The Indonesian rupiah and the Malaysian ringgit led gains on upbeat Indonesian trade data and strong Malaysian export figures for August. Meanwhile the yen rose for the second straight day against the dollar after the Bank of Japan decided against increasing its already huge stimulus measures.

The data from the two Southeast Asian nations contributed to a generally confident outlook despite ongoing worries about China, the world’s number two economy and biggest energy user.

Anxiety has pushed investors out of higher-yielding but higher-risk emerging market currencies since China devalued the yuan in August. That move triggered a sweeping selloff that wiped trillions in valu-ations from global markets.

“The rupiah was sold off quite sharply before sentiment turned, so the adjustment may be also quite large,” Koji Fukaya, the Tokyo-based chief executive officer at FPG Securities, told Bloomberg News.

“Sentiment is turning better in emerging markets” and the rupiah could strengthen to 13,700 over the next three weeks, he said.

In Malaysia, the ringgit surged the most since 1998 after monthly exports jumped more than forecast in August.

Oil prices have also edged up in recent

weeks thanks to a slightly weaker greenback, hopes for a pick-up in global stock markets after the past two months’ volatility and expectations for Iranian crude to soon start hitting markets.

Traders are now keeping an eye on the Department of Energy’s weekly report on US commercial crude inventories later in the day. (afp)

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NEW YORK - Gloomy rock leg-ends The Cure on Tuesday announced a 25-date tour of North America, dispelling persistent speculation of retirement. The English band, who last released an album in 2008, has not performed this year and played select dates in 2014 including charity shows in London.

The Cure announced the band would play 25 shows in North Amer-ica in 2016 but initially revealed only three dates -- in May and June in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Singer and guitarist Robert Smith, 56, is famous for his on-stage stami-na, often playing for more than three

hours with minimal interruption.Led by the palm tree-haired

Smith’s wailing voice, The Cure helped shape the genre of Goth rock especially with the 1982 album “Por-nography” which was dominated by thundering dark chords and suicidal lyricism. But The Cure’s output since then has shown -- in the title of one album -- “wild mood swings” with the band winning a popular follow-ing for giddy tunes such as “Friday I’m In Love.”

Fans have for years speculated that each tour or album would mark an end for the influential band.

Smith said in interviews in 2014 that the band had recorded mate-

rial for a new album tentatively called “4:14 Scream” but was unsure whether to put it out.

The songs came from sessions for the last album, “4:13 Dream,” which Smith said was meant to be a double album but was condensed at the in-sistence of the band’s label.

Since then, Porl Thompson, with Smith a guitarist and founding mem-ber of The Cure, left the band to devote himself to painting.

Smith has recently pursued musi-cal projects on his own including a cover of a song by the Scottish post-punk band Twilight Sad, which was chosen to open for The Cure on the upcoming tour. (afp)

Thai media had hyped Madonna’s first-ever show in the Thai capital as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” that would “make history” in Thailand.

Tickets for the Feb. 9 show went on sale Saturday and sold out within an hour, ac-cording to Thai promoter BEC-Tero, which on Wednesday announced a second show for Feb. 10 at the 15,000-seat Impact Arena.

Madonna’s world tour comes to Asia in February, with shows in Taipei, followed by Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Macau, Manila, Auckland and several stops in Australia.

Tickets in Bangkok range from 2,000 baht to 16,000 baht, or $55 to $450, as well as pricier VIP packages that include access to pre-show parties. (ap)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country stars Miranda Lambert and the late Johnny Cash, along with famed blues musician Steve Cropper, were honored Tuesday for helping to build Music City’s reputation as a home for artists of any genre.

The three musicians, along with Gaylord Entertainment business executive E.W. “Bud” Wendell, were given stars on the Music City Walk of Fame in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Lambert, a two-time Grammy winner originally from Texas, said she first came to Nashville a decade ago as a contestant on the talent show “Nashville Star,” but has spent the better part of her career on the road.

When she finally took some time off of touring and moved back to Nashville, she said she felt like it was home.

“I have never felt more inspired,” Lambert said. “It was my first sum-mer kind of off the road and I have never felt more ready to make music and learn from music and learn from musicians and songwriters.”

Cropper got his start at Stax Records, in Memphis, Tennessee, as a guitarist with Booker T. and the M.G.s, The Mar-Keys and later as a member of the Blues Brothers with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

But he was drawn by country and studio musicians, including Chet Atkins and Hank Garland, and moved about 30 years ago to Nashville, where he also has a studio.

“I have always said that Nashville has some of the greatest musicians that have ever walked on the Earth, period,” Cropper said.

Cash’s youngest brother, Tommy Cash, accepted the honor on his brother’s behalf. Wendell, an executive who helped to grow the Grand Ole Opry and Gaylord Entertainment, also was inducted. (ap)

Madonna announces second Bangkok show as part of world tour

BANGKOK — Madonna has added a second show in Bangkok for her “Rebel Heart” world tour after the first concert sold out in under an hour, organizers said Wednesday.

Madonna performs at the opening night of her Rebel Heart Tour at the Bell Center on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Montreal, Quebec.

The Cure returns with extensive US tour

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Johnny Cash, Miranda Lambert, Steve Cropper get stars

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Tommy Cash, the youngest brother of the late Johnny Cash, picks a flower petal off the star presented to Johnny Cash on the Music City Walk of Fame Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. Tommy Cash appeared at the ceremony on the behalf of his brother.

DAMAGED infrastruc-ture in general and roads in particular are still the government’s home-work that was “eaten

by the dog”. Many unat-tended roads, especially

those located in villages have banana trees growing out of them. Deputy Chairman of Bali’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Wayan Mahardika, said that county governments should be ashamed and hand over the responsibility of road repair to the pro-vincial government.

Mahardika suggested that county roads that are in need of repair should have their status changed into provincial road, so that responsibility is clear. Like-wise, damaged provincial roads should have their status changed to national road, that way the levels of government with the largest funds can attend to road repair more quickly. “Without regular maintenance even small cracks in the road can become a major problem. Therefore it is very important to determine not only who is charge of repairs but also which level of government is responsible for maintenance, so as to ensure that roads are kept in good condition,” he said.

Mahardika also highlighted the poor coordination between the government and water, electricity and telecommunications companies. In many cases, roads that are in good condition need to be dug up to lay pipes or cables however often they are not repaved according to government standards.

“There are specific laws that state that anyone wishing to dig up a road, needs to get permission from whoever owns the road before conducting such an activity, but seldom is this done. Perhaps stricter sanctions needs to be imposed on those who break this law. There seems to be a lot of tolerance for those who break this law, particularly on the part of the pro-vincial public works who are in charge of granting or denying such permission,” he explained.

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The Indonesian rupiah led gains on upbeat Indonesian trade data over US dollar on Wednesday.

Dollar declines on upbeat data in Indonesia, Malaysia

TOKYO - Waning expectations of an early rise in US interest rates helped higher-yielding currencies advance against the dollar again Wednesday.

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Division Head for Regional Infrastructure for the Bali Re-gional Development Planning Board, Putu Naning Djaya-ningsih, said counties and municipalities often coordinate with the central government in in the case where the provincial budget for road repairs is insuf-ficient. “Whenever possible we try to provide financial as-sistance to the counties through existing mechanisms includ-ing acquiring funds from the “Special Financial Assistance” program. The central govern-ment has said that for 2016, a total budget of IDR 100 bil-lion will be granted to county governments for road repairs,” he said.

Naning added that all the counties have already listed

the particular roads sections that are in need of repair, in order of priority, and proposals have been sent to the central government.

“One country has requested more than IDR 100 billion. This will definitely be left to the central government to evaluate which will involve on site inspections of the road. In order to grant a special alloca-tion such as this, there needs to be the involvement of the State Finance of Development Comtroller (BPKP) The county government’s proposal also needs to be backed up with detailed engineering designs,” she said.

Naning added that the pro-vincial government is currently designing toll roads to connect South Bali to North Bali and East Bal to West Bali. with the stated aim of aiding these regions to benefit by this con-

nectivity. “Toll roads have been on the

table for a while now, this year however the Bali Regional Development Planning Board and the Ministry are keen to get things moving. Apart form road construction, we are also looking to reduce the travel time between Denpasar and Gilimanuk by creating short-cuts. Similarly, we are looking at ways to reduce travel time form the South to the North of Bali,” he added.

Naning went on to say that apart from repairing existing roads, they are also looking to change the status of county roads into provincial roads and provincial roads into national roads, particularly for roads that give access to North Bali, so that the central government can repair them thus facilitating access to the North.

“The government’s plan for the medium term development plan (RPJMN) 2015-2019 and the Bali provincial strategic program have set forth a devel-opment plan for land and sea. On land, there are programs in the Sarbagita region aimed at creating a railway that would connect the airport, Denpasar and Mengwi and would carry passenger trains with tourism in mind, rather than cargo trains. There is also public transport concept in the works that would follow the Trans Sarbagita in order to overcome bottlenecks in South Bali,” he said.

Other infrastructure proj-ects, added Naning, include development of the ports of Tanah Ampo, Gunaksa and Amed. There are also plans to built three reservoirs, one of which would be located in Titab. (rin)

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully 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

Launched over 18 years ago in Bali, Aston was the first ever hotel brand by Archipelago International. Now, in 2015, the Aston portfolio stretches through-out Indonesia spanning 42 hotels together with an ex-tensive development pipe-line for further future ex-pansion.

The brand was brought to Indonesia in 1997 by Charles Brookfield, Founder and Chairman of Archipelago In-ternational. Charles brought over 30 years of experience from within the hotel indus-try and led the Archipelago group to success by target-ing and understanding the demand for quality hotels in Indonesia, establishing the group’s signature “delight-ful moments of heartfelt service” credo.

Dedicated to keeping the brand at the forefront of its game, Tenaiya Brookfield, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Archipelago International, together with

her marketing team recently implemented their creative visions by redefining the ASTON brand with a stylish and high-end new look.

The concept has been in-tegrated into the new designs for Aston’s advertisements by focusing on the business trav-eler market and Aston’s des-tination hotels. As seen in the ad artwork, the previous wave design has been replaced with a sharp line and a lighter back-ground color, finished with blue aspect triangles.

To maintain and acceler-ate Aston’s reputation as an International Standard brand, the updated market-ing campaigns will be seen in premium magazines, across social media platforms and online portals, on billboards and at prestigious locations and visible promotion spots throughout Indonesia.

“The new Aston ad cam-paign is designed to reflect a greater focus on our custom-ers, their needs and visions and how we can support

them. Aston’s loyal custom-ers still want a great night’s sleep and full service inter-national offerings in prime locations with friendly staff. We will continue to keep our promises and hopefully also surprise and delight them with a few more unex-pected benefits across the 42 locations in the Indonesian archipelago.” Said Tenaiya Brookfield, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Archi-pelago International.

Aston is one of seven core brands by Archipelago International – including favehotel, NEO, Quest, Harper, Alana, and Kamu-ela – that have received new advertising concepts, printed artworks and updated brand logos, together with the Archipelago International logo itself. All brand logos will now appear together on every ad campaign to show guests that the same benefits of one brand can be experienced throughout the entire group.

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DENPASAr – Keeping up-to-date with current market trends, Archipelago International, Indonesia’s fastest growing hotel group, has recently redefined its ASTON brand with a professional and stylish new design concept for its advertisements.

BALI, as the leading tourist designation of Indone-sia, needs to be supported by good infrastructure. The first impression that visitors have of the island, is the airport followed shortly thereafter by road conditions. On that account, the government should be on top of plans for infrastructure, said A.A. Ngurah Kakarsana. Deputy Chairman of Bali’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) in charge of the Transportation Division.

Kakarsana is in support of the plan to build tolls roads in order to facilitate the mobility of tourists, especially considering how congested traffic on the island has become. He pointed out that it takes two hours to get from Tanah Lot to Denpasar, going through Canggu and the same amount of time to go from Ulu-watu to Jimbaran.

“We must not let roads become severely damaged before seeking to improve them. There needs to be proper coordination between related parties such, PDAM, PLN and Telkom, which until now has been quite poor,” he added.

Kakarsana also said that if roads are not attended to, people will stop wanting to visit Bali because of how much time they have to spend in traffic.

Chairman of Kadin Bali, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra agree with Kakarsna but argues that Bali needs new roads. The government is being asked -not only to fix existing roads, but also to create new ones, as traffic congestion has become a scourge on tourism in Bali.

“We are worried about the impact of traffic jams on tourism. Currently roads are only repaired once they have become severely damaged and no new roads have been built since 2005. We are asking for the construc-tion of new roads in villages, districts and throughout the province,” said Wiraputra.

He added that if it takes five years to complete the new roads, that this would be like suicide for Bali. The provincial government, who is in charge of this issue, should immediately form a team. “If the new plan takes five years to complete, we will already be in critical condition. If indeed there is a budget worth IDR 100 billion, why aren’t village roads been built? Only fix-ing damaged roads is useless and does not resolve the issue,” said Wiraputra emphatically adding that new roads are needed, to avoid traffic jams.

Wiraputra also pointed out that traffic engineering has never been conducted by the provincial govern-ment. Traffic engineering could be used to alleviate bottlenecking, even if only temporarily. If necessary, the government should limit the number of motorcycles allowed on the road, thus encouraging people to use public transportation, such as the Sarbagita Bus.

The Chairman of Kadin Bali reiterated how impor-tant mobility is for Bali given the tourism industry here. During high season, tourists flock to Bali and having to spend long hours stuck in traffic on their way to tourist attractions will certainly discourage them form visiting again. (rin)

As a tourism destinationBali needs to be supported

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Damaged roads are still the government’s homework that was “eaten by the dog”. Many unattended roads, especially those located in villages have banana trees growing out of them.

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For every 10 centimetres (four inches) over one metre in height, the odds of developing cancer in-creased by 10 percent in men and 18 percent in women, the research team reported at a medical confer-ence in Barcelona.

A Swedish woman 1.72 metres (six feet) tall, for example, was about a third more likely to con-tract cancer than a woman of 1.52 metres.

The findings, which have not been published in a scientific jour-nal, support similar links found in other studies between height and elevated cancer risk -- but the researchers said their work was based on the largest group of men and women yet.

It was not clear if their findings would translate to people who live in different climates, with different diets and genetic backgrounds.

The findings, unveiled at a meet-ing of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology, looked at birth, health and military records of 5.5 million people born between 1938 and 1991. The tallest was 2.25 m in adulthood.

It found that for every extra 10 cm, a woman had a 20-percent higher risk of breast cancer, while there was a jump of 30 percent for every 10 cm in melanoma risk for both genders.

A United States study in 2013, done among only women, had found a 13 percent higher risk of

developing certain cancers for each 10 centimetres of height.

The new research was met with some scepticism by out-side experts who questioned the methodology, and stressed there was a much stronger cancer risk link with factors such as genetics or obesity.

Rather than tallness “causing” an elevated cancer risk, fac-tors like growth hormones may be influencing both traits, they pointed out.

“It sounds an odd relationship at first glance, but it is actually very

plausible that the risk of cancer in a person should be related to the number of cells in their body, since that determines the number of cells ‘at risk’,” Dorothy Bennett, a sci-entist at University of London said in comments issued by the Science Media Centre.

“A cancer arises by mutations from a single normal cell. Bigger people have more cells.”

Mel Greaves, a researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research in Lon-don, added: “Tall people shouldn’t worry that they are destined to get cancer.” (afp)

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In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, relatives watch as Romulo Coelho holds his newborn daughter, Hadassa, birthed via cesarean section at the Perinatal Clinic in Rio de Janeiro.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Thais Faria sank into a leather love seat, relaxing under the ministrations first of a masseuse, then a manicurist and finally a hairdresser-cum-makeup artist. Not 24 hours after her daugh-ter was born via cesarean, Faria was being pampered at an upscale Rio de Janeiro maternity clinic.

Cesarean births aren’t typically associated with luxury. But the pro-cedures have become de rigueur among Brazil’s wealthy, with new mothers at some high-end clinics

enjoying beauty treatments after the operation in a culture that has come to regard births as glamorous social events — equal parts spa, cocktail party and family get-together. In private clinics nationwide, C-sections account for more than eight of every 10 births.

Authorities want to turn the tide on what Health Ministry of-ficials have called an “epidemic” of cesareans births in the country, with Brazil now the world’s No. 2 recipient of C-sections, second

only to China in raw numbers. They have designed new rules aimed at discouraging the procedure when it’s medically unnecessary, saying C-sections dramatically raise the risk of respiratory problems for the infant and death for the mother.

C-sections aren’t more costly than natural births, but many Bra-zilian doctors prefer to perform surgeries, which end up being more lucrative and more convenient over the long run because they can be scheduled during regular work

hours.The vast majority of Brazil’s

mothers-to-be also prefer C-sec-tions, which have become some-thing of a status symbol. Even in the country’s poor public hospitals, where any Brazilian can seek free health care, C-sections represent around 40 percent of deliveries — more than the United States’ 33 percent cesarean rate, which public health experts consider high. In France, C-sections account for around 20 percent of births; in

Sweden, 17 percent.“The very special first meet-

ing of mother and child has been transformed into a party. And any party has to have a specific time and place, so hence the cesareans,” said Dr. Marcos Dias, a Rio obstetrician who advocates natural childbirth.

At the Perinatal private clinic, where Faria gave birth to her first child, women reserve their spot upon learning of their pregnancies, booking their cesareans months in advance. Fridays are the most popu-lar, because they allow for weekend visits by friends and family.

Ostensibly aimed at bolstering new mom’s self-esteem, Shiatsu massages, mani-pedis and make-overs to prepare fatigued new moth-ers for their close-ups are included in the standard package at the Peri-natal. With its uniformed bellhops pushing luggage-laden roller carts and a cafe serving flutes of Cham-pagne, the clinic more resembles a boutique hotel than a hospital.

In clinics like Perinatal, most new mothers have medical insur-ance that cover the $4,200 price tag of the C-sections, plus a three-day stay in a private room. But that cost can rise considerably. Women with deep pockets can also choose from a selection of pricey extras including personalized room decorations that average about $400, camera and video crews to document the big event and in-room catered buffets costing about $200-$400. For an extra $270, they can rent the Cine Perinatal, a private room where up to 14 guests can follow the birth on a giant flat screen TV as they nibble on hors d’oeuvres. The clinic’s seven deluxe suites aren’t covered by health insurance plans and run an extra $500 for the standard three-night stay.

Analusa Feitosa, Perinatal’s head of nursing, said such perks set the clinic apart and the extras help new mothers recover after giving birth. “Their self-esteem takes a bruis-ing, they’re chubby, swollen and in their heads they see themselves as having been transformed” by the pregnancy, said Feitosa. (ap)

Link between tallness, higher cancer riskPARIS - Being tall is linked to a higher risk of cancer, espe-

cially for women, said research Thursday drawn from physical and health data for five million people in Sweden.

Luxury birthing clinics spur cesarean ‘epidemic’ in BrazilDENPASAR - Balinese art and

culture seems to have no end to the forms and content of expression. Traditionally Balinese painting was originally created uniquely for ceremonial or religio-magical purposes. In the 1930’s, due to a combination of art materials being more readily available, the presence of European artists and anthro-pologists, as well as the influence of changing times, painting in Bali saw a radical transformation in a relatively short time.

This transformation took place in the forms of paintings, that increas-ingly incorporated three dimensions, in the content of the paintings, that started depicting scenes of everyday life and also in the fact that paint-ings were now being produced as market commodities. Despite all these changes, it could be argued that painting in Bali remains an es-sentially spiritual activity.

“In the past Balinese painters created forms that depicted the intangible, whereas after the influ-ence of outsiders, many Balinese painters brought the intangible into forms, seeking to create images that express the intangible but that depict scenes of every day life and eventually moved towards abstrac-tion,” said Professor and painter Wayan Karja.

This change of direction hap-pened in just one generation. He

said, “from form towards the intan-gible to the intangible into form” and now we are seeing many paint-ers working with various levels of abstraction in their works. “What is remarkable is to see this this transformation expressed within a single family,” added Karja who spoke at the opening of the exhibi-tion entitled: ‘From Temple to Tat-too: Three Generations of Balinese Painters” that took place on October 6th at Shankara Art Space (Bale Banjar Bali Global Shankara).

Ida Bagus Made Nadera, was one of the great Balinese painters who lived through those transfor-mative times and his iconic works and extraordinary life bear witness to these changes. During his own life time, Nadera moved away from painting purely devotional works towards explorations of new forms of expression.

Nadera was one of the leading figures of his time and was part of the Pita Maha group of painters that changed the face of painting in Ubud and throughout Bali. Nadera’s paintings are in many of the greatest collections of Bali, Indonesia and the world and show a very particu-lar moment of art history.

The shift of expression, form and use of painting was continued by three of his children: Ida Bagus Weda Asmara, Ida Bagus Ketut Karawa, Ida Ayu Sukini, by his nephew Ida

Bagus Adnyana and by his grandson Ida Bagus Gede Wirawan. Karawa, Sukini and Adnyana were the most directly influenced by Naderas style of painting and their bloodline is evident in their works.

Asmara is the only one of Na-dera’s children to have formal training in the arts and has taken

the ion. Wirawan as the youngest descendant has brought traditional forms back to an even older func-tion -tattoos.

All of these remarkable artists carry with them something essential-ly Balinese and all oftheir artworks have an uncanny similarity in their form and intention to the artworks of

Ida Bagus Made Nadera who clearly had an immense force that drove him. “From Temple to Tattoo” is a reference not only to this particular family but also to the rapid changes that occurred in the recent history of painting on the Island of the Gods. The exhibition will be up until No-vember 7th. (sri)

Lin was found guilty by a Den-pasar district court of smuggling 0.88 gram of methamphetamine.

Lin told the court he came

to Bali for holidaying and she needed the drug for her won consumption.

She said she had regularly

consumed the drug since 2014 to deaden pain in the back of her head that she suffered from accident and gastritis.

Lin Jiang said the pain came again when she arrived in Jakarta and Bali and found no medicines that could stop the pain. (ant)

Chinese woman sentenced to 5 years imprisonment

DENPASAR - Lin Jia Ling (24), a Chinese woman has been sentenced to five years’ im-

prisonment with a fine of Rp1 billion for drug smuggling.

From Temple to Tattoo: Three generations of Balinese painters

DEPuTy regent and regent can-didate team for Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumantri-Wayan Artha Dipa recently stated that Karangasem, where Besakih is located, is one of Bali’s most important watershed ar-eas. If water sources there are dam-aged, Bali will surely be destroyed. Therefor this and other watersheds need to be safeguarded.

The Mas-Dipa team is com-mitted to protecting Bali by keep-ing Karangasem’s water in good condition, as Bali’s upstream area. They will consistently maintain Be-sakih according to Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 and Regional Bylaw No. 17/2012 on Regional Spatial Planning of Bali and Karangasem.

“We are committed to protecting the environment based on the princi-pals of Tri Hita Karana , especially in

Karangasem Let’s maintain Karan-gasem together and jointly realize the ideals of society in Karangasem,” said Mas Sumantri.

According to Sumantri, she will attempt to resolve the problems faced by Karangasem County ac-cording to the presidents stated endeavour to maintain sovereign in politics, economically indepen-dence and distinct cultures. “We’ll attempt to have Karangasem’s eight subdistricts, 78 villages and 716 customary hamlets’ rights re-spected,” she added.

Since Indonesia’ independence 70 years ago, Karangasem re-mains the poorest region in Bali. Mas Sumantri aspires to make Karangasem’s community truly economically competitive. “If elected, together with Mr. Wayan

Artha Dipa, I will seek to realize the community’s aspiration to come out of poverty and become truly competitive,” she said.

Sumantri also asserted that she is not giving empty promise, but will provide concrete evidence to the people of Karangasem. “We do not need grandiose promises, we want to prove that we can improve the welfare of Karangasem so that people from every nook and cranny, of even the smallest villages, can enjoy real independence. Access to water, electricity, infrastructure, education and other needs are our focus,” she explained.

Artha Dipa was expressed simi-lar goals adding that he is commit-ted to keeping Karangasem out of the hands of irresponsible people.

“I have experience in the field of

spatial planning and am a member of the technical team for the Bali Regional Spatial Planning Board. I plan to use my capabilities to preserve Karangasem as Bali main watershed,” he said.

He argued that inclusion of Be-sakih in the National Tourism Stra-tegic Area (KSPN) needs to be ad-dressed, so that the mother temple of Bali does not become contaminated by the tourism sector as the domain of the central government program.

“I have often stated that as a former bureaucrat, I am shocked at Besakih being included in the KSPN. There had been no com-munication on the issue, so I was surprised by the sudden announce-ment of inclusion in the KSPN. We will consistently maintain Besakih as a sacred zone based on regional

bylaw No.16/2009 and keep Be-sakih safe with regional bylaw No.17/2012,” he said.

He acknowledged that in the spatial planning of Karangasem, Besakih is included in the sacred zone and has a sanctity radius of five km. “In our spatial planning of Karangasem it is clear that Besakih belongs to a sacred zone which has a radius of five km. So, it is not possible for Besakih to be included into the KSPN which is the domain of tourism. How can Besakih give priority to tourism?” she asked.

Artha Dipa and his running mate are committed to making efforts to maintain the zoning of Besakih as sacred if elected. “Our commitment is to ensure that none of Karangas-em’s temples become damaged,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Bali’s watershed must be preserved

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Ida Made Ketut Karawa, Ida Bagus Ketut Adnyana dan Ida Bagus Gede Wirawan enjoying the exhibition.

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As Clinton looks for ways to dis-tinguish her ideas from those of her former boss, the relationship between the man in the White House and the woman who hopes to replace him has grown increasingly complicated. No issue presents more potential for friction than trade.

For months, Clinton has resisted weighing in on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the sweeping trade deal that has divided the Democratic base. The completion of the negotiations this week means she’ll soon be forced to choose between one of the top legacy items of her former boss or labor unions, environmentalists and other liberal constituencies that oppose the deal.

Clinton promises to “definitely have a position soon.” “I’m going to be diving into that tonight. I’m going to be talking to people. They’re getting me all the information they can gather so I can make a timely decision,” Clinton said Tuesday as she toured a farmer’s market in Davenport, Iowa.

The awkward dynamic isn’t a surprise: Both Clinton’s campaign and the Obama administration have al-ways said the time would come when the candidate would outline her own policies and deliver criticisms, both implied and direct, of the president.

“I am not running for my husband’s third term or President Obama’s third term,” Clinton told voters in Daven-

port, repeating an oft-used line from her stump speech. “I’m running for my first term.”

While she frequently commends the president, Clinton has been of-fering critiques of his policies more and more.

Last month, she came out against the Keystone XL pipeline from Can-ada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, while the administration remains undecided. In August, she said Obama’s decision to approve offshore drilling in the Arctic wasn’t “worth the risk” to the environ-ment. And she’s subtly resurrected her 2008 primary attack of Obama’s approach to world affairs, taking a more hawkish stance toward Russia, Syria and Iran.

On both immigration and gun con-trol, she’s vowed to use her executive power to do more than the president, implying that Obama’s actions have not gone quite far enough.

“I’m not going to be breaking up families. And I think that is one of the differences,” she said of Obama’s deportation policy earlier this week. “But I totally understand why the Obama administration felt as though they did what they did under the cir-cumstances.”

Campaign veterans in the White House say the impact of Clinton’s one-upping is minor and dismiss some of Clinton’s proposals as rou-tine campaign fodder. Candidates use

policy plans to declare their priorities, worries over practical implementation come later.

But trade falls into a different cat-egory. If Clinton opposes Obama’s big deal, she could undermine his arguments just as the White House is in the final stretch of a deal years in the making.

With Clinton’s main challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, calling the accord “disastrous,” Obama may be in the uncomfortable position of watching a Democratic debate next week in which none of the major can-didates is willing to defend the deal.

Clinton aides know she must tread lightly when it comes to criticizing the

president, given that much of her strat-egy relies on the still-loyal coalition of African-Americans, Latinos, women and younger voters that twice elected Obama. But at the same time, they say she must find ways to distinguish herself — and undercut Republican attacks that Clinton would simply be a third Obama term.

Many of Clinton’s top aides joined her campaign from the White House and the two staffs remain in frequent communication.

Before Clinton publicly announced her opposition to the Keystone pipe-line and gun proposals, campaign staff alerted the White House to her plans. And after Obama appeared to

deride her proposal for a no-fly zone over Syria as “half-baked” in a press conference last week, aides called to make sure Clinton understood the criti-cism wasn’t aimed at her, according to a senior White House official who would not be named discussing private conversations.

The White House doesn’t deny Clinton’s new distance has at times created awkwardness for the president. On immigration, Clinton’s promise to go further than Obama in using executive authority to ease the threat of deportation for immigrants living in the U.S. directly contradicts Obama’s assertion that he’s done all he can under the law. (ap)

BANGKOK — A 20-year-old German woman died at a popu-lar Thai resort island after being stung by a box jellyfish, police said Wednesday, the third reported fatality in Thailand in 14 months from one of the world’s most toxic jellyfish.

Police Lt. Col Thewet Pruemsut said the woman was taking an eve-ning swim at a Koh Samui beach Tuesday when she was stung by the jellyfish, whose sting can kill an adult within minutes. A friend of the woman, also a German tourist, was stung on the hand by a jellyfish but survived.

The other two recent deaths from box jellyfish occurred at another popular island in the Gulf of Thai-land, Koh Phangan, known for the infamous Full Moon Party. A Thai

woman died there after being stung this past August, while a 5-year-old French boy died from a sting in August 2014.

Police on Samui met Wednesday with business owners and municipal officials to discuss how to prevent future casualties from box jellyfish, which are not common to most parts of Thailand.

“Business owners are afraid that putting up warning signs would reduce the number of tourists, but we explained the necessity of this practice,” Thewet said.

He said that jellyfish are typical-ly found in Thai waters during the rainy season, which runs roughly from June through October.

Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biology expert and vice dean of the fisheries department at Bang-

kok’s Kasetsart University, said that in the past seven years the numbers of box jellyfish in Thailand have increased due to several factors, including global warming, waste released from the shore that attracts jellyfish seeking food into shallow waters, and a decline in the numbers of sea turtles that eat jellyfish.

Unlike many other jellyfish, box jellyfish do not float on the sea sur-face but swim deeper and are harder to see, he said, making it advisable not to swim at night.

Box jellyfish have tentacles that can reach 3 meters (10 feet) long. The sting is so excruciating that many victims go into shock and drown. Those who make it out of the water often die from the venom, which quickly attacks the heart and nervous system. (ap)

As Clinton campaigns, complications with her old boss rise

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seemed to call Hil-lary Rodham Clinton’s idea of a no-fly zone in Syria “half-baked.” Clinton described the president’s immigration strategy as “harsh and aggressive.” And as Obama tries to rally Democrats around the chief economic proposal of his second term, the party’s presidential front-runner stayed conspicuously silent.

German woman dies in Thailand from box jellyfish sting

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AP Photo/Charlie NeibergallIn this Oct. 6, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a community forum in Davenport, Iowa. President Barack Obama seemed to call Clinton’s idea of a no-fly zone in Syria “half-baked.”

SINGARAJA - The Buleleng House of Representatives urged the government to immediately seek teachers on contract as an effective solution to overcoming the recent lack of teachers crisis. Th local gov-ernment was also given support in preparing a budget to pay the sala-ries of these teachers on contract, as stated in the hearing of the Commis-sion IV of the Buleleng House of Representatives with the Education Agency, Chief of the Education Executive Unit (KUPP) and the Buleleng Education Council. The hearing was led by the Chairman of Commission IV, Ketut Wirsana. The Head of the Buleleng Educa-tion Agency was represented by the Secretary I Made Ngadeg with the division heads and Chairman of the Buleleng Education Council I Gusti Ngurah Agung.

In the meeting Ketut Wirsana admitted that it is apprehensive that so may schools in the region are lacking teachers. According to recent data, Bueleng has a deficit of

some 1,084 teachers. This number will certainly continue to increase because many teachers will soon retire.

Regular civil servant recruitment of teachers is not sufficient to ad-dress the issue because there is an average of 200 teachers retiring ev-ery year. while present recruitment only seeks 39 new ones. Substitute teachers are considered to be in a different league than teachers who are about to retire.

If the local government insists on increasing new teachers by recruit-ing civil servants, ideally 1,500 new people need to added every year in order to supply enough teach-ers. “It is just like chasing running people by walking backwards. It is a serious problem. Without being addressed immediately, educated in Buleleng will not be able to run as needed,” he said.

According to Wirsana, be-cause the addition of new teachers through very limited civil recruit-ment will not effectively overcome

the crisis of teacher in Buleleng, he is urging the local government to add new contract teachers. The legislator said that these teachers would be paid full salaries and pro-posed to divert the budget for their salaries from less urgent programs. “Simply add more contract teach-ers, because the current number is not adequate. We are ready to fully support the required budget. If needed, simply cut the budget of any unnecessary programs and divert it to paying the contract teachers,” he said.

Similar opinions were disclosed by Ngurah Arya, member of Com-mission IV of the Buleleng House of Representatives. This Gerokgak politician said that the develop-ment of education, particularly regarding teachers, must start from the most basic level. If primary education is good and the problem can be handled properly, then the process of education at the sec-ondary level will go well and we expect good results. He went on to

say that, unfortunately, the lowest level of education is still facing serious problems. He cited SDN 6 Pejarakan elementary school, in Gerokgak as an example saying that they only have civil servant teachers. In order to help educa-tion in this school, they need to hire part-time teachers at a salary of IDR 250,000.

“It’s a fact that elementary edu-cation is still facing obstacles. We propose that the development of education start from the basic level. If this is down well then secondary education can follow,” he said.

Secretary of the Buleleng Edu-cation Agency, I Made Ngadeg, concurred that elementary schools lack the most teachers with a total deficit of 1,804 teachers this year -mostly classroom teachers. In ad-dition, 97 teachers for the subject of Physical and Health Education and 50 teachers of Religion are still required. For secondary education (junior high, high and vocational school), a total of 30 teachers are

required, mostly for the subject of guidance and counseling. “Mostly it is elementary schools that are lacking teachers. We have hired 600 contract teachers, but we need 800 teachers. So, we still need to add about 200 teachers,” he said.

According to Ngadeg, while the Educaiton Agency waits for con-tract teachers to be hired, teachers should be transferred as a short term solution to the crisis. Teachers in urban areas can be transferred to school in the suburbs and teachers in the suburbs can be transfered to rural areas. Based on past experi-ence, it is harder to find teachers for rural areas. In most cases, teach-ers refuse to be transferred. “This transfer is only intended for equity and not to increasing the number of teachers. For instance, with this equity model, we would transfer teachers from schools in urban area to schools slightly outside of town like Sangsit while teachers form Sangsit would be transferred to rural areas”. (kmb38)

AMLAPURA - Karangasem was ablaze after fires started on private land, and then again on slopes of Mount Agung near Poh, Linggasana hamlet, Bhuana Giri, Bebandem, on Tuesday (Oct. 6). The cause of the forest fire has yet to be determined but the drought is suspected as being the culprit. Fire Division Head at the Karangasem Transportation Agency, Gede Sukanta, said on Tuesday that the fire broke out around 12:30 a.m. when he received a report from a local resident that was having trouble putting out the fire.

The Fire Brigade, the Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), police and the Forestry Agency along with local residents came to location of the fire. Sukanta added that Fire Brigade deployed four trucks and one double cabin. However, the fire truck could not reach the point of fire due to lack of road access. “We tried to reach the fire by going through Nawakerti village, Abang. Unfortunately, we the terrain there also did not allow for the trucks to pass,” said Sukanta.

Since the fire truck could not reach the burning for-est, fire extinguishing was down manually by residents who were assisted by firemen using hand held fire extinguishers. The fire quickly scorched bushes and pine trees, but fortunalty after burning just 10 acres was able to be put out as it reached the ravine.

Chief Executive of the BPBD Karangasem, I.B. Ketut Arimbawa, also said that despite not being able to use their fire trucks, the fire was to be put out in just 3 and half hours. Arimbawa said that he suspected that the fire was started by the friction of trees after the long dry season.

Despite this area being relatively free of human activity, he nonetheless warned residents to be very careful with any fires near or in the forest so s to avoid setting a forest fire. On Tuesday Head of the Karangasem Forestry Agency, Komang Subratayasa, could not be contacted therefore the official cause of fire remains unknown. (kmb31)

Teacher crisis, government urged to contract temps

Mount Agung catches fire

IBP/File PhotoKarangasem was ablaze after fires started on private land, and then again on slopes of Mount Agung near Poh, Linggasana hamlet, Bhuana Giri, Bebandem, on Tuesday (Oct. 6).

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TOKYO - The Bank of Japan held fire on expanding its already huge stimulus programme Wednesday, despite mounting pressure on policymakers in the face of sluggish growth and stagnant prices.

The decision, after a two-day meeting, fol-lows a string of disappointing data that have raised questions about the effectiveness of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to kickstart the economy, which contracted in the second quarter of the year.

It also comes a day after the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecast this year and next, calling on authorities to work harder to slash a national debt that is more than twice as big as its gross domestic product (GDP).

On Wednesday the BoJ maintained its recent rhetoric on the state of the economy, saying in a statement it “has continued to recover mod-erately, although exports and production have been affected by the slowdown in emerging economies”.

Looking ahead, it repeated: “Japan’s econ-omy is expected to continue recovering mod-erately.”

The country’s inflation “is likely to be about zero percent for the time being, due to the effects of the decline in energy prices”, it added. The yen firmed slightly against the dollar after the announcement. The greenback bought 119.90 yen, compared with 120.28 yen in New York.

While economists had expected the bank to maintain its 80 trillion yen ($665 billion) annual asset-buying scheme at this meeting, attention is now on a gathering at the end of the month, with speculation it will pull the trigger then.

Abe unveiled a plan in April 2013 to kick-start the economy and bring an end to painful deflation with a vast government spending programme and Bank of Japan asset-buying programme -- or quantitative easing -- dubbed “Abenomics”.

While the scheme showed early promise, with stocks surging and growth advancing, a recent run of weak data has raised questions about its effectiveness as consumer prices stag-nate and economic growth remains torpid.

Another plank of the scheme -- reforms to cut red tape in the highly regulated economy -- have also stalled and experts say Abe’s push to pass a highly unpopular security legislation last month could make them even harder to enact with sagging public support.

Data last week showed spending among Japanese households rebounded in August, of-fering a glimmer of hope after a string of week figures, but economists warned the world’s number three economy was still headed for recession.

Factory production fell unexpectedly for a second month in August, while consumer prices dropped for the first time in more than two years, according to data last month. (afp)

Setting the stage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the IMF cut its 2015 growth forecast for the world economy Tuesday to 3.1 percent, predicting the worst year since the global recession of 2009.

The downward revision will provide a gloomy backdrop as economic policymak-ers from 188 countries meet in the Peruvian capital Lima from Friday to Sunday.

“The holy grail of robust and synchro-nized global expansion remains elusive,” said the IMF’s new chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld, warning that China’s slowdown and the resulting slide in com-modity prices was weighing down the

world economy.There is “reason to be concerned,”

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde warned in the run-up to the meeting.

After decades of break-neck expan-sion, the world’s second-largest economy is set to slow to 6.3-percent growth next year, its lowest rate in 25 years, the IMF predicted.

And that is taking a heavy toll on other emerging markets, which had grown to depend on China’s voracious appetite for their fuel, metals, minerals and other commodities.

The emerging markets, which drove global growth during the crisis of 2008-2009, are also hurting because their capi-tal inflows are drying up as a recovering United States prepares to tighten monetary policy.

The gloomy outlook tempers the good news last weekend from the World Bank, which reported that extreme poverty will

fall this year to less than 10 percent of the global population for the first time.

The economic pain is particularly acute in Latin America, which had not hosted the IMF annual meeting since the 1967 edition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The IMF forecast a recession of 0.3 percent in Latin America this year, and regional powerhouse Brazil is facing a contraction of three percent.

The fifth annual slowdown for the once-mighty emerging markets and the com-modities plunge underpinning it will be key agenda points as finance ministers from the leading industrialized and emerging econo-mies gather Thursday for a G20 meeting, before issuing a statement Friday.

An entire neighborhood of Lima has been closed off with military checkpoints for the occasion, leaving the streets bizarrely empty in the normally traffic-jammed city and creating headaches for commuters. (afp)

Bank of Japan holds fire on stimulus

AP Photo/Martin MejiaPeople pass under a welcome sign for the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. The meetings are taking place Oct. 6-11. Kick-starting the sluggish global economy and funding the climate-change fight top the agenda this week as finance ministers and central bank chiefs from around the world gather in Peru.

World economic leaders tackle slow growth, climate change

LIMA - Kick-starting the sluggish global economy and funding the climate-change fight top the agenda this week as finance ministers and central bank chiefs from around the world gather in Peru.

NEGARA - A Rabid dog was raging in Jembrana biting 11 people - young and old, in just one night in Dauh Waru village. Most people were bitten on their hands or legs. One of the victims, Komang Asa Adi Wiguna, said on Tuesday (Oct. 6) that at the time of incident the dog attacked blindly at his home also biting his grandmother and son.

Aside from rampaging and biting resi-dents of Dauh Waru village, the rabies dog

also rampaged at the SMAN 1 Negara high school. Spokesman of the SMAN 1 Negara, I Wayan Suandi, said that he rabid dog at-tacked one of his students and a worker at the school.

The dog came from the parking area under the dark tower and bit one of his students on the legs. After that, the dog ran off and bit a local laborer.

In order to prevent the spread of ra-bies at Dauh Waru village, the Jembrana

Livestock Agency euthanasised all wild dogs that had direct contact with the rabid dog.

The Livestock Agency also took brain samples of the dogs that given lethal in-jections, in order to know to what extent rabies has spread at Dauh Waru. Section Head of the Animal Health at the Jembrana Livestock Agency Wayan Widarsa said that after being tracked, the rapid dog was found to have bitten an staggering 11 people.

“We are conducting an investigation to acsertain the possible number of dogs that have contracted rabies, and our colleagues are performing emergency vaccinations,” he said.

Responding to the increasing num-ber of rabies outbreaks in Jembrana and throughout Bali, all people are expected to participate actively in preventing rabies by keeping their dogs on leashes and vaccinat-ing their pets regularly. (kmb)

It was stated by Chairman of the Alliance Caring for People’s Welfare (Apisemar), Nyoman Pasek, in Karangasem, Tuesday (Oct. 6). Pasek from Pidpid village said that recently his organization with several colleagues monitor the quarry activities in Rendang, Bebandem and Kubu subdistrict. “We are pleased that all people are prosperous a result of the quarry business. However, the effort must be comply with the rules, have a permit and do not damage the environment so that in the future it will not bring in miseries or cause people to suffer due to landslides and floods during rainy season or drought in dry season,” he said.

Based on existing data, all the quarry activities in Selat and Rendang subdistrict are illegal. Local government does not dare to issue a permit because both regions do not belong to quarry zone as set forth in the Regional Bylaw on Bali Regional Spatial Planning (RTRWP). However, in reality tens of quarry companies are operating in both subdistricts and most of them operate heavy equipment. In the Bebandem subdistrict, only two companies are licensed of tens of quarry locations. At Buana Giri village, Bebandem, the quarry activities have even reached the altitude of about 1,800 meters above sea level.

Some trees in pine forest are cut down and fall down as being used for road to quarry location under Tanah Aron village. At the unlicensed quarry areas, there are investors operating two, three and even five heavy equipments or excavators.

Pursuant to the data on quarry activities obtained from the government of Karangas-em, in 2002 there are 260 quarry companies of medium and large scale. Among them, only 36 companies are licensed, namely two businesses in Bebandem and the remaining 34 companies scattered in Kubu subdistrict such as Tulamben, Baturinggit, Sukadana and Tianyar Timur namely Darma Winangun

hamlet.According to Pasek, the illegal quarry

companies can happen due to negligence. Actually, the government and other law en-forcement officials have known the illegal quarry companies. However, Pasek added, the Karangasem Revenue Service (Dispenda) remains to collect taxes from the illegal quarry companies. Actually, the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has declared it incor-rect and prohibited collecting taxes to illegal quarry companies. This has become a finding

of the agency.Pasek questioned why mining activities

in Lumajang (East Java) even gets serious attention from President Jokowi, while the mining in Bali, especially in Karangasem, having long been known to operate illegally, is even allowed. Related to damages to na-ture, especially in the water catchment area in the mountains above 500 meters above sea level, Pasek asked President Jokowi to equally give serious attention. Illegal quarry companies and operation in forbidden zone

must be cracked down on, so that in the long term they will not afflict people that do not enjoy the benefit. It is worried that such condition will result in natural disasters like floods in rainy season and drought in dry season.

“In this dry season a lot of people have been suffering from drought as the springs continue to shrink and some have even dried up. Destruction of nature just for the sake of a few entrepreneurs may not be allowed to continue,” said Pasek. (013)

Rabid dog bites 11 people in one night

Quarry activities reach altitude of 1,800 MASL

NGO considers it negligenceAMLAPURA - Location of the quarry

activities in Karangasem has reached an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level (MASL). Most of the quarry activities are without permission. However, they remain to operate conveniently. NGO assesses it to have been deliberately ignored by local government and law enforcement officials.

IBP/BagiartaLocation of the quarry activities in Karangasem has reached an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level (MASL). Most of the quarry activities are without permission. However, they remain to operate conveniently.

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Speaking to reporters two days after announcing he is seeking the vice presidency in next year’s elec-tions, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that Filipinos these days are more con-cerned about their livelihood, crime and other day-to-day problems.

Retired Commission on Human Rights Chairwoman Loretta Ann Rosales, who was tortured and detained during Marcos’ martial rule, said his son, a senator, and his widow, a congresswoman, were glossing over a law passed in 2013 recognizing and compensating vic-tims of human rights abuses during his 14-year rule.

In a wide-ranging forum follow-ing his announcement Monday that he will seek the country’s second highest office, the 58-year-old sena-tor acknowledged that there have been many human rights viola-tions charges against his father but

Filipinos “are not concerned about that” these days.

“They are concerned about their lives today,” he said. “We want an-swers. Why are there drugs in our streets? Why is the crime rate going up at an alarming rate? Why is our educational sector miserable? Why is the distribution of wealth not happening? Why is the government not doing anything about it? Why is there no infrastructure develop-ment? Why is there no agricultural development? This is what people are worried about.”

He said the Marcos name will not be a hindrance to his election cam-paign. “I am the luckiest person that I know, and being a Marcos is part of that,” he said. “I have never felt it to be a burden. I have only felt it to be an advantage, a blessing, and I am very thankful that I am a Marcos.”

Marcos declared nationwide

martial law in 1972, a year before his presidential term was to expire. He padlocked Congress, ordered the arrest of political rivals and left-wing activists, and ruled by decree until a “people power” revolt drove his family into exile in 1986.

Marcos denied any wrongdo-ing, including illegally amassing and hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in Swiss banks, before he died in Hawaii three years later. His widow, Imelda, and their three children were eventually allowed to return home.

A Hawaii court has found the el-der Marcos liable for human rights violations and awarded $2 billion from his estate to compensate more than 9,000 Filipinos who filed a lawsuit against him for torture, incarceration, extra-judicial kill-ings and disappearances. Marcos Jr. said he leaves the events of 1986 to historians to judge while he focuses on being a public servant.

“In my heart of hearts, I truly be-lieve that I was put on this earth to serve, to be a public servant and that is what I will continue to do until the day that I die,” he said. (ap)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Federal investigators looking into the ill-fated voyage of a 790-foot freighter believed to have sunk in the Atlantic during Hurricane Joaquin will focus on the commu-nications between the captain and the vessel’s owner.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to Jack-sonville on Tuesday to begin the agency’s inquiry, which will help determine why the captain, crew and owners of El Faro decided to risk sailing in stormy waters.

Another question is whether the five workers whose job was to prepare the engine room for a retrofitting had any role in the boat’s loss of power, which set the vessel adrift in the stormy seas. Of-ficials from Tote Inc., the vessel’s owner, say they don’t believe so. But the question — along with the captain’s decision to plot a course near the storm — will help inves-tigators figure out why the boat apparently sank near the Bahamas, possibly claiming the lives of all 33 aboard.

The Coast Guard, meanwhile, continued searching by sea and air for any sign of survivors. The ship is believed to have gone down in 15,000 feet of water after reporting its last known position last Thurs-day. One unidentified body has been found. “It’s just a tragic, tragic situ-ation,” NTSB vice chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said.

The 41-year-old El Faro was scheduled to be retired from Ca-ribbean duty and retrofitted in the coming months for service between the West Coast and Alaska, said

Tote executive Phil Greene.The El Faro and its equally aged

sister vessel were being replaced on the Jacksonville-to-Puerto Rico run by two brand-new ships capable of carrying much more cargo and emitting less pollution.

When the El Faro left Jack-sonville on Sept. 29, five workers from Poland came along with 28 U.S. crew members to do some preparatory work in the engine room, according to Greene. He gave no details on the nature of their work.

“I don’t believe based on the work they were doing that they would have had anything to do with what affected the propulsion,” said Greene, a retired Navy admiral.

The El Faro had no history of engine failure, Greene said, and the company said the vessel was mod-ernized in 1992 and 2006. Company records show it underwent its last annual Coast Guard inspection in March.

“We don’t have all the answers. I’m sorry for that. I wish we did,” Anthony Chiarello, said Tote Inc.’s president and CEO. “But we will find out what happened.”

The American Bureau of Ship-ping, a nonprofit organization that sets safety and other standards for ships, did full hull and machinery inspections in February with no red flags, the company said.

F. John Nicoll, a retired captain who spent years piloting the run to Puerto Rico, said he doubts the age of the El Faro was a factor, noting that there are many older ships plying U.S. waters without incident. (ap)

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In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015 photo made from video and re-leased by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard crew member investigates a life boat, that was found from the missing ship El Faro.

Vessel’s messages will be key to inquiry

of ill-fated ship

Dictator’s son says Filipinos care less

about Marcos abusesMANILA, Philippines — The son of late strongman Fer-

dinand Marcos said Wednesday that Filipinos are no longer concerned about human rights abuses committed under his father’s rule, angering activists who said he wants people to forget his father’s dictatorship, which a popular revolt ended 29 years ago.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Philippine Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. gestures during a media forum Wednes-day, Oct. 7, 2015, two days after announcing he is seeking the nation’s second highest office in next year’s national elections, at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines.

“Thick haze still blanket the provinces of Riau, Jambi and Central Kalimantan,” the BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in response to the ongoing haze

disaster that does not only affect the two main islands of Indonesia but also Singapore as well as certain parts of Malaysia and Thailand.

The efforts to put out the forest

and land fires are made through land and air operation, he said adding that the Terra and Aqua satellites on Wednesday detected 421 hot spots in Sumatra Island and 39 hot spots in Kalimantan Island.

“In Sumatra, 351 of the total num-ber of hot spots are detected in South Sumatra Province while the others are found in the provinces of Lampung,

Bangka Belitung, Jambi and Beng-kulu with 45, seven, 14 and four hot spots respectively,” he said.

Meanwhile, the provinces in Kalimantan Island that have been struggling to extinguish the forest and land fires are West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan and North Ka-limantan. Thirty two out of 39 hot spots indicating fires on the ground

were detected in East Kalimantan, he said.

Nugroho said the struggle to extinguish the forest and land fires in the disaster zones in Sumatra and Kalimantan involves more than ten thousands of personnel of the provincial disaster mitigation agency, military and police as well as society members. (ant)

JAKARTA - Foreign investors have shown keen interest in the Indo-nesian property sector, according to the international property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

“Amid the gloomy property mar-ket now, foreign investors are still showing high interest in making

investment in the Indonesian prop-erty sector,” JLL Indonesia’s Coun-try Head Todd Lauchlan noted on Wednesday.

He affirmed that several foreign investors are seeking opportunities to invest in the Indonesian property sector through cooperation or direct

purchase.The Indonesian Property Watch

(IPW) had earlier reminded the gov-ernment on the importance of focus-ing on the development of middle and luxury class housing complexes.

“Housing for the middle and lower income segments can serve as the

savior to withstand the conditions in the housing market, so that it would not fall further,” IPW Executive Di-rector Ali Tranghanda pointed out.

Therefore, the government is ac-celerating the development of houses for the people in the lower income group.

The housing development pro-gram could be accelerated by increas-ing funding sources.

He added that the Housing Financ-ing Liquidity Facility funds, amount-ing to Rp5.1 trillion, to finance the construction of 68 thousand houses had been utilized as of July 2015. (ant)

MAKASSAR — Rescuers on Tuesday recovered the bodies of all 10 victims and both black boxes from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia four days ago.

Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said the bodies of three crew members and seven passengers were flown to Hasanuddin airport in Makassar, the provincial capital. Ambulances took the dead, burned bodies to a nearby hospital for identification. Three passengers were children.

The DHC-6 Twin Otter plane lost contact with air traffic controllers 11 minutes after taking off in good weather Friday from Masamba, a town in South Su-lawesi province. No distress signal was received.

Locating the wreckage took almost four days be-cause of the rugged, forested terrain and thick fog.

Soelistyo said the plane’s black boxes were in good condition. They were taken to Makassar for examina-tion. The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder could help explain what caused the Aviastar Mandiri airline plane to crash.

The 1981 Canadian-made plane was acquired by Aviastar in January 2014 and underwent its most recent maintenance on Sept. 15.

Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of about 250 million people, has been plagued by transporta-tion accidents in recent years, including plane and train crashes and ferry sinkings. The country’s airline market is expanding rapidly but struggles to obtain qualified pilots, mechanics and air traffic controllers, and modern airport technology. (ap)

Efforts to extinguish forest and land fires continued

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) revealed here Wednesday that efforts to extinguish the forest and land fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands remain continued by involving more than ten thousand people.

Property sector still attracting foreign investors

AP Photo/Masyudi S. Firmansyah

Coffins containing the bodies of the victims of DHC-6 Twin Otter plane that crashed into a mountainous area on Sulawesi Island are laid on the tarmac upon arrival at Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

10 bodies, black boxes recovered

after Indonesia plane crash

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The two-time BTCC champion will also contest the preceding TCR races at Buriram in Thailand on October 25. “This will be one of the greatest challenges in my racing career, as in Thailand I will have to cope with a new team, a new car, a new championship and a new track,” said Menu.

“Because Top Run is currently building a second car, I hope we will run a test before the event. “In any case, we will treat Thailand as a shakedown, an occasion for us to get to know each other and prepare for Macau. “I love the place, it is one of the most exciting circuits in the world and I have always been fairly competitive there.”

The Thailand round will only be the second outing for the Subaru, which made its debut in TCR’s Singapore Grand Prix support races

last month in the hands of Luca Rangoni.

Given the car is so new, it will be difficult for Menu to add to his three victories on the streets of Macau, which all came in WTCC races.

But the Subaru’s late start to the year means there is significant po-tential yet to be exploited. “To have Alain driving for us is a unique opportunity,” said team manager Renato Russo. “We couldn’t wish for a more experienced and faster driver to help us in the process of developing the Subaru TCR.

“For the whole team this is a fantastic motivation to do our best and give him a competitive car.” Menu’s former WTCC team-mate Rob Huff will also race at Macau driving a Honda Civic run by West Coast Racing. (rtr)

NEW YORK — A white police officer singled out black NBA player Thabo Sefolosha as he filed out of a nightclub this year, spark-ing a confrontation that resulted in the Swiss player’s arrest and a season-ending leg fracture, a de-fense lawyer told jurors Tuesday.

“I don’t know what he saw,” attorney Alex Spiro said of the officer, JohnPaul Giacona, who first told the Atlanta Hawks play-ers to clear the area early on April 8. “I think he saw a black man in a hoodie.” Sefolosha, 30, has been charged with misdemeanor obstructing government admin-istration, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He pleaded not guilty and refused a plea deal.

A prosecutor said Tuesday that the 6-foot-6-inch (1.98-meter) Se-folosha acted entitled and disdainful to officers trying to clear hundreds of people off a street following an earlier stabbing outside the club by calling the 5-foot-7-inch (1.7-

meter) Giacona “a midget.”“The defendant does not think

he needs to obey the law,” assistant district attorney Jesse Matthews said. “He does not like being told what to do.” Giacona had just com-pleted three years on the job.

The case stems from a struggle outside the 1Oak nightclub in New York’s Chelsea after Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland and two women were stabbed.

Officers from a cabaret unit charged with patrolling area bars and clubs responded to that stab-bing and were ordered to move hundreds of partygoers off the block, a police sergeant testified Tuesday. It was in that process that Sefolosha, his teammate Pero Antic and two women were told by Giacona to leave the block. Charges against Antic have since been dropped.

Sefolosha disobeyed those orders, then charged at an officer whose back was turned before

he was stopped by officers and eventually taken to the ground and arrested, court documents show.

But pressed by Spiro during cross-examination, Giacona ac-knowledged that although he had previously said he asked Sefolosha to move off the block six times he could only remember doing so at least three times. He also said he didn’t know how the Hawks for-ward’s leg was injured or hear the sound of batons being deployed.

Spiro played video surveillance footage for jurors showing that there were patrons closer to the crime scene tape than Sefolosha and his friends were.

Six police officers will be called as witnesses for the prosecution, but the judge, Robert Mandelbaum, has denied a defense motion to view their personnel files. Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said the court case was on his mind Tuesday.

“I think we all care about Thabo,” he said. “I’m hoping for the best. To be put in a little of a tough spot, going through this, is not easy for him or his family. ... But I just want the best outcome for him. He’s such a good person.” (ap)

Dual BTCC champion Alain Menu to race TCR Subaru at Macau GP

Alain Menu will contest the TCR International races supporting the Macau Grand Prix next month. The Swiss, who will also return to the British Touring Car Championship this weekend, will drive a Subaru WRX STi built and fielded by the Italian Top Run squad as it expands to two cars.

Alain Menu

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Lawyer: White officer targeted black NBA player Sefolosha

FILE - In this photo from Saturday, April 4, 2015, Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha plays during an NBA basketball game in Atlanta. Sefolosha plans to fight charges he blocked officers from setting up a crime scene following the stabbing of Indiana Pacers’ Chris Copeland outside a trendy Manhattan nightclub in April.

AP Photo/John Amis, File

AMLAPURA - Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padangbai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It

was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay.

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reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex.

In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrim-age to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest hav-

ing a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan.

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That leaves Chile’s Alexis San-chez as one of the few top talents available and ready to light up their home clash with Brazil in Santiago, the opening round’s big match on Thursday.

Sergio Aguero, who is in fine scoring form for Manchester City, with five goals against Newcastle United last weekend, is expected to lead the Argentina attack at home to Ecuador.

Beside him or ready to spring off the bench for the match at the Monumental in Buenos Aires on Thursday will be Carlos Tevez, who is close to winning another league title with Boca Juniors.

Messi injured his knee the

previous weekend playing for Barcelona and was told he would be out for up to eight weeks and could miss four of the 2014 World Cup runners-up’s matches in the marathon 18-round group.

“Messi’s absence must be an incentive and not an excuse,” said his Barcelona team mate Javier Mascherano, who will most likely lead the side.

“We’re going to need more from everyone because we lack the most important player we have, but we’ve missed him before and the team responded well. “We’re starting a long and hard road which gives you the ticket to the World Cup. It’s go-

ing to be important to start with a cushion of points that will give us tranquillity,” he added.

Coach Gerardo Martino is hop-ing Messi, who also misses the trip to Paraguay next Tuesday, will recover quickly enough to be-come available for next month’s home match against arch-rivals Brazil and trip to Colombia.

BANNED URUGUAYANSBack in July, Chile lifted the

Copa America for the first time in Santiago after Brazil, without the suspended Neymar, went home early following their penalty-shootout defeat to Paraguay in the quarter-finals.

Neymar was sent off in a group match defeat to Colombia and banned for four matches after insulting Chilean referee Enrique Osses. He has to sit out two of Brazil’s qualifiers, the second

one at home to Venezuela next week.

Suarez is still serving a nine-match FIFA ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 finals in Brazil.

He missed the Copa America and will not become available again to coach Oscar Tabarez until March after sitting out Thursday’s visit to Bolivia and next week’s home clash with Colombia.

Cavani is serving a two-match ban after being sent off in Uru-guay’s quarter-final defeat at the Copa for hitting Chile’s Gonzalo Jara, who had infamously poked his finger up the forward’s back-side.

Real Madrid’s Rodriguez has suffered a relapse of a thigh in-jury and misses Colombia’s home match against Peru on Thursday and Tuesday’s trip to Montevideo. (rtr)

LIVERPOOL — Juergen Klopp appears to be close to taking over as Liverpool man-ager. Representatives of the former Borussia Dortmund coach are in talks with the Premier League club, which fired Bren-dan Rodgers on Sunday after the team’s 18-month slump since nearly winning the league title in 2014.

Liverpool could make a new appointment by the end of the week. The team’s next game is against Tottenham on Oct. 17.

The 48-year-old Klopp has been out of work since leaving Dortmund at the end of last sea-son after winning two German league titles. He is regarded as

one of European football’s most respected coaches.

Former Real Madrid and Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti is also considered to be a potential candidate to replace Rodgers.

Speaking to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Ancelotti said he was ready to come back to full-time management, but in-dicated he was thinking more in terms of next season.

“I enjoy my time now but, of course, I want to come back to manage - to work - because it is my passion,” he told AP at an awards ceremony in Lon-don. “I want to take my time to rest, but next season I am ready.” (ap)

SEOUL, South Korea — On a night of big games in Asia, Japan will be under the most pressure as a defeat to Syria in their 2018 World Cup qualifier on Thursday would cast doubt on its chances of making it to Russia. Only the eight group winners in the second round of Asian qualification are assured of a place in the third and last stage, where they will be joined by the four best second-placed finishers.

Syria has been ordered to play the game in Oman due to the political situation at home. Syria, yet to appear at a World Cup,

tops the group with a maximum of nine points from three games, two ahead of Japan.

If Japan were to lose, that gap would grow with just four games remaining — and leave the 2002 co-host probably relying on being one of the best four runners-up.

“The match against Syria is going to be the most dif-ficult and most important among the matches we had in this year,” Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic told a news conference in Tokyo last week. “That’s the one we must win, and if it ends up in a bad result, we won’t top our group.”

The Bosnian, appointed in February, has called up his European-based stars such as Keisuke Honda of AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa and Shinji Okazaki of high-flying Leicester City in the English Pre-mier League. “Syria got off to a good start... yet we’ve also got excellent quality and experience, and will come out with confidence,” Halilhodzic said. “As long as there is a hope, we will keep winning.”

South Korea is in a slightly better position, with three wins from three. But it travels to Kuwait, level on nine points, without striker Son Heung-min.

The Tottenham forward injured his foot in his team’s recent 4-1 win over Manchester City in the English Pre-mier League. As well as Son, who scored a hat trick in an 8-0 win over Laos in September, South Korea will also be missing Lee Chung-yong of Crystal Palace and goalkeeper Kim Jin-hyeon.

“We will be fighting with the first place in the group at stake,” coach Uli Stielike told reporters as he left Incheon International Airport. “You could even say this match is worth six points. That’s how important this is.” Despite the injuries, the German is happy to take a depleted squad for the game in Kuwait and then back to East Asia for a friendly against Jamaica on October 13.

“Given that we will start 11 players and can use three substitutions, only 14 players will see action,” Stielike added. “Even with 21 players, there still will be a handful who won’t get to play. So I felt 21 would be enough for this match.” While South Korea has conceded just three goals in 16 games in 2015, there is more for Kuwait to worry about.

FIFA’s executive committee agreed last month to contact the Kuwait Football Association, warning of a possible suspension in October if a new sports law in the country is implemented. Australia will move five points clear at the top of Group B with an away win against second-place Jordan in what should be the toughest game of the stage for the Socceroos.

The Asian champion, which will be without injured captain Mile Jedinak, lost 2-1 in Amman during quali-fying for the 2014 tournament. Matt McKay played in that defeat in September 2012 and does not have happy memories.

“It’s going to be hostile, they are very much behind their team, very loud, parochial,” McKay told the Foot-ball Federation Australia website. “Most of the boys have played around the world, in big leagues they’ll be able to experience it but it’s just about sticking to our game plan.”

Saudi Arabia officially moved top of Group A on Monday after the four-time World Cup participant was awarded 3-0 forfeit win over Malaysia.

Last month’s match just outside Kuala Lumpur was abandoned with two minutes remaining due to crowd dis-turbances, with Saudi Arabia leading 2-1 at the time.

Bert van Marwijk’s team can extend its two-point lead over the United Arab Emirates to five when the two teams meet in Jeddah on Thursday. (ap)LIVERPOOL defender Mama-

dou Sakho felt like a “caged lion” when left on the bench by former manager Brendan Rodgers, the defender told L’Equipe.

The 25-year-old French made his first start of the season against Ligue 1 side Bordeaux in the Europa

League on Sept. 17 and he did not hide his frustration after missing Liverpool’s opening five games.

“Let’s say that during the short period when I was not playing, I was like a little caged lion who has not fed for a while,” he told L’Equipe. “(Like a caged lion) when you open

the door, he charges.”Sakho’s aggression was evident

in Sunday’s Merseyside derby with the former Paris St Germain man getting into scuffles with Everton’s Steven Naismith and Romelu Lu-kaku.

He was shown a yellow card

in added time for his spat with Lukaku, in what was to become Rodgers’ last game in charge of Liverpool.

Five-times European champions Liverpool languish in 10th place in the Premier League table with 12 points from eight games. (rtr)

ManchEStER cIty mid-fielder Samir Nasri has admitted that France coach Didier Des-champs decision to leave him out of the World Cup squad still rankles to the extent that he is unlikely to return to his homeland once his playing days in England end.

The 28-year-old, who is tied to Premier League leaders City until 2019, told French television chan-nel Canal+ Sport that he was open to the idea of playing in the United States after England and would not represent France again.

Nasri announced his retirement from international football in Au-gust last year after being dropped

from the squad that went to Brazil in 2014 and insisted he was happy with the decision.

“Even if my father was the man-ager, I wouldn’t go back. I suffered a lot with the national team,” he said on French television.

“The real split was in 2012. I wanted to stop then but my father said I should play at the World Cup. “At the start, it was a dream.

“But to miss a World Cup, when I thought I was good enough, that wrecks things a little. I’m not perfect -- I have flaws. But when you’re a top manager, you can manage egos.

“I do not see myself returning

to (France’s) Ligue 1,” Nasri add-ed. “I love the Premier League. I like my life in England.

“I see myself going to play in the MLS (Major League Soccer) -- to discover something differ-ent -- rather than going back to France.” Deschamps has already gone on record to say he had no regrets about dropping Nasri.

“From the moment that I didn’t pick him for the World Cup, I knew that I didn’t make him happy. But I accept responsi-bility for that choice,” the coach said last month.

“I don’t see why I would review my position in relation to what I saw. I didn’t take my decision

just like that, without having seen, talked and exchanged,” h e a d d e d . (rtr) BERLIn — Germany for-

ward Lukas Podolski has been ruled out of his country’s Euro-pean Championship qualifiers against Ireland and Georgia with a left ankle injury.

The German football federa-tion (DFB) says Podolski trav-elled with a swollen ankle from his club Galatasaray and was di-agnosed upon arrival in Frankfurt with “a painful capsule irritation of the left upper ankle joint.”

The DFB says Podolski left the German team’s base Tuesday

and was returning to his club for further treatment.

Coach Joachim Loew still has 22 players in his squad, though Bayer Leverkusen winger Karim Bellarabi was laboring with a shoulder problem.

Germany needs one point from its final Group D games against Ireland in Dublin on Thursday or Georgia in Leipzig on Sunday to ensure qualifi-cation for its 12th consecu-tive European Championship. (ap)

South American qualifiers start without elite quintet

Alexis Sanchez celebrates after scoring the first goal for Arsenal

FIVE of South america’s leading players will be missing when the continent’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers kick off this week. Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Colombia’s James Rodri-guez are injured, while Brazil’s neymar and Uruguay’s Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani are suspended.

Liverpool’s Sakho says felt like ‘caged lion’ under Rodgers

Nasri eyeing Major League Soccer after he leaves Man City

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Vahid Halilhodzic

Japan under pressure in Asian World Cup qualification

AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file

FILE - In this April 21, 2012 file photo Dortmund head coach Juergen Klopp celebrates after his team scored during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Dortmund, Germany.

Lukas Podolski out of Germany’s final

Euro 2016 qualifiers

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That leaves Chile’s Alexis San-chez as one of the few top talents available and ready to light up their home clash with Brazil in Santiago, the opening round’s big match on Thursday.

Sergio Aguero, who is in fine scoring form for Manchester City, with five goals against Newcastle United last weekend, is expected to lead the Argentina attack at home to Ecuador.

Beside him or ready to spring off the bench for the match at the Monumental in Buenos Aires on Thursday will be Carlos Tevez, who is close to winning another league title with Boca Juniors.

Messi injured his knee the

previous weekend playing for Barcelona and was told he would be out for up to eight weeks and could miss four of the 2014 World Cup runners-up’s matches in the marathon 18-round group.

“Messi’s absence must be an incentive and not an excuse,” said his Barcelona team mate Javier Mascherano, who will most likely lead the side.

“We’re going to need more from everyone because we lack the most important player we have, but we’ve missed him before and the team responded well. “We’re starting a long and hard road which gives you the ticket to the World Cup. It’s go-

ing to be important to start with a cushion of points that will give us tranquillity,” he added.

Coach Gerardo Martino is hop-ing Messi, who also misses the trip to Paraguay next Tuesday, will recover quickly enough to be-come available for next month’s home match against arch-rivals Brazil and trip to Colombia.

BANNED URUGUAYANSBack in July, Chile lifted the

Copa America for the first time in Santiago after Brazil, without the suspended Neymar, went home early following their penalty-shootout defeat to Paraguay in the quarter-finals.

Neymar was sent off in a group match defeat to Colombia and banned for four matches after insulting Chilean referee Enrique Osses. He has to sit out two of Brazil’s qualifiers, the second

one at home to Venezuela next week.

Suarez is still serving a nine-match FIFA ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 finals in Brazil.

He missed the Copa America and will not become available again to coach Oscar Tabarez until March after sitting out Thursday’s visit to Bolivia and next week’s home clash with Colombia.

Cavani is serving a two-match ban after being sent off in Uru-guay’s quarter-final defeat at the Copa for hitting Chile’s Gonzalo Jara, who had infamously poked his finger up the forward’s back-side.

Real Madrid’s Rodriguez has suffered a relapse of a thigh in-jury and misses Colombia’s home match against Peru on Thursday and Tuesday’s trip to Montevideo. (rtr)

LIVERPOOL — Juergen Klopp appears to be close to taking over as Liverpool man-ager. Representatives of the former Borussia Dortmund coach are in talks with the Premier League club, which fired Bren-dan Rodgers on Sunday after the team’s 18-month slump since nearly winning the league title in 2014.

Liverpool could make a new appointment by the end of the week. The team’s next game is against Tottenham on Oct. 17.

The 48-year-old Klopp has been out of work since leaving Dortmund at the end of last sea-son after winning two German league titles. He is regarded as

one of European football’s most respected coaches.

Former Real Madrid and Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti is also considered to be a potential candidate to replace Rodgers.

Speaking to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Ancelotti said he was ready to come back to full-time management, but in-dicated he was thinking more in terms of next season.

“I enjoy my time now but, of course, I want to come back to manage - to work - because it is my passion,” he told AP at an awards ceremony in Lon-don. “I want to take my time to rest, but next season I am ready.” (ap)

SEOUL, South Korea — On a night of big games in Asia, Japan will be under the most pressure as a defeat to Syria in their 2018 World Cup qualifier on Thursday would cast doubt on its chances of making it to Russia. Only the eight group winners in the second round of Asian qualification are assured of a place in the third and last stage, where they will be joined by the four best second-placed finishers.

Syria has been ordered to play the game in Oman due to the political situation at home. Syria, yet to appear at a World Cup,

tops the group with a maximum of nine points from three games, two ahead of Japan.

If Japan were to lose, that gap would grow with just four games remaining — and leave the 2002 co-host probably relying on being one of the best four runners-up.

“The match against Syria is going to be the most dif-ficult and most important among the matches we had in this year,” Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic told a news conference in Tokyo last week. “That’s the one we must win, and if it ends up in a bad result, we won’t top our group.”

The Bosnian, appointed in February, has called up his European-based stars such as Keisuke Honda of AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa and Shinji Okazaki of high-flying Leicester City in the English Pre-mier League. “Syria got off to a good start... yet we’ve also got excellent quality and experience, and will come out with confidence,” Halilhodzic said. “As long as there is a hope, we will keep winning.”

South Korea is in a slightly better position, with three wins from three. But it travels to Kuwait, level on nine points, without striker Son Heung-min.

The Tottenham forward injured his foot in his team’s recent 4-1 win over Manchester City in the English Pre-mier League. As well as Son, who scored a hat trick in an 8-0 win over Laos in September, South Korea will also be missing Lee Chung-yong of Crystal Palace and goalkeeper Kim Jin-hyeon.

“We will be fighting with the first place in the group at stake,” coach Uli Stielike told reporters as he left Incheon International Airport. “You could even say this match is worth six points. That’s how important this is.” Despite the injuries, the German is happy to take a depleted squad for the game in Kuwait and then back to East Asia for a friendly against Jamaica on October 13.

“Given that we will start 11 players and can use three substitutions, only 14 players will see action,” Stielike added. “Even with 21 players, there still will be a handful who won’t get to play. So I felt 21 would be enough for this match.” While South Korea has conceded just three goals in 16 games in 2015, there is more for Kuwait to worry about.

FIFA’s executive committee agreed last month to contact the Kuwait Football Association, warning of a possible suspension in October if a new sports law in the country is implemented. Australia will move five points clear at the top of Group B with an away win against second-place Jordan in what should be the toughest game of the stage for the Socceroos.

The Asian champion, which will be without injured captain Mile Jedinak, lost 2-1 in Amman during quali-fying for the 2014 tournament. Matt McKay played in that defeat in September 2012 and does not have happy memories.

“It’s going to be hostile, they are very much behind their team, very loud, parochial,” McKay told the Foot-ball Federation Australia website. “Most of the boys have played around the world, in big leagues they’ll be able to experience it but it’s just about sticking to our game plan.”

Saudi Arabia officially moved top of Group A on Monday after the four-time World Cup participant was awarded 3-0 forfeit win over Malaysia.

Last month’s match just outside Kuala Lumpur was abandoned with two minutes remaining due to crowd dis-turbances, with Saudi Arabia leading 2-1 at the time.

Bert van Marwijk’s team can extend its two-point lead over the United Arab Emirates to five when the two teams meet in Jeddah on Thursday. (ap)LIVERPOOL defender Mama-

dou Sakho felt like a “caged lion” when left on the bench by former manager Brendan Rodgers, the defender told L’Equipe.

The 25-year-old French made his first start of the season against Ligue 1 side Bordeaux in the Europa

League on Sept. 17 and he did not hide his frustration after missing Liverpool’s opening five games.

“Let’s say that during the short period when I was not playing, I was like a little caged lion who has not fed for a while,” he told L’Equipe. “(Like a caged lion) when you open

the door, he charges.”Sakho’s aggression was evident

in Sunday’s Merseyside derby with the former Paris St Germain man getting into scuffles with Everton’s Steven Naismith and Romelu Lu-kaku.

He was shown a yellow card

in added time for his spat with Lukaku, in what was to become Rodgers’ last game in charge of Liverpool.

Five-times European champions Liverpool languish in 10th place in the Premier League table with 12 points from eight games. (rtr)

ManchEStER cIty mid-fielder Samir Nasri has admitted that France coach Didier Des-champs decision to leave him out of the World Cup squad still rankles to the extent that he is unlikely to return to his homeland once his playing days in England end.

The 28-year-old, who is tied to Premier League leaders City until 2019, told French television chan-nel Canal+ Sport that he was open to the idea of playing in the United States after England and would not represent France again.

Nasri announced his retirement from international football in Au-gust last year after being dropped

from the squad that went to Brazil in 2014 and insisted he was happy with the decision.

“Even if my father was the man-ager, I wouldn’t go back. I suffered a lot with the national team,” he said on French television.

“The real split was in 2012. I wanted to stop then but my father said I should play at the World Cup. “At the start, it was a dream.

“But to miss a World Cup, when I thought I was good enough, that wrecks things a little. I’m not perfect -- I have flaws. But when you’re a top manager, you can manage egos.

“I do not see myself returning

to (France’s) Ligue 1,” Nasri add-ed. “I love the Premier League. I like my life in England.

“I see myself going to play in the MLS (Major League Soccer) -- to discover something differ-ent -- rather than going back to France.” Deschamps has already gone on record to say he had no regrets about dropping Nasri.

“From the moment that I didn’t pick him for the World Cup, I knew that I didn’t make him happy. But I accept responsi-bility for that choice,” the coach said last month.

“I don’t see why I would review my position in relation to what I saw. I didn’t take my decision

just like that, without having seen, talked and exchanged,” h e a d d e d . (rtr) BERLIn — Germany for-

ward Lukas Podolski has been ruled out of his country’s Euro-pean Championship qualifiers against Ireland and Georgia with a left ankle injury.

The German football federa-tion (DFB) says Podolski trav-elled with a swollen ankle from his club Galatasaray and was di-agnosed upon arrival in Frankfurt with “a painful capsule irritation of the left upper ankle joint.”

The DFB says Podolski left the German team’s base Tuesday

and was returning to his club for further treatment.

Coach Joachim Loew still has 22 players in his squad, though Bayer Leverkusen winger Karim Bellarabi was laboring with a shoulder problem.

Germany needs one point from its final Group D games against Ireland in Dublin on Thursday or Georgia in Leipzig on Sunday to ensure qualifi-cation for its 12th consecu-tive European Championship. (ap)

South American qualifiers start without elite quintet

Alexis Sanchez celebrates after scoring the first goal for Arsenal

FIVE of South america’s leading players will be missing when the continent’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers kick off this week. Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Colombia’s James Rodri-guez are injured, while Brazil’s neymar and Uruguay’s Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani are suspended.

Liverpool’s Sakho says felt like ‘caged lion’ under Rodgers

Nasri eyeing Major League Soccer after he leaves Man City

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Japan under pressure in Asian World Cup qualification

AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file

FILE - In this April 21, 2012 file photo Dortmund head coach Juergen Klopp celebrates after his team scored during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Dortmund, Germany.

Lukas Podolski out of Germany’s final

Euro 2016 qualifiers

Klopp could return to take over at Liverpool

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The two-time BTCC champion will also contest the preceding TCR races at Buriram in Thailand on October 25. “This will be one of the greatest challenges in my racing career, as in Thailand I will have to cope with a new team, a new car, a new championship and a new track,” said Menu.

“Because Top Run is currently building a second car, I hope we will run a test before the event. “In any case, we will treat Thailand as a shakedown, an occasion for us to get to know each other and prepare for Macau. “I love the place, it is one of the most exciting circuits in the world and I have always been fairly competitive there.”

The Thailand round will only be the second outing for the Subaru, which made its debut in TCR’s Singapore Grand Prix support races

last month in the hands of Luca Rangoni.

Given the car is so new, it will be difficult for Menu to add to his three victories on the streets of Macau, which all came in WTCC races.

But the Subaru’s late start to the year means there is significant po-tential yet to be exploited. “To have Alain driving for us is a unique opportunity,” said team manager Renato Russo. “We couldn’t wish for a more experienced and faster driver to help us in the process of developing the Subaru TCR.

“For the whole team this is a fantastic motivation to do our best and give him a competitive car.” Menu’s former WTCC team-mate Rob Huff will also race at Macau driving a Honda Civic run by West Coast Racing. (rtr)

NEW YORK — A white police officer singled out black NBA player Thabo Sefolosha as he filed out of a nightclub this year, spark-ing a confrontation that resulted in the Swiss player’s arrest and a season-ending leg fracture, a de-fense lawyer told jurors Tuesday.

“I don’t know what he saw,” attorney Alex Spiro said of the officer, JohnPaul Giacona, who first told the Atlanta Hawks play-ers to clear the area early on April 8. “I think he saw a black man in a hoodie.” Sefolosha, 30, has been charged with misdemeanor obstructing government admin-istration, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He pleaded not guilty and refused a plea deal.

A prosecutor said Tuesday that the 6-foot-6-inch (1.98-meter) Se-folosha acted entitled and disdainful to officers trying to clear hundreds of people off a street following an earlier stabbing outside the club by calling the 5-foot-7-inch (1.7-

meter) Giacona “a midget.”“The defendant does not think

he needs to obey the law,” assistant district attorney Jesse Matthews said. “He does not like being told what to do.” Giacona had just com-pleted three years on the job.

The case stems from a struggle outside the 1Oak nightclub in New York’s Chelsea after Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland and two women were stabbed.

Officers from a cabaret unit charged with patrolling area bars and clubs responded to that stab-bing and were ordered to move hundreds of partygoers off the block, a police sergeant testified Tuesday. It was in that process that Sefolosha, his teammate Pero Antic and two women were told by Giacona to leave the block. Charges against Antic have since been dropped.

Sefolosha disobeyed those orders, then charged at an officer whose back was turned before

he was stopped by officers and eventually taken to the ground and arrested, court documents show.

But pressed by Spiro during cross-examination, Giacona ac-knowledged that although he had previously said he asked Sefolosha to move off the block six times he could only remember doing so at least three times. He also said he didn’t know how the Hawks for-ward’s leg was injured or hear the sound of batons being deployed.

Spiro played video surveillance footage for jurors showing that there were patrons closer to the crime scene tape than Sefolosha and his friends were.

Six police officers will be called as witnesses for the prosecution, but the judge, Robert Mandelbaum, has denied a defense motion to view their personnel files. Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said the court case was on his mind Tuesday.

“I think we all care about Thabo,” he said. “I’m hoping for the best. To be put in a little of a tough spot, going through this, is not easy for him or his family. ... But I just want the best outcome for him. He’s such a good person.” (ap)

Dual BTCC champion Alain Menu to race TCR Subaru at Macau GP

Alain Menu will contest the TCR International races supporting the Macau Grand Prix next month. The Swiss, who will also return to the British Touring Car Championship this weekend, will drive a Subaru WRX STi built and fielded by the Italian Top Run squad as it expands to two cars.

Alain Menu

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Lawyer: White officer targeted black NBA player Sefolosha

FILE - In this photo from Saturday, April 4, 2015, Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha plays during an NBA basketball game in Atlanta. Sefolosha plans to fight charges he blocked officers from setting up a crime scene following the stabbing of Indiana Pacers’ Chris Copeland outside a trendy Manhattan nightclub in April.

AP Photo/John Amis, File

AMLAPURA - Padangbai is developed into a nature and cultural tourism in a tourism resort development of Candidasa, Padangbai Village, Manggis Subdistrict, Karangasem. It is about 25 km from the town of Amlapura, 13 km from Candidasa and about 31 km east of Denpasar. At this location sits a harbor becoming the access of transportation to Lombok Island, NTB. The name of Padangbai got influence from the Dutch as a result of colonial period. It

was formerly known as Teluk Padang or the Padang Bay.

It is a white sandy bay whose location is tranquilly surrounded by black rock. Due to its strategic location, the life of undersea nature is well maintained. Padangbai attrac-tion has pure white and thick sandy beach that is good for sunbathing or swimming. Besides, its natural undersea beauty is very appropriate for diving and snorkeling because it is rich in various kinds of coral

reefs and amazing ornamental fish. Another attraction that can be found here is an exotic blue lagoon becoming a favorite destination for divers. Meanwhile, Padangbai also has a cultural attraction in the form of Dang Kahyangan Temple (universal temple) complex.

In the east of Padangbai Beach lies the Silayukti Temple founded by Mpu Kuturan in the eleventh century during his pilgrim-age to Bali. Mpu Kuturan was a priest hav-

ing a great merit in setting up the Hinduism in Bali where his teachings remained to be adhered to and implemented by the Hindus in Bali today. In the south of the temple lies the Tanjung Sari Temple built by Mpu Bharadah, the youngest brother of Mpu Kuturan. Then, in the west of Padangbai sits the Penataran Agung Temple founded in the sixteenth century by Danghyang Dwijendra also known as Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rawuh, a descendant of the Mpu Kuturan.

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Speaking to reporters two days after announcing he is seeking the vice presidency in next year’s elec-tions, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that Filipinos these days are more con-cerned about their livelihood, crime and other day-to-day problems.

Retired Commission on Human Rights Chairwoman Loretta Ann Rosales, who was tortured and detained during Marcos’ martial rule, said his son, a senator, and his widow, a congresswoman, were glossing over a law passed in 2013 recognizing and compensating vic-tims of human rights abuses during his 14-year rule.

In a wide-ranging forum follow-ing his announcement Monday that he will seek the country’s second highest office, the 58-year-old sena-tor acknowledged that there have been many human rights viola-tions charges against his father but

Filipinos “are not concerned about that” these days.

“They are concerned about their lives today,” he said. “We want an-swers. Why are there drugs in our streets? Why is the crime rate going up at an alarming rate? Why is our educational sector miserable? Why is the distribution of wealth not happening? Why is the government not doing anything about it? Why is there no infrastructure develop-ment? Why is there no agricultural development? This is what people are worried about.”

He said the Marcos name will not be a hindrance to his election cam-paign. “I am the luckiest person that I know, and being a Marcos is part of that,” he said. “I have never felt it to be a burden. I have only felt it to be an advantage, a blessing, and I am very thankful that I am a Marcos.”

Marcos declared nationwide

martial law in 1972, a year before his presidential term was to expire. He padlocked Congress, ordered the arrest of political rivals and left-wing activists, and ruled by decree until a “people power” revolt drove his family into exile in 1986.

Marcos denied any wrongdo-ing, including illegally amassing and hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in Swiss banks, before he died in Hawaii three years later. His widow, Imelda, and their three children were eventually allowed to return home.

A Hawaii court has found the el-der Marcos liable for human rights violations and awarded $2 billion from his estate to compensate more than 9,000 Filipinos who filed a lawsuit against him for torture, incarceration, extra-judicial kill-ings and disappearances. Marcos Jr. said he leaves the events of 1986 to historians to judge while he focuses on being a public servant.

“In my heart of hearts, I truly be-lieve that I was put on this earth to serve, to be a public servant and that is what I will continue to do until the day that I die,” he said. (ap)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Federal investigators looking into the ill-fated voyage of a 790-foot freighter believed to have sunk in the Atlantic during Hurricane Joaquin will focus on the commu-nications between the captain and the vessel’s owner.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to Jack-sonville on Tuesday to begin the agency’s inquiry, which will help determine why the captain, crew and owners of El Faro decided to risk sailing in stormy waters.

Another question is whether the five workers whose job was to prepare the engine room for a retrofitting had any role in the boat’s loss of power, which set the vessel adrift in the stormy seas. Of-ficials from Tote Inc., the vessel’s owner, say they don’t believe so. But the question — along with the captain’s decision to plot a course near the storm — will help inves-tigators figure out why the boat apparently sank near the Bahamas, possibly claiming the lives of all 33 aboard.

The Coast Guard, meanwhile, continued searching by sea and air for any sign of survivors. The ship is believed to have gone down in 15,000 feet of water after reporting its last known position last Thurs-day. One unidentified body has been found. “It’s just a tragic, tragic situ-ation,” NTSB vice chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said.

The 41-year-old El Faro was scheduled to be retired from Ca-ribbean duty and retrofitted in the coming months for service between the West Coast and Alaska, said

Tote executive Phil Greene.The El Faro and its equally aged

sister vessel were being replaced on the Jacksonville-to-Puerto Rico run by two brand-new ships capable of carrying much more cargo and emitting less pollution.

When the El Faro left Jack-sonville on Sept. 29, five workers from Poland came along with 28 U.S. crew members to do some preparatory work in the engine room, according to Greene. He gave no details on the nature of their work.

“I don’t believe based on the work they were doing that they would have had anything to do with what affected the propulsion,” said Greene, a retired Navy admiral.

The El Faro had no history of engine failure, Greene said, and the company said the vessel was mod-ernized in 1992 and 2006. Company records show it underwent its last annual Coast Guard inspection in March.

“We don’t have all the answers. I’m sorry for that. I wish we did,” Anthony Chiarello, said Tote Inc.’s president and CEO. “But we will find out what happened.”

The American Bureau of Ship-ping, a nonprofit organization that sets safety and other standards for ships, did full hull and machinery inspections in February with no red flags, the company said.

F. John Nicoll, a retired captain who spent years piloting the run to Puerto Rico, said he doubts the age of the El Faro was a factor, noting that there are many older ships plying U.S. waters without incident. (ap)

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In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015 photo made from video and re-leased by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard crew member investigates a life boat, that was found from the missing ship El Faro.

Vessel’s messages will be key to inquiry

of ill-fated ship

Dictator’s son says Filipinos care less

about Marcos abusesMANILA, Philippines — The son of late strongman Fer-

dinand Marcos said Wednesday that Filipinos are no longer concerned about human rights abuses committed under his father’s rule, angering activists who said he wants people to forget his father’s dictatorship, which a popular revolt ended 29 years ago.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Philippine Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. gestures during a media forum Wednes-day, Oct. 7, 2015, two days after announcing he is seeking the nation’s second highest office in next year’s national elections, at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines.

“Thick haze still blanket the provinces of Riau, Jambi and Central Kalimantan,” the BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in response to the ongoing haze

disaster that does not only affect the two main islands of Indonesia but also Singapore as well as certain parts of Malaysia and Thailand.

The efforts to put out the forest

and land fires are made through land and air operation, he said adding that the Terra and Aqua satellites on Wednesday detected 421 hot spots in Sumatra Island and 39 hot spots in Kalimantan Island.

“In Sumatra, 351 of the total num-ber of hot spots are detected in South Sumatra Province while the others are found in the provinces of Lampung,

Bangka Belitung, Jambi and Beng-kulu with 45, seven, 14 and four hot spots respectively,” he said.

Meanwhile, the provinces in Kalimantan Island that have been struggling to extinguish the forest and land fires are West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan and North Ka-limantan. Thirty two out of 39 hot spots indicating fires on the ground

were detected in East Kalimantan, he said.

Nugroho said the struggle to extinguish the forest and land fires in the disaster zones in Sumatra and Kalimantan involves more than ten thousands of personnel of the provincial disaster mitigation agency, military and police as well as society members. (ant)

JAKARTA - Foreign investors have shown keen interest in the Indo-nesian property sector, according to the international property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

“Amid the gloomy property mar-ket now, foreign investors are still showing high interest in making

investment in the Indonesian prop-erty sector,” JLL Indonesia’s Coun-try Head Todd Lauchlan noted on Wednesday.

He affirmed that several foreign investors are seeking opportunities to invest in the Indonesian property sector through cooperation or direct

purchase.The Indonesian Property Watch

(IPW) had earlier reminded the gov-ernment on the importance of focus-ing on the development of middle and luxury class housing complexes.

“Housing for the middle and lower income segments can serve as the

savior to withstand the conditions in the housing market, so that it would not fall further,” IPW Executive Di-rector Ali Tranghanda pointed out.

Therefore, the government is ac-celerating the development of houses for the people in the lower income group.

The housing development pro-gram could be accelerated by increas-ing funding sources.

He added that the Housing Financ-ing Liquidity Facility funds, amount-ing to Rp5.1 trillion, to finance the construction of 68 thousand houses had been utilized as of July 2015. (ant)

MAKASSAR — Rescuers on Tuesday recovered the bodies of all 10 victims and both black boxes from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia four days ago.

Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said the bodies of three crew members and seven passengers were flown to Hasanuddin airport in Makassar, the provincial capital. Ambulances took the dead, burned bodies to a nearby hospital for identification. Three passengers were children.

The DHC-6 Twin Otter plane lost contact with air traffic controllers 11 minutes after taking off in good weather Friday from Masamba, a town in South Su-lawesi province. No distress signal was received.

Locating the wreckage took almost four days be-cause of the rugged, forested terrain and thick fog.

Soelistyo said the plane’s black boxes were in good condition. They were taken to Makassar for examina-tion. The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder could help explain what caused the Aviastar Mandiri airline plane to crash.

The 1981 Canadian-made plane was acquired by Aviastar in January 2014 and underwent its most recent maintenance on Sept. 15.

Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of about 250 million people, has been plagued by transporta-tion accidents in recent years, including plane and train crashes and ferry sinkings. The country’s airline market is expanding rapidly but struggles to obtain qualified pilots, mechanics and air traffic controllers, and modern airport technology. (ap)

Efforts to extinguish forest and land fires continued

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) revealed here Wednesday that efforts to extinguish the forest and land fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands remain continued by involving more than ten thousand people.

Property sector still attracting foreign investors

AP Photo/Masyudi S. Firmansyah

Coffins containing the bodies of the victims of DHC-6 Twin Otter plane that crashed into a mountainous area on Sulawesi Island are laid on the tarmac upon arrival at Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

10 bodies, black boxes recovered

after Indonesia plane crash

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TOKYO - The Bank of Japan held fire on expanding its already huge stimulus programme Wednesday, despite mounting pressure on policymakers in the face of sluggish growth and stagnant prices.

The decision, after a two-day meeting, fol-lows a string of disappointing data that have raised questions about the effectiveness of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to kickstart the economy, which contracted in the second quarter of the year.

It also comes a day after the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecast this year and next, calling on authorities to work harder to slash a national debt that is more than twice as big as its gross domestic product (GDP).

On Wednesday the BoJ maintained its recent rhetoric on the state of the economy, saying in a statement it “has continued to recover mod-erately, although exports and production have been affected by the slowdown in emerging economies”.

Looking ahead, it repeated: “Japan’s econ-omy is expected to continue recovering mod-erately.”

The country’s inflation “is likely to be about zero percent for the time being, due to the effects of the decline in energy prices”, it added. The yen firmed slightly against the dollar after the announcement. The greenback bought 119.90 yen, compared with 120.28 yen in New York.

While economists had expected the bank to maintain its 80 trillion yen ($665 billion) annual asset-buying scheme at this meeting, attention is now on a gathering at the end of the month, with speculation it will pull the trigger then.

Abe unveiled a plan in April 2013 to kick-start the economy and bring an end to painful deflation with a vast government spending programme and Bank of Japan asset-buying programme -- or quantitative easing -- dubbed “Abenomics”.

While the scheme showed early promise, with stocks surging and growth advancing, a recent run of weak data has raised questions about its effectiveness as consumer prices stag-nate and economic growth remains torpid.

Another plank of the scheme -- reforms to cut red tape in the highly regulated economy -- have also stalled and experts say Abe’s push to pass a highly unpopular security legislation last month could make them even harder to enact with sagging public support.

Data last week showed spending among Japanese households rebounded in August, of-fering a glimmer of hope after a string of week figures, but economists warned the world’s number three economy was still headed for recession.

Factory production fell unexpectedly for a second month in August, while consumer prices dropped for the first time in more than two years, according to data last month. (afp)

Setting the stage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the IMF cut its 2015 growth forecast for the world economy Tuesday to 3.1 percent, predicting the worst year since the global recession of 2009.

The downward revision will provide a gloomy backdrop as economic policymak-ers from 188 countries meet in the Peruvian capital Lima from Friday to Sunday.

“The holy grail of robust and synchro-nized global expansion remains elusive,” said the IMF’s new chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld, warning that China’s slowdown and the resulting slide in com-modity prices was weighing down the

world economy.There is “reason to be concerned,”

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde warned in the run-up to the meeting.

After decades of break-neck expan-sion, the world’s second-largest economy is set to slow to 6.3-percent growth next year, its lowest rate in 25 years, the IMF predicted.

And that is taking a heavy toll on other emerging markets, which had grown to depend on China’s voracious appetite for their fuel, metals, minerals and other commodities.

The emerging markets, which drove global growth during the crisis of 2008-2009, are also hurting because their capi-tal inflows are drying up as a recovering United States prepares to tighten monetary policy.

The gloomy outlook tempers the good news last weekend from the World Bank, which reported that extreme poverty will

fall this year to less than 10 percent of the global population for the first time.

The economic pain is particularly acute in Latin America, which had not hosted the IMF annual meeting since the 1967 edition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The IMF forecast a recession of 0.3 percent in Latin America this year, and regional powerhouse Brazil is facing a contraction of three percent.

The fifth annual slowdown for the once-mighty emerging markets and the com-modities plunge underpinning it will be key agenda points as finance ministers from the leading industrialized and emerging econo-mies gather Thursday for a G20 meeting, before issuing a statement Friday.

An entire neighborhood of Lima has been closed off with military checkpoints for the occasion, leaving the streets bizarrely empty in the normally traffic-jammed city and creating headaches for commuters. (afp)

Bank of Japan holds fire on stimulus

AP Photo/Martin MejiaPeople pass under a welcome sign for the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. The meetings are taking place Oct. 6-11. Kick-starting the sluggish global economy and funding the climate-change fight top the agenda this week as finance ministers and central bank chiefs from around the world gather in Peru.

World economic leaders tackle slow growth, climate change

LIMA - Kick-starting the sluggish global economy and funding the climate-change fight top the agenda this week as finance ministers and central bank chiefs from around the world gather in Peru.

NEGARA - A Rabid dog was raging in Jembrana biting 11 people - young and old, in just one night in Dauh Waru village. Most people were bitten on their hands or legs. One of the victims, Komang Asa Adi Wiguna, said on Tuesday (Oct. 6) that at the time of incident the dog attacked blindly at his home also biting his grandmother and son.

Aside from rampaging and biting resi-dents of Dauh Waru village, the rabies dog

also rampaged at the SMAN 1 Negara high school. Spokesman of the SMAN 1 Negara, I Wayan Suandi, said that he rabid dog at-tacked one of his students and a worker at the school.

The dog came from the parking area under the dark tower and bit one of his students on the legs. After that, the dog ran off and bit a local laborer.

In order to prevent the spread of ra-bies at Dauh Waru village, the Jembrana

Livestock Agency euthanasised all wild dogs that had direct contact with the rabid dog.

The Livestock Agency also took brain samples of the dogs that given lethal in-jections, in order to know to what extent rabies has spread at Dauh Waru. Section Head of the Animal Health at the Jembrana Livestock Agency Wayan Widarsa said that after being tracked, the rapid dog was found to have bitten an staggering 11 people.

“We are conducting an investigation to acsertain the possible number of dogs that have contracted rabies, and our colleagues are performing emergency vaccinations,” he said.

Responding to the increasing num-ber of rabies outbreaks in Jembrana and throughout Bali, all people are expected to participate actively in preventing rabies by keeping their dogs on leashes and vaccinat-ing their pets regularly. (kmb)

It was stated by Chairman of the Alliance Caring for People’s Welfare (Apisemar), Nyoman Pasek, in Karangasem, Tuesday (Oct. 6). Pasek from Pidpid village said that recently his organization with several colleagues monitor the quarry activities in Rendang, Bebandem and Kubu subdistrict. “We are pleased that all people are prosperous a result of the quarry business. However, the effort must be comply with the rules, have a permit and do not damage the environment so that in the future it will not bring in miseries or cause people to suffer due to landslides and floods during rainy season or drought in dry season,” he said.

Based on existing data, all the quarry activities in Selat and Rendang subdistrict are illegal. Local government does not dare to issue a permit because both regions do not belong to quarry zone as set forth in the Regional Bylaw on Bali Regional Spatial Planning (RTRWP). However, in reality tens of quarry companies are operating in both subdistricts and most of them operate heavy equipment. In the Bebandem subdistrict, only two companies are licensed of tens of quarry locations. At Buana Giri village, Bebandem, the quarry activities have even reached the altitude of about 1,800 meters above sea level.

Some trees in pine forest are cut down and fall down as being used for road to quarry location under Tanah Aron village. At the unlicensed quarry areas, there are investors operating two, three and even five heavy equipments or excavators.

Pursuant to the data on quarry activities obtained from the government of Karangas-em, in 2002 there are 260 quarry companies of medium and large scale. Among them, only 36 companies are licensed, namely two businesses in Bebandem and the remaining 34 companies scattered in Kubu subdistrict such as Tulamben, Baturinggit, Sukadana and Tianyar Timur namely Darma Winangun

hamlet.According to Pasek, the illegal quarry

companies can happen due to negligence. Actually, the government and other law en-forcement officials have known the illegal quarry companies. However, Pasek added, the Karangasem Revenue Service (Dispenda) remains to collect taxes from the illegal quarry companies. Actually, the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has declared it incor-rect and prohibited collecting taxes to illegal quarry companies. This has become a finding

of the agency.Pasek questioned why mining activities

in Lumajang (East Java) even gets serious attention from President Jokowi, while the mining in Bali, especially in Karangasem, having long been known to operate illegally, is even allowed. Related to damages to na-ture, especially in the water catchment area in the mountains above 500 meters above sea level, Pasek asked President Jokowi to equally give serious attention. Illegal quarry companies and operation in forbidden zone

must be cracked down on, so that in the long term they will not afflict people that do not enjoy the benefit. It is worried that such condition will result in natural disasters like floods in rainy season and drought in dry season.

“In this dry season a lot of people have been suffering from drought as the springs continue to shrink and some have even dried up. Destruction of nature just for the sake of a few entrepreneurs may not be allowed to continue,” said Pasek. (013)

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Quarry activities reach altitude of 1,800 MASL

NGO considers it negligenceAMLAPURA - Location of the quarry

activities in Karangasem has reached an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level (MASL). Most of the quarry activities are without permission. However, they remain to operate conveniently. NGO assesses it to have been deliberately ignored by local government and law enforcement officials.

IBP/BagiartaLocation of the quarry activities in Karangasem has reached an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level (MASL). Most of the quarry activities are without permission. However, they remain to operate conveniently.

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As Clinton looks for ways to dis-tinguish her ideas from those of her former boss, the relationship between the man in the White House and the woman who hopes to replace him has grown increasingly complicated. No issue presents more potential for friction than trade.

For months, Clinton has resisted weighing in on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the sweeping trade deal that has divided the Democratic base. The completion of the negotiations this week means she’ll soon be forced to choose between one of the top legacy items of her former boss or labor unions, environmentalists and other liberal constituencies that oppose the deal.

Clinton promises to “definitely have a position soon.” “I’m going to be diving into that tonight. I’m going to be talking to people. They’re getting me all the information they can gather so I can make a timely decision,” Clinton said Tuesday as she toured a farmer’s market in Davenport, Iowa.

The awkward dynamic isn’t a surprise: Both Clinton’s campaign and the Obama administration have al-ways said the time would come when the candidate would outline her own policies and deliver criticisms, both implied and direct, of the president.

“I am not running for my husband’s third term or President Obama’s third term,” Clinton told voters in Daven-

port, repeating an oft-used line from her stump speech. “I’m running for my first term.”

While she frequently commends the president, Clinton has been of-fering critiques of his policies more and more.

Last month, she came out against the Keystone XL pipeline from Can-ada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, while the administration remains undecided. In August, she said Obama’s decision to approve offshore drilling in the Arctic wasn’t “worth the risk” to the environ-ment. And she’s subtly resurrected her 2008 primary attack of Obama’s approach to world affairs, taking a more hawkish stance toward Russia, Syria and Iran.

On both immigration and gun con-trol, she’s vowed to use her executive power to do more than the president, implying that Obama’s actions have not gone quite far enough.

“I’m not going to be breaking up families. And I think that is one of the differences,” she said of Obama’s deportation policy earlier this week. “But I totally understand why the Obama administration felt as though they did what they did under the cir-cumstances.”

Campaign veterans in the White House say the impact of Clinton’s one-upping is minor and dismiss some of Clinton’s proposals as rou-tine campaign fodder. Candidates use

policy plans to declare their priorities, worries over practical implementation come later.

But trade falls into a different cat-egory. If Clinton opposes Obama’s big deal, she could undermine his arguments just as the White House is in the final stretch of a deal years in the making.

With Clinton’s main challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, calling the accord “disastrous,” Obama may be in the uncomfortable position of watching a Democratic debate next week in which none of the major can-didates is willing to defend the deal.

Clinton aides know she must tread lightly when it comes to criticizing the

president, given that much of her strat-egy relies on the still-loyal coalition of African-Americans, Latinos, women and younger voters that twice elected Obama. But at the same time, they say she must find ways to distinguish herself — and undercut Republican attacks that Clinton would simply be a third Obama term.

Many of Clinton’s top aides joined her campaign from the White House and the two staffs remain in frequent communication.

Before Clinton publicly announced her opposition to the Keystone pipe-line and gun proposals, campaign staff alerted the White House to her plans. And after Obama appeared to

deride her proposal for a no-fly zone over Syria as “half-baked” in a press conference last week, aides called to make sure Clinton understood the criti-cism wasn’t aimed at her, according to a senior White House official who would not be named discussing private conversations.

The White House doesn’t deny Clinton’s new distance has at times created awkwardness for the president. On immigration, Clinton’s promise to go further than Obama in using executive authority to ease the threat of deportation for immigrants living in the U.S. directly contradicts Obama’s assertion that he’s done all he can under the law. (ap)

BANGKOK — A 20-year-old German woman died at a popu-lar Thai resort island after being stung by a box jellyfish, police said Wednesday, the third reported fatality in Thailand in 14 months from one of the world’s most toxic jellyfish.

Police Lt. Col Thewet Pruemsut said the woman was taking an eve-ning swim at a Koh Samui beach Tuesday when she was stung by the jellyfish, whose sting can kill an adult within minutes. A friend of the woman, also a German tourist, was stung on the hand by a jellyfish but survived.

The other two recent deaths from box jellyfish occurred at another popular island in the Gulf of Thai-land, Koh Phangan, known for the infamous Full Moon Party. A Thai

woman died there after being stung this past August, while a 5-year-old French boy died from a sting in August 2014.

Police on Samui met Wednesday with business owners and municipal officials to discuss how to prevent future casualties from box jellyfish, which are not common to most parts of Thailand.

“Business owners are afraid that putting up warning signs would reduce the number of tourists, but we explained the necessity of this practice,” Thewet said.

He said that jellyfish are typical-ly found in Thai waters during the rainy season, which runs roughly from June through October.

Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biology expert and vice dean of the fisheries department at Bang-

kok’s Kasetsart University, said that in the past seven years the numbers of box jellyfish in Thailand have increased due to several factors, including global warming, waste released from the shore that attracts jellyfish seeking food into shallow waters, and a decline in the numbers of sea turtles that eat jellyfish.

Unlike many other jellyfish, box jellyfish do not float on the sea sur-face but swim deeper and are harder to see, he said, making it advisable not to swim at night.

Box jellyfish have tentacles that can reach 3 meters (10 feet) long. The sting is so excruciating that many victims go into shock and drown. Those who make it out of the water often die from the venom, which quickly attacks the heart and nervous system. (ap)

As Clinton campaigns, complications with her old boss rise

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seemed to call Hil-lary Rodham Clinton’s idea of a no-fly zone in Syria “half-baked.” Clinton described the president’s immigration strategy as “harsh and aggressive.” And as Obama tries to rally Democrats around the chief economic proposal of his second term, the party’s presidential front-runner stayed conspicuously silent.

German woman dies in Thailand from box jellyfish sting

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AP Photo/Charlie NeibergallIn this Oct. 6, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a community forum in Davenport, Iowa. President Barack Obama seemed to call Clinton’s idea of a no-fly zone in Syria “half-baked.”

SINGARAJA - The Buleleng House of Representatives urged the government to immediately seek teachers on contract as an effective solution to overcoming the recent lack of teachers crisis. Th local gov-ernment was also given support in preparing a budget to pay the sala-ries of these teachers on contract, as stated in the hearing of the Commis-sion IV of the Buleleng House of Representatives with the Education Agency, Chief of the Education Executive Unit (KUPP) and the Buleleng Education Council. The hearing was led by the Chairman of Commission IV, Ketut Wirsana. The Head of the Buleleng Educa-tion Agency was represented by the Secretary I Made Ngadeg with the division heads and Chairman of the Buleleng Education Council I Gusti Ngurah Agung.

In the meeting Ketut Wirsana admitted that it is apprehensive that so may schools in the region are lacking teachers. According to recent data, Bueleng has a deficit of

some 1,084 teachers. This number will certainly continue to increase because many teachers will soon retire.

Regular civil servant recruitment of teachers is not sufficient to ad-dress the issue because there is an average of 200 teachers retiring ev-ery year. while present recruitment only seeks 39 new ones. Substitute teachers are considered to be in a different league than teachers who are about to retire.

If the local government insists on increasing new teachers by recruit-ing civil servants, ideally 1,500 new people need to added every year in order to supply enough teach-ers. “It is just like chasing running people by walking backwards. It is a serious problem. Without being addressed immediately, educated in Buleleng will not be able to run as needed,” he said.

According to Wirsana, be-cause the addition of new teachers through very limited civil recruit-ment will not effectively overcome

the crisis of teacher in Buleleng, he is urging the local government to add new contract teachers. The legislator said that these teachers would be paid full salaries and pro-posed to divert the budget for their salaries from less urgent programs. “Simply add more contract teach-ers, because the current number is not adequate. We are ready to fully support the required budget. If needed, simply cut the budget of any unnecessary programs and divert it to paying the contract teachers,” he said.

Similar opinions were disclosed by Ngurah Arya, member of Com-mission IV of the Buleleng House of Representatives. This Gerokgak politician said that the develop-ment of education, particularly regarding teachers, must start from the most basic level. If primary education is good and the problem can be handled properly, then the process of education at the sec-ondary level will go well and we expect good results. He went on to

say that, unfortunately, the lowest level of education is still facing serious problems. He cited SDN 6 Pejarakan elementary school, in Gerokgak as an example saying that they only have civil servant teachers. In order to help educa-tion in this school, they need to hire part-time teachers at a salary of IDR 250,000.

“It’s a fact that elementary edu-cation is still facing obstacles. We propose that the development of education start from the basic level. If this is down well then secondary education can follow,” he said.

Secretary of the Buleleng Edu-cation Agency, I Made Ngadeg, concurred that elementary schools lack the most teachers with a total deficit of 1,804 teachers this year -mostly classroom teachers. In ad-dition, 97 teachers for the subject of Physical and Health Education and 50 teachers of Religion are still required. For secondary education (junior high, high and vocational school), a total of 30 teachers are

required, mostly for the subject of guidance and counseling. “Mostly it is elementary schools that are lacking teachers. We have hired 600 contract teachers, but we need 800 teachers. So, we still need to add about 200 teachers,” he said.

According to Ngadeg, while the Educaiton Agency waits for con-tract teachers to be hired, teachers should be transferred as a short term solution to the crisis. Teachers in urban areas can be transferred to school in the suburbs and teachers in the suburbs can be transfered to rural areas. Based on past experi-ence, it is harder to find teachers for rural areas. In most cases, teach-ers refuse to be transferred. “This transfer is only intended for equity and not to increasing the number of teachers. For instance, with this equity model, we would transfer teachers from schools in urban area to schools slightly outside of town like Sangsit while teachers form Sangsit would be transferred to rural areas”. (kmb38)

AMLAPURA - Karangasem was ablaze after fires started on private land, and then again on slopes of Mount Agung near Poh, Linggasana hamlet, Bhuana Giri, Bebandem, on Tuesday (Oct. 6). The cause of the forest fire has yet to be determined but the drought is suspected as being the culprit. Fire Division Head at the Karangasem Transportation Agency, Gede Sukanta, said on Tuesday that the fire broke out around 12:30 a.m. when he received a report from a local resident that was having trouble putting out the fire.

The Fire Brigade, the Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), police and the Forestry Agency along with local residents came to location of the fire. Sukanta added that Fire Brigade deployed four trucks and one double cabin. However, the fire truck could not reach the point of fire due to lack of road access. “We tried to reach the fire by going through Nawakerti village, Abang. Unfortunately, we the terrain there also did not allow for the trucks to pass,” said Sukanta.

Since the fire truck could not reach the burning for-est, fire extinguishing was down manually by residents who were assisted by firemen using hand held fire extinguishers. The fire quickly scorched bushes and pine trees, but fortunalty after burning just 10 acres was able to be put out as it reached the ravine.

Chief Executive of the BPBD Karangasem, I.B. Ketut Arimbawa, also said that despite not being able to use their fire trucks, the fire was to be put out in just 3 and half hours. Arimbawa said that he suspected that the fire was started by the friction of trees after the long dry season.

Despite this area being relatively free of human activity, he nonetheless warned residents to be very careful with any fires near or in the forest so s to avoid setting a forest fire. On Tuesday Head of the Karangasem Forestry Agency, Komang Subratayasa, could not be contacted therefore the official cause of fire remains unknown. (kmb31)

Teacher crisis, government urged to contract temps

Mount Agung catches fire

IBP/File PhotoKarangasem was ablaze after fires started on private land, and then again on slopes of Mount Agung near Poh, Linggasana hamlet, Bhuana Giri, Bebandem, on Tuesday (Oct. 6).

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For every 10 centimetres (four inches) over one metre in height, the odds of developing cancer in-creased by 10 percent in men and 18 percent in women, the research team reported at a medical confer-ence in Barcelona.

A Swedish woman 1.72 metres (six feet) tall, for example, was about a third more likely to con-tract cancer than a woman of 1.52 metres.

The findings, which have not been published in a scientific jour-nal, support similar links found in other studies between height and elevated cancer risk -- but the researchers said their work was based on the largest group of men and women yet.

It was not clear if their findings would translate to people who live in different climates, with different diets and genetic backgrounds.

The findings, unveiled at a meet-ing of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology, looked at birth, health and military records of 5.5 million people born between 1938 and 1991. The tallest was 2.25 m in adulthood.

It found that for every extra 10 cm, a woman had a 20-percent higher risk of breast cancer, while there was a jump of 30 percent for every 10 cm in melanoma risk for both genders.

A United States study in 2013, done among only women, had found a 13 percent higher risk of

developing certain cancers for each 10 centimetres of height.

The new research was met with some scepticism by out-side experts who questioned the methodology, and stressed there was a much stronger cancer risk link with factors such as genetics or obesity.

Rather than tallness “causing” an elevated cancer risk, fac-tors like growth hormones may be influencing both traits, they pointed out.

“It sounds an odd relationship at first glance, but it is actually very

plausible that the risk of cancer in a person should be related to the number of cells in their body, since that determines the number of cells ‘at risk’,” Dorothy Bennett, a sci-entist at University of London said in comments issued by the Science Media Centre.

“A cancer arises by mutations from a single normal cell. Bigger people have more cells.”

Mel Greaves, a researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research in Lon-don, added: “Tall people shouldn’t worry that they are destined to get cancer.” (afp)

AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File

In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, relatives watch as Romulo Coelho holds his newborn daughter, Hadassa, birthed via cesarean section at the Perinatal Clinic in Rio de Janeiro.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Thais Faria sank into a leather love seat, relaxing under the ministrations first of a masseuse, then a manicurist and finally a hairdresser-cum-makeup artist. Not 24 hours after her daugh-ter was born via cesarean, Faria was being pampered at an upscale Rio de Janeiro maternity clinic.

Cesarean births aren’t typically associated with luxury. But the pro-cedures have become de rigueur among Brazil’s wealthy, with new mothers at some high-end clinics

enjoying beauty treatments after the operation in a culture that has come to regard births as glamorous social events — equal parts spa, cocktail party and family get-together. In private clinics nationwide, C-sections account for more than eight of every 10 births.

Authorities want to turn the tide on what Health Ministry of-ficials have called an “epidemic” of cesareans births in the country, with Brazil now the world’s No. 2 recipient of C-sections, second

only to China in raw numbers. They have designed new rules aimed at discouraging the procedure when it’s medically unnecessary, saying C-sections dramatically raise the risk of respiratory problems for the infant and death for the mother.

C-sections aren’t more costly than natural births, but many Bra-zilian doctors prefer to perform surgeries, which end up being more lucrative and more convenient over the long run because they can be scheduled during regular work

hours.The vast majority of Brazil’s

mothers-to-be also prefer C-sec-tions, which have become some-thing of a status symbol. Even in the country’s poor public hospitals, where any Brazilian can seek free health care, C-sections represent around 40 percent of deliveries — more than the United States’ 33 percent cesarean rate, which public health experts consider high. In France, C-sections account for around 20 percent of births; in

Sweden, 17 percent.“The very special first meet-

ing of mother and child has been transformed into a party. And any party has to have a specific time and place, so hence the cesareans,” said Dr. Marcos Dias, a Rio obstetrician who advocates natural childbirth.

At the Perinatal private clinic, where Faria gave birth to her first child, women reserve their spot upon learning of their pregnancies, booking their cesareans months in advance. Fridays are the most popu-lar, because they allow for weekend visits by friends and family.

Ostensibly aimed at bolstering new mom’s self-esteem, Shiatsu massages, mani-pedis and make-overs to prepare fatigued new moth-ers for their close-ups are included in the standard package at the Peri-natal. With its uniformed bellhops pushing luggage-laden roller carts and a cafe serving flutes of Cham-pagne, the clinic more resembles a boutique hotel than a hospital.

In clinics like Perinatal, most new mothers have medical insur-ance that cover the $4,200 price tag of the C-sections, plus a three-day stay in a private room. But that cost can rise considerably. Women with deep pockets can also choose from a selection of pricey extras including personalized room decorations that average about $400, camera and video crews to document the big event and in-room catered buffets costing about $200-$400. For an extra $270, they can rent the Cine Perinatal, a private room where up to 14 guests can follow the birth on a giant flat screen TV as they nibble on hors d’oeuvres. The clinic’s seven deluxe suites aren’t covered by health insurance plans and run an extra $500 for the standard three-night stay.

Analusa Feitosa, Perinatal’s head of nursing, said such perks set the clinic apart and the extras help new mothers recover after giving birth. “Their self-esteem takes a bruis-ing, they’re chubby, swollen and in their heads they see themselves as having been transformed” by the pregnancy, said Feitosa. (ap)

Link between tallness, higher cancer riskPARIS - Being tall is linked to a higher risk of cancer, espe-

cially for women, said research Thursday drawn from physical and health data for five million people in Sweden.

Luxury birthing clinics spur cesarean ‘epidemic’ in BrazilDENPASAR - Balinese art and

culture seems to have no end to the forms and content of expression. Traditionally Balinese painting was originally created uniquely for ceremonial or religio-magical purposes. In the 1930’s, due to a combination of art materials being more readily available, the presence of European artists and anthro-pologists, as well as the influence of changing times, painting in Bali saw a radical transformation in a relatively short time.

This transformation took place in the forms of paintings, that increas-ingly incorporated three dimensions, in the content of the paintings, that started depicting scenes of everyday life and also in the fact that paint-ings were now being produced as market commodities. Despite all these changes, it could be argued that painting in Bali remains an es-sentially spiritual activity.

“In the past Balinese painters created forms that depicted the intangible, whereas after the influ-ence of outsiders, many Balinese painters brought the intangible into forms, seeking to create images that express the intangible but that depict scenes of every day life and eventually moved towards abstrac-tion,” said Professor and painter Wayan Karja.

This change of direction hap-pened in just one generation. He

said, “from form towards the intan-gible to the intangible into form” and now we are seeing many paint-ers working with various levels of abstraction in their works. “What is remarkable is to see this this transformation expressed within a single family,” added Karja who spoke at the opening of the exhibi-tion entitled: ‘From Temple to Tat-too: Three Generations of Balinese Painters” that took place on October 6th at Shankara Art Space (Bale Banjar Bali Global Shankara).

Ida Bagus Made Nadera, was one of the great Balinese painters who lived through those transfor-mative times and his iconic works and extraordinary life bear witness to these changes. During his own life time, Nadera moved away from painting purely devotional works towards explorations of new forms of expression.

Nadera was one of the leading figures of his time and was part of the Pita Maha group of painters that changed the face of painting in Ubud and throughout Bali. Nadera’s paintings are in many of the greatest collections of Bali, Indonesia and the world and show a very particu-lar moment of art history.

The shift of expression, form and use of painting was continued by three of his children: Ida Bagus Weda Asmara, Ida Bagus Ketut Karawa, Ida Ayu Sukini, by his nephew Ida

Bagus Adnyana and by his grandson Ida Bagus Gede Wirawan. Karawa, Sukini and Adnyana were the most directly influenced by Naderas style of painting and their bloodline is evident in their works.

Asmara is the only one of Na-dera’s children to have formal training in the arts and has taken

the ion. Wirawan as the youngest descendant has brought traditional forms back to an even older func-tion -tattoos.

All of these remarkable artists carry with them something essential-ly Balinese and all oftheir artworks have an uncanny similarity in their form and intention to the artworks of

Ida Bagus Made Nadera who clearly had an immense force that drove him. “From Temple to Tattoo” is a reference not only to this particular family but also to the rapid changes that occurred in the recent history of painting on the Island of the Gods. The exhibition will be up until No-vember 7th. (sri)

Lin was found guilty by a Den-pasar district court of smuggling 0.88 gram of methamphetamine.

Lin told the court he came

to Bali for holidaying and she needed the drug for her won consumption.

She said she had regularly

consumed the drug since 2014 to deaden pain in the back of her head that she suffered from accident and gastritis.

Lin Jiang said the pain came again when she arrived in Jakarta and Bali and found no medicines that could stop the pain. (ant)

Chinese woman sentenced to 5 years imprisonment

DENPASAR - Lin Jia Ling (24), a Chinese woman has been sentenced to five years’ im-

prisonment with a fine of Rp1 billion for drug smuggling.

From Temple to Tattoo: Three generations of Balinese painters

DEPuTy regent and regent can-didate team for Karangasem, IGA Mas Sumantri-Wayan Artha Dipa recently stated that Karangasem, where Besakih is located, is one of Bali’s most important watershed ar-eas. If water sources there are dam-aged, Bali will surely be destroyed. Therefor this and other watersheds need to be safeguarded.

The Mas-Dipa team is com-mitted to protecting Bali by keep-ing Karangasem’s water in good condition, as Bali’s upstream area. They will consistently maintain Be-sakih according to Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 and Regional Bylaw No. 17/2012 on Regional Spatial Planning of Bali and Karangasem.

“We are committed to protecting the environment based on the princi-pals of Tri Hita Karana , especially in

Karangasem Let’s maintain Karan-gasem together and jointly realize the ideals of society in Karangasem,” said Mas Sumantri.

According to Sumantri, she will attempt to resolve the problems faced by Karangasem County ac-cording to the presidents stated endeavour to maintain sovereign in politics, economically indepen-dence and distinct cultures. “We’ll attempt to have Karangasem’s eight subdistricts, 78 villages and 716 customary hamlets’ rights re-spected,” she added.

Since Indonesia’ independence 70 years ago, Karangasem re-mains the poorest region in Bali. Mas Sumantri aspires to make Karangasem’s community truly economically competitive. “If elected, together with Mr. Wayan

Artha Dipa, I will seek to realize the community’s aspiration to come out of poverty and become truly competitive,” she said.

Sumantri also asserted that she is not giving empty promise, but will provide concrete evidence to the people of Karangasem. “We do not need grandiose promises, we want to prove that we can improve the welfare of Karangasem so that people from every nook and cranny, of even the smallest villages, can enjoy real independence. Access to water, electricity, infrastructure, education and other needs are our focus,” she explained.

Artha Dipa was expressed simi-lar goals adding that he is commit-ted to keeping Karangasem out of the hands of irresponsible people.

“I have experience in the field of

spatial planning and am a member of the technical team for the Bali Regional Spatial Planning Board. I plan to use my capabilities to preserve Karangasem as Bali main watershed,” he said.

He argued that inclusion of Be-sakih in the National Tourism Stra-tegic Area (KSPN) needs to be ad-dressed, so that the mother temple of Bali does not become contaminated by the tourism sector as the domain of the central government program.

“I have often stated that as a former bureaucrat, I am shocked at Besakih being included in the KSPN. There had been no com-munication on the issue, so I was surprised by the sudden announce-ment of inclusion in the KSPN. We will consistently maintain Besakih as a sacred zone based on regional

bylaw No.16/2009 and keep Be-sakih safe with regional bylaw No.17/2012,” he said.

He acknowledged that in the spatial planning of Karangasem, Besakih is included in the sacred zone and has a sanctity radius of five km. “In our spatial planning of Karangasem it is clear that Besakih belongs to a sacred zone which has a radius of five km. So, it is not possible for Besakih to be included into the KSPN which is the domain of tourism. How can Besakih give priority to tourism?” she asked.

Artha Dipa and his running mate are committed to making efforts to maintain the zoning of Besakih as sacred if elected. “Our commitment is to ensure that none of Karangas-em’s temples become damaged,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Bali’s watershed must be preserved

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Ida Made Ketut Karawa, Ida Bagus Ketut Adnyana dan Ida Bagus Gede Wirawan enjoying the exhibition.

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Division Head for Regional Infrastructure for the Bali Re-gional Development Planning Board, Putu Naning Djaya-ningsih, said counties and municipalities often coordinate with the central government in in the case where the provincial budget for road repairs is insuf-ficient. “Whenever possible we try to provide financial as-sistance to the counties through existing mechanisms includ-ing acquiring funds from the “Special Financial Assistance” program. The central govern-ment has said that for 2016, a total budget of IDR 100 bil-lion will be granted to county governments for road repairs,” he said.

Naning added that all the counties have already listed

the particular roads sections that are in need of repair, in order of priority, and proposals have been sent to the central government.

“One country has requested more than IDR 100 billion. This will definitely be left to the central government to evaluate which will involve on site inspections of the road. In order to grant a special alloca-tion such as this, there needs to be the involvement of the State Finance of Development Comtroller (BPKP) The county government’s proposal also needs to be backed up with detailed engineering designs,” she said.

Naning added that the pro-vincial government is currently designing toll roads to connect South Bali to North Bali and East Bal to West Bali. with the stated aim of aiding these regions to benefit by this con-

nectivity. “Toll roads have been on the

table for a while now, this year however the Bali Regional Development Planning Board and the Ministry are keen to get things moving. Apart form road construction, we are also looking to reduce the travel time between Denpasar and Gilimanuk by creating short-cuts. Similarly, we are looking at ways to reduce travel time form the South to the North of Bali,” he added.

Naning went on to say that apart from repairing existing roads, they are also looking to change the status of county roads into provincial roads and provincial roads into national roads, particularly for roads that give access to North Bali, so that the central government can repair them thus facilitating access to the North.

“The government’s plan for the medium term development plan (RPJMN) 2015-2019 and the Bali provincial strategic program have set forth a devel-opment plan for land and sea. On land, there are programs in the Sarbagita region aimed at creating a railway that would connect the airport, Denpasar and Mengwi and would carry passenger trains with tourism in mind, rather than cargo trains. There is also public transport concept in the works that would follow the Trans Sarbagita in order to overcome bottlenecks in South Bali,” he said.

Other infrastructure proj-ects, added Naning, include development of the ports of Tanah Ampo, Gunaksa and Amed. There are also plans to built three reservoirs, one of which would be located in Titab. (rin)

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully 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

Launched over 18 years ago in Bali, Aston was the first ever hotel brand by Archipelago International. Now, in 2015, the Aston portfolio stretches through-out Indonesia spanning 42 hotels together with an ex-tensive development pipe-line for further future ex-pansion.

The brand was brought to Indonesia in 1997 by Charles Brookfield, Founder and Chairman of Archipelago In-ternational. Charles brought over 30 years of experience from within the hotel indus-try and led the Archipelago group to success by target-ing and understanding the demand for quality hotels in Indonesia, establishing the group’s signature “delight-ful moments of heartfelt service” credo.

Dedicated to keeping the brand at the forefront of its game, Tenaiya Brookfield, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Archipelago International, together with

her marketing team recently implemented their creative visions by redefining the ASTON brand with a stylish and high-end new look.

The concept has been in-tegrated into the new designs for Aston’s advertisements by focusing on the business trav-eler market and Aston’s des-tination hotels. As seen in the ad artwork, the previous wave design has been replaced with a sharp line and a lighter back-ground color, finished with blue aspect triangles.

To maintain and acceler-ate Aston’s reputation as an International Standard brand, the updated market-ing campaigns will be seen in premium magazines, across social media platforms and online portals, on billboards and at prestigious locations and visible promotion spots throughout Indonesia.

“The new Aston ad cam-paign is designed to reflect a greater focus on our custom-ers, their needs and visions and how we can support

them. Aston’s loyal custom-ers still want a great night’s sleep and full service inter-national offerings in prime locations with friendly staff. We will continue to keep our promises and hopefully also surprise and delight them with a few more unex-pected benefits across the 42 locations in the Indonesian archipelago.” Said Tenaiya Brookfield, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Archi-pelago International.

Aston is one of seven core brands by Archipelago International – including favehotel, NEO, Quest, Harper, Alana, and Kamu-ela – that have received new advertising concepts, printed artworks and updated brand logos, together with the Archipelago International logo itself. All brand logos will now appear together on every ad campaign to show guests that the same benefits of one brand can be experienced throughout the entire group.

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Aston brand redefines with new advertising design concepts

DENPASAr – Keeping up-to-date with current market trends, Archipelago International, Indonesia’s fastest growing hotel group, has recently redefined its ASTON brand with a professional and stylish new design concept for its advertisements.

BALI, as the leading tourist designation of Indone-sia, needs to be supported by good infrastructure. The first impression that visitors have of the island, is the airport followed shortly thereafter by road conditions. On that account, the government should be on top of plans for infrastructure, said A.A. Ngurah Kakarsana. Deputy Chairman of Bali’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) in charge of the Transportation Division.

Kakarsana is in support of the plan to build tolls roads in order to facilitate the mobility of tourists, especially considering how congested traffic on the island has become. He pointed out that it takes two hours to get from Tanah Lot to Denpasar, going through Canggu and the same amount of time to go from Ulu-watu to Jimbaran.

“We must not let roads become severely damaged before seeking to improve them. There needs to be proper coordination between related parties such, PDAM, PLN and Telkom, which until now has been quite poor,” he added.

Kakarsana also said that if roads are not attended to, people will stop wanting to visit Bali because of how much time they have to spend in traffic.

Chairman of Kadin Bali, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra agree with Kakarsna but argues that Bali needs new roads. The government is being asked -not only to fix existing roads, but also to create new ones, as traffic congestion has become a scourge on tourism in Bali.

“We are worried about the impact of traffic jams on tourism. Currently roads are only repaired once they have become severely damaged and no new roads have been built since 2005. We are asking for the construc-tion of new roads in villages, districts and throughout the province,” said Wiraputra.

He added that if it takes five years to complete the new roads, that this would be like suicide for Bali. The provincial government, who is in charge of this issue, should immediately form a team. “If the new plan takes five years to complete, we will already be in critical condition. If indeed there is a budget worth IDR 100 billion, why aren’t village roads been built? Only fix-ing damaged roads is useless and does not resolve the issue,” said Wiraputra emphatically adding that new roads are needed, to avoid traffic jams.

Wiraputra also pointed out that traffic engineering has never been conducted by the provincial govern-ment. Traffic engineering could be used to alleviate bottlenecking, even if only temporarily. If necessary, the government should limit the number of motorcycles allowed on the road, thus encouraging people to use public transportation, such as the Sarbagita Bus.

The Chairman of Kadin Bali reiterated how impor-tant mobility is for Bali given the tourism industry here. During high season, tourists flock to Bali and having to spend long hours stuck in traffic on their way to tourist attractions will certainly discourage them form visiting again. (rin)

As a tourism destinationBali needs to be supported

by good infrastructure

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Damaged roads are still the government’s homework that was “eaten by the dog”. Many unattended roads, especially those located in villages have banana trees growing out of them.

The Indonesian rupiah and the Malaysian ringgit led gains on upbeat Indonesian trade data and strong Malaysian export figures for August. Meanwhile the yen rose for the second straight day against the dollar after the Bank of Japan decided against increasing its already huge stimulus measures.

The data from the two Southeast Asian nations contributed to a generally confident outlook despite ongoing worries about China, the world’s number two economy and biggest energy user.

Anxiety has pushed investors out of higher-yielding but higher-risk emerging market currencies since China devalued the yuan in August. That move triggered a sweeping selloff that wiped trillions in valu-ations from global markets.

“The rupiah was sold off quite sharply before sentiment turned, so the adjustment may be also quite large,” Koji Fukaya, the Tokyo-based chief executive officer at FPG Securities, told Bloomberg News.

“Sentiment is turning better in emerging markets” and the rupiah could strengthen to 13,700 over the next three weeks, he said.

In Malaysia, the ringgit surged the most since 1998 after monthly exports jumped more than forecast in August.

Oil prices have also edged up in recent

weeks thanks to a slightly weaker greenback, hopes for a pick-up in global stock markets after the past two months’ volatility and expectations for Iranian crude to soon start hitting markets.

Traders are now keeping an eye on the Department of Energy’s weekly report on US commercial crude inventories later in the day. (afp)

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NEW YORK - Gloomy rock leg-ends The Cure on Tuesday announced a 25-date tour of North America, dispelling persistent speculation of retirement. The English band, who last released an album in 2008, has not performed this year and played select dates in 2014 including charity shows in London.

The Cure announced the band would play 25 shows in North Amer-ica in 2016 but initially revealed only three dates -- in May and June in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Singer and guitarist Robert Smith, 56, is famous for his on-stage stami-na, often playing for more than three

hours with minimal interruption.Led by the palm tree-haired

Smith’s wailing voice, The Cure helped shape the genre of Goth rock especially with the 1982 album “Por-nography” which was dominated by thundering dark chords and suicidal lyricism. But The Cure’s output since then has shown -- in the title of one album -- “wild mood swings” with the band winning a popular follow-ing for giddy tunes such as “Friday I’m In Love.”

Fans have for years speculated that each tour or album would mark an end for the influential band.

Smith said in interviews in 2014 that the band had recorded mate-

rial for a new album tentatively called “4:14 Scream” but was unsure whether to put it out.

The songs came from sessions for the last album, “4:13 Dream,” which Smith said was meant to be a double album but was condensed at the in-sistence of the band’s label.

Since then, Porl Thompson, with Smith a guitarist and founding mem-ber of The Cure, left the band to devote himself to painting.

Smith has recently pursued musi-cal projects on his own including a cover of a song by the Scottish post-punk band Twilight Sad, which was chosen to open for The Cure on the upcoming tour. (afp)

Thai media had hyped Madonna’s first-ever show in the Thai capital as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” that would “make history” in Thailand.

Tickets for the Feb. 9 show went on sale Saturday and sold out within an hour, ac-cording to Thai promoter BEC-Tero, which on Wednesday announced a second show for Feb. 10 at the 15,000-seat Impact Arena.

Madonna’s world tour comes to Asia in February, with shows in Taipei, followed by Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Macau, Manila, Auckland and several stops in Australia.

Tickets in Bangkok range from 2,000 baht to 16,000 baht, or $55 to $450, as well as pricier VIP packages that include access to pre-show parties. (ap)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country stars Miranda Lambert and the late Johnny Cash, along with famed blues musician Steve Cropper, were honored Tuesday for helping to build Music City’s reputation as a home for artists of any genre.

The three musicians, along with Gaylord Entertainment business executive E.W. “Bud” Wendell, were given stars on the Music City Walk of Fame in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Lambert, a two-time Grammy winner originally from Texas, said she first came to Nashville a decade ago as a contestant on the talent show “Nashville Star,” but has spent the better part of her career on the road.

When she finally took some time off of touring and moved back to Nashville, she said she felt like it was home.

“I have never felt more inspired,” Lambert said. “It was my first sum-mer kind of off the road and I have never felt more ready to make music and learn from music and learn from musicians and songwriters.”

Cropper got his start at Stax Records, in Memphis, Tennessee, as a guitarist with Booker T. and the M.G.s, The Mar-Keys and later as a member of the Blues Brothers with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

But he was drawn by country and studio musicians, including Chet Atkins and Hank Garland, and moved about 30 years ago to Nashville, where he also has a studio.

“I have always said that Nashville has some of the greatest musicians that have ever walked on the Earth, period,” Cropper said.

Cash’s youngest brother, Tommy Cash, accepted the honor on his brother’s behalf. Wendell, an executive who helped to grow the Grand Ole Opry and Gaylord Entertainment, also was inducted. (ap)

Madonna announces second Bangkok show as part of world tour

BANGKOK — Madonna has added a second show in Bangkok for her “Rebel Heart” world tour after the first concert sold out in under an hour, organizers said Wednesday.

Madonna performs at the opening night of her Rebel Heart Tour at the Bell Center on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Montreal, Quebec.

The Cure returns with extensive US tour

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Johnny Cash, Miranda Lambert, Steve Cropper get stars

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Tommy Cash, the youngest brother of the late Johnny Cash, picks a flower petal off the star presented to Johnny Cash on the Music City Walk of Fame Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. Tommy Cash appeared at the ceremony on the behalf of his brother.

DAMAGED infrastruc-ture in general and roads in particular are still the government’s home-work that was “eaten

by the dog”. Many unat-tended roads, especially

those located in villages have banana trees growing out of them. Deputy Chairman of Bali’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Wayan Mahardika, said that county governments should be ashamed and hand over the responsibility of road repair to the pro-vincial government.

Mahardika suggested that county roads that are in need of repair should have their status changed into provincial road, so that responsibility is clear. Like-wise, damaged provincial roads should have their status changed to national road, that way the levels of government with the largest funds can attend to road repair more quickly. “Without regular maintenance even small cracks in the road can become a major problem. Therefore it is very important to determine not only who is charge of repairs but also which level of government is responsible for maintenance, so as to ensure that roads are kept in good condition,” he said.

Mahardika also highlighted the poor coordination between the government and water, electricity and telecommunications companies. In many cases, roads that are in good condition need to be dug up to lay pipes or cables however often they are not repaved according to government standards.

“There are specific laws that state that anyone wishing to dig up a road, needs to get permission from whoever owns the road before conducting such an activity, but seldom is this done. Perhaps stricter sanctions needs to be imposed on those who break this law. There seems to be a lot of tolerance for those who break this law, particularly on the part of the pro-vincial public works who are in charge of granting or denying such permission,” he explained.

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The Indonesian rupiah led gains on upbeat Indonesian trade data over US dollar on Wednesday.

Dollar declines on upbeat data in Indonesia, Malaysia

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