The 9 kilometer walk didn’t make the participant tired and they directly enjoy the entertainment after they reached the fin-ish line. Bali Post provided 225 prizes so it attracted participants not only from Bali but also from Java

such as Jember and Klaten and also from Mataram, East Nusa Tenggara.

The CEO of Bali Post Media Group ABG Satria Naradha, along with the Vice Governor of Bali, AAN Puspayoga, offi-cially opened the event in

Renon. He stated that the event was held to honor the hores who already passed away.

While the Vice Gov-ernor stated that a big nation is the one which is always honor their heroes, for that reason, everyone

must take part in develop-ing Bali. “Developing Bali cannot remove the root of culture which already ex-isted since long time ago,” Puspayoga added.

According to him, the culture of Bali is essential in the life of the people in the island. Tourists will not come to Bali and the heroes would also mad to everyone. “They will cry in the afterlife because they have fought to protect Bali,” he said.

Satria Naradha ex-plained that the purpose of the event is also to interact the press and the society. It is also to increase the spirit of the people to honor and continue the struggle of the heroes, one of them is I Gusti Ngurah Rai.

The event also filled with the donation of bio-pori equipments to several schools such as SMK 2 Denpasar, SMP PGRI 2 Denpasar, and Udayana University. (nel/wah)

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DENPASAR - President Barack Obama finally left Bali with the U.S. Force One aircraft at exactly 4:30 p.m. Local Time. Departure of the number one man in the U.S. on Saturday (Nov 19) was followed

by leaders of ASEAN countries and partners. They departed from the Island of the Gods after attending a series of sessions in the 19th ASE-AN Summit and Related Summits. Meanwhile, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, departed at around 1:45 p.m.

President Obama at a press conference with President Yud-hoyono after the RI-US bilat-eral meeting on Friday evening also touched on his last visit to Bali 18 years ago. At that time, there was no development here. So, this condition indicated a

tremendous development in the region.

“I am delighted to come back to Bali. I always feel happy to be here and get a chance to dialog with my old friend, President Yudhoyono,” he said.

Red and White Bali Post walk

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Participants of walk

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Bali PostDenpasar – More than 100,000 participants took part in the walk to

commemorate the 63rd Anniversary of Bali Post. The start was on Renon Field and finished on Lumintang Field. The event was held on Sunday, November 20, 2011.

Barack Obama Leaves the Island of the Gods I’m delighted to visit Bali

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Negara (Bali Post) –The join operation of Indo-

nesia Police, Indonesia Army and Police Civil Service held at Gilimanuk ID Checking Post last Thursday (17/11) evening resulted around 25 non resi-dents, not only passengers but also drivers, without National ID Cards sent back home after three hours of raiding.

The operation was held after still many non residents found with no national ID Cards in Bali. This time without any compromise told them to go back although some who are from Lombok of Flores were

let through and given warning to get theirs as soon as pos-sible.

Usually many non residents are shocked about this operation coming in to Bali as usually they have no problems by showing just the Temporary Resident Permit from their work places. Besides ID Cards, goods checking were also held and tighten on 2nd Post while Head of Gilimanuk Water Police, APC Made Pri-henjagat, stated there have been an increased of personnel for Police and Army for better security including from Brimob also Intelligent. (kmb26)

Now the accused have been secured by West Denpasar Police after handing himself in several moments after the incident. It is still unknown what the motif behind it although information on crime scene stated the two are in an affair. It was known the incident took place around 7.15 pm local time where be-fore accused was going to bring victim for a night out yet victim was scared her husband, Sudar-sono, will come back from his home village at Banyuwangi that night. The decline caused a

slapped accused.

The rage caused accused to take a knife and stabbed victim several times, hurt, then got out and fell off on the garden of

escaped and handed himself to the Police. Head of West Den-pasar Police, PC Dewa Made Adnyana and Head of Criminal Research Denpasar Tourism Police, PC Arif Sugiarto also

to investigate. So far it was found that there are six stabbed wounds on the stomach, below the breasts and on the hand. The body was sent to Sanglah Hos-pital for autopsy. (kmb21)

Denpasar (Bali Post) –The good health service in Bali

seems still unbalanced to be given in every part of the province as there is still a gap between the Province and Regencies as until now a number of regencies are still shortage in health workers also budget that is far from its ideal amount. During the 16th – 18th November 2011 1st International Symposium on Health and Re-search Development Press Confer-ence at Sanur, Denpasar, Head of Health Agency, dr I Nyoman Sut-edja stated the regencies that have fulfilled the standards are Gianyar, Denpasar and Tabanan which was seen from its health workers and budget amount also good illness prevention programs which causes even though Bali has been marked

well for health services, there are still five regencies has minimum access on it. This symposium was attended by 1000 researchers and practitioners of public health from dozens of country such as Austra-lia, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and ASEAN countries.

It was stated Bangli, Klungkung, Jembrana, Karangasem, and Badung are still more focus on services in its physical development rather than prevention and research which so causes contagion illness to have high numbers such as epidemic rabies in Badung and bird flu at Bangli also Jembrana. According to Health Department Basic Health Research 2010, Bali is on the second position after Yogyakarta for good health status seen from its delivery assistance (D) by health worker for

0-11 month babies, survey of infant mortality rate (IMR) per 1000, per-centage of inhabitants age below 15 years with comprehensive knowl-edge (HIV/AIDS), TB Lungs new cases detection rate of lung TB, and period prevalence of malaria in last one month. The results for Bali are with D as much as 97%, IMR 34%, HIV/AIDS 19%, TB Lungs 63%, and Malaria 4,6%. While two lowest were Gorontalo and West Sulawesi Provinces. According to dr. Trihono, Health Ministry General Director of Research and Development, this health gap also happened in other ASEAN countries while health research budget for Indonesia is still low although it has been increased 1.5 % from the whole health budget total. “The ideal is 4%,” Trihono stated. (san)

Womanslaughteredto deathDenpasar (Bali Post)-

III at Monang Maning, Denpasar, was shocked over a

-pected strongly done by another boyfriend of hers, Wayan

Padang, Denpasar.

ID checking post Tens of non residents sent back

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A man is receving health treatment from a doctor.

Bali health services still unbalanced

3International Bali News Monday, November 21, 2011

Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Hasan urged the members of ASEAN torefuse the entry of illegal timber from

countries (timber laundry). Large amount

the merbau timber traded via China.-

effort to reduce illegal logging, but theother countries still receive timber laun-

after signing the joint establishment ofthe ASEAN-Korea Forest CooperationOrganization (AFoCO) in a series ofthe 19th ASEAN Summit in Nusa Dua,Friday (Nov 18).

-ner countries to reject the timber laundry

-sia that are traded through another coun-try. “Thankfully, almost all countries suchas America, Australia, Japan, Korea and

or two countries have not, but in the nearfuture we will negotiate it,” he said.

South Korea’s Minister of Forestry,Lee Don Koo stated that Korea wouldalways maintain the commitment toASEAN related to forestry issues and

would follow up such commitments withjoint cooperation institution.

commitment and contribution of the Re-

makes our dreams come true throughthe establishment of cooperation,” herevealed.

He said that AFoCO was implementedby a Governing Council as the highestdecision-maker and assisted by the Secre-

Council of Forestry from each ASEANcountry and the Republic of Korea.

The Secretariat would be chaired by

Council and domiciled in the Republic ofKorea. Ninety percent of the secretariat

and remaining 10 percent would bedivided equally among the 10 ASEANmember countries. Meanwhile, theforestry sector activities would be fullyfunded by Korea.

Programs and activities implementedby theAFoCO would be undertaken withthe approval mechanism of the ASEANcountries through theASEAN Senior Of-

of theASEAN Council so the sovereigntyof the ASEAN countries would be wellpreserved. (par)

competed in marathon speed on the

the competition was then divided againin terms of speed and freestyle takingadvantage of the wind.

-ticipants were divided into three classes,namely senior, age of 16 and 14. Partici-pants of this category amounted to ninepeople. He said the largest number fall on

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pants. “The contest is not only intendedto enliven the grandiose event, but alsoto prepare the athletes for the upcomingNational Games (PON) in Riau,” he said.Likewise, he hoped the competition couldbe an attraction for foreign and domestictourists making a visit to the area.

the PF2N and SVF posed an attempt tosynergize the horticultural potential,art and culture as well as tourism toboost the creative economy of variousregions. (kmb)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

and Related Summits attended by a numberof heads of ASEAN countries and ASEANpartner countries as well as the accompanyingdelegates in Nusa Dua, Bali, is considered tobe capable of providing a positive impact onBali tourism and economic sector. “Seamlessimplementation of the international eventin Bali indicated that Bali is safe to visit,”said an observer who is also the Dean of theFaculty of Economics, Undiknas University,

-day (Nov 18).

Described, with the presence of safe im-age, tourists from various countries would

-ardana pointed out that implementation of theASEAN Summit and East Asia Summit wouldbe able to see the most update condition of

hotels and restaurants. Probably, the delegatesalso purchased some products of Bali.

Agricultural products, handicraft productsand other products sold in Bali would be a lot.Restaurants and food stalls would evolve be-cause of the large amount of food orders duringthe implementation of the summit. “ASEANSummit and East Asia Summit will graduallydevelop the Bali’s economy,” he said.

Unfortunately, the impact of the summitimplementation could just be perceived byfirst class hotels in Nusa Dua, while local

communities could not have fully enjoyedthe impact. “So far, the positive impact of theimplementation of international event couldjust be enjoyed by major hotels. Even, it’snoteworthy that after the event is over andwhen tourists come back to Bali, they willtend to stay in the hotel having a networkwith their country of origin. For instance,European tourists will prefer to stay in theEuropean chain hotel. As we know so far,most of the major hotels are not owned by

Supposing that each international eventcould absorb the local fruit production, likevegetables and meat through the hosting ho-tels, Suardana had confidence if local farmerswould also get the impact of those activitiesand the economy of Bali would evolve intheir entirety. “Bali has a variety of potentialagricultural commodities such as fruits, veg-

a particular percentage of the local supplyshould be absorbed by hotels, of course our

far, the supply of vegetables, fruit and meatof big hotels are still brought in from outsideBali,” he said.

Nevertheless, he still acknowledged thatimplementation of the ASEAN Summit inNusa Dua Bali had indeed brought in a posi-tive impact, not only for the imaging of Balias a world-class tourist destination but alsofor the future economy of Bali. (bit)

Sanur Village Festival

Jazzed up by attraction of Bali’s surfersDenpasar (Bali Post)—

A total of 25 junior and senior surfers of Bali enlivened the Sanur Vil-

implementation of National Flori Flora Week (PF2N) on Sunrise Beach.Coordinator of the competition, Nyoman Suita, said the it was held on

Minister of Forestry:

Reject timber laundry from Indonesia

IBP/File

Tourists enjoy their time in Kuta Beach. The ASEAN Summit has affected the number of tourists come to Bali.

ASEAN Summit encourages Bali’s tourism and economy

International4 Monday, November 21, 2011 News

The police battled an estimated 5,000 pro-testers in and around central Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the 18-day uprising that toppled authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak in February. Tear gas filled the air as protesters, many chanting “freedom, freedom,” pelted the police with rocks.

Sunday’s clashes, which come a day after two people were killed and hundreds wounded in similar violence in the capital and other cit-ies, are stoking tensions eight days before the start of the country’s first post-Mubarak parlia-mentary elections. Public anger has risen over the slow pace of reforms and apparent attempts by Egypt’s ruling generals to retain power over a future civilian government.

“We have a single demand: The marshal must step down and be replaced by a civilian council,” said protester Ahmed Hani, refer-ring Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt’s military ruler and Mubarak’s longtime defense minister.

“The violence yesterday showed us that Mubarak is still in power,” said Hani, who was wounded in the forehead by a rubber bullet. He spoke over chants of “freedom, freedom” by

hundreds of protesters around him.Rocks, shattered glass and trash covered

most of the ground in and around Tahrir early Sunday, while a cloud of white smoke caused by the use of dozens of tear gas shells hung in the air. Several hundred protesters were camping out on the lawn of the square’s traffic island, and protesters manning barricades into the square checked the IDs of anyone entering the plaza.

The windows of the main campus of the American University in Cairo, which overlooks the square, were shattered and stores were shut-tered. “The marshal is Mubarak’s dog,” said one of a fresh crop of graffiti in the square.

Yahya el-Sawi, a 21-year-old university student, said he was enraged by the sight of riot police beating up protesters already hurt in an earlier attack by the security forces. “I did not support the sit-in at the beginning, but when I saw this brutality I had to come back to be with my brothers,” he said.

Many of the protesters had red eyes and coughed incessantly. Some wore surgical masks to fend off against the tear gas. A few fainted, overwhelmed by the gas.

Police, protesters clash for 2nd day in Egypt

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO — Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police on Sunday clashed for a second day with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government.

AP Photo/Ahmed Ali

Protesters clash with Egyptian riot police in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police on Sunday clashed for a second day with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government.

Agence France Presse

Former Philippine president Glo-ria Arroyo is being “persecuted” and will not receive a fair trial after she was arrested for allegedly rigging elections, a lawyer for her family said on Sunday. Ferdinand Topacio dismissed assurances from President Benigno Aquino that the ailing Ar-royo will be treated fairly, saying the government was determined to victimise the ex-president.

“There is a pall of gloom about her because of what has happened. She is being persecuted and it is taking a toll on (her) health,” Topacio told ABS-CBN televi-sion. Topacio said the case against Arroyo was “railroaded” and the former president’s rights were be-ing violated. “They will now pull all stops to prevent our client from getting a fair trial,” he said.

Arroyo, who is confined to a suburban hospital with a rare bone disease, has lost her appetite and is suffering an intestinal infection, he said, adding: “Her condition is not improving at all.” Arroyo was ar-rested in her hospital bed on Friday

on non-bailable charges of tamper-ing with senatorial elections in 2007 to help a political ally. If convicted, she could face life in jail.

The former president sought to travel abroad last week for medical treatment but the Aquino govern-ment blocked her departure, say-ing she might flee charges of vote fraud and corruption. The Supreme Court had ruled on Tuesday that Arroyo could leave the country for treatment but government person-nel blocked the wheelchair-bound former leader at the airport.

Justice department and election officials then speedily prepared the criminal charge which was used to keep her from travelling. Other corruption charges against her are being prepared but have not yet been filed in court.

Aquino, who returned from an international summit in Indonesia late Saturday, hailed the arrest, saying it was just the first step in a wider campaign against corruption. “This is just the start of the pro-cess,” Aquino said. “No one should be spared in the search for the truth and in punishing the guilty.”

Ex-Philippine leader ‘will not receive fair trial’

IBP/afp

Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo arrives at the Manila International Airport on Novermber 15. Sitting up in bed wearing a hospital gown and a neck brace, Arroyo had her mug shot and fingerprints taken just a day after her arrest for rigging Philippine elections

Activities Monday, November 21, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for November 2 through 21, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sail-ings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

2 Nov Buda Wage KelawuPenataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemMelanting temple Camenggaon SukawatiPenataran Ped temple Nusa PenidaPasek Gelgel temple Pangembungan Bongkase AbiansemalPasek Bendesa temple Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPasek Gelgel temple Br. Jawa Tengah BulelengGaduhan Jagat temple Singakerta UbudMasceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding TampaksiringPenataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPaibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan KutaGoa di Besakih, Basukian BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Pe-nataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PejengMerajan Pasek Gelgel SonganMerajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan SidemenMerajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari SukasadaDadia Pasek Gelgel temple Sidemen KarangaseMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli

8 Nov Anggar Kasih Dukut Dalem temple Batuyang BatubulanPasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan TabananDesa/ Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu GianyarMerajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung SulahanMerajan Pasek Padang Rata PadangPuser Jagat Dalem Dukut Nusa Penida

9 Nov Buda Umanis Dukut Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja AbiansemalDalem Samplangan Gianyar

10 Nov Purnama Kelima Batumadeg temple BesakihKentel Gumi temple Batur BaangliPedarman Agung Satria DenpasarPemerajan Agung Pemecutan Denpasar

Ngusaba di Kehen BangliDesa Pemenang LombokAgung Pasek Gelgel Sumerta DenpasarPasek Gobleg Kekeran MengwiSuranadi temple LombokPuncak Bukit Tampak SiringDalem Puri Agung KintamaniDalem Agung Nongan KarangasemDalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-TabananDalem temple Balingkang KintamaniPr. Tampurhyang Pusat Songan KintamaniDalem Pulasari Bantas Sudaji BulelengMerajan Pasek Gelgel LebihMerajan Pasek Gelgel TulambenPenyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg TabananPasar Agung Besakih Sebudi KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak KajaSuci Desa Tianyar temple Kubu KarangasemBukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Batur KintamaniNarmada temple LombokSegara temple Ampenan LombokUlaran temple Seririt Buleleng19 Nov Saraswati Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalWatugunung temple BimaAgung Jagatkarana SurabayaAditya Jaya temple Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPemaksan temple Banyuning Timur BulelengAgung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratDadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal BadungGiri Jaya Natha temple BalikpapanAgung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia

21 Nov Some RibekJati temple JembranaKawitan Batugaing BangliTirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

IBP

GIANYAR - Bali Safari and Marine Park (BSMP) once again win the Indonesia Leasing Amuse-ment Park award from Indonesian Travel and Tourism Awards 2011/2012 (ITTA). BSMP receives the Grand Award for its awareness campaigns and quality of service provided to the travel and tourism industry, especially in the conservation and wildlife education sector. The judging and selection process was carried out by online voting and The Board of Advisors.

The General Manager of Bali Safari & Marine Park, Hans Manansang, stated “This is the second time we have been honoured with the title of Indonesia’s Leading Amusement Park and we are not only accepting this award as a great compliment, but also as an encouragement to continue improv-ing, particularly in our conservation and education programs. We hope this great responsibility to protect the wildlife of Indonesia will serve to inspire visitors, especially children, to always care for Indonesian wildlife. I’d like to take this opportunity to offer our sincere gratitude and give thanks the voters and the Board of Advisors.”

As an amusement park at the forefront of Indonesia’s tourism industry, this recognition has proved Bali Safari & Marine Park to be one of Bali’s most fascinating and world class attractions. Through our wildlife and Balinese cultural exhibits, Bali Safari & Marine Park always embark on our conservation campaigns in fun and exciting ways. For example, on the 5th of November 2011 Bali Safari & Marine Park opened a ‘Safari Poo Paper Factory’, the first factory in Indonesia that recycles animal dung into a unique and odour-free paper. This effort emphasises the theme of Bali Safari & Marine Park’s ‘Green Safari’, as it substitutes the dung of animals for wood as the main ingredient of paper. The other awards that Bali Safari & Marine Park has gratefully received are ‘The Best Conservation Institution 2011’, from the Indonesian Minister of Forestry, and ‘The Cleanest Toilet in Tourism Destinations 2011’, from the Indonesian Minister of Travel and Tourism. (iah)

BSMP Receives Indonesia Leading Amusement Park Award

IBP/Net

Monday, November 21, 2011 6 News

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International

Film star Hugh Grant, “HarryPotter” author J.K. Rowling,and the father of missing girlMadeleine McCann are amongthose due to testify over the ne tweek at the U.K. inquiry intomedia ethics a judicial bodythat could recommend sweepingchanges to the way Britons gettheir news.

The nationally televised in-quiry would give many of thosein the public eye an unprece-dented chance to challenge thosewho write about them, said CaryCooper, a professor at northernEngland’s Lancaster Universityand the author of “Public Faces,Private Lives.”

“This is the first time thecelebrities have been able tostrike back,” Cooper said. “think it will have an impact, andthe media might for a whileat least pull away.” Speakingahead of the testimony, victims’lawyer David Sherborne told theinquiry multiple tales of shat-tered privacy, broken lives andeven suicides stemming fromrelentless media intrusion.

“When people talk of publicinterest in e posing the privatelives of well-known people orthose close to them, this is thereal, brutally real impact whichthis kind of journalism has,”Sherborne said.

Britain’s media ethics probewas set up in the wake of thescandal over phone hacking atRupert Murdoch’s News of theWorld, which was shut in Julyafter it became clear that the tab-loid had systematically brokenthe law. Most horrific was thenews that the tabloid had bro-ken into the phone of murderedschoolgirl Milly Dowler in itssearch for scoops.

Cooper acknowledged thatcelebrities like Grant or actressSienna Miller another stardue to give evidence havestruggled to get much in the wayof public sympathy even whenit was shown that their privacyhad been invaded. But he saidtheir appearance alongside crimevictims such as Bob and Sally

Associated Press Writer

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in late July, fed by heavy monsoon rains and a series of tropical

through the country’s central heartland to Bangkok and the Gulf ofThailand. More than two-thirds of the country’s 77 provinces havebeen affected.

The government said Sunday that the death toll has reached 602,the majority from drowning. t said the number of affected provincesis currently 17.

The situation has improved dramatically in recent days andcleanup has begun in many areas, though some still face weeksmore under water.

At British hearing, stars turn tables on tabloidsAssociated Press Writer

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Dowler or Gerry McCann couldmark a shift in attitudes.

“They’re going to get hit worseby the Milly Dowler family andwitnesses of that ilk,” he said.Sherborne, in a two-and-half-hour-long presentation Wednes-day, promised to make journalistssquirm.

Most powerful among hisaccusations was the suggestionthat media coverage had driven

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File

FILE - In this Monday, May 9, 2011 file photo of British actor Hugh Grant, as he poses with fans as he arrives for the Eu-ropean premiere of the ‘Fire in Babylon’ film at a cinema in London.

some celebrities’ family mem-bers to the brink of suicide orbeyond.

Sherborne said that formerFormula One racing boss MaMosley believed that the suicideof his 39-year-old son Ale andercould also be at least in part at-tributed to “the very public hu-miliation” dealt to his father bythe News of the World’s e poseof his se ual shenanigans.

Death toll from

tops 600

AP Photo/Altaf Qadri

Thai volunteers carry a bucket full of mud as they clean an intersection during a cleaning drive after floodwaters receded in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.

The U.S. President whose childhood was spent in Jakarta wouldlike to e press his sincere gratitude to President udhoyono whohad invited him back to ndonesia, especially Bali. “Similarly,thank you for Balinese hospitality as the host of the two importantsummits”, Obama said.

Obama hoped the creation of agreement between the two coun-tries would be able to bring positive impacts related to safety andwelfare of the community. “Hopefully, in the future there will bea positive development for regional security and prosperity forall of us,” he observe.

Based on observation in the field, departure of Obama fromthe area of Bali Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC),Nusa Dua, also received safeguarding from combined apparatus.Along the road to Ngurah Rai Airport had been sterilized beforedeparture of the U.S. entourage from the venue of ASEAN Sum-mit. Meanwhile, the flight activity of Ngurah Rai Airport prior totheir departure set to decrease. Personnel of the ndonesian AirForce (TN AU) were seen spreading along the apron from thepassenger terminal to the cargo area.

As on the Obama’s arrival, the crews of media from variousprint and electronic media were only allowed to cover from thetruck which had been prepared in the airport parking lot. Thejournalists were strictly forbidden to roam around and supervisedby the officers of the United States.

Obama security team aided by Security Task Force of the Ngu-rah Rai Air Base seemed alert around the large-bodied Boeing747 aircraft. Obama returned directly to his country after nearlythree days attended the ASEAN Summit, ASEAN Plus and EastAsian Summit ending on Saturday. (par)

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AntaraJAKARTA - Marine Resources and Fisheries Minister Sharif

Cicip Sutardjo has asked the Indonesian Longline Tuna As-sociation (ATLI) to concentrate on setting up fish processing industries to make the country`s fisheries more competitive.

“Businessmen should be able to concentrate on developing fish processing industries which will create added value for fishermen,” the minister said on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Bali on Friday.

He said creating added value for fishermen was in line with the mission of the marine resources and fisheries ministry in helping fishermen increase their incomes and improve their welfare.

“Production increases must be balanced with improvements in quality so that national fishery products will be able to compete in world markets,” the minister said.

ATLI had 201 members engaged in different types of fish-eries-related businesses among others fish catching (42 firms and 144 individuals); 14 processing firms and one fishing-boat dockyard services.

In the meantime, the number of fishing boats owned by ATLI members totaled 848 whose routine operation areas were located in the Indiam Ocean, western/southern Pacific, Banda Sea, Arafura Sea and the open seas.

The once little-known Indo-nesian airline says it is planning to buy 230 planes from Boeing Co. The bill — with a list price of $21.7 billion — is to be paid over 12 years though bank fi-nancing.

Dozens o f a i r l i nes have emerged in Indonesia since it deregulated its aviation industry in the 1990s, making air travel affordable for the first time for many across the sprawling island nation of 240 million, and luring passengers away from ferries and trains.

Kirana — a travel agent be-fore he and his brother, Kusnan, pooled $850,000 to start Lion Air in 1999 — saw the opportunity and jumped.

“Last year we had 21 million passengers, this year I think I can carry 27 million,” said the 48-year-old CEO, adding that with plans for an open-sky arrange-ment in Asia by 2015, a massive Boeing purchase “is not much of a gamble.”

Kirana said his company’s first plane was a leased Boeing 737-

Indonesia’s Lion Air rises from obscurity

Associated Press

NUSA DUA — A decade ago, Rusdi Kirana sat on the grass at an air show in Britain, eating burgers with his wife. “I didn’t know anybody,” he says, “and nobody knew me.” That will change now that his company, Lion Air, has announced the biggest order ever from Boeing.

200, which flew from Jakarta to the tiny airport of Pontianak on jungle-clad Borneo island.

“I didn’t have any money after that, because it all went to pay for the deposit on the aircraft,” he said.

Though the name Lion Air doesn’t resonate internationally, it’s hardly an unknown, said Pe-ter Harbison, executive chairman of the Sydney-based Center for Asia Pacific Aviation.

“It’s operating 67 aircraft at the moment and had 125 on order before this deal,” he said, adding with new routes to Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan, it’s clear it wants to be a real player in the region as well.

“It’s a bet on Asia,” Harbison said of the proposal to buy the 230 planes — most of which are 737 Max, a new version of Boe-ing’s most popular plane with more fuel-efficient engines.

The biggest market for now is home.

The number of air passengers in Indonesia jumped 22 percent from 43 million in 2009 to 53

million in 2010, according to In-donesia’s statistics agency.

That trend has continued in 2011.

But the country also has had its share of accidents, raising concerns that the supply of trained aviation professionals, regulatory oversight and ground infrastruc-ture can’t keep up with growth.

In 2007, the European Union banned all of Indonesia’s 50 air-lines from landing on its runways for two years, and Lion Air has not gone unscathed.

In 2004, a Lion Air MD-82 crash-landed at the airport in Surakarta, killing 25 people in its only fatal accident. There also have been scores of other incidents, including hard landings and over-shooting runways, some causing injuries or damage to planes.

“Yes, we’ve had some prob-lems,” said Kirana, adding that planes now have equipment that warns pilots when they are flying too high or too fast. “But we’re improving.”

With 50,000 passengers a day, his bet, he says, is on the future.

U.S. President Barack Obama

applauds as Boeing Senior Vice

President Ray Conner, seated

right, and Lion Air CEO Rusdi

Kirana, seated left, announce

a commercial deal at a signing

ceremony in Nusa Dua, on the

island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday,

Nov. 18, 2011.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

asked to develop

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The session was not a formallyplanned moment of diplomacy butrather a late add-on to let the two mencontinue their conversation from agroup dinner the night before.

“We have a very complicated andquite substantial relationship withChinaacross theboard,”WhiteHouseNationalSecurityAdvisorTomDoni-lon told reporters after the session.

“Wedohaveeconomic issues, theyarearoundthepropercontribution thatthe Chinese make to global growthand that goes to currency and otherpolicies,” he added.

HesaidObamastressed the impor-tance of China adjusting the value ofits currency, which the United Statescontends is deeply undervalued. Hesaid Obama and Wen also brieflydiscussed territorial disputes in theSouth China Sea toward the end oftheir meeting.

ButDonilonalsodownplayed ten-sionsbetween the twopowers, sayingthe twocountriesalsohave foundvastareas of agreement.

The meeting came on the last leg

inwhichhehas focusedonbulkingupAmerica’s presence in the region, in-cluding setting up a Marine task forceinAustralia, in moves largely seen ashedges against China’s rise.

The last-minute meeting under-

the U.S. eyes, however. Obama metwith met with Chinese President HuJintao just last weekend in Hawaii for

Only photographers and a videog-rapher were allowed in at the start ofthe meeting with Wen, where the twomen e changed small talk.

Xinhua News Agency on Saturdaysuggested China was uneasy but notalarmed over the renewed U.S. focusonAsia.

“Actually, China as well as otherAsian nations never considered the

and had never tried to squeeze it outof the region,” said the piece, whichcarried the headline “U.S. return toAsia raises more questions than cananswer.”

The commentary noted that theU.S. was trying to court some Asiancountries, a clear nod to recent U.S.overtures toward Myanmar, and wasinterfering in long-standing regionaldisputes,anapparent reference toU.S.military support for the Philippines asitconfrontsChinainincreasinglytensedisputes in the South China Sea.

“ f the United States sticks to itsCold War mentality and continues toengage with Asian nations in a self-assertive way, it is doomed to incurrepulsion in the region,” it said.

ChinahasbeenangeredbytheU.S.

stand that it has a stake in security andunhampered international commercein the disputed territorial waters ofthe South China Sea. Wen had told ameetingofSoutheastAsiannationsonFriday that“e ternal forcesshouldnotuse any e cuse to interfere” in territo-rial disputes in the sea.

China claims all of the sea, whileseveralSoutheastAsiannationsclaimparts.

Donilon said the United States, asa maritime power, wants territorialdisputes resolved peacefully.

“We do believe they should beresolved in accordance with interna-tional norms and international law,”he said.

economic, and that is where hisconversation with Obama focused,Donilon said. The United States andChinahavebeen tusslingoverChina’scurrency, and over intellectual prop-erty. Obama has been challengingChina to operate with a greater senseof international rules.

Donilon rejected suggestions thatthe nine-day mission in the Asia-

China.The U.S. policy, Donilon said,was about rebalancing U.S. interestsand focusing once more on the Asia-

“Thishasnothing todowith isolat-ing or containing anybody,” he said.

Agence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - US Secretary ofStateHillaryClintonannounced 600million in aid for ndonesia Saturday,most of it for “green prosperity” inthe world’s third-biggest greenhousegas emitter.

The money will be funnelledthrough the Millennium ChallengeCorporation (MCC), a US govern-ment aid agency, which said thatwhile ndonesia is rich in naturalresources, many of its rural people

“This will help provide viable re-newableenergyalternativesandhelps

support natural resource manage-ment,”Clintonsaidon the ndonesianisland of Bali where she is attendingthe East Asia Summit with PresidentBarack Obama.

“We see this as an end in itself.Wethink that rural people will be able toraise their incomes while reducingtheir reliance on fossil fuels and onlogging.”

ndonesia is the world’s 18th-largest economy but the third-biggestproducer of greenhouses gases, withan estimated 85 percent of emissionscoming from deforestation and otherdestructive land uses.

More than 300 million of the

US funds will go towards renewableenergyandnatural resourceprojects toraise incomes and reduce emissions.

But ndonesia is regularly ratedby watchdogs as one of the world’smost corrupt countries and previousattempts to protect forests have runinto problems.

Amoratoriumonloggingpromisedby Jakarta in connection with a 1billionprogrammefundedbyNorway

-ident Susilo Bambang udhoyono inMay this year environmentalists con-demned thebanon logging inprimaryforests and peatlands as containing

“gaping loopholes”.Climate Advisers, a Washington-

based environmental consultancy,praised the US deal as “a cause forhope” and a “step forward in moder-nising US foreign aid programmes”.

But in a paper for the Brookingsnstitution think-tank it said “For a

long time ndonesia’s forest economy

e ploitationoften trampling the rightsof the rural poor.

“Mismanagement and corruptionare deeply embedded in ndonesia’sland-use sectors, and entrenched

increase transparency and rationalisenatural resource decisions.”

t warned that ndonesia wouldneed to “sustain the political will toovercomethesechallengesatall levelsof government” for the agreement towork.

Martowardojo said some of the fund-ingwouldgotowardshydropowerandsolar energy, and that the country was

“Everybody is watching this, wewill have a surveillance organisationto make sure all the implementationof this fund will be according to goodgovernance,” he said.

Obama, Chinese premier discuss economic topics

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.

Associated Press

N SA D A President Barack bama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao conferred Satur-day in a surprise meeting on the sidelines of a major Asian summit, focusing on the economicmatters that have prompted disputes between the two major world powers.

US backs ‘green prosperity’ with Indonesia aid

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Antara

NUSADUA-ASEANPlusThree(China, Japan and South Korea)leaders at a meeting here on Fridayemphasized the need to enhance co-

crisis.“Many things have happened

during the past years starting from-

cial crisis. The dynamic situation inthe world nowadays should makeus aware that we need to strengthencooperation and turn challenges intoopportunities,” ndonesian PresidentSusilo Bambang udhoyono saidhere on Friday at the opening cere-monyof the14thASEAN 3Meetingin Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center(BNDCC).

Meanwhile, China s PremierWen

Jiabao who attended the meetingsaid ASEAN 3 countries need totake stronger measures to enhancecooperation, increase internal growthmomentum and deepen cooperationto improve the region s ways to de-feat global crisis.

During the Friday meeting led byPresident udhoyono, Premier Wensuggested that ASEAN 3 countriesaccelerate the liberalization of trade

monetary cooperation in the region tohigher level.

Wen also emphasized the need forASEAN 3 countries to carry out re-search innewareas settlement of newregional trade in local currency andseek better way to reduce time andcost of trade and mitigate the impact

“We must also actively promote

the building of regional financialsafety net and improve East Asia

risk,” he added.Meanwhile, the South Korea s

President Lee Myung Bak on hisspeech at the Friday meeting e -pressed concern that the crisis hap-pening in some European countriesand the United States might givenegative impacts to the ASEAN 3countries.

“ t is important that we take

net. hope the cooperation underthe Chiangmai nitiative will bestregthened in the future,” he said,adding that an ASEAN Plus Threemacro-economic research officehad been set up in Singapore tomonitor the economic situation inmember states.

Antara

N SA D A - Visiting United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it is time for ASEAN to play a greater role in the globalcommunity.

“As the economy of ASEAN continues to grow in recent years,think it is time for you to develop a global world. The UN is ready towork closely with ASEAN in facing global challenges such as climatechange, food and energy security and human rights protection,” Bansaid on a press conference after attending the 4th ASEAN-UN Summitearlier in the morning.

On his speech, Ban also e pressed optimism that ASEAN couldrealize its mission of a single community in 2015.

“With strong relations among member states, strong political willand adequate resources, think there is a chance that ASEAN can real-ize its target of becoming a single community by 2015,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Ban Ki Moon at a ceremony in the Bali nterna-tional Convention Center (B CC) in Nusa Dua, Bali presented an awardfor ndonesia called “Global Champion of Disaster Risk Reduction”The award was given to President Susilo Bambang udhoyono onbehalf of the ndonesian people.

President udhoyono said the Global Champion of Disaster RiskReduction award was a recognition of the determination and hardwork of all ndonesians in responding to the challenges of naturaldisasters.

According to the president, ndonesia was the most vulnerablecountry in natural disasters, and therefore coping with disasters hasbecome deeply implanted in the national mindset.

After receiving the award from the UN chief, President udhoyonoasserted that ndonesia would continually strive to minimize the impactof any disaster.

The president e pressed hope that ndonesia would continue to doits best and develop cooperation with the United Nations.

The ceremony was attended by among others Coordinating Ministerfor Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinat-ing Minister for People s Welfare Agung Laksono, and CoordinatingMinister for Economy Hatta Rajasa, Ban Ki-Moon said President

udhoyono deserved the Global Champion of Disaster Risk Reductionaward because of his outstanding leadership.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

Time for ASEAN to go global

US President Barack Obama (L)

and Indonesian President Susilo

Bambang Yud-hoyono (C) wear-

ing Indonesian traditional clothes

attend the gala dinner during the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and East

Asia Summit in Nusa Dua in Indonesia’s re-

sort island of Bali on November 18,

2011.

ASEAN+3 leaders emphasize need to cooperate in tackling crisis

AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON

Monday, November 21, 2011 10 InternationalDestinations

There are two markets available at the same area those are one block at the Westside is for a traditional artistic market and another block located in the east as an everyday traditional fundamental market requirement. This market is opened every day about at 08:00 until 18:00, even some from them still open until nighttime. While the traditional market for the fundamental requirement is opened everyday at 06:00 - even before that there is morning market started at 04:00 morning.

The art crafting are sold in this art market consisted of various crafting, from traditional until contemporary crafting which its price is relatively cheap. You can do the transaction directly to the merchant which generally can be bar-gained. All the crafting sold in this place you can bring home as souvenir.

Ubud Traditional Art MarketIBP

Ubud Traditional Art Market where the existence is not far different from other markets available in the tourism area. This market as a society economics center of Ubud and it is apposite to the existence of Ubud Empire that is called Puri Saren. The market is unfolding from west to easterly divided become two group with different purpose.

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BUSINESSInternational

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

Protesters with placards bearing portraits of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak stage a rally to oppose ratification of the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in front of the Seoul City Hall, South Korea, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. The National Assembly has yet to pass the deal due to opposition parties’ strong objections, although the U.S. Congress recently approved it. The letters read: “Out, President Lee Myung-bak.”

While Asia has become moreresilient due to its economicmanagement since the region’sown financial crisis in 1997 98,it is not immune to Europe’sproblems, Noda said.

“ don’t think Asia is neces-sarily vulnerable to e ternalshocks (from Europe),” Nodatold a news conference after theEast Asia Summit on the ndo-nesian resort island of Bali.

“Given efforts to conductsound economic policy, the re-gion generally enjoys a currentaccount surplus and its foreignreserves are at high levels, soit has become more resilient toe ternal shocks.”

“Having said that, there isno doubt that we could faceadverse impact if we cannotbuild a firewall against theEuropean crisis.”

Policymakers around theworld are worried that Europe’sinability to unify around adebt strategy could hurt theireconomies.

Greece, reland and Portugal- all small, peripheral euro zoneeconomies - have already beenforced to accept EU MF bail-outs as they can no longer af-ford to borrow commercially.

Now taly’s borrowing costshave reached unsustainablelevels, while Spain’s are near-ing this point and the crisis iseven starting to affect triple-A

rated France.While giving no detai ls

on what kind of further stepsAsia should take, Noda saidboosting regional financial co-operation is basically the wayto go as Asia tries to prepareitself for possible meltdownsin Europe.

Japan, China and SouthKorea lead a 120 billion emer-gency fund, under the so-calledthe Chiang Mai nitiative, withthe 10-member Associationof South East Asian Nations(ASEAN) - part of a move tostrengthen ties and avert therepeat of the 1997-1998 Asianfinancial crisis.

n a move to beef up its for-eign e change defenses in thewake of global uncertainties,South Korea last month signedan agreement with China todouble the value of their bilat-eral currency swap pact aftersecuring a similar deal withJapan.

n addition to such efforts,Asia needs further crisis pre-vention measures, Noda said.

“Japan is leading discus-sions on how to prevent crisisand on introducing further stepsto avert crisis at a regionallevel. We need to quickly wrapup those and proposed thatat the summit of ASEAN 3(ASEAN plus China, Japan andSouth Korea).”

Reuters

BR SS LS - European Unionnegotiators agreed to a two per-cent rise in the bloc’s budget forne t year to 129 billion euros( 174 billion), following morethan fifteen hours of talks whichended in the early hours of Satur-day morning.

The deal was seen as a victoryfor cash-strapped capitals grap-pling with Europe’s debt crisis,which had opposed demands byEU lawmakers to increase thebudget by more than 5 percent.

More than two thirds of the EUbudget is spent on subsidies forfarmers and regional aid funds,which finance road construction,environmental clean-ups andother projects.

But some EU officials saidlimiting the budget rise to forecastinflation for ne t year could leavethe bloc unable to pay its bills andthreaten the EU budget’s AAAcredit rating.

“This is clearly an austeritybudget, as most member states arein the midst of a serious financialcrisis,” said EU Budget Commis-sioner Janusz Lewandowski, whohad originally proposed a five per-cent rise in spending in 2012.

“There is now a serious riskthat the European Commissionwill run out of funds in the courseof ne t year, and will therefore notbe able to honor all its financialobligations toward beneficiariesof EU funds,” he said.

That is because while agreeingto limit their contributions to theEU budget to 129 billion eurosne t year, governments gave into the European Parliament’sdemands to allow EU spendingcommitments ne t year to go upto 147 billion euros.

“Today’s commitments becometomorrow’s payments, so they areplaying a very dangerous gameindeed,” said one EU official.

But Britain, which campaignedhard to contain EU spending,

welcomed Saturday’s deal, withfinancial services minister MarkHoban, saying austerity at EUlevel was vital when member stategovernments struggle to tightentheir belts.

“This is an e cellent deal forthe UK. We have stopped theEuropean Commission and parlia-ment’s inflation-busting proposalsand have delivered on the govern-ment’s promise to freeze the EUbudget in real terms,” he said.

“Throughout this process, wehave argued that with memberstates facing tough decisionson spending at home, we couldnot afford these unrealistic de-mands.”

Parliament won some conces-sions in the discussions, includingan e tra 100 million euro in aidfor the Palestinian territories in2012.

Talks on the EU’s spending in2012 are seen as a prelude to atougher fight on the bloc’s ne tlong-term budget for 2014-2020.

Asia needs further steps amid euro zone crisis: Japan PMReuters

EU agrees 2 percent budget rise for 2012 to 129 billion euros

Entertainment InternationalMonday, November 21, 201112

The series, which is based on the popular “Twilight” novels by Stephenie Meyer, is one of Hollywood’s most lucrative franchises. “The Twi-light Saga: Eclipse” debuted in June 2010, and raked in $30.1 million in midnight showings. It went on to suck nearly $700 million from worldwide box offices.

The record for U.S. and Canadian ticket at midnight is held by the recent, final installment of the “Harry Pot-ter” movies, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.” It debuted to $43.5 million at midnight and went on to claim another record: the best three-day weekend with $169.2 mil-lion in the United States and Canada.

But producer and distribu-

tor Summit Entertainment has cautioned box office watchers not to compare the two movies too closely due to several dif-ferentiating factors, including that the “Twilight” films are aimed mostly at females while “Harry Potter” targets broader audiences.

The “Twi l igh t” movies made stars of Kristen Stew-art, who plays the lovestruck Bella Swan, as well as Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen and Taylor Lautner as werewolf Jacob Black, both of whom vie for the affection of Swan. Edward eventually wins Bella’s heart and in “Breaking Dawn - Part 1,” the pair are married. Their wedding and honeymoon are among the highlights of the new movie.

“Breaking Dawn - Part 1”

also began its release in 54 markets outside North America on Friday, but early interna-tional ticket sales figures were not yet available. The movie cost $110 million to make after production budget remakes. “Breaking Dawn - Part II” will hit theaters in 2012.

“Breaking Dawn” draws $30 million at midnight

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - Vampire romance “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1” drew $30.25 million in box office blood at midnight screenings on Friday, eclipsing its predecessor and giving it a strong start to the weekend. The film, which is the first part of the final segment in the series of films about a young woman and her bloodsucking lover, is expected to bring in upward of $140 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices over its opening weekend.

British actor Robert Pattin-

son, right, and US actor Taylor

Lautner attend a film premiere

of ‘Twilight Breaking Dawn

Part 1’ in Barcelona, Spain,

Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. AP Photo/Job Vermeulen

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Natalie Wood’s drowning death nearly 30 years ago came after a night of dinner, drinking and argu-ments but the question remains — was it anything more than a tragic accident? Conflicting ver-sions of what happened on the yacht shared by Wood, her actor-husband Robert Wagner and their friend, actor Christopher Walken, have contributed to the mystery of how the actress died on Thanks-giving weekend in 1981.

Two sheriff ’s detectives are now diving into the mysterious events on the yacht Splendour, although whether they reach any different conclusions than their predecessors remains to be seen. They recently received new, seem-ingly credible information and heard from potential witnesses who weren’t included in the original investigation of Wood’s death, sheriff’s Lt. John Corina said Friday.

But he said nothing has hap-pened to change the official view that Wood’s death was originally

an accidental drowning. Wagner, the star of “Hart to Hart” is not considered a suspect, he added.

Corina released few details about who investigators have contacted or plan to re-interview, but the inquiry will certainly lead them to speak with the three survivors of the trip — Wagner, Walken and skipper Dennis Dav-ern. Wood’s sister, Lana, was not on the boat, but told CNN’s Piers Morgan on Friday that she has spoken with Davern many times and believes her sister did not fall off the boat.

“I don’t think she fell, I don’t know if she was pushed, I don’t know whether there was an alter-cation and it happened acciden-tally but she shouldn’t have died and that does stay with me and hurt,” Lana Wood said.

“I would prefer to always believe that RJ (Wagner) would never do anything to hurt Nata-lie and that he loved her dearly, which he did, and I don’t believe that whatever went on was de-liberate. I’ve always cared about him. I always will care about him,” she said.

Natalie Wood detectives

AP Photo/Harrington, File

FILE - The 55-foot yacht “Splendour,” belonging to actor Robert Wagner and his wife, actress Natalie Wood, sits in the waters off Catalina Island in Santa Catalina, Calif., near the site where Harbor Patrol personnel and lifeguards discovered the body of Wood, an apparent drowning victim, Nov. 29, 1981.

International Monday, November 21, 2011 13Science

“The success of our initia-tive will not only have direct and immediate benefits for our own people, but we could be setting a worthy precedent for other countries that share simi-lar conditions,” Bhutan’s Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley said according to a press statement released late Saturday. Pakistan, China and Afghanistan were absent from the summit but organizers downplayed that, say-ing that the summit was focused on securing ecosystems, endan-gered species,and food and water sources for only the Himalayas’ eastern part.

The summit called for action amid the international commu-nity’s inability to agree on limiting greenhouse gas emissions blamed

for global climate change. The next round of U.N. climate talks begin in Durban, South Africa Nov. 28, but the expectations of any break-through there are limited.

As part of the declaration the four nations agreed to work together to increase access to “affordable and reliable” clean energy resources and technology through a regional knowledge sharing mechanism, a press state-ment from the World Wildlife Fund said.

The draft of the declaration was not immediately available Sunday. The most contentious part of the talks dealt with water security, according to the WWF release, but the four nations did agree to work together on ecosystem and disaster management, sharing

their knowledge in water use ef-ficiency.

Regional tensions have long prevented Himalayan cooperation, including basic research in the world’s largest block of glaciers outside the polar regions, and accounting for 40 percent of the world’s fresh water.

There was also consensus on food security and securing liveli-hoods and the deal covers way to adapt and improve food produc-tion and help vulnerable com-munities get better access to nutritious food.

“These kinds of regional ini-tiatives are really needed,” said Liisa Rohweder, CEO of WWF Finland, adding the summit was a good lead to follow for the Durban meeting.

AP Photo/Kevin Frayer

In this picture taken Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, foreign tourists walk in thick fog past the razor-wire of the Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla in the Nepal Himalayas.

Himalayan nations agree on climate adaptation plan

Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — Four Himalayan nations facing the threat of weather changes have agreed to col-laborate on ways to adapt to climate change after a two-day summit in Bhutan. India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan were part of the Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas held in Bhutan’s capital Thimphu on Saturday. They agreed to cooperate on energy, water, food and biodiversity issues.

Associated Press Writer

d iWASHINGTON — Think of the Texas drought, floods in Thailand and Russia’s devastating heat waves as coming attractions in a warming world. That is the warning from top international climate scientists and disaster experts after meeting in Africa.

The panel said the world needs to get ready for more dangerous and “unprecedented extreme weather” caused by global warming. These experts fear that without preparedness, crazy weather extremes may overwhelm some locations, making some places unlivable.

The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a special report on global warming and extreme weather Friday after meeting in Kampala, Uganda. This is the first time the group of scientists has focused on the dangers of extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and storms. Those are more dangerous than gradual increases in the world’s average temperature.

For example, the report predicts that heat waves that are now once-in-a-generation events will become hotter and happen once every five years by mid-century and every other year by the end of the century. And in some places, such as most of Latin America, Africa and a good chunk of Asia, they will likely become yearly bakings.

And the very heavy rainstorms that usually happen once every 20 years will happen far more frequently, the report said. In most areas of the U.S. and Canada, they are likely to occur three times as often by the turn of the century, if fossil fuel use continues at current levels. In Southeast Asia, where flooding has been dramatic, it is likely to happen about four times as often as now, the report predicts.

One scientist points to this year’s drought and string of 100 degree days (38 Celsius) in Texas and Oklahoma, which set an all-time record for hot-test month for any U.S. state this summer.

“I think of it as a wake-up call,” said one of the study’s authors, David Easterling, head of global climate applications for the U.S. National Oce-anic and Atmospheric Administration. “The likelihood of that occurring in the future is going to be much greater.” The report said world leaders have to prepare better for weather extremes.

Science panel: Get ready for extreme weather

AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File

FILE - Maarten van Aalst, leading climate specialist for the Red Cross and Red Crescent, speaks about how climate change will affect people and assets during the presentation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report at a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in this April 11, 2007 file photo.

Monday, November 21, 201114 InternationalSport

Spanish and European cham-pions Barca widened their advan-tage over Valencia, the last clubother than the big two to win thetitle back in 2004, to four points.La Liga top scorer Lionel Messistruck his 15th of the season ata damp Nou Camp, with GerardPique and substitute David Villaalso netting against their formerclub and Pique’s central defensivepartner Carles Puyol scoring arare goal.

An aggressive Valencia putReal under early pressure at theMestalla but a lapse in concentra-tion allowed Benzema to open thescoring in the 20th minute. Withthe Valencia players still organ-ising themselves, Xabi Alonsotook a quick freekick and Francestriker Benzema brought the ball

and struck a rasping volley pastgoalkeeper Diego Alves with hissecond.

Valencia dominated the secondhalf as the yellow cards came thickand fast in response to some robusttackling before Ramos outjumpedhis markers to nod home a 72ndminute second. Home striker Ro-berto Soldado made it 2-1 three

minutes later with a powerful drivebefore Ronaldo scored his 14thof the campaign in the 78th andSoldado poked in his second witheight minutes of regular time left

into added time, the ball appearedto strike a Real defender near hisarm as he lay on the ground bythe goalline but the referee wavedaway Valencia’s frantic appealsfor a penalty.

The irate home players sur-

whistle and Mourinho was peltedwith objects as he quickly madehis way down the tunnel.

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nodded Barca in front from aXavi free kick in the 18th minutebefore Messi picked up a CescFabregas pass in the penalty areashortly before halftime and sent alow, right-foot shot past Roberto.Captain Puyol followed up his ownsaved effort to score a third some10 minutes after the break andVilla, who replaced Fabregas inthe 66th, put Barca 4-0 ahead with

an acrobatic header 15 minutesfrom time.

television, Pique said Barca havea tough month ahead, includingWednesday’s Champions League

of two ‘Clasicos’ against Real onDec. 10 before they head off to the

-portant games,” he said. “Madridis ahead in the league and we want

Champions League but we havethe quality to come through it.”

claimed their third victory of thecampaign when Borja Valerocaught Real Betis keeper Castooff his line with a lobbed effortin the 21st minute that gave JuanCarlos Garrido’s side a 1-0 homewin. Villarreal, who visit BayernMunich in the Champions Leagueon Tuesday, climbed to 10th on14 points.

Struggling Betis won theiropening four matches of theseason but have taken only onepoint from the last eight and are13th on 13 points, three ahead ofZaragoza in 16th.

Reuters

MILAN -only their third SerieAgame of theseason when they beat Cagliari 2-1on Saturday helped by a controver-sial Thiago Motta goal which leftthe Sardinians fuming. DebutantCagliari coach Davide Ballardini

of thedoubt to thebigger clubsaftertelevision replays showed Motta’sgoal was offside.

Teenager Philippe Coutinho,called into the team at the lastminute after playmaker WesleySneijder was injured in the warm

-fore Joaquin Larrivey pulled oneback for the visitors. Saturday’sother games produced goallessstalemates as AC Milan’s run

Fiorentina and a negative, time-wasting Lazio held out for a pointat Napoli.

Lazio’s share of the spoils wasenough to take them top of the ta-ble with 22 points from 11 games,one ahead of Udinese, who visitParma on Sunday (1400 GMT),and Milan. Juventus, the onlyunbeaten team and three pointsbehind Lazio in fourth place, hostPalermo on Sunday (1400)

Lazio’s match was a complete-

ture last season when Napoli camefrom two goals behind to win 4-3with an Edinson Cavani hat-trick.This time, Lazio made no attemptto win the game while Napoli

lively spell early in the second halfand Cavani was barely noticed.

Ezequiel Lavezzi nearlysnatched a stoppage time winnerfor the hosts but his volley wassuperbly turned away by FedericoMarchetti. Fiorentina, where DelioRossi was making his debut ascoach after replacing the sackedSinisa Mihajlovic, were let off

the hook when Milan midifelderClarence Seedorf thought he hadvolleyed the opening goal in the18th minute.

Dutchman’s effort was disallowedfor offside when replays suggestedthe goal should have stood.

LUCKY BREAK

lucky break in the 54th minutewhen Ricardo Alvarez’s freekick

to Motta, who scored from closerange. “Certain situations createdoubt and in case of doubt the ref-eree’s decision goes in favour ofthe strongest,” said Balladini, Cal-giari’s third coach this season.

offside decision in your favour atSan Siro.” Ranieri, who has com-plained at the number of penaltiesawarded against his side, admittedit was a lucky break but said thathis side were due one.

“They’ve told me it was off-side, but it’s our turn to enjoy some

when Giampaolo Pazzini’s drivewas tipped onto the woodwork byMichaelAgazzi who did the sameto a Mauro Zarate free kick shortlyafterwards.

Halftime substitute Alvarezwas also involved in the secondgoal on the hour, winning posses-

The 19-year-old Brazilian cutinside his marker and scoredwith a low shot which crept in bythe near post for his second goal

last season from Vasco da Gama.

17th place, have 11 points withCagliari on 13 having played agame more.

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

FC Barcelona’s Carles Pujol, left, scores against Zaragoza’s goalkeeper Roberto Jimenez dur-ing a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.

Real, Barca move clear at La Liga summitReuters

MADRID - Real Madrid and Barcelona pulled away at the top of La Liga when leaders Realedged third-placed Valencia 3-2 away in a thrilling but ill-tempered clash after Barca thumpedvisiting Real Zaragoza 4-0 on Saturday. Real’s victory, courtesy of goals from Karim Benzema,Sergio Ramos and Cristiano Ronaldo, maintained their three-point lead over great rivals Bar-celona in second and lifted Jose Mourinho’s side to 31 points from 12 matches.

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Inter Milan midfielder Thiago Motta celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Cagliari at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Inter Milan won 2-1.

Fortune favours Inter, negative Lazio go top

Monday, November 21, 2011 15International Sport

His number one ranking hasbeen snatched away by man-of-the-year Novak Djokovic whileall serious money for the Londontitle is heading the way of in-formSwiss Roger Federer and home fa-vourite Andy Murray. The 25-year-old, whose last competive matchwas a shock defeat by Germany’sFlorian Mayer in Shanghai inOctober, was not fretting over hislower profile as he prepared for hisGroup B opener against AmericanMardy Fish.

“ don’t feel like (the forgottenman),” Nadal told reporters when itwas suggested to the world numbertwo that he had had slid into theshadow of the other members ofthe top four. “Maybe you have thisfeeling, but don’t.” “ played inthe final of the last three GrandSlams and ’ve had a good season.

lost a few important matches thisseason, but won a few ones too.’m happy about my year.

“ didn’t have a perfect year, but’ve had a very good year. ’ve been

out of competition for a little while

and that’s probably why the focus ison others,” added the Mallorcan who

ne t month against Argentina.Djokovic, despite his shoulder

problems, will be the man to beatin London, having won three ofthe years four grand slams and theMasters Series events in Canada,Rome, Madrid, ndian Wells andMiami. But Nadal says he is notdesperate to re-assert his author-ity over the Serb who until thisyear he had beaten in 16 of their23 matches.

“ t’s probably the highest levelof tennis that ever saw,” Nadalsaid of Djokovic who has beatenhim in si finals this year onthree different surfaces. “But ’mnot working every day thinkingabout Novak. ’m working andthinking about what need to doto keep improving, to be a betterplayer. That’s what ’ve done allmy career and what want to keepdoing.

“Novak had an unbelievableseason. What he did is very dif-

ficult to repeat. His level of tenniswas very, very high. He beat meand he was playing better thanme. That’s why he was able towin almost every match duringthe season.” Nadal will face greatrival Federer for the first time inround-robin play ne t week -- arepeat of last year’s final at theO2 won by the Swiss 16-timesgrand slam champion. Federer isseeking a record si th title at theseason-ender, to move him clearof van Lendl and Pete Sampras.He opens play on Sunday againstJoe-Wilfried Tsonga, but his clashwith Nadal will be one of the high-lights of the week.

“ always enjoy playing againstRafa,” Federer said. “ t goeswithout saying that enjoyedthat match (last year’s final) but

also enjoyed the matches lostlike the Wimbledon finals, theRome finals. We’ve had some epicbattles against each other and ’mhappy that we have another onehere.” Djokovic has a Mondaystart against Tomas Berdych.

Reuters

The National Basketball Association(NBA) season may be in danger of beingwiped out by a bitter labor dispute alreadyfive months old but the big bucks willkeep rolling in for LeBron James, KobeBryant, Dwyane Wade and a select fewof the game’s biggest stars.

While some players might be leftcounting the cost of the lockout with theiraverage annual salaries of 5 million onhold, at least 10 of the sport’s marqueeplayers will be earning at least that muchin off-court endorsements, regardless ofwhether they play or not, according toForbes.com.

At the top of the rich list is James, theMiami Heat forward who will collect 33million in endorsement money for theseason, twice his annual salary, Forbes re-ported. Los Angeles Lakers guard Bryant,who was set to reel in the league’s highestsalary this season at 25.2 million, wouldalso fare well with estimated off-courtendorsements of 28 million.

James’ Miami Heat teammate Wadehas also found success on and off thecourt. The guard should collect 12 mil-lion in endorsement money even without

his 15.5 million salary for the 2011-12season.

NUMEROUS SOURCES

Shoe and apparel companies, soft drinks,airlines and a variety of other entities helpmake the big paychecks possible while es-crow money from the 2010-11 season thatwas withheld from NBAplayers’paycheckswill help boost the totals. Players will sharemore than 190 million in escrow moneybecause team owners did not spend 57 per-cent of basketball related income, as requiredin the collective bargaining agreement thate pired June 30.

For Bryant, that would mean an e tra2 million, Forbes said. Other members of

the 5 million endorsement club includeOrlando Magic center Dwight Howard ( 11million in deals) and Oklahoma City Thun-der forward Kevin Durant ( 9 million).

New ork Knicks forwards CarmeloAnthony and Amar’e Stoudemire are notfar behind. Both have deals worth 8 mil-lion. New Orleans Hornets guard ChrisPaul will earn 6 million and Boston Celt-ics forward Kevin Garnett and WashingtonWizards guard John Wall will each collect5 million off the court.

Nadal returns in unfamiliar role of underdogReuters

L ND N - Rafa Nadal returns to action at the A P World our Finals on Sunday hoping toissue a timely reminder of his powers. he Spaniard, out of action for a month, has had a leanyear by his high standards and has not captured a title since winning the French pen for asi th time in June.

REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal and girlfriend Maria Francisca Perello arrive for the ATP World Tour Gala at Battersea Power Station in London November 17, 2011.

Even without basketball, James and others will make millions

AP Photo/Don Ryan

NBA players, from right, Lebron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony stand on the sideline before the NCAA college football game between Oregon and Southern California in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. The three and other NBA players were on hand to watch the game.

Renault technical director James Allison has admitted that the unsuccessful forward exhaust concept has rendered the R31 a ‘failed experiment’. The system looked like it might have been a masterstroke when Renault produced strong times early in winter testing, but it never delivered the performance gains expected and ultimately limited the team’s development ability this year.

“I regard it as a bold, but ultimately failed experiment,” said Al-lison. “We were the only team to adopt a forward exhaust layout, and we did so with high hopes, buoyed by very strong windtunnel numbers.” He admitted that even in the promising early tests Renault had actually been disappointed with the car.

“We came out of the blocks adequately well, although it was clear from the first test that the delivered downforce was not as high as we had expected,” he said.“The season which followed has been difficult for everyone at Enstone. The layout which had promised so much, and which, had it delivered, would have been almost impossible to copy, proved very tricky to develop and had a fundamental weakness in slow corners that has been an albatross around our neck all year.

“We look forward to moving on in 2012 with all-new exhaust rules and a chance to wipe the slate clean.” Team boss Eric Boullier said it had been hard to keep the squad buoyant what subsequently turned into a frustrating year, but felt morale had not wavered too badly.

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McLaren driver Hamilton admitted it was a great feeling to return to the top step of the podium, and says that made him even more determined to try to repeat the feat at Interlagos.

“Winning in Abu Dhabi last week was a fantastic feeling, and it’s made me even more determined to finish the 2011 season with a victory,” said Hamilton in a team preview. “It would be great to go into the winter off the back of another win, so that’ll be my aim next weekend.

“Of course, for Jenson and myself, Interlagos is the circuit where we won the world championship, so it will al-ways hold some happy memories for us. In fact, I’ve only been here once [in 2009] when I wasn’t in contention for the championship. “This year, with both titles already wrapped up,

I want to enjoy myself: and I think we have the car to once again make a difference - we’ll pick up where we left off in Abu Dhabi, I hope.

“I think we’re all set for a great end to the 2011 championship: Interlagos is a fantastic circuit, one of the best on the calendar, and I think the combina-tion of KERS Hybrid and DRS, plus the possibility of wet weather, mean we’re all set for a fas-c ina t -i n g

race.”Team-mate Jenson Button believes

McLaren’s showing in Abu Dhabi showed the team is still pushing as hard as possible despite the cham-pionships being over. And he too is aiming to finish the season on the top step of the podium next week.

“I think we proved in Abu Dhabi two weeks ago that McLaren still wants to win races even though both championships are now settled,” But-

ton said.“Certainly I’m determined

to win my fourth grand prix of the year, even if it means fighting all the way to the last lap of the last race.”

Renault admits its 2011 concept was a ‘bold failure’Upbeat Lewis Hamilton

wants to win the Brazilian GP

Lewis Hamilton says he has his sights set on another victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix to end the 2011 season on a high. The Briton bounced back from a series a difficult races to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in dominant fashion last weekend, securing his third victory of the campaign.

McLaren Mercedes

driver Lewis Ham-

ilton of Britain re-

acts after winning

the Emirates For-

mula One Grand

Prix at the Yas Ma-

rina racetrack, in

Abu Dhabi, United

Arab Emirates,

Sunday, Nov.13,

2011.

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar