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“The flights using wide-bodied aircraft flew 387,137 passengers. They were all foreign tourists who returned home after holidaying in the tourist resort province,” Siregar stated.

He remarked that the October passengers increased by 3.5 percent as compared to 373,670 tourists flown in the previous month.

Over the past decade, Bali,

which is Indonesia’s main foreign tourist destination, has drawn in-creasing number of visitors in the January-October 2014 period and has recorded 3.12 million tourist arrivals.

As compared to the same period in 2013, the foreign tourist arrivals this year increased by 16.84 percent from last year’s recorded value of 2.47 million.

The data released by the prov-ince’s Tourism Office earlier revealed that a total of 3,122,893 foreign tour-ists visited Bali province during the period between January and October 2014, increasing by 16.86 percent as compared to that recorded in the same period last year.

Based on the data, Bali received an average of 310 thousand foreign tourists every month.

Local tourism observer Tjok Gede Agung remarked that the num-ber of foreign tourists visiting Bali had increased during the past years and was expected to grow further in the future as Indonesia implements the visa-free policy for tourists ar-riving from some countries such as the ASEAN countries.

Indonesia has set a target to receive 9.5 million foreign tourists in 2014. The tourism ministry hopes to attract at least 3.5 million tourists from ASEAN, including 1.75 mil-lion from Singapore, 1.4 million from Malaysia, and 315 thousand from the Philippines.

Last year, the largest number of tourists arrived in Indonesia from Singapore, followed by Malaysia, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the United States, and Britain.

In addition to Singapore, Malay-sia, Australia, Japan, and South Ko-rea, China is now one of the main markets for Indonesian tourism.

Data from the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) showed that the number of Chinese tour-ists visiting Indonesia in the first eight months of last year rose 25.54 percent to 412,698 over the same period in the previous year.

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The flights from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to various cities worldwide stood at 2,192 last October, or an increase of 2.10 percent, from 2,147 flights in September, stated Bali’s statistics official Panusunan Siregar.

Flights from Bali to foreign countries increase

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DENPASAR - The flights from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to various cities world-wide stood at 2,192 last October, or an increase of 2.10 percent, from 2,147 flights in September, stated Bali’s statistics official Panusunan Siregar.

Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour,” Beyonce’s surprise self-titled re-lease and Pharrell’s “G I R L” will compete for the coveted album of the year, along with Beck’s “Morn-ing Phase” and Ed Sheeran’s “X,” the most streamed album on Spotify this year.

The Recording Academy an-nounced its nominees for the 57th annual show throughout the day on Friday.

Pharrell earned a whopping three nominations for the top prize thanks to his production work on Beyonce and Sheeran’s albums, which means the hit-maker only has a chance to walk away with four awards when the Grammys are presented on Feb. 8.

Smith is up for key honors such as best new artist and song and record of the year for his hit “Stay With Me.” Beyonce, surprisingly, was not up for song or record of the year. Her nominations include best urban contemporary album as well as R&B song and R&B performance for

“Drunk in Love” featuring Jay Z.For song and record of the year,

Smith’s “Stay With Me” will bat-tle Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” and Sia’s “Chandelier.”

Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” is nominated for record of the year, while Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” is up for song of the year, a songwriter’s award.

Azalea, the Australian newcomer, earned four nominations, including best rap album for “The New Clas-sic,” best pop duo/group performance for “Fancy” with Charli XCX and best new artist, pitting her and Smith against pop-rock trio HAIM, English band Bastille and country singer Brandy Clark.

Beck, Jack White, Usher, Drake, Jay Z, composer Gordon Goodwin and mastering engineer Tom Coyne also earned four nominations each. Eric Church and Miranda Lambert, both nominated in all four country categories, will compete for best coun-try album, along with Clark, Dierks

Bentley and Lee Ann Womack.Sia, who also earned four nomina-

tions, had a breakthrough this year with “Chandelier” after writing songs for other singers, from Rihanna to Beyonce to Katy Perry.

Smith’s six nominations include best pop solo performance and pop vocal album for his debut, “In the Lonely Hour,” one of the year’s top-selling albums. The big-voiced singer will battle Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry and Cold-play in the latter category.

Pharrell’s “Happy” and John Leg-end’s “All of Me,” tunes that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year, were technically released before Grammy eligibility, so the singers submitted live renditions of the songs so they could be consid-ered for awards. The songs didn’t earn nominations in the top awards, but the hits will compete with “Stay With Me,” ‘’Shake It Off” and “All About That Bass” for best pop solo performance.

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BOSTON — Marky Mark doesn’t want a black mark any longer. Mark Wahlberg is asking Massachusetts for a pardon for assaults he committed in 1988 when he was a troubled teen-ager in Boston, saying he has dedicated himself to becoming a better person in his adult years so he can be a role model to his children and others.

The former rapper known as Marky Mark and star of movies including “The Departed” and “The Gambler,” set to open in theaters Dec. 19, filed a pardon application with state officials Nov. 26. New England Cable News first reported on the ap-plication Thursday.

In 1988, when Wahlberg was 16, he hit a man in the head with a wooden stick while trying to steal two cases of alcohol in front of a convenience store near his family’s home in the Dorchester section of Boston, the application says. He punched another man in the face while trying to avoid police, the docu-ment says.

Wahlberg says in the application that he was high on mari-juana and narcotics at the time, and police caught him with a small amount of pot. He also apologized for his actions.

He ended up being convicted as an adult of assault and other charges, and he was sentenced to three months in jail. He said he was released after serving about 45 days.

Wahlberg, 43, says in the application that he turned his life around and became a successful music artist, actor and film and television producer. He also notes he has raised millions of dollars for charity and donated his time and efforts for phil-anthropic causes.

“I have not engaged in philanthropic efforts in order to make people forget about my past,” Wahlberg says in the application. “To the contrary, I want people to remember my past so that I can serve as an example of how lives can be turned around and how people can be redeemed.”

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Mark Wahlberg seeks pardon for

1988 assaults

Beyonce, Pharrell, Sam Smith lead in Grammy nodsAssociated Press

NEW YORK — The year’s brightest newcomer, Sam Smith; the most nominated female in Grammy history, Beyonce; and mega-producer Pharrell led the Grammy Award nominations an-nounced Friday, with six nominations apiece.

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Beyonce performs on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

Ronaldo breaks record with hat trick in Madrid win

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Bali News

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for November 26 through December 22, 2014

26 Nov Buda Cemeng Warigadean Pura KapisahSumerta DenpasarPura Pasek GelgelGerih Abian Semal DenpasarPura Puncak SariPenarukan Peninjoan BangliPura Anteg Sari Dangin Pangkung Kediri TabananPura Bangun SaktiBesakihPura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kediri Tabanan

27 Nov Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 28 Nov Hari Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung BesakihIda Ratu Raja Puraus Merajan Sloding Besakih

2 Des Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi BangliPura Beratan BaturitiPura Batu Klotok KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Sawan BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Tarokaja TegallalangPura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Sidemen

3 Des Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncak Sari Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi

Sidan GianyarPura Puseh Penengil Darma Kubu Tam-bahan SingarajaPura Dalem Maya Blah Batuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih

6 Des Purnama Sasih Kenam Aci-aci Penyeheb Brahman dipura Kiduling Kleteb BesakihPura Lingsar LombokPura Bebengan Tanjung LombokPura Dalem Putra Benawah Gianyar

11 Des Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Peninjoan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Di Penataran Agung BesakihPura Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus dewa Besakih

12 Des Sugihan Bali dan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 14 Des Penyekeban 15 Des Penyajaan Galungan 16 Des Penampahan Galungan 17 Des Hari raya Galungan Pura Wawika Kupang NTTPura Agung Giri Nhata Sumbawa Besar NTB

Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak KalimantanPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

18 Des Umanis Galungan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Kediri Tabanan

19 Des Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran KutaPura Luhur Kawitan Cameng Cemenggaon Sukawati

20 Des Pemaridan Guru Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

21 Des Ulihan dan Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti BatubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

22 Des Pemacekan Agung Pura Dasar Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin GianyarPura Kahyangan Tulus Apuan Kintamani

Anyer, a breathtaking beachside set-ting in Banten, is one of the most sought-after holiday destinations for Jakarta and West Java’s residents. But for many business travelers, Anyer is becoming most popular for its close proximity to Cilegon – a major coastal industrial city famous for its thriving factories and trading opportunities.

Cilegon, also located in the Ban-ten province of Indonesia, covers 175.51km2 of industrial and com-mercial land. Among the factories in Cilegon are Krakatau Steel Company, a vital producer of steel for domestic and foreign needs, and Asahimas Chemical Company. Unsurprisingly, Cilegon has garnered the nickname “Steel City” since the city is the largest steel producer in Southeast Asia, producing around 6 mil-lion tonnes of steel each year.

Additionally, Cilegon is also one of the vital state objects. This is because there is a wide range of other vital ob-jects in the city such as the Merak Har-bour, the Krakatau Steel Industrial Zone (including the PT. Krakatau Steel Tbk, Asahimas, Siemens, KS - POSCO joint venture, Chandra Asri, and Pertamina), as well as PLTU Suralaya, the Krakatau

power plant, the Krakatau Tirta Indus-trial Water Treatment Plant.

With these major industrial landmarks so close to Anyer in Cilegon, together with the opening of the new airport in Banten, the city and surrounding area is destined to become one of West Java’s preferred MICE and leisure destinations, with the added bonus of Anyer beach on the doorstep for when business travelers are off the clock.

Aston Anyer Beach Hotel is located in the heart of Anyer only 90 minutes from Indonesia’s capital city, offering the perfect mix of convenience and exotic scenery. This 3 star hotel on Jalan Raya Karang Bolong will feature 101 guest rooms and suites stylishly designed in the contemporary Aston way. As part of the MICE facilities, the modern confer-ence center boasts 3 auxiliary meeting rooms purposefully built on the top floor to soak up the beautiful ocean views. Complete with an outdoor terrace, this breezy area is perfect for refreshing cof-fee breaks or dramatic sunset cocktail receptions.

The three meetings rooms range in size, from the smallest room that can accommodate up to 85 people, through

to the largest room than can hold up to 400 guests. Each of the meeting rooms also include their own partitions, mean-ing they can be divided into three smaller rooms for more intimate meetings, or opened up for larger MICE events and other social gatherings.

The hotel also features a cozy all-day dining restaurant for casual meetings or a relaxed meal, together with recreational facilities for downtime including an outdoor swimming pool, a private beach, a pool table and ping pong table and a bonfire pit.

“Not only is Anyer a stunning loca-tion for a beachside break, it is also in close proximity to Cilegon, meaning Anyer is also on the radar of business travelers that flock to the bustling in-dustrial city. With this in mind, we are delighted to be offering Aston Anyer Beach Hotel as a MICE destination to cater to the area’s business market. The modern conference center at the hotel is truly one of a kind, with its open-air terrace looking out to Anyer’s famous beach. Bookings can be made on our website at www.AstonHotelsAsia.com” said Mr. John Flood – President & CEO of Archipelago International.

IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Aston opens in Anyer BeachIBP

JAKArTA – With the highly anticipated opening of Aston Anyer Beach Hotel on the horizon this De-

cember, Archipelago International have announced that the beachside destination will not only cater to West Java’s holidaymakers, but will also be the next MICE destination for its business travelers.

According to information collected in the field on Saturday (Dec 6), the local government through the Buleleng Public Works Agency will focus on accomplishing the road repair along 30 kilometers in 2015,with a projected cost of about IDR 3.1 billion. The fund does not include money to repair Jalan Udayana-Jalan Kartini Singaraja road section along 1.2 kilometers estimated to cost IDR 6.5 billion.

Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Public Works Agency, Nyoman Gede Suryawan, said that the road-paving program has been well funded since 2013 and 2014. To complete the paving of roads in 2015, the government was finding it difficult to allocate funds to complete rural roads or non-status road that were in considerable damage.

“Next year, we will focus on com-pleting the county roads first. We will repair approximately 30 kilometers of road. For the last two years, we have allocated substantial funds. Next year we will use what is left to fix other roads.

According to Suryawan, next year the local government would also al-locate an increase in the quality of Jalan Udayana-Jalan Kartini having the status as a county road. The budget allocated was indeed large because the asphalt needed to be reinforced with concrete and then covered it with a layer of asphalt. “That section of road often has large trucks passing through it. If we simply cover the damaged road with asphalts, it will easily flake off again,” he added.(kmb38)

Bali PostMANGUPURA – Thus far,

law enforcement officials and the government have not been able to stem the rush of drug smuggling and trafficking in Bali. Various at-tempts have been made by domestic and foreign syndicates to smuggle illicit goods into Bali despite many botched attempts. Customs officers of Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Ba-dung, have managed to thwart the smuggling of crystal meth weigh-ing 16,614 grams or worth IDR 29,905,200,000 billion (1 gram is estimated to be worth IDR 1.8 million).

“One gram can be consumed by 100 people, so you can imagine

how many people in Bali could af-flicted if we fail to prevent the drugs from coming in. The large amount ceased proves that drug imports to Bali remain high, especially just before New Years,” said the Head of Customs and Excise Office of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, Budi Harjanto.

Other than crystal meth, the offi-cers of Ngurah Rai Airport Customs and Excise have also secured other types of drugs, namely cocaine weighing 245 grams, 115 grams of hashish, 194 grams of marijuana, 66 grams of MDPV, and 57 grams of MDMA. A total of 22 cases were revealed this year, and the offenders were predominantly foreigners. The

foreigners who were arrested due to their attempt to smuggle the il-licit goods through the international airport were from France, South Africa, Lithuania, Germany and New Zealand. “There were also In-donesian citizens involved who are asked to transport the goods from overseas to Bali,” he said.

Their modus operandi varied, some hiding the drugs in the walls of luggage, paintings, Bi-Pump, book covers, panties and the pack-aging of a PS3 game cassette as well as in the binder of books. “Around New Years, we will in-crease security and surveillance. As in previous years, the smuggling efforts certainly increase and so we

must be aware of this,” said Budi.The Eradication Division Head

of the BNNP Bali, I Gede Artawan, revealed that so many tourist visit-ing Bali before New Year 2015, more people could be attempting to try these illicit drugs. As a re-sult of this increasing demand, we expect incessant drug smuggling. “Although many smugglers were arrested, others escape our detec-tion. The successes attained by the Customs and Excise Office is praiseworthy. We have attempted various efforts to prevent the cir-culation of narcotics in Bali,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Sub-directorate 2 of Bali Police Nar-

cotics Unit, Joni Lay, said that cooperation between the Customs and Excise Office with the Direc-torate of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit had been well established in order to reveal the smuggling syndicate. International syndicates continued to supply drugs to Bali by frequently changing couriers. The couriers have been trained to conceal their misdeeds from the controller. “We want to prevent this stuff from getting into Bali. But, a high demand will result in higher rates of smuggling. Prevention also depends on our willingness to take precautions,” said the former Operations Head of the Badung Police. (kmb36)

During 2014, crystal meth secured worth IDR 29.9 billion

IBP/File

One of the damage road in Buleleng Regency

To handle road damage

County govt prepares budget for 30 kilometers

Bali Post

SINGArAJA – The intention of the government of Buleleng to repair the roads in Northen Bali has yet to be realized. Of the 288 kilometers of seriously damaged county roads, the government has only allocated a budget for asphalting the road along 30 kilometers. The budget does not include the non-status road repairs. As planned, the non-status road damage will be budgeted through the Special Allocation Fund (DAK).

3Monday, December 8, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, December 8, 2014

In the cool night air, an urbane Austrian tourist climbs rocky steps behind a chic hotel lodge and peers into a matt-black metal cylinder containing a spine of mirrors and lenses that reveal the universe.

“My mum wanted to set him on fire yesterday when he said, ‘We are looking ten million years in the past!’” he joked, pointing at the resident astronomer.

Not everyone is ready to face the enormity of the universe laid out so starkly by power-ful magnification and the crisp desert sky.

But across the starkly beauti-ful Namib, hotels and lodges are betting that the stars will lead to more business rather than a spike in Galileo-esque witch hunts.

Many lodges have bought research-grade or “prosumer” telescopes and hired l ive-in astronomers as they try to lure

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — The latest ‘What Happens Here, Stays Here’ Las Vegas ad campaign features a familiar musi-cal act from, well, right here.

Indie-rock band Imagine Dragons has teamed up with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for the latest ad from the firm R&R Partners.

One is selling a destination.The other is selling a forthcoming

as-yet-unnamed album.The creative crew for R&R tasked

with keeping the ad campaign fresh, had their idea: two ads, one with a man, the other a woman, who both crisscross through Las Vegas scenes running into each other pool-side, or amid a fire-breathing variety act, at a 1920s-themed nightclub and a concert venue.

Then, about two months ago, the hometown band Imagine Dragons came along with their newest single, “I bet my life.”

The quickly conceived commer-cials that debut Monday were shot on location at the SLS Las Vegas and MGM Grand casino-hotels. They cost $1.2 million to produce and will cost the Las Vegas tourism agency an ad-

ditional $7.6 million to buy national air time on NBC, ABC, FOX, E!, Bravo, Food Network, USA, Travel Channel, Comedy Central and several other channels.

“We’re in debt to Vegas,” said Dan Reynolds, the band’s lead singer and a Las Vegas native, in interviews filmed by R&R. “We really owe everything to Vegas.”

Imagine Dragons sold more than 3.9 million copies of its 2012 debut album “Night Visions” which included the Grammy-winning single “Radioac-tive.”

Rob Dondero with R&R Partners, who leads the team that sells Las Vegas to the world, said the spots’ messages are simple.

“Las Vegas is a place where any-thing can happen,” he said.

The destination has been relying more and more on entertainment that doesn’t involve taking an actual gam-ble, and the ads don’t show a single slot machines or casino floor.

Caroline Coyle, the visitor’s author-ity vice present of brand strategy indi-cated that wasn’t on purpose and said the campaign’s goal isn’t to highlight one particular aspect of Las Vegas.

“We really like to evoke just a feel-ing for Vegas,” she said.

Star-gazing tourists flock to Africa’s darkest place

Agence France-Presse

NAMIBIA - Not many tourist spots boast of being dark and difficult to get to, but the Namib desert is one of a number of remote “Dark Sky Reserves” drawing in stargazers for a celestial safari.

tourists who want to gaze deeper into space and time.

According to consultancy Euromonitor, astro-tourism holi-days are growing in line with in-creased urbanisation, with Africa in particular “taking off”.

“Most people come here for the other activities, visiting the dunes or the nature reserve where you see all the wildlife. This is kind of a bonus,” said Misha Vickas, formerly a guide at a public observatory in Sydney, but now resident at the AndBeyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge.

“Most people have never looked through a telescope and a lot of them have just never looked up.”

Vickas operates a “go-to” tele-scope, a device which, once cali-brated, pivots on demand to any star or planet with little more than a mechanical hum and whir.

Not that a telescope is really

needed in the Namib.Across as much as 50 percent

of the Earth the starry firmament is obscured by an orange glow of man-made light pollution.

During the day, the Namib’s sea of copper red and ecru yel-low dunes and mountains glow blindingly, befitting the world’s oldest desert.

But in the inky night sky, the Milky Way seems much closer than Windhoek, a half day’s drive away across dirt track and sun-rippled single-lane carriageway.

Mars’s red glow, Magellanic clouds -- dwarf galaxies outside our own -- and assorted gaseous nebulae are all visible with the naked eye.

“The sky is particularly good to look at here, because the Milky Way, which is the main part of our galaxy, is usually very high over-head,” meaning light refraction is at a minimum, Vickas said.

“There is a lot to look at.”

Darkest places on earthIn 2012, a sliver of the central

Namib the size of Mauritius -- the NamibRand -- was named Af-rica’s first “Dark Sky Reserve,” in recognition of the sky’s special allure here.

A handful of similar sites exist across the world, includ-ing Aoraki Mackenzie on New Zealand’s South Island and the Iveragh Peninsula on Ireland’s southwest coast.

Hawaii and Chile have also be-come renowned as astro-tourism hot spots.

“The darkest places are almost inevitably distant from populated places,” said John Barentine of the Arizona-based International Dark-Sky Association, which awards the designation.

“The glow of cities can often be seen several hundred kilometres away under good conditions.”

To rank sky quality, scientists use measurements like the Bortle scale.

An inner city is level nine, meaning you can see very little. Bright constellations like Orion

may be faint or even invisible.At the other end of the scale, in

a first-class sky like the Namib, Venus and Jupiter shine bright, a white swathe of zodiacal light smears the sky.

Like parts of Chile, the Na-mib’s good weather and ultra-dry atmosphere make for clear nights and particularly transparent air all the way to the horizon.

“A visitor to NamibRand has a statistically high probability of experiencing that exceptionally dark sky on any given night,” Barentine said.

Namibia has just over two million people spread over an area roughly the size of Pakistan or Nigeria, making it one of the most sparsely populated coun-tries in the world.

“NamibRand is located in one of the darkest accessible places that remain on Earth,” said Bar-entine.

“It is as close as you get to the way the world was long ago, before the invention and prolif-eration of artificial lights.”

That may be the only thing this remote region is close to -- thank-fully for stargazing tourists.

New Las Vegas tourism ad features Imagine Dragons

AP Photo/Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

In this Oct. 14, 2014 photo from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, actors and crewmembers record a segment of a dual-purpose ad video - to promote both Las Vegas and indie-rock band Imagine Dragons and its upcoming as-yet-unnamed album, at the MGM Grand hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

This condition was recognized by Mrs. Dana, one of the bamboo chair shop owners at Kebun Kaja hamlet, Belega village, not long ago. The demand for handmade bamboo chair craft of Belega artisans did no longer get any orders like in the past. Aside from raw materials, the demand was not as high as what she got before.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Dana claimed that cur-rently the bamboo chair craftsmen at Belega had at least one to two stocks of chair. It was to anticipate in case anyone wanted to look for bamboo chair. Incidentally, when met, her bamboo chairs were being packed to be sent to Singaraja for resale.

In the past, the order of the Belega bamboo chair reached 50-100 sets. So, only such large amount of purchase was categorized to be an order. “The orders are usually in large number, but when the purchase only consists of one to ten seats it is only called a stock of goods,” she said. (kmb16)

IBP DENPASAR - Fifty cars followed the “Family Touring End

of the Year 2014” that held by Tabloid Tokoh, Bali TV, Bali Post Media Group, and Auto2000 Tabanan on Sunday (7/12). The participants start the touring from Press Building, K. Nadha, headed to Bagus Agro, Pelaga, Badung Regency to take part in mahogany tree planting and donating stationery to elementary students of SD 1 Pelaga, Badung Regency.

According to Bagus Agro Owner, Bagus Sudibya, he developed the Bagus Agro since 10 years ago. This tourism object was built to provide experience for tourists how people’s lives in rural Bali. “In Pelaga many cultural potential can be experienced by tourists, such as “metekap” and “ngiris tuak”. These kind of cultural events can be use as a cultural attraction for tourists, “he said.

Besides being entertain by traditional dances and perfor-mances, touring participants also entertained by Irene (Trio Kirani JAR). Participants also had the opportunity to enjoy a walk at Bagus Agro which has an area of 18 hectares and is equipped with villas and camp area.

The head of Family Touring committee, Ngurah Budi said this event was held to provide an opportunity for families to gather and enjoy the fresh air of countryside.” Through this touring family is expected to be closer to one another and can relieve fatigue after a week doing routine,” said Budi who also the Managing Editor of Tokoh.

Touring participants also take part in several games, such selfie photo contest and best dress. There are three prizes for best selfie picture and five prizes for best dressed. Family Touring held by Bali Post Group also supported by Badung Regency, Bagus Agro Pelaga, Auto2000 Tabanan, Yuasa, Cellular World, Vkool, Faber-Castell, Aqua, House of Dura, Sri Sri Embroidery, Bali Bird Park, and IWAPI Denpasar. (kmb18)

Bamboo chair craft survives amidst lack for orders

Bali PostGIANYAR - Currently the SMEs in Gian-

yar amount to the thousands of unit. Amidst the current condition, the SMEs producing bamboo chair crafts still attempt to survive amidst the lack for orders. However, the artisans of bamboo chair at Belega village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, remain to survive by making their stocks.

IBP/Agung Dharmada

Currently the SMEs in Gianyar amount to the thousands of unit. Amidst the current condition, the SMEs producing bamboo chair crafts still attempt to survive amidst the lack for orders.

Tens of cars took part “Family Touring End of the Year 2104”

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Fifty cars followed the “Family Touring End of the Year 2014” that held by Tabloid Tokoh, Bali TV, Bali Post Media Group, and Auto2000 Tabanan on Sunday (7/12).

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Many protesters carried posters demanding that President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Lau-rent Lamothe step down. “We need elections in the country so democra-cy can continue ... not corruption,” said Jean Ronald Brison, owner of an auto parts store.

Martelly’s administration was supposed to call elections in 2011 for a majority of Senate seats, the entire Chamber of Deputies and

local offices. But both he and La-mothe have blamed legislators for blocking a vote that would lead to approval of an electoral law. Six senators have said the legislation is unconstitutional and favors the government.

A similar protest held Friday also turned violent, with police firing tear gas at protesters who burned tires and threw rocks as they pushed through the security

perimeter at the National Palace. No deaths or major injuries were reported.

Lamothe addressed the protest late Friday via Twitter: “We urge demonstrators to exercise their constitutional right with restraint and responsibility.” Four anti-government demonstrations have been held in Haiti’s capital in about a month and a fifth is planned for next week.

Associated Press Writer

VANCOUVER, British Colum-bia — Seven countries have im-posed trade restrictions on Canadian poultry as a fifth farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley was put under quarantine for avian influ-enza, officials said Saturday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens from the affected farms will be euthanized.

The agency said the fifth farm near Abbotsford was quarantined after higher than normal turkey deaths were reported by a farmer Friday. B.C. chief veterinary offi-cer Dr. Jane Pritchard says 60,000 turkeys are in the fifth farm.

Avian influenza was first detect-ed a week ago on a broiler-breeder chicken farm in Chilliwack which housed 7,000 chickens. About 1,000 of the chickens died from avian influenza. Officials say no people have fallen ill.

The B.C. outbreak has led at least seven countries —the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, South Africa and Mexico — to ban

poultry products from B.C. or all of Canada.

Canada’s chief veterinary officer, Dr. Harpreet Kochhar said birds from the first farms where avian influenza was detected have already been euthanized.

Kochhar said the source of the infection is not yet known, although he added that it’s possible that wild or migratory birds could have in-fected the farms. He said the focus is on containing the infection’s spread. Pritchard said there had been movement of birds between some of the infected farms.

In 2004, health officials ordered 17 million chickens, turkeys and other domestic birds slaughtered to contain an outbreak of avian influ-enza at 42 poultry farms in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, costing the poultry industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

Avian influenza poses little risk to people who are consuming poul-try meat if it is handled and cooked properly. In rare cases, the virus can be transmitted to people who have had close contact with the birds, health officials said.

Associated Press Writer

ROME — A US Airways flight bound for Philadelphia made an unscheduled landing in Rome after some aboard complained of feeling ill. Officials at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport say two passengers and 11 crew members

were examined at the airport’s first aid station for throat and eye irritation complaints Satur-day. All were cleared to resume their journey and left on other flights.

What caused the symptoms was unclear. American Airlines spokeswoman Martha Thomas

says the airline is investigating the source of a rubbery odor aboard the Airbus A330. She said several flight attendants had detected an unusual odor.

Flight 797 had left Tel Aviv late Friday night with 129 pas-sengers. American Airlines and US Airways merged last year.

US Airways jet lands in Rome after some feel ill

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

An anti-government protester pours gas on burning tires as they block a road and call for the resignation of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. Protesters marched for the second time in two days amid anger over delayed elections and other issues.

More violence in 2nd day of Haiti protest marches

Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of anti-government protesters marched Saturday through Haiti’s capital for the second time in two days amid anger over delayed elections and other issues. The crowd began marching peacefully toward the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince, but protesters later began burning tires, throwing rocks at police and trying to force their way through barricades as officers fired tear gas.

5 British Columbia farms quarantined

for bird flu

AP Photo / Steve Parkin, PA

Officials place signs to restrict entry at a duck farm in Nafferton, England, where measures to prevent the spread of bird flu are under way after the first serious case of the disease in the UK for six-years, Monday Nov. 17, 2014.

A number of Ujung fishermen were frustrated upon hearing the explosives used to commit fish bombings and so they got involved in the pursuit. “The fish bombs used were unsparingly so that we were very startled by the explo-sion. We then ascertained that there were three boats involved in the bombings,” said one of fisherman

on Ujung Beach.Another fisherman, acting as the

community leader of Ujung Pesisi, Jumaiyah aka Mr. Ompong told the same story. Along with hundreds of other fishermen, he first saw the three boats bombing fish in the territorial water of Bukit Kamb-ing and Bukit Sampian. When the fish bombers were taking the

fish they had obtained from the bombing, hundreds of fishermen immediately started chasing the three boats. “We chased them all the way to Yeh Kali, sir, but the three boats then speeded towards Lombok,” he said.

Many fishermen said that they have repeatedly reported the ram-pant fish bombing to the authori-

ties. So far, these reports have not managed to insight any action of the part of the Karangasem Police Marine Police nor the Marine Security Coordinative Agency (Bakorkamla) despite be-ing based on Ujung Beach. “We have reported the bombings so many times, sir, that it has become boring. No officers have followed up. If this condition is allowed to continue, our coral reef will be severely damaged because once explosion can affect a radius of 500 meters,” he said with great disappointment.

The frustration of the fishermen is made more pressing because they are entering Red Herring

season and fear that the fish bomb-ings committed by unscrupulous individuals could render the her-rings extinct. “Such bombing kills both large and small fish. We will not accept for this to continue”, he complained.

More worrying still is that massive fish bombings are often performed during the celebration of Galungan, Kuningan and Nyepi because officers are on vacation. “The fish bombers are from Lom-bok, sir, because when we chased them that is where fled to,” he concluded.

Chairman of the Karangasem PDI-P Faction, I Gede Dana, im-mediately intervened after hearing the complaints of the fishermen for which he felt deep regret. “Obvi-ously the officers and relevant authorities should be taking action. Moreover, people have repeatedly reported the case, so it should be quickly followed up on. We are not questioning the right to fish, but the bombings are dangerous and damage the marine life and coral reefs,” he said.

When asked for his confirma-tion, the Chief of Karangasem Marine Police, Made Wartama, firmly denied that his party had not taken action regarding the fish bomb reports. “Upon receiving the report, I immediately deployed my personnel to chase down the culprits. We chased the offenders with three boats but they escaped towards the east,” he explained.

His party argued the fish bomb-ers were able to escape because the fishermen were late in reporting the case. If only the fishermen had reported the incident as soon as they saw the offenders, Wartama felt confident that offenders would have been arrested. “Indeed, the public was late in reporting the incident to us, so when we pursued the offenders they had time to had escape towards the east,” he said crossly. (dwa)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A foreign national with the initials PAM made a report to the Bali Police concerning al-legations of a fraud and embezzle-ment case related to a metropolitan artist with the initials JT, involving the construction of a villa in Ubud, Gianyar, on Friday (Oct 7).

The Chief of Sub-directorate II, General Criminal Investiga-tion Unit of the Bali Police, I.B. Megeng, told journalists that he was in fact handling such a case, but was reluctant to provide further details given that the case is still under investigation.

Meanwhile, PAM,’ lawyer I.B. Putu Astina, when contacted by

telephone, confirmed that his client had reported JT to the Bali Police. “We officially reported this case to the Bali Police on October 7,” he added.

Initially, said Astina did disclose that PAM had purchased 0.35 Hectare plot of land in Kedewatan, Ubud in 1999. Given that PAM is foreign national, and unable to

hold land in his own name, he bor-rowed the name of a property agent from Bandung with the initials RM under the agreement of a freehold title or SHM. “He (RM—Ed) only serves as a nominee with his name being used in the freehold title,” said Astina.

A year later, a luxury villa was established on that land. PAM then cooperated with JT to build a spa on the remaining 0.12 Hectares of land next to the villa

JT asked PAM to help to him apply for a bank loan to build the spa outlet. In addition, JT

also requested PAM to have the freehold nominee title transferred to his name. “My client agreed to do so because they had been close friends for a long time. Subse-quently, a deed of sale was made. The problem arose after the bank loan worth IDR 17 billion had been granted, and JT neglected to report the use of this money to my client. Furthermore, when my client and his family who were living in the villa, were reported to the Gianyar Police station with the charge of villa annexation,” he said. (kmb36)

Dispute of villaArtist reported to Bali Police

IBP/file

The fishermen boats are placed on the beach

Hundreds of fishermen chase fish bombers

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Hundreds of fishermen from Ujung Beach, Karangasem, chased down three large wooden boats that had been caught fish bombing, Friday (Dec 5). Such destructive actions against nature were committed at several locations, such as in the region of Bukit Sampian of the Perasi water territory and in the region of Yeh Kali water territory, Seraya Barat. Unfortunately the Karangasem Marine Police were slow in responding to the fish bombing thus enabling the perpetrators to escape.

Bali News Monday, December 8, 2014 5InternationalMonday, December 8, 201412 International

BUSINESS

The European Union’s executive commission last month opted against sanctioning the two countries right now for missing public finance targets, giving them until the spring to come up with better plans to cut their debts and deficits.

Merkel — a leading advocate of budget discipline and structural reforms

whose country has Europe’s biggest economy — was quoted as telling Sunday’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the decision is “justifiable” because France and Italy are in the process of reforming.

But she added: “The commission has made clear that what is on the table so far isn’t yet enough. I agree with that.”

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Look past the booming November job gain of 321,000 reported Friday — the best figure in three years in the strongest year for U.S. hiring since 1999.

The job market has reached a new milestone on its road to full health: For the first time since the Great Recession ended 5½ years ago, America’s unemployed are now as likely to be hired as to stop looking for a job.

It means that employers have grown confident enough to fill more job vacancies. And it means the unemployed are now less likely to succumb to frustration.

The hiring surge owes much to solid consumer spending — on items like cars, electronics and restaurant meals. That, in turn, has given businesses the means to step up investment in machinery, computers and facili-ties. Thanks to such spending, the economy grew at a 4.3 percent annual pace from April through September — the healthiest six-month spurt since 2003. Employ-ers have responded by adding a robust average of 241,000 jobs a month this year.

For each month, the govern-ment estimates the proportion of the unemployed who found work and the proportion who stopped

looking. In November, 23 per-cent of people who were out of work the previous month found jobs, and the same percentage gave up looking. (The figures are three-month averages, intended to smooth out volatility.)

That was the highest percentage of the unemployed to find work in any month since the recession of-ficially ended in June 2009. A year ago, fewer than 19 percent of the unemployed were finding jobs.

The increase marks the first such sustained improvement since the recession ended. This year’s acceleration in hiring has been potent enough to finally soak up a significant proportion of the jobless. During the first four years of the recovery, busi-nesses had hired at a rate that was merely enough to keep up with population growth.

The brightening picture has been a relief for people like Ker-sten Higgins, who had begun job hunting in July after graduating from law school. She didn’t get a single interview until November, when she got four.

Two of the interviews pro-duced offers. She’s accepted a position at Mutual of Omaha, where she will help ensure that its insurance policies comply with federal rules. Higgins, 26, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, starts Monday.

“I feel great,” Higgins said. “This definitely fits into the category of jobs I hoped to get coming out of law school.”

At the same time, the govern-ment’s jobs figures illustrate how much improvement is still need-ed. Before the recession began in 2007, the unemployed were more likely to find work than to stop looking in every month dating to when record-keeping began in 1990. Since the recession ended, that’s been true for only three months out of 65.

One sour note amid the im-proving outlook for the unem-ployed: The jobless are likelier now than before the recession to land only part-time work. Though the economy has regained all the jobs lost to the recession, there are still nearly 2 million fewer people with full-time work.

In other cases, the jobs the for-merly unemployed have now pay less than those they had before.

One reason the unemployment rate declined early in the recovery was that hundreds of thousands of people grew frustrated with their job hunts and stopped look-ing. Once people stop looking for a job, they’re no longer counted as unemployed. At that point, the unemployment rate can fall even if hiring is weak. But now, the number of such dropouts has plateaued.

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 photo, job seekers fill out forms before being interviewed during a job fair at Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Fla.

For US unemployed, job market hits a turning point

Merkel presses France, Italy on economy

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Associated Press

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is adding to the pressure for eurozone heavyweights France and Italy to do more to get their finances and economies in order.

“The perpetrator landed in Bali on Monday (Dec 1) by Hong Kong-Denpasar HX 709 flight, a Hong Kong Airline, at 02.30 P.M. Central Indone-sian Standard Time (Wita),” Head of the supervision and service division of the Ngurah Rai customs office Budi Harjanto said on Friday.

According to Budi, the smuggling at-tempt was foiled after customs officers grew suspicious of the perpetrator’s appearance and actions at the baggage conveyor belt of the Customs Area Terminal at Ngurah Rai international airport.

The customs officers’ suspicion grew stronger as the X-ray imaging indi-cated some suspicious object in a green “Onepolar” brand backpack, which was carried by the perpetrator.

The officers then conducted an in-depth examination of the backpack.

The examination revealed a transpar-ent plastic bag coated with red plastic and sealed with brown plastic adhesive tape. The bag allegedly contained 1,709 grams of crystal methamphetamine.

The offender has been handed over to the Bali police provincial office for further investigation.

Antara

DENPASAR - Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi has hinted that female civil servants with infants will be given less working hours to enable them to take care of their children.

“The reduction of working hours is intended to give them (female civil servants) more time to take care of their children,” the minister told journalists on the sidelines of his visit to Graha Sewaka Dharma recently.

Chrisnandi noted that the government has been considerate of female employees who have infants.

“We will begin by seeking the opinion of all government agencies, from ministries to sub-district offices, about the move,” he remarked.

In response to the central government’s initiative, the Den-pasar city government will have to provide childcare centers to help female employees nurture and play with their infants, he explained.

“So no employee will have any excuse to skip work for months saying they have to take care of their children,” he observed.

Chrisnandi further noted that the idea was part of the gov-ernment’s efforts to improve the welfare of civil servants as it could cut their expenses on baby-sitters.

In fact, not all civil servants have the ability to pay baby-sitters, he emphasized.

The government will create new rules to make workplaces comfortable for female civil servants who have babies and to ensure the effectiveness and productivity of work, he stated.

This idea was first raised by Vice-President Jusuf Kalla who suggested that only female civil servants who have children below six years of age be made eligible for reduced working hours.

Currently, Indonesian civil servants have to work eight hours a day, and those eligible for reduced hours are expected to work only six hours a day.

Civil servants with infants to have less working hours

IBP/Courtesy of Denpasar Government

Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi has hinted that female civil servants with infants will be given less working hours to enable them to take care of their children.

Customs foiled methamphetamine smuggling attempt

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

New Zealander’s Anthony Glen de Malmanche, center, is presented to the media during a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Indonesian customs officers detained the New Zealander citizen on Monday for allegedly smuggling Methamphetamine onto the tourist island of Bali.

Antara

KUTA - Customs personnel at Ngurah Rai airport, Bali province, have arrested a New Zealand citizen, De Malmanche Antony Glen, with 1,709 grams of crystal methamphetamine he was trying to smuggle in from Hong Kong.

Monday, December 8, 2014 Monday, December 8, 20146 11International International

INDONESIAW RLD

President Joko Widodo better known as Jokowi inspected some sports venues such as the soccer stadium, athletic stadium, aquatic stadium, shooting range and the athlete dormitory facility in the sports complex that had been used as the 2011 SEA Games venues.

“The facilities are good and complete. Its maintenance is also proper. We are waiting the result of the tree planting,” President

Jokowi said.The president also said that

Palembang is ready to hold the 2018 Asian Games.

Previously, The Olympic Coun-cil of Asia on September 20 for-mally named Indonesia the host for the 2018 Asian Games after Vietnam, who had originally won the bid, withdrew this year because of economic problems.

The Jakabaring Sports Center

will also host the 2014 ASEAN Students Sports Week (POM) from December 9 through 21.

Some athletes were practic-ing for the upcoming POM while President Jokowi inspecting the sports venues.

After visiting the Jakabaring Sports Center, President Jokowi heading to Tanjung Apiapi which took around two hours from Palem-bang.

AntaraJAKARTA - An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale

rocked Maluku Tenggara Barat district in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Sunday morning, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Board (BNPB).

The epicenter of the quake which struck at 05.05 western In-donesian time was in the sea about 165 km southwest of Maluku Tenggara Barat at a depth of 133 km, BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a written statement released on Sunday.

“The quake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami,” he said.

Sutopo said the agency had analyzed the impact of the quake which was strongly felt by local people for a few seconds.

The local disaster mitigation board was still monitoring the impact of the earthquake, he added.

Maluku Tenggara Barat and Maluku Barat Daya are among the districts which are highly prone to earthquake because they are situated at the meeting point of Indian, Australian and Eurasian plates, he said.

“The Sunday earthquake occurred in a deep trough,” he said.Sutopo said the high frequency of tectonic activities from the

Wetar thrust which stretches from north of Alor Island to Romang Island causes frequent earthquakes of high intensity.

“Luckily, the epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 133 km. An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale jolted the same area on December 10, 2012,” he said.

IBP

JAKARTA - Currently the sale and purchase of four-wheeled vehicles through online are increase. In order to shorten the search time as well as to increase the sale of products, automo-tive portal, Mobil123.com, launched Response Management System and Advertising (Si Jari).

According to CEO iCar Asia, Damon Rielly, Si Jari is a system that can help car dealers and sellers, manage ads and monitor the performance of ads with faster, easier and practical system. Thus they can sell more cars.

He expressed that the system spends about 18 billion dollars of investment to make process of selling a car online easier, either through ordinary mobile device or smartphone. “Si Jari system is the result of market research, technology research, and marketing for more than 6 months. We spend Rp18 billion for this system. Si Jari is not only the fastest and most accurate way to advertise a car online, also allows car salesman reviewing how their ads will appear and know the ad performance on the number of responses that go and how to raise more responses so that they can sell their cars faster,” he explained.

He argues, from the study, 9 of 10 people Indonesia purchased the car by searching for information online. To that end, the car salesman should follow the changes and market trends, so as not to fall behind. “Through research we conducted on the car salesman, we realize this industry requires a system that will make them easy to move into the online market. Not only advertising but also learn how to make sales via the internet and in real time to measure, monitor and manage it,” Rielly said.

In the last weeks, ahead of the launch, the speed of the system has been tested. He said around 1,500 car salesmen participated on this test. As a result, 99% of 1,500 tests have won over by Si Jari. (kmb18)

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

Local artists Supriadi makes a finishing touch to his painting titled “Lautan Jenazah” (Ocean of Bodies) that depicts the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the killer waves in Lambada, Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. The tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004 killed 230,000 people in several countries, more than half of them in Indonesia.

6.0 magnitude quake rocks Maluku

Spending Rp18 billion for investment,

“Si Jari” launched

President Joko Widodo visits Jakabaring Sports CenterAntara

PALEMBANG - President Joko Widodo and First Lady Iriana on Sunday morning observed the Jakabaring Sports Center in South Sumatra provincial city of Palembang.

Shallow floods, damaged shanties and ripped off store signs and tin roofs were a common sight across the region, but there was no major destruction after Hagupit slammed into Eastern Samar and other island provinces. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour and gusts of 170 kph (106 mph) on Sunday, consider-ably weaker from its peak power but still a potentially deadly storm, according to forecasters.

The typhoon, which made landfall in Eastern Samar late Saturday, was moving slowly, dumping heavy rain that could possibly trigger landslides and flash floods. Traumatized by the death and destruction from Typhoon Haiyan last year, nearly 900,000 people fled to about 1,000 emer-gency shelters and safer grounds. The government, backed by the 120,000-strong military, had launched massive preparations to attain a zero-casualty target.

Rhea Estuna, a 29-year-old mother

of one, fled Thursday to an evacua-tion center in Tacloban — the city hardest-hit by Haiyan — and waited in fear as Hagupit’s wind and rain lashed the school where she and her family sought refuge. When she peered outside Sunday, she said she saw a starkly different aftermath than the one she witnessed after Haiyan struck in November 2013.

“There were no bodies scattered on the road, no big mounds of debris,” Estuna told The Associ-ated Press by cellphone. “Thanks to God this typhoon wasn’t as violent. Haiyan’s tsunami-like storm surges and killer winds left thousands of people dead and leveled entire vil-lages, most of them in and around Tacloban.

Nearly a dozen countries, led by the United States and the Euro-pean Union, have pledged to help in case of a catastrophe from Hagupit (pronounced HA’-goo-pit), disaster-response agency chief Alexander Pama said.

The EU commissioner for human-itarian aid, Christos Stylianides, said a team of experts would be deployed to help assess the damage and needed response. “The Philippines are not alone as they brace up for a possible hardship,” Stylianides said, adding that the European Commission was “hoping that the impact will be less powerful than a year ago, when Typhoon Haiyan left a devastating imprint on the country.”

Two people, including a baby girl, died of hypothermia in central Iloilo province Saturday at the height of the typhoon, Pama said at a news confer-ence. Two women were injured when the tricycle taxi they were riding was struck by a falling tree in central Negros Oriental province.

Displaced villagers were asked to return home from emergency shelters in provinces where the danger posed by the typhoon had waned, including Albay, where more than half a million people were advised to leave evacu-ation sites.

Associated Press Writer

SRINAGAR, India — Thousands of government forces have fanned out across the Indian portion of Kashmir to provide a security shield for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to make a campaign speech in the region for local elections, police said Sunday. Authorities are taking extra precautions following daring daylong insurgent attacks Friday on an army camp and other targets left 21 people dead, including six attackers, said K. Rajendra, the top police officer in Jammu-Kashmir state.

Sharpshooters have been posted on rooftops in the main city of Sri-nagar, where Modi is scheduled to speak at an election rally in a sports stadium. Security forces also have put steel barricades on the roads and are checking vehicles and frisking commuters and pedestrians. “Prime ministers are generally high-value targets, so we are not taking a chance,” Rajendra said.

Rebel groups in Kashmir have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the uprising and an Indian military crackdown that has largely suppressed rebel activity.

On Sunday, Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha, a top Indian army commander, accused the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group of carrying out Friday’s attacks. India also blames Lashkar-e-Taiba for a 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. Lashkar-e-Taiba, however, has not issued any statement.

Associated Press

WARRI, Nigeria — Gunmen have freed more than 200 prisoners in Nigeria’s latest jailbreak, police said Sunday. Police recaptured at least 10 escapees from the medium security prison at Tunga, in central Niger state, by Sunday morning, said Deputy Superintendent Ibrahim Gambari.

Saturday’s attack was the third in the past two months in the West African nation, where jailbreaks are frequent and police only capture a fraction of those who escape.

More than 300 inmates broke out of a prison bombed by gunmen in southwest Ekiti state on Dec. 1; 144 escaped from south-central Kogi state on Nov. 3 when gunmen bombed a prison wall.

The two earlier jailbreaks were blamed on the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group. It is not known how many hundreds of Boko Haram suspects are held in Nigerian jails.

The vast majority of people held in Nigerian jails have never been charged and are awaiting trial, some of them for many years, even though it is illegal to hold someone for more than 48 hours without bringing charges or presenting them to a magistrate.

Only 18,042 of 56,785 inmates have been convicted of a crime, accord-ing to statistics dated June 30 and posted on the website of the Nigeria Prisons Service.

Officials have said how appalled they are about conditions in the jails, where inmates often sleep on cement floors without mattresses or bedding, food is in short supply and most medical services are non-existent.

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

A resident jumps as he watches strong waves crash into shore as an effect of Typhoon Hagupit in Legazpi, Albay province, eastern Philippines on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014.

No major damage in Philippine typhoon; 2 deadAssociated Press

LEGAZPI, Philippines — Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least two people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm brought to the region last year.

Tight security in Kashmir for India prime minister

Gunmen free 200+ inmates in Nigeria jailbreak

AP Photo/Dar Yasin

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard at a temporary checkpoint in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014.

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AMLAPURA - Amed Beach is located in the eastern end of this island, precisely at Amed village, Abang, Karangasem County. Main livelihood of local community is working as fisherman. Rural atmosphere is so intense and pristine and the local traditions have not been affected by foreign cul-ture, hospitality is still strong and beautiful sunrise in the morning will accompany while enjoying breakfast. Of course, this will add to the exotic atmosphere during the holidays.

With black sandy beach, the state of water looks very clear with diverse beau-ties of marine life, well-preserved coral reef life and constant warmth of water. Then, snorkeling and diving here are in great demand by the domestic and foreign travelers. Now, the beauty of Amed has become an excel-lence for travelers, especially European travelers such as from Germany, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and other countries who have a hobby of watching the under-water thrill and tranquility of holiday resort. IBP/File Photo

Amed Beach

Reuters LONDON - Andy Roddick has

been made an honorary member of the All England Club, according to former British number one Tim Henman. The American, three times a runner-up at the grand slam tour-nament, visited the grasscourt club on Friday for “a spot of tea” with Henman while in London compet-ing at the Statoil Masters event at the Royal Albert Hall.

“I was able to take him to Wim-bledon a couple of days ago because he’s being made an honorary mem-ber, which he was so excited about, having been a three-time finalist,” Henmanm said in an interview with the Tennis Podcast.

Honourary membership of the elite club usually requires a Wim-bledon title, but Henman said for-

mer world number one Roddick, who quit in 2012 aged 30 deserved the accolade.

“If you win the tournament you become a member automatically but I think with his impact in that event and his rapport with the Brit-ish crowd it was felt that it would be a really nice gesture,” Henman added. “He was given a few gifts, one of them being a club tie, which is completely useless because he doesn’t know how to tie a tie!”

Roddick, runner-up in 2004, 2005 and 2009, is making his first appear-ance on the seniors tour this week and on Saturday reached the final when he beat 2002 Wimbledon semi-finalist Xavier Malisse 6-4 6-2.

He will play fellow debutant Fer-nando Gonzalez at the Royal Albert Hall after he overcame Henman 6-4 2-6 10-6.

Golden State’s Klay Thompson added 24 points as the Warriors improved to 10-1 on the road. Their 12-game streak outdid the 11-game run they enjoyed during the 1971-72 season.

Jimmy Butler’s 24 points topped the score sheets for the Bulls, who have won only two of their past seven home games. Houston’s win-ning streak is a more modest four games after the 100-95 win against Phoenix.

Trevor Ariza and Pat Beverley each scored 19 points for the Rock-ets, who have showed little ill effect from the absence of injured All-Star center Dwight Howard, winning seven of nine without him.

Houston led by as many as 22 points but that was cut to four with 21.9 seconds remaining. Beverley made three free throws to push it out to seven and effectively end the contest. Eric Bledsoe led the Suns

with 23 pointsLos Angeles’ Blake Griffin scored 30 points — going over 7,000 for his career — to lead the Clippers past New Orleans 120-100. The Clippers led by 18 points in the first half but blew all of that before coming again to notch a seventh-straight victory.

J.J. Redick scored 13 of his 21 points in the first quarter and Jamal Crawford added 20. Anthony Davis scored 26 points for the Pelicans, who have lost five of their past six.

Orlando’s Tobias Harris scored a season-high 27 points to help the Magic defeat Sacramento 105-96. San Antonio’s Marco Belinelli scored 20 points in the Spurs’ 123-101 victory over Minnesota.

Philadelphia notched only its second win of the season and moved within one win of the equally poor Detroit by beating the Pistons 108-101 after overtime.

Roddick made honorary member of Wimbledon

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AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) celebrates after sinking a three point shot during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in Chicago on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. The Warriors won 112-102.

Warriors winning streak hits

record 12 gamesAssociated Press

CHICAGO — Golden State set a franchise record winning streak with its 12th consecutive victory on Saturday, beating Chicago 112-102 with Draymond Green contributing a career-high 31 points. The Warriors improved to an NBA-leading 17-2, two games ahead of nearest rival Houston — which held on to beat Phoenix — and three games clear in the Pacific Division above the Los Angeles Clippers, who built a big lead, blew it, then pulled away again to defeat New Orleans.

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Ronaldo’s 21st, 22nd and 23rd goals through 14 rounds also en-sured Madrid claimed its 18th con-secutive victory across all competi-tions under coach Carlo Ancelotti, matching a mark for Spanish teams established by Barcelona in 2005-06. Madrid maintained the league lead, four points ahead of Atletico Madrid after the defending cham-pions won 2-0 at Elche. Barcelona, trailing Madrid by five points, hosts Espanyol on Sunday.

Ronaldo opened at the Santiago Bernabeu from the penalty spot in the 36th minute after he fell following light contact with a de-

Associated Press

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahi-movic scored twice as a poor Paris Saint-Germain rallied to beat Nantes 2-1 and moved provisionally to the top of

the French league on Sat-urday. Four days before its trip to Barcelona in the Champions League, PSG struggled to cre-a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s against an organized Nantes, and relied on Ibrahimovic’s class to come out on top.

Laurent Blanc’s s ide improved af-ter the interval but Nantes wil l feel a sense of injustice over a disallowed goal that would have put them into a 2-0 lead, and a refereeing decision

that saw PSG midfielder Marco Verratti avoid a direct sending-off

in the first half. Midfielder Ale-jandro Bedoya put Nantes in

front in the eighth minute with a superb 25-meter (yard) strike but the visitors were punished on a counterattack that

Ibrahimovic concluded from close range in the

34th.Ibrahimovic, who has missed

a large chunk of the season with a heel injury, scored his eighth league goal with a free kick into the top corner in the 48th.

“I felt good out there. Match after match, I’m getting better. I’m not yet 100 percent but if I continue like this I’ll get back to my best,” Ibrahimovic said. PSG moved two points clear of Marseille, which can reclaim the top spot by beating Metz on Sunday.

Elsewhere, striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel fired Saint-Etienne to a 1-0 win over bottom side Bastia that lifted Les Verts to third overall, five points behind PSG. It was Saint-Etienne’s third consecutive win in the space of a week.

Fourth-place Bordeaux stayed in the hunt for the Champions League places after Cheikh Dia-

Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea lost for the first time in 22 matches this season and saw its lead in the English Premier League trimmed to three points by Manchester City in a twist to the title race on Saturday. City capital-ized on Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Newcastle by beating Everton 1-0, with a left knee injury sustained by star striker Sergio Aguero early in the game marring an otherwise great day for the champions.

Newcastle shattered Chelsea’s unlikely bid to go through the 38-game campaign undefeated, pushing 2-0 ahead through a second-half double from Papiss Cisse and then hanging onto its lead after the 81st-minute sending-off of Steven Taylor. Didier Drogba’s headed goal in the 83rd set up a frantic finish but Chelsea came unstuck at St. James’ Park for the third straight season, ending a 14-match unbeaten start in the league.

“The best team lost. The team which tried to win lost,” said Chelsea man-ager Jose Mourinho, who hasn’t won at Newcastle in five attempts. “We were unlucky.”

Aguero, the league’s top scorer with 14 goals, limped off in tears after getting hurt in a seemingly innocuous challenge in the second minute at Etihad Stadium. If the Argentina striker had been on the field, he would have taken the penalty converted by Yaya Toure in the 24th minute for the winning goal.

Arsenal missed a chance to climb provisionally into the top four by losing 3-2 at Stoke, conceding to Peter Crouch after 19 seconds — making it the quickest goal of the season — and two more times in the first half.

Santi Cazorla, with a penalty, and Aaron Ramsey scored in the space of two second-half minutes to reduce the gap, but Arsenal’s hopes of completing a recovery were dented by Calum Chambers’ red card with 12 minutes left. Arsenal has won just once in its last nine games at Stoke.

Liverpool and Tottenham failed to make up ground in the race for the Champions League places, drawing 0-0 at home to likely relegation candidates Sunderland and Crystal Palace, respectively, to remain marooned in mid-table. Liverpool started captain Steven Gerrard on the bench for the second time in three league games.

It was also goalless between Hull and West Bromwich Albion while Queens Park Rangers jumped out of the bottom three by beating Burnley 2-0. Charlie Austin scored QPR’s second goal before getting sent off for a second book-ing.

It was Chelsea’s first defeat since April — ending an unbeaten run of 23 games, 21 of which have come this season. Such was Chelsea’s explosive start to the league season and the strength of its squad that there was growing talk that the team could emulate the Arsenal team of 2003-04 in going the campaign undefeated.

Goals by Cisse in the 57th and 78th put paid to that. Mourinho said he had “no complaints” about the result but was unhappy that ball-boys and Newcastle fans took too long to return the ball to the field. “You need one ball,” he said. “Sometimes we had no balls and other times we had two balls.”

City played three hours later and sealed a fourth straight win thanks to Toure’s penalty, awarded after James Milner was fouled by Phil Jagielka. City goalkeeper Joe Hart preserved the lead with a brilliant late save to deny Romelu Lukaku.

Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — Franck Ribery scored his 100th goal for Bayern Munich to give the runaway Bundesliga leader a 1-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday. The victory allowed the defending champion to remain undefeated and to shake off another poten-tial rival in the chase for the title and preserved Bayern’s seven-point lead over Wolfsburg.

Wolfsburg confirmed i ts second place by winning 3-1 in Hannover earlier Saturday. Augsburg, the surprise pack-age of the season, jumped over Leverkusen into third place with its 2-1 win in Cologne, but is 12 points behind Bayern before they meet next weekend.

Leverkusen had the best chance of the first half follow-ing a mix-up between Jerome Boateng and Xabi Alonso. How-ever, Karim Bellaraby’s shot into the empty net was cleared

off the line by Juan Bernat in the third minute.

Bayern coach Pep Guardiola took off the ineffective Mario Goetze at halftime and sent in the more defensive-minded Sebastian Rode, who forced the decisive corner. Arjen Rob-ben played the ball to Rafinha, whose cross to the far post was headed down by Alonso for Ribery to drive in a left-footed volley. “Leverkusen is a good team and it was a tough match,” said Ribery, who has 287 matches for Bayern in all competitions.

Bayern outplayed Leverkus-en in the second half, missing several chances. Also, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored a hat trick as Schalke sent Stut-tgart to the bottom of the table with a 4-0 victory.

Borussia Moenchengladbach ended a three-match losing streak by beating Hertha Berlin 3-2 and is now sixth. Schalke’s victory moved it into fifth.

Associated Press

MILAN — Roma rallied from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw against Sassuolo with a stoppage-time equalizer from Adem Ljajic but missed the opportunity to close the gap on Serie A leader Juventus on Saturday. Ljajic, who got Roma back into the match with a penalty, snatched a point for the hosts with practically the game’s last kick.

After Juventus was held to 0-0 at Fiorentina on Friday, Roma knew it could cut the gap to one point with a victory at Stadio Olimpico, where it had won all seven of its previous league matches this season, conceding just two goals. But Zaza scored twice in three first-half minutes — the first following a howler from goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis — and Roma’s chances diminished when Daniele De Rossi was sent off at the start of the second half.

Sassuolo defender Sime Vrsaljko was also sent off in stoppage time fol-lowing two yellow cards. “We started badly, then it was only us in the game

AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere

Paris Saint Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right, celebrates with teammate Lucas Da Silva after scoring the first goal for his team, during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Nantes, at the Parc des Princes sta-dium in Paris, Saturday Dec. 6, 2014.

Ibrahimovic scores twice as PSG beats Nantes 2-1

bate scored a brace and Wahbi Khazri bagged another goal in a 3-2 win over Lorient. Montpellier claimed its biggest victory this season with a 4-0 away thrashing of Rennes, and Nice won 3-2 at Caen.

As Bedoya silenced the PSG fans with his stunning shot, and the home side started regulars Maxwell, Gregory van der Wiel, David Luiz, Blaise Matuidi and Edinson Cavani on the bench, PSG looked powerless in the early stages.

Verratti was lucky to escape with a yellow card following his high tackle to stop Nantes midfielder Georges-Kevin Nk-oudou’s run in the 11th. Papy Mison Djilobodi then thought he doubled Nantes’ lead with a volley at the far post from a free kick, but his goal was disallowed for offside.

“When there is a serious f o u l , i t has to be a

red card, oth-e r w i s e t h e

rules need to be clarified,” Nantes president Waldemar Kita said. “And I can’t understand why the goal was disallowed, there is no offside.”

PSG remained dangerous on the break, and leveled at the end of a swift move ignited by Serge Aurier and concluded by Ibrahimovic, who coolly finished Lucas’ cross despite a challenge from bulky center-back Augusto Vizcarrondo.

PSG tried to build on the mo-mentum with strong pressure yet could not add another one before the interval. But Ibrahimovic, who was rested on Wednesday for the 1-1 draw at Lille, needed just three minutes after coming back from the dressing room to put the French champions ahead. His powerful free kick from the same spot where Bedoya fired the opener took the same route straight into the top corner. “He makes the difference,” PSG defender Marquinhos said of Ibrahimovic.

Newcastle United’s Papiss Cisse celebrates his goal dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match against Chelsea at St James’ Park, Newcastle, England, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014.

Chelsea finally loses as lead trimmed to 3 points

AP Photo/Scott Heppell

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo cel-ebrates after scoring a goal during a

Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta de Vigo at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain,

Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 .

Ronaldo breaks record with hat trick in Madrid winAssociated Press Writer

Cristiano Ronaldo’s record-breaking hat trick helped Real Madrid equal another Spanish league milestone in a 3-0 win over Celta Vigo on Saturday. His 23rd career hat trick in La Liga gave him one more treble than greats Alfredo Di Stefano and Telmo Zarra.

fender. He struck again in the 65th and 81st.

“It’s a privilege to play with (Ronaldo),” Madrid defender Ser-gio Ramos said. “You would have to invent words to describe him. He may be in his best moment.” Ron-aldo received a standing ovation when substituted late, after taking his overall tally to 29 goals in 21 games this season.

He led the Spanish league with 31 goals last season. Lionel Messi holds the record for the most goals in a Liga campaign with 50 in 2011-12.

Ronaldo is already well on pace

to repeat not only as the league’s top scorer — Neymar is second with 11 — but he is also making a strong bid to defend his award for the world’s best player. Madrid’s commanding win was marred only by losing James Rodriguez, who asked to be changed and walked off the pitch in the 53rd.

Celta defender Gustavo Cabral suffered a more painful injury later and had to be carried off. Ronaldo flirted with the goal in the 18th when he looped an acrobatic bi-cycle kick onto the top of the net before he tested Sergio Alvarez with a strike from Marcelo’s pass.

Marcelo continued to torment Celta’s defense with his incur-sions from the left flank, and his cross led to the opening goal when Ronaldo collapsed after defender Jonathan “Jonny” Castro touched his arm. “It was a little unfair, we were in the game until then,” Jonny said. “I touched him but he fell at the last moment.”

Celta’s Fabian Orellana finally threatened with a curling shot that missed the post one minute after halftime, but Ronaldo sealed the win by stabbing home the ball after Madrid hemmed Celta into its box. He got his third goal from another cross by Marcelo, expertly using his left boot to score.

Atletico churned out the win at Elche with defender Jose Gimenez firing in the first goal in the 17th to end a dizzying series of one-touch passes by Siqueira, Jorge

“Koke” Resurreccion and Arda Turan from a set piece. Striker Mario Mandzukic finished Elche off in the 53rd by sprinting onto Gabi Fernan-dez’s lob and fir-ing the ball inside the post.

Also, promoted Cordoba’s 42-year wait for a top-tier victory finally ended by win-ning 1-0 at Ath-letic Bilbao, while Malaga won 1 -0 a t Deportivo La Coruna to rest in sixth place overnight.

Bayern beats Leverkusen 1-0 to stay unbeaten

Roma snatches 2-2 draw against Sassuolo in Serie A

and we created a lot but only managed a draw,” Ljajic said. “We’re disappointed because of the standings, we had the opportunity to go a point behind but the season is long ... and we’ll see at the end.”

Roma remained three points behind Juve, while Sassuolo moved to provisional ninth after extending its club record unbeaten run to eight league matches.

“We were a bit naive at the end,” Sassuolo coach Eusebio Di Fran-cesco said. “But Florenzi was offside for their second goal, and the penalty was debatable. The rules state that it’s not a penalty if it touches the knee or a part of the body and then hits the arm.” Elsewhere, Torino drew 2-2 at home to Palermo to snap a run of three consecutive defeats.

Roma appeared to have half an eye on Wednesday’s crucial Champions League match against Manchester City, as Rudi Garcia rested a number of players, including captain Francesco Totti.

Gervinho, Douglas Maicon, Da-

vide Astori and Radja Nainggolan also started from the bench while Kevin Strootman got his first start since injur-ing his knee back in March.

Zaza returned from a one-match ban and gave Sassuolo the lead after a quar-ter of an hour. De Sanctis controlled a back pass but was slow to clear, allow-ing the striker to pounce. Zaza doubled his tally three minutes later as he beat the offside trap to race clear on goal and smash it past De Sanctis.

Roma’s Jose Holebas prevented Sassuolo from extending its halftime advantage when he slid in for a crucial tackle to prevent Domenico Berardi from tapping into an empty net.

Roma was given another lifeline when Gervinho’s shot hit Vrsaljko’s arm and Ljajic thumped the resulting penalty straight down the middle to reduce the deficit 12 minutes from time. Ljajic levelled when he rushed in to fire in Alessandro Florenzi’s low cross.

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Ronaldo’s 21st, 22nd and 23rd goals through 14 rounds also en-sured Madrid claimed its 18th con-secutive victory across all competi-tions under coach Carlo Ancelotti, matching a mark for Spanish teams established by Barcelona in 2005-06. Madrid maintained the league lead, four points ahead of Atletico Madrid after the defending cham-pions won 2-0 at Elche. Barcelona, trailing Madrid by five points, hosts Espanyol on Sunday.

Ronaldo opened at the Santiago Bernabeu from the penalty spot in the 36th minute after he fell following light contact with a de-

Associated Press

PARIS — Zlatan Ibrahi-movic scored twice as a poor Paris Saint-Germain rallied to beat Nantes 2-1 and moved provisionally to the top of

the French league on Sat-urday. Four days before its trip to Barcelona in the Champions League, PSG struggled to cre-a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s against an organized Nantes, and relied on Ibrahimovic’s class to come out on top.

Laurent Blanc’s s ide improved af-ter the interval but Nantes wil l feel a sense of injustice over a disallowed goal that would have put them into a 2-0 lead, and a refereeing decision

that saw PSG midfielder Marco Verratti avoid a direct sending-off

in the first half. Midfielder Ale-jandro Bedoya put Nantes in

front in the eighth minute with a superb 25-meter (yard) strike but the visitors were punished on a counterattack that

Ibrahimovic concluded from close range in the

34th.Ibrahimovic, who has missed

a large chunk of the season with a heel injury, scored his eighth league goal with a free kick into the top corner in the 48th.

“I felt good out there. Match after match, I’m getting better. I’m not yet 100 percent but if I continue like this I’ll get back to my best,” Ibrahimovic said. PSG moved two points clear of Marseille, which can reclaim the top spot by beating Metz on Sunday.

Elsewhere, striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel fired Saint-Etienne to a 1-0 win over bottom side Bastia that lifted Les Verts to third overall, five points behind PSG. It was Saint-Etienne’s third consecutive win in the space of a week.

Fourth-place Bordeaux stayed in the hunt for the Champions League places after Cheikh Dia-

Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea lost for the first time in 22 matches this season and saw its lead in the English Premier League trimmed to three points by Manchester City in a twist to the title race on Saturday. City capital-ized on Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Newcastle by beating Everton 1-0, with a left knee injury sustained by star striker Sergio Aguero early in the game marring an otherwise great day for the champions.

Newcastle shattered Chelsea’s unlikely bid to go through the 38-game campaign undefeated, pushing 2-0 ahead through a second-half double from Papiss Cisse and then hanging onto its lead after the 81st-minute sending-off of Steven Taylor. Didier Drogba’s headed goal in the 83rd set up a frantic finish but Chelsea came unstuck at St. James’ Park for the third straight season, ending a 14-match unbeaten start in the league.

“The best team lost. The team which tried to win lost,” said Chelsea man-ager Jose Mourinho, who hasn’t won at Newcastle in five attempts. “We were unlucky.”

Aguero, the league’s top scorer with 14 goals, limped off in tears after getting hurt in a seemingly innocuous challenge in the second minute at Etihad Stadium. If the Argentina striker had been on the field, he would have taken the penalty converted by Yaya Toure in the 24th minute for the winning goal.

Arsenal missed a chance to climb provisionally into the top four by losing 3-2 at Stoke, conceding to Peter Crouch after 19 seconds — making it the quickest goal of the season — and two more times in the first half.

Santi Cazorla, with a penalty, and Aaron Ramsey scored in the space of two second-half minutes to reduce the gap, but Arsenal’s hopes of completing a recovery were dented by Calum Chambers’ red card with 12 minutes left. Arsenal has won just once in its last nine games at Stoke.

Liverpool and Tottenham failed to make up ground in the race for the Champions League places, drawing 0-0 at home to likely relegation candidates Sunderland and Crystal Palace, respectively, to remain marooned in mid-table. Liverpool started captain Steven Gerrard on the bench for the second time in three league games.

It was also goalless between Hull and West Bromwich Albion while Queens Park Rangers jumped out of the bottom three by beating Burnley 2-0. Charlie Austin scored QPR’s second goal before getting sent off for a second book-ing.

It was Chelsea’s first defeat since April — ending an unbeaten run of 23 games, 21 of which have come this season. Such was Chelsea’s explosive start to the league season and the strength of its squad that there was growing talk that the team could emulate the Arsenal team of 2003-04 in going the campaign undefeated.

Goals by Cisse in the 57th and 78th put paid to that. Mourinho said he had “no complaints” about the result but was unhappy that ball-boys and Newcastle fans took too long to return the ball to the field. “You need one ball,” he said. “Sometimes we had no balls and other times we had two balls.”

City played three hours later and sealed a fourth straight win thanks to Toure’s penalty, awarded after James Milner was fouled by Phil Jagielka. City goalkeeper Joe Hart preserved the lead with a brilliant late save to deny Romelu Lukaku.

Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — Franck Ribery scored his 100th goal for Bayern Munich to give the runaway Bundesliga leader a 1-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday. The victory allowed the defending champion to remain undefeated and to shake off another poten-tial rival in the chase for the title and preserved Bayern’s seven-point lead over Wolfsburg.

Wolfsburg confirmed i ts second place by winning 3-1 in Hannover earlier Saturday. Augsburg, the surprise pack-age of the season, jumped over Leverkusen into third place with its 2-1 win in Cologne, but is 12 points behind Bayern before they meet next weekend.

Leverkusen had the best chance of the first half follow-ing a mix-up between Jerome Boateng and Xabi Alonso. How-ever, Karim Bellaraby’s shot into the empty net was cleared

off the line by Juan Bernat in the third minute.

Bayern coach Pep Guardiola took off the ineffective Mario Goetze at halftime and sent in the more defensive-minded Sebastian Rode, who forced the decisive corner. Arjen Rob-ben played the ball to Rafinha, whose cross to the far post was headed down by Alonso for Ribery to drive in a left-footed volley. “Leverkusen is a good team and it was a tough match,” said Ribery, who has 287 matches for Bayern in all competitions.

Bayern outplayed Leverkus-en in the second half, missing several chances. Also, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored a hat trick as Schalke sent Stut-tgart to the bottom of the table with a 4-0 victory.

Borussia Moenchengladbach ended a three-match losing streak by beating Hertha Berlin 3-2 and is now sixth. Schalke’s victory moved it into fifth.

Associated Press

MILAN — Roma rallied from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw against Sassuolo with a stoppage-time equalizer from Adem Ljajic but missed the opportunity to close the gap on Serie A leader Juventus on Saturday. Ljajic, who got Roma back into the match with a penalty, snatched a point for the hosts with practically the game’s last kick.

After Juventus was held to 0-0 at Fiorentina on Friday, Roma knew it could cut the gap to one point with a victory at Stadio Olimpico, where it had won all seven of its previous league matches this season, conceding just two goals. But Zaza scored twice in three first-half minutes — the first following a howler from goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis — and Roma’s chances diminished when Daniele De Rossi was sent off at the start of the second half.

Sassuolo defender Sime Vrsaljko was also sent off in stoppage time fol-lowing two yellow cards. “We started badly, then it was only us in the game

AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere

Paris Saint Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right, celebrates with teammate Lucas Da Silva after scoring the first goal for his team, during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Nantes, at the Parc des Princes sta-dium in Paris, Saturday Dec. 6, 2014.

Ibrahimovic scores twice as PSG beats Nantes 2-1

bate scored a brace and Wahbi Khazri bagged another goal in a 3-2 win over Lorient. Montpellier claimed its biggest victory this season with a 4-0 away thrashing of Rennes, and Nice won 3-2 at Caen.

As Bedoya silenced the PSG fans with his stunning shot, and the home side started regulars Maxwell, Gregory van der Wiel, David Luiz, Blaise Matuidi and Edinson Cavani on the bench, PSG looked powerless in the early stages.

Verratti was lucky to escape with a yellow card following his high tackle to stop Nantes midfielder Georges-Kevin Nk-oudou’s run in the 11th. Papy Mison Djilobodi then thought he doubled Nantes’ lead with a volley at the far post from a free kick, but his goal was disallowed for offside.

“When there is a serious f o u l , i t has to be a

red card, oth-e r w i s e t h e

rules need to be clarified,” Nantes president Waldemar Kita said. “And I can’t understand why the goal was disallowed, there is no offside.”

PSG remained dangerous on the break, and leveled at the end of a swift move ignited by Serge Aurier and concluded by Ibrahimovic, who coolly finished Lucas’ cross despite a challenge from bulky center-back Augusto Vizcarrondo.

PSG tried to build on the mo-mentum with strong pressure yet could not add another one before the interval. But Ibrahimovic, who was rested on Wednesday for the 1-1 draw at Lille, needed just three minutes after coming back from the dressing room to put the French champions ahead. His powerful free kick from the same spot where Bedoya fired the opener took the same route straight into the top corner. “He makes the difference,” PSG defender Marquinhos said of Ibrahimovic.

Newcastle United’s Papiss Cisse celebrates his goal dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match against Chelsea at St James’ Park, Newcastle, England, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014.

Chelsea finally loses as lead trimmed to 3 points

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AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo cel-ebrates after scoring a goal during a

Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta de Vigo at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain,

Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 .

Ronaldo breaks record with hat trick in Madrid winAssociated Press Writer

Cristiano Ronaldo’s record-breaking hat trick helped Real Madrid equal another Spanish league milestone in a 3-0 win over Celta Vigo on Saturday. His 23rd career hat trick in La Liga gave him one more treble than greats Alfredo Di Stefano and Telmo Zarra.

fender. He struck again in the 65th and 81st.

“It’s a privilege to play with (Ronaldo),” Madrid defender Ser-gio Ramos said. “You would have to invent words to describe him. He may be in his best moment.” Ron-aldo received a standing ovation when substituted late, after taking his overall tally to 29 goals in 21 games this season.

He led the Spanish league with 31 goals last season. Lionel Messi holds the record for the most goals in a Liga campaign with 50 in 2011-12.

Ronaldo is already well on pace

to repeat not only as the league’s top scorer — Neymar is second with 11 — but he is also making a strong bid to defend his award for the world’s best player. Madrid’s commanding win was marred only by losing James Rodriguez, who asked to be changed and walked off the pitch in the 53rd.

Celta defender Gustavo Cabral suffered a more painful injury later and had to be carried off. Ronaldo flirted with the goal in the 18th when he looped an acrobatic bi-cycle kick onto the top of the net before he tested Sergio Alvarez with a strike from Marcelo’s pass.

Marcelo continued to torment Celta’s defense with his incur-sions from the left flank, and his cross led to the opening goal when Ronaldo collapsed after defender Jonathan “Jonny” Castro touched his arm. “It was a little unfair, we were in the game until then,” Jonny said. “I touched him but he fell at the last moment.”

Celta’s Fabian Orellana finally threatened with a curling shot that missed the post one minute after halftime, but Ronaldo sealed the win by stabbing home the ball after Madrid hemmed Celta into its box. He got his third goal from another cross by Marcelo, expertly using his left boot to score.

Atletico churned out the win at Elche with defender Jose Gimenez firing in the first goal in the 17th to end a dizzying series of one-touch passes by Siqueira, Jorge

“Koke” Resurreccion and Arda Turan from a set piece. Striker Mario Mandzukic finished Elche off in the 53rd by sprinting onto Gabi Fernan-dez’s lob and fir-ing the ball inside the post.

Also, promoted Cordoba’s 42-year wait for a top-tier victory finally ended by win-ning 1-0 at Ath-letic Bilbao, while Malaga won 1 -0 a t Deportivo La Coruna to rest in sixth place overnight.

Bayern beats Leverkusen 1-0 to stay unbeaten

Roma snatches 2-2 draw against Sassuolo in Serie A

and we created a lot but only managed a draw,” Ljajic said. “We’re disappointed because of the standings, we had the opportunity to go a point behind but the season is long ... and we’ll see at the end.”

Roma remained three points behind Juve, while Sassuolo moved to provisional ninth after extending its club record unbeaten run to eight league matches.

“We were a bit naive at the end,” Sassuolo coach Eusebio Di Fran-cesco said. “But Florenzi was offside for their second goal, and the penalty was debatable. The rules state that it’s not a penalty if it touches the knee or a part of the body and then hits the arm.” Elsewhere, Torino drew 2-2 at home to Palermo to snap a run of three consecutive defeats.

Roma appeared to have half an eye on Wednesday’s crucial Champions League match against Manchester City, as Rudi Garcia rested a number of players, including captain Francesco Totti.

Gervinho, Douglas Maicon, Da-

vide Astori and Radja Nainggolan also started from the bench while Kevin Strootman got his first start since injur-ing his knee back in March.

Zaza returned from a one-match ban and gave Sassuolo the lead after a quar-ter of an hour. De Sanctis controlled a back pass but was slow to clear, allow-ing the striker to pounce. Zaza doubled his tally three minutes later as he beat the offside trap to race clear on goal and smash it past De Sanctis.

Roma’s Jose Holebas prevented Sassuolo from extending its halftime advantage when he slid in for a crucial tackle to prevent Domenico Berardi from tapping into an empty net.

Roma was given another lifeline when Gervinho’s shot hit Vrsaljko’s arm and Ljajic thumped the resulting penalty straight down the middle to reduce the deficit 12 minutes from time. Ljajic levelled when he rushed in to fire in Alessandro Florenzi’s low cross.

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IBP

AMLAPURA - Amed Beach is located in the eastern end of this island, precisely at Amed village, Abang, Karangasem County. Main livelihood of local community is working as fisherman. Rural atmosphere is so intense and pristine and the local traditions have not been affected by foreign cul-ture, hospitality is still strong and beautiful sunrise in the morning will accompany while enjoying breakfast. Of course, this will add to the exotic atmosphere during the holidays.

With black sandy beach, the state of water looks very clear with diverse beau-ties of marine life, well-preserved coral reef life and constant warmth of water. Then, snorkeling and diving here are in great demand by the domestic and foreign travelers. Now, the beauty of Amed has become an excel-lence for travelers, especially European travelers such as from Germany, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and other countries who have a hobby of watching the under-water thrill and tranquility of holiday resort. IBP/File Photo

Amed Beach

Reuters LONDON - Andy Roddick has

been made an honorary member of the All England Club, according to former British number one Tim Henman. The American, three times a runner-up at the grand slam tour-nament, visited the grasscourt club on Friday for “a spot of tea” with Henman while in London compet-ing at the Statoil Masters event at the Royal Albert Hall.

“I was able to take him to Wim-bledon a couple of days ago because he’s being made an honorary mem-ber, which he was so excited about, having been a three-time finalist,” Henmanm said in an interview with the Tennis Podcast.

Honourary membership of the elite club usually requires a Wim-bledon title, but Henman said for-

mer world number one Roddick, who quit in 2012 aged 30 deserved the accolade.

“If you win the tournament you become a member automatically but I think with his impact in that event and his rapport with the Brit-ish crowd it was felt that it would be a really nice gesture,” Henman added. “He was given a few gifts, one of them being a club tie, which is completely useless because he doesn’t know how to tie a tie!”

Roddick, runner-up in 2004, 2005 and 2009, is making his first appear-ance on the seniors tour this week and on Saturday reached the final when he beat 2002 Wimbledon semi-finalist Xavier Malisse 6-4 6-2.

He will play fellow debutant Fer-nando Gonzalez at the Royal Albert Hall after he overcame Henman 6-4 2-6 10-6.

Golden State’s Klay Thompson added 24 points as the Warriors improved to 10-1 on the road. Their 12-game streak outdid the 11-game run they enjoyed during the 1971-72 season.

Jimmy Butler’s 24 points topped the score sheets for the Bulls, who have won only two of their past seven home games. Houston’s win-ning streak is a more modest four games after the 100-95 win against Phoenix.

Trevor Ariza and Pat Beverley each scored 19 points for the Rock-ets, who have showed little ill effect from the absence of injured All-Star center Dwight Howard, winning seven of nine without him.

Houston led by as many as 22 points but that was cut to four with 21.9 seconds remaining. Beverley made three free throws to push it out to seven and effectively end the contest. Eric Bledsoe led the Suns

with 23 pointsLos Angeles’ Blake Griffin scored 30 points — going over 7,000 for his career — to lead the Clippers past New Orleans 120-100. The Clippers led by 18 points in the first half but blew all of that before coming again to notch a seventh-straight victory.

J.J. Redick scored 13 of his 21 points in the first quarter and Jamal Crawford added 20. Anthony Davis scored 26 points for the Pelicans, who have lost five of their past six.

Orlando’s Tobias Harris scored a season-high 27 points to help the Magic defeat Sacramento 105-96. San Antonio’s Marco Belinelli scored 20 points in the Spurs’ 123-101 victory over Minnesota.

Philadelphia notched only its second win of the season and moved within one win of the equally poor Detroit by beating the Pistons 108-101 after overtime.

Roddick made honorary member of Wimbledon

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AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) celebrates after sinking a three point shot during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in Chicago on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. The Warriors won 112-102.

Warriors winning streak hits

record 12 gamesAssociated Press

CHICAGO — Golden State set a franchise record winning streak with its 12th consecutive victory on Saturday, beating Chicago 112-102 with Draymond Green contributing a career-high 31 points. The Warriors improved to an NBA-leading 17-2, two games ahead of nearest rival Houston — which held on to beat Phoenix — and three games clear in the Pacific Division above the Los Angeles Clippers, who built a big lead, blew it, then pulled away again to defeat New Orleans.

Monday, December 8, 2014 Monday, December 8, 20146 11International International

INDONESIAW RLD

President Joko Widodo better known as Jokowi inspected some sports venues such as the soccer stadium, athletic stadium, aquatic stadium, shooting range and the athlete dormitory facility in the sports complex that had been used as the 2011 SEA Games venues.

“The facilities are good and complete. Its maintenance is also proper. We are waiting the result of the tree planting,” President

Jokowi said.The president also said that

Palembang is ready to hold the 2018 Asian Games.

Previously, The Olympic Coun-cil of Asia on September 20 for-mally named Indonesia the host for the 2018 Asian Games after Vietnam, who had originally won the bid, withdrew this year because of economic problems.

The Jakabaring Sports Center

will also host the 2014 ASEAN Students Sports Week (POM) from December 9 through 21.

Some athletes were practic-ing for the upcoming POM while President Jokowi inspecting the sports venues.

After visiting the Jakabaring Sports Center, President Jokowi heading to Tanjung Apiapi which took around two hours from Palem-bang.

AntaraJAKARTA - An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale

rocked Maluku Tenggara Barat district in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Sunday morning, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Board (BNPB).

The epicenter of the quake which struck at 05.05 western In-donesian time was in the sea about 165 km southwest of Maluku Tenggara Barat at a depth of 133 km, BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a written statement released on Sunday.

“The quake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami,” he said.

Sutopo said the agency had analyzed the impact of the quake which was strongly felt by local people for a few seconds.

The local disaster mitigation board was still monitoring the impact of the earthquake, he added.

Maluku Tenggara Barat and Maluku Barat Daya are among the districts which are highly prone to earthquake because they are situated at the meeting point of Indian, Australian and Eurasian plates, he said.

“The Sunday earthquake occurred in a deep trough,” he said.Sutopo said the high frequency of tectonic activities from the

Wetar thrust which stretches from north of Alor Island to Romang Island causes frequent earthquakes of high intensity.

“Luckily, the epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 133 km. An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale jolted the same area on December 10, 2012,” he said.

IBP

JAKARTA - Currently the sale and purchase of four-wheeled vehicles through online are increase. In order to shorten the search time as well as to increase the sale of products, automo-tive portal, Mobil123.com, launched Response Management System and Advertising (Si Jari).

According to CEO iCar Asia, Damon Rielly, Si Jari is a system that can help car dealers and sellers, manage ads and monitor the performance of ads with faster, easier and practical system. Thus they can sell more cars.

He expressed that the system spends about 18 billion dollars of investment to make process of selling a car online easier, either through ordinary mobile device or smartphone. “Si Jari system is the result of market research, technology research, and marketing for more than 6 months. We spend Rp18 billion for this system. Si Jari is not only the fastest and most accurate way to advertise a car online, also allows car salesman reviewing how their ads will appear and know the ad performance on the number of responses that go and how to raise more responses so that they can sell their cars faster,” he explained.

He argues, from the study, 9 of 10 people Indonesia purchased the car by searching for information online. To that end, the car salesman should follow the changes and market trends, so as not to fall behind. “Through research we conducted on the car salesman, we realize this industry requires a system that will make them easy to move into the online market. Not only advertising but also learn how to make sales via the internet and in real time to measure, monitor and manage it,” Rielly said.

In the last weeks, ahead of the launch, the speed of the system has been tested. He said around 1,500 car salesmen participated on this test. As a result, 99% of 1,500 tests have won over by Si Jari. (kmb18)

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

Local artists Supriadi makes a finishing touch to his painting titled “Lautan Jenazah” (Ocean of Bodies) that depicts the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the killer waves in Lambada, Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. The tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004 killed 230,000 people in several countries, more than half of them in Indonesia.

6.0 magnitude quake rocks Maluku

Spending Rp18 billion for investment,

“Si Jari” launched

President Joko Widodo visits Jakabaring Sports CenterAntara

PALEMBANG - President Joko Widodo and First Lady Iriana on Sunday morning observed the Jakabaring Sports Center in South Sumatra provincial city of Palembang.

Shallow floods, damaged shanties and ripped off store signs and tin roofs were a common sight across the region, but there was no major destruction after Hagupit slammed into Eastern Samar and other island provinces. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour and gusts of 170 kph (106 mph) on Sunday, consider-ably weaker from its peak power but still a potentially deadly storm, according to forecasters.

The typhoon, which made landfall in Eastern Samar late Saturday, was moving slowly, dumping heavy rain that could possibly trigger landslides and flash floods. Traumatized by the death and destruction from Typhoon Haiyan last year, nearly 900,000 people fled to about 1,000 emer-gency shelters and safer grounds. The government, backed by the 120,000-strong military, had launched massive preparations to attain a zero-casualty target.

Rhea Estuna, a 29-year-old mother

of one, fled Thursday to an evacua-tion center in Tacloban — the city hardest-hit by Haiyan — and waited in fear as Hagupit’s wind and rain lashed the school where she and her family sought refuge. When she peered outside Sunday, she said she saw a starkly different aftermath than the one she witnessed after Haiyan struck in November 2013.

“There were no bodies scattered on the road, no big mounds of debris,” Estuna told The Associ-ated Press by cellphone. “Thanks to God this typhoon wasn’t as violent. Haiyan’s tsunami-like storm surges and killer winds left thousands of people dead and leveled entire vil-lages, most of them in and around Tacloban.

Nearly a dozen countries, led by the United States and the Euro-pean Union, have pledged to help in case of a catastrophe from Hagupit (pronounced HA’-goo-pit), disaster-response agency chief Alexander Pama said.

The EU commissioner for human-itarian aid, Christos Stylianides, said a team of experts would be deployed to help assess the damage and needed response. “The Philippines are not alone as they brace up for a possible hardship,” Stylianides said, adding that the European Commission was “hoping that the impact will be less powerful than a year ago, when Typhoon Haiyan left a devastating imprint on the country.”

Two people, including a baby girl, died of hypothermia in central Iloilo province Saturday at the height of the typhoon, Pama said at a news confer-ence. Two women were injured when the tricycle taxi they were riding was struck by a falling tree in central Negros Oriental province.

Displaced villagers were asked to return home from emergency shelters in provinces where the danger posed by the typhoon had waned, including Albay, where more than half a million people were advised to leave evacu-ation sites.

Associated Press Writer

SRINAGAR, India — Thousands of government forces have fanned out across the Indian portion of Kashmir to provide a security shield for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to make a campaign speech in the region for local elections, police said Sunday. Authorities are taking extra precautions following daring daylong insurgent attacks Friday on an army camp and other targets left 21 people dead, including six attackers, said K. Rajendra, the top police officer in Jammu-Kashmir state.

Sharpshooters have been posted on rooftops in the main city of Sri-nagar, where Modi is scheduled to speak at an election rally in a sports stadium. Security forces also have put steel barricades on the roads and are checking vehicles and frisking commuters and pedestrians. “Prime ministers are generally high-value targets, so we are not taking a chance,” Rajendra said.

Rebel groups in Kashmir have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the uprising and an Indian military crackdown that has largely suppressed rebel activity.

On Sunday, Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha, a top Indian army commander, accused the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group of carrying out Friday’s attacks. India also blames Lashkar-e-Taiba for a 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. Lashkar-e-Taiba, however, has not issued any statement.

Associated Press

WARRI, Nigeria — Gunmen have freed more than 200 prisoners in Nigeria’s latest jailbreak, police said Sunday. Police recaptured at least 10 escapees from the medium security prison at Tunga, in central Niger state, by Sunday morning, said Deputy Superintendent Ibrahim Gambari.

Saturday’s attack was the third in the past two months in the West African nation, where jailbreaks are frequent and police only capture a fraction of those who escape.

More than 300 inmates broke out of a prison bombed by gunmen in southwest Ekiti state on Dec. 1; 144 escaped from south-central Kogi state on Nov. 3 when gunmen bombed a prison wall.

The two earlier jailbreaks were blamed on the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group. It is not known how many hundreds of Boko Haram suspects are held in Nigerian jails.

The vast majority of people held in Nigerian jails have never been charged and are awaiting trial, some of them for many years, even though it is illegal to hold someone for more than 48 hours without bringing charges or presenting them to a magistrate.

Only 18,042 of 56,785 inmates have been convicted of a crime, accord-ing to statistics dated June 30 and posted on the website of the Nigeria Prisons Service.

Officials have said how appalled they are about conditions in the jails, where inmates often sleep on cement floors without mattresses or bedding, food is in short supply and most medical services are non-existent.

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

A resident jumps as he watches strong waves crash into shore as an effect of Typhoon Hagupit in Legazpi, Albay province, eastern Philippines on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014.

No major damage in Philippine typhoon; 2 deadAssociated Press

LEGAZPI, Philippines — Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least two people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm brought to the region last year.

Tight security in Kashmir for India prime minister

Gunmen free 200+ inmates in Nigeria jailbreak

AP Photo/Dar Yasin

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard at a temporary checkpoint in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014.

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BUSINESS

The European Union’s executive commission last month opted against sanctioning the two countries right now for missing public finance targets, giving them until the spring to come up with better plans to cut their debts and deficits.

Merkel — a leading advocate of budget discipline and structural reforms

whose country has Europe’s biggest economy — was quoted as telling Sunday’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the decision is “justifiable” because France and Italy are in the process of reforming.

But she added: “The commission has made clear that what is on the table so far isn’t yet enough. I agree with that.”

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Look past the booming November job gain of 321,000 reported Friday — the best figure in three years in the strongest year for U.S. hiring since 1999.

The job market has reached a new milestone on its road to full health: For the first time since the Great Recession ended 5½ years ago, America’s unemployed are now as likely to be hired as to stop looking for a job.

It means that employers have grown confident enough to fill more job vacancies. And it means the unemployed are now less likely to succumb to frustration.

The hiring surge owes much to solid consumer spending — on items like cars, electronics and restaurant meals. That, in turn, has given businesses the means to step up investment in machinery, computers and facili-ties. Thanks to such spending, the economy grew at a 4.3 percent annual pace from April through September — the healthiest six-month spurt since 2003. Employ-ers have responded by adding a robust average of 241,000 jobs a month this year.

For each month, the govern-ment estimates the proportion of the unemployed who found work and the proportion who stopped

looking. In November, 23 per-cent of people who were out of work the previous month found jobs, and the same percentage gave up looking. (The figures are three-month averages, intended to smooth out volatility.)

That was the highest percentage of the unemployed to find work in any month since the recession of-ficially ended in June 2009. A year ago, fewer than 19 percent of the unemployed were finding jobs.

The increase marks the first such sustained improvement since the recession ended. This year’s acceleration in hiring has been potent enough to finally soak up a significant proportion of the jobless. During the first four years of the recovery, busi-nesses had hired at a rate that was merely enough to keep up with population growth.

The brightening picture has been a relief for people like Ker-sten Higgins, who had begun job hunting in July after graduating from law school. She didn’t get a single interview until November, when she got four.

Two of the interviews pro-duced offers. She’s accepted a position at Mutual of Omaha, where she will help ensure that its insurance policies comply with federal rules. Higgins, 26, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, starts Monday.

“I feel great,” Higgins said. “This definitely fits into the category of jobs I hoped to get coming out of law school.”

At the same time, the govern-ment’s jobs figures illustrate how much improvement is still need-ed. Before the recession began in 2007, the unemployed were more likely to find work than to stop looking in every month dating to when record-keeping began in 1990. Since the recession ended, that’s been true for only three months out of 65.

One sour note amid the im-proving outlook for the unem-ployed: The jobless are likelier now than before the recession to land only part-time work. Though the economy has regained all the jobs lost to the recession, there are still nearly 2 million fewer people with full-time work.

In other cases, the jobs the for-merly unemployed have now pay less than those they had before.

One reason the unemployment rate declined early in the recovery was that hundreds of thousands of people grew frustrated with their job hunts and stopped look-ing. Once people stop looking for a job, they’re no longer counted as unemployed. At that point, the unemployment rate can fall even if hiring is weak. But now, the number of such dropouts has plateaued.

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 photo, job seekers fill out forms before being interviewed during a job fair at Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Fla.

For US unemployed, job market hits a turning point

Merkel presses France, Italy on economy

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Associated Press

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is adding to the pressure for eurozone heavyweights France and Italy to do more to get their finances and economies in order.

“The perpetrator landed in Bali on Monday (Dec 1) by Hong Kong-Denpasar HX 709 flight, a Hong Kong Airline, at 02.30 P.M. Central Indone-sian Standard Time (Wita),” Head of the supervision and service division of the Ngurah Rai customs office Budi Harjanto said on Friday.

According to Budi, the smuggling at-tempt was foiled after customs officers grew suspicious of the perpetrator’s appearance and actions at the baggage conveyor belt of the Customs Area Terminal at Ngurah Rai international airport.

The customs officers’ suspicion grew stronger as the X-ray imaging indi-cated some suspicious object in a green “Onepolar” brand backpack, which was carried by the perpetrator.

The officers then conducted an in-depth examination of the backpack.

The examination revealed a transpar-ent plastic bag coated with red plastic and sealed with brown plastic adhesive tape. The bag allegedly contained 1,709 grams of crystal methamphetamine.

The offender has been handed over to the Bali police provincial office for further investigation.

Antara

DENPASAR - Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi has hinted that female civil servants with infants will be given less working hours to enable them to take care of their children.

“The reduction of working hours is intended to give them (female civil servants) more time to take care of their children,” the minister told journalists on the sidelines of his visit to Graha Sewaka Dharma recently.

Chrisnandi noted that the government has been considerate of female employees who have infants.

“We will begin by seeking the opinion of all government agencies, from ministries to sub-district offices, about the move,” he remarked.

In response to the central government’s initiative, the Den-pasar city government will have to provide childcare centers to help female employees nurture and play with their infants, he explained.

“So no employee will have any excuse to skip work for months saying they have to take care of their children,” he observed.

Chrisnandi further noted that the idea was part of the gov-ernment’s efforts to improve the welfare of civil servants as it could cut their expenses on baby-sitters.

In fact, not all civil servants have the ability to pay baby-sitters, he emphasized.

The government will create new rules to make workplaces comfortable for female civil servants who have babies and to ensure the effectiveness and productivity of work, he stated.

This idea was first raised by Vice-President Jusuf Kalla who suggested that only female civil servants who have children below six years of age be made eligible for reduced working hours.

Currently, Indonesian civil servants have to work eight hours a day, and those eligible for reduced hours are expected to work only six hours a day.

Civil servants with infants to have less working hours

IBP/Courtesy of Denpasar Government

Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi has hinted that female civil servants with infants will be given less working hours to enable them to take care of their children.

Customs foiled methamphetamine smuggling attempt

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

New Zealander’s Anthony Glen de Malmanche, center, is presented to the media during a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Indonesian customs officers detained the New Zealander citizen on Monday for allegedly smuggling Methamphetamine onto the tourist island of Bali.

Antara

KUTA - Customs personnel at Ngurah Rai airport, Bali province, have arrested a New Zealand citizen, De Malmanche Antony Glen, with 1,709 grams of crystal methamphetamine he was trying to smuggle in from Hong Kong.

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Many protesters carried posters demanding that President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Lau-rent Lamothe step down. “We need elections in the country so democra-cy can continue ... not corruption,” said Jean Ronald Brison, owner of an auto parts store.

Martelly’s administration was supposed to call elections in 2011 for a majority of Senate seats, the entire Chamber of Deputies and

local offices. But both he and La-mothe have blamed legislators for blocking a vote that would lead to approval of an electoral law. Six senators have said the legislation is unconstitutional and favors the government.

A similar protest held Friday also turned violent, with police firing tear gas at protesters who burned tires and threw rocks as they pushed through the security

perimeter at the National Palace. No deaths or major injuries were reported.

Lamothe addressed the protest late Friday via Twitter: “We urge demonstrators to exercise their constitutional right with restraint and responsibility.” Four anti-government demonstrations have been held in Haiti’s capital in about a month and a fifth is planned for next week.

Associated Press Writer

VANCOUVER, British Colum-bia — Seven countries have im-posed trade restrictions on Canadian poultry as a fifth farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley was put under quarantine for avian influ-enza, officials said Saturday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens from the affected farms will be euthanized.

The agency said the fifth farm near Abbotsford was quarantined after higher than normal turkey deaths were reported by a farmer Friday. B.C. chief veterinary offi-cer Dr. Jane Pritchard says 60,000 turkeys are in the fifth farm.

Avian influenza was first detect-ed a week ago on a broiler-breeder chicken farm in Chilliwack which housed 7,000 chickens. About 1,000 of the chickens died from avian influenza. Officials say no people have fallen ill.

The B.C. outbreak has led at least seven countries —the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, South Africa and Mexico — to ban

poultry products from B.C. or all of Canada.

Canada’s chief veterinary officer, Dr. Harpreet Kochhar said birds from the first farms where avian influenza was detected have already been euthanized.

Kochhar said the source of the infection is not yet known, although he added that it’s possible that wild or migratory birds could have in-fected the farms. He said the focus is on containing the infection’s spread. Pritchard said there had been movement of birds between some of the infected farms.

In 2004, health officials ordered 17 million chickens, turkeys and other domestic birds slaughtered to contain an outbreak of avian influ-enza at 42 poultry farms in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, costing the poultry industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

Avian influenza poses little risk to people who are consuming poul-try meat if it is handled and cooked properly. In rare cases, the virus can be transmitted to people who have had close contact with the birds, health officials said.

Associated Press Writer

ROME — A US Airways flight bound for Philadelphia made an unscheduled landing in Rome after some aboard complained of feeling ill. Officials at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport say two passengers and 11 crew members

were examined at the airport’s first aid station for throat and eye irritation complaints Satur-day. All were cleared to resume their journey and left on other flights.

What caused the symptoms was unclear. American Airlines spokeswoman Martha Thomas

says the airline is investigating the source of a rubbery odor aboard the Airbus A330. She said several flight attendants had detected an unusual odor.

Flight 797 had left Tel Aviv late Friday night with 129 pas-sengers. American Airlines and US Airways merged last year.

US Airways jet lands in Rome after some feel ill

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

An anti-government protester pours gas on burning tires as they block a road and call for the resignation of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. Protesters marched for the second time in two days amid anger over delayed elections and other issues.

More violence in 2nd day of Haiti protest marches

Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of anti-government protesters marched Saturday through Haiti’s capital for the second time in two days amid anger over delayed elections and other issues. The crowd began marching peacefully toward the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince, but protesters later began burning tires, throwing rocks at police and trying to force their way through barricades as officers fired tear gas.

5 British Columbia farms quarantined

for bird flu

AP Photo / Steve Parkin, PA

Officials place signs to restrict entry at a duck farm in Nafferton, England, where measures to prevent the spread of bird flu are under way after the first serious case of the disease in the UK for six-years, Monday Nov. 17, 2014.

A number of Ujung fishermen were frustrated upon hearing the explosives used to commit fish bombings and so they got involved in the pursuit. “The fish bombs used were unsparingly so that we were very startled by the explo-sion. We then ascertained that there were three boats involved in the bombings,” said one of fisherman

on Ujung Beach.Another fisherman, acting as the

community leader of Ujung Pesisi, Jumaiyah aka Mr. Ompong told the same story. Along with hundreds of other fishermen, he first saw the three boats bombing fish in the territorial water of Bukit Kamb-ing and Bukit Sampian. When the fish bombers were taking the

fish they had obtained from the bombing, hundreds of fishermen immediately started chasing the three boats. “We chased them all the way to Yeh Kali, sir, but the three boats then speeded towards Lombok,” he said.

Many fishermen said that they have repeatedly reported the ram-pant fish bombing to the authori-

ties. So far, these reports have not managed to insight any action of the part of the Karangasem Police Marine Police nor the Marine Security Coordinative Agency (Bakorkamla) despite be-ing based on Ujung Beach. “We have reported the bombings so many times, sir, that it has become boring. No officers have followed up. If this condition is allowed to continue, our coral reef will be severely damaged because once explosion can affect a radius of 500 meters,” he said with great disappointment.

The frustration of the fishermen is made more pressing because they are entering Red Herring

season and fear that the fish bomb-ings committed by unscrupulous individuals could render the her-rings extinct. “Such bombing kills both large and small fish. We will not accept for this to continue”, he complained.

More worrying still is that massive fish bombings are often performed during the celebration of Galungan, Kuningan and Nyepi because officers are on vacation. “The fish bombers are from Lom-bok, sir, because when we chased them that is where fled to,” he concluded.

Chairman of the Karangasem PDI-P Faction, I Gede Dana, im-mediately intervened after hearing the complaints of the fishermen for which he felt deep regret. “Obvi-ously the officers and relevant authorities should be taking action. Moreover, people have repeatedly reported the case, so it should be quickly followed up on. We are not questioning the right to fish, but the bombings are dangerous and damage the marine life and coral reefs,” he said.

When asked for his confirma-tion, the Chief of Karangasem Marine Police, Made Wartama, firmly denied that his party had not taken action regarding the fish bomb reports. “Upon receiving the report, I immediately deployed my personnel to chase down the culprits. We chased the offenders with three boats but they escaped towards the east,” he explained.

His party argued the fish bomb-ers were able to escape because the fishermen were late in reporting the case. If only the fishermen had reported the incident as soon as they saw the offenders, Wartama felt confident that offenders would have been arrested. “Indeed, the public was late in reporting the incident to us, so when we pursued the offenders they had time to had escape towards the east,” he said crossly. (dwa)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A foreign national with the initials PAM made a report to the Bali Police concerning al-legations of a fraud and embezzle-ment case related to a metropolitan artist with the initials JT, involving the construction of a villa in Ubud, Gianyar, on Friday (Oct 7).

The Chief of Sub-directorate II, General Criminal Investiga-tion Unit of the Bali Police, I.B. Megeng, told journalists that he was in fact handling such a case, but was reluctant to provide further details given that the case is still under investigation.

Meanwhile, PAM,’ lawyer I.B. Putu Astina, when contacted by

telephone, confirmed that his client had reported JT to the Bali Police. “We officially reported this case to the Bali Police on October 7,” he added.

Initially, said Astina did disclose that PAM had purchased 0.35 Hectare plot of land in Kedewatan, Ubud in 1999. Given that PAM is foreign national, and unable to

hold land in his own name, he bor-rowed the name of a property agent from Bandung with the initials RM under the agreement of a freehold title or SHM. “He (RM—Ed) only serves as a nominee with his name being used in the freehold title,” said Astina.

A year later, a luxury villa was established on that land. PAM then cooperated with JT to build a spa on the remaining 0.12 Hectares of land next to the villa

JT asked PAM to help to him apply for a bank loan to build the spa outlet. In addition, JT

also requested PAM to have the freehold nominee title transferred to his name. “My client agreed to do so because they had been close friends for a long time. Subse-quently, a deed of sale was made. The problem arose after the bank loan worth IDR 17 billion had been granted, and JT neglected to report the use of this money to my client. Furthermore, when my client and his family who were living in the villa, were reported to the Gianyar Police station with the charge of villa annexation,” he said. (kmb36)

Dispute of villaArtist reported to Bali Police

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The fishermen boats are placed on the beach

Hundreds of fishermen chase fish bombers

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Hundreds of fishermen from Ujung Beach, Karangasem, chased down three large wooden boats that had been caught fish bombing, Friday (Dec 5). Such destructive actions against nature were committed at several locations, such as in the region of Bukit Sampian of the Perasi water territory and in the region of Yeh Kali water territory, Seraya Barat. Unfortunately the Karangasem Marine Police were slow in responding to the fish bombing thus enabling the perpetrators to escape.

3Monday, December 8, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, December 8, 2014

In the cool night air, an urbane Austrian tourist climbs rocky steps behind a chic hotel lodge and peers into a matt-black metal cylinder containing a spine of mirrors and lenses that reveal the universe.

“My mum wanted to set him on fire yesterday when he said, ‘We are looking ten million years in the past!’” he joked, pointing at the resident astronomer.

Not everyone is ready to face the enormity of the universe laid out so starkly by power-ful magnification and the crisp desert sky.

But across the starkly beauti-ful Namib, hotels and lodges are betting that the stars will lead to more business rather than a spike in Galileo-esque witch hunts.

Many lodges have bought research-grade or “prosumer” telescopes and hired l ive-in astronomers as they try to lure

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — The latest ‘What Happens Here, Stays Here’ Las Vegas ad campaign features a familiar musi-cal act from, well, right here.

Indie-rock band Imagine Dragons has teamed up with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for the latest ad from the firm R&R Partners.

One is selling a destination.The other is selling a forthcoming

as-yet-unnamed album.The creative crew for R&R tasked

with keeping the ad campaign fresh, had their idea: two ads, one with a man, the other a woman, who both crisscross through Las Vegas scenes running into each other pool-side, or amid a fire-breathing variety act, at a 1920s-themed nightclub and a concert venue.

Then, about two months ago, the hometown band Imagine Dragons came along with their newest single, “I bet my life.”

The quickly conceived commer-cials that debut Monday were shot on location at the SLS Las Vegas and MGM Grand casino-hotels. They cost $1.2 million to produce and will cost the Las Vegas tourism agency an ad-

ditional $7.6 million to buy national air time on NBC, ABC, FOX, E!, Bravo, Food Network, USA, Travel Channel, Comedy Central and several other channels.

“We’re in debt to Vegas,” said Dan Reynolds, the band’s lead singer and a Las Vegas native, in interviews filmed by R&R. “We really owe everything to Vegas.”

Imagine Dragons sold more than 3.9 million copies of its 2012 debut album “Night Visions” which included the Grammy-winning single “Radioac-tive.”

Rob Dondero with R&R Partners, who leads the team that sells Las Vegas to the world, said the spots’ messages are simple.

“Las Vegas is a place where any-thing can happen,” he said.

The destination has been relying more and more on entertainment that doesn’t involve taking an actual gam-ble, and the ads don’t show a single slot machines or casino floor.

Caroline Coyle, the visitor’s author-ity vice present of brand strategy indi-cated that wasn’t on purpose and said the campaign’s goal isn’t to highlight one particular aspect of Las Vegas.

“We really like to evoke just a feel-ing for Vegas,” she said.

Star-gazing tourists flock to Africa’s darkest place

Agence France-Presse

NAMIBIA - Not many tourist spots boast of being dark and difficult to get to, but the Namib desert is one of a number of remote “Dark Sky Reserves” drawing in stargazers for a celestial safari.

tourists who want to gaze deeper into space and time.

According to consultancy Euromonitor, astro-tourism holi-days are growing in line with in-creased urbanisation, with Africa in particular “taking off”.

“Most people come here for the other activities, visiting the dunes or the nature reserve where you see all the wildlife. This is kind of a bonus,” said Misha Vickas, formerly a guide at a public observatory in Sydney, but now resident at the AndBeyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge.

“Most people have never looked through a telescope and a lot of them have just never looked up.”

Vickas operates a “go-to” tele-scope, a device which, once cali-brated, pivots on demand to any star or planet with little more than a mechanical hum and whir.

Not that a telescope is really

needed in the Namib.Across as much as 50 percent

of the Earth the starry firmament is obscured by an orange glow of man-made light pollution.

During the day, the Namib’s sea of copper red and ecru yel-low dunes and mountains glow blindingly, befitting the world’s oldest desert.

But in the inky night sky, the Milky Way seems much closer than Windhoek, a half day’s drive away across dirt track and sun-rippled single-lane carriageway.

Mars’s red glow, Magellanic clouds -- dwarf galaxies outside our own -- and assorted gaseous nebulae are all visible with the naked eye.

“The sky is particularly good to look at here, because the Milky Way, which is the main part of our galaxy, is usually very high over-head,” meaning light refraction is at a minimum, Vickas said.

“There is a lot to look at.”

Darkest places on earthIn 2012, a sliver of the central

Namib the size of Mauritius -- the NamibRand -- was named Af-rica’s first “Dark Sky Reserve,” in recognition of the sky’s special allure here.

A handful of similar sites exist across the world, includ-ing Aoraki Mackenzie on New Zealand’s South Island and the Iveragh Peninsula on Ireland’s southwest coast.

Hawaii and Chile have also be-come renowned as astro-tourism hot spots.

“The darkest places are almost inevitably distant from populated places,” said John Barentine of the Arizona-based International Dark-Sky Association, which awards the designation.

“The glow of cities can often be seen several hundred kilometres away under good conditions.”

To rank sky quality, scientists use measurements like the Bortle scale.

An inner city is level nine, meaning you can see very little. Bright constellations like Orion

may be faint or even invisible.At the other end of the scale, in

a first-class sky like the Namib, Venus and Jupiter shine bright, a white swathe of zodiacal light smears the sky.

Like parts of Chile, the Na-mib’s good weather and ultra-dry atmosphere make for clear nights and particularly transparent air all the way to the horizon.

“A visitor to NamibRand has a statistically high probability of experiencing that exceptionally dark sky on any given night,” Barentine said.

Namibia has just over two million people spread over an area roughly the size of Pakistan or Nigeria, making it one of the most sparsely populated coun-tries in the world.

“NamibRand is located in one of the darkest accessible places that remain on Earth,” said Bar-entine.

“It is as close as you get to the way the world was long ago, before the invention and prolif-eration of artificial lights.”

That may be the only thing this remote region is close to -- thank-fully for stargazing tourists.

New Las Vegas tourism ad features Imagine Dragons

AP Photo/Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

In this Oct. 14, 2014 photo from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, actors and crewmembers record a segment of a dual-purpose ad video - to promote both Las Vegas and indie-rock band Imagine Dragons and its upcoming as-yet-unnamed album, at the MGM Grand hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

This condition was recognized by Mrs. Dana, one of the bamboo chair shop owners at Kebun Kaja hamlet, Belega village, not long ago. The demand for handmade bamboo chair craft of Belega artisans did no longer get any orders like in the past. Aside from raw materials, the demand was not as high as what she got before.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Dana claimed that cur-rently the bamboo chair craftsmen at Belega had at least one to two stocks of chair. It was to anticipate in case anyone wanted to look for bamboo chair. Incidentally, when met, her bamboo chairs were being packed to be sent to Singaraja for resale.

In the past, the order of the Belega bamboo chair reached 50-100 sets. So, only such large amount of purchase was categorized to be an order. “The orders are usually in large number, but when the purchase only consists of one to ten seats it is only called a stock of goods,” she said. (kmb16)

IBP DENPASAR - Fifty cars followed the “Family Touring End

of the Year 2014” that held by Tabloid Tokoh, Bali TV, Bali Post Media Group, and Auto2000 Tabanan on Sunday (7/12). The participants start the touring from Press Building, K. Nadha, headed to Bagus Agro, Pelaga, Badung Regency to take part in mahogany tree planting and donating stationery to elementary students of SD 1 Pelaga, Badung Regency.

According to Bagus Agro Owner, Bagus Sudibya, he developed the Bagus Agro since 10 years ago. This tourism object was built to provide experience for tourists how people’s lives in rural Bali. “In Pelaga many cultural potential can be experienced by tourists, such as “metekap” and “ngiris tuak”. These kind of cultural events can be use as a cultural attraction for tourists, “he said.

Besides being entertain by traditional dances and perfor-mances, touring participants also entertained by Irene (Trio Kirani JAR). Participants also had the opportunity to enjoy a walk at Bagus Agro which has an area of 18 hectares and is equipped with villas and camp area.

The head of Family Touring committee, Ngurah Budi said this event was held to provide an opportunity for families to gather and enjoy the fresh air of countryside.” Through this touring family is expected to be closer to one another and can relieve fatigue after a week doing routine,” said Budi who also the Managing Editor of Tokoh.

Touring participants also take part in several games, such selfie photo contest and best dress. There are three prizes for best selfie picture and five prizes for best dressed. Family Touring held by Bali Post Group also supported by Badung Regency, Bagus Agro Pelaga, Auto2000 Tabanan, Yuasa, Cellular World, Vkool, Faber-Castell, Aqua, House of Dura, Sri Sri Embroidery, Bali Bird Park, and IWAPI Denpasar. (kmb18)

Bamboo chair craft survives amidst lack for orders

Bali PostGIANYAR - Currently the SMEs in Gian-

yar amount to the thousands of unit. Amidst the current condition, the SMEs producing bamboo chair crafts still attempt to survive amidst the lack for orders. However, the artisans of bamboo chair at Belega village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, remain to survive by making their stocks.

IBP/Agung Dharmada

Currently the SMEs in Gianyar amount to the thousands of unit. Amidst the current condition, the SMEs producing bamboo chair crafts still attempt to survive amidst the lack for orders.

Tens of cars took part “Family Touring End of the Year 2104”

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Fifty cars followed the “Family Touring End of the Year 2014” that held by Tabloid Tokoh, Bali TV, Bali Post Media Group, and Auto2000 Tabanan on Sunday (7/12).

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for November 26 through December 22, 2014

26 Nov Buda Cemeng Warigadean Pura KapisahSumerta DenpasarPura Pasek GelgelGerih Abian Semal DenpasarPura Puncak SariPenarukan Peninjoan BangliPura Anteg Sari Dangin Pangkung Kediri TabananPura Bangun SaktiBesakihPura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kediri Tabanan

27 Nov Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 28 Nov Hari Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung BesakihIda Ratu Raja Puraus Merajan Sloding Besakih

2 Des Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi BangliPura Beratan BaturitiPura Batu Klotok KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Sawan BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Tarokaja TegallalangPura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Sidemen

3 Des Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncak Sari Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi

Sidan GianyarPura Puseh Penengil Darma Kubu Tam-bahan SingarajaPura Dalem Maya Blah Batuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih

6 Des Purnama Sasih Kenam Aci-aci Penyeheb Brahman dipura Kiduling Kleteb BesakihPura Lingsar LombokPura Bebengan Tanjung LombokPura Dalem Putra Benawah Gianyar

11 Des Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Peninjoan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Di Penataran Agung BesakihPura Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus dewa Besakih

12 Des Sugihan Bali dan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 14 Des Penyekeban 15 Des Penyajaan Galungan 16 Des Penampahan Galungan 17 Des Hari raya Galungan Pura Wawika Kupang NTTPura Agung Giri Nhata Sumbawa Besar NTB

Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak KalimantanPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

18 Des Umanis Galungan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Kediri Tabanan

19 Des Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran KutaPura Luhur Kawitan Cameng Cemenggaon Sukawati

20 Des Pemaridan Guru Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

21 Des Ulihan dan Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti BatubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

22 Des Pemacekan Agung Pura Dasar Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin GianyarPura Kahyangan Tulus Apuan Kintamani

Anyer, a breathtaking beachside set-ting in Banten, is one of the most sought-after holiday destinations for Jakarta and West Java’s residents. But for many business travelers, Anyer is becoming most popular for its close proximity to Cilegon – a major coastal industrial city famous for its thriving factories and trading opportunities.

Cilegon, also located in the Ban-ten province of Indonesia, covers 175.51km2 of industrial and com-mercial land. Among the factories in Cilegon are Krakatau Steel Company, a vital producer of steel for domestic and foreign needs, and Asahimas Chemical Company. Unsurprisingly, Cilegon has garnered the nickname “Steel City” since the city is the largest steel producer in Southeast Asia, producing around 6 mil-lion tonnes of steel each year.

Additionally, Cilegon is also one of the vital state objects. This is because there is a wide range of other vital ob-jects in the city such as the Merak Har-bour, the Krakatau Steel Industrial Zone (including the PT. Krakatau Steel Tbk, Asahimas, Siemens, KS - POSCO joint venture, Chandra Asri, and Pertamina), as well as PLTU Suralaya, the Krakatau

power plant, the Krakatau Tirta Indus-trial Water Treatment Plant.

With these major industrial landmarks so close to Anyer in Cilegon, together with the opening of the new airport in Banten, the city and surrounding area is destined to become one of West Java’s preferred MICE and leisure destinations, with the added bonus of Anyer beach on the doorstep for when business travelers are off the clock.

Aston Anyer Beach Hotel is located in the heart of Anyer only 90 minutes from Indonesia’s capital city, offering the perfect mix of convenience and exotic scenery. This 3 star hotel on Jalan Raya Karang Bolong will feature 101 guest rooms and suites stylishly designed in the contemporary Aston way. As part of the MICE facilities, the modern confer-ence center boasts 3 auxiliary meeting rooms purposefully built on the top floor to soak up the beautiful ocean views. Complete with an outdoor terrace, this breezy area is perfect for refreshing cof-fee breaks or dramatic sunset cocktail receptions.

The three meetings rooms range in size, from the smallest room that can accommodate up to 85 people, through

to the largest room than can hold up to 400 guests. Each of the meeting rooms also include their own partitions, mean-ing they can be divided into three smaller rooms for more intimate meetings, or opened up for larger MICE events and other social gatherings.

The hotel also features a cozy all-day dining restaurant for casual meetings or a relaxed meal, together with recreational facilities for downtime including an outdoor swimming pool, a private beach, a pool table and ping pong table and a bonfire pit.

“Not only is Anyer a stunning loca-tion for a beachside break, it is also in close proximity to Cilegon, meaning Anyer is also on the radar of business travelers that flock to the bustling in-dustrial city. With this in mind, we are delighted to be offering Aston Anyer Beach Hotel as a MICE destination to cater to the area’s business market. The modern conference center at the hotel is truly one of a kind, with its open-air terrace looking out to Anyer’s famous beach. Bookings can be made on our website at www.AstonHotelsAsia.com” said Mr. John Flood – President & CEO of Archipelago International.

IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Aston opens in Anyer BeachIBP

JAKArTA – With the highly anticipated opening of Aston Anyer Beach Hotel on the horizon this De-

cember, Archipelago International have announced that the beachside destination will not only cater to West Java’s holidaymakers, but will also be the next MICE destination for its business travelers.

According to information collected in the field on Saturday (Dec 6), the local government through the Buleleng Public Works Agency will focus on accomplishing the road repair along 30 kilometers in 2015,with a projected cost of about IDR 3.1 billion. The fund does not include money to repair Jalan Udayana-Jalan Kartini Singaraja road section along 1.2 kilometers estimated to cost IDR 6.5 billion.

Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Public Works Agency, Nyoman Gede Suryawan, said that the road-paving program has been well funded since 2013 and 2014. To complete the paving of roads in 2015, the government was finding it difficult to allocate funds to complete rural roads or non-status road that were in considerable damage.

“Next year, we will focus on com-pleting the county roads first. We will repair approximately 30 kilometers of road. For the last two years, we have allocated substantial funds. Next year we will use what is left to fix other roads.

According to Suryawan, next year the local government would also al-locate an increase in the quality of Jalan Udayana-Jalan Kartini having the status as a county road. The budget allocated was indeed large because the asphalt needed to be reinforced with concrete and then covered it with a layer of asphalt. “That section of road often has large trucks passing through it. If we simply cover the damaged road with asphalts, it will easily flake off again,” he added.(kmb38)

Bali PostMANGUPURA – Thus far,

law enforcement officials and the government have not been able to stem the rush of drug smuggling and trafficking in Bali. Various at-tempts have been made by domestic and foreign syndicates to smuggle illicit goods into Bali despite many botched attempts. Customs officers of Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Ba-dung, have managed to thwart the smuggling of crystal meth weigh-ing 16,614 grams or worth IDR 29,905,200,000 billion (1 gram is estimated to be worth IDR 1.8 million).

“One gram can be consumed by 100 people, so you can imagine

how many people in Bali could af-flicted if we fail to prevent the drugs from coming in. The large amount ceased proves that drug imports to Bali remain high, especially just before New Years,” said the Head of Customs and Excise Office of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, Budi Harjanto.

Other than crystal meth, the offi-cers of Ngurah Rai Airport Customs and Excise have also secured other types of drugs, namely cocaine weighing 245 grams, 115 grams of hashish, 194 grams of marijuana, 66 grams of MDPV, and 57 grams of MDMA. A total of 22 cases were revealed this year, and the offenders were predominantly foreigners. The

foreigners who were arrested due to their attempt to smuggle the il-licit goods through the international airport were from France, South Africa, Lithuania, Germany and New Zealand. “There were also In-donesian citizens involved who are asked to transport the goods from overseas to Bali,” he said.

Their modus operandi varied, some hiding the drugs in the walls of luggage, paintings, Bi-Pump, book covers, panties and the pack-aging of a PS3 game cassette as well as in the binder of books. “Around New Years, we will in-crease security and surveillance. As in previous years, the smuggling efforts certainly increase and so we

must be aware of this,” said Budi.The Eradication Division Head

of the BNNP Bali, I Gede Artawan, revealed that so many tourist visit-ing Bali before New Year 2015, more people could be attempting to try these illicit drugs. As a re-sult of this increasing demand, we expect incessant drug smuggling. “Although many smugglers were arrested, others escape our detec-tion. The successes attained by the Customs and Excise Office is praiseworthy. We have attempted various efforts to prevent the cir-culation of narcotics in Bali,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Sub-directorate 2 of Bali Police Nar-

cotics Unit, Joni Lay, said that cooperation between the Customs and Excise Office with the Direc-torate of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit had been well established in order to reveal the smuggling syndicate. International syndicates continued to supply drugs to Bali by frequently changing couriers. The couriers have been trained to conceal their misdeeds from the controller. “We want to prevent this stuff from getting into Bali. But, a high demand will result in higher rates of smuggling. Prevention also depends on our willingness to take precautions,” said the former Operations Head of the Badung Police. (kmb36)

During 2014, crystal meth secured worth IDR 29.9 billion

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One of the damage road in Buleleng Regency

To handle road damage

County govt prepares budget for 30 kilometers

Bali Post

SINGArAJA – The intention of the government of Buleleng to repair the roads in Northen Bali has yet to be realized. Of the 288 kilometers of seriously damaged county roads, the government has only allocated a budget for asphalting the road along 30 kilometers. The budget does not include the non-status road repairs. As planned, the non-status road damage will be budgeted through the Special Allocation Fund (DAK).

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“The flights using wide-bodied aircraft flew 387,137 passengers. They were all foreign tourists who returned home after holidaying in the tourist resort province,” Siregar stated.

He remarked that the October passengers increased by 3.5 percent as compared to 373,670 tourists flown in the previous month.

Over the past decade, Bali,

which is Indonesia’s main foreign tourist destination, has drawn in-creasing number of visitors in the January-October 2014 period and has recorded 3.12 million tourist arrivals.

As compared to the same period in 2013, the foreign tourist arrivals this year increased by 16.84 percent from last year’s recorded value of 2.47 million.

The data released by the prov-ince’s Tourism Office earlier revealed that a total of 3,122,893 foreign tour-ists visited Bali province during the period between January and October 2014, increasing by 16.86 percent as compared to that recorded in the same period last year.

Based on the data, Bali received an average of 310 thousand foreign tourists every month.

Local tourism observer Tjok Gede Agung remarked that the num-ber of foreign tourists visiting Bali had increased during the past years and was expected to grow further in the future as Indonesia implements the visa-free policy for tourists ar-riving from some countries such as the ASEAN countries.

Indonesia has set a target to receive 9.5 million foreign tourists in 2014. The tourism ministry hopes to attract at least 3.5 million tourists from ASEAN, including 1.75 mil-lion from Singapore, 1.4 million from Malaysia, and 315 thousand from the Philippines.

Last year, the largest number of tourists arrived in Indonesia from Singapore, followed by Malaysia, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the United States, and Britain.

In addition to Singapore, Malay-sia, Australia, Japan, and South Ko-rea, China is now one of the main markets for Indonesian tourism.

Data from the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) showed that the number of Chinese tour-ists visiting Indonesia in the first eight months of last year rose 25.54 percent to 412,698 over the same period in the previous year.

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The flights from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to various cities worldwide stood at 2,192 last October, or an increase of 2.10 percent, from 2,147 flights in September, stated Bali’s statistics official Panusunan Siregar.

Flights from Bali to foreign countries increase

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DENPASAR - The flights from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to various cities world-wide stood at 2,192 last October, or an increase of 2.10 percent, from 2,147 flights in September, stated Bali’s statistics official Panusunan Siregar.

Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour,” Beyonce’s surprise self-titled re-lease and Pharrell’s “G I R L” will compete for the coveted album of the year, along with Beck’s “Morn-ing Phase” and Ed Sheeran’s “X,” the most streamed album on Spotify this year.

The Recording Academy an-nounced its nominees for the 57th annual show throughout the day on Friday.

Pharrell earned a whopping three nominations for the top prize thanks to his production work on Beyonce and Sheeran’s albums, which means the hit-maker only has a chance to walk away with four awards when the Grammys are presented on Feb. 8.

Smith is up for key honors such as best new artist and song and record of the year for his hit “Stay With Me.” Beyonce, surprisingly, was not up for song or record of the year. Her nominations include best urban contemporary album as well as R&B song and R&B performance for

“Drunk in Love” featuring Jay Z.For song and record of the year,

Smith’s “Stay With Me” will bat-tle Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” and Sia’s “Chandelier.”

Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” is nominated for record of the year, while Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” is up for song of the year, a songwriter’s award.

Azalea, the Australian newcomer, earned four nominations, including best rap album for “The New Clas-sic,” best pop duo/group performance for “Fancy” with Charli XCX and best new artist, pitting her and Smith against pop-rock trio HAIM, English band Bastille and country singer Brandy Clark.

Beck, Jack White, Usher, Drake, Jay Z, composer Gordon Goodwin and mastering engineer Tom Coyne also earned four nominations each. Eric Church and Miranda Lambert, both nominated in all four country categories, will compete for best coun-try album, along with Clark, Dierks

Bentley and Lee Ann Womack.Sia, who also earned four nomina-

tions, had a breakthrough this year with “Chandelier” after writing songs for other singers, from Rihanna to Beyonce to Katy Perry.

Smith’s six nominations include best pop solo performance and pop vocal album for his debut, “In the Lonely Hour,” one of the year’s top-selling albums. The big-voiced singer will battle Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry and Cold-play in the latter category.

Pharrell’s “Happy” and John Leg-end’s “All of Me,” tunes that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year, were technically released before Grammy eligibility, so the singers submitted live renditions of the songs so they could be consid-ered for awards. The songs didn’t earn nominations in the top awards, but the hits will compete with “Stay With Me,” ‘’Shake It Off” and “All About That Bass” for best pop solo performance.

Associated Press

BOSTON — Marky Mark doesn’t want a black mark any longer. Mark Wahlberg is asking Massachusetts for a pardon for assaults he committed in 1988 when he was a troubled teen-ager in Boston, saying he has dedicated himself to becoming a better person in his adult years so he can be a role model to his children and others.

The former rapper known as Marky Mark and star of movies including “The Departed” and “The Gambler,” set to open in theaters Dec. 19, filed a pardon application with state officials Nov. 26. New England Cable News first reported on the ap-plication Thursday.

In 1988, when Wahlberg was 16, he hit a man in the head with a wooden stick while trying to steal two cases of alcohol in front of a convenience store near his family’s home in the Dorchester section of Boston, the application says. He punched another man in the face while trying to avoid police, the docu-ment says.

Wahlberg says in the application that he was high on mari-juana and narcotics at the time, and police caught him with a small amount of pot. He also apologized for his actions.

He ended up being convicted as an adult of assault and other charges, and he was sentenced to three months in jail. He said he was released after serving about 45 days.

Wahlberg, 43, says in the application that he turned his life around and became a successful music artist, actor and film and television producer. He also notes he has raised millions of dollars for charity and donated his time and efforts for phil-anthropic causes.

“I have not engaged in philanthropic efforts in order to make people forget about my past,” Wahlberg says in the application. “To the contrary, I want people to remember my past so that I can serve as an example of how lives can be turned around and how people can be redeemed.”

Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File

Mark Wahlberg seeks pardon for

1988 assaults

Beyonce, Pharrell, Sam Smith lead in Grammy nodsAssociated Press

NEW YORK — The year’s brightest newcomer, Sam Smith; the most nominated female in Grammy history, Beyonce; and mega-producer Pharrell led the Grammy Award nominations an-nounced Friday, with six nominations apiece.

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Beyonce performs on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

Ronaldo breaks record with hat trick in Madrid win