - A new video of a smoking Indonesian toddler hasemerged to shock health experts and provide further graphic illustra-tion of the Southeast Asian country’s growing addiction to tobacco.

AFP PHOTO / SRIWIJAYA POST / AHMAD NAAFI

In this photograph taken on May 16, 2010 two-year-old Indonesian boyArdi Rizal puffs on a cigarette while playing on a plastic toy jeep in theyard of his family home in a village on Sumatra island.

have enabled tobacco companies totarget young Indonesians with adver-tising and events promotions.

US singer Kelly Clarkson droppedtobacco sponsorship for her Jakartaconcert in April after anti-smokinggroups protested on the grounds thatshe was effectively encouraging heryoung fans to smoke.

Other artists such as Jamiroquai,Anggun, Incubus and James Blunthave allowed their Indonesian showsto be used as vehicles for tobaccomarketing.

Anti-smoking activists and healthexperts say Indonesia is a paradise forthe tobacco industry, which has beenaggressively expanding sales in thecountry of about 240 million people.

“The regulations on the tobaccoindustry in Indonesia are weak. Theyprotect the shareholders in the indus-try more than the people,” activistKartono Mohamad said.

“The people in Indonesia are fight-ing alone against the tobacco indus-try, the government and the policymakers. It’s one against three.”

According to the World HealthOrganisation, cigarette consumptionin the Southeast Asian archipelagosoared 47 percent in the 1990s.

Almost 70 percent of men over 20years of age smoke, and regularsmoking among boys aged 15 to 19

increased from 36.8 percent in 1997to 42.6 percent in 2000.

But anti-smoking initiatives havefloundered in the face of the power-ful local tobacco industry, which em-ploys scores of thousands of peopleand generates more than six billiondollars a year for the government.

A bill establishing tobacco as anaddictive substance was about to besigned into law last year when offi-cials realised the pertinent clause hadbeen mysteriously deleted. The caseis under investigation.

The government has increasedexcise taxes but prices remain ex-tremely low by international stan-dards, with a pack of 20 costing littlemore than a dollar.

Even so, studies have shown thatpoor families spend more on ciga-rettes than on books and education.

In another blow to anti-tobaccoactivists, lawmakers have stronglyopposed a plan to cut cigarette pro-duction by five percent to about 248billion sticks this year on the groundsthat it would hurt local producers.

Foreign makers like British Ameri-can Tobacco and Philip Morris havelong recognised the opportunities inIndonesia.

In March, Philip Morris’s localunit, PT HM Sampoerna, thecountry’s largest producer, an-nounced a net profit increase of 31percent to 5.08 trillion rupiah (548.64million dollars) last year.

In the absence of tough governmentregulations Muslim clerics recentlyissued a fatwa against smoking.

But analysts said the religiousedict was likely to have about asmuch effect as regulations banningsmoking in bars and restaurants,which are widely ignored.

“More and more Indonesian chil-dren have become victims of the ciga-rette industry,” Indonesian Child Pro-

tection Commission chairman HadiSupeno said.

“There are many children underfive years of age who have startedsmoking. A decade ago, the averageage of beginner smokers was 19 buta recent study found that the averageis seven.”

AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY

This picture taken on May 25, 2010 shows a local visitor holding hisgranddaughter whilst visiting the Lapindo mud volcano in Porong,Sidoarjo district, on East Java.

Indonesia mud volcano still spewing sludge four years latersludge over Java’s countryside.

All attempts to plug the geyserhave failed and new spouts are open-ing up, threatening to destroy morevillages, homes and livelihoods inthe East Java district of Sidoarjo.

The mud lake is so huge — seven

square kilometres (almost threesquare miles) and 20 metres (66 feet)thick — it is now visible from space,and geologists say “Lusi” could con-tinue gushing sludge for centuries.

But the victims who lost theirhomes after the mud began oozingfrom the bowels of the earth on May29, 2006 are still waiting for thecompensation they have been prom-ised by President Susilo BambangYudhoyono.

“President Yudhoyono hasn’tbeen able to do the best thing for themud victims. The fact is that up totoday we’re still living in a disasterarea,” victim Gatot Wiyono said.

The mud — a hot, bubbling, greysubstance the consistency of wetconcrete — has already wiped out12 villages, killed 13 people and dis-placed more than 42,000.

Independent foreign experts haveconcluded that haphazard gas explo-ration drilling by Lapindo Brantas,a company linked to powerfulGolkar party chief Aburizal Bakrie,was almost certainly responsible.

Lapindo and the governmentblame an earthquake that struck days

before about 280 kilometres away,a theory discredited by foreign sci-entists.

Even so, Yudhoyono ordered thecompany to pay about 400 milliondollars for mud containment effortsand compensation to over 10,000families. Analysts believe the totalcleanup, if it is ever done, will costmany billions.

Victims are angry that Bakrie en-joys privileges as a key leader ofYudhoyono’s coalition, and is seenas a possible presidential candidatein 2014.

“I just can’t imagine what willhappen if Aburizal Bakrie becomespresident. As a leader he’s unfair, hefailed to fulfil our rights,” said mudvictim Azis.

Many were disgusted whenYudhoyono acted as a witness at thelavish wedding of Bakrie’s son inJanuary.

“We were heartbroken when wesaw the wedding reception for hisson on television. The wedding musthave been very expensive but we’vebeen living in this shelter on an aban-doned toll road for four years,” said

housewife Sita, whose home wasburied beneath the mud.

Lapindo has blamed the globalfinancial crisis for delays in dis-bursement of the compensation. Itpromised to complete the paymentsby the end of 2009 but many vic-tims say they are still waiting fortheir full share.

Yudhoyono enraged victims fur-ther when, during a rare visit to thearea in March, he suggested the di-saster zone could be turned into atourist attraction.

“With good layout and good con-cepts, we can turn this place intosomething useful for the commu-nity, whether as a geological touristattraction, fishery or for other pub-lic activities,” he said.

“If it’s managed well, I have con-fidence this will be an attractiveplace and bring good to the localcommunity.”

Mud victim Mantep said thepresident did not seem to understandthe people’s pain.

“I don’t want this area to be trans-formed into a tourist spot. That’s notequal to our suffering,” he said.

8 InternationaMonday, May 31, 2010

Bali Today

Yeow Thit Sang, the PresidentFIABCI Prix D’Excelence Awards2010, give the award to the winneron Thursday, May 27th 2010 in NusaDua. Yeow had visited some prop-erties in Bali during the 61st FIABCIcongress and he said that Bali hasvery rich property in terms of itsform and architecture.

He explained that the extra valueof the property in Bali is the envi-ronmentally friendly buildings.“Bali has the chance to win the PrixD’Excelence award,” Yeow added.

Yeow also said that the proper-ties that receive the award will in-crease in values. The value couldincrease up to 15% and it also cangive good image to the propertydeveloper.

While Johannes Tulung, one of

Property in Bali could wonPrix D’Excelence Award

IBP/ist

The picture of one of the building in Bali where it show beauty and environmentally friendlyarchitecture

IBP

Denpasar – Properties in Bali have the chance to win the PrixD’Excelence which is the highest award in the world’s real es-tate. This is because the shapes and concept of the buildings inBali are suitable especially those that is environmentally friendly.

the judges for Prix D’Excelence2010, said that the developer in In-donesia don’t attracted to take partin the competition. Indonesia evenoften absent in the competition butactually many properties in Indone-sia had the chance to win the award.“Indonesia joins the competitiononly for several time and one of themwhen Mall Pondok Indah II won thePrix D’Excelence in 2006,” headded.

In Prix D’Excelence 2010, twodevelopers in Indonesia win theaward, they are Regatta Apartmentswhich was developed by MutiaraBuana and Jakarta Garden Citywhich was developed by PT. MitraSindo Sukses. Malaysia andSingapore received the most awardin the competition.(kmb18)

IBP

DENPASAR – To commemoratethe 15th birthday of Telkomsel, thecompany held Family Fun DayTELKOMSEL Point in Java andBali area. In Denpasar, the activitywas held in Renon field.

The event was held cooperatingwith Rotary Club Bali-Denpasar andit consists of fun bike and fun walk,cheap handphone market, blood do-nor, sports and musical perfor-mances. Telkomsel also donate 10million rupiah to the ‘End Polio’Rotary Club program.

Hendrat Widjanarko, the BranchManager Telkomsel Denpasar, said“Family Fun Day TELKOMSELPoint program is a special programdedicated to our customers. The pro-

Telkomsel held Family Fun DayTo commemorate its 15th brithday

Denpasar’s Branch ManagerTelkomsel HendratWidjanarko (2left) accompa-nied by District GovernorRotary Bali, AL. Purwablowing the candle to cel-ebrate the 15th anniversary ofTelkomsel.

gram is also to commemorate the 15th

birthday of Telkomsel which fall onMay 26th 2010.”

Hendrat also stated his gratitudeto Rotary Club Bali-Denpasar as thepartner for this year’s Family FunDay TELKOMSEL Point program.The even itself joined by almost5,000 customers of Telkmosel andthe member of the Rotary Club.

The participants was registeringby sending SMS to 777 by typingHUTDPS and 75 points will be cutof from the available Telkomselpoints that the customers have. Thefirst 1,000 people who register willreceive special T-Shirt.

For the past two weeks the cus-tomers also can redeem or exchangetheir points in the nearest GraPARIand Family Fun Day TELKOMSELPoint location with prizes such as T-Shirt, bag, hat, and other with vari-ous points needed.

In the event, there was also com-petition for kids and musical per-formances by various artists suchas Nymphea, Glendys and Friend,and Between Autumn and LightBand. (kmb18)

FOTO : IBP/BALI/POIN.JPG

Balinese CultureMonday, May 31, 2010 9al

Are you getting bored with cul-tural attractions offered by Bali? Donot worry, forget it for a while. Sim-ply divert your attention to more lightthings to see around Bali. Activitiesof farmers in the rice field, for in-stance, will have various attractions.From the dawn until the nightfall,they are loyally cultivated their landbeyond doing other side jobs.

With the subak system inheritedfrom some a thousand years ago, theycultivate their land with regular irri-gation. The system can survive be-cause it adopts modern techniques,too. Both go hand in hand in keepingwith the modernization. Mechaniza-tion and agricultural technology arein one side, while ancient tradition inanother side. It was Mpu Kuturanwho introduced the ritual guidancefor subak through his famous palm-leaf manuscript DarmaningPemaculan featuring the preparationof seedlings up to storing the post-harvest husked rice in granary.

Other than observing their dailyworks, visitors can also see their‘struggle’ against disturbing birds.When they are preparing some seed-lings, some spotted doves will stealthe sprouts. Farmers are forced tocover the newly seedlings by alang-

Bird Watching:Admiring Another Charm of Paradise Island

alang grass until they reach some fiveto six days old. Another enemy is theslow white heron along with its friend.Though such long-legged birds do noteat the sprouts but they disturb enoughbecause usually walk around haphaz-ardly in the seedling area where theirprey like small frogs or grasshoppersgo. Probably, your coming throughbird watching can keep those birdsaway from seedling area.

When the paddy plant has bearyoung fruit, cereal eater birds willcome without invitation. They consistof several families like scaly breastedmunia, white-headed munia. In a largecrowd, they ordinarily like to suck theyoung milky content of the rice, more-over if it belongs to local variety likesticky rice. The latter is more deli-cious. If this attack is neglected or getsless attention within few days the en-tire paddy may be empty. Therefore,farmers attempt to dismiss them bygenerating various sounds. Some ofthem can be carried out by makingsplit bamboo log, propeller or eveninstall some scarecrows at every cor-ner. Of course, it will be accompaniedby installation of some ropes to movethem. To make easier in overseeing thebirds, farmer will even build tempo-rary high hut. But, a little negligence

of farmer will be taken advantage bythose birds.

If you are lucky enough, your birdwatching may encounter some manyarbirds or golden weaver belonging tomunia family. Uniquely, this birdbuilds a hanging nest on trees, bam-boo higher grass or coconut made fromplaited grasses. Moreover, this bird canalso make a basinet for their baby.When they grow older, they will beready to sway on the stalk of rice.

Some other interesting birds to seein the rice field are Javan kingfisher(Balinese: tenggek) with its bluefeather and red or white beek, whitebreasted water hen (krekuwak) usuallywalk and slip into the spaces betweenpaddy plants.

In essence, local farmers do nothave a habit to kill the annoying birds.They just dismiss them by eco-friendlymethods such as by generating soundsmanually, by wind or even water. Ifthe attack is rampant and consideredstubborn, they will hold ngelepeh cer-emony by offering sacrifice at BedugulTemple. Hopefully, by offering someoblation gods mastering the birds couldcontrol their subjects. Last but notleast, have a nice bird watching whilelooking closer at farmer’s activity inthe rice field. (BTN/punia)

OVERVIEW:There are about as many different ways of preparing Nasi

Goreng in Bali, as there are cooks. The only constantingredient is rice; everything else is determined by the cook’staste or the availability of ingredients. Please be certain touse only cold rice, as warm rice will stick to the wok.

INGREDIENTS:6 tbsp oil6 shallots, peeled, halves length wise and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced200 gr (6 ½ oz) chicken meat, sliced150 gr (5 oz) medium size shrimp, peeled¼ small white cabbage, shredded4 eggs, beaten2 tbsp sambal tomat700 gr (1 ½ lb) cold cooked rice2 tsp salt1 tsp sliced bird’s eye chilies2 tbsp fried shallot

PREPARATION:1. Heat vegetable oil in wok or heavy fry pan until

very hot.2. Add shallots and garlic and fry for 1 minute until golden

yellow.3. Add chicken and shrimp and fry for 1 minute, and then

add cabbage and fry for 1 minute. Add sambal and mix well.4. Add eggs and continuously stir for 30 seconds before

adding rice and salt. Increase to very high heat and fry for 3more minute, stir continuously.

5. Add chilies, mix well and serve immediately, garnishedwith fried shallots.

Note: Throughout Bali there are as many different ways ofpreparing Nasi Goreng as there are ingredients of chef’s.

OVERVIEW:This probably the

most delicious satay youwill ever encounter. Thedelicate flavors of theshrimp and fish aregreatly improved if youcan find spears of freshlemongrass to use asskewers, and if you cancook them over a fire ofcoconut husks ratherthan charcoal.Nonetheless, even with wooden skewers and a standardcharcoal grill, you will have people coming back more.

INGREDIENTS:600 gr skinned boneless snapper fillet1 cup freshly grated coconut or1½ cups moistened desiccated coconut½ cup seafood spice paste5 fragrant lime leaves, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, finely crushed1 tsp salt3-5 bird’s eye chilies, very finely chopped2 tbsp palm sugarLemon grass or satay skewers

PREPARATION:1. Mince fish fillet very finely in a food processor or with a

chopper.2. Add all other ingredients & mix well.3. Mould a heaped tablespoon full of this mixture around

a wooden skewer or over trimmed stalks of lemon grass andgrill over charcoal until golden brown.

Note: This recipe won’t work with frozen fish.

NASI GORENG(Fried Rice)

SATE LILIT(Minced Seafood Satay)

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PURANCAK Temple is alsomentioning as Pura Perancak situ-ated in the coastal area right atPurancak Countryside, Negara subdistrict and Jembrana Regency. Inorder to reach the location of thistemple which is also situated in theestuary of Purancak River, we haveto go the west direction and goesto through the good road with thecar or other motorcycle. After go-ing through the journey within 9Km from the district town, all visi-tors who visit this temple will ar-rive at non-irrigated dry field. Thisland is fully planted by the coco-nut trees with beautiful panoramathat make a comfortable atmo-sphere.

Pertaining to the name(Abhiseka) of Purancak Temple, itis inseparable from the holy jour-ney (Dharmayatra and Tirthayatra)of Danghyang Dwijendra, a famousSiwa Religion Adviser. From thedomestic sources, there is opinionthat the name of Purancak Templeis come the word of Perahu Encak(Balinese Language meaning leakyboat or breaking boat). There is also

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Purancak Templefrom domestic source say that thethis temple’s name is come fromword Ancak (The tree name, sy-camore bodi), because whenDanghyang Dwijendra crossing thesea in west part of Bali Island thatis also recognized as Sagara Rupek,he firstly arrive at the locationwhere the Purancak Temple exist-ing now. He wait his wife and sonwho go up the leaky boat that hadbeen patched by spool gourd leaf (Waluh Pahit), while DanghyangDwijendra go up a bitter fruitWaluh (spool gourd) by using hisboth hand and feet as oar .

When he waiting his wife andson, he was seat under a tree whichis called Ancak Tree and at thesame time he do conversation witha cow farmer. Since he was seatunder that tree then The Temple isbuilt right in this location hence thistemple is named by PurancakTemple. But in conjunction to otherdomestic sources that is estimatedthe Purancak Temple is also takenaway from the name of this coun-tryside where he firstly arrive anddo pray while waiting his family.

This temple is kept by a priestevery day who waiting and moni-toring everyone who cross the way.The priest will remind and admon-ishing if there anyone who pass andneglect to conduct the pray basedon the regulation stated by I NgurahRagsasa, the powerful and handlehegemony over there .

Dhangyang Dwijendra and hisfamily continue his holy journeyand pass this temple. When he ar-rive at this temple area, the priestas a temple keeper who is also ob-serve everyone crossing this area,he admonished and asked toDanghyang Dwinjendra to do prayin this temple. When he reach in thesilent moment of praying, suddenlyinscrutable fact happened that thistemple breaks. When witnessingthis inscrutable occurrence, INgurah Rangsasa with all his sup-porter are feeling very fear and thenrun to his house meanwhile thetemple priest is very braze and re-quest to Danghyang Dwijendra re-turn the temple back to the perfec-tion like previously.

Dhangyang Dwijendra finally

fulfills his request and then he dopray again to return the temple con-dition like previously. By blessingof his spiritual strengthens andChastity, the temple become intactreturn. The priest look so happy to

witness all this experiences thenDanghyang Dwijendra bestow theKalpika to the priest in order to glo-rify as a proof that he was done aholy journey to this place.(www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS

But despite buzzing around the streetsof virtually every village, town and city,the auto-rickshaw has not been widelyexploited for its advertising potential.

At least not until now.Three college graduates in India’s fi-

nancial and entertainment capitalMumbai are trying to change that anduse the nippy three-wheel taxis to helpsell products from financial services tocinema tickets.

The result is India’s first auto-rick-shaw magazine, “Meter Down”, a ref-erence to the lever on the mechanicalbox on the driver’s cab that is pushed atthe start of every journey to calculatethe fare.

The first edition of the monthly, 24-page magazine came out in March, com-bining adverts and listings with articleson fashion and celebrities, a feature onfake goods and a look at India’s grow-ing coffee shop culture.

Some 500 drivers plying thecrowded, dusty streets of Mumbai’snorthern suburbs have agreed to carrythe free, English-language magazine fora small, undisclosed fee, with those be-hind it banking on a captive audience.

The announcement came after a sum-mit of South Korean President LeeMyung-Bak, Japanese Prime MinisterYukio Hatoyama and Chinese PremierWen Jiabao on the South Korean resortisland of Jeju.

“By 2012, we will endeavor to com-plete the joint study for a free tradeagreement among China, Japan, andSouth Korea,” the leaders said in a jointstatement.

The three countries agreed at theirsummit in 2009 to push for research onthe free trade pact aimed at eventuallycreating a single economic bloc.

Last weekend, the trade ministers ofSouth Korea, China and Japan con-


WASHINGTON - The luxury goods market is rebound-ing from the slump caused by the global recession, but ana-lysts say upscale sellers will be facing a hard slog due tochanging demographics and lingering consumer caution.

Global luxury goods industry sales are expected togrow four percent in 2010 to 158 billion euros (195 billiondollars) after a painful 8.0 percent decline in 2009, accord-ing to the consulting firm Bain & Company.

Much of that growth is expected in the first half of theyear, with more sluggish trends returning in the second half,according to Bain’s Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study.

In the United States, retail sales in the luxury segmentin April jumped 15.5 percent year-over-year in April after a22.7 percent surge in March, helped by comparison withweak sales a year earlier, according to MasterCardSpendingPulse.

Upscale retailer Saks swung to a record profit in thepast quarter after a loss a year earlier, with sales up 6.1percent. At rival Tiffany, it was a similar story with globalsales up 17 percent in the most recent quarter and profit upnearly fourfold.

French luxury giants Hermes and LVMH also reportedstrong growth in sales in the first quarter boosted largelyby rise in Asia excluding Japan as buyers snap up watches,jewelry and other upscale goods after months of economicgloom.

But it may be too early to break out the champagnefor the luxury sector, analysts warn.

In the US market, consulting firm Unity Marketingreports that much of the growth is coming from super-richhouseholds with incomes of 250,000 dollars a year — thetop two percent of Americans. This group hiked spendingby 22.6 percent in the past quarter.

The so-called “aspirational affluents” with incomesbetween 100,000 and 249,999 dollars increased their spend-ing by only 1.9 percent from fourth quarter of 2009 to firstquarter of 2010, the survey found.

“The ultra-affluents are returning to spending at pre-recession levels, while the aspirational consumers are hold-ing back,” says Unity president Pam Danziger.

“But even with their exuberant amounts of spending,the ultra-affluents can’t sustain recovery in the luxury mar-ket.”

Danziger said the market for luxury cars, jewelry andother goods is now relying on a smaller slice of the ultra-rich population.

Prior to the recession that began in 2007, this markethad been boosted by the so-called wealth effect with risinghome prices and stock prices fueling spending by the “Hen-rys” (high earners, not yet rich). This is a large group ofnearly 23 million Americans with incomes between 100,000and 250,000 dollars a year.

But Danziger says that even if the stock market re-bounds and the economy steadies, the luxury market willbe hurt by the aging of the US population: he baby-boomgeneration that fueled the big surge in spending is enteringretirement and “Generation X” is not a big enough group topick up the slack.

All this means a narrower market for luxury and somebrands and stores expanding downmarket.

Some luxury retailers are expanding their outlet storesto be more accessible to upper middle-class shoppers.

Some of these store “are demanding that these (luxury)brands come in with more reasonable price points,” saidDanziger.

Neiman Marcus, the upmarket department store, istesting a retail concept for shoppers who fled its stores dur-ing the recession.

Luxury market slowlyemerging from globalrecession

South Korea, Japan and ChinaSouth Korea, Japan and ChinaSouth Korea, Japan and ChinaSouth Korea, Japan and ChinaSouth Korea, Japan and Chinaagree to speed up trade accordagree to speed up trade accordagree to speed up trade accordagree to speed up trade accordagree to speed up trade accordAgence France-Presse

SEOGWIPO - South Korea, Japan and China agreed Sunday to speed up an investment accord andresearch on a trilateral free trade pact.

firmed they would complete a feasibil-ity study within two years on creating afree trade bloc grouping their threecountries.

The three leaders also called forthe early conclusion of a trilateral ac-cord on investment and agreed to es-tablish a cooperation secretariat in Seoulnext year.

South Korea has for years been inseparate free trade talks with China andJapan, but with little progress.

Seoul and Beijing agreed Fridayto hold preliminary talks on sensitivesectors such as agriculture before start-ing full-fledged negotiations on a freetrade pact.

China has emerged as SouthKorea’s largest trading partner, absorb-ing some 24 percent of its total exportsin 2009.

South Korea has been activelypushing for free-trade agreementsworldwide to bolster its export-domi-nated economy.

It already has such agreementswith Chile, Singapore, India, the Euro-pean Free Trade Association and theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations.

A free-trade pact was signed withthe European Union in October 2009 andawaits ratification. A deal signed withthe United States in 2007 is also await-ing ratification.

India’s auto-rickshaws eyed as driving force in advertising They are synony-mous with India andare the country’smost common form oftransport, used byeveryone fromschoolchildren andhousewives to officeworkers and tourists.

“The drivers say it’s a nice idea ifpassengers are getting something toread because people get fed up in traf-fic jams,” Mulchand Dedhia told AFP.“This helps them pass the time.”

Distraction, though, is only one partof the exercise.

Dedhia, 25, and his colleagues IshanMehta and Simi Sailopal, both 23, con-ducted research that suggested that hugenumbers of people in Mumbai spend 15to 20 minutes every day in an auto-rick-shaw.

“There’s no other medium that cancapture a passenger’s attention for 15to 20 minutes,” said Dedhia.

“That gives you time to engage abrand’s audience,” he added.

Advertising is a rapidly growing in-dustry in India, where liberalisation ofthe country’s economy from the early1990s has led to a rise in disposable in-comes and a burgeoning, Western-styleconsumer culture in big cities.

The sector is expected to grow by 12percent in 2010 to 246.9 billion rupees(5.2 billion dollars), according to a re-cent KPMG report on India’s media andentertainment industry.

Television and print media currentlyaccount for the biggest share of adver-tising spending, with the out-of-homesector — billboards, bus shelters, pave-ment posters or public transport — ac-counting for just over six percent.

Spending on out-of-home and printadvertising is projected to fall slightlyby 2014 as Internet and television ad-vertising takes off, KPMG said in thestudy for the Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI).

But the “Meter Down” trio believe

that a new combination of print and out-of-home advertising could be a winningformula, complementing television andradio commercials — but targeting spe-cific consumers at a local level.

With 160,000 registered auto-rick-shaws in Mumbai alone and the city seenas a benchmark for advertisers keen toget brand exposure in the Indian mar-ket, the young entrepreneurs believethey have a sustainable business model.

“Bombay is huge,” said Mehta, wholike many English-speakers still uses thecity’s former name. “Even if you aim totap 10 percent of the auto-rickshaws inBombay, that in itself is quite big.”

Dedhia, Mehta and Sailopal, whoeach contributed 25,000 rupees of theirown money to get the start-up off theground, say they are initially just tryingto cover their costs.

But they plan to expand into outlyingsuburbs and customise auto-rickshawswith internal and external advertisingwell beyond existing examples such aswebsite addresses on vehicle hoods.

Other language versions of the maga-zine are a possibility, as is launchingacross India.

Publicity has already led to enquiriesfrom the capital, New Delhi, which hasabout 55,000 registered auto-rickshaws,and generated interest in the cities ofPune, Hyderabad and Bhopal, they said.

The team also believes the high-vis-ibility scheme would work in ruralareas, which have been seen as hard toreach for advertisers. Maharashtra state,of which Mumbai is the capital, has700,000 auto-rickshaws.

“Auto-rickshaws can be a 360-de-gree brand solution,” said Dedhia.(Agence France-Presse)

Entertainment InternationalMonday, May 31, 201012

Associated Press Writer

LONDON – It was black andstrapless, with a sassy sequinedflounce at the bodice and a gloriouslyfull, swishy skirt. The dress was, LadyDiana Spencer thought, so grown-up,just right for her first official engage-ment after the announcement she wasto marry Prince Charles.

But when photographs emerged ofthe then 19-year-old Diana emergingfrom a limousine at a March, 1981charity event — all creamy shouldersand ample decolletage — there wasa minor scandal over the revealingcut. According to Elizabeth Emanuel,who designed the ball gown with herhusband David, they didn’t realize thefuror the dress would cause.

“She just looked fantastic. At thattime, she was curvy. Not fat in anyway, but she had cleavage — we lovecleavage. And she looked great inthis dress,” Emanuel said in an in-terview Friday. “We in no way ex-pected there to be such a reaction.And I think from that moment on,Diana became a fashion icon.”

The dress had been missing foryears until David Emanuel recentlydiscovered it in a plastic bag at hishome. Along with other garmentsworn by Diana and designed by theEmanuels, it is to be auctioned offJune 8 in a sale that includes thesilk chiffon blouse chosen for thePrincess of Wales’ official engage-ment portrait by Lord Snowdon,and the calico prototype used to fither famous ivory wedding gown.

Prince Charles reportedly didn’tlike the ballgown she wore to thecharity event, because he thoughtblack was for people in mourning.Diana thought it was tres chic, andanyway, she had nothing else to wear.

“She was unsophisticated at thatpoint, and when I look at the wed-ding dress and the black ballgown Ican see a young girl’s dream of theultimate party dress or romanticdress,” said auctioneer Kerry Taylor,whose eponymous firm is handlingthe sale. “So there’s an innocenceabout these early pieces.

“Later on she became very svelte,very sophisticated, very elegant,” Tay-lor said. “But here we see just a very


TEL AVIV – R&B singing sen-sation Rihanna takes the stage infront of an Israeli audience for thefirst time Sunday night as part of herlatest world tour.

It’s the first time in the Holy Landfor the 22-year-old Barbados native.The concert is part of her Last Girlon Earth tour, which began threeweeks ago in Europe.

Rihanna spent the two days priorto her show touring Tel Aviv and

Hopper, who was twice nominatedfor Oscars and earned a star this yearon the Walk of Fame, died Saturdayat his home in the Venice neighbor-hood of Los Angeles, family friendAlex Hitz said. Hopper had been di-agnosed with prostate cancer in 2009.

“We rode the highways of Americaand changed the way movies weremade in Hollywood,” Peter Fonda, his“Easy Rider” co-star, said in commentscarried by several news outlets. “I wasblessed by his passion and friendship.”

The success of “Easy Rider” andfailure of his next film, “The LastMovie,” fit the pattern for the talentedbut wild Hopper, who also had partsin such favorites as “Rebel Withouta Cause,” “Apocalypse Now,” “BlueVelvet” and “Hoosiers.”

Other tributes were posted on ce-lebrities’ websites and Twitter feeds.

Diana’s daring blackdress goes on the block

beautiful, innocent young girl, and theclothes reflect that.”

For the editors of Britain’s vora-cious press, the dress — and the snapsof Diana in it — would kick off a longlove affair with the princess.

“Up until that point, they’d seen heras a floppy-haired puppy,” said Chris-topher Wilson, a seasoned observerwho has written extensively on theroyals. “And that’s the moment FleetStreet fell in love with her. “It allstretches back to that one picture.”

Taylor and Elizabeth Emanuel arehopeful the collection will go to amuseum — the black dress is expectedto fetch between 30,000 and 50,000pounds ($44,000 to $73,000) and theprototype of the wedding dress be-tween 8,000 and 12,000 pounds($12,000 to $17,000) — but under-stand that Diana’s legacy meansthere’s a strong chance a private col-lector may snap up the garments.

Despite the reaction to herballgown, Diana liked it enough toask the Emanuels to take it in whenit became too large for her, as shewas constantly losing weight. In themonths leading up to her wedding,Diana’s waist dropped from 26 to24 inches, and the Emanuels decidedit would be easier to just make her anew, smaller version of the dress.Elizabeth Emanuel said she doesn’tknow what happened to the secondversion.

The collection up for sale includessketches, notes, invoices — one showsDiana’s mother paid 1,000 guineas forthe wedding party’s dresses, whichwas the equivalent of 1,050 pounds— and even the handbag that Eliza-beth Emanuel carried to the weddingat St. Paul’s Cathedral on July 29,1981. It still has the smelling salts thedesigner brought along in case her fa-mous client felt faint. (She didn’t,Emanuel said, describing Diana as theepitome of calm.)

“Diana was just fantastic. Fromthe moment we first met her, she wasjust like a regular client. She waslovely, down-to-earth, very sweet,very calm, very friendly. She madea point of meeting everybody in thework room and she was just so easyto get on with,” Emanuel said. “Wehad so much fun.”

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

In this Friday, May 28, 2010 photo, the black taffeta evening gownworn by Princess Diana on her first official appearance after herengagement to Prince Charles, designed by Elizabeth Emanuel isdisplayed, at an auction house in London.

Rihanna says enjoying Israel before showJerusalem, holding press confer-ences, and meeting some of her fans.She said her time in Israel was an“amazing, amazing experience.”

Metallica performed in Israel thismonth. Other artists including thePixies and Elton John have showsscheduled in Israel this year.

Singer Rihanna gestures as shespeaks during a press confer-ence in Tel Aviv, Saturday, May

29, 2010. AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File

FILE - In a Friday, March 26, 2010 photo, actor Jack Nicholson, left, congratulates Dennis Hopper afterHopper was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in Los Angeles. Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood actor-director whose memorable career included the 1969 smash ‘Easy Rider,’ died Sat-urday, May 29, 2010 at his Venice, Calif. home, surrounded by family and friends.

Dennis Hopper, HollywoodDennis Hopper, HollywoodDennis Hopper, HollywoodDennis Hopper, HollywoodDennis Hopper, Hollywoodhero and antihero, dieshero and antihero, dieshero and antihero, dieshero and antihero, dieshero and antihero, diesAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Dennis Hopper, who brought the countercultureto Hollywood with “Easy Rider” and led a career marked by successes,failures and comebacks, has died at age 74.

“So long Dennis,” actress VirginiaMadsen, who starred in the Hopper-directed “The Hot Spot,” said on herTwitter page. “U taught me so much.”

After a promising start that in-cluded roles in two James Dean films,Hopper’s acting career languished ashe developed a reputation for tan-trums and drug abuse. On the set of“True Grit,” Hopper so angered JohnWayne that the star reportedly chasedHopper with a loaded gun.

“Much of Hollywood,” wrotecritic-historian David Thomson,“found Hopper a pain in the neck.” Allwas forgiven when he collaboratedwith Fonda on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-dealing hippies on across-country motorcycle trip.

On the way, Hopper and Fondabefriend a drunken young lawyer(Jack Nicholson in a breakout role)

but arouse the enmity of Southernrednecks and are murdered beforethey can return home.

“‘Easy Rider’ was never a motor-cycle movie to me,” Hopper said in2009. “A lot of it was about politicallywhat was going on in the country.”

Fonda produced “Easy Rider” andHopper directed it for a meager$380,000. It went on to gross $40 mil-lion worldwide, a substantial sum forits time. It was a hit at Cannes, netted abest-screenplay Oscar nomination forHopper, Fonda and Terry Southern.

The establishment gave officialblessing in 1998 when “Easy Rider”was included in the United StatesNational Film Registry for being“culturally, historically, or aestheti-cally significant.”

Its success prompted studio headsto schedule a new kind of movie: lowcost, with inventive photography andthemes about a restive baby boomgeneration. With Hopper hailed as abrilliant filmmaker, Universal Pic-tures lavished $850,000 on his nextproject, “The Last Movie.”

International Monday, May 31, 2010 13Life Style

Either way, you’re playing a videogame — and you may be improvingyour vision and other brain functions,according to research presentedThursday at a New York Universityconference on games as a learningtool.

“People that play these fast-pacedgames have better vision, better atten-tion and better cognition,” saidDaphne Bavelier, an assistant profes-sor in the department of brain andcognitive science at the University ofRochester.

Bavelier was a presenter at Gamesfor Learning, a daylong symposiumon the educational uses of videogames and computer games.

The event, the first of its kind,was an indication that electronicgames are gaining legitimacy in theclassroom.

President Barack Obama recentlyidentified the creation of good edu-cational software as one of the “grandchallenges for American innovation,”and the federal Department ofEducation’s assistant deputy secretaryfor the Office of Innovation and Im-provement, Jim Shelton, attendedThursday’s conference.

Panelists discussed how people

Agence France Presse

ROBERT, Louisiana – BP’s“top kill” operation to plug theruptured well in the Gulf ofMexico has failed in a stunningsetback to efforts to stem theworst oil spill in US history.

BP and federal authorities saidSaturday they are now turning toa new strategy to stop the leak,but it will take at least four toseven days before it can be putinto place.

At least 20 million gallons are


WASHINGTON – A group of USpaleontologists said Friday it hasunearthed a new species of dino-saurs standing some six feet tall andweighing up to 4.5 tonnes, with thelongest horns of all.

The 72-million-year-old herbi-vore, now named Coahuilaceratopsmagnacuerna, has two large hornsabove its eyes measuring up to animpressive four feet (1.22 meters)long — the largest of any other spe-cies, providing fresh insight into thehistory of western North America.

Scientists uncovered fossils be-longing to both an adult and a juve-nile of the rhino-sized tubby crea-ture at the Cerro del Pueblo Forma-tion in Coahuila, Mexico. It mea-sured about 22 feet (6.7 meters) long

Violent video games touted as learning toolViolent video games touted as learning toolViolent video games touted as learning toolViolent video games touted as learning toolViolent video games touted as learning toolAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK – You’re at the front lines shooting Nazis before theyshoot you. Or you’re a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.

AP Photo/Electronic Arts, Inc.

In this undated computer generated image released by Electronic Arts, Inc., animated solders attack abuilding in the ‘Medal of Honor’ video game. Some researchers have credited first-person shooter gameslike ‘Medal of Honor’ with the improving vision, attention and cognition.

learn and how games can be engi-neered to be even more educational.“People do learn from games,” said J.Dexter Fletcher of the Institute forDefense Analyses.

Sigmund Tobias of the State Uni-versity of New York at Albany said anIsraeli air force study found that stu-dents who played the game “SpaceFortress” had better rankings in theirpilot training than students who didnot.

He added that students who played“pro-social” games that promote co-operation were more likely than oth-ers to help out in real-life situationslike intervening when someone is be-ing harassed.

Bavelier’s research has focused onso-called first-person shooter gameslike “Unreal Tournament” and “Medalof Honor,” in which the player is anAllied solder during World War II.

“You have to jump into vehicles,you have to crouch and hide,” saidTammy Schachter, a spokeswoman forgame developer Electronic Arts Inc.

Bavelier said playing the kill-or-be-killed games can improve peripheralvision and the ability to see objects atdusk, and the games can even be usedto treat amblyopia, or lazy eye, a dis-

order characterized by indistinct visionin one eye.

She said she believes the games canimprove math performance and otherbrain tasks. “We are testing this hy-pothesis that when you play an actionvideo game, what you do is you learnto better allocate your resources,” she

said. “In a sense you learn to learn. ...You become very good at adapting towhatever is asked of you.”

Bavelier believes the games willeventually become part of school cur-riculums, but “it’s going to take a gen-eration.”

Schachter said the purpose of

“Medal of Honor” and other games isto have fun, and any educational ben-efits are a bonus.

“Through entertainment thesegames test your memory skills, youreye-hand coordination, your ability todetect small activities on the screen andinteract with them,” she said.

‘Top kill’ fails to stop Gulf oil leaknow estimated to have gushed intothe ocean since the disaster unfoldedfive weeks ago, threatening an envi-ronmental and economic catastropheacross hundreds of kilometers of theUS Gulf Coast.

“After three full days of attempt-ing ‘top kill,’ we have been unableto overcome the flow from the well,so we now believe it’s time to moveon to the next of our options,” BPChief Operations Officer DougSuttles told a press briefing.

President Barack Obama calledthe developments “enraging” and

“heartbreaking.” Engineers hadspent days pumping some 30,000barrels of heavy drilling fluid intothe leaking well head on the oceanfloor in a high-pressure bid tosmother the gushing crude and ul-timately seal the well with cement.

But the effort failed, and whenasked specifically why, Suttles hadno direct answer. “We don’t knowthat for certain,” he said.

The announcement marks thelatest failure for BP, which despitea series of high-tech operationsover the past month has appearedpowerless to bring the disaster toheel since an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rigApril 20 which killed 11 workers.The rig sank two days later.

The British energy giant hadstressed that “top kill” was the bestchance at stopping the leak otherthan drilling an entirely new reliefwell, a process that has already be-gun but is expected to take anothertwo months.

“Obviously, we’re very disap-pointed in today’s announcementand I know all of you are anxiousto see this well secured,” US CoastGuard Rear Admiral Mary Landrytold the briefing.

Efforts will now focus on sever-ing the damaged riser pipes that laycrumpled on the ocean floor, theninstalling a containment device thatcould capture the leaking oil andsyphon it to the surface.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Win McNamee

People fish along the banks of a marsh near Lake Boudreaux inLouisiana. BP’s “top kill” operation to plug the ruptured well in theGulf of Mexico has failed in a stunning setback to efforts to stem theworst oil spill in US history.

Newly uncovered dinosaurhad longest horns of all

as an adult, standing six to seven feet(1.8 to two meters) tall at the shoul-der and hips.

“We know very little about thedinosaurs of Mexico, and this findincreases immeasurably our knowl-edge of the dinosaurs living inMexico during the Late Cretaceous,”said the study’s lead author MarkLoewen, a paleontologist with theUtah Museum of Natural History.

His team is to release a book nextweek detailing the find, which tookplace during expeditions in 2002 and2003 in the Coahuila desert. The studywas funded by the National GeographicSociety and the University of Utah.

When dinosaurs lived in this cor-ner of Mexico, it was a lush, humidestuary where ocean water mixedwith fresh water from rivers, similarto the US Gulf Coast today.

AFP/DDP/File/Lennart Preiss

A woman walkspast a Dinosaurskeleton ondisplay at theexhibion “Dino-saurs -Argentina’sGiants” in thewestern Germancity of Bonn in2009.

Monday, May 31, 201014 InternationalSport

The Lakers and Celtics, theNBA’s premier teams for much ofthe league’s history, will meet inthe finals for the 12th time withGame 1 Thursday night in LosAngeles. They are the NBA cham-pions each of the last two years— Boston beat the Lakers twoyears ago, and Los Angelestopped Orlando last season.

“We’ll see how much we ma-tured,” Bryant said. “They chal-lenged us extremely well in thefinals a couple years ago. Now isa chance to see how much we’vegrown.”

Bryant scored nine points in thefinal 2 minutes, including whatlooked like an impossible 23-footer with Grant Hill in his faceand 34 seconds to play. The bas-ket put Los Angeles up 107-100and the scrappy Suns were fin-ished.

The Lakers will be in search oftheir 16th NBA championship intheir 31st finals appearance.

Reuters

BERLIN – Vitali Klitschkobeat challenger Albert Sosnowskiby technical knock-out Saturday,ending the Pole’s bid to becomehis country’s first heavyweightchampion.

Towering over his lighter op-ponent, Klitschko clinched a suc-cessful defense of his WBC titlewhen the fight was stopped in the10th round.

The 38-year-old Ukrainiandominated the fight, with theyounger Sosnowski forced towork to the body after failing toconnect to the head.

“Albert gave everything ... butexperience played an important


PARIS – Former runner-upElena Dementieva of Russiacruises into the quarterfinals of theFrench Open by beating qualifierChanelle Scheepers 6-1, 6-3.

The fifth-seeded Dementievacommitted five double faults in thefirst set Sunday but took advantageof her opponent’s sluggish start tobreak her four times.

Los Angeles Lakers guardKobe Bryant, right, shootsover Phoenix Suns guard

Jason Richardson during thesecond half of Game 6 of the

NBA basketball WesternConference finals Saturday,

May 29, 2010, in Phoenix.

Lakers beat Suns to set up rematch with CelticsLakers beat Suns to set up rematch with CelticsLakers beat Suns to set up rematch with CelticsLakers beat Suns to set up rematch with CelticsLakers beat Suns to set up rematch with CelticsAssociated Press Writer

PHOENIX – Get ready, Boston, for a rematch with Kobe Bryant and his Los Angeles Lakers.Bryant wrapped up a magnificent series with 37 points, Ron Artest added 25 and the Lakersheld off the Phoenix Suns 111-103 on Saturday night to win the Western Conference finals.

Amare Stoudemire, in what mayhave been his last game with theSuns, scored 27 points but struggledto a 7-of-20 shooting night. He canopt out of the final year of his con-tract and has said chances are “50-50” that he will play elsewhere nextseason.

Steve Nash added 21 points andnine assists in his 118th playoffgame, the most for anyone who hasnever reached the finals.

Bryant, with his 10th 30-pointperformance in his last 11 postseasongames, moved ahead of Jerry Westand into a tie with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for second-most 30-pointplayoff games at 75. He has a waysto go for the record of 109 held byMichael Jordan.

Bryant also extended his NBArecord to eight straight 30-pointcloseout games on the road. “I al-ways thought he was the best playerin basketball,” Phoenix coach AlvinGentry said.

Channing Frye had 12 points and

13 rebounds for the Suns, who havereached the finals only twice in theirhistory and never have won a cham-pionship. Goran Dragic scored 10 ofhis 12 points in a fourth-quarter rallythat got Phoenix within three points.

The Lakers led by as many as 18late in the second quarter and wereup by 17 entering the fourth. But fourSuns reserves plus Stoudemire gotthe Suns back into it after Los An-geles took a 91-74 lead into thefourth quarter.

“With a 3-point shooting teamlike Phoenix,” Lakers coach PhilJackson said, “you know that anylead is not impossible.”

(AP Photo/Matt York)

Klitschko beats Sosnowski in 10th round TKOrole,” Klitschko told some 60,000spectators after the contest inSchalke 04’s soccer stadium inGelsenkirchen, Germany.

Keeping Sosnowski at bay withan outstretched left arm throughoutmuch of the bout, Klitschko baitedthe challenger before hammering theshorter man down to the canvas withan explosive combination that endedthe fight.

Klitschko may now turn his atten-tion to Britain’s David Haye, whoholds the WBA title. Vitali’s brotherVladimir holds the WBO, IBF andIBO belts.

“I have plenty of dry power leftto fire,” Klitschko said from the ring.“I hope the next fight will be soon.We’ll see who’ll be next, maybe

David Haye.”Haye, 29, who has a 24-1 record,

has said the Klitschko brothers con-sistently pick “over-the-hill” oppo-nents, and angered the pair when heappeared at a news conference wear-ing a T-shirt that depicted him hold-ing their bloodied and severed heads.

Speaking to journalists after thefight form his locker room, Klitschkosaid he would be happy if either heor his brother gets to face Haye inthe ring.

“He talks a lot and insults his op-ponents — in America they’d callhim a ‘trash talker’. I’d be just ashappy if it’s Vladimir who beats himor I,” he said. Klitschko now has 40victories from 42 fights with twodefeats.

Dementieva eases intoquarterfinals at French Open

Ukrainian heavy-weight world

champion VitaliKlitschko (R)

fights withPoland’s Albert

Sosnowski duringthe WBC Heavy-

weight WorldChampionshipboxing bout inGelsenkirchen,

western Germanyon May 29, 2010.

AFP PHOTO DDP/ CLEMENS BILAN GERMANY OUT

Russia’s ElenaDementieva

returns the ball toSouth Africa’s

ChanelleScheepers duringtheir fourth round

match for theFrench Open

tennis tourna-ment at the

Roland Garrosstadium in Paris,Sunday, May 30,

2010.

She broke again in the 6th gameof the second set after Scheepersmissed two consecutive forehands.

Dementieva, who reached the fi-nal in Paris in 2004, will next playeither American Venus Williams orNadia Petrova of Russia.

The 131st-ranked Scheeperswas the f i rs t South Afr icanwoman to make it this far at theFrench Open s ince AmandaCoetzer in 1997.

(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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The Saudis had taken the surpriselead over the European championswhen Osama Hawsawi found the netwith a header after 16 minutes.

Spain poured into attack withDavid Villa (30) and Xabi Alonso(58) putting Vicente Del Bosque’sside back in control before anMohammed Al-Sahlawi equaliserlooked set to upset a team who areamong the World Cup favourites.

Athletic Bilbao strikerLlorente, however, found the nettwo minutes into extra time to giveDel Bosque’s side a victory in thefirst of three friendlies ahead ofthe World Cup finals.

“They (Saudis) played well. Wewere sluggish in our ball handling.If we’d been more alert we couldhave won by a bigger margin,”said Del Bosque.

Saudi Arabia’s Portuguese coachJose Peseiro added: “They deservedto win. They had more chances andwe needed a bit of luck.”

Midfielder Xavi Hernandez saidthat Spain were finding their rhythmtwo weeks ahead of the World Cup.“The team felt comfortable togetherdespite conceding two goals,” hesaid. “These games are good to findour rhythm.”

Spain had dominated early playwith Sergio Ramos heading a cornerjust wide after 13 minutes. But theSaudis went straight into attack and


KLAGENFURT, Austria – Afirst-half strike from Shane Smeltzhanded World Cup outsiders NewZealand a shock 1-0 victory overSerbia in a pre-tournament friendlyhere on Saturday.

Smeltz, an A-League striker withGold Coast United, found the net forthe All Whites after 21 minutesagainst a Serbian side who rarelythreatened despite being ranked 63places above their rivals.

The Serbs were sorely missing

(AFP/Joe Klamar)

Spain’s Sergio Llorente (R) and Saudi’s Saddik Al Mousa Kamil clash during a friendly match inthe Tyrolian town of Innsbruck. An injury-time goal from substitute Llorente saved Spain blusheson Saturday with a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Saudi Arabia in a pre-World Cup friendly here.

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INNSBRUCK, Austria – An injury-time goalfrom substitute Fernando Llorente saved Spainblushes on Saturday with a last-gasp 3-2 victory overSaudi Arabia in a pre-World Cup friendly here.

got a chance to move aheadwhen defender GerardPique fouled Mishal AlSaeed.

Midfielder Abdoh Auteftook the free-kick, but his ef-fort hit the Spain wall. But theSaudis did not have to wait longbefore taking the lead throughAl-Hilal defender Hawsawi.

The shocked Spaniards pouredforward with Barcelona’s Villagetting the equaliser when herose to head in an Andres Iniestacross on the half hour mark.

The Spaniards dominatedafter the break with RealMadrid’s Alonso getting theirsecond after 58 minutes. But theSaudis did not let down their guardwhich allowed Al-Sahlawi tobreak through after74 minutes.

In the last quar-ter of an hour,Spain contin-ued to push forthe winner,with Llorente,a 70th-minutereplacement forVilla, hitting wide in the83rd minute.

The Saudis finally cracked withLlorente heading in an Alonso’s cor-ner to give Spain their 14th consecu-tive victory.

Smeltz strikeshocks Serbia

New-Zealand’s Shane Smeltz(L) is pushed by Serbia’sZoran Tosic (R) during theirfriendly match at the HypoArena Worthersee Stadium ofKlagenfurt .

captain and Inter Milan striker DejanStankovic and defender IvanObradovic.

After the shock of falling behind,defender Neven Subotic missedSerbia’s best chance of an equaliserafter 38 minutes when he failed tofinish off a header just two metresout from Mark Patson in the Kiwigoal.

Captain Nemanja Vidic and histeammates had to call for calm asSerbia’s fans expressed their frustra-tion by throwing objects onto thepitch with some even making itdown onto the grounds.

Serbia are drawn in Group D inSouth Africa against Germany,Ghana and Australia. They play Po-land in a friendly on June 2 inKufstein, Austria.

New Zealand are in Group F withItaly, Paraguay and Slovakia andplay another friendly againstSlovenia on June 4 in Maribor.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

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Admitting in the build-up to therace that he could not remember thelast time he won three races in suc-cession, the Australian shrugged offthe problems that plagued himthroughout free practice to see offboth team-mate Sebastian Vettel andMcLaren’s Lewis Hamilton in quali-fying. Having converted top spot inboth Barcelona and Monaco into vic-tories that propelled him into a shareof the championship lead, Webberinsisted that he was not fazed byIstanbul Park’s reputation of giftingwins to its own polesitters.

“I have had worse pressure,” heconceded, after being reminded thatonly Jenson Button, in 2009, hasmanaged to break the run, “I think itwas nine from nine in Barcelona andI made it ten from ten. It is a niceplace to start the race but, potentially,it is one of the more interesting racestomorrow. It is a long race, and thetyres go with different people hereand there, but we are optimistic thatwe can get a good result from [pole].

“I’ve been very lucky, during mytime, to meet a lot of successfulsportsmen and women, and I don’tthink it matters what you’ve done inthe past in your career and in the fu-ture, [pressure] is what sport is about.

AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

Red Bull’s Australian driver Mark Webber celebrates in the parcferme of the Istanbul Park circuit on May 29, 2010, after qualify-ing session of the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix. Red Bull’sAustralian driver Mark Webber took the pole ahead of McLarenMercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Ger-man driver Sebastian Vettel.

Webber: I’ve hadworse pressure

Mark Webber is unconcerned by McLaren’s pace at IstanbulPark, despite Red Bull not opting to run its version of the F-duct.Turkish Grand Prix polesitter Mark Webber insists that he isfeeling confident after claiming a third straight pole positionand aiming for a rare personal hat-trick on Sunday afternoon.

That’s why we love turning up to testourselves and there is always an ele-ment of pressure to perform and dowell in any sport.”

The pole was Red Bull Racing’sseventh in as many races this season,with Webber now edging Vettel 4-3,but the Australian admitted that hehad not been quite so confident aboutachieving top spot as he toiled withvarious engine, hydraulic and han-dling problems during free practice.

“It hasn’t been the smoothest ofweekends for us in terms of gettingthe running in,” he acknowledged,“Obviously, Friday was a little bitdisrupted, but not massively to behonest. If you could ever have a prob-lem with the engine, it is probablythe right time to have it. This morn-ing, we were not having the easiestP3, but getting ready for qualifying,things started to get a bit better.

“I was a little bit on the back footgoing into it, but I knew I could digdeep, keep going and get somethingout of it. In the end, it turned out okay.To be honest, I am more comfortablewith [the race] tomorrow than I amon out-and-out pace, but at least I amstarting in the right place. It was a tightfight between all of us, and Seb had abit of a problem with his car, but, apart

from that, we are all very close.“I had a very, very poor long run

in P2, but we know why, and weknow everyone will start on the op-tion [tyre], get on with it. We had aninteresting feel with the gap to Lewisin Barcelona. They are a bit morecompetitive here, but we certainlystill had something up our sleeve, sowe will see how it goes.”

Hamilton’s McLaren was clock-ing higher numbers through thespeed traps than the Red Bull cars,but Webber insisted that he was com-fortable with the decision not to runwith RBR’s version of the F-duct thisweekend.

“We are achieving similar laptimes in a different way, no questionabout it,” he mused, “On certain partsof the track, they are strong, but thereare certain parts [where] we arestrong so, on the stopwatch, it ispretty close.

“We went in with our eyes wideopen [as the F-duct] is a pretty spe-cial project to get right. McLaren gotthe jump on everyone, and fair playto them., but we have got some fan-tastic people in our team, knowingwhat we need to do in the future. Wehave more to lose than to gain by tak-ing any risks. We are not exactly in asituation like a team that is fifth orsixth quickest. We are in the hunt, solet’s consolidate and, inch by inch, wecan introduce things. We have neverput stuff on the car to make it slower,so we are not going to start now.”

LEWIS Hamilton has hit out at the police in Australia and ac-cording to reports by the Daily Telegraph has suggested that theauthorities out there are ‘milking’ what happened back in Marchprior to the race at Albert Park.

The F1 2008 world champion was stopped by police shortly af-ter leaving the paddock after being seen performing a burnout forfans on the side of the street. His Mercedes was impounded and theBriton later apologised for what he called a ‘silly’ incident.

Hamilton was officially charged by police recently with inten-tionally losing control of vehicle with a court hearing scheduled for24 August. Although the 25-year-old is expected to escape with justa minimal fine, he reckons they are intentionally making more of itthan is really necessary.

“I have not paid much attention to it,” Hamilton said ahead of theTurkish Grand Prix, where he will start second in his McLaren.“Other people are dealing with it. It is all in the past for me. A fineis a fine but they are loving it at the moment.

“I guess they need the publicity. The country is so far away Iguess they don’t get much attention from us.”

Hamilton meanwhile has confirmed that he will not attend thehearing, which takes place a few days before the Belgian GrandPrix at Spa-Francorchamps.

“I don’t need to go,” he added. “I have people dealing with it. Itwas a tough weekend but I have moved on from it.

“I have learnt from it and I have not thought about it ever since.It doesn’t really bother me.”

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