Wednesday, May 27, 2015 16 Pages Number 112 7 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 13 Page 6 News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2my- radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali. Page 8 Taiwan proposes plan to ease South China Sea tensions Real Madrid fires coach Ancelotti after disappointing season 12 missing after flooding in Texas sweeps away vacation home Currently not all children in Indonesia have their rights and needs as children met. The need to play, attend school and other special needs are still not given to all children, especially those from poor or very poor families who are often forced to enter the workforce to help their families make ends meet. Forcing children to work is det- rimental to their growth. Therefor it is the obligation of the government to prohibit children from working so that they can grow physically, mentally and socially. The Ministry of Labor’S Child-Free Labor initia- tive is expected to help the nation’s next generation thrive. Given the fact that many school- aged children are working, it is easy to imagine what the future of Indo- nesia will look like, of this is allow to continue. Those involved in the business sector as well as society on general must pay special attention to ensuring that the next generation will be equipped to comet with other con tries, by allowing chil- dren to live out their childhood in a healthy environment. The Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri, said in Gianyar on Monday (May 25) that the problem of child labor is a complex one that crosses over into many sectors. Dhakiri insists that all parties must be on- board and that that the industrial sector must eliminate children from their domain. “Children of school age cannot be expected to meet the needs of the republic, especially of they have entered the work force which causes a great setback to the nation” he said. Indonesia’s economic future requires investments that prioritize human resources not natural re- sources. People who are still focused on exploiting natural re- sources have the same mindset as colonial invaders. “If we base the building of Indonesia’s economy on natural resources, then we are no different than colonizers. As a nation, we must continue to improve the qual- ity of our human resources so that they are superior to those of other countries, in terms of their compe- tence, skills, and competitiveness,” said Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri, on Monday (May 25). As part of the human resources investment program, the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration is withdrawing children from the workplace and helping the, to go back to school, both for the sake of the children and for the sake of the future of the nation. Currently there are 121 million people in Indone- sia’s labor force. Of this number, 7.4 million are unemployed high school graduates, and 1.7 million children are not attending school. (kmb16) Childhood is a time for learning and for playing. Allowing children to do so is a way to invest in the future. For this reason it is in the interest of businesses, government and society at large to release children from labour. IBP/Suryawan Child labor, a threat to the nation DENPASAR - Childhood is a time for learning and for play- ing. Allowing children to do so is a way to invest in the future. For this reason it is in the interest of businesses, government and society at large to release children from labour. Children never deserve to be forced to work.
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LOS ANGELES — Legendary “Lawrence of Arabia” actor Omar Sharif is battling Alzheimer’s disease, his agent Steve Kenis confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday.
No additional details were provided about the 83-year-old or his care. His son, Tarek Sharif, revealed the diag-nosis in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo on May 23.
The Egyptian-born Sharif rose to international stardom with his role in the 1962 epic “Lawrence of Arabia”—
Sharif’s first English-language film. He earned an Oscar nomination for his turn as Sherif Ali in David Lean’s iconic film opposite Peter O’Toole.
Sharif followed the breakthrough performance with the title role in Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago,” co-starring Julie Christie. He then played Fanny Brice’s husband, Nicky Arnstein, in “Funny Girl” alongside Barbra Streisand.
His last completed feature film credits were in 2013. (ap)
Warner Bros. Mad Max: Fury Road was a close second, earning $62.1 million dollars having crossed the $100 mil-lion dollar mark during the weeks, says Dergarabedian.
Although in third position with $58.9 million, Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland’ has produced disappointing results on home turf, for the US box office saw its most sluggish performance over the Memorial Day holiday weekend since 2001.
NEW YORK — Faith No More bassist Bill Gould likes to think of the band’s new record as an aging actress. “Sure, her body’s get-ting a little older, but she’s not afraid to show it; she’s still sexy,” he said during a recent interview in New York City, where the band played two sold-out shows in support of “Sol Invictus,” its first in 18 years released last week.
“When you’re younger and you’re insecure, in a way you don’t have the mojo, the juice, you know,” he said.
The 52-year-old Gould and the rest of his bandmates — key-boardist Roddy Bottum, drummer Mike Bordin, guitarist Jon Hudson and singer Mike Patton — disbanded in 1998 and spent some time apart before regrouping in 2009 to play reunion shows. That hiatus, together with the musical legacy they built during the late 1980s and 1990s with albums like “The Real Thing,” ‘’Angel Dust,” and “Album of the Year,” has given them the confidence and perspective to re-launch their collaboration on their own terms.
They briefly considered returning to a major label, but ultimately decided to forgo external deadlines and pressures and instead handle everything themselves.
“Sol Invictus” was engineered and recorded by Gould in his studio space in Oakland in 2014 and 2015, and is being released on Reclamation Recordings, a subsidiary of Patton’s own Ipecac Recordings label.
“We’ve all kind of grown into parts where we can actually contribute now in our own capacity,” Gould said. “We all kind of got good at what we did in different ways and it all kind of helps the whole.”
For a band that once briefly flirted with the mainstream following the success of the catchy, rap-meets-metal mega-hit “Epic,” having the freedom to dictate whether they put out a record, tour or make an appearance at this point in their lives is a top priority.
“An old man only looks to the next day,” the 47-year-old Patton said. “We’re old men.
“So what you do is, you look to the next day or the next plan, and, honestly, we don’t have a plan after this tour or this record.” (ap)‘Lawrence of Arabia’ star
Omar Sharif has Alzheimer’s
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Film Frame/Disney/Marvel via AP
This photo provided by Disney/Marvel shows, Hulkbuster in a scene from the new film, “Avengers: Age Of Ultron.” The Avengers: Age of Ultron came in on top of the worldwide box office report, earning $66.7 million dollars.
Disney dominates worldwide box office
The Avengers: Age of Ultron came in on top of the worldwide box office report, earn-
ing $66.7 million dollars. Having grossed $860 million dollars, which includes $210 million in
China, which is significant since it just recently opened there on May 12, according to Rentrak’s
Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
Faith No More marks return with 1st album in 18 years, tour
Greg Allen/Invision/AP
In this May 13, 2015 file photo, Mike Patton of Faith No More performs at Webster Hall in New York. The band released an album, “Sol Invictus,” in May.
Taiwan proposes plan to ease South China Sea tensions
Real Madrid fires coach Ancelotti after disappointing season
12 missing after flooding in Texas sweeps away vacation home
Currently not all children in Indonesia have their rights and needs as children met. The need to play, attend school and other special needs are still not given to all children, especially those from poor or very poor families who are often forced to enter the workforce to help their families make ends meet.
Forcing children to work is det-rimental to their growth. Therefor it is the obligation of the government to prohibit children from working
so that they can grow physically, mentally and socially. The Ministry of Labor’S Child-Free Labor initia-tive is expected to help the nation’s next generation thrive.
Given the fact that many school-aged children are working, it is easy to imagine what the future of Indo-nesia will look like, of this is allow to continue. Those involved in the business sector as well as society on general must pay special attention to ensuring that the next generation will be equipped to comet with
other con tries, by allowing chil-dren to live out their childhood in a healthy environment.
The Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri, said in Gianyar on Monday (May 25) that the problem of child labor is a complex one that crosses over into many sectors. Dhakiri insists that all parties must be on-board and that that the industrial sector must eliminate children from their domain. “Children of school age cannot be expected to meet the needs of the republic, especially of they have entered the work force which causes a great setback to the nation” he said.
Indonesia’s economic future requires investments that prioritize
human resources not natural re-sources. People who are still focused on exploiting natural re-sources have the same mindset as colonial invaders.
“If we base the building of Indonesia’s economy on natural resources, then we are no different than colonizers. As a nation, we must continue to improve the qual-ity of our human resources so that they are superior to those of other countries, in terms of their compe-tence, skills, and competitiveness,” said Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri, on Monday (May 25).
As part of the human resources investment program, the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration is withdrawing children from the
workplace and helping the, to go back to school, both for the sake of the children and for the sake of the future of the nation. Currently there are 121 million people in Indone-sia’s labor force. Of this number, 7.4 million are unemployed high school graduates, and 1.7 million children are not attending school. (kmb16)
Childhood is a time for learning and for playing. Allowing children to do so is a way to invest in the future. For this reason it is in the interest of businesses, government and
society at large to release children from labour.
IBP/Suryawan
Child labor, a threat to the nationDENPASAR - Childhood is a time for learning and for play-
ing. Allowing children to do so is a way to invest in the future. For this reason it is in the interest of businesses, government and society at large to release children from labour. Children never deserve to be forced to work.
International2 Wednesday, May 27, 2015 15International Activities
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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.
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“The plan will be thus carried out because technical matters are determined by Minister of Trans-portation, while the financing is determined by the Minister of State-Owned Enterprise,” he told the media in Denpasar, on Monday
(May 25). Pastika hopes that the central government can finance the construction of the airport in Buleleng based on the fact that Bali generates huge foreign exchange for the country.
“It is very expensive, you know?
The private sector must surely make careful calculations to be sure to get a return on their invest-ment. Conversely, the government does not think in such terms, so we expect the government to work it,” he explained.
DENPASAR - The scarcity of parking spaces at Sanglah Hospi-tal has been an ongoing problem that has yet to be resolved. San-glah hospital is therefor looking
at the end cooperations with PD Parkir Denpasar, due to take place in July 2015, as an opportunity to design a new parking lot for everyones convenience.
Director of General Affairs and Operations of Sanglah Hospital, I Gusti Lanang Suartana Putra, said on Monday (May 25) that they have already drafted plans to build
Governor wants government to fund the Buleleng airport
DENPASAR - If the government insists on allowing the Benoa Bay reclamation plan to be carried out by the investors, it the plan to build an airport in Buleleng will be adversely affected. Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika apparently wants the airport to be financed by the central government. The governor said that he has even met the Minister of Transportation and Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to immediately get certainty on the matter.
Previously, Pastika had said that the airport construction plan for Buleleng remained at the stage of pre-feasibility studies as car-ried out by PT Pembangunan Bali Mandiri and Airports Kinesis of Canada.
Pastika consideres the con-cept proposed by Airport Kinesis -namely to reclaim the seam to be more feasible. While the the pre-feasibility study conducted by PT Pembangunan Bali Mandiri
proposes to build on land, which said the governor would eliminate hundreds of hectares of paddy fields. However on Monday, Pas-tika announced that the Canadian companies proposal would cost al to to realize.
“The Pre-feasibility study done by Canada, proposes an expensive project, namely IDR 30 trillion, where can we get money of this amount? It’s okay, if it is given as charity,” he said. (kmb32)
Sanglah Hospital drafting multi-storey parking spacea new parking lot. The hospital plans to work with the operational cooperative (KSO) in building the parking lot. “Next, Sanglah Hospital issued guidelines and organized a contest in order to select a designer,” he said.
Because they still have until July, the remaining time until then is being used to prepare the documents for the prospective operational cooperation. “It will include the type of parking lot, plans for the location and the ar-eas capacity for future extension etc. For example,before entering to hospital, there will be a kind of entrance gate, parking houses, lanes for motorcycles and cars, a path for patients, employees and visitors,” explained Putra. “We’re still preparing the maquette,” he added. The plan is to build a multi-storey parking lot near the hospital tennis courts (next to Angkosa room). “But it has not been finalized yet,” he added. It take between 2- 3 months for the construction to be completed.
Currently the Sanglah Hos-pital has a parking capacity of 300-400 cars and 1,100 to 1,200 motorcycles spread out in front of theSanglah Hospital (PJT, Ka-madhuk and vicinity), in the rear area of the Hosspital and behind the Amerta Wing, and Amerta Wing, and lately the hospital ten-nis courts have also been used for parking. Meanwhile the daily parking needs of Sanglah Hospital must accommodate 6, 400 people:
800-1,000 policlinic visits, 200 visits to the emergency room, 300 visits to the Amerta Wing, 700 treated patients, pluswatchmen for patients (700), 2,800 employees of Sanglah Hospital, 400 residents, 300 co-assistants, 200 students such as midwives, nurses, etc. Thus clearly the present parking facilities are inadequate, especial-ly when we add random students form the nearby campus who sometimes looking for a place to park on hospital grounds.
If the land capacity is calcu-lated based on economic value, according to Lanang, building a new parking lot is not feasible. “In other words, if it were to simply be a vertical expansion of the present parking, the investor would lose money and no one would wants to bid” he said. Therefor they have instead designed multi storey parking lots for a few locations, with the levy adjusted to current capacity and in consideration of the fact that the parking lot will belong to the hospital and other social needs. The price of parking ticket is limited by Regional By-law at IDR 1,000 for motorcycles and IDR 2,000 for cars.
The overloaded of available parking lot is not only caused by booming visits,but also by the arrangement of the space itself as well as un-staggered visiting hours. If the new parking lot is not ready in time, coopertion with PD Parkir Denpasar will be extended. (kmb42)
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The scarcity of parking spaces at Sanglah Hospital has been an ongoing problem that has yet to be resolved. Sanglah hospital is therefor looking at the end cooperations with PD Parkir Denpasar, due to take place in July 2015, as an opportunity to design a new parking lot for everyones convenience.
3Wednesday, May 27, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The irony of a YouTube star drawing a massive crowd at a bookstore isn’t lost on talent manager Andrew Graham.
“A year ago, I went to New York and tried to get a book publisher to take a meeting with me,” said Graham, who represents Franta and other mega-popular YouTubers. “I had one meeting, and they laughed at me. Here we are a year later at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles with a New York Times best-selling author who is a client. I think that says it all. It’s a 180-degree turn.”
Franta isn’t a singer, chef, comedian or athlete. He’s a YouTube star angling to be the Oprah Winfrey for millennials.
In its 10-years of existence, YouTube has evolved from a playground for kitty videos to a $20 billion visual menagerie. Along the way, it’s also become an incuba-tor for a new type of celebrity — a digital Brat Pack that’s leveraging smartphone stardom to write books, drop albums, de-sign products and break into Hollywood.
“It’s the most powerful marketing plat-form in the world for millennials,” said Graham. “If you’re trying to reach that audience of girls gathered downstairs, YouTube is the venue to do that. Look at an artist like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank). He went off to Hollywood, created some films, neglected his channel, came back to YouTube and ... crickets. No one was there anymore. You can’t abandon it.”
In recent years, YouTube, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, has propped up YouTubers like Franta — “creators,” the site calls them
— who attract millions of subscribers that regularly watch their online videos and the advertising attached to them.
Their popularity is still eclipsed by music videos, which continue to account for YouTube’s most watched clips. Yet the fandom that creators are inspiring, and the ad revenue they’re bringing in, can’t be ignored.
With his playful grin and doe eyes, Franta currently boasts more than 4.4 million devotees to his personal YouTube channel, where he speaks to viewers about life, dating, candy, whatever at least once a week. He began posting videos in 2010 while still attending high school in La Crescent, Minnesota. Now, he’s releasing music compilations and a line of locally grown coffee.
For every Justin Bieber or Psy, perhaps YouTube’s biggest success stories, there are dozens of Frantas. It’s a form of celebrity that didn’t exist 10 years ago, when You-Tube was born and made it simple to post video online. Franta, who continues to up-load videos despite his other endeavors, is young enough to have been inspired by the YouTube vloggers that came before him.
“There are guys like Shane Dawson and Phillip DeFranco who I was a fan of, and now we’re friends,” said Franta, sequestered from fans behind racks of his book, “A Work in Progress,” in the Barnes & Noble stockroom. “Do you know how awkward it would be to tell some of my friends that I watched them on YouTube in my bedroom before I knew them? It’s weird to think of it like that.”
AP Photo/Richard Vogel
This Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo shows, Connor Franta’s “Coming Out” video playing on YouTube displayed on a computer screen in Los Angeles.
After a decade online, YouTube is redefining celebrity
LOS ANGELES — It’s a meet-and-greet worthy of an A-list star. Outside the three-story bookstore at the outdoor shopping mecca known as The Grove, hundreds of mostly young women have formed a line that stretches past trendy clothing stores and spills out onto a nearby street. They’re waiting to have Con-nor Franta, an affable 22-year-old Internet personality best known for delivering diary-like monologues on YouTube, sign a copy of his new memoir.
The creators’ importance to YouTube is evidenced by the Google-backed site bankrolling marketing campaigns the past two years featuring such famous (on the Internet) faces as Bethany Mota, Han-nah Hart and Grace Helbig. While such creators vlog about very different topics, they usually share a similar aesthetic: improvised delivery, quirky editing and personalities that jump off screens.
Google has opened production facilities in London, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Sao Paulo for creators who have more than 5,000 subscribers to film videos. The studios are equipped with sets and equip-ment that transcend most YouTubers’ liv-ing rooms and webcams. The spaces also serve as social hubs for creators. Several of them will host 10th anniversary parties on Wednesday.
“For us, creators are the lightbulb of
the ecosystem,” said Kevin Allocca, You-Tube’s head of culture and trends. “Sure, YouTube was originally known for viral videos, and that was great and still is, but if you want to be able to build a business, you need to be able to create a following. I think it’s a very different model than traditional media. It’s about maximizing the connection with an audience.”
That’s not so different from the genesis of YouTube, which entered its beta phase in May 2005. The first-ever video posted on the site was a crude 19-second clip titled “Me at the Zoo” that featured You-Tube co-founder Jawed Karim speaking directly to the camera about the “cool” elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
It’s been a decade, and while video lengths are longer and resolutions are higher, the sentiment is the same: watch me. (ap)
Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File
In this May 9, 2015 file photo, Justin Bieber performs at Wango Tango 2015 at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. For every Bieber or Psy, perhaps YouTube’s biggest success stories, there are dozens of Connor Frantas.
AP Photo/Nick Ut
This Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo shows a DudePerfect YouTube marketing billboard in Culver City, Calif.
The Head of the Denpasar Integrated Licensing and Invest-ment Office (BBPTSP and PM), A.A. Gde Rai Soryawan, ac-companied by the Division Head of Controlling and Planning of the DTRP, Dewa Wesnawa Wedagama, revealed that the building renovation of the Denpasar Junction has actually been consulted. However, the building permit has not been issued yet so that the renovation works by PT Eka Jaya Agung may not be done.
According to him, in 2007 the Denpasar Junction had the permit of shop, office and multipurpose building. But in 2011 the permit was renewed, and its category belonged to shopping center or supermarket. Currently, there is no conversion of building, but it merely carries out a renovation.It will remain to be used as a shopping center, office and public entertainment facility. “So, it now just needs to submit the building permit related to the changes in building construction,” he said.
In the meantime, the Director of PT Eka Jaya Agung, Joniari Panca H, said that his party has submitted the licens-ing document where it currently remains under process. He also promised to complete the construction permit including complying with all the rules of construction in the city of Denpasar. “I look forward to completing the permit process of this development and please be apologized because the development process has preceded before the building permit is issued,” he said while adding that the building renovation include the entrances and exits as well as the entrances to the upper parking lot. (kmb25)
AMLAPURA - Two climbers of Mount Agung, Karangasem, were already evacuated on Monday morning (May 25) after they were reported to get lost because they were desperate to climb by making a new path from Tulamben village, Kubu subdistrict, Karangasem. Both foreign climbers from Czech were foundby the SAR team in weak condition due to starvation. Since the climbing made on Saturday (May 23), both have run out of food.
Coordinator of the Karangasem SAR Station, Ida Bagus Surya Wirawan, when contacted on Mon-day said that the evacuation lasted for eight hours from eight o’clock at night until three o’clock in the morning. It involved five person-nel of the national SAR team, two personnel of Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency or BPBD, three local guides and three trackers. The victim was just found around 00:10 a.m. in the area of Galina hamlet, Jungutan village, Bebandem, due to the sign of bonfire made both climb-ers. The two foreign climbers were identified as Mike Karna, 39, and Monika Zawis Towska, 31. Both are known not to be husband and wife, but just friends because both have the same hobby of climbing mountain. “Having been success-fully evacuated, we immediately
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Denpasar Municipality stopped the renovation project of the Denpasar Junction on Jalan Teuku Umar, Monday (May 25). The termination is carried out because the project is worked on without having a building permit (IMB).
IBP/File Photo
Two climbers of Mount Agung, Karangasem, were already evacuated on Monday morning (May 25) after they were reported to get lost because they were desperate to climb by making a new path from Tulamben village, Kubu subdistrict, Karangasem.
Misguided when climbingTwo Czech travelers successfully evacuated
Denpasar Junction project terminatedDENPASAR - Denpasar Municipality stopped the
renovation project of the Denpasar Junction on Jalan Teuku Umar, Monday (May 25). The termination is carried out because the project is worked on without having a building permit (IMB).
give them bread because they are in weak condition,” said Ida Bagus Surya Wirawan.
Other than growing rice and crops, local farmers at Subak Anggabaya also grows soybean and flowers, while at Subak Sem-bung farmers grow vegetables. At
both locations, the infrastructures are quite good although they still should be improved further to support the agrotourism. “At Ang-gabaya, for instance, there has been a kind of jogging track. But the region still needs further arrange-ment,” he said.
To note, the Denpasar Tourism Office is currently reviewing the potential of agrotourism and the concept of ecotourism is still under study. The Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, Wayan Gunawan, recently said that in relation to the agrotourism development his party
is preparing the infrastructure, especially the access to trail so that it can become a new tourist destination. (kmb25)
Branch Marketing Manager of Pertamina for Bali-Nusra Region, Iwan Yudha Wibawa, when asked about the plan to stop the subsidies, said on Monday (May 25) that he did not want to give any com-ments n the issue because he has not received instructionfrom the Pertamina’s central office.
But when asked about the su-pervision of distribution, including allegations of people hoarding 3-kg LPG tanks, which is caus-ing scarcity, Iwan Yudha said that there is no shortage of the 3-kg LPG tanks. “In Denpasar and sur-rounding areas, the distribution of tanks is well monitored. However, perhaps some inland area cannot be reached. But if there is a request we will make deliveries,” he said.
However, on the ground there are allegations of fraud at the retail level, causing some com-munities’ households to not have access to the tanks. He admitted that it is difficult to control at the level of retailers. “Sometimes there are rogue retailers which makes it rather difficult to control,” he explained.
As for the matter of hoarding, theft or illegal refuelling, Wibawa said that Pertamina already has rules in place so if any violations are discovered, sanctions will be imposed. “Sanctions vary, rang-ing from termination of business relationships, to termination of distribution and others,” he said.
Wibawa went on to say that in terms of the supervision of 3-kg LPG tank distribution beyond agents and authorized stations, Pertamina cooperates with local governments, oil and gas entrepre-neurs associations (Hiswanamigas) and the police as set forth accord-ing to the regulation of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources No.26/2009 wherein supervision beyond authorized agents is a shared responsibility.
“Yes, the supervision can be done by local governments, police
and stakeholders according to the regulations,” he said.
Some perpetrators of illegal re-fueling have already been arrested and imposed with the termination of their businesses. “Pertamina will directly serve as an expert witness at the police station and in court,” he stated.
Should there be any rogue agents or distributors, he added, Pertamina will act in the best of it’s ability to deliver them to police authorities who will take appropri-ate action.
Allegations of illegal refuel-ing, either though the reduction of
content or through transfer of sub-sidies to the industrial sector, hap-pens due to weak supervision and lack of police law enforcement. In Bali, especially in Denpasar, gas explosions have occurred several times which were allegedly caused by illegal refueling. However, the authorities have not applied the law to the owners.
Lawyer, Christo Imanuel Du-gis, said that the matter of gas affects many people’s lives. “The regulations are good, but outcomes highly depend on application of the rules in the field” he said, on Monday. Dugis also explained that
the key to preventing hoarding and illegal refuellng lies with clear and decisive supervision on the part of the government. “Now, people take advantage of opportunities. If there is no decisive action, the things will get worse. The state alone cannot ensure that the rules are followed,” said Christo.
Such breaches occur, he said, both by omission and by intent. “In Indonesia, it happens a lot, that even if the incidence of such occurrences is rampant, the only response is stopping market opera-tions or arrest,” added Dugis.
On that account, to ensure that
distribution complies with regula-tions, constant and serious super-vision is required. “People dare to hoard because there is no supervi-sion or only weak supervision. If supervision was stricter, despite potential gains, people would be far more reluctant to commit ille-gal refuelling,” he explained.
Police authorities, Pertamina as well as oil and gas departments must therefore be proactive in preventing such crimes. Police, for example, must take action and punish the perpetrators of illegal refueling as severly as possible. (kmb37)
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Taiwan has not been a high-profile player in the disputes in the South China Sea, although it uses roughly the same historical basis for its claim as China, and Ma’s initiative appeared aimed at shoring up foreign policy cre-dentials at home. “We emphasize that whereas sovereignty can’t be divided, resources can be shared,” Ma said in his speech Tuesday at an Asia-Pacific research forum in Taipei.
Taiwan, China, Brunei, Malay-sia, Vietnam and the Philippines claim all or parts of the 3.5 mil-lion-square-kilometer (1.4 million square-mile) South China Sea. The ocean ranges from Taiwan’s south-ern tip southwest to Singapore. In recent months China has made other claimants and their com-mon ally the United States bristle by landfilling tiny islets, a way to extend its reach. The tropical sea is rich in oil, natural gas and fisher-ies as well as major international
marine shipping routes.In a sign of recent tensions, Bei-
jing filed a formal complaint with the United States this week after an American military plane flew over one islet, and Japan has pledged to help Vietnam and the Philippines with defense as China’s presence grows.
Taiwan’s initiative calls on “all parties concerned” to uphold the “freedom and safety of navigation and overflight” and avoid unilateral action that would escalate tension, according to a statement from the foreign ministry. It also suggests regional cooperation in developing the region’s resources.
Other South China Sea claim-ants are unlikely to react openly to Taiwan’s initiative as they lack diplomatic relations with Ma’s government. China claims sover-eignty over Taiwan itself and uses economic clout to bar other nations from exchanges that cast Taiwan as a nation. Ma did not discuss
Tuesday the basis for Taiwan’s maritime claim or that of other governments.
The United States wants the sea to stay open to shipping and flights, while Beijing has said Washington wants to keep a presence there to contain Chinese maritime ex-pansion. Taiwan is keen to get along with the United States as its staunchest informal ally.
Ma’s initiative “is not enough for China and it’s not enough for the United States, so you just end up not meeting everyone’s expectations,” said Lai I-chung, vice president of Taiwan Think Tank.
The peace plan may also be calculated to bolster Taiwan’s rul-ing Nationalist Party ahead of the January 2016 presidential election as their chief opposition candidate develops a competing plan for the South China Sea, said Joanna Lei, chief executive officer of the Chunghua 21st Century Think Tank in Taiwan. Ma has been criticized at home for lack of foreign policy achievements.
In 2012, Ma proposed a peace initiative for settling disputes in the East China Sea, parts of which are claimed by his government as well as China and Japan. (ap)
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia plans to pass a law within weeks to give the government power to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are suspected terrorists even if they are not convicted of a crime, the prime minister said Tuesday. More than 100 Australians are suspected to be fighting with the Islamic State movement and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. Up to 50 percent of those fighters were estimated to be dual citizens, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.
The amendments to the Citizenship Act would allow Islamic State supporters both overseas and at home to be treated the same as Austra-lians who join foreign armies at war against Australia, Abbott said.
The Immigration Minister Peter Dutton would have the discretion to revoke Australian citizenship from dual nationals suspected of terror-ism, even if they had been not been convicted of any offense, Abbott said. The decision would be subject to judicial appeal.
“There should be no difference in how we treat Australians who join a hostile army and those engaged in terrorism — both are betray-ing our country and don’t deserve to be citizens of Australia,” Abbott said in a statement.
The amendment would bring Australian citizenship laws closer to those the United States, Canada, France and Britain, he said. No one was to be left stateless by losing their Australian citizenship.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told Parliament that a 26-year-old Australian woman whom newspapers reported on Tuesday had aban-doned her two children, aged 5 and 7, in Sydney this month to go to Syria and join the Islamic State movement was not an isolated case. There are an estimated 30 to 40 Australian women engaged with or supporting terrorists in the two countries, she said.
“I’m deeply pessimistic about the fate of this apparently troubled young woman, but I’m thankful she left her children in the safety of Australia and didn’t put them in mortal danger as others have done,” Bishop told Parliament.
“It’s simply incomprehensible that while streams of innocent young women and girls are desperately trying to get away from Daesh, young Australian women and girls are seeking to join them,” she added, refer-ring to the Islamic State movement.
The government plans to spend 40 million Australian dollars ($31 million) on new intervention programs and community initiatives to prevent young Australians from leaving the country to join terror groups, she said. (ap)
REUTERS/Andrew Meares/Pool/FilesLeader of the conservative opposition Tony Abbott speaks dur-ing a debate with the Australian Prime Minister and leader of the Australian Labor Party Kevin Rudd at the National Press Club in Canberra in this August 11, 2013 file photo.
Australia to pass law to strip citizenship for terror crimes
AP Photo/Wally SantanaTaiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou speaks as he announces his South China Sea Peace Initiative during the 2015 ILA-ASIL Asia Pacific Research Forum in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. President Ma laid out a plan Tuesday to ease tensions in a vast, resource-rich Asian ocean where China has chafed against its neighbors by expanding islets with landfill to solidify its claims in the region.
Taiwan proposes plan to ease South China Sea tensions
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou laid out a plan Tuesday to ease tensions in a vast, resource-rich Asian ocean where China has chafed against its neighbors by expanding islets with landfill to solidify its claims in the region. Ma’s plan calls for setting aside sovereignty disputes over the South China Sea and jointly exploring for resources.
Government must take decisive action
Weak supervision results in gas hoarding
DENPASAR - Pertamina, espe-cially in Bali, has not been willing to address the government’s plan to stop subsidizing 3-kg LPG tanks. According to an informal poll conducted by Bali Post, the majority of Balinese people reject the subsidy removal plan on the grounds that small communities are not then into consideration.
IBP/Eka AdhiyasaSome perpetrators of illegal refueling have already been arrested and imposed with the termination of their businesses.
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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s home minister called for a police investiga-tion into the suspected contamination of rice with plastic, saying it may be an attempt at sabotaging the govern-ment, media reported on Monday.
President Joko Widodo has called for calm after reports that tainted rice may have caused the hospitalization of a girl in Medan on Sunday and made some customers at a food mar-ket in Bekasi sick last week.
Rice is a common food staple in Indonesia, the world’s third biggest importer, and reports of contamina-tion can quickly cause food scares in
the vast archipelago.“The synthetic rice distributor
... may be making an attempt at treason or trying to sabotage the government,” Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo was quoted as saying by the English-daily Jakarta Post.
The scare began last week when customers complained of nausea and dizziness after eating suspect rice from a vendor in Bekasi, a town neighbouring the capital of Jakarta.
Initial tests indicated the rice was contaminated with plastic and plastic softeners. Widodo, however, urged consumers to wait for official gov-
ernment test results before jumping to conclusions.
Police were waiting for the results of official tests before continuing their investigation, Assistant Police Commissioner Siswo told Reuters.
The trade ministry plans to issue regulations to tighten controls on rice imports and impose closer supervi-sion of rice storage facilities, Trade Minister Rahmat Gobel said.
The Bekasi vendor, Dewi Septiani, told reporters that the rice she had sold in porridge was “clearly very different and smelled different too. It’s not like natural rice”. (rtr)
JAKARTA - Indonesian police have shot dead two suspected Islamic militants and arrested seven others in raids in an area known as a terror hotbed, an official said Monday.
The force’s elite anti-terror unit killed the two men during a firefight on Sunday in a village in Poso district on Sulawesi island, said national police spokesman Agus Rianto.
“When we tried to arrest them, they resisted. There was a firefight and two from the group were killed,” he said, adding that two policemen were injured.
Seven suspected militants have been arrested over several days, including five in the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar, Rianto said.
The spokesman said they were linked to the coun-try’s most-wanted Islamic extremist named Santoso.
He leads the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen militant group, which hides out in the jungles on central Su-lawesi.
The world’s most populous Muslim-majority na-tion has struggled with Islamic extremism for more than a decade, facing a series of attacks on Western targets, although a crackdown has weakened the most dangerous networks.
The militants on Sulawesi are thought to be among the few that remain a real threat in Indonesia. They regularly launch attacks but these tend to target Indo-nesian security forces and be low-impact.
But fears are growing about the influence of the Is-lamic State group, with some worried that Indonesians returning from fighting in Iraq or Syria could revive sophisticated militant networks. (afp)
Palace and military officials say Widodo’s move is partly de-signed to counterbalance senior police officers who have crossed swords with him and who, critics say, are trying to undermine the agency leading the campaign against graft.
The police acknowledges “problems” in its relationship with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), but says it is working with the agency to tackle graft.
The prospect of a greater role for the military in civilian matters does not presage a return to the authoritarianism of army Gen-eral Suharto, when it oversaw government policy as well as providing national security, the officials said.
Indeed , mi l i t a ry ch i e f Moeldoko has sought to quell such concerns.
“As long as the military is needed by the country to safe-guard the national development carried out by ministries, then go ahead,” Moeldoko, who retires in July, told reporters this month. “But nobody should try to drag the military into politics.”
Nevertheless, critics of Wido-do’s move fear it sets a dangerous precedent in a country where the military has a long tradition of in-volvement in politics and which
directly elected a president for the first time only 11 years ago.
“While symbolic engagement with the military is important to get things done and to send a signal of stability, we’re tread-ing a dangerous line here,” said Tobias Basuki, political analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a local think-tank.
“In the long term it will create a new Goliath within Indonesian politics if the military doesn’t steer clear of civilian life.”
A senior government official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Widodo, the first president from outside the country’s political elite or armed forces, has struggled to assert himself over the police force and its political patrons, who include senior figures in his own party.
He trusts the military more than the police, the official said, and sees it as a potentially coun-terbalancing force.
The army’s expansion into civilian affairs began last month, with the first major counter-terrorism operation since the response to a spate of hotel bombings in Jakarta in 2009. Anti-terrorism efforts are tradi-tionally the domain of the police. (rtr)
BERLIN — Police in the southern German region of Ba-varia say their biggest-ever he-licopter rescue operation saved 14 Indonesian students who misjudged the weather during a spring hike in the Alps.
The 23- to 25-year-old-stu-dents called for help late Sunday after becoming lost amid heavy snowfall at an altitude of 1,800 meters (5,900 feet) in the Watz-mannkar valley near Austria.
Bavarian police said Monday that helicopters with heat-seeking cameras were scrambled and together with mountain rescue teams were able to locate the students.
Spokesman Juergen Thal-meier said the students were rain-soaked and chilled from the cold but otherwise unharmed. None had the equipment or cloth-ing needed for a hike in snowy high-Alpine terrain. (ap)
Minister fears government sabotage in contaminated rice scare
14 Indonesian students rescued after misjudging Alpine hike
Military creeps back into civilian affairs
JAKARTA - Nearly two decades after Indonesia’s military was squeezed out of civilian affairs with the downfall of strongman leader Suharto, President Joko Widodo is drawing the army more closely into his wars on drugs, terrorism, and corruption.
ANTARA FOTO/Basri MarzukiPolicemen stood on guard in front of Bhayangkara Hospital mortuary where two bodies of suspected Islamic Militants were placed. Indonesian police have shot dead two suspected Islamic militants and arrested seven others in raids in an area known as a terror hotbed, an official said Monday.
Police shoot dead two terror suspects
SEOUL - Samsung Group announced Tuesday the merger of two major affiliates, as the South Korean business giant accelerates restructuring efforts ahead of a generational power transfer within the founding Lee fam-ily.
The all stock deal, approved by the boards of both companies, would see Samsung’s de facto holding company Cheil Industries -- which has interests from fashion to theme parks -- acquire general trade and construc-tion affiliate Samsung C&T.
The merger, which is expected to be com-pleted by September pending shareholder approval, will see Cheil offer 0.35 new shares for each Samsung C&T share.
The two companies are both listed on the Seoul stock market, with Cheil valued at 22 trillion won (US$2 billion) and Samsung
C&T 8.6 trillion won as of Tuesday morn-ing.
The combined company -- which will take the Samsung C&T name -- will target annual sales of about 60 trillion won in 2020, com-pared with their combined sales of 34 trillion won in 2014, Samsung said in a statement.
“The two companies expect to create synergy by combining their construction busi-nesses, while Samsung C&T’s global network will help develop new opportunities overseas for Cheil’s fashion, resort and catering busi-nesses,” the statement said.
Share prices of both Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T soared by the daily limit of 15 percent on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s announcement was the latest in a series of moves apparently aimed at solidi-fying the Lee family’s grip on the sprawling
behemoth.The family-run Samsung Group, currently
chaired by Lee Kun-Hee, has merged, broken out or newly listed some of its key units in recent years as he prepares to hand over the reins to his son, J.Y. Lee.
The Lee family controls the vast Samsung Group via a complex web of cross sharehold-ings across the group’s subsidiaries, includ-ing Cheil, where J.Y. Lee has a controlling stake.
Samsung C&T has a four percent stake in Samsung Electronics -- the group’s flagship unit and the world’s top maker of smart-phones and mobile phones.
The Lee family currently has a less than five percent stake in Samsung Electronics, a holding that will be boosted by the merger.
“This is a merger of the two most impor-
tant Samsung units from the perspective of the heir,” said Lee Kwang-Soo, analyst at Seoul-based Mirae Asset Securities.
Recent health problems concerning the senior Lee, currently bedridden after suffering a heart attack last year, prompted the group to step up restructuring efforts.
Cheil Industries last year merged with Samsung SDI, the world’s largest smartphone battery maker.
The group also sold last year stakes in four affiliates worth $2 billion in a move analysts said was designed to streamline businesses and to focus on key profit-making units.
The group, comprised of dozens of units ranging from electronics to hotels, earns a collective revenue equal to around 20 percent of South Korea’s annual economic output. (afp)
In Tokyo afternoon trade, the greenback rose to 122.53 yen, levels last seen in mid-2007, and up from 121.66 yen on Monday.
The dollar has been underpinned by expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the com-ing months -- a view supported by
comments from its chief Janet Yel-len who said Friday she expects a hike “at some point this year”.
“The central scenario still points to a September lift-off,” said Cam-eron Bagrie, chief economist at ANZ Bank New Zealand.
Traders are awaiting the release
of key US data this week includ-ing revised economic growth for the first quarter and durable goods orders.
The euro weakened to $1.0907 from $1.0980 and to 133.52 yen from 133.60 yen on Monday.
Many markets around Europe and in New York were closed Mon-day for public holidays.
Investors are watching closely for any new developments in talks
between Greece and its interna-tional creditors over unlocking bailout funds, with no deal in sight and 300 million euros of payments due next week.
The discussions with the Euro-pean Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are aimed at releasing the final tranche of its 240-billion-euro bailout. But Athens is resisting aus-terity and reform demands to free up
the money and thus avoid possible default that could drive the country out of the eurozone.
“Greece is edging closer to a deal, however, the detail, size and scope of that deal is being blurred by the hour,” Evan Lucas, market strategist in Melbourne at IG Ltd., said in a client note.
The dollar was mostly stronger against other Asia-Pacific curren-cies. (afp)
Dollar hits fresh eight-year high on yenTOKYO - The dollar powered to a fresh eight-year high against
the yen on Tuesday, while the euro was weighed by growing concerns about Greece’s bailout talks as a repayment deadline looms.
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Office workers walk by a logo of Samsung C&T Corp. at its head office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
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Trey Hatt, a spokesman for the Hays County Emergency Operations Center, said Monday night that the “search component” of the mission was over, meaning no more survivors were expected to be found in the flood debris along the Blanco River. But recovery efforts were to resume Tuesday morning, following a long holiday weekend of severe weather that led to four confirmed fatalities across Texas.
Authorities were also searching for victims and assessing damage just across the Texas-Mexico border in Ciudad Acuna, where a tornado Monday killed 13 people and left at least five unaccounted for.
In the U.S., a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes dumped record rainfall on parts of the Plains and Mid-west, spawning tornadoes and causing major flooding that in Texas destroyed or damaged more than 1,000 homes and forced at least 2,000 residents to leave their homes. “You cannot candy coat it. It’s absolutely massive,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said after touring the destruction.
The governor has declared disaster areas in 37 counties so far, allowing for further mobilization of state resources to assist. The worst flooding damage was in Wimberley, where the vaca-tion home was swept away, a popular
tourist town along the Blanco in the corridor between Austin and San Antonio.
Witnesses reported seeing the swollen river push the home off its foundation and smash it into a bridge. Only pieces of the home have been found, Hays County Judge Bert Cobb said. One person who was rescued from the home told workers that the other 12 inside were all connected to two families, Cobb said. Young children were among those believed to be missing.
The Blanco crested above 40 feet (12 meters) — more than triple its flood stage of 13 feet (3.9 meters). The river swamped Interstate 35 and forced parts of the busy north-south highway to close. Rescuers used pontoon boats and a helicopter to pull people out. Hundreds of trees along the Blanco were uprooted or snapped, and they collected in piles of debris that soared 20 feet (6 meters) high.
Flooding wreaked havoc late Monday afternoon in Austin, where emergency crews responded to more than 20 high-water rescues, and later in Houston, where the National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency and an announcer at the Houston Rockets game asked fans not to leave because of severe weather.
The storm system also prompted
KAMPALA, Uganda — Several Kenyan police officers were killed in an attack Monday night by suspected Somali militants in the northeastern Garissa county, where 148 students were massacred last month, police said Tuesday.
A police spokesman, George Kim-oti, confirmed there was an attack in the Garissa region, and two security officials said many police officers had been killed in an al-Shabab ambush but could not give an exact death toll. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not au-thorized to speak to reporters. Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper reported that at least 20 police officers were feared dead in the attack in Garissa’s Yumbis village.
The victims — who were on their
way to rescue another team of officers wounded in an attack earlier on Mon-day — were moving in a convoy of four vehicles that the militants then burned. In the earlier attack, three police officers had been injured when their vehicle ran over a land mine, the officials said.
The same area was in the spotlight last week after suspected al-Shabab militants raided mosques and started to preach to congregations of Mus-lims. The militants reportedly hoisted flags before the security forces arrived. Kenya’s interior ministry said Friday it had “thwarted an attempted attack” on Thursday evening after the residents of Yumbis residents spotted armed militants in the area and alerted the authorities.
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab has carried out several attacks
in Kenya in retaliation for Kenya’s mili-tary involvement in Somalia, where Ke-nyan troops are part of an African Union force bolstering the Western-backed central government in Mogadishu.
Despite major setbacks in 2014, al-Shabab continues to wage an insur-gency against Somalia’s government and remains a threat in the East African region.
The group claimed responsibility for a deadly assault last month on a college in Garissa town, as well as a 2013 as-sault on an upscale mall in the capital, Nairobi, in which at least 67 people were killed.
Kenyan officials are reportedly pondering the construction of a wall along the border with Somalia as part of the government’s efforts to stem the attacks. (ap)
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities in the eastern Aegean Sea have picked up more than 300 people who entered the country illegally in small craft from Turkey, raising the total of arrivals over the past two days to nearly 1,200.
After Italy, financially crippled Greece is the main destination for refugees — mostly from war-ravaged Syria — and economic migrants seeking a better life in the European Union. About 30,000 have arrived this year.
The country has asked for more assistance from EU authorities in coping with the flow, and EU commissioner for immigration Dimitris Avramopoulos, who is Greek, was conferring with government officials in Athens on Tuesday.
The migrant arrivals of the past two days were mostly on the islands of Lesvos, Kos, Chios and Farmakonissi, all close to the Turkish shores. (ap)
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Hudson Doty, 18, left, and Grant Guzal, 17, right, walk along the bank of the Blanco River near the foundation and stilts of the Carey family home on Deer Crossing Lane, in Wimberley, Texas, on Monday, May 25, 2015.
12 missing after flooding in Texas sweeps away vacation home
WIMBERLEY, Texas — Recovery teams are set to resume looking for the 12 members of two families who authorities say are missing after a rain-swollen river in Central Texas carried a vacation home off its foundation, slamming it into a bridge downstream.
Police: Several Kenyan officers killed in ambush
More migrants reach Greece, approaching 1,200 in 2 days
reports of tornadoes across the state and was blamed for four deaths: a man whose body was pulled from the Blanco; a 14-year-old who was found with his dog in a storm drain; a high school senior who died Saturday after her car was caught in high water; and a man whose mobile home was destroyed by a reported tornado.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management also re-ported four fatalities between Saturday and Monday across the state, which also saw severe flooding and reported tornadoes.
In Ciudad Acuna, Mayor Evaristo Perez Rivera said 300 people were treated at local hospitals after the twister, and up to 200 homes had been completely destroyed. The govern-ment was talking with families whose homes had been damaged to deter-mine how much assistance would be needed to rebuild the city of 125,000 across from Del Rio, Texas. “We have never registered in the more than 100 years in the history of this city a tor-nado,” he said.
By midday, 13 people were con-firmed dead — 10 adults and three
infants. At least five people were unaccounted for. The twister hit a seven-block area, which Victor Zamora, interior secretary of the northern state of Coahuila, described as “devastated.”
“There’s nothing standing, not walls, not roofs,” said Edgar Gonzalez, a spokesman for the city government, describing some of the destroyed homes in a 3-square kilometer (1 square mile) stretch. Mexican Presi-dent Enrique Pena Nieto was expected to travel to Acuna with officials from government agencies. (ap)
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Curry’s first field goal after re-turning was a 3-pointer that got Golden State within six points with less than 8-1/2 minutes remaining. But Harden, who had 17 points in the fourth quarter, scored the next seven points as part of 10 straight by Houston to push the lead to 114-98 and effectively end it, cutting the series deficit to 3-1. Harden’s match-winning performance made up for a disappointing output in Game 3.
“I always want to take it out on my opponent in a good way,” Harden said. “Just being aggressive, taking shots, getting to the basket, not really forcing anything and allowing the game to come to me.” Klay Thomp-son had 24 points and Curry added 23 for Golden State, which had been looking to secure its first trip to the NBA Finals since 1975 after routing
Houston 115-80 on Saturday night to take a 3-0 lead in the series.
The Warriors will try again at home in Game 5 on Wednesday. Houston bounced back from a 3-1 deficit to the Los Angeles Clippers in the confer-ence semifinals. But they face a much bigger challenge in this series, as no team in NBA history has won a playoff series after trailing 3-0.
Houston’s Dwight Howard had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and received a flagrant 1 foul early in the third quarter after throwing an elbow at Andrew Bogut’s head. He would be suspended by accumula-tion of flagrant foul points if the NBA upgrades it to a flagrant 2 after review. “I hope not,” Howard said when asked about that possibility. “But there’s nothing I can do about it at this point. It’s never my inten-
tion to hurt anybody on the floor. My reaction was to try to get him off me, but I can’t react that way.”
The Warriors made 20 3-pointers and Houston had 17 to set an NBA record for most 3-pointers com-bined in a playoff game. Curry was injured after he jumped in the air as Trevor Ariza was about to go up for a shot. Ariza saw him and stopped abruptly, causing Curry to be up-ended in midair when he crashed into Ariza’s shoulder. His head hit the court and it propelled him up and back onto the floor where he remained for several minutes.
Curry looked dazed as he was attended to before slowly getting up and walking off the court. “It was all minor stuff compared to how it looked,” Curry said. “But I’ll get some good rest and be ready to go. Since it happened to now, nothing has gotten worse.”
Ariza didn’t realize who it was that sailed over him until the play was over. “I was just trying to pump fake and get somebody off their feet,” Ariza said. “I didn’t know that he flipped over ... it wasn’t inten-tional or anything like that.” (ap)
PARIS - Maria Sharapova got back in the groove at her happiest hunting ground while Andy Murray’s growing love of clay blossomed as both posted easy first-round wins at the French Open on Monday. Defending champion Sharapova was nursing a cold but opened her bid for a third Roland Garros title in four years with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Estonian Kaia Kanepi on a breezy Court Phillipe Chatrier.
Men’s third seed Murray then took his winning streak on the red dust to 11 matches by overpowering Argentine lucky loser Facundo Arguello 6-3 6-3 6-1, maintaining his unbeaten run since marrying long-term partner Kim Sears.
Sharapova, who was also champion in 2012 and runner-up in 2013 despite an intense dislike for the surface earlier in her illustrious career, produced her usual power tennis to ease through to the second round. It was not a perfect performance, perhaps due to the cough that was troubling her, but she never looked in danger as she set up a meeting with fellow Russian Vitalia Diatchenko.
Sharapova left to a few boos though after declining an on-court interview. “Unless I’m really in my coffin I’m going to be out there,” she told reporters. “I got sick a week before the tournament, not right before. “I guess it’s a little bit better timing but it’s just the way it is. I’m getting over it, hopefully it will pass soon.”
Dark HorseThe world number two is in the opposite side of the draw to her old
nemesis, top seed Serena Williams, and will need to be 100 percent to negotiate her way through to the final.
Former runner-up Samantha Stosur, an easy winner against American Madison Brengle, could await in the third round while eighth seed Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, tipped as a dark horse for the title, is a pos-sible foe in the quarter-finals. Suarez Navarro beat Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2 6-2 but several seeds tumbled on day two in swanky western Paris.
Spain’s Feliciano Lopez, the men’s 11th seed, became the highest casualty so far, losing 6-3 7-6 (9) 6-3 to Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili while women’s 14th seed Agnieszka Radwanska’s slump continued as the former world number two succumbed 6-2 3-6 6-1 to Germany’s Annika Beck.
American veteran Venus Williams, seeded 15, also lost, although a 7-6 (5) 6-1 defeat by compatriot Sloane Stephens barely registered on the shock scale.
With nine-times champion Rafa Nadal and top seed Novak Djok-ovic keeping their powder dry until Tuesday, Murray joined Roger Federer in getting a head start with a confident display on Court Phil-lipe Chatrier.
There were a few early nerves, a double-fault in the opening game giving Arguello a break point that he could not convert and again when he allowed his 137th-ranked opponent to recover from 3-0 down to level at 3-3 in the first set. Once Murray, twice a French Open semi-finalist, broke in the eighth game though he was untroubled.
“I hope (nerves) are always there,” he said. “I can’t remember the last time I played a first-round match in a slam and did not feel ner-vous.” (rtr)
Sharapova and Murray show off title credentials
REUTERS/Jean-Paul PelissierMaria Sharapova of Russia reacts during the women’s singles match against Kaia Kanepi of Estonia at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, May 25, 2015.
Troy Taormina-USA TODAY SportsHouston Rockets guard James Harden (13) is defended by Golden State Warriors guard Andre Iguodala (9) dur-ing the second half in game four of the Western Conference Finals of the NBA Playoffs. at Toyota Center.
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Ancelotti was let go despite being popular among both players and fans and having led Madrid to its 10th European Cup title just a year ago. This season the team finished second in the Spanish league — two points behind archrival Barcelona — lost in the Champions League semifinals to Juventus and exited the Copa del Rey against crosstown rival Atletico Madrid. While the team did win the Club World Cup, that did little to ap-pease Madrid’s notoriously impatient directors.
Club president Florentino Perez announced the firing after a board meeting, and said Ancelotti’s succes-sor would be announced next week. Perez said it had been a “very difficult decision” because the Italian had in two years earned his personal affec-tion — as well as that of the board and the fans — and “now forms part of our history because with him we won our 10th cup.”
Shortly after Perez’s announce-ment Ancelotti posted a comment on his official Twitter account. “I’ll keep the memory of two fantastic years at the club, its fans and my players. Hala Madrid and nothing else,” Ancelotti tweeted in Spanish.
The Italian coach is one of the most decorated in football, having
won titles at Milan, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain before taking the Ma-drid job two years ago. He now joins a long list of top-class managers to have been fired by Madrid, which has gone through 11 coaches since Vicente del Bosque’s four-year reign ended in 2003.
Jose Mourinho is the longest-serving Madrid manager since then, lasting three seasons before leaving by mutual consent to return to Chelsea.
Ancelotti had received an ovation at the Bernabeu after Madrid beat Getafe 7-3 in the team’s final game of the season on Saturday. Cristiano Ronaldo had also shown his support for the Italian coach by posting a pho-tograph of himself next to Ancelotti on his official Twitter account. “Great coach and amazing person. Hope we work together next season,” Ronaldo tweeted Saturday.
Nevertheless, Perez said it was time the club moved on and achieved “a new impetus that will enable us to win new titles and achieve our maximum competitive level in a new phase.”
Perez said it would be “a very good thing if the new coach could speak Spanish” but declined to make any comment on who might be in contention for the job. Napoli’s Rafa
LONDON — Norwich secured an immediate return to the Premier League and an estimated promo-tion windfall of up to $235 million by beating Middlesbrough 2-0 in the second-tier playoff final on Monday. Norwich seized control of world football’s most lucrative club match thanks to goals by Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond by the 15th minute at Wembley Stadium.
Middlesbrough, managed by former Real Madrid assistant coach Aitor Karanka, had beaten Norwich in both of their meetings in the League Championship’s regular season, but barely threatened in the match that really mattered. “We’ve put in probably our most accomplished performance of the season,” Norwich captain Russell Martin said.
Norwich joins already-promot-ed Watford and Bournemouth in next season’s Premier League. The playoff final is the world’s richest football game due to the money clubs earn from the Premier League’s huge domestic and global broadcasting deals, as well as prize money and potential income from future relegation payments.
It is an impressive achievement for 33-year-old Norwich manager Alex Neil, who was largely un-known in England when he was plucked from Scottish side Ham-ilton in January with Norwich’s promotion hopes looking unlikely. Neil has only lost three of his 25 games in charge, a record which
lifted Norwich to a third-place fin-ish in the regular season, and will be the latest in a long line of Scottish coaches to manage in England’s top division.
Norwich was able to keep the majority of its squad together after relegation — eight of the starting players on Monday played in the final game of the Premier League last season — and the side has retained its neat, easy-on-the-eye passing style that proved too much for Middlesbrough.
The opening goal in the 12th minute owed much to the persever-ance of Jerome and the slow reac-tions of Middlesbrough defender Daniel Ayala, who was robbed of possession by the striker on the edge of the penalty box. Jerome cut inside, bore down on the goalkeeper and slipped a low finish in at the near post.
Norwich’s second was a team goal that ended with Redmond — an England under-21 winger — col-lecting a pass with first touch and scoring from an angled shot with his second.
Norwich looked relaxed on the big stage, whereas Middlesbrough, seeking a return to the Premier League after a six-year absence, never really got going. “I said, ‘Don’t be scared, go and play,’” Neil said. “If you play the way you can, it will be enough.” Norwich’s joint majority shareholder is Delia Smith, a British cookbook writer and television host. (ap)
ROME — Roma secured direct entry into the Champions League group phase with a 2-1 win over Lazio in a heated Serie A derby Monday that featured three late goals. French center back Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa decided the match with a header following a free kick in the 85th minute — his first goal of the season.
Roma had taken the lead in the 73rd when Juan Manuel Iturbe chipped in from within the box, but Lazio substitute Filip Djordjevic equalized in the 82nd with a header. With one round remaining, second-place Roma moved four points clear of third-place Lazio, which has a three-point advantage over Napoli — its opponent next weekend.
“Complements to the lads,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “It wasn’t an easy match but we did it. We achieved our goal. ... The church is staying in the center of the village.” Lazio needs at least a draw at Napoli to secure third and qualify for the final Champions League playoff round, in August.
Juventus already secured its fourth straight title, and
also beat Lazio 2-1 in the
Italian Cup final last week. “In (five) days we’ve lost two matches that we shouldn’t have,” Lazio coach Stefano Pioli said. “These are tough losses and we’ve got to show our professionalism and bounce back and do what’s required.”
Lazio dominated the posses-sion, with 62 percent to Roma’s 37 percent. Roma has now won four of its last five matches, following a difficult stretch where it looked like Lazio or Napoli was going to take the lucrative direct Champions League spot. Roma celebrated as if it had won the league, piling on top of each other with captain Fran-cesco Totti putting on a celebratory T-shirt.
“This was a huge achievement,” Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi said. “This success should be a start-
ing point for us.” Despite the presence of 1,700
police officers in and around the sta-
dium, two f a n s
were bloodied in knife attacks out-side the stadium before kickoff, the ANSA news agency reported.
There were also reports of clash-es between Lazio supporters and police outside the stadium after the match, with tear gas used. In a sign of protest after insults from the club’s American president, James Pallotta, Roma fans didn’t produce any pre-match choreography. In-stead, the hard-core “ultra” fans in the southern curve of the stadium held aloft a banner that read: “No choreography today for our dignity: a real president doesn’t insult his people.”
Lazio, which was the home side, had the best chance of the half five minutes in when Miroslav Klose missed the target from close range.
Lazio controlled play early on but for the most part the first half was a tense and physical affair with both sides resorting to counterat-tacks. Nicola Rizzoli, the referee who officiated last year’s World Cup final, handed out four yellow cards — one to Roma and three to Lazio — before halftime. By the e n d , there were eight yel-
lows. (ap)
MOSCOW — Russian authorities want to use prison labor to drive down the costs of holding the 2018 World Cup. The Russian prison service is backing a bid by Alexander Khinshtein, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party, to allow prisoners to be
taken from their camps to work at fac-tories, with a focus on driving down the costs of building materials for World Cup projects.
“It’ll help in the sense that there will be the opportunity to acquire building materials for a lower price, lower than
RIO DE JANEIRO — Fla-mengo has fired coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo just three matches into the Brazilian league. The popular club made the announcement late Monday, a day after it lost 2-1 at recently promoted Avai to remain winless in Brazil’s most important
competition.Luxemburgo, a former Brazil and
Real Madrid coach, had been under pressure since Flamengo was elimi-nated from the Rio de Janeiro state championship earlier this year.
The club opened the Brazilian league with a 2-1 loss at Sao Paulo
and a 2-2 home draw against Sport, when it scored the equalizer in injury time.
Luxemburgo was hired by Fla-mengo 10 months ago and helped the team escape relegation in last year’s Brazilian league. He won 34 matches, lost 14 and drew 11. (ap)
Flamengo fires coach Luxemburgo after poor start in Brazil
Roma beats Lazio 2-1 in derby to secure 2nd in Serie A
AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia
Roma’s Francesco Totti, center, wears a jersey reading in Italian ‘ La Grande Bellezza ‘ (The Great Beauty) as he celebrates with his teammates at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Roma, at Rome’s Olympic Stadium, Monday, May 25, 2015. Roma won 2-1.
Nick Potts / PA via AP
Middlesbrough’s Belgium player Jelle Vossen attempts an overhead kick as he is marked by Norwich City’s French player Sebastien Bassong during their Sky Bet Championship Play Off Final at Wembley Stadium, London, Monday May 25, 2015.
Norwich back in Premier League after winning playoff final
Russia plans to use prison labor for 2018 World Cup
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during a press conference on World Cup 2018 issues in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File
FILE - In this May 13, 2015, file photo, Real Madrid’s coach Carlo Ancelotti takes his place in the dugout prior to the Champions League second leg semifinal soccer match between Real Madrid and Juventus, at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.
Real Madrid fires coach Ancelotti after disappointing season
MADRID — Real Madrid fired coach Carlo Ancelotti on Monday as the Spanish club again showed it won’t tolerate a season without a major trophy.
Benitez, a former youth coach at Ma-drid, is widely reported to be among the candidates.
Ancelotti completed two years of the three-year contract he signed with
Madrid in June 2013. Perez thanked him for his time at Madrid and said the decision to replace him was taken after the season had ended.
Perez declined to comment on
exactly why the board decided to replace the coach, saying simply that “after two years, Madrid’s need to win requires us to give the club a new impulse forward.” (ap)
there is currently on the market,” Khin-shtein told The Associated Press. “And apart from that it’ll make it possible to get prisoners into work, which is very positive.”
Russian prison labor schemes have faced allegations that prisoners are rou-tinely underpaid or forced to work long hours. In 2013, the then-imprisoned Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike in protest at working conditions in her prison camp. Russia’s Federal Peniten-tiary Service has been working with Khinshtein to draw up the proposals, said the lawmaker, adding that they will be submitted to parliament soon.
The service declined to comment on the plan when contacted by the AP on Monday, but deputy director Alexander Rudy told the Kommersant business newspaper that his agency was keen
to use prisoners for “tasks that, let’s say, wouldn’t appeal to the ordinary citizen.”
Workers’ rights are a hot-button issue for World Cup organizer FIFA, which is under pressure over the high rate of deaths among migrant workers in 2022 host nation Qatar.
When asked about the Russian plans to use prison labor, FIFA spokes-person Delia Fischer told the AP: “We have not received any information on the below mentioned plans yet and as such cannot comment for the time being.”
Russia’s move toward prison labor comes at a time when the World Cup budget of 637.6 billion rubles ($12.7 billion) is under pressure after the ruble dropped in value compared to last year, making imported materi-als more expensive. The ruble has
recovered much of its lost value this year, but is still worth around a third less against the dollar than at the start of 2014, before international sanctions and a drop in the price of oil dented the Russian economy.
Khinshtein said his plan to employ prisoners was “of course” an exten-sion of the government’s policy of so-called import replacement, under which Russian-made production is expanded to fill the gap left by costly imports.
The workers would continue to live in their prison camps and would be transported to their place of work each day. A typical wage for a prisoner on such projects might be 15,000 rubles ($300) a month, Khinshtein said. There are no plans as yet to employ prisoners on World Cup stadium construction sites, he added. (ap)AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
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Ancelotti was let go despite being popular among both players and fans and having led Madrid to its 10th European Cup title just a year ago. This season the team finished second in the Spanish league — two points behind archrival Barcelona — lost in the Champions League semifinals to Juventus and exited the Copa del Rey against crosstown rival Atletico Madrid. While the team did win the Club World Cup, that did little to ap-pease Madrid’s notoriously impatient directors.
Club president Florentino Perez announced the firing after a board meeting, and said Ancelotti’s succes-sor would be announced next week. Perez said it had been a “very difficult decision” because the Italian had in two years earned his personal affec-tion — as well as that of the board and the fans — and “now forms part of our history because with him we won our 10th cup.”
Shortly after Perez’s announce-ment Ancelotti posted a comment on his official Twitter account. “I’ll keep the memory of two fantastic years at the club, its fans and my players. Hala Madrid and nothing else,” Ancelotti tweeted in Spanish.
The Italian coach is one of the most decorated in football, having
won titles at Milan, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain before taking the Ma-drid job two years ago. He now joins a long list of top-class managers to have been fired by Madrid, which has gone through 11 coaches since Vicente del Bosque’s four-year reign ended in 2003.
Jose Mourinho is the longest-serving Madrid manager since then, lasting three seasons before leaving by mutual consent to return to Chelsea.
Ancelotti had received an ovation at the Bernabeu after Madrid beat Getafe 7-3 in the team’s final game of the season on Saturday. Cristiano Ronaldo had also shown his support for the Italian coach by posting a pho-tograph of himself next to Ancelotti on his official Twitter account. “Great coach and amazing person. Hope we work together next season,” Ronaldo tweeted Saturday.
Nevertheless, Perez said it was time the club moved on and achieved “a new impetus that will enable us to win new titles and achieve our maximum competitive level in a new phase.”
Perez said it would be “a very good thing if the new coach could speak Spanish” but declined to make any comment on who might be in contention for the job. Napoli’s Rafa
LONDON — Norwich secured an immediate return to the Premier League and an estimated promo-tion windfall of up to $235 million by beating Middlesbrough 2-0 in the second-tier playoff final on Monday. Norwich seized control of world football’s most lucrative club match thanks to goals by Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond by the 15th minute at Wembley Stadium.
Middlesbrough, managed by former Real Madrid assistant coach Aitor Karanka, had beaten Norwich in both of their meetings in the League Championship’s regular season, but barely threatened in the match that really mattered. “We’ve put in probably our most accomplished performance of the season,” Norwich captain Russell Martin said.
Norwich joins already-promot-ed Watford and Bournemouth in next season’s Premier League. The playoff final is the world’s richest football game due to the money clubs earn from the Premier League’s huge domestic and global broadcasting deals, as well as prize money and potential income from future relegation payments.
It is an impressive achievement for 33-year-old Norwich manager Alex Neil, who was largely un-known in England when he was plucked from Scottish side Ham-ilton in January with Norwich’s promotion hopes looking unlikely. Neil has only lost three of his 25 games in charge, a record which
lifted Norwich to a third-place fin-ish in the regular season, and will be the latest in a long line of Scottish coaches to manage in England’s top division.
Norwich was able to keep the majority of its squad together after relegation — eight of the starting players on Monday played in the final game of the Premier League last season — and the side has retained its neat, easy-on-the-eye passing style that proved too much for Middlesbrough.
The opening goal in the 12th minute owed much to the persever-ance of Jerome and the slow reac-tions of Middlesbrough defender Daniel Ayala, who was robbed of possession by the striker on the edge of the penalty box. Jerome cut inside, bore down on the goalkeeper and slipped a low finish in at the near post.
Norwich’s second was a team goal that ended with Redmond — an England under-21 winger — col-lecting a pass with first touch and scoring from an angled shot with his second.
Norwich looked relaxed on the big stage, whereas Middlesbrough, seeking a return to the Premier League after a six-year absence, never really got going. “I said, ‘Don’t be scared, go and play,’” Neil said. “If you play the way you can, it will be enough.” Norwich’s joint majority shareholder is Delia Smith, a British cookbook writer and television host. (ap)
ROME — Roma secured direct entry into the Champions League group phase with a 2-1 win over Lazio in a heated Serie A derby Monday that featured three late goals. French center back Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa decided the match with a header following a free kick in the 85th minute — his first goal of the season.
Roma had taken the lead in the 73rd when Juan Manuel Iturbe chipped in from within the box, but Lazio substitute Filip Djordjevic equalized in the 82nd with a header. With one round remaining, second-place Roma moved four points clear of third-place Lazio, which has a three-point advantage over Napoli — its opponent next weekend.
“Complements to the lads,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “It wasn’t an easy match but we did it. We achieved our goal. ... The church is staying in the center of the village.” Lazio needs at least a draw at Napoli to secure third and qualify for the final Champions League playoff round, in August.
Juventus already secured its fourth straight title, and
also beat Lazio 2-1 in the
Italian Cup final last week. “In (five) days we’ve lost two matches that we shouldn’t have,” Lazio coach Stefano Pioli said. “These are tough losses and we’ve got to show our professionalism and bounce back and do what’s required.”
Lazio dominated the posses-sion, with 62 percent to Roma’s 37 percent. Roma has now won four of its last five matches, following a difficult stretch where it looked like Lazio or Napoli was going to take the lucrative direct Champions League spot. Roma celebrated as if it had won the league, piling on top of each other with captain Fran-cesco Totti putting on a celebratory T-shirt.
“This was a huge achievement,” Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi said. “This success should be a start-
ing point for us.” Despite the presence of 1,700
police officers in and around the sta-
dium, two f a n s
were bloodied in knife attacks out-side the stadium before kickoff, the ANSA news agency reported.
There were also reports of clash-es between Lazio supporters and police outside the stadium after the match, with tear gas used. In a sign of protest after insults from the club’s American president, James Pallotta, Roma fans didn’t produce any pre-match choreography. In-stead, the hard-core “ultra” fans in the southern curve of the stadium held aloft a banner that read: “No choreography today for our dignity: a real president doesn’t insult his people.”
Lazio, which was the home side, had the best chance of the half five minutes in when Miroslav Klose missed the target from close range.
Lazio controlled play early on but for the most part the first half was a tense and physical affair with both sides resorting to counterat-tacks. Nicola Rizzoli, the referee who officiated last year’s World Cup final, handed out four yellow cards — one to Roma and three to Lazio — before halftime. By the e n d , there were eight yel-
lows. (ap)
MOSCOW — Russian authorities want to use prison labor to drive down the costs of holding the 2018 World Cup. The Russian prison service is backing a bid by Alexander Khinshtein, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party, to allow prisoners to be
taken from their camps to work at fac-tories, with a focus on driving down the costs of building materials for World Cup projects.
“It’ll help in the sense that there will be the opportunity to acquire building materials for a lower price, lower than
RIO DE JANEIRO — Fla-mengo has fired coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo just three matches into the Brazilian league. The popular club made the announcement late Monday, a day after it lost 2-1 at recently promoted Avai to remain winless in Brazil’s most important
competition.Luxemburgo, a former Brazil and
Real Madrid coach, had been under pressure since Flamengo was elimi-nated from the Rio de Janeiro state championship earlier this year.
The club opened the Brazilian league with a 2-1 loss at Sao Paulo
and a 2-2 home draw against Sport, when it scored the equalizer in injury time.
Luxemburgo was hired by Fla-mengo 10 months ago and helped the team escape relegation in last year’s Brazilian league. He won 34 matches, lost 14 and drew 11. (ap)
Flamengo fires coach Luxemburgo after poor start in Brazil
Roma beats Lazio 2-1 in derby to secure 2nd in Serie A
AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia
Roma’s Francesco Totti, center, wears a jersey reading in Italian ‘ La Grande Bellezza ‘ (The Great Beauty) as he celebrates with his teammates at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Roma, at Rome’s Olympic Stadium, Monday, May 25, 2015. Roma won 2-1.
Nick Potts / PA via AP
Middlesbrough’s Belgium player Jelle Vossen attempts an overhead kick as he is marked by Norwich City’s French player Sebastien Bassong during their Sky Bet Championship Play Off Final at Wembley Stadium, London, Monday May 25, 2015.
Norwich back in Premier League after winning playoff final
Russia plans to use prison labor for 2018 World Cup
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during a press conference on World Cup 2018 issues in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File
FILE - In this May 13, 2015, file photo, Real Madrid’s coach Carlo Ancelotti takes his place in the dugout prior to the Champions League second leg semifinal soccer match between Real Madrid and Juventus, at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.
Real Madrid fires coach Ancelotti after disappointing season
MADRID — Real Madrid fired coach Carlo Ancelotti on Monday as the Spanish club again showed it won’t tolerate a season without a major trophy.
Benitez, a former youth coach at Ma-drid, is widely reported to be among the candidates.
Ancelotti completed two years of the three-year contract he signed with
Madrid in June 2013. Perez thanked him for his time at Madrid and said the decision to replace him was taken after the season had ended.
Perez declined to comment on
exactly why the board decided to replace the coach, saying simply that “after two years, Madrid’s need to win requires us to give the club a new impulse forward.” (ap)
there is currently on the market,” Khin-shtein told The Associated Press. “And apart from that it’ll make it possible to get prisoners into work, which is very positive.”
Russian prison labor schemes have faced allegations that prisoners are rou-tinely underpaid or forced to work long hours. In 2013, the then-imprisoned Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike in protest at working conditions in her prison camp. Russia’s Federal Peniten-tiary Service has been working with Khinshtein to draw up the proposals, said the lawmaker, adding that they will be submitted to parliament soon.
The service declined to comment on the plan when contacted by the AP on Monday, but deputy director Alexander Rudy told the Kommersant business newspaper that his agency was keen
to use prisoners for “tasks that, let’s say, wouldn’t appeal to the ordinary citizen.”
Workers’ rights are a hot-button issue for World Cup organizer FIFA, which is under pressure over the high rate of deaths among migrant workers in 2022 host nation Qatar.
When asked about the Russian plans to use prison labor, FIFA spokes-person Delia Fischer told the AP: “We have not received any information on the below mentioned plans yet and as such cannot comment for the time being.”
Russia’s move toward prison labor comes at a time when the World Cup budget of 637.6 billion rubles ($12.7 billion) is under pressure after the ruble dropped in value compared to last year, making imported materi-als more expensive. The ruble has
recovered much of its lost value this year, but is still worth around a third less against the dollar than at the start of 2014, before international sanctions and a drop in the price of oil dented the Russian economy.
Khinshtein said his plan to employ prisoners was “of course” an exten-sion of the government’s policy of so-called import replacement, under which Russian-made production is expanded to fill the gap left by costly imports.
The workers would continue to live in their prison camps and would be transported to their place of work each day. A typical wage for a prisoner on such projects might be 15,000 rubles ($300) a month, Khinshtein said. There are no plans as yet to employ prisoners on World Cup stadium construction sites, he added. (ap)AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
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Curry’s first field goal after re-turning was a 3-pointer that got Golden State within six points with less than 8-1/2 minutes remaining. But Harden, who had 17 points in the fourth quarter, scored the next seven points as part of 10 straight by Houston to push the lead to 114-98 and effectively end it, cutting the series deficit to 3-1. Harden’s match-winning performance made up for a disappointing output in Game 3.
“I always want to take it out on my opponent in a good way,” Harden said. “Just being aggressive, taking shots, getting to the basket, not really forcing anything and allowing the game to come to me.” Klay Thomp-son had 24 points and Curry added 23 for Golden State, which had been looking to secure its first trip to the NBA Finals since 1975 after routing
Houston 115-80 on Saturday night to take a 3-0 lead in the series.
The Warriors will try again at home in Game 5 on Wednesday. Houston bounced back from a 3-1 deficit to the Los Angeles Clippers in the confer-ence semifinals. But they face a much bigger challenge in this series, as no team in NBA history has won a playoff series after trailing 3-0.
Houston’s Dwight Howard had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and received a flagrant 1 foul early in the third quarter after throwing an elbow at Andrew Bogut’s head. He would be suspended by accumula-tion of flagrant foul points if the NBA upgrades it to a flagrant 2 after review. “I hope not,” Howard said when asked about that possibility. “But there’s nothing I can do about it at this point. It’s never my inten-
tion to hurt anybody on the floor. My reaction was to try to get him off me, but I can’t react that way.”
The Warriors made 20 3-pointers and Houston had 17 to set an NBA record for most 3-pointers com-bined in a playoff game. Curry was injured after he jumped in the air as Trevor Ariza was about to go up for a shot. Ariza saw him and stopped abruptly, causing Curry to be up-ended in midair when he crashed into Ariza’s shoulder. His head hit the court and it propelled him up and back onto the floor where he remained for several minutes.
Curry looked dazed as he was attended to before slowly getting up and walking off the court. “It was all minor stuff compared to how it looked,” Curry said. “But I’ll get some good rest and be ready to go. Since it happened to now, nothing has gotten worse.”
Ariza didn’t realize who it was that sailed over him until the play was over. “I was just trying to pump fake and get somebody off their feet,” Ariza said. “I didn’t know that he flipped over ... it wasn’t inten-tional or anything like that.” (ap)
PARIS - Maria Sharapova got back in the groove at her happiest hunting ground while Andy Murray’s growing love of clay blossomed as both posted easy first-round wins at the French Open on Monday. Defending champion Sharapova was nursing a cold but opened her bid for a third Roland Garros title in four years with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Estonian Kaia Kanepi on a breezy Court Phillipe Chatrier.
Men’s third seed Murray then took his winning streak on the red dust to 11 matches by overpowering Argentine lucky loser Facundo Arguello 6-3 6-3 6-1, maintaining his unbeaten run since marrying long-term partner Kim Sears.
Sharapova, who was also champion in 2012 and runner-up in 2013 despite an intense dislike for the surface earlier in her illustrious career, produced her usual power tennis to ease through to the second round. It was not a perfect performance, perhaps due to the cough that was troubling her, but she never looked in danger as she set up a meeting with fellow Russian Vitalia Diatchenko.
Sharapova left to a few boos though after declining an on-court interview. “Unless I’m really in my coffin I’m going to be out there,” she told reporters. “I got sick a week before the tournament, not right before. “I guess it’s a little bit better timing but it’s just the way it is. I’m getting over it, hopefully it will pass soon.”
Dark HorseThe world number two is in the opposite side of the draw to her old
nemesis, top seed Serena Williams, and will need to be 100 percent to negotiate her way through to the final.
Former runner-up Samantha Stosur, an easy winner against American Madison Brengle, could await in the third round while eighth seed Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, tipped as a dark horse for the title, is a pos-sible foe in the quarter-finals. Suarez Navarro beat Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2 6-2 but several seeds tumbled on day two in swanky western Paris.
Spain’s Feliciano Lopez, the men’s 11th seed, became the highest casualty so far, losing 6-3 7-6 (9) 6-3 to Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili while women’s 14th seed Agnieszka Radwanska’s slump continued as the former world number two succumbed 6-2 3-6 6-1 to Germany’s Annika Beck.
American veteran Venus Williams, seeded 15, also lost, although a 7-6 (5) 6-1 defeat by compatriot Sloane Stephens barely registered on the shock scale.
With nine-times champion Rafa Nadal and top seed Novak Djok-ovic keeping their powder dry until Tuesday, Murray joined Roger Federer in getting a head start with a confident display on Court Phil-lipe Chatrier.
There were a few early nerves, a double-fault in the opening game giving Arguello a break point that he could not convert and again when he allowed his 137th-ranked opponent to recover from 3-0 down to level at 3-3 in the first set. Once Murray, twice a French Open semi-finalist, broke in the eighth game though he was untroubled.
“I hope (nerves) are always there,” he said. “I can’t remember the last time I played a first-round match in a slam and did not feel ner-vous.” (rtr)
Sharapova and Murray show off title credentials
REUTERS/Jean-Paul PelissierMaria Sharapova of Russia reacts during the women’s singles match against Kaia Kanepi of Estonia at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, May 25, 2015.
Troy Taormina-USA TODAY SportsHouston Rockets guard James Harden (13) is defended by Golden State Warriors guard Andre Iguodala (9) dur-ing the second half in game four of the Western Conference Finals of the NBA Playoffs. at Toyota Center.
HOUSTON — Houston’s James Harden scored a playoff career-high 45 points while Golden State’s Stephen Curry suffered a scary fall as the Rockets led from start to finish and beat the Warriors 128-115 on Monday to stave off elimination from the NBA playoffs. The Rockets scored 45 points in the first quarter — equaling a playoff record — to quickly get on top. They were up by 22 in the second quarter when league MVP Curry landed on his head in a nasty spill and missed about 12 minutes before returning.
TABANAN - Beratan Lake is a shallow lake with the high caldera about 1231m above sea level and it is located at Bedugul, the famous tourist destina-tions in Bali. This lake have wide 3,8 km2 and also its deepness is up to 22 meters. The water volume in this lake is about 0,049 km3, so Beratan Lake is the closed lake. Tourist can access the Beratan Lake through the dock which have been provided or desist around Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. In this place, the visitor can do various activities like doing recreation to look around in dock or do the other outdoor activities. The various water recreation activities can also be conducted here, for example riding the boat motorize to circle the lake, paras-ailing, canoeing with the traditional boat, banana boating, water skiing, and others. Fishing activities
are also available in this places for who one love fishing in the lake.
Beratan Lake is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere surround it. It is an ideal place for relaxation while enjoy the beautiful panorama of lake. The accommodations are also available in this area where is the perfect place for overnight stay, resting and enjoy the beautiful panoramic of lake with the Ulun Danu Temple as a magnificence. The small scale of agriculture activities are likely conducted around this lake and can be perceived at the same time circle around it. If we encircle it, we can take photograph with the beautiful background view or make the picture sketch face in painting mini studio at the lakeside with a short time as a souvenir.
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Trey Hatt, a spokesman for the Hays County Emergency Operations Center, said Monday night that the “search component” of the mission was over, meaning no more survivors were expected to be found in the flood debris along the Blanco River. But recovery efforts were to resume Tuesday morning, following a long holiday weekend of severe weather that led to four confirmed fatalities across Texas.
Authorities were also searching for victims and assessing damage just across the Texas-Mexico border in Ciudad Acuna, where a tornado Monday killed 13 people and left at least five unaccounted for.
In the U.S., a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes dumped record rainfall on parts of the Plains and Mid-west, spawning tornadoes and causing major flooding that in Texas destroyed or damaged more than 1,000 homes and forced at least 2,000 residents to leave their homes. “You cannot candy coat it. It’s absolutely massive,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said after touring the destruction.
The governor has declared disaster areas in 37 counties so far, allowing for further mobilization of state resources to assist. The worst flooding damage was in Wimberley, where the vaca-tion home was swept away, a popular
tourist town along the Blanco in the corridor between Austin and San Antonio.
Witnesses reported seeing the swollen river push the home off its foundation and smash it into a bridge. Only pieces of the home have been found, Hays County Judge Bert Cobb said. One person who was rescued from the home told workers that the other 12 inside were all connected to two families, Cobb said. Young children were among those believed to be missing.
The Blanco crested above 40 feet (12 meters) — more than triple its flood stage of 13 feet (3.9 meters). The river swamped Interstate 35 and forced parts of the busy north-south highway to close. Rescuers used pontoon boats and a helicopter to pull people out. Hundreds of trees along the Blanco were uprooted or snapped, and they collected in piles of debris that soared 20 feet (6 meters) high.
Flooding wreaked havoc late Monday afternoon in Austin, where emergency crews responded to more than 20 high-water rescues, and later in Houston, where the National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency and an announcer at the Houston Rockets game asked fans not to leave because of severe weather.
The storm system also prompted
KAMPALA, Uganda — Several Kenyan police officers were killed in an attack Monday night by suspected Somali militants in the northeastern Garissa county, where 148 students were massacred last month, police said Tuesday.
A police spokesman, George Kim-oti, confirmed there was an attack in the Garissa region, and two security officials said many police officers had been killed in an al-Shabab ambush but could not give an exact death toll. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not au-thorized to speak to reporters. Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper reported that at least 20 police officers were feared dead in the attack in Garissa’s Yumbis village.
The victims — who were on their
way to rescue another team of officers wounded in an attack earlier on Mon-day — were moving in a convoy of four vehicles that the militants then burned. In the earlier attack, three police officers had been injured when their vehicle ran over a land mine, the officials said.
The same area was in the spotlight last week after suspected al-Shabab militants raided mosques and started to preach to congregations of Mus-lims. The militants reportedly hoisted flags before the security forces arrived. Kenya’s interior ministry said Friday it had “thwarted an attempted attack” on Thursday evening after the residents of Yumbis residents spotted armed militants in the area and alerted the authorities.
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab has carried out several attacks
in Kenya in retaliation for Kenya’s mili-tary involvement in Somalia, where Ke-nyan troops are part of an African Union force bolstering the Western-backed central government in Mogadishu.
Despite major setbacks in 2014, al-Shabab continues to wage an insur-gency against Somalia’s government and remains a threat in the East African region.
The group claimed responsibility for a deadly assault last month on a college in Garissa town, as well as a 2013 as-sault on an upscale mall in the capital, Nairobi, in which at least 67 people were killed.
Kenyan officials are reportedly pondering the construction of a wall along the border with Somalia as part of the government’s efforts to stem the attacks. (ap)
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities in the eastern Aegean Sea have picked up more than 300 people who entered the country illegally in small craft from Turkey, raising the total of arrivals over the past two days to nearly 1,200.
After Italy, financially crippled Greece is the main destination for refugees — mostly from war-ravaged Syria — and economic migrants seeking a better life in the European Union. About 30,000 have arrived this year.
The country has asked for more assistance from EU authorities in coping with the flow, and EU commissioner for immigration Dimitris Avramopoulos, who is Greek, was conferring with government officials in Athens on Tuesday.
The migrant arrivals of the past two days were mostly on the islands of Lesvos, Kos, Chios and Farmakonissi, all close to the Turkish shores. (ap)
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Hudson Doty, 18, left, and Grant Guzal, 17, right, walk along the bank of the Blanco River near the foundation and stilts of the Carey family home on Deer Crossing Lane, in Wimberley, Texas, on Monday, May 25, 2015.
12 missing after flooding in Texas sweeps away vacation home
WIMBERLEY, Texas — Recovery teams are set to resume looking for the 12 members of two families who authorities say are missing after a rain-swollen river in Central Texas carried a vacation home off its foundation, slamming it into a bridge downstream.
Police: Several Kenyan officers killed in ambush
More migrants reach Greece, approaching 1,200 in 2 days
reports of tornadoes across the state and was blamed for four deaths: a man whose body was pulled from the Blanco; a 14-year-old who was found with his dog in a storm drain; a high school senior who died Saturday after her car was caught in high water; and a man whose mobile home was destroyed by a reported tornado.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management also re-ported four fatalities between Saturday and Monday across the state, which also saw severe flooding and reported tornadoes.
In Ciudad Acuna, Mayor Evaristo Perez Rivera said 300 people were treated at local hospitals after the twister, and up to 200 homes had been completely destroyed. The govern-ment was talking with families whose homes had been damaged to deter-mine how much assistance would be needed to rebuild the city of 125,000 across from Del Rio, Texas. “We have never registered in the more than 100 years in the history of this city a tor-nado,” he said.
By midday, 13 people were con-firmed dead — 10 adults and three
infants. At least five people were unaccounted for. The twister hit a seven-block area, which Victor Zamora, interior secretary of the northern state of Coahuila, described as “devastated.”
“There’s nothing standing, not walls, not roofs,” said Edgar Gonzalez, a spokesman for the city government, describing some of the destroyed homes in a 3-square kilometer (1 square mile) stretch. Mexican Presi-dent Enrique Pena Nieto was expected to travel to Acuna with officials from government agencies. (ap)
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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s home minister called for a police investiga-tion into the suspected contamination of rice with plastic, saying it may be an attempt at sabotaging the govern-ment, media reported on Monday.
President Joko Widodo has called for calm after reports that tainted rice may have caused the hospitalization of a girl in Medan on Sunday and made some customers at a food mar-ket in Bekasi sick last week.
Rice is a common food staple in Indonesia, the world’s third biggest importer, and reports of contamina-tion can quickly cause food scares in
the vast archipelago.“The synthetic rice distributor
... may be making an attempt at treason or trying to sabotage the government,” Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo was quoted as saying by the English-daily Jakarta Post.
The scare began last week when customers complained of nausea and dizziness after eating suspect rice from a vendor in Bekasi, a town neighbouring the capital of Jakarta.
Initial tests indicated the rice was contaminated with plastic and plastic softeners. Widodo, however, urged consumers to wait for official gov-
ernment test results before jumping to conclusions.
Police were waiting for the results of official tests before continuing their investigation, Assistant Police Commissioner Siswo told Reuters.
The trade ministry plans to issue regulations to tighten controls on rice imports and impose closer supervi-sion of rice storage facilities, Trade Minister Rahmat Gobel said.
The Bekasi vendor, Dewi Septiani, told reporters that the rice she had sold in porridge was “clearly very different and smelled different too. It’s not like natural rice”. (rtr)
JAKARTA - Indonesian police have shot dead two suspected Islamic militants and arrested seven others in raids in an area known as a terror hotbed, an official said Monday.
The force’s elite anti-terror unit killed the two men during a firefight on Sunday in a village in Poso district on Sulawesi island, said national police spokesman Agus Rianto.
“When we tried to arrest them, they resisted. There was a firefight and two from the group were killed,” he said, adding that two policemen were injured.
Seven suspected militants have been arrested over several days, including five in the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar, Rianto said.
The spokesman said they were linked to the coun-try’s most-wanted Islamic extremist named Santoso.
He leads the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen militant group, which hides out in the jungles on central Su-lawesi.
The world’s most populous Muslim-majority na-tion has struggled with Islamic extremism for more than a decade, facing a series of attacks on Western targets, although a crackdown has weakened the most dangerous networks.
The militants on Sulawesi are thought to be among the few that remain a real threat in Indonesia. They regularly launch attacks but these tend to target Indo-nesian security forces and be low-impact.
But fears are growing about the influence of the Is-lamic State group, with some worried that Indonesians returning from fighting in Iraq or Syria could revive sophisticated militant networks. (afp)
Palace and military officials say Widodo’s move is partly de-signed to counterbalance senior police officers who have crossed swords with him and who, critics say, are trying to undermine the agency leading the campaign against graft.
The police acknowledges “problems” in its relationship with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), but says it is working with the agency to tackle graft.
The prospect of a greater role for the military in civilian matters does not presage a return to the authoritarianism of army Gen-eral Suharto, when it oversaw government policy as well as providing national security, the officials said.
Indeed , mi l i t a ry ch i e f Moeldoko has sought to quell such concerns.
“As long as the military is needed by the country to safe-guard the national development carried out by ministries, then go ahead,” Moeldoko, who retires in July, told reporters this month. “But nobody should try to drag the military into politics.”
Nevertheless, critics of Wido-do’s move fear it sets a dangerous precedent in a country where the military has a long tradition of in-volvement in politics and which
directly elected a president for the first time only 11 years ago.
“While symbolic engagement with the military is important to get things done and to send a signal of stability, we’re tread-ing a dangerous line here,” said Tobias Basuki, political analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a local think-tank.
“In the long term it will create a new Goliath within Indonesian politics if the military doesn’t steer clear of civilian life.”
A senior government official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Widodo, the first president from outside the country’s political elite or armed forces, has struggled to assert himself over the police force and its political patrons, who include senior figures in his own party.
He trusts the military more than the police, the official said, and sees it as a potentially coun-terbalancing force.
The army’s expansion into civilian affairs began last month, with the first major counter-terrorism operation since the response to a spate of hotel bombings in Jakarta in 2009. Anti-terrorism efforts are tradi-tionally the domain of the police. (rtr)
BERLIN — Police in the southern German region of Ba-varia say their biggest-ever he-licopter rescue operation saved 14 Indonesian students who misjudged the weather during a spring hike in the Alps.
The 23- to 25-year-old-stu-dents called for help late Sunday after becoming lost amid heavy snowfall at an altitude of 1,800 meters (5,900 feet) in the Watz-mannkar valley near Austria.
Bavarian police said Monday that helicopters with heat-seeking cameras were scrambled and together with mountain rescue teams were able to locate the students.
Spokesman Juergen Thal-meier said the students were rain-soaked and chilled from the cold but otherwise unharmed. None had the equipment or cloth-ing needed for a hike in snowy high-Alpine terrain. (ap)
Minister fears government sabotage in contaminated rice scare
14 Indonesian students rescued after misjudging Alpine hike
Military creeps back into civilian affairs
JAKARTA - Nearly two decades after Indonesia’s military was squeezed out of civilian affairs with the downfall of strongman leader Suharto, President Joko Widodo is drawing the army more closely into his wars on drugs, terrorism, and corruption.
ANTARA FOTO/Basri MarzukiPolicemen stood on guard in front of Bhayangkara Hospital mortuary where two bodies of suspected Islamic Militants were placed. Indonesian police have shot dead two suspected Islamic militants and arrested seven others in raids in an area known as a terror hotbed, an official said Monday.
Police shoot dead two terror suspects
SEOUL - Samsung Group announced Tuesday the merger of two major affiliates, as the South Korean business giant accelerates restructuring efforts ahead of a generational power transfer within the founding Lee fam-ily.
The all stock deal, approved by the boards of both companies, would see Samsung’s de facto holding company Cheil Industries -- which has interests from fashion to theme parks -- acquire general trade and construc-tion affiliate Samsung C&T.
The merger, which is expected to be com-pleted by September pending shareholder approval, will see Cheil offer 0.35 new shares for each Samsung C&T share.
The two companies are both listed on the Seoul stock market, with Cheil valued at 22 trillion won (US$2 billion) and Samsung
C&T 8.6 trillion won as of Tuesday morn-ing.
The combined company -- which will take the Samsung C&T name -- will target annual sales of about 60 trillion won in 2020, com-pared with their combined sales of 34 trillion won in 2014, Samsung said in a statement.
“The two companies expect to create synergy by combining their construction busi-nesses, while Samsung C&T’s global network will help develop new opportunities overseas for Cheil’s fashion, resort and catering busi-nesses,” the statement said.
Share prices of both Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T soared by the daily limit of 15 percent on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s announcement was the latest in a series of moves apparently aimed at solidi-fying the Lee family’s grip on the sprawling
behemoth.The family-run Samsung Group, currently
chaired by Lee Kun-Hee, has merged, broken out or newly listed some of its key units in recent years as he prepares to hand over the reins to his son, J.Y. Lee.
The Lee family controls the vast Samsung Group via a complex web of cross sharehold-ings across the group’s subsidiaries, includ-ing Cheil, where J.Y. Lee has a controlling stake.
Samsung C&T has a four percent stake in Samsung Electronics -- the group’s flagship unit and the world’s top maker of smart-phones and mobile phones.
The Lee family currently has a less than five percent stake in Samsung Electronics, a holding that will be boosted by the merger.
“This is a merger of the two most impor-
tant Samsung units from the perspective of the heir,” said Lee Kwang-Soo, analyst at Seoul-based Mirae Asset Securities.
Recent health problems concerning the senior Lee, currently bedridden after suffering a heart attack last year, prompted the group to step up restructuring efforts.
Cheil Industries last year merged with Samsung SDI, the world’s largest smartphone battery maker.
The group also sold last year stakes in four affiliates worth $2 billion in a move analysts said was designed to streamline businesses and to focus on key profit-making units.
The group, comprised of dozens of units ranging from electronics to hotels, earns a collective revenue equal to around 20 percent of South Korea’s annual economic output. (afp)
In Tokyo afternoon trade, the greenback rose to 122.53 yen, levels last seen in mid-2007, and up from 121.66 yen on Monday.
The dollar has been underpinned by expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the com-ing months -- a view supported by
comments from its chief Janet Yel-len who said Friday she expects a hike “at some point this year”.
“The central scenario still points to a September lift-off,” said Cam-eron Bagrie, chief economist at ANZ Bank New Zealand.
Traders are awaiting the release
of key US data this week includ-ing revised economic growth for the first quarter and durable goods orders.
The euro weakened to $1.0907 from $1.0980 and to 133.52 yen from 133.60 yen on Monday.
Many markets around Europe and in New York were closed Mon-day for public holidays.
Investors are watching closely for any new developments in talks
between Greece and its interna-tional creditors over unlocking bailout funds, with no deal in sight and 300 million euros of payments due next week.
The discussions with the Euro-pean Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are aimed at releasing the final tranche of its 240-billion-euro bailout. But Athens is resisting aus-terity and reform demands to free up
the money and thus avoid possible default that could drive the country out of the eurozone.
“Greece is edging closer to a deal, however, the detail, size and scope of that deal is being blurred by the hour,” Evan Lucas, market strategist in Melbourne at IG Ltd., said in a client note.
The dollar was mostly stronger against other Asia-Pacific curren-cies. (afp)
Dollar hits fresh eight-year high on yenTOKYO - The dollar powered to a fresh eight-year high against
the yen on Tuesday, while the euro was weighed by growing concerns about Greece’s bailout talks as a repayment deadline looms.
Samsung to merge two major unitsAP Photo/Lee Jin-man
Office workers walk by a logo of Samsung C&T Corp. at its head office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
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Branch Marketing Manager of Pertamina for Bali-Nusra Region, Iwan Yudha Wibawa, when asked about the plan to stop the subsidies, said on Monday (May 25) that he did not want to give any com-ments n the issue because he has not received instructionfrom the Pertamina’s central office.
But when asked about the su-pervision of distribution, including allegations of people hoarding 3-kg LPG tanks, which is caus-ing scarcity, Iwan Yudha said that there is no shortage of the 3-kg LPG tanks. “In Denpasar and sur-rounding areas, the distribution of tanks is well monitored. However, perhaps some inland area cannot be reached. But if there is a request we will make deliveries,” he said.
However, on the ground there are allegations of fraud at the retail level, causing some com-munities’ households to not have access to the tanks. He admitted that it is difficult to control at the level of retailers. “Sometimes there are rogue retailers which makes it rather difficult to control,” he explained.
As for the matter of hoarding, theft or illegal refuelling, Wibawa said that Pertamina already has rules in place so if any violations are discovered, sanctions will be imposed. “Sanctions vary, rang-ing from termination of business relationships, to termination of distribution and others,” he said.
Wibawa went on to say that in terms of the supervision of 3-kg LPG tank distribution beyond agents and authorized stations, Pertamina cooperates with local governments, oil and gas entrepre-neurs associations (Hiswanamigas) and the police as set forth accord-ing to the regulation of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources No.26/2009 wherein supervision beyond authorized agents is a shared responsibility.
“Yes, the supervision can be done by local governments, police
and stakeholders according to the regulations,” he said.
Some perpetrators of illegal re-fueling have already been arrested and imposed with the termination of their businesses. “Pertamina will directly serve as an expert witness at the police station and in court,” he stated.
Should there be any rogue agents or distributors, he added, Pertamina will act in the best of it’s ability to deliver them to police authorities who will take appropri-ate action.
Allegations of illegal refuel-ing, either though the reduction of
content or through transfer of sub-sidies to the industrial sector, hap-pens due to weak supervision and lack of police law enforcement. In Bali, especially in Denpasar, gas explosions have occurred several times which were allegedly caused by illegal refueling. However, the authorities have not applied the law to the owners.
Lawyer, Christo Imanuel Du-gis, said that the matter of gas affects many people’s lives. “The regulations are good, but outcomes highly depend on application of the rules in the field” he said, on Monday. Dugis also explained that
the key to preventing hoarding and illegal refuellng lies with clear and decisive supervision on the part of the government. “Now, people take advantage of opportunities. If there is no decisive action, the things will get worse. The state alone cannot ensure that the rules are followed,” said Christo.
Such breaches occur, he said, both by omission and by intent. “In Indonesia, it happens a lot, that even if the incidence of such occurrences is rampant, the only response is stopping market opera-tions or arrest,” added Dugis.
On that account, to ensure that
distribution complies with regula-tions, constant and serious super-vision is required. “People dare to hoard because there is no supervi-sion or only weak supervision. If supervision was stricter, despite potential gains, people would be far more reluctant to commit ille-gal refuelling,” he explained.
Police authorities, Pertamina as well as oil and gas departments must therefore be proactive in preventing such crimes. Police, for example, must take action and punish the perpetrators of illegal refueling as severly as possible. (kmb37)
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Taiwan has not been a high-profile player in the disputes in the South China Sea, although it uses roughly the same historical basis for its claim as China, and Ma’s initiative appeared aimed at shoring up foreign policy cre-dentials at home. “We emphasize that whereas sovereignty can’t be divided, resources can be shared,” Ma said in his speech Tuesday at an Asia-Pacific research forum in Taipei.
Taiwan, China, Brunei, Malay-sia, Vietnam and the Philippines claim all or parts of the 3.5 mil-lion-square-kilometer (1.4 million square-mile) South China Sea. The ocean ranges from Taiwan’s south-ern tip southwest to Singapore. In recent months China has made other claimants and their com-mon ally the United States bristle by landfilling tiny islets, a way to extend its reach. The tropical sea is rich in oil, natural gas and fisher-ies as well as major international
marine shipping routes.In a sign of recent tensions, Bei-
jing filed a formal complaint with the United States this week after an American military plane flew over one islet, and Japan has pledged to help Vietnam and the Philippines with defense as China’s presence grows.
Taiwan’s initiative calls on “all parties concerned” to uphold the “freedom and safety of navigation and overflight” and avoid unilateral action that would escalate tension, according to a statement from the foreign ministry. It also suggests regional cooperation in developing the region’s resources.
Other South China Sea claim-ants are unlikely to react openly to Taiwan’s initiative as they lack diplomatic relations with Ma’s government. China claims sover-eignty over Taiwan itself and uses economic clout to bar other nations from exchanges that cast Taiwan as a nation. Ma did not discuss
Tuesday the basis for Taiwan’s maritime claim or that of other governments.
The United States wants the sea to stay open to shipping and flights, while Beijing has said Washington wants to keep a presence there to contain Chinese maritime ex-pansion. Taiwan is keen to get along with the United States as its staunchest informal ally.
Ma’s initiative “is not enough for China and it’s not enough for the United States, so you just end up not meeting everyone’s expectations,” said Lai I-chung, vice president of Taiwan Think Tank.
The peace plan may also be calculated to bolster Taiwan’s rul-ing Nationalist Party ahead of the January 2016 presidential election as their chief opposition candidate develops a competing plan for the South China Sea, said Joanna Lei, chief executive officer of the Chunghua 21st Century Think Tank in Taiwan. Ma has been criticized at home for lack of foreign policy achievements.
In 2012, Ma proposed a peace initiative for settling disputes in the East China Sea, parts of which are claimed by his government as well as China and Japan. (ap)
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia plans to pass a law within weeks to give the government power to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are suspected terrorists even if they are not convicted of a crime, the prime minister said Tuesday. More than 100 Australians are suspected to be fighting with the Islamic State movement and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. Up to 50 percent of those fighters were estimated to be dual citizens, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.
The amendments to the Citizenship Act would allow Islamic State supporters both overseas and at home to be treated the same as Austra-lians who join foreign armies at war against Australia, Abbott said.
The Immigration Minister Peter Dutton would have the discretion to revoke Australian citizenship from dual nationals suspected of terror-ism, even if they had been not been convicted of any offense, Abbott said. The decision would be subject to judicial appeal.
“There should be no difference in how we treat Australians who join a hostile army and those engaged in terrorism — both are betray-ing our country and don’t deserve to be citizens of Australia,” Abbott said in a statement.
The amendment would bring Australian citizenship laws closer to those the United States, Canada, France and Britain, he said. No one was to be left stateless by losing their Australian citizenship.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told Parliament that a 26-year-old Australian woman whom newspapers reported on Tuesday had aban-doned her two children, aged 5 and 7, in Sydney this month to go to Syria and join the Islamic State movement was not an isolated case. There are an estimated 30 to 40 Australian women engaged with or supporting terrorists in the two countries, she said.
“I’m deeply pessimistic about the fate of this apparently troubled young woman, but I’m thankful she left her children in the safety of Australia and didn’t put them in mortal danger as others have done,” Bishop told Parliament.
“It’s simply incomprehensible that while streams of innocent young women and girls are desperately trying to get away from Daesh, young Australian women and girls are seeking to join them,” she added, refer-ring to the Islamic State movement.
The government plans to spend 40 million Australian dollars ($31 million) on new intervention programs and community initiatives to prevent young Australians from leaving the country to join terror groups, she said. (ap)
REUTERS/Andrew Meares/Pool/FilesLeader of the conservative opposition Tony Abbott speaks dur-ing a debate with the Australian Prime Minister and leader of the Australian Labor Party Kevin Rudd at the National Press Club in Canberra in this August 11, 2013 file photo.
Australia to pass law to strip citizenship for terror crimes
AP Photo/Wally SantanaTaiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou speaks as he announces his South China Sea Peace Initiative during the 2015 ILA-ASIL Asia Pacific Research Forum in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. President Ma laid out a plan Tuesday to ease tensions in a vast, resource-rich Asian ocean where China has chafed against its neighbors by expanding islets with landfill to solidify its claims in the region.
Taiwan proposes plan to ease South China Sea tensions
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou laid out a plan Tuesday to ease tensions in a vast, resource-rich Asian ocean where China has chafed against its neighbors by expanding islets with landfill to solidify its claims in the region. Ma’s plan calls for setting aside sovereignty disputes over the South China Sea and jointly exploring for resources.
Government must take decisive action
Weak supervision results in gas hoarding
DENPASAR - Pertamina, espe-cially in Bali, has not been willing to address the government’s plan to stop subsidizing 3-kg LPG tanks. According to an informal poll conducted by Bali Post, the majority of Balinese people reject the subsidy removal plan on the grounds that small communities are not then into consideration.
IBP/Eka AdhiyasaSome perpetrators of illegal refueling have already been arrested and imposed with the termination of their businesses.
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The irony of a YouTube star drawing a massive crowd at a bookstore isn’t lost on talent manager Andrew Graham.
“A year ago, I went to New York and tried to get a book publisher to take a meeting with me,” said Graham, who represents Franta and other mega-popular YouTubers. “I had one meeting, and they laughed at me. Here we are a year later at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles with a New York Times best-selling author who is a client. I think that says it all. It’s a 180-degree turn.”
Franta isn’t a singer, chef, comedian or athlete. He’s a YouTube star angling to be the Oprah Winfrey for millennials.
In its 10-years of existence, YouTube has evolved from a playground for kitty videos to a $20 billion visual menagerie. Along the way, it’s also become an incuba-tor for a new type of celebrity — a digital Brat Pack that’s leveraging smartphone stardom to write books, drop albums, de-sign products and break into Hollywood.
“It’s the most powerful marketing plat-form in the world for millennials,” said Graham. “If you’re trying to reach that audience of girls gathered downstairs, YouTube is the venue to do that. Look at an artist like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank). He went off to Hollywood, created some films, neglected his channel, came back to YouTube and ... crickets. No one was there anymore. You can’t abandon it.”
In recent years, YouTube, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, has propped up YouTubers like Franta — “creators,” the site calls them
— who attract millions of subscribers that regularly watch their online videos and the advertising attached to them.
Their popularity is still eclipsed by music videos, which continue to account for YouTube’s most watched clips. Yet the fandom that creators are inspiring, and the ad revenue they’re bringing in, can’t be ignored.
With his playful grin and doe eyes, Franta currently boasts more than 4.4 million devotees to his personal YouTube channel, where he speaks to viewers about life, dating, candy, whatever at least once a week. He began posting videos in 2010 while still attending high school in La Crescent, Minnesota. Now, he’s releasing music compilations and a line of locally grown coffee.
For every Justin Bieber or Psy, perhaps YouTube’s biggest success stories, there are dozens of Frantas. It’s a form of celebrity that didn’t exist 10 years ago, when You-Tube was born and made it simple to post video online. Franta, who continues to up-load videos despite his other endeavors, is young enough to have been inspired by the YouTube vloggers that came before him.
“There are guys like Shane Dawson and Phillip DeFranco who I was a fan of, and now we’re friends,” said Franta, sequestered from fans behind racks of his book, “A Work in Progress,” in the Barnes & Noble stockroom. “Do you know how awkward it would be to tell some of my friends that I watched them on YouTube in my bedroom before I knew them? It’s weird to think of it like that.”
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This Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo shows, Connor Franta’s “Coming Out” video playing on YouTube displayed on a computer screen in Los Angeles.
After a decade online, YouTube is redefining celebrity
LOS ANGELES — It’s a meet-and-greet worthy of an A-list star. Outside the three-story bookstore at the outdoor shopping mecca known as The Grove, hundreds of mostly young women have formed a line that stretches past trendy clothing stores and spills out onto a nearby street. They’re waiting to have Con-nor Franta, an affable 22-year-old Internet personality best known for delivering diary-like monologues on YouTube, sign a copy of his new memoir.
The creators’ importance to YouTube is evidenced by the Google-backed site bankrolling marketing campaigns the past two years featuring such famous (on the Internet) faces as Bethany Mota, Han-nah Hart and Grace Helbig. While such creators vlog about very different topics, they usually share a similar aesthetic: improvised delivery, quirky editing and personalities that jump off screens.
Google has opened production facilities in London, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Sao Paulo for creators who have more than 5,000 subscribers to film videos. The studios are equipped with sets and equip-ment that transcend most YouTubers’ liv-ing rooms and webcams. The spaces also serve as social hubs for creators. Several of them will host 10th anniversary parties on Wednesday.
“For us, creators are the lightbulb of
the ecosystem,” said Kevin Allocca, You-Tube’s head of culture and trends. “Sure, YouTube was originally known for viral videos, and that was great and still is, but if you want to be able to build a business, you need to be able to create a following. I think it’s a very different model than traditional media. It’s about maximizing the connection with an audience.”
That’s not so different from the genesis of YouTube, which entered its beta phase in May 2005. The first-ever video posted on the site was a crude 19-second clip titled “Me at the Zoo” that featured You-Tube co-founder Jawed Karim speaking directly to the camera about the “cool” elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
It’s been a decade, and while video lengths are longer and resolutions are higher, the sentiment is the same: watch me. (ap)
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In this May 9, 2015 file photo, Justin Bieber performs at Wango Tango 2015 at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. For every Bieber or Psy, perhaps YouTube’s biggest success stories, there are dozens of Connor Frantas.
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This Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo shows a DudePerfect YouTube marketing billboard in Culver City, Calif.
The Head of the Denpasar Integrated Licensing and Invest-ment Office (BBPTSP and PM), A.A. Gde Rai Soryawan, ac-companied by the Division Head of Controlling and Planning of the DTRP, Dewa Wesnawa Wedagama, revealed that the building renovation of the Denpasar Junction has actually been consulted. However, the building permit has not been issued yet so that the renovation works by PT Eka Jaya Agung may not be done.
According to him, in 2007 the Denpasar Junction had the permit of shop, office and multipurpose building. But in 2011 the permit was renewed, and its category belonged to shopping center or supermarket. Currently, there is no conversion of building, but it merely carries out a renovation.It will remain to be used as a shopping center, office and public entertainment facility. “So, it now just needs to submit the building permit related to the changes in building construction,” he said.
In the meantime, the Director of PT Eka Jaya Agung, Joniari Panca H, said that his party has submitted the licens-ing document where it currently remains under process. He also promised to complete the construction permit including complying with all the rules of construction in the city of Denpasar. “I look forward to completing the permit process of this development and please be apologized because the development process has preceded before the building permit is issued,” he said while adding that the building renovation include the entrances and exits as well as the entrances to the upper parking lot. (kmb25)
AMLAPURA - Two climbers of Mount Agung, Karangasem, were already evacuated on Monday morning (May 25) after they were reported to get lost because they were desperate to climb by making a new path from Tulamben village, Kubu subdistrict, Karangasem. Both foreign climbers from Czech were foundby the SAR team in weak condition due to starvation. Since the climbing made on Saturday (May 23), both have run out of food.
Coordinator of the Karangasem SAR Station, Ida Bagus Surya Wirawan, when contacted on Mon-day said that the evacuation lasted for eight hours from eight o’clock at night until three o’clock in the morning. It involved five person-nel of the national SAR team, two personnel of Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency or BPBD, three local guides and three trackers. The victim was just found around 00:10 a.m. in the area of Galina hamlet, Jungutan village, Bebandem, due to the sign of bonfire made both climb-ers. The two foreign climbers were identified as Mike Karna, 39, and Monika Zawis Towska, 31. Both are known not to be husband and wife, but just friends because both have the same hobby of climbing mountain. “Having been success-fully evacuated, we immediately
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Denpasar Municipality stopped the renovation project of the Denpasar Junction on Jalan Teuku Umar, Monday (May 25). The termination is carried out because the project is worked on without having a building permit (IMB).
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Two climbers of Mount Agung, Karangasem, were already evacuated on Monday morning (May 25) after they were reported to get lost because they were desperate to climb by making a new path from Tulamben village, Kubu subdistrict, Karangasem.
Misguided when climbingTwo Czech travelers successfully evacuated
Denpasar Junction project terminatedDENPASAR - Denpasar Municipality stopped the
renovation project of the Denpasar Junction on Jalan Teuku Umar, Monday (May 25). The termination is carried out because the project is worked on without having a building permit (IMB).
give them bread because they are in weak condition,” said Ida Bagus Surya Wirawan.
Other than growing rice and crops, local farmers at Subak Anggabaya also grows soybean and flowers, while at Subak Sem-bung farmers grow vegetables. At
both locations, the infrastructures are quite good although they still should be improved further to support the agrotourism. “At Ang-gabaya, for instance, there has been a kind of jogging track. But the region still needs further arrange-ment,” he said.
To note, the Denpasar Tourism Office is currently reviewing the potential of agrotourism and the concept of ecotourism is still under study. The Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, Wayan Gunawan, recently said that in relation to the agrotourism development his party
is preparing the infrastructure, especially the access to trail so that it can become a new tourist destination. (kmb25)
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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.
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“The plan will be thus carried out because technical matters are determined by Minister of Trans-portation, while the financing is determined by the Minister of State-Owned Enterprise,” he told the media in Denpasar, on Monday
(May 25). Pastika hopes that the central government can finance the construction of the airport in Buleleng based on the fact that Bali generates huge foreign exchange for the country.
“It is very expensive, you know?
The private sector must surely make careful calculations to be sure to get a return on their invest-ment. Conversely, the government does not think in such terms, so we expect the government to work it,” he explained.
DENPASAR - The scarcity of parking spaces at Sanglah Hospi-tal has been an ongoing problem that has yet to be resolved. San-glah hospital is therefor looking
at the end cooperations with PD Parkir Denpasar, due to take place in July 2015, as an opportunity to design a new parking lot for everyones convenience.
Director of General Affairs and Operations of Sanglah Hospital, I Gusti Lanang Suartana Putra, said on Monday (May 25) that they have already drafted plans to build
Governor wants government to fund the Buleleng airport
DENPASAR - If the government insists on allowing the Benoa Bay reclamation plan to be carried out by the investors, it the plan to build an airport in Buleleng will be adversely affected. Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika apparently wants the airport to be financed by the central government. The governor said that he has even met the Minister of Transportation and Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to immediately get certainty on the matter.
Previously, Pastika had said that the airport construction plan for Buleleng remained at the stage of pre-feasibility studies as car-ried out by PT Pembangunan Bali Mandiri and Airports Kinesis of Canada.
Pastika consideres the con-cept proposed by Airport Kinesis -namely to reclaim the seam to be more feasible. While the the pre-feasibility study conducted by PT Pembangunan Bali Mandiri
proposes to build on land, which said the governor would eliminate hundreds of hectares of paddy fields. However on Monday, Pas-tika announced that the Canadian companies proposal would cost al to to realize.
“The Pre-feasibility study done by Canada, proposes an expensive project, namely IDR 30 trillion, where can we get money of this amount? It’s okay, if it is given as charity,” he said. (kmb32)
Sanglah Hospital drafting multi-storey parking spacea new parking lot. The hospital plans to work with the operational cooperative (KSO) in building the parking lot. “Next, Sanglah Hospital issued guidelines and organized a contest in order to select a designer,” he said.
Because they still have until July, the remaining time until then is being used to prepare the documents for the prospective operational cooperation. “It will include the type of parking lot, plans for the location and the ar-eas capacity for future extension etc. For example,before entering to hospital, there will be a kind of entrance gate, parking houses, lanes for motorcycles and cars, a path for patients, employees and visitors,” explained Putra. “We’re still preparing the maquette,” he added. The plan is to build a multi-storey parking lot near the hospital tennis courts (next to Angkosa room). “But it has not been finalized yet,” he added. It take between 2- 3 months for the construction to be completed.
Currently the Sanglah Hos-pital has a parking capacity of 300-400 cars and 1,100 to 1,200 motorcycles spread out in front of theSanglah Hospital (PJT, Ka-madhuk and vicinity), in the rear area of the Hosspital and behind the Amerta Wing, and Amerta Wing, and lately the hospital ten-nis courts have also been used for parking. Meanwhile the daily parking needs of Sanglah Hospital must accommodate 6, 400 people:
800-1,000 policlinic visits, 200 visits to the emergency room, 300 visits to the Amerta Wing, 700 treated patients, pluswatchmen for patients (700), 2,800 employees of Sanglah Hospital, 400 residents, 300 co-assistants, 200 students such as midwives, nurses, etc. Thus clearly the present parking facilities are inadequate, especial-ly when we add random students form the nearby campus who sometimes looking for a place to park on hospital grounds.
If the land capacity is calcu-lated based on economic value, according to Lanang, building a new parking lot is not feasible. “In other words, if it were to simply be a vertical expansion of the present parking, the investor would lose money and no one would wants to bid” he said. Therefor they have instead designed multi storey parking lots for a few locations, with the levy adjusted to current capacity and in consideration of the fact that the parking lot will belong to the hospital and other social needs. The price of parking ticket is limited by Regional By-law at IDR 1,000 for motorcycles and IDR 2,000 for cars.
The overloaded of available parking lot is not only caused by booming visits,but also by the arrangement of the space itself as well as un-staggered visiting hours. If the new parking lot is not ready in time, coopertion with PD Parkir Denpasar will be extended. (kmb42)
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The scarcity of parking spaces at Sanglah Hospital has been an ongoing problem that has yet to be resolved. Sanglah hospital is therefor looking at the end cooperations with PD Parkir Denpasar, due to take place in July 2015, as an opportunity to design a new parking lot for everyones convenience.
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LOS ANGELES — Legendary “Lawrence of Arabia” actor Omar Sharif is battling Alzheimer’s disease, his agent Steve Kenis confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday.
No additional details were provided about the 83-year-old or his care. His son, Tarek Sharif, revealed the diag-nosis in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo on May 23.
The Egyptian-born Sharif rose to international stardom with his role in the 1962 epic “Lawrence of Arabia”—
Sharif’s first English-language film. He earned an Oscar nomination for his turn as Sherif Ali in David Lean’s iconic film opposite Peter O’Toole.
Sharif followed the breakthrough performance with the title role in Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago,” co-starring Julie Christie. He then played Fanny Brice’s husband, Nicky Arnstein, in “Funny Girl” alongside Barbra Streisand.
His last completed feature film credits were in 2013. (ap)
Warner Bros. Mad Max: Fury Road was a close second, earning $62.1 million dollars having crossed the $100 mil-lion dollar mark during the weeks, says Dergarabedian.
Although in third position with $58.9 million, Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland’ has produced disappointing results on home turf, for the US box office saw its most sluggish performance over the Memorial Day holiday weekend since 2001.
NEW YORK — Faith No More bassist Bill Gould likes to think of the band’s new record as an aging actress. “Sure, her body’s get-ting a little older, but she’s not afraid to show it; she’s still sexy,” he said during a recent interview in New York City, where the band played two sold-out shows in support of “Sol Invictus,” its first in 18 years released last week.
“When you’re younger and you’re insecure, in a way you don’t have the mojo, the juice, you know,” he said.
The 52-year-old Gould and the rest of his bandmates — key-boardist Roddy Bottum, drummer Mike Bordin, guitarist Jon Hudson and singer Mike Patton — disbanded in 1998 and spent some time apart before regrouping in 2009 to play reunion shows. That hiatus, together with the musical legacy they built during the late 1980s and 1990s with albums like “The Real Thing,” ‘’Angel Dust,” and “Album of the Year,” has given them the confidence and perspective to re-launch their collaboration on their own terms.
They briefly considered returning to a major label, but ultimately decided to forgo external deadlines and pressures and instead handle everything themselves.
“Sol Invictus” was engineered and recorded by Gould in his studio space in Oakland in 2014 and 2015, and is being released on Reclamation Recordings, a subsidiary of Patton’s own Ipecac Recordings label.
“We’ve all kind of grown into parts where we can actually contribute now in our own capacity,” Gould said. “We all kind of got good at what we did in different ways and it all kind of helps the whole.”
For a band that once briefly flirted with the mainstream following the success of the catchy, rap-meets-metal mega-hit “Epic,” having the freedom to dictate whether they put out a record, tour or make an appearance at this point in their lives is a top priority.
“An old man only looks to the next day,” the 47-year-old Patton said. “We’re old men.
“So what you do is, you look to the next day or the next plan, and, honestly, we don’t have a plan after this tour or this record.” (ap)‘Lawrence of Arabia’ star
Omar Sharif has Alzheimer’s
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This photo provided by Disney/Marvel shows, Hulkbuster in a scene from the new film, “Avengers: Age Of Ultron.” The Avengers: Age of Ultron came in on top of the worldwide box office report, earning $66.7 million dollars.
Disney dominates worldwide box office
The Avengers: Age of Ultron came in on top of the worldwide box office report, earn-
ing $66.7 million dollars. Having grossed $860 million dollars, which includes $210 million in
China, which is significant since it just recently opened there on May 12, according to Rentrak’s
Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
Faith No More marks return with 1st album in 18 years, tour
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In this May 13, 2015 file photo, Mike Patton of Faith No More performs at Webster Hall in New York. The band released an album, “Sol Invictus,” in May.
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Currently not all children in Indonesia have their rights and needs as children met. The need to play, attend school and other special needs are still not given to all children, especially those from poor or very poor families who are often forced to enter the workforce to help their families make ends meet.
Forcing children to work is det-rimental to their growth. Therefor it is the obligation of the government to prohibit children from working
so that they can grow physically, mentally and socially. The Ministry of Labor’S Child-Free Labor initia-tive is expected to help the nation’s next generation thrive.
Given the fact that many school-aged children are working, it is easy to imagine what the future of Indo-nesia will look like, of this is allow to continue. Those involved in the business sector as well as society on general must pay special attention to ensuring that the next generation will be equipped to comet with
other con tries, by allowing chil-dren to live out their childhood in a healthy environment.
The Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri, said in Gianyar on Monday (May 25) that the problem of child labor is a complex one that crosses over into many sectors. Dhakiri insists that all parties must be on-board and that that the industrial sector must eliminate children from their domain. “Children of school age cannot be expected to meet the needs of the republic, especially of they have entered the work force which causes a great setback to the nation” he said.
Indonesia’s economic future requires investments that prioritize
human resources not natural re-sources. People who are still focused on exploiting natural re-sources have the same mindset as colonial invaders.
“If we base the building of Indonesia’s economy on natural resources, then we are no different than colonizers. As a nation, we must continue to improve the qual-ity of our human resources so that they are superior to those of other countries, in terms of their compe-tence, skills, and competitiveness,” said Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri, on Monday (May 25).
As part of the human resources investment program, the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration is withdrawing children from the
workplace and helping the, to go back to school, both for the sake of the children and for the sake of the future of the nation. Currently there are 121 million people in Indone-sia’s labor force. Of this number, 7.4 million are unemployed high school graduates, and 1.7 million children are not attending school. (kmb16)
Childhood is a time for learning and for playing. Allowing children to do so is a way to invest in the future. For this reason it is in the interest of businesses, government and
society at large to release children from labour.
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Child labor, a threat to the nationDENPASAR - Childhood is a time for learning and for play-
ing. Allowing children to do so is a way to invest in the future. For this reason it is in the interest of businesses, government and society at large to release children from labour. Children never deserve to be forced to work.
