Thursday, July 3, 2014 16 Pages Number 132 6 th Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST PAGE 8 Lukaku key in Belgium’s 2-1 victory against US PAGE 13 HK police arrest 511 after big de- mocracy rally BAF News at Page 3 The Head of Badung Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Badra, revealed that the coastal arrangement program in Badung was being coordinated with central and provincial government through the Bali-Penida River Agency. Besides, the coordination team for the coastal arrangement in Badung had been established through the Decree of the Badung Regent in 2014. The coordination team just needed to make data collec- tion and dissemination to the public regarding the existing condition of each coastal area in Badung. Later, the team with the Bali-Penida River Agency would design a strategic program to continue the handling and management of the coastal abrasion. “So, if there are some stretches of the beach needing to be arranged, they will be proposed to central government,” said Badra. According to him, the coastal area of Legian, Seminyak and Kuta had been included in the arrangement program. However, he could not ascertain when the arrangement began. His party mentioned it needed time to disseminate it to the public. This arrangement posed the continuation of the previous arrangement on Cemagi Beach, North Kuta subdistrict undergoing severe abrasion. “The coastal area at Cemagi was handled last year along 400 meters. We have now started conducting the search of location and the arrangement will be continued to the south coast because some sections need handling such as around Centro, Kuta. The sand around the area is still eroded,” he said. Regarding the technical matters, said Badra, it belonged to the authority of the Bali-Penida River Agency. The Ba- dung Livestock, Fishery and Maritime Affairs only made coordination for the handling and disseminate information to the public so it could be entirely received by the com- munity. He said the central government through a special team would conduct an assessment against the proposal of the abrasion handling in Badung that had been filed. The team also included the lender. As planned, the abrasion handling in Badung would use a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). (kmb25) Abrasion handling targets beaches in Kuta Tourists spend their time at Brawa Beach at Badung Regency that hit by abrasion. The handling of abrasion on a number of beaches in Badung in 2014 is resumed again. Bali Post MANGUPURA - The handling of abrasion on a number of beaches in Badung in 2014 is resumed again. At the moment, Badung government will perform data collection and dissemination to the public regarding the existing condition of each coastal region. As planned, the beaches in Kuta subdistrict such as Seminyak, Legian and Kuta will be chosen as the next target. IBP/Eka Adhiyasa Joged Pingit depicting Calonarang story performed at BAF
The Head of Badung Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Badra, revealed that the coastal arrangement program in Badung was being coordinated with central and provincial government through the Bali-Penida River Agency. Besides, the coordination team for the coastal arrangement in Badung had been established through the Decree of the Badung Regent in 2014.
The coordination team just needed to make data collec-tion and dissemination to the public regarding the existing condition of each coastal area in Badung. Later, the team with the Bali-Penida River Agency would design a strategic
program to continue the handling and management of the coastal abrasion. “So, if there are some stretches of the beach needing to be arranged, they will be proposed to central government,” said Badra.
According to him, the coastal area of Legian, Seminyak and Kuta had been included in the arrangement program. However, he could not ascertain when the arrangement began. His party mentioned it needed time to disseminate it to the public. This arrangement posed the continuation of the previous arrangement on Cemagi Beach, North Kuta subdistrict undergoing severe abrasion.
“The coastal area at Cemagi was handled last year along 400 meters. We have now started conducting the search of location and the arrangement will be continued to the south coast because some sections need handling such as around Centro, Kuta. The sand around the area is still eroded,” he said.
Regarding the technical matters, said Badra, it belonged to the authority of the Bali-Penida River Agency. The Ba-dung Livestock, Fishery and Maritime Affairs only made coordination for the handling and disseminate information to the public so it could be entirely received by the com-munity.
He said the central government through a special team would conduct an assessment against the proposal of the abrasion handling in Badung that had been filed. The team also included the lender. As planned, the abrasion handling in Badung would use a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). (kmb25)
Abrasion handling targets beaches in Kuta
Tourists spend their time at Brawa Beach at Badung Regency that hit by
abrasion. The handling of abrasion on a number of beaches in Badung
in 2014 is resumed again.
Bali Post
MANGUPURA - The handling of abrasion on a number of beaches in Badung in 2014 is resumed again. At the moment, Badung government will perform data collection and dissemination to the public regarding the existing condition of each coastal region. As planned, the beaches in Kuta subdistrict such as Seminyak, Legian and Kuta will be chosen as the next target.
IBP/Eka Adhiyasa
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Tori Spelling can crack Jennie Garth up. When thinking of an upcoming scene from their new ABC Family sit-com, “Mystery Girls,” Garth giggles at the memory of Spelling going for it, mak-ing a funny face and using a strange voice. That’s just one reason the two like to work together.
“I feel safe doing some, like, goofy, crazy face and voice because it’s my friend. I know she’s gonna be there to support my efforts,” ex-plained Spelling in a recent interview.
“She knows I love it,” added Garth, who readily admits she’s the first to break character in a scene.
Unless you skipped the 1990s, you know they were co-stars on one of the most popular TV shows of that era, “Beverly Hills, 90210,” about teens living in the ex-clusive Southern California zip code.
It went off the air after 10 seasons in 2000 but Spelling and Garth have remained friends. They even brief-ly reprised their roles for the CW’s “90210” reboot. Spelling guest starred on a couple of episodes. Garth appeared on the first two seasons.
They never expected to work together full-time again but Spelling came up for the premise and it all fell into place. On “Mystery Girls,” Garth and Spelling play for-mer co-stars of a hit 90s de-tective TV show of the same name. They’ve gone their separate ways, until a crime occurs, and the witness will only talk to them. From this, they end up opening a detec-tive agency.
They chose to do a sitcom because, “it’s more fun than doing a drama,” said Garth. “The schedule, the hours. We both have a lot of kids so it’s like banker’s hours compared to doing an episodic show like an hour-long drama or something.”
Agence France-Presse
MUMBAI - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was on Tuesday bestowed with France’s highest civilian award for his contribution to cinema.
The actor was honoured as a “Knight of the Legion of Honour” by French foreign minister Laurent Fabius at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in India’s entertainment capi-
tal Mumbai.“There are different moments in life
that make you feel that you are on the right track. This is one such moment,” said Khan, 48, one of Indian cinema’s most recognisable faces.
Fabius said the French people hailed the actor’s “talent and generosity, which arouse the enthusiasm of a vast audience across the world, transcending cultural
and historical differences and bringing together people from all walks of life to his films”.
In a career spanning three decades, Khan has made himself the biggest box office draw in Bollywood as the hero of romantic dramas and high-octane action movies.
Fellow Indian superstar Amitabh Bach-chan received the French award in 2007.
Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth reunite on new show
Amy Sussman/Invision/AP
Original co-stars of the Fox television series “Beverly Hills, 90210” actresses Tori Spelling, left, and Jennie Garth, pose for a portrait in promotion of their upcoming ABC Family series “Mystery Girls” on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in New York.
Khan receives top French honour
Joged Pingit depicting Calonarang story performed at BAF
Jennifer Love Hewitt joining ‘Criminal Minds’Associated Press
NEW YORK — CBS says Jennifer Love Hewitt is joining the cast of “Criminal Minds” this fall. She will play Kate Callahan, a seasoned undercover agent whose superior work at the FBI has earned her a place in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Hewitt is returning to series TV after five seasons starring on CBS’ “Ghost Whisperer,” which aired from 2005 to 2010. Before that, she was in the ensemble of the Fox drama “Party of Five.” Her films include “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and its sequel.
CBS says her “Criminal Minds” character will be introduced in the series’ 10th season premiere, set to air Oct. 1.
The “Criminal Minds” cast also includes Joe Man-tegna, Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore and A.J. Cook. Dan Hallman/Invision/AP
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014
1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung
4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida
8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan
10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring
GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud
11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar
12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar
15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi
25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng
Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud
27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati
11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati
Aston Denpasar Hotel & Conven-tion Center offers special package dur-ing Ramadan with price starts from Rp 499.999nett/room/night. The package including 15% discount laundry, 15% dis-count on entry at the Bali Safari & Marine Park, 10% discount Erlangga Souvenir Shopping Center, and a 25% discount on the corner of photos. This offers valid from period 27 July to 2 August 2014.
Jempiring Restaurant as one of our outlet offering Breakfasting Package with Middle Eastern ambience, special menu such as Grilled Chicken with Briyani Rice, Fried Rice wrapped by Arabian bread and a very mouth watering roasted chicken as main course. Last not but least try our special drink Morrocan Spice Hot Cider to gratify you, this flavourful breakfasting package will treat you from 1 July – 30 September 2014. IBP/Courtesy of Aston
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DENPASAr - The Holy month of ramadan and School holiday is coming, the most exciting moment for every family to have a great va-cation.
To minimize the number of such hazardous disease, the Tabanan Health Agency would prepare nurses and midwives from each public health center to become HIV/AIDS counselors. “Essentially, we prepare counselors and super-visors at the village level. At least, a total of 20 counselors will be given the education for six days,” said the Head of Tabanan Health Agency, Suratmika, Tuesday (Jul 1).
He added, in preparing the counselor, the focus would be on supervision and coaching on the transmission of HIV/AIDS at village level. “We will prepare all the nurses and midwives as a Local Regional Monitor (PWS) at each village,” he said.
They would consist of nurses and midwives posing the representative of twenty public health centers throughout Tabanan. “In the future, they will oversee the potential of HIV/AIDS trans-mission in their respective territory. Our target is to provide counseling and testing for potential residents infected by HIV/AIDS, where one of them is pregnant woman,” he said.
He said that his party deliberately involved the midwives because the medical personnel were considered to be very familiar with pro-spective housewives who frequently performed prenatal care or childbirth consultation.
The counselor training was given by the
officers of the Bali AIDS Mitigation Commis-sion. According to Suratmika, healthy lifestyle and safe behavior should be improved further. Moreover, the impact of the closing of the Dolly prostitute house in Surabaya had begun to be a threat to Bali, without exception for Tabanan as the closest potential area for the migration. He said there were a number of factors causing the number of HIV AIDS case to continuously rise in Tabanan. Firstly, public awareness was low to do medical checkup so that the case could be recorded. Secondly, the real amount indeed increased as a result of the number of patients due to aberrant behavior. Thirdly, proliferation of cafés to nook and cranny of villages was likely to become one of the causes.
“These cafés have double function. On the one hand, they sell food and beverages, while on the other hand, they serve as a place of prostitution transaction. It’s very worrying,” he said.
According to him, the existence of those cafés had to be monitored so as not to de-viate. In response to these conditions, his party could only make socialization about the prevention of HIV disease and remind the public so as to always give priority to healthy lifestyle. (kmb28)
Bali PostBANGLI - Coinciding with
the 68th anniversary of the Police Corps (Bhayangkara), the ranks of Bangli Police exterminated hun-dreds of liters of liquor, Tuesday (Jul 1). Located at the courtyard of the Bangli Police Headquarters, the extermination of the liquor obtained in the ‘operation of cre-ating condition’ was undertaken in person by Chief of Bangli Po-lice, Suswanto, Commander of Bangli/1626 Military District,
the regent and other leadership council of Bangli.
The extermination to hundreds of liters of liquor in the form of 362 large bottles of beer, 216 bottles of small beer and 654 liters of arrack was done by disposing them into a ditch in front of the Bangli Police Headquarters. It was deliberately not carried out by breaking or crushing the bottles with heavy equipment to avoid hazardous waste.
The Chief of Bangli Police
Narcotics Unit, Agung Buwono, with permission from the Bangli Police Chief said amidst the exter-mination of liquor that hundreds of liters of beer and arrack were secured during the ‘operation of creating condition’ between January and June. Hundreds of bottles of beer, both of large and small size, were confiscated because they were not equipped with distribution label. Other than beer, hundreds of liters of arrack were also managed to be seized
from several stalls of residents including from the arrack sup-plier to the Bangli region. With the extermination to hundreds of liters of liquor, his party hoped to protect the public from the hazards of liquor. Similarly, it was also intended to give a deterrent effect on people who had been abusing liquor.
Meanwhile, prior to the exter-mination of the liquor, the Ban-gli Police also organized a rally for celebrating the 68th Police
Corps Anniversary 2014. The rally led in person by the Bangli Police Chief was attended by community leaders, customary leaders, religious leaders, the Bangli/1626 District Military Command officers and a number of other invitees. In the rally last Tuesday was also conferred the Setya Lencana Nararya award to four Bangli Police officers who had served for more than 24 years and 16 years by the Chief of Ban-gli Police, Suswanto. (ina)
Bangli Police demolish hundreds of liters of liquor
IBP/Bit
The Head of Tabanan Health Department dr. Suratmika.
To combat HIV/AIDS, Tabanan Health Agency prepares counselors Bali Post
TABANAN - In Bali, Tabanan County is arguably ranked fourth in the case of HIv/AIDS or the position may have been overtaken by other county whose number of HIv case starts experiencing a surge lately. Evidently, until this year the data of the Tabanan Health Agency indicate that people with HIv/AIDS have reached 630 cases. Averagely they are 30-40 years old. More sadly, the HIv/AIDS case has even spread to rural areas.
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The 36th Bali Art Festival
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said the six centers will expand the work of a pilot program at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, that for the past six years has evaluated hundreds of patients and provided many diagnoses, often using genomic approaches, for rare conditions.
Together, the centers will form the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Some child-hood vaccines are linked to seri-ous side effects, but they are quite rare and do not include autism, food allergies or cancer, said a review of scientific literature Tuesday.
A host of vaccines commonly given to children under age six were the focus of the systematic review of rigorously conducted studies, published in the peer-reviewed US journal Pediatrics.
The report seeks to address a rising trend of vaccine hesitancy among parents in the United States and Europe, which has led to a re-surgence of measles and whooping cough in some parts of the world.
“We found that serious adverse events that are linked to vaccines are really rare, and that when they do occur they are often not neces-sarily severe,” said study co-author Courtney Gidengil, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School.
“We think this adds to the body of evidence that the benefits really do seem to clearly outweigh the low risk of serious side effects from vaccines,” she told AFP.
The study expands on a 2011 report by the Institute of Medi-cine that also pointed to some side effects linked to vaccines but found “few health problems are caused by or clearly associated with vaccines.”
The Pediatrics report includes several vaccines that were not studied by the IOM, including those
U.S. agency taps medical centers to investigate rare diseasesReuters
CHICAGO - The U.S. government’s leading health research agency said on Tuesday it has selected six U.S. academic medical centers to help discover the cause of undiagnosed diseases using advanced diagnostic tools, including gene sequencing.
Network, funded by a four-year, $43 million grant from the NIH Common Fund.
Dr Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Re-search Institute, part of the NIH, said in a telephone briefing the sites will focus on “very rare” diseases, those which in some cases affect only 50 people in the world.
The academic centers selected
to participate include Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Harvard University’s three teach-ing hospitals: Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s and Mas-sachusetts General; Duke Univer-sity in Durham, North Carolina; Stanford University in Stanford, California; University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Green said the centers will use newly developed methods for genome sequencing, along with clinical evaluations, to decipher the causes of rare, undiagnosed conditions.
Undiagnosed diseases are conditions that even skilled phy-sicians cannot diagnose despite extensive testing. Although each disease is considered rare, as many as 30 million Americans have a rare disease, which col-lectively affects about 1 in 10 Americans.
Insurance coverage of genom-ic testing to discover the cause of rare disease has become a grow-ing issue at some academic medi-cal centers, including Baylor, that
have been using the technology to help doctors diagnose rare disease.
The NIH said that while each site may have different approach-es for handling health insurance coverage, no patient will be turned away from participating based on lack of insurance.
Researchers in the program will share genomic data from the patients enrolled in the centers in multiple public databases, ex-panding the knowledge of genes that can cause rare disease, which insurance companies have cited as a barrier to coverage.
Harvard University will serve as the coordinating site for the network.
Vaccines have low risk of serious side effectsagainst hepatitis A, Haemophi-lus influenzae type b (Hib), polio, rotavirus and the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
Side effectsSide effects of the measles,
mumps and rubella (MMR) and pneumococcal vaccines included the potential for fever and sei-zures.
The MMR and hepatitis A vac-cines were also linked to a side effect called purpura, when small blood vessels leak under the skin.
There was some evidence that immune-deficient children given the varicella vaccine against chick-en pox could develop infections or have an allergic reaction.
The rotavirus vaccines, RotaTeq and Rotarix, were associated with a risk of intussusception, a condition in which one part of the intestine slides into another part.
However, the r isk of this condition was rare, amounting to between 1-5 in 100,000, the researchers said.
“Clinicians who immunize chil-dren regularly may have encoun-tered these adverse events in their practices, particularly seizures associated with fever,” said an accompanying editorial by Carrie Byington, vice chair for research in the pediatrics department at the University of Utah.
“Fortunately, the adverse events identified by the authors were rare and in most cases would be ex-pected to resolve completely after the acute event.”
No fatalities were found in the research, which spanned from 2010
to 2013 and included a total of 67 studies, whittled down from more than 20,000 research papers.
Each study that made the final cut had a control or comparison group, and involved vaccines approved for
the US market as of 2011.The report found insufficient
evidence to link the inactivated polio vaccine to food allergies, and showed no link between childhood vaccines and the onset
AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar
In this June 25, 2014 photo, Richland Public Health nurse Renee Blankenship, left, gives Mar-cus Burkholder a Measles, Mumps, & Rubella (MMR) vaccination at a clinic for the Mennonite community in Richland County in Shiloh, Ohio. Some childhood vaccines are linked to serious side effects, but they are quite rare and do not include autism, food allergies or cancer, said a review of scientific literature Tuesday.
of leukemia.Furthermore, its review of
research backed up the IOM con-clusion that the “MMR vaccine is not associated with autism,” the report said.
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Unlike other joged dance that performed with no theme, Gi-anyar artists performed a joged dance that depict Calonarang story. These Pegose-kan dancers showed their dance entitled “Joged Pingit Taman Limut Temple” at Angsoka Stage on Wednesday, July 2,
2014 during Bali Art Festival.Hundreds spectators enjoyed their
performance because they show some-thing different from Joged Dance that usually showed.
According to I Dewa Ketut Widiarsa, mentor of the troupe, this dance is sacred dance from Taman Limut Temple at Pengosekan. “The accessory that being
worn in the head of dancer came from a holy man, Ida Pandita Sakti Mas Mage-lung who inherited from his father, Dang Hyang Nirartha,” he explained.
He said that this dance performs every once a year during the big traditional ceremony that held at Taman Limut Temple. (kmb21)
Small and cottage industries contributed more to the export earning of Bali during that
Bali Post
MANGUPURA - The Indonesian government is now allow-ing the elderly foreign travelers to longer enjoy the natural beauty of Indonesia, including Bali. Such a policy was stipu-lated in Presidential Decree No.31/1998 on the ease for the elderly foreign travelers.
The Head of Special Immigration Office of Class I at Ngurah Rai, Cucu Koswali, stated the policy of Indonesian government for the elderly travelers who wanted to stay longer in Indonesia was up to 1 year. They could extend their residence provided that they had a sponsor or guarantor.
“Without a guarantee, their residence permit cannot be extended and they must go home. However, if they have a guarantor, it may be extended for five times in succession,” said Cucu Koswali amidst the socialization recently.
According to him, the extension of the length of stay for the elderly foreign travelers was an old policy, but it contained some new changes required to be re-socialized. The policy was to accommodate the elderly travelers who wanted to enjoy their longer stay in Indonesian. In addition, it was also economically beneficial for the economy of local people.
“It needs to be re-socialized because it is feared there will be deviations from the provisions. For instance, the elderly travelers do not live at the home of Indonesian residents or if they contract a house, no Indonesian maids work in their house, so it does not to give any benefits to local community. To that end, it needs to be reminded again,” he explained.
It was said the policy was enforced selectively, where the policy was only valid for foreigners benefiting the welfare of the people, the nation and the Republic of Indonesia and did not jeopardize the security and the order. Similarly, they were not hostile to both the people and the Homeland based on the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.
“Only those who are beneficial to the development we can accept. To that end, we apply a selective policy, not all foreign-ers can be granted a residence permit because their presence is not useful or beneficial to us,” he said.
As mentioned, the requirement to be met by the elderly travelers was filing a visa application to consulate office abroad. After a long stay, it was converted into a limited residence permit (ITAS) for a year. “After that, the extension can be made on the basis of sponsor and can be extended five times,” he said.
Extension of a Limited Residence Permit (ITAS) for the elderly was given by the Head of Immigration Office whose jurisdiction including the residence of foreigners for a maxi-mal period of 1 year. It was valid since the expiry date of the ITAS. Extension of the limited residence permit was given maximally five times in succession according to provisions. “The elderly foreign travelers are those aged at least 55 years old,” he said.
He added the application of visa or immigration permits should be applied by the foreigners through Indonesian travel agencies for the elderly or through its correspondence over-seas. (kmb27)
BAF ScheduleThursday, July 3, 2014
Time Place Event09.00 Ksirarnawa Workshop on culture11.00 Ratna Kanda Panca Mask Performance11.00 Ayodya Stage Joged Bumbung Dance17.00 Angsoka Stage Grantang Pelog Balinese Music20.00 Ayodya Stage Drama Gong Exhibition20.00 Wantilan Shadow Puppet Performance20.00 Ardha Candra Adult’s Gong Kebyar
Export down 2.2 percent
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Unlike other joged dance that performed with no
theme, Gianyar artists per-formed a joged dance that
depict Calonarang story.
Joged Pingit depicting Calonarang story performed at BAF
Residence permit of elderly travelers in Bali extended
AntaraDENPASAR - Bali exported US$221.45 million worth of goods in the first five months of the
year or 2.22 percent lower than US$226.48 million in the same period last year.
period, the Central Bureau of Statistic (BPS) said.
The United States and Singa-
pore are the main countries of des-tination for export commodities from Bali, head of the provincial
office of BPS Panusunan Siregar said here on Wednesday.
Exports to the United States made up 20.82 percent to and to Singapore 14.62 percent of the Bali’s total exports, Siregar said.
Other major markets include Japan, Australia and Thailand,
he added. Other main export commodi-
t ies f rom Bal i a re f i sh and shrimps accounting for 22.14 percent, furniture and house illumination for 14.06 percent, timber products 11.82 percent, jewelry 10.66 percent, and gar-ment 9.66 percent.
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The fears are only going to be heightened following the pre-dawn crackdown by the Hong Kong po-lice, who normally do not have an antagonistic relationship with the people, unlike the security forces in mainland China.
Police said 511 people were arrested for unlawful assembly in the Central business district and preventing police from carrying out their duties. After warnings failed to dislodge them, the police moved in to remove the protesters, who lay down on the street with arms locked, taking them away one by one. The protesters had vowed to stay until 8 a.m., just before the height of rush hour begins, but the police started moving in to evict them at about 3 a.m.
Some left willingly but others were forcibly removed, taken away by officers on both arms or carried away off the ground. One officer stood behind a protester and put an
arm around the man’s neck as he and other officers tried to pull his hands free, knocking off the eye-glasses of the demonstrator he was clinging to.
Those arrested were mostly stu-dents who had decided to occupy Chater Road after taking part in Tues-day’s rally, which police said attracted 98,000 people at its peak. Organizers said 510,000 people turned out, the highest estimates in a decade. Hong Kong researchers put the number at between 154,000 and 172,000. What-ever the numbers, the march and the vehemence of opposition is certain to raise the alarm in Beijing, which tried to keep the news away from people in mainland China.
The Chinese media predictably did not report it, and comments about the protests were deleted from microblogs and other social media. Some users posted comments say-ing friends’ accounts were blocked after they discussed the protests. A
Hong Kong protester, Kennie Chan, lamented that Beijing was less re-strained now in exerting its influence over Hong Kong.
“In the past, it seemed like they were doing it step by step, but now, it’s obvious that they cannot stand Hong Kong people. We are not obedient anymore, and are resisting more and more,” said the 30-year-old, who works as a stage manager.
China’s Communist leaders have pledged to allow Hong Kong resi-dents to vote for the leader by 2017. However, they’ve rejected calls to allow the public to name candidates, insisting instead that they be vetted by a Beijing-friendly committee like the one that has hand-picked all leaders since the handover.
Also, three weeks ago, the Chi-nese government released a so-called white paper that said Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy is not inherent but is authorized by the central government in Beijing.
Associated Press writer
SAN JOSE LAS FLORES — The mother of a Guatemalan boy whose body was found in the desert about a mile from Texas’ southern border said Tuesday she begged him not to make the dangerous journey from their modest cinder block- and sheet-metal home high in the northern Cuchu-matanes mountains. But Cipriana Juarez Diaz, ailing and bedridden, said her son Gilberto told her he wanted to earn money to help her.
“I told him not to go but he wanted to help me get rid of my illness,” Juarez Diaz, who has epilepsy, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. She said she draped him with a white rosary as he left. “He was a good son,” she said. “I just hope God gives me the strength to bear seeing his body when they bring him to me.”
Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez was found with the rosary still around his neck and a brother’s Chicago phone number scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle about two weeks ago. He was alone in brush less than a mile from the nearest U.S. home, a South Texas sheriff said Monday. He apparently got lost on his way north and likely died from the elements. An autopsy did not find signs of trauma. His birth certificate says he was 11 years old. But his father, Francisco Ramos Diaz, said Tuesday that the boy was really 15.
Ramos Diaz said Gilberto’s birth certificate carried the birth date of his younger brother because it took the family several years to register him. Because the parents couldn’t remember the exact date of Gilberto’s birth, they gave the same date for both young sons, who became listed as twins.
While hundreds of immigrants die crossing the border each year, the discovery of Gilberto’s decomposed body in the Rio Grande Valley on June 15 highlights the perils unaccompanied children face as the U.S. government searches for ways to deal with record numbers of children crossing into the country illegally. Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said he was the first child immigrant his office has found since he became sheriff in April.
AP Photo/Vincent YuProtesters are arrested by police officers after hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful sit-ins overnight on a street in the financial district in Hong Kong Wednesday, July 2, 2014, following a huge rally to show their support for democratic reform and oppose Beijing’s desire to have the final say on candidates for the chief executive’s job.
HK police arrest 511 after big democracy rallyAssociated Press Writer
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 people who refused to leave a street in the city’s financial district Wednesday, a day after tens of thousands of people joined a massive march to demand democracy that’s free from China’s interference. The march has become an annual affair held on the anniversary of the day China took over Hong Kong from Britain on June 1, 1997 with the promise to give the city a high degree of autonomy for 50 years. But there is growing unease among its residents — especially the youth — that the Western-style civil liberties they’ve know all their lives are being eroded as Beijing has increasingly tried to impose its authority over the freewheeling capitalist enclave.
AP Photo/Juarez Ramos FamilyIn an undated photo taken with a mobile phone, provided by the Ramos Juarez family, Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez poses in an unidentified location in Guatemala.
Dead migrant boy’s mom begged him not to make trek
Bali PostTABANAN - People were encouraged to
remain cautious in choosing snacks because the snacks sold are not always safe to consume. Evidently, in the inspection held by the Agency of Drug and Food Control (BBPOM) Denpasar in collaboration with the Tabanan Health Agency and Tabanan Industry, Trade and Cooperative Agency was found at least two types of snacks containing Rhodamine B (textile dye). One of the snacks was begina commonly used to fill in offerings. Though it was not consumed by residents, it remained hazardous. After being used for offerings, the snack is primarily given to livestock such as chickens and pigs.
“If the livestock were slaughtered and then consumed, then those chemicals will be going into our body because they are not biodegrad-able,” explained the Certification Section Head of the BBPOM Denpasar, Wayan Bagiarta, accompanied by the Head of Tabanan Health Agency, Suratmika, after the inspection at Dauh Pala Market, Dauh Peken village, Tabanan, Monday (Jul 2).
Further he said that of the 14 samples of the type of food examined directly by means of test kit, it was found that two samples were positive to contain hazardous ingredients of Rhodamine B. He called on people not to utilize textile dyes in food because consuming it could cause cancer. “Especially the begina snack should not be given to pigs, but thrown away after being used in of-ferings,” he explained.
In addition to foods containing textile dyes, the officers also found a number of expired food products, such as bread flour, seasonings and sauces. The officers also found a traditional herbal drink without circulation permit. Siti, a butcher and grocery seller admitted that she did not know if any of the products on sale had ex-pired. “I just knew it today because I have never made double-check related to the expiration. Now, I am going to ask for product replacement so that I do not lose,” she explained.
In line with Siti, another grocery seller, Ketut Narsa, equally did not think if a number of goods offered had been expired. He also claimed to never recheck the goods purchased, even to check their distribution permit.
Responding to the findings, Wayan Bagia-rta also directly provided guidance and insight to a number of traders encountered. According to him, to avoid any expired goods, the trad-ers should be more careful when purchasing a product to be sold. “And the FIFO (first in first out) system must be applied where the goods purchased first must be sold first,” he said.
Other than inspecting hazardous ingre-dients and expired food and drink, he also advised the Chief of Dauh Pala Market to always maintain the sanitation. According to him, although the products on sale had good quality, it would remain unsafe and unhealthy if condition of the market did not support. The inspection was intended to create a safe mar-ket from hazardous ingredients, particularly in traditional market. (kmb28)
Such condition was recognized by one of the families of mutton satay traders, Hajj Karto, when met at his home at Kampung Jawa, Semarapura Klod Kangin, Klung-kung, Tuesday (Jul 1). Karto said that his food stall was under Inti supermarket. The food stall had been managed by his sister Sapiah since more than 50 years ago.
However, after the mutilation case was revealed on Monday (Jun 23), a rumor spread if the suspect Fikri had sold the flesh of mutilation victim Diana Sari aka Nana, 22, to number of traders of mutton satay and meatballs at some areas in Klungkung and Gianyar. Actually, police or the media never published such information. “At first, I heard the rumor circulating at Galiran Market. Actually, I do not really understand why the flesh was rumored to have been sold to us. Probably, they thought we could not distinguish human flesh from mutton,” said Karto.
Although the source of information was unclear, many people of Klungkung were influenced by the rumors. As a result, the traders of chicken and mutton satay were deserted. Karto said he habitually slaugh-tered eight to nine goats each day. However, in the past week, the needs for mutton at his sister’s food stall slumped. “Now, we can only spend two heads each day, one in the
morning and another in the afternoon. Pre-viously, many people coming, but now they even do not dare to pass,” he complained.
He also denied if his food stall was once used by police to perform reconstruction and fitted with police lines. Even, a num-ber of residents accused him of buying the flesh of Nana from the suspect Fikri. “If I am getting involved in this case, why am I never summoned by police? What is the evidence? I always try to be honest with what I sell to customers so that my food stall can get crowded,” he said.
As a result of this situation, his party was also confused to hire eight employ-ees. He intended to lay off six employees because the situation kept getting deserted. However, the effort was not yet done. He claimed to be sorry to see if his employees had to stop working. Moreover, most of them had got married. For a butcher, he paid at IDR 150,000 per day.
Meanwhile, the employees at food stall were paid at IDR 80,000 to IDR 90,000 per day. Currently, he still held on with the existing situation. However, he began to reduce the supply of mutton brought in from Lumajang, East Java, Karangasem and Singaraja. In the past, when it was still crowded, he claimed to bring in 20 heads to 25 heads of goat. “Now, I stop the entire
supply for a while,” he said. He hoped that police could clarify the rumor. Otherwise, the rumor would pro-long and he worried that h is business
could go bankrupt.Meanwhile, being frustrated with this is-
sue, a number of satay traders in Klungkung finally complained to Klungkung Police headquarters, Tuesday. It was admitted by the Chief of Klungkung Police Criminal Investigation Unit, I Nyoman Wirajaya. Ultimately, the suspect Fikri in the room of Wirajaya asserted that after mutilating Nana, the flesh was not sold anywhere but wrapped in black plastic bags. After that, the flesh was disposed with other mutilated body parts to 13 crime scenes in Klung-kung and Karangasem. Then, why was the victim’s flesh not found? Wirajaya added the flesh might have been eaten by animal nearby like a lizard. Clearly, the results of the investigation indicated if the victim’s flesh was not sold anywhere.
“I was even afraid when disposing it. Such a rumor is not correct. No portions of the flesh were sold. I’ve disposed them all,” said Fikri. Every day, he recognized to do activities and helped install the structure of food stall under the Inti su-permarket. The location was quite close to the food stall owned by Hajj Karto. Once again, he made sure there was no flesh of Nana sold to food stalls of mutton satay and meatballs. (kmb31)
Raid, BBPOM finds expired products and usage of Rhodamine B
IBP/GieHaji karto shows the goats that will be used as sate in his restaurant
After mutilation case
Earnings of satay sellers slump Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Following the reveal of the mutilation case, a number of food stalls complained. It was triggered by the rumors if the flesh of the mutilation victim was sold to a number of food stalls, especially to satay vendors. Moreover, the victim’s flesh has not been found. Thus, many people of Klungkung are influenced by the rumor. As a result, the income of satay vendors in the past weeks drops to 80 percent.
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SYDNEY - Australia is emerging as the latest hotspot for casino operators as they look to attract Asia’s high rollers to the gaming tables as well as its pristine beaches and popular centres like the Great Barrier Reef.
With a mining boom slowing, the prospect of thousands of new jobs and billions in tourist dollars has convinced Queensland and New South Wales to back four new casinos, despite fears over their potential environmental and social impacts.
The resorts are at various stages of planning, with Queensland, already a popular destina-tion, the main focus of a charge spearheaded by Australian mogul James Packer and Hong Kong billionaire Tony Fung.
David Wiadrowski, head of Australian Enter-tainment and Media at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, said Asians culturally liked to gamble and the lat-est plans were a win-win for state governments.
“For governments, rightly or wrongly, these integrated resorts are an attractive proposition because they create employment opportunities and tax dollars, which they can then put back into the community,” he said.
But the big question was whether there was sufficient demand.
“It is a high-risk strategy, getting the occu-pancy in the resorts,” he said.
Australia already has more than a dozen casinos, although not on the same scale as the proposed projects.
In May, Fung won a gaming licence, condi-tional on environmental, planning and gambling approvals being obtained, for his huge Aus$8.15 billion (US$7.53 billion) Aquis resort near Cairns.
It is being touted as the largest investment in tourism infrastructure in Australia’s history, with eight hotels, an exhibition centre, entertainment precincts, a championship golf course and one of the world’s biggest aquariums.
Once open in 2018, it will employ 20,000 people and boost Queensland’s economy by Aus$1.4 billion a year, according to Fung.
At the same time, Chinese-Australian invest-ment concern ASF Consortium was granted a licence for its Aus$7.5 billion Broadwater Marine Project on the state’s Gold Coast under similar conditions.
Separately, Echo Entertainment, which runs the only casino in Brisbane, Packer’s Crown
and a Hong Kong consortium have bid for the right to build another integrated resort in the Queensland capital.
It all comes with Packer, who runs a world-wide gambling empire, planning to open a six-star hotel and luxury casino complex in a prime location on Sydney Harbour in 2019.
Packer is clear on his target market.“We believe that Crown Sydney will help at-
tract Asian high net worth travellers to Sydney, in particular from China, creating economic growth, extra taxes and over 1,200 jobs for the people of New South Wales,” he said in outlin-ing his plans.
There is plenty of competition in the lucrative market, led by the former Portuguese colony of Macau which now generates more than six times the gambling revenue of Las Vegas thanks mainly to big-spending Chinese VIPs.
Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam are also staking their claims to regional market share, with several mega-resorts in the pipeline.
Newly minted Chinese are also the market for Fung, a member of one of Hong Kong’s best-known banking families. His ambitious Aquis project expects to attract a million guests a year, three-quarters of them from overseas.
Traders were encouraged by surveys showing China’s manufacturing activ-ity improved in June for the first time in six months. That came on top of the government’s decision to expand credit by allowing banks to lend more relative to the size of their deposits.
Both developments “bode well for growth,” said Credit Agricole CIB econ-omist Dariusz Kowalczyk in a report.
In the United States, the Institute for Supply Management said manufactur-ing activity grew in June, though at a slower pace than in May. “Markets saw this as a positive,” said CMC Markets in a report.
Taiwan’s Taiex added 1.1 percent to 9,545.96 and Seoul’s Kospi rose 0.7 percent to 2,013.29. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.2 percent to 5,439.60. Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand also rose.
On Tuesday, Britain’s FTSE 100 and France’s CAC 40 both rose 0.9 percent. Germany’s DAX advanced 0.7 percent.
Shares in BNP Paribas, France’s big-gest bank, rose 3.6 percent after it said would be able to pay a nearly $9 billion U.S. fine for violating a ban on handling transactions for clients in Sudan, Cuba and Iran. The United States is trying to block them from participation in the global financial system.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.8 percent to close Tuesday at 16,956.07. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 0.7 per-cent to 1,973.32.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude for August delivery added 7 cents to $105.41 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract shed 3 cents on Tuesday to close at $105.34.
In currencies, the dollar rose to 101.62 yen from 101.50 yen late Tuesday. The euro slipped to $1.3680 from $1.3682.
Asian stocks mostly higher on US, China growth
Associated Press
BEIJING — Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday on im-proved U.S. and Chinese economic activity. The regional heavyweight, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225, gained 0.5 percent to 15,406.03 points. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 1 percent to 23,409.33 and Taipei, Seoul and Sydney also gained. China’s bench-mark Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.2 percent at 2,046.25.
A view shows the casino onboard the ‘Rhapsody of the Seas’, upon her arrival in Hong Kong, in this January 15,
2008 file picture. Australia is emerging as the latest hotspot for casino operators as they look to attract Asia’s high roll-ers to the gaming tables as well as its pristine beaches and
popular centres like the Great Barrier Reef.
Australia emerging as new casino hotspotREUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Pertamina predicted the needs of subsidized fuel for land transpor-tation would begin to experience a signifi-cant increase seven days before and after holiday. As anticipation against the surge in consumption, Pertamina would prepare additional stock of Premium as much as 15 percent of the normal monthly con-sumption, or about 515,200 KL of normal consumption at 448,000 KL per month.
GM of Marketing Operation for Region V, Giri Santoso, said that in the face of Ramadan and the Eid 1435 H, Pertamina of Marketing Operation for Region V (MOR V) took preparatory measures to anticipate the increase in fuel consumption in the region of East Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara.
“For diesel fuel, we will prepare the distribution in accordance with normal needs considering that in previous years the diesel fuel consumption decreased in relation to the prohibition of heavy ve-hicles operating before and after the Eid,” said Giri Santoso, Tuesday (Jul 1).
He said that in addition to adding stock, the petrol stations located at strategic path of homecoming and backflows would be instructed to open for 24 hours and all the
petrol stations were required to maintain the stock resilience especially seven days before and after holiday.
“To anticipate the delay of delivery due to traffic congestion, we also set up 8 units of retail outlets spreading across the northern coast path, southern line and central line bustlingly passed through during homecoming and backflow period,” said Giri Santoso accompanied by Assistant Manager for External Relations of MOR V, Heppy Wulansari.
In addition to the reliability of supply to subsidized fuel (Premium and Diesel), Pertamina had also increased its sales outlet for special non-subsidized fuels (Pertamax, Pertamax Plus and Pertamina Dex) at petrol stations in the region of MOR V.
“It has been noted that from a total of 1,135 petrol stations in the region of MOR V, 647 of which have already been providing non-subsidized fuel products,” he said.
As an effort to provide the best fuel and non-fuel services, Giri Santoso expected the active participation of community, especially in case of obstacles and barriers happened to the distribution of fuel and non-fuel, chiefly in the area of East Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara. (kmb27)
To observe closely the imple-mentation in the field, the Agency of Drug and Food Control (BBPOM) of Bali came down to the field by performing an inspection. The Head of BBPOM Bali, Endang Widowati, described the surveil-lance was carried out on Tuesday (Jun 24). The surveillance targeted importers, distributors and retailers in Denpasar. As a result, of the 197 items found, in fact 170 items had not included the PHW and still used the old warning containing text only. “Only 24 items have included the PHW,” said Endang.
According to Endang, the items that were not yet putting the PHW had not been given any sanction, where the penalty for manufacturers that did not include the PHW was five-year imprisonment and a fine of IDR 500 million. “For the time be-
ing, they are only given a reprimand, while the items having not included the PHW should be exchanged to the manufacturer,” said Endang.
Inclusion of the PHW itself was issued in the hope of diminishing the number of smokers in Indone-sia. The PHW consisted of images regarding the effects of smoking on health. There were five types of images included, namely the im-age of oral cancer, lung cancer and chronic bronchitis, throat cancer, an image of cigarette being hazardous for children and an image with the words saying that ‘smoking kills.’ Other than the PHW, Endang further added that cigarette pack should include health information in the form of tar and nicotine content. The BBPOM Bali had socialized the issue in advance before the issuance of the new regulation. (san)
IBP/Wira SanjiwaniInclusion of the PHW itself was issued in the hope of diminishing the number of smokers in Indonesia. The PHW consisted of images regarding the effects of smoking on health.
In Denpasar, 170 items of cigarettes do not put PHWBali Post
DENPASAR - The inclusion of health warnings or Pictorial Health Warning (PHW) has been officially effected as of June 24, 2014. The warning is in accordance with the Government Regulation No.109/2012 on the Safekeeping of Ingredients Containing Addictive Substances in Tobacco Product for Health. With the regulation, all products such as cigarettes should include health warnings in the form of images.
Pertamina predicted the needs of subsidized fuel for land transportation would begin to
experience a significant increase seven days before and after holiday.
Pertamina prepares 515,200 KL of subsidized fuel
ANTARA FOTO/Muhammad Adimaja
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The company’s Indonesian unit said it was seeking a ruling at the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Invest-ment Disputes that would allow it to resume exports.
Southeast Asia’s top economy introduced a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals, and higher taxes on others that can still be shipped out of the country,
AntaraJAYAPURA - The Military
Regional Command XVII Cendera-wasih of Papua will provide a metal detector to the personnel securing the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border gate in Skouw Jayapura, Papua.
The Cendrawasih Military Com-
mander Mayor General Christian Zebua informed Antara here on Wednesday that the Indonesian Military is ready to provide the detector, which will be used at the border gate.
Zebua added that the detector will be handed over to the Battalion 632 that secures the border. The
TNI will also train several soldiers from the battalion to operate the detector.
He hoped that the device can detect illegal smuggling of am-munition and weapons that contain metal.
“The detector will assist in the inspection of weapons and ammuni-
tion through the legal process at the border gate,” Zebua emphasized.
According to the commander, the Indonesian Military and Police are working in tandem to prevent the smuggling of weapons to the Papua region, particularly to areas, which are prone to armed rebel groups.
“We hope that the detector can prevent the smuggling of weapons by civilians as its effects can be very dangerous,” Zebua added.
The commander has inspected the readiness of the soldiers re-sponsible for maintaining security in the upcoming election scheduled on July 9, 2014.
AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia will achieve and even surpass its foreign
tourist arrival target at 9.5 million this year, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said.
“What we have achieved in the January-May 2014 period has in-dicated that the target of 9.3-9.5 million foreign tourist arrivals will be achieved and even exceeded,” the minister said on Tuesday.
She said the increase in foreign tourist arrivals over the last five months this year was beyond the target. The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has revealed that the number of foreign tourists to Indonesia last May had reached 752,363.
So, on the whole, the number of foreign tourists in the last five months (January-May) had reached 3.7 million or up by 9.96 percent compared with that in the same period last year, which was 3.364 million.
“During the first five months of 2014, the increase in foreign tourists had almost reached 10 percent, or above the target of 6-8 percent,” the minister said.
AP Photo/Heri Juanda
Sharia police officers stand guard outside restaurants and coffee shops that open their business for non-Muslims only to prevent Muslims from visiting, during the third day of Ramadan in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn till dusk.
Newmont moves against Indonesia in ore export rowAgence France-Presse
JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont said Tuesday it has filed for international arbitration against Jakarta over a controversial mineral ore export ban that has forced it to halt production at its Indonesian mine.
in January.It is one of a raft of economic
policies that critics have dubbed “resource nationalism”, and which are pushed by politicians who ar-gue that Indonesia is losing out by allowing foreign firms easy access to lucrative industries.
Copper concentrate, a partially processed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US
peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the com-panies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments.
But Newmont refused, saying that the levies conflict with its original agreements to operate in Indonesia and it has not exported since the ban came into force.
Last month it ceased produc-tion at its huge Batu Hijau copper
and gold mine in central Indonesia after its stores filled up, declared “force majeure” to avoid penal-ties on missed deliveries, and sent thousands of workers on temporary leave.
In its latest move in the escalat-ing row with the government, the head of Newmont’s Indonesian unit, Martiono Hadianto, an-nounced the company was “left with no option but to seek relief through international arbitra-tion”.
Newmont said the action was being taken by its Indonesian unit and its majority shareholder, a Dutch entity, as Jakarta’s ban also breached existing investment
agreements between Indonesia and the Netherlands.
R. Sukhyar, a senior energy ministry official, said Newmont had informed the government about the move.
“We regretted it because New-mont has been operating in Indone-sia for a long time,” he said.
Bill Sullivan, an expert on legal and regulatory issues in the Indo-nesian mining sector, warned that the strategy might backfire.
“No Indonesian government... is going to want to be seen to be backing down on the export re-strictions in the face of overt pres-sure from a foreign-owned mining company,” he told AFP.
TNI to provide metal detector for RI-PNG border gate
Indonesia to achieve 9.5 million foreign
tourist targetAt least four people were injured Tuesday
evening in Mandalay, mostly from stones thrown by the mob or from rubber bullets fired by po-lice, said Khin Maung Oo, secretary of the city’s Myanmar Muslim Youth Religious Convention Center.
Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation, has been grappling with sectarian violence since 2012 that has left up to 280 people dead and another 140,000 left homeless, most of them Muslims attacked by extremist Buddhists.
The violence in Mandalay, in central Myan-mar, followed rumors that the Muslim owner of a teashop had raped a Buddhist woman, said Khin Maung Oo. Police did not immediately confirm or deny the alleged rape but said they were tipped off that the teashop might be attacked and told the owner to close early.
Authorities deployed hundreds of police after a crowd of more than 300 Buddhists marched to the teashop, singing the national anthem, according to Khin Maung Oo and several residents. Police fired rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowd, which scattered into groups that held cat-and-mouse chases with police for several hours.
Rioters threw stones at a mosque, causing minor damage to its exterior and front doors, and others ransacked a few Muslim-owned shops, said Khin Maung Oo. Several cars were set on fire or had windows shattered by stones and bricks.
Myanmar emerged from a half-century of mili-tary rule in 2011, but its transition to democracy has been marred by the sectarian violence. Mus-lims account for about 4 percent of Myanmar’s roughly 60 million people.
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Four people were killed when a cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff at the international airport in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, a police official said Wednesday.
The Fokker 50 aircraft transporting the mild stimulant known as Khat to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, crashed into a residential building after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport early Wednesday, said Joseph Ngisa, the airport’s head of police investigations.
Preliminary investigations found the plane was flying low after takeoff and might have hit an electrical pole before crashing in the Embakasi area of the city, Ngisa said. No other details were immediately available on the possible cause of the crash.
The Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said on Twitter that all the victims were male, and they included the flight engineer as well the pilot and two crew members.
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli police who responded with tear gas in clashes that erupted Wednesday following reports that an Arab teen was kidnapped and a body found in a Jerusalem forest.
Police have not determined whether the reported incidents are related or what motive may have been behind them. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged authorities to swiftly investigate the “reprehensible murder” and called on all sides “not to take the law into their own hands.”
Tensions have mounted between Israel and the Palestinians after the bodies of three Israeli teens were found in the West Bank more than two weeks after they went missing.
Israel has accused Hamas of abducting and killing the three teens, and has arrested hundreds of its members across the West Bank. Rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has meanwhile intensified, and been met with Israeli air strikes.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police received a report early Wednesday that an Arab teen was “forcibly pulled into a vehicle” in an area of east Jerusalem and that an hour later a body was discovered in a separate part of the city.
He said security was heightened in Jerusalem, with extra units dispatched and the city’s light rail train service cut short to avoid the scene of the violence. Police also closed a key holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City to visitors after rock throwing there.
Israeli officials urged calm as police investigated the incidents, hoping to contain the violence.
“Everything is being examined. There are many possibilities. There is a crimi-nal possibility as well as a political one,” Israel’s public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, told Israel Radio. “I am telling everyone, let us wait patiently.”
Clashes in Jerusalem after body found
AP Photo/Khalil Senosi
The wreckage of the Fokker 50 cargo plane after it crashed into a building on take-off at Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.
4 dead after cargo plane crashes in Kenya capital
REUTERS/Stringer
Chief Superintendent Zaw Min Oo talks to the media during a news conference about riots in Mandalay July 2, 2014.
Police fire shots to stop Buddhist mob in MyanmarAssociated Press
YANGON, Myanmar — Police fired warning shots to stop a Buddhist mob that damaged a mosque and tried to set fire to several Muslim-owned shops in Myanmar’s second-largest city, authorities said Wednesday.
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It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic loca-tion, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attraction has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appro-priate for diving and snorkeling because it is rich in various kinds of coral reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex.
In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrimage to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest having a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan. IBP/File Photo
Padangbai BeachIBP
AMLAPURA - Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padangbai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay.
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LONDON - Rafael Nadal’s days of living dangerously at Wimble-don were finally ended on Tuesday by a 144th-ranked teenage tyro who came armed with an inexhaustible supply of aces and wonder-shots. For the fourth match in a row at this year’s grasscourt champion-ships, the Spaniard surrendered the first set. However, unlike Martin Klizan, Lukas Rosol and Mikhail Kukushkin, 19-year-old Australian wildcard Nick Kyrgios proved to be no pushover and Nadal ran out of Wimbledon lives as he went down fighting in a 7-6(5) 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3 fourth-round defeat.
Kyrgios fired down 37 aces and played a fearless brand of tennis to topple the world number one following two hours 58 minutes of exhilarating action. It was the first time since 1992 a man ranked outside the top 100 had beaten a world number one. “It hasn’t sunk in at all what just played out there. I played some extraordinary ten-nis,” said Kyrgios who is enjoying a remarkable run at these champi-onships having saved nine match points in his third-round win over Richard Gasquet.
“You’ve got to believe that you can win the match from the start and I definitely thought that. I am playing some unbelievable tennis on the grass,” he told reporters.
“My mind’s buzzing ... I’m just going to enjoy this.” Kyrgios cer-tainly had the crowd buzzing after causing the biggest shock of this year’s men’s tournament by bring-ing the 2008 and 2010 champion to his knees.
He opened with an ace, won the first set with an ace and sealed victory with an ace. While Na-dal might have been fed up with the number of thunderbolts that whistled past his ears, those lucky to watch the Australian come of age will know that he is not simply an ace machine.
JAW-DROPPING SIZZLERS
After dropping only four points on serve in the first set, Kyrgios had 15,000 fans leaping to their feet as he followed up jaw-dropping cross-court sizzlers with breathtaking down-the-line winners. As if that was not enough, he irked Nadal by producing perhaps the shot of the tournament. Facing the net near the baseline, he whipped his racket around his back and nonchalantly flicked a shot between his legs that flew over the net for an audacious winner.
The teenager loved it, the crowd loved it, Nadal hated it. The 14-times grand slam champion’s day was unravelling fast and despite winning the second set he was left gasping as Kyrgios kept on believ-
ing that he could make his debut outing on Wimbledon’s Centre Court a day to remember.
A forehand error gave Kyrgios a break for a 3-1 lead in the fourth set and from then on the Spaniard was left chasing shadows and at 7.09pm local time, his hopes of a third Wimbledon crown had been snuffed out. While one champion was exiting stage left, John McEn-roe was hailing the arrival of a man he thinks can go all the way.
“We’ve been waiting for this for a while. We keep saying ‘who is the next guy?’, and I think we’ve found that guy right now,” said the former three-times champion.
“That was absolutely stunning, to see what he did to the world number one today. How did he keep that up? He absolutely be-lieved that he was going to win that match. “He’s acting to me like he could win this tournament. The last guy I saw like this was Boris Becker - young teenager, no fear whatsoever,” added the American great. Those were the same traits Nadal showed the world in 2005 when he won the first of his record nine French Open trophies as a 19-year-old.
Almost a decade later the pas-sion still runs deep in the Mal-lorcan. “I fought until the very end,” said Nadal whose last three Wimbledons have ended in the second, first and fourth round.
Associated Press Writer
MILAN — Formula One may say goodbye to one of its most historic tracks at Monza, according to boss Bernie Ecclestone. Monza’s current deal was agreed to in 2010 and Ecclestone said he believes it is unlikely to be renewed when it runs out at the end of 2016.
“Its future isn’t good,” Ecclestone said in an interview published by the Italian daily Gazzetta dello Sport on Tuesday. “I don’t think we’ll do another contract, the old one was a disaster for us from a commercial point of view. After 2016, bye bye...”
Monza, which first hosted an F1 race in 1922, is one of the most famous and beloved tracks on the circuit. Every Italian Grand Prix since 1950 has been held at the track except the 1980 race, which was held at Imola.
“Ecclestone’s comments on the Monza Grand Prix are worrying,” said Antonio Rossi of the Department of Sport and Youth Policy in the Lombardy Region. “As regional councilor I ask for the government to help us protect the Italian Grand Prix, which has played an important part in the history of Formula One and which, above all, plays an important economic role and brings jobs to the region.”
If Monza is dropped by F1, the Italian Grand Prix could be held at Mugello, a proposal that has been mooted by Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo. Ferrari owns the circuit.
Italy could also lose its race altogether due to the sport’s dwindling fan base in the country following numerous disappointing seasons for Ferrari.
“TV audiences are lower in Italy than elsewhere,” Ecclestone said. “If Ferrari starts placing first or second in qualifying and races ... the audi-ences would increase everywhere. Ferrari is a worldwide passion.”
Ecclestone: Monza could be dropped from F1
AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson,PoolFormula One boss Bernie Ecclestone waits in the court in Munich , southern Germany, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts to defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain in their men’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London July 1, 2014.
Nadal sent packing by Aussie ace machine Kyrgios
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Despite scoring key goals in World Cup qualifying, Lukaku had a disap-pointing start in the group matches and was dropped from the starting lineup. “The media tried to take Romelu down after the first round, but I was convinced that he would still be able to make the difference at this World Cup,” Belgian coach Marc Wilmots said after his team secured a spot in the quarterfinals.
Wilmots was the one who went looking for an alternative to Lukaku. He brought in the 19-year-old Divock Origi, who scored the winner against Russia and provided the shot which
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SAO PAULO - Argentina needed an extra-time goal to
overcome Switzerland in a nail-biting World Cup match on Tues-day but coach Alejandro Sabella congratulated his team on their tactical discipline and declared the win “well-deserved.”
Angel Di Maria scored in the 118th minute to send Argentina through to a quarter-final against Belgium or the United States. “It was a game that we deserved to win in 90 minutes,” Sabella told reporters.
“It was even during a first half in which they had two clear chances to score, but in the second half we were clear-ly superior, we had five or six shots at goal and in extra time
we also had more chances.”It was a fraught match which
neither side was able to domi-nate, with Switzerland defending intelligently and shackling Ar-gentine talisman Lionel Messi.
When Messi finally got some space to run at the Swiss defence he laid a perfect pass into the path of Di Maria who neatly stroked the ball home from just inside the box.
“Just a few minutes before the end there was this pass from the midfield to Messi and he was in a very advantageous position and a player like him getting the ball in an advantageous posi-tion can cause a lot of harm,” Sabella said. “And there you go, he found Di Maria.
“It would seem he was run-ning more and more (and) the more time went by the more he was on the attack. So we brought two players together and that’s how we came up with
the goal.”Sabella said discipline was
a crucial factor and singled out two unsung heroes for their in-dividual performances.
“Marcos Rojo had a wonder-ful match once again, a player that was highly debated,” the coach said.
Goalkeeper Sergio “Rome-ro played a wonderful match, people talked about him as well so I congratulate everyone who played in our team because of the effort they made.
“They never lost their bal-ance and this is really important in these matches because that anxiety in wishing to win (can) lead you to open up spaces for the opponent.”
One downside though was that Rojo got his second yellow card of the tournament and will miss the quarter-final.
Associated Press Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO — It was all long faces, but heads held high, for the le-gion of Ameri-can fans who traveled to Brazil for the World Cup, only to watch their team lose 2-1 to Belgium in extra time. Upward of 20,000 people, mostly Americans, packed the golden sands of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in front of a giant TV screen set up in the FIFA Fan Fest watch area in Rio.
Fans stood and cheered the entire time, packed tightly and with barely any wiggle room to get through the crowd. Like many fans, Travis Rood, a 28-year-old from Seattle, his face
painted red, white and blue and an
American flag draped around his shoulder,
started to leave the beach after Belgium went up 2-0.
But Rood froze in his tracks and turned around after
the U.S. scored a late goal to spark hope that ultimately faded with the final whistle. “This World Cup was a turning point for us,” he said. “People around the world are begin-ning to respect us as a team.”
A common refrain, Rood said there was no shame in losing to the young, talented Belgian team, who now move on to a tough quarter-final match with Argentina. “They’re a small country but on paper,” he said of Belgium. “But they’re twice as good as we are at soccer.”
At a pub in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, it got so packed people were sitting on the floor to watch the match. They shouted every time U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard made a spectacular save — which he did 16 times.
Many of the American faithful in Sao Paulo were shouting the U.S. chant of “I believe that we will win” throughout the game. Some added emphatically “We love you!” for their team. But in the end, most acknowl-edged that Belgium played a much better game, saying the U.S. waited too long to go on the attack.
“Belgium just played much better. They deserve it,” said Nick Venditti, a 26-year-old from New York. “I am still happy we made it out of the ‘group of death.’ That wasn’t easy.” He added, hopefully: “In the next four years, we will be so much better.”
Associated Press Writer
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Brazil has been closing its training sessions to fans, but some of the country’s top celebrities have had no problem getting close to the players.
Two soap opera stars were among those allowed to watch the team practice Tuesday. Juliana Paes and Carolina Dieckman even took their kids to the training camp in Teresopolis, a mountain city about an hour from Rio de Janeiro. Both posted photos of their afternoon escapade on social media.
Fans with links to the team’s sponsors are also allowed at the training camp, which has an area reserved for the VIPs just outside one of the fields where Brazil practices.
Regular fans are kept outside the gates of the Granja Comary club, often yelling and asking coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to let them in. Hundreds of people show up every day to try to get near the players.
Brazil will stay at the training camp at least until Wednesday, when it travels to the northeastern city of Fortaleza for Friday’s match against Colombia in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
Celebs welcome at Brazil training
Long faces, but chins up for USA fans in Brazil
AP Photo/Nelson Antoine
United States soccer fans with camouflage on thier faces watch the World Cup round of 16 match between Belgium and United States inside the FIFA Fan Fest area during the 2014 soccer World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Argentina’s head coach Alejandro Sabella scratches his head during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Ar-gentina and Switzerland at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
Argentina deserved to win, says coach Sabella
Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku cel-ebrates after scoring his side’s
second goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer
match between Belgium and the USA at the
Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador,
Brazil, Tues-day, July 1,
2014.
Lukaku key in Belgium’s 2-1 victory against USAssociated Press Writer
SALVADOR, Brazil — Romelu Lukaku had a point to prove at the World Cup. After Belgium missed countless chances during the 90 minutes of regulation time in the second-round match against the United States on Tuesday, the powerful striker came off the bench and soon set up the opening goal for Kevin De Bruyne. As the U.S. pressed for an equalizer, De Bruyne swiftly returned the favor to Lukaku, who made it 2-0.
allowed Jan Vertonghen to tap in the winner against South Korea.
Origi started against the United States, but missed several scoring chances before he was replaced by Lukaku.
“I realized I should not put too much pressure on myself and just do everything needed to make the team win,” Lukaku said. “And it makes me so happy that this is the way it went today.” “When the other teams tire, we switch into a higher gear,” he added. “It is looking good for the future.” Lukaku, 21, has had to deal with disap-point before and it hardened him for
his World Cup experience.He was a teenage standout at
Anderlecht with his speed and bulk and was quickly spotted by foreign scouts. At 18, he joined the team of his boyhood dreams, Chelsea, but things quickly turned sour in London. He failed to get much playing time and was quickly sent on to West Bromwich Albion.
At first, he proved he could rally from disappointment and thrived in the industrial midlands, scoring 17 goals. He briefly returned to Chelsea early last season, long enough to miss the decisive penalty in the UEFA Super
Cup against Bayern Munich, now run by coach Jose Mourinho’s nemesis Pep Guardiola.
But soon Lukaku was on his way for an-other loan spell, this time at Everton, where again he rebounded to start scoring freely.
AP Photo/Andre Penner
Brazil’s Hernanes, center, practices during a training
session at the Gran-ja Comary training
center in Teresopo-lis, Brazil, Tuesday,
July 1, 2014.
AP Photo/Julio Cortez
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Despite scoring key goals in World Cup qualifying, Lukaku had a disap-pointing start in the group matches and was dropped from the starting lineup. “The media tried to take Romelu down after the first round, but I was convinced that he would still be able to make the difference at this World Cup,” Belgian coach Marc Wilmots said after his team secured a spot in the quarterfinals.
Wilmots was the one who went looking for an alternative to Lukaku. He brought in the 19-year-old Divock Origi, who scored the winner against Russia and provided the shot which
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SAO PAULO - Argentina needed an extra-time goal to
overcome Switzerland in a nail-biting World Cup match on Tues-day but coach Alejandro Sabella congratulated his team on their tactical discipline and declared the win “well-deserved.”
Angel Di Maria scored in the 118th minute to send Argentina through to a quarter-final against Belgium or the United States. “It was a game that we deserved to win in 90 minutes,” Sabella told reporters.
“It was even during a first half in which they had two clear chances to score, but in the second half we were clear-ly superior, we had five or six shots at goal and in extra time
we also had more chances.”It was a fraught match which
neither side was able to domi-nate, with Switzerland defending intelligently and shackling Ar-gentine talisman Lionel Messi.
When Messi finally got some space to run at the Swiss defence he laid a perfect pass into the path of Di Maria who neatly stroked the ball home from just inside the box.
“Just a few minutes before the end there was this pass from the midfield to Messi and he was in a very advantageous position and a player like him getting the ball in an advantageous posi-tion can cause a lot of harm,” Sabella said. “And there you go, he found Di Maria.
“It would seem he was run-ning more and more (and) the more time went by the more he was on the attack. So we brought two players together and that’s how we came up with
the goal.”Sabella said discipline was
a crucial factor and singled out two unsung heroes for their in-dividual performances.
“Marcos Rojo had a wonder-ful match once again, a player that was highly debated,” the coach said.
Goalkeeper Sergio “Rome-ro played a wonderful match, people talked about him as well so I congratulate everyone who played in our team because of the effort they made.
“They never lost their bal-ance and this is really important in these matches because that anxiety in wishing to win (can) lead you to open up spaces for the opponent.”
One downside though was that Rojo got his second yellow card of the tournament and will miss the quarter-final.
Associated Press Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO — It was all long faces, but heads held high, for the le-gion of Ameri-can fans who traveled to Brazil for the World Cup, only to watch their team lose 2-1 to Belgium in extra time. Upward of 20,000 people, mostly Americans, packed the golden sands of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in front of a giant TV screen set up in the FIFA Fan Fest watch area in Rio.
Fans stood and cheered the entire time, packed tightly and with barely any wiggle room to get through the crowd. Like many fans, Travis Rood, a 28-year-old from Seattle, his face
painted red, white and blue and an
American flag draped around his shoulder,
started to leave the beach after Belgium went up 2-0.
But Rood froze in his tracks and turned around after
the U.S. scored a late goal to spark hope that ultimately faded with the final whistle. “This World Cup was a turning point for us,” he said. “People around the world are begin-ning to respect us as a team.”
A common refrain, Rood said there was no shame in losing to the young, talented Belgian team, who now move on to a tough quarter-final match with Argentina. “They’re a small country but on paper,” he said of Belgium. “But they’re twice as good as we are at soccer.”
At a pub in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, it got so packed people were sitting on the floor to watch the match. They shouted every time U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard made a spectacular save — which he did 16 times.
Many of the American faithful in Sao Paulo were shouting the U.S. chant of “I believe that we will win” throughout the game. Some added emphatically “We love you!” for their team. But in the end, most acknowl-edged that Belgium played a much better game, saying the U.S. waited too long to go on the attack.
“Belgium just played much better. They deserve it,” said Nick Venditti, a 26-year-old from New York. “I am still happy we made it out of the ‘group of death.’ That wasn’t easy.” He added, hopefully: “In the next four years, we will be so much better.”
Associated Press Writer
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Brazil has been closing its training sessions to fans, but some of the country’s top celebrities have had no problem getting close to the players.
Two soap opera stars were among those allowed to watch the team practice Tuesday. Juliana Paes and Carolina Dieckman even took their kids to the training camp in Teresopolis, a mountain city about an hour from Rio de Janeiro. Both posted photos of their afternoon escapade on social media.
Fans with links to the team’s sponsors are also allowed at the training camp, which has an area reserved for the VIPs just outside one of the fields where Brazil practices.
Regular fans are kept outside the gates of the Granja Comary club, often yelling and asking coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to let them in. Hundreds of people show up every day to try to get near the players.
Brazil will stay at the training camp at least until Wednesday, when it travels to the northeastern city of Fortaleza for Friday’s match against Colombia in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
Celebs welcome at Brazil training
Long faces, but chins up for USA fans in Brazil
AP Photo/Nelson Antoine
United States soccer fans with camouflage on thier faces watch the World Cup round of 16 match between Belgium and United States inside the FIFA Fan Fest area during the 2014 soccer World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Argentina’s head coach Alejandro Sabella scratches his head during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Ar-gentina and Switzerland at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
Argentina deserved to win, says coach Sabella
Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku cel-ebrates after scoring his side’s
second goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer
match between Belgium and the USA at the
Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador,
Brazil, Tues-day, July 1,
2014.
Lukaku key in Belgium’s 2-1 victory against USAssociated Press Writer
SALVADOR, Brazil — Romelu Lukaku had a point to prove at the World Cup. After Belgium missed countless chances during the 90 minutes of regulation time in the second-round match against the United States on Tuesday, the powerful striker came off the bench and soon set up the opening goal for Kevin De Bruyne. As the U.S. pressed for an equalizer, De Bruyne swiftly returned the favor to Lukaku, who made it 2-0.
allowed Jan Vertonghen to tap in the winner against South Korea.
Origi started against the United States, but missed several scoring chances before he was replaced by Lukaku.
“I realized I should not put too much pressure on myself and just do everything needed to make the team win,” Lukaku said. “And it makes me so happy that this is the way it went today.” “When the other teams tire, we switch into a higher gear,” he added. “It is looking good for the future.” Lukaku, 21, has had to deal with disap-point before and it hardened him for
his World Cup experience.He was a teenage standout at
Anderlecht with his speed and bulk and was quickly spotted by foreign scouts. At 18, he joined the team of his boyhood dreams, Chelsea, but things quickly turned sour in London. He failed to get much playing time and was quickly sent on to West Bromwich Albion.
At first, he proved he could rally from disappointment and thrived in the industrial midlands, scoring 17 goals. He briefly returned to Chelsea early last season, long enough to miss the decisive penalty in the UEFA Super
Cup against Bayern Munich, now run by coach Jose Mourinho’s nemesis Pep Guardiola.
But soon Lukaku was on his way for an-other loan spell, this time at Everton, where again he rebounded to start scoring freely.
AP Photo/Andre Penner
Brazil’s Hernanes, center, practices during a training
session at the Gran-ja Comary training
center in Teresopo-lis, Brazil, Tuesday,
July 1, 2014.
AP Photo/Julio Cortez
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It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic loca-tion, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attraction has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appro-priate for diving and snorkeling because it is rich in various kinds of coral reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex.
In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrimage to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest having a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan. IBP/File Photo
Padangbai BeachIBP
AMLAPURA - Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padangbai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay.
Reuters
LONDON - Rafael Nadal’s days of living dangerously at Wimble-don were finally ended on Tuesday by a 144th-ranked teenage tyro who came armed with an inexhaustible supply of aces and wonder-shots. For the fourth match in a row at this year’s grasscourt champion-ships, the Spaniard surrendered the first set. However, unlike Martin Klizan, Lukas Rosol and Mikhail Kukushkin, 19-year-old Australian wildcard Nick Kyrgios proved to be no pushover and Nadal ran out of Wimbledon lives as he went down fighting in a 7-6(5) 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3 fourth-round defeat.
Kyrgios fired down 37 aces and played a fearless brand of tennis to topple the world number one following two hours 58 minutes of exhilarating action. It was the first time since 1992 a man ranked outside the top 100 had beaten a world number one. “It hasn’t sunk in at all what just played out there. I played some extraordinary ten-nis,” said Kyrgios who is enjoying a remarkable run at these champi-onships having saved nine match points in his third-round win over Richard Gasquet.
“You’ve got to believe that you can win the match from the start and I definitely thought that. I am playing some unbelievable tennis on the grass,” he told reporters.
“My mind’s buzzing ... I’m just going to enjoy this.” Kyrgios cer-tainly had the crowd buzzing after causing the biggest shock of this year’s men’s tournament by bring-ing the 2008 and 2010 champion to his knees.
He opened with an ace, won the first set with an ace and sealed victory with an ace. While Na-dal might have been fed up with the number of thunderbolts that whistled past his ears, those lucky to watch the Australian come of age will know that he is not simply an ace machine.
JAW-DROPPING SIZZLERS
After dropping only four points on serve in the first set, Kyrgios had 15,000 fans leaping to their feet as he followed up jaw-dropping cross-court sizzlers with breathtaking down-the-line winners. As if that was not enough, he irked Nadal by producing perhaps the shot of the tournament. Facing the net near the baseline, he whipped his racket around his back and nonchalantly flicked a shot between his legs that flew over the net for an audacious winner.
The teenager loved it, the crowd loved it, Nadal hated it. The 14-times grand slam champion’s day was unravelling fast and despite winning the second set he was left gasping as Kyrgios kept on believ-
ing that he could make his debut outing on Wimbledon’s Centre Court a day to remember.
A forehand error gave Kyrgios a break for a 3-1 lead in the fourth set and from then on the Spaniard was left chasing shadows and at 7.09pm local time, his hopes of a third Wimbledon crown had been snuffed out. While one champion was exiting stage left, John McEn-roe was hailing the arrival of a man he thinks can go all the way.
“We’ve been waiting for this for a while. We keep saying ‘who is the next guy?’, and I think we’ve found that guy right now,” said the former three-times champion.
“That was absolutely stunning, to see what he did to the world number one today. How did he keep that up? He absolutely be-lieved that he was going to win that match. “He’s acting to me like he could win this tournament. The last guy I saw like this was Boris Becker - young teenager, no fear whatsoever,” added the American great. Those were the same traits Nadal showed the world in 2005 when he won the first of his record nine French Open trophies as a 19-year-old.
Almost a decade later the pas-sion still runs deep in the Mal-lorcan. “I fought until the very end,” said Nadal whose last three Wimbledons have ended in the second, first and fourth round.
Associated Press Writer
MILAN — Formula One may say goodbye to one of its most historic tracks at Monza, according to boss Bernie Ecclestone. Monza’s current deal was agreed to in 2010 and Ecclestone said he believes it is unlikely to be renewed when it runs out at the end of 2016.
“Its future isn’t good,” Ecclestone said in an interview published by the Italian daily Gazzetta dello Sport on Tuesday. “I don’t think we’ll do another contract, the old one was a disaster for us from a commercial point of view. After 2016, bye bye...”
Monza, which first hosted an F1 race in 1922, is one of the most famous and beloved tracks on the circuit. Every Italian Grand Prix since 1950 has been held at the track except the 1980 race, which was held at Imola.
“Ecclestone’s comments on the Monza Grand Prix are worrying,” said Antonio Rossi of the Department of Sport and Youth Policy in the Lombardy Region. “As regional councilor I ask for the government to help us protect the Italian Grand Prix, which has played an important part in the history of Formula One and which, above all, plays an important economic role and brings jobs to the region.”
If Monza is dropped by F1, the Italian Grand Prix could be held at Mugello, a proposal that has been mooted by Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo. Ferrari owns the circuit.
Italy could also lose its race altogether due to the sport’s dwindling fan base in the country following numerous disappointing seasons for Ferrari.
“TV audiences are lower in Italy than elsewhere,” Ecclestone said. “If Ferrari starts placing first or second in qualifying and races ... the audi-ences would increase everywhere. Ferrari is a worldwide passion.”
Ecclestone: Monza could be dropped from F1
AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson,PoolFormula One boss Bernie Ecclestone waits in the court in Munich , southern Germany, Tuesday, July 1, 2014.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts to defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain in their men’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London July 1, 2014.
Nadal sent packing by Aussie ace machine Kyrgios
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The company’s Indonesian unit said it was seeking a ruling at the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Invest-ment Disputes that would allow it to resume exports.
Southeast Asia’s top economy introduced a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals, and higher taxes on others that can still be shipped out of the country,
AntaraJAYAPURA - The Military
Regional Command XVII Cendera-wasih of Papua will provide a metal detector to the personnel securing the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border gate in Skouw Jayapura, Papua.
The Cendrawasih Military Com-
mander Mayor General Christian Zebua informed Antara here on Wednesday that the Indonesian Military is ready to provide the detector, which will be used at the border gate.
Zebua added that the detector will be handed over to the Battalion 632 that secures the border. The
TNI will also train several soldiers from the battalion to operate the detector.
He hoped that the device can detect illegal smuggling of am-munition and weapons that contain metal.
“The detector will assist in the inspection of weapons and ammuni-
tion through the legal process at the border gate,” Zebua emphasized.
According to the commander, the Indonesian Military and Police are working in tandem to prevent the smuggling of weapons to the Papua region, particularly to areas, which are prone to armed rebel groups.
“We hope that the detector can prevent the smuggling of weapons by civilians as its effects can be very dangerous,” Zebua added.
The commander has inspected the readiness of the soldiers re-sponsible for maintaining security in the upcoming election scheduled on July 9, 2014.
AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia will achieve and even surpass its foreign
tourist arrival target at 9.5 million this year, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said.
“What we have achieved in the January-May 2014 period has in-dicated that the target of 9.3-9.5 million foreign tourist arrivals will be achieved and even exceeded,” the minister said on Tuesday.
She said the increase in foreign tourist arrivals over the last five months this year was beyond the target. The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has revealed that the number of foreign tourists to Indonesia last May had reached 752,363.
So, on the whole, the number of foreign tourists in the last five months (January-May) had reached 3.7 million or up by 9.96 percent compared with that in the same period last year, which was 3.364 million.
“During the first five months of 2014, the increase in foreign tourists had almost reached 10 percent, or above the target of 6-8 percent,” the minister said.
AP Photo/Heri Juanda
Sharia police officers stand guard outside restaurants and coffee shops that open their business for non-Muslims only to prevent Muslims from visiting, during the third day of Ramadan in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn till dusk.
Newmont moves against Indonesia in ore export rowAgence France-Presse
JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont said Tuesday it has filed for international arbitration against Jakarta over a controversial mineral ore export ban that has forced it to halt production at its Indonesian mine.
in January.It is one of a raft of economic
policies that critics have dubbed “resource nationalism”, and which are pushed by politicians who ar-gue that Indonesia is losing out by allowing foreign firms easy access to lucrative industries.
Copper concentrate, a partially processed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US
peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the com-panies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments.
But Newmont refused, saying that the levies conflict with its original agreements to operate in Indonesia and it has not exported since the ban came into force.
Last month it ceased produc-tion at its huge Batu Hijau copper
and gold mine in central Indonesia after its stores filled up, declared “force majeure” to avoid penal-ties on missed deliveries, and sent thousands of workers on temporary leave.
In its latest move in the escalat-ing row with the government, the head of Newmont’s Indonesian unit, Martiono Hadianto, an-nounced the company was “left with no option but to seek relief through international arbitra-tion”.
Newmont said the action was being taken by its Indonesian unit and its majority shareholder, a Dutch entity, as Jakarta’s ban also breached existing investment
agreements between Indonesia and the Netherlands.
R. Sukhyar, a senior energy ministry official, said Newmont had informed the government about the move.
“We regretted it because New-mont has been operating in Indone-sia for a long time,” he said.
Bill Sullivan, an expert on legal and regulatory issues in the Indo-nesian mining sector, warned that the strategy might backfire.
“No Indonesian government... is going to want to be seen to be backing down on the export re-strictions in the face of overt pres-sure from a foreign-owned mining company,” he told AFP.
TNI to provide metal detector for RI-PNG border gate
Indonesia to achieve 9.5 million foreign
tourist targetAt least four people were injured Tuesday
evening in Mandalay, mostly from stones thrown by the mob or from rubber bullets fired by po-lice, said Khin Maung Oo, secretary of the city’s Myanmar Muslim Youth Religious Convention Center.
Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation, has been grappling with sectarian violence since 2012 that has left up to 280 people dead and another 140,000 left homeless, most of them Muslims attacked by extremist Buddhists.
The violence in Mandalay, in central Myan-mar, followed rumors that the Muslim owner of a teashop had raped a Buddhist woman, said Khin Maung Oo. Police did not immediately confirm or deny the alleged rape but said they were tipped off that the teashop might be attacked and told the owner to close early.
Authorities deployed hundreds of police after a crowd of more than 300 Buddhists marched to the teashop, singing the national anthem, according to Khin Maung Oo and several residents. Police fired rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowd, which scattered into groups that held cat-and-mouse chases with police for several hours.
Rioters threw stones at a mosque, causing minor damage to its exterior and front doors, and others ransacked a few Muslim-owned shops, said Khin Maung Oo. Several cars were set on fire or had windows shattered by stones and bricks.
Myanmar emerged from a half-century of mili-tary rule in 2011, but its transition to democracy has been marred by the sectarian violence. Mus-lims account for about 4 percent of Myanmar’s roughly 60 million people.
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Four people were killed when a cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff at the international airport in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, a police official said Wednesday.
The Fokker 50 aircraft transporting the mild stimulant known as Khat to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, crashed into a residential building after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport early Wednesday, said Joseph Ngisa, the airport’s head of police investigations.
Preliminary investigations found the plane was flying low after takeoff and might have hit an electrical pole before crashing in the Embakasi area of the city, Ngisa said. No other details were immediately available on the possible cause of the crash.
The Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said on Twitter that all the victims were male, and they included the flight engineer as well the pilot and two crew members.
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli police who responded with tear gas in clashes that erupted Wednesday following reports that an Arab teen was kidnapped and a body found in a Jerusalem forest.
Police have not determined whether the reported incidents are related or what motive may have been behind them. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged authorities to swiftly investigate the “reprehensible murder” and called on all sides “not to take the law into their own hands.”
Tensions have mounted between Israel and the Palestinians after the bodies of three Israeli teens were found in the West Bank more than two weeks after they went missing.
Israel has accused Hamas of abducting and killing the three teens, and has arrested hundreds of its members across the West Bank. Rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has meanwhile intensified, and been met with Israeli air strikes.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police received a report early Wednesday that an Arab teen was “forcibly pulled into a vehicle” in an area of east Jerusalem and that an hour later a body was discovered in a separate part of the city.
He said security was heightened in Jerusalem, with extra units dispatched and the city’s light rail train service cut short to avoid the scene of the violence. Police also closed a key holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City to visitors after rock throwing there.
Israeli officials urged calm as police investigated the incidents, hoping to contain the violence.
“Everything is being examined. There are many possibilities. There is a crimi-nal possibility as well as a political one,” Israel’s public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, told Israel Radio. “I am telling everyone, let us wait patiently.”
Clashes in Jerusalem after body found
AP Photo/Khalil Senosi
The wreckage of the Fokker 50 cargo plane after it crashed into a building on take-off at Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.
4 dead after cargo plane crashes in Kenya capital
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Chief Superintendent Zaw Min Oo talks to the media during a news conference about riots in Mandalay July 2, 2014.
Police fire shots to stop Buddhist mob in MyanmarAssociated Press
YANGON, Myanmar — Police fired warning shots to stop a Buddhist mob that damaged a mosque and tried to set fire to several Muslim-owned shops in Myanmar’s second-largest city, authorities said Wednesday.
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SYDNEY - Australia is emerging as the latest hotspot for casino operators as they look to attract Asia’s high rollers to the gaming tables as well as its pristine beaches and popular centres like the Great Barrier Reef.
With a mining boom slowing, the prospect of thousands of new jobs and billions in tourist dollars has convinced Queensland and New South Wales to back four new casinos, despite fears over their potential environmental and social impacts.
The resorts are at various stages of planning, with Queensland, already a popular destina-tion, the main focus of a charge spearheaded by Australian mogul James Packer and Hong Kong billionaire Tony Fung.
David Wiadrowski, head of Australian Enter-tainment and Media at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, said Asians culturally liked to gamble and the lat-est plans were a win-win for state governments.
“For governments, rightly or wrongly, these integrated resorts are an attractive proposition because they create employment opportunities and tax dollars, which they can then put back into the community,” he said.
But the big question was whether there was sufficient demand.
“It is a high-risk strategy, getting the occu-pancy in the resorts,” he said.
Australia already has more than a dozen casinos, although not on the same scale as the proposed projects.
In May, Fung won a gaming licence, condi-tional on environmental, planning and gambling approvals being obtained, for his huge Aus$8.15 billion (US$7.53 billion) Aquis resort near Cairns.
It is being touted as the largest investment in tourism infrastructure in Australia’s history, with eight hotels, an exhibition centre, entertainment precincts, a championship golf course and one of the world’s biggest aquariums.
Once open in 2018, it will employ 20,000 people and boost Queensland’s economy by Aus$1.4 billion a year, according to Fung.
At the same time, Chinese-Australian invest-ment concern ASF Consortium was granted a licence for its Aus$7.5 billion Broadwater Marine Project on the state’s Gold Coast under similar conditions.
Separately, Echo Entertainment, which runs the only casino in Brisbane, Packer’s Crown
and a Hong Kong consortium have bid for the right to build another integrated resort in the Queensland capital.
It all comes with Packer, who runs a world-wide gambling empire, planning to open a six-star hotel and luxury casino complex in a prime location on Sydney Harbour in 2019.
Packer is clear on his target market.“We believe that Crown Sydney will help at-
tract Asian high net worth travellers to Sydney, in particular from China, creating economic growth, extra taxes and over 1,200 jobs for the people of New South Wales,” he said in outlin-ing his plans.
There is plenty of competition in the lucrative market, led by the former Portuguese colony of Macau which now generates more than six times the gambling revenue of Las Vegas thanks mainly to big-spending Chinese VIPs.
Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam are also staking their claims to regional market share, with several mega-resorts in the pipeline.
Newly minted Chinese are also the market for Fung, a member of one of Hong Kong’s best-known banking families. His ambitious Aquis project expects to attract a million guests a year, three-quarters of them from overseas.
Traders were encouraged by surveys showing China’s manufacturing activ-ity improved in June for the first time in six months. That came on top of the government’s decision to expand credit by allowing banks to lend more relative to the size of their deposits.
Both developments “bode well for growth,” said Credit Agricole CIB econ-omist Dariusz Kowalczyk in a report.
In the United States, the Institute for Supply Management said manufactur-ing activity grew in June, though at a slower pace than in May. “Markets saw this as a positive,” said CMC Markets in a report.
Taiwan’s Taiex added 1.1 percent to 9,545.96 and Seoul’s Kospi rose 0.7 percent to 2,013.29. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.2 percent to 5,439.60. Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand also rose.
On Tuesday, Britain’s FTSE 100 and France’s CAC 40 both rose 0.9 percent. Germany’s DAX advanced 0.7 percent.
Shares in BNP Paribas, France’s big-gest bank, rose 3.6 percent after it said would be able to pay a nearly $9 billion U.S. fine for violating a ban on handling transactions for clients in Sudan, Cuba and Iran. The United States is trying to block them from participation in the global financial system.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.8 percent to close Tuesday at 16,956.07. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 0.7 per-cent to 1,973.32.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude for August delivery added 7 cents to $105.41 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract shed 3 cents on Tuesday to close at $105.34.
In currencies, the dollar rose to 101.62 yen from 101.50 yen late Tuesday. The euro slipped to $1.3680 from $1.3682.
Asian stocks mostly higher on US, China growth
Associated Press
BEIJING — Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday on im-proved U.S. and Chinese economic activity. The regional heavyweight, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225, gained 0.5 percent to 15,406.03 points. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 1 percent to 23,409.33 and Taipei, Seoul and Sydney also gained. China’s bench-mark Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.2 percent at 2,046.25.
A view shows the casino onboard the ‘Rhapsody of the Seas’, upon her arrival in Hong Kong, in this January 15,
2008 file picture. Australia is emerging as the latest hotspot for casino operators as they look to attract Asia’s high roll-ers to the gaming tables as well as its pristine beaches and
popular centres like the Great Barrier Reef.
Australia emerging as new casino hotspotREUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Pertamina predicted the needs of subsidized fuel for land transpor-tation would begin to experience a signifi-cant increase seven days before and after holiday. As anticipation against the surge in consumption, Pertamina would prepare additional stock of Premium as much as 15 percent of the normal monthly con-sumption, or about 515,200 KL of normal consumption at 448,000 KL per month.
GM of Marketing Operation for Region V, Giri Santoso, said that in the face of Ramadan and the Eid 1435 H, Pertamina of Marketing Operation for Region V (MOR V) took preparatory measures to anticipate the increase in fuel consumption in the region of East Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara.
“For diesel fuel, we will prepare the distribution in accordance with normal needs considering that in previous years the diesel fuel consumption decreased in relation to the prohibition of heavy ve-hicles operating before and after the Eid,” said Giri Santoso, Tuesday (Jul 1).
He said that in addition to adding stock, the petrol stations located at strategic path of homecoming and backflows would be instructed to open for 24 hours and all the
petrol stations were required to maintain the stock resilience especially seven days before and after holiday.
“To anticipate the delay of delivery due to traffic congestion, we also set up 8 units of retail outlets spreading across the northern coast path, southern line and central line bustlingly passed through during homecoming and backflow period,” said Giri Santoso accompanied by Assistant Manager for External Relations of MOR V, Heppy Wulansari.
In addition to the reliability of supply to subsidized fuel (Premium and Diesel), Pertamina had also increased its sales outlet for special non-subsidized fuels (Pertamax, Pertamax Plus and Pertamina Dex) at petrol stations in the region of MOR V.
“It has been noted that from a total of 1,135 petrol stations in the region of MOR V, 647 of which have already been providing non-subsidized fuel products,” he said.
As an effort to provide the best fuel and non-fuel services, Giri Santoso expected the active participation of community, especially in case of obstacles and barriers happened to the distribution of fuel and non-fuel, chiefly in the area of East Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara. (kmb27)
To observe closely the imple-mentation in the field, the Agency of Drug and Food Control (BBPOM) of Bali came down to the field by performing an inspection. The Head of BBPOM Bali, Endang Widowati, described the surveil-lance was carried out on Tuesday (Jun 24). The surveillance targeted importers, distributors and retailers in Denpasar. As a result, of the 197 items found, in fact 170 items had not included the PHW and still used the old warning containing text only. “Only 24 items have included the PHW,” said Endang.
According to Endang, the items that were not yet putting the PHW had not been given any sanction, where the penalty for manufacturers that did not include the PHW was five-year imprisonment and a fine of IDR 500 million. “For the time be-
ing, they are only given a reprimand, while the items having not included the PHW should be exchanged to the manufacturer,” said Endang.
Inclusion of the PHW itself was issued in the hope of diminishing the number of smokers in Indone-sia. The PHW consisted of images regarding the effects of smoking on health. There were five types of images included, namely the im-age of oral cancer, lung cancer and chronic bronchitis, throat cancer, an image of cigarette being hazardous for children and an image with the words saying that ‘smoking kills.’ Other than the PHW, Endang further added that cigarette pack should include health information in the form of tar and nicotine content. The BBPOM Bali had socialized the issue in advance before the issuance of the new regulation. (san)
IBP/Wira SanjiwaniInclusion of the PHW itself was issued in the hope of diminishing the number of smokers in Indonesia. The PHW consisted of images regarding the effects of smoking on health.
In Denpasar, 170 items of cigarettes do not put PHWBali Post
DENPASAR - The inclusion of health warnings or Pictorial Health Warning (PHW) has been officially effected as of June 24, 2014. The warning is in accordance with the Government Regulation No.109/2012 on the Safekeeping of Ingredients Containing Addictive Substances in Tobacco Product for Health. With the regulation, all products such as cigarettes should include health warnings in the form of images.
Pertamina predicted the needs of subsidized fuel for land transportation would begin to
experience a significant increase seven days before and after holiday.
Pertamina prepares 515,200 KL of subsidized fuel
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The fears are only going to be heightened following the pre-dawn crackdown by the Hong Kong po-lice, who normally do not have an antagonistic relationship with the people, unlike the security forces in mainland China.
Police said 511 people were arrested for unlawful assembly in the Central business district and preventing police from carrying out their duties. After warnings failed to dislodge them, the police moved in to remove the protesters, who lay down on the street with arms locked, taking them away one by one. The protesters had vowed to stay until 8 a.m., just before the height of rush hour begins, but the police started moving in to evict them at about 3 a.m.
Some left willingly but others were forcibly removed, taken away by officers on both arms or carried away off the ground. One officer stood behind a protester and put an
arm around the man’s neck as he and other officers tried to pull his hands free, knocking off the eye-glasses of the demonstrator he was clinging to.
Those arrested were mostly stu-dents who had decided to occupy Chater Road after taking part in Tues-day’s rally, which police said attracted 98,000 people at its peak. Organizers said 510,000 people turned out, the highest estimates in a decade. Hong Kong researchers put the number at between 154,000 and 172,000. What-ever the numbers, the march and the vehemence of opposition is certain to raise the alarm in Beijing, which tried to keep the news away from people in mainland China.
The Chinese media predictably did not report it, and comments about the protests were deleted from microblogs and other social media. Some users posted comments say-ing friends’ accounts were blocked after they discussed the protests. A
Hong Kong protester, Kennie Chan, lamented that Beijing was less re-strained now in exerting its influence over Hong Kong.
“In the past, it seemed like they were doing it step by step, but now, it’s obvious that they cannot stand Hong Kong people. We are not obedient anymore, and are resisting more and more,” said the 30-year-old, who works as a stage manager.
China’s Communist leaders have pledged to allow Hong Kong resi-dents to vote for the leader by 2017. However, they’ve rejected calls to allow the public to name candidates, insisting instead that they be vetted by a Beijing-friendly committee like the one that has hand-picked all leaders since the handover.
Also, three weeks ago, the Chi-nese government released a so-called white paper that said Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy is not inherent but is authorized by the central government in Beijing.
Associated Press writer
SAN JOSE LAS FLORES — The mother of a Guatemalan boy whose body was found in the desert about a mile from Texas’ southern border said Tuesday she begged him not to make the dangerous journey from their modest cinder block- and sheet-metal home high in the northern Cuchu-matanes mountains. But Cipriana Juarez Diaz, ailing and bedridden, said her son Gilberto told her he wanted to earn money to help her.
“I told him not to go but he wanted to help me get rid of my illness,” Juarez Diaz, who has epilepsy, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. She said she draped him with a white rosary as he left. “He was a good son,” she said. “I just hope God gives me the strength to bear seeing his body when they bring him to me.”
Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez was found with the rosary still around his neck and a brother’s Chicago phone number scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle about two weeks ago. He was alone in brush less than a mile from the nearest U.S. home, a South Texas sheriff said Monday. He apparently got lost on his way north and likely died from the elements. An autopsy did not find signs of trauma. His birth certificate says he was 11 years old. But his father, Francisco Ramos Diaz, said Tuesday that the boy was really 15.
Ramos Diaz said Gilberto’s birth certificate carried the birth date of his younger brother because it took the family several years to register him. Because the parents couldn’t remember the exact date of Gilberto’s birth, they gave the same date for both young sons, who became listed as twins.
While hundreds of immigrants die crossing the border each year, the discovery of Gilberto’s decomposed body in the Rio Grande Valley on June 15 highlights the perils unaccompanied children face as the U.S. government searches for ways to deal with record numbers of children crossing into the country illegally. Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said he was the first child immigrant his office has found since he became sheriff in April.
AP Photo/Vincent YuProtesters are arrested by police officers after hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful sit-ins overnight on a street in the financial district in Hong Kong Wednesday, July 2, 2014, following a huge rally to show their support for democratic reform and oppose Beijing’s desire to have the final say on candidates for the chief executive’s job.
HK police arrest 511 after big democracy rallyAssociated Press Writer
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 people who refused to leave a street in the city’s financial district Wednesday, a day after tens of thousands of people joined a massive march to demand democracy that’s free from China’s interference. The march has become an annual affair held on the anniversary of the day China took over Hong Kong from Britain on June 1, 1997 with the promise to give the city a high degree of autonomy for 50 years. But there is growing unease among its residents — especially the youth — that the Western-style civil liberties they’ve know all their lives are being eroded as Beijing has increasingly tried to impose its authority over the freewheeling capitalist enclave.
AP Photo/Juarez Ramos FamilyIn an undated photo taken with a mobile phone, provided by the Ramos Juarez family, Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez poses in an unidentified location in Guatemala.
Dead migrant boy’s mom begged him not to make trek
Bali PostTABANAN - People were encouraged to
remain cautious in choosing snacks because the snacks sold are not always safe to consume. Evidently, in the inspection held by the Agency of Drug and Food Control (BBPOM) Denpasar in collaboration with the Tabanan Health Agency and Tabanan Industry, Trade and Cooperative Agency was found at least two types of snacks containing Rhodamine B (textile dye). One of the snacks was begina commonly used to fill in offerings. Though it was not consumed by residents, it remained hazardous. After being used for offerings, the snack is primarily given to livestock such as chickens and pigs.
“If the livestock were slaughtered and then consumed, then those chemicals will be going into our body because they are not biodegrad-able,” explained the Certification Section Head of the BBPOM Denpasar, Wayan Bagiarta, accompanied by the Head of Tabanan Health Agency, Suratmika, after the inspection at Dauh Pala Market, Dauh Peken village, Tabanan, Monday (Jul 2).
Further he said that of the 14 samples of the type of food examined directly by means of test kit, it was found that two samples were positive to contain hazardous ingredients of Rhodamine B. He called on people not to utilize textile dyes in food because consuming it could cause cancer. “Especially the begina snack should not be given to pigs, but thrown away after being used in of-ferings,” he explained.
In addition to foods containing textile dyes, the officers also found a number of expired food products, such as bread flour, seasonings and sauces. The officers also found a traditional herbal drink without circulation permit. Siti, a butcher and grocery seller admitted that she did not know if any of the products on sale had ex-pired. “I just knew it today because I have never made double-check related to the expiration. Now, I am going to ask for product replacement so that I do not lose,” she explained.
In line with Siti, another grocery seller, Ketut Narsa, equally did not think if a number of goods offered had been expired. He also claimed to never recheck the goods purchased, even to check their distribution permit.
Responding to the findings, Wayan Bagia-rta also directly provided guidance and insight to a number of traders encountered. According to him, to avoid any expired goods, the trad-ers should be more careful when purchasing a product to be sold. “And the FIFO (first in first out) system must be applied where the goods purchased first must be sold first,” he said.
Other than inspecting hazardous ingre-dients and expired food and drink, he also advised the Chief of Dauh Pala Market to always maintain the sanitation. According to him, although the products on sale had good quality, it would remain unsafe and unhealthy if condition of the market did not support. The inspection was intended to create a safe mar-ket from hazardous ingredients, particularly in traditional market. (kmb28)
Such condition was recognized by one of the families of mutton satay traders, Hajj Karto, when met at his home at Kampung Jawa, Semarapura Klod Kangin, Klung-kung, Tuesday (Jul 1). Karto said that his food stall was under Inti supermarket. The food stall had been managed by his sister Sapiah since more than 50 years ago.
However, after the mutilation case was revealed on Monday (Jun 23), a rumor spread if the suspect Fikri had sold the flesh of mutilation victim Diana Sari aka Nana, 22, to number of traders of mutton satay and meatballs at some areas in Klungkung and Gianyar. Actually, police or the media never published such information. “At first, I heard the rumor circulating at Galiran Market. Actually, I do not really understand why the flesh was rumored to have been sold to us. Probably, they thought we could not distinguish human flesh from mutton,” said Karto.
Although the source of information was unclear, many people of Klungkung were influenced by the rumors. As a result, the traders of chicken and mutton satay were deserted. Karto said he habitually slaugh-tered eight to nine goats each day. However, in the past week, the needs for mutton at his sister’s food stall slumped. “Now, we can only spend two heads each day, one in the
morning and another in the afternoon. Pre-viously, many people coming, but now they even do not dare to pass,” he complained.
He also denied if his food stall was once used by police to perform reconstruction and fitted with police lines. Even, a num-ber of residents accused him of buying the flesh of Nana from the suspect Fikri. “If I am getting involved in this case, why am I never summoned by police? What is the evidence? I always try to be honest with what I sell to customers so that my food stall can get crowded,” he said.
As a result of this situation, his party was also confused to hire eight employ-ees. He intended to lay off six employees because the situation kept getting deserted. However, the effort was not yet done. He claimed to be sorry to see if his employees had to stop working. Moreover, most of them had got married. For a butcher, he paid at IDR 150,000 per day.
Meanwhile, the employees at food stall were paid at IDR 80,000 to IDR 90,000 per day. Currently, he still held on with the existing situation. However, he began to reduce the supply of mutton brought in from Lumajang, East Java, Karangasem and Singaraja. In the past, when it was still crowded, he claimed to bring in 20 heads to 25 heads of goat. “Now, I stop the entire
supply for a while,” he said. He hoped that police could clarify the rumor. Otherwise, the rumor would pro-long and he worried that h is business
could go bankrupt.Meanwhile, being frustrated with this is-
sue, a number of satay traders in Klungkung finally complained to Klungkung Police headquarters, Tuesday. It was admitted by the Chief of Klungkung Police Criminal Investigation Unit, I Nyoman Wirajaya. Ultimately, the suspect Fikri in the room of Wirajaya asserted that after mutilating Nana, the flesh was not sold anywhere but wrapped in black plastic bags. After that, the flesh was disposed with other mutilated body parts to 13 crime scenes in Klung-kung and Karangasem. Then, why was the victim’s flesh not found? Wirajaya added the flesh might have been eaten by animal nearby like a lizard. Clearly, the results of the investigation indicated if the victim’s flesh was not sold anywhere.
“I was even afraid when disposing it. Such a rumor is not correct. No portions of the flesh were sold. I’ve disposed them all,” said Fikri. Every day, he recognized to do activities and helped install the structure of food stall under the Inti su-permarket. The location was quite close to the food stall owned by Hajj Karto. Once again, he made sure there was no flesh of Nana sold to food stalls of mutton satay and meatballs. (kmb31)
Raid, BBPOM finds expired products and usage of Rhodamine B
IBP/GieHaji karto shows the goats that will be used as sate in his restaurant
After mutilation case
Earnings of satay sellers slump Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Following the reveal of the mutilation case, a number of food stalls complained. It was triggered by the rumors if the flesh of the mutilation victim was sold to a number of food stalls, especially to satay vendors. Moreover, the victim’s flesh has not been found. Thus, many people of Klungkung are influenced by the rumor. As a result, the income of satay vendors in the past weeks drops to 80 percent.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said the six centers will expand the work of a pilot program at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, that for the past six years has evaluated hundreds of patients and provided many diagnoses, often using genomic approaches, for rare conditions.
Together, the centers will form the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Some child-hood vaccines are linked to seri-ous side effects, but they are quite rare and do not include autism, food allergies or cancer, said a review of scientific literature Tuesday.
A host of vaccines commonly given to children under age six were the focus of the systematic review of rigorously conducted studies, published in the peer-reviewed US journal Pediatrics.
The report seeks to address a rising trend of vaccine hesitancy among parents in the United States and Europe, which has led to a re-surgence of measles and whooping cough in some parts of the world.
“We found that serious adverse events that are linked to vaccines are really rare, and that when they do occur they are often not neces-sarily severe,” said study co-author Courtney Gidengil, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School.
“We think this adds to the body of evidence that the benefits really do seem to clearly outweigh the low risk of serious side effects from vaccines,” she told AFP.
The study expands on a 2011 report by the Institute of Medi-cine that also pointed to some side effects linked to vaccines but found “few health problems are caused by or clearly associated with vaccines.”
The Pediatrics report includes several vaccines that were not studied by the IOM, including those
U.S. agency taps medical centers to investigate rare diseasesReuters
CHICAGO - The U.S. government’s leading health research agency said on Tuesday it has selected six U.S. academic medical centers to help discover the cause of undiagnosed diseases using advanced diagnostic tools, including gene sequencing.
Network, funded by a four-year, $43 million grant from the NIH Common Fund.
Dr Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Re-search Institute, part of the NIH, said in a telephone briefing the sites will focus on “very rare” diseases, those which in some cases affect only 50 people in the world.
The academic centers selected
to participate include Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Harvard University’s three teach-ing hospitals: Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s and Mas-sachusetts General; Duke Univer-sity in Durham, North Carolina; Stanford University in Stanford, California; University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Green said the centers will use newly developed methods for genome sequencing, along with clinical evaluations, to decipher the causes of rare, undiagnosed conditions.
Undiagnosed diseases are conditions that even skilled phy-sicians cannot diagnose despite extensive testing. Although each disease is considered rare, as many as 30 million Americans have a rare disease, which col-lectively affects about 1 in 10 Americans.
Insurance coverage of genom-ic testing to discover the cause of rare disease has become a grow-ing issue at some academic medi-cal centers, including Baylor, that
have been using the technology to help doctors diagnose rare disease.
The NIH said that while each site may have different approach-es for handling health insurance coverage, no patient will be turned away from participating based on lack of insurance.
Researchers in the program will share genomic data from the patients enrolled in the centers in multiple public databases, ex-panding the knowledge of genes that can cause rare disease, which insurance companies have cited as a barrier to coverage.
Harvard University will serve as the coordinating site for the network.
Vaccines have low risk of serious side effectsagainst hepatitis A, Haemophi-lus influenzae type b (Hib), polio, rotavirus and the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
Side effectsSide effects of the measles,
mumps and rubella (MMR) and pneumococcal vaccines included the potential for fever and sei-zures.
The MMR and hepatitis A vac-cines were also linked to a side effect called purpura, when small blood vessels leak under the skin.
There was some evidence that immune-deficient children given the varicella vaccine against chick-en pox could develop infections or have an allergic reaction.
The rotavirus vaccines, RotaTeq and Rotarix, were associated with a risk of intussusception, a condition in which one part of the intestine slides into another part.
However, the r isk of this condition was rare, amounting to between 1-5 in 100,000, the researchers said.
“Clinicians who immunize chil-dren regularly may have encoun-tered these adverse events in their practices, particularly seizures associated with fever,” said an accompanying editorial by Carrie Byington, vice chair for research in the pediatrics department at the University of Utah.
“Fortunately, the adverse events identified by the authors were rare and in most cases would be ex-pected to resolve completely after the acute event.”
No fatalities were found in the research, which spanned from 2010
to 2013 and included a total of 67 studies, whittled down from more than 20,000 research papers.
Each study that made the final cut had a control or comparison group, and involved vaccines approved for
the US market as of 2011.The report found insufficient
evidence to link the inactivated polio vaccine to food allergies, and showed no link between childhood vaccines and the onset
AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar
In this June 25, 2014 photo, Richland Public Health nurse Renee Blankenship, left, gives Mar-cus Burkholder a Measles, Mumps, & Rubella (MMR) vaccination at a clinic for the Mennonite community in Richland County in Shiloh, Ohio. Some childhood vaccines are linked to serious side effects, but they are quite rare and do not include autism, food allergies or cancer, said a review of scientific literature Tuesday.
of leukemia.Furthermore, its review of
research backed up the IOM con-clusion that the “MMR vaccine is not associated with autism,” the report said.
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Unlike other joged dance that performed with no theme, Gi-anyar artists performed a joged dance that depict Calonarang story. These Pegose-kan dancers showed their dance entitled “Joged Pingit Taman Limut Temple” at Angsoka Stage on Wednesday, July 2,
2014 during Bali Art Festival.Hundreds spectators enjoyed their
performance because they show some-thing different from Joged Dance that usually showed.
According to I Dewa Ketut Widiarsa, mentor of the troupe, this dance is sacred dance from Taman Limut Temple at Pengosekan. “The accessory that being
worn in the head of dancer came from a holy man, Ida Pandita Sakti Mas Mage-lung who inherited from his father, Dang Hyang Nirartha,” he explained.
He said that this dance performs every once a year during the big traditional ceremony that held at Taman Limut Temple. (kmb21)
Small and cottage industries contributed more to the export earning of Bali during that
Bali Post
MANGUPURA - The Indonesian government is now allow-ing the elderly foreign travelers to longer enjoy the natural beauty of Indonesia, including Bali. Such a policy was stipu-lated in Presidential Decree No.31/1998 on the ease for the elderly foreign travelers.
The Head of Special Immigration Office of Class I at Ngurah Rai, Cucu Koswali, stated the policy of Indonesian government for the elderly travelers who wanted to stay longer in Indonesia was up to 1 year. They could extend their residence provided that they had a sponsor or guarantor.
“Without a guarantee, their residence permit cannot be extended and they must go home. However, if they have a guarantor, it may be extended for five times in succession,” said Cucu Koswali amidst the socialization recently.
According to him, the extension of the length of stay for the elderly foreign travelers was an old policy, but it contained some new changes required to be re-socialized. The policy was to accommodate the elderly travelers who wanted to enjoy their longer stay in Indonesian. In addition, it was also economically beneficial for the economy of local people.
“It needs to be re-socialized because it is feared there will be deviations from the provisions. For instance, the elderly travelers do not live at the home of Indonesian residents or if they contract a house, no Indonesian maids work in their house, so it does not to give any benefits to local community. To that end, it needs to be reminded again,” he explained.
It was said the policy was enforced selectively, where the policy was only valid for foreigners benefiting the welfare of the people, the nation and the Republic of Indonesia and did not jeopardize the security and the order. Similarly, they were not hostile to both the people and the Homeland based on the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.
“Only those who are beneficial to the development we can accept. To that end, we apply a selective policy, not all foreign-ers can be granted a residence permit because their presence is not useful or beneficial to us,” he said.
As mentioned, the requirement to be met by the elderly travelers was filing a visa application to consulate office abroad. After a long stay, it was converted into a limited residence permit (ITAS) for a year. “After that, the extension can be made on the basis of sponsor and can be extended five times,” he said.
Extension of a Limited Residence Permit (ITAS) for the elderly was given by the Head of Immigration Office whose jurisdiction including the residence of foreigners for a maxi-mal period of 1 year. It was valid since the expiry date of the ITAS. Extension of the limited residence permit was given maximally five times in succession according to provisions. “The elderly foreign travelers are those aged at least 55 years old,” he said.
He added the application of visa or immigration permits should be applied by the foreigners through Indonesian travel agencies for the elderly or through its correspondence over-seas. (kmb27)
BAF ScheduleThursday, July 3, 2014
Time Place Event09.00 Ksirarnawa Workshop on culture11.00 Ratna Kanda Panca Mask Performance11.00 Ayodya Stage Joged Bumbung Dance17.00 Angsoka Stage Grantang Pelog Balinese Music20.00 Ayodya Stage Drama Gong Exhibition20.00 Wantilan Shadow Puppet Performance20.00 Ardha Candra Adult’s Gong Kebyar
Export down 2.2 percent
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Unlike other joged dance that performed with no
theme, Gianyar artists per-formed a joged dance that
depict Calonarang story.
Joged Pingit depicting Calonarang story performed at BAF
Residence permit of elderly travelers in Bali extended
AntaraDENPASAR - Bali exported US$221.45 million worth of goods in the first five months of the
year or 2.22 percent lower than US$226.48 million in the same period last year.
period, the Central Bureau of Statistic (BPS) said.
The United States and Singa-
pore are the main countries of des-tination for export commodities from Bali, head of the provincial
office of BPS Panusunan Siregar said here on Wednesday.
Exports to the United States made up 20.82 percent to and to Singapore 14.62 percent of the Bali’s total exports, Siregar said.
Other major markets include Japan, Australia and Thailand,
he added. Other main export commodi-
t ies f rom Bal i a re f i sh and shrimps accounting for 22.14 percent, furniture and house illumination for 14.06 percent, timber products 11.82 percent, jewelry 10.66 percent, and gar-ment 9.66 percent.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014
1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung
4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida
8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan
10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring
GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud
11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar
12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar
15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi
25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng
Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud
27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati
11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati
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Jempiring Restaurant as one of our outlet offering Breakfasting Package with Middle Eastern ambience, special menu such as Grilled Chicken with Briyani Rice, Fried Rice wrapped by Arabian bread and a very mouth watering roasted chicken as main course. Last not but least try our special drink Morrocan Spice Hot Cider to gratify you, this flavourful breakfasting package will treat you from 1 July – 30 September 2014. IBP/Courtesy of Aston
Special package for RamadhanIBP
DENPASAr - The Holy month of ramadan and School holiday is coming, the most exciting moment for every family to have a great va-cation.
To minimize the number of such hazardous disease, the Tabanan Health Agency would prepare nurses and midwives from each public health center to become HIV/AIDS counselors. “Essentially, we prepare counselors and super-visors at the village level. At least, a total of 20 counselors will be given the education for six days,” said the Head of Tabanan Health Agency, Suratmika, Tuesday (Jul 1).
He added, in preparing the counselor, the focus would be on supervision and coaching on the transmission of HIV/AIDS at village level. “We will prepare all the nurses and midwives as a Local Regional Monitor (PWS) at each village,” he said.
They would consist of nurses and midwives posing the representative of twenty public health centers throughout Tabanan. “In the future, they will oversee the potential of HIV/AIDS trans-mission in their respective territory. Our target is to provide counseling and testing for potential residents infected by HIV/AIDS, where one of them is pregnant woman,” he said.
He said that his party deliberately involved the midwives because the medical personnel were considered to be very familiar with pro-spective housewives who frequently performed prenatal care or childbirth consultation.
The counselor training was given by the
officers of the Bali AIDS Mitigation Commis-sion. According to Suratmika, healthy lifestyle and safe behavior should be improved further. Moreover, the impact of the closing of the Dolly prostitute house in Surabaya had begun to be a threat to Bali, without exception for Tabanan as the closest potential area for the migration. He said there were a number of factors causing the number of HIV AIDS case to continuously rise in Tabanan. Firstly, public awareness was low to do medical checkup so that the case could be recorded. Secondly, the real amount indeed increased as a result of the number of patients due to aberrant behavior. Thirdly, proliferation of cafés to nook and cranny of villages was likely to become one of the causes.
“These cafés have double function. On the one hand, they sell food and beverages, while on the other hand, they serve as a place of prostitution transaction. It’s very worrying,” he said.
According to him, the existence of those cafés had to be monitored so as not to de-viate. In response to these conditions, his party could only make socialization about the prevention of HIV disease and remind the public so as to always give priority to healthy lifestyle. (kmb28)
Bali PostBANGLI - Coinciding with
the 68th anniversary of the Police Corps (Bhayangkara), the ranks of Bangli Police exterminated hun-dreds of liters of liquor, Tuesday (Jul 1). Located at the courtyard of the Bangli Police Headquarters, the extermination of the liquor obtained in the ‘operation of cre-ating condition’ was undertaken in person by Chief of Bangli Po-lice, Suswanto, Commander of Bangli/1626 Military District,
the regent and other leadership council of Bangli.
The extermination to hundreds of liters of liquor in the form of 362 large bottles of beer, 216 bottles of small beer and 654 liters of arrack was done by disposing them into a ditch in front of the Bangli Police Headquarters. It was deliberately not carried out by breaking or crushing the bottles with heavy equipment to avoid hazardous waste.
The Chief of Bangli Police
Narcotics Unit, Agung Buwono, with permission from the Bangli Police Chief said amidst the exter-mination of liquor that hundreds of liters of beer and arrack were secured during the ‘operation of creating condition’ between January and June. Hundreds of bottles of beer, both of large and small size, were confiscated because they were not equipped with distribution label. Other than beer, hundreds of liters of arrack were also managed to be seized
from several stalls of residents including from the arrack sup-plier to the Bangli region. With the extermination to hundreds of liters of liquor, his party hoped to protect the public from the hazards of liquor. Similarly, it was also intended to give a deterrent effect on people who had been abusing liquor.
Meanwhile, prior to the exter-mination of the liquor, the Ban-gli Police also organized a rally for celebrating the 68th Police
Corps Anniversary 2014. The rally led in person by the Bangli Police Chief was attended by community leaders, customary leaders, religious leaders, the Bangli/1626 District Military Command officers and a number of other invitees. In the rally last Tuesday was also conferred the Setya Lencana Nararya award to four Bangli Police officers who had served for more than 24 years and 16 years by the Chief of Ban-gli Police, Suswanto. (ina)
Bangli Police demolish hundreds of liters of liquor
IBP/Bit
The Head of Tabanan Health Department dr. Suratmika.
To combat HIV/AIDS, Tabanan Health Agency prepares counselors Bali Post
TABANAN - In Bali, Tabanan County is arguably ranked fourth in the case of HIv/AIDS or the position may have been overtaken by other county whose number of HIv case starts experiencing a surge lately. Evidently, until this year the data of the Tabanan Health Agency indicate that people with HIv/AIDS have reached 630 cases. Averagely they are 30-40 years old. More sadly, the HIv/AIDS case has even spread to rural areas.
The Head of Badung Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Badra, revealed that the coastal arrangement program in Badung was being coordinated with central and provincial government through the Bali-Penida River Agency. Besides, the coordination team for the coastal arrangement in Badung had been established through the Decree of the Badung Regent in 2014.
The coordination team just needed to make data collec-tion and dissemination to the public regarding the existing condition of each coastal area in Badung. Later, the team with the Bali-Penida River Agency would design a strategic
program to continue the handling and management of the coastal abrasion. “So, if there are some stretches of the beach needing to be arranged, they will be proposed to central government,” said Badra.
According to him, the coastal area of Legian, Seminyak and Kuta had been included in the arrangement program. However, he could not ascertain when the arrangement began. His party mentioned it needed time to disseminate it to the public. This arrangement posed the continuation of the previous arrangement on Cemagi Beach, North Kuta subdistrict undergoing severe abrasion.
“The coastal area at Cemagi was handled last year along 400 meters. We have now started conducting the search of location and the arrangement will be continued to the south coast because some sections need handling such as around Centro, Kuta. The sand around the area is still eroded,” he said.
Regarding the technical matters, said Badra, it belonged to the authority of the Bali-Penida River Agency. The Ba-dung Livestock, Fishery and Maritime Affairs only made coordination for the handling and disseminate information to the public so it could be entirely received by the com-munity.
He said the central government through a special team would conduct an assessment against the proposal of the abrasion handling in Badung that had been filed. The team also included the lender. As planned, the abrasion handling in Badung would use a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). (kmb25)
Abrasion handling targets beaches in Kuta
Tourists spend their time at Brawa Beach at Badung Regency that hit by
abrasion. The handling of abrasion on a number of beaches in Badung
in 2014 is resumed again.
Bali Post
MANGUPURA - The handling of abrasion on a number of beaches in Badung in 2014 is resumed again. At the moment, Badung government will perform data collection and dissemination to the public regarding the existing condition of each coastal region. As planned, the beaches in Kuta subdistrict such as Seminyak, Legian and Kuta will be chosen as the next target.
IBP/Eka Adhiyasa
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Tori Spelling can crack Jennie Garth up. When thinking of an upcoming scene from their new ABC Family sit-com, “Mystery Girls,” Garth giggles at the memory of Spelling going for it, mak-ing a funny face and using a strange voice. That’s just one reason the two like to work together.
“I feel safe doing some, like, goofy, crazy face and voice because it’s my friend. I know she’s gonna be there to support my efforts,” ex-plained Spelling in a recent interview.
“She knows I love it,” added Garth, who readily admits she’s the first to break character in a scene.
Unless you skipped the 1990s, you know they were co-stars on one of the most popular TV shows of that era, “Beverly Hills, 90210,” about teens living in the ex-clusive Southern California zip code.
It went off the air after 10 seasons in 2000 but Spelling and Garth have remained friends. They even brief-ly reprised their roles for the CW’s “90210” reboot. Spelling guest starred on a couple of episodes. Garth appeared on the first two seasons.
They never expected to work together full-time again but Spelling came up for the premise and it all fell into place. On “Mystery Girls,” Garth and Spelling play for-mer co-stars of a hit 90s de-tective TV show of the same name. They’ve gone their separate ways, until a crime occurs, and the witness will only talk to them. From this, they end up opening a detec-tive agency.
They chose to do a sitcom because, “it’s more fun than doing a drama,” said Garth. “The schedule, the hours. We both have a lot of kids so it’s like banker’s hours compared to doing an episodic show like an hour-long drama or something.”
Agence France-Presse
MUMBAI - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was on Tuesday bestowed with France’s highest civilian award for his contribution to cinema.
The actor was honoured as a “Knight of the Legion of Honour” by French foreign minister Laurent Fabius at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in India’s entertainment capi-
tal Mumbai.“There are different moments in life
that make you feel that you are on the right track. This is one such moment,” said Khan, 48, one of Indian cinema’s most recognisable faces.
Fabius said the French people hailed the actor’s “talent and generosity, which arouse the enthusiasm of a vast audience across the world, transcending cultural
and historical differences and bringing together people from all walks of life to his films”.
In a career spanning three decades, Khan has made himself the biggest box office draw in Bollywood as the hero of romantic dramas and high-octane action movies.
Fellow Indian superstar Amitabh Bach-chan received the French award in 2007.
Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth reunite on new show
Amy Sussman/Invision/AP
Original co-stars of the Fox television series “Beverly Hills, 90210” actresses Tori Spelling, left, and Jennie Garth, pose for a portrait in promotion of their upcoming ABC Family series “Mystery Girls” on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in New York.
Khan receives top French honour
Joged Pingit depicting Calonarang story performed at BAF
Jennifer Love Hewitt joining ‘Criminal Minds’Associated Press
NEW YORK — CBS says Jennifer Love Hewitt is joining the cast of “Criminal Minds” this fall. She will play Kate Callahan, a seasoned undercover agent whose superior work at the FBI has earned her a place in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Hewitt is returning to series TV after five seasons starring on CBS’ “Ghost Whisperer,” which aired from 2005 to 2010. Before that, she was in the ensemble of the Fox drama “Party of Five.” Her films include “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and its sequel.
CBS says her “Criminal Minds” character will be introduced in the series’ 10th season premiere, set to air Oct. 1.
The “Criminal Minds” cast also includes Joe Man-tegna, Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore and A.J. Cook. Dan Hallman/Invision/AP
