They found some fake paintings replicating some master-pieces of S. Sudjojono, Affandi, Soedibio, Hendra Gunawan, and H. Widayat.

In Bali, a forgery case involving some paintings of Wayan Gunarsa was reported some time ago.

According to Setiadharma, the syndicate has a vast network and employs some specialists to make fake paint-ings.

“Some are given the task to paint, while others work on forging the signatures of painters and making the fake paint-ings resemble the original works of art,” he noted.

Therefore, the association has urged art collectors and enthusiasts to be selective and aware of such facts before buying artworks.

“Seek advice from someone who is experienced, or you can have them tested in the forensic laboratory at the Band-ung Institute of Technology,” he remarked.

The PPSI will hold a painting exhibition and discussion on a theme of original and fake paintings on Saturday (Jan. 23) in Rumah Topeng and Wayang Setiadarma on Tegalbingin Street, Mas Village of Ubud, Gianyar, Bali Province.

The event is aimed at spreading awareness and educat-ing the people on the existence of fake works of art in Indonesia. (ant)

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PARK CITY, Utah — Spike Lee applauds the Academy for mak-ing changes to increase diversity in its ranks, but he is still skipping the Oscars.

“We have principles,” Lee said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I commend the Academy for what they’ve done. But that does not change our mind. The Knicks will be victorious — I hope. I’ll be at the Garden.”

After last week’s Oscar nomi-nations revealed an all-white slate of acting nominees for the second consecutive year, Lee said he would skip the Feb. 28 Academy Awards and go to the Knicks game instead.

“My wife and I will be in my

courtside seats,” he said.Still, he praised Academy presi-

dent Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the organization’s board of governors for “trying to do the right thing.”

The Academy of Motion Pic-ture Arts and Sciences announced Friday that it would double the number of its female and minority members by 2020 and implemented other changes aimed at increasing diversity among the largely white and male organization.

Lee thinks the changes could help: “It’s a start.”

The filmmaker is at the Sundance Film Festival this week to premiere his new documentary, “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to ‘Off the Wall.’” (ap)

The movie, which has been a critical smash since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May last year, is up for six Academy Awards, including best actress for Blanchett and best supporting actress for her co-star Rooney Mara.

“It’s an extraordinary honor. Many, many people from the film have been nominated, which is a wonderful thing. It’s always wonderful when your peers recognize your work,” Blanchett said at a press event Friday

evening ahead of the movie’s Tokyo screening.

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel “The Price of Salt,” ‘’Carol” stars Blanchett as the title character — a married but separating woman with a child — while Mara plays Therese, a timid department store clerk infatuated with Blanchett’s Carol.

In the film, Carol and Therese are irresistibly drawn together, but the women must cloak their surging affection for one another in subtle, hidden gestures, keeping their love private in a conservative, male-dominated world.

The movie features one sex scene between the two characters, which

Blachett said Friday she had ap-proached just as she would have with a male co-star, except “the bits are different.”

“The fact that the women are the same gender isn’t important ... it becomes an epic love story just like ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and that’s the way we thought about it. It’s love, love is love no matter who it is between,” she said. Also at the event was Japanese actress Shinobu Terajima, who asked Blanchett what challenging role she’d like to take on next.

“Probably the life story of a sumo wrestler,” Blanchett replied.

“You have to gain weight for that,” said Terajima.“Yes. An anorexic sumo wrestler,” Blanchett laughed. (ap)

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Cate Blanchett promotes Oscar-nominated ‘Carol’ in Japan

TOKYO — Two-time Os-car winner Cate Blanchett brought her latest film, the 1950s lesbian romance “Car-ol,” to Tokyo.

Spike Lee lauds academy changes, still plans to skip Oscars

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ECONOMIC growth in the district of Gianyar has been slow lying down in re-cent years due to the climate of the global economy as well as social and political condition in Indo-nesia. Chairman of the Chamber

of Commerce and Trade (Kadin) Gianyar, Wayan Gede Ari Arsania, recently spoke to this issue saying that all levels of society need to rise to the challenge of developing the potential of the region, particularly in terms of entrepreneurship.

New entrepreneurs should be encouraged to have the confidence to compete by marketing their in-novative and creative products.

According to Ari Arsania, the moment has come to formulate eco-nomic strategies for avoiding the neg-

ative impacts of the global economic crisis that is affecting Bali in general and Gianyar in particular. The local economy, he said needs to pick up speed especially given that the era of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is now in effect. “The AEC

presents us with many challenges, and if we do not respond by taking immediate action, we will be crushed in our own home,” he said.

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Art industry concerned over increase on fake paintings’ circulation

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A tourist passed in front of paintings sold on Kuta Art Market. Indonesian painters and art enthusiasts are concerned about the rise in circulation of fake paintings by scam artists in the market.

DENPASAR - Indonesian painters and art enthusi-asts are concerned about the rise in circulation of fake paintings by scam artists in the market. “Research conducted by our team found that an organized syn-dicate is involved in forging paintings of some famous Indonesian painters and then selling them at high prices,” Head of the Indonesian Art Enthusiasts Asso-ciation (PPSI) Budi Setiadharma stated on Friday.

Arsania pointed to the fact that Gianyar is already well known for its artistic and cultural production and should therefor work towards developing entrepreneurship in conjunction with this potential. New entrepreneurs need to be en-couraged to market their products, though he admitted that access to capital and the development of human resources are still obstacles that many local entrepreneurs face. “The support of the government - as representatives of public interest, also needs to be maximized,” said the Gianyar’s Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.

The government, he explained, needs to be able to respond to the needs of entrepreneurs and other key players in the economy. Poli-cies that govern the economy, such as regulations for licensing, he said

is one very important way that the government can help support this sector.

The government has already facilitated SME’s in acquiring business licenses and the process has also been simplified. This has greatly encouraged many entre-preneurs who had formally been reluctant to run a business due the arduous process involved in start-ing one.

Despite the facility in obtaining licenses, Arsania said that entrepre-neurs need to still be on look out for new opportunities that they can turn to their advantage so that they remain competitive against their rivals. In Gianyar, tourism remains the strongest sector and “parent” for many new entrepreneurs, while the industrial, construction and finan-cial service sectors follow closely behind.

Second Assistant of the Regional Secretariat of Gianyar, Ketut Su-weta, said that the government of

Gianyar is very supportive of busi-nesses. According to Suweta, it is imperative that business people and the government work together if we want to see economic growth.

“Gianyar’s economy will cer-tainly grow if all elements are aligned,” he said. Each region of Gianyar, he added should highlight their specific local knowledge and that the expansion of the market for creative products would reference the noble values of their art and culture. (ded)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it an-nual 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 consid-ered 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, carry-ing 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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‘The 6th Element’ refers to that which informs and holds the five material elements of earth, fire, wind, water and metal together and which all humans share in common. The first phase of the art project took place at Karja Art Space (Penestanan Kaja, Ubud), last year and inspired them to continue with phase II.

The second phase of this project

pays particular attention to the ele-ment of earth or land, specifically in reference to their home land of Bali and more generally to the earth as our home. These three artists come from the Central, North, and West of Bali respectively and will be showing their work in the South. “It is the 6th ele-ment that binds us all together, and it is this 6th element that expresses itself through the land and culture of Bali

in a distinct way. This is the basis of all the work that we produce”.

Much in the same way that any given culture is made up of a myriad of individual forms of expression, yet somehow still retains a defin-ing cohesion, so too do the works of these three artists speak of the individual, the collective and the universal. The paintings, installa-tions and performances that come forth from these three individuals are unique expressions of their personal visions, of their shared cultural background and at the same time are expressions of a more universal artistic vision, that come together under the title ‘The 6th Element: Embodying the Earth’. As Balinese people, these three young artists recognize that there are very large cycles of time that move things in ways that are often incomprehensible to the minds of humans, given the short time that we spend on planet earth. As Bali-nese contemporary artists, they feel driven to address issues related to how the land of Bali is presently be-ing used and abused and as citizens of the world, they are expressing the struggle that all humans are facing in terms of our relationship with the natural environment.

In characteristically Balinese fashion, ISI Denapsar (National Art Institute) graduate, I Gede Merta Sukarya’s paintings combine humour, violence and beauty and reflect his interest in inspiring real change through the destabilizing power of laughter rather than the kind of change that comes from violence or beauty alone. Using hu-mour as a way to encourage people to let go of their usual way of seeing things, allows Sukrya to touch on subjects that might otherwise be very difficult to approach.

I Made Astika Yasa, who graduat-ed from ISI Denpasar in 2008, works with the mystical and philosophic symbols of Balinese belief systems as they reflect deeply embedded and embodied values. Speaking to the way that some of these symbols have been transformed over time, Astika reminds us that what is commonly called ‘Balinese’ is deeply rooted in fertile soil, but nonetheless needs to be cared for. “Balinese cultural symbols, -that often take the form of nature, animals and mystical beings, are truly reflections of our very be-ing, even if we only rarely glimpse these beyond their physical forms”.

I Gusti Made Wisatawan, who also graduated from ISI Denpasar

in 2008, work-ing with more abstract forms in his paintings,

seek to express something of that which moves all things. “Human beings are always under the influ-ence of the elements that make up their bodies, and also influence these very same elements. So to is Balinese culture always under the influence of the elements that make it up - particularly certain Hindu concepts. And yet, when we look at the microcosm and macrocosm we find something unnameable that informs how we see things, how we move and we are as a people. This is what inspires me to express myself in my art”.

The 6th Element: Meraga Bumi (Embodying Earth), is a timely exhibition that bears witness to the strength and richness of the Bali-nese tradition of creating art that is at once practical and spiritual, a tradition that clearly lives on in Bali’s prolific young generation of artists, who currently face some of the biggest challenges that the Ba-linese people have faced in a very long time -if ever.

‘Embodying the Earth’ is at once a reference to the position that these young Balinese artists occupy in relation to the threats that Bali’s geographic land is facing, in rela-tion to the land of Bali as the ground on which the culture stands and also in relation to the position that they occupy as human beings: part of the earth itself.

‘The 6th Element: Embodying Earth’, painting exhibition at Shankara Art Space.

SANUr - Three young Balinese artists from Ubud, Tabanan and Singarja have joined forces to explore the concept of Meraga Bumi (Embodying Earth) as part of the second phase of their ongoing art project entitled ‘The 6th Element’. Drawing on the influence of their geographic and cultural location as a starting point, I Made Atika yasa, I Gede Merta Sukarya and I Gusti Made Wisatawan will be presenting the results of their artistic explorations at Shankara Art Space (#7 Jalan Danau Toba, Sanur) from February 6th (vernissage 7pm) til March 11th.

Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, revealed that of the 16 sub-sectors of Indonesia’s creative industry, the products being promoted in Gi-anyar are cuisine and fashion. For the culinary field, the government is re-discovering and developing the market place for the distinctive traditional foods of Gianyar.

In the field of fashion, continued Suamba, the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, is wanting to develop the field of fashion in re-mote villages so that this industry is not just concentrated in the cities.

Fahsion, said Bharata, is a very dynamic industry that is always changing depending on the trends. “Garment businesses do not stand alone, there are always other prod-ucts involved, like accessories for example. So, by developing the garment business in rural areas other industries in the area are au-tomatically impacted. The creation of fashion design, footwear design, accessories and the like, are part of the chain of fashion,” he said.

The Gianyar Industry and Trade

Agency has therefore been provid-ing training in rural areas to help develop this industry, including sewing lessons and special fashion design for tailors. Approximately 140 tailors from every village in the district of Gianyar district were trained over six days (Dec. 7-12) in the creation of designs and patterns by famous fashion designers such as Bintang Mira and Tjok. Gde Abinanda.

According to Suamba, this train-ing allows villagers to gain knowl-edge directly from experts whose capabilities have been recognized. The training also provided the tailors with motivation and guidance so that they can compete in the tight compe-tition of the fashion industry.

The tailors were trained in three different locations. Tailors from Blahbatuh, Tegallalang, Ubud, Tam-paksiring and Payangan were trained in the PLUT-KUMKM Building at Bedulu. Tailors from Sukawati were trained in the SKB Building in Su-kawati and those from Gianyar were trained at the Metrology Building in Sidan village. (kmb25)

A craftman made handi-craft from coconut shell at his home in Tampaksiring,

Gianyar Regency. Economic growth in the district of

Gianyar has been slowing down in recent years due

to the climate of the global economy as well as social

and political condition in Indonesia. IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Government keen on developing fashion businesses

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The products being promoted in Gianyar are cuisine and fashion. In the field of fashion, the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, is wanting to develop the field of fashion in remote villages so that this industry is not just concentrated in the cities.

THE POTENTIAL of Gianyar’s creative economy has yet to be maximized, therefore the government of Gianyar is looking to develop this sector in order to improve the welfare of the people.

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A house built by Frank Lloyd Wright that dodged the wrecking ball is Phoenix’s latest tourist attrac-tion. The David and Gladys Wright House, named for the architect’s son and daughter-in-law who lived there, is in the Arcadia neighbor-hood. There are free public tours daily. The spiral walkway offers a spectacular view of Camelback Mountain. Events on the grounds range from an Easter egg hunt to yoga classes.

Changing Hands Bookstore, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of downtown near a light rail stop, opened in May 2014 but already feels like the place where everybody knows your name. Patrons can grab a book with some beer or wine at the store’s First Draft Book Bar. Next door, the Southern Rail restaurant, named for its proximity to the light rail and its “low-country” cuisine, serves tasty Southern and Creole-influenced food like red beans and rice and fried chicken.

Another new hub is DeSoto Central Market in downtown. The property, once a vacant brick build-ing and former car dealership, is now a market with food stalls, bar and patio. It’s known for happy hour, live music and swing dance nights. Drool-worthy delicacies include fried chicken-skin po’boys at the larder + the delta.

The 140-acre (57-hectare) Desert Botanical Garden boasts more than 50,000 plants and five trails that il-lustrate the role desert plants play in the environment. The latest exhibit incorporates eight light-based instal-lations using colorful fiber optics.

With all the sunshine, take a hike. Two popular summits are the 2,704-foot (852-meter) Camelback Mountain and 2,608-foot (795-meter) Piestewa Peak. Both are north of downtown and offer views of the entire metropolitan Phoenix valley. A less crowded alternative is South Mountain Park 10 miles (17 kilo-meters) south of downtown, where you’ll find ancient petroglyphs.

The Heard Museum is known for art and artifacts showcasing South-western tribal culture, including Hopi katsina dolls, Navajo textiles and Zuni jewelry.

Frank Lloyd Wright fans may want to drive 30 minutes to tour his winter home and studio in Scottsdale.

Galleries at the Musical Instru-ment Museum in north Phoenix are organized by world regions. Special headphones play music samples when you near the corresponding

display. One gallery spotlights in-struments and clothes belonging to icons from Elvis Presley to Taylor Swift.

Phoenix’s roughly 23-mile (37-kilometer) light rail system makes the ideal hop-on-hop-off tour bus with a $4 all-day pass. Several stops have free park-and-ride areas too. The tracks run through downtown, the college town of Tempe and the suburb of Mesa. In Tempe, stroll around Tempe Town Lake, popular for jogging, fishing and even dragon-boat racing. Mill Avenue is lined with shops, restaurants and bars. In Mesa, get off at the Main Street/Sycamore stop and walk five minutes to Me-kong Plaza. The shopping center is a smorgasbord of authentic Asian cui-sine — dim sum, pho or Taiwanese specialties like simmered pig ear.

Also available: green Grid Bike Share bicycles all around central Phoenix. Download the app to find and reserve a bike.

Rescues of out-of-state visitors who aren’t accustomed to the heat are unfortunately not rare. If you’re hiking, dress properly, go with a buddy, carry a fully charged cell-phone and hydrate (pets too).

Every March, spring training brings 15 Major League Baseball teams to Phoenix suburbs as part of the Cactus League. Because the sta-diums are relatively small, fans who arrive early have a good chance of interacting with favorite players.

Phoenix’s artsy Roosevelt Row neighborhood is the best place for quirky people-watching along a seven-block stretch with restaurants, bars, galleries and street art. The first Friday of each month, the neighbor-hood hosts outdoor musicians, artists and vendors.

For a respite from the desert land-scape, the 10-acre (4-hectare) Farm at South Mountain in south Phoenix feels like a country garden party. Onsite eateries include a breakfast-brunch cafe and fine-dining restau-rant serving locally-grown produce. You can also grab lunch in a basket and use picnic tables in the farm’s pecan tree grove.

Mexican restaurants in Phoenix are like Starbucks: There’s practi-cally one on every corner, from gourmet taco houses to casual mom-and-pop joints. Barrio Cafe is a local institution known for its collection of some 300 different tequilas and for dishes made from cochinita pibil (slow roasted pork) flavored with sour orange and a blend of spices. (ap)

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In this Jan. 20, 2016 photo, visitors trek along the pathways at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. The garden boasts more than 50,000 plants and five trails that illustrate the role desert plants play in the environment.

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File

In this Jan. 14, 2015 file photo, customers are serviced at the counter of The Phoenix Public Market Cafe restaurant in Phoenix.

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

In this Jan. 20, 2016 photo, light rail trains make a stop along the roughly 23-mile light rail system in Phoenix. The tracks run through downtown, the college town of Tempe and the suburb of Mesa.

Dining, hikes, art and sunshine at PhoenixPHOENIX — With hundreds of golf courses and 300 days

of sunshine a year, it’s easy to cast metropolitan Phoenix as a retiree’s paradise that leaves everyone else out in the cold. But within the desert beats the heart of an actual urban core that has come into its own. There’s an emerging restaurant-and-retail scene along with classic attractions like the view from Camel-back Mountain, plus newfound treasures like peeking inside a little-known house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Tens of families fled to safer areas as the floods swept away their houses, Gerokgak Sub-district Head Putu Ariadi Pribadi said.

“The flooding is triggered by incessant heavy rains that have fallen since Saturday afternoon,” Pribadi noted.

In Musi village, seven houses were washed out and tens of oth-ers were damaged by the flood, forcing around 56 families to evacuate themselves to higher grounds.

He added that in Penyaban-gan village, eight houses were

destroyed and tens of other were damaged, while 36 families took refuge in safer places.

The local authorities have set up emergency tens and provided adequate food for the flood vic-tims, the sub-district head said. (ant)

Flash floods destroy tens of houses in Gerokgak

Flash floods destroyed tens of houses in two villages in Gerokgak Sub-district,

Buleleng District, Bali Prov-ince, on Sunday.

SINGARAJA - Flash floods destroyed tens of houses in two villages in Gerokgak Sub-district, Buleleng District, Bali Prov-ince, on Sunday.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Long queue which was becuase Gilimanuk Harbor was closed due to the bad weather

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Travel bans barring nonemer-gency vehicles from the roads of New York City and Baltimore were expected to be lifted by early morning, and mass transit systems that had been partially suspended during the storm were scheduled to run again.

But even as United Airlines said limited service might begin later in the afternoon in New York City, airports in the Washington D.C. area were likely to remain closed Sunday, and other airlines started to cut Monday service in addition to the 7,000 already-canceled week-end flights.

The massive snowstorm brought both the nation’s capital and its larg-est city to a stop, dumping as much as 3 feet (90 centimeters) of snow and stranding tens of thousands of travelers. At least 18 deaths were blamed on the weather, resulting from car crashes, shoveling snow and hypothermia.

The snow dropped 26.8 inch-es (68.1 centimeters) in Central Park, the second-most recorded since 1869. The snowfall narrowly missed tying the previous record

of 26.9 inches (68.3 centimeters) set in February 2006. The snow finally stopped falling in New York City around 10 p.m. Saturday night, though authorities insisted people stay indoors and off the streets as crews plowed deserted roads and police set up checkpoints to catch violators.

The storm dropped snow from the Gulf Coast to New England, with areas of Washington surpass-ing 30 inches (76.2 centimeters). The heaviest unofficial report was in a rural area of West Virginia, not far from Harpers Ferry, with 40 inches (101.6 centimeter).

“This is kind of a Top 10 snow-storm,” said weather service winter storm expert Paul Kocin, who co-wrote a two-volume textbook on blizzards.

The usually bustling New York City looked more like a ghost town. With Broadway shows dark, thin crowds shuffled through a differ-ent kind of Great White Way, the nickname for a section of the theater district. And Bruce Springsteen canceled Sunday’s scheduled show at Madison Square Garden.

In Washington, monuments that would typically be busy with tour-ists stood vacant. All mass transit in the capital was to be shut down through Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Alex Cruz, helping a neighbor shovel snow Saturday in Silver Spring, Maryland, couldn’t help but notice the emptiness.

“It’s like living out in the middle of Wyoming,” he said. Throughout the region, drivers skidded off snowy, icy roads in accidents that killed several people Friday and Saturday. Those killed included a 4-year-old boy in North Carolina; a Kentucky transportation worker who was plowing highways; and a woman whose car plunged down a 300-foot (91-meter) embankment in Tennessee. Three people died while shoveling snow in Queens and Staten Island.

An Ohio teenager sledding be-hind an all-terrain vehicle was hit by a truck and killed, and two people died of hypothermia in southwest Virginia. In North Caro-lina, a man whose car had veered off an icy-covered road was arrested on charges of killing a motorist who stopped to help.

In Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, drivers were ma-rooned for hours in snow-choked highways.(ap)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have detained seven men suspected of being an Islamic State militant cell that was plotting attacks, authorities said Sunday.

The seven Malaysians were detained over the past three days in a follow-up operation after the Jan. 15 detention of a man who was planning a suicide attack in Kuala Lumpur, national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said.

Among the items seized were 30 types of bullets, jihad books and Islamic State flags and videos, he said.

“All the suspects are members of the same (terror) cell, which is responsible for planning to launch terror attacks in strategic locations across Malaysia,” Khalid said in a statement.

The suspect thought to be the cell leader is a 31-year-old assistant housekeeping manager at a hotel in southern Johor state, Khalid said. He said one of the suspects, whom he didn’t identify, received orders from Bahrom Naim, an Indonesian based in Syria who had a role in planning the Jakarta attacks.

Malaysia raised its security alert level following the attacks Jan. 14 in neighboring Indonesia.

More than 150 people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State group have been detained in Malaysia over the past two years, including some accused of plotting attacks in Kuala Lumpur. (ap)

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Shovelers remove snow in front of the Municipal Service Building in Philadelphia as snow falls over the region Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

After blizzard, snowed-in US East Coast prepares to dig out

NEW YORK — Millions of Americans were preparing to dig themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the U.S. East Coast to an icy standstill.

Malaysia detains 7 suspected IS members plotting attacks

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A security guard stands in front of a barricade at the Ma-laysia’s landmark building, Petronas Twin Towers, ahead of the New Year’s celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015.

NEGARA - Strong winds and high waves in the Bali Strait, Saturday (Jan. 23) forced Gilimanuk Harbour authorities to temporarily suspend boat crossings.

Gilimanuk Harbormaster, Nyo-man Daelon Wirawan, confirmed on Saturday evening that the imposition of the open and close system for the crossings was due to the adverse weather conditions occurring between Gilimanuk and Ketapang Harbors (Banyuwangi).

Wirawan reported that fairly high wave and strong winds with speeds of more the 49 knots made out hard for vessels to moor and load and unload. “To prevent any accidents, crossings were temporarily suspended,” he ex-plained.

Implementation of the temporary closure at the Gilimanuk Harbor caused line ups as people waited to be able to cross. After about 1 hour, at 17:40, the crossing was reopened.

Wirawan always expects vessel captains to be vigilant as they cross the waters. “We expect them to always be vigilant because the weather often changes so that they must always follow the guidance of the national weather service (BMKG). We are al-ways in contact with the BMKG,” he explained. (kmb)

The theme of the conference to be organized until January 28, is “Global Commitment, Local Actions,” accord-ing to a statement of the National Family Planning Coordinating Board

(BKKBN).At least 350 young people from many

countries will participate in the meeting comprising 200 sessions of discussion, 500 presentations, and 80 panels.

Among topics of discussion will be the involvement of young people, the quality of health, the family planning challenges in 2020, budgeting innovation, and social changes.

The previous international family planning conferences were organized in Dakar, Senegal in 2011, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2013. (ant)

NUSA DUA - The Growth and Emerging Mar-kets Committee of the International Organization of Security Commissions (IOSCO GEM-C) discussed anticipatory measures that can be adopted against cyber crime in the capital market industry during a conference on Thursday.

“During the IOSCO GEM-C conference, a simu-lation to anticipate cyber crime in the capital market was held, which was the first so far,” the Executive Head of Capital Market Supervision at the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Nurhaida, said.

She said 39 members of IOSCO GEM-C attended the conference and expressed appreciation for the agenda as hackers’ attack may happen at any time.

“The essence is that if a cyber attack occurs and develops across the globe, action should immedi-ately be taken and so it would not worry investors,” she said.

She said internet-based crimes may happen in the capital market industry because of the existing system in the financial sector.

“An attack on the trading system in the stock ex-change or on the asset of a client, could affect other institutions or other clients’ assets in the securities funds accounts. So, anticipation has been the focus of attention in the conference,” she said.

Nurhaida further said, “A system needs to antici-pate, and prevent the crime.”

IOSCO Secretary General, David Wright, said internet-based crimes had become a serious problem in line with technological development.

In view of that it is important for capital market supervisors as regulators to study the kinds of cyber crime that may take place in capital markets in their respective countries, he said.

“I remember a company as big as Sony was once attacked and its system was destroyed. So, a system is certainly needed to prevent such an incident,” Wright said.

“The discussion was an effort to increase ef-ficiency in the financial services industry with the confidence that the system we use is secure,” head of the Department of Capital Market Supervision 1A, the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK), Gonthor Ryantori Aziz, said.

According to Gonthor, industrial surveillance systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks via Internet connections.

He added that although there had been no indications of cyber attacks against the capital market security system in Indonesia, it had to be anticipated.

“In Indonesia, there has been no cyber attack on the capital market, but certainly the potential is always there. We will ensure in the existing system that our capital market can anticipate it,” Gonthor remarked.

IOSCO is a forum of capital market supervisors in the world and now more than 170 institutions, including government agencies, self-regulatory or-ganizations and other institutions are its members.

GEM-C, meanwhile, is the biggest committee in IOSCO, with 75 percent of its members being IOSCO¿s common members.

GEM-C is charged with developing and in-creasing efficiency of the capital market by setting minimum standards and formulating principles that members must meet. (ant)

Developing countries discuss cyber attack on capital market

President to open international conference of family planning in Bali

NUSA DUA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is scheduled to officially open the 2016 International Conference on Family Planning to be held in Nusa Dua, Bali Province, on January 25, 2016.

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WASHINGTON — The Interna-tional Monetary Fund is forecasting that the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will maintain this year the same overall 0.3 percent nega-tive growth seen in 2015.

Alejandro Werner is the IMF’s chief economist for Latin America. He says it will be the first time the region has seen two consecutive years of economic contraction since the external debt crisis of 1982-83, which gave rise to the so-called lost decade.

Werner said Friday the negative outlook is based on economic difficul-ties in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and

Venezuela, while most other countries in the region should post moderate growth. He said falling commodities prices have resulted in some $200 billion in losses for export earnings in Latin America’s seven leading econo-mies. (ap)

The ministers from the 10-mem-ber Association of Southeast Asian Nations also announced that they will begin a “Visit ASEAN@50” cam-paign to mark the 50th anniversary of the regional group next year. The campaign, to be launched in March at a travel convention in Berlin, will showcase hundreds of ASEAN tour-ism products, events and experiences and target people within and outside the region.

Tourism accounted for 12.3 per-cent of ASEAN’s GDP in 2013 with 102.2 million tourist arrivals. ASEAN says the number of tourists rose to 105 million in 2014.

ASEAN formally established a unified economic community in December, and officials said tourism is a major pillar of integration for the region of more than 600 million people.

As part of common branding,

the tourism ministers unveiled an ASEAN cruise brand with a logo of linked, colorful waves.

Philippine Tourism Secretary Ra-mon Jimenez Jr. said a goal of having a common ASEAN visa may become a reality within the next five years. He said everyone is in agreement on having one visa but technical hurdles are delaying its implementation.

“As ASEAN turns 50 it is an in-credible opportunity for us to launch the whole idea that ASEAN is a single destination, not 10,” added Jimenez, who chaired the ministers’ annual meeting in Manila.

In a statement, the ministers of-

fered their condolences to Indonesia over bombings last week in Jakarta. They expressed appreciation for In-donesia’s rapid response to the attack to avert any impact on tourism.

Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said there have been no travel cancelations since the bomb-ings, which killed eight people, and appealed to ASEAN members for their continued support.

The 10-year tourism plan calls for intensified promotion and mar-keting, diversification of tourism products including development of sub-regional destinations, attraction of tourism investment, promotion

of an ASEAN tourism standards certification system, expansion of connectivity and infrastructure, and increased participation of local com-munities in tourism.

If the projects are fully imple-mented, ASEAN said it anticipates that tourism’s share of total employ-ment could rise from 3.7 percent to 7 percent by 2025 and per capita spend-ing by international tourists could increase from $877 to $1,500. Tourist arrivals in ASEAN are expected to increase to 152 million by 2025.Jime-nez said by 2030, ASEAN is forecast to account for 25 percent of 1.8 billion world tourist arrivals. (ap)

MADRID - Arab nations are looking to Chinese visitors to revive their tourism sectors, battered by se-curity fears, and also need to develop homegrown tourism as a lifeline, ministers from the region say.

Bookings to nations in North Africa and the Middle East, which had been recovering after the Arab spring unrest, fell last year following deadly attacks claimed by Islamic extremists in Tunisia and Egypt that caused foreigners to shun beaches and historic sites

across the region.But visitor numbers from China

to Egypt soared last year despite a series of security blows to the coun-try’s key tourism sector in 2015 because the government began to allow charter flights from the Asian country, Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said.

The number of Chinese visitors to Egypt more than doubled from 60,000 in 2014 to 135,000 in 2015, “in a year in which we suffered a lot”, he said at a conference on tour-

ism policies in Arab nations at the Madrid international tourism fair Fitur, which wraps up Sunday.

In September eight Mexican tourists were mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces in the vast Western Desert.

The following month a Russian airliner crashed in the Sinai desert shortly after taking off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, kill-ing all 224 people on board.

The Islamic State jihadist group said it downed the aircraft and tens

of thousands of foreign tourists, in-cluding some 80,000 Russians and 20,000 Britons, were stranded in the resort after flights were cancelled for security reasons.

Egypt has also boosted promo-tion efforts in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations, leading to a sharp increase in the number of visitors from those nations and is doing more to promote domestic tourism, Zaazou said.

The country is banking on the short memory of global travellers who have

been scared off and returned to the country before, most vividly after the Luxor massacre in 1997 in which over 60 people were killed, mostly Swiss and Japanese, he added.

“I believe 2016 will be the year tourists come back to Egypt and our part of the world,” the minister said.

Like Egypt, Morocco has stepped up its efforts to develop its domestic tourism market to help offset fluc-tuations in the arrival of foreigners, Morocco’s Tourism Minister Lah-cen Haddad said. (afp)

IMF sees 2016 negative growth for Latin America, Caribbean

After waiting in line for hours, women stand outside a super-market in Caracas, Venezuela, with their price regulated toilet

paper made available for sale by the government, Friday, Jan.

22, 2016.AP Photo/Fernando Llano

Arab nations eye China, domestic market to revive tourism

Southeast Asia launches 10-year plan to increase tourism

MANILA — Southeast Asian tourism ministers on Friday launched a 10-year plan to ramp up marketing of their region as a single destination to raise tourism’s share of the regional economy to 15 percent by 2025.

The move, which falls short of an actual agreement to join the gov-ernment’s minority ruling coalition,

was announced by Golkar leader and powerful tycoon Aburizal Bak-rie on Saturday.

“Another problem that should be solved is our position related to the President Jokowi,” Bakrie was quoted as telling a party meeting on Saturday. “As a political power, Golkar was not born to be in opposition.

“To side with President Jokowi’s power, we participate with pro-gressive power,” he added, using

Widodo’s popular nickname. “Our goal is to participate.”

Golkar, which controls nearly 15 percent of seats in parliament, has been embroiled in a leadership dispute for months.

Bakrie, patriarch of the family-owned Bakrie Group conglomer-ate, backed defeated presidential

candidate Prabowo Subianto in the presidential election in late 2014.

Disgruntled party members mounted a bid to oust him when Golkar, the political vehicle of former authoritarian ruler Suharto, failed to make it into government for the first time ever in the last election. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesia won three awards of the United Na-tions World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in a ceremony held in Madrid, Spain, recently.

The Banyuwangi administration with its “Re-inventing the Govern-ment in Tourism” project is the first winner for the Innovation in Public Policy and Governance category of the 12th UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tour-ism, the UN WTO said in a press release.

Garuda Indonesia’s Bali Beach Clean-Up campaign has come out as the First Runner-up for the UNWTO Award for Innovation in Enterprises category.

Indonesia’s NGO, Karang Le-stari Foundation with its “Coral Reef Reborn” project is also the First Runner-Up for the UNWTO Award for Innovation in Non-Gov-ernmental Organizations (NGOs) category.

The Awards recognizing inno-vation in four categories - Public Policy and Governance, Enter-prises, NGOs and Research and Technology-, were announced on January 20 at the UNWTO Awards Ceremony in the Spanish Tourism Fair (FITUR) in Madrid.

Besides Banyungawi, first win-ners for the other three categories are the Itaipu Technological Park (Brazil), the Treetop Walking Path

(Lithuania), and the Sisterhood of Survivors Program (Nepal) .

The projects were selected among more than 100 candidatures from 30 countries. “The UNWTO Awards aim to honor those that everyday work for the benefit of host communities, supporting the livelihoods of local people and protecting our environment and our culture for future generations. All 16 finalists are an example to all of us of how the principles of the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism and the objectives set in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can inspire sustainable tour-ism,” UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai said. (ant)

JAKARTA - In today’s digital era, the use of e-commerce is not only the needs of businesses in big cities. Entrepreneur in the villages too has now been taught to use the internet as a means for promoting their products.

Training to create a literate so-ciety is encouraged by e-commerce portal selling, Indonetwork.co.id through movement “Indonetwork.co.id goes to the Village”. This pro-gram was in collaboration with the Institute for Urban Village Commu-nity Empowerment of Srengseng Sawah, Jagakarsa, South Jakarta. The event was held at Graha Coop-erative, on Tuesday (19/1).

Headman of Srengseng Sawah, Tubagus Masruri, explaining inter-net marketing training is one way to address problem of jobs availability in the area. “Participants were in-troduced ways that can be used to locate potential markets, designing, websites creation, doing online marketing strategies, including in-tegrating it with social media. With internet technology, entrepreneurs can market their products and ser-vices easier,” Masruri added.

Further Masruri added there are a lot of potential products in Srengseh Sawah that can be mar-keted through online, such as beer

and taffy.Wisnu Purnama Aji, Business

Development of Indonetwork, said this program is a form of awareness from indonetwork.co.id --a portal created by Indonesian, to the devel-opment of e-commerce industry in Indonesia. “Training to residents of villages or countryside deliberately done to provide education directly to communities,” said Wisnu.

This program, called Wisnu, is planned to be rolled out on an ongo-ing basis to a number of areas, not only in Jakarta. Moreover, if there is a direct request from the public, in the form of a letter of application training, would be immediately acted upon. “This is a proof of commitment by Indonetwork to the development of e-commerce industry in Indonesia. We want to disseminate this information widely to the public, to educate directly, such as cooperation with the Village Community Institute in Jakarta,” he said.

In their presentation, besides Wisnu, Indonetwork also joined by Eddy Supriady as the event chair-man and Slamet Setiawan. ST who is the Director of PT. Citra Harum Engineering as an online business motivator also loyal members of Indonetwork.co.id. (kmb18)

Indonesia’s second-biggest party to back President Widodo

JAKARTA - The leader of Indonesia’s second-largest politi-cal party has said his party will lend support to President Joko Widodo’s government, potentially making it easier to pass leg-islation by giving it a majority in the house of representatives, news Website Detik reported on Sunday.

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Dancers from Indonesia perform a dance during the “FITUR” International Tourism Fair in Madrid, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. Tourism professionals from all around the world, trade visi-tors and general public meet in the five-day fair to make business and exchange information about the global tourism market.

Indonesia wins three UNWTO awards

Internet literacy movement goes to villages

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But the move has caused a back-lash from opposition lawmakers and prompted a series of protests from citizens unhappy with Filip’s close ties to a prominent oligarch. There is widespread anger at Mol-dova’s ruling elites after a $1 billion banking fraud plunged the country into crisis last year.

The repeated protests threaten to derail Filip’s chances of running a stable government, at a time when Moldova sees its economy sinking and is trying to negotiate new fund-ing from overseas lenders, including the International Monetary Fund. “I don’t see the advantages of Filip’s government and there are lots of minuses. He was approved without

any public support,” said analyst Ni-colai Tveatkov. “(The government) is temporary and one cannot speak of achieving political stability.”

A small of group of demonstra-tors broke into the parliament build-ing on Wednesday demanding new elections, clashing with riot police. Underscoring the sense of chaos, the spokesman of President Nicolae Timofti later resigned. “I told the president about my resignation as a result of an extraordinary occur-rence, which personally related to myself and is regrettable,” spokes-man Vlad Turcanu told reporters.

“I told journalists that the swearing-in ceremony of Filip’s government had been postponed

to Thursday. That was the official position of the president up until 2200 on Wednesday ... After that, closer to midnight the decision was taken to carry out the swearing-in ceremony,” he said on Thursday. Opposition lawmaker Bogdan Tirdea was similarly scathing.

“The government must take re-sponsibility for the night-time swear-ing-in, which was carried out secretly from the public,” he told Reuters. “This cabinet is illegitimate.”

Moldova’s ruling class was targeted in mass protests over the banking fraud, which saw the equivalent of one-eighth of Mol-dova’s gross domestic product disappear overseas.

The protesters say Filip is part of the problem. He has close ties to Vladimir Plahotniuc, one of Moldova’s richest men, who was a focus of the protests. “Plahotniuc, don’t forget that your home is in prison” the protesters shouted on Thursday. (rtr)

NEW DELHI — French Pres-ident Francois Hollande began a three-day visit to India on Sunday that could push a multibillion-dollar deal for combat airplanes and closer cooperation on coun-terterrorism and clean energy.

Hollande landed in the north-ern city of Chandigarh where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to join him at official engagements.

Designed in the 1950s by Swiss-French architect Le Cor-busier, Chandigarh is one of three places that France has pledged to help develop as so-called “smart cities” — with clean water sup-plies, efficient sewage disposal and public transportation.

In Chandigarh, Hollande and French business leaders will meet with Indian counterparts to boost bilateral trade, which in 2014 stood at $8.6 billion. New Delhi is also trying to encourage French companies to tap into India’s economic boom.

Hollande is accompanied by a high-profile delegation including the ministers of defense, foreign affairs, economy and culture and dozens of top corporate leaders.

Hollande will travel to the In-dian capital later Sunday. He will hold talks with Indian leaders on Monday and be a guest of honor on Tuesday at India’s Republic Day parade, celebrating 66 years since the country adopted its constitution.

High on the agenda is India’s desire to purchase 36 Rafale combat planes for its air force, which Modi had announced

during a visit to Paris in April, touching off several rounds of negotiations over pricing, offsets and servicing.

In an interview with the Press Trust of India news agency, Hollande hinted it might take some more time to sign the deal. “Agreeing on the technicalities of this arrangement obviously takes time, but we are on the right track,” PTI quoted Hollande as saying.

France has also promised support for India’s clean-energy quest, including a solar energy alliance launched last month during the global climate talks held in Paris.

“Our bilateral relationship with France is very comprehen-sive. It covers number of sectors such as defense, civil nuclear cooperation, railways, smart cit-ies, science and research, space and culture. In all these areas we expect some forward progress during the French president’s visit,” said Vikas Swarup, India’s External Affairs Ministry spokes-man, last week.

The two sides are also ex-pected to touch on anti-terrorism efforts including speeding up extradition requests and cracking down on money laundering used to fund militant activities.

Swarup noted that both coun-tries had been hit by militants recently, with 130 people killed across Paris on Nov. 13 and a four-day siege against the north Indian air force base of Pathankot this month in which seven Indian soldiers were killed. (ap)

CAIRO — Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famed golden burial mask of King Tut, which was corrected late last year, have been referred to trial for “gross negligence.”

Prosecutors said in a Sunday statement that the 3,300-year old

mask, whose beard was accidental-ly knocked off and hastily glued on with epoxy in 2014, was scratched and damaged as a result.

The mask was put back on display last month after a German-Egyptian team of specialists removed the ep-oxy and reattached the beard using

beeswax, which is often used as an adhesive for antiquities.

Restoration specialist Christian Eckmann said a year ago that the cause of a scratch discovered on the mask had had not been deter-mined, but that it could have been recent. (ap)

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French President Francois Hollande, left, is presented a shawl, a ceremonial piece of cloth, as he arrives at the Indian Air Force station in Chandigarh, India, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016.

French president in India to strengthen

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Thousands protest in Moldova after PM hastily

sworn in at midnight

Egypt sends 8 to trial over botched repair of King Tut mask

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Riot police officers stand in line in front of protesters, some wanting closer links to Russia, others demanding a crackdown on corruption, outside the parliament in Chisinau, Moldova, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Moldova’s new pro-European government has been sworn in, after protesters stormed Parliament and scuffled with police following a vote that ended a standoff between the president and the legislature.

CHISINAU - At least 10,000 people protested in the Mol-dovan capital on Thursday against the appointment of Prime Minister Pavel Filip, whose hasty swearing-in ceremony at midnight also prompted a government spokesman to resign. Parliament appointed Filip in hopes of ending months of politi-cal stalemate after the previous government was toppled in a no-confidence vote in October.

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MANGUPURA - Bukit Sari Sangeh attraction becomes the center of a pre-wedding event for local people and foreign travel-ers. Cultural activities combined with technology always exist and even in a day it can host two to three groups. Moreover, ahead of Galungan festivity poses an auspicious day for conducting a wedding ceremony.

The attraction relying on monkey cuteness located at Sangeh village, Abiansemal, Badung, or about 20 km north of Denpasar is indeed beautiful. Nutmeg forest offering a unique tree only existing in Bali is often used a background in their photo shooting. Uniquely, they have designed the scene in a perfect composition. Infrequently they come with photography director that will direct the visual look.

Operations Manager of the Bukit Sari Sangeh, I Made Sumo-hon, said even though all locations can be used as a pre-wedding photo object, but photographers usually choose four places hav-ing become a favorite. Firstly, it is at the front gate, the entrance into the woods is commonly used as the background. These gates are unique and old and have the background of temple and green forests.

Furthermore, it is in front of the cool Bukit Sari Temple. Background behind the temple has a lush trees equally looking very beautiful. Sometimes, photographers are waiting for a nice moment to get a silhouette, sunlight penetrating the trees in the jungle.

Besides, the forest located at the left side of the temple is also good for shooting. Other than having a big tree, the loca-tion looking like a circle has no small plants. At the area there are only dried leaves of nutmeg tree. “It is said this area is the grave of monkeys. Nevertheless, we never see any bodies of the monkeys,” said Sumohon.

Another interesting location is under the banyan tree located in western most of the forest. There were two large banyan trees exuding a positive aura. “In general, they (photographers—Ed) are very satisfied with the existing locations. However, before taking the picture they will put offerings in order that their activi-ties can run smoothly,” he added.

For carrying out a pre-wedding photo session, explained Su-mohon, they usually pay sanitation levy as much as IDR 200,000. With such amount, they can make photo session as many as they like. “Many foreign travelers, mainly those from Asian regions, make pre-wedding photo session here. They claimed to have seen on the web so that they are interested as well,” concluded Sumohon. (kmb)

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Lue was promoted Friday, when the Cavaliers fired David Blatt despite him taking the team to the NBA Finals last season and currently lead-ing the Eastern Conference. The coaching swap didn’t have any immediate impact on the Bulls, who outhustled the Cavs to loose balls and won for just the third time in nine games.

Jimmy Butler scored 20 points, Nikola Mirotic added 17 and Taj Gibson 15 for Chicago, which opened a 17-point lead in the third quarter and never let the Cavs get closer than eight in the fourth.

LeBron James just missed his first triple-double this season, finishing with 26 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists. J.R. Smith added 18 points for the Cavs, who shot 37 percent from the field and were only 9 for 22 from the three-throw line. When the final horn sounded, the Cavs were booed by their own fans.

Bothered by a lack of cohesion and chemistry in the Cavs, general manager David Griffin fired Blatt, a surprising move that came just days after Cleveland suffered a humiliating 34-point home loss to the defending champion Golden State Warriors. But Griffin detected deeper issues and felt he had no choice but to remove Blatt and

promote Lue, a top assistant and former point guard who won two NBA titles as a player.

Lue said his early focus would be on his team’s “spirit.” He believes the Cavs aren’t hav-ing as much fun as they should be and is intent on improving their attitude. “You can’t be mad when you win and you can’t be mad when you lose,” he said.

At Phoenix, Archie Goodwin hit a 3-pointer from atop the arc with 0.1 seconds left and the Phoenix Suns beat the Atlanta Hawks 98-95 to end a six-game losing streak. Goodwin led the Suns with 24 points, and Phoenix won for the second time in 17 games.

Tyson Chandler tied a Suns record with 27 rebounds, including 17 in the first half, and also had 13 points and a season-high five assists. Kent Bazemore led the Hawks with 21 points.

Jeremy Lin and Kemba Walker scored 26 points each, and the Charlotte Hornets defeated the New York Knicks 97-84 for their third win in the last four games. Lin and Walker were a combined 19 of 19 from the free-throw line and P.J. Hairston chipped in with a season-high 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Hornets. Shabazz Muhammad scored 25 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped the Memphis Grizzlies’ four-game winning streak with a 106-101 vic-tory.

Ricky Rubio had 15 points, 12 assists and six rebounds and Andrew Wiggins scored 19 points for the Timberwolves, who beat a team with a winning record for the first time since Nov. 25. (ap)

MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic survived a frustrating five-setter against Gilles Simon at the Australian Open, spraying 100 unforced errors on Rod Laver Arena before reaching the quarterfinals for the 27th consecutive Grand Slam.

That’s rarified territory for the five-time and defending champion, equaling Jimmy Connors’ career mark of consecutive quarter-finals — only Roger Federer has done better with his 36.

“These are the tournaments that we value the most and to be able to always come up with the best performance in the Grand Slams, of course I’m very proud of it and hopefully I can keep going,” he said.

Top-ranked Djokovic won 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in four hours, 32 minutes and will meet No. 7 Kei Nishikori in the quar-terfinals.

The drama kept building after a rela-tively routine start to Day 7, when six-time champion Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova confirmed their quarterfinal date with straight-sets wins, ensuring a rematch between last year’s finalists.

In a night match on Hisense, No. 4 Ag-nieszka Radwanksa rallied from 5-2 down in the third to win 6-7 (6), 6-1, 7-5 against Anna-Lena Friedsam, who finished the last two games hobbling and in tears after taking a medical timeout for what appeared to be

cramps.Friedsam was given a time warning and

then a point penalty in her last service game, conceding the vital break to Radwanska.

Djokovic only lost one match in a Grand Slam last year — the French Open final — and for the sixth straight major hadn’t dropped a set in reaching the fourth round. Despite all that, he was ready to take tips from the public after his performance.

A man in the crowd yelled out during the post-match, on-court interview that Djokovic should give up on the drop shots — some of which were incredibly ill-advised against Simon and contributed to the most startling statistic of the match.

“OK, thanks buddy,” Djokovic responded with a laugh. “I hate to say that but you are absolutely right.” Centuries are celebrated across the train tracks at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but not in the unforced errors column at Rod Laver.

“I made a lot of unforced errors today,” said Djokovic, who was clearly exasperated with his uncharacteristic error-toll. “Never-theless, he was fighting. He was playing well. Physically very demanding. I’m just happy to get through this one.”

Simon entered the match with nine straight losses after his one win against Djokovic, but thought he’d worked out a way to beat the Serbian star with just consistently and

desperately keeping the rallies alive.“I know a lot of players wanted me to win

this match,” the 31-year-old Frenchman said.

“A lot of players will feel better with Novak out of the draw. That’s normal because he’s the best player in the world.” (ap)

Bulls spoil Lue’s coaching debut, beat Cavaliers 96-83

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Chicago Bulls’ Pau Gasol (16) drives past Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love (0) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Cleveland. Gasol scored a team-high 25 points in the Bulls’ 96-83 win.

CLEVELAND — Tyronn Lue didn’t make much of a difference in his coach-ing debut for Cleveland as Pau Gasol scored 25 points, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 96-83 win over the Cavaliers on Saturday.

Djokovic survives five-setter v Simon to reach quarterfinals

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reacts during his fourth round match against France’s Gilles Simon at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 24, 2016.

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“We came here to win, I’m very disappointed because when you go in front twice you have to win the match,” Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said. “We lacked cyni-cism and cunning, we allowed Em-poli to come back into the game twice and got the final ball wrong too many times. The final result was right.”

Mario Balotelli almost won the match for Milan in stoppage time but scuffed his shot. The forward had already been flagged offside.

“Balotelli was hungry, maybe too much,” Mihajlovic said. “He got things wrong that normally he doesn’t. What’s important is that he continues to train like this, when he gets back to match fitness he will be

an extra weapon for us.”Milan remained sixth, provision-

ally 11 points behind Serie A leader Napoli, and seven behind Inter, which it plays in a derby match next Sunday. Empoli is a point behind Milan.

Second from bottom Frosinone drew 0-0 against Atalanta. Frosinone is five points below Palermo, which occupies the last position of safety. Atalanta moved nine points off the drop zone, ahead of the rest of the weekend’s fixtures.

Milan has never lost a Serie A match in Empoli and it got off to the perfect start. Bacca sprung the off-side trap to run onto Luca Antonelli’s pass over the top and slotted into the bottom left corner to give his side an

eighth-minute lead. It was Bacca’s third goal in as many matches and his sixth in his past eight.

Maccarone thought he had leveled in the 29th but had strayed offside for a glancing header on Zielinski’s free kick.

Empoli did equalize moments later when former Milan midfielder Riccardo Saponara delivered a great through ball for Zielinski to run onto and fire between Gianluigi Donnar-umma’s legs.

Milan restored its lead imme-diately after the break in fortunate circumstances. Lorenzo Tonelli’s clearance hit M’Baye Niang in the face and flew into the path of Bo-naventura who drilled the ball into the far bottom corner.

Milan was once again pegged back on the hour when Donnar-umma got down well to keep out Manuel Pucciarelli’s effort but Maccarone was on hand to tap in the rebound. (ap)

BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi scored an acrobatic goal to help Barcelona earn a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Malaga on Saturday, giving the defending champion the overnight lead of the Spanish league.

Showing no signs of any linger-ing muscle pain that kept him from playing midweek, Messi made a pass for Luis Suarez to set up Munir El Haddadi’s opening goal in the sec-ond minute. After Malaga’s pressure led to Juan “Juanpi” Anor leveling, Messi restored Barcelona’s advan-tage for good with a skillful scissor kick after halftime.

Yet despite Messi leading the way in attack, Barcelona still needed goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to ensure it took three points from La Rosaleda Stadium.

“One bad half, one good one,” Barcelona midfielder Andres Ini-esta said. “We weren’t comfortable in the first half and they were well positioned and took advantage of our poor passes. But in the second half we saw the solid team that we are used to.”

Barcelona moved one point ahead of Atletico Madrid before it plays Sevilla on Sunday. Barcelona, which also has a game to play, hosts Atlet-ico in the next round in a highly-anticipated clash between the last two champions.

Third-place Real Madrid will be five points behind Barcelona before visiting Real Betis on Sunday.

Also Saturday, Mateo Musac-chio’s 88th-minute header salvaged fourth-place Villarreal a 2-2 draw at Espanyol. Espanyol lost scorers

Felipe Caicedo to injury and Gerard Moreno to a second booking after Musacchio’s goal.

Granada almost squandered a two-goal lead before Ruben Rochi-na’s strike secured a 3-2 win over Getafe, while Rayo Vallecano routed fifth-place Celta Vigo 3-0 to end a nine-round winless run. Both Gran-ada and Rayo provisionally escaped the relegation zone, while Celta fell seven points adrift of the Champions League spots.

Barcelona took its undefeated streak to 24 games overall, and broke a mini-slump of two consecutive draws away from Camp Nou in the league.

But Malaga, which beat and drew with Barcelona last season in their two league meetings, outplayed the visitors for long stretches.

“I take away a feeling that we could have gotten a good result,” said Malaga manager Javi Gracia. “Even though they had fewer shots and poorer statistics than we did, they have the players that decided the match.”

Barcelona scored on its first attack when El Haddadi, who started for the injured Neymar, got his fourth goal in his last three starts. The goal was mostly the work of Suarez, who received Messi’s pass, held off a defender, and poked the ball under goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. This took a deflection to become a perfect pass for El Haddadi to push over the line.

The rest of the first half, however, was dominated by Malaga, which disrupted Barcelona’s attack and caused constant trouble for a back-

line that included regular substitutes Adriano, Aleix Vidal, and Thomas Vermaelen, replaced by Jeremy Ma-thieu at halftime. Adriano left in the second half because of injury.

“It’s difficult for us to play as poorly we did in the first half, with so many mistakes in our passing,” said Luis Enrique. “It was unbeliev-able that we could score so quickly and yet soon find ourselves in such a horrible situation. We were better in the second half, but still erred in some passes.”

Winter reinforcement Gonzalo “Chory” Castro produced Malaga’s first threat when he forced Bravo to push his long strike off the post.

Vermaelen then stumbled to the turf and needed Javier Mascherano to rush back and impede Charles’ shot. Shortly after, more pressure forced Mascherano into a bad pass that ended in a quick Malaga attack finished off by Juanpi.

Messi missed a win at Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday after being substituted during last weekend’s league match against Bilbao due to “muscle pain.” He was subdued against Malaga until he looked set to score against the flow of play, only for Miguel Torres to save his goal-bound strike right before halftime.

That turned out to be a warning shot from the Ballon d’Or winner, who got his goal when he jumped and reached his left leg behind him to latch onto Adriano’s cross and volley the ball past Kameni. The goal took his league tally to 11 and his 20th in all competitions this season. (ap)

LONDON - Manchester City need a fully-fit Sergio Aguero fir-ing on all cylinders to maintain their Premier League title push, said manager Manuel Pellegrini after the striker scored twice in Saturday’s 2-2 draw at West Ham United.

The Argentina marksman delivered an inspirational show at Upton Park, producing tireless effort, sublime skill, and compo-sure in front of goal.

Second-placed City have won only once away from home in the league since September and looked set for another defeat on the road when they trailed 2-1 to West Ham, who are sixth in the table, with nine minutes to go.

Aguero then popped up with another classy finish, his second goal of the game after converting a first-half penalty, to earn a share of the spoils. He netted 32 times in all competitions for City last season and, despite injuries limit-ing his appearances, he has still scored 15 goals in 22 matches this term.

Pellegrini denied City were “just Sergio Aguero” but agreed

he was critical to the team. “When he comes back from injury he always needs two or three games to return to his best performance,” the Chilean coach told reporters.

“The last two games he has played very well and I hope he continues this way to the end of the season because he is a top player. “We are fighting for the title, we are involved in all the competitions with a lot of injuries so it’s very important to have him 100 percent fit.”

Enner Valencia also grabbed two goals and West Ham manager Slaven Bilic said he was disap-pointed not to have won the game. Bilic added that he was proud of his side’s “fantastic” display against the team he believes is the most dangerous in the league.

“They are an offensive side like Barcelona,” he said. “Every time they have the ball they are dangerous.

“So far in the Premier League I have never seen a team that is so dangerous. For me it would be good if they won the league.”(rtr)

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has dismissed speculation linking him with Chelsea and said he was focused on the Serie A title race ahead of Sunday’s match against Roma.

While Juve are looking to ex-tend their 10-game winning streak in the league and keep pace with leaders Napoli, fifth placed Roma are still struggling for consistency following a miserable winless run at the end of 2015.

Allegri said his side would not take Roma lightly despite their opponents managing just two wins, six draws and two defeats in their last 10 games.

“Roma are still Scudetto con-tenders because they have quality players, there will certainly be a reaction after changing coach and this game is still Juve v Roma, so

it will be complicated,” Allegri told reporters on Saturday.

“They have a squad capable of putting together a positive run of results,” he continued. “I don’t believe any of the top five can be ruled out of the title race.”

Allegri also said he had no plans to leave Juventus despite British media reports suggesting he could take over at Stamform Bridge next season.

“Just as there’s transfer specu-lation around players, we get the same as coaches. It’s normal, and I’m proud to be the coach of a big club like Juventus,” Allegri said

“My thoughts are on Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the Champi-ons League. I am under contract with Juventus until 2017 and, as I’ve said many times, I am happy here. So that’s that.” (rtr)

AMSTERDAM - Riechedly Bazoer netted after just 25 sec-onds as Ajax Amsterdam secured a 1-0 home win over Vitesse Arnhem to maintain a comfort-able lead in the Dutch league on Saturday. Ajax advanced to 47 points, six ahead of second placed PSV Eindhoven who play Twente Enschede on Sunday.

Bazoer, who had been the subject of racist chanting away at ADO Den Haag last week that is being investigated by police, took advantage of a mistake by Vitesse goalkeeper Eloy Room.

Room failed to hold onto a high cross from Mitchell Dijks and allowed the ball to slip for the 19-year-old to tap home. Ajax were unconvincing after that but still good enough to hold onto the

lead and register their 15th win in 19 league games this season.

Heracles Almelo moved back into fourth place -- 14 points behind Ajax -- with goals from Brahim Darri and Thomas Bruns in a 2-1 home win over bottom placed De Graafschap.

Roda JC Kerkrade moved clear of the relegation zone with a 1-0 victory at Excelsior Rotterdam. Hicham Faik scored seven min-utes from time to end their five-month drought for a league win.

Heerenveen conceded a first half penalty to Willem II Tilburg but stormed back in the second half to win 3-1.

A trio of foreign imports -- Arber Zeneli, Kenneth Otigba and Sam Larsson -- scored to engineer the turn around. (rtr)

Bazoer scores after 25 seconds to keep Ajax on top

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri reacts during the match against Sampdoria.

Allegri shrugs off Chelsea talk, focused on title raceMilan twice loses

the lead in 2-2 draw at Empoli in Serie A

Fabio Muzzi/ANSA via AP

AC Milan’s Giacomo Bonaventura, top, shoots past Empoli goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski to score during a Serie A soccer match between Empoli and AC Milan, in Empoli, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

MILAN — AC Milan twice surrendered the lead and was held to a 2-2 draw at Empoli in an entertaining match in Serie A on Saturday. Milan took the lead through Carlos Bacca and Giacomo Bonaventura but Piotr Zielinski and Massimo Maccarone each time canceled out the visitors’ goals.

Messi scores to help Barca take overnight Liga lead

AP Photo/Daniel Tejedor

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, reacts during his Spanish La Liga soccer match against CF Malaga at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

City need Aguero firing on all cylinders - Pellegrini

Reuters / Tony O’Brien

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero.

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“We came here to win, I’m very disappointed because when you go in front twice you have to win the match,” Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said. “We lacked cyni-cism and cunning, we allowed Em-poli to come back into the game twice and got the final ball wrong too many times. The final result was right.”

Mario Balotelli almost won the match for Milan in stoppage time but scuffed his shot. The forward had already been flagged offside.

“Balotelli was hungry, maybe too much,” Mihajlovic said. “He got things wrong that normally he doesn’t. What’s important is that he continues to train like this, when he gets back to match fitness he will be

an extra weapon for us.”Milan remained sixth, provision-

ally 11 points behind Serie A leader Napoli, and seven behind Inter, which it plays in a derby match next Sunday. Empoli is a point behind Milan.

Second from bottom Frosinone drew 0-0 against Atalanta. Frosinone is five points below Palermo, which occupies the last position of safety. Atalanta moved nine points off the drop zone, ahead of the rest of the weekend’s fixtures.

Milan has never lost a Serie A match in Empoli and it got off to the perfect start. Bacca sprung the off-side trap to run onto Luca Antonelli’s pass over the top and slotted into the bottom left corner to give his side an

eighth-minute lead. It was Bacca’s third goal in as many matches and his sixth in his past eight.

Maccarone thought he had leveled in the 29th but had strayed offside for a glancing header on Zielinski’s free kick.

Empoli did equalize moments later when former Milan midfielder Riccardo Saponara delivered a great through ball for Zielinski to run onto and fire between Gianluigi Donnar-umma’s legs.

Milan restored its lead imme-diately after the break in fortunate circumstances. Lorenzo Tonelli’s clearance hit M’Baye Niang in the face and flew into the path of Bo-naventura who drilled the ball into the far bottom corner.

Milan was once again pegged back on the hour when Donnar-umma got down well to keep out Manuel Pucciarelli’s effort but Maccarone was on hand to tap in the rebound. (ap)

BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi scored an acrobatic goal to help Barcelona earn a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Malaga on Saturday, giving the defending champion the overnight lead of the Spanish league.

Showing no signs of any linger-ing muscle pain that kept him from playing midweek, Messi made a pass for Luis Suarez to set up Munir El Haddadi’s opening goal in the sec-ond minute. After Malaga’s pressure led to Juan “Juanpi” Anor leveling, Messi restored Barcelona’s advan-tage for good with a skillful scissor kick after halftime.

Yet despite Messi leading the way in attack, Barcelona still needed goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to ensure it took three points from La Rosaleda Stadium.

“One bad half, one good one,” Barcelona midfielder Andres Ini-esta said. “We weren’t comfortable in the first half and they were well positioned and took advantage of our poor passes. But in the second half we saw the solid team that we are used to.”

Barcelona moved one point ahead of Atletico Madrid before it plays Sevilla on Sunday. Barcelona, which also has a game to play, hosts Atlet-ico in the next round in a highly-anticipated clash between the last two champions.

Third-place Real Madrid will be five points behind Barcelona before visiting Real Betis on Sunday.

Also Saturday, Mateo Musac-chio’s 88th-minute header salvaged fourth-place Villarreal a 2-2 draw at Espanyol. Espanyol lost scorers

Felipe Caicedo to injury and Gerard Moreno to a second booking after Musacchio’s goal.

Granada almost squandered a two-goal lead before Ruben Rochi-na’s strike secured a 3-2 win over Getafe, while Rayo Vallecano routed fifth-place Celta Vigo 3-0 to end a nine-round winless run. Both Gran-ada and Rayo provisionally escaped the relegation zone, while Celta fell seven points adrift of the Champions League spots.

Barcelona took its undefeated streak to 24 games overall, and broke a mini-slump of two consecutive draws away from Camp Nou in the league.

But Malaga, which beat and drew with Barcelona last season in their two league meetings, outplayed the visitors for long stretches.

“I take away a feeling that we could have gotten a good result,” said Malaga manager Javi Gracia. “Even though they had fewer shots and poorer statistics than we did, they have the players that decided the match.”

Barcelona scored on its first attack when El Haddadi, who started for the injured Neymar, got his fourth goal in his last three starts. The goal was mostly the work of Suarez, who received Messi’s pass, held off a defender, and poked the ball under goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. This took a deflection to become a perfect pass for El Haddadi to push over the line.

The rest of the first half, however, was dominated by Malaga, which disrupted Barcelona’s attack and caused constant trouble for a back-

line that included regular substitutes Adriano, Aleix Vidal, and Thomas Vermaelen, replaced by Jeremy Ma-thieu at halftime. Adriano left in the second half because of injury.

“It’s difficult for us to play as poorly we did in the first half, with so many mistakes in our passing,” said Luis Enrique. “It was unbeliev-able that we could score so quickly and yet soon find ourselves in such a horrible situation. We were better in the second half, but still erred in some passes.”

Winter reinforcement Gonzalo “Chory” Castro produced Malaga’s first threat when he forced Bravo to push his long strike off the post.

Vermaelen then stumbled to the turf and needed Javier Mascherano to rush back and impede Charles’ shot. Shortly after, more pressure forced Mascherano into a bad pass that ended in a quick Malaga attack finished off by Juanpi.

Messi missed a win at Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday after being substituted during last weekend’s league match against Bilbao due to “muscle pain.” He was subdued against Malaga until he looked set to score against the flow of play, only for Miguel Torres to save his goal-bound strike right before halftime.

That turned out to be a warning shot from the Ballon d’Or winner, who got his goal when he jumped and reached his left leg behind him to latch onto Adriano’s cross and volley the ball past Kameni. The goal took his league tally to 11 and his 20th in all competitions this season. (ap)

LONDON - Manchester City need a fully-fit Sergio Aguero fir-ing on all cylinders to maintain their Premier League title push, said manager Manuel Pellegrini after the striker scored twice in Saturday’s 2-2 draw at West Ham United.

The Argentina marksman delivered an inspirational show at Upton Park, producing tireless effort, sublime skill, and compo-sure in front of goal.

Second-placed City have won only once away from home in the league since September and looked set for another defeat on the road when they trailed 2-1 to West Ham, who are sixth in the table, with nine minutes to go.

Aguero then popped up with another classy finish, his second goal of the game after converting a first-half penalty, to earn a share of the spoils. He netted 32 times in all competitions for City last season and, despite injuries limit-ing his appearances, he has still scored 15 goals in 22 matches this term.

Pellegrini denied City were “just Sergio Aguero” but agreed

he was critical to the team. “When he comes back from injury he always needs two or three games to return to his best performance,” the Chilean coach told reporters.

“The last two games he has played very well and I hope he continues this way to the end of the season because he is a top player. “We are fighting for the title, we are involved in all the competitions with a lot of injuries so it’s very important to have him 100 percent fit.”

Enner Valencia also grabbed two goals and West Ham manager Slaven Bilic said he was disap-pointed not to have won the game. Bilic added that he was proud of his side’s “fantastic” display against the team he believes is the most dangerous in the league.

“They are an offensive side like Barcelona,” he said. “Every time they have the ball they are dangerous.

“So far in the Premier League I have never seen a team that is so dangerous. For me it would be good if they won the league.”(rtr)

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has dismissed speculation linking him with Chelsea and said he was focused on the Serie A title race ahead of Sunday’s match against Roma.

While Juve are looking to ex-tend their 10-game winning streak in the league and keep pace with leaders Napoli, fifth placed Roma are still struggling for consistency following a miserable winless run at the end of 2015.

Allegri said his side would not take Roma lightly despite their opponents managing just two wins, six draws and two defeats in their last 10 games.

“Roma are still Scudetto con-tenders because they have quality players, there will certainly be a reaction after changing coach and this game is still Juve v Roma, so

it will be complicated,” Allegri told reporters on Saturday.

“They have a squad capable of putting together a positive run of results,” he continued. “I don’t believe any of the top five can be ruled out of the title race.”

Allegri also said he had no plans to leave Juventus despite British media reports suggesting he could take over at Stamform Bridge next season.

“Just as there’s transfer specu-lation around players, we get the same as coaches. It’s normal, and I’m proud to be the coach of a big club like Juventus,” Allegri said

“My thoughts are on Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the Champi-ons League. I am under contract with Juventus until 2017 and, as I’ve said many times, I am happy here. So that’s that.” (rtr)

AMSTERDAM - Riechedly Bazoer netted after just 25 sec-onds as Ajax Amsterdam secured a 1-0 home win over Vitesse Arnhem to maintain a comfort-able lead in the Dutch league on Saturday. Ajax advanced to 47 points, six ahead of second placed PSV Eindhoven who play Twente Enschede on Sunday.

Bazoer, who had been the subject of racist chanting away at ADO Den Haag last week that is being investigated by police, took advantage of a mistake by Vitesse goalkeeper Eloy Room.

Room failed to hold onto a high cross from Mitchell Dijks and allowed the ball to slip for the 19-year-old to tap home. Ajax were unconvincing after that but still good enough to hold onto the

lead and register their 15th win in 19 league games this season.

Heracles Almelo moved back into fourth place -- 14 points behind Ajax -- with goals from Brahim Darri and Thomas Bruns in a 2-1 home win over bottom placed De Graafschap.

Roda JC Kerkrade moved clear of the relegation zone with a 1-0 victory at Excelsior Rotterdam. Hicham Faik scored seven min-utes from time to end their five-month drought for a league win.

Heerenveen conceded a first half penalty to Willem II Tilburg but stormed back in the second half to win 3-1.

A trio of foreign imports -- Arber Zeneli, Kenneth Otigba and Sam Larsson -- scored to engineer the turn around. (rtr)

Bazoer scores after 25 seconds to keep Ajax on top

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri reacts during the match against Sampdoria.

Allegri shrugs off Chelsea talk, focused on title raceMilan twice loses

the lead in 2-2 draw at Empoli in Serie A

Fabio Muzzi/ANSA via AP

AC Milan’s Giacomo Bonaventura, top, shoots past Empoli goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski to score during a Serie A soccer match between Empoli and AC Milan, in Empoli, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

MILAN — AC Milan twice surrendered the lead and was held to a 2-2 draw at Empoli in an entertaining match in Serie A on Saturday. Milan took the lead through Carlos Bacca and Giacomo Bonaventura but Piotr Zielinski and Massimo Maccarone each time canceled out the visitors’ goals.

Messi scores to help Barca take overnight Liga lead

AP Photo/Daniel Tejedor

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, reacts during his Spanish La Liga soccer match against CF Malaga at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

City need Aguero firing on all cylinders - Pellegrini

Reuters / Tony O’Brien

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero.

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The attraction relying on monkey cuteness located at Sangeh village, Abiansemal, Badung, or about 20 km north of Denpasar is indeed beautiful. Nutmeg forest offering a unique tree only existing in Bali is often used a background in their photo shooting. Uniquely, they have designed the scene in a perfect composition. Infrequently they come with photography director that will direct the visual look.

Operations Manager of the Bukit Sari Sangeh, I Made Sumo-hon, said even though all locations can be used as a pre-wedding photo object, but photographers usually choose four places hav-ing become a favorite. Firstly, it is at the front gate, the entrance into the woods is commonly used as the background. These gates are unique and old and have the background of temple and green forests.

Furthermore, it is in front of the cool Bukit Sari Temple. Background behind the temple has a lush trees equally looking very beautiful. Sometimes, photographers are waiting for a nice moment to get a silhouette, sunlight penetrating the trees in the jungle.

Besides, the forest located at the left side of the temple is also good for shooting. Other than having a big tree, the loca-tion looking like a circle has no small plants. At the area there are only dried leaves of nutmeg tree. “It is said this area is the grave of monkeys. Nevertheless, we never see any bodies of the monkeys,” said Sumohon.

Another interesting location is under the banyan tree located in western most of the forest. There were two large banyan trees exuding a positive aura. “In general, they (photographers—Ed) are very satisfied with the existing locations. However, before taking the picture they will put offerings in order that their activi-ties can run smoothly,” he added.

For carrying out a pre-wedding photo session, explained Su-mohon, they usually pay sanitation levy as much as IDR 200,000. With such amount, they can make photo session as many as they like. “Many foreign travelers, mainly those from Asian regions, make pre-wedding photo session here. They claimed to have seen on the web so that they are interested as well,” concluded Sumohon. (kmb)

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Lue was promoted Friday, when the Cavaliers fired David Blatt despite him taking the team to the NBA Finals last season and currently lead-ing the Eastern Conference. The coaching swap didn’t have any immediate impact on the Bulls, who outhustled the Cavs to loose balls and won for just the third time in nine games.

Jimmy Butler scored 20 points, Nikola Mirotic added 17 and Taj Gibson 15 for Chicago, which opened a 17-point lead in the third quarter and never let the Cavs get closer than eight in the fourth.

LeBron James just missed his first triple-double this season, finishing with 26 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists. J.R. Smith added 18 points for the Cavs, who shot 37 percent from the field and were only 9 for 22 from the three-throw line. When the final horn sounded, the Cavs were booed by their own fans.

Bothered by a lack of cohesion and chemistry in the Cavs, general manager David Griffin fired Blatt, a surprising move that came just days after Cleveland suffered a humiliating 34-point home loss to the defending champion Golden State Warriors. But Griffin detected deeper issues and felt he had no choice but to remove Blatt and

promote Lue, a top assistant and former point guard who won two NBA titles as a player.

Lue said his early focus would be on his team’s “spirit.” He believes the Cavs aren’t hav-ing as much fun as they should be and is intent on improving their attitude. “You can’t be mad when you win and you can’t be mad when you lose,” he said.

At Phoenix, Archie Goodwin hit a 3-pointer from atop the arc with 0.1 seconds left and the Phoenix Suns beat the Atlanta Hawks 98-95 to end a six-game losing streak. Goodwin led the Suns with 24 points, and Phoenix won for the second time in 17 games.

Tyson Chandler tied a Suns record with 27 rebounds, including 17 in the first half, and also had 13 points and a season-high five assists. Kent Bazemore led the Hawks with 21 points.

Jeremy Lin and Kemba Walker scored 26 points each, and the Charlotte Hornets defeated the New York Knicks 97-84 for their third win in the last four games. Lin and Walker were a combined 19 of 19 from the free-throw line and P.J. Hairston chipped in with a season-high 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Hornets. Shabazz Muhammad scored 25 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped the Memphis Grizzlies’ four-game winning streak with a 106-101 vic-tory.

Ricky Rubio had 15 points, 12 assists and six rebounds and Andrew Wiggins scored 19 points for the Timberwolves, who beat a team with a winning record for the first time since Nov. 25. (ap)

MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic survived a frustrating five-setter against Gilles Simon at the Australian Open, spraying 100 unforced errors on Rod Laver Arena before reaching the quarterfinals for the 27th consecutive Grand Slam.

That’s rarified territory for the five-time and defending champion, equaling Jimmy Connors’ career mark of consecutive quarter-finals — only Roger Federer has done better with his 36.

“These are the tournaments that we value the most and to be able to always come up with the best performance in the Grand Slams, of course I’m very proud of it and hopefully I can keep going,” he said.

Top-ranked Djokovic won 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in four hours, 32 minutes and will meet No. 7 Kei Nishikori in the quar-terfinals.

The drama kept building after a rela-tively routine start to Day 7, when six-time champion Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova confirmed their quarterfinal date with straight-sets wins, ensuring a rematch between last year’s finalists.

In a night match on Hisense, No. 4 Ag-nieszka Radwanksa rallied from 5-2 down in the third to win 6-7 (6), 6-1, 7-5 against Anna-Lena Friedsam, who finished the last two games hobbling and in tears after taking a medical timeout for what appeared to be

cramps.Friedsam was given a time warning and

then a point penalty in her last service game, conceding the vital break to Radwanska.

Djokovic only lost one match in a Grand Slam last year — the French Open final — and for the sixth straight major hadn’t dropped a set in reaching the fourth round. Despite all that, he was ready to take tips from the public after his performance.

A man in the crowd yelled out during the post-match, on-court interview that Djokovic should give up on the drop shots — some of which were incredibly ill-advised against Simon and contributed to the most startling statistic of the match.

“OK, thanks buddy,” Djokovic responded with a laugh. “I hate to say that but you are absolutely right.” Centuries are celebrated across the train tracks at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but not in the unforced errors column at Rod Laver.

“I made a lot of unforced errors today,” said Djokovic, who was clearly exasperated with his uncharacteristic error-toll. “Never-theless, he was fighting. He was playing well. Physically very demanding. I’m just happy to get through this one.”

Simon entered the match with nine straight losses after his one win against Djokovic, but thought he’d worked out a way to beat the Serbian star with just consistently and

desperately keeping the rallies alive.“I know a lot of players wanted me to win

this match,” the 31-year-old Frenchman said.

“A lot of players will feel better with Novak out of the draw. That’s normal because he’s the best player in the world.” (ap)

Bulls spoil Lue’s coaching debut, beat Cavaliers 96-83

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Chicago Bulls’ Pau Gasol (16) drives past Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love (0) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Cleveland. Gasol scored a team-high 25 points in the Bulls’ 96-83 win.

CLEVELAND — Tyronn Lue didn’t make much of a difference in his coach-ing debut for Cleveland as Pau Gasol scored 25 points, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 96-83 win over the Cavaliers on Saturday.

Djokovic survives five-setter v Simon to reach quarterfinals

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reacts during his fourth round match against France’s Gilles Simon at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 24, 2016.

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But the move has caused a back-lash from opposition lawmakers and prompted a series of protests from citizens unhappy with Filip’s close ties to a prominent oligarch. There is widespread anger at Mol-dova’s ruling elites after a $1 billion banking fraud plunged the country into crisis last year.

The repeated protests threaten to derail Filip’s chances of running a stable government, at a time when Moldova sees its economy sinking and is trying to negotiate new fund-ing from overseas lenders, including the International Monetary Fund. “I don’t see the advantages of Filip’s government and there are lots of minuses. He was approved without

any public support,” said analyst Ni-colai Tveatkov. “(The government) is temporary and one cannot speak of achieving political stability.”

A small of group of demonstra-tors broke into the parliament build-ing on Wednesday demanding new elections, clashing with riot police. Underscoring the sense of chaos, the spokesman of President Nicolae Timofti later resigned. “I told the president about my resignation as a result of an extraordinary occur-rence, which personally related to myself and is regrettable,” spokes-man Vlad Turcanu told reporters.

“I told journalists that the swearing-in ceremony of Filip’s government had been postponed

to Thursday. That was the official position of the president up until 2200 on Wednesday ... After that, closer to midnight the decision was taken to carry out the swearing-in ceremony,” he said on Thursday. Opposition lawmaker Bogdan Tirdea was similarly scathing.

“The government must take re-sponsibility for the night-time swear-ing-in, which was carried out secretly from the public,” he told Reuters. “This cabinet is illegitimate.”

Moldova’s ruling class was targeted in mass protests over the banking fraud, which saw the equivalent of one-eighth of Mol-dova’s gross domestic product disappear overseas.

The protesters say Filip is part of the problem. He has close ties to Vladimir Plahotniuc, one of Moldova’s richest men, who was a focus of the protests. “Plahotniuc, don’t forget that your home is in prison” the protesters shouted on Thursday. (rtr)

NEW DELHI — French Pres-ident Francois Hollande began a three-day visit to India on Sunday that could push a multibillion-dollar deal for combat airplanes and closer cooperation on coun-terterrorism and clean energy.

Hollande landed in the north-ern city of Chandigarh where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to join him at official engagements.

Designed in the 1950s by Swiss-French architect Le Cor-busier, Chandigarh is one of three places that France has pledged to help develop as so-called “smart cities” — with clean water sup-plies, efficient sewage disposal and public transportation.

In Chandigarh, Hollande and French business leaders will meet with Indian counterparts to boost bilateral trade, which in 2014 stood at $8.6 billion. New Delhi is also trying to encourage French companies to tap into India’s economic boom.

Hollande is accompanied by a high-profile delegation including the ministers of defense, foreign affairs, economy and culture and dozens of top corporate leaders.

Hollande will travel to the In-dian capital later Sunday. He will hold talks with Indian leaders on Monday and be a guest of honor on Tuesday at India’s Republic Day parade, celebrating 66 years since the country adopted its constitution.

High on the agenda is India’s desire to purchase 36 Rafale combat planes for its air force, which Modi had announced

during a visit to Paris in April, touching off several rounds of negotiations over pricing, offsets and servicing.

In an interview with the Press Trust of India news agency, Hollande hinted it might take some more time to sign the deal. “Agreeing on the technicalities of this arrangement obviously takes time, but we are on the right track,” PTI quoted Hollande as saying.

France has also promised support for India’s clean-energy quest, including a solar energy alliance launched last month during the global climate talks held in Paris.

“Our bilateral relationship with France is very comprehen-sive. It covers number of sectors such as defense, civil nuclear cooperation, railways, smart cit-ies, science and research, space and culture. In all these areas we expect some forward progress during the French president’s visit,” said Vikas Swarup, India’s External Affairs Ministry spokes-man, last week.

The two sides are also ex-pected to touch on anti-terrorism efforts including speeding up extradition requests and cracking down on money laundering used to fund militant activities.

Swarup noted that both coun-tries had been hit by militants recently, with 130 people killed across Paris on Nov. 13 and a four-day siege against the north Indian air force base of Pathankot this month in which seven Indian soldiers were killed. (ap)

CAIRO — Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famed golden burial mask of King Tut, which was corrected late last year, have been referred to trial for “gross negligence.”

Prosecutors said in a Sunday statement that the 3,300-year old

mask, whose beard was accidental-ly knocked off and hastily glued on with epoxy in 2014, was scratched and damaged as a result.

The mask was put back on display last month after a German-Egyptian team of specialists removed the ep-oxy and reattached the beard using

beeswax, which is often used as an adhesive for antiquities.

Restoration specialist Christian Eckmann said a year ago that the cause of a scratch discovered on the mask had had not been deter-mined, but that it could have been recent. (ap)

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French President Francois Hollande, left, is presented a shawl, a ceremonial piece of cloth, as he arrives at the Indian Air Force station in Chandigarh, India, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016.

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Egypt sends 8 to trial over botched repair of King Tut mask

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Riot police officers stand in line in front of protesters, some wanting closer links to Russia, others demanding a crackdown on corruption, outside the parliament in Chisinau, Moldova, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Moldova’s new pro-European government has been sworn in, after protesters stormed Parliament and scuffled with police following a vote that ended a standoff between the president and the legislature.

CHISINAU - At least 10,000 people protested in the Mol-dovan capital on Thursday against the appointment of Prime Minister Pavel Filip, whose hasty swearing-in ceremony at midnight also prompted a government spokesman to resign. Parliament appointed Filip in hopes of ending months of politi-cal stalemate after the previous government was toppled in a no-confidence vote in October.

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WASHINGTON — The Interna-tional Monetary Fund is forecasting that the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will maintain this year the same overall 0.3 percent nega-tive growth seen in 2015.

Alejandro Werner is the IMF’s chief economist for Latin America. He says it will be the first time the region has seen two consecutive years of economic contraction since the external debt crisis of 1982-83, which gave rise to the so-called lost decade.

Werner said Friday the negative outlook is based on economic difficul-ties in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and

Venezuela, while most other countries in the region should post moderate growth. He said falling commodities prices have resulted in some $200 billion in losses for export earnings in Latin America’s seven leading econo-mies. (ap)

The ministers from the 10-mem-ber Association of Southeast Asian Nations also announced that they will begin a “Visit ASEAN@50” cam-paign to mark the 50th anniversary of the regional group next year. The campaign, to be launched in March at a travel convention in Berlin, will showcase hundreds of ASEAN tour-ism products, events and experiences and target people within and outside the region.

Tourism accounted for 12.3 per-cent of ASEAN’s GDP in 2013 with 102.2 million tourist arrivals. ASEAN says the number of tourists rose to 105 million in 2014.

ASEAN formally established a unified economic community in December, and officials said tourism is a major pillar of integration for the region of more than 600 million people.

As part of common branding,

the tourism ministers unveiled an ASEAN cruise brand with a logo of linked, colorful waves.

Philippine Tourism Secretary Ra-mon Jimenez Jr. said a goal of having a common ASEAN visa may become a reality within the next five years. He said everyone is in agreement on having one visa but technical hurdles are delaying its implementation.

“As ASEAN turns 50 it is an in-credible opportunity for us to launch the whole idea that ASEAN is a single destination, not 10,” added Jimenez, who chaired the ministers’ annual meeting in Manila.

In a statement, the ministers of-

fered their condolences to Indonesia over bombings last week in Jakarta. They expressed appreciation for In-donesia’s rapid response to the attack to avert any impact on tourism.

Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said there have been no travel cancelations since the bomb-ings, which killed eight people, and appealed to ASEAN members for their continued support.

The 10-year tourism plan calls for intensified promotion and mar-keting, diversification of tourism products including development of sub-regional destinations, attraction of tourism investment, promotion

of an ASEAN tourism standards certification system, expansion of connectivity and infrastructure, and increased participation of local com-munities in tourism.

If the projects are fully imple-mented, ASEAN said it anticipates that tourism’s share of total employ-ment could rise from 3.7 percent to 7 percent by 2025 and per capita spend-ing by international tourists could increase from $877 to $1,500. Tourist arrivals in ASEAN are expected to increase to 152 million by 2025.Jime-nez said by 2030, ASEAN is forecast to account for 25 percent of 1.8 billion world tourist arrivals. (ap)

MADRID - Arab nations are looking to Chinese visitors to revive their tourism sectors, battered by se-curity fears, and also need to develop homegrown tourism as a lifeline, ministers from the region say.

Bookings to nations in North Africa and the Middle East, which had been recovering after the Arab spring unrest, fell last year following deadly attacks claimed by Islamic extremists in Tunisia and Egypt that caused foreigners to shun beaches and historic sites

across the region.But visitor numbers from China

to Egypt soared last year despite a series of security blows to the coun-try’s key tourism sector in 2015 because the government began to allow charter flights from the Asian country, Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said.

The number of Chinese visitors to Egypt more than doubled from 60,000 in 2014 to 135,000 in 2015, “in a year in which we suffered a lot”, he said at a conference on tour-

ism policies in Arab nations at the Madrid international tourism fair Fitur, which wraps up Sunday.

In September eight Mexican tourists were mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces in the vast Western Desert.

The following month a Russian airliner crashed in the Sinai desert shortly after taking off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, kill-ing all 224 people on board.

The Islamic State jihadist group said it downed the aircraft and tens

of thousands of foreign tourists, in-cluding some 80,000 Russians and 20,000 Britons, were stranded in the resort after flights were cancelled for security reasons.

Egypt has also boosted promo-tion efforts in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations, leading to a sharp increase in the number of visitors from those nations and is doing more to promote domestic tourism, Zaazou said.

The country is banking on the short memory of global travellers who have

been scared off and returned to the country before, most vividly after the Luxor massacre in 1997 in which over 60 people were killed, mostly Swiss and Japanese, he added.

“I believe 2016 will be the year tourists come back to Egypt and our part of the world,” the minister said.

Like Egypt, Morocco has stepped up its efforts to develop its domestic tourism market to help offset fluc-tuations in the arrival of foreigners, Morocco’s Tourism Minister Lah-cen Haddad said. (afp)

IMF sees 2016 negative growth for Latin America, Caribbean

After waiting in line for hours, women stand outside a super-market in Caracas, Venezuela, with their price regulated toilet

paper made available for sale by the government, Friday, Jan.

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Arab nations eye China, domestic market to revive tourism

Southeast Asia launches 10-year plan to increase tourism

MANILA — Southeast Asian tourism ministers on Friday launched a 10-year plan to ramp up marketing of their region as a single destination to raise tourism’s share of the regional economy to 15 percent by 2025.

The move, which falls short of an actual agreement to join the gov-ernment’s minority ruling coalition,

was announced by Golkar leader and powerful tycoon Aburizal Bak-rie on Saturday.

“Another problem that should be solved is our position related to the President Jokowi,” Bakrie was quoted as telling a party meeting on Saturday. “As a political power, Golkar was not born to be in opposition.

“To side with President Jokowi’s power, we participate with pro-gressive power,” he added, using

Widodo’s popular nickname. “Our goal is to participate.”

Golkar, which controls nearly 15 percent of seats in parliament, has been embroiled in a leadership dispute for months.

Bakrie, patriarch of the family-owned Bakrie Group conglomer-ate, backed defeated presidential

candidate Prabowo Subianto in the presidential election in late 2014.

Disgruntled party members mounted a bid to oust him when Golkar, the political vehicle of former authoritarian ruler Suharto, failed to make it into government for the first time ever in the last election. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesia won three awards of the United Na-tions World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in a ceremony held in Madrid, Spain, recently.

The Banyuwangi administration with its “Re-inventing the Govern-ment in Tourism” project is the first winner for the Innovation in Public Policy and Governance category of the 12th UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tour-ism, the UN WTO said in a press release.

Garuda Indonesia’s Bali Beach Clean-Up campaign has come out as the First Runner-up for the UNWTO Award for Innovation in Enterprises category.

Indonesia’s NGO, Karang Le-stari Foundation with its “Coral Reef Reborn” project is also the First Runner-Up for the UNWTO Award for Innovation in Non-Gov-ernmental Organizations (NGOs) category.

The Awards recognizing inno-vation in four categories - Public Policy and Governance, Enter-prises, NGOs and Research and Technology-, were announced on January 20 at the UNWTO Awards Ceremony in the Spanish Tourism Fair (FITUR) in Madrid.

Besides Banyungawi, first win-ners for the other three categories are the Itaipu Technological Park (Brazil), the Treetop Walking Path

(Lithuania), and the Sisterhood of Survivors Program (Nepal) .

The projects were selected among more than 100 candidatures from 30 countries. “The UNWTO Awards aim to honor those that everyday work for the benefit of host communities, supporting the livelihoods of local people and protecting our environment and our culture for future generations. All 16 finalists are an example to all of us of how the principles of the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism and the objectives set in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can inspire sustainable tour-ism,” UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai said. (ant)

JAKARTA - In today’s digital era, the use of e-commerce is not only the needs of businesses in big cities. Entrepreneur in the villages too has now been taught to use the internet as a means for promoting their products.

Training to create a literate so-ciety is encouraged by e-commerce portal selling, Indonetwork.co.id through movement “Indonetwork.co.id goes to the Village”. This pro-gram was in collaboration with the Institute for Urban Village Commu-nity Empowerment of Srengseng Sawah, Jagakarsa, South Jakarta. The event was held at Graha Coop-erative, on Tuesday (19/1).

Headman of Srengseng Sawah, Tubagus Masruri, explaining inter-net marketing training is one way to address problem of jobs availability in the area. “Participants were in-troduced ways that can be used to locate potential markets, designing, websites creation, doing online marketing strategies, including in-tegrating it with social media. With internet technology, entrepreneurs can market their products and ser-vices easier,” Masruri added.

Further Masruri added there are a lot of potential products in Srengseh Sawah that can be mar-keted through online, such as beer

and taffy.Wisnu Purnama Aji, Business

Development of Indonetwork, said this program is a form of awareness from indonetwork.co.id --a portal created by Indonesian, to the devel-opment of e-commerce industry in Indonesia. “Training to residents of villages or countryside deliberately done to provide education directly to communities,” said Wisnu.

This program, called Wisnu, is planned to be rolled out on an ongo-ing basis to a number of areas, not only in Jakarta. Moreover, if there is a direct request from the public, in the form of a letter of application training, would be immediately acted upon. “This is a proof of commitment by Indonetwork to the development of e-commerce industry in Indonesia. We want to disseminate this information widely to the public, to educate directly, such as cooperation with the Village Community Institute in Jakarta,” he said.

In their presentation, besides Wisnu, Indonetwork also joined by Eddy Supriady as the event chair-man and Slamet Setiawan. ST who is the Director of PT. Citra Harum Engineering as an online business motivator also loyal members of Indonetwork.co.id. (kmb18)

Indonesia’s second-biggest party to back President Widodo

JAKARTA - The leader of Indonesia’s second-largest politi-cal party has said his party will lend support to President Joko Widodo’s government, potentially making it easier to pass leg-islation by giving it a majority in the house of representatives, news Website Detik reported on Sunday.

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Dancers from Indonesia perform a dance during the “FITUR” International Tourism Fair in Madrid, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. Tourism professionals from all around the world, trade visi-tors and general public meet in the five-day fair to make business and exchange information about the global tourism market.

Indonesia wins three UNWTO awards

Internet literacy movement goes to villages

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Training to create a literate society is encouraged by e-com-merce portal selling, Indonetwork.co.id through movement “Indonetwork.co.id goes to the Village”.

Long queue which was becuase Gilimanuk Harbor was closed due to the bad weather

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Travel bans barring nonemer-gency vehicles from the roads of New York City and Baltimore were expected to be lifted by early morning, and mass transit systems that had been partially suspended during the storm were scheduled to run again.

But even as United Airlines said limited service might begin later in the afternoon in New York City, airports in the Washington D.C. area were likely to remain closed Sunday, and other airlines started to cut Monday service in addition to the 7,000 already-canceled week-end flights.

The massive snowstorm brought both the nation’s capital and its larg-est city to a stop, dumping as much as 3 feet (90 centimeters) of snow and stranding tens of thousands of travelers. At least 18 deaths were blamed on the weather, resulting from car crashes, shoveling snow and hypothermia.

The snow dropped 26.8 inch-es (68.1 centimeters) in Central Park, the second-most recorded since 1869. The snowfall narrowly missed tying the previous record

of 26.9 inches (68.3 centimeters) set in February 2006. The snow finally stopped falling in New York City around 10 p.m. Saturday night, though authorities insisted people stay indoors and off the streets as crews plowed deserted roads and police set up checkpoints to catch violators.

The storm dropped snow from the Gulf Coast to New England, with areas of Washington surpass-ing 30 inches (76.2 centimeters). The heaviest unofficial report was in a rural area of West Virginia, not far from Harpers Ferry, with 40 inches (101.6 centimeter).

“This is kind of a Top 10 snow-storm,” said weather service winter storm expert Paul Kocin, who co-wrote a two-volume textbook on blizzards.

The usually bustling New York City looked more like a ghost town. With Broadway shows dark, thin crowds shuffled through a differ-ent kind of Great White Way, the nickname for a section of the theater district. And Bruce Springsteen canceled Sunday’s scheduled show at Madison Square Garden.

In Washington, monuments that would typically be busy with tour-ists stood vacant. All mass transit in the capital was to be shut down through Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Alex Cruz, helping a neighbor shovel snow Saturday in Silver Spring, Maryland, couldn’t help but notice the emptiness.

“It’s like living out in the middle of Wyoming,” he said. Throughout the region, drivers skidded off snowy, icy roads in accidents that killed several people Friday and Saturday. Those killed included a 4-year-old boy in North Carolina; a Kentucky transportation worker who was plowing highways; and a woman whose car plunged down a 300-foot (91-meter) embankment in Tennessee. Three people died while shoveling snow in Queens and Staten Island.

An Ohio teenager sledding be-hind an all-terrain vehicle was hit by a truck and killed, and two people died of hypothermia in southwest Virginia. In North Caro-lina, a man whose car had veered off an icy-covered road was arrested on charges of killing a motorist who stopped to help.

In Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, drivers were ma-rooned for hours in snow-choked highways.(ap)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have detained seven men suspected of being an Islamic State militant cell that was plotting attacks, authorities said Sunday.

The seven Malaysians were detained over the past three days in a follow-up operation after the Jan. 15 detention of a man who was planning a suicide attack in Kuala Lumpur, national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said.

Among the items seized were 30 types of bullets, jihad books and Islamic State flags and videos, he said.

“All the suspects are members of the same (terror) cell, which is responsible for planning to launch terror attacks in strategic locations across Malaysia,” Khalid said in a statement.

The suspect thought to be the cell leader is a 31-year-old assistant housekeeping manager at a hotel in southern Johor state, Khalid said. He said one of the suspects, whom he didn’t identify, received orders from Bahrom Naim, an Indonesian based in Syria who had a role in planning the Jakarta attacks.

Malaysia raised its security alert level following the attacks Jan. 14 in neighboring Indonesia.

More than 150 people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State group have been detained in Malaysia over the past two years, including some accused of plotting attacks in Kuala Lumpur. (ap)

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Shovelers remove snow in front of the Municipal Service Building in Philadelphia as snow falls over the region Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

After blizzard, snowed-in US East Coast prepares to dig out

NEW YORK — Millions of Americans were preparing to dig themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the U.S. East Coast to an icy standstill.

Malaysia detains 7 suspected IS members plotting attacks

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A security guard stands in front of a barricade at the Ma-laysia’s landmark building, Petronas Twin Towers, ahead of the New Year’s celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015.

NEGARA - Strong winds and high waves in the Bali Strait, Saturday (Jan. 23) forced Gilimanuk Harbour authorities to temporarily suspend boat crossings.

Gilimanuk Harbormaster, Nyo-man Daelon Wirawan, confirmed on Saturday evening that the imposition of the open and close system for the crossings was due to the adverse weather conditions occurring between Gilimanuk and Ketapang Harbors (Banyuwangi).

Wirawan reported that fairly high wave and strong winds with speeds of more the 49 knots made out hard for vessels to moor and load and unload. “To prevent any accidents, crossings were temporarily suspended,” he ex-plained.

Implementation of the temporary closure at the Gilimanuk Harbor caused line ups as people waited to be able to cross. After about 1 hour, at 17:40, the crossing was reopened.

Wirawan always expects vessel captains to be vigilant as they cross the waters. “We expect them to always be vigilant because the weather often changes so that they must always follow the guidance of the national weather service (BMKG). We are al-ways in contact with the BMKG,” he explained. (kmb)

The theme of the conference to be organized until January 28, is “Global Commitment, Local Actions,” accord-ing to a statement of the National Family Planning Coordinating Board

(BKKBN).At least 350 young people from many

countries will participate in the meeting comprising 200 sessions of discussion, 500 presentations, and 80 panels.

Among topics of discussion will be the involvement of young people, the quality of health, the family planning challenges in 2020, budgeting innovation, and social changes.

The previous international family planning conferences were organized in Dakar, Senegal in 2011, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2013. (ant)

NUSA DUA - The Growth and Emerging Mar-kets Committee of the International Organization of Security Commissions (IOSCO GEM-C) discussed anticipatory measures that can be adopted against cyber crime in the capital market industry during a conference on Thursday.

“During the IOSCO GEM-C conference, a simu-lation to anticipate cyber crime in the capital market was held, which was the first so far,” the Executive Head of Capital Market Supervision at the Financial Services Authority (OJK), Nurhaida, said.

She said 39 members of IOSCO GEM-C attended the conference and expressed appreciation for the agenda as hackers’ attack may happen at any time.

“The essence is that if a cyber attack occurs and develops across the globe, action should immedi-ately be taken and so it would not worry investors,” she said.

She said internet-based crimes may happen in the capital market industry because of the existing system in the financial sector.

“An attack on the trading system in the stock ex-change or on the asset of a client, could affect other institutions or other clients’ assets in the securities funds accounts. So, anticipation has been the focus of attention in the conference,” she said.

Nurhaida further said, “A system needs to antici-pate, and prevent the crime.”

IOSCO Secretary General, David Wright, said internet-based crimes had become a serious problem in line with technological development.

In view of that it is important for capital market supervisors as regulators to study the kinds of cyber crime that may take place in capital markets in their respective countries, he said.

“I remember a company as big as Sony was once attacked and its system was destroyed. So, a system is certainly needed to prevent such an incident,” Wright said.

“The discussion was an effort to increase ef-ficiency in the financial services industry with the confidence that the system we use is secure,” head of the Department of Capital Market Supervision 1A, the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK), Gonthor Ryantori Aziz, said.

According to Gonthor, industrial surveillance systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks via Internet connections.

He added that although there had been no indications of cyber attacks against the capital market security system in Indonesia, it had to be anticipated.

“In Indonesia, there has been no cyber attack on the capital market, but certainly the potential is always there. We will ensure in the existing system that our capital market can anticipate it,” Gonthor remarked.

IOSCO is a forum of capital market supervisors in the world and now more than 170 institutions, including government agencies, self-regulatory or-ganizations and other institutions are its members.

GEM-C, meanwhile, is the biggest committee in IOSCO, with 75 percent of its members being IOSCO¿s common members.

GEM-C is charged with developing and in-creasing efficiency of the capital market by setting minimum standards and formulating principles that members must meet. (ant)

Developing countries discuss cyber attack on capital market

President to open international conference of family planning in Bali

NUSA DUA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is scheduled to officially open the 2016 International Conference on Family Planning to be held in Nusa Dua, Bali Province, on January 25, 2016.

Bad weather, Gilimanuk Harbor applies open-close system

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A house built by Frank Lloyd Wright that dodged the wrecking ball is Phoenix’s latest tourist attrac-tion. The David and Gladys Wright House, named for the architect’s son and daughter-in-law who lived there, is in the Arcadia neighbor-hood. There are free public tours daily. The spiral walkway offers a spectacular view of Camelback Mountain. Events on the grounds range from an Easter egg hunt to yoga classes.

Changing Hands Bookstore, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of downtown near a light rail stop, opened in May 2014 but already feels like the place where everybody knows your name. Patrons can grab a book with some beer or wine at the store’s First Draft Book Bar. Next door, the Southern Rail restaurant, named for its proximity to the light rail and its “low-country” cuisine, serves tasty Southern and Creole-influenced food like red beans and rice and fried chicken.

Another new hub is DeSoto Central Market in downtown. The property, once a vacant brick build-ing and former car dealership, is now a market with food stalls, bar and patio. It’s known for happy hour, live music and swing dance nights. Drool-worthy delicacies include fried chicken-skin po’boys at the larder + the delta.

The 140-acre (57-hectare) Desert Botanical Garden boasts more than 50,000 plants and five trails that il-lustrate the role desert plants play in the environment. The latest exhibit incorporates eight light-based instal-lations using colorful fiber optics.

With all the sunshine, take a hike. Two popular summits are the 2,704-foot (852-meter) Camelback Mountain and 2,608-foot (795-meter) Piestewa Peak. Both are north of downtown and offer views of the entire metropolitan Phoenix valley. A less crowded alternative is South Mountain Park 10 miles (17 kilo-meters) south of downtown, where you’ll find ancient petroglyphs.

The Heard Museum is known for art and artifacts showcasing South-western tribal culture, including Hopi katsina dolls, Navajo textiles and Zuni jewelry.

Frank Lloyd Wright fans may want to drive 30 minutes to tour his winter home and studio in Scottsdale.

Galleries at the Musical Instru-ment Museum in north Phoenix are organized by world regions. Special headphones play music samples when you near the corresponding

display. One gallery spotlights in-struments and clothes belonging to icons from Elvis Presley to Taylor Swift.

Phoenix’s roughly 23-mile (37-kilometer) light rail system makes the ideal hop-on-hop-off tour bus with a $4 all-day pass. Several stops have free park-and-ride areas too. The tracks run through downtown, the college town of Tempe and the suburb of Mesa. In Tempe, stroll around Tempe Town Lake, popular for jogging, fishing and even dragon-boat racing. Mill Avenue is lined with shops, restaurants and bars. In Mesa, get off at the Main Street/Sycamore stop and walk five minutes to Me-kong Plaza. The shopping center is a smorgasbord of authentic Asian cui-sine — dim sum, pho or Taiwanese specialties like simmered pig ear.

Also available: green Grid Bike Share bicycles all around central Phoenix. Download the app to find and reserve a bike.

Rescues of out-of-state visitors who aren’t accustomed to the heat are unfortunately not rare. If you’re hiking, dress properly, go with a buddy, carry a fully charged cell-phone and hydrate (pets too).

Every March, spring training brings 15 Major League Baseball teams to Phoenix suburbs as part of the Cactus League. Because the sta-diums are relatively small, fans who arrive early have a good chance of interacting with favorite players.

Phoenix’s artsy Roosevelt Row neighborhood is the best place for quirky people-watching along a seven-block stretch with restaurants, bars, galleries and street art. The first Friday of each month, the neighbor-hood hosts outdoor musicians, artists and vendors.

For a respite from the desert land-scape, the 10-acre (4-hectare) Farm at South Mountain in south Phoenix feels like a country garden party. Onsite eateries include a breakfast-brunch cafe and fine-dining restau-rant serving locally-grown produce. You can also grab lunch in a basket and use picnic tables in the farm’s pecan tree grove.

Mexican restaurants in Phoenix are like Starbucks: There’s practi-cally one on every corner, from gourmet taco houses to casual mom-and-pop joints. Barrio Cafe is a local institution known for its collection of some 300 different tequilas and for dishes made from cochinita pibil (slow roasted pork) flavored with sour orange and a blend of spices. (ap)

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In this Jan. 20, 2016 photo, visitors trek along the pathways at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. The garden boasts more than 50,000 plants and five trails that illustrate the role desert plants play in the environment.

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In this Jan. 14, 2015 file photo, customers are serviced at the counter of The Phoenix Public Market Cafe restaurant in Phoenix.

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

In this Jan. 20, 2016 photo, light rail trains make a stop along the roughly 23-mile light rail system in Phoenix. The tracks run through downtown, the college town of Tempe and the suburb of Mesa.

Dining, hikes, art and sunshine at PhoenixPHOENIX — With hundreds of golf courses and 300 days

of sunshine a year, it’s easy to cast metropolitan Phoenix as a retiree’s paradise that leaves everyone else out in the cold. But within the desert beats the heart of an actual urban core that has come into its own. There’s an emerging restaurant-and-retail scene along with classic attractions like the view from Camel-back Mountain, plus newfound treasures like peeking inside a little-known house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Tens of families fled to safer areas as the floods swept away their houses, Gerokgak Sub-district Head Putu Ariadi Pribadi said.

“The flooding is triggered by incessant heavy rains that have fallen since Saturday afternoon,” Pribadi noted.

In Musi village, seven houses were washed out and tens of oth-ers were damaged by the flood, forcing around 56 families to evacuate themselves to higher grounds.

He added that in Penyaban-gan village, eight houses were

destroyed and tens of other were damaged, while 36 families took refuge in safer places.

The local authorities have set up emergency tens and provided adequate food for the flood vic-tims, the sub-district head said. (ant)

Flash floods destroy tens of houses in Gerokgak

Flash floods destroyed tens of houses in two villages in Gerokgak Sub-district,

Buleleng District, Bali Prov-ince, on Sunday.

SINGARAJA - Flash floods destroyed tens of houses in two villages in Gerokgak Sub-district, Buleleng District, Bali Prov-ince, on Sunday.

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Arsania pointed to the fact that Gianyar is already well known for its artistic and cultural production and should therefor work towards developing entrepreneurship in conjunction with this potential. New entrepreneurs need to be en-couraged to market their products, though he admitted that access to capital and the development of human resources are still obstacles that many local entrepreneurs face. “The support of the government - as representatives of public interest, also needs to be maximized,” said the Gianyar’s Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.

The government, he explained, needs to be able to respond to the needs of entrepreneurs and other key players in the economy. Poli-cies that govern the economy, such as regulations for licensing, he said

is one very important way that the government can help support this sector.

The government has already facilitated SME’s in acquiring business licenses and the process has also been simplified. This has greatly encouraged many entre-preneurs who had formally been reluctant to run a business due the arduous process involved in start-ing one.

Despite the facility in obtaining licenses, Arsania said that entrepre-neurs need to still be on look out for new opportunities that they can turn to their advantage so that they remain competitive against their rivals. In Gianyar, tourism remains the strongest sector and “parent” for many new entrepreneurs, while the industrial, construction and finan-cial service sectors follow closely behind.

Second Assistant of the Regional Secretariat of Gianyar, Ketut Su-weta, said that the government of

Gianyar is very supportive of busi-nesses. According to Suweta, it is imperative that business people and the government work together if we want to see economic growth.

“Gianyar’s economy will cer-tainly grow if all elements are aligned,” he said. Each region of Gianyar, he added should highlight their specific local knowledge and that the expansion of the market for creative products would reference the noble values of their art and culture. (ded)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it an-nual 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 consid-ered 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, carry-ing 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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‘The 6th Element’ refers to that which informs and holds the five material elements of earth, fire, wind, water and metal together and which all humans share in common. The first phase of the art project took place at Karja Art Space (Penestanan Kaja, Ubud), last year and inspired them to continue with phase II.

The second phase of this project

pays particular attention to the ele-ment of earth or land, specifically in reference to their home land of Bali and more generally to the earth as our home. These three artists come from the Central, North, and West of Bali respectively and will be showing their work in the South. “It is the 6th ele-ment that binds us all together, and it is this 6th element that expresses itself through the land and culture of Bali

in a distinct way. This is the basis of all the work that we produce”.

Much in the same way that any given culture is made up of a myriad of individual forms of expression, yet somehow still retains a defin-ing cohesion, so too do the works of these three artists speak of the individual, the collective and the universal. The paintings, installa-tions and performances that come forth from these three individuals are unique expressions of their personal visions, of their shared cultural background and at the same time are expressions of a more universal artistic vision, that come together under the title ‘The 6th Element: Embodying the Earth’. As Balinese people, these three young artists recognize that there are very large cycles of time that move things in ways that are often incomprehensible to the minds of humans, given the short time that we spend on planet earth. As Bali-nese contemporary artists, they feel driven to address issues related to how the land of Bali is presently be-ing used and abused and as citizens of the world, they are expressing the struggle that all humans are facing in terms of our relationship with the natural environment.

In characteristically Balinese fashion, ISI Denapsar (National Art Institute) graduate, I Gede Merta Sukarya’s paintings combine humour, violence and beauty and reflect his interest in inspiring real change through the destabilizing power of laughter rather than the kind of change that comes from violence or beauty alone. Using hu-mour as a way to encourage people to let go of their usual way of seeing things, allows Sukrya to touch on subjects that might otherwise be very difficult to approach.

I Made Astika Yasa, who graduat-ed from ISI Denpasar in 2008, works with the mystical and philosophic symbols of Balinese belief systems as they reflect deeply embedded and embodied values. Speaking to the way that some of these symbols have been transformed over time, Astika reminds us that what is commonly called ‘Balinese’ is deeply rooted in fertile soil, but nonetheless needs to be cared for. “Balinese cultural symbols, -that often take the form of nature, animals and mystical beings, are truly reflections of our very be-ing, even if we only rarely glimpse these beyond their physical forms”.

I Gusti Made Wisatawan, who also graduated from ISI Denpasar

in 2008, work-ing with more abstract forms in his paintings,

seek to express something of that which moves all things. “Human beings are always under the influ-ence of the elements that make up their bodies, and also influence these very same elements. So to is Balinese culture always under the influence of the elements that make it up - particularly certain Hindu concepts. And yet, when we look at the microcosm and macrocosm we find something unnameable that informs how we see things, how we move and we are as a people. This is what inspires me to express myself in my art”.

The 6th Element: Meraga Bumi (Embodying Earth), is a timely exhibition that bears witness to the strength and richness of the Bali-nese tradition of creating art that is at once practical and spiritual, a tradition that clearly lives on in Bali’s prolific young generation of artists, who currently face some of the biggest challenges that the Ba-linese people have faced in a very long time -if ever.

‘Embodying the Earth’ is at once a reference to the position that these young Balinese artists occupy in relation to the threats that Bali’s geographic land is facing, in rela-tion to the land of Bali as the ground on which the culture stands and also in relation to the position that they occupy as human beings: part of the earth itself.

‘The 6th Element: Embodying Earth’, painting exhibition at Shankara Art Space.

SANUr - Three young Balinese artists from Ubud, Tabanan and Singarja have joined forces to explore the concept of Meraga Bumi (Embodying Earth) as part of the second phase of their ongoing art project entitled ‘The 6th Element’. Drawing on the influence of their geographic and cultural location as a starting point, I Made Atika yasa, I Gede Merta Sukarya and I Gusti Made Wisatawan will be presenting the results of their artistic explorations at Shankara Art Space (#7 Jalan Danau Toba, Sanur) from February 6th (vernissage 7pm) til March 11th.

Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, revealed that of the 16 sub-sectors of Indonesia’s creative industry, the products being promoted in Gi-anyar are cuisine and fashion. For the culinary field, the government is re-discovering and developing the market place for the distinctive traditional foods of Gianyar.

In the field of fashion, continued Suamba, the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, is wanting to develop the field of fashion in re-mote villages so that this industry is not just concentrated in the cities.

Fahsion, said Bharata, is a very dynamic industry that is always changing depending on the trends. “Garment businesses do not stand alone, there are always other prod-ucts involved, like accessories for example. So, by developing the garment business in rural areas other industries in the area are au-tomatically impacted. The creation of fashion design, footwear design, accessories and the like, are part of the chain of fashion,” he said.

The Gianyar Industry and Trade

Agency has therefore been provid-ing training in rural areas to help develop this industry, including sewing lessons and special fashion design for tailors. Approximately 140 tailors from every village in the district of Gianyar district were trained over six days (Dec. 7-12) in the creation of designs and patterns by famous fashion designers such as Bintang Mira and Tjok. Gde Abinanda.

According to Suamba, this train-ing allows villagers to gain knowl-edge directly from experts whose capabilities have been recognized. The training also provided the tailors with motivation and guidance so that they can compete in the tight compe-tition of the fashion industry.

The tailors were trained in three different locations. Tailors from Blahbatuh, Tegallalang, Ubud, Tam-paksiring and Payangan were trained in the PLUT-KUMKM Building at Bedulu. Tailors from Sukawati were trained in the SKB Building in Su-kawati and those from Gianyar were trained at the Metrology Building in Sidan village. (kmb25)

A craftman made handi-craft from coconut shell at his home in Tampaksiring,

Gianyar Regency. Economic growth in the district of

Gianyar has been slowing down in recent years due

to the climate of the global economy as well as social

and political condition in Indonesia. IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Government keen on developing fashion businesses

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The products being promoted in Gianyar are cuisine and fashion. In the field of fashion, the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, is wanting to develop the field of fashion in remote villages so that this industry is not just concentrated in the cities.

THE POTENTIAL of Gianyar’s creative economy has yet to be maximized, therefore the government of Gianyar is looking to develop this sector in order to improve the welfare of the people.

They found some fake paintings replicating some master-pieces of S. Sudjojono, Affandi, Soedibio, Hendra Gunawan, and H. Widayat.

In Bali, a forgery case involving some paintings of Wayan Gunarsa was reported some time ago.

According to Setiadharma, the syndicate has a vast network and employs some specialists to make fake paint-ings.

“Some are given the task to paint, while others work on forging the signatures of painters and making the fake paint-ings resemble the original works of art,” he noted.

Therefore, the association has urged art collectors and enthusiasts to be selective and aware of such facts before buying artworks.

“Seek advice from someone who is experienced, or you can have them tested in the forensic laboratory at the Band-ung Institute of Technology,” he remarked.

The PPSI will hold a painting exhibition and discussion on a theme of original and fake paintings on Saturday (Jan. 23) in Rumah Topeng and Wayang Setiadarma on Tegalbingin Street, Mas Village of Ubud, Gianyar, Bali Province.

The event is aimed at spreading awareness and educat-ing the people on the existence of fake works of art in Indonesia. (ant)

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PARK CITY, Utah — Spike Lee applauds the Academy for mak-ing changes to increase diversity in its ranks, but he is still skipping the Oscars.

“We have principles,” Lee said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I commend the Academy for what they’ve done. But that does not change our mind. The Knicks will be victorious — I hope. I’ll be at the Garden.”

After last week’s Oscar nomi-nations revealed an all-white slate of acting nominees for the second consecutive year, Lee said he would skip the Feb. 28 Academy Awards and go to the Knicks game instead.

“My wife and I will be in my

courtside seats,” he said.Still, he praised Academy presi-

dent Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the organization’s board of governors for “trying to do the right thing.”

The Academy of Motion Pic-ture Arts and Sciences announced Friday that it would double the number of its female and minority members by 2020 and implemented other changes aimed at increasing diversity among the largely white and male organization.

Lee thinks the changes could help: “It’s a start.”

The filmmaker is at the Sundance Film Festival this week to premiere his new documentary, “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to ‘Off the Wall.’” (ap)

The movie, which has been a critical smash since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May last year, is up for six Academy Awards, including best actress for Blanchett and best supporting actress for her co-star Rooney Mara.

“It’s an extraordinary honor. Many, many people from the film have been nominated, which is a wonderful thing. It’s always wonderful when your peers recognize your work,” Blanchett said at a press event Friday

evening ahead of the movie’s Tokyo screening.

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel “The Price of Salt,” ‘’Carol” stars Blanchett as the title character — a married but separating woman with a child — while Mara plays Therese, a timid department store clerk infatuated with Blanchett’s Carol.

In the film, Carol and Therese are irresistibly drawn together, but the women must cloak their surging affection for one another in subtle, hidden gestures, keeping their love private in a conservative, male-dominated world.

The movie features one sex scene between the two characters, which

Blachett said Friday she had ap-proached just as she would have with a male co-star, except “the bits are different.”

“The fact that the women are the same gender isn’t important ... it becomes an epic love story just like ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and that’s the way we thought about it. It’s love, love is love no matter who it is between,” she said. Also at the event was Japanese actress Shinobu Terajima, who asked Blanchett what challenging role she’d like to take on next.

“Probably the life story of a sumo wrestler,” Blanchett replied.

“You have to gain weight for that,” said Terajima.“Yes. An anorexic sumo wrestler,” Blanchett laughed. (ap)

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Cate Blanchett promotes Oscar-nominated ‘Carol’ in Japan

TOKYO — Two-time Os-car winner Cate Blanchett brought her latest film, the 1950s lesbian romance “Car-ol,” to Tokyo.

Spike Lee lauds academy changes, still plans to skip Oscars

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ECONOMIC growth in the district of Gianyar has been slow lying down in re-cent years due to the climate of the global economy as well as social and political condition in Indo-nesia. Chairman of the Chamber

of Commerce and Trade (Kadin) Gianyar, Wayan Gede Ari Arsania, recently spoke to this issue saying that all levels of society need to rise to the challenge of developing the potential of the region, particularly in terms of entrepreneurship.

New entrepreneurs should be encouraged to have the confidence to compete by marketing their in-novative and creative products.

According to Ari Arsania, the moment has come to formulate eco-nomic strategies for avoiding the neg-

ative impacts of the global economic crisis that is affecting Bali in general and Gianyar in particular. The local economy, he said needs to pick up speed especially given that the era of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is now in effect. “The AEC

presents us with many challenges, and if we do not respond by taking immediate action, we will be crushed in our own home,” he said.

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Art industry concerned over increase on fake paintings’ circulation

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A tourist passed in front of paintings sold on Kuta Art Market. Indonesian painters and art enthusiasts are concerned about the rise in circulation of fake paintings by scam artists in the market.

DENPASAR - Indonesian painters and art enthusi-asts are concerned about the rise in circulation of fake paintings by scam artists in the market. “Research conducted by our team found that an organized syn-dicate is involved in forging paintings of some famous Indonesian painters and then selling them at high prices,” Head of the Indonesian Art Enthusiasts Asso-ciation (PPSI) Budi Setiadharma stated on Friday.