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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jennifer Lawrence continued her Golden Globes hot streak by winning best actress in a motion picture comedy on Sunday for her portrayal of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano in “Joy.”

This is her third Golden Globe win for a performance in a David O. Russell movie. She previously won a supporting award for “American Hustle” and for her leading role in “Silver Linings Playbook,” and the trend was not lost on Lawrence.

“Every time I’m up here is because of you,” Lawrence said in her ac-ceptance speech, which focused mainly on Russell.

“Thank you for teaching me so much, professionally, personally,” Lawrence continued. “I want us to be buried next to

each other. I really do.”Lawrence was up against nominees Lily Tomlin

(“Grandma”), Melissa McCarthy (“Spy”), Maggie Smith (“The Lady in the Van”) and her friend Amy Schumer (“Trainwreck”) in the category.

Lawrence and Schumer’s friendship has become the stuff of pop culture legend. The two have va-

cationed together, are co-writing a movie, and even co-presented on stage at the awards on Sunday night.

Unlike the best actress drama category, the comedy category is not expected to help predict eventual Oscar nominees, save for Lawrence. Notably, though, Lawrence did not receive a Screen Actors Guild nomination for “Joy.”

Last year Amy Adams won for her role as the painter Margaret Keane in “Big Eyes.” She

was not nominated for an Oscar. (ap)

The movie also earned Globes for motion picture, and for director Alejandro Inarritu at the Sunday night ceremony.

“It’s very rewarding,” DiCaprio said backstage. “We had a very solid opening weekend because I think people appreciate seeing a different type of cinema out there.”

DiCaprio was saluted with a standing ovation from the audi-ence when his name was called at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

As a fur trapper, DiCaprio braved icy waters, ate raw bison and went to find his mates who left him for dead in the unforgiv-ing wilderness. The film was shot during nine months in what he described as “rough conditions.”

“I share the award with all the indigenous communities around the world,” DiCaprio said in his acceptance speech. “It is time we recognize your history and protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people who are out there to exploit them.”

DiCaprio beat out fellow nominees Bryan Cranston of “Trum-bo,” Michael Fassbender of “Steve Jobs,” Eddie Redmayne of “The Danish Girl,” and Will Smith of “Concussion.”

The 41-year-old actor born in Hollywood earned his third career Golden Globe. His earlier wins came two years ago for “The Wolf of Wall Street” and in 2005 for “The Aviator.” (ap)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Lady Gaga walked away from Sunday’s Golden Globes with a best actress trophy for her role in FX’s “American Horror Story” — and the most buzz on Twitter for her red carpet appearance and her award.

Twitter counted 4.4 million tweets about the Globes during the show, spokeswoman Elizabeth Luke said. While Gaga reigned supreme among the most talked about moments, Leonardo Di-Caprio, who generated the second most buzz for his best actor award for “The Revenant,” and in the third spot, “Mr. Robot” for its best TV drama award.

On the red carpet, Jennifer Lawrence racked up the second most tweets, and Katy Perry came in third.

The most tweets overall went to Gaga, with Lawrence coming in second and DiCaprio third. (ap)

Leonardo DiCaprio wins Golden Globe for dramatic actor

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Lady Gaga reigns supreme on Twitter during Golden Globes

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Leonardo DiCaprio did more than just survive a bear mauling in “The Revenant.” He won a Golden Globe as best dramatic actor for the 19th century survival epic.

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Jennifer Lawrence wins Golden Globe for best comedy actress

Bowie, whose hits included “Fame,” ‘’Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died “peacefully” and was surrounded by family, representa-tive Steve Martin said early Mon-day. The singer had fought cancer for 18 months.

Long before alter egos and wild outfits became commonplace in pop, Bowie set the music world on its ear with the release of the 1972 album, “The Rise of Ziggy Stardust and Spiders from Mars,” which introduced one of music’s most famous personas. Ziggy Stardust was a concept album that imagined a genre-bending rock star

from outer space trying to make his way in the music world. The per-sona — the red-headed, eyeliner wearing Stardust — would become an enduring part of his legacy, and a touchstone for the way entertain-ers packaged themselves for years to come.

Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same day as he released a new al-bum called “Blackstar.”

“While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief,” said a statement issued via his social media accounts. No more details were provided.

The singer, who was born David Jones in London, came of age in the glam rock era of the early 1970s. He had a striking androgynous look in his early days and was known for changing his appearance and sounds. After Ziggy Stardust, the stuttering rock sound of “Changes” gave way to the disco soul of “Young Americans,” co-written with John Lennon, to a droning col-laboration with Brian Eno in Berlin that produced “Heroes.”

He had some of his biggest suc-cesses in the early 1980s with the bombastic “Let’s Dance,” and a massive American tour. Another one of his definitive songs was “Un-der Pressure,” which he recorded with Queen; Vanilla Ice would years later infamously use the song’s hook for his much maligned smash “Ice Ice Baby.”

“My entire career, I’ve only re-ally worked with the same subject matter,” Bowie told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. “The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety — all of the high points of one’s life.”

At a concert for rescue workers after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, his performance of “He-roes” was a highlight.

“What I’m most proud of is that I can’t help but notice that I’ve af-fected the vocabulary of pop music. For me, frankly, as an artist, that’s the most satisfying thing for the ego.”

Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, but he didn’t attend the cer-

emony. Madonna, another artist who knew something about chang-ing styles to stay ahead of the curve, accepted for him and recounted how a Bowie concert changed her life when she attended it as a teenager. David Byrne, of the art rockers Talking Heads, inducted Bowie and said he gave rock music a necessary shot in the arm.

“Like all rock ‘n’ roll, it was visionary, it was tasteless, it was glamorous, it was perverse, it was fun, it was crass, it was sexy and it was confusing,” Byrne said.

Bowie kept a low profile in re-cent years after reportedly suffering a heart attack in the 2000s. He made a moody album three years ago called “The Next Day” — his first recording in a decade which was made in secret in New York City.

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In this June 6, 2005 file photo, singer David Bowie and his wife Iman pose at the 2005 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York. Bowie, the innovative and iconic singer whose illustrious career lasted five decades, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2015, after battling cancer for 18 months.

BALI is increasingly crowded with motor vehicles. Between January and November alone, a stagger-ing 32,678,941 new motorcycles came into Bali. New private cars, buses and freight vehicles also increased in number last year, and if things con-tinue like this, in no time at all Bali will have the

same traffic problems as Jakarta. “Relevant agencies should look for the best solution so that severe conges-

tion can be overcome. I think that relying on traffic police, is not the solution,” said the Chief of Sub-directorate of the Bali Police Registration and Identification, Andy Prihastomo.

Certain solutions -like setting limits for the age of vehicles, can be implemented by the local government so that the Island of the Gods does to become gridlocked. “For example, 10-year-old vehicles could be traded in with the help of government subsidies as is done in many countries to prevent the number of vehicles on the road from increasing non-stop,” said Prihastomo.

Additionally, mass transportation needs to be encouraged P however stressed that public transportation needs to be suitable, comfortable, safe and punctual.

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Tens of millions more motorcycles came into Bali last year

Iconic singer David Bowie dies at 69NEW YORK — David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who

broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-bending persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album.

There also needs to be adequate facilities and infrastructure as well as strong government support in encouraging the public to use these mode of transportation. “Currently, people prefer to use their own private vehicles -especially motorcycles, which is understandable given that, currently, there is no suitable form of public transportation,” he said.

In response to the idea of creat-ing overpasses or underpasses, Pri-hastono replied that these are only short term solutions. “If the number of vehicle continues to increase, there will still be congestion. Traf-fic jams already occur everywhere during long holidays like Christmas and New Year. All the vehicles are on the road, while the road capacity remains the same,” he said.

Apart from on holidays, certain streets, like Jalan Teuku Umar expe-rience traffic jams on a daily basis. Prihastono explained that the daily congestion that occurs from the six way roundabout northwards is due to the presence of so many cell phone shops and other businesses along this strip -almost none of which have parking areas. Customers, are there-for forced to park along the side of the road. “Congestion on this strip, causes traffic jams throughout the area -especially during rush hours.

This section of the road should be freed of parking lanes. I also want to reiterate that the number of vehicles on the roads needs to be limited,” he said.

According to Prihastono, his agency has done their best to minimize traffic jams. However, there efforts have been insufficient, given the ever-growing number of vehicles circulating. “We need to increase public awareness about the need for public transportation, and the government needs to prepare adequate infrastrure for it. Over-seas, rich people often prefer to take public transport,” said Prihastono.

He also cited the number of ve-hicles that entered Bali in just the last three months, saying that it was extremely high: September 2015, counted 338,894 private cars, 9,342 buses, 135,009 freight vehicles and 3,021,312 motorcycles. October, there were 342,218 private cars, 9,386 buses, 135,840 freight vehicles and 3,040,957 motorcycles. Then in No-vember, recorded a total of 345,158 private cars, 9,435 buses, 136,568 freight vehicles and 3,058,539 mo-torcycles. “If left unchecked, the numbers will continue to rise. This data only refers to vehicles coming into Bali. This does not include the number of vehicles that are already in Bali. We certainly hope that relevant agencies can sit down together to find solutions to overcome this problem,” he concluded. (rah)

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

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

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

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

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“Of course, road users are nec-essarily suffering losses in terms of time as well as money. Severe traffic congestion is caused by the constantly increasing number of motorcycles and cars that has been a problem for some the now,” said I.B. Raka, in Denpasar.

According to Raka, the increase in the number of vehicles is a direct result of the rise in the number of middle-class Balinese which by some estimates accounts for 70 per-cent of the urban population. Middle class peole can certainly purchase motorcycles and often cars too.

“Well, due to the increasing number of vehicles, the public roads are no longer able to accommodate everyone during peak hours, thus

resulting in crowdedness every-where,” he said.

What is more, he said, many families have more than one ve-hicle, sometimes as many as 5 per household. This certainly exacer-bates traffic congestion.

“In my opinion, the solutions that the government has applied so far, such as applying a progressive tax and setting routes and so forth, have not been very effective,” Raka said.

He suggested that a more effec-tive solution would be that Bali’s parliament create a regulation that would place limits on the age of vehicles that are allowed on the road, as is enforced in many devel-oped countries. In Singapore, for example, any vehicle than is more

than 5 years is imposed with very high taxes. “Whereas, here, on the contrary, the older a vehicle is, the less it is taxed,” he said.

Raka also proposed that there be laws that strongly encourage the turn-over of vehicles in Bali. “For example, if a motorcycles is already 11 years old, the taxes imposed on it should be at least half the cost of a new motorcycle and the same for cars,” he said.

Such policies, said Raka would ensure a high level of vehicle rota-tion and he added that older vehicles could be sent to other regions- like NTT or elsewhere. “If the age re-striction policy for vehicles is not applied, the congestion problem will not be resolved. Just look at developed countries that have ap-plied his type of policy and even stricter ones where any vehicle that is more that 5-8 years years old is taxed for amounts nearly equally the cost of a new vehicle,” concluded Raka. (par)

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BALI is increasingly crowded with motor vehicles. Between January and November alone, a staggering 32,678,941 new motorcycles came into Bali. New private cars, buses and freight vehicles also increased in number last year, and if things continue like this, in no time at all Bali will have the same traffic problems as Jakarta.

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Prof. Dr. I.B. Raka Suardana

Bali: Too many with motor vehiclesSECrETAry of the Indonesian Economists Association

(ISEI) Bali, Prof. Dr. I.B. raka Suardana, recently spoke out in criticism of the rapid growth in the number of moto vehicles in Bali. Traffic is regularly a problem on some of the streets of Denpasar, Kuta, Nusa Dua and surrounding areas.

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Such behavior is seen nowa-days in some birds, and the dis-covery suggests that two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods did it about 100 million years ago, the researchers said.

Martin Lockley of the Uni-versity of Colorado Denver said the dinosaurs, probably males, apparently gathered in groups and “went crazy scraping” with their clawed, three-toed feet to attract mates.

The beasts were built roughly like smaller versions of a T. rex. Footprints near the grooves sug-gest a variety of body lengths, up to about 16 feet (4 meters) from snout to tip of the tail.

The grooves they carved are up to 6 feet long.

The ritual would have been entertaining to watch, Lockley said in an interview. “These animals would have been really frenzied.”

Lockley, an emeritus professor of geology, is an author of a paper on the discovery released Thurs-day by the journal Scientific Reports. The grooves were found at four sites in Colorado.

Dinosaur expert Thomas Holtz Jr. of the University of Mary-land, who didn’t participate in the work, said it’s reasonable to think that theropods created the grooves. But was it for mating?

Holtz said he wasn’t convinced that the new paper had suffi-ciently ruled out other explana-tions. But he added that there’s no particular evidence for rejecting the mating idea.

“Whatever behavior is being recorded here, it is an expression of the fact that dinosaurs_like all animals_did more than hunt and attack and devour and fight and all that limited set of behaviors that popular culture often portrays,” Holtz wrote in an email. (ap)

WASHINGTON — U.S. me-teorologists say the current El Nino has stormed its way into the record books, tying 1997-1998 as the strongest recorded.

Mike Halpert, deputy director

of the federal Climate Prediction Center, said initial figures for October-November-December match the same time period in 1997 for the strongest El Nino. Meteorologists measure El Nino

based on how warm parts of the central Pacific for three consecu-tive months. Records go back to 1950.

El Nino is the natural warm-ing of the central Pacific that

changes weather worldwide, including bringing more rain to California.

Halpert said what really mat-ters is what El Nino does during January, when its impact peaks.

Weather Underground meteo-rology director Jeff Masters said “Darth Nino may finally have California in its sights,” as a series of storms may dent record drought. (ap)

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Scientists have discovered five supersize stars in other galaxies on a par with the monstrous stellar system in our own Milky Way.

Eta Carinae is the brightest and most massive star system within 10,000 light-years of us. The binary system is located in the southern constellation of Carina, a ship’s keel,

and outshines our own sun by 5 mil-lion times.

At the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting Wednesday, Rubab Khan, a researcher at NASA’s

Goddard Space Center in Maryland, reported on the discovery of five “Eta twins.” The Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helped identify them.

Khan says the discovery will shed light on the evolution of these stellar heavyweights. Eta Carinae erupted in the 1800s, hurling stellar material into space. (ap)

US meteorologists: El Nino ties record for strongest seen

5 supersize stars found in other galaxies

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This illustration provided by Lida Xing and Yujiang Han in January 2016 shows theropods engaged in scrape ceremony display activity, based on trace fossil evidence from Colorado.

Long scrape marks in ground linked to dinosaur mating ritual

NEW YORK — Scientists say they’ve discovered evidence of a frenzied mating ritual by dinosaurs: long grooves in the ground etched by the pawing of clawed feet.

The number of departing passen-gers also dropped by 28.30 percent from 410,377 passengers in Octo-ber 2015 to 294,252 passengers in November 2015.

The volume of international baggage and freight was also down 26.51 percent from 6,777 tons to 4,980 tons.

The decrease in the number of departing flights and passengers was due to the eruption of Mount Barujari in West Nusa Tenggara that forced the Ngurah Rai Airport to halt its operations several times.

The main destinations of the aircraft departing from the Bali

airport in November included Aus-tralia, with 478 aircraft and carrying 68,207 passengers; Singapore, with 412 aircraft and carrying 62,766 passengers; Malaysia (280 aircraft, 35,939 passengers), Hong Kong (134 aircraft, 29,418 passengers), and China (95 aircraft, 13,346 pas-sengers).

A total of 270,935 foreign tour-ists visited Bali in November last year, down 20.70 percent from that in the same period in 2014, or 26.66 percent from that recorded in October 2015.

Meanwhile, a total of 2,853 do-mestic flights departed from the Ngu-

rah Rai Airport in November 2015, a decrease of 12.59 percent from 3,264 flights in October 2015.

Domestic flights carried 316,929 passengers, a drop by 10.79 percent from 355,265 passengers in Octo-ber 2015.

The volume of domestic baggage and freight also decreased 15.87 percent from 4,012 tons in October 2015 to 3,376 tons in November 2015.

However, Bali’s Ngurah Rai Air-port recorded a 45 percent increase in international passenger arrivals three days prior to the Christmas 2015 and New Year’s holidays.

The number of international passengers rose to 13,938, or 45 percent, compared to the same period in 2014.

The passengers from various countries arrived aboard 73 flights on the Island of Gods. (ant)

DENPASAR - Bali’s marine area spreads across 9,634.35 square km and has fish catches of as much as 147,278.75 tons. In 2014, fisher-ies recorded catches of 118,241.1 tons, 25, 261.7 tons of which was tuna, representing a fare percentage of Indonesia’ total tuna catches. Paradise Island’s marine area is also rich in sardines, mackerel, skipjack and mackerel tuna and other fish, that are caught by some 38, 558 registered fishermen. Bali has nine seaports.

Head of the Bali Maritime and Fisheries Agency, I Made Gunaja, said that his agency is looking to develop a marine conservation areas in the near future. Of Bali’s eight districts and one municipality that have coastlines, only Klungkung has an area designated as a marine conservation area by the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. Other districts such as Buleleng and Karangasem are still in the nomina-tion process.

“There should be no misunder-standing that conservation means that those marine areas could not be utilized - it is not like that. Con-servation consists of three aspects: protection, preservation and utiliza-tion,” explained Gunaja citing the marine conservation area of Nusa Penida as an example.

There is a zone for fishing, for seaweed cultivation, and protected areas where there are coral reefs. The local community groups are charged with supervising the the function of each zone. “We will supervise whether there are vessels that are catching fish in the conser-vation area where such activity is prohibited and in the case where there are such infringements, we will tell them not to do so that the area will not be damaged. It is also important to monitor whether people are using explosives to catch ornamental fish as this can destroy coral reefs. This must be super-vised,” said Gunaja.

He that well maintained coral reefs provide habitat for fish there-for coral reef rehabilitation is also being carried out by planting artifi-cial reef and using birock technol-ogy as they have done at Pemuteran in Buleleng, for example.

“We want to create guideline for fishing, like the distance form the shoreline. For example, 100 meters out to sea form the shore is coral habitat and no fishing should be allowed there. It should also be prohibited to catches fish when they are spawning. If they are caught before they can reproduce, in no time at all we will run out of fish,” explained Gunaja. (kmb32)

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Bali’s marine area spreads across 9,634.35 square km and has fish catches of as much as 147,278.75 tons. In 2014, fisheries recorded catches of 118,241.1 tons, 25, 261.7 tons of which was tuna, representing a fare percentage of Indonesia’ total tuna catches.

Bali wants to develop marine conservation

Ngurah Rai Airport served 1,852

international departures in November

ANTARA FOTO/Fikri Yusuf

The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali served a total of 1,852 wide-bodied aircraft depart-ing for various international cities in November 2015.

DENPASAR - The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali served a total of 1,852 wide-bodied aircraft departing for various international cities in November 2015. The number decreased 18.88 percent from 2,283 aircraft in October 2015, Panusunan Siregar, head of the Bali statistics office, stated on Monday.

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Below is a look at eight key issues Xi is contending with:

STOCK MARKET VOLATILITYChina twice deployed its “circuit

breaker” mechanism to halt trading as stock markets nosedived by 10 percent in the first week of the year. Beijing fi-nally abandoned the mechanism, and left the perception that regulators don’t have a clue as they try to stabilize a market that more than doubled between late 2014 and June, then dived 30 percent, causing deep pain among retail investors.

CURRENCY QUEASINESSMeanwhile, China’s currency, the

yuan, has slid to a five-year low against the dollar, forcing the government to spend tens of millions of dollars from its foreign currency stockpile to defend it. The government last week guided the yuan 1.5 percent lower to assist hard-pressed exporters, but the clumsy move sent shockwaves through world markets, further weighing on Chinese share prices.

SLOWING ECONOMYHiccups in the world’s second-

largest economy are expected to continue in 2016, with growth falling to a six-year low of 6.9 percent in the

July-September quarter and forecast by the International Monetary Fund to decline further to 6.3 percent this year. That bodes ill for the economy’s ability to generate enough new jobs for the more than 7.5 million students due to graduate from college this year, while also building momentum for a transition from an investment-based economy to one focused on services.

NORTH KOREADespite persistent calls for restraint,

China’s traditional ally North Korea staged what it claims was a hydrogen bomb test blast on Jan. 6 that sent actual tremors across the border into northeastern China and drew condem-nation from Beijing. China now finds itself again under pressure to use any possible leverage with the North to tamp down tensions in northeast Asia, while facing the possibility of more robust security cooperation between South Korea and China’s traditional rivals Japan and the United States.

TAIWANVoters on the self-governing island

democracy appear set to elect a new president whose party opposes Bei-jing’s goal of unification between the sides. Beijing’s economic inducements

have failed to persuade the Taiwanese public of the benefits of political union. If opposition Democratic Progressive Party candidate Tsai Ing-wen wins Saturday, as she is widely expected to do, Beijing may feel compelled to embark on economic and diplomatic pressure that could send relations into reverse. It’s unlikely that Beijing would go so far as to back up its longstanding threat to use force to bring the island under Chinese control.

POLITICSWhile Xi faces no such electoral

challenges under China’s one-party system, he does face resistance from

political rivals and the vast bureau-cracy. Xi shows no sign of abandoning his signature anti-corruption campaign blamed for creating a sense of fear and paralysis among the rank and file. His growing cult of personality exudes an exterior confidence. But with the economy slowing and no sign of political reforms, he may come under pressure from critics and rivals to show results on jobs, growth, good governance and addressing the yawn-ing income gap.

SOUTH CHINA SEASince the year began, China has

landed three aircraft on a new island

it built in the South China Sea, draw-ing protests from Vietnam and the Philippines, which have competing territorial claims in the region.

China’s robust assertions of its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea have long drawn com-plaints and sparked the occasional maritime confrontations in the area through which $5 trillion in global trade passes each year. The test flights landed on one of seven new islands Beijing has built by piling sand atop reefs and atolls. The U.S. is adamant that the new features don’t deserve the legal status of actual islands, and the U.S. Navy has flown and sailed close to them, drawing a furious response from Beijing. Xi now has to defend China’s actions while avoiding dam-age to its foreign relations.

HONG KONGChina faces continuing opposition

from pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong, the former British colony that reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 while retaining its own legal and economic systems. Beijing’s hand-picked chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, is deeply unpopular, and planned electoral changes stalled after massive street protests in 2014, leaving deep rifts in hyper-efficient Hong Kong’s society and politicizing a generation of stu-dents. Now, the recent disappearances of people associated with a publishing company that specializes in titles criti-cal of China’s leadership have raised fears that Beijing is tightening its grip on Hong Kong’s freedom of the press and other civil liberties. (ap)

8 reasons China and its president are off to a rocky 2016

ISLAMABAD — A key gath-ering opened on Monday in Is-lamabad in which four countries — Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States — hope to lay the roadmap to peace for the war-shattered Afghan nation.

The meeting comes as Afghani-stan’s battlefield losses are mount-ing and entire swaths of the country that cost hundreds of U.S.-led coali-tion and Afghan military lives to secure slip back into Taliban hands. Taliban representatives have not been invited to the talks, vowing to talk only to the U.S. and not to the government in Kabul.

As the gathering got under way, host Pakistan — seen as key to bringing the warring Taliban fac-tions to the table — cautioned of the difficulties ahead.

Sartaj Aziz, adviser to the Paki-

stani prime minister on foreign affairs, warned against prematurely deciding which Taliban factions are ready to talk, urging instead “confidence building” measures to get even the recalcitrant Taliban to the negotiating table.

But analysts and participants alike say that while there are four countries talking, much of the hope for progress toward peace rests with Pakistan, which is accused of harboring some of the fiercest factions of the Taliban, including the Haqqani group, a U.S.-declared terrorist organization. Pakistan says its influence over the Taliban is overrated.

“Even at the best of times they (Taliban) didn’t listen to us,” Aziz told The Associated Press earlier. “Look at Bamiyan,” he said, refer-ring to the Taliban’s destruction in

the summer of 2001 of some of the world’s most precious statues of Buddha. The Taliban blew up the statues, ignoring the roars of dis-sent, including from Pakistan.

Aziz refused to say whether Pakistan has a list of Taliban rep-resentatives prepared to enter into peace negotiations. The existence of such a list was announced Sunday by Javid Faisal, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.

At the start of Monday’s confer-ence, Aziz urged that participants avoid the media and work toward finding ways to get all the Taliban to talk peace. He said the Islam-abad gathering needs to define the “overall direction of the reconcili-ation process” and goals that would create a “conducive environment for holding direct talks between the

Afghan government and Taliban groups.”

Meanwhile, a breakaway Taliban group said Monday it was ready for talks. The faction, which emerged following the revelation last year that the Taliban leader and founder Mullah Mohammed Omar had died two years ago, is believed to be relatively small and its absence from the battlefield is unlikely to be a game changer.

Imtiaz Gul, whose Center for Research and Security Studies has delved deeply into the Afghan conflict and Pakistan’s decades-old involvement, says Pakistan has sig-nificant leverage with the Taliban, led by Omar’s replacement Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

Militants in both countries are al-lied, and getting rid of the Haqqanis, for example, could unleash a violent

backlash inside Pakistan where the army has been fighting for several years to defeat a coalition of militant groups largely based in its border areas with Afghanistan, Gul said.

That battle has been brutal with thousands of Pakistani soldiers killed and wounded and thousands more Pakistani civilians killed in deadly retaliatory suicide attacks by the militants.

Gul said last month’s trip by Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Ra-heel Sharif, who travelled to Af-ghanistan unaccompanied by the country’s powerful ISI intelligence agency, long considered the force behind the Taliban, was a signal the military was ready to move away from past practices and center future policy decisions only at the army headquarters. (ap)

Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, US seek roadmap to peace

BEIJING — Barely more than a week into 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping is having a rough time of it, with challenges ranging from a plummeting stock market to new provocations from obstreperous ally North Korea. While none pose an exis-tential threat to his administration, the world will be watching to see whether he has the sophisticated touch needed to find durable solutions and maintain stability.

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016 file photo, Taiwan’s op-position Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, center, cheers supporters from a truck as she parades through the streets of Tainan, Taiwan prior to the na-tion’s presidential election on Saturday, Jan. 16.

TABANAN - Approaching Galungan and Kuningan that fall next February, pig breed-ers must be happy with the soaring price of pork. However, it does not happen in 2016. A month before Galungan, the price of pork expected to rice but even slumps.

A pig breeder in Tabanan, I Gusti Putu Winiantara, explained on Monday (Jan. 4) that the price of pork at breeder level slumps to IDR 22,000 per kilogram from the previ-ous price reaching IDR 24,000. The price re-duction is coupled with the rising feed price so that breeders are getting frustrated.

Winiantara added that corn hominy feed rises to IDR 240,000 per sack from IDR 170,000 per sack. High price of the corn hominy happens because this feed is im-ported so as to follow the exchange rate of dollar. “This corn hominy is not produced in Indonesia but must be imported,” he said. Price increase also occurred in the bran from IDR 2,500 to IDR 3,000 per kg. Manufac-tured feed also increased from IDR 15,000

to IDR 20,000.Rising feed price and the drop in the price

of meat at breeder level make him unable to get profit. “Fortunately, we are still able to pay the interest of loan borrowed for the cattle breeding business,” he said.

Price decline also occurred in piglet. Typically the baby pig can be sold for IDR 600,000 each. But this time it only reaches IDR 500,000 if there is one wishing to buy. “In the past, the baby pig bred can be sold out at the age of 35 days. Now, it takes lon-ger time and can reach 60 days. Certainly this condition adds to operational costs for the purchase of feed,” he said.

As a breeder, he hoped the government can find a solution so that they can continue to run the business without being harmed by feed prices that continue to soar while the selling price of pork downs. “To lower the price of feed, the solution is building feed mill in the country so that it is unnecessary to import again,” he explained. (kmb24)

Anisa, a local resident, told on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 10) that her kitchen was destroyed and col-lapsed on Sunday night (Jan. 3). The losses as a result of the incident are estimated to reach tens of mil-lions of rupiahs.

To protect her home from the brunt of sea waves, she has in-stalled rock-filled gabions since Friday (Jan. 8). At some locations of the tatami-styles seafood stall have been protected with gabions independently by the owners, while some others simply rely on sand sacks.

As observation on Sunday af-ternoon (Jan. 10), seawater looked huge and high. They always make people wary. Abrasion along the Pebuahan Beach at Banyubiru has been increasingly concerned from the east to the west.

Previously, a building of MIN school accommodating the elemen-tary school students in the coastal region was also destroyed. Some bottom parts of the newly con-structed building have vanished. To maintain the roof of the building, it is now deliberately supported with wood. As the information compiled, some parts of the building remain-ing to stand are still used for school students of the fifth and sixth grade. Then, the students of first to fourth

grade are evacuated to the other buildings located in the north side of the road.

One of the grilled seafood own-ers, Sri Astuti, said that high impact of the abrasion on Pebuahan Beach has occurred within the past two years. It also afflicted to her busi-ness premises which have lost a number of buildings because the land disappeared as swept away by seawater. Another resident, Suandi, 55, said that since the past week the waves have been very large. “I cannot sleep well because of fear. Moreover, we do not have alternative residence to stay,” he explained.

Nurhakim also confessed that currently his house has almost col-lapsed because it has been hoofed by lacing of the waves. “We are forced to create a protection by installing a number of sand sacks,” he explained.

Residents of Pebuahan expected the government to install revetment on the beach as has been carried out at Baluk Rening and Candikusuma. “Since Cupel and Baluk Rening have been protected with revet-ment, the waves have a very great impact here,” said some residents. Now, the residents independently protected their place by installing rock-filled gabion. (kmb)

Abrasion at Pebuahan increasingly serious, five houses destroyed

A month before Galungan, price of pig slumps

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A pig farm is seen on the picture

NEGARA - Abrasion on Pebuahan Beach at Banyubiru village, Negara, is getting worse lately. Five houses and their kitchen were destroyed by ferocious waves last week. Last No-vember, a number of school buildings and tatami-style seafood stalls were destroyed by seawater.

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The abrasion on Pebuahan Beach at Banyubiru village, Negara is destroying a house.

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SHANGHAI - Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group, owned by the country’s richest man, said revenue surged nearly 20 percent in 2015, despite worsening economic conditions in its home market.

Wanda, founded by Wang Jianlin, has its origins in com-mercial property but is diversifying into areas ranging from entertainment to e-commerce.

Reports say the company might soon take a stake in US film studio Legendary and Wanda is scheduled to hold a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday regarding an overseas acquisition.

The company said revenue was 290.16 billion yuan ($44 billion) last year, up 19.1 percent from 2014, according to a statement released late Sunday. It gave no specific figure for net profit though it forecast a rise.

The parent group is not listed but some of its subsidiar-ies are quoted.

Wang is known outside China for a string of overseas acquisitions including the organiser of Ironman extreme endurance contests and Swiss sports marketing group Infront, while it also has a stake in Spanish football club Atletico Madrid.

He burst into the international spotlight in 2012 by buy-ing US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion and his company owns more than 200 malls, shopping complexes and luxury hotels across China.

The firm’s cinema unit recorded a 49.9 percent year-on-year surge in revenue last year to 8.0 billion yuan, the statement said. Wanda Cinema Line, which holds an esti-mated 14.5 percent share of the Chinese box office, now has 292 cinemas.

The personal fortune of Wang, who is also chairman of Wanda, stood at $32.4 billion as of Friday, according to Bloomberg Billionaires.

China logged its worst economic performance since the global financial crisis during the July-September quarter, with gross domestic product rising just 6.9 percent -- its lowest level in six years -- and hitting several companies’ bottom lines. (afp)

A massive plunge in Chinese stocks last week and a decline in the yuan after authorities weakened its value roiled global equities and further raised concerns about the growth slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy.

Despite China’s efforts to bring calm, including setting the central

rate for the yuan marginally higher, analysts said they needed to see more transparency in the foreign exchange policy.

“We reiterate that things remain fluid. Market volatility last week suggested that nobody really knows what or where the policy is right now,” DBS Bank said in a market

commentary.“The market’s message was

loud and clear that more clarity was needed on China’s transition towards a more market-determined exchange rate and an economy led by domestic demand,” it added.

“We will continue to monitor developments closely and decide if more adjustments will be needed to our forecasts going forward.”

At around 0345 GMT, the dol-lar was at 117.31 yen, up from

117.26 yen in late US trade Friday after a strong US jobs report in December.

The euro was changing hands at $1.0920, down from $1.0922, and at 128.0261 yen from 128.12.

Japanese financial markets were closed for a holiday. The yen is considered a safe haven currency in the face of the China-led global stocks turmoil. In other trades, the greenback was up against the New Zealand dollar, Taiwan dollar, South

Korean won, Philippine peso, Indian rupee and the Malaysian ringgit.

It fell against the Australian and Singapore dollars, Indonesian rupiah, Chinese yuan and Thai baht. But fo-cus remained on the yuan because of its impact on the global markets.

“Asian currencies have been dragged lower amid (the) yuan depreciation, with Singapore dol-lar and Malaysian ringgit among the most impacted,” banking group ANZ said. (afp)

MANILA — The Asian Develop-ment Bank president said Friday he is optimistic China’s economy will post healthy growth of 6.7 percent this year despite jitters over the yuan’s deprecia-tion and a plunge in Chinese stocks.

ADB President Takehiko Nakao said that China’s growth “is still very high” compared with other countries. The development bank estimates the Chinese economy grew 6.9 percent last year.

China’s slowdown is due to poli-cies to pay more attention to the environment, an aging population, waning migration from rural areas to cities, higher wages and higher per capita income, currently $8,300, that make it more difficult to maintain the very rapid growth rates of the past, he said.

Nakao said he does not see a serious adjustment in the Chinese economy because there is much room to ex-pand service industries, state owned enterprises are being reformed, social security is being boosted and efforts are underway to reduce the income dis-parity between cities and rural areas.

Fiscal reforms include measures for local authorities suffering from high debt to increase their revenue and a larger role for central government in providing social security.

“There is room for stimulus if growth is coming down because the fiscal position is strong and inflation is subdued,” he said.

Meanwhile, Nakao said the ADB is happy to cooperate with the new Chi-na-led Asian Infrastructure and Invest-ment Bank, with the two banks to go

into co-financing of projects when the AIIB starts operations mid-2016. Pos-sible projects for co-financing would be in transportation, roads, renewable energy and water projects.

The Beijing-based bank, which will launch next week, has been viewed by some as a rival to the U.S.-led World Bank and the Japan-led ADB, with suspicions China could use it as a tool to advance its influence and agenda in the region.

“To me there is no choice over not cooperating, we should cooperate,” Nakao said, pointing to developing Asia’s $8 trillion infrastructure financ-ing need from 2010-2020 and huge infrastructure gaps in countries such as India, the Philippines and Indonesia.

He said ADB members, including Japan and the United States which have not joined AIIB, also want ADB to cooperate with the new lender. (ap)

Dollar up against yen, but eyes on yuan amid China turmoil

SINGAPORE - The dollar rose against the yen in volatile Asian trade Monday but all eyes were on the yuan as China moves to calm a stock market turmoil.

Chinese group Wanda says revenue

surged in 2015

ADB head optimistic China’s economy to grow 6.7 percent

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People started arriving in the square at around 16:00 then gradu-ally gathered around the stage in the middle of the field. Despite the scorching heat, the rumbling voice of opposition -accompanied by Balinese pop songs presented by lo-cal artist Ray Peni, continued to be delivered against the mega project. One by one of representatives gave their speeches, which all essentially contained criticism of the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

The first oration was delivered by chairman of the organizing committee, Komang Sudiarta. This man familiarly called Mang Bul read a statement by the Chair-man of Baladika Bali, Bagus Alit Sucipta. The statement contained the decisions made by Baladika in their annual meeting that was held on December 24, 2015. “Baladika Bali is ready to be on the frontline

in maintaining the Benoa Bay,” said Mang Bul.

This decision, he said, was based on three things: firstly, that Benoa Bay is a conservation area so it’s status cannot be arbitrarily changed to a utilization area solely for the purpose of reclamation through Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

“Research has suggested that if the area is reclaimed, it will result in adverse effects on the surrounding areas. Such adverse effects include the threat of flooding, degradation of ecosystems and biodiversity, and other ecological degradation,” he said.

Secondly, Benoa Bay is a sacred area, and some research suggests that the region has 60 sacred points. “There are a tidal lands (muntig—Ed) and ‘bay flow’ that are used as sites for holding customary and

religious activities by people living around Benoa Bay. The reclamation of 700 hectares in the region will decrease the sacred value of the region,” he added.

The third point, he said, is related to the other arguments that have been presented by experts in the field of disaster, tourism, agricul-ture, culture and so forth. These have already been publicized one by one, he concluded.

Based on these reasons two im-portant points converged, leading to their statement. First, Baladika Bali rejects the Benoa Bay recla-mation plan despite any pretexts and asks the government to wisely terminate the reclamation plan. Second, with respect, Baladika asks the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, to revoke and cancel Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 and then restore the area of Benoa Bay’s stauts as a conservation area.

“These statements are made in good faith as a form of Baladika Bali’s devotion to Bali that we love. At the same time, this statement

represents our commitment to con-tinue to fight until the reclamation plan is canceled,” said the closing words of the statement.

Apart from the two main points stated, Mang Bul are also said that Baladika is requesting that the Governor of Bali as well as Bali’s regents and mayor, all work together to stop the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. He then invited all the Balinese people to try to save Benoa Bay, by implementing conservation measures in Benoa Bay and explicitly reject the Benoa Bay reclamation plan under any pretext.

“We also invite all the exponents and components of the Balinese People to continuously work to-gether to maintain Bali’s natural environment free of exploitation for the sake of true prosperity in Bali,” said the Spokesperson of Baladika Bali.

Chief of the Baladika Bali Re-search and Development, Komang Merthajiwa, mentioned that about 1,500 to 2,000 Baladika Bali mem-bers were involved in this protest.

He acknowledged that this num-ber is only a small percentage of Baladika Bali’s tens of thousands of members, but added that they deliberately kept the gathering to just under 200 people, in order to avoid any potential friction.

“Today, we are present here purely to reject the Benoa Bay rec-lamation plan. We did not involve all our members so as to avoid any new frictions or new issues. We are voicing our rejection well and po-litely,” he explained, while adding that Baladika Bali will continue to fight relentlessly to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

“If we cannot do it through the use of billboards, we will do it by different means. In essence, we want to support the aspirations of the Balinese people,” he con-cluded.

Aside from Baladika Bali, the protest was also attended by other members of the local commu-nity who stand in opposition to the Benoas Bay reclamation plan, including Nusa Dua residents and Formanusa. (edi/rah)

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The Baladika Bali during a rally to reject the reclamation plan

Reject reclamation, Baladika Bali ‘swarms’ Nusa Dua

MANGUPURA - Members of Baladika Bali, dressed in semi-formal traditional Balinese attire, thronged Nusa Dua’s Lagoon Square, on Sunday (Jan. 10). Bearing various signs and symbols including banners and flags, they voiced their opposition of the planned reclamation of Benoa Bay.

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“Blackstar,” which earned posi-tive reviews from critics, represent-ed yet another stylistic shift, as he gathered jazz players to join him.

He released a music video on Friday for the new song “Lazarus,” which shows a frail Bowie lying in bed and singing the track’s lyr-ics. The song begins with the line: “Look up here, I’m in heaven.”

Tributes poured in for the singer after the announcement of his death. British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted about his sadness from outer space aboard the International Space Station, saying “his music was an inspiration to many.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that Bowie’s death is “a huge loss.” He wrote he had grown up listening to and watching Bowie and called the singer a “master of reinvention” and a pop genius who kept on get-

ting it right.Kanye West said on Twitter

that Bowie “was one of my most important inspirations, so fearless, so creative, he gave us magic for a lifetime.”

Bowie felt uneasy about some of his greatest material, once embark-ing on a “greatest hits” tour saying it would be the last time performing much of his old material. He later relented, however.

“I’m not a natural performer,” he said in the 2002 interview. “I don’t enjoy performing terribly much. Never have. I can do it and, if my mind’s on the situation, do it quite well. But five or six shows in, I’m dying to get off the road and go back into the studio.”

Bowie was married twice, to the actress and model Mary Angela “Angie” Barnett from 1970-80, and to international supermodel Iman since 1992. He had two children — Duncan Jones and Alexandra Zahra Jones — one with each wife. (ap)

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“The imports would not cause marketing problem for cows from NTT as the import is to cover the shortage in domestic supply,” head of the animal husbandry office Dany Suhadi said on Monday.

Earlier, Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture Hary Priyono said the country would im-port around 600,000 cows in 2016

to meet domestic consumption of 675,000 tons of beef.

The ministry and the Board of Logistics have only a stock of 416,000 tons, therefore, the country would need to import 600,000 cows equivalent to 236,000 tons of beef, he said.

Hary said there are many cow production centers in the country

like East Nusa Tenggara, but buyers prefer imports because of difficult access to the the centers.

Dani Suhadi said demand for NTT cows remain high from other regions such as Kalimantan and Java especially from the Greater Jakarta area.

Last month, a new cattle ship be-gan its regular service transporting live cows from East Nusa Tenggara to Jakarta.

The KM Camara Nusantara arrived in Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok

port last month with 353 live cows starting regular shipments of live cows from NTT to Jakarta.

However, producing regions such as West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), East Java, South Sulawesi and Lam-pung as well as NTT could not meet the domestic requirement. “There-fore, imports have to be made as the producing regions could not meet the requirement,” Suhadi said.

Agriculture Minister Andi Ar-man Sulaiman said he hoped the operation of the cattle ship would

reduce cow transport and distribu-tion costs in the country.

Transport problem has caused the price to soar making it difficult in shipment of live cows from the regions especially East Nusa Tang-gara to Jakarta.

The availability of the special cattle ship would better guar-antee market for cows from the production centers and supply of beef with a lower prices in consuming regions, the minister said. (ant)

LHOKSEUMAWE - The popu-lation of Sumatran elephants (El-ephas Maximus Sumatranus) in Aceh Province has decreased due to the rampant conversion of forest areas into plantations and illegal logging activities, an NGO activist stated.

The population of elephants in Aceh had decreased by 50 percent over the past 25 years, Chik Rini, communication staff of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) of Aceh office, noted here, Monday.

“Look around now, the forest area has shrunk due to conversion to

make way for palm oil plantations, which has led to the disappearance of the elephant population,” she pointed out.

Elephant paths no longer exist as they are being used for other func-tions, thereby forcing the animals to move to other areas for their

survival, she pointed out.She urged the authorities to

deal with the problem seriously in order to save the Sumatran elephants and to prevent conflicts between elephants and the local villagers.

The elephant population in Aceh

has dropped since the 1990s. Aceh has some 500 elephants now, com-pared to over one thousand in the past, she noted.

“The government should tighten the issuance of plantation licenses as it disturbs the habitat of elephants,” she emphasized. (ant)

JAKARTA - So stiff is com-petition between Indonesia’s mo-torcycle taxis app companies that new entrants are going to extreme lengths to stand out.

Aris Wahyudi, the founder of the newest motorcycle-sharing company, reckons he has found a unique way to win business: not-so-smelly drivers.

“We took the decision to do an odour test for our customers’ satis-faction,” Wahyudi said, speaking in a sweltering basement car park, where prospective drivers are lining up to have their armpits sniffed as part of a selection test.

Dozens of companies have set up in Indonesia in the past year or so, seeking to emulate the success of Go-Jek, the first local firm to use smart phones to tap into the country’s millions of traditional motorcycle taxis, known locally as ojeks.

There are now nearly 40 such firms operating in Indonesia, includ-ing Malaysia’s GrabBike, and local firms Ojeks Syari, which advertises the Islamic credentials of its jilbab-wearing, women-only drivers, and Limobike, which offer a deluxe service with Vespa-style scooters.

Endang Ahmad, 37, takes his job as a professional armpit-sniffer very

seriously.“I have already found many types of

body odour smell,” he says, clutching a clipboard which he uses to score candi-dates as they stand, arms outstretched, in front of a fan meant to simulate the headwind of a motorcycle ride.

“The ones who have sweat smell and armpit smell mixed we don’t give a pass.”

Wahyudi, a former electronic engineer who took money from friends, family and investors to set up UberJek, which has no connection to global car-sharing service Uber, says his company is the only one to con-duct such stringent smell checks.

When the company launches in a month or two with some 3,000 drivers, customers will be able to use the app to rate drivers based on their smell. Drivers who accumulate too many negative reviews will get a warning and could be suspended if they fail to scrub up.

Muhammad Ali, 44, wants to supplement the salary he earns working in a bank by driving a mo-torcycle taxi in the evenings. He has come prepared for the odour test.

“I have brought Rexona (deodor-ant) because, according to my wife, I have smelly body odour,” he said. “But I am really optimistic I can pass all the tests today.” (rtr)

Imports not to affect cow distribution from NTT

KUPANG - Imports would not affect distribution of local cows from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to other regions, a re-gional official said.

Smell test for Indonesia’s motorcycle taxi candidates

Shrinking forests take toll on Sumatran elephant population

REUTERS/Garry Lotulung

Motorcycle-taxi driver candidates raise their hands during an odour test at a basement car park in Jakarta, January 9, 2016. So stiff is competition between Indonesia’s motorcycle taxis app companies that new entrants are going to extreme lengths to stand out. Picture taken January 9, 2016.

Cristina and her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, said nothing to dozens of reporters as they entered a makeshift courthouse amid tight police security aimed at keeping anti-monarchy pro-testers away from the scene.

The two then sat silently among a group of 16 other defendants as a judge read out the charges for the his-toric trial, which marks the first time that a member of Spain’s royal family has faced criminal charges since the monarchy was restored in 1975.

The 50-year-old Cristina faces two counts of tax fraud carrying a maximum prison sentence of eight years for allegedly failing to declare taxes on personal expenses paid by a real estate company she owned with Urdangarin, an Olympic handball medalist turned businessman.

He faces more serious charges of using his former Duke of Palma title to embezzle about 6 million euros ($6.5 million) in public contracts through the nonprofit Noos Institute he ran with an associate.

Security was tight around the building after thousands of anti-monarchy protesters in 2014 staged noisy demonstrations while Cristina answered questions about the case posed by an investigative judge.

Authorities Monday morning detained one protester with an anti-monarchy flag a short time before Cristina showed up at the court inside a sedan with dark tinted windows.

Cristina has a chance of avoid-ing the trial if the judges agree with arguments her lawyers made in court Monday that a Spanish legal

precedent should be applied to her case that allows tax fraud cases to be dropped when they are not initiated by prosecutors.

But the same tactic can’t be used by her husband, meaning it’s all but inevitable that details come out dur-ing the proceedings about the couple’s everyday life behind the high walls of the mansion they were forced to sell during the investigation.

There are so many defendants and lawyers plus reporters covering the case that judicial officials were forced to move the trial from a courthouse to a sprawling building complex on the outskirts of Palma de Mallorca normally used to hold mass training courses for public servants.

The case is being heard in the re-gional capital of Spain’s Balearic Is-lands because many of Urdangarin’s business deals under investigation were for the islands.

The princess and her husband are not expected to utter a word during the first few days of the trial.

Cristina denied knowledge of her husband’s activities during the 2014 closed door court appearance and a prosecutor recommended she should be fined. But a judge decided Cristina could be charged with tax fraud in 2007 and 2008 because Spanish law allows groups to file charges when state prosecutors don’t. Her case was driven forward by the anti-corruption group Manos Lim-pias (Clean Hands).

Details about the couple’s lavish lifestyle emerged from the pre-trial investigation, outraging Spaniards as the country teetered on the edge of an economic crisis. The case added to the stream of bad head-lines for Cristina’s father, former King Juan Carlos — already smart-ing from a backlash after he broke his hip during a 2012 elephant hunting trip seen as an example of royal excess.

Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014, not mentioning the scandals af-fecting his reign but saying Spain needed fresh royal blood. On taking the throne, King Felipe VI - Cristina’s brother — pledged to restore public trust in Spain’s mon-archy. He later stripped Cristina and her older sister Princess Elena of their roles as official members of the royal family though they have not given up their slots of succession in line for the throne. The trial is expected to last six months. (ap)

LONDON — Here he is, sitting in a tin can, far above the world — and saying goodbye to David Bowie. Messages of condolence for the late rock star flowed in Monday from around the world — and from space, where British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted from the Interna-tional Space Station.

“Saddened to hear David Bowie has lost his battle with cancer - his music was an inspiration to many,” Peake wrote Monday.

The outer-space tribute seemed fitting. Unique and otherworldly, Bowie often seemed like a creature from another planet, the “Starman”

of one of his 1970s hits.The cosmos fascinated him from

his first big hit, “Space Oddity.” Released in 1969, the year of the first moon landing, it told the story of Ma-jor Tom, an astronaut adrift, “sitting in my tin can, far above the world.”

The song caught the world’s imagination again in 2013 when Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield strummed it on his guitar while orbiting Earth aboard the space sta-tion. The video was viewed millions of times, and Bowie gave the rendi-tion his seal of approval, calling it “the most poignant version of the song ever created.” (ap)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 file photo, British astro-naut Tim Peake, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), prior the launch of Soyuz TMA-19M space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

Astronaut Peake pays tribute to ‘Starman’ Bowie from space

Historic fraud trial starts for

Princess CristinaPALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain — A landmark fraud

trial opened Monday for Spain’s Princess Cristina, accused of helping bankroll a lavish lifestyle with funds her husband received from an alleged scheme to embezzle about 6 million euros ($6.5 million) in public contracts for conferences and sporting events.

AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

Spain’s Princess Cristina arrives at a makeshift courtroom for a corruption trial, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016.

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NEGARA - West Bali Na-tional Park is nature conservation with pure ecosystem managed by zone system for multiple research purpose involving the education, tourism and recreation. It is one of the national park located west side of Bali Island with beautiful pan-oramic, unique nature ecosystem and fresh atmosphere. West Bali National Park or most the local people call Taman National Bali Barat is one of the tourist destina-tions in Negara Regency and many visited by tourists.

It is situated in west side of Bali Island and close to Gilimanuk Port or about 4 hours drive away from Bali’s International Airport. Some of the Bali West National Park Area located in Grokgak sub district, Singaraja Regency and some of the area located in Melaya Sub district, Jembrana Regency. It is very easy to locate it from Denpasar direc-tion to follow the main road go to Gilimanuk Port or Singaraja town to Gilimanuk Port.

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The former No. 5 is on the come-back trail since sustaining a concus-sion when she fell in the dressing room during last year’s U.S. Open, with the Shenzhen Open last week being her first tournament since.

Bouchard said before her first match in Hobart she had “zero expectations” for the tournament as she eases back into competitive tennis after the four-month layoff.

However she was impressive against American veteran Mattek-Sands, just as many leading Austra-lian Open deal with injuries.

Daria Gavrilova, who teamed with Nick Kyrgios to win Aus-tralia’s first Hopman Cup title in Perth last week, became the latest player to withdraw from the Sydney International on Monday, due to an abdominal injury.

“If I had a bit more time, I would be fine,” Gavrilova said. “But it’s just a bit sore, so it’s a bit of a precaution. “It’s not great timing, but I’m not too worried because it’s early days. I should be fine for Australian Open.”

Defending champion and world No. 5 Petra Kvitova withdrew from the tournament on Sunday due to a stomach virus and was joined a few hours later by No. 2-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, who cited

a leg injury.Last week, the world’s four top-

ranked women retired or withdrew from tournaments due to injuries: No. 1 Serena Williams (Hopman Cup/knee), second-ranked Halep (Brisbane/ankle), No. 3 Garbine Muguruza (Brisbane/foot) and fourth-ranked Maria Sharapova (Brisbane/forearm). The addition of Kvitova and Radwanska leaves the six top-ranked women all under in-jury clouds ahead of the Australian Open which starts Jan. 18.

Germany’s Angelique Kerber, ranked 10, won her first round match in Sydney, beating Ukraine’s Elona Svitolina 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, while former U.S. Open champion and local favorite Sam Stosur beat Roberta Vinci 4-6, 7-5, 7-5. In the men’s draw, fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi beat Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Andy Mur-ray is also in Melbourne hoping a long lead-in to the Australian Open will help him in his quest to win the tournament at last, after four appearances in the final.

“I love playing here and I’ve played some of my best tennis here,” Murray said on Monday. “If I keep working hard and giving myself opportunities, hopefully I’ll

be able to win.”At the ASB Classic in Auckland,

American Jack Sock took only 43 minutes to beat Victor Estrella Burgos 6-0, 6-4 to claim his place in the second round. World No. 26

Sock took the first set in only 17 minutes, finishing it with his fifth ace, then won the second set with a single service break and without facing a breakpoint.

“I came out in difficult condi-

tions today for everyone, with the wind swirling a little bit and the court fast, and I’m happy to get through.” Canada’s Vasek Pospisil ousted seventh-seed Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (4), 7-5. (ap)

PoiNt guard Chris Paul had 25 points as the Los Angeles Clippers recorded a 114-111 overtime victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday at Staples Center to notch their ninth successive win. Guard Jamal Crawford contributed 21 points for the Clippers (25-13), who had seven players reach double digits in scoring.

Blake Griffin missed his eighth con-secutive game with a quadriceps injury, but his absence has not hurt the Clippers. “I keep saying this ... this isn’t our team until (Griffin) gets back,” said Paul of his injured team mate.

“We are happy that we are winning games. We want to continue to try to keep winning games and build our team as much as possible, but this is not our team without (number) 32.”

Guard Jrue Holiday had a game-high 29 points with 11 rebounds to lead the Pelicans (11-25) who slumped to their third successive loss. Guard Tyreke Evans finished with 26 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Forward Ryan Ander-son, who had 16 points and 10 rebounds, missed a game-tying three-pointer near the final horn.

“We battled hard today,” said Anderson,

who scored 12 of his points in the first half. “It’s frustrating to lose a close one, but you can’t knock the effort.”

Davis, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder, missed the game with a back contusion suffered in Friday’s loss to the Indiana Pacers. In overtime, consecutive three-pointers by Johnson and Paul put Los Angeles up 111-106 with 1:15 remain-ing. It turned into a free-throw parade from that point on, with Mbah a Moute hitting one of two with 20 seconds left to give the Clippers a 113-109 lead.

Evans made two foul shots to slice the lead to two, but Johnson hit one of two foul shots for a three-point cushion with 10.4 seconds left before Anderson failed to con-nect on his last-gasp three-point attempt. “If you can weather the storm and learn lessons and win, then it’s a lot better than trying to learn in losses,” said Crawford, who hit eight of 16 shots from the floor and three of seven three-pointers.

“We went through a stretch where we messed up some plays, missed some shots and couldn’t make plays on defense. Yet, we still found a way to win.” Clippers center DeAndre Jordan missed a game-winning shot just before the final horn in regulation, forcing overtime. (rtr)

Clippers bat away Pelicans in overtime for 114-111 win

Bouchard wins in Hobart 1st roundSYDNEY — Eugenie Bouchard provided relief from a deluge

of bad injury news in the women’s game ahead of the Australian open, as the Canadian won 6-2, 6-1 against Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the Hobart international on Monday.

BPM/rtr

Eugene Bouchard

IBP/Kelvin Kuo

Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul (right) steals the ball in front of New Orleans Pelicans center Omer Asik (3) during the first quarter at Staples Center.

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After an injury-marred end to 2015, the Argen-tina striker has been eased back into prime shape in the last few weeks by City manager Manuel Pellegrini, who stepped up Aguero’s playing time each game over the festive period.

The Premier League’s top scorer last season, Aguero is starting to deliver once again, either net-ting or assisting four of City’s last five goals. On Saturday, he marked his fourth straight start with a stunning solo goal — a weaving run past three defenders before poking in a finish to set City on its way to a 3-0 win over Norwich in the FA Cup.

Next for the player nicknamed “Kun” is Everton in the Premier League on Wednesday, one of the standout games from a full midweek program in England’s top division.

“When Kun continues playing games and playing more minutes, his performance always improves after he comes back from a long injury,” Pellegrini said of Aguero, who missed 10 weeks of action from October to December because of two separate injuries and is still on 11 goals for the campaign.

“We know he is a top player and when he contin-ues playing, he will arrive at his normal performance. When you have players as important as Sergio it is very important for their teammates, for the manager, for the fans to see them playing every game because he is a player that makes a difference.”

Third-place City heads into the game at Etihad Stadium a point behind Leicester and three behind Arsenal in the league, after 20 of 38 matches. With Arsenal away to Liverpool, there is a real possibility the two leading title contenders could be tied for points after Wednesday’s games.

City is in the midst of a heavy fixture load:

Seven games in 24 days across three competitions. Because City is playing Everton in the two-legged League Cup semifinals this month — Everton won the first leg 2-1 on Wednesday — the teams are meeting three times in three weeks. The second leg of the semifinal is on Jan. 27.

UNITED CRITICISMManchester United may have won its last two

games to end an eight-match winless streak, but it hasn’t stopped the criticism coming manager Louis van Gaal’s way.

After the tepid 1-0 victory over third-tier Shef-field United in the FA Cup on Saturday, former United star Paul Scholes said: “Every time I come to Old Trafford, it’s negative football. Fans are bored, even the players are bored, everyone’s bored. You look at the bench and Van Gaal looks bored as well.”

On Tuesday, United visits Newcastle, which is third from last and has lost its last four games.

LIVERPOOL’S INJURIESLiverpool currently has 12 players out injured,

so the last team it would want to play next is the league leaders.

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp fielded the kids against fourth-tier Exeter in the FA Cup on Friday, and escaped with a 2-2 draw. Many first-teamers will return against Arsenal, but Klopp will still be without the likes of Philippe Coutinho, Daniel Sturridge, Jordan Henderson and three first-choice center backs. Liverpool is in eighth place, 12 points behind Arsenal. (ap)

MADRID — Atletico Madrid re-turned to the top of the Spanish league on Sunday after second-half goals from An-toine Griezmann and Yannick Carrasco secured a 2-0 win against Celta Vigo.

Griezmann scored from close range in the 49th minute after a nice exchange of passes with Luciano Vietto, and Car-rasco sealed the victory in the 80th after getting past a couple of Celta defenders outside the area.

Atletico has 44 points, two more than Barcelona, which beat Granada 4-0 with a hat trick by Lionel Messi on Saturday. Barcelona has a game in hand after play-ing in the Club World Cup late last year.

Real Madrid, which routed Deportivo La Coruna 5-0 on Saturday in club great Zinedine Zidane’s first match as coach, is third with 40 points after 19 rounds.

There were few significant scoring chances in bad weather at the Balaidos in Vigo, but Griezmann’s goal was enough for Atletico to start relying on its solid defense. Atletico has the league’s best defense at the halfway stage of the season, having conceded only eight goals.

It was the 14th league victory for Diego Simeone’s team, and eighth in its last nine matches. Its only setback during this run was a 1-0 loss at Malaga three rounds ago. “We have to keep this going, focusing on one game at a time,”

Griezmann said.Celta was coming off two straight

league losses, but had defeated Cadiz 3-0 on Wednesday in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. It remains fifth in the standings despite Sunday’s loss, but 13 points behind leader Atletico Madrid.

Celta was without forward Manuel “Nolito” Agudo, who has been nursing a muscle injury in his right leg.

Earlier Sunday, striker Cedric Bakam-bu scored a goal in each half as fourth-place Villarreal defeated Sporting Gijon 2-0 to reach 39 points. Bakambu scored in the 26th and 51st minutes at the Estadio El Madrigal to give Villarreal its sixth consecutive league victory.

Real Sociedad won 2-0 against visiting Valencia with goals by Brazilian striker Jonathas in the 79th and 82nd.

Valencia remains winless in the league since signing former Manchester United defender Gary Neville as its coach. The team has drawn three matches and lost twice since the former England player took over. Valencia’s winless streak in the league reached eight matches, and it’s 11th in the 20-team standings.

Real Betis, which lost 1-0 at Getafe on Saturday, announced that it fired coach Pepe Mel after the team’s winless streak was extended to six games. Betis lost its last three matches. (ap)

ROME — Napoli is halfway to its first Serie A title since Diego Maradona led the club to the 1990 championship. Gonzalo Higuain scored twice as Napoli routed promoted Frosinone 5-1 Sunday to earn the southern team the Italian league’s symbolic “winter title.”

Through 19 rounds of the 38-match sea-son, Napoli holds a two-point lead over four-time defending champion Juventus and Inter Milan.

Paul Pogba and Sami Khedira scored as Juventus won 2-1 at Sampdoria for its ninth consecutive victory, while Inter was beaten 1-0 by Sassuolo with a last-minute penalty to surrender the lead.

The winter champion has gone on to win Serie A nearly seven out of every 10 seasons. “We’re still not sure what we’re capable of,” Napoli’s first-year manager Maurizio Sarri said. “But this was a big step for-ward.”

The last time Napoli earned the mid-term hon-or came in 1990. “Being winter champion means nothing. It means some-thing when you’re champion in May,” H i g u a i n s a i d . “We’ve got to stay calm now because there are still five months to go and we want to continue this way.”

Raul Albiol put Napoli ahead from close range

midway through the first half when Frosinone goalkeeper Massimo Zappino appeared blinded by the sun.

Higuain added a penalty on the half-hour mark, Marek Hamsik then scored his third goal in three matches with an impressive solo move after the

break, before Higuain dribbled past three de-fenders to score his league-best 18th.

Substitute Manolo Gabbiadini added an-other for Napoli with a shot from beyond the area and Paolo Sammarco then pulled one back for Frosinone, a club located midway

between Rome and Naples.The toughest challenge for Napoli might be maintaining its focus amid

fan delirium in football-crazy Naples. Already, Napoli fans started celebrating wildly when the team beat Inter to take the lead in November, only to be let down by a 3-2 loss to Bologna a week later.

“It’s true that the enthusiasm of Neapolitans approaches eu-phoria, but we shouldn’t fear the (attention),” Sarri said. “We have to grow in terms of our mentality and handling certain matches, like the Bologna game.”

Next weekend, Napoli hosts Sassuolo. Fiorentina is fourth, three points be-hind, after losing 3-1 to Lazio on Saturday.

Also Sunday, it was: Atalanta 0, Genoa 2; Bologna 0, Chievo Verona 1; Torino 0, Empoli 1; and Hellas Verona 0, Palermo 1. (ap)

BERLIN - Germany inter-national Ilkay Guendogan has yet to commit his long-term future to Borussia Dortmund with the playmaker mulling over an extension to his current contract, that runs until 2017, or a move to a new club.

The gifted 25-year-old, who has been at Dortmund since 2011, had hinted at leaving last year with several clubs in Italy and England’s Premier League interested, before signing a new two-year deal in July.

“No decision has been taken yet and of course everything has to be thought through be-cause the length of one’s career is limited,” Guendogan told Monday’s Bild newspaper.

“To be honest everything is still open,” the creative mid-fielder said, adding his next

contract would be longer. “I think it will go into that direction. When I sign, it will most likely not be for just a year.”

G u e n d o g a n , a 2012 domestic double winner and Champions League finalist in 2013, has earned 16 inter-national caps but missed Germa-ny’s 2014 World Cup victory in Brazil when he was sidelined for a year with a back injury.

Dortmund, currently sec-o n d i n t h e B u n d e s l i g a ,

will only receive a transfer fee if they sell the player at the end of this season with Guendogan able to leave as a free agent in 2017. (rtr)

MANAgER Ronald Koeman said finding a solution to South-ampton’s slumping form in the January transfer window will be tricky and called on his current squad to turn the club’s fortunes around.

The Saints have lost eight of

their last 10 games in all competi-tions, exited both domestic cup competitions and dropped down to 13th in the Premier League after 20 games with scoring goals a problem.

They are likely to welcome back top scorer Graziano Pelle,

who has missed the last four games with a knee injury, against ninth-placed Watford in the league on Wednesday as they bid to improve a record of nine goals in their last 10 games.

“First of all you need more play-ers scoring goals,” Koeman was

quoted as saying by British media of the issues.

“It’s not always about one player and it’s difficult at this stage of the season to bring in one player who will change everything around.

“Maybe if we sign (Barcelona forward Lionel) Messi then it looks

very positive but that’s not at this moment in the season.

“Of course we are trying to turn around several things in the club but we know that at the moment we miss some good attack players and scoring players, but we have a good squad to turn around it.” (rtr)

Finding answer to Saints’ woes will be difficultAction Images via Reuters / Andrew Boyers

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring their first goal

Aguero back scoring,leading City’s Premier League charge

MANCHESTER, England — Look out, Premier League: Sergio Aguero is back to fit-ness, back scoring goals and leading Manchester City’s charge to reel in Arsenal in the second half of the season.

Atletico Madrid beats Celta 2-0, regains

Spanish league lead

AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar

Atletico Madrid’s Yannick Carrasco, right, celebrates after scoring the second goal with Antoine Griezmann during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Celta Vigo and Atletico Madrid at the Balaidos stadium in Vigo, Spain Sunday Jan. 10, 2016.

REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain reacts after scoring a penalty

against Frosinone

Napoli takes its 1st winter title since 1990 championship

Dortmund playmaker Guendogan mulling options over future

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After an injury-marred end to 2015, the Argen-tina striker has been eased back into prime shape in the last few weeks by City manager Manuel Pellegrini, who stepped up Aguero’s playing time each game over the festive period.

The Premier League’s top scorer last season, Aguero is starting to deliver once again, either net-ting or assisting four of City’s last five goals. On Saturday, he marked his fourth straight start with a stunning solo goal — a weaving run past three defenders before poking in a finish to set City on its way to a 3-0 win over Norwich in the FA Cup.

Next for the player nicknamed “Kun” is Everton in the Premier League on Wednesday, one of the standout games from a full midweek program in England’s top division.

“When Kun continues playing games and playing more minutes, his performance always improves after he comes back from a long injury,” Pellegrini said of Aguero, who missed 10 weeks of action from October to December because of two separate injuries and is still on 11 goals for the campaign.

“We know he is a top player and when he contin-ues playing, he will arrive at his normal performance. When you have players as important as Sergio it is very important for their teammates, for the manager, for the fans to see them playing every game because he is a player that makes a difference.”

Third-place City heads into the game at Etihad Stadium a point behind Leicester and three behind Arsenal in the league, after 20 of 38 matches. With Arsenal away to Liverpool, there is a real possibility the two leading title contenders could be tied for points after Wednesday’s games.

City is in the midst of a heavy fixture load:

Seven games in 24 days across three competitions. Because City is playing Everton in the two-legged League Cup semifinals this month — Everton won the first leg 2-1 on Wednesday — the teams are meeting three times in three weeks. The second leg of the semifinal is on Jan. 27.

UNITED CRITICISMManchester United may have won its last two

games to end an eight-match winless streak, but it hasn’t stopped the criticism coming manager Louis van Gaal’s way.

After the tepid 1-0 victory over third-tier Shef-field United in the FA Cup on Saturday, former United star Paul Scholes said: “Every time I come to Old Trafford, it’s negative football. Fans are bored, even the players are bored, everyone’s bored. You look at the bench and Van Gaal looks bored as well.”

On Tuesday, United visits Newcastle, which is third from last and has lost its last four games.

LIVERPOOL’S INJURIESLiverpool currently has 12 players out injured,

so the last team it would want to play next is the league leaders.

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp fielded the kids against fourth-tier Exeter in the FA Cup on Friday, and escaped with a 2-2 draw. Many first-teamers will return against Arsenal, but Klopp will still be without the likes of Philippe Coutinho, Daniel Sturridge, Jordan Henderson and three first-choice center backs. Liverpool is in eighth place, 12 points behind Arsenal. (ap)

MADRID — Atletico Madrid re-turned to the top of the Spanish league on Sunday after second-half goals from An-toine Griezmann and Yannick Carrasco secured a 2-0 win against Celta Vigo.

Griezmann scored from close range in the 49th minute after a nice exchange of passes with Luciano Vietto, and Car-rasco sealed the victory in the 80th after getting past a couple of Celta defenders outside the area.

Atletico has 44 points, two more than Barcelona, which beat Granada 4-0 with a hat trick by Lionel Messi on Saturday. Barcelona has a game in hand after play-ing in the Club World Cup late last year.

Real Madrid, which routed Deportivo La Coruna 5-0 on Saturday in club great Zinedine Zidane’s first match as coach, is third with 40 points after 19 rounds.

There were few significant scoring chances in bad weather at the Balaidos in Vigo, but Griezmann’s goal was enough for Atletico to start relying on its solid defense. Atletico has the league’s best defense at the halfway stage of the season, having conceded only eight goals.

It was the 14th league victory for Diego Simeone’s team, and eighth in its last nine matches. Its only setback during this run was a 1-0 loss at Malaga three rounds ago. “We have to keep this going, focusing on one game at a time,”

Griezmann said.Celta was coming off two straight

league losses, but had defeated Cadiz 3-0 on Wednesday in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. It remains fifth in the standings despite Sunday’s loss, but 13 points behind leader Atletico Madrid.

Celta was without forward Manuel “Nolito” Agudo, who has been nursing a muscle injury in his right leg.

Earlier Sunday, striker Cedric Bakam-bu scored a goal in each half as fourth-place Villarreal defeated Sporting Gijon 2-0 to reach 39 points. Bakambu scored in the 26th and 51st minutes at the Estadio El Madrigal to give Villarreal its sixth consecutive league victory.

Real Sociedad won 2-0 against visiting Valencia with goals by Brazilian striker Jonathas in the 79th and 82nd.

Valencia remains winless in the league since signing former Manchester United defender Gary Neville as its coach. The team has drawn three matches and lost twice since the former England player took over. Valencia’s winless streak in the league reached eight matches, and it’s 11th in the 20-team standings.

Real Betis, which lost 1-0 at Getafe on Saturday, announced that it fired coach Pepe Mel after the team’s winless streak was extended to six games. Betis lost its last three matches. (ap)

ROME — Napoli is halfway to its first Serie A title since Diego Maradona led the club to the 1990 championship. Gonzalo Higuain scored twice as Napoli routed promoted Frosinone 5-1 Sunday to earn the southern team the Italian league’s symbolic “winter title.”

Through 19 rounds of the 38-match sea-son, Napoli holds a two-point lead over four-time defending champion Juventus and Inter Milan.

Paul Pogba and Sami Khedira scored as Juventus won 2-1 at Sampdoria for its ninth consecutive victory, while Inter was beaten 1-0 by Sassuolo with a last-minute penalty to surrender the lead.

The winter champion has gone on to win Serie A nearly seven out of every 10 seasons. “We’re still not sure what we’re capable of,” Napoli’s first-year manager Maurizio Sarri said. “But this was a big step for-ward.”

The last time Napoli earned the mid-term hon-or came in 1990. “Being winter champion means nothing. It means some-thing when you’re champion in May,” H i g u a i n s a i d . “We’ve got to stay calm now because there are still five months to go and we want to continue this way.”

Raul Albiol put Napoli ahead from close range

midway through the first half when Frosinone goalkeeper Massimo Zappino appeared blinded by the sun.

Higuain added a penalty on the half-hour mark, Marek Hamsik then scored his third goal in three matches with an impressive solo move after the

break, before Higuain dribbled past three de-fenders to score his league-best 18th.

Substitute Manolo Gabbiadini added an-other for Napoli with a shot from beyond the area and Paolo Sammarco then pulled one back for Frosinone, a club located midway

between Rome and Naples.The toughest challenge for Napoli might be maintaining its focus amid

fan delirium in football-crazy Naples. Already, Napoli fans started celebrating wildly when the team beat Inter to take the lead in November, only to be let down by a 3-2 loss to Bologna a week later.

“It’s true that the enthusiasm of Neapolitans approaches eu-phoria, but we shouldn’t fear the (attention),” Sarri said. “We have to grow in terms of our mentality and handling certain matches, like the Bologna game.”

Next weekend, Napoli hosts Sassuolo. Fiorentina is fourth, three points be-hind, after losing 3-1 to Lazio on Saturday.

Also Sunday, it was: Atalanta 0, Genoa 2; Bologna 0, Chievo Verona 1; Torino 0, Empoli 1; and Hellas Verona 0, Palermo 1. (ap)

BERLIN - Germany inter-national Ilkay Guendogan has yet to commit his long-term future to Borussia Dortmund with the playmaker mulling over an extension to his current contract, that runs until 2017, or a move to a new club.

The gifted 25-year-old, who has been at Dortmund since 2011, had hinted at leaving last year with several clubs in Italy and England’s Premier League interested, before signing a new two-year deal in July.

“No decision has been taken yet and of course everything has to be thought through be-cause the length of one’s career is limited,” Guendogan told Monday’s Bild newspaper.

“To be honest everything is still open,” the creative mid-fielder said, adding his next

contract would be longer. “I think it will go into that direction. When I sign, it will most likely not be for just a year.”

G u e n d o g a n , a 2012 domestic double winner and Champions League finalist in 2013, has earned 16 inter-national caps but missed Germa-ny’s 2014 World Cup victory in Brazil when he was sidelined for a year with a back injury.

Dortmund, currently sec-o n d i n t h e B u n d e s l i g a ,

will only receive a transfer fee if they sell the player at the end of this season with Guendogan able to leave as a free agent in 2017. (rtr)

MANAgER Ronald Koeman said finding a solution to South-ampton’s slumping form in the January transfer window will be tricky and called on his current squad to turn the club’s fortunes around.

The Saints have lost eight of

their last 10 games in all competi-tions, exited both domestic cup competitions and dropped down to 13th in the Premier League after 20 games with scoring goals a problem.

They are likely to welcome back top scorer Graziano Pelle,

who has missed the last four games with a knee injury, against ninth-placed Watford in the league on Wednesday as they bid to improve a record of nine goals in their last 10 games.

“First of all you need more play-ers scoring goals,” Koeman was

quoted as saying by British media of the issues.

“It’s not always about one player and it’s difficult at this stage of the season to bring in one player who will change everything around.

“Maybe if we sign (Barcelona forward Lionel) Messi then it looks

very positive but that’s not at this moment in the season.

“Of course we are trying to turn around several things in the club but we know that at the moment we miss some good attack players and scoring players, but we have a good squad to turn around it.” (rtr)

Finding answer to Saints’ woes will be difficultAction Images via Reuters / Andrew Boyers

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring their first goal

Aguero back scoring,leading City’s Premier League charge

MANCHESTER, England — Look out, Premier League: Sergio Aguero is back to fit-ness, back scoring goals and leading Manchester City’s charge to reel in Arsenal in the second half of the season.

Atletico Madrid beats Celta 2-0, regains

Spanish league lead

AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar

Atletico Madrid’s Yannick Carrasco, right, celebrates after scoring the second goal with Antoine Griezmann during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Celta Vigo and Atletico Madrid at the Balaidos stadium in Vigo, Spain Sunday Jan. 10, 2016.

REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain reacts after scoring a penalty

against Frosinone

Napoli takes its 1st winter title since 1990 championship

Dortmund playmaker Guendogan mulling options over future

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It is situated in west side of Bali Island and close to Gilimanuk Port or about 4 hours drive away from Bali’s International Airport. Some of the Bali West National Park Area located in Grokgak sub district, Singaraja Regency and some of the area located in Melaya Sub district, Jembrana Regency. It is very easy to locate it from Denpasar direc-tion to follow the main road go to Gilimanuk Port or Singaraja town to Gilimanuk Port.

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The former No. 5 is on the come-back trail since sustaining a concus-sion when she fell in the dressing room during last year’s U.S. Open, with the Shenzhen Open last week being her first tournament since.

Bouchard said before her first match in Hobart she had “zero expectations” for the tournament as she eases back into competitive tennis after the four-month layoff.

However she was impressive against American veteran Mattek-Sands, just as many leading Austra-lian Open deal with injuries.

Daria Gavrilova, who teamed with Nick Kyrgios to win Aus-tralia’s first Hopman Cup title in Perth last week, became the latest player to withdraw from the Sydney International on Monday, due to an abdominal injury.

“If I had a bit more time, I would be fine,” Gavrilova said. “But it’s just a bit sore, so it’s a bit of a precaution. “It’s not great timing, but I’m not too worried because it’s early days. I should be fine for Australian Open.”

Defending champion and world No. 5 Petra Kvitova withdrew from the tournament on Sunday due to a stomach virus and was joined a few hours later by No. 2-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, who cited

a leg injury.Last week, the world’s four top-

ranked women retired or withdrew from tournaments due to injuries: No. 1 Serena Williams (Hopman Cup/knee), second-ranked Halep (Brisbane/ankle), No. 3 Garbine Muguruza (Brisbane/foot) and fourth-ranked Maria Sharapova (Brisbane/forearm). The addition of Kvitova and Radwanska leaves the six top-ranked women all under in-jury clouds ahead of the Australian Open which starts Jan. 18.

Germany’s Angelique Kerber, ranked 10, won her first round match in Sydney, beating Ukraine’s Elona Svitolina 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, while former U.S. Open champion and local favorite Sam Stosur beat Roberta Vinci 4-6, 7-5, 7-5. In the men’s draw, fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi beat Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Andy Mur-ray is also in Melbourne hoping a long lead-in to the Australian Open will help him in his quest to win the tournament at last, after four appearances in the final.

“I love playing here and I’ve played some of my best tennis here,” Murray said on Monday. “If I keep working hard and giving myself opportunities, hopefully I’ll

be able to win.”At the ASB Classic in Auckland,

American Jack Sock took only 43 minutes to beat Victor Estrella Burgos 6-0, 6-4 to claim his place in the second round. World No. 26

Sock took the first set in only 17 minutes, finishing it with his fifth ace, then won the second set with a single service break and without facing a breakpoint.

“I came out in difficult condi-

tions today for everyone, with the wind swirling a little bit and the court fast, and I’m happy to get through.” Canada’s Vasek Pospisil ousted seventh-seed Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (4), 7-5. (ap)

PoiNt guard Chris Paul had 25 points as the Los Angeles Clippers recorded a 114-111 overtime victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday at Staples Center to notch their ninth successive win. Guard Jamal Crawford contributed 21 points for the Clippers (25-13), who had seven players reach double digits in scoring.

Blake Griffin missed his eighth con-secutive game with a quadriceps injury, but his absence has not hurt the Clippers. “I keep saying this ... this isn’t our team until (Griffin) gets back,” said Paul of his injured team mate.

“We are happy that we are winning games. We want to continue to try to keep winning games and build our team as much as possible, but this is not our team without (number) 32.”

Guard Jrue Holiday had a game-high 29 points with 11 rebounds to lead the Pelicans (11-25) who slumped to their third successive loss. Guard Tyreke Evans finished with 26 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Forward Ryan Ander-son, who had 16 points and 10 rebounds, missed a game-tying three-pointer near the final horn.

“We battled hard today,” said Anderson,

who scored 12 of his points in the first half. “It’s frustrating to lose a close one, but you can’t knock the effort.”

Davis, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder, missed the game with a back contusion suffered in Friday’s loss to the Indiana Pacers. In overtime, consecutive three-pointers by Johnson and Paul put Los Angeles up 111-106 with 1:15 remain-ing. It turned into a free-throw parade from that point on, with Mbah a Moute hitting one of two with 20 seconds left to give the Clippers a 113-109 lead.

Evans made two foul shots to slice the lead to two, but Johnson hit one of two foul shots for a three-point cushion with 10.4 seconds left before Anderson failed to con-nect on his last-gasp three-point attempt. “If you can weather the storm and learn lessons and win, then it’s a lot better than trying to learn in losses,” said Crawford, who hit eight of 16 shots from the floor and three of seven three-pointers.

“We went through a stretch where we messed up some plays, missed some shots and couldn’t make plays on defense. Yet, we still found a way to win.” Clippers center DeAndre Jordan missed a game-winning shot just before the final horn in regulation, forcing overtime. (rtr)

Clippers bat away Pelicans in overtime for 114-111 win

Bouchard wins in Hobart 1st roundSYDNEY — Eugenie Bouchard provided relief from a deluge

of bad injury news in the women’s game ahead of the Australian open, as the Canadian won 6-2, 6-1 against Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the Hobart international on Monday.

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Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul (right) steals the ball in front of New Orleans Pelicans center Omer Asik (3) during the first quarter at Staples Center.

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“Blackstar,” which earned posi-tive reviews from critics, represent-ed yet another stylistic shift, as he gathered jazz players to join him.

He released a music video on Friday for the new song “Lazarus,” which shows a frail Bowie lying in bed and singing the track’s lyr-ics. The song begins with the line: “Look up here, I’m in heaven.”

Tributes poured in for the singer after the announcement of his death. British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted about his sadness from outer space aboard the International Space Station, saying “his music was an inspiration to many.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that Bowie’s death is “a huge loss.” He wrote he had grown up listening to and watching Bowie and called the singer a “master of reinvention” and a pop genius who kept on get-

ting it right.Kanye West said on Twitter

that Bowie “was one of my most important inspirations, so fearless, so creative, he gave us magic for a lifetime.”

Bowie felt uneasy about some of his greatest material, once embark-ing on a “greatest hits” tour saying it would be the last time performing much of his old material. He later relented, however.

“I’m not a natural performer,” he said in the 2002 interview. “I don’t enjoy performing terribly much. Never have. I can do it and, if my mind’s on the situation, do it quite well. But five or six shows in, I’m dying to get off the road and go back into the studio.”

Bowie was married twice, to the actress and model Mary Angela “Angie” Barnett from 1970-80, and to international supermodel Iman since 1992. He had two children — Duncan Jones and Alexandra Zahra Jones — one with each wife. (ap)

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“The imports would not cause marketing problem for cows from NTT as the import is to cover the shortage in domestic supply,” head of the animal husbandry office Dany Suhadi said on Monday.

Earlier, Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture Hary Priyono said the country would im-port around 600,000 cows in 2016

to meet domestic consumption of 675,000 tons of beef.

The ministry and the Board of Logistics have only a stock of 416,000 tons, therefore, the country would need to import 600,000 cows equivalent to 236,000 tons of beef, he said.

Hary said there are many cow production centers in the country

like East Nusa Tenggara, but buyers prefer imports because of difficult access to the the centers.

Dani Suhadi said demand for NTT cows remain high from other regions such as Kalimantan and Java especially from the Greater Jakarta area.

Last month, a new cattle ship be-gan its regular service transporting live cows from East Nusa Tenggara to Jakarta.

The KM Camara Nusantara arrived in Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok

port last month with 353 live cows starting regular shipments of live cows from NTT to Jakarta.

However, producing regions such as West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), East Java, South Sulawesi and Lam-pung as well as NTT could not meet the domestic requirement. “There-fore, imports have to be made as the producing regions could not meet the requirement,” Suhadi said.

Agriculture Minister Andi Ar-man Sulaiman said he hoped the operation of the cattle ship would

reduce cow transport and distribu-tion costs in the country.

Transport problem has caused the price to soar making it difficult in shipment of live cows from the regions especially East Nusa Tang-gara to Jakarta.

The availability of the special cattle ship would better guar-antee market for cows from the production centers and supply of beef with a lower prices in consuming regions, the minister said. (ant)

LHOKSEUMAWE - The popu-lation of Sumatran elephants (El-ephas Maximus Sumatranus) in Aceh Province has decreased due to the rampant conversion of forest areas into plantations and illegal logging activities, an NGO activist stated.

The population of elephants in Aceh had decreased by 50 percent over the past 25 years, Chik Rini, communication staff of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) of Aceh office, noted here, Monday.

“Look around now, the forest area has shrunk due to conversion to

make way for palm oil plantations, which has led to the disappearance of the elephant population,” she pointed out.

Elephant paths no longer exist as they are being used for other func-tions, thereby forcing the animals to move to other areas for their

survival, she pointed out.She urged the authorities to

deal with the problem seriously in order to save the Sumatran elephants and to prevent conflicts between elephants and the local villagers.

The elephant population in Aceh

has dropped since the 1990s. Aceh has some 500 elephants now, com-pared to over one thousand in the past, she noted.

“The government should tighten the issuance of plantation licenses as it disturbs the habitat of elephants,” she emphasized. (ant)

JAKARTA - So stiff is com-petition between Indonesia’s mo-torcycle taxis app companies that new entrants are going to extreme lengths to stand out.

Aris Wahyudi, the founder of the newest motorcycle-sharing company, reckons he has found a unique way to win business: not-so-smelly drivers.

“We took the decision to do an odour test for our customers’ satis-faction,” Wahyudi said, speaking in a sweltering basement car park, where prospective drivers are lining up to have their armpits sniffed as part of a selection test.

Dozens of companies have set up in Indonesia in the past year or so, seeking to emulate the success of Go-Jek, the first local firm to use smart phones to tap into the country’s millions of traditional motorcycle taxis, known locally as ojeks.

There are now nearly 40 such firms operating in Indonesia, includ-ing Malaysia’s GrabBike, and local firms Ojeks Syari, which advertises the Islamic credentials of its jilbab-wearing, women-only drivers, and Limobike, which offer a deluxe service with Vespa-style scooters.

Endang Ahmad, 37, takes his job as a professional armpit-sniffer very

seriously.“I have already found many types of

body odour smell,” he says, clutching a clipboard which he uses to score candi-dates as they stand, arms outstretched, in front of a fan meant to simulate the headwind of a motorcycle ride.

“The ones who have sweat smell and armpit smell mixed we don’t give a pass.”

Wahyudi, a former electronic engineer who took money from friends, family and investors to set up UberJek, which has no connection to global car-sharing service Uber, says his company is the only one to con-duct such stringent smell checks.

When the company launches in a month or two with some 3,000 drivers, customers will be able to use the app to rate drivers based on their smell. Drivers who accumulate too many negative reviews will get a warning and could be suspended if they fail to scrub up.

Muhammad Ali, 44, wants to supplement the salary he earns working in a bank by driving a mo-torcycle taxi in the evenings. He has come prepared for the odour test.

“I have brought Rexona (deodor-ant) because, according to my wife, I have smelly body odour,” he said. “But I am really optimistic I can pass all the tests today.” (rtr)

Imports not to affect cow distribution from NTT

KUPANG - Imports would not affect distribution of local cows from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to other regions, a re-gional official said.

Smell test for Indonesia’s motorcycle taxi candidates

Shrinking forests take toll on Sumatran elephant population

REUTERS/Garry Lotulung

Motorcycle-taxi driver candidates raise their hands during an odour test at a basement car park in Jakarta, January 9, 2016. So stiff is competition between Indonesia’s motorcycle taxis app companies that new entrants are going to extreme lengths to stand out. Picture taken January 9, 2016.

Cristina and her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, said nothing to dozens of reporters as they entered a makeshift courthouse amid tight police security aimed at keeping anti-monarchy pro-testers away from the scene.

The two then sat silently among a group of 16 other defendants as a judge read out the charges for the his-toric trial, which marks the first time that a member of Spain’s royal family has faced criminal charges since the monarchy was restored in 1975.

The 50-year-old Cristina faces two counts of tax fraud carrying a maximum prison sentence of eight years for allegedly failing to declare taxes on personal expenses paid by a real estate company she owned with Urdangarin, an Olympic handball medalist turned businessman.

He faces more serious charges of using his former Duke of Palma title to embezzle about 6 million euros ($6.5 million) in public contracts through the nonprofit Noos Institute he ran with an associate.

Security was tight around the building after thousands of anti-monarchy protesters in 2014 staged noisy demonstrations while Cristina answered questions about the case posed by an investigative judge.

Authorities Monday morning detained one protester with an anti-monarchy flag a short time before Cristina showed up at the court inside a sedan with dark tinted windows.

Cristina has a chance of avoid-ing the trial if the judges agree with arguments her lawyers made in court Monday that a Spanish legal

precedent should be applied to her case that allows tax fraud cases to be dropped when they are not initiated by prosecutors.

But the same tactic can’t be used by her husband, meaning it’s all but inevitable that details come out dur-ing the proceedings about the couple’s everyday life behind the high walls of the mansion they were forced to sell during the investigation.

There are so many defendants and lawyers plus reporters covering the case that judicial officials were forced to move the trial from a courthouse to a sprawling building complex on the outskirts of Palma de Mallorca normally used to hold mass training courses for public servants.

The case is being heard in the re-gional capital of Spain’s Balearic Is-lands because many of Urdangarin’s business deals under investigation were for the islands.

The princess and her husband are not expected to utter a word during the first few days of the trial.

Cristina denied knowledge of her husband’s activities during the 2014 closed door court appearance and a prosecutor recommended she should be fined. But a judge decided Cristina could be charged with tax fraud in 2007 and 2008 because Spanish law allows groups to file charges when state prosecutors don’t. Her case was driven forward by the anti-corruption group Manos Lim-pias (Clean Hands).

Details about the couple’s lavish lifestyle emerged from the pre-trial investigation, outraging Spaniards as the country teetered on the edge of an economic crisis. The case added to the stream of bad head-lines for Cristina’s father, former King Juan Carlos — already smart-ing from a backlash after he broke his hip during a 2012 elephant hunting trip seen as an example of royal excess.

Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014, not mentioning the scandals af-fecting his reign but saying Spain needed fresh royal blood. On taking the throne, King Felipe VI - Cristina’s brother — pledged to restore public trust in Spain’s mon-archy. He later stripped Cristina and her older sister Princess Elena of their roles as official members of the royal family though they have not given up their slots of succession in line for the throne. The trial is expected to last six months. (ap)

LONDON — Here he is, sitting in a tin can, far above the world — and saying goodbye to David Bowie. Messages of condolence for the late rock star flowed in Monday from around the world — and from space, where British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted from the Interna-tional Space Station.

“Saddened to hear David Bowie has lost his battle with cancer - his music was an inspiration to many,” Peake wrote Monday.

The outer-space tribute seemed fitting. Unique and otherworldly, Bowie often seemed like a creature from another planet, the “Starman”

of one of his 1970s hits.The cosmos fascinated him from

his first big hit, “Space Oddity.” Released in 1969, the year of the first moon landing, it told the story of Ma-jor Tom, an astronaut adrift, “sitting in my tin can, far above the world.”

The song caught the world’s imagination again in 2013 when Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield strummed it on his guitar while orbiting Earth aboard the space sta-tion. The video was viewed millions of times, and Bowie gave the rendi-tion his seal of approval, calling it “the most poignant version of the song ever created.” (ap)

AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 file photo, British astro-naut Tim Peake, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), prior the launch of Soyuz TMA-19M space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

Astronaut Peake pays tribute to ‘Starman’ Bowie from space

Historic fraud trial starts for

Princess CristinaPALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain — A landmark fraud

trial opened Monday for Spain’s Princess Cristina, accused of helping bankroll a lavish lifestyle with funds her husband received from an alleged scheme to embezzle about 6 million euros ($6.5 million) in public contracts for conferences and sporting events.

AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

Spain’s Princess Cristina arrives at a makeshift courtroom for a corruption trial, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016.

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SHANGHAI - Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group, owned by the country’s richest man, said revenue surged nearly 20 percent in 2015, despite worsening economic conditions in its home market.

Wanda, founded by Wang Jianlin, has its origins in com-mercial property but is diversifying into areas ranging from entertainment to e-commerce.

Reports say the company might soon take a stake in US film studio Legendary and Wanda is scheduled to hold a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday regarding an overseas acquisition.

The company said revenue was 290.16 billion yuan ($44 billion) last year, up 19.1 percent from 2014, according to a statement released late Sunday. It gave no specific figure for net profit though it forecast a rise.

The parent group is not listed but some of its subsidiar-ies are quoted.

Wang is known outside China for a string of overseas acquisitions including the organiser of Ironman extreme endurance contests and Swiss sports marketing group Infront, while it also has a stake in Spanish football club Atletico Madrid.

He burst into the international spotlight in 2012 by buy-ing US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion and his company owns more than 200 malls, shopping complexes and luxury hotels across China.

The firm’s cinema unit recorded a 49.9 percent year-on-year surge in revenue last year to 8.0 billion yuan, the statement said. Wanda Cinema Line, which holds an esti-mated 14.5 percent share of the Chinese box office, now has 292 cinemas.

The personal fortune of Wang, who is also chairman of Wanda, stood at $32.4 billion as of Friday, according to Bloomberg Billionaires.

China logged its worst economic performance since the global financial crisis during the July-September quarter, with gross domestic product rising just 6.9 percent -- its lowest level in six years -- and hitting several companies’ bottom lines. (afp)

A massive plunge in Chinese stocks last week and a decline in the yuan after authorities weakened its value roiled global equities and further raised concerns about the growth slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy.

Despite China’s efforts to bring calm, including setting the central

rate for the yuan marginally higher, analysts said they needed to see more transparency in the foreign exchange policy.

“We reiterate that things remain fluid. Market volatility last week suggested that nobody really knows what or where the policy is right now,” DBS Bank said in a market

commentary.“The market’s message was

loud and clear that more clarity was needed on China’s transition towards a more market-determined exchange rate and an economy led by domestic demand,” it added.

“We will continue to monitor developments closely and decide if more adjustments will be needed to our forecasts going forward.”

At around 0345 GMT, the dol-lar was at 117.31 yen, up from

117.26 yen in late US trade Friday after a strong US jobs report in December.

The euro was changing hands at $1.0920, down from $1.0922, and at 128.0261 yen from 128.12.

Japanese financial markets were closed for a holiday. The yen is considered a safe haven currency in the face of the China-led global stocks turmoil. In other trades, the greenback was up against the New Zealand dollar, Taiwan dollar, South

Korean won, Philippine peso, Indian rupee and the Malaysian ringgit.

It fell against the Australian and Singapore dollars, Indonesian rupiah, Chinese yuan and Thai baht. But fo-cus remained on the yuan because of its impact on the global markets.

“Asian currencies have been dragged lower amid (the) yuan depreciation, with Singapore dol-lar and Malaysian ringgit among the most impacted,” banking group ANZ said. (afp)

MANILA — The Asian Develop-ment Bank president said Friday he is optimistic China’s economy will post healthy growth of 6.7 percent this year despite jitters over the yuan’s deprecia-tion and a plunge in Chinese stocks.

ADB President Takehiko Nakao said that China’s growth “is still very high” compared with other countries. The development bank estimates the Chinese economy grew 6.9 percent last year.

China’s slowdown is due to poli-cies to pay more attention to the environment, an aging population, waning migration from rural areas to cities, higher wages and higher per capita income, currently $8,300, that make it more difficult to maintain the very rapid growth rates of the past, he said.

Nakao said he does not see a serious adjustment in the Chinese economy because there is much room to ex-pand service industries, state owned enterprises are being reformed, social security is being boosted and efforts are underway to reduce the income dis-parity between cities and rural areas.

Fiscal reforms include measures for local authorities suffering from high debt to increase their revenue and a larger role for central government in providing social security.

“There is room for stimulus if growth is coming down because the fiscal position is strong and inflation is subdued,” he said.

Meanwhile, Nakao said the ADB is happy to cooperate with the new Chi-na-led Asian Infrastructure and Invest-ment Bank, with the two banks to go

into co-financing of projects when the AIIB starts operations mid-2016. Pos-sible projects for co-financing would be in transportation, roads, renewable energy and water projects.

The Beijing-based bank, which will launch next week, has been viewed by some as a rival to the U.S.-led World Bank and the Japan-led ADB, with suspicions China could use it as a tool to advance its influence and agenda in the region.

“To me there is no choice over not cooperating, we should cooperate,” Nakao said, pointing to developing Asia’s $8 trillion infrastructure financ-ing need from 2010-2020 and huge infrastructure gaps in countries such as India, the Philippines and Indonesia.

He said ADB members, including Japan and the United States which have not joined AIIB, also want ADB to cooperate with the new lender. (ap)

Dollar up against yen, but eyes on yuan amid China turmoil

SINGAPORE - The dollar rose against the yen in volatile Asian trade Monday but all eyes were on the yuan as China moves to calm a stock market turmoil.

Chinese group Wanda says revenue

surged in 2015

ADB head optimistic China’s economy to grow 6.7 percent

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People started arriving in the square at around 16:00 then gradu-ally gathered around the stage in the middle of the field. Despite the scorching heat, the rumbling voice of opposition -accompanied by Balinese pop songs presented by lo-cal artist Ray Peni, continued to be delivered against the mega project. One by one of representatives gave their speeches, which all essentially contained criticism of the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

The first oration was delivered by chairman of the organizing committee, Komang Sudiarta. This man familiarly called Mang Bul read a statement by the Chair-man of Baladika Bali, Bagus Alit Sucipta. The statement contained the decisions made by Baladika in their annual meeting that was held on December 24, 2015. “Baladika Bali is ready to be on the frontline

in maintaining the Benoa Bay,” said Mang Bul.

This decision, he said, was based on three things: firstly, that Benoa Bay is a conservation area so it’s status cannot be arbitrarily changed to a utilization area solely for the purpose of reclamation through Presidential Regulation No.51/2014.

“Research has suggested that if the area is reclaimed, it will result in adverse effects on the surrounding areas. Such adverse effects include the threat of flooding, degradation of ecosystems and biodiversity, and other ecological degradation,” he said.

Secondly, Benoa Bay is a sacred area, and some research suggests that the region has 60 sacred points. “There are a tidal lands (muntig—Ed) and ‘bay flow’ that are used as sites for holding customary and

religious activities by people living around Benoa Bay. The reclamation of 700 hectares in the region will decrease the sacred value of the region,” he added.

The third point, he said, is related to the other arguments that have been presented by experts in the field of disaster, tourism, agricul-ture, culture and so forth. These have already been publicized one by one, he concluded.

Based on these reasons two im-portant points converged, leading to their statement. First, Baladika Bali rejects the Benoa Bay recla-mation plan despite any pretexts and asks the government to wisely terminate the reclamation plan. Second, with respect, Baladika asks the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, to revoke and cancel Presidential Regulation No.51/2014 and then restore the area of Benoa Bay’s stauts as a conservation area.

“These statements are made in good faith as a form of Baladika Bali’s devotion to Bali that we love. At the same time, this statement

represents our commitment to con-tinue to fight until the reclamation plan is canceled,” said the closing words of the statement.

Apart from the two main points stated, Mang Bul are also said that Baladika is requesting that the Governor of Bali as well as Bali’s regents and mayor, all work together to stop the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. He then invited all the Balinese people to try to save Benoa Bay, by implementing conservation measures in Benoa Bay and explicitly reject the Benoa Bay reclamation plan under any pretext.

“We also invite all the exponents and components of the Balinese People to continuously work to-gether to maintain Bali’s natural environment free of exploitation for the sake of true prosperity in Bali,” said the Spokesperson of Baladika Bali.

Chief of the Baladika Bali Re-search and Development, Komang Merthajiwa, mentioned that about 1,500 to 2,000 Baladika Bali mem-bers were involved in this protest.

He acknowledged that this num-ber is only a small percentage of Baladika Bali’s tens of thousands of members, but added that they deliberately kept the gathering to just under 200 people, in order to avoid any potential friction.

“Today, we are present here purely to reject the Benoa Bay rec-lamation plan. We did not involve all our members so as to avoid any new frictions or new issues. We are voicing our rejection well and po-litely,” he explained, while adding that Baladika Bali will continue to fight relentlessly to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

“If we cannot do it through the use of billboards, we will do it by different means. In essence, we want to support the aspirations of the Balinese people,” he con-cluded.

Aside from Baladika Bali, the protest was also attended by other members of the local commu-nity who stand in opposition to the Benoas Bay reclamation plan, including Nusa Dua residents and Formanusa. (edi/rah)

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The Baladika Bali during a rally to reject the reclamation plan

Reject reclamation, Baladika Bali ‘swarms’ Nusa Dua

MANGUPURA - Members of Baladika Bali, dressed in semi-formal traditional Balinese attire, thronged Nusa Dua’s Lagoon Square, on Sunday (Jan. 10). Bearing various signs and symbols including banners and flags, they voiced their opposition of the planned reclamation of Benoa Bay.

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Below is a look at eight key issues Xi is contending with:

STOCK MARKET VOLATILITYChina twice deployed its “circuit

breaker” mechanism to halt trading as stock markets nosedived by 10 percent in the first week of the year. Beijing fi-nally abandoned the mechanism, and left the perception that regulators don’t have a clue as they try to stabilize a market that more than doubled between late 2014 and June, then dived 30 percent, causing deep pain among retail investors.

CURRENCY QUEASINESSMeanwhile, China’s currency, the

yuan, has slid to a five-year low against the dollar, forcing the government to spend tens of millions of dollars from its foreign currency stockpile to defend it. The government last week guided the yuan 1.5 percent lower to assist hard-pressed exporters, but the clumsy move sent shockwaves through world markets, further weighing on Chinese share prices.

SLOWING ECONOMYHiccups in the world’s second-

largest economy are expected to continue in 2016, with growth falling to a six-year low of 6.9 percent in the

July-September quarter and forecast by the International Monetary Fund to decline further to 6.3 percent this year. That bodes ill for the economy’s ability to generate enough new jobs for the more than 7.5 million students due to graduate from college this year, while also building momentum for a transition from an investment-based economy to one focused on services.

NORTH KOREADespite persistent calls for restraint,

China’s traditional ally North Korea staged what it claims was a hydrogen bomb test blast on Jan. 6 that sent actual tremors across the border into northeastern China and drew condem-nation from Beijing. China now finds itself again under pressure to use any possible leverage with the North to tamp down tensions in northeast Asia, while facing the possibility of more robust security cooperation between South Korea and China’s traditional rivals Japan and the United States.

TAIWANVoters on the self-governing island

democracy appear set to elect a new president whose party opposes Bei-jing’s goal of unification between the sides. Beijing’s economic inducements

have failed to persuade the Taiwanese public of the benefits of political union. If opposition Democratic Progressive Party candidate Tsai Ing-wen wins Saturday, as she is widely expected to do, Beijing may feel compelled to embark on economic and diplomatic pressure that could send relations into reverse. It’s unlikely that Beijing would go so far as to back up its longstanding threat to use force to bring the island under Chinese control.

POLITICSWhile Xi faces no such electoral

challenges under China’s one-party system, he does face resistance from

political rivals and the vast bureau-cracy. Xi shows no sign of abandoning his signature anti-corruption campaign blamed for creating a sense of fear and paralysis among the rank and file. His growing cult of personality exudes an exterior confidence. But with the economy slowing and no sign of political reforms, he may come under pressure from critics and rivals to show results on jobs, growth, good governance and addressing the yawn-ing income gap.

SOUTH CHINA SEASince the year began, China has

landed three aircraft on a new island

it built in the South China Sea, draw-ing protests from Vietnam and the Philippines, which have competing territorial claims in the region.

China’s robust assertions of its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea have long drawn com-plaints and sparked the occasional maritime confrontations in the area through which $5 trillion in global trade passes each year. The test flights landed on one of seven new islands Beijing has built by piling sand atop reefs and atolls. The U.S. is adamant that the new features don’t deserve the legal status of actual islands, and the U.S. Navy has flown and sailed close to them, drawing a furious response from Beijing. Xi now has to defend China’s actions while avoiding dam-age to its foreign relations.

HONG KONGChina faces continuing opposition

from pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong, the former British colony that reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 while retaining its own legal and economic systems. Beijing’s hand-picked chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, is deeply unpopular, and planned electoral changes stalled after massive street protests in 2014, leaving deep rifts in hyper-efficient Hong Kong’s society and politicizing a generation of stu-dents. Now, the recent disappearances of people associated with a publishing company that specializes in titles criti-cal of China’s leadership have raised fears that Beijing is tightening its grip on Hong Kong’s freedom of the press and other civil liberties. (ap)

8 reasons China and its president are off to a rocky 2016

ISLAMABAD — A key gath-ering opened on Monday in Is-lamabad in which four countries — Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States — hope to lay the roadmap to peace for the war-shattered Afghan nation.

The meeting comes as Afghani-stan’s battlefield losses are mount-ing and entire swaths of the country that cost hundreds of U.S.-led coali-tion and Afghan military lives to secure slip back into Taliban hands. Taliban representatives have not been invited to the talks, vowing to talk only to the U.S. and not to the government in Kabul.

As the gathering got under way, host Pakistan — seen as key to bringing the warring Taliban fac-tions to the table — cautioned of the difficulties ahead.

Sartaj Aziz, adviser to the Paki-

stani prime minister on foreign affairs, warned against prematurely deciding which Taliban factions are ready to talk, urging instead “confidence building” measures to get even the recalcitrant Taliban to the negotiating table.

But analysts and participants alike say that while there are four countries talking, much of the hope for progress toward peace rests with Pakistan, which is accused of harboring some of the fiercest factions of the Taliban, including the Haqqani group, a U.S.-declared terrorist organization. Pakistan says its influence over the Taliban is overrated.

“Even at the best of times they (Taliban) didn’t listen to us,” Aziz told The Associated Press earlier. “Look at Bamiyan,” he said, refer-ring to the Taliban’s destruction in

the summer of 2001 of some of the world’s most precious statues of Buddha. The Taliban blew up the statues, ignoring the roars of dis-sent, including from Pakistan.

Aziz refused to say whether Pakistan has a list of Taliban rep-resentatives prepared to enter into peace negotiations. The existence of such a list was announced Sunday by Javid Faisal, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.

At the start of Monday’s confer-ence, Aziz urged that participants avoid the media and work toward finding ways to get all the Taliban to talk peace. He said the Islam-abad gathering needs to define the “overall direction of the reconcili-ation process” and goals that would create a “conducive environment for holding direct talks between the

Afghan government and Taliban groups.”

Meanwhile, a breakaway Taliban group said Monday it was ready for talks. The faction, which emerged following the revelation last year that the Taliban leader and founder Mullah Mohammed Omar had died two years ago, is believed to be relatively small and its absence from the battlefield is unlikely to be a game changer.

Imtiaz Gul, whose Center for Research and Security Studies has delved deeply into the Afghan conflict and Pakistan’s decades-old involvement, says Pakistan has sig-nificant leverage with the Taliban, led by Omar’s replacement Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

Militants in both countries are al-lied, and getting rid of the Haqqanis, for example, could unleash a violent

backlash inside Pakistan where the army has been fighting for several years to defeat a coalition of militant groups largely based in its border areas with Afghanistan, Gul said.

That battle has been brutal with thousands of Pakistani soldiers killed and wounded and thousands more Pakistani civilians killed in deadly retaliatory suicide attacks by the militants.

Gul said last month’s trip by Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Ra-heel Sharif, who travelled to Af-ghanistan unaccompanied by the country’s powerful ISI intelligence agency, long considered the force behind the Taliban, was a signal the military was ready to move away from past practices and center future policy decisions only at the army headquarters. (ap)

Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, US seek roadmap to peace

BEIJING — Barely more than a week into 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping is having a rough time of it, with challenges ranging from a plummeting stock market to new provocations from obstreperous ally North Korea. While none pose an exis-tential threat to his administration, the world will be watching to see whether he has the sophisticated touch needed to find durable solutions and maintain stability.

AP Photo/Wally Santana, File

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016 file photo, Taiwan’s op-position Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, center, cheers supporters from a truck as she parades through the streets of Tainan, Taiwan prior to the na-tion’s presidential election on Saturday, Jan. 16.

TABANAN - Approaching Galungan and Kuningan that fall next February, pig breed-ers must be happy with the soaring price of pork. However, it does not happen in 2016. A month before Galungan, the price of pork expected to rice but even slumps.

A pig breeder in Tabanan, I Gusti Putu Winiantara, explained on Monday (Jan. 4) that the price of pork at breeder level slumps to IDR 22,000 per kilogram from the previ-ous price reaching IDR 24,000. The price re-duction is coupled with the rising feed price so that breeders are getting frustrated.

Winiantara added that corn hominy feed rises to IDR 240,000 per sack from IDR 170,000 per sack. High price of the corn hominy happens because this feed is im-ported so as to follow the exchange rate of dollar. “This corn hominy is not produced in Indonesia but must be imported,” he said. Price increase also occurred in the bran from IDR 2,500 to IDR 3,000 per kg. Manufac-tured feed also increased from IDR 15,000

to IDR 20,000.Rising feed price and the drop in the price

of meat at breeder level make him unable to get profit. “Fortunately, we are still able to pay the interest of loan borrowed for the cattle breeding business,” he said.

Price decline also occurred in piglet. Typically the baby pig can be sold for IDR 600,000 each. But this time it only reaches IDR 500,000 if there is one wishing to buy. “In the past, the baby pig bred can be sold out at the age of 35 days. Now, it takes lon-ger time and can reach 60 days. Certainly this condition adds to operational costs for the purchase of feed,” he said.

As a breeder, he hoped the government can find a solution so that they can continue to run the business without being harmed by feed prices that continue to soar while the selling price of pork downs. “To lower the price of feed, the solution is building feed mill in the country so that it is unnecessary to import again,” he explained. (kmb24)

Anisa, a local resident, told on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 10) that her kitchen was destroyed and col-lapsed on Sunday night (Jan. 3). The losses as a result of the incident are estimated to reach tens of mil-lions of rupiahs.

To protect her home from the brunt of sea waves, she has in-stalled rock-filled gabions since Friday (Jan. 8). At some locations of the tatami-styles seafood stall have been protected with gabions independently by the owners, while some others simply rely on sand sacks.

As observation on Sunday af-ternoon (Jan. 10), seawater looked huge and high. They always make people wary. Abrasion along the Pebuahan Beach at Banyubiru has been increasingly concerned from the east to the west.

Previously, a building of MIN school accommodating the elemen-tary school students in the coastal region was also destroyed. Some bottom parts of the newly con-structed building have vanished. To maintain the roof of the building, it is now deliberately supported with wood. As the information compiled, some parts of the building remain-ing to stand are still used for school students of the fifth and sixth grade. Then, the students of first to fourth

grade are evacuated to the other buildings located in the north side of the road.

One of the grilled seafood own-ers, Sri Astuti, said that high impact of the abrasion on Pebuahan Beach has occurred within the past two years. It also afflicted to her busi-ness premises which have lost a number of buildings because the land disappeared as swept away by seawater. Another resident, Suandi, 55, said that since the past week the waves have been very large. “I cannot sleep well because of fear. Moreover, we do not have alternative residence to stay,” he explained.

Nurhakim also confessed that currently his house has almost col-lapsed because it has been hoofed by lacing of the waves. “We are forced to create a protection by installing a number of sand sacks,” he explained.

Residents of Pebuahan expected the government to install revetment on the beach as has been carried out at Baluk Rening and Candikusuma. “Since Cupel and Baluk Rening have been protected with revet-ment, the waves have a very great impact here,” said some residents. Now, the residents independently protected their place by installing rock-filled gabion. (kmb)

Abrasion at Pebuahan increasingly serious, five houses destroyed

A month before Galungan, price of pig slumps

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A pig farm is seen on the picture

NEGARA - Abrasion on Pebuahan Beach at Banyubiru village, Negara, is getting worse lately. Five houses and their kitchen were destroyed by ferocious waves last week. Last No-vember, a number of school buildings and tatami-style seafood stalls were destroyed by seawater.

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The abrasion on Pebuahan Beach at Banyubiru village, Negara is destroying a house.

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Such behavior is seen nowa-days in some birds, and the dis-covery suggests that two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods did it about 100 million years ago, the researchers said.

Martin Lockley of the Uni-versity of Colorado Denver said the dinosaurs, probably males, apparently gathered in groups and “went crazy scraping” with their clawed, three-toed feet to attract mates.

The beasts were built roughly like smaller versions of a T. rex. Footprints near the grooves sug-gest a variety of body lengths, up to about 16 feet (4 meters) from snout to tip of the tail.

The grooves they carved are up to 6 feet long.

The ritual would have been entertaining to watch, Lockley said in an interview. “These animals would have been really frenzied.”

Lockley, an emeritus professor of geology, is an author of a paper on the discovery released Thurs-day by the journal Scientific Reports. The grooves were found at four sites in Colorado.

Dinosaur expert Thomas Holtz Jr. of the University of Mary-land, who didn’t participate in the work, said it’s reasonable to think that theropods created the grooves. But was it for mating?

Holtz said he wasn’t convinced that the new paper had suffi-ciently ruled out other explana-tions. But he added that there’s no particular evidence for rejecting the mating idea.

“Whatever behavior is being recorded here, it is an expression of the fact that dinosaurs_like all animals_did more than hunt and attack and devour and fight and all that limited set of behaviors that popular culture often portrays,” Holtz wrote in an email. (ap)

WASHINGTON — U.S. me-teorologists say the current El Nino has stormed its way into the record books, tying 1997-1998 as the strongest recorded.

Mike Halpert, deputy director

of the federal Climate Prediction Center, said initial figures for October-November-December match the same time period in 1997 for the strongest El Nino. Meteorologists measure El Nino

based on how warm parts of the central Pacific for three consecu-tive months. Records go back to 1950.

El Nino is the natural warm-ing of the central Pacific that

changes weather worldwide, including bringing more rain to California.

Halpert said what really mat-ters is what El Nino does during January, when its impact peaks.

Weather Underground meteo-rology director Jeff Masters said “Darth Nino may finally have California in its sights,” as a series of storms may dent record drought. (ap)

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Scientists have discovered five supersize stars in other galaxies on a par with the monstrous stellar system in our own Milky Way.

Eta Carinae is the brightest and most massive star system within 10,000 light-years of us. The binary system is located in the southern constellation of Carina, a ship’s keel,

and outshines our own sun by 5 mil-lion times.

At the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting Wednesday, Rubab Khan, a researcher at NASA’s

Goddard Space Center in Maryland, reported on the discovery of five “Eta twins.” The Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helped identify them.

Khan says the discovery will shed light on the evolution of these stellar heavyweights. Eta Carinae erupted in the 1800s, hurling stellar material into space. (ap)

US meteorologists: El Nino ties record for strongest seen

5 supersize stars found in other galaxies

Lida Xing/Yujiang Han via AP

This illustration provided by Lida Xing and Yujiang Han in January 2016 shows theropods engaged in scrape ceremony display activity, based on trace fossil evidence from Colorado.

Long scrape marks in ground linked to dinosaur mating ritual

NEW YORK — Scientists say they’ve discovered evidence of a frenzied mating ritual by dinosaurs: long grooves in the ground etched by the pawing of clawed feet.

The number of departing passen-gers also dropped by 28.30 percent from 410,377 passengers in Octo-ber 2015 to 294,252 passengers in November 2015.

The volume of international baggage and freight was also down 26.51 percent from 6,777 tons to 4,980 tons.

The decrease in the number of departing flights and passengers was due to the eruption of Mount Barujari in West Nusa Tenggara that forced the Ngurah Rai Airport to halt its operations several times.

The main destinations of the aircraft departing from the Bali

airport in November included Aus-tralia, with 478 aircraft and carrying 68,207 passengers; Singapore, with 412 aircraft and carrying 62,766 passengers; Malaysia (280 aircraft, 35,939 passengers), Hong Kong (134 aircraft, 29,418 passengers), and China (95 aircraft, 13,346 pas-sengers).

A total of 270,935 foreign tour-ists visited Bali in November last year, down 20.70 percent from that in the same period in 2014, or 26.66 percent from that recorded in October 2015.

Meanwhile, a total of 2,853 do-mestic flights departed from the Ngu-

rah Rai Airport in November 2015, a decrease of 12.59 percent from 3,264 flights in October 2015.

Domestic flights carried 316,929 passengers, a drop by 10.79 percent from 355,265 passengers in Octo-ber 2015.

The volume of domestic baggage and freight also decreased 15.87 percent from 4,012 tons in October 2015 to 3,376 tons in November 2015.

However, Bali’s Ngurah Rai Air-port recorded a 45 percent increase in international passenger arrivals three days prior to the Christmas 2015 and New Year’s holidays.

The number of international passengers rose to 13,938, or 45 percent, compared to the same period in 2014.

The passengers from various countries arrived aboard 73 flights on the Island of Gods. (ant)

DENPASAR - Bali’s marine area spreads across 9,634.35 square km and has fish catches of as much as 147,278.75 tons. In 2014, fisher-ies recorded catches of 118,241.1 tons, 25, 261.7 tons of which was tuna, representing a fare percentage of Indonesia’ total tuna catches. Paradise Island’s marine area is also rich in sardines, mackerel, skipjack and mackerel tuna and other fish, that are caught by some 38, 558 registered fishermen. Bali has nine seaports.

Head of the Bali Maritime and Fisheries Agency, I Made Gunaja, said that his agency is looking to develop a marine conservation areas in the near future. Of Bali’s eight districts and one municipality that have coastlines, only Klungkung has an area designated as a marine conservation area by the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. Other districts such as Buleleng and Karangasem are still in the nomina-tion process.

“There should be no misunder-standing that conservation means that those marine areas could not be utilized - it is not like that. Con-servation consists of three aspects: protection, preservation and utiliza-tion,” explained Gunaja citing the marine conservation area of Nusa Penida as an example.

There is a zone for fishing, for seaweed cultivation, and protected areas where there are coral reefs. The local community groups are charged with supervising the the function of each zone. “We will supervise whether there are vessels that are catching fish in the conser-vation area where such activity is prohibited and in the case where there are such infringements, we will tell them not to do so that the area will not be damaged. It is also important to monitor whether people are using explosives to catch ornamental fish as this can destroy coral reefs. This must be super-vised,” said Gunaja.

He that well maintained coral reefs provide habitat for fish there-for coral reef rehabilitation is also being carried out by planting artifi-cial reef and using birock technol-ogy as they have done at Pemuteran in Buleleng, for example.

“We want to create guideline for fishing, like the distance form the shoreline. For example, 100 meters out to sea form the shore is coral habitat and no fishing should be allowed there. It should also be prohibited to catches fish when they are spawning. If they are caught before they can reproduce, in no time at all we will run out of fish,” explained Gunaja. (kmb32)

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Bali’s marine area spreads across 9,634.35 square km and has fish catches of as much as 147,278.75 tons. In 2014, fisheries recorded catches of 118,241.1 tons, 25, 261.7 tons of which was tuna, representing a fare percentage of Indonesia’ total tuna catches.

Bali wants to develop marine conservation

Ngurah Rai Airport served 1,852

international departures in November

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The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali served a total of 1,852 wide-bodied aircraft depart-ing for various international cities in November 2015.

DENPASAR - The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali served a total of 1,852 wide-bodied aircraft departing for various international cities in November 2015. The number decreased 18.88 percent from 2,283 aircraft in October 2015, Panusunan Siregar, head of the Bali statistics office, stated on Monday.

There also needs to be adequate facilities and infrastructure as well as strong government support in encouraging the public to use these mode of transportation. “Currently, people prefer to use their own private vehicles -especially motorcycles, which is understandable given that, currently, there is no suitable form of public transportation,” he said.

In response to the idea of creat-ing overpasses or underpasses, Pri-hastono replied that these are only short term solutions. “If the number of vehicle continues to increase, there will still be congestion. Traf-fic jams already occur everywhere during long holidays like Christmas and New Year. All the vehicles are on the road, while the road capacity remains the same,” he said.

Apart from on holidays, certain streets, like Jalan Teuku Umar expe-rience traffic jams on a daily basis. Prihastono explained that the daily congestion that occurs from the six way roundabout northwards is due to the presence of so many cell phone shops and other businesses along this strip -almost none of which have parking areas. Customers, are there-for forced to park along the side of the road. “Congestion on this strip, causes traffic jams throughout the area -especially during rush hours.

This section of the road should be freed of parking lanes. I also want to reiterate that the number of vehicles on the roads needs to be limited,” he said.

According to Prihastono, his agency has done their best to minimize traffic jams. However, there efforts have been insufficient, given the ever-growing number of vehicles circulating. “We need to increase public awareness about the need for public transportation, and the government needs to prepare adequate infrastrure for it. Over-seas, rich people often prefer to take public transport,” said Prihastono.

He also cited the number of ve-hicles that entered Bali in just the last three months, saying that it was extremely high: September 2015, counted 338,894 private cars, 9,342 buses, 135,009 freight vehicles and 3,021,312 motorcycles. October, there were 342,218 private cars, 9,386 buses, 135,840 freight vehicles and 3,040,957 motorcycles. Then in No-vember, recorded a total of 345,158 private cars, 9,435 buses, 136,568 freight vehicles and 3,058,539 mo-torcycles. “If left unchecked, the numbers will continue to rise. This data only refers to vehicles coming into Bali. This does not include the number of vehicles that are already in Bali. We certainly hope that relevant agencies can sit down together to find solutions to overcome this problem,” he concluded. (rah)

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

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

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

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

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“Of course, road users are nec-essarily suffering losses in terms of time as well as money. Severe traffic congestion is caused by the constantly increasing number of motorcycles and cars that has been a problem for some the now,” said I.B. Raka, in Denpasar.

According to Raka, the increase in the number of vehicles is a direct result of the rise in the number of middle-class Balinese which by some estimates accounts for 70 per-cent of the urban population. Middle class peole can certainly purchase motorcycles and often cars too.

“Well, due to the increasing number of vehicles, the public roads are no longer able to accommodate everyone during peak hours, thus

resulting in crowdedness every-where,” he said.

What is more, he said, many families have more than one ve-hicle, sometimes as many as 5 per household. This certainly exacer-bates traffic congestion.

“In my opinion, the solutions that the government has applied so far, such as applying a progressive tax and setting routes and so forth, have not been very effective,” Raka said.

He suggested that a more effec-tive solution would be that Bali’s parliament create a regulation that would place limits on the age of vehicles that are allowed on the road, as is enforced in many devel-oped countries. In Singapore, for example, any vehicle than is more

than 5 years is imposed with very high taxes. “Whereas, here, on the contrary, the older a vehicle is, the less it is taxed,” he said.

Raka also proposed that there be laws that strongly encourage the turn-over of vehicles in Bali. “For example, if a motorcycles is already 11 years old, the taxes imposed on it should be at least half the cost of a new motorcycle and the same for cars,” he said.

Such policies, said Raka would ensure a high level of vehicle rota-tion and he added that older vehicles could be sent to other regions- like NTT or elsewhere. “If the age re-striction policy for vehicles is not applied, the congestion problem will not be resolved. Just look at developed countries that have ap-plied his type of policy and even stricter ones where any vehicle that is more that 5-8 years years old is taxed for amounts nearly equally the cost of a new vehicle,” concluded Raka. (par)

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BALI is increasingly crowded with motor vehicles. Between January and November alone, a staggering 32,678,941 new motorcycles came into Bali. New private cars, buses and freight vehicles also increased in number last year, and if things continue like this, in no time at all Bali will have the same traffic problems as Jakarta.

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Prof. Dr. I.B. Raka Suardana

Bali: Too many with motor vehiclesSECrETAry of the Indonesian Economists Association

(ISEI) Bali, Prof. Dr. I.B. raka Suardana, recently spoke out in criticism of the rapid growth in the number of moto vehicles in Bali. Traffic is regularly a problem on some of the streets of Denpasar, Kuta, Nusa Dua and surrounding areas.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jennifer Lawrence continued her Golden Globes hot streak by winning best actress in a motion picture comedy on Sunday for her portrayal of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano in “Joy.”

This is her third Golden Globe win for a performance in a David O. Russell movie. She previously won a supporting award for “American Hustle” and for her leading role in “Silver Linings Playbook,” and the trend was not lost on Lawrence.

“Every time I’m up here is because of you,” Lawrence said in her ac-ceptance speech, which focused mainly on Russell.

“Thank you for teaching me so much, professionally, personally,” Lawrence continued. “I want us to be buried next to

each other. I really do.”Lawrence was up against nominees Lily Tomlin

(“Grandma”), Melissa McCarthy (“Spy”), Maggie Smith (“The Lady in the Van”) and her friend Amy Schumer (“Trainwreck”) in the category.

Lawrence and Schumer’s friendship has become the stuff of pop culture legend. The two have va-

cationed together, are co-writing a movie, and even co-presented on stage at the awards on Sunday night.

Unlike the best actress drama category, the comedy category is not expected to help predict eventual Oscar nominees, save for Lawrence. Notably, though, Lawrence did not receive a Screen Actors Guild nomination for “Joy.”

Last year Amy Adams won for her role as the painter Margaret Keane in “Big Eyes.” She

was not nominated for an Oscar. (ap)

The movie also earned Globes for motion picture, and for director Alejandro Inarritu at the Sunday night ceremony.

“It’s very rewarding,” DiCaprio said backstage. “We had a very solid opening weekend because I think people appreciate seeing a different type of cinema out there.”

DiCaprio was saluted with a standing ovation from the audi-ence when his name was called at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

As a fur trapper, DiCaprio braved icy waters, ate raw bison and went to find his mates who left him for dead in the unforgiv-ing wilderness. The film was shot during nine months in what he described as “rough conditions.”

“I share the award with all the indigenous communities around the world,” DiCaprio said in his acceptance speech. “It is time we recognize your history and protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people who are out there to exploit them.”

DiCaprio beat out fellow nominees Bryan Cranston of “Trum-bo,” Michael Fassbender of “Steve Jobs,” Eddie Redmayne of “The Danish Girl,” and Will Smith of “Concussion.”

The 41-year-old actor born in Hollywood earned his third career Golden Globe. His earlier wins came two years ago for “The Wolf of Wall Street” and in 2005 for “The Aviator.” (ap)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Lady Gaga walked away from Sunday’s Golden Globes with a best actress trophy for her role in FX’s “American Horror Story” — and the most buzz on Twitter for her red carpet appearance and her award.

Twitter counted 4.4 million tweets about the Globes during the show, spokeswoman Elizabeth Luke said. While Gaga reigned supreme among the most talked about moments, Leonardo Di-Caprio, who generated the second most buzz for his best actor award for “The Revenant,” and in the third spot, “Mr. Robot” for its best TV drama award.

On the red carpet, Jennifer Lawrence racked up the second most tweets, and Katy Perry came in third.

The most tweets overall went to Gaga, with Lawrence coming in second and DiCaprio third. (ap)

Leonardo DiCaprio wins Golden Globe for dramatic actor

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Lady Gaga reigns supreme on Twitter during Golden Globes

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Leonardo DiCaprio did more than just survive a bear mauling in “The Revenant.” He won a Golden Globe as best dramatic actor for the 19th century survival epic.

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Jennifer Lawrence wins Golden Globe for best comedy actress

Bowie, whose hits included “Fame,” ‘’Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died “peacefully” and was surrounded by family, representa-tive Steve Martin said early Mon-day. The singer had fought cancer for 18 months.

Long before alter egos and wild outfits became commonplace in pop, Bowie set the music world on its ear with the release of the 1972 album, “The Rise of Ziggy Stardust and Spiders from Mars,” which introduced one of music’s most famous personas. Ziggy Stardust was a concept album that imagined a genre-bending rock star

from outer space trying to make his way in the music world. The per-sona — the red-headed, eyeliner wearing Stardust — would become an enduring part of his legacy, and a touchstone for the way entertain-ers packaged themselves for years to come.

Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same day as he released a new al-bum called “Blackstar.”

“While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief,” said a statement issued via his social media accounts. No more details were provided.

The singer, who was born David Jones in London, came of age in the glam rock era of the early 1970s. He had a striking androgynous look in his early days and was known for changing his appearance and sounds. After Ziggy Stardust, the stuttering rock sound of “Changes” gave way to the disco soul of “Young Americans,” co-written with John Lennon, to a droning col-laboration with Brian Eno in Berlin that produced “Heroes.”

He had some of his biggest suc-cesses in the early 1980s with the bombastic “Let’s Dance,” and a massive American tour. Another one of his definitive songs was “Un-der Pressure,” which he recorded with Queen; Vanilla Ice would years later infamously use the song’s hook for his much maligned smash “Ice Ice Baby.”

“My entire career, I’ve only re-ally worked with the same subject matter,” Bowie told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. “The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I’ve always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety — all of the high points of one’s life.”

At a concert for rescue workers after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, his performance of “He-roes” was a highlight.

“What I’m most proud of is that I can’t help but notice that I’ve af-fected the vocabulary of pop music. For me, frankly, as an artist, that’s the most satisfying thing for the ego.”

Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, but he didn’t attend the cer-

emony. Madonna, another artist who knew something about chang-ing styles to stay ahead of the curve, accepted for him and recounted how a Bowie concert changed her life when she attended it as a teenager. David Byrne, of the art rockers Talking Heads, inducted Bowie and said he gave rock music a necessary shot in the arm.

“Like all rock ‘n’ roll, it was visionary, it was tasteless, it was glamorous, it was perverse, it was fun, it was crass, it was sexy and it was confusing,” Byrne said.

Bowie kept a low profile in re-cent years after reportedly suffering a heart attack in the 2000s. He made a moody album three years ago called “The Next Day” — his first recording in a decade which was made in secret in New York City.

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In this June 6, 2005 file photo, singer David Bowie and his wife Iman pose at the 2005 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York. Bowie, the innovative and iconic singer whose illustrious career lasted five decades, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2015, after battling cancer for 18 months.

BALI is increasingly crowded with motor vehicles. Between January and November alone, a stagger-ing 32,678,941 new motorcycles came into Bali. New private cars, buses and freight vehicles also increased in number last year, and if things con-tinue like this, in no time at all Bali will have the

same traffic problems as Jakarta. “Relevant agencies should look for the best solution so that severe conges-

tion can be overcome. I think that relying on traffic police, is not the solution,” said the Chief of Sub-directorate of the Bali Police Registration and Identification, Andy Prihastomo.

Certain solutions -like setting limits for the age of vehicles, can be implemented by the local government so that the Island of the Gods does to become gridlocked. “For example, 10-year-old vehicles could be traded in with the help of government subsidies as is done in many countries to prevent the number of vehicles on the road from increasing non-stop,” said Prihastomo.

Additionally, mass transportation needs to be encouraged P however stressed that public transportation needs to be suitable, comfortable, safe and punctual.

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Tens of millions more motorcycles came into Bali last year

Iconic singer David Bowie dies at 69NEW YORK — David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who

broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-bending persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album.