Based on information com-piled, the action of road closure was performed around 1:00 p.m. local time. The road access lead-ing to the hotel was hindered with bamboo, banana trees and other types of trees to block the vehicle entrance to the hotel. Such action was performed by Sugiana, a resi-dent of Peneca hamlet, Melinggih Kelod village, Ubud subdistrict. The incident was not widespread due to the alertness of police to anticipate, so as not disrupting the access to hotel.

Both parties, namely Sugiana

and Human Resources Department (HRD) of the hotel conducted me-diation in Payangan Police station. The case immediately got a serious concern from the Chief of Payan-gan Police, Dewa Rai Sujaya.

From the information of Sugi-ana, the closure action he did was kindled by dismissal case to a hotel employee by the hotel manage-ment. The employee was the wife of Sugiana. His wife was fired because she was ill and unable to work since a few months ago. Be-fore the establishment of the hotel, according to him, his party had an

agreement with the hotel related to the existence of land used for road access, so that Sugiana did the road closure.

According to police chief, the dismissal case had been actually discussed by both parties. However, they had not reached any solution yet. Possibly, since the case was long unresolved and protracted, then residents were desperate to do such an action. Sugiana’s wife had worked in the hotel for 16 years,

so that there were things needing to be discussed. “In this regard, we still perform mediation to resolve the problem between the resident and hotel management,” affirmed the Police Chief.

Meanwhile, the mediation pro-cess was conducted in police station and the opening of road access had been made. There was no longer a problem related to the road access to hotel, he explained. (kmb16)

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POZNAN - Croatia made a flying start to Euro 2012 after pouncing on sloppy defending to beat Ireland 3-1 in their Group C opener on Sunday. Ireland, whose 14-match unbeaten run came to an end, could not have made a worse start to their first major tournament for 10 years as they allowed off-balance Mario Mandzukic too much space to head Croatia ahead after three minutes.

Sean St Ledger headed Ireland level after 19 minutes but Croatia regained the lead three minutes before the break when Nikica Jelavic was left alone to prod the ball past goalkeeper Shay Given with Ireland appealing in vain for offside. A unlucky Given own goal at the start of the second half ef-fectively ended Ireland’s chances and put Croatia top of Group C after Spain and Italy drew 1-1 earlier in Gdansk.

“It was very important that we scored an early goal, they are really good fighters, it wasn’t that easy,” Mandzukovic said. St Ledger rued the con-cession of sloppy goals. “Unlike us,” he said. “We are usually pretty tight. We knew in the second half we had to come out. The next goal was going to be important and they got it.

“When you are 3-1 down against a side like Croatia it is always going to be tough. They were

poor goals to concede,” St Ledger added. Croa-tia could be in trouble after their fans celebrated their second goal by letting off fire-

crackers and flares.

Ireland’s 73-year-old coach Giovanni Trapattoni had hoped to frustrate Croatia but that plan was blown apart with an odd early goal.

Croatian forward Nikica Jelavic cel-ebrates after scoring a goal during

the Euro 2012 football championships match Ireland vs Croatia on June 10,

2012 at the Municipal Stadium in Poznan.

Croatia sink sloppy Irish

Road access to Alila Hotel blocked by residents

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GIANYAR - Road access to Alila Hotel, Ubud, was almost

blockaded by residents on Sunday (Jun 10). The case was triggered by the stagnation of mediation related to dismissal against a hotel employee who

is a local resident and the owner of land used for the

road access by the hotel.

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Amlapura (Bali Post)—Unit Chief of Traffic Affairs, Karan-

gasem Police, Nengah Subangsawan, said at Perasi Kaler hamlet, Karangasem, Sunday (Jun 10) that 60 percent of traffic accident cases in Karangasem happened because the riders were drunk due to alcoholic drink. Therefore, the death rate was also high, where 17 people were killed up to June 10.

Until last Sunday, he added, 90 cases of traffic accident were recorded in the jurisdiction of Karangasem Police. Due to the accidents, 17 people were killed, 46 seriously injured and 105 slightly injured. Such high rate of traffic accidents were presumably kindled by human factor such as negligence that did not comply with the traffic regulation. For instance, the victim rode a vehicle in drunken con-dition. He exemplified that a young man from Padangkerta was instantly killed last month at Jungsri due to drunken-ness and speeding where his motorcycle crashed a roadside shade tree. “People may drink, but do not get drunk. Being drunk, they may not ride a motorcycle. If not harming the self, it can also harm the others. Drunkenness due to alcohol has become the trigger of high traffic accident rate,” he said.

He said that aside from 60 percent of traffic accidents caused by drunken riders, as much as 69 percent of traffic accidents were also caused by head-on collision. According to him, it was very strange, how could the head-on collision happen whereas they should see each

other? In fact, said Subangsawan from Singakerta, it happened because the rid-ers were negligent and did not pay atten-tion to traffic conditions in front of them. For instance, they insisted on overtaking the vehicle in front whereas they passed on a curve or the space was narrow, like in front of a truck of quarry C running quietly. “Please do not be negligent because the roads in Karangasem are relatively quiet, so that avoid overtaking in narrow roads and curves. Otherwise, it will be at risk of falling and being run over,” he said.

Dissemination of traffic discipline pursuant to the Act No.29/1999 at the Meeting Hall of Perasi Kaler, Karan-gasem, was held coinciding with the local village meeting. Subangsawan also asked for the public support in minimiz-ing the traffic accidents in Karangasem. It was intended to save the generations of Balinese society so that the death or disability due to traffic accidents could be reduced considering the traffic accident rate remained so high.

“Our program aims to suppress the high rate of traffic accidents. Parents should not get angry when their children were issued a traffic ticket. No matter how tight the police are if parents still allow their underage children to ride a motorcycle, then the traffic accident claiming life and property will remain high. Even, it can constantly increase due to the number of vehicles on the roads will be more crowded in the future,” he explained. (013)

Ser Hill indeed keeps an ex-otic charm. Both adjacent hills border with sloping choppy sea and fine white sandy beach. On the two hilltops sits an everlast-ing temple that remain to be preserved by supporting devotees from Pemuteran village, Ger-okgak subdistrict. On the peak of southernmost hill stands the Pucak Beratan Temple, while in the north with lower foothill sits the Gunung Ser Temple. Exis-tence of both temples makes the region a sacred area. Despite a sacred area, the land was recently often submitted by residents to be made a property. Petition of the residents had resulted in a polemic and it was even at issue in the Buleleng House.

Though constantly debated, the region remains to be a target of some people who want to seek profit by exploiting the charm of the hill. Based on developing in-formation, a number of investors are targeting the hills. Since the region still belongs to state land area, there are usually certain ele-ments that ask residents to apply for the land to be a property. If they have successfully processed the land into their property, the land will be transferred into the hands of investors by purchas-ing it.

On the southern hill, right on the western side, there are even lands that have been fenced until reaching the edge of the beach. The lands are known by local

residents to have been owned by a foreigner. Meanwhile, on the edge of Ser Hill, the flat land is located in the east. This land has been marked with a lot of bam-boo fences and reputedly used as a divider between one lot of land and the others. Simply, people do not know whether the fenced lands belong to private property or the government.

Local residents claimed to have never received information or seen the officers on site mea-suring the land on Ser Hill. “We do not know about it because we left early and came home late to earn our living and really do not know who have pleaded this land,” said one of the local residents. (kmb/ole)

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The beautiful Ser Hill located in pemuteran Village, Buleleng Regency.

Ser Hill, a sacred area intensely targeted by investors

PEMUTERAN village, Gerokgak subdistrict retains two bijou hills beautifully located on beachside. One of them is called Ser Hill. From Pulaki Temple area, the hill looks very beautiful. Moreover, if it is on a sunny day, people will be able to observe a dazzling mountain in Java behind the hill becoming an alluring background over the waters. Now, the hill is intensely targeted by investor to be made an object being sold for the benefit of tourism. Even, a number of areas on the hill had been certified as the property to be sold later on.

60 percent of traffic accidents due to drunken riders

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The situation during socialization of traffic rules in Perasi Kaler, Karangasem.

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The opening ceremony of the arts festival was marked with the performance of Purusadha Santa oratory by the students of Denpasar Indonesia Art Institute (ISI) at Ar-dha Candra open stage.

Before opening the festival, President Yudhoyono and the first lady watched a carnival float and art performance of 18 contingents to enliven the carnival.

The Bali Art Festival, displaying both local and international artists, is an annual event organized by the Bali provincial administration.

Last year, the Bali Art Festival was entitled “Desa Kala Patra: Self Adaptation into Multicultural Con-cepts,” during a month-long perfor-mance of dance, music, poetry, and handicraft exhibitions.

The Bali Arts Festival will in-clude a cultural parade, stage per-formances, competitions, meetings and seminars, and handicraft exhi-bitions of small industries.

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company of First Lady Ani Yudhoyono, opened the 34th Bali Arts Festival 2012 at Ardha Candra arts center on Sunday night.

a full month program of cultural presentations and seminars by Ba-linese performers, joining with art groups from throughout Indonesia and abroad.

Each year the Bali Arts Festival introduces the classical dances of the island, such as the legong, gambuh, kecak, barong, baris, mask dances and others.

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Local and foreigners collaboration in BAFThey will perform several unique art performances that surely can entertain audiences and tourists that happen to be holidaying in Bali.

According to one of BAF’s

committee, Putu Sedana, there are four from six foreigner troupes that participate in BAF will col-laborate with local artists. They already communicate with their local partner in Bali and practice their performances.

Sedana said that there are six troupes that take part in this yearly event. One of the foreign-ers that take part in this event is Ocarina Ema Yokohama from Japan that performing Ocarina instrument on June 24, 2012.

There is also an art team from London University, England that will collaborate with Indonesia Art Institute (ISI) Denpasar to perform modern drama. This drama can be watch on Thursday, June 14.

Shinto musical group and tradi-tional dance from Japan, Kagura Wadaiko-Club Kyoto Koka Senior High School also collaborate with ISI Denpasar and will be showing their collaboration performance on June 24, 2012.

Besides the three groups, Se-

dana said, The Jack Quartet and Brian Baumbusch form United States of America collaborate with Makara Tuaja Singapadu dance grup will be performing contempo-rer music on June 28, 2012.

There will be other perfor-mances that showing collaboration between local artists and foreign-ers, Sedana said. He stated that traditional art performance from Japan, Noh Mask, will be showing on June 29, in collaboration with WBC Cudomani Ubud, Gianyar.

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11.00 WITA Stage Angsoka Special dance performance

16.00 WITA Stage Angsoka Special dance performance

20.00 WITA Sateg Ayodya Special dance performance

20.00 WITA Ksirarnawa Hall Modern Balinese Theater Performance

20.00 WITA Ardha Chandra Children’s Gong Kebyar

Complaint and threat of the residents were conveyed by the subak members on Sunday (Jun 10). Chief of Subak Kedampang, Ketut Sujana, accompanied by Director of Wisnu Foundation, Made Suarnatha and Sedahan (superior of subak chief or pekaseh) Yeh Poh, Made Wana, stated that dozens of hect-ares of rice fields belonging to the members of Subak Kedampang had been dry as did not get water within the past few days. More sadly, the newly transplanted rice seedlings of five days old were threatened to die as did not get water. The member of Subak Kedampang amounting to 273 people were forced to worked together to clean up the clogged irrigation channels.

The drought overwhelming tens of hectares of rice fields owned by residents was alleged to have been caused by the road widening proj-

ect activities passing through the subak territory. Implementation of the project was considered arrogant because the irrigation channels from Kedampang Dam leading to rice fields of residents was covered up by materials like sand, land and the trees toppled by the project implementer.

“The area of paddy fields at Subak Kedampang reaches 97.03 hectares, where 10 hectares have not obtained irrigation. A number of subak members should stay up in order their rice field can be ir-rigated. However, as the irrigation channels are damaged, the water is unable to come into their fields. The water is indeed still flowing but un-able to irrigate the fields because the irrigation channels are damaged by the road project,” said Sujana.

According to him, the resi-dents actually did not object to the

project. However, people deeply deplored the lack of coordination between the project contractor and the subak members, so that their irrigation channels were damaged. Additionally, the project imple-menter had also cut down the neem trees and other greeneries that were taken advantage by residents for the needs of ritual and they were left to clog the irrigation channels.

In the meeting at Kedampang Subak hall, the subak members directly ‘judged’ the project super-visor of the road widening project, Made Mastra. Residents asked the contractor to immediately clean up and repair the irrigation channels without indulging a lot of promises. At the latest, the clean up should have been accomplished this Mon-day. Subak members threatened if the irrigation could not be cleaned-up, then the residents would block-ade the project with a tree that had been toppled by the contractor.

When showered with many questions by residents, Made Mas-tra only promised to immediately bring together the residents to contracting party in order the complaint could be addressed. Made Mastra explained the road widening project belonged to the

Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency. It was one of the six road improvement packages carried out in Badung Regency namely in Kuta, Mengwi and Abiansemal by PT Dharma Niaga Karya. The project was begun on June 4 and

with a budget of more than IDR 2.3 billion. The project along 2.7 km would widen the road on the right and left side with a width between 1.5 to 2.8 meters. Implementation of the project had been socialized to local hamlet chief. (kmb25)

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e pasar (Bali Post)—

It has been more than a week the rob-bery case occurring at the office of UD Ratna at Jalan Pulau Nusa Kambangan 126, Denpasar. However, the officers of Denpasar Metro Police and West Denpasar Police have not been able to catch the culprit. Although a number of witnesses have been examined, and explained some characteristics of the culprit, police seem difficult to trace the footprints of the culprit. “The culprit remains unclear. Up to now, the culprit is not known,” said a source in police station on Sunday (Jun 10).

After the incident, the source reject-ing to mention its name said that a number of criminal detective personnel were immediately deployed to detect the presence of the culprit. The employee becoming the victim of slashing by the robber, Ketut Juliarta, 20, claimed to have time to see the culprit. The robber identified to ride a Yamaha Mio motor-cycle previously had come to the office of the catering company. However, the

victim did not dare to ascertain whether it was the same person.

With the robbery incident in the morning, Denpasar was surely no longer safe. Moreover, the culprit could not have been captured so far. Hopefully, similar cases would no longer occur because it could disrupt the public con-venience. Although the Chief of Bali Police, Budi Gunawan, had a program related to deployment of personnel in the field, but in fact the prominent cases also occurred.

As reported previously, the robbery occurred in the office of UD Ratna on Jalan Nusa Kambangan Denpasar on Friday (Jun 1). The employee of com-pany engaged in catering and suppliers, I Ketut Juliarta, 20, was robbed by a culprit with sharp weapon. Although no properties could have been taken away, the victim suffered violence from the culprit because his right hand and left thumb were cut down by machete. The victim was then rushed to Sanglah Hospital to get medical treatment. (kmb21)

e ara (Bali Post)—

In the long run, the water discharge run-ning into a number of rice fields in Mendoyo shrinks. As consequence, farmers now only rely on artesian wells by sucking the un-derground water. They are forced to do so because they urgently need the water whose availability tends to decrease.

This condition happened to Subak Lanyah Babakan, Mendoyo in this season. Most paddy plants grown were a month or about 40 days old. Due to inaccurate estimation about the rain, the farmers were forced to survive by relying on water sucked from artesian wells. The subak with the area of 126 hectares had at least 20 points of artesian wells to suck ground water. Farmers at the subak territory admitted that they had set to lack of water since the paddy plants were 25 days old.

Previously, during the planting season there was indeed rain water left, but after that it had no longer rained. Most of the subak territories here relied on rain-fed dam. One of the farmers, Ida Bagus Sutama, said that his rice fields started to lack of water since two weeks ago. Most farm-ers had planted their rice and it just reached one month old. On that account, they chose to seek underground water by renting water pump. To meet the water needs for some plots of his rice

fields, it took him a day to suck.Due to water shortage, farmers should

spend additional cost to rent a water pump and purchase diesel fuel. For a day, they should pay ranging from IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000 to get water for irrigating their rice fields. “If the rice fields do not get water, the plants will surely die. Then, we are forced to use artesian wells,” he said.

Similar opinion was disclosed by another farmer who also took advantage of artesian well, Komang Gede Suastika, 50. According to the farmer who cultivated dozens of ares of paddy fields the drought had set to happen since the plants were 25 days old. As an alter-native, he used an artesian well that should be provided independently. Suastika confessed that to irrigate each plot of his farmland took him a long time. They expected it would rain because they could no longer rely on the water sources. “Our paddy plants have no longer got water since the age of 25 days, and now they have been 46 days old. So far, we still rely on the water from artesian wells,” he said.

From the observation made on Sunday (Jun 10), a number of rice field plots looked to have been dry. Some of them were no lon-ger drained with the water from the artesian well because they still expected the coming of rain. (kmb26)

Culprit of robbery against catering employee undetected yet

Due to drought, farmers rely on artesian wells

Irrigation channels of Subak Kedampang damaged

a upura (Bali Post)—

Members of Subak Kedampang, Kerobokan village, threatened to block the road widening project at Pengubengan Kauh-Kusambi. Activities of the project were considered to have caused the damage to the irrigation for tens of hectares of rice fields owned by subak members being at risk of death due to drought. Hundreds of greenery trees were cut down by the contractor and those trees were left to cover up the irrigation channels.

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The damage irigation channels in Kedampang, Kerobo an Village

Bali News Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5International

“We are concerned over violent tragedies that still continue to happen. Indonesia again called for peaceful means to settle conflicts.

Building lasting peace is not only an opportunity but also a

choice,” he said when opening the Bali Arts Festival here on Sunday.

Yudhoyono called on all nations to help create peaceful world and settle conflicts through dialogs.

He meanwhile said one way of curbing violence and conflicts are art activities. Through art activi-ties compassion could be built and desire to conduct violence could be prevented.

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BANDUNG - The government will deepen ten sea-ports, including Benoa port in Bali, so they can receive cruise ships, Tourism and Creative Economic Minister Marie Elka Pangestu has announced.

The ten seaports will be renovated and deepened up to 12 meters, the minister said after attending the students’ inauguration of the Bandung Tourism High School (STP).

According to Marie, the renovation of the Benoa seaport will be completed in 2013.

The next seaports to be improved are located in Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta, Makassar and Kaliman-tan, she noted. Mari said that the seaports were chosen because of their access to tourism locations.

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ENPASAR - Indonesian president Susilo Bambang ud-hoyono has e pressed concern over increasing acts of violence

and a number of con icts in many parts of the world and called for all parties to put forward dialogs to settle problems.

Government improves Benoa seaports to welcome cruise ships

The go ernment ill deepen ten seaports, including Benoa port in Bali, so they can recei e cruise

ships, Tourism and reati e conomic inister arie l a Pangestu has announced.

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With rumors of the former presi-dent’s death spreading rapidly, au-thorities granted his wife, former first lady Suzanne Mubarak, and the couple’s two daughters in law special permission to visit him in Cairo’s Torah prison early that morning.

“The former president’s health is in decline, but now it’s stable in its deteriorated state,” the official said. Since his wife’s visit, Mubarak has suffered from an irregular heartbeat and required assistance in breathing.

The official told The Associated Press that the former president now lives only on liquids and yogurt. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Mubarak’s health is reported to have collapsed since his June 2 conviction for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that overthrew him in 2011. His life sentence saw him transferred imme

diately to a prison hospital, instead of the military hospital and other facilities where he had been held since his April 2011 arrest.

Authorities have turned down several requests by Mubarak’s family to transfer the ousted president back to a military facility, the official said.

On Saturday Mubarak’s wife was denied access to the Intensive Care Unit where he was placed, as authorities limit family visitations to one a month.

According to security officials quoted by al-Masry al-Youm daily, Mrs. Mubarak lashed out at wardens for not giving her husband permission to seek treatment outside the prison. “You will be responsible for his death,” she allegedly said.

Mubarak’s two sons Alaa and Gamal are also being held. They were acquitted on June 2 of corruption charges, but still face separate charges of insider trading.

On Saturday, Egypt’s state run news agency MENA quoted officials as saying that Mubarak is at risk of stroke, quoting a medical team’s report.

Other media reports said that his lawyer Farid al-Deeb informed him that he will soon be transferred back to a military facility in the Cairo suburb of Maadi.

In his last public appearance on June 2, the bedridden Mubarak sat stoned faced in the courtroom cage. However, officials said that he broke into tears when he learnt that he will be transferred to Torah prison. It took officials hours to convince Mubarak to leave the helicopter that ferried him from the courthouse to the prison.

Media reports quoted Mubarak at the time as saying the military council who took over after his ouster had deceived him. “Egypt has sold me. They want me to die here,” he reportedly said.

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KIEV, Ukraine — A small plane carrying skydivers crash-landed in stormy weather near the Ukrainian capital on Sunday, killing five people and injuring 15, including an Austrian citizen, emergency officials said.

The L-410 plane belonging to a pilot school made a “hard” emergency landing during a heavy rainstorm with high winds near the Borodyanka airport some 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of Kiev, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova. No other details were immediately available.

Channel 5 television reported that the pilots decided to return to the airport minutes after takeoff due to the sudden storm, but the plane came down several kilometers (miles) away in the middle of a field.

Television footage showed the white aircraft with blue stripes flipped onto its side in the middle of a thick green field under sunny skies, after the rain gave way to bright sunshine. The cockpit was badly damaged and debris strewn about, including one of the plane’s wheels.

The plane was carrying 17 skydivers and three crew members. The injured have been taken to local hospitals. An investigation has been opened.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday urged Libyan authorities to release an Australian lawyer accused of spying, as Canberra ramped up diplomatic efforts to secure the woman’s freedom.

Melinda Taylor was detained on Thursday after meeting Seif al-Islam, the detained son of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, as part of a four-person team from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

“I am very concerned about the detention of Ms Taylor,” Gillard told reporters.

“We are calling on the Libyan government to expedite the end of Ms Taylor’s detention.”

Gillard said while she had been assured that Taylor was safe and well, Canberra wanted to see her detention “come to an end as quickly as possible” and had dispatched to the country its ambassador-designate to Libya.

Australia would also work with Spain, Russia and Lebanon -- whose nationals comprise the other members of the ICC team -- to raise its concerns, she added.

Earlier Foreign Minister Bob Carr said he had spoken to Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz to raise his concerns about Taylor, who has so far been unable to speak to consular officials or her husband.

“I said that her welfare is very, very important to us,” Carr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“We want consular access and we hope we can have it soon. We hope we can have it today. We would like this resolved quickly so that she can rejoin her husband in The Hague and their two-year-old child.”

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FI n this une , file photo, gypt s e President Hosni ubara lies on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in airo, during a hearing in hich he

as sentenced to life in prison for his role in the illing of protesters during the re olution in the spring of .

Official: Egypt’s Mubarak in critical conditionAsso iate Press riter

CA RO — Hosni ubara is slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after the ousted Egyptian leader was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence, a security official said on Sunday.

5 dead, 15 injured in small plane crash near Kiev

Australia calls for release of lawyer in Libya

Mandzukic, who had stumbled from his knees and was unmarked, got up just in time to head Darijo Srna’s cross from the right past a stranded Given.

However, Ireland regrouped well with Damian Duff hooking a shot wide and Keith Andrews wasting a great chance by firing into the wall after a free kick.

They levelled in the 19th minute when Aiden McGeady floated a long free kick over from the left and St Leger at the far post got ahead of Vedran Corluka to head the equaliser. The game then became bogged down in midfield with technically-limited Ireland struggling to play the ball out of defence and Croatia also looking disjointed.

But, with playmaker Luka Modric coming to life, Croatian began to play more thoughtful football and looked more threatening. Ivan Perisic had a powerful drive parried by Given and volleyed wide again from just outside the area before they regained the lead with more Irish help.

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The 28-year-old Briton produced a magnificently judged performance in a race that passed off smoothly despite a weekend of student protests and police action resulting in around 60 arrests in the city, to seize his first win of the year.

Frenchman Romain Grosjean of Lotus came home second after an equally well-judged race to finish ahead of third placed Mexican Sergio Perez of Sauber.

Hamilton’s triumph came five years to the day after he had claimed his maiden F1 victory at the Circuit Gilles illeneuve and was his third win at what must be one of his favou-rite circuits.

It was his 18th career victory and it

hoisted him back into serious conten-tion for the drivers’ title in this year of unexpected results and unpredictable racing.

Hamilton, who now leads with 88 points, said: “I knew today would be a tough, tough race.

“I loved every single minute of it and I’m really very, very grateful. I never had a doubt in mind that there would not be a possibility to win.

“But right now, it’s still sinking in. It’s been five years since I first won here but it feels just as good. I’m massively proud of the team for continuing to push. It feels great to finally be here on the top step. It feels like one of best races I’ve had for a very long time.

“I was thinking they (Sebastian ettel and Fernando Alonso) were

falling behind and I assumed they were doing a one-stop so I decided to keep pushing. We had a couple of problems during the stops, they may have been my fault I don’t know, but otherwise it was a great race.”

Hamilton, still wearing his helmet, celebrated by embracing his girlfriend former Pussycat Dolls pop singer Ni-cole Scherzinger and soaking McLar-en team chief Martin Whitmarsh in champagne on the podium.

Grosjean was delighted with his best-ever F1 result and said: “”We thought about going for one stop and seeing what happened. Then sud-denly I went past Fernando Alonso who was slowing, and I was second. It was a crazy race. The team did a fantastic job in giving me a car that was good on its tyres. We knew with the heat today we would be better. It’s fantastic.”

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Timothy Bradley was savoring a career-making victory and nursing a broken left foot Sunday after seizing Manny Pacquiao’s World Boxing Organization welterweight title with a controversial split decision.

Bradley, a 5-1 underdog despite his un-beaten record, ended a 15-fight winning streak by Pacquiao that dated to 2005 and helped make him a national treasure in his native Philippines.

California’s Bradley, who improved to 29-0 with 12 knockouts, had vowed before the big-gest fight of his life to “shock the world” and he did so, despite injuries that manager Cameron Dunkin said Sunday turned out to be a swollen, twisted right ankle and a broken left foot.

Bradley -- who arrived at the post-fight press conference in a wheelchair and was taken after-ward to hospital for -rays -- said he thought it was in the second round that he stepped on referee Robert Byrd’s foot and “felt a pop”.

“I went back to my corner and said I think I might have broken my foot,” he said.

Trainer Joel Diaz said it was up to him -- quit or carry on in the biggest fight of his life.

Bradley’s decision to carry on paid off, although for many his courage was lost in the “shock” of the night -- that two judges saw Bradley winning the bout 115-113 while the third gave it to Pacquiao by the same score.

Agence France Presse

Embattled French Open organisers were braced for more heavy rain to swamp the suspended men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal on Monday as they played down accusations of a schedul-ing blunder.

Nadal, chasing a record seventh Roland Garros title, was leading 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 1-2 when play was halted for a second and final time at 6:50 pm (1650GMT) on Sunday with conditions on Philippe Chatrier Court deemed too treacherous.

The final, in progress for three hours, resumes Monday at 1:00 pm (1100GMT) with Djokovic, bidding to become only the third man to hold all four majors at once, in the ascendancy and serving for a 3-1 lead in the fourth set.

But further rain is forecast for large parts of Monday with a simi-larly wet Tuesday also expected.

Having faced claims that Sun-day’s showpiece should have started earlier than 3:00 pm (1300GMT), tournament director Gilbert Ysern in-sisted that there should be enough breaks

in the weather on Monday to allow the final to finish.

“The weather tomorrow (Monday) is not excellent, but it is okay through 5:00 or 6:00 pm with a risk of some showers during the day,” he said.

“The guys in charge of the forecast are pretty optimistic. So we think that 1:00 is probably a safe starting time.”

The last time a French Open men’s final failed to be completed on the last Sunday was 1973 when it was played on the Tuesday with Ilie Nastase beating Niki Pilic.

Organisers came under fire for start-ing the final at 3:00 pm on Sunday, instead of an earlier slot, despite the

dire weather predictions.“T does not dic-

tate the schedule. Of course, their expectations are impor-tant fac-

t o r s ,

but they do not dictate,” said Ysern.“Not everyone knew for sure what time

it was going to rain, it’s not that precise. Arrangements for the final starting time are made months in advance and, out of respect for the broadcasters, we cannot change at the last minute.”

Yserns said he had been confident that the match could have been fin-

ished on time.“We can play here until

9.30 at night, that allows six and a half hours to play so starting at 3pm is not too late. It’s not decided yet that we’re going to stick to 3:00 pm, but

I don’t think at this stage we should start earlier.”

Hamilton makes it magnifi-cent seven in MontrealA e e Fra e Presse

A delighted ewis Hamilton made it a magnificent record seven different winners in seven races this year on Sunday when he drove with awless speed and control to win the anadian rand Pri .

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cuit illes Villeneu e on Sunday, une , , in ontreal.

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Ireland 1 Croatia 3

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Strikerless Spain held to 1-1 draw by Italy

pain coach icente del Bosque surprised many

y leaving Fernando Tor-res out of his starting line-up, opting for an attac ing midfield trio of Fa regas, ndres Iniesta and ilva with playma er

avi pulling the strings in the middle.

The world champions struggled to get their slic passing game going on a heavy-loo ing pitch and it was Italy who created the clearest chances in a cagey first half at the new am er-coloured stadium in the Polish port city.

Playma er ndrea Pirlo tested goal eeper I er Casillas with a low free ic in the 13th minute and the pain captain had to e alert to eep out a 33rd-minute ntonio Cassano stri e and a swerving volley from Claudio

archisio three minutes later.Italy came close to an opening goal mo-

ments efore halftime when Thiago otta rose unmar ed and his powerful header from Cassano’s cross drew a fine refle save from Casillas.

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GDANSK, - Spain’s gamble of starting without a recognised striker almost backfired when the holders needed a Cesc Fabregas equaliser to salvage a 1-1 draw against Italy in their Euro 2012 Group C opener on Sunday. Antonio Di Natale came off the bench to fire the Italians ahead on the hour in Gdansk but they were in front for only four minutes be-fore Fabregas latched on to a clever David Silva pass and fired past Gianluigi Buffon.

Spanish defender Raul lbiol ies ith Spanish defender Sergio Ramos during the uro

championships football match Spain s taly on une , at the dans rena.

the penalty area ut his fierce drive rushed Buffon’s fingertips and flew past

the post. mista e y ergio amos then allowed ario Balotelli to home in on goal ut the stri er, who had a disappointing game, dithered too long allowing

amos to sprint ac and dispossess him.

Italy coach Cesare P r a n d e l l i h a u l e d Balotelli off and almost immedi-ately Pirlo’s su- per pass released i atale and he

finished clinically into the corner.

f t e r F a r e g a s ’s leveller, su sti tute Tor-

res squandered two golden chances when he only had the eeper to eat ut an outrushing

Buffon was a le to clear the first and his attempted chip landed on top of the netting on the second.

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Euro 2012 Group C results and standings

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Ireland will need to rethink defensive tacticsAsso iate Press riter

PO , Poland The Irish are going to have to throw caution to the wind against pain and Italy after lea ing three goals in their opening

uropean Championship match against Croatia on unday.

With reigning champion pain ne t up on Thursday and Italy four days later, coach Giovanni Trapattoni said his team “lost all confidence” y con-ceding as many goals against Croatia

as it had in 14 previous matches and letting in goals at the worst possi le times the eginning and end of the first half and just after the rea .

ow Ireland may need to e more adventurous in search of wins to eep its qualification hopes alive. Ireland had een e pected to rely on a sound defense marshaled y goal eeper hay Given and veteran defender ichard

unne to hit its more superior Group C opponents on the rea . The timing of the Croatian goals in the 3rd, 43rd

and 48th minutes meant that tactic was neutrali ed.

“ ay e after the first two minutes we lost our confidence,” said Trapat-toni. efender ean t. Ledger, who pulled Ireland riefly level with a 19th minute header, admitted it was unli e Ireland to ship goals so easily. “We conceded sloppy goals. It’s not li e us we are usually quite tight,” he said. ow Ireland may need to e more adventurous in search of wins to eep its qualification hopes alive.

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Greeks and Czechs face defensive woes

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zech Republic s Petr ech catches a ball during a training session at the uro soccer championip in rocla , Poland, Saturday, une , .

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W O C L W, P o l a n d - Greece and the C ech epu -lic have defensive pro lems ahead of their uro 2012 clash in Group on Tuesday with the Gree s missing their first-choice central defence and the C echs desperate to plug a lea y ac line. Gree coach Fernando antos must find replacements for vraam Pa-padopoulos, who is out of the tournament with a nee injury, and o ratis Papastathopoulos who is suspended after eing harshly dismissed against Po-land in the Group opener.

The pair anchored a defence that conceded only five

goals in qualifying and antos will li ely pair veteran midfielder Costas Katsouranis with 20-year old Kyria os Papado-poulos who came on for his name-

sa e in the 1-1 draw against the co-hosts.

The C echs have defen-

sive issues as well ut their pro lems are mostly of their own ma ing after ussia ran riot in a 4-1 victory on Friday, mainly due to glaring mista es at the ac .

C ech coach ichal Bile might e tempted to move

ichal Kadlec ac to central defence from the left side and

ring in avid Lim ers y, while defensive midfielder Tomas Hu schman could also start the game to reinforce the rearguard. espite their ter-ri le start to the tournament, C ech defender oman Hu ni said the difficulty they had qualifying for the finals after a playoff with ontenegro will help them deal with the pressure against Greece in Wroclaw.

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“If we lose our chances are gone,” Hu ni said. “The pressure for this game will e higher than the pressure in our final group game against

ussia.” While defending is a

worry, oth teams also need to find their scoring touch with Greece having netted just 14 times in 10 qualifying matches, the lowest tally among the finalists.

The C echs rely on i-lan Baros ut the uro 2004 Golden Boot winner has scored just three times in the past two years for his country and loo ed isolated with little sup-port against ussia.

The C echs have een oost-ed y the fact that stri er Baros and captain Tomas osic y have finally overcome their injury pro lems ut they must still find a way to rea down the Greece defence, which they have failed to do in their last four games.

The C echs, who have not eaten Greece in 30 years

since a 2-1 win in a friendly in arch 1982, also have e tra

motivation against the side that eat them in the uro 2004 semi-finals. Poland play group favourites ussia in Warsaw’s

ational tadium in the second Group game on Tuesday.

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W W - Poland and ussia are doing their est to eep their minds on soccer ahead of a uro 2012 Group game on Tuesday that off the pitch loo s li e one of the tournament’s potential flash-points. uthorities in Warsaw have een wor ing hard ehind the scenes to ease concerns over a planned march y ussian fans through the city to the national stadium.

inister of port Joanna ucha has played down outrage at the plan from some in Warsaw for whom that is too reminiscent of ussia’s dominance of Poland during the communist era. “I do not thin there will e any pro lems with this march or with this day. I am

sure everything will go all right,” she told euters television.

“It is a solutely nor-mal for the fans supporting

the teams just to have a march during the tournament, so this is an a solutely normal situation.” us-sian fans were also at the centre of a handful of incidents in the southern city of Wroclaw around Friday’s game against the C ech epu lic and are e pected to e in Warsaw in force on Tuesday.

Their team produced the perfor-

mance of the tournament to crush the C echs 4-1 in an e u erant display of swift movement and flawless finishing on Friday. That reinforced their status as firm favourites for Group , although the Poles showed enough in a dominant first-half display against Greece to suggest they will not e pushovers.

“The ussians are favourites ut we’ve played with teams who

are etter than they are. There is no reason to e scared. We are at home,” Polish attacking midfielder

drian ier ejews i told reporters on unday. “For us as players, it doesn’t really matter who we play ut for the fans of course there is a it of a clash, a it more tension in

this game.”ier ejews i and Kamil Gron-

ic i oth sounded cautiously opti-mistic of their chances of playing, adding to speculation that at least one of them could start. Francis e

muda, widely regarded as a con-servative coach who tends to stic with the same line up if he can, said he would not ma e more than one change to his outfield starting side.

Goal eeper Pr emyslaw Tyton, who rescued the Poles on Friday y saving a penalty with his first touch of the all, will start in place of the suspended Wojciech c esny.

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Polish for ard Robert e ando s i Top scores past ree goal eeper Kostas hal ias during the uro

championships football match Poland s reece on une , at the ational Stadium in arsa .

Tensions high ahead of Poland v Russia

Tuesday, June 12, 201210 InternationalDestinations

IBP

Denpasar City is a capital of Bali Province since 1960 up to now where previously it was a capital of Badung Empire which is controlling the south part region of Bali Island from the end of 18 century until conquered by Dutch in 1906. Denpasar is a place for Bali Gov-ernor’s office therewith

all offices from private sector until important government office like telecommunications, post office, bank, airline and hospital.

The word of Denpasar is mean in north of market. It is a fast growing town especially since the tourism industry growth around 1960. Denpasar is populated by 561.814 people. Gajah Mada Street is main road in this town as the shopping centre and the edge of this street,

exactly in the middle of crossroad had been built a statue which is called Catur Muka Statue. Caur Muka Statue is a statue owning four faces by observing four directions from north, south, east and west. This statue is made on 1972 and it’s building to commemorate the Badung War on 20 September 1906 which is well known as Puputan Badung.

The courtyard which is located in the south east of Catur Muka Statue is named Puputan Badung Field where the Badung King with its people had battled until him dead against the Dutch colonist.

In north side of Puputan Badung is standing up the office which is called Jaya Sabha that is an of-ficial office for Bali’s Governor accepts the important guest for having dinner while enjoying the Balinese Culture Show. In eastside of Puputan Badung, it had been built a Hindu temple on 1968 that is called Jagatnatha Temple. This Temple is a public temple to wor-ship Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa God. Especially each full moon,

The Hindu people in Denpasar come to this place in particular at the evening time. In south side of this temple, there is Bali Mu-

seum built on 1931 by architect of Curt Grundler. Its architecture is a combination between temple and empire palace. This Museum contains the artistic object collec-tion or artifact from prehistoric era until modern-day. Another place is becoming tourist destination is Puri Pamecutan Pamecutan Palace. There are lodgings for the tourist accommodations are available in this palace. This palace is rebuilt as according to its geniuses after broken by Dutch soldier on 1906 and in this palace is kept a set famous Gold Gamelan as empire heritage.

Denpasar City

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A taraBEIJING - The prolonged Eu-

ropean crisis has prompted the Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia to place its domestic and regional market on a solid footing, its President Director Emirsyah Satar said here on Sunday.

“Although the European crisis does not have a significant impact

on Gruda, we reduce its flight fre-quency to Amsterdam to four times a week,” said Emirsyah, who is con-currently the leader of International Air Transport Association (IATA) for Asia and the Pacific region.

He said the European crisis and the skyrocketing fuel oil prices became the topic of discussion at the 68th annual meeting of IATA in

Beijing from June 11-12, 2012.Emirsyah explained that despite

the European crisis, the positive economic growth in Indonesia would continue to maintain Garu-da’s domestic market.

“The same is also true with Garuda’s regional market to China, Japan, South Korea, and Australia,” he noted.

After attending a graduation ceremony at Bandung Tourism High Institute (STP) here on Saturday, the minister said that arrivals of foreign tourists in the first four months of this year had increased 8.8 percent over the same period in 2011.

The increase of 8.8 percent is double global tourism growth amid the present economic crisis, which still was affecting many countries in the world, according to Minister Mari Pangestu.

“We are optimistic that we will receive 8 million tourist arrivals this year, and our target for 2014 is 10 million arrivals,” the min-ister added.

Indonesia is not only seeking to increase the number of foreign tourists, but also to improve the quality of their visits by increas-ing the length of their stay with increased spending. Indonesia also tries to enrich the destina-tions tourists visit, she asserted.

A taraBATAM - Billionaire Indone-

sian Chinese Liem Sioe Liong passed away at the age of 95 in Singapore on Sunday evening, senior Liason Officer PT Bintan Inti Industrial Estate, Jamin Hi-dayat, confirmed.

According to adrianliem.mul-tiply.com, Liem Sioe Liong was born in Haikou, Fujian province in 1916.

He was an avid learner with a stunning memory, and was enrolled in his village`s private school at age 7.

Unfortunately, poverty put a

stop to his schooling days and at 15, his family rented a shophouse for him in the village to run a stall selling noodle-soup.

But then his stall was forced to shut down amidst the pandemo-nium of war, and in 1935, Liem`s father passed away, and the family burden fell upon the shoulders of his mother.

The young Liem migrated from Fujian province in the 1920s, ar-riving in Indonesia with hardly a penny to his name.

He was barely 20 when he reached Indonesia, and spent his initial days staying with an uncle,

helping out at his uncle`s provi-sion shop.

However, the provision shop`s business was very thin, and fi-nally, Liem decided to start his own hawker business selling cof-fee powder.

Later, he single-handedly es-tablished Indonesia`s largest corporate group: Indocement, In-dofood as well as huge businesses in the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong and China.

However, he was reluctant to publicly list some of his Indone-sian companies, probably to avoid scrutiny.

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ndonesians al past a arta s stoc e change on une

, . sian mar ets and the euro rallied after the eu

rozone agreed to lend Spain up to billion to sa e its

ban s, but analysts arn the deal is ust a stic ing plaster

for urope s ider problems.

Minister believes RI will receive 8 million tourists

Tourists from etherland and frica trying traditional oen instrument during their isit in Sentolo, Kulon Progo, ogya arta. Tourism and reati e conomy inister ari l a Pangestu said she is optimistic that ndonesia ould

recei e eight million foreign tourists in .

A taraA D G - ourism and Creative Economy inister ari

Elka Pangestu said she is optimistic that Indonesia would receive eight million foreign tourists in 2012

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Reuters

MADRID - Spain said it would stick to this year’s program of fundraising in financial markets after the rescue of its banks over the weekend relieved pressure on debt and equities.

Spanish and Italian bond yields fell on Monday, allaying im-mediate fears of a fiscal crisis in the country, while Spanish bank shares leapt 6 percent and European equities soared.

The Spanish Treasury said it would continue to tap debt markets with regular auctions after the 17-nation currency area agreed to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to prop up its ailing banks on Saturday.

The government remains committed to its fiscal consolidation program and structural reforms it said in a statement published on the economy ministry website late on Sunday.

Spain has avoid being put under the kind of scrutiny which Greece, Ireland and Portugal were forced to accept for their bailouts but the implementation of its fiscal plans and the re-structuring of the banks will be closely monitored.

As in other aid packages, a troika will oversee Spain’s financial assistance, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a radio interview on Monday. The International Monetary Fund will join the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank to oversee the process, Almunia told Cadena Ser radio, echoing similar comments from senior policymakers around Europe.

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he had pushed hard to obtain the loans which are part of a wider government plan to put the country back on track of growth.

He also said the rescue of the banks coupled with wide-ranging reforms he implemented in the last five months saved the country from a fully-fledged bailout.

However, analysts are skeptical that the plan will be enough to alleviate Spain’s funding woes and the euro zone debt crisis.

Spain, which has already achieved 58 percent of its funding program this year, is due to auction 12 and 18-month T-bills on June 19 and bonds on June 21.

The government still needs to refinance 82.5 billion euros of debt maturing by the end of the year, with a big hump at the end of October, and Spain’s regions have a further 15.7 billion euros of debt maturing in the second half of 2012.

The central government and the regions also have to fund a deficit of about 52 billion euros this year.

Tony Tyler, head of the Interna-tional Air Transport Association, also hit out at a controversial carbon tax scheme put in place by the European Union, lashing it as a “polarising obstacle to real progress”.

Tyler told the group’s annual gen-eral meeting in Beijing that “2012 is another challenging year. We expect revenues of $631 billion but a profit of just $3.0 billion”.

That compares with a profit of $7.9 billion in 2011, IATA figures show.

Tyler cited the cost of oil as a rea-son for “anaemic global profitability” and IATA said it predicted an overall average price of $110 a barrel this year, warning political risks could push this up.

Brent crude oil is currently sitting at $100 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate is about $85, although

both are down more than $20 from multi-year peaks earlier this year.

But Tyler added: “The biggest and most immediate risk ... is the crisis in the eurozone. If it evolves into a bank-ing crisis we could face a continent-wide recession, dragging the rest of the world and our profits down.”

In a statement released as the AGM began Monday, IATA said it had downgraded its outlook for Eu-ropean airlines in 2012, projecting losses of $1.1 billion compared with its previous forecast of $600 million in losses.

The estimate comes despite figures showing 5.6 percent year on year growth in European passenger traffic in April and predictions global pas-senger numbers would rise to nearly 3 billion this year compared 2.8 bil-lion in 2011.

“For European carriers, the busi-ness environment is deteriorating rapidly, resulting in sizeable losses,” Tyler was quoted as saying in the statement.

But he added that the global pic-ture was “diverse”, with carriers in North and Latin America expected to see improved prospects from 2011, compared with airlines in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

According to IATA estimates, North American carriers are likely to post profits of $1.4 billion in 2012, a slight improvement on the previous year due to strict management of airline capacity.

Carriers in the Middle East, how-ever, are expected to see profits drop by more than half, as are those in the Asia Pacific region -- due in part to slowing Indian and Chinese economies.

Growth in China, the world’s second largest economy, slowed to 8.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 -- its slowest pace in nearly three years.

Spain sticks to funding plans after bank rescue

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

oman begs in the street at Sol s uare, in adrid Sunday, une , . Spain said it ould stic to this year s program

of fundraising in financial mar ets after the rescue of its ban s o er the ee end relie ed pressure on debt and e uities.

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irbus officials mo e a model of the irbus passenger et at the nternational ir Transport ssociation T th nnual eneral eeting and orld ir Transport Summit held in Bei ing, hina, onday,

une , .

Airline industry profits to plummet in 2012A e e Fra e Presse

BEI IN - Airline industry group IATA warned on Monday global profits would more than halve this year owing to surging oil prices and the euro one crisis, with European carriers suffering losses of 1.1 billion.

BUSINESS

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 13International RLDW

At least seven people have been killed and many hurt, authorities say, in the worst communal violence since a reformist government re-placed a military junta last year and vowed to forge unity in one of Asia’s most ethnically diverse countries.

The fighting erupted on Fri-day in the Rakhine State town of Maungdaw, but has spread to the capital Sittwe and nearby villages, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency late on Sunday and impose a dawn-to-dusk curfew. “We have now ordered troops to protect the airport and the Rakhine villages under attack in Sittwe,” Zaw Htay, director of the President’s Of-fice, told Reuters. “Arrangements

are under way to impose a curfew in some other towns.”

The unrest undermines the image of ethnic unity and stability that helped persuade the United States and Europe to suspend economic sanctions this year, while increas-ing curfews could threaten tourism and foreign investment - rewards for emerging from nearly half a century of army rule.

It might also force reformist President Thein Sein, a former general, to confront an issue that human rights groups have criticized for years: the plight of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims who live along Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in abject conditions

and are despised by many ethnic Rakhine, members of Myanmar’s predominantly Buddhist majority.

The violence could jeopardize the country’s transition to democ-racy if it spreads further, Thein Sein said in a hastily arranged televised address on Sunday.

Rohingya activists have long demanded recognition as an in-digenous ethnic group with full citizenship by birthright, claiming a centuries-old lineage in Rakhine. But the government regards them as illegal immigrants from neighbor-ing Bangladesh and denies them citizenship.

In recent days, they have been described as “invaders” or “terror-ists” by some Burmese using their newfound freedom of expression and easier access to the Internet to vent their anger on social network-ing sites and express anti-Rohingya sentiments that have simmered for decades.

Agence France Presse

South Korea’s military warned on Monday it would immediately retaliate against North Korea’s “core command forces” for any at-tack, after a series of threats from the communist state.

Seoul’s armed forces held an unscheduled readiness drill Monday due to a “series of peculiar activi-ties”, a defence ministry spokesman said.

Cross-border tension has been high since the North’s military on June 4 threatened rocket attacks on the offices of South Korean media outlets for their critical coverage of Pyongyang.

Some of the North’s fighter jets flew threateningly close to the bor-der recently, the spokesman said.

Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin ordered the drill so the military could “immediately retaliate against sources of provocations and sup-porting forces as well as core com-mand forces”, the spokesman said.

“This is our warning aimed at discouraging the North from dar-

ing to provoke us,” he said. Yonhap news agency said the drill involved the South’s ballistic missile com-mand, front-line artillery units and the air force.

The North’s military, in an un-usual move, last week listed the coordinates of some media offices and said missile units and other forces had already entered the target information.

It accused them of insulting its regime through coverage of a youth event which saw some 40,000 chil-dren tearfully vow loyalty to new leader Kim Jong-Un.

One Seoul outlet likened the activities to the Hitler Youth.

Another media outlet criticised by the North -- JoongAng Ilbo newspaper -- became the victim of a major cyber attack on Saturday, which temporarily paralysed its database servers and website.

Police are investigating Pyong-yang’s possible involvement in the hacking targeting the JoongAng Ilbo and sister paper the Korea JoongAng Daily, the Daily re-ported.

Reuters

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande is on track to win a solid par-liamentary majority after a first-round election that leaves him strengthened heading into a flurry of talks with euro zone leaders that could make or break the currency union.

Sunday’s vote left Hollande’s Social-ist Party bloc likely to win the 289 seats it needs for an outright majority in the 577-seat National Assembly, and almost certain to do so with its Greens Party

allies on board, polling institutes said. The seat projections indicated Hollande may not need to rely on eurosceptic hard leftists to pass legislation, relieving him of a potential headache as Berlin pres-sures its partners to start moving towards a fiscal union in Europe.

“The realization that the crisis is serious and that the government needs elbow room to get the country back on track is playing in favor of the government winning an absolute majority,” said Stephane Rozes at the CAP political consultancy.

Socialists were muted in their reac-tion, anxious to keep the pressure on supporters to vote in next Sunday’s runoff, but winning power in the lower house for the first time in a decade would

be a triumph for the left after it took the Senate in 2011 and won the presidency in May after 17 years on the outside. “Change is beginning,” Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said, but warned: “Everything hinges on next Sunday.”

Hollande needs a coherent majority to back him on upcoming adjustments to the 2012 budget to reflect sickly growth and on a broad tax reform he plans for the weeks ahead that will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund his spending plans. Even more crucial will be possible legislation in the months ahead to grant European Union in-stitutions more power over national budgets, something that would be hard to get lawmakers outside his party and the general public to swallow.

France’s Hollande in strong parliament position

rance’s President rancois ol-lande enters the voting booth in the legislative elections at the poll-ing station in Tulle June 10, 2012.

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SITTWE, Myanmar - Northwest Myanmar was tense on Monday after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds.

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ow ro ot su mersi les and a host of other scientific instruments are helping scientists learn more a out these mysterious volcanoes. Their findings could lead to short-term forecasting of undersea erup-tions in the future.

ru tion clues

esearchers concentrated on ial eamount, an undersea volcano a out

250 miles 400 ilometers off the Oregon coast. The volcano, located under more than 4,900 feet 1,500 meters of water, erupted pril 6, 2011. “ ial eamount is unique in that it is one of the few places in the world where a long-term monitoring record e ists at an undersea volcano, and we can now ma e sense of its patterns,” said researcher Bill Chad-wic , a geologist at Oregon tate University in ewport.

The researchers used pressure

sensors on the seafloor to monitor its vertical motions. “Uplift of the seafloor has been gradual and steady eginning in a out 2000, two years

after it last erupted,” Chadwic said. “But the rate of inflation from magma went from gradual to rapid about four to five months before the eruption. It e panded at roughly triple the rate, giving a clue that the ne t eruption was coming.”

Less than an hour efore the eruption, the seafloor saw an abrupt uplift of 2.75 inches 7 centime-ters . fter the eruption, the sea ed deflated by more than 6 feet (2 me-ters) as the magma flowed into the oceanic crust and erupted as lava.

“This ind of movement has een detected in volcanic areas on

land efore, ut not this effectively in the oceans,” said marine geolo-gist eil itchell at the University of anchester in ngland, who did not ta e part in this research.

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ami ia slammed reports Fri-day that it had e ported nine orphaned elephants to e ico, angrily denying the claims that spar ed outrage in a nation proud of its conservation record. e i-can usinessman Fran Camacho said Tuesday his wildlife reserve had rought the young animals to

e ico after their parents were shot dead y hunters in ami ia.

Though ami ia did ship nine elephants, ami ian environ-mental minister Netumbo Nandi-

daitwah said reports they were orphans were untrue. “There have

een inaccurate local and interna-tional media reports la elling the nine elephants e ported to e ico as orphans as a result of hunting and poaching,” she told journal-

ists in the capital Windhoe .“In no way can this e port

e considered as a rescue’ mis-sion, nor were these elephants orphans ... and not at ris of eing destroyed y this ministry.” Ca-macho said his Africam Safari -- which maintains a nature reserve in central e ico with some 300 species -- was contacted by the owner of a reserve in ami ia who said he did not have space to raise the animals.

But Nandi-Ndaitwahthe refuted this with official records. “These elephants come from the private game farm den in northeastern

ami ia and the founding stoc of these animals were ought y the previous farm owner from outh

frica’s Kruger ational Par and from ami ia’s tosha ational Par in the 1980s,” she said.

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EW pple C O Tim Coo is e -pected to show off new iPhone software, updated

ac computers and provide more details on future releases of

ac software when he ic s off the company’s

annual conference for software developers on onday.

The announcement of new software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has been confirmed

y anners that ap-peared at the oscone conference center in

an Francisco on Friday, reading “iO 6.” It’s not much of a surprise. pple has used its Worldwide

evelopers Conference as an opportunity to an-nounce new iPhone soft-ware for the past few years.

What’s not nown is what new fea-tures will come with iO 6, or when i t will

e released to c o n s u m e r s . Usually, the new software

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Undersea Volcanoes Hold Clues to EruptionsAn underwater volcano gave off clear signals well before its

outburst last year that it would erupt, findings that could help forecast such eruptions in the future, researchers say. Subma-rine eruptions account for about three-quarters of all of Earth’s volcanism. However, the overlying ocean and the sheer vastness of the seafloor make detecting and monitoring them difficult.

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becomes available for download around the time a new iPhone model appears. Apple-watchers expect the next version of the iPhone, the iPhone 5, to ap-pear this fall, about a year after the launch of the 4S model.

In 2010, Apple demonstrated the new iPhone 4 at the WWDC, but analysts don’t expect the com-

pany to show off a phone model this year.With the launch of iOS 5 last year, Apple

added many features already found in com-peting smartphone software. It also added the “Siri” virtual assistant feature, which interprets voice commands and talks back to the user.

This year, there are fewer “catch up” fea-tures to add, so Apple watchers expect more modest improvements. Some speculate that

Facebook could become more tightly integrated, in much the same way that Apple baked Twitter

functions into its software last year. That could make it easier to post Facebook status up-

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012 15International Activities

Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012

E E Temple and hrine 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 ind ta es place in some illage in Bali. There are also times when the entire island cele rated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, yepi day, araswati day, Tumpe Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpe Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its irth day and cele ration always ta es place on the same day if the wu u or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the cele ration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cele ration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple cele rating for three days while the cele ration of Besa ih temple, the other 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 cele ration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with rocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very eautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or lac um rellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, esides these um rellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “um ul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long am oo poles, decorated eautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

ost eautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all inds fruits and colored ca es, to the Temple. very visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

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16 un Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalPura Watugunung BimaPura Agung Jagatkarana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.Pura Giri Jaya Natha BalikpapanPura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

1 un Some Ribek. Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batugaing BangliPura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

2 un Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa TengahPura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar TimurPura Jogan Agung Ketewel SukawatiPura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja TabananPura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabananPura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

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Entertainment

DreamWorks Animation’s “Mada-gascar 3” was the family favorite for the weekend, reuniting voice stars Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer as the zoo animals continue their travels by joining a circus.

“Madagascar 3” outdid the 47.2 mil-lion debut of the 2005 original, though it came in behind the 63.1 million opening of the first sequel, 2008’s “Madagas-car: Escape 2 Africa.” ‘’Europe’s Most Wanted” had the added benefit of today’s higher ticket prices and a bump from fans who caught 3-D shows, which cost a few dollars more than 2-D screenings.

Still, fans remain loyal to the fran-chise, and “Madagascar 3” received generally better reviews than the previ-

ous two installments.“It’s the beloved characters and their

comic adventures. And ‘Madagascar 3’ is critically the best-reviewed of the franchise. Both audiences and critics really love this one the most,” said Anne Globe, head of marketing for Dream-Works Animation. “Madagascar 3” also took in 75.5 million internationally for a worldwide debut of 135.9 million.

“Prometheus,” from 20th Century Fox, stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron in an offshoot of director’s Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror tale “Alien.” ‘’Prometheus” did big business despite an R rating, which can limit a movie’s audience since fans under 17 must see it with an adult. Conventional

wisdom is that action films should come in with a PG-13 rating to cast the widest net possible for its audience.

“A 50 million weekend disproves that rule, for sure,” said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for 20th Century Fox. “This movie is so special. It’s visu-ally stunning, great storytelling as Ridley is known for. It’s Ridley Scott’s vision. I’m an unabashed fan of the movie, and the performance at the box office bears that out.”

The movie added 39.2 million over-seas, bringing its international total to 91.5 million and its worldwide take to 141.5 million since it began rolling out

in some markets a week earlier.The one-two punch of “Madagascar

3” and “Prometheus” lifted Hollywood out of an early dip in summer-season revenue. After three-straight weekends of declining receipts, domestic business totaled 177 million, up 29 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Super 8” led with 35.5 million, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.must see it with an adult. Conventional 8” led with 35.5 million, according tobox-office tracker Hollywood.com.

Asso iate Press riter

AUCKLAND, New Zealand Lady Gaga has been struck on the head by a pole while performing a concert in New Zealand. The singer was hit Sunday during the third of three shows in Auckland.

Clips posted online show a backup per-former accidentally striking Gaga with the set prop while removing it from the central stage. Gaga, holding a mock machine gun, staggers and rubs her head before briefly leaving the stage. She continued the show, part of a world tour.

Gaga’s makeup artist Tara Savelo wrote Monday on Twitter: “Gaga has a concussion but she is going to be okay ... cant believe she finished the show.”

Gaga’s New Zealand publicist Bridget de Launay said Monday she was seeking comment from tour organizers, adding the Auckland shows were sellouts and a “huge success.”

Madagascar 3,’ ‘Prometheus’ team for big weekendAsso iate Press riter

S AN E ES ircus animals and space beasts have lifted Holly-wood to a huge weekend. The cuddly critters of Madagascar Europe s Most Wanted led the weekend with a 6 . million debut domestically, followed by a big opening for Ridley Scott s alien saga Prometheus at No. 2 with 5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Lady Gaga struck by pole during New Zealand show

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