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Thursday, May 28, 2015 16 Pages Number 113 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 Southern India has borne the brunt of the hot, dry conditions and many of the victims are construction workers, elderly or homeless people unable to heed official advice to stay indoors. In the worst-hit state of Andhra Pradesh nearly 900 people have died since May 18 -- double the total num- ber of heat-related deaths last summer, authorities said. In neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, more than 200 people have died in the last week compared to 31 in the whole of last year. In New Delhi, forecasters said they expected the high temperatures to continue into next week -- adding to the misery of the thousands of poor living on the capital’s streets with little shelter from the hot sun. Residents of Gurgaon -- a high-rise satellite city that is home to many of the capital’s workers -- suffered power cuts of up to 10 hours a day as the electricity grid struggled to cope with the demand from millions of air con- ditioners. “Nothing is working -- even after taking half a dozen baths a day, you can’t beat the heat,” 34-year-old shop owner Manish Singh told AFP in Gurgaon. “We try to spend more time indoors to avoid heatstroke. It’s worse than previous years -- we hardly get any electricity and the air conditioners become useless.” India’s power industry has long struggled to meet rapidly rising de- mand in Asia’s third-largest economy, which is plagued by poorly main- tained transmission lines and over- loaded grids. The streets of Gurgaon were large- ly deserted on Wednesday, while the few people brave enough to venture outdoors covered their heads to protect them from the strong sun. Sugarcane juice stalls were doing a brisk trade as construction work- ers and rickshaw pullers desperately tried to quench their thirst. Elsewhere volunteers were giving out cold drinks to motorists stuck in traffic. Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian Meteorological De- partment, said top temperatures in the capital would remain around 45 degrees Celsius -- the national bench- mark for a heatwave. “Maximum temperatures won’t fall substantially. However, major relief can be expected from June 2 as there are indications of good show- ers,” he said. Hospitals in the worst-affected states were on alert to treat victims of heatstroke and authorities advised people to stay indoors and drink plenty of water. Hundreds of people -- mainly from the poorest sections of society -- die at the height of summer every year across India, while tens of thousands suffer power cuts from an overburdened electricity grid. Eleven people were confirmed to have died in the eastern state of Orissa and another 13 succumbed to the heat in neighbouring West Bengal, where unions urged drivers to stay off the roads during the day. One person was killed in the western state of Maharashtra, where authorities said they did not expect conditions to improve until the arrival of monsoon rains in June. The Hindustan Times warned that some of the hot, dry conditions could plunge the worst-affected states into drought before monsoon rains ar- rive. The monsoon is forecast to hit the southern state of Kerala towards the end of this month before sweep- ing across the country, but it will be weeks before the rains reach the arid plains. (afp) Deaths from major heatwave sweeping India top 1,100 A laborer push- es his children on a handcart back towards his workplace during a break, past parched fields on a hot summer day in Ghasera, in the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednes- day, May 27, 2015. HYDERABAD - More than 1,100 people have died in a blis- tering heatwave sweeping India, authorities said Wednesday, as forecasters warned searing temperatures would continue. UN: Fewer hungry people in the world despite wars, poverty AP Photo/Saurabh Das Buddhists in Myanmar deny boat people are Rohingya Swiss arrest top global soccer officials in U.S., Swiss corruption cases
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That’s the conclusion of the Nielsen company, which looked at celebrities who made commercials during the first three months of the year and ranked them with a calculation that takes into account likability, public awareness, influence and other factors. Its first “N-Scores” were released Tuesday. Neeson and Pierce Brosnan had identical scores of 94, although Neeson was judged to have a greater influence in getting products sold.
By looking at the effectiveness of celebrity pitchmen, the company best known for television ratings will now compete with Marketing Evaluations Inc., a company that produces the better-known Q Score, a measurement of public attitudes toward well-known figures.
Besides attaching scores to celebrity endorsers, Niels-
en intends to offer marketers detailed information about the personalities and
habits of people who respond well to each celebrity so they can better match pitchmen and products, said Chad Dreas, Nielsen’s managing director of media analytics.
“What do they buy? Where do they shop? What do they watch?” said Dreas, describing the details Nielsen intends to sell.
Neeson, who has been featured in an ad for Supercell Games, is viewed posi-tively by 78 percent of Americans who know him, Nielsen said. Brosnan and Matthew McConaughey, both featured in car commercials recently, also scored well in Nielsens’ measurement.
Jeff Bridges stood out among celebri-ties for the amount of influence he carried with his fans, Nielsen said.
Other celebs with recent ads that scored well in Nielsen’s measurement
were Jennifer Garner, Natalie Portman, Sofia Vergara,
Jim Parsons, Den-nis Haysbert and
J.K. Simmons. (ap)
LOS ANGELES - B.B. King’s estate dismissed as “baseless” Tuesday claims by the late music icon’s daughters that he was poisoned, as police said they were not investigating the charges.
Coroners said they have so far found no evidence of foul play in the death of the blues legend at aged 89 earlier this month, although they are looking into the claims.
King died on May 14 in Las Vegas, where he lived while he kept up a grueling schedule of tours that ended only last year. King suffered from Type II diabetes for the last two decades of his life.
Two of his daughters -- Karen Williams and Patty King -- have alleged he was poisoned by his business manager and estate executor LaVerne Toney and his personal as-sistant, E! entertainment news website reported.
“I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administrated foreign substances to induce his premature death,” the daughters wrote in separate but identical af-fidavits, E! online said.
“(I) request a formal investigation into this matter,” the court documents said, according to the site.
But an attorney for King’s estate, Brent Bryson, dismissed the daughters’ accusations as ridiculous and defamatory on Monday, and followed up with a new statement on Tuesday.
“The allegations are baseless and unfounded and are unsupported in reality,” he said, citing three indepen-dent doctors who evaluated King in the days before his death.
Dr Darin Brimhall, described as King’s primary care physician for several years, was quoted as saying in the days before his death: “There is no action being taken to hasten the demise of Mr King.”
On the contrary, “every effort is being made to make Mr King comfortable and supply him with his regular medication and nourishment.”
The lawyer said: “Unfortunately even music icons die. Ms Toney did everything she could to carry out the wishes of Mr King while he was alive, and continues to carry out Mr King’s wishes after his death.
“I hope over these next few days we can focus on Mr King’s musical gifts to the world, and not fictional state-ments made by those seeking attention at the expense of Mr King,” said the statement.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office, which covers Las Vegas, said Monday that it was investigating the claims along with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Depart-ment (LVMPD).
“At this point we don’t have evidence that these al-legations of foul play will be substantiated,” said Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg.
“However we are taking them very seriously and will be conducting a thorough investigation” in coordination with police, he added. (afp)
Vegas police deny probe into B.B. King poison claims
Nielsen survey says Liam Neeson is big ad man
NEW YORK — Ad executives looking for a celebrity to endorse their product can’t do much better than actor Liam Neeson.
SANTA FE, N.M. — Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested Monday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Santa Fe restau-
rant’s security complained about a possibly intoxicated driver. The 71-year-old Shepard
told a police officer that he had two tequila drinks and was planning to drive home, Santa
Fe police Lt. Andrea Dobyns said Tuesday. “Our officer could smell alcohol on his breath, and he
had bloodshot, watery eyes,” she said.Shepard was arrested on a charge of
aggravated driving while intoxicat-ed outside La Choza restaurant
in downtown.The restaurant’s secu-
rity called police about 7:45 p.m. Monday concerned about an intoxicated driver, Dobyns said. The man was trying to leave in the pickup, but the vehicle’s emergency brake was engaged.
Shepherd declined to take a breath test, but he did perform a field sobriety test, which he failed, Dobyns said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Shepard had an attorney. Santa Fe jail records show that Shepard was released Tuesday afternoon after posting bail.
The office of Shepard’s agent said Tuesday that it had no comment. Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his play “Buried Child.” His film credits, among others, include “Country,” ‘’Baby Boom,” ‘’Steel Magnolias,” ‘’Thunder-heart,” ‘’Black Hawk Down,” ‘’The Notebook,” and “Walker Payne.” (ap)
Actor Sam Shepard arrested for drunken driving in Santa Fe
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Southern India has borne the brunt of the hot, dry conditions and many of the victims are construction workers, elderly or homeless people unable to heed official advice to stay indoors.
In the worst-hit state of Andhra Pradesh nearly 900 people have died since May 18 -- double the total num-ber of heat-related deaths last summer, authorities said.
In neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, more than 200 people have died in the last week compared to 31 in the whole of last year.
In New Delhi, forecasters said they expected the high temperatures to continue into next week -- adding
to the misery of the thousands of poor living on the capital’s streets with little shelter from the hot sun.
Residents of Gurgaon -- a high-rise satellite city that is home to many of the capital’s workers -- suffered power cuts of up to 10 hours a day as the electricity grid struggled to cope with the demand from millions of air con-ditioners. “Nothing is working -- even after taking half a dozen baths a day, you can’t beat the heat,” 34-year-old shop owner Manish Singh told AFP in Gurgaon.
“We try to spend more time indoors to avoid heatstroke. It’s worse than previous years -- we hardly get any electricity and the air conditioners become useless.”
India’s power industry has long struggled to meet rapidly rising de-mand in Asia’s third-largest economy, which is plagued by poorly main-tained transmission lines and over-loaded grids.
The streets of Gurgaon were large-ly deserted on Wednesday, while the few people brave enough to venture outdoors covered their heads to protect them from the strong sun.
Sugarcane juice stalls were doing a brisk trade as construction work-ers and rickshaw pullers desperately tried to quench their thirst. Elsewhere volunteers were giving out cold drinks to motorists stuck in traffic.
Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian Meteorological De-partment, said top temperatures in the capital would remain around 45 degrees Celsius -- the national bench-mark for a heatwave.
“Maximum temperatures won’t fall substantially. However, major relief can be expected from June 2 as there are indications of good show-ers,” he said.
Hospitals in the worst-affected states were on alert to treat victims of heatstroke and authorities advised people to stay indoors and drink plenty of water. Hundreds of people -- mainly from the poorest sections of society -- die at the height of summer every year across India, while tens of thousands suffer power cuts from an overburdened electricity grid.
Eleven people were confirmed to have died in the eastern state of Orissa and another 13 succumbed to the heat in neighbouring West Bengal, where unions urged drivers to stay off the roads during the day.
One person was killed in the western state of Maharashtra, where
authorities said they did not expect conditions to improve until the arrival of monsoon rains in June.
The Hindustan Times warned that some of the hot, dry conditions could plunge the worst-affected states into drought before monsoon rains ar-rive. The monsoon is forecast to hit the southern state of Kerala towards the end of this month before sweep-ing across the country, but it will be weeks before the rains reach the arid plains. (afp)
Deaths from major heatwave sweeping India top 1,100
A laborer push-es his children on a handcart back towards his workplace during a break, past parched fields on a hot summer day in Ghasera, in the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednes-day, May 27, 2015.
HYDERABAD - More than 1,100 people have died in a blis-tering heatwave sweeping India, authorities said Wednesday, as forecasters warned searing temperatures would continue.
UN: Fewer hungry people in the world despite wars, poverty
AP Photo/Saurabh Das
Buddhists in Myanmar deny boat people are Rohingya
Swiss arrest top global soccer officials in U.S., Swiss corruption cases
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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 considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very 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 umbrel-las 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, deco-rated 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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CEO of BaliTV, ABG Satria Naradha, expressed his gratitude to all the leaders and other people attending the celebration of the 13th anniversary of BaliTV. Satria Naradha also requested the cooperation of all parties in safeguarding Bali and the Balinese people as well as in preserving the nature of Bali.
“Hopefully, BaliTV can remain on the front lines with the people of Bali and the governor of Bali. Let us together shout “freedom” so that BaliTV can be victoious in paving a way for a better life for the Balinese,” said Naradha.
Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, expressed his ap-preciation for BaliTV -the first local television station in Bali, for their significant contributions to regional development, especially in the discovery, development and preservation of local culture. This commitment, according to Governor Pastika, should continue to be strengthened with attention to other sectors of public life such as poverty alleviation and community empowerment programs.
“Tonite’s anniversary celebration is an occasion to establish closer ties between BaliTV and the local community. Televi-sion not only serves as a medium for conveying information and entertainment, but is also a medium for education and the implementation of social welfare in society,” said Pastika in his speech. In addition, Pastika also invited BaliTV and all broad-casting media in Bali to convey objective, educatiional and bal-anced programs. Thus, it can encourage public participation in the development and creation of an advanced, secure, peaceful and prosperous Bali.
“On behalf of the provincial government of Bali and the entire community of Bali, I congratulate BaliTV on its 13th anniver-sary. Hopefully, it will become more capable of enlightening the people of Bali according to its tagline: ‘the Sun from Bali’,” he concluded.
EntrepreneursAs part of the 13th anniversary celebrations of BaliTV in-
volved the handing out of venture capital assistance to novice entrepreneurs in Bali from the Ministry of Cooperatives and the SMEs of the RI. The five young entrepreneurs who were given a boost are: Ida Bagus Cakra Manuaba who works in the gar-ment business using Balinese fabric or endek, I Putu Adi (ning kombucha fermented tea), AA Istri Sagung Pramanaswari (typi-cal Balinese shoes and sandals), IGN Erland Bayu Rahmanda P (Balinese T-shirts) and I Dewa Gede Bagus Satria Wibawa (leather craft business).
The financial assistance was handed out by Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga, spouse of Minister of Cooperative and the SMEs, accompanied by the Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, Director of BaliTV, ABG Satria Naradha and Deputy of Human Resources Development and Assistant Deputy of Cooperative Education, Rulli Nuryanto.
The audience who attended the celebration at the Art Center were treated to a number of artistic performances including a dance performance by Julian Dancer, songs by Dria Raba, and Gema Paramadhama Studio. A number of pop bands also joined in the celebration of BaliTV 13th anniversary including: Manik, 3G, Galuh Bilen, Trisna, Eka Jaya, Ayu Saraswati, Rare Kual Comedy, Leeyonk Sinatra and Lolot Band. (kmb32)
BaliTV, 13 years of shining
Five young entrepreneurs get venture capital assistance
DENPASAr - The Ardha Candra Open Stage, Art Center, Denpasar, witnessed the grandeur of the event entitled ‘BaliTv 13 years of Shining,’ on Tuesday night (May 26). The celebration of BaliTv’s 13th anniversary was attended by Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika, spouse of the Minister of Cooperatives and the SMEs of the rI’s spouse Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga, member of parliament from Bali I Nyoman Damantra, Chief of the Bali Police Dr. ronny F. Sompie, Chairman of the Indonesian Hotel and restaurant Association (PHrI) of Bali Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, Deputy Mayor of Denpasar IGN Jaya Negara, regent of Tabanan Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, regent of Bangli I Made Gianyar and Deputy regent of Buleleng Nyoman Sutjidra, and others.
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The Director of Bali TV ABG Satra Naradha, left, along with Bali’s Governor Made Mangku Pastika walk to the stage during the 13th Anniversary Celebration of Bali TV
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CHICAGO — Lofty living may make babies vulnerable to sudden infant death syndrome, according to a Colorado study that found higher risks above 8,000 feet (2,400 meters).
While the research shows that the SIDS rate in Colo-rado’s tall mountains is very low, it’s still two times greater than in the Denver area and other regions where the al-titude is less than 6,000 feet (1,800 meters). The results echo earlier research done in Austria’s Alps.
Mountain air has less oxy-gen than air at lower eleva-tions, and conditions that re-duce infants’ oxygen levels have previously been linked with SIDS. But exactly how mountain air might put babies at risk is uncertain and whether there is a solid connection requires more study, the re-searchers said.
Lead author Dr. David Katz, a University of Colorado heart specialist, emphasized that SIDS deaths are rare; only six occurred at Colorado’s highest altitudes during the six years studied. The rate at high alti-tudes was just 0.8 SIDS deaths per 1,000 births, versus 0.4 per 1,000 in the state’s regions
with an altitude of less than 6,000 feet (1,800 meters).
The study was published online Monday in Pediatrics. The authors examined Colo-rado birth certificate and death registries for 2007 to 2012.
SIDS kills about 2,000 U.S. infants each year, and is the leading cause of infant deaths after the first month.
The causes are unknown but certain conditions linked with reduced oxygen levels seem to increase risks, including brain-stem abnormalities, mothers smoking during and after preg-nancy, respiratory infections and stomach sleeping.
SIDS used to be called crib death because infants were often found lifeless, lying face-down in their cribs. Public health efforts launched in the 1990s that emphasized placing babies to sleep on their backs dramatically reduced SIDS deaths.
Katz said to help protect their infants from SIDS, par-ents should focus on known risks. That advice includes no stomach sleeping or bed-sharing, avoiding soft bedding and pillows in cribs, and keep-ing infants away from cigarette smoke. (ap)
But it also confirmed past advice that the risk is very low in real terms and there was no immediate worry for women who take these pills.
The probe, published in the BMJ, compared oral contraceptives con-taining a synthetic version of the hormone progestogen with earlier versions of the pill.
The so-called third-generation pill, introduced in the 1990s, and the fourth generation, approved in the last decade, are designed to skirt side-effects of older types of the contraceptive.
In 2013, Europe’s drugs watch-dog carried out a safety review after France’s medicines agency found the newer pills were linked to a small risk of serious blood clot called venous thrombo-embolism
(VTE).The new study widens the sta-
tistical net, trawling through two large British prescription databases to take into account pill dosage, body fat, smoking and other factors which affect risk.
Compared with women not us-ing oral contraceptives, women using older pills had about two and a half times increased risk of VTE, it found.
Women using a newer version of the contraceptive had around a four times increased risk of VTE compared to women who did not take the pill.
Risks for women using newer pills were around 1.5 to 1.8 times higher than for women using older pills.
But in absolute terms, the risk was very low.
There were six extra VTE cases per year per 10,000 women us-ing the newer levonorgestrel and norgestimate pills. This rose to 14 extra cases per 10,000 users of de-
sogestrel and cyproterone.The results concur with a French
investigation in 2013 and a Danish study in 2011.
Women taking the later-gen-eration contraceptives “should not stop using them, but should consult their doctor and review their current type of pill at their next appointment if there are any concerns,” said the researchers, led by Yana Vinogradova at the University of Nottingham.
After carrying out its own re-view, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in 2013 that the benefits of all types of contra-ceptive pill “continue to outweigh risks.”
“There is no reason for women who have been using (contraceptive pills) without any problem to stop taking them,” it said.
The EMA also reiterated advice to doctors to make regular assess-ments about the risk of blood clots to any patient taking contraceptive pills. (afp)
PARIS - Teenagers who are very overweight may run double the risk of developing colorectal cancer when they reach middle age, according to research published Monday.
Researchers tracked the health of more than 239,000 men who had been conscripted into the Swedish army between the ages of 16 and 20 from 1969 to 1976.
At the time of conscription, around 12 percent of the men were underweight, more than 80 percent were of normal weight and five per-cent were moderately overweight.
Of the remainder, 1.5 percent were very overweight -- with a body mass index of between 27 and nearly 30 -- and one percent were obese, with a BMI of more than 30.
The conscripts were regularly checked for colorectal cancer for next 35 years, during which 885
cases -- 501 colon cancers and 384 rectal cancers -- were detected.
Those who were very over-weight as teenagers were twice as likely to develop bowel cancer in middle age, compared to subjects of normal weight.
Those who were obese were nearly 2.4 times likelier to be diag-nosed with the disease.
The study, led by Elizabeth Kan-tor of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, appears in Gut, a specialist journal published by the BMJ.
Previous research into obesity and colorectal cancer has looked mainly at adults. This is the first large-scale probe into the impact of overweight in teenagers.
In adults, bowel inflammation has been suggested as a likely cause of the problem, but it is unclear whether this is the same among teens, said the authors. (afp)
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The broadest study of its kind on Wednesday backed estimates that newer kinds of contracep-tive pills carry a higher risk of dangerous blood clots.
New study backs risk estimate for contraceptive pills
PARIS - The broadest study of its kind on Wednesday backed estimates that newer kinds of contraceptive pills carry a higher risk of danger-ous blood clots.
Overweight in teens boosts middle age bowel cancer risk
High altitude may boost babies’ risks for SIDS deaths
SEMARAPURA - Seaweed farmers in Nusa Penida complain about of poor harvests caused by weather changes that are brining in winds form the north. Previously, the harvest yield reached two to three tons a day, but now it only reaches 700 kilograms. Decline in the harvest volume are due to the seaweed is not strong enough to face extreme seawater temperatures.
A seaweed collector from Semaya
hamlet, I Made Darman, revealed that the growth of seaweed is disturbed by the extreme temperatures at sea. He explained that northern winds bring in cold air which cause the seaweed to become brittle. “During this season, the seaweed yields are considerably reduced due to the onslaught of ends form the north. In one day, the most we can harvest is 700 kg. Commonly I can buy two to three tons of seaweed per day. Seaweed can be harvested
approximately one month after be-ing planted” said Made Darman, on Tuesday (May 26).
It is not only wind from the north that brings challenges, wind from the west tends to bring in hot air, which heats up the sea causing the seaweed to slump over and is commonly called ice-ice disease.
The northern and eastern winds are indeed very feared by seaweed farmers because of their dramatic
affects on harvest yields. According to seaweed farmer, I Ketut Jagra, seaweed can only grow well when the south or west winds blow: “east-ern winds and northern winds cause a decline in harvest yields. We are often worried because seaweed is our sole source of income,” said Jagra worriedly.
Coastal communities in Nusa Penida, particularly those along the beaches, are by and larger either as seaweed farmers or fisherman so both dependent on the sea. Along the coast, from Semaya to Toya Pakeh stand rows of huts and non-permanent settlements commonly used when farmers are tying up their seaweeds. These huts also functioned as a store-house for dried seaweed.
During the harvesting, farmers use inflated inner tubes on which they place baskets to contain their harvested seaweed. Similarly, on Ceningan and Lembongan Island many seaweed beds can be seen along with the bustling activities of seaweed farmers. However, here they mostly use sampan to carry their seaweed. The species of seaweed cultivated are spinosum and cattoni
which are of different colour from eat other. Cattoni is green or yellow, while spinosum is red-black. The cattoni species is more expensive than spinosum. (dwa)
“The tuna industry will face a grave challenge in the future as demand is high,” Directorate General of Fishery Processing and Marketing Saut P. Hutagalung said on Tuesday.
With regard to the eco-friendly fishing program, the government has established a moratorium policy on expired permissions of foreign vessels in accordance with the min-isterial regulation on the prohibition of destructive fishing devices.
The regulation was established to strengthen the state’s sovereignty in the fisheries sector so that it can be developed to improve the com-munity’s welfare.
According to Hutagalung, Indo-nesia is promoting the use of poles and lines and the handline method for tuna fishing. They are environ-ment-friendly fishing methods that involve the use of fishing rods. As much as 150 thousand tons of tuna per year can be caught using these techniques. He added that their use had increased the income of local fishermen.
“The fisheries sector hires some 11 percent of the national labor force. They are the traditional fish-ermen,” Hutagalung stated, adding that the pole and line and handline techniques help the community alle-viate poverty, improve livelihoods, maintain businesses and promote economic growth.
Moreover, it is estimated that one third of the world’s tuna is caught using unsustainable methods, while about 66.7 percent of the total is caught using sustainable methods.
According to data obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2014, over the last five years, Indonesia became the second-largest tuna producer in the world, supplying 16 percent of the total global production.
In addition, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) recorded a sur-plus in the first quarter of 2015 in Indonesian fisheries production in the trade sector. Tuna was the most exported product, contributing the highest amount of US$89.41 mil-lion. (ant)
Indonesia to develop sustainable tuna industry
NUSA DUA - The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries is developing a sustainable tuna industry by promot-ing environment-friendly fishing methods, bearing in mind the high demand for this fish worldwide.
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The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries is developing a sustainable tuna in-dustry by promoting environment-friendly fishing methods, bearing in mind the high demand for this fish worldwide.
Slump in seaweed harvest
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Seaweed farmers in Nusa Penida complain about of poor harvests caused by weather changes that are brining in winds form the north.
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Countries in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean showed the most progress in reducing hunger, thanks in part to economic growth that didn’t exclude the poor, investments in agriculture and political stability, the agencies said in their annual State of Food Insecurity report.
The report found that a majority of the countries monitored — 72 out of 129 — have met the U.N.’s am-bitious Millennium Development Goals to halve undernourishment
by 2015.“The near-achievement of the
MDG hunger targets shows us that we can indeed eliminate the scourge of hunger in our lifetime,” said U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s chief, Jose Graziano da Silva.
The agencies said the reduction in hunger and undernourishment came despite natural disasters, political instability and conflict in much of the developing world — even though the world’s population
had grown by 1.9 billion people since 1990.
The agencies said improved agri-cultural productivity, especially by family and small-scale farmers, and better social protection measures like food vouchers or school meal programs had had the most impact in reducing hunger.
Sub-Saharan Africa still had the highest levels of undernourishment in the world: Almost one in four people there don’t get enough food to live an active and healthy life. Some West African countries that did invest in agricultural productiv-ity and infrastructure managed to meet the U.N. hunger targets, the report found. (ap)
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities on Wednesday de-tained the owner of a software company accused of running a global network in selling fake degrees, officials said. In a raid on the Axact company offices in the southwestern port city of Karachi, investigators also seized hundreds of thousands of fake degrees, said Shahid Hayat, the provincial director for Pakistani federal investigation agency.
The police are investigating the company and its owner, Shoaib Sheikh, on charges of marketing online degrees from nonexistent schools and universities.
Axact is said to have made millions of dollars from the scam and was supposedly going to launch a TV channel in Pakistan when a New York Times report exposed the alleged fraud earlier this month.
Sheikh and several others were detained after the case was registered on charges of fraud, forgery and cybercrime, Hayat said. It was not immediately known how many people were arrested in all.
“We have seized hundreds of thousands of fake degrees,” Hayat told reporters at the scene in Karachi. “We have enough evidence to proceed. We have forensic evidence.” The police also sealed the office building, where Hayat said machinery and gadgets were found that were used in the fraudulent business.
Area magistrate Javed Malik, who supervised the operation, said those detained would be brought before a court later on Wednesday. The software company has described the case against it as a conspiracy by rival media groups, and insisted that it wasn’t involved in any il-legal activity.
Local TV footage broadcast images said to be of a room at the com-pany offices, showing what looked like diplomas stacked on shelves along the wall. Hayat also showed off to reporters at the scene what he said were fake university accreditations and student ID cards found at the premises. (ap)
PARIS — France is honoring four people who resisted the Nazis during World War II by induct-ing them into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, in a rare and highly symbolic ceremony aimed at unit-ing the French against extremism and anti-Semitism. Though the names were designated last year, the ceremony and its emphasis on France’s fundamental values of liberty, equality and fraternity
takes on special meaning in a country still shaken by deadly at-tacks in January on a newspaper and kosher market.
The two-day event could also provide a boost of gravitas for the unpopular president. Francois Hol-lande will speak Wednesday at the Pantheon, resting place for heroes of the French Republic.
Coffins representing the two women and two men — Genevieve
de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Germaine Tillion, Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay — were escorted through Paris streets for public viewing Tuesday, and will be interred Thursday after a sound-and-light show Wednesday night. The women’s induction is purely symbolic: Their coffins con-tain only soil from their gravesites, because their families didn’t want the bodies exhumed.
Their inclusion is meant to send
a message that women, too, made French history, in the context of a government push to promote gender equality.
Previously, only one woman was honored in the Pantheon: Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist whose ashes were interred there in 1995. Another woman was buried there, Sophie Berthelot, but only as the wife of politician Mar-cellin Berthelot.
The induction will bring those honored in the Pantheon to three women and 74 men. The writer Victor Hugo was the first person so honored, in 1885.
Hollande has chosen to honor people who had “exemplary lives,” said Constance Riviere, the presi-dent’s adviser on the matter. “They all stood up extremely young (against the Nazis)... they all rep-resent France’s pride.” (ap)
Figures of French Resistance inducted into Paris Pantheon
AP Photo/Fareed KhanA Pakistani police officer stands guard at the office of Axact soft-ware company in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Pakistani authorities on Wednesday detained the owner of a software company accused of running a global network in selling fake degrees, officials said.
Pakistan detains owner of firm said to market fake degrees
AP Photo/Hussein MallaIn this picture taken on Friday, April 17, 2015, 16-year-old Anas Baroudi shows his missing left foot, lost almost three years ago in the civil war in Syria, on his bed at the Dar Al-Salameh center for recovery and physiotherapy, in Kilis town near the Syrian border, Turkey.
UN: Fewer hungry people in the world despite wars, poverty
ROME — The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago de-spite natural disasters, ongoing conflicts and poverty, the three U.N. food agencies said Wednesday.
NEGARA - Hundreds of of-ficials of the government of Jem-brana got coaching on ideology and nationalism, Tuesday (May 26) in the Bung Karno Town Hall. The coaching is needed in order to optimize the development and
implementation of nationalism and generate the sense of nation-alism for the sake of integrity of the nation in the Republic of Indonesia.
At least 170 officials attended the coaching that was opened by
the Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha. According to him, it was an activity as a part of long process in the formation of national character and identity having the awareness of noble values of the national cul-ture. “Today we are confronted to
various issues from the weakening of nationalism and unity. On that account, this activity is expected to realize positive change,” he explained.
Weakening of the mutual assis-tance properties characterized by
the emergence of personal ego, ego of group, inter-group competition, conflicts of group interest as well as behavior of younger generation deviating from their own cultural customs can also erode the unity of the nation. (kmb26)
Chief of the Jembrana Police, Gede Sumadra Kerthiawan, said on Tuesday (May 26) that the Supreme Compliance Operation involved about 93 personnel divided into five task forces. “It is a cen-tralized police operation which aims to create safety, order and smoothness on traffic accident-prone locations and jams,”
he explained. Target of the operation, according to
him, include the trouble spots (prone to traffic violation) and black spots. Espe-cially in the jurisdiction of the Jembrana Police, there are approximately five criti-cal points such as the Pekutatan at mile-post 64-66 km, Yehembang at 78-79 km,
Tegalcangkring at 87-88 km, Tembles Penyaringan at 88-85 km and Tuwed at 108-109 km.
In this operation, his party deployed the personnel at those mileposts to guard. In addition, his party also targets the other vi-olations including transport vehicles such as trucks. For tonnage target, his party takes steps by making prevention at Cekik, Gilimanuk. Each overloaded vehicle will be prevented from passing. This operation will be resumed with Ketupat Operation ahead of homecoming traffic and backflow traffic of the Eid 2015. (kmb26)
SEMARAPURA - Investigation to the death of toddler BS, 7, continues to be explored by the Badung Police Criminal Investigation Unit. Police conduct an in-tensive examination against the caregiver of the child daycare in charge of taking care of BS before dying. Currently, police have been targeting the suspect in the case. In addition, the investigators are still await-ing the results of autopsy from Sanglah Hospital.
According to the Chief of Badung Police, Tony Binsar Marpaung, said on Tuesday (May 26) that the result of in-vestigation indicated there has been an element of negligence. However, his party still further investigates about the most responsible person for the negligence caus-ing BS to die.
“We’ve found there is an element of negligence in this case. There is negligence while on duty so that the toddler died. We are still studying the investigation to the caregiver,” he affirmed. Admittedly, the caregiver whose identity remaining undisclosed has been examined regarding the procedure of taking care of toddlers entrusted to the child daycare center. It includes the condition of the victim when found dying.
“Based on the results of examination, at the time of incident, the caregiver admitted to have left the victim for a while because she needed to go to kitchen. After she re-turned to the treatment room, she found the victim was in limp condition. The victim was then brought to hospital and declared dead,” said Tony.
Currently, the investigators await the results of autopsy from Sanglah Hospital to ascertain the cause of the victim’s death. “I have also instructed to check directly the result of the autopsy, but so far it has not been issued yet,” said this officer from North Sumatra.
He explained that initially the hospital doctor orally explained that it was found beverage liquid in the lungs of the victim. However, the oral information cannot be used as a benchmark for determining the suspect. Earlier, the investigation against the death of the 7-month toddler, BS, at the Dalung daycare center was still under examination of the Badung Police Criminal Investigation. Result of examination to witnesses indicates that the daycare center employs four caregivers who are still mi-nors. (kmb36)
County officials instilled with ideological insight and nationalism
Toddler death case Caregiver intensively examined
IBP/Gus OloThe police officers are preparing to carry out the Compliance Operation 2015.
Five black spots at Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section noticed by traffic affairs
NEGARA - At least there are five black points of black spot (prone to traffic ac-cidents) along the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section getting the attention from the ranks of the traffic affairs of the Jembrana Police in the Compliance Operation 2015. The Supreme Compliance Operation started from Wednesday (May 27) will also target the road section being prone to congestion as well as traffic violations.
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DUBLIN — Europe’s leading budget airline Ryanair has beaten forecasts again, reporting full-year net profits of 867 million euros ($949 million), 66 percent higher than the year before.
The Dublin-based airline said Tuesday it filled 88 percent of its seats, up 5 points, in the fiscal year ending in March. Sales rose 12 percent to 5.65 billion euros ($6.2 billion) chiefly because of relentless route expansion combined with the impact of the airline’s 2014 decision to improve customer service, includ-ing introduction of a new flexible business-friendly ticket.
Shares in the airline surged 7.5 percent to 11.70 euros ($12.80) on the Irish Stock Exchange by midaft-ernoon.
Ryanair unveiled a target for the fiscal year 2016 of between 940 million euros and 970 million euros. Many analysts said they expected Ryanair to beat that forecast, poten-tially breaching the 1 billion euro barrier, given that the airline raised its initial 2015 profit forecast five times
— and even its final top target, 850 million euros, fell short of Tuesday’s official result.
Davy Stockbrokers called Rya-nair’s forecast “very robust.” The Dublin broker said it now expects Ryanair shares soon will reach 12 euros, a level last attained in Feb-ruary 2007 right before the airline conducted a 2-for-1 share split.
Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said advance bookings are running 4 percent higher than last year, which should help the carrier fill 90 percent of its seats in fiscal 2016.
Profits would be even higher were it not for Ryanair’s policy of buying fuel contracts far in advance. That has locked in last year’s much higher oil prices at an average of $92 a bar-rel through the spring of 2016. The airline says it’s negotiated cheaper contracts averaging $69 a barrel thereafter.
Ryanair carried 90.6 million pas-sengers in the fiscal year 2015, up 11 percent, and aims to break the 100 million mark this year.
Average fares rose 1 euro to 47
euros, while the total revenue per customer remained flat at 62 euros, reflecting the sales of on-board food, drink and bingo cards as well as com-missions on online purchase of hotel rooms and rental cars booked through its website.
The chief financial officer, Neil Sorahan, said Ryanair’s decision to open services at more mainstream European airports and to create a flex-ible business-class ticket was helping to drive growth, particularly during the typically loss-making winter months. He noted that Tuesday’s full-year results included a fourth-quarter profit of 22.8 million euros, the first January-March gain for the airline since 2007.
O’Leary said a key issue slow-ing Ryanair’s growth is slow airport development for London. He called for the British government and regu-lators, which have debated the issue for years, to approve new runways at the capital’s Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports. Ryanair doesn’t use Heathrow, but Stansted is Ryanair’s biggest European hub. (ap)
The Nikkei 225 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a fresh 15-year high as it added 0.17 percent, or 35.10 points, to finish at 20,472.58. The Nikkei is up more than four percent since the latest rally started.
The broader Topix index of all first-section shares rose 0.11 percent, or 1.76 points, to 1,661.33.
Despite profit-taking and a weak lead from US shares, the Japanese market won support from the cheap yen, which is a plus for exporters.
In Asian forex markets, the dollar was near an eight-year high at 123.06 yen, slightly off 123.09 yen in New York and down from its rise above 123.30 yen earlier Tuesday, its highest level since mid-2007.
The yen’s descent comes after the already weak cur-rency boosted profits at many big firms in Japan during the latest earnings season, and analysts said it could lead to companies inflating their rosy forecasts.
“At this level in the dollar-yen, we could see earnings being revised upward for companies across the board,” said Ichiro Yamada, general manager of equities at Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance.
The dollar got a boost as figures on Tuesday showed improvements in US consumer confidence, home sales and prices, and orders for core in-dustrial goods, highlighting a
pick-up in growth in the world’s biggest economy after a weak first-quarter.
The latest results -- along with comments Friday from Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen that she expects to hike interest rates “at some point this year” -- put talk of a rate increase back on the table, which is a plus for the dollar.
“Whether it’s durable goods, housing data or consumer con-fidence, US data are all above market expectations,” Hiroichi Nishi, a manager at SMBC Nik-ko Securities, told Bloomberg News.
In Tokyo, Toyota shares gained 0.53 percent to close at 8,496 yen, lender Mizuho Finan-cial Group gained 2.40 percent to 256 yen while Fuji Heavy Industries, which relies on North America for more than half its revenue, jumped 4.34 percent to 4,689.5 yen.
On the negative side, Sony shares fell 2.03 percent to 3,828.5 yen, while Japan’s biggest bank Mitsubishi UFJ slipped 0.46 percent to 896.6 yen.
Wall Street fell sharply Tues-day as the dollar strengthened following the solid US eco-nomic data and worries over cash-strapped Greece’s talks with creditors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.04 percent while the broad-based S&P 500 fell 1.03 percent and the Nasdaq lost 1.11 percent. (afp)
Tokyo stocks rise again in nine-day rally
TOKYO - Tokyo stocks squeaked out another positive session Wednesday with the benchmark index marking its ninth straight day of gains, as a weak yen offset falls on Wall Street.
AP Photo/Claude Paris, FileIn this Wednesday, May 13, 2015 file photo, a Ryanair plane lands at the Marseille Provence airport, in Mari-gnane, southern France.
Ryanair beats forecasts again as annual profits rise 66 pct
According to Sarjanan in the history of the meeting of princess Ida Dalem Selumbung with Ida Dalem Apit Yeh, the princess had wanted to return to Selumbung because she did not feel at home at Apit Yeh. However, to prevent her from going home, the road to Selumbung was strewn with Cattle carcasses, not far from the site of the
mesantalan or rice patty throwing. The carcasses emitted such a stench that the princess changed her mind about returning to the home of her youth. “Somehow, the site tills ex-udes a stench to this day, so we call it seman bangkung (literally the sow cemetery),” said Sarjana.
Nevertheless, when the princess finally felt comfortable with Ida
Dalem Apit Yeh, the two finally went together to the home of Ida Dalem Selumbung. The princess asked for a symbol of grace from Dalem Apits father, and she was given a takilan. After that, the princess was increasingly more comfortable staying in Apit Yeh with her husband. “Therefore, until today, every Usaba Dalem at
Apit Yeh, we always bring along a takilan to the Dalem Temple,” said Sarjana. Takilan contains rice with a side dishes wrapped in upih (dried areca nut sheath).
The Dalem Temple at Apit Yeh is quite unique. Sarjana mentioned that there is no road leading to the temple. For the Usaba ritual, residents walk through the farms
of local residents no matter what is growing there at the time. Druign cremations, many plants are dam-aged from trampling feet. However, residents believe that the overall crops will not be damaged and that after the Usaba Dalem, the plants that were treaded upon will return to normal and are believed to be blessed by God. (gik)
Headman of Apit Yeh, Made Sar-jana, just before the ritual tradition said that mesantalan takes place once a year, precisely on kajeng kliwon of the twelfth month of Balinese calendar (around May-June). This tradition originates from when Ida Dalem Apit Yeh proposed to Ida Dalem Se-lumbung and her father gave her rice patties as provisions for her journey. When she got to Apit Yeh, the princess threw the bag of rice to the residents who considered this as grace bestowed upon them by the princess.
This tradition takes place over one day. In the morning local residents release a calf, that is then whipped by the locals, causing the calf to run around the village. The residents then follow it around, to “hunt it down”. This ritual of running around the outskirts of the village three times is intended to clean the village of impurities. The calf must be of good quality, must be male and may not have any disabilities. In the end, the calf is slaughtered as caru (animal sacrifice) shortly before the
peak of the mesantalan ritual tradi-tion. In the meantime, the rest of the ingredients to be used as caru are processed by local youth from four customary hamlets for maprani after the masantalan.
Having made the preparations, local youth continues to strike the kulkul (wooden split drum) in each customary hamlet consisting of the Kaleran, Kangin, Kawan and Kelod. The kulkuls continue to be beaten simultaneously until the peak of the mesantalan takes place. The noise is meant to evoke the spirit of youth. Before the rice patty throwing starts, all the residents of Apit Yeh customary village say prayers in four temples. They are the Taman Temple as ulun suwi, Bale Agung Temple, Puseh and
Penanggun Desa (village border) Temple. The caru is also offered at the edge of the village, having been prepared since the morning.
After the mecaru procession, the youth are ready to get involved in the rice patty war where two groups, facing opposite directions throw the patties at each other. The two groups are only separated by two wooden logs places about 10 meters apart. This process goes with much excitement and thrill. A number of youth may be hit with rice patties as the throwing goes on for 15 minutes, between 4:10 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. To prevent any trouble, the masantalan is closely guarded by pecalang or customary security guard. Although residents look very excited throwing the rice
patties at each each other, after all is said and done there are no feelings of wanting to take revenge.
In fact the people who were thawing ketupat at each other are quickly reunited though the pro-cess of maprani (eating together) and remain friends. “Having com-pleted the masantalan, we engage in maprani to solidify friendships,” said one residents, Made Agus.
After the tradition is carried out. there is no sense of wanting revenge. This tradition is also intended to eliminate the sad ripu or six enemies within our selves, so that only the sad guna or six good behaviors are left. The final objective is to preserve serenity and peace under the protection of God. (kmb31)
‘Sow cemetery’ prevents princess from returning home
Mesantalan traditionAMLAPURA - The customary villagers of Apit Yeh, Manggis
Karangasem, organized a traditional mesantalan, on Tuesday (May 26). This unique tradition involves all the local village youths attac-kimg one another by throwing ketupat (rice patty) at each other. This tradition is preserved in honor of the journey of princess Ida Dalem Selumbung when she was to get married to Ida Dalem Apit Yeh.
The customary villagers of Apit Yeh, Manggis Karangasem, or-ganized a tradi-tional mesanta-lan, on Tuesday (May 26). This unique tradi-tion involves all the local village youths attackimg one another by throwing ketupat (rice patty) at each other.
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JAKARTA - The govern-ment, through the Ministry of Transportation, will offer free travel to this year’s Lebaran holiday travelers, Transporta-tion Minister Ignasius Jonan stated on Tuesday.
Ignasius noted that accord-ing to the Lebaran Integrated Transport Operations Plan 2015, prospective Lebaran holiday travelers keen to avail a free trip to their home vil-lages can register online from June 1 to 30.
“This year, we are going to transport more Lebaran holiday travelers by ship or bus,” the minister said, add-ing that more than 6 thousand people will be transported by bus and around 3 thousand motorcycles will be carried by trucks.
He noted that free holiday travel this year will be given to those leaving Jakarta for their home villages in Purwok-erto, Kebumen, Wonosobo, Magelang, Yogyakarta, Solo Wonogiri, and Tegal, among others.
Therefore, the minister has called on prospective holiday travelers to register themselves with the Ministry of Transpor-tation, or the transportation offices in Bekasi, Tangerang, and Depok.
According to Ignasius, the total quota for the free trip during the 2015 Lebaran holi-days is 20 thousand passengers and 10 thousand motorcycles. (ant)
“It is pointless if the economic growth reaches 5 percent while the inflation rate still remains at 12 per-cent,” President Jokowi remarked
while opening a national coordi-nation meeting of the Regional Inflation Control Team (TPID) on Wednesday.
Jokowi noted that the high in-flation rate will lead to the public buying an item at an expensive price. “That is what I always say during all my meetings with the governors and regional heads,” the president emphasized.
With regard to the current infla-
tion, the government is focusing on accelerating infrastructure develop-ment, he added.
“With adequate infrastructure, the prices of goods will also become cheaper; and cheaper transportation cost will also result in cheaper pric-es of goods,” he affirmed. (ant)
REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Rohingya migrants who arrived in Indonesia last week by boat wait in line for breakfast at a temporary shelter in Aceh Timur regency near Langsa in Indonesia’s Aceh Province May 27, 2015.
JAKARTA - An Indonesian court has fixed June 3 to hear a last-ditch appeal by a French drug trafficker on death row, after a verdict ex-pected this week was delayed by the absence of the presiding judge, a judge said.
Serge Atlaoui had been due to face the firing squad with other
convicts last month, but won a last-minute reprieve for the completion of his legal appeals.
France’s foreign minister has warned Indonesia it would face repercussions if the Southeast Asian nation went ahead with his execution.
Indonesia has harsh penalties for
drug trafficking and resumed execu-tions in 2013 after a five-year lull.
President Joko Widodo has re-jected clemency pleas from foreign nationals who are among a group of around 60 drug convicts scheduled for execution. Fourteen have been executed this year. The Jakarta administrative court is reviewing
Atlaoui’s challenge against the president’s refusal of clemency.
“As our presiding judge is in training, the court hearing could not take place and we postponed to next week,” Judge Indaryadi said in a court session on Tuesday.
The hearing has been resched-uled for June 3 and a verdict is
expected soon after.The Attorney General’s Office
has said Atlaoui’s current legal chal-lenge would be his last appeal.
Atlaoui was sentenced to death for his involvement in an ecstasy factory in Jakarta that was capable of producing 100 kg (220 lb) of the illegal pills every week. (rtr)
Economic growth should be followed by inflation control
JAKARTA - The efforts to achieve higher economic growth should be followed by the efforts to control inflation, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated.
Indonesian court delays appeal hearing of French death row convict
Government to offer free travel during Lebaran holidays
“The boat people are not from Myanmar” one banner carried by the demonstrators said. Another read, “The United Nations and the international media are making up stories!”
Myanmar has experienced a surge in Buddhist nationalism since it began moving from dictatorship toward democracy four years ago.
Up to 280 Rohingya have been killed by machete-wielding mobs and tens of thousands have taken to the seas in wooden trawlers, hop-ing to find better lives elsewhere. In recent weeks, more than 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshis flee-ing persecution and poverty have landed in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
“This is not Myanmar’s prob-lem, this is a global issue now,” said Thuda Nanda, a Buddhist monk. “These boat people have made up the name ‘Rohingya.’ They are pretending to be refugees so they can find a way to come to Myanmar. We cannot accept them.”
Myanmar’s 1.3 million Roh-ingya are denied citizenship by national law, rendering them state-less. The government calls them “Bengalis,” implying all are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangla-desh, though many of their families arrived generations ago. (ap)
BANGKOK — Thai authori-ties said Wednesday they revoked two passports belonging to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra following an interview he gave in South Korea they said could affect national security. Speaking to South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper last week, Thaksin suggested that Thailand’s Privy Council, which advises the nation’s constitutional monarch, had engineered months of anti-government protests that culminated in a May 2014 coup.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who organized the coup, has insisted he staged it to restore stability and be-cause there was no other way out of the country’s political deadlock.
On Wednesday, the foreign min-istry said in a statement that security agencies and police had advised that passports be canceled because the interview could impact Thailand’s “security, safety and pride.”
A highly divisive figure in Thai politics, Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup, and has lived in self-im-
posed exile before he was convicted in absentia on corruption charges in 2008. His supporters say the junta now in power is doing everything it can to eradicate his influence.
Thaksin became a billionaire in the telecommunications industry before ascending to the premier-ship. His sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, was removed from office just before the 2014 coup by a court ruling for il-legally transferring a civil servant.
Deputy government spokesman Maj. Gen. Verachon Sukhonthapa-tiphak told reporters in Bangkok that Thaksin was not being targeted by the junta. He said the government had to take action after security agencies referred the issue to them.
Thaksin, who lives in Dubai, had his passport revoked by a previ-ous Thai government in 2009. He acquired nationality and passports from Montenegro and Nicaragua, enabling him to travel, and Ying-luck’s government issued him new passports after she came to power in 2011. (ap)
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian government and rebel officials say seven people have been killed over the last day of fighting between armed forces and separatists.
The regional government of Luhansk, which is loyal to Kiev, said Wednesday that one civilian and one soldier were killed in mortar and grenade attacks.
Rebels say three civilians were killed in the city of Horliv-ka, which is under their control. Separatist emergency workers
said a man and child died after their home was struck by shells. A woman and two children were pulled alive from the rubble. Separatists say two fighters were also killed in fighting.
Shelling diminished follow-ing a February cease-fire deal, but fighting has worsened in recent weeks. Ukrainian authori-ties say around 8,600 civilians and soldiers have died in the conflict that began last year. (ap)
BERLIN — Doctors caring for quadruplets born prematurely to a 65-year-old Berlin woman say the babies are still in inten-sive care, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother’s milk through feed-ing tubes.
Mother Annegret Raunigk left
intensive care 48 hours after the delivery and is doing well. She gave birth by cesarean section to a girl and three boys during her 26th week of pregnancy at Berlin’s Charite Hospital on May 19.
The director of obstetrics at Charite, Wolfgang Henrich, said
Wednesday Raunigk is believed to be the oldest mother to have ever delivered quadruplets.
Raunigk already has 13 chil-dren aged 44 to 9 from five other fathers. She traveled abroad to have donated, fertilized eggs transferred — a procedure that is illegal in Germany. (ap)
Thailand revokes passports of ousted premier Thaksin
Quadruplets born to 65-year-old mom still in critical phase
AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe
Myanmar’s nationalist Buddhist monks shout slogans during a protest rally in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. About 300 protesters, led by radical Buddhist monks, rallied claiming boat people washing onto Southeast Asian shores were not Rohingya Muslims, a religious minor-ity the government and many others in the predominantly Buddhist nation say “do not exist.”
Buddhists in Myanmar deny boat people are Rohingya
YANGON, Myanmar — Several hundred protesters in Myan-mar’s main city denied Wednesday that boat people arriving on Southeast Asian shores are Rohingya Muslims, a religious minority the government and many others in the predominantly Buddhist nation say does not exist. About 30 radical Buddhist monks led the rally in Yangon.
AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, left, talks to the media as she leaves the Supreme Court in Bang-kok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 19, 2015.
7 civilians, fighters killed in new Ukraine unrest
Thursday, May 28, 2015 7SportsThursday, May 28, 201510 InternationalInternationalDestination
BANGLI - For those who love to go hiking or go to the mountain-ous area, Bali is famous for its beautiful mountainous scenery. Kintamani for example. Kinta-mani is the most favorite tourist
destinations in Bali with the ac-tive volcano of mount Batur and beautiful lake.
Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating nature and there are six ancient villages around cauldron
of Batur Lake which is often con-ceived by Bali Age Village. The local people from these Bali Age villages own the unique cultures, houses and life style. Kintamani Area is consisted of some Vil-lages those are Kedisan Village, Buahan, Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, Middle Batur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Village . The total of resident in
these area are about 15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer, merchant, or work at industrial tourism.
Mount Batur is located at Kin-tamani and it has erupted about 24 times since year 1800 and still active up to now. Since the mount erupting, it has impacted to the local society life around this mount, like removing altar
(Temple), improve or repairing the village and re-arrange the tradition. Lake Batur is the big-gest lake in Bali and functioning as irrigation source to all farmers around it and it is also for all Bali society generally. Kintamani area has been founded some lodging, hotels and restaurants which are located in Kintamani and Penelo-kan Village.
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Kintamani
It is only the second time the Cavaliers have made it to the Finals, but the fifth straight visit for James, who returned to Cleveland this season after four successful years with Miami.
None of Cleveland’s top sports teams — in the NBA, NFL or MLB — have won a title since 1964. The Cavaliers are four wins from ending that drought, and if they can, James will have a title that would put him in a class by himself. Other players have won more championships, but none has ever done it for his success-starved home region.
“We have everything it takes to win,” James said after the Cavs were presented with the confer-ence trophy. However, they’ve got their eyes on more than the Eastern Conference crown. “Cleveland,” owner Dan Gibert said, addressing the crowd. “We’re not settling for this.”
Jeff Teague scored 17 and Paul Millsap 16 for Atlanta, which won a team-record 60 games during the regular season and made the confer-ence finals for the first time since 1970. But the Hawks were no match for the Cavaliers and had no answer for James, who nearly averaged a triple-double in the four games. J.R. Smith added 18 points and Tristan Thompson had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Cavs.
Unlike 2007, when James cel-ebrated at the final horn, he was very business-like after the clock hit zero. Standing at center court, he turned to Smith and said “four more.”
It was a tough way for the Hawks to end a remarkable season. They survived a tumultuous offseason, and their young roster gelled in January when they became the first franchise to go 17-0 in a calendar month. They went on to win 19 straight, improved their win-loss
record by 22 wins over last season and beat Brooklyn and Washington in the playoffs to make their first conference finals since 1994.
But an injury to starting forward Thabo Sefolosha in April was fol-lowed by DeMarre Carroll injuring his knee in the series opener, before Kyle Korver’s season ended in Game 2 with an ankle injury. Those all hurt, but it was James who in-flicted the most pain.
James carried the Cavs to their first finals appearance eight years ago, when they were swept by San Antonio. Cleveland was a heavy underdog then and it was assumed the Cavs would get back again. But James left in 2010 to join the Heat, a move that dropped the Cavaliers from relevance and into the lower rungs of the standings.
His return to his home team, to play alongside Kevin Love — out for the season with a shoulder injury — and Irving immediately made the Cavaliers the team to beat in the East.
It didn’t go exactly as planned under first-year coach David Blatt, who left his family in Israel to take the Cavs’ job. “We’re in Cleve-land,” Blatt cracked. “Nothing is easy here.”(ap)
Honda chief Yasuhisa Arai will shift the manufacturer’s development focus following McLaren scoring its first Formula 1 points of the season in the Monaco Grand Prix. McLaren enjoyed its strongest weekend of the 2015 season on the streets of Monte Carlo, with both Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso believing they should have comfortably qualified in the top 10 on the grid.
While Alonso retired from the race, Button secured McLaren-Honda’s first points of the campaign with an eighth-place finish. Honda’s weakness so far, however, has been a lack of power, and with fast tracks in Canada, Austria and Silverstone up next, Arai knows it is an area that needs swift attention.
“I feel we have finally started,” said Arai, after witnessing the new McLaren-Honda era break
its points duck in the sixth race of the campaign. “With hard work there is good reliability. We made the driveability suitable for the special Monaco race track.
“Horsepower was not so important, using only partial throttle, which is a very sensitive area, so we made the driveability good for Jenson and Fernando. They had a good feeling.
“But now we need more power. Please give me the power. “If you have any idea, I will ac-cept. I know we need more power, but it’s not easy to get.
“Canada is a power circuit, and with heavy brak-ing the energy recovery is also important. “We will think about how to deliver the MGU-K power to feed that kind of fast, high-speed circuit.” It was not all smooth sailing for McLaren around Monaco, however, as Alonso was forced to pull his car off track in both qualifying and the race.
Arai rejected suggestions of a problem with the MGU-H in qualifying for Alonso, although he confirmed the battery pack had to be changed as Honda ran out of time in trying to discover the root cause.
Yasuhisa Arai, Honda F1 bossFor the race, with Alonso also on course for
a points finish, it is understood an overheating issue that affected the gearbox forced the double world champion to stop after 41 laps. Despite that, Arai added: “There was good pace from both drivers.(rtr)
PARIS — Venus Williams has been fined $3,000 by tournament organizers for not showing up at a news confer-ence following her first-round exit at the French Open. After the 15th-seeded Williams lost 7-6 (5), 6-1 to Sloane Stephens on Monday, she snubbed the media, instead issuing a short statement to the press.
It was Williams’ second opening defeat in three years at Roland Garros. At 34, the seven-time major champion was the oldest woman in the women’s draw this year in Paris.
It also was the fifth time in the last 13 Grand Slam tourna-ments she’s entered that Wil-liams was eliminated in the first round.(ap)
LeBron, Cavaliers earn NBA Finals spot by sweeping Hawks
CLEVELAND — The championship LeBron James craves more than any other, the one he came back home to get, is within reach after Cleveland routed Atlanta 118-88 on Tuesday to complete a se-ries sweep and secure its place in the NBA Finals. James scored 23 points and Kyrie Irving provided a boost after missing two games as Cleveland cruised to victory and set up a meeting with either Golden State or Houston.
AP Photo/Ron SchwaneCleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots against At-lanta Hawks forward Paul Millsap (4) in the first half of Game 4 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference Finals, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in Cleveland.
Venus Williams fined at French Open after snubbing media
Honda to switch focus with McLaren following first F1 2015 points
AP Photo/Claude ParisMcLaren driver Jenson Button of Britain, steers his car during the third free practice session at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco, Saturday, May 23 2015. The Formula one race will be held on Sunday.
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Those arrested did not include Sepp Blatter, the Swiss head of FIFA, but included several just below him in the hierarchy of the wealthiest and most powerful sports body on earth.
Of those 14 indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, seven officials of soccer’s governing body FIFA, including FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, were arrested in Zurich. Four people and two corporate defendants had already pleaded guilty to various charges, the department said.
The Miami, Florida, headquarters of CONCACAF, the soccer federation that governs North America, Central America and the Caribbean, were be-ing searched on Wednesday, the DoJ said. “As charged in the indictment, the defendants fostered a culture of corruption and greed that created an uneven playing field for the biggest sport in the world,” said FBI Direc-tor James Comey. “Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing busi-ness at FIFA.”
The arrests by plain-clothes Swiss police were made at dawn at a plush Zurich hotel where FIFA officials
are staying ahead of a vote this week where they have been expected to easily anoint Blatter for a fifth term in office.
“DIFFICULT MOMENT”FIFA said the arrests were a “dif-
ficult moment” but Blatter would not step down and upcoming World Cups would go ahead as planned. Separate from the U.S. investigation, Swiss prosecutors said they had opened their own criminal proceedings against unidentified individuals on suspicion of mismanagement and money laun-dering related to the awarding of rights to host the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Data and documents were seized from computers at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters, the Swiss prosecutors said. The U.S. Department of Justice named those arrested in its case as: Webb, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, FIFA vice-president Eugenio Figueredo, Rafael Esquivel and José Maria Marin.
The DoJ said the defendants in-cluded U.S. and South American sports marketing executives alleged
to have paid and agreed to pay “well over $150 million in bribes and kickbacks to obtain lucrative media and marketing rights to international soccer tournaments”. “The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, sys-temic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement. “It spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of
trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks,” she said.
BILLIONSThe international governing body
of football collects billions of dollars in revenue, mostly from sponsorship and television rights for World Cups. It has persistently been dogged by reports of corruption which it says it investigates itself, but until now it has escaped major criminal cases in
any country.In particular, the decision to award
the World Cup to Qatar, a tiny desert country with no domestic tradition of soccer, was heavily criticised by soccer officials in Western countries. FIFA was forced to acknowledge that it is too hot to play soccer there in the summer when the cup is traditionally held, forcing schedules around the globe to be rewritten to move the cup.(rtr)
Swiss arrest top global soccer officials in U.S., Swiss corruption cases
WARSAW — With their home country torn apart by conflict, the play-ers of surprise Europa League finalist Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk say they are simply focusing on providing fans with “a little bit of happiness.” This season has proved a fairytale for Dnipro, which has reached its first European final against reigning champion Sevilla on Wednesday.
The Ukrainians knocked out more favored teams such as Ajax and Napoli on the way, even though the conflict means they have not been allowed to play any of their European games at home in Dnipropetrovsk.
“Now in Ukraine, because there’s a war going on in the east, people are without emotions, they’re devastated,” team captain Ruslan Rotan said Tues-day. “Maybe if we win ... we’ll be able to bring even a little bit of happiness to these people. But politics has nothing to do with it.”
On Wednesday, “we’re playing for Ukraine,” midfielder Valery Fedorchuk said, adding that even to reach the final was a huge achievement. “We’re just dreaming of playing ... It’s a festival for us.” Rotan also revealed that Dnipro players have been funding trips to the final for fans after Ukraine’s ravaged economy and a collapse in the value of the country’s currency made it hard for supporters to travel to Warsaw.
“From an economic perspective, not all the fans can make it to a historic match like this and it’s not right,” Ro-tan said. “We in the team have helped people in some ways, people who are really suffering in a financial sense. We made some presents to them so they can get to the game. Of course, you can’t help everyone.”
Rotan said he and teammates had bought tickets for fans and paid for them to travel to Poland, with a particular focus on disabled fans. “It’s hard to count” how many the team has helped, he said. The mostly Russian-speaking city of Dnipropetrovsk may be outside the conflict zone around Donetsk, but
it has been seriously affected by the political and economic turbulence that has rocked Ukraine over the last 18 months.
In March, Ukrainian authorities said they had found a cell of armed pro-Russian militants in the city, while Ukraine’s rampant inflation, now over 60 percent, has driven up the cost of living.
Dnipro is also tangled up in Ukraine’s political rivalries through its owner, bil-lionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy, who has funded volunteer battalions to fight pro-Russian separatists but has also become a key political rival to Ukrainian Presi-dent Petro Poroshenko. Kolomoyskiy also served as the regional governor for Dnipropetrovsk and the surrounding area until he was fired by Poroshenko in March. On the pitch, the club may have to cope without its hero of the tournament so far.
Yevhen Seleznyov, the striker whose goals knocked out Club Brugge in the
quarterfinals and Napoli in the semi-finals, has been struggling for fitness. Coach Myron Markevych has been tight-lipped about the nature of the injury but admits it has put his chances of playing in the final in doubt.
Markevych’s dilemma is whether to start Seleznyov or Croatian striker Nikola Kalinic, formerly of Blackburn Rovers, who is more of a technical player and lacks Seleznyov’s physical presence.
“He has missed some time, that is true, after being injured,” Markevych said. “But honestly speaking, I have not decided yet whether he or Kalinic will go and play.”
A Champions League place is on offer for the winner Wednesday, something which Markevych said “adds incentive” for a Dnipro team which has not played in the top-tier European competition since reaching the quarterfinals of the old European Cup in 1990.(ap)
SAO PAULO — Some of the most successful coaches in Bra-zilian soccer are without a job, slowly losing out to a younger generation who are bringing fresh ideas and willing to ac-cept lower salaries. The latest to become unemployed was former Brazil and Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo, who was fired by Flamengo on Monday, joining a list that already includes Luiz Felipe Scolari, Muricy Ramalho, Abel Braga and Mano Menezes.
They were indisputable names not long ago thanks to their winning records in Brazil and abroad. Luxemburgo, Ramalho and Braga combined won nine Brazilian league titles, while Scolari won four Brazilian Cups and the 2002 World Cup with the national team. But most have failed to succeed recently, and now few Brazilian teams have shown interest in these high-pro-file coaches. They have become discredited after lackluster re-sults and many are already being called outdated and obsolete.
“Football is like this, there’s nothing we can do about it,” Lux-emburgo said Tuesday. “One day everything is great, but the next everything is worthless. Things change very quickly. It’s the way it is in football.”
A big reason these coaches have lost space is because some
remain extremely expensive compared to the youngsters in the market. Local clubs have been struggling financially and can’t afford to pay the high salaries that these coaches continue to demand. Most are at a stage in their careers that allow them to be picky about where to work and how much to earn. None of the recent coaches of the Brazilian national team is currently em-ployed, including Luxemburgo, Menezes and Scolari.
Luxemburgo, a five-time Brazilian league winner, was fired from Flamengo only three matches into this year’s Brazil-ian league. “I was surprised,” Luxemburgo said. “I was told that I was crucial for the club this year, but 20 days later they come and tell me that I’m no good any-more. I was really surprised.”
Last week, it was Scolari who became unemployed, resigning from Gremio after only two Bra-zilian league matches because he didn’t have “the full support” of club directors. Scolari was considered an indisputable hero in Brazil until about a year ago, but things changed significantly after the national team’s hu-miliating 7-1 loss to Germany in the World Cup. Gremio has hired relatively unknown coach Roger Machado, who is expected to earn less than a third of what Scolari made. (ap)
KASHIWA, Japan — Kashiwa Reysol advanced to the Asian Cham-pions League quarterfinals despite a 2-1 loss at Suwon on Tuesday, progressing on away goals after the second-round series finished level at 4-4. Kashiwa took a 3-2 lead into the return leg but fell behind after striker Jong Tae-se scored in the 26th minute and Ku Ja-ryong tapped in from close range in the 54th to give Suwon the advantage.
Yusuke Kobayashi struck from the edge of the area in the 65th, pouncing after Leandro’s shot was blocked, to secure the Japanese club a spot in the last eight.
Korean champion Jeonbuk advanced 2-1 on aggregate, with Edu scoring the
crucial goal in the 72nd minute to give the visitors at 1-0 win at Beijing Guoan. Guoan, aiming to reach the quarterfinals for the first time, held Jeonbuk to a 1-1 at Jeonju last week.
In western zone matches, two-time continental champion Al Hilal overturned a 1-0 deficit against Persepolis of Iran with a 3-0 win at home to advance 3-1 on aggregate. Qatari league champion Lekhwiya, which took a 2-1 lead into the return leg against regular rival and 2011 champion Al Sadd, advanced 4-3 on aggregate after a 2-2 draw in Doha.
Ismail Mohamad scored seven minutes from time to earn 10-man Lekhwiya the draw and a place in the quarterfinals for the second time
in three seasons.Youssef Msakni put Lekhwiya
ahead after just 13 minutes but Ahmed Yasser’s sending off in the 34th minute for a second bookable offense was followed by an equalizer for Al Sadd when Brazilian striker Muriqui scored with a free kick.
Ali Asadalla put Al Sadd in front in the 63rd minute and the match looked headed for extra time when Mohamad struck to take Lekhwiya into the last eight. Lekhwiya also reached the quarterfinals in 2013, losing to eventual champions Guangzhou Evergrande. “The match was very exciting from the two teams and it was entertaining,” Lekhwiya’s Danish coach Michael Laudrup said.(ap)
MADRID - Barcelona forward Luis Suarez has returned to training with his team mates, suggesting he will be able to play a part in Satur-day’s King’s Cup final against Ath-letic Bilbao after two weeks out with a hamstring problem. The Uruguay international sustained the injury in the Champions League semi-final, second leg at Bayern Munich and missed Barca’s final two La Liga games, including the 1-0 win at Atletico Madrid when they secured a fifth title in seven years.
“All the available players from the first team trained,” Barca said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.es) on Wednesday. “Luis Suarez worked with them without yet being given the medical all clear.”
Barca are chasing a treble of titles and after hosting Bilbao at the Nou Camp, when they will bid for a record-extending 27th domestic cup crown, they take on Juventus in the Champions League final in Berlin on June 6. The Catalan giants are the only Spanish club to have won
the treble, achieving the feat under Pep Guardiola in 2008-09.
Suarez had a slow start at Barca after his ban for biting an opponent at the World Cup expired at the end of October but has been in impressive form since the turn of the year.
The 28-year-old has scored 24 goals in 41 appearances in all com-petitions this season and has also laid on 16 assists, developing a fine understanding with fellow South American forwards Lionel Messi and Neymar.(rtr)
ZURICH - Swiss police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday, announcing a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups and plunging the world’s most popular sport into turmoil. In addition to the Swiss criminal probe, nine football officials and five sports media and promotions executives face extradition to the United States on corruption charges involving more than $150 million in bribes, U.S. authorities said.
AP Photo/Rob Harris
People stand outside the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 where six soccer officials were arrested and detained by Swiss police on Wednesday pending extradition at the request of U.S. authorities after a raid.
Kashiwa Reysol, Jeonbuk advance to Asian CL quarterfinals
AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama
Shinnosuke Nakatani, right, of Japanese Kashiwa Reysol controls the ball against Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente Marins of South Korean Suwon Bluewings during their round of 16 soccer match at the Asian Champions League in Kashiwa, near Tokyo, Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
Some of Brazil’s most successful coaches out of a job
AP Photo/Leo Correa, File
FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, Brazil’s coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gestures during a press conference in Teres-opolis, Brazil. Almost a year after the loss to Germany on what he called the “worst day” of his career, Scolari still hasn’t regained the trust of local fans. He failed in his first job after the World Cup debacle: a stint with Gremio that ended with his resignation on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, just two matches into the Brazilian league season.
Barca forward Suarez back in training before Cup final
Dnipro aims to give fans ‘a bit of happiness’
AP Photo/Alik Keplicz
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk players Bruno Gama, left, and Matheus play the ball during a training session on the eve of the Europa League final soccer match between FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Sevilla FC at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, Tues-day, May 26, 2015.
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Those arrested did not include Sepp Blatter, the Swiss head of FIFA, but included several just below him in the hierarchy of the wealthiest and most powerful sports body on earth.
Of those 14 indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, seven officials of soccer’s governing body FIFA, including FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, were arrested in Zurich. Four people and two corporate defendants had already pleaded guilty to various charges, the department said.
The Miami, Florida, headquarters of CONCACAF, the soccer federation that governs North America, Central America and the Caribbean, were be-ing searched on Wednesday, the DoJ said. “As charged in the indictment, the defendants fostered a culture of corruption and greed that created an uneven playing field for the biggest sport in the world,” said FBI Direc-tor James Comey. “Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing busi-ness at FIFA.”
The arrests by plain-clothes Swiss police were made at dawn at a plush Zurich hotel where FIFA officials
are staying ahead of a vote this week where they have been expected to easily anoint Blatter for a fifth term in office.
“DIFFICULT MOMENT”FIFA said the arrests were a “dif-
ficult moment” but Blatter would not step down and upcoming World Cups would go ahead as planned. Separate from the U.S. investigation, Swiss prosecutors said they had opened their own criminal proceedings against unidentified individuals on suspicion of mismanagement and money laun-dering related to the awarding of rights to host the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Data and documents were seized from computers at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters, the Swiss prosecutors said. The U.S. Department of Justice named those arrested in its case as: Webb, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, FIFA vice-president Eugenio Figueredo, Rafael Esquivel and José Maria Marin.
The DoJ said the defendants in-cluded U.S. and South American sports marketing executives alleged
to have paid and agreed to pay “well over $150 million in bribes and kickbacks to obtain lucrative media and marketing rights to international soccer tournaments”. “The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, sys-temic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement. “It spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of
trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks,” she said.
BILLIONSThe international governing body
of football collects billions of dollars in revenue, mostly from sponsorship and television rights for World Cups. It has persistently been dogged by reports of corruption which it says it investigates itself, but until now it has escaped major criminal cases in
any country.In particular, the decision to award
the World Cup to Qatar, a tiny desert country with no domestic tradition of soccer, was heavily criticised by soccer officials in Western countries. FIFA was forced to acknowledge that it is too hot to play soccer there in the summer when the cup is traditionally held, forcing schedules around the globe to be rewritten to move the cup.(rtr)
Swiss arrest top global soccer officials in U.S., Swiss corruption cases
WARSAW — With their home country torn apart by conflict, the play-ers of surprise Europa League finalist Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk say they are simply focusing on providing fans with “a little bit of happiness.” This season has proved a fairytale for Dnipro, which has reached its first European final against reigning champion Sevilla on Wednesday.
The Ukrainians knocked out more favored teams such as Ajax and Napoli on the way, even though the conflict means they have not been allowed to play any of their European games at home in Dnipropetrovsk.
“Now in Ukraine, because there’s a war going on in the east, people are without emotions, they’re devastated,” team captain Ruslan Rotan said Tues-day. “Maybe if we win ... we’ll be able to bring even a little bit of happiness to these people. But politics has nothing to do with it.”
On Wednesday, “we’re playing for Ukraine,” midfielder Valery Fedorchuk said, adding that even to reach the final was a huge achievement. “We’re just dreaming of playing ... It’s a festival for us.” Rotan also revealed that Dnipro players have been funding trips to the final for fans after Ukraine’s ravaged economy and a collapse in the value of the country’s currency made it hard for supporters to travel to Warsaw.
“From an economic perspective, not all the fans can make it to a historic match like this and it’s not right,” Ro-tan said. “We in the team have helped people in some ways, people who are really suffering in a financial sense. We made some presents to them so they can get to the game. Of course, you can’t help everyone.”
Rotan said he and teammates had bought tickets for fans and paid for them to travel to Poland, with a particular focus on disabled fans. “It’s hard to count” how many the team has helped, he said. The mostly Russian-speaking city of Dnipropetrovsk may be outside the conflict zone around Donetsk, but
it has been seriously affected by the political and economic turbulence that has rocked Ukraine over the last 18 months.
In March, Ukrainian authorities said they had found a cell of armed pro-Russian militants in the city, while Ukraine’s rampant inflation, now over 60 percent, has driven up the cost of living.
Dnipro is also tangled up in Ukraine’s political rivalries through its owner, bil-lionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy, who has funded volunteer battalions to fight pro-Russian separatists but has also become a key political rival to Ukrainian Presi-dent Petro Poroshenko. Kolomoyskiy also served as the regional governor for Dnipropetrovsk and the surrounding area until he was fired by Poroshenko in March. On the pitch, the club may have to cope without its hero of the tournament so far.
Yevhen Seleznyov, the striker whose goals knocked out Club Brugge in the
quarterfinals and Napoli in the semi-finals, has been struggling for fitness. Coach Myron Markevych has been tight-lipped about the nature of the injury but admits it has put his chances of playing in the final in doubt.
Markevych’s dilemma is whether to start Seleznyov or Croatian striker Nikola Kalinic, formerly of Blackburn Rovers, who is more of a technical player and lacks Seleznyov’s physical presence.
“He has missed some time, that is true, after being injured,” Markevych said. “But honestly speaking, I have not decided yet whether he or Kalinic will go and play.”
A Champions League place is on offer for the winner Wednesday, something which Markevych said “adds incentive” for a Dnipro team which has not played in the top-tier European competition since reaching the quarterfinals of the old European Cup in 1990.(ap)
SAO PAULO — Some of the most successful coaches in Bra-zilian soccer are without a job, slowly losing out to a younger generation who are bringing fresh ideas and willing to ac-cept lower salaries. The latest to become unemployed was former Brazil and Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo, who was fired by Flamengo on Monday, joining a list that already includes Luiz Felipe Scolari, Muricy Ramalho, Abel Braga and Mano Menezes.
They were indisputable names not long ago thanks to their winning records in Brazil and abroad. Luxemburgo, Ramalho and Braga combined won nine Brazilian league titles, while Scolari won four Brazilian Cups and the 2002 World Cup with the national team. But most have failed to succeed recently, and now few Brazilian teams have shown interest in these high-pro-file coaches. They have become discredited after lackluster re-sults and many are already being called outdated and obsolete.
“Football is like this, there’s nothing we can do about it,” Lux-emburgo said Tuesday. “One day everything is great, but the next everything is worthless. Things change very quickly. It’s the way it is in football.”
A big reason these coaches have lost space is because some
remain extremely expensive compared to the youngsters in the market. Local clubs have been struggling financially and can’t afford to pay the high salaries that these coaches continue to demand. Most are at a stage in their careers that allow them to be picky about where to work and how much to earn. None of the recent coaches of the Brazilian national team is currently em-ployed, including Luxemburgo, Menezes and Scolari.
Luxemburgo, a five-time Brazilian league winner, was fired from Flamengo only three matches into this year’s Brazil-ian league. “I was surprised,” Luxemburgo said. “I was told that I was crucial for the club this year, but 20 days later they come and tell me that I’m no good any-more. I was really surprised.”
Last week, it was Scolari who became unemployed, resigning from Gremio after only two Bra-zilian league matches because he didn’t have “the full support” of club directors. Scolari was considered an indisputable hero in Brazil until about a year ago, but things changed significantly after the national team’s hu-miliating 7-1 loss to Germany in the World Cup. Gremio has hired relatively unknown coach Roger Machado, who is expected to earn less than a third of what Scolari made. (ap)
KASHIWA, Japan — Kashiwa Reysol advanced to the Asian Cham-pions League quarterfinals despite a 2-1 loss at Suwon on Tuesday, progressing on away goals after the second-round series finished level at 4-4. Kashiwa took a 3-2 lead into the return leg but fell behind after striker Jong Tae-se scored in the 26th minute and Ku Ja-ryong tapped in from close range in the 54th to give Suwon the advantage.
Yusuke Kobayashi struck from the edge of the area in the 65th, pouncing after Leandro’s shot was blocked, to secure the Japanese club a spot in the last eight.
Korean champion Jeonbuk advanced 2-1 on aggregate, with Edu scoring the
crucial goal in the 72nd minute to give the visitors at 1-0 win at Beijing Guoan. Guoan, aiming to reach the quarterfinals for the first time, held Jeonbuk to a 1-1 at Jeonju last week.
In western zone matches, two-time continental champion Al Hilal overturned a 1-0 deficit against Persepolis of Iran with a 3-0 win at home to advance 3-1 on aggregate. Qatari league champion Lekhwiya, which took a 2-1 lead into the return leg against regular rival and 2011 champion Al Sadd, advanced 4-3 on aggregate after a 2-2 draw in Doha.
Ismail Mohamad scored seven minutes from time to earn 10-man Lekhwiya the draw and a place in the quarterfinals for the second time
in three seasons.Youssef Msakni put Lekhwiya
ahead after just 13 minutes but Ahmed Yasser’s sending off in the 34th minute for a second bookable offense was followed by an equalizer for Al Sadd when Brazilian striker Muriqui scored with a free kick.
Ali Asadalla put Al Sadd in front in the 63rd minute and the match looked headed for extra time when Mohamad struck to take Lekhwiya into the last eight. Lekhwiya also reached the quarterfinals in 2013, losing to eventual champions Guangzhou Evergrande. “The match was very exciting from the two teams and it was entertaining,” Lekhwiya’s Danish coach Michael Laudrup said.(ap)
MADRID - Barcelona forward Luis Suarez has returned to training with his team mates, suggesting he will be able to play a part in Satur-day’s King’s Cup final against Ath-letic Bilbao after two weeks out with a hamstring problem. The Uruguay international sustained the injury in the Champions League semi-final, second leg at Bayern Munich and missed Barca’s final two La Liga games, including the 1-0 win at Atletico Madrid when they secured a fifth title in seven years.
“All the available players from the first team trained,” Barca said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.es) on Wednesday. “Luis Suarez worked with them without yet being given the medical all clear.”
Barca are chasing a treble of titles and after hosting Bilbao at the Nou Camp, when they will bid for a record-extending 27th domestic cup crown, they take on Juventus in the Champions League final in Berlin on June 6. The Catalan giants are the only Spanish club to have won
the treble, achieving the feat under Pep Guardiola in 2008-09.
Suarez had a slow start at Barca after his ban for biting an opponent at the World Cup expired at the end of October but has been in impressive form since the turn of the year.
The 28-year-old has scored 24 goals in 41 appearances in all com-petitions this season and has also laid on 16 assists, developing a fine understanding with fellow South American forwards Lionel Messi and Neymar.(rtr)
ZURICH - Swiss police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday, announcing a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups and plunging the world’s most popular sport into turmoil. In addition to the Swiss criminal probe, nine football officials and five sports media and promotions executives face extradition to the United States on corruption charges involving more than $150 million in bribes, U.S. authorities said.
AP Photo/Rob Harris
People stand outside the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 where six soccer officials were arrested and detained by Swiss police on Wednesday pending extradition at the request of U.S. authorities after a raid.
Kashiwa Reysol, Jeonbuk advance to Asian CL quarterfinals
AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama
Shinnosuke Nakatani, right, of Japanese Kashiwa Reysol controls the ball against Leonardo de Oliveira Clemente Marins of South Korean Suwon Bluewings during their round of 16 soccer match at the Asian Champions League in Kashiwa, near Tokyo, Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
Some of Brazil’s most successful coaches out of a job
AP Photo/Leo Correa, File
FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, Brazil’s coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gestures during a press conference in Teres-opolis, Brazil. Almost a year after the loss to Germany on what he called the “worst day” of his career, Scolari still hasn’t regained the trust of local fans. He failed in his first job after the World Cup debacle: a stint with Gremio that ended with his resignation on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, just two matches into the Brazilian league season.
Barca forward Suarez back in training before Cup final
Dnipro aims to give fans ‘a bit of happiness’
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FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk players Bruno Gama, left, and Matheus play the ball during a training session on the eve of the Europa League final soccer match between FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Sevilla FC at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, Tues-day, May 26, 2015.
Thursday, May 28, 2015 7SportsThursday, May 28, 201510 InternationalInternationalDestination
BANGLI - For those who love to go hiking or go to the mountain-ous area, Bali is famous for its beautiful mountainous scenery. Kintamani for example. Kinta-mani is the most favorite tourist
destinations in Bali with the ac-tive volcano of mount Batur and beautiful lake.
Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating nature and there are six ancient villages around cauldron
of Batur Lake which is often con-ceived by Bali Age Village. The local people from these Bali Age villages own the unique cultures, houses and life style. Kintamani Area is consisted of some Vil-lages those are Kedisan Village, Buahan, Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, Middle Batur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Village . The total of resident in
these area are about 15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer, merchant, or work at industrial tourism.
Mount Batur is located at Kin-tamani and it has erupted about 24 times since year 1800 and still active up to now. Since the mount erupting, it has impacted to the local society life around this mount, like removing altar
(Temple), improve or repairing the village and re-arrange the tradition. Lake Batur is the big-gest lake in Bali and functioning as irrigation source to all farmers around it and it is also for all Bali society generally. Kintamani area has been founded some lodging, hotels and restaurants which are located in Kintamani and Penelo-kan Village.
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Kintamani
It is only the second time the Cavaliers have made it to the Finals, but the fifth straight visit for James, who returned to Cleveland this season after four successful years with Miami.
None of Cleveland’s top sports teams — in the NBA, NFL or MLB — have won a title since 1964. The Cavaliers are four wins from ending that drought, and if they can, James will have a title that would put him in a class by himself. Other players have won more championships, but none has ever done it for his success-starved home region.
“We have everything it takes to win,” James said after the Cavs were presented with the confer-ence trophy. However, they’ve got their eyes on more than the Eastern Conference crown. “Cleveland,” owner Dan Gibert said, addressing the crowd. “We’re not settling for this.”
Jeff Teague scored 17 and Paul Millsap 16 for Atlanta, which won a team-record 60 games during the regular season and made the confer-ence finals for the first time since 1970. But the Hawks were no match for the Cavaliers and had no answer for James, who nearly averaged a triple-double in the four games. J.R. Smith added 18 points and Tristan Thompson had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Cavs.
Unlike 2007, when James cel-ebrated at the final horn, he was very business-like after the clock hit zero. Standing at center court, he turned to Smith and said “four more.”
It was a tough way for the Hawks to end a remarkable season. They survived a tumultuous offseason, and their young roster gelled in January when they became the first franchise to go 17-0 in a calendar month. They went on to win 19 straight, improved their win-loss
record by 22 wins over last season and beat Brooklyn and Washington in the playoffs to make their first conference finals since 1994.
But an injury to starting forward Thabo Sefolosha in April was fol-lowed by DeMarre Carroll injuring his knee in the series opener, before Kyle Korver’s season ended in Game 2 with an ankle injury. Those all hurt, but it was James who in-flicted the most pain.
James carried the Cavs to their first finals appearance eight years ago, when they were swept by San Antonio. Cleveland was a heavy underdog then and it was assumed the Cavs would get back again. But James left in 2010 to join the Heat, a move that dropped the Cavaliers from relevance and into the lower rungs of the standings.
His return to his home team, to play alongside Kevin Love — out for the season with a shoulder injury — and Irving immediately made the Cavaliers the team to beat in the East.
It didn’t go exactly as planned under first-year coach David Blatt, who left his family in Israel to take the Cavs’ job. “We’re in Cleve-land,” Blatt cracked. “Nothing is easy here.”(ap)
Honda chief Yasuhisa Arai will shift the manufacturer’s development focus following McLaren scoring its first Formula 1 points of the season in the Monaco Grand Prix. McLaren enjoyed its strongest weekend of the 2015 season on the streets of Monte Carlo, with both Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso believing they should have comfortably qualified in the top 10 on the grid.
While Alonso retired from the race, Button secured McLaren-Honda’s first points of the campaign with an eighth-place finish. Honda’s weakness so far, however, has been a lack of power, and with fast tracks in Canada, Austria and Silverstone up next, Arai knows it is an area that needs swift attention.
“I feel we have finally started,” said Arai, after witnessing the new McLaren-Honda era break
its points duck in the sixth race of the campaign. “With hard work there is good reliability. We made the driveability suitable for the special Monaco race track.
“Horsepower was not so important, using only partial throttle, which is a very sensitive area, so we made the driveability good for Jenson and Fernando. They had a good feeling.
“But now we need more power. Please give me the power. “If you have any idea, I will ac-cept. I know we need more power, but it’s not easy to get.
“Canada is a power circuit, and with heavy brak-ing the energy recovery is also important. “We will think about how to deliver the MGU-K power to feed that kind of fast, high-speed circuit.” It was not all smooth sailing for McLaren around Monaco, however, as Alonso was forced to pull his car off track in both qualifying and the race.
Arai rejected suggestions of a problem with the MGU-H in qualifying for Alonso, although he confirmed the battery pack had to be changed as Honda ran out of time in trying to discover the root cause.
Yasuhisa Arai, Honda F1 bossFor the race, with Alonso also on course for
a points finish, it is understood an overheating issue that affected the gearbox forced the double world champion to stop after 41 laps. Despite that, Arai added: “There was good pace from both drivers.(rtr)
PARIS — Venus Williams has been fined $3,000 by tournament organizers for not showing up at a news confer-ence following her first-round exit at the French Open. After the 15th-seeded Williams lost 7-6 (5), 6-1 to Sloane Stephens on Monday, she snubbed the media, instead issuing a short statement to the press.
It was Williams’ second opening defeat in three years at Roland Garros. At 34, the seven-time major champion was the oldest woman in the women’s draw this year in Paris.
It also was the fifth time in the last 13 Grand Slam tourna-ments she’s entered that Wil-liams was eliminated in the first round.(ap)
LeBron, Cavaliers earn NBA Finals spot by sweeping Hawks
CLEVELAND — The championship LeBron James craves more than any other, the one he came back home to get, is within reach after Cleveland routed Atlanta 118-88 on Tuesday to complete a se-ries sweep and secure its place in the NBA Finals. James scored 23 points and Kyrie Irving provided a boost after missing two games as Cleveland cruised to victory and set up a meeting with either Golden State or Houston.
AP Photo/Ron SchwaneCleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots against At-lanta Hawks forward Paul Millsap (4) in the first half of Game 4 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference Finals, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in Cleveland.
Venus Williams fined at French Open after snubbing media
Honda to switch focus with McLaren following first F1 2015 points
AP Photo/Claude ParisMcLaren driver Jenson Button of Britain, steers his car during the third free practice session at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco, Saturday, May 23 2015. The Formula one race will be held on Sunday.
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JAKARTA - The govern-ment, through the Ministry of Transportation, will offer free travel to this year’s Lebaran holiday travelers, Transporta-tion Minister Ignasius Jonan stated on Tuesday.
Ignasius noted that accord-ing to the Lebaran Integrated Transport Operations Plan 2015, prospective Lebaran holiday travelers keen to avail a free trip to their home vil-lages can register online from June 1 to 30.
“This year, we are going to transport more Lebaran holiday travelers by ship or bus,” the minister said, add-ing that more than 6 thousand people will be transported by bus and around 3 thousand motorcycles will be carried by trucks.
He noted that free holiday travel this year will be given to those leaving Jakarta for their home villages in Purwok-erto, Kebumen, Wonosobo, Magelang, Yogyakarta, Solo Wonogiri, and Tegal, among others.
Therefore, the minister has called on prospective holiday travelers to register themselves with the Ministry of Transpor-tation, or the transportation offices in Bekasi, Tangerang, and Depok.
According to Ignasius, the total quota for the free trip during the 2015 Lebaran holi-days is 20 thousand passengers and 10 thousand motorcycles. (ant)
“It is pointless if the economic growth reaches 5 percent while the inflation rate still remains at 12 per-cent,” President Jokowi remarked
while opening a national coordi-nation meeting of the Regional Inflation Control Team (TPID) on Wednesday.
Jokowi noted that the high in-flation rate will lead to the public buying an item at an expensive price. “That is what I always say during all my meetings with the governors and regional heads,” the president emphasized.
With regard to the current infla-
tion, the government is focusing on accelerating infrastructure develop-ment, he added.
“With adequate infrastructure, the prices of goods will also become cheaper; and cheaper transportation cost will also result in cheaper pric-es of goods,” he affirmed. (ant)
REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Rohingya migrants who arrived in Indonesia last week by boat wait in line for breakfast at a temporary shelter in Aceh Timur regency near Langsa in Indonesia’s Aceh Province May 27, 2015.
JAKARTA - An Indonesian court has fixed June 3 to hear a last-ditch appeal by a French drug trafficker on death row, after a verdict ex-pected this week was delayed by the absence of the presiding judge, a judge said.
Serge Atlaoui had been due to face the firing squad with other
convicts last month, but won a last-minute reprieve for the completion of his legal appeals.
France’s foreign minister has warned Indonesia it would face repercussions if the Southeast Asian nation went ahead with his execution.
Indonesia has harsh penalties for
drug trafficking and resumed execu-tions in 2013 after a five-year lull.
President Joko Widodo has re-jected clemency pleas from foreign nationals who are among a group of around 60 drug convicts scheduled for execution. Fourteen have been executed this year. The Jakarta administrative court is reviewing
Atlaoui’s challenge against the president’s refusal of clemency.
“As our presiding judge is in training, the court hearing could not take place and we postponed to next week,” Judge Indaryadi said in a court session on Tuesday.
The hearing has been resched-uled for June 3 and a verdict is
expected soon after.The Attorney General’s Office
has said Atlaoui’s current legal chal-lenge would be his last appeal.
Atlaoui was sentenced to death for his involvement in an ecstasy factory in Jakarta that was capable of producing 100 kg (220 lb) of the illegal pills every week. (rtr)
Economic growth should be followed by inflation control
JAKARTA - The efforts to achieve higher economic growth should be followed by the efforts to control inflation, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated.
Indonesian court delays appeal hearing of French death row convict
Government to offer free travel during Lebaran holidays
“The boat people are not from Myanmar” one banner carried by the demonstrators said. Another read, “The United Nations and the international media are making up stories!”
Myanmar has experienced a surge in Buddhist nationalism since it began moving from dictatorship toward democracy four years ago.
Up to 280 Rohingya have been killed by machete-wielding mobs and tens of thousands have taken to the seas in wooden trawlers, hop-ing to find better lives elsewhere. In recent weeks, more than 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshis flee-ing persecution and poverty have landed in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
“This is not Myanmar’s prob-lem, this is a global issue now,” said Thuda Nanda, a Buddhist monk. “These boat people have made up the name ‘Rohingya.’ They are pretending to be refugees so they can find a way to come to Myanmar. We cannot accept them.”
Myanmar’s 1.3 million Roh-ingya are denied citizenship by national law, rendering them state-less. The government calls them “Bengalis,” implying all are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangla-desh, though many of their families arrived generations ago. (ap)
BANGKOK — Thai authori-ties said Wednesday they revoked two passports belonging to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra following an interview he gave in South Korea they said could affect national security. Speaking to South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper last week, Thaksin suggested that Thailand’s Privy Council, which advises the nation’s constitutional monarch, had engineered months of anti-government protests that culminated in a May 2014 coup.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who organized the coup, has insisted he staged it to restore stability and be-cause there was no other way out of the country’s political deadlock.
On Wednesday, the foreign min-istry said in a statement that security agencies and police had advised that passports be canceled because the interview could impact Thailand’s “security, safety and pride.”
A highly divisive figure in Thai politics, Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup, and has lived in self-im-
posed exile before he was convicted in absentia on corruption charges in 2008. His supporters say the junta now in power is doing everything it can to eradicate his influence.
Thaksin became a billionaire in the telecommunications industry before ascending to the premier-ship. His sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, was removed from office just before the 2014 coup by a court ruling for il-legally transferring a civil servant.
Deputy government spokesman Maj. Gen. Verachon Sukhonthapa-tiphak told reporters in Bangkok that Thaksin was not being targeted by the junta. He said the government had to take action after security agencies referred the issue to them.
Thaksin, who lives in Dubai, had his passport revoked by a previ-ous Thai government in 2009. He acquired nationality and passports from Montenegro and Nicaragua, enabling him to travel, and Ying-luck’s government issued him new passports after she came to power in 2011. (ap)
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian government and rebel officials say seven people have been killed over the last day of fighting between armed forces and separatists.
The regional government of Luhansk, which is loyal to Kiev, said Wednesday that one civilian and one soldier were killed in mortar and grenade attacks.
Rebels say three civilians were killed in the city of Horliv-ka, which is under their control. Separatist emergency workers
said a man and child died after their home was struck by shells. A woman and two children were pulled alive from the rubble. Separatists say two fighters were also killed in fighting.
Shelling diminished follow-ing a February cease-fire deal, but fighting has worsened in recent weeks. Ukrainian authori-ties say around 8,600 civilians and soldiers have died in the conflict that began last year. (ap)
BERLIN — Doctors caring for quadruplets born prematurely to a 65-year-old Berlin woman say the babies are still in inten-sive care, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother’s milk through feed-ing tubes.
Mother Annegret Raunigk left
intensive care 48 hours after the delivery and is doing well. She gave birth by cesarean section to a girl and three boys during her 26th week of pregnancy at Berlin’s Charite Hospital on May 19.
The director of obstetrics at Charite, Wolfgang Henrich, said
Wednesday Raunigk is believed to be the oldest mother to have ever delivered quadruplets.
Raunigk already has 13 chil-dren aged 44 to 9 from five other fathers. She traveled abroad to have donated, fertilized eggs transferred — a procedure that is illegal in Germany. (ap)
Thailand revokes passports of ousted premier Thaksin
Quadruplets born to 65-year-old mom still in critical phase
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Myanmar’s nationalist Buddhist monks shout slogans during a protest rally in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. About 300 protesters, led by radical Buddhist monks, rallied claiming boat people washing onto Southeast Asian shores were not Rohingya Muslims, a religious minor-ity the government and many others in the predominantly Buddhist nation say “do not exist.”
Buddhists in Myanmar deny boat people are Rohingya
YANGON, Myanmar — Several hundred protesters in Myan-mar’s main city denied Wednesday that boat people arriving on Southeast Asian shores are Rohingya Muslims, a religious minority the government and many others in the predominantly Buddhist nation say does not exist. About 30 radical Buddhist monks led the rally in Yangon.
AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, left, talks to the media as she leaves the Supreme Court in Bang-kok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 19, 2015.
7 civilians, fighters killed in new Ukraine unrest
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DUBLIN — Europe’s leading budget airline Ryanair has beaten forecasts again, reporting full-year net profits of 867 million euros ($949 million), 66 percent higher than the year before.
The Dublin-based airline said Tuesday it filled 88 percent of its seats, up 5 points, in the fiscal year ending in March. Sales rose 12 percent to 5.65 billion euros ($6.2 billion) chiefly because of relentless route expansion combined with the impact of the airline’s 2014 decision to improve customer service, includ-ing introduction of a new flexible business-friendly ticket.
Shares in the airline surged 7.5 percent to 11.70 euros ($12.80) on the Irish Stock Exchange by midaft-ernoon.
Ryanair unveiled a target for the fiscal year 2016 of between 940 million euros and 970 million euros. Many analysts said they expected Ryanair to beat that forecast, poten-tially breaching the 1 billion euro barrier, given that the airline raised its initial 2015 profit forecast five times
— and even its final top target, 850 million euros, fell short of Tuesday’s official result.
Davy Stockbrokers called Rya-nair’s forecast “very robust.” The Dublin broker said it now expects Ryanair shares soon will reach 12 euros, a level last attained in Feb-ruary 2007 right before the airline conducted a 2-for-1 share split.
Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said advance bookings are running 4 percent higher than last year, which should help the carrier fill 90 percent of its seats in fiscal 2016.
Profits would be even higher were it not for Ryanair’s policy of buying fuel contracts far in advance. That has locked in last year’s much higher oil prices at an average of $92 a bar-rel through the spring of 2016. The airline says it’s negotiated cheaper contracts averaging $69 a barrel thereafter.
Ryanair carried 90.6 million pas-sengers in the fiscal year 2015, up 11 percent, and aims to break the 100 million mark this year.
Average fares rose 1 euro to 47
euros, while the total revenue per customer remained flat at 62 euros, reflecting the sales of on-board food, drink and bingo cards as well as com-missions on online purchase of hotel rooms and rental cars booked through its website.
The chief financial officer, Neil Sorahan, said Ryanair’s decision to open services at more mainstream European airports and to create a flex-ible business-class ticket was helping to drive growth, particularly during the typically loss-making winter months. He noted that Tuesday’s full-year results included a fourth-quarter profit of 22.8 million euros, the first January-March gain for the airline since 2007.
O’Leary said a key issue slow-ing Ryanair’s growth is slow airport development for London. He called for the British government and regu-lators, which have debated the issue for years, to approve new runways at the capital’s Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports. Ryanair doesn’t use Heathrow, but Stansted is Ryanair’s biggest European hub. (ap)
The Nikkei 225 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a fresh 15-year high as it added 0.17 percent, or 35.10 points, to finish at 20,472.58. The Nikkei is up more than four percent since the latest rally started.
The broader Topix index of all first-section shares rose 0.11 percent, or 1.76 points, to 1,661.33.
Despite profit-taking and a weak lead from US shares, the Japanese market won support from the cheap yen, which is a plus for exporters.
In Asian forex markets, the dollar was near an eight-year high at 123.06 yen, slightly off 123.09 yen in New York and down from its rise above 123.30 yen earlier Tuesday, its highest level since mid-2007.
The yen’s descent comes after the already weak cur-rency boosted profits at many big firms in Japan during the latest earnings season, and analysts said it could lead to companies inflating their rosy forecasts.
“At this level in the dollar-yen, we could see earnings being revised upward for companies across the board,” said Ichiro Yamada, general manager of equities at Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance.
The dollar got a boost as figures on Tuesday showed improvements in US consumer confidence, home sales and prices, and orders for core in-dustrial goods, highlighting a
pick-up in growth in the world’s biggest economy after a weak first-quarter.
The latest results -- along with comments Friday from Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen that she expects to hike interest rates “at some point this year” -- put talk of a rate increase back on the table, which is a plus for the dollar.
“Whether it’s durable goods, housing data or consumer con-fidence, US data are all above market expectations,” Hiroichi Nishi, a manager at SMBC Nik-ko Securities, told Bloomberg News.
In Tokyo, Toyota shares gained 0.53 percent to close at 8,496 yen, lender Mizuho Finan-cial Group gained 2.40 percent to 256 yen while Fuji Heavy Industries, which relies on North America for more than half its revenue, jumped 4.34 percent to 4,689.5 yen.
On the negative side, Sony shares fell 2.03 percent to 3,828.5 yen, while Japan’s biggest bank Mitsubishi UFJ slipped 0.46 percent to 896.6 yen.
Wall Street fell sharply Tues-day as the dollar strengthened following the solid US eco-nomic data and worries over cash-strapped Greece’s talks with creditors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.04 percent while the broad-based S&P 500 fell 1.03 percent and the Nasdaq lost 1.11 percent. (afp)
Tokyo stocks rise again in nine-day rally
TOKYO - Tokyo stocks squeaked out another positive session Wednesday with the benchmark index marking its ninth straight day of gains, as a weak yen offset falls on Wall Street.
AP Photo/Claude Paris, FileIn this Wednesday, May 13, 2015 file photo, a Ryanair plane lands at the Marseille Provence airport, in Mari-gnane, southern France.
Ryanair beats forecasts again as annual profits rise 66 pct
According to Sarjanan in the history of the meeting of princess Ida Dalem Selumbung with Ida Dalem Apit Yeh, the princess had wanted to return to Selumbung because she did not feel at home at Apit Yeh. However, to prevent her from going home, the road to Selumbung was strewn with Cattle carcasses, not far from the site of the
mesantalan or rice patty throwing. The carcasses emitted such a stench that the princess changed her mind about returning to the home of her youth. “Somehow, the site tills ex-udes a stench to this day, so we call it seman bangkung (literally the sow cemetery),” said Sarjana.
Nevertheless, when the princess finally felt comfortable with Ida
Dalem Apit Yeh, the two finally went together to the home of Ida Dalem Selumbung. The princess asked for a symbol of grace from Dalem Apits father, and she was given a takilan. After that, the princess was increasingly more comfortable staying in Apit Yeh with her husband. “Therefore, until today, every Usaba Dalem at
Apit Yeh, we always bring along a takilan to the Dalem Temple,” said Sarjana. Takilan contains rice with a side dishes wrapped in upih (dried areca nut sheath).
The Dalem Temple at Apit Yeh is quite unique. Sarjana mentioned that there is no road leading to the temple. For the Usaba ritual, residents walk through the farms
of local residents no matter what is growing there at the time. Druign cremations, many plants are dam-aged from trampling feet. However, residents believe that the overall crops will not be damaged and that after the Usaba Dalem, the plants that were treaded upon will return to normal and are believed to be blessed by God. (gik)
Headman of Apit Yeh, Made Sar-jana, just before the ritual tradition said that mesantalan takes place once a year, precisely on kajeng kliwon of the twelfth month of Balinese calendar (around May-June). This tradition originates from when Ida Dalem Apit Yeh proposed to Ida Dalem Se-lumbung and her father gave her rice patties as provisions for her journey. When she got to Apit Yeh, the princess threw the bag of rice to the residents who considered this as grace bestowed upon them by the princess.
This tradition takes place over one day. In the morning local residents release a calf, that is then whipped by the locals, causing the calf to run around the village. The residents then follow it around, to “hunt it down”. This ritual of running around the outskirts of the village three times is intended to clean the village of impurities. The calf must be of good quality, must be male and may not have any disabilities. In the end, the calf is slaughtered as caru (animal sacrifice) shortly before the
peak of the mesantalan ritual tradi-tion. In the meantime, the rest of the ingredients to be used as caru are processed by local youth from four customary hamlets for maprani after the masantalan.
Having made the preparations, local youth continues to strike the kulkul (wooden split drum) in each customary hamlet consisting of the Kaleran, Kangin, Kawan and Kelod. The kulkuls continue to be beaten simultaneously until the peak of the mesantalan takes place. The noise is meant to evoke the spirit of youth. Before the rice patty throwing starts, all the residents of Apit Yeh customary village say prayers in four temples. They are the Taman Temple as ulun suwi, Bale Agung Temple, Puseh and
Penanggun Desa (village border) Temple. The caru is also offered at the edge of the village, having been prepared since the morning.
After the mecaru procession, the youth are ready to get involved in the rice patty war where two groups, facing opposite directions throw the patties at each other. The two groups are only separated by two wooden logs places about 10 meters apart. This process goes with much excitement and thrill. A number of youth may be hit with rice patties as the throwing goes on for 15 minutes, between 4:10 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. To prevent any trouble, the masantalan is closely guarded by pecalang or customary security guard. Although residents look very excited throwing the rice
patties at each each other, after all is said and done there are no feelings of wanting to take revenge.
In fact the people who were thawing ketupat at each other are quickly reunited though the pro-cess of maprani (eating together) and remain friends. “Having com-pleted the masantalan, we engage in maprani to solidify friendships,” said one residents, Made Agus.
After the tradition is carried out. there is no sense of wanting revenge. This tradition is also intended to eliminate the sad ripu or six enemies within our selves, so that only the sad guna or six good behaviors are left. The final objective is to preserve serenity and peace under the protection of God. (kmb31)
‘Sow cemetery’ prevents princess from returning home
Mesantalan traditionAMLAPURA - The customary villagers of Apit Yeh, Manggis
Karangasem, organized a traditional mesantalan, on Tuesday (May 26). This unique tradition involves all the local village youths attac-kimg one another by throwing ketupat (rice patty) at each other. This tradition is preserved in honor of the journey of princess Ida Dalem Selumbung when she was to get married to Ida Dalem Apit Yeh.
The customary villagers of Apit Yeh, Manggis Karangasem, or-ganized a tradi-tional mesanta-lan, on Tuesday (May 26). This unique tradi-tion involves all the local village youths attackimg one another by throwing ketupat (rice patty) at each other.
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Countries in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean showed the most progress in reducing hunger, thanks in part to economic growth that didn’t exclude the poor, investments in agriculture and political stability, the agencies said in their annual State of Food Insecurity report.
The report found that a majority of the countries monitored — 72 out of 129 — have met the U.N.’s am-bitious Millennium Development Goals to halve undernourishment
by 2015.“The near-achievement of the
MDG hunger targets shows us that we can indeed eliminate the scourge of hunger in our lifetime,” said U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s chief, Jose Graziano da Silva.
The agencies said the reduction in hunger and undernourishment came despite natural disasters, political instability and conflict in much of the developing world — even though the world’s population
had grown by 1.9 billion people since 1990.
The agencies said improved agri-cultural productivity, especially by family and small-scale farmers, and better social protection measures like food vouchers or school meal programs had had the most impact in reducing hunger.
Sub-Saharan Africa still had the highest levels of undernourishment in the world: Almost one in four people there don’t get enough food to live an active and healthy life. Some West African countries that did invest in agricultural productiv-ity and infrastructure managed to meet the U.N. hunger targets, the report found. (ap)
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities on Wednesday de-tained the owner of a software company accused of running a global network in selling fake degrees, officials said. In a raid on the Axact company offices in the southwestern port city of Karachi, investigators also seized hundreds of thousands of fake degrees, said Shahid Hayat, the provincial director for Pakistani federal investigation agency.
The police are investigating the company and its owner, Shoaib Sheikh, on charges of marketing online degrees from nonexistent schools and universities.
Axact is said to have made millions of dollars from the scam and was supposedly going to launch a TV channel in Pakistan when a New York Times report exposed the alleged fraud earlier this month.
Sheikh and several others were detained after the case was registered on charges of fraud, forgery and cybercrime, Hayat said. It was not immediately known how many people were arrested in all.
“We have seized hundreds of thousands of fake degrees,” Hayat told reporters at the scene in Karachi. “We have enough evidence to proceed. We have forensic evidence.” The police also sealed the office building, where Hayat said machinery and gadgets were found that were used in the fraudulent business.
Area magistrate Javed Malik, who supervised the operation, said those detained would be brought before a court later on Wednesday. The software company has described the case against it as a conspiracy by rival media groups, and insisted that it wasn’t involved in any il-legal activity.
Local TV footage broadcast images said to be of a room at the com-pany offices, showing what looked like diplomas stacked on shelves along the wall. Hayat also showed off to reporters at the scene what he said were fake university accreditations and student ID cards found at the premises. (ap)
PARIS — France is honoring four people who resisted the Nazis during World War II by induct-ing them into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, in a rare and highly symbolic ceremony aimed at unit-ing the French against extremism and anti-Semitism. Though the names were designated last year, the ceremony and its emphasis on France’s fundamental values of liberty, equality and fraternity
takes on special meaning in a country still shaken by deadly at-tacks in January on a newspaper and kosher market.
The two-day event could also provide a boost of gravitas for the unpopular president. Francois Hol-lande will speak Wednesday at the Pantheon, resting place for heroes of the French Republic.
Coffins representing the two women and two men — Genevieve
de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Germaine Tillion, Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay — were escorted through Paris streets for public viewing Tuesday, and will be interred Thursday after a sound-and-light show Wednesday night. The women’s induction is purely symbolic: Their coffins con-tain only soil from their gravesites, because their families didn’t want the bodies exhumed.
Their inclusion is meant to send
a message that women, too, made French history, in the context of a government push to promote gender equality.
Previously, only one woman was honored in the Pantheon: Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist whose ashes were interred there in 1995. Another woman was buried there, Sophie Berthelot, but only as the wife of politician Mar-cellin Berthelot.
The induction will bring those honored in the Pantheon to three women and 74 men. The writer Victor Hugo was the first person so honored, in 1885.
Hollande has chosen to honor people who had “exemplary lives,” said Constance Riviere, the presi-dent’s adviser on the matter. “They all stood up extremely young (against the Nazis)... they all rep-resent France’s pride.” (ap)
Figures of French Resistance inducted into Paris Pantheon
AP Photo/Fareed KhanA Pakistani police officer stands guard at the office of Axact soft-ware company in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Pakistani authorities on Wednesday detained the owner of a software company accused of running a global network in selling fake degrees, officials said.
Pakistan detains owner of firm said to market fake degrees
AP Photo/Hussein MallaIn this picture taken on Friday, April 17, 2015, 16-year-old Anas Baroudi shows his missing left foot, lost almost three years ago in the civil war in Syria, on his bed at the Dar Al-Salameh center for recovery and physiotherapy, in Kilis town near the Syrian border, Turkey.
UN: Fewer hungry people in the world despite wars, poverty
ROME — The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago de-spite natural disasters, ongoing conflicts and poverty, the three U.N. food agencies said Wednesday.
NEGARA - Hundreds of of-ficials of the government of Jem-brana got coaching on ideology and nationalism, Tuesday (May 26) in the Bung Karno Town Hall. The coaching is needed in order to optimize the development and
implementation of nationalism and generate the sense of nation-alism for the sake of integrity of the nation in the Republic of Indonesia.
At least 170 officials attended the coaching that was opened by
the Regent of Jembrana, I Putu Artha. According to him, it was an activity as a part of long process in the formation of national character and identity having the awareness of noble values of the national cul-ture. “Today we are confronted to
various issues from the weakening of nationalism and unity. On that account, this activity is expected to realize positive change,” he explained.
Weakening of the mutual assis-tance properties characterized by
the emergence of personal ego, ego of group, inter-group competition, conflicts of group interest as well as behavior of younger generation deviating from their own cultural customs can also erode the unity of the nation. (kmb26)
Chief of the Jembrana Police, Gede Sumadra Kerthiawan, said on Tuesday (May 26) that the Supreme Compliance Operation involved about 93 personnel divided into five task forces. “It is a cen-tralized police operation which aims to create safety, order and smoothness on traffic accident-prone locations and jams,”
he explained. Target of the operation, according to
him, include the trouble spots (prone to traffic violation) and black spots. Espe-cially in the jurisdiction of the Jembrana Police, there are approximately five criti-cal points such as the Pekutatan at mile-post 64-66 km, Yehembang at 78-79 km,
Tegalcangkring at 87-88 km, Tembles Penyaringan at 88-85 km and Tuwed at 108-109 km.
In this operation, his party deployed the personnel at those mileposts to guard. In addition, his party also targets the other vi-olations including transport vehicles such as trucks. For tonnage target, his party takes steps by making prevention at Cekik, Gilimanuk. Each overloaded vehicle will be prevented from passing. This operation will be resumed with Ketupat Operation ahead of homecoming traffic and backflow traffic of the Eid 2015. (kmb26)
SEMARAPURA - Investigation to the death of toddler BS, 7, continues to be explored by the Badung Police Criminal Investigation Unit. Police conduct an in-tensive examination against the caregiver of the child daycare in charge of taking care of BS before dying. Currently, police have been targeting the suspect in the case. In addition, the investigators are still await-ing the results of autopsy from Sanglah Hospital.
According to the Chief of Badung Police, Tony Binsar Marpaung, said on Tuesday (May 26) that the result of in-vestigation indicated there has been an element of negligence. However, his party still further investigates about the most responsible person for the negligence caus-ing BS to die.
“We’ve found there is an element of negligence in this case. There is negligence while on duty so that the toddler died. We are still studying the investigation to the caregiver,” he affirmed. Admittedly, the caregiver whose identity remaining undisclosed has been examined regarding the procedure of taking care of toddlers entrusted to the child daycare center. It includes the condition of the victim when found dying.
“Based on the results of examination, at the time of incident, the caregiver admitted to have left the victim for a while because she needed to go to kitchen. After she re-turned to the treatment room, she found the victim was in limp condition. The victim was then brought to hospital and declared dead,” said Tony.
Currently, the investigators await the results of autopsy from Sanglah Hospital to ascertain the cause of the victim’s death. “I have also instructed to check directly the result of the autopsy, but so far it has not been issued yet,” said this officer from North Sumatra.
He explained that initially the hospital doctor orally explained that it was found beverage liquid in the lungs of the victim. However, the oral information cannot be used as a benchmark for determining the suspect. Earlier, the investigation against the death of the 7-month toddler, BS, at the Dalung daycare center was still under examination of the Badung Police Criminal Investigation. Result of examination to witnesses indicates that the daycare center employs four caregivers who are still mi-nors. (kmb36)
County officials instilled with ideological insight and nationalism
Toddler death case Caregiver intensively examined
IBP/Gus OloThe police officers are preparing to carry out the Compliance Operation 2015.
Five black spots at Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section noticed by traffic affairs
NEGARA - At least there are five black points of black spot (prone to traffic ac-cidents) along the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section getting the attention from the ranks of the traffic affairs of the Jembrana Police in the Compliance Operation 2015. The Supreme Compliance Operation started from Wednesday (May 27) will also target the road section being prone to congestion as well as traffic violations.
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CHICAGO — Lofty living may make babies vulnerable to sudden infant death syndrome, according to a Colorado study that found higher risks above 8,000 feet (2,400 meters).
While the research shows that the SIDS rate in Colo-rado’s tall mountains is very low, it’s still two times greater than in the Denver area and other regions where the al-titude is less than 6,000 feet (1,800 meters). The results echo earlier research done in Austria’s Alps.
Mountain air has less oxy-gen than air at lower eleva-tions, and conditions that re-duce infants’ oxygen levels have previously been linked with SIDS. But exactly how mountain air might put babies at risk is uncertain and whether there is a solid connection requires more study, the re-searchers said.
Lead author Dr. David Katz, a University of Colorado heart specialist, emphasized that SIDS deaths are rare; only six occurred at Colorado’s highest altitudes during the six years studied. The rate at high alti-tudes was just 0.8 SIDS deaths per 1,000 births, versus 0.4 per 1,000 in the state’s regions
with an altitude of less than 6,000 feet (1,800 meters).
The study was published online Monday in Pediatrics. The authors examined Colo-rado birth certificate and death registries for 2007 to 2012.
SIDS kills about 2,000 U.S. infants each year, and is the leading cause of infant deaths after the first month.
The causes are unknown but certain conditions linked with reduced oxygen levels seem to increase risks, including brain-stem abnormalities, mothers smoking during and after preg-nancy, respiratory infections and stomach sleeping.
SIDS used to be called crib death because infants were often found lifeless, lying face-down in their cribs. Public health efforts launched in the 1990s that emphasized placing babies to sleep on their backs dramatically reduced SIDS deaths.
Katz said to help protect their infants from SIDS, par-ents should focus on known risks. That advice includes no stomach sleeping or bed-sharing, avoiding soft bedding and pillows in cribs, and keep-ing infants away from cigarette smoke. (ap)
But it also confirmed past advice that the risk is very low in real terms and there was no immediate worry for women who take these pills.
The probe, published in the BMJ, compared oral contraceptives con-taining a synthetic version of the hormone progestogen with earlier versions of the pill.
The so-called third-generation pill, introduced in the 1990s, and the fourth generation, approved in the last decade, are designed to skirt side-effects of older types of the contraceptive.
In 2013, Europe’s drugs watch-dog carried out a safety review after France’s medicines agency found the newer pills were linked to a small risk of serious blood clot called venous thrombo-embolism
(VTE).The new study widens the sta-
tistical net, trawling through two large British prescription databases to take into account pill dosage, body fat, smoking and other factors which affect risk.
Compared with women not us-ing oral contraceptives, women using older pills had about two and a half times increased risk of VTE, it found.
Women using a newer version of the contraceptive had around a four times increased risk of VTE compared to women who did not take the pill.
Risks for women using newer pills were around 1.5 to 1.8 times higher than for women using older pills.
But in absolute terms, the risk was very low.
There were six extra VTE cases per year per 10,000 women us-ing the newer levonorgestrel and norgestimate pills. This rose to 14 extra cases per 10,000 users of de-
sogestrel and cyproterone.The results concur with a French
investigation in 2013 and a Danish study in 2011.
Women taking the later-gen-eration contraceptives “should not stop using them, but should consult their doctor and review their current type of pill at their next appointment if there are any concerns,” said the researchers, led by Yana Vinogradova at the University of Nottingham.
After carrying out its own re-view, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in 2013 that the benefits of all types of contra-ceptive pill “continue to outweigh risks.”
“There is no reason for women who have been using (contraceptive pills) without any problem to stop taking them,” it said.
The EMA also reiterated advice to doctors to make regular assess-ments about the risk of blood clots to any patient taking contraceptive pills. (afp)
PARIS - Teenagers who are very overweight may run double the risk of developing colorectal cancer when they reach middle age, according to research published Monday.
Researchers tracked the health of more than 239,000 men who had been conscripted into the Swedish army between the ages of 16 and 20 from 1969 to 1976.
At the time of conscription, around 12 percent of the men were underweight, more than 80 percent were of normal weight and five per-cent were moderately overweight.
Of the remainder, 1.5 percent were very overweight -- with a body mass index of between 27 and nearly 30 -- and one percent were obese, with a BMI of more than 30.
The conscripts were regularly checked for colorectal cancer for next 35 years, during which 885
cases -- 501 colon cancers and 384 rectal cancers -- were detected.
Those who were very over-weight as teenagers were twice as likely to develop bowel cancer in middle age, compared to subjects of normal weight.
Those who were obese were nearly 2.4 times likelier to be diag-nosed with the disease.
The study, led by Elizabeth Kan-tor of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, appears in Gut, a specialist journal published by the BMJ.
Previous research into obesity and colorectal cancer has looked mainly at adults. This is the first large-scale probe into the impact of overweight in teenagers.
In adults, bowel inflammation has been suggested as a likely cause of the problem, but it is unclear whether this is the same among teens, said the authors. (afp)
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The broadest study of its kind on Wednesday backed estimates that newer kinds of contracep-tive pills carry a higher risk of dangerous blood clots.
New study backs risk estimate for contraceptive pills
PARIS - The broadest study of its kind on Wednesday backed estimates that newer kinds of contraceptive pills carry a higher risk of danger-ous blood clots.
Overweight in teens boosts middle age bowel cancer risk
High altitude may boost babies’ risks for SIDS deaths
SEMARAPURA - Seaweed farmers in Nusa Penida complain about of poor harvests caused by weather changes that are brining in winds form the north. Previously, the harvest yield reached two to three tons a day, but now it only reaches 700 kilograms. Decline in the harvest volume are due to the seaweed is not strong enough to face extreme seawater temperatures.
A seaweed collector from Semaya
hamlet, I Made Darman, revealed that the growth of seaweed is disturbed by the extreme temperatures at sea. He explained that northern winds bring in cold air which cause the seaweed to become brittle. “During this season, the seaweed yields are considerably reduced due to the onslaught of ends form the north. In one day, the most we can harvest is 700 kg. Commonly I can buy two to three tons of seaweed per day. Seaweed can be harvested
approximately one month after be-ing planted” said Made Darman, on Tuesday (May 26).
It is not only wind from the north that brings challenges, wind from the west tends to bring in hot air, which heats up the sea causing the seaweed to slump over and is commonly called ice-ice disease.
The northern and eastern winds are indeed very feared by seaweed farmers because of their dramatic
affects on harvest yields. According to seaweed farmer, I Ketut Jagra, seaweed can only grow well when the south or west winds blow: “east-ern winds and northern winds cause a decline in harvest yields. We are often worried because seaweed is our sole source of income,” said Jagra worriedly.
Coastal communities in Nusa Penida, particularly those along the beaches, are by and larger either as seaweed farmers or fisherman so both dependent on the sea. Along the coast, from Semaya to Toya Pakeh stand rows of huts and non-permanent settlements commonly used when farmers are tying up their seaweeds. These huts also functioned as a store-house for dried seaweed.
During the harvesting, farmers use inflated inner tubes on which they place baskets to contain their harvested seaweed. Similarly, on Ceningan and Lembongan Island many seaweed beds can be seen along with the bustling activities of seaweed farmers. However, here they mostly use sampan to carry their seaweed. The species of seaweed cultivated are spinosum and cattoni
which are of different colour from eat other. Cattoni is green or yellow, while spinosum is red-black. The cattoni species is more expensive than spinosum. (dwa)
“The tuna industry will face a grave challenge in the future as demand is high,” Directorate General of Fishery Processing and Marketing Saut P. Hutagalung said on Tuesday.
With regard to the eco-friendly fishing program, the government has established a moratorium policy on expired permissions of foreign vessels in accordance with the min-isterial regulation on the prohibition of destructive fishing devices.
The regulation was established to strengthen the state’s sovereignty in the fisheries sector so that it can be developed to improve the com-munity’s welfare.
According to Hutagalung, Indo-nesia is promoting the use of poles and lines and the handline method for tuna fishing. They are environ-ment-friendly fishing methods that involve the use of fishing rods. As much as 150 thousand tons of tuna per year can be caught using these techniques. He added that their use had increased the income of local fishermen.
“The fisheries sector hires some 11 percent of the national labor force. They are the traditional fish-ermen,” Hutagalung stated, adding that the pole and line and handline techniques help the community alle-viate poverty, improve livelihoods, maintain businesses and promote economic growth.
Moreover, it is estimated that one third of the world’s tuna is caught using unsustainable methods, while about 66.7 percent of the total is caught using sustainable methods.
According to data obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2014, over the last five years, Indonesia became the second-largest tuna producer in the world, supplying 16 percent of the total global production.
In addition, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) recorded a sur-plus in the first quarter of 2015 in Indonesian fisheries production in the trade sector. Tuna was the most exported product, contributing the highest amount of US$89.41 mil-lion. (ant)
Indonesia to develop sustainable tuna industry
NUSA DUA - The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries is developing a sustainable tuna industry by promot-ing environment-friendly fishing methods, bearing in mind the high demand for this fish worldwide.
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The Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries is developing a sustainable tuna in-dustry by promoting environment-friendly fishing methods, bearing in mind the high demand for this fish worldwide.
Slump in seaweed harvest
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Seaweed farmers in Nusa Penida complain about of poor harvests caused by weather changes that are brining in winds form the north.
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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 considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very 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 umbrel-las 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, deco-rated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
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CEO of BaliTV, ABG Satria Naradha, expressed his gratitude to all the leaders and other people attending the celebration of the 13th anniversary of BaliTV. Satria Naradha also requested the cooperation of all parties in safeguarding Bali and the Balinese people as well as in preserving the nature of Bali.
“Hopefully, BaliTV can remain on the front lines with the people of Bali and the governor of Bali. Let us together shout “freedom” so that BaliTV can be victoious in paving a way for a better life for the Balinese,” said Naradha.
Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, expressed his ap-preciation for BaliTV -the first local television station in Bali, for their significant contributions to regional development, especially in the discovery, development and preservation of local culture. This commitment, according to Governor Pastika, should continue to be strengthened with attention to other sectors of public life such as poverty alleviation and community empowerment programs.
“Tonite’s anniversary celebration is an occasion to establish closer ties between BaliTV and the local community. Televi-sion not only serves as a medium for conveying information and entertainment, but is also a medium for education and the implementation of social welfare in society,” said Pastika in his speech. In addition, Pastika also invited BaliTV and all broad-casting media in Bali to convey objective, educatiional and bal-anced programs. Thus, it can encourage public participation in the development and creation of an advanced, secure, peaceful and prosperous Bali.
“On behalf of the provincial government of Bali and the entire community of Bali, I congratulate BaliTV on its 13th anniver-sary. Hopefully, it will become more capable of enlightening the people of Bali according to its tagline: ‘the Sun from Bali’,” he concluded.
EntrepreneursAs part of the 13th anniversary celebrations of BaliTV in-
volved the handing out of venture capital assistance to novice entrepreneurs in Bali from the Ministry of Cooperatives and the SMEs of the RI. The five young entrepreneurs who were given a boost are: Ida Bagus Cakra Manuaba who works in the gar-ment business using Balinese fabric or endek, I Putu Adi (ning kombucha fermented tea), AA Istri Sagung Pramanaswari (typi-cal Balinese shoes and sandals), IGN Erland Bayu Rahmanda P (Balinese T-shirts) and I Dewa Gede Bagus Satria Wibawa (leather craft business).
The financial assistance was handed out by Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga, spouse of Minister of Cooperative and the SMEs, accompanied by the Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, Director of BaliTV, ABG Satria Naradha and Deputy of Human Resources Development and Assistant Deputy of Cooperative Education, Rulli Nuryanto.
The audience who attended the celebration at the Art Center were treated to a number of artistic performances including a dance performance by Julian Dancer, songs by Dria Raba, and Gema Paramadhama Studio. A number of pop bands also joined in the celebration of BaliTV 13th anniversary including: Manik, 3G, Galuh Bilen, Trisna, Eka Jaya, Ayu Saraswati, Rare Kual Comedy, Leeyonk Sinatra and Lolot Band. (kmb32)
BaliTV, 13 years of shining
Five young entrepreneurs get venture capital assistance
DENPASAr - The Ardha Candra Open Stage, Art Center, Denpasar, witnessed the grandeur of the event entitled ‘BaliTv 13 years of Shining,’ on Tuesday night (May 26). The celebration of BaliTv’s 13th anniversary was attended by Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika, spouse of the Minister of Cooperatives and the SMEs of the rI’s spouse Mrs. Bintang Puspayoga, member of parliament from Bali I Nyoman Damantra, Chief of the Bali Police Dr. ronny F. Sompie, Chairman of the Indonesian Hotel and restaurant Association (PHrI) of Bali Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, Deputy Mayor of Denpasar IGN Jaya Negara, regent of Tabanan Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, regent of Bangli I Made Gianyar and Deputy regent of Buleleng Nyoman Sutjidra, and others.
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The Director of Bali TV ABG Satra Naradha, left, along with Bali’s Governor Made Mangku Pastika walk to the stage during the 13th Anniversary Celebration of Bali TV
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That’s the conclusion of the Nielsen company, which looked at celebrities who made commercials during the first three months of the year and ranked them with a calculation that takes into account likability, public awareness, influence and other factors. Its first “N-Scores” were released Tuesday. Neeson and Pierce Brosnan had identical scores of 94, although Neeson was judged to have a greater influence in getting products sold.
By looking at the effectiveness of celebrity pitchmen, the company best known for television ratings will now compete with Marketing Evaluations Inc., a company that produces the better-known Q Score, a measurement of public attitudes toward well-known figures.
Besides attaching scores to celebrity endorsers, Niels-
en intends to offer marketers detailed information about the personalities and
habits of people who respond well to each celebrity so they can better match pitchmen and products, said Chad Dreas, Nielsen’s managing director of media analytics.
“What do they buy? Where do they shop? What do they watch?” said Dreas, describing the details Nielsen intends to sell.
Neeson, who has been featured in an ad for Supercell Games, is viewed posi-tively by 78 percent of Americans who know him, Nielsen said. Brosnan and Matthew McConaughey, both featured in car commercials recently, also scored well in Nielsens’ measurement.
Jeff Bridges stood out among celebri-ties for the amount of influence he carried with his fans, Nielsen said.
Other celebs with recent ads that scored well in Nielsen’s measurement
were Jennifer Garner, Natalie Portman, Sofia Vergara,
Jim Parsons, Den-nis Haysbert and
J.K. Simmons. (ap)
LOS ANGELES - B.B. King’s estate dismissed as “baseless” Tuesday claims by the late music icon’s daughters that he was poisoned, as police said they were not investigating the charges.
Coroners said they have so far found no evidence of foul play in the death of the blues legend at aged 89 earlier this month, although they are looking into the claims.
King died on May 14 in Las Vegas, where he lived while he kept up a grueling schedule of tours that ended only last year. King suffered from Type II diabetes for the last two decades of his life.
Two of his daughters -- Karen Williams and Patty King -- have alleged he was poisoned by his business manager and estate executor LaVerne Toney and his personal as-sistant, E! entertainment news website reported.
“I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administrated foreign substances to induce his premature death,” the daughters wrote in separate but identical af-fidavits, E! online said.
“(I) request a formal investigation into this matter,” the court documents said, according to the site.
But an attorney for King’s estate, Brent Bryson, dismissed the daughters’ accusations as ridiculous and defamatory on Monday, and followed up with a new statement on Tuesday.
“The allegations are baseless and unfounded and are unsupported in reality,” he said, citing three indepen-dent doctors who evaluated King in the days before his death.
Dr Darin Brimhall, described as King’s primary care physician for several years, was quoted as saying in the days before his death: “There is no action being taken to hasten the demise of Mr King.”
On the contrary, “every effort is being made to make Mr King comfortable and supply him with his regular medication and nourishment.”
The lawyer said: “Unfortunately even music icons die. Ms Toney did everything she could to carry out the wishes of Mr King while he was alive, and continues to carry out Mr King’s wishes after his death.
“I hope over these next few days we can focus on Mr King’s musical gifts to the world, and not fictional state-ments made by those seeking attention at the expense of Mr King,” said the statement.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office, which covers Las Vegas, said Monday that it was investigating the claims along with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Depart-ment (LVMPD).
“At this point we don’t have evidence that these al-legations of foul play will be substantiated,” said Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg.
“However we are taking them very seriously and will be conducting a thorough investigation” in coordination with police, he added. (afp)
Vegas police deny probe into B.B. King poison claims
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested Monday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Santa Fe restau-
rant’s security complained about a possibly intoxicated driver. The 71-year-old Shepard
told a police officer that he had two tequila drinks and was planning to drive home, Santa
Fe police Lt. Andrea Dobyns said Tuesday. “Our officer could smell alcohol on his breath, and he
had bloodshot, watery eyes,” she said.Shepard was arrested on a charge of
aggravated driving while intoxicat-ed outside La Choza restaurant
in downtown.The restaurant’s secu-
rity called police about 7:45 p.m. Monday concerned about an intoxicated driver, Dobyns said. The man was trying to leave in the pickup, but the vehicle’s emergency brake was engaged.
Shepherd declined to take a breath test, but he did perform a field sobriety test, which he failed, Dobyns said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Shepard had an attorney. Santa Fe jail records show that Shepard was released Tuesday afternoon after posting bail.
The office of Shepard’s agent said Tuesday that it had no comment. Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his play “Buried Child.” His film credits, among others, include “Country,” ‘’Baby Boom,” ‘’Steel Magnolias,” ‘’Thunder-heart,” ‘’Black Hawk Down,” ‘’The Notebook,” and “Walker Payne.” (ap)
Actor Sam Shepard arrested for drunken driving in Santa Fe
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Southern India has borne the brunt of the hot, dry conditions and many of the victims are construction workers, elderly or homeless people unable to heed official advice to stay indoors.
In the worst-hit state of Andhra Pradesh nearly 900 people have died since May 18 -- double the total num-ber of heat-related deaths last summer, authorities said.
In neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, more than 200 people have died in the last week compared to 31 in the whole of last year.
In New Delhi, forecasters said they expected the high temperatures to continue into next week -- adding
to the misery of the thousands of poor living on the capital’s streets with little shelter from the hot sun.
Residents of Gurgaon -- a high-rise satellite city that is home to many of the capital’s workers -- suffered power cuts of up to 10 hours a day as the electricity grid struggled to cope with the demand from millions of air con-ditioners. “Nothing is working -- even after taking half a dozen baths a day, you can’t beat the heat,” 34-year-old shop owner Manish Singh told AFP in Gurgaon.
“We try to spend more time indoors to avoid heatstroke. It’s worse than previous years -- we hardly get any electricity and the air conditioners become useless.”
India’s power industry has long struggled to meet rapidly rising de-mand in Asia’s third-largest economy, which is plagued by poorly main-tained transmission lines and over-loaded grids.
The streets of Gurgaon were large-ly deserted on Wednesday, while the few people brave enough to venture outdoors covered their heads to protect them from the strong sun.
Sugarcane juice stalls were doing a brisk trade as construction work-ers and rickshaw pullers desperately tried to quench their thirst. Elsewhere volunteers were giving out cold drinks to motorists stuck in traffic.
Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian Meteorological De-partment, said top temperatures in the capital would remain around 45 degrees Celsius -- the national bench-mark for a heatwave.
“Maximum temperatures won’t fall substantially. However, major relief can be expected from June 2 as there are indications of good show-ers,” he said.
Hospitals in the worst-affected states were on alert to treat victims of heatstroke and authorities advised people to stay indoors and drink plenty of water. Hundreds of people -- mainly from the poorest sections of society -- die at the height of summer every year across India, while tens of thousands suffer power cuts from an overburdened electricity grid.
Eleven people were confirmed to have died in the eastern state of Orissa and another 13 succumbed to the heat in neighbouring West Bengal, where unions urged drivers to stay off the roads during the day.
One person was killed in the western state of Maharashtra, where
authorities said they did not expect conditions to improve until the arrival of monsoon rains in June.
The Hindustan Times warned that some of the hot, dry conditions could plunge the worst-affected states into drought before monsoon rains ar-rive. The monsoon is forecast to hit the southern state of Kerala towards the end of this month before sweep-ing across the country, but it will be weeks before the rains reach the arid plains. (afp)
Deaths from major heatwave sweeping India top 1,100
A laborer push-es his children on a handcart back towards his workplace during a break, past parched fields on a hot summer day in Ghasera, in the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednes-day, May 27, 2015.
HYDERABAD - More than 1,100 people have died in a blis-tering heatwave sweeping India, authorities said Wednesday, as forecasters warned searing temperatures would continue.
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