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In the meeting, Hillary Clintonhad declared that in Novemberthere would be a bilateral meeting,where President Susilo BambangYudhoyono and President BarackObama would meet in person inBali. To welcome the arrival of thefirst man in the State of Uncle Sam,Bali had made preparation. Gov-ernor of Bali, Made MangkuPastika, admitted that he had pre-pared a variety of things to wel-come Obama who had failed to

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Barrack Obama

By arrival of Obama,Bali strictly guarded

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People carry offerings on their heads during a Melasti ceremony prayer at Kuta beach in Denpasar on the island of Bali onJuly 26, 2011. Melasti is a purification ritual in which the sea is used to wash away the impurities of life.

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DENPASAR - On the sidelines of the recent ASEAN RegionalForum (ARF) in Nusa Dua, Bali, the U.S. Secretary of State,Hillary Clinton, gave signal about the presence of PresidentBarack Obama in the East Asia Summit in Bali, next November.

visit Bali for two times.“There has been a certainty

about the arrival of Obama to Bali.Moreover, the U.S. Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton had come toBali recently. Even, she guaran-teed the coming of Obama to Baliin this November. We’d be glad towelcome the arrival of Obama,”said Pastika when met after a ple-nary session in the Building ofBali House, Tuesday (Jul 26).

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Gunada further explained thatit will go down in the middle ofthe fasting month because mostwould by made cakes instead ofmaking one yet it could go upagain because Bali’s eggs couldbe sold to other islands such asJava. “But I’m sure the stock inBali won’t be disturbed,” he ex-plained.

This past week increase wasalso admitted by Nengah Nasih.Even though the demand is stillstabile now, it could increasehighly the next three days. Nasihhoped the price won’t go so highfrom supplier in Kintamani andPenebel, Tabanan and requested

After a long time of discussion at last Bukit Jati,Gianyar got its development becoming a water parkas seen in a presentation done for the Regent, VceRegent, Second Assistant, Head of Regional Devel-

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An egg seller is seen in a market.

Coming Fasting, Egg Price IncreaseComing Fasting, Egg Price IncreaseComing Fasting, Egg Price IncreaseComing Fasting, Egg Price IncreaseComing Fasting, Egg Price Increase

Amlapura (Bali Post) –Beggars are hard to erase moreover

there are people that organise and coor-dinate them. For that Head ofKarangasem Social Agency, Drs. MadeSosiawan, last Tuesday (26/7) atKarangasem stated there should be aregulation in disallowing beggars tohappen and a sanction will be given tothose who are beggars especially thosewho still able to work and used their kidsfor sympathy. “Without clear regulationit’s hard to erase such things as they areused to getting money without any hardwork,” he stated.

His reason to request the regulationscreated by province is due to the manyareas usually these beggars are from, notonly at Munti Gunung and Pedahan inKarangasem but also from Bangli suchas Songan. Lately many are suspectedimported from outside Bali such as Javaand these all spread to different placesin Bali. According to Sosiawan the num-ber of beggars in Karangasem has de-

Denpasar (Bali Post) –With the coming Ramadan fasting month next week, a num-

ber of essentials prices have increased in the traditional mar-ket such as for eggs, broiler ones reached IDR 1,200 – 1,600 peregg according to its size where before would be IDR 800 peregg, while kampung eggs could reach IDR 1,200-1,400 per egg.Wayan Gunada, an egg seller at Badung Market, Denpasar,stated last Tuesday (26/7) that the increase was caused by thehigh demands where mostly used for making cakes celebratingthe coming Ramadan.

institutes responsible to be involvein avoiding the price going to high.

Another essential seller, MadeDirga, stated rice price increase hasbeen stabile so far with IDR 7,000-8,500 per kg depends on its brandwhere the most expensive one useto be IDR 6,500-7,000 per kg.Sugar also have gone up to IDR10,000 per kg. Meat supplier, Hj.Warningsih, stated broiler chickenis still around IDR 25,000 per kgwhile kampung chicken IDR40,000-IDR 50,000 per kg. “Untilnow the price is not increasing andwe hope it won’t as public demandis less since rice have gone up,”Warningsih explained. (par)

Decrease BeggarsProvince Government ShouldCreate Anti Beggars Regulation

crease a lot with only 151 people nowyet because some of them were capturedthen went again operating with differentname so total of 1,000 people are foundevery year. There are also 67 unwantedchildren, 3,222 disable people, 735 men-tally ill and 108 people in poverty due tonature disaster.

Head of Karangasem House of Rep-resentatives I Gede Dana asked RegentI Wayan Geredeg in Karangasem to leadthe executives and create an effectiveprogram to take out beggars. He is wor-ried after seven years he works asRepresentative it is still happeningproject such as clean water, electricityand roads have to be priority and builtin an effective location. “Don’t doprojects or give projects to the publicthat are based on politic party or indi-vidual wants, it should be as neededand prioritised in the villages to the cityitself so there are no longer jealousybetween public on not getting some-thing better,” he clarified. (013)

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Bukit Jati which is one of the tourism site inGianyar Regency.

Bukit Jati Became Water Recreation Placeopment Board, Head of Public Works, Head of De-velopment Section and Head of Security Setion byKarya Makmur Dewata Group Company at RegentOffice’s Assembly Room last Monday (26/7).

Agung Raharjo, from the company, stated the rec-reation place will take place on the Bukit Jati swim-ming pool. The two hundred square meters land willbe divided to three zones. One for parking spaces of10 tourist busses, tens of cars and hundreds of mo-torbikes, another zone for main building with chang-ing rooms and relaxing place, while third zone forthe water park such as pools also water playgroundssuch as in Bantul Regency. There will be also a spe-cial location for sellers to sell their goods.

Gianyar Regent, Tjokorda Oka Artha ArdhanaSukawati, welcomed well the proposal seeing thatthe proposal is as of the development of Gianyarknowing East Gianyar is for development in centralgovernment, education, sports, trade, services alsotourism. With the waterpark it is hoped it will also beused by people in East Bali from Bangli, Klungkungand Karangasem also to be cheap and great destina-tion for families. The swimming pool that is therecan be optimised as Bukit Jati is a source of water.

Meanwhile Vice Regent, Dewa Made Sutanaya,stated that the swimming pool can still be used andkept especially for training of swimming athletes andholding sport events in Gianyar. Of course with thedevelopment a more representative place can be builtand later used for bigger events. (dar)

3International Bali News Thursday, July 28, 2011

A number of silversmiths in Bulelengsaid that silverworks of the region contin-ued to be sought by consumers from out-side Buleleng. Even, their orders contin-ued to come recently. But, those craftsmenwere unable to fulfill such large amount oforders because they lived through capitalcontinued to rise.

With such condition, a number of sil-versmiths in Buleleng were forced to closetheir business temporarily. Some silver-smiths remained to survive, but they onlyworked on the orders that had agreed withthe new price in accordance with the ris-ing price of raw material.

Made Panca, one of the silversmithsfrom Patemon Village, Seririt Subdistrict,said that he previously purchased silver rawmaterial at IDR 4,500 per gram, now roseto IDR 7,500 per gram. Since the price hikeof silver, his production cost continued toincrease. Unfortunately, though the priceof raw material had increased but the sell-ing price of the silverworks produced werestill at old prices because he worried if hiscustomers would purchase similar handi-craft from silversmiths in other region.

The price of a ring was IDR 150,000and if calculated pursuant to the currentprice of silver it should be sold at IDR240,000. Nevertheless, he still sold it atold price. Meanwhile, ritual parapherna-

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Mapping results of the National

Anti-terrorism Agency (BNPT) listedBali Province into 14 provinces in In-donesia as the potential spread of ter-rorism ideology that had to be takenseriously by all components of Ba-linese community. The most appropri-ate response to this condition is in-creasing alertness and shutting out anygaps potentially infiltrated by terror-ists to prepare, plan and implement ter-rorism action. In this context, hamletin each customary village should buildsynergy with administrative villageand intensify its supervision against theareas of regional migrant in their re-spective territory by organizing regu-lar population raid. It was revealed byCustomary Village Chief of Panjer,Denpasar, Prof. Dr. I NyomanBudiana, and Subdistrict Head of West

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Silversmith is working in Buleleng

Expensive raw materials

Silversmith under threat to go bankruptSilversmith under threat to go bankruptSilversmith under threat to go bankruptSilversmith under threat to go bankruptSilversmith under threat to go bankruptAROUND 1980 to the 1990s, a number of villages in Buleleng Re-

gency became popular center of silverworks production in Bali. BeratanVillage in Buleleng Subdistrict and Patemon Village in Seririt Subdis-trict were two of them. Ritual paraphernalia such as bowl, jug andother silverworks produced by Buleleng crafters were always soughtafter by residents of Tabanan, Badung and Jembrana. Even, numer-ous products of a number of crafters could have penetrated the exportmarkets. However, those silverwork centers located at several villagesin Buleleng are under threat to go bankrupt because the price of silvercontinues to rise lately.

lia like bowl was still offered at old priceranging from IDR 120,000 to IDR 300,000per piece. “It’s been lasting for long timeand we are unable to do nothing in responseto this condition. Now, the most importantis how to survive though the profit is verylittle. Even, we can only reach the breakevent point,” he said.

According to Panca, since the increaseof price, silversmiths did not dare to pro-duce stock and only worked on the or-ders that had been guaranteed by downpayment. It was the only attempt thatcould be carried out in the middle of sil-ver price hike lately. “If there are no or-ders we prefer not to work because ifforced to produce stocks our capital doesnot suffice to purchase silver,” he ex-plained.

Similar situation was disclosed by sil-versmiths at Beratan Village, BulelengSubdistrict. Price hike of silver was re-ally striking their business and now theywere only able to serve the order of coat-ing services. Fortunately, the silver coat-ing services remained to be sought afterthese days, so craftsmen could survivethough their profit was not the same aswhen the price of silver was normal. “Iprovide more silver coating services be-cause it requires less silver than produc-ing new products,” he added. (kmb/ole)

Beware of terrorist threatsMigrants must be strictly overseen

Denpasar, Ida Bagus Alit Wiradana, toBali Post on Tuesday (Jul 26).

According to Budiana, vigilanceagainst the areas of regional migrantas highly vulnerable area infiltrated byterrorism were not an excessive suspi-cion or without reason. It could be as-certained that not all dwellers wereequipped with population administra-tion required so their presence in Balicould be categorized into illegal. In ad-dition, many of those migrants had un-clear job so their activities in Bali wereworth suspecting. “To handle those il-legal regional migrants, I do hopeDenpasar Municipality, regency gov-ernment and Bali government to havethe courage to forcibly repatriate thoseillegal migrants to their home of ori-gin. Moreover, we have been backedup by legal instruments such as Re-gional Regulation No. 14/2002 (on

Population Management InformationSystem—Ed) that justifies us to takesuch a firm measure,” remindedBudiana.

This professor employed inUndiknas University asserted that im-position of strict sanctions could notbe interpreted that Bali went up againstthe regional migrants because it wasnot applied blindly. Conversely, mi-grants who were willing to complywith all provisions required were con-sistently given the right to live andsettle in Bali like any other citizens.“Not only Indonesian citizen, any citi-zen from all over the world has theright to stay in Bali. However, beforedeciding to stay in Bali, they shouldcomply with population administra-tion required,” he said.

Budiana warned that Bali had beendevastated by the incident of terrorist

attacks for two times through the Balibombing I and II. Both bloody blastincidents happened were inseparablefrom the awareness level of Balinesepeople tending to weaken in monitor-ing the movement of illegal migrantsin their territory. “To anticipate the oc-currence of similar incidents, I do hopethe owners of boarding and rentedhouses to consciously report the ex-istence of those migrants staying intheir houses to local authorities. Do notwait to submit the administrative re-quirement until the coming of popu-lation raid,” he reminded.

UncompromisingWhen contacted separately, Sub-

district Head of West Denpasar, IdaBagus Alit Wiradana, claimed toagree with Budiana. It was affirmedthe sanction of forcible repatriationto illegal migrants netted in popu-lation raid in Denpasar was indeeduncompromising. To dwell inDenpasar, they had to equip them-selves with valid identity card, rec-ommendation letter, and certificate

of competency/skills issued by theauthorities in their region of origin.

Above all else, they were alsorequired to have a guarantor ensur-ing that their existence in Denpasarwas not for negative or illegal ac-tivities. In addition, they wereobliged to report their existence inDenpasar to authorities at local vil-lage as well as to propose migrantidentity document (KIPP). “With-out completed with such docu-ment, do not blame if DenpasarMunicipality forcibly repatriatesthem to their home of origin.Moreover, if those migrants havebeen proved to have unclear job inDenpasar,” he said.

Furthermore, Alit Wiradana as-serted that his party regularly or-ganized policing operation to pre-vent the entry of illegal migrantsto Denpasar area. Leading sectorof this policing operation wouldbe entrusted to each administra-tive village (desa dinas) in syn-ergy with customary village (desapakraman).

International4 Thursday, July 28, 2011 News

The killing of al Qaeda leaderOsama bin Laden was a “significantmilestone” and “substantialprogress” has been made against alQaeda, but the group still poses atop terrorism threat to the UnitesStates, Matthew Olsen said at hisconfirmation hearing before theSenate Intelligence Committee.

“That threat is not so much fromthe senior (al Qaeda) leadership inPakistan with one unified goal, it isnow diffused in various regional lo-cations under various leaders andwith various goals,” he said.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula(AQAP), which operates in Yemen andclaimed responsibility for a December25, 2009 attempt to bomb a U.S.-boundpassenger plane, “has shown a willing-ness and a level of capability to strikein the United States,” Olsen said.

Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia alsohas shown a willingness and abilityto strike outside that country, he said.

If confirmed by the Senate, Olsenwill become director of an agency cre-ated in the aftermath of the September11 attacks as the hub for analyzing andsharing terrorist threat information.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, whochairs the intelligence committee, ex-pressed concern that the period beforethe tenth anniversary of the attacks,which killed nearly 3,000 people inNew York, Washington and Pennsyl-vania, was one of “heightened threat.”

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO — Egypt’s top reformleader Mohamed ElBaradeicalled Tuesday for the formationof a broad coalition of politicalforces, including the Islamists, tocontest the first elections sincethe ouster of President HosniMubarak.

The call by the Nobel Peacelaureate, whose supporters werecredited as a key force behindEgypt’s uprising, reflected grow-ing concerns of liberal groupsabout a big win for the well-or-ganized Islamists, especially theMuslim Brotherhood. Thatwould give the Islamists powerto control the drafting of a newconstitution.

“We don’t have the luxury to-day to enter into fierce competi-tion between the differentstreams, especially when we arebuilding the house from thestart,” ElBaradei told a news con-ference. “I talked today and be-fore about the need for a national

Reuters

BEIJING - China warned that recent U.S. surveil-lance flights near the Chinese coast have severelyharmed strategic mutual trust and were a major ob-stacle hindering military ties between the two coun-tries, state media reported on Wednesday.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. JointChiefs of Staff, vowed on Monday to press ahead withsurveillance flights near China despite opposition fromBeijing, following reports that Chinese jets crossed aboundary with Taiwan to pursue a U.S. spy plane.

Two Chinese Sukhoi-27 fighters last monthbriefly crossed a line in the center of the TaiwanStrait that is considered an unofficial air boundarybetween both sides. Asian media reported the Chi-

CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

This photo taken on July 26, 2011shows Chinese People’s LiberationArmy (PLA) soldiers undergoing a drill at a military base in Hefei, ineastern China’s Anhui province .

China protests against U.S.spy flights near its coast

nese jets were attempting to intercept a U.S. U-2 re-connaissance plane.

“We demand that the U.S. respect China’s sover-eignty and security interests and take concrete mea-sures to boost a healthy and stable development of mili-tary relations,” the Global Times newspaper quoted theMinistry of National Defense as saying.

The comments followed Mullen’s visit to China twoweeks ago, which was part of efforts to improve tieswith the People’s Liberation Army. Their ties have beenrocky, with China unhappy with U.S. reconnaissancepatrols near its coast and is suspicious of its bases inSouth Korea and Japan.

China’s rapid military buildup and territorial disputesin the South China Sea have also sparked concerns inthe region.

ElBaradei wants broadalliance for Egypt elections

AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI

Egyptian riot police stand guard outside a court in Cairo on July25, 2011 during the murder trial of ex-interior minister Habib al-Adly before the judge delayed the procedings until August 3.

coalition. At this stage, there mustbe a parliament that represents allEgyptian forces.”

No date has been set for par-liamentary elections, but they areexpected before the end of theyear, followed by a presidentialvote. The political factions andmilitary rulers who replacedMubarak in February are sharplydivided over how to proceed withthe transition to democracy.

A broad coalition of the politi-cal forces that worked to oustMubarak could also be a responseto growing fears that former re-gime figures may make a strongshowing in the vote under a newelection law which leaves roomfor vote buying. ElBaradei, a po-tential presidential candidate, alsoappealed to the military rulers toreverse their rejection of interna-tional monitors for the elections.

“I don’t know of any democraticcountry that rejects internationalmonitors,” he said. ElBaradei hasbeen meeting with various politicalgroups to build a national consensus.

U.S. attack still significantU.S. attack still significantU.S. attack still significantU.S. attack still significantU.S. attack still significantal Qaeda goal: officialal Qaeda goal: officialal Qaeda goal: officialal Qaeda goal: officialal Qaeda goal: officialReuters

WASHINGTON - Striking theUnited States remains a “significantgoal” for al Qaeda and its affiliatesnearly a decade after the September11 attacks, the president’s nominee tohead the National CounterterrorismCenter said on Tuesday.

AFP PHOTO / FILES / Doug KANTER

(FILES) This photo dated September 11, 2001 shows firefighters mak-ing their way through the rubble of the World Trade Center in NewYork after two hijacked planes flew into the landmark skyscrapers.

Activities Thursday, July 28, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for July 9 through August 6, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date forit annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 daysaccording to Balinese calendar, including the smallerancestral shrine which each family possesses. Becauseof this practically every few days a ceremony of festi-val of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali.There are also times when the entire island celebratedthe same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan,Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day,Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless 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 dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

Balinese TempleCeremony

09 JulPura Catur Buana Sanding, Tampaksiring - Gianyar

10 JulPura Peninjoan Besakih - Karangasem

16 JulPura pasek Gelgel Kukuh,Marga - TabananPasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg - TabananPasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg - TabananPura Puseh, Pura Desa Guwang, Sukawati - GianyarPura Dalem Setra Batununggul Sewana,Nusa Penida -

KlungkungPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel - Gianyar

17 JulAci-aci Penaung Taluh di Penataran Besakih -KarangasemPura Gunung Kuripan LombokPura Tirta Besakih - KarangasemPura Purnama Camenggaon,Sukawati - GianyarPura Amerta Jati Komplek ALRI, Cinere - Jakarta Sel.Pura Jagatnatha SingarajaPura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Apuan,Susut - BangliPura Jagathitha Selong - Lombok TimurPura Agung Pasek Gelgel GoblegGobleg,Banjar - BulelengPura Desa, Pura Puseh Batur, Kitamani - BangliPura Asah (Alas Arum) Batur,Kintamani - BangliPura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk,Sukawati - GianyarPura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru - Lumajang,JatimPura Pengubengan Besakih - KarangasemPenataran Agung Sukawati - GianyarPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah,Batur,Kintamani -BangliMerajan A. Puser Jagat MerantingBatukandik,Nusa Penida - Klungkung

23 JulMerajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi - Bangli

26 JulPura Puseh, Pura Desa Batua, Sukawati - GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi - badungPura Manik Mas Besakih - Karangasem

30 JulPura Kepisah Sumerta - DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Gerih, Abiansemal - BadungPura Puncaksari Penarukan, Peninjoan- BangliPura Anteg Sari Br Dangin Pangkung, Kediri-TabananPura Bangun Sakti Besakih - KarangasemPura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Dangin Pangkung, Kediri -Tabanan

01 AugOdalan Ida Ratu Geng PenataranBesakih - KarangasemIda Ratu Raja Puraus Mr. Saloding Besakih - Karangasem

03 AugPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kayuputih,Banjar -Buleleng

05 AugPura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi - BangliPura Beratan Baturiti - TabananPura Batu Klotok Lepang - KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari - TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel - TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit,Sawan - BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Tarokaja,Tegallalang - GianyarPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanagiri Selemadeg - TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup - GianyarPura Mnik Bingin Ds Dukuh,Sidemen - Karangasem

06 AugPura Penataran Gana Bebalang - BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande - BangliPura Puncak Sari Abiansemal - BadungPasek Dadia A. Sanak Sapta Resi Peteluan,Sidan - GianyarPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan - BulelengPura Dalem Maya Br Teruna,Blahbatuh - Gianyar

IBP

JAKARTA - Aston International an-nounced that the group celebrated theopening of a new international 4 star Ho-tel and Conference Center in Palembang,just on time for the 2011 SEA Games.

The Aston Palembang Hotel & Con-ference Center is strategically locatedmid-way between Palembang’s airportand the city’s CBD on Jalan BasukiRahmat serving Palembang’s growingbusiness travel and conference market aswell as domestic leisure travelers from thesurrounding areas. The hotel will features163 elegant, modern and functional guestrooms and suites and features extensivemeeting facilities including a large ball-room with a capacity of up to 1000 guestsand several auxiliary meeting rooms.

With its classic sophistication and contem-porary chic design, wide range of facilitiesand privileged location, the Aston Palembang

Aston Open AstonPalembang

Hotel & Conference Center will fill an in-creasing need for quality accommodation andprofessional meeting facilities in Sumateraand open just in time for the 2011 South EastAsia Games which are being held inPalembang this coming November.

Norbert Vas, VP Sales & MarketingAston International commented: “Thisnewest Aston Hotel & Conference Centerfits perfectly into our goal of becomingIndonesia’s leading hotel group for meet-ings and conferences by developing midseized international standard 4 star hotelswith sophisticated meeting facilitiesthroughout several Indonesian provincialcapitals and secondary cities. In the past15 months we opened similar propertiesin Bangka, Pontianak, Serpong, Bogor,Bandung, Jayapura and most recently inTanjung Pinang and have further AstonHotels & Conference Centers under con-struction in Solo, Purwokerto, Jambi,Makassar and Banjarmasin.”

Thursday, July 28, 20116 News

Nock-ten, which struck theeastern Philippines on Tuesday,killed at least 20 people, with an-other nine missing, National Di-saster Risk Reduction and Man-agement Council chief BenitoRamos told reporters.

Five of the victims died as alandslide buried parts of their vil-lage. About 645,000 people werealso forced to flee their floodedhomes in the coastal provinces ofAlbay and Camarines Sur in thesoutheast of Luzon where thestorm first made landfall, accord-ing to Ramos.

“Those two provinces are un-derwater,” Ramos told AFP ear-lier. He said the government waswaiting for the skies to clear and

Associated Press Writer

BUENOS AIRES,Argentina — A giantiron portrait of Eva Peronwas unveiled Tuesday onthe front of Argentina’ssocial development min-istry building, where shegave a historic speechprior to her death fromcancer in 1952. The 31-meter-high (102-feet-high), 24-meter-wide(79-feet-wide) workweighing 15 tons re-sembles the iconic por-trait of Argentine revolu-tionary Ernesto “Che”Guevara in Havana,Cuba.

Argentina PresidentCristina Fernandez, whoinaugurated and backedthe portrait, said it wasduring a visit to Cuba thatit occurred to her to payhomage to the wife offormer President Juan Domingo Peron.

“I saw an image of Che on the ministry building he worked in.How is it possible that a society pays tribute to a man who is not fromthat country and we have no tributes to a woman who not only markedthe entry of women into politics and the country’s most importantsocial revolution, but who also represented the people and countrywith more passion than anyone in history,” Fernandez said.

The portrait was unveiled at 8:25 p.m. local time, the hour whenthe woman knows as Evita died on July 26, 1952. The portrait wascreated by Argentine plastic artists Daniel Santoro and AlejandroMarmo.

It hangs from the ministry building on one of Buenos Aires’ mainavenues. It was here that Evita, with advanced cancer, announced onAug. 22, 1951 that she was stepping down from her candidacy for thevice presidency on her husband’s ticket.

The government plans to unveil another portrait of Evita on thenorth side of the building on the 60th anniversary of the “resigna-tion.”orange lights during an unveiling ceremony in the 59th anniver-sary of her death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 26, 2011.

AP Photo

Motorists pass by a car which was washed downstream as they negotiate a flooded roadWednesday July 27, 2011 in Legazpi city, Albay province in northeastern Philippines.

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A tropical storm killed at least 20 people in the Philippines as it dumped enormous amountsof rain that caused major flooding and landslides, authorities said Wednesday. Nock-ten, namedafter a Laotian bird, was expected to cause more damage in the mountainous northern areas ofthe main island of Luzon on Wednesday, while also bringing heavy rain to Manila, the stateweather service said.

the seas to calm down beforesending emergency supplies byair and water to those provinces.

“We can’t use the army trucksbecause the roads are flooded,”he said. The council said dozensof flights had been cancelled be-cause of the storm.

Nock-ten had initially beenexpected to pass much closer toManila, the nation’s sprawlingcapital of 12 million people, andschools were closed across thecity on Wednesday as it preparedfor heavy rains.

Ramos said Nock-ten was fol-lowing an erratic course and thatthe latest forecast showed Manilaand other densely populous areaswould be spared the worst of the

storm. “It did not follow its pro-jected track,” he said.

Nevertheless, the new coursewould still mean about four mil-lion people in mountainous areasof northern Luzon were underthreat, and landslides there werea danger.

State weather forecasterJuanito Galang told AFP windstrength and rain volumes usu-ally dissipated when a cyclonehit a wall of mountains, insteadof going over flat land.

“But the danger there is, if rainfalls on a mountaintop, it willrush down slopes. The tendencyis for the water to go down asflash floods or cause landslides,”Galang said.

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A 15 tons, 31x24 mt. iron portrait ofthe late Evita Peron, the iconic wifeof former Argentina’s strongmanJuan Peron, is illuminated by

Evita’s portrait hungfrom Argentine ministry

It was said that Obama’s arrival to Bali posed a great trust forthe island dubbed as the Island of Thousand Temples. “It’s confi-dence to Bali. Related to security measure, we have prepared itpursuant to international standards,” he said.

This former Bali Police Chief even confirmed there had beencoordination with Bali Government regarding to the arrival of thepresident who had spent most of his childhood in Jakarta. How-ever, Pastika had not confirmed to offer tourist destinations ex-pected to be visited by Obama in Bali.

“There has been coordination with Bali Government related tothe arrival of Obama. We have not known yet which tourist desti-nation to be visited, we do not offer them. It will highly depend onObama where he’d like to go. In short, this must be a pride toBali,” he said.

Barack Obama was scheduled to come to Bali in conjunctionwith the implementation of East Asia Summit Meeting in Novem-ber. In the forum of the heads of state, Obama would meet Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to discuss further about the co-operation between the two countries. Obama himself had beenscheduled to visit Bali for two times. However, for two times hefailed to set foot on the Island of the Gods. (par)

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JAKARTA - A graphic video showing the last hoursof a rare Sumatran tiger as it writhes in a trap in Indo-nesia exposes the gruesome toll of rampant rainforestclearing, Greenpeace activists said Tuesday.

Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaignerZulfahmi said the trap was set up by villagers tocatch wild pigs on a logging concession owned byAsia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world’s big-gest paper and packaging companies.

“The tiger died in a spot which is located on anAPP concession. Due to land clearing by the com-pany, the tigers have to leave their habitat,” he toldAFP.

“We urge the company to stop its land clearingactivity in Indonesia... to avoid endangered ani-mals becoming extinct.”

Estimates of the number of Sumatran tigers re-maining in the world range from 300 to 400. Sev-eral die each year as a result of traps, poaching orother human actions.

The 18-month-old tiger died within three hoursof being tranquillised by local conservation offi-cials, said Greenpeace media campaignerZamzami, who witnessed the incident.

The Greenpeace video shows the animal in ob-vious distress as it tries to pull its blackened pawfree of the rope trap.

“The tiger died on July 1, seven days after it

“Based on gender system, in1995 there are 33.8 million men and1.1 million women who smoke. Thenumber is rising sharply in 2007with 60.4 million men and 4.8 mil-

Antara

MAKASSAR - The Indonesian police and theImmigration Directorate General have decided toform a team searching for international fugitive andformer Democratic Party treasurer MuhammadNazaruddin.

“One thing is certain, namely that the police andimmigration team is already working,” law andhuman rights minister Patrialis Akbar said here onTuesday.

The team will soon leave for a country to seekNazaruddin, he said.

“The first step is establishing communicationwith the authorities of that given country, and wewill obviously speak to them politely explainingto them that the wanted man is a fugitive,” he said.

He also said that Nazaruddin‘s travel documentsincluding his passport, had been revoked by theIndonesian government, he said.

Antara

JAKARTA - Vice PresidentBoediono said building mutual confi-dence with neighboring states is an im-portant key to state defense.

“We must be a friend with and puttrust in neighboring countries. We can-not choose neighbors with other coun-tries but now we neighbor withSingapore and the Philippines,” vicepresidential spokesman Yopie Hidayatsaid here on Wednesday.

He made the remarks after accom-panying Vice President Boediono dur-ing a meeting with Singapore DefenseMinister Ng Eng Hen.

Ng Eng Hen met with the vice presi-dent to introduce himself as a new de-fense minister.

During the meeting Boediono andNg exchanged information and stressedas neighboring states both Indonesia

Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian gov-ernment has asked premium carmakers marketing their products inthe country to also use local con-tents.

“Industrialists are expected toalso take care of local contents anduse them more including in theirpremium products,” deputy minis-ter of industry Alex Retraubun, saidin a Mercedez-Benz AutomotiveSymposium at the 19th IndonesiaInternational Motor Show 2011 hereon Tuesday.

Indonesia, he said, is expected tobe the world‘s 14th biggest economyin 2014.

With its gross domestic productreaching US$1,206 million and eco-nomic growth and inflation rate be-ing maintained and population theworld‘s fourth biggest Indonesiawill be a good automotive products

Number of smokers skyrocketing in IndonesiaNumber of smokers skyrocketing in IndonesiaNumber of smokers skyrocketing in IndonesiaNumber of smokers skyrocketing in IndonesiaNumber of smokers skyrocketing in IndonesiaAntara

JAKARTA - The number of smokers in Indonesia has been sky-rocketing in the past 16 years from 34.7 million in 1995 to be 65 mil-lion in 2011, a survey conducted by Economic Faculty of IndonesiaUniversity (UI) said.

lion women,” researcher at UI`s De-mographic Research CenterAbdillah Hasan said here onWednesday.

He said the number of people who

start smoking at a younger age wasalso increasing over the years withonly 7 percent of teenagers smokingin 1995 then 12 years later the num-ber is increasing to 19 percent.

He said the latest survey showedthe effectiveness of cigarette indus-try in wooing customers and, on thecontrary, the weak side of the gov-ernment in protecting teenagersfrom smoking.

Abdillah said the increasing num-

ber of smokers in Indonesia wascaused by the large population andeconomy, ineffective implementa-tion of free-smoking spaces in pub-lic places and the weak regulationson smoking consumption control.

“There are four instruments thatneed to be implemented to decreasesmoking habits namely raising theprice of cigarettes through tax, re-stricting cigarette advertisements,putting image of various smoke-re-

lated diseases in the cigarettetapackages and effectively introduceand implement free-smokezones,”said Abdillah.

Meanwhile, Vice Chief of UI‘sDemographic Research Center,Dwini Handayani, said smokingneeds to controlled in the society.However, she reminded that super-vising the flow of cigarettes wascostly and needs a strong will fromboth the government and people.

Police, immigration formteam in search of Nazaruddin

“We wish for cooperation with the relevant gov-ernment in repatriating the wanted man,” Parialissaid.

But Patrialis did not mention the name of thecountry to be visited by the joint team in lookingfor Nazaruddin.

“Now there are five persons banned by the im-migration from going abroad under an instructionof the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK),”he said.

Nazaruddin, suspect in the case of bribery linkedto the construction of the althlete‘s dormitory inJakabaring, Palembang, was in Singapore a daybefore the KPK asked the Law and Human RightsMinistry to issue a travel ban for him on May 24.

The Indonesian police headquarters has issueda red notice to repatriate the suspect of bribing theSecretary of the Youth and Sports MinistryNazaruddin with cooperation and coordination ofInterpol.

Tiger death in Indonesiablamed on paper firm

fell into the trap. It couldn’t eat or drink, its pawhad turned black already and there were many fliesaround it,” Zamzami said.

Veterinary surgeons were called to the scene inSumatra Island’s Riau province but were unable tosave the tiger, he said.

A spokeswoman for Singapore-based APP saidany suggestion that the company’s operations re-sulted in the death of the tiger were “not only grosslyinaccurate but deeply offensive”.

“The death of any Sumatran tiger is a tragic situ-ation. Unfortunately human-tiger conflict has longbeen a reality of life in Indonesia,” spokeswomanAida Greenbury said, putting the blame on localvillagers.

A tiger conservation organisation that receivesAPP funding also blamed local people, dismissingenvironmentalists who say loss of habitat throughdeforestation is the main cause of dwindling tigernumbers.

“It’s the local people who set up the animal trap.Unless APP set up the trap, then we cannot blamethe company,” Sumatran Tiger Conservation Foun-dation organizer Bastoni told AFP.

He said the tiger died “on the border of the aca-cia forest and the APP concession”.

Greenpeace says logging by APP and other com-panies is destroying the tiger’s habitat and drivingthem into ever closer and more dangerous contactwith people.

Car makers urged touse local contents

market.He said not only sales but car ex-

ports are also expected to increase.He said he hoped the people‘s in-

creasing buying power would alsoincrease premium car sales at homeand exports to ASEAN countries.

In view of that he hoped therewould be a hike in vendor industriesincluding parts industries in thecountry.

He said the government‘s short-andmedium-term focus in the automotiveindustry is multipurpose vehicle andlow cost green car development.

In the long term the focus will bestrengthening spare parts industriesand human resource development,he said.

He said the government wouldimprove facilities in bonded zonesand develop research and develop-ment including improving laborato-ries for researches, electricity and anexclusive car seaport.

Put trust inneighboring countries

and Singapore needed to build a highmutual trust.

He said defense relations betweenthe two countries had run well, markedby the sending of hundreds of studentsto respective countries every year.

“Indonesia sends around 600 offic-ers to Singapore to take education andtraining every year, while at the sametime Singapore also sends its officersto Indonesia,” Yopie said.

Yopie said at the meeting bothBoediono and Ng did not touch on thepossibility of Indonesia buying mainmilitary armament system fromSingapore, borders between the twocountries and eradication of humantrafficking.

“The vice president and the defenseminister only talked about issues re-lated to the importance of cooperationand exchange of ideas in the defensefield,” he said.

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Head of Bank Indonesia’sDenpasar office Jeffrey Kairupanin his Bali’s economic survey inDenpasar said on WednesdayBali’s handicraft goods exportsto China in the January-March2011 period reached 7.6 millionUS dollars.

In the meantime, Bali busi-nessmen purchasing variouscapital goods from China in theJanuary-March 2011 period wasworth 6.6 million US dollars,bringing a small surplus of 943thousand US dollars.

He said the foreign exchangerevenue from non-oil/gas tradingwith China and Hong Kong hadbeen constantly increasing likethose in 2009 to only from 33million US dollars 38 million USdollars in 2010.

Bali with the exports of small

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Bali’s non-oil/gas exports to China reached a slight surplus of 943 thousand US dollars in thefirst quarter of 2011 and have been increasing in the last parts of this year.

Bali-China non-oil/gastrade reaches surplusAntara

DENPASAR - Bali’s non-oil/gas exports to China reached a slight surplus of 943 thousandUS dollars in the first quarter of 2011 and have been increasing in the last parts of this year.

textile and textile products indus-tries imported raw materials andsome other non-oil/gas com-modities mostly purchased fromits business partners in China.

The relatively cheap Chinese-made clothes have largely im-ported for the people in thoseparts and clothes and garments ofdifferent sizes are also offered atthe porches of stores.

Bali’s exports of handicraft ar-ticles and goods to China andHong Kong as one of the world’strading centers continued to in-crease to 7.6 million US dollarsin the three months of the firstsemester of I-2011.

The smooth foreign trade espe-cially jewelry, ready clothes, andhousehold furniture and con-stantly increased foreign ex-change revenue from two million

US dollars in February to threemillion US dollars in March 2011.

Bali’s non-oil/gas export po-tentials including hand-madehandicraft goods and articles arevery big to China and HongKong, especially that Bali’s prod-ucts had often been displayed atthe World Expo in Shanghai,China.

Intergovernmental relationshave increased as China, are acountry with a fast growingeconomy, and are a potential eco-nomic cooperation partner whichwith many countries had estab-lished trade relations.

Its rapid economic growth willmake China to need many thingsfrom other countries like Bali, in-cluding furniture designed andmade in accordance with the lik-ing and taste of the consumers.

Frenchman sentenced oneyear possessing marijuanaAntara

DENPASAR - The Denpasar district court here sentenced a Frenchman,Karim Chabbit (33), to one year in jail after finding him guilty of possessing44.6 grams of marijuana.

“We hereby sentence him to one year in prison, and order the defendantto remain in custody and pay Rp5 thousand in court proceeding costs,” saidpresiding judge Amzer Simanjuntak when reading the verdict here onWednesday.

In the trial with the agenda of verdict reading, the judge said that Karimwas proven legally and convincingly to have abused narcotics in the form ofmarijuana.

It was stipulated in article 127 paragraph 1a Act (Law) RI No.35/ 2009on Narcotics, and according to the panel of judges, Karim was only provedas a user.

The verdict handed down by the judges was lower than what the publicprosecutor, I Ketut Sukada, had demanded, namely one and half year in jail.

A factor that relieved the defendant’s sentence during the trial is due tohis polite attitude and confessing his actions, while the matter incriminatingthe defendant is his acts could damage younger generation, and Bali’s tour-ism image either.

Earlier, in a trial with pledoi agenda, Karim which was accompanied byhis lawyer Made Loster defended himself as a drug addict, and expectedonly snared by Article 134 of the Criminal Code regarding drug addict witha lower penalty.

Hearing the verdict, the defendant Karim and the prosecutor stated tothink about the verdict handed down by the judges.

Karim was arrested by police on Monday (March 28) at Villa Jepun,Krishna Street, Legian, Kuta, after the police received information fromresidents about the presence of foreign citizen who used drugs.

The police when conducting raids against Karim, found three packagesof marijuana, each of which is found in the bathroom with a gross weight of6.25 grams and the other two packages were found in Karim’s room locatedon the 2nd floor with the gross weight of each 19.31 grams and 18.50 grams.

Karim had told the police that the marijuana belonged to him and thathe had to use it to ease the pain from an injury he had sustained in anaccident. He had done it on the advice of his doctor in France.

DENPASAR - The percentage of Singaporean visit to Bali isincreasing along January-June 2011 as it touches the highest peak.Its 34 percentage increase emphasizing foreigners pleasure andtourist safety in this region, said Bali Tourism observer, Drs DewaRai Budiasa in Denpasar on Monday.

The coming of Singaporean to Bali recorded 41,534 visit dur-ing January to June 2010 into 55,690 visit during the first sixmonths in 2011. Tourism visit of Asia people is getting much de-crease like Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Korean. They are stillcontributing stable visit but Singaporean tourists are getting in-crease. The decreasing Japanese tourists are worrying as it drasti-cally decreased since last year. It decreased 89,490 persons dur-ing January to June 2011.

Japanese visit is drastically decreasing about 26% if it is pre-ferred than early 2010 as it touched 121,045 persons. Taiwanesedecreased 1,6% from 66,478 persons into 65,364 persons. Manyfactors are causing the decrease of Japanese tourists. One of themis the difficulties of getting air transportation from Japan to Bali.

Singapore is an international destination so it will be potentialto grab foreigners to spend their holiday in Bali, said Budiasa.Besides it needs harder promotion and an advance to fix the qual-ity of Bali Island. The natural beauty of Bali and the custom ofBali people are still attracting foreigners to visit this island. Itproved by the increase visit of foreigners as much as 10,9% or1,271,470 persons in the first six months of 2011.

Singaporean Visit Touchesits Highest Increase

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RUJAK(Vegetable & Fruits Salad With PalmSugar Sauce)

OVERVIEW:This popular snack, in intriguing mixture of sweet,

sour and spicy hot flavors, is prepared at countlesswarung throughout Bali.

INGREDIENTS:1 small pineapple, peeled and sliced evenly1 sour mango, peeled and sliced1 pamelo or grapefruit, peeled and cut in segments1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded and sliced3 water apples (jambu), quartered (optional)1 medium sized star fruit, sliced½ small papaya, peeled, cut in half, seeded and

sliced in even segments1 green apple, peeled and sliced1-cup rujak sauce

PREPARATION:Combine all ingredients in salad bowl and mix well.

Serve at room temperature.Helpful hint: although this is served as snack in Bali,

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BASE RUJAK:6 tbsp tamarind pulp1-cup palm sugar syrup1tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted6 bird’s eye chilies, left whole½ tsp salt½ cup water

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DENPASAR - Oakley Indone-sia is proud to announce their sec-ond annual Coca-Cola ISC Grade2 Pro Junior event at the high per-formance black sand wave meccaof Canggu on the west coast of Balifrom August 1-14.

With a prize purse of over Rp 30million, not only do the Under 21year old contestants have the chanceto bring home cash and valuableCoca-Cola ISC Pro Junior DivisionChampionship points, this OakleyPro Junior is also the deciding eventto determine Indonesia’s wildcardentry into the ASP sanctionedOakley World Pro Junior Champi-onships to be held at Keramas fromOctober 3-14. The Oakley WorldPro Junior boasts the richest prize

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DENPASAR - Over the last fourdays Ombak Bali Surf Film Festivaltook center stage right on the beachin Seminyak. Bali’s most happeninghang out of La Plancha, which waspacked with surf, cinema and partylovers from sunset till sunrise. Thestars shone brightly, wavespounded on the shore, trees shim-mered with neon lights and the at-mosphere was infused with the laidback vibe that Bali is famous for.

High scores for Ombak Bali

Oakley Pro Junior to be held in Canggu

The 4th edition of the festivalhad a sweet film line-up that drewa crowd of more than 700 peopleeach evening. Opening night hitwith the Asian premiere of SPLIN-TERS; all eyes were glued to thebig screen as this compelling debutfilm documented the battle for surfsupremacy that engulfed a smallcommunity in Papua New Guinea.

Many more fascinating filmswere screened during these fournights on the sand; from the inspir-ing environmental film Protect Our

Waves, impressive Irish shortieDARK Side Of The Lens, SurfingDolphins, Brazilian groms in RioBreaks, Bono with Sumatra riversurf, Morrocon winter surf in SanaSaida to closing night with the ex-clusive showing of Nathan Myersall time favorites ofINNERSECTION 2010/11.

Director Greg Huglin attendedthe festival this year to present hisfilm Surfing Dolphins: His verdict,“Amazing venue, great sound andtop notch presentation.”

purse in Pro Junior event historywith a total of US 75,000!

Oakley is dedicated to support-ing the development of surfing inBali and throughout Indonesia andsees events such as these Pro Jun-ior events in addition to their an-nual 6-star Oakley Pro (held atCanggu in April) as great mediumsfor this effort.

“We are amped to see the skillsof the kids improving so dramati-cally and we want to continue toprovide them with opportunities topush themselves and keep on im-proving, so to give them with a spe-cific Pro Junior event here in Baliis what we thought would accom-plish this goal the best. Plus it’s agreat reward as the key event to findout who will be strong enough tocompete with the best Pro Juniors

in the world in the upcomingOakley World Pro Junior event,”said Oakley’s Sports & AlternateMarketing Manager Gino Andrias.

The Pro Junior Division of theIndonesian Surfing Championshipsis specifically for surfers under 21years of age, and it is expected todraw the top pro junior surfers fromaround all over Indonesia to com-pete in August.

During the waiting period ofOakley Pro Junior, there will alsobe the fierce semi-finals of the first-in-Indonesia Oakley Surf Tag Se-ries, where surf clubs from Medewi,Legian, Seminyak and Lembonganwill compete for the 2 top spots. Thefinal of the Oakley Indonesia SurfTag Series will be held duringOakley World Pro Junior in Octo-ber, 2011.

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The Butterfly Park in Tabanan is one of the smaller attractionswithin reach for people in the Kuta area. Tabanan is one of the 8kabupaten (districts ) of Bali and its main town is also calledTabanan. The Butterfly Park (Taman Kupu Kupu) is located 7kmsnorth of the town of Tabanan, at Wanasari, on the road to Penebel.The ride takes about an hour from Kuta.

The museum is located 50 meters off the road, but is easy tofind, due to the massive sign outside. The neat grounds and park-ing lot, lead into the souvenir shop and ticket office. Thesekeysrings had a bug attached, the perfect gift for those relativesyou hate. I was surprised that the cost of admission was 40,000rp.That’s a bit steep for Bali.

The entrance to the museum is close by, and after passing througha couple of doors, and a set of hanging chains, you are inside thenet-covered garden. Immediately you’ll see large yellow and blackbutterflies fluttering around, like bar girls at a Seminyak nightclub.Butterfly watching is a strange hobby, if you aren’t used to it, asthese little creatures like to hide. It’s not like walking through themonkey forest, with hoards of friendly animals spilling out. At leasta butterfly won’t try to steal your water bottle.

In the center of the garden is a section, that contains cages witha variety of butterflies and insects, including this stick insect andleaf insect (those are my scientific terms). The gardens contain pondsand a variety of bushes and plants. The Bali Butterfly Park covers3,500m sq, making it the largest park of its kind in SE Asia. Thepark provides an environment for butterfly preservation and study.

Bali Butterfly Park

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YOKOHAMA - Nissan Motor Co reported a smaller-than-expected 10.4 percent decline in quarterly operating profit onWednesday as it recovered swiftly from a parts shortage thathammered the industry after the March 11 earthquake.

Japan’s second-biggest automaker posted an operating profitof 150.37 billion yen ($1.93 billion) for the April-June period,more than double the average of 70 billion yen estimated byeight analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

“This result is good enough to make me almost forget aboutthe negative impact of the earthquake,” said Naoki Fujiwara, afund manager at Shinkin Asset Management in Tokyo.

“I see a big chance of an upward revision to their annual out-look when they announce first-half results,” he said, calling thefirst-quarter results a positive surprise.

Nissan, 43 percent owned by Renault SA , is poised to out-shine Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co this year thanksto a faster recovery from the supply disruption and aggressiveexpansion in China.

Honda and Toyota, which will report earnings on August 1and August 2, are both forecast to post an operating loss, al-though comparisons favor Nissan because it books earnings fromChina at the operating level under Japanese accounting rules.Toyota and Honda use U.S. standards, which require their Chi-nese earnings to be booked as equity on the bottom line.

“In light of the historic scale of the disasters, we think thefirst-quarter results are remarkable and a testament to the strengthof Japanese manufacturing and its suppliers,” Joji Tagawa, cor-porate vice president of finance, told reporters.

Nissan kept its forecasts for operating profit at 460 billionyen and net profit at 270 billion yen for the full year to March2012, below consensus forecasts.

Nissan is planning to boost sales by 9.9 percent to 4.6 millionvehicles this year, driven by projected double-digit growth inChina and Europe. Earlier this week, Nissan outlined mid-termgrowth plans for its Southeast Asian and Chinese operations,calling for big gains in market share.

A shortage of microcontrollers and other components hit Japa-nese production in April, but Nissan managed to eke out gainsby the following month, leaving rivals in the dust.

Globally, Nissan’s production rose 9.5 percent last quarterand sales grew 10.6 percent to 1.056 million vehicles.

First-quarter revenue rose 1.6 percent to 2.08 trillion yen, butnet profit sank 20 percent to 85.0 billion yen as a 10-yen fall inthe dollar to an average 81.7 yen during the first quarter slashedoperating profits by 55 billion yen.

On Wednesday, the dollar was trading even lower, around 77.6yen, against Nissan’s assumption of 80 yen for the year.

Global automakers also face growing risks of an economicslowdown as debt worries escalate in the United States and Eu-rope, while demand for cars has slowed in China, the world’sbiggest auto market.

Ford Motor Co on Tuesday reported a better-than-expectednet profit, but remained cautious about consumer demand, say-ing it expected U.S. sales for this year to be at the bottom end ofits forecast of 13 million to 13.5 million vehicles.

“Monetary tightening in emerging markets and the U.S. debtproblems could be a strategic risk for Nissan,” said Shinkin’sFujiwara. “If we start seeing an increase in inventory levels, thecompany’s aggressive growth strategy could backfire.”

Nissan’s shares are the best-performing Japanese auto stockso far this year, gaining 12 percent, while Tokyo’s transport sec-tor subindex has risen 2 percent. Before the results, Nissan’sshares closed down 1.9 percent at 846 yen.

A small majority of economists —30 out of 53 — surveyed over the pasttwo days said the United States willlose its AAA credit rating from oneof the three big ratings agencies —Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s or Fitch.

Respondents saw a 20 percentchance of a new recession over thenext year, a prospect that some econo-mists say has been compounded bythe acrimonious political fight overwhat is normally a procedural legis-lative vote on the debt.

Lawmakers have one week left tohash out a deficit-cutting plan with-out which Republicans in Congresshave said they will not raise the legal$14.3 trillion debt limit, risking a po-tentially devastating government debtdefault in August.

“We believe that Congress will actwith an 11th hour deal to raise the debtceiling. However, the risk of that dealfailing increases with each passingday,” said Guy LeBas, director at

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SEOUL - South Korea’s eco-nomic growth slowed in the secondquarter from three months earlier, thecentral bank said Wednesday, as ex-port gains eased sharply due partly toglobal economic uncertainties.

Asia’s fourth-largest economygrew 0.8 percent quarter-on-quarterin April-June compared to a 1.3 per-cent expansion in January-March, ac-cording to an advance estimate fromthe Bank of Korea.

Gross domestic product (GDP)rose 3.4 percent in the second quarterfrom a year earlier, slowing downfrom a 4.2 percent annual increase inJanuary-March.

“Private consumption steadily in-creased and facilities investment rose.But growth in exports slowed whileconstruction investment remainedsluggish,” the central bank said in astatement.

Wednesday’s figures showed that

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WASHINGTON/LONDON - The United States will lose its top-notch AAA credit rating fromat least one major rating agency, according to a Reuters poll that also found wrangling over thedebt ceiling has already damaged the economy.

Janney Capital Markets.“I would say that the chance of a

U.S. ratings downgrade is now morelikely than not.”

Economists still see the probabil-ity of an outright default on U.S. Trea-sury bonds as remote — 5 percent onmedian.

Downgrade and default wouldhave vastly different consequences.A ratings cut might raise the risk ofrecession by hurting confidence, butmight allow financial markets tomuddle through the next few monthswithout incident. A default, however,would send shockwaves through theglobal financial system that couldkick-start a new financial crisis, ana-lysts say.

Even if this worst-case scenario isnot borne out, a firm majority of re-spondents — 38 out of 54 — said theuncertainty brought about by the po-litical acrimony over the debt has al-ready hurt economic growth.

The U.S. economy had alreadybeen under stress in recent months.Gross domestic product expandedjust 1.9 percent in the first threemonths of the year, and the secondquarter is not expected to have faredmuch better. Industrial production hasslowed and employment nearlyground to a halt in the last twomonths. The jobless rate climbed to9.2 percent in June.

“This whole debt ceiling debatedoesn’t seem to be making anyoneany more confident,” said SeanIncremona, economist at 4Cast Ltd.in New York.

Goldman Sachs argued in a re-search note recently that the declinein consumer sentiment over the lastfew months has been disproportion-ate to the economy’s slowdown, peg-ging the debt battle as a culprit.

The government’s first reading onGDP in the second quarter will bereleased on Friday.

South Korea economic growthslows in second quarter

exports, which account for about halfof GDP, rose 1.8 percent in the sec-ond quarter from the previous quar-ter, slowing from a 3.3 percent rise inJanuary-March.

The fall came amid growing glo-bal uncertainty sparked by theeurozone debt crisis and a possible USdebt default.

The second-quarter performancewas slightly below the central bank’sinitial estimate early this month andthe market’s expectations.

However the bank said growth islikely to pick up to 1.5 percent in boththe third and fourth quarters, indicat-ing the economy remains on a robustrecovery track.

“Exports of tech products re-mained weak last quarter mainly be-cause prices of flat panel and chipshave not yet recovered,” said KimYoung-Bae, director general of itseconomic statistics division.

“The pace of overseas shipmentsslowed down but as the level of ex-

ports remained sound overall, itwould be hard to say that exports stayweak.”

Kim stuck by the bank’s full-yeargrowth forecast of 4.3 percentgrowth, while the finance ministry’sprediction is 4.5 percent. GDP grew6.2 percent in 2010, the fastest ratefor eight years.

“The second quarter is the bottom.The strengthening won will help im-prove the trade terms, limit importedinflation and enhance consumers’purchasing power,” Shinhan Invest-ment Corp economist Lee Sung-Kwon told Dow Jones Newswires.

Park Sang-Hyun, a chief econo-mist at Hi Investment and Securities,told Yonhap news agency the second-quarter growth figure was weakerthan expected as export gains cooled.

“In the third quarter, the growthrate will be higher than the second-quarter one, but the pace is not likelyto be steep given external uncer-tainty,” said Park.

Nissan beatsexpectations as itrecovers from quake

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Organizers say the Canadian festival will launchSept. 8 with “From the Sky Down,” a chronicle ofthe Irish band led by singer Bono. The film wasmade by “An Inconvenient Truth” director DavisGuggenheim and marks the first time in its 36-year history that the Toronto festival has openedwith a documentary.

Guggenheim said the film explores why “thisband has endured and thrived.” The four-memberband formed in 1978 and has been turning out hitalbums since the early 1980s, including “War,”‘’The Joshua Tree,” ‘’Achtung Baby” and“Zooropa.”

“In the terrain of rock bands, implosion or ex-plosion is seemingly inevitable. U2 has defied thegravitational pull toward destruction,” saidGuggenheim, an Oscar winner for “An Inconve-nient Truth” who also made the 2008 musicaldocumentary “It Might Get Loud,” featuring U2guitarist The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

Director Cameron Crowe (“Almost Famous”)ventures into musical documentary with anotherToronto premiere, “Pearl Jam Twenty,” tracing theband’s formation and how its members pulled backfrom the spotlight to cope after its rise to stardom.

Singer Madonna also is headed to the Torontofestival, as director of “W.E.,” a film that intercutsbetween the romance of a modern woman (AbbieCornish) and the relationship of American social-ite Wallis Simpson and Britain’s King EdwardVIII, who abdicated the throne for love in the1930s.

Toronto is among the world’s largest film festi-vals, a spot where Hollywood studios and inter-national filmmakers debut many prospects that willbe in the running for next February’s Oscars.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger hasamended a divorce filing and withdrawn a request that ajudge terminate Maria Shriver’s rights to spousal support.

The actor and former California governor’s filing re-places a document he submitted last week that also indi-cated he wanted Shriver to pay her own attorney’s fees.The amended response filed Monday in Los Angelesstates Schwarzenegger is also willing to pay his estrangedwife’s attorney.

The former couple’s 13-year-old son has been releasedfrom the hospital after a body-boarding accident on June17 left him with a collapsed lung.

Shriver filed for divorce July 1. Her petition to endthe couple’s 25-year-marriage came weeks afterSchwarzenegger revealed he fathered a child with amember of his household staff years ago.

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Schwarzeneggernow open to paying

Shriver support

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, California Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver

pose for photos before they meet at the secondGovernors’ Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles.

Sheryl Crow auctioningoff car to aid Joplin, Mo.

Associated Press Writer

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —Some winning bidder will soonbe cruising life’s winding road inSheryl Crow’s 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster.

The Grammy award-winningsinger said Monday that she’sauctioning off the classic car nextmonth and that the proceeds willgo toward helping rebuild the tor-nado-ravaged city of Joplin in hernative state of Missouri.

Crow says she loves the car andhas had it for six years, but doesn’tdrive it anymore. The SpringfieldNews-Leader reports that Crowhopes the car will fetch up to$500,000 at the Aug. 21 auction inPebble Beach, Calif. But she saysshe’d be happy if it raises $100,000.

Crow was a schoolteacher be-fore launching her singing career,and the money will go to theJoplin Schools Recovery Fund.

AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File

FILE - In this May 12, 2011, filephoto Sheryl Crow poses for aphoto during an event inOmaha, Neb.

(L-R) The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., Bono, andAdam Clayton of the band U2 perform at theNew Meadowlands Stadium on July 20, 2011

in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

U2 doc, Pitt, Clooney films head to Toronto festU2 doc, Pitt, Clooney films head to Toronto festU2 doc, Pitt, Clooney films head to Toronto festU2 doc, Pitt, Clooney films head to Toronto festU2 doc, Pitt, Clooney films head to Toronto festAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — One of the world’s top film showcases is starting on a musical note as adocumentary portrait of the rock band U2 opens the Toronto International Film Festival.

Other highlights for the 11-day festival includeBrad Pitt’s baseball tale “Moneyball”; JenniferGarner, Hugh Jackman and Olivia Wilde’s comicstory “Butter”; Kristen Wiig, Megan Fox and JonHamm’s parenthood comedy “Friends with Kids”;and Keira Knightley’s Sigmund Freud-Carl Jungdrama “A Dangerous Method,” directed by DavidCronenberg and featuring Viggo Mortensen andMichael Fassbender.

George Clooney has two films at Toronto, di-recting and co-starring alongside Ryan Gosling inthe political saga “The Ides of March” and star-ring in the family story “The Descendants,” di-rected by Alexander Payne (“Sideways”). RachelWeisz also appears in two Toronto films, the love-affair chronicle “The Deep Blue Sea” and the en-semble love story “360,” inspired by ArthurSchnitzler’s play “La Ronde” and featuring JudeLaw, Rachel Weisz and Anthony Hopkins.

Also playing at Toronto are Glenn Close’s Irishdrama “Albert Nobbs”; Jane Fonda and CatherineKeener’s family comedy “Peace, Love & Misun-derstanding”; Sarah Polley’s relationship tale“Take This Waltz,” with Michelle Williams andSeth Rogen; Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare adapta-tion “Coriolanus”; Freida Pinto’s “Trishna,” anadaptation of Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of thed’Urbervilles” transplanted to modern India; andFrancis Ford Coppola’s murder mystery “Twixt,”with Val Kilmer.

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But the technique only worked in squir-rels who were awakened by researchersduring their hibernation season, not out-side normal hibernation times, said thestudy in The Journal of Neuroscience.

Researchers at the University ofAlaska, Fairbanks, studied arctic groundsquirrels, giving them a caffeine-like sub-stance to awaken them from hibernation.

Another substance was given to themat various times of the year to see if it couldstimulate parts of the brain that encour-age a molecule called adenosine to attachitself to the receptors, causing sleepiness.

“When a squirrel begins to hibernateand when you feel drowsy it’s becauseadenosine molecules have attached them-selves to receptors in your brain,” saidTulasi Jinka, lead author of the study.

Adenosine slows nerve cell activity.Animals in hibernation experience verylow body temperatures and take in littleoxygen, but they suffer no brain damage.If scientists could master this process inhumans, they could potentially prevent

MICROSOFT on Tuesdaymade the latest version of its mo-bile phone software available tohandset partners as it seeks to clawback market share from Apple andGoogle.

The Redmond, Washington-basedpersonal computer software power-house said the update to its WindowsPhone operating system, code-

Agence France Presse

A graphic video showing the last hours of a rareSumatran tiger as it writhes in a trap in Indonesiaexposes the gruesome toll of rampant rainforest clear-ing, Greenpeace activists said Tuesday. GreenpeaceSoutheast Asia forest campaigner Zulfahmi said thetrap was set up by villagers to catch wild pigs on alogging concession owned by Asia Pulp and Paper(APP), one of the world’s biggest paper and packag-ing companies.

“The tiger died in a spot which is located on anAPP concession. Due to land clearing by the com-pany, the tigers have to leave their habitat,” he toldAFP. “We urge the company to stop its land clearingactivity in Indonesia... to avoid endangered animalsbecoming extinct.”

Estimates of the number of Sumatran tigers re-maining in the world range from 300 to 400. Severaldie each year as a result of traps, poaching or otherhuman actions. The 18-month-old tiger died within

Handset makers get WindowsPhone update ‘Mango’

named “Mango,” features over 500new features and faster browsingwith Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

“This marks the point in the de-velopment process where we handcode to our handset and mobileoperator partners to optimizeMango for their specific phone andnetwork configurations,” WindowsPhone corporate vice presidentTerry Myerson said in a blog post.

The move came as MicrosoftJapan, mobile carrier KDDI andcellphone maker Fujitsu ToshibaMobile Communications unveiledin Tokyo the IS12T, which accord-ing to Microsoft president YasuyukiHiguchi will be the world’s firstMango handset.

The device which will also beJapan’s first to carry the WindowsPhone operating system, will fea-ture a 13.2 megapixel camera withautofocus, 32 gigabytes of flashstorage and will be launched in Sep-tember at the earliest.

At a news conference held onWednesday Tokyo time, Higuchiadmitted that Microsoft was play-ing catch up with its competitors.“We cannot say that Microsoft isnot lagging behind rivals,” he said.

“We will make all-out efforts tocatch up,” he said. “On the back ofabundant assets such as our technol-ogy and ties with partners, we hopeto expand in the mobile business.”

IBP/afp

A squirrel sits on a snowy tree branch in a Moscow park. Scientists in Alaska said Tuesday theyhave figured out how to make squirrels hibernate, a process that could be used to preservebrain function in humans who suffer strokes or heart attacks

Tiger death in Indonesia blamed on paper firmthree hours of being tranquillised by local conserva-tion officials, said Greenpeace media campaignerZamzami, who witnessed the incident.

The Greenpeace video shows the animal in obvi-ous distress as it tries to pull its blackened paw freeof the rope trap. “The tiger died on July 1, sevendays after it fell into the trap. It couldn’t eat or drink,its paw had turned black already and there were manyflies around it,” Zamzami said.

Veterinary surgeons were called to the scene inSumatra island’s Riau province but were unable tosave the tiger, he said. A spokeswoman forSingapore-based APP said any suggestion that thecompany’s operations resulted in the death of thetiger were “not only grossly inaccurate but deeplyoffensive”.

“The death of any Sumatran tiger is a tragic situ-ation. Unfortunately human-tiger conflict has longbeen a reality of life in Indonesia,” spokeswomanAida Greenbury said, putting the blame on local vil-lagers.

A graphic videoshows the lasthours of a rare

Sumatran tiger as itwrithes in a trap in

Indonesia.Greenpeace

activists say itexposes the

gruesome toll oframpant rainforestclearing. Duration:

00:00:34

IBP/afp

Alaska scientists make squirrels hibernateAlaska scientists make squirrels hibernateAlaska scientists make squirrels hibernateAlaska scientists make squirrels hibernateAlaska scientists make squirrels hibernateAgence France Presse

Scientists in Alaska said Tuesday they have figured out how to make squirrelshibernate, a process that could be used to preserve brain function in humanswho suffer strokes or heart attacks.

damage caused by severe trauma, whenpeople stop breathing or suffer suddenheart attack or stroke.

But those days are still a long way off.The researchers found that they could in-duce torpor, or the state in which oxygenconsumption falls to one percent of restingmetabolic rate and core body temperatureapproaches freezing, consistently only insquirrels who were awoken from hiberna-tion in the midst of their sleeping season.

Essentially, they could wake up a hi-bernating squirrel and then get it to goback to sleep.

However, when they tried to inducehibernation outside of the regular season,it worked in just two of six squirrels dur-ing the early hibernation season, but notin any during the summer when squirrelsdo not hibernate.

“We show for the first time that activa-tion of the adenosine receptors is suffi-cient to induce torpor in arctic groundsquirrels during their hibernation season,”said Jinka.

Thursday, July 28, 201114 InternationalSport

The third qualifying round win-ners are battling for a spot in theplayoff matches where they couldseal a berth in the competitionproper.

In Ukraine, Alan Kasaev struckfrom close range in the sixth minuteto give Rubin the lead beforeBebras Natcho added a second goalfor the Russians with a 68th-minutepenalty. Shevchenko was left sittingon the bench as an unused substi-tute while Dynamo failed to capit-alise on a host of scoring chances.Coach Yuri Semin’s team will nowhave a mountain to climb in nextweek’s return match.

The two teams also met in theChampions League group stagestwo seasons ago, Dynamo winningin Kiev 3-1 before holding Rubinto a 0-0 draw in Kazan.

In Belgium, Genk came frombehind to earn a 2-1 home win overSerbian opponents Partizan thanksto a superb injury-time goal fromlate substitute Marvin Ogunjimi.The striker, who came on in the 85thminute, sent a vociferous homecrowd into raptures when he con-

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Brown Ideye (L) of FC Dynamo Kiev fights for a ball with Solomon Kverkvelia of FC RubinKazan during the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, First leg football match inKiev on July 26, 2011.

Reuters

LONDON - Dynamo Kiev, who left out former Europeanfootballer of the Year Andriy Shevchenko, slumped to a 2-0home defeat against Rubin Kazan in a Champions League thirdqualifying round first-leg tie on Tuesday. Elsewhere, 1966 Eu-ropean Cup runners-up Partizan Belgrade lost 2-1 at Belgianleague champions Racing Genk while Dutch side TwenteEnschede eased past Romanians Vaslui 2-0 thanks to a doublefrom Austria striker Marc Janko.

trolled a deep, searching pass andbeat goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovicwith a delightful lob from 10metres.

Genk defender Calvin AneleNgcongca was sent off for violentconduct in the 32nd minute but Par-tizan also had forward StefanBabovic dismissed shortly after theinterval for two bookable offences.

Nemanja Tomic had put Partizanin front but the same player alsogave away a soft penalty five min-utes later that was converted byJelle Vossen in the 70th minute. InEnschede, two-goal Janko ledTwente to victory over Vaslui in amatch played at the Gelredome inArnhem.

Twente were unable to use theirhome ground after a roof collapsedat the stadium earlier this month, re-sulting in the death of two construc-tion workers. Janko converted apenalty after 34 minutes before add-ing a second goal after the break.In Scotland, 1979 European Cuprunners-up Malmo won 1-0 atRangers thanks to a 18th-minutegoal from Daniel Larsson.

Agence France Presse

Bayern Munich’s Dutch midfielderArjen Robben is injured and will misshis club’s first fixture of the upcom-ing season on August 1.

Robben had to be replaced in the63rd minute of Bayern’s friendlygame against AC Milan on Tuesdayafter suffering a knock to his thigh.“I hope it’s nothing serious,” saidBayern coach Jupp Heynckes.

The injury has ruled him out ofMonday’s first round cup tie.

Bayern will also be without FrackRibery for the game against EintrachtBrunswick after the France interna-tional suffered a left ankle problemin training. Ribery may also be ab-sent for Bayern’s first league fixtureagainst Borussia Monchengladbachon August 7.

Associated Press Writer

Football legend Pele on Tuesday accepted an invitation fromBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff to act as an honorary ambas-sador for the 2014 World Cup. The 70-year-old Brazilian said itwas an honour that he could not turn down.

“From the first World Cup that I played (in 1958) I’ve beendoing this: I defend and promote Brazil. It’s a very bigresponsbility and I could not turn down the invitation,” said Pele.

Pele told his compatriots to show their pride in hosting thetournament by putting aside criticism over delays and the slowpace of preparations to stage the best World Cup possible.

Sports Minister Orlando Silva said that Pele had been a naturalchoice because of “all he had done for sport in Brazil. He’s a manwho knows a lot about the world of football. He’s going to helpand represent us”.

Pele won the World Cup three times - 1958, 1962 and 1970 -and is the top scorer of all time with 1,281 goals throughout hiscareer.

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Bayern Munich’s Dutch midfielder Arjen Robben screams inpain after being injured during the Audi Cup football matchbetween FC Bayern Munich and AC Milan in Munich, southernGermany, on July 26.

Bayern’s Robbenout of Cup tie

Pele named honoraryambassador for2014 World Cup

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With Kobe Bryant reportedlynegotiating a deal to play in Tur-key, New Orleans Hornets’ Pauland New York Knicks forwardAnthony said they were also con-sidering overseas moves.

Asked by SNTV where theywould go, Anthony replied“China.” Paul said “Same, noquestion.” The answers may havebeen designed to complimenttheir hosts, but Anthony added“it’s a lot of history here, the fansare great; why not, why not try itout?”

Meanwhile, Portland TrailBlazers point guard Patty Millssays he is looking into a move

Associated Press Writer

Tour de France champion CadelEvans would love to ride for Aus-tralia at the London Olympics, butonly if the course is tough enough.The 34-year-old fulfilled his life-long quest by securing the Tour deFrance title on Sunday in a victorycelebrated as one of Australia’s fin-est sporting achievements.

Already a triple Olympian, the34-year-old would be a majordrawcard at London 2012 if hemakes the team. A key issue iswhether the road race and time trialcourses will be challenging enoughto suit his strengths.

“To be honest, I don’t know ifthe course is going to be suitable,”Evans told Australian AssociatedPress from his base in Switzerland.“But if I can be the man for the jobto represent the country, of courseI would love to ride.

“If it’s a course more suitable tosomeone else, then it should be forsomeone else.” The Olympic roadevents come just days after Evansis set to complete his Tour deFrance title defence, but he said thatwasn’t a problem.

“The timing falls well for us asTour riders — there’s also an inter-esting world championships coursein 2012 and a few other things,” hesaid.

“We have to prioritise andchoose our goals, but Tour deFrance 2012 is going to comearound really quickly.” Evansstarted his career as a cross coun-

World champion Cesar CieloWednesday said eye-catchingAustralian James Magnussenwas hot favourite to snatch his100m title after he eclipsedAmerican great Michael Phelpsin the 4x100m relay. The Brazil-ian, who emerged from a dopingstorm to clinch 50m butterflygold, said Magnussen would beunstoppable in Thursday’s finalif he repeats the 47.49sec thathelped dethrone triple defendingchampions the United States.

Magnussen, the 20-year-old“Port Macquarie Missile”, timed48.21 in Wednesday’s heats be-hind William Meynard of Francewith Italian Filippo Magninithird and Cielo fourth. The semi-finals are later on Wednesday.

“Magnussen is the favourite,”Cielo said. “Magnussen shouldbe able to do it (47.49) again. Idon’t know what I can do if hedoes it again. I don’t think any-body (can catch him).” Cielo hasendured a turbulent start to hischampionships after athleteswhist led and one gave thethumbs-down to his butterflywin, just days after he was let offwith a warning for testing posi-

Paul, Anthony latest toPaul, Anthony latest toPaul, Anthony latest toPaul, Anthony latest toPaul, Anthony latest tolook at foreign offerslook at foreign offerslook at foreign offerslook at foreign offerslook at foreign offersAssociated Press Writer

HONG KONG — Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony say they will consider offers to playprofessional basketball in China if there is no resolution to the NBA lockout. Both players are ona promotional tour of China while monitoring news from home about the NBA’s labor impasse.

back to his native Australia to playin the National Basketball Leagueas long as the NBA lockout con-tinues.

“The most important thing forme is to find somewhere to play,”Mills told Australian AssociatedPress. “Definitely NBL teamshave reached out. I am looking atthat, but also teams in Europe andother options. But right now thereis no rush in making a decision; itwill come over the next couple ofmonths.”

NBL chief executive LarrySengstock was eager to bringMills home, saying the league was“determined to look at any and

every option to facilitate his sign-ing with an NBL team.”

Anthony and Paul, both mem-bers of the U.S. squad which wonthe 2008 Olympic gold medal inBeijing, continued their HongKong visit Wednesday beforemoving on to mainland China.

U.S. basketball playerCarmelo Anthony from the

New York Knicks demon-strates his skill for young

local players during a bas-ketball clinic in Hong Kong,

Tuesday, July 26, 2011.

AP Photo/Kin CheungEvans keen to ride at Olympics

AFP PHOTO/William WEST

Newspapers coverage in Melbourne on July 25, 2011 leadwith Cadel Evans’ historic Tour de France win which has beenhailed as one of Australia’s finest ever sporting achievements,ranking alongside Rod Laver’s tennis exploits and theirAmerica’s Cup yachting triumph.

try cyclist, finishing ninth in themountain bike race at the AtlantaOlympics in 1996 and seventh at the2000 Sydney Games.

He then contested the road race

in Beijing in 2008, finishing 15thbehind this year’s Tour de FranceKing of the Mountains SamuelSanchez. He placed fifth in thetime trial.

Aussie swimmerMagnussen may beunbeatable, says Cielo

tive for a banned diuretic.Meanwhile Olympic champion

Phelps won his 200m individualmedley heat but still timed slowerthan Ryan Lochte, the team-matewho handed him a shattering de-feat in the 200m freestyle final.Phelps said Wednesday evening,when he will compete in the 200mbutterfly final and the medleysemis, would be his toughest inShanghai as he chases a possiblefive gold medals, with two al-ready gone begging.

“A big thing is getting throughtonight and then it’s sort of down-hill,” Phelps said. “My gettingready for the 200 fly tonight, be-ing able to come back and do adouble (swim) is going to be fun.”Phelps’s loss-strewn year has notimproved so far in Shanghai buthe insists he is on track to finishhis historic Olympic career witha flourish next year in London,when he will try to add to his 14Games titles.

In Wednesday’s other heats,Australia’s two-time defendingchampion Jessicah Schipper wasninth fastest in the 200m butterfly,and Russia’s Anastasia Zueva wasquickest in the 50m backstroke.

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The Italian squad decided to switch to anew specification of wheel nut from the Brit-ish Grand Prix, hoping to get rid of the is-sues that had marred Massa’s chances ear-lier in the year, and to also improve its speed.

At the Nurburgring, Ferrari made sixpitstops of which four were flawless, butMassa lost time in his final stop after aproblem with the new wheel nut.

VALENTINO Rossi insists his Ducatiteam must do more in order to makeprogress towards the front despite admit-ting he felt more comfortable during lastweekend’s race in Laguna Seca. The Ital-ian, who has struggled with his bike thisyear, finished in sixth place in the UnitedStates Grand Prix after using the DucatiGP11.1, the development bike based onthe 2012 chassis. Rossi, who finished over30 seconds off race winner Casey Stoner,admitted the set-up used in America wasa step forward, but conceded there wasmuch more work to do.

“We have problems with the front, es-pecially when the bike leans heavily, butwe need bigger modifications to solvethem: we’ll see how long that takes,” Rossiwas quoted as saying by Gazzetta delloSport. “Following the Hondas and theYamahas, you realise the difference isquite big: each turn they manage to get onthe gas a bit earlier than we do so, by the

VITALY Petrov says he is confident that Renault willenjoy an upturn in fortunes through the second half of theF1 season as the Russian prepares for the final race beforethe summer break this weekend in Hungary.

Petrov secured a points finish in the German Grand Prixlast weekend but was left far from happy with the result ashe came home behind the Force India of Adrian Sutil andSauber’s Kamui Kobayashi.

However, despite that disappointment, Petrov has backedhis team to fight back through the second half of the year,with team boss Eric Boullier having already called on theEnstone-based squad to improve ‘quickly’ to try and getback ahead of Mercedes in the title race.

“Well, I scored another point but we should be finishingmuch higher up the points,” Petrov said as he reflected onthe Nurburgring race. “We’ve said that time and again, butwe brought good developments to the car last weekend,perhaps lacked a bit of luck and didn’t capitalise on ouropportunities. What’s noticeable is there are other teamsbeginning to compete seriously with us, such as Force In-dia and Sauber, so we need to take the initiative and makea significant step forward to stay ahead of these guys.

Ferrari’sSpanish driverFernandoAlonso sits inthe pits at theNurburgringracetrack onJuly 23, 2011in Nurburgduring thequalifyingsession of theGermanFormula OneGrand Prix.

AFP PHOTO / JENS MEYER

Ferrari still has toimprove pitstops

Ferrari admits it has to work onperfecting its pitstops after FelipeMassa lost time during its final stopin the German Grand Prix.

Ferrari’s head of track operations Di-ego Ioverno said the team is still work-ing on improving its pitstop performance.

“Since the beginning of the year wehave had various issues with pitstops,which we are currently fixing step by step,knowing that this year, with so manystops, anything can happen and indeedwe have seen other teams also experiencedifficulties in this area,” said Ioverno.

“Our issues concerned the car itselfand the jig of the tools we use and espe-cially the wheel nuts, where we have hadseveral problems. Silverstone was the first

race we ran with a completely newspecification of wheel nut, which hasbeen very interesting, because in theBritish Grand Prix, our pitstops werethe quickest in the race.

“Then, in Germany we were againusing this new wheel nut, which doeswork better, but the system is still notperfect and, at Felipe’s last tyrechange, we lost the connection be-tween the wheel nut and wheel nutgun, which cost us around one and ahalf seconds. So we have more workto do on perfecting it.”

Rossi wants more Ducati progressend of the lap, the gap gets quite big.

“We’ve found a good set-up here, butwe must do more: the objective is to bequicker and make the Desmosedici easierto ride for everyone.

“We’ve brought back home what wecould, but we had hope to be quicker.We’ve scored 108 points: the objective isto reach 200 in the second half of the sea-son.” Ducati team manager VittorianoGuareschi said the behaviour ofBridgestone’s tyres this year was a bigpart of the problems.

“Our bike is like handling an eel: yougrab it from one side, but it slips awayfrom the other side. The Desmosedicidoesn’t turn, and if it does it’s not in anormal manner,” Guareschi toldMotosprint. “On our bike the frontBridgestone tyres works differently com-pared to the other bikes, and our riderslack feeling.

“I don’t know what they have done, or

what has happened, but this year’sBridgestones have certainly changedcompared to 2010: they are evenharder, making it difficult for our bike.

“We are unable to understand what’sdifferent compared to before. The rid-ers feel loss of front grip and slide side-ways at turn entry, and this seems evenstranger considering that Nicky has thesame set-up as last year. It doesn’t addup, but the reality is that our bike slidessideways without warning.

“All our riders crash this way. Thetyre doesn’t warn them when it letsthem down.” He said the GP11.1 wasnot improving the situation, but rathermaking it worse.

“No, in fact the problem is evenworse. You struggle even more to findthe balance. Now, however, Jeremy(Burgess) is back, and we are usingagain his working method that hasbrought so much success for Valentino.

Petrov confident ofupturn in fortunes