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The top elected official in thepredominantly Muslim state,Omar Abdullah, was in New Delhiand met with Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, Home Minis-ter P. Chidambaram and DefenseMinister A.K. Antony to discusssteps to defuse the unrest that hasleft 34 people dead over the pastseven weeks.

“The need is to end the cycleof violence. Some semblance ofnormalcy has to be a precursor forany political initiative,” Abdullahtold reporters.

The recent tension in the Hi-malayan region — divided be-tween India and Pakistan andclaimed by both — is reminiscentof the late 1980s, when protestsagainst New Delhi’s rule sparkedan armed conflict that has sinceleft 68,000 people dead, mostlycivilians.

Kashmiri Muslims have heldmassive street protests, attackedsecurity camps with rocks andburned police stations. Govern-ment forces have responded byusing live ammunition and tear gasto break the protests against Indianrule. Clashes erupted again Mon-day in dozens of places across theregion, as protesters defied a

Associated Press Writer

BUCHAREST, Romania – A 25-year-old Romanian woman weigh-ing 528 pounds (240 kilograms),who gave birth to a baby girl morethan 5 months ago, has died. Rela-tives of Victoria Lacatus say shedied of a heart attack Sunday afterdeveloping a high fever and breath-ing problems.

Doctors from Craiova hospital insouthern Romania said Lacatus’heart stopped. Hospital manager

AP Photo/ Florin Ardelean/ Adevarul Daily

In this Feb. 17, 2010 file picture Victoria Lacatus, a 25-year-oldpregnant woman weighing 528 pounds (240 kilograms), is liftedby fire fighters out of an ambulance in Bucharest, Romania.

Obese mom dies in Romania,5 months after birth

Florin Petrescu said doctors triedto resuscitate Lacatus for 30 min-utes, a task made difficult becauseof her extreme obesity.

When Lacatus gave birth on Feb.18, Dr. Daghni Rasasingham, ofBritain’s Royal College of Obste-tricians and Gynecologists in Lon-don said the case was rare, giventhe mother’s weight and height of5 feet and 3 inches (1.6 meters).Rasasingham said she would be atrisk of clots, diabetes, post-birthbleeding and infection.

1 dead, 30 wounded inmore India Kashmir protests

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A Kashmiri Muslim protester throws a policeman’s bambooshield on a burning government vehicle after protesters set iton fire during funeral procession of Tanveer Ahmed inPampore, outskirts of Srinagar, India, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.Continued on page 6

Associated Press Writer

SRINAGAR, India – Government troops fired atthousands of people protesting Indian rule over thecountry’s portion of Kashmir on Monday, killing oneperson and injuring more than 30 as the wave of vio-lence that has swept through the region continued un-abated.

round-the-clock curfew.Government forces fired on

thousands of protesters holdingstreet protests in the southern townof Kakpora, killing one and wound-ing five, a police officer said on con-dition of anonymity as he was notauthorized to talk to reporters.

In the northern village ofKralpora, protesters set a securitybunker on fire and ransacked acounterinsurgency police forcecamp, the officer said. Troopsopened fire, injuring eight protest-ers, three critically, he said.

Protesters also burned a govern-ment building and a local intelli-gence office in Budgam, a town tothe west of Srinagar, the region’smain city. Four protesters werewounded there, the officer said. InSrinagar, troops announced overpublic address systems mounted ontheir vehicles that stern actionwould be taken against those vio-lating the curfew.

However, hundreds of protesterscame out on the streets in severalneighborhoods, chanting “Go In-dia! Go back” and “We want free-dom.” Troops fired warning shotsand tear gas to disperse the protest-ers, the police officer said.

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Former President of Indonesia,Megawati Soekarno Putri, alsomade her time to be present at theevent entitled TMII ArchipelagicCultural Enchantment Festival2010. At least, 500 spectators werereluctant to move from their seatfrom the beginning until the end ofthe performances. Moreover, theKeling Brahmin fragmentary per-formed at the last session was filledwith many moral messages fittingfor the future leaders of this coun-try. Similarly, the message was trulyrelevant for the societal life today.

The story told about a Brahmin(priests) from Java coming to Balito meet the King Waturenggong, awise king ruling the SuwecapuraKingdom and could bring theSuwecapura Kingdom,Klungkung, Bali, to its golden pe-riod in the XVI century. The ar-rival of Keling Brahmin who re-mained to belong to the family ofthe King Waturenggong had reli-gious mission as a priest. Unfor-

Solutions to resolve the trafficcongestion by the operation ofSarbagita (Denpasar, Badung,Gianyar, Tabanan) bus by BaliProvincial Government seems toless resonate and it is believedwould not be effective. Within thenext three months, Bali ProvincialGovernment will launch the opera-tion of Sarbagita bus. This bus willserve the new route starting fromTabanan to Denpasar and Gianyar.Target of this pilot project is tounravel the traffic congestionpoints in Kuta including the routeto Nusa Dua.

Unfortunately, the public re-sponse to this solution was not soencouraging. It was proven whena question proposed: “Are yousure the operation of Sarbagita busto become an effective solutionused to overcome the traffic con-gestion on the strategic intercityroutes?” Answers of respondentswere focused on the choice ‘notsure.’ There were 72.6 percent ofrespondents admitted to ‘not sure.’They generally assessed the habitof using buses had not been estab-lished yet. In addition, respondentsgenerally admitted to not knowwhere the direction and the bus ter-minal were due to lack of social-ization.

Meanwhile, respondentsclaimed to believe that theSarbagita bus could overcome thecongestion amounted to 14.3 per-cent. They expected that after theoperation of the bus there wouldbe a new policy in the use of pri-vate vehicles. At least, respondentsexpected there should be endeav-ors to overcome the burden of con-gestion. In the meantime, respon-dents who claimed to know noth-ing about the matter reaching 13.1percent. They said the rate of ve-hicle growth was very high andweakness of policing on the roadswould make any solutions ineffec-tive.

When asked about the question:“In your opinion, what kind ofmeasure should be taken by gov-ernment to address the inter-re-gency congestion in Bali?” re-spondents generally expected thegovernment to make a review onthe implementation of publictransportation route. It was notedthat 50 percent of responses lay-ing on this proposal. They assessedthe existing route was not effec-tive to drive them to their work-place. In addition, public trans-

Cultural enchantment at TMII

Keling BrahminKeling BrahminKeling BrahminKeling BrahminKeling Brahminmesmerizes spectatorsmesmerizes spectatorsmesmerizes spectatorsmesmerizes spectatorsmesmerizes spectators

A fragmentary entitled Keling Brahmin performed by Gita Chandra Art Community fromKlungkung successfully enthralled hundreds of visitors to the Indonesia Miniature Park (TMII),in particular Balinese pavilion, last Saturday (Jul 31) night.

tunately, his arrival did not getpleasant welcome and appreciation.Keling Brahmin looking shabbyand ugly even got bad treatmentwhere he was not recognized as thefamily of the King Waturenggong.Ultimately, the Keling Brahmin wastortured and expelled fromSuwecapura.

Once upon a time, the king helda Nangluk Merana (pest preven-tion) ritual at Besakih Temple. Itwas intended to poise the universedue to influence of negative effects.In fact, a calamity afflicted theSuwecapura. The series of ritualsturned disorganized. Pest attackoccurred malignantly and harmedthe farmers’ crops. Mount Agungvibrated and Suwecapura was af-flicted by contagious disease. Ap-parently, such conditions were cre-ated by Keling Brahmin because hewas abused by the attitude of theking. Through his inner power,King Waturenggong realized thatthe chaotic condition was caused by

his action and accepted KelingBrahmin. Many moral messageswere contained in the performance.A leader had to show wisdom indealing with things. Likewise, thecircle of social community shouldnot simply judge a person fromouter appearance, but should also befrom sincere intention to performthe obligation.

Other than Keling Brahmin frag-mentary, some other spectacularperformances were the SekarCempaka dance becoming the mas-cot of Klungkung, Subak Pemagpagand Sekar Duduk where all werepresented by the Gita Candra artcommunity initiated by the Regentof Klungkung, Wayan Candra.

Apart from Megawati, a numberof ambassadors from neighboringcountries and the circles of higherofficials in Bali, such as DeputyGovernor of Bali AA Puspayoga andRegent of Klungkung Wayan Candratook his time to watch the art perfor-mance involving 70 artists. (bal)

Sarbagita bus unsure toovercome traffic congestion

ports were often stuck in conges-tion so it made the respondents feelunsafe to arrive at workplace.

Then, the proposal on the addi-tion of new road links was not somuch in demand. Respondents as-sessed the addition of a new roadlink including flyover would notresolve the problem permanently.Only 23.8 percent of responsesconsidering the addition of newroad link could overcome the con-gestion. Other proposal related tothe restrictions against the use ofpersonal vehicle and determinationon the number of passenger forprivate vehicles was considerednot so urgent, either. Only 26.2 per-cent of the response rated the de-termination of passengers in pri-vate vehicles would be able toovercome the congestion. Mostrespondents expected the author-ity should review the existingroutes of public transport andmade a tryout before offering an-other alternative to overcome thecongestion.

When the question “Is it neces-sary for Bali Provincial Govern-ment to make a policy or regula-tion on private vehicles includingits passengers for the sake ofSarbagita’s smoothness?” pro-posed, there were 42.7 percent ad-mitted to be ‘unnecessary.’ Re-spondents only wished the optimi-zation of public transport arrange-ments. Addition of Sarbagita buswas only assessed to add thecrowdedness on the roads. More-over, the road targeted to be passedthrough by Sarbagita bus had in-deed been jammed because of thehigh volume of vehicles. By add-ing new vehicles, it would increas-ingly trigger the seizure of roadspace. Nevertheless, there were39.4 percent of respondents con-sidered it necessary to stipulate theprivate vehicles along with theirpassengers.

This measure was predicted toreduce the number of vehicles onthe roads. The current problem isthat many people drove a singleprivate vehicle to Nusa Dua with-out passengers beside the driver.On the other hand, there were alsorespondents giving no definite an-swer. In general, they were reluc-tant to give responses because theyconsidered no matter whateversolution taken would be ineffec-tive. Approximately 17.9 percentof the respondents belonged to thischoice of attitude. (dir)

Gianyar (Bali Post) -Condition of existing parking

chaos in a number of areas in-cluding Ubud, almost the sameas the condition of parking ev-ery day in the Gianyar Regency.Parking that there are at Regent’soffice also chaotic conditions,lack of regular and mixed. Start-ing from parked vehicles untilthe wheels of two, and personalservice in Gianyar district gov-ernment pages.

The observation last few daysin the regency of Gianyar, park-ing chaos vehicles that exist inlocal government due to the lackof signposts and boundary ve-hicle parking in the Office of theRegent of Gianyar. While Sun-day (1 / 8) yesterday, through thecoordination of Head of AssetManagement, as well as Perwat

Chaotic, Gianyarregency Parking System

, Sat-Pol PP and the Affair andInfocom have agreed to restruc-ture and reorganize Gianyar re-gency office park, which duringhis impression was rather chaotic,it is clear Kadis Infocom Commu-nications and Gianyar Regency,Ida Bagus Adi Saputra gaga.

Structuring planned to installthe lines and signs, so that the al-lotment of parking the vehiclewheels and two wheels for fouremployees, guests, or people whocome to the office of Regent tomore clearly. With this style ex-pected to generate impression ofa neat, well grow a culture of dis-cipline and can be a model forother government offices inGianyar regency, he said.

While Head of Asset Manage-ment and Perwat , Cok GdeAgusnawa explained, structur-

ing assoc ia ted park ing inGianyar Regency Office said hisoffice would do so in the nearfuture. In addition to orderingthe vehicle is intended, will alsoexpand the parking by disman-tling one of the buildings stareat the Fire Command Post. Withthe parking lot will be broaderand more orderly.

While visible Pol PP, I WayanKujus Pawitra, related settlementplan Gianyar regency park it inparking enforcement efforts havebeen prepare personnel to manageand order parking page

This Gianyar Regent Office.Land shortage and lack of signsbetween vehicles parked motor-bikes, four wheel makes some-times officers overwhelmed regu-late parking in the Gianyar districtadministration center. (Kmb16)

3International Bali News Tuesday, August 3, 2010

To minimal the disaster in thefuture, Denpasar City Governmenthas planned some programs. Be-sides that, Denpasar Mayor I.B.Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra alsoasked connected officials such asSpatial Planning and HousingAgency (DTRP) to always beaware of river border violation,“Report it to DTRP if there’s aborder violation, if it’s ignoredthen there’ll be worse conse-quences.”

The statement was given afterreceiving reports fromPadangsambian’s Village Head. I

Gianyar (Bali Post) –To freed south Gianyar area

from green zone, which had IdaBagus (IB) Mantra Street goingthrough it, needs 8 rules to betaken out. Even now, there aremore uncontrolled constructionswhich definitely violated those8 rules such as terms corre-sponding to beach, the road,terms of Pura (temple) holinesslimit, Province Spatial PlanningDetail, Region’s parts and more.

From the data collected onSunday (1/8), since IB MantraStreet was opened couple ofyears ago, it never closed an op-portunity on developing the ar-eas around it. Gianyar has twotourist objects which are Ubudand Lebih. For Lebih, theGianyar beach shores are nowbeing invaded by tourist accom-modations such as hotels, vil-las and its kinds.

Ironically, even though itdoesn’t have permits from gov-ernment, investors only beingbacked by certain individualfrom the vil lage are brave

Tabanan (Bali Post) -Six villa constructors were

taken by LalanglinnggahBeach’s wave at WestSelemadeg last Saturday (31/7)evening. Five of them managedto save themselves yet one,Wawan Sugianto (30), wasfound stranded and dead on Sun-day (1/8).

The incident happenedaround 5.30 pm when Wawanand his 5 colleagues fromNongko Jajar, Pasuruan, EastJava who are Abdul Fatah (30),Ariful Ma’arif (29), Handoyo(40), Ngadiman (22) and Efendi(17) were bathing together at thebeach after working as villa con-structors-apparently owned byan Australian.

They were bathing in theshores and then went furtherwhere Wawan was brave enoughto go even further more despitea resident’s warning who saidthe place can be dangerous.What was worried then hap-pened, a huge wave hit the sixworkers and made them panic.The five tried so hard in savingthemselves yet Wawan kept be-ing rolled by the wave whichcaught him and sank him. The

Tabanan (DenPost)—Implementation of the Tanah Lot

Arts Festival (TLAF) 2010 had en-tered the final day on last Sunday(Aug 1). The festival held from July26, 2010 reached the peak of thecrowds in keeping with the organi-zation of Kites Festival on the finalday. Such myriads of visitors wereestimated to increase three-foldwhen compared to the previousdays.

The crowded condition had madethe security officers to work extrain directing the traffic streams andparking of vehicles. As told by oneof the Beraban customary villagers,I Wayan Sukir, the parking lot forparticipants of the contest was filled

IBP

DENPASAR – English Caféoffer a new way of learning En-glish where the student and learn-ers will found a relaxing situation,filled with fun and humor. Thatwas how the General Manager ofEnglish Café, Ni Made Nursani,SKM. MARS, describe the placeto International Bali Post (IBP)during the opening ceremony ofthe course on Saturday, July 31st

2010.In English Café, the student

Mayor AskedMayor AskedMayor AskedMayor AskedMayor AskedDTRP to SuperviseDTRP to SuperviseDTRP to SuperviseDTRP to SuperviseDTRP to SuperviseBorder ViolationBorder ViolationBorder ViolationBorder ViolationBorder ViolationDenpasar (Bali Post) –

Floods during Thursday (29/7) early morning in 12 parts of Denpasar City received specialattention from the Mayor of Denpasar. The Mayor realized the heavy rain at the upstream causedit and with houses being under the river flow it became victims. Also border violation became thecauser of the floods in this cultural city.

Made Denda Sudiarta. on PrimarySchool (SD) No.11 and No.13Padangsambian. The river flow be-hind those schools is narrowing. Itis suspected caused by houses be-ing built around the river. In frontof the Mayor, Denda stated tens ofhouses are built on the west of theriver which means its part ofPadangsamian Klod. It is expectedthose houses took the border be-tween 60 cm to 1,5 meters. “On theeast of the river, the area is our re-sponsibility so we have declinedpeople who want to build near theborder,” Denda stated.

Hearing this report, the Mayorasked if Denpasar DTRP officialshave checked the location or notand Denda answered none of themhave came yet, “If not yet, quicklyreport it to DTRP. So it’s checked.Don’t just let it happen, the viola-tion will spread.”

As told before, because of therain on Wednesday (28/7) evening,at least 12 locations in Denpasarwere flooded. One of them hit theneighboring schools SD 11 and SD13 Padangsambian. After floodwas easing, the two schools werefilled with mud. (kmb12)

Closing of TLAF 2010:

Kites Festival draws myriads of spectatorswith a large amount of vehicles. Onthat account, his party should divertsome vehicles to the main parkingarea located in the west of Tanah LotTourist Object as an attempt to an-ticipate any inconveniences.

In the meantime, Chairman of theOrganizing Committee of the TanahLot Kites Festival 2010 who is alsothe Operations Manager of TanahLot Tourist Object, I Made Sujana,said the committee had always beentrying to maximally perform theirduties, including security forces fororganizing and securing the loca-tions of Kites Festival. Such mea-sures were intended to prevent anycriminal actions that could have beentaken advantage by particular par-

ties considering the densities of visi-tors increased dramatically accom-panied by the progressive numberof two-wheeled or four wheel ve-hicles.

Meanwhile, the winners of theKites Festival would be announcedthrough the official website ofTanah Lot namely atwww.tanahlot.net on August 3,2010. Closing of the festival on lastSunday was jazzed up by the pre-sentation of Cenk Blonk contem-porary puppet show. In addition,the atmosphere of that night wasalso graced by colorful fireworksresumed with the prize presentationof bleganjur gamelan music andklepon cake competition. (gap)

English CaféNew way to learn English

will not found the hectic andstressful condition like they havein regular school. Nursani saidthat the early idea of the course isto create different English coursein Denpasar.

The course which is located inGunung Soputan Street I no 16A,also offer a wonderful environmentto support the study. Eva TrianasariSS, the planning and developmentcoordinator explained that EnglishCafé will give another way oflearning English.

“Our motto is we will make you

addicted to English. The addic-tion is in a good way where thestudents will want to learn oreabout English. The course alsoacts as a regular café where thestudents can order meals anddrink,” she added.

The course is aiming to be oneof the biggest courses in the futureand they want to keep Bali as oneof the most famous tourism desti-nation in the world through lan-guage. For that reason, they openthe opportunity for everyone whowants to learn English.

Freeing Green Zone8 Rules Should beErased

enough to construct it. Con-nected officials who should’vedealt with it seem to have shuttheir eyes. These problems canbe seen around Purnama Beach,Keramas Beach, Masceti Beachuntil Lebih.

South Gianyar’s shores dohave huge potential and with theIB Mantra Street, it has defi-nitely changed its spatial plan-ning and also its residents think-ing. One Village institute nowis contaminated by the develop-ment and asked Gianyar RegionGovernment to free it from be-ing a green zone.

Head of Region Planning andDevelopment Agency(Bappeda) for Gianyar, IdaBagus Nyoman Rai, SH, did notrefuse this condition. Beforeand after the street was openedthe green zone was alreadyplanned. This has 8 rules at leastand to make it not a green zoneit needs those to be erased. Yetthat power only comes from theGianyar Regent as the govern-ment leader. (kmb16)

Six Workers DrownedBy LalanglinggahBeach WavesOne Victim Died and Stranded

five colleagues didn’t believewhat happened in front of theireyes. They then asked local resi-dents to contact West SelemadePolice.

That evening the others andresidents tried to find Wawan un-til late night and yet was notfound. When it was continuedthe next morning, around 10 ama resident confirmed have founda human body stranded atPengasahan Beach 500 metersaway from where Wawan sank.

The founding was then con-firmed by residents and friends onlocation which they believe it isWawan Sugianto. He was alreadydead when found and bad odorcame out from his body. Both ofhis eyeballs were gone suspectedeaten by fishes and his mouth,nose and ears were bleeding.

Wawan’s body then wasevacuated to Corpse SterilizingInstallation (IPJ) at TabananGeneral Hospital Board (BRSU)which then sent home to hishome village at Pasuruan onSunday (1/8) afternoon. (gap) –photo: Wawan Sugianto’s bodyevacuation, victim was taken byLalanglinggah wave at WestSelemadeg, Sunday (1/8).

International4 Tuesday, August 3, 2010 News

“Shortly after taking office, Iannounced our new strategy for Iraqand for a transition to full Iraqi re-sponsibility,” Obama will tell a na-tional convention of DisabledAmerican Veterans in Atlanta,Georgia, according to excerpts ofhis speech released by the WhiteHouse.

“And I made it clear that by Au-gust 31, 2010 America’s combatmission in Iraq would end,” thepresident continued. “And that isexactly what we are doing, as prom-ised, on schedule.”

When he became president,Obama inherited a security agree-

Associated Press Writers

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Paki-stan dispatched medical teams Mon-day to the deluged northwest amidfears that cholera could spread afterthe worst floods in the country’s his-tory that have already killed up to1,200 people, an official said.

The disaster has forced 2 millionto flee their homes. Residents haverailed against the government for fail-ing to provide enough emergency as-sistance nearly a week after ex-tremely heavy monsoon rains trig-gered raging floodwaters in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.

The government says it has de-ployed thousands of rescue workerswho have so far saved an estimated28,000 people and distributed basicfood items. The army has also sentsome 30,000 troops and dozens ofhelicopters, but the scale of the di-saster is so vast that many residentssaid it seems like officials are doingnothing. Thousands more people inthe province remain trapped by thefloodwaters.

The anger of the flood victimsposes a danger to the already strug-gling government, now competing

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – A drunken man went ona rampage while driving a shovel loaderin northern China, smashing into shopsand vehicles and killing 11 people, agovernment spokesman said Monday.

The incident began when 38-year-old Li Xianliang killed a cus-tomer Sunday at the Hongyuan coaldepot in Hebei province’s Yuanshicounty where he worked driving ashovel loader, said a news releaseissued by the county government.

Li, who had been drinking, thendrove his loader down an adjacentroad, smashing into cars, buses, mo-torcycles, trucks and roadside shops,

AP Photo

In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, a man smokes near smashedvehicles at Yuanshi county, in north China’s Hebei province.

Drunken man kills 11 in China tractor rampagethe news release said. The tractoreventually came to a stop in a fieldwhere police subdued the man afterthe hour-long rampage. The man wastaken into custody and likely faces thedeath penalty if convicted of murder.

The news release said eight peoplewere killed outright and 20 injured,while a Yuanshi county spokesman,who refused to give his name as iscommon with Chinese officials, saidthree more had died in hospital.

Photos posted to online newswebsites showed blankets coveringthe dead, vehicles smashed or flat-tened after being run over, and thefronts of shops torn out by theloader’s powerful shovel.

China has seen a string of appar-ently unrelated rampage attacks thisyear, often by knife-wielding assail-ants targeting kindergartens and el-ementary schools.

Fears over copycat attacks ledthe central government to limit cov-erage about the assaults, which haveleft more than two dozen peopledead and scores wounded.

The grisly attacks, which have alsoincluded a courthouse shooting andrandom slashing attacks at marketsand on a train, have prompted an in-crease in public security and calls formore attention to be paid to mentalhealth problems that often go undi-agnosed and untreated.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros

Families look on as they wait for paratroopers to return from their year-long tour in Iraq with the US Army’s82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, July 30.

US combat mission in IraqUS combat mission in IraqUS combat mission in IraqUS combat mission in IraqUS combat mission in Iraqto end on Aug 31: Obamato end on Aug 31: Obamato end on Aug 31: Obamato end on Aug 31: Obamato end on Aug 31: ObamaAgence France Presse

WASHINGTON – The United States will end its combat mission inIraq as scheduled on August 31 despite a recent flare-up in violence, Presi-dent Barack Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery Monday.

ment with Baghdad that calls for allUS forces to pull out by the end of2011. He has ordered the force todraw down to 50,000 by September1. There are about 65,000 US sol-diers currently stationed in Iraq.

The pullout confirmation comesamid an increase of violence in Iraq,with the Baghdad government re-leasing figures Saturday that said 535people died in July, including 396civilians, 89 policemen and 50 sol-diers.

That figure was the highest for asingle month since May 2008 when563 people were killed in violence.But Major General Stephen Lanza,

a spokesman for US forces in Iraq,said the Iraqi figures did not “reflectthe security situation” while dataprovided to media by unofficialsources were “grossly overstated.”

Obama said that even as militantstry to derail the country’s progress,“violence in Iraq continues to benear the lowest it’s been in years.”

He said the United States willmaintain a transitional force in Iraqin the coming months and removeall of its troops by the end of 2011.

US forces will focus during thistransitional period on supportingand training Iraqi forces, counter-terrorism missions and protectingUS civilian and military initiatives,the president said. “But make nomistake, our commitment in Iraq ischanging — from a military effortled by our troops to a civilian effortled by our diplomats,” he stressed.

Risk of disease rises amiddeadly Pakistan floods

with Islamist movements to deliveraid in a region with strong Taliban in-fluence.

“We need tents. Just look around,”said flood victim Faisal Islam, sittingon the only dry ground he could findin Nowshera district — a highwaymedian — surrounded by hundredsof people in makeshift shelters con-structed from dirty sheets and plastictarps.

Like many other residents ofPakistan’s northwest, people campedout by the highway in Kamp Koroonavillage waded through the water totheir damaged houses to salvage theirremaining possessions: usually just afew mud-covered plates and chairs.“This is the only shirt I have. Every-thing else is buried,” said Islam.

The army has given them somecooking oil and sugar, but Islam com-plained that they needed much more.Now people in the northwest also facethe threat of waterborne disease —which could kill thousands more ifhealth workers cannot deliver enoughclean drinking water and treat and iso-late any patients in crowded reliefcamps.

“To avert the looming threat ofspread of waterborne diseases, espe-cially cholera, we have dispatcheddozens of mobile medical teams inthe affected districts,” said SohailAltaf, the top medical official inKhyber-Pakhtoonkhwa.

Officials have yet to receive con-crete reports of cholera cases, but fearof an outbreak is high, said Altaf. Pa-tients with stomach problems fromdirty water are being treated in gov-ernment medical camps, he said.

The disastrous flooding comes ata time when the weak and unpopularPakistani government is already strug-gling to cope with a faltering economyand a brutal war against Taliban mili-tants that has killed thousands ofpeople in the past few years. The deathtoll from the disaster has ranged fromabout 870 provided by the primeminister’s office to 1,200 given byBashir Ahmed Bilour, senior minis-ter in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, whowarned that it could go even higher.More than 2 million people have beendisplaced, he said.

AP Photo/Anjum NaveedA woman carries her child asshe wades through floodwaternext to her collapsed house inKamp Koroona village nearNowshera, Pakistan on Monday,Aug. 2, 2010.

Hotel Activities Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5International

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

TAXIS

IMIGRATION

Denpasar

There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah SakitWongaya and 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.

HOSPITALHonorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

MAYA Ubud Resort & Spa willfeature a group painting exhibitionfeaturing water colours artwork of20 selected painters titled “LookBack, Reflect on Nature” from Au-gust 1 – 31, 2010.

The twenty (20) artists of AgusBudiyanto Aquarelle Studiothrough their beautiful paintingsinvite us to return to the environ-ment, for viewing the paintings onewill be able to look back, reflect andbe encouraged to make every effortto maintain the balance of nature.

The Aquarelle’s beautiful works

ANOTHER prestigiousaward for Bali Tropic Resort& Spa given by InternationalBusiness & Company Award2010 as “The Best QualityService of The Year”.

The award are signing byMinister of Culture andTourism of Republic of In-donesia, Ir. Jero Wacik SE,

and Minister of People & Welfare of Republic of Indonesia, Dr.H.R.AgungLaksono Shown in the picture: Mr. Nyoman Aryadana, Executive Assis-tance Managerof Bali Tropic Resort & Spa pose together with all depart-ment heads and the award

VISITORS of the Golden Lotus Chinese Restaurant in Bali DynastyResort can enjoy the Soft shell crab promotion that starts from August 1and valid through October 31, 2010. This 3 months promo will makesvisitors able to enjoy delicious sea crab.

There are three different kinds of crabs, the Rajunan, the normal craband the Soft Shell Crab that can be choose in this promotion event. TheSoft Shell Crab used for this promotion is a sea crab, which can be foundin the Kedonganan Sea which is lo-cated near Jimbaran beach.

The taste of the soft shell crab isvery soft. The shell is eatable due tothe shell of this crab is very soft. TheGolden Lotus Chinese Restaurantserve three different preparations;Fried soft shell crab with goldensand sauce, Sautéed soft shell Crabwith salted egg, and Fried soft shellCrab with oats sauce.

Maya Ubud to host paintingexhibition on water colors artwork

can be viewed during this exhibitionat Maya Ubud Resort & Spa fromAugust 1 – 31, 2010.

Part of the proceeds from thisexhibition will be donated to the BaliInternational Women’s Association(BIWA) to support their social andenvironmental projects.

According to the curatorFrigidanto Agung, this artworks try-ing to tell us about how the sur-roundings affect the way we live.Objectively reviewing the environ-ment is part of empathy towards sur-vival in the future. Why? Because

future life is determined by how theenvironment is maintained, the partof the environment that is an inte-gral element of daily life such as:oil, water and air, cause us to com-prehend the continuance of futurelife with these elements.

This exhibition marks how glo-bal warming, as a movement thatmust become the pursuit of everyhuman being in maintaining the bal-ance of nature, where the real envi-ronmental damage will not occur ifthe balance of nature becomes themain activity in our everyday stepsand actions. The activities of thisexhibition, invites us to return to theenvironment, whether only takingnotice to a certain environment, ormaintaining environmental balancein the process of everyday life,whatever our activities may be to-wards the environment.

‘’What is on display in this exhi-bition, is to ponder on the environ-ment in the language of nature, toexpose nature in all its wondrousbalance, where the beautiful por-trayal of life in observing the astute-ness of the elements of nature, be-come a fascination to display as anunfeigned symbol, an integral form,in the outlook of everyday life. Thepaintings in this exhibition are a wayto see how nature is in balance,’’ hesaid.

Bali Tropic receive an award

Soft shell crab promotionGolden Lotus Chinese Restaurant

Tuesday, August 3, 20106 News

“I have now commenced legalproceedings,” said 25-year-oldKristy Fraser-Kirk after filing docu-ments in the federal court claimingMark McInnes, the former chief ex-ecutive of the upmarket DavidJones stores, made unwelcomesexual advances and comments toher.

“I am a young woman standinghere today simply because I said itwasn’t OK, because I said thisshould never happen to me or toanyone. I just want to be treatedwith respect,” she told reportersoutside her home. Fraser-Kirk al-leged in her statement of claim thatMcInnes behaved inappropriatelyat a lunch in May and at a functionin June, placing his hand under herclothing and touching her bra strap.

He also urged her to try a des-sert by suggesting it was similar toa sexual act, she alleged in the le-

Associated Press Writer

SAO PAULO – UNESCO addedfive cultural sites to its World Heri-tage List on Sunday, including theImperial Citadel of Thang Long-Hanoi in Vietnam.

The citadel, built in the 11th cen-tury by the Viet Dynasty, became the900th site listed as a World HeritageProperty. With the other four sitesadded, the total increased to 904.

The new sites are the historicmonuments of Dengfeng in China,the archaeological site Sarazm inTajikistan, the Episcopal city of Albiin France and a 17th-century canalring in Amsterdam.

On Saturday, UNESCO addednine sites to the list, including Bi-kini Atoll in the Marshall Islands,home to nuclear bomb testing in the1940s and 1950s. UNESCO said thetests had “major consequences” onthe geology and environment of theatoll and symbolized “the dawn ofnuclear age.

Also added to the list Saturdaywere the Turaif District in SaudiArabia; Australia’s penal colonysites; the Jantar Mantar astronomi-cal observation site in India; a shrinein Ardabil, Iran; the Tabriz historicbazaar complex, also in Iran; and thehistoric villages of Hahoe andYangdong in South Korea.

The U.N. Educational, Scientificand Cultural Organization’s meetingto consider cultural sites for listingends Tuesday.

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Abdullah, in New Delhi, de-scribed the situation in the Kashmirvalley, where resistance to rule by pre-dominantly Hindu India is strong, asworrisome and said that “some anti-social elements are hellbent to fomenttrouble, mayhem and bloodshed inthe valley to satiate their political de-signs.”

On Sunday, he appealed to peopleof all shades of opinion, the mediaand religious heads to join the gov-

A publicist Monday suedAustralia’s poshest depart-

ment store and its formerhead for 33 million US dollars

over alleged sexual miscon-duct that led to the disgraced

chief executive’s, MarkMcInnes, resignation.

Agence France Presse

SYDNEY – A publicist Monday sued Australia’s poshest department store and its former head for 33million US dollars over alleged sexual misconduct that led to the disgraced chief executive’s resignation.

gal documents. McInnes abruptlyquit in June after claims of inappro-priate behaviour were made.

Mark McInnes admitted behav-ing “in a manner unbecoming of achief executive to a female staffmember” at two functions, the com-pany said, without giving furtherdetails.

Fraser-Kirk is suing the store,McInnes and nine David Jones di-rectors for 37 million Australiandollars (33.3 million US), claimingthe company took no action to ad-dress the inappropriate behaviour.

The suit seeks 35 million dollarsfrom the store, five percent of it’sprofits during the time McInnesworked there, and another two mil-lion dollars from McInnes, or fivepercent of his salary. In a statement,David Jones said both the companyand its directors would defend theclaims vigorously.

“I had high hopes for my careerat David Jones and I believe that Icould have gone far in my careerhad I been able to continue,” Fraser-Kirk told reporters.

“I have tried my best to have thismatter resolved fairly and with jus-tice, but that appears not to be pos-sible at the moment.”

If she does win punitive dam-ages, the publicist pledged shewould give all the money to a char-ity that works with victims of sexualmisconduct at work.

Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pi-rates hijacked a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship with 23 crewonboard during an early morningraid Monday, the European UnionNaval Force said. The crew onboardthe 17,300-ton MV Suez are fromEgypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and In-dia, the force said in statement.

“The MV Suez reported beingunder small arms fire from a pirateattack and minutes later she re-ported pirates on board,” the state-ment said. “Immediately after thefirst report a helicopter was directed

Somali pirates hijack cargoship with 23 crew

REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

A ship is docked outside the container terminal at the southernYemeni port of Aden June 16, 2010. Pirates hijacked the Panama-flagged MV Suez cargo vessel with 23 crew on board early onMonday, the European Union naval force said.

to the ship but pirates had alreadytaken over the command of the ves-sel.”

The ship, which is carrying bagsof cement, was traveling in the In-ternationally Recommended Tran-sit Corridor, a stretch of water pa-trolled by a naval coalition. Naviessay the ocean is too big for them tostop all pirate attacks.

Pirate attacks have gone downrecently because of monsoonweather off the Somali coast. At least17 ships and hundreds of crew mem-bers are still being held, including aBritish couple who were seized fromtheir yacht last October.

(AFP/File/William West)

UNESCO adds 5 sites to theWorld Heritage List

(AFP/File/Michael J. Field)

A traditional Micronesian canoe sits on the shore of an atoll inthe Pacific’s Kiribati islands. Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands, a zonethat is the largest marine protected area in the world, also wonUNESCO heritage endorsement as one of the world’s largestintact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems.

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ernment in stopping the bloodshed,adding that he and his governmentcannot do it alone.

Last week, local authorities askedtwo retired judges to investigate thedeaths of protesters, but the move hasfailed to calm the anger. India andPakistan have fought two wars overcontrol of Kashmir since 1947. Bothclaim the region in entirety.

Separatist politicians and militantsreject Indian sovereignty over Kash-mir and want to carve out a separatehomeland or merge with predomi-nantly Muslim Pakistan.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (L) shakes hands with his North Korea counterpart Pak Ui-Chun (R) during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry office in Jakarta on August 2, 2010. Pak met hisIndonesian counterpart after his four-day trip to Myanmar.

Antara

LIMA, West Lampung -Indonesia’s largest Muslim scholars“haram” edict on Luwak Coffee,“helps boost” the sale of speciallyprocessed coffee by 30 percent.

“Instead of avoiding Luwakcoffee’s ‘haram’ edict, people aregetting more curious about it,” saida local coffee dealer WahyudiSantoso, here Monday.

The publication on the “haram”edict gives a positive impact on pow-dered Luwak coffee sales.

“The public’s response is shownat a fair in Lampung, in whichpeople wanted to know more aboutthe mongoose (luwak) husbandry tothe coffee powder making process,the sale of the product increased by

The proposed review followsPresident Susilo BambangYudhoyono’s order on Thursday foran audit of special autonomyprogrammes, amid complaints thatthey had failed to reduce poverty inIndonesia’s easternmost territory,which borders Papua New Guinea.

“If it’s stagnant and there is noprogress, then we have to know why,”Yudhoyono said.

“We will conduct an audit to findout what has gone wrong, whether itis the management, the budgeting, thesupervision or its efficiency.”

He added that, among Indonesia’s33 provinces, Papua received themost money from the state budget.

The “comprehensive review”would cover areas including theimplementation of regional adminis-tration and accountability of perfor-mance, Home Affairs Ministry offi-cial Sumarsono was quoted as say-ing by The Jakarta Post.

“The parameters of the evaluationare now being prepared,” saidSumarsono, who oversees regionaladministration and special autonomymatters, adding that the central andPapuan governments would deter-mine the parameters.

In July, thousands of Papuans ral-lied to urge the provincial parliamentto demand a referendum on self-de-

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s annualinflation rate climbed to its highestthis year in July due to rising foodprices, officials said, putting pressureon the central bank to raise interestrates this week. The Consumer PriceIndex accelerated 6.22 percent in Julycompared to a year earlier, up from5.05 percent in June.

“This is the highest inflation so farthis year,” statistics agency chairmanRusman Heriawan told Dow JonesNewswires.

Analysts said the higher-than-ex-pected inflation increased the possi-bility of an interest rate hike.

“Year-end inflation will likely be

Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesia Inter-national Motor Show (IIMS) 2010wound up on Sunday with Rp2.4trillion in car sales transactionsclinched during the 10-day expo.

“We are satisfied at the IIMS’sachievement this time,” Chairman ofthe Indonesian Association of Mo-tor Vehicle Producers (Gaikindo)Sudirman MR said.

The transactions rose 41 percentcompared to last year and out-stripped the Gaikindo-set target ofRp2 trillion, he said.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia next year plans to review Papua’s specialautonomy, a report said Sunday, amid increasing demands for areferendum on the region’s self-determination.

termination and reject its special au-tonomy. The rally in the regional capi-tal Jayapura urged Papua’s provincialparliament to hold a plenary meetingto declare that special autonomy wasa failure, according to protest leaderMarkus Haluk.

Haluk also said the Indonesiangovernment and Papuans, who areindigenous Melanesians, needed toestablish a dialogue, with the UN ora neutral country acting as mediator.

An upper house of tribal leaders,the Papuan People’s Assembly(MRP), voted in June to reject theautonomy status, which was intro-duced in 2001 after the fall of formerPresident Suharto’s military dictator-ship in Jakarta.

MRP chairman Agus Alue Aluasaid an audit would only confirm thecentral government’s failure in im-proving people’s welfare in Papua.

Papua has gripped by a low-levelinsurgency for decades and despiteIndonesia’s vast security presence inthe region Jakarta remains extremelysensitive to any signs of separatism.

Indonesia has sent mixed mes-sages about its willingness to loosenits grip on Papua, offering talks withseparatist rebels on one hand whilejailing and killing their leaders on theother. Access to the area by foreignjournalists has been restricted.

Indonesia inflationputs pressure on rates

above the government’s upper rangeof four to six percent,” Standard Char-tered economist Eric Sugandi said.

“This certainly opens the door fora rate hike.... Bank Indonesia mayeven start hiking this week.”

The central bank will meetWednesday. It has maintained itsbenchmark rate at a record low of 6.5percent since August 2009.

In other economic news, the tradesurplus shrank to 580 million dollarsin June from 2.47 billion dollars inMay due to a recovery in imports anda decline in exports, the statisticsagency said.

Imports rose 16 percent from theprevious month and 47 percent froma year earlier to 11.71 billion dollars.

IIMS clinches RP2.4 trillion in transactionsThe increase was in line with the

automotive growth which reached76 percent in the first half of 2010compared to the same period lastyear, he said.

“The number of cars sold in theexpo is 10,087, while the numberof visitors is 279 thousand com-pared to 241 thousand last year,”he said.

He said car sale volume duringthe 10-day expo rose 50 percentfrom last year when car ordersreached 5,518 units.

Compared to last year, the num-ber of sole authorized agents and

automotive supporting industriestaking part in this year’s expo alsorose to 22 and 181 respectively, hesaid.

Hopefully, the success would en-courage domestic car producers andsole authorized agents to contributeto the development of the nationalautomotive industry, he said.

In addition, he added the automo-tive industry would hopefully be-come one of the engines of the na-tional economic growth. “If the au-tomotive industry grows well, moreand more workers will be em-ployed.”

Luwak coffee sales up following ‘’haram” edictup to 70 kilograms, or more than 30percent,” he said.

Previously, Luwak coffee busi-ness dealers were worried that theedict might decrease their sales, butwhat happened was the opposite, itincreased and trigged them to im-prove the quality of the product.

West Lampung’ Luwak coffeehas the best quality beans in theworld; it is also exported to Koreaand Taiwan, which raised the num-ber of consumers even further.

Lampung’ Luwak coffee powderprices reached Rp750.000 per kilo-gram, and the coffee beans are pricedRp200.000 per kg.

Previously, West Lampung Dis-trict Chief Mukhlis Basri said thatLuwak Coffe from West Lampungis the best in Indonesia, because the

coffee consumed by Mongooses(luwak) is derived from high qual-ity coffee.

“Besides, the producers also paidgood attention to the coffee powderprocessing and packaging, so thatquality can be maintained,” he said.

Mukhlis also said that luwak cof-fee became a leading commodity ofWest Lampung.

“The coffee has become a com-petitive commodity in WestLampung district, which made thecoffee producers to become increas-ingly curious of the commodity astheir main source of income,”Mukhlis said. Coffee farmers shouldbe smart in seizing the golden op-portunity, and it is also very impor-tant for the producers to maintainquality,” he said.

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Bali’s Chief Regional GovernmentSpokesman I Ketut Teneng said that theJanuary-May 2010 coffee exports weresightly higher than those exported in thesame period in the previous year.

He said that in term of volume theexports this year only increased 9.26 per-cent and of value they increased only byabout 2.27 percent.

Teneng said the exports wereshipped to Japan, France and a number ofother European countries.

Actually, Bali’s nonoil/gas exportsto Japan in January 2010 reached 28.3million US dollars, a 24.3 pct increasecompared to the 22.8 million dollars inlast year’s same period.

“This means that the Balinese busi-nessmen had become increasingly able tomeet the wished for the Japanese for qual-ity products,” head of the Bali industrialand trade export agency Putu Bagiadameanwhile said recently.

Bagiada said Japan is only secondto the United States in purchasing Bali’shandicraft articles and some other nonoil/gas commodities worth 30.5 million dol-lars on the same time, while third on thelist is France with 17.9 million dollars.

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DENPASAR - The Bali branchof the State Logistics Agency(Bulog) plans to sell 4,000 tons ofsubsidized rice to the poor in Augustat Rp1,600 per kg or about Rp4,000below the normal market price.

The market operation wouldtarget 134,384 poor households ineight districts and one municipalityin Bali province, Wayan Suyasa,chief of the Bali Bulog’s task forcefor subsidized rice for the poor, saidhere on Saturday.

He said the subsidized ricewould be sold to the poor at Rp1,600per kg in early and late August inanticipation of an increase in riceprices ahead of the post-fasting

Antara

SANUR – The amateur golf competition which willbe held during the Sanur Village Festival (SVF) coulddevelop golf in Bali. Grace Jeanie, the Public RelationsManager Balibeach Golf Course Sanur, said “we hopethat the SVF which is being held started on August 4th

through August 8th 2010 will resurrect the golf tourism.”More than 200 golfers from Indonesia and abroad

will compete in the event. The golf competition itselfwill be held on August 6th and 7th and it could make golftourism attract tourists.

She said that Victoria Tjiong, young golfer from Baliwho currently rank 7th in the world will also take part inthe event. “David Thomas, a senior golfer from Austra-lia who currently stays in Bali will also compete alongwith Dhita and Marcella Pranovia who just won bronzemedal in Asian Student Sport Competition,” Jeanie said.

There is great hope that the athletes for the sportwill also increase if there are continuous competition

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DENPASAR - The Indonesian tourist resort province of Bali exported7.1 tons of coffee worth US$58,645 in the five period of January-May2010, a regional government spokesman said.

The various handicraft articles andgoods of the Balinese like household uten-sils from bamboo combined with rattanhave become very popular.

Garments of Balinese handicraftworkers have beautiful designs and stylesand had also been exported to Japan, inaddition to Japanese traditional clothingdeveloped by the Balinese like the kimo-nos were also exported to Japan.

An exporter of handicraft goodsfrom Mas Ubud village, Nyoman Sudana,said the handicraft articles from Bali hadbeen increasingly imported to Japan asthat country’s economy had been improv-ing substantially.

Bali’s paintings had also been ex-ported to Japan, especially those of a spiri-tual nuance like pictures on worshipers ofBuddhism on big canvas.

Japanese like small and practicalarticles for gifts or presents, like albumsof banana leaves, kimonos, and goldcoated ballpoints with Balinese orna-ments.

Silver accessories are also soughtlike earrings, broaches of different typesand styles, flowers, butterflies and soughtby youngsters, Nyoman Sudana said.

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Tourists are walking in the coffee plantation. The Indonesian tourist resort province ofBali exported 7.1 tons of coffee worth US$58,645 in the five period of January-May2010, a regional government spokesman said.

Golf competition to be heldduring SVF 2010

in Bali. Jeanie said that many of the participants fromabroad already sign in through phone but they are offi-cially become participants after paying the fee which is800,000 rupiah.

The winner of the competition will receive manyinteresting prices such as millions of rupiah, motorcycle,plane tickets to Singapore, television, and others. Thereare also vouchers to stay in several hotels in Bali suchas Grand Kuta, and Bali Niksoma.

There will be also special prizes for the hole in onesuch as ticket to Nagoya, Japan, 5 cars, and 200 millionrupiah. “The competition is divided into several cat-egories which are Flight A, B, C, ladies and senior, long-est drive and nearest to the pin.

Ida Bagus Gede Sidharta Putra, the head of SVF com-mittee, said that the festival will dig all of the potentialin Sanur especially in art, culture and tourism. Golf playsan important role in develop tourism in Sanur. “We givethe opportunity for the activities which support tour-ism,” he added.

Bali’s Bulog to release 4,000tons of subsidized rice

month festivities, locally known asLebaran.

If the rice prices rose in the leadup to Lebaran, the poor would feelcomfortable as one of their basicnecessaries had been met, he said.

Earlier, in the January-July2010 period, Bulog also sold 13,460tons of subsidized rice to the poor inthe province.

Of the amount, 4,586 tons weresold in Buleleng district, 3,439 tonsin Karangasem district, and 1,200tons in Tabanan and Bangli districtseach, he said.

To meet demand for subsi-dized rice for the poor, Bali bought6,500 tons of rice from SouthSulawesi and West Nusa Tenggaraprovinces, he said.

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Star fruits treesgrow in manyBalinese gardens,a convenientsource of leavesfor vegetabledishes. The leavesare crunchy with aslightly bitter tang.If not available youcan substitute withspinach leaves.

INGREDIENTS:400 gr star fruit

leaves, washed½ cup basic spice paste2 cups coconut milk2 salam leaves300 gr beef rump, minced30 cm square of banana leaf½ tsp salt¼ tsp black peppercorn, crushed

PREPARATION:Bring 3 liters (12 cups) of lightly salted water to the

boil in a stockpot. Add star fruit leaves. Reduce heat andsimmer for 5 minutes. Drain leaves, and then cools toroom temperatures in ice water. Drain and dry well.Place half of the spice paste into saucepan and sautéfor 2 minutes. Add coconut milk and salam leaf, reduceheat and simmer until sauce thickens. Season mincedbeef with the remaining spice paste. Place on bananaleaf and roll up very tightly into the shape of a sausage.Steam for 15 minutes. Allow to cool, open banana leafand break meat into its original minced consistency. Mixthe coconut milk and mince beer well and add star fruitleaves and mix again. Season to taste with salt andpepper. Serve at room temperature with steamed rice.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Marine tourism especially inBali has excellent prospects to bea world destination. Secretary ofthe Indonesian Marine TourismAssociation (Gahawisri) of BaliChapter, IB. Agung Partha saidto become a leading destinationwas required additional attrac-tions, especially in the areas ofmarine tourism in Bali, includingmarine tourism areas in EasternIndonesia.

He said the entrepreneursof marine tourism as in Bali ex-pected that all tourists could uti-lize the entire marine tourism ser-vices. However, the offer of ma-rine tourism in Bali including inEast Indonesia might not damagethe natural beauty of the sea.

Entrepreneur of marinetourism in Bali, including in In-donesia in general should sup-press the negative impact of ma-rine tourism, including the dam-age of underwater environment.Described, other than minimizingthe damage of marine nature, ma-rine tourism businesspeople withthe government should attempt tocreate a new attraction in the ar-eas of marine tourism in Indone-sia. At the moment, a marinetourism destination popularlyvisited by many tourists in Indo-nesia comprised the Komodo Is-land, Tulamben, and other marinetourism object.

The waters having potencyto become marine tourist destina-tion needed increasing by new at-tractions. For example, govern-ment or tourism businesspeople

OVERVIEW:Tum, leaf-wrapped bundles of highly seasoned food,

are made with almost any basic ingredient in Bali,ranging from eels, to chicken, pork, beef or duck.

INGREDIENTS :600 gr boneless duck, skin removed and minced1 tbsp fried shallots1 tbsp fried garlic1/3 cup coconut milk, thick3 tbsp basic spice paste4 bird’s-eye chilies, sliced1 tbsp salt1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed12 pieces banana leaf, cut in 20 cm (8 in) squares12 ea salam leaves

PREPARATION:Combine the above ingredients except for banana

leaf and mix well. Fold a heaped tablespoon of themixture into the center of a banana leaf and wrap.Steam parcels for about 15 minutes, until well cooked.If banana leaf is unavailable, use greaseproof paper inpreference to aluminum foil.

The above mixture can also be used for duck satays;simply add 200g of grated coconut and double thequantity of the basic spice paste salt and pepper.Spear 2 heaped tablespoons of the paste around alarge satay skewer or stalk of lemon grass.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Diver dives in Tulamben water. Marine tourism especially in Balihas excellent prospects to be a world destination.

Needs Expanding, MarineTourism Destination in Bali

could sink a ship. This ship wouldbecome a site of development ofmarine biota including coral reefs.The ship sunk on seabed would be-come a new tourist attraction.

Earlier in the 1940s hadsunk the USS Liberty shipwreckat Tulamben. The ship was sunkin the colonial era. Up to thesedays, such sunk ship remains tobecome the main attraction atTulamben marine tourism.

He hoped the old ships atTanjung Priok could be drownedin Bali or East Indonesia region.This is done to create a new at-traction in the area of marine tour-ism in Bali, including in EasternIndonesia.

He assured, if the central

government could sink old shipsin the area of marine tourism inBali and East Indonesia theywould become an attraction fortourists. Diving participants fromabroad would be challenged toenter into the space of ship thathad been sunk on the seabed.

Up to this day, AgungPartha admitted that Bali indeedremained to have marine touristattractions. However, they neededadding with a new attraction.Moreover, if Bali Provincial Gov-ernment could lobby the centralgovernment to sink old ships atthe area of Bali marine tourism.Automatically, the treasures ofmarine tourism of Bali will be get-ting richer and more interesting.

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West Bali National Park is na-ture conservation with pure eco-system managed by zone systemfor multiple research purpose in-volving the education, tourism andrecreation. It is one of the nationalpark located west side of Bali Is-land with beautiful panoramic,unique nature ecosystem and freshatmosphere. West Bali NationalPark or most the local people callTaman National Bali Barat is oneof the tourist destinations inNegara Regency and many visitedby tourists.

It is situated in west side ofBali Island and close toGilimanuk Port or about 4 hoursdrive away from Bali’s Interna-tional Airport. Some of the BaliWest National Park Area locatedin Grokgak sub district, SingarajaRegency and some of the area lo-cated in Melaya Sub district,Jembrana Regency. It is very easyto locate it from Denpasar direc-tion to follow the main road go to

West Bali National ParkGilimanuk Port or Singaraja townto Gilimanuk Port.

According to Republic Indone-sia Forestry Minister decisionwritten on the official letter no493/Kpts-II/1995 that West BaliNational Park own 19.002,89 hawhich is consisted of 15.587,89 haland and 3.415 ha ocean. The con-servation effort toward the ecosys-tem at this park goes to three ob-jective activities as follows:

1. To protect the ecosystem thosesupport the life

2. Pickling the variety of flora andfauna including the habitat

3. Exploiting everlastingly thenature resources including theecosystem

West Bali National Park area isa green are spread out along themain road Denpasar – Gilimanuk– Singaraja about 150 kilometers.Topographic of this park own con-stant gradation between mount,hill, valley, bay and sea. Themountain area is involving up to

71% from the total park area asprotected forest with multifariousfaunas like deer, forest pig, lion,birth etc. meanwhile the flat areais about 29% located in north partof main road Gilimanuk –Singaraja until Java Sea.

If we look from the conception,this area is a Giri/Gunung ormounts which is completed by theforest (Wanagiri). According toKidung Utama Tantri script thereis a word mention Ning Wana Ukirwhich gives the direction that theWana Giri philosophy is well writ-ten to describe the total of thisworld.

West Bali National Park ownhigh potential of flora and faunathose are consisted of 14 varietyof protected floras involving SawoKecik (Manilkara Kauki), SonoKeling (Dalbergia Latifolia). Fromthe fauna, Jalak Bali Birth(Leucopsar Rothscildi) is one ofthe endemic fauna in Bali Islandthere are pure habitat found in thispark along to Prapat Agung andsurrounding area. Other faunas can

be found at this park involvingcow, deer, mouse deer, venison,wild cat, grey and black monkeys.Beside of the above animals, acouple of reptiles and other 60rash of births also can be found.The condition of coral reef at this

park is highly varied with uniquecombination and multifarious ofhabitats. In year 1998, it was re-corded 110 kinds of coral includ-ing 22 mushroom corals and up tonow, it was recorded that this parkown 222 kinds of fish.

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BUSINESS

Reuters

BEIJING - China’s manufac-turing sector cooled further in July,even shrinking by one measure, butmarkets took the news as a sign of adesired slowdown rather than a har-binger of a slump that could derailglobal recovery.

Manufacturing surveys fromother big emerging economies Indiaand Russia, also served to bolsterinvestor sentiment, with Asia’s third-largest economy marking its 16thmonth of expansion and Russia’sactivity improving for the seventhmonth in a row.

HSBC survey of Chinesecompanies showed on Monday thatmanufacturing activity fell for thefirst time since the depths of the glo-bal downturn in March 2009, whilea similar government survey pub-lished on Sunday showed a markeddip in growth.

A marked slowdown in U.S.growth in the second quarter height-ened market concerns about thestrength of recovery in the world’sbiggest economy, leaving investorsbetting on China and the rest ofAsian to pick up the slack.

One concern is that Asia,which has led the economic recov-ery, could lose traction if the authori-ties in Beijing pulled on the reins toohard, hitting demand in what hasbecome a top export market formany of China’s regional peers.

The economy already slowedmarkedly from April to June, expand-

As major banks prepare to revealthat they bounced back in the blackduring the first six months of 2010, theymust get credit flowing, Osborne toldThe Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

“We have got to be pretty clearwith the banks ... that we will not toler-ate banks piling the pressure on smalland medium-sized businesses,” the fi-nance minister said.

“They have an economic obliga-tion to assist that sector and give it allthe assistance that they got.”

HSBC begins the half-year bank-ing results season on Monday, followedby Lloyds Banking Group and Stan-dard Chartered on Wednesday,Barclays on Thursday and Royal Bankof Scotland (RBS) on Friday.

The banks are expected to unveilcombined first-half profits of about 8.4billion pounds (10.1 billion euros, 13.2

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - New vehicle sales inJapan jumped 15 percent in July year-on-year, an auto industry group saidMonday, and just months before thegovernment are due to end subsidiesfor green cars.

New registrations for vehiclesincluding cars, trucks and buses butexcluding minicars, totaled 333,403units last month, the 12th straightmonthly rise, the Japan AutomobileDealers Association said.

Toyota, which has been recover-ing after a massive global safety recallcrisis, sold 161,444 units, up 19.1 per-cent, excluding sales by its subsidiar-ies Daihatsu and Hino.

The carmaker saw sales of itsluxury Lexus surge 37 percent to 2,598units.

For the first seven months of theyear, Toyota’s domestic sales grew 38.4percent to 995,282 units, despite thecarmaker being forced to recall some10 million vehicles worldwide.

Honda Motor sold 50,448 units,up 14.5 percent, while Nissan saw onlya 2.3 percent rise in sales, or 50,719units. Mitsubishi Motor sold 7,137units, up 31.9 percent. Mazda Motorsold 21,316 units, up 27.7 percent.

Also in July, sales of compactcars rose for the seventh straightmonth by 8.6 percent year-on-year to153,203 units, the Japan Mini Vehicles

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Chinese house shoppers gather at a property fair in Beijing onAugust 2, 2010. China’s manufacturing sector cooled further inJuly, even shrinking by one measure, but markets took the newsas a sign of a desired slowdown rather than a harbinger of aslump that could derail global recovery.

British government tellsBritish government tellsBritish government tellsBritish government tellsBritish government tellsbanks to kick-start lendingbanks to kick-start lendingbanks to kick-start lendingbanks to kick-start lendingbanks to kick-start lendingAgence France-Presse

LONDON - British banks must use first-half profits to boost lending to businesses, Chancel-lor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in an interview on Sunday, ahead of key results for thenation’s top lenders

billion dollars), according to the paper. “Every small and medium-sized

company that I have visited in recentweeks has had some problem with theirbank — either they have found it diffi-cult to renew their overdraft or theydemanded additional collateral, oftensomeone’s house,” Osborne told TheSunday Telegraph. “The danger isthat, particularly next year, when thereis a huge amount of refinancing re-quired, that the small and medium-sized businesses suffer from a lack ofaccess to working capital.”

In reaction, industry body theBritish Bankers’ Association (BBA)said the sector was “well aware” of itscrucial role — and welcomed the re-turn of profits to the troubled sector.

“Banks are well aware of theirresponsibility to society and our com-mitment to support the economy by

lending to individuals and firms,” saidBBA chief executive Angela Knight ina statement.

“The return of profitability to thebanking sector is a positive sign andindicates that the sector is helping theUK economy move out of recession.”

She added: “Banks have maderepeated binding commitments to sup-port business. There are funds availableto lend to firms with a viable businessplan.

“But the industry’s ability to sup-port the economy needs to be consid-ered as the increased capital and cashwe are required to hold cannot both beset aside and used to finance lending.”

Lloyds and RBS are now 41-per-cent and 83-percent state-owned, afterboth groups received substantial gov-ernment bailouts at the height of theglobal financial crisis.

New car sales in Japan up 15 percent on-yearAssociation said.

Japanese auto sales have beenrobust on the back of government in-centives and tax breaks launched lastyear to boost eco-friendly cars and tohelp Japan’s economy recover after itsworst post-war recession.

But automakers could suffer abacklash when the subsidies for green

purchases expire at the end of Septem-ber, after they were extended inMarch.

Mazda Motor Corp senior man-aging executive officer Kiyoshi Ozakipredicted its vehicle sales would tumble30 percent in the second half of the fis-cal year from the April-September pe-riod, according to Jiji Press.

AFP PHOTO / Ken SHIMIZU

A worker at Japan’s auto giant Toyota Motor assembles a LEXUScar at the company’s plant in Miyata City, Fukuoka Prefecture,on October 2, 2006. New vehicle sales in Japan jumped 15 per-cent in July year-on-year, an auto industry group said Monday,and just months before the government are due to end subsi-dies for green cars.

China slows to cruisingspeed; India perks up

ing at a 10.3 percent annual clip after11.9 percent growth in the first quarter.

HSBC, however, played downfears that world’s prime growth en-gine, poised to overtake Japan thisyear as the second largest economy,might be sputtering.

“We still expect the economy togrow by around 9 percent in the sec-ond half of 2010 and 2011, driven byresilient private consumption and con-tinued investment demands of ongo-ing infrastructure and new publichousing construction projects,”HSBC economists Qu Hongbin andSun Junwei said in a note.

An index based on a nationwidesurvey of business executives con-ducted for HSBC dropped to 49.4from 50.4 in June, while one compiledby China’ statistics bureau fell to a 17-month low of 51.2 from 52.1 in June.

With surveys still seen fitting ascenario of a controlled slowdownresulting from government efforts toprevent overheating, financial mar-kets took the data in stride.

India’s HSBC Markit Purchas-ing Managers’ Index, bounced backin July, driven by new orders andstronger factory output, rising to 57.6in July from 57.3 in June when itslipped from a multi-year high.

“India is on a roll. The economywas given another leg up in July asnew orders continued to pour in. Eventhe export sector appears to be hold-ing up well, despite worries over cool-ing demand abroad,” said FredericNeumann, co-head of Asian Econom-ics Research at HSBC.

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, August 3, 201012

The sci-fi summer blockbuster —one of only a handful of original, non-sequel movies to gain that title this year— hauled in 27.5 million dollars in re-ceipts for the weekend, for a total 193million in its three weeks of release,according to box office tracker Exhibi-tor Relations.

With “The Dark Knight” directorChristopher Nolan at the helm, the flickabout a thief who specializes in infil-trating dreams and stealing thoughtshas wowed critics with its complexscience fiction concepts.

In second place were comediansSteve Carrell and Zach Galifianakiswith their zany comedy “Dinner forSchmucks,” about a quest to find thedumbest guy possible to invite to a din-ner meal, which took in 23.3 milliondollars in its opening weekend. “Salt,”

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES - US actressLindsay Lohan was released from acounty jail early Monday after serv-ing 13 days for violating probationon a 2007 conviction for driving un-der the influence, The Los AngelesTimes reported. The newspaperquoted sheriff’s spokesman SteveWhitmore as saying that after herrelease at 1:35 am local time (0835GMT), Lohan was to go directly toa substance abuse treatment center.

The treatment facility was notidentified, but Whitmore saidLohan had left the prison in aminivan with multiple individuals,the report said.

Lohan has been locked up theCentury Regional Detention Fa-cility in Los Angeles since July

Agence France Presse

MARSEILLE - US jazz singer AlJarreau left a French hospital on Sun-day after a week of treatment forbreathing and heart problems thatstruck as he prepared to go on stage,his doctor said. “We have talkedthrough his treatment and given himadvice to adapt his lifestyle,” Jean-Louis Bonnet, a doctor in the cardiol-ogy department of the hospital in thesouthern city of Marseille, told AFP.

“We found the cause of the pass-ing problem which was partly linkedto fatigue,” Bonnet said, adding thattreatment had stabilised an irregularheart beat.

Jarreau’s official website said hewould resume his tour on Tuesdaywith a concert in Hanau, Germany,

Agence France Presse

SAO PAULO - Sylvester Stallonemay be heading for box-office successwhen his latest action flick opens thismonth, but in Brazil — where themovie was filmed — companies arecomplaining he left a string of unpaiddebts, according to a report. The Bra-zilian weekly news magazine Veja saidSunday the producers of the movie,“The Expendables,” owed more thantwo million dollars to the local partnercompany O2, a lighting firm, drivers,security guards and other workers.

“Since May of last year, O2 hasbeen trying to get the money fromthe Americans. However since the be-ginning of this year, Stallone and hisproducers have stopped answering

‘Inception’ lives dream to‘Inception’ lives dream to‘Inception’ lives dream to‘Inception’ lives dream to‘Inception’ lives dream totop box office for third weektop box office for third weektop box office for third weektop box office for third weektop box office for third week

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES - “Inception,” Leonardo DiCaprio’s mindbending thriller,topped the North American box office for a third straight weekend, holdingoff newcomer “Dinner For Schmucks,” industry estimates showed Sunday.

starring Hollywood’s biggest femaleaction flick superstar Angelina Jolie,about captivating CIA agent Evelyn Saltwho is accused of being a Russian spy,slipped to the third spot with 19.2 mil-lion dollars in receipts.

3-D animated film “Despicable Me”meanwhile also slipped one spot, tofourth, with 15.5 million dollars in ticketsales. The film from Universal Pictures,also stars Carell — in his second ap-pearance in the box office chart thisweek — as the voice of Gru, a villainbent on snatching the moon. It hasearned a strong total of 190 million dol-lars in its four weeks of release.

In the fifth spot was another 3-D flick“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of KittyGalore,” about a gang of adventurous,wise-cracking cats and dogs, which took12.5 million dollars in its debut week-

end. Another new release, “Charlie St.Cloud,” came right behind in sixthplace, with a 12.3-million-dollar take.The movie stars teen heart-throb ZacEfron as a man who gives up his dreamsof going to university to play catch withthe ghost-form of his dead youngerbrother, while also finding love with abeautiful girl.

“Toy Story 3” came in seventh withfive million dollars in receipts and amassive seven-week total of 379.4 mil-lion dollars. Eighth place was claimedby “Grownups,” the Adam Sandler andChris Rock comedy about a reunion ofhigh school friends, which earned 4.5million dollars in its sixth week.

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” star-ring Nicolas Cage as a magician bat-tling evil alongside a hapless pupil, tookthe ninth place with 4.3 million dol-lars. Rounding out the top ten was vam-pire romance “The Twilight Saga:Eclipse,” which took 3.9 million dol-lars over the weekend to bring its five-week total to a massive 288-million-dollars.

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A clip from the movie ‘Inception’

Actress Lohan freedfrom jail: report

Valerie Macon/Getty Images/AFP

Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley arrives at LynwoodCorrectional Facility to visit her client on July 29, 2010 in Los An-geles, California.

20. but she was kept away fromother inmates for security reasons.Lohan, who starred in the 1998film “The Parent Trap” and 2003’s“Freaky Friday,” was arrested inMay 2007 after crashing herMercedes in Beverly Hills.

After a stay in rehab, the star of“Mean Girls” and other hit films wascaught two months later for drunkdriving and cocaine possession. Atthe time, she spent a mere 84 min-utes in jail. The actress has com-pleted an alcohol education program,but was found in violation of proba-tion because she did not attendclasses regularly, The Times noted.

Despite a tough period adjustingto jail life, Lohan remained coop-erative and became more subduedas days passed, according to law en-forcement sources, the paper said.

Stallone left movie debts in Brazil: reporttheir calls,” the magazine charged.

“The Expendables” is billed as themost expensive movie ever filmed in Bra-zil, with a budget of 63 million dollars.Stallone, who earned fame from his“Rocky” and “Rambo” franchises, isbanking on a muscular cast — includingBruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger,Mickey Rourke, Jason Stratham and JetLi — to make the film a hit.

The 64-year-old actor not onlystars in the movie but co-producedit. The storyline revolves around agroup of mercenaries trying to ousta dictator from a fictitious LatinAmerican country. Much of it wasfilmed in and near Rio de Janeiro.

It is to get its premiere in LosAngeles on Tuesday, and its world-wide roll-out in mid-August.

Jazz man Jarreau leaves hospital in Francefollowed by further dates in the UnitedStates and Japan. Jarreau — whosejazz, pop and soul songs have wonhim seven Grammy awards — wasabout to begin a festival concert onJuly 22 at Barcelonette in the FrenchAlps when he was taken ill with anunduly rapid heart beat.

The 70-year-old was in a criticalcondition when he was transported byhelicopter to an intensive care unit innearby Gap but his conditionstabilised and he was transferred to alarger hospital in Marseille.

The Milwaukee-born singer’slengthy career has encompassedmany musical styles. He has wonGrammy Awards in the genres of jazz,pop and rhythm and blues and re-leased more than 20 albums between1975 and 2009.

International Tuesday, August 3, 2010 13Life Style

“We have made discoveries. Wehave learned new things,” JesseAusubel, co-founder of the Census ofMarine Life project, which compiledthe roll call of life in the sea, told AFP.Australian and Japanese waters eachfeature almost 33,000 forms of life thathave earned the status of “species.”

The waters off China, the Medi-terranean Sea and Gulf of Mexicoalso feature in the top five in termsof biodiversity, says the preliminarycensus published in the open-accessPublic Library of Science (PLoSONE). The roll call is the result ofa 10-year project by 360 scientistsat a cost of 650 million dollars.

The scientists combined informa-tion that had been collected overcenturies with data obtained duringthe decade-long census to create alist of species in 25 regions, fromthe Antarctic to the Arctic via the

Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON - People whosleep more or fewer than sevenhours a day, including naps, areincreasing their risk for cardiovas-cular disease, the leading cause ofdeath in the United States, a studypublished Sunday shows.

Sleeping fewer than five hoursa day, including naps, more thandoubles the risk of being diagnosedwith angina, coronary heart dis-ease, heart attack or stroke, thestudy conducted by researchers atWest Virginia University’s (WVU)faculty of medicine and publishedin the journal “Sleep” says.

And sleeping more than sevenhours also increases the risk of car-diovascular disease, it says. Studyparticipants who said they sleptnine hours or longer a day wereone-and-a-half times more likelythan seven-hour sleepers to developcardiovascular disease, the studyfound.

The most at-risk group wasadults under 60 years of age whoslept five hours or fewer a night.They increased their risk of devel-oping cardiovascular disease morethan threefold compared to peoplewho sleep seven hours.

Women who skimped on sleep,getting five hours or fewer a day,including naps, were more thantwo-and-a-half times as likely todevelop cardiovascular disease.Short sleep duration was associatedwith angina, while both sleepingtoo little and sleeping too much

Agence France Presse

CARACAS - Crime has taken onsuch proportions in Caracas, argu-ably South America’s most danger-ous capital, that some residents haveturned to the only succour left:prayer.

In a cemetery in the south of thecity, lines of desperate citizens formevery day in front of a tomb to pleadfor magical protection from the ho-micidal risks they run.

Their saviour: a criminal namedIsmael Sanchez who was buriedthere four decades ago and who hastaken on the reputation of a “saint”among followers who, like most

Spencer Degenshows off threeof the tenlobsters hecaught on thefirst day of thetwo-dayminiseason onJuly 28, 2010 inMiami, Florida.

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Marine life census shines lightMarine life census shines lightMarine life census shines lightMarine life census shines lightMarine life census shines lighton biodiversity of the season biodiversity of the season biodiversity of the season biodiversity of the season biodiversity of the seasAgence France Presse

WASHINGTON - Crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans representthe most common species in the world’s seas, and the waters of Aus-tralia and Japan are the most diverse, according to a vast inventory ofmarine life published Monday.

world’s temperate and tropical seas.The inventory will be complementedwith information still being gatheredin areas such as Indonesia, the Phil-ippines, Madagascar and the ArabianSea in an even larger work whichwill be released in October.

Even then, the inventory will beincomplete, said Nancy Knowlton ofthe Smithsonian Institution andleader of the census project on coralreefs. “The ocean is simply so vastthat after 10 years of hard work, westill have only snapshots, thoughsometimes detailed, of what the seacontains,” Knowlton said.

So far, the study has found anaverage of 10,750 known, namedspecies in a given region, and thecensus-takers believe that for everyknown species, there are at least fouryet to be discovered. And with thefinding that crustaceans are the most

numerous, it could change the wayhumans think of the sea.

“When people think of the ocean,they think of fish and whales,” saidAusubel. “But the big mammals areonly two percent of diversity, andfish are 12 percent. We should thinkfirst of crustaceans and mollusks.”

Around one-fifth of all marine lifeare crustaceans, followed closely bymollusks — squid, octopi, clams, snailsand slugs — which make up 17 per-cent of species in the sea. Next, at 12percent, come members of the pisces,or fish, family, including sharks.

Single-cell microorganisms fromthe family of protozoa and algae andother plant-like organisms are tiedfor fourth place in the species inven-tory at 10 percent.

Among others are echinoderms,including starfish, sand dollars and seacucumbers; porifera, which includessponges; and cnidaria, including seaanemones, corals and jellyfish.

Popular marine mammals such aswhales are included in the “othervertebrates” category and compriseonly a tiny part of marinebiodiversity.

AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO

People gather and pray around the tombs of a group of criminals whodied some 40 years ago, at a cemetery in Caracas on July 21, 2010.

In crime-roiled Caracas, prayers for protectionVenezuelans, are devoutly Catholic.

An 80-centimeter (31-inch) highstatue of the venerated ex-villain sitsatop the tomb, a rebellious figure witha pistol tucked into his belt and sport-ing sunglasses and a cap. Many of thedevotees leave flowers at the grave.A few stick a cigarette in the statue’sopen mouth.

For all who visit, “Ismaelito” is theonly answer left to a growing waveof violence unchecked by authoritiesthat has plunged them into fearful in-security.

The government of President HugoChavez, which will rely on supportfrom Venezuela’s vast poor popula-tion in September legislative elec-

tions, publishes no crime statistics.But unofficial figures explain whycrime is by far the biggest preoc-cupation of the people.

Every weekend, around 50 vio-lent murders take place in the capi-tal. There were more than 16,000homicides across the whole coun-try in 2009.

A non-governmental group, theVenezuelan Observatory of Violence,says that nine out of 10 murders com-mitted in the past three years havegone unpunished. Although the num-ber of police has been boosted, citi-zens fear them as much as the armedyoung men who waylay pedestriansand motorists in the street.

Seven hours the magicnumber for sleep: study

were associated with heart attackand stroke, the study says.

A separate study, also publishedin “Sleep”, showed that an occa-sional long lie-in can be beneficialfor those who can’t avoid gettingtoo little sleep.

In that study, David Dinges, whoheads the sleep and chronobiologyunit at the University of Pennsyl-vania school of medicine, foundthat 142 adults whose sleep wasseverely restricted for five days —as it is for many people during thework week — had slower reactiontimes and more trouble focusing.

But after a night of recoverysleep, the sleep-deprived study par-ticipants’ alertness improved sig-nificantly, and the greatest im-provements were seen in those whowere allowed to spend 10 hours inbed after a week with just fourhours’ sleep a night.

“An additional hour or two ofsleep in the morning after a periodof chronic partial sleep loss hasgenuine benefits for continued re-covery of behavioral alertness,”Dinges said.

In the study about sleep and car-diovascular disease, researchers ledby Anoop Shankar, associate pro-fessor at WVU’s department ofcommunity medicine, analyzeddata gathered in a national US studyin 2005 on more than 30,000 adults.

The results were adjusted forage, sex, race, whether the personsmoked or drank, whether theywere fat or slim, and whether theywere active or a couch potato.

Tuesday, August 3, 201014 InternationalSport

But with Cesc Fabregas restingafter the World Cup and fellowmidfielders Abou Diaby andDenilson injured, Wenger threw theyoungsters in at the deep end duringthe Emirates Cup and was delightedwith their response.

English 18-year-old Wilshere andGhana-born Frimpong, also 18, heldtheir own against experiencedinternationals Gennaro Gattuso andClarence Seedorf in Saturday’s 1-1draw with AC Milan. And they fol-lowed that by showing impressivetenacity and composure in a frenetic3-2 victory over Celtic on Sundaythat ensured Arsenal retained theEmirates Cup pre-season event attheir north London stadium.

“At the start I was not convinced

Agence France Presse

LONDON - With less than twoweeks until the start of the PremierLeague season, champions Chelseaand leading contenders ManchesterUnited are preparing for a serious chal-lenge from big-spending ManchesterCity.

While Chelsea manager CarloAncelotti and United boss Sir AlexFerguson have been content to makeonly minor alterations to their squads,City chief Roberto Mancini has beenacquiring new players with the care-free relish of a lottery winner let loosein Harrods.

Mancini has spent over 80 millionpounds on four new players as City’sbillionaire Abu Dhabi-based ownerscontinue to lavish cash on the club inan attempt to buy their way to success.Recruiting Yaya Toure fromBarcelona, Valencia winger DavidSilva, Alexander Kolarov from Lazioand Hamburg defender JeromeBoateng is a quite a statement of in-tent.

The spending is unlikely to endthere as Mancini eyes a 25 millionpounds move for Inter Milan’s MarioBalotelli and a similiar offer for AstonVilla midfielder James Milner.

City’s approach to squad-buildingwill bring scorn from those who pre-fer teams to develop more organically,but past title triumphs by Chelsea andBlackburn prove money can buy suc-cess in the Premier League.

The prospect of City mounting asustained bid to win their first leaguetitle since 1968 looks increasingly re-alistic, with Ancelotti admittingMancini’s team could be a majorthreat. “In theory Man City could bevery difficult opponents. They havebought some fantastic players,”Ancelotti said.

“It’s difficult to build a team in onesummer but Roberto Mancini has theexperience to do this, so it can be

AFP PHOTO/Olly Greenwood

Arsenal’s Manuel Alumnia (C) lifts the Emirates trophy after beating Celtic’s after their Emir-ates Cup football match at Emirates Stadium in London, on August 1, 2010.

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LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits the impressive form of young Gun-ners Jack Wilshere and Emmanuel Frimpong has persuaded him not to sign anothermidfielder. Wenger planned to bring in another central midfielder before the transfer win-dow shuts at the end of August because he wasn’t convinced Wilshere and Frimpong weremature enough to play regularly.

Wilshere and Frimpong could be thecentral midfielders but they haveshowed they can play there,” Wengersaid. “We were considering going intothe market for a midfielder but we won’tdo that now.

“Wilshere has done really well. At18 you have to have patience but I be-lieve he is stronger than last year. “Thefew months he played on loan at Boltonlast season has given him something.

“Frimpong is more of a fighter thana dribbler but he is eligible to play forEngland or Ghana and if I was EnglishI would make sure he doesn’t get away.”

While Wenger is no longer lookingfor a midfielder, he has plenty of otherbusiness to attend to before his side’sPremier League opener againstLiverpool on August 15.

He would still like to sign at leastone more central defender to make upfor the departures of Sol Campbell,William Gallas and Mikael Silvestre.

And a move for a goalkeeper, possi-bly Fulham’s Australian internationalMark Schwarzer, is also on the agenda,while there is still the issue of CescFabregas’s future to resolve as the Gun-ners captain pines for a move toBarcelona. With that hectic list in mind,Wenger admitted he was relieved to seehis two new signings, Morocco strikerMarouane Chamakh and French de-fender Laurent Koscielny, perform wellover the weekend. Chamakh scored inSaturday’s draw against Milan and gavea solid cameo as a substitute againstCeltic, while Koscielny looked compe-tent in both games.

Big-spending City look tooverhaul Chelsea, United

Agence France Presse

SEOUL - Argentinian starLionel Messi promised Mondayto deliver a good performancethis week when his club,Barcelona, meet South Korea’sall-star team in an exhibitionmatch.

The match between the Span-ish champions and an all-starsquad selected by South Koreanfans will be played Wednesdayin Seoul to mark the 60th anni-

Messi pledges a good show in S.Korea

AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM

Manchester City’s Ivory Coast player Kolo Toure (R) watchesTogolese teammate Emmanuel Adebayor control the ball dur-ing a training session in Baltimore on July 30, 2010.

done.”City’s spending recalls the pe-riod when Chelsea owner RomanAbramovich engaged in an equallymassive spree to turn his club intochampions.

Those days are gone now andAncelotti has had to cut his cloth ac-cordingly, with few new faces arriv-ing at Stamford Bridge since the Ital-ian took charge last year. Not thatChelsea need much improving afterwinning the double last season.

Although Michael Ballack, JoeCole and Juliano Belletti have all beenreleased, Ancelotti has brought in onlyIsrael midfielder Yossi Benayoun fromLiverpool.

He seems content that a team withthe spine of John Terry, FrankLampard and Didier Drogba will con-tinue to be competitive whoever playsalongside them.

“We have the same aims as lastyear,” Ancelotti said. “But last year wewent out of the Champions League tooearly so we have to do better.” United,hamstrung by the club’s massive debts,have had to adopt the sameconversative approach in the transfermarket.

Ferguson has put his faith in thelikes of Mexico forward JavierHernandez, 22, Italian striker FedericoMacheda, 18, and former Fulham de-fender Chris Smalling, 20, and he said:“They give us the back-up we are go-ing to need. “There is purpose in theway they play their football. It is notjust talent.

“You don’t play at this club withjust talent, you need something elseand they have that something else.”After five years without a trophy, Ar-senal manager Arsene Wenger expectsgreat things, even though his planscould be destablised by CescFabregas’s desire to join Barcelona.

“I am very confident we’ll do bet-ter than last season,” Wenger said. “Wefinished third last year and we hopewe can improve on that.”

versary of diplomatic ties betweenSouth Korea and Spain. “We willshow a good play as many Koreanfans have waited for us,” Messitold reporters.

Messi had a disappointingWorld Cup in South Africa, withArgentina knocked out of the tour-nament by Germany in the quarter-finals.

“It was too bad I could not scorea goal even with many chances dur-ing the World Cup, but I will trymy best to score this time,” he said.

“I had high expectations and Iwanted to get to higher rounds butit was too bad. Now I’d like to onlythink about the league.”

Messi said the match in Seoulwould be “a good opportunity toprepare for a new season”. Histeammate Daniel Alves Da Silvasaid South Korean fans would en-joy watching “the games of the bestclub in the world”.

“I’ve recovered much after theWorld Cup since it ended soonerthan I thought,” he added.

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“I’ve got to be happy getting tothe final and having chances towin,” Murray said. “I didn’t play mybest tennis. Just tired.”

World number four Murray an-nounced a split from coach MilesMaclagan earlier this week. Whilehe is looking at possible replace-ments, a final decision is not ex-pected before the US Open. Murrayplayed in Los Angeles for the firsttime as a last-minute replacementfor Serbian Novak Djokovic, whowithdrew citing a need for morerest.

Hometown favorite Querrey wonhis fourth title of the season - onlyRafael Nadal with five has more -and became the first back-to-backchampion at the 700,000-dollarhardcourt event since Andre Agassidefended his crown in 2002.

“In the second and third sets Iplayed great, some of the best ten-nis I’ve played,” Querrey said.

Reuters

LAS VEGAS – Juan ManuelMarquez retained his WBA andWBO lightweight titles with aunanimous decision victory overAmerican Juan Diaz on Saturdaybefore demanding a third fight withManny Pacquiao. The Mexicandrew with the Filipino in 2004 andsuffered a narrow defeat four years

Agence France Presse

BUENOS AIRES - Argentinahave yet to approach any potentialsuccessors to take charge of the na-tional team following the bitter de-parture of Diego Maradona, man-ager Carlos Bilardo said on Sunday.

“Julio Grondona (the ArgentinaFootball Association) president hasspoken to nobody and has told menothing,” said Bilardo. “We are wait-ing. Anything could happen.”

Maradona accused Grondona and

AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK

Sam Querrey of the US holds the winner’s trophy after defeat-ing Britain’s Andy Murray in the final of the Farmers ClassicATP Tennis Open tournament in Los Angeles on August 1, 2010.Querrey won 5-7, 7-6 (7/2), 6-3.

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LOS ANGELES – Andy Murray squandered a match point in the second set and AmericanSam Querrey rallied Sunday for a 5-7, 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 victory over the British top seed in the finalof the Los Angeles Open. The 23-year-old Scotsman missed a golden chance for his first ATP titleof the season and suffered his first loss in five career meetings with Querrey, who had neverbefore taken a set off Murray.

“That’s the highest-ranked guy I’veever beaten.”

Second seed Querrey doublefaulted to surrender the decisivebreak in the last game of the first set.In the fifth game of the second set,Querrey blasted a forehand smashwide and netted a forehand to allowMurray to escape break points andhold serve.

Murray had a match point onQuerrey’s serve in the 10th game butcould not capitalize, sending a back-hand wide, and the American heldto level at 5-5.

“I wasn’t going to give it to(Murray),” Querrey said. “I was go-ing to make him come up with a shotto beat me.” In the tie-breaker,Querrey smacked a crosscourtcorehand winner for a 4-1 lead andfinished off Murray by scoring thelast three points, the last on a fore-hand winner to finally take a set offMurray after nine prior failures.

Querrey seized a break chance onMurray in the sixth game of the thirdset and the Scotsman netted a back-hand drop volley to surrender thebreak and fall behind 4-2.

Murray broke his racket on hisleft shoe and bloodied his rightknuckles by punching his racketstrings in frustration during thegame, wiping the blood onto hiswhite shirt.

Querrey served for the match at5-3 but Murray pushed him to abreak point. The American answeredwith a forehand winner and a ser-vice winner and when Murray senta backhand beyond the baseline,Querrey had claimed the crown.

Querrey, pushed to three sets inevery match, was the first ATPplayer this year to win multiplematches in the same tournament af-ter facing a match point in each. Hesaved a match point against JankoTipsarevic in the semi-finals.

Marquez calls out Pacquiaoafter defeating Diaz

WBA/WBO lightweightchampion Juan ManuelMarquez (L) get advice fromhis trainer Ignacio “Nacho”Beristain between roundsduring his bout against JuanDiaz at the Mandalay BayEvents Center July 31, 2010in Las Vegas, Nevada.

later but will hope to come awaywith a victory if they meet for a thirdtime.

“The trilogy with Pacquiao iswhat I want,” said Marquez, 51-5-1, (37 KOs). “Everybody wants tosee it. It’s good for all fight fans, forthe Mexicans, the Filipinos. Every-one wants to see it. That’s the mostimportant fight for me now.”

The fight with Diaz was a rematch

of a February 2009 contest, in whichDiaz set the pace early beforeMarquez took control and scored aknockout in the eighth round.

There were no knockdowns thistime, but on several occasionsMarquez appeared to hurt Diaz withsharp combinations. He landed morethan Diaz in every one of the twelverounds and in total scored with 288punches, 133 more than his opponent.

Diaz, 35-4 (17 KOs) said he hadintended to set a more measured pacethan in the previous encounter, butthat Marquez had thwarted his plans.

“I fought the best fight I could,”he said. “I think I fought a good fight.We were trading punches. I didn’twant to stand in front of him. Thegame plan was to get in there, throwcombinations, step around him andget out. “But it was tough and I gothit with some good punches. He’s agreat fighter.”

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Argentina still to line-upMaradona successor

View of agraffitidepictingformerArgentina’snationalfootball teamcoach DiegoMaradona ina wall inMendoza,Argentina onJuly 31, 2010.

Bilardo of deceit and betrayal, blam-ing the pair for plotting his down-fall last week. “Grondona lied to me.Bilardo betrayed me,” Maradonaclaimed after his colourful and con-troversial reign as Argentina coachcame to an abrupt end.

But Bilardo has dismissed theclaims of the man who was part ofhis 1986 World Cup-winning team.“I am sure it’s not him who is guilty,but his entourage. I defended and Iwill continue to defend Maradona tothe death,” said Bilardo.

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Tuesday, August 3, 201016 SportI N T E R N A T I O N A L

The Red Bull driver moved intothe top of the championship stand-ings thanks to his fourth win of theseason, and he is now four pointsahead of McLaren’s LewisHamilton as the Milton Keynessquad continues to capitalise on itssuperior pace. Although Red Bullwas in a different league at theHungaroring, Webber insists thetitle battle remains wide open asFormula 1 heads into the summerbreak.

“It’s good to be leading the pointsstandings, but there are still a lot ofchapters to come in this worldchampionship battle, said Webberon his website.

“The top five drivers are sepa-rated by 20 points, which is noth-

MERCEDES GP boss RossBrawn says his team will lookinto the pitstop problem that oc-curred during the Hungarian GPto make sure it does not happenagain.

Nico Rosberg lost his right reartyre as he joined the pitlane fol-lowing his pitstop. The tyre thencareered down the pitlane andknocked down a Williams me-chanic, who escaped with no se-rious injuries.

Webber:Title battlestill wideopen

Hungaria - Mark Webber says there is still everything to playfor in this year’s championship following his Hungarian GrandPrix win.

ing. It’s the equivalent of just eightpoints under last year’s points sys-tem. “There’s everything to play for,but not until I’ve turned my phoneoff and had a couple of weeks’ holi-day! I’ll be in touch again beforeSpa.”

Webber, who benefited from asafety car period to take the lead ofSunday’s race, admitted his victoryhad been pretty easy in the end.

“It feels great to go into thesummer break on the back of awin,” he added. “I had to drivewhat was effectively a three-partrace because I didn’t pit for tyreswhen the safety car came out earlyon, but the strategy paid off and Iwon the race pretty easily in theend.”

AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

Red Bull’s Australian driver Mark Webber celebrates on the podium of the Hungaroring circuiton August 01, 2010 in Budapest, after the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix. Red Bull’s Aus-tralian driver Mark Webber won the race ahead of Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonsoand Red Bull’s German driver Sebastian Vettel.

Mercedes to look into pitstop issueBrawn said the team believed it

understood what had gone wrong,but promised to look at the situationclosely to avoid a repeat. “It appearsthat as the guy came off with thewheel gun, it spat the wheel nut buthe didn’t see it disappear,” saidBrawn.

“He went back on, fired the gunand realised the nut was no longerthere so came back out to grab theother gun and the rear jack guythought he had finished, so he

dropped the car and away hewent.

“I think we understand whathappened and we will clearlylook at how we can prevent ithappening again.” He added:“When the gun went on to takethe nut off, the gun hadn’t en-gaged properly so the nut was offthe axle and it spat it out. Theguns are so quick and powerfulnow you don’t see the nut travel-ling a the speed of light.”

AFP PHOTO / POOL / CHRISTOPHE KARABA

A williams mechanics lies down after being hit by a wheel (top L) of Mercedes GP’s Germandriver Nico Rosberg in the pits of the Hungaroring circuit on August 01, 2010 in Budapest,during the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix.