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The two Asian giants had been battling for months over the
high-profile contract to build a railway linking the Indonesian
capital, Jakarta, with the textile hub of Bandung.
Indonesia initially envisaged a high-speed service for the
150-km (100 mile) journey but this month changed its mind, opting
instead for a medium-speed train.
Analysts have said whoever won the bid could be a front runner
for future rail projects in the region, in-
cluding one linking Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
President Joko Widodos admin-istration preferred Chinas proposal
because it was less burdensome and promised a larger share of
technol-ogy transfer than Japan.
The government of China has courage not to ask for guarantees
from Indonesia, Gatot Trihargo, deputy assistant for the
state-owned enterprises ministry, told Reuters on Wednesday.
While other countries like Japan
and Germany request government guarantees, we cannot afford this
because our budget is limited.
The high-profile contract is a victory for Chinese President Xi
Jinpings One Belt One Road initiative to build a network of ports,
trains and expressways to help expand trade, investment and
influence in the region.
Chinas Foreign Ministry said China had the advantage of
experi-ence in developing high-speed rail projects.
Were eager to work with the Indonesian side to develop
coopera-tion in the spheres of infrastructure development and
production capac-ity, ministry spokesman Hong Lei
told a regular briefing.For Japan, the rail project was a
difficult loss, particularly after last-minute efforts by
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to provide a better offer than
China.
The Japanese government still believes our proposal was the
bet-ter and most feasible one, Japa-nese embassy official Kijima
said. We were expecting transparency and fairness from the
Indonesian government. We hope that in the future they will be more
transparent and fair.
Indonesias national planning minister, Sofyan Djalil, travelled
to Japan this week to break the bad news to Tokyo, but also
lobby
officials on other investment op-portunities.
There are many infrastructure projects, not just trains, and
many opportunities for the Japanese government to build
infrastructure in Indonesia, said Indonesias presidential chief of
staff, Teten Masduki. (rtr)
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Olympiakos stuns Arsenal 3-2 in Champions
Gaga released the collaborative jazz album, Cheek to Cheek, with
Tony Bennett last year. I t won a
Grammy Award, and the duo per-formed songs from the album on a
36-date tour.
Gaga also plans to release an album next year and will star in
FXs Ameri-can Horror Story: Hotel, which pre-mieres on Oct. 7.
The Women in Music event also honors the years 50 most powerful
female executives in the music indus-try. (ap)
NEW YORK Katy Perry, Sting and Jerry Seinfeld will perform at a
benefit concert of the David Lynch Foundation on Nov. 4.
The Change Begins Within concert at Carnegie Hall in New York
City will also include performances by Jim James, Angelique Kidjo
and Sharon Isbin.
Proceeds from the event will aid the foundations MEDITATE NEW
YORK initiative, which provides transcendental meditation training
to 10,000 at-risk New Yorkers for free.
Tickets for the event, which range from $150 to $600, went on
sale Tuesday. Director, screenwriter, and artist David Lynch and
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News will serve as the evenings hosts.
(ap)
LOS ANGELES Television loves music stars, as two deals with
Nicki Minaj and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson demonstrate.
ABC Family said Tuesday that Minaj will executive produce and
appear in a new scripted comedy series for the cable chan-nel.
The sitcom will be based on her familys move from Trinidad to
the United States and Minajs development as an artist grow-ing up
in Queens, New York, the channel said. It will be shot in Queens
this winter.
The air date and other cast member were not announced.Also
Tuesday, Starz said it has signed Jackson to an exclusive
two-year deal to develop new projects for the channel.He also
will continue to serve as executive producer on the
drama series Power, which is in production for its third season
on Starz. (ap)
Lady Gaga to be named Woman of the Year by Billboard
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NEW YORK Lady Gaga is the woman of the year, according to
Bill-board magazine. Billboard announced Tuesday that the pop star
will be honored at its Dec. 11 Women in Music event in New York
City. The decade-old event will be televised for the first time, on
Lifetime on Dec. 18.
Nicki Minaj gets TV sitcom; 50 Cent inks new Starz deal
Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
Katy Perry, Sting, Seinfeld to perform at benefit concert
Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File
TOURISM has become the locomo-tive of Balis economy. The revenue
generated in Bali from this sector of the economy dominates all
other sec-tor, and yet, despite its boasts, tourism
nonetheless leaves a gap between the rich and poor with only a
small number
of people enjoying the benefits, namely: those who already have
capital.
The majority of people in Bali only enjoy the so called added
value of tourism in the form of wages, which is only a small
portion of the tourism pie.
Such condition indicate that the economic growth of Bali has not
been inclusive. Inclusive develop-ment means economic growth, job
creation, poverty reduction and care for the environment. Bali
therefor needs to reorganize things so that tourism driven economic
growth can be equally enjoyed by all levels of society.
Chairman of the the Bali Chamber of Commerce (Kadin), A.A.
Ngurah Alit Wiraputra recently stated that Balis tourism reliant
economy should be able to contribute to public welfare.
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A steward waits for passengers before departing to Bandung, at
Gambir train station in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 31, 2015.
Indonesia picked China over Japan to build the countrys first
fast-train rail link because Beijing had the courage to provide $5
billion in loans without asking for guarantees, an Indonesian
official said on Wednesday.
Bali needs to balance economic conditions
Indonesia rewards Chinas courage with high-profile rail
contract
JAKARTA - Indonesia picked China over Japan to build the
countrys first fast-train rail link because Beijing had the
cour-age to provide $5 billion in loans without asking for
guarantees, an Indonesian official said on Wednesday.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual
Cer-emony, or Odalan , every 210 days according to Balinese
calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family
possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of
festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There
are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday,
such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek
Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its
birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the
wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the
celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of
course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at
least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days
while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is
never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days,
depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with
pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations
of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins,
very beau-tifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the
shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas
depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas
soars, tridents and other weapons, the umbul-umbul, long flags, all
these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the
Temple gate put up Penjor, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully
ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the
land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire,
carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored
cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which
the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
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LEGIAN - The most im-portant aspect of the hospitality industry
is to have the right attitude, warmth and willing-ness to serve. Of
course there are challenges, but theyre all part of a great job.
You have to look for solutions and move forward as a team. Its
impor-tant to solve issues together and put policies and procedures
in place so you dont repeat the mistakes, said Ni Luh Putu Yati
Artini, General Manager Swiss-Belinn-Legian on her speech at blood
donation
As New General Manager
of the Swiss-Belinn Legian, Yati Artini has 18 years of
experience in the hospitality industry, the past 8 years in direct
sales with expertise in sales and marketing. Prior to joining
Swiss-Belinn Legian, Yati has worked in various companies as
Director of Sales and Marketing. In her previous position, Yati was
Director of Sales and Marketing of Golden Tulip Jineng Resort.
A Blood Donation was organized by Swiss-Belinn Legian in
collaboration with the Red Cross Bali Province
on Thursday, September 17th 2015 at Pesamuan Meeting Room,
encourages as part of Awareness and humanitarian action, Yati
stressed.
During the event many of the hotels employees took part in this
initiative to donate blood as a response to the emer-gent needs of
blood reserves, there also participants from media partners and
colleagues volunteered in large numbers to take part in this civil
and humanitarian action. In total 80 participants, its gain 44
pouch of blood. (kmb)
IBP/kmb
IBP/kmb
Swiss-Belinn Legian encourages blood donation
IBP/kmb
The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted that there
were 48, 362 more people employed in Febuary than August 2014
whereas the differ-ence for 2015 was 142,026 people.
Vice Chairman of Advisory Coun-cil to Kadin Bali, Wayan Jondra
stated that the predominance of migrant workers filling available
jobs in Bali is directly related to the the governments lack of
action towards absorbing local labour into the job market.
Very few Balinese are being absorbed into the job market, so
clearly there needs to be a master plane created to address this
issue. We cannot simply allow people to be employed because they
reside in Bali, there need to be requirements
for understanding Balinese culture as well as certifications of
excellence, said Jondra.
The government should set up a specific certification agency
that would issue certificates whose re-quirements would include
things like having an understanding of the con-cept of Tri Hita
Karana. We need to have a certification system that would guarantee
that people understand the culture and the implementation of Tri
Hita Karana. This is why it is impor-tant to create a master plan
the would be supported by all stakeholders, as well as the
executive and legislative branches of the House of
Representa-tives, he explained.
In order for such a plan to be cre-
ated, said Jondra, there needs to be a commitment on the part of
employers and the government to build such a system. Employers
should sincerely seek to involve native Balinese in the job market.
Failure to do so will result in serious social impacts. It is
of-fensive that currently Balinese people are only given the
opportunity to fill lower positions, while middle and top
management is filled by non-Balinese and even foreigners, he
said.
According to Jondra, this gap cannot be ignored because if it
allowed to drag on like this, there will be serious social
repercussions. There is fear that the people of Bali will no loner
be able to live quiet, safe and comfortable lives.
If things continue like this, those who invest in Bali will
suffer losses. This is why entrepreneurs need to contribute to the
stability of Bali by involving more local people in the job market.
Nevertheless, those from outside Bali will still be required as
backup, he added.
Jondra also mentioned that efforts to involve local manpower in
every sector needs to be supported by the issuing of gubernatorial
regulations or regional bylaws, so that the legality of labor
utilization in Bali is clear. Of course, these efforts must be
followed up with rules, or at least with a guber-natorial
regulation. If a business or entrepreneur that is operating in Bali
does have 80 percent of its jobs filled by Balinese, it could have
its permit revoked. Of course, the Balinese referred to here would
be those who are certified, he said.
Meanwhile Vice Chairman of Or-ganization and Membership, I Gusti
Ngurah Adnyana said that stakehold-ers must be engaged to prepare
the regulations that can fortify the local labor pool from external
invasion, especially with the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) about
to be inau-gurated.
We are about to face the AEC so we must work hard and we need
human resources. Our labour force needs to be certified in their
respective fields, he said.
Adnyana added that educational institutions are now working with
en-trepreneurs in order to fully understand the needs of industry,
so that courses offered are in line with the need for specific
human resources. (kmb27)
Presently however, rapid economic growth is only happen-ing in
South Bali and is causing a widening of the gap between rich and
poor, with North, East and West of Bali left to scrape the bottom
of the barrel. Supposedly the tourism industry is rooted downward,
meaning that the general public should be enjoying economic
benefits. But what we are seeing currently is the exact opposite,
with most people in Bali not seeing any of the benefits of the 5
percent growth of this sector said the chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce.
According to Wiraputra, the fact that only a minority of the
Bali-nese community is benefiting from tourism, will have an impact
on social inequalities and affect investment in Bali which is
dominated by investors from outside of the Island of the Gods.
We hope they (investorsEd) will work to jointly take care of
Balis needs and those of its people. Whatever their investment are
in, if Balinese people are not satisfied, undesir-able things could
occur, making it hard for people to invest in Bali, he
explained.
In addition to pressing investors to pay attention to Bali, Alit
Wiraputra also argueds that stakeholders should also think about
the economic conditions of places beyond South Bali. Immediate
change is required in order to bridge the gap. We will encourage
economic growth, including improving infrastructure that will
benefit the local communities, he said.
Wiraputra also said that the economic inequality occurring in
Bali has not only resulted in a gap but has also tended to make
people apathetic in addressing the incoming investments, because
many people perceive that they will not enjoy any eco-nomic
benefits from the developments and investments. This is why we need
to urge the
government to revise the Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Re-gional
Spatial Plan (RTRW). The spatial bylaw for West, East and North
Bali must accommodate more peopleS interests. Currently many
spatial plans in West and East Bali do not ac-commodate tourism,
for example, he said, adding that many regions beyond South Bali
have a lot of potential to be packaged to attract tourism
investors.
Unfortunately, local government spatial rules prohibit the
development of tourism in these regions. Actually those regions
could be built up but presently investors are hampered by the
spatial plan rules. As a result, tourism -as the backbone of Balis
economy, remains focused in South Bali, he said.
Wiraputra however emphasized that developing tourism northward,
westward and eastward should not be carried out in the buffer zones
which are specifically set aside to prevent damage to the
environment. The most important thing is that the buffer zones are
always maintained as such. New tourism areas should only be built
up in
unproductive areas, he asserted.Advisory Board member, Gede
Sugianyar, agrees that Bali
must reorganize its economic growth by reaching beyond South
Bali and that such efforts need to be applied -not only to tourism,
but other sectors as well (such as the agricultural sector), so
that economic growth can be enjoyed by a wider range of people.
We have taken the initiative of developing agricultural
coop-eratives in certain regions, in order to manage abundant crops
such as tangerines by processing them into products like orange
juice, that can be sold to a larger market allowing economic
benefits to be enjoyed by more Balinese people, said Sugianyar.
Farmers often complain about post-harvest losses caused by the
amount of produce that can be absorbed by the market, and which
favours the highest quality goods. We must be alert to
opportunities, so that we are not inconvenienced by fluctuations in
the value of the rupiah. We need to work together to encour-age
entrepreneurs who want to contribute to the development of Bali, so
that Balinese people can survive any economic shocks, he concluded.
(kmb27)
Bali needs grand scenario on labor
BALI, as a world renowned tourist destination, provides
prom-ising job opportunities. Unfortunately, the local labor pool
has to compete with migrants from outside Bali to get these jobs.
Because there has been little protection form local authorities,
many Balinese people have become unemployed and been forced to join
the trans-migration program. The government needs to create a
master plan that would reduce unemployment among local
residents.
IBP/Eka Adhiyasa
Vice Chairman of Advisory Council to Kadin Bali, Wayan
Jondra
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1, 2015Thursday, October 1, 2015
Antibiotics only work about 25 percent of the time in wiping out
Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, a pathogen that infects the
digestive tract and kills about 15,000 people and hospitalizes
250,000 each year in the United States.
But the antioxidant drug ebselen was shown to kill C. diff by
target-ing its toxins, not by killing the bacteria and wiping out
beneficial gut microbes at the same time, said researchers from the
Stanford Uni-versity School of Medicine.
The study in the journal Sci-ence Translation Medicine was done
on mice, but researchers say human trials could be expedited
because the drug is already being investigated for the treatment of
cardiovascular diseases, arthri-tis, stroke, atherosclerosis and
cancer.
Unlike antibiotics -- which are both the frontline treatment
for C. difficile infection and, paradoxically, possibly its
chief cause -- the drug didnt kill the bacteria, said senior author
Matthew Bogyo, professor of pa-thology and of microbiology and
immunology.
Rather, it disabled a toxin produced by the pathogen and
prevented intestinal damage and inflammation.
C. diff costs the United States more than $4 billion in
healthcare expenses and it often recurs in patients, requiring
further hospi-talization, researchers said.
The infection is particularly perilous for those with weakened
immune systems.
About seven percent of people who are infected die within a
month of diagnosis. (afp)
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File
This May 10, 2012, file photo, shows Truvada pills and a bottle
in San Francisco. Officials are asking Mississippi health care
providers to expand use of a medicine that can keep people from
getting AIDS. Speaking Friday, Sept. 26, 2015, at a conference on
minority HIV and health disparities, national AIDS policy chief
Douglas Brooks urged more use of the drug Truvada for people at
risk of contracting HIV. Studies find the drug reduces AIDS
infection rates.
PARIS - An investment of $97-184 billion (87-165 billion euros)
could make life-saving radiotherapy accessible to most people who
need it by 2035 and save millions of lives, research showed
Saturday.
Achieving full access to radio-therapy in low- and middle-income
countries would save an estimated 27 million life years -- extra
years that cancer patients would have lost without treatment.
And it would yield econom-ic benefits of $278-365 billion,
through healthcare savings and higher productivity, said a major
study published in The Lancet Oncology, and presented at the 2015
European Cancer Congress in Vienna.
Millions of people die from treat-able cancers because of a
chronic underinvestment in radiotherapy -- which is highly
cost-effective compared to many cancer drugs, the authors said.
There is a widespread miscon-ception that the costs of providing
radiotherapy put it beyond the reach of all but the richest
countries. Nothing could be further from the truth, said author
Rifat Atun from Harvard University in Boston.
Our work... clearly shows that not only can this essential
service be deployed safely and high qual-ity treatment delivered in
low- and middle-income countries, but that scale-up of radiotherapy
capacity is
a feasible and highly cost-effective investment.
The researchers found that in 2035, more than 12 million new
cancer patients could benefit from radiotherapy -- access to the
treat-ment is currently restricted to about 40-60 percent.
The situation is worst in poor countries, where up to nine out
of 10 people have no access to radio-therapy. In many countries in
Africa it is virtually non-existent, and 40 countries have no
radiotherapy facilities at all.
Even in high-income coun-tries like Canada, Australia and the
UK, numbers of radiotherapy facilities, equipment and trained staff
are inadequate, said a press statement.
The study authors measured the shortfall in access to
radiotherapy by country and globally, based on current and
projected needs from today to 2035.
The estimated cost of $97 bil-lion at the lower end of the
scale, is equivalent to the price of about 230 Airbus A380s, or the
budget for building and running the Interna-tional Space Station
for 10 years.
According to the UNs World Health Organization, there were about
14 million new cancer cases in 2012, and 8.2 million deaths.
This is likely to rise to 22 mil-lion new cases per year within
two decades. (afp)
PARIS - Fewer than a quarter of the 15 million people diagnosed
with cancer worldwide this year have access to safe and proper
sur-gery, researchers said Monday.
Surgery is the mainstay of can-cer control or cure and is
required
in 80 percent of cases, but over three quarters of patients
cannot get it where they live, according to a study published in
The Lancet Oncology.
People in low-income countries like Zambia and Mongolia fare
the
worst, with only five percent of pa-tients receiving basic
cancer surgery.
Surgical services for cancer... are allocated few resources,
said Richard Sullivan, who heads the cancer policy institute at
Kings College London.
As a result, access to safe, af-fordable cancer surgical
services is dismal.
The authors call for radical action to create high-quality
training pro-grammes that will equip more doctors and specialists
to perform basic cancer
surgery, they said in a statement.In a separate report
published
Saturday in The Lancet Oncology, researchers found that
investing $97-184 billion (87-165 billion euros) in life-saving
radiotherapy could save millions of lives. (afp)
Alternative to antibiotics found for deadly infection
MIAMI - A stubborn bacterial infection often acquired in
hospitals and which can be deadly may have a new treatment on the
horizon, US researchers said Wednesday.
Less than a quarter of cancer patients have access to safe
surgery
$100 billion could ensure
radiotherapy for all
Volcanic ash from erupting Mt Raung located in Banyuwangi
hindered flights to and from Bali
airport, Dewa Nyoman Putra, a tourism industry observer, said on
Tuesday.
The number of foreign tourists to Bali in August 2015 decreased
by 71.307 from 382,683 in July to 301,376 in August 2015.
Putra said the decrease was because the authorities were
forced to close Ngurah Rai Inter-national Airport for several
times following the eruptions of Mount Raung.
The Bali airport was closed from July 9 to 12, and again on
July
22 and 23. Some 414 flights with 39,715 passengers were
cancelled.
The airports temporary closures have inflicted significant
economic losses to affected-airlines and the Bali tourism industry.
(ant)
DENPASAR - Writing lyrics, singing and performing on stage with
the band EINSHOCH6 and all of this using the German lan-guage!
Through this project, high school students from Indonesia have
the chance to participate in workshops with the German musicians
and also become a part of their concerts. For students, it will be
a great and motivating experience that will en-able them to have an
encounter with Germany in their home country, as well as foster
their interest in Ger-many and its language.
The musicians of the Munich-based band, who already have a lot
of experience on an international level, will write song lyrics and
melodize them together with young German language students.
Presenting a unique combination of lyrical hip hop and inspiring
clas-sical music, EINSHOCH6 brings the German language closer to
its
audience in an entertaining and delightful way.
Together with Deutsche Welle, the band has developed a unique
format: to learn German with the help of music. Through the web
series Band diary on tour, the process of learning the German
language turns into an exciting experience addressing all senses as
it helps the students to deepen their understanding of the language
by listening to the music of EIN-SHOCH6.
For us as musicians its a gift to see that the combination of
music and language is connecting people all around the globe, said
Carl Amadeus Hiller, co-founder, leader and percussionist of
EINSHOCH6. There is nothing more a musician can wish for.
The peak of this project in In-donesia will be two concerts by
EINSHOCH6 in Denpasar and Yogyakarta. The band will perform
its German songs and also invite the workshop participants on
stage to present their own song.
For the majority of the band members, it is their first visit to
Indonesia.
We are very keen to interact with the people especially since we
heard that music, rhythm, singing and dancing are of great
importance in Indonesia, Hiller said.
The students all come from schools of the Schools: Partners for
the Future (PASCH) net-work. The initiative PASCH was launched by
the German Foreign Ministry in February 2008 and currently oversees
a worldwide network of over 1,500 partner schools.
This project is part of the German Season, an initiative of the
Federal Foreign Office in Germany and organized by the
Goethe-Institut Indonesien, the German Embassy Jakarta and EKONID.
(r) IBP/Courtesy of Goethe-Institut Indonesien
A unique approach to learning German with EINSHOCH6
IBP/Wawan
Tourists spend their holiday in Ubud, Gianyar Regency. The
tourist arrivals in Bali during August 2015 dropped due to the
eruption of Mount Raung in July 2015.
Tourist arrivals in August dropDENPASAR - The tourist arrivals
in Bali during August 2015
dropped due to the eruption of Mount Raung in July 2015.
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Judge Y.D. Shinde, who con-victed them earlier this month for
murder and a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the
government, imposed deaths sentences on five of the men who the
prosecution said had planted the explosives on the trains.
Seven bombs exploded during a 10-minute span during the evening
rush hour in July 2006 in Mumbai, the financial and entertainment
capital of India. A defense attorney said he would appeal the
Mumbai
court verdict.The trial in Indias notori-
ously slow justice system lasted more than seven years. One
person was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Prosecutors said the attack was hatched by Pakistans Directorate
of Inter-Services Intelligence and carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba
operatives with help from the Stu-dents Islamic Movement of India,
a banned militant organization. Pakistan has denied the
charges.
Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group.
The 12 convicted men were believed to belong to the Indian
militant group. K.P. Raghuvanshi, a police officer who investigated
the case, said one Pakistani suspect was killed in the blasts and
another was shot dead by Indian police. But there was no
independent confirma-tion of his claim.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training Islamic
insurgents, a charge Pakistan denies. The neigh-boring countries
have fought three wars, two of them over control of disputed
Kashmir, since their inde-pendence from Britain in 1947 and have
been engaged in a fitful peace process in recent years. (ap)
HONG KONG Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has defended his
business strategy against accusations from Chinas state media that
he is abandoning investments in the worlds No. 2 economy because of
its slowing growth.
In an unusual move, Li released a statement responding to a
barrage of criticism in recent weeks about him selling off China
assets as he restructured his global business empire to focus more
on Europe and less on China.
Commentaries in state media chastised Li this month for being
immoral and ungrateful, accusing him of running out on China as its
economy slows despite profiting handsomely in better times.
Li has undertaken a major reorganization this year of his
sprawling business interests that range from ports to mobile
phones. The shakeup included shifting the domiciles of his two main
companies from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands, triggering
speculation that he was plan-ning to withdraw from China.
We are vigilant not to let these unfounded allegations escalate
to cause investors concerns, said the statement released Tuesday by
his company CK Hutchison Holdings. It said there was no truth in
the withdrawal accusations.
The statement said Li was confident that Chinese President Xi
Jinping will continue to improve governance and reform Chinas
economy. The former British colonys tycoons have long embraced
Chinas communist leaders in order to ensure survival of their
busi-ness interests on the mainland. Li was part of a business
contingent that met Xi in Beijing last year to show their support
as tensions rose over pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The 87-year-old Li has long been Asias richest person, although
he recently fell to second place with a fortune of $24.3 billion,
ac-cording to Forbes. Earlier this month, a think tank affiliated
with the official Xinhua news agency and the Peoples Daily
newspaper, the communist partys mouthpiece, both lambasted Li over
his business decisions in China. (ap)
TEHRAN, Iran Iran has summoned the Saudi envoy to Tehran for the
fourth time to protest over what the Shiite pow-erhouse describes
as the Sunni kingdoms mishandling of the deadly crush last
week during the hajj pilgrimage.Irans English language Press TV
on
Wednesday quoted foreign ministry offi-cial Ali Chegini as
warning Riyadh against any delays in the identification of
missing
Iranian pilgrims and the repatriation of the bodies of those who
died in the disaster.
Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the
official IRNA news agency that the families of the killed Ira-
nian pilgrims do not agree that their kin be buried on Saudi
soil. Saudi Arabia says 769 died in the stampede near Mecca. It was
the worst disaster to strike the annual pilgrimage in a
quarter-century. (ap)
Iran summons Saudi envoy for 4th time over hajj disaster
AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
One of the men accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings is
escorted by policemen from a prison to a court in Mumbai, India,
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.
Court gives death to 5 for 2006 Mumbai train bombings
NEW DELHI An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced five suspected
Islamic militants to death and gave seven oth-ers life in prison
for bombing attacks nine years ago on seven Mumbai commuter trains
that killed 188 people and wounded more than 800.
Asia tycoon Li on defensive after attacks from Chinese media
AP Photo/Vincent Yu
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, Hong Kong tycoon Li
Ka-shing reacts during a press conference in Hong Kong. Hong Kong
billionaire Li has defended his business strategy against criticism
in Chinas state media that accused him of abandoning the country
because of its slowing growth.
SINGARAJA - A mass dog vaccination, initiated by the Bule-leng
Livestock Agency has so far reached 57,000 dogs and cats. The
target of reaching 70 percent of the estimated dog population of
80,000 around Buleleng has not yet been reached. Mass vaccina-tions
are still experiencing classic obstacles such as difficulty in
find-ing all the dogs, because many dog owners are still not
keeping their dogs on a leash.
Head of the Buleleng Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra,
ac-companied by Division Head of Animal Health, Wayan Susila, said
that the mass vaccination has been ongoing since the outbreak of
rabies in Buleleng, in an attempt to the rabies virus from
spreading in Buleleleng. The Livestock Agency is asking people to
be aware and pay attention to raising their dogs
responsibly, including not letting their dogs roam freely
because they could become infected with the rabies virus.
Dog bite cases that were found to involve rabies carrying dogs,
have been reported in 59 hamlets of 45 villages in Buleleng. Most
of the dog bite incidents involved dogs that had been allowed to
roam free. More seriously, after the bite cases occurred, officers
had a lot of trouble track down the the dog own-ers. The officers
in fact frequently found people irresponsibly trying to cover up
such cases. There is still a very real threat of people be-ing
bitten by rapid dogs, and dogs that are allowed to roam free could
potentially be infected with rabies. Currently, the health of dogs
is be-ing monitored so as not to endanger peoples safety, said
Swatantra.
The threat of dog bites can be seriously reduced if the dog
popu-lation can be controlled. But this can only happen with the
support of the whole community. A reduc-tion of the dog population
can hap-pen by enforcing rules that limit
the number of domestic dogs that can be bred. This can be
regulated through the villages using perarem or customary village
bylaws.
Unfortunately, the creation of such customary bylaws has not met
with significant support so far. As evidence, only a few custom-ary
villages have set forth perarem regarding dog breeding. There are
some exceptions such as Sawan village in Sawan subdistrict and
others that have issued customary bylaws that set restrictions on
dog breeding.
In the stipulation, in the case of someone being bitten by a
rapid dog and subsequently dying, the dog owner is imposed with
customary sanctions that require them to hold a funeral cremations
ceremony for the victim. At Sawan village, quite severe sanctions
have been set forth in a bylaw. Now, people will think twice about
letting their dog roam wildly. Hopefully, this example will be
followed by other villages, so that the dog population can be
controlled, explained Swatantra. (kmb38)
Head of Bangli Urban Plan-ning, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha, admitd that
the park was in poor condition and explained that this was due to
the drought currently being expe-
rienced in the area. Indeed it has been difficult to get water
in the area of the park since the dry season started, she
explained.
Yudi Sutha added that mainte-
nance of the park is done by the Kintamani technical unit. She
also stated that the dryness found in this park is not particular
to Kintamani but that the park at the border of Bangli and
Karangasem is experi-encing similar conditions. To pre-vent these
parks from deteriorating nay more, efforts are being made to water
the plants.
Faced with extreme weather, Bangli Urban Panning has been
overwhelmed in trying to deal with the condition of the parks in
town, especially those located around the office of the regent. Not
only is there a water shortage but there is also a lack of
water-tank trucks, she said.
The dry season has serious im-
pacts availability of water so they will think twice before
creating any new parks. Some time ago, there was a proposal to
create additional parks in several loca-tions. But given the the
difficulty in obtaining adequate water in the dry season, we cannot
consider creating any new parks, she af-firmed. (kmb45)
Mass vaccination targets thousands of dogs
The dog elminiation is done by the officers to prevent the
spread of rabiesIBP/Olo
Water crisis causing parks to shrivel upThe dry condition of the
park on the
border of Bangli and Buleleng
BANGLI - The park that straddles the border of Bangli and
Buleleng is in very poor conditions appears to have been severely
neglected with several dead plants and many more yellowing.
IBP/Sosiawan
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Bali News Thursday, October 1, 2015 5InternationalThursday,
October 1, 201512 InternationalBUSINESS
TOKYO - Asian currencies from the South Korean won to Malaysian
ringgit strengthened against the dol-lar Wednesday with confidence
re-turning to trading floors as regional equity markets recovered
after a global rout. But the greenback losses were likely to be
short-lived as the Federal Reserve readies to lift near-zero
interest rates for the first time in almost a decade, analysts
said.
Its hard to see how any Asian currency will post sustained,
sub-stantial gains in the fourth quarter, with losses versus the US
dollar likely to be the norm, Sean Cal-low, a senior currency
strategist at Westpac Banking in Sydney, told Bloomberg News.
We expect volatility to remain elevated as Asian policymakers
struggle with regional deceleration in growth, and yet more weeks
and months of debate over the Fed policy outlook.
The won rose almost 1.5 percent against the dollar, the Taiwan
dollar added 0.72 percent, and the ringgit
was 0.48 percent higher.The Indonesian rupiah gained
0.17 percent, the Singapore dollar rose 0.16 percent, and the
Thai baht was up 0.22 percent. The Australian dollar rose 0.12
percent.
Dealers will be keeping an eye on a speech by Fed boss Janet
Yel-len later in the day for a cue on the banks plan for monetary
policy, her first since indicating last week that a hike in
interest rates remains on the table for 2015.
Washington will release Septem-ber unemployment figures on
Friday, with another strong reading likely to add to calls on the
Fed to move, put-ting pressure on emerging economies as investors
withdraw their cash to seek better returns in the US. The dol-lar
rose against the yen and euro. The greenback strengthened to 119.99
yen from 119.75 yen Tuesday in New York, while the euro was at
$1.1225 from $1.1242 in US trade.
The single currency also eased to 134.70 yen from 134.77 yen.
(afp)
The United States is pushing hard for the 12-country deal to
create the worlds largest free trade region, hoping to lock in
rules that global trade giant China would eventually have to
heed.
A handful of issues bogged down the talks in Hawaii, including
how the US treats imports of Japanese auto parts, the length of
patent pro-tections for increasingly important biologic drugs, and
open markets for dairy products from major producers such as New
Zealand.
Joshua Melzer, a trade expert at the Brookings Institution and a
former Australian trade negotiator, said there was still work to do
but
an agreement was in sight.I think the prospects are good for
the deal to be done this week, he said. But nothing was certain,
with vocal public groups raising objec-tions to a number of issues
under discussion and, more generally, to the secrecy of the
talks.
In Ottawa Tuesday, tractor-driv-ing dairy farmers with a handful
of cows blocked roads to Canadas parliament to protest the possible
opening up of the countrys milk market to imports under the
TPP.
Dairy Farmers of Canada presi-dent Wally Smith said the pact is
endangering the stability and vi-ability of our industry.
The meeting of the trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries --
Austra-lia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New
Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam -- will
follow four days of detailed discussions between their negotiators
in the southern US city.
A deal would lower trade and investment barriers and strengthen
intellectual property protections in countries comprising about 40
per-cent of the global economy.
According to a study by the Peter-son Institute for
International Eco-nomics in Washington, the stimulus from the TPP
pact could add $295 billion in annual global income after the
10-year implementation period.
The negotiations have left out China, which Washington sees as
not committed to free trade and which has taken steps to organize
its own
Asia-region trade grouping.TPP negotiators are aiming to
present a final, unalterable agree-ment for ratification to the
govern-ments, an approach that has angered legislators and civil
society groups in a number of the countries, especially the United
States.
Critics say what they know of the discussions favors the needs
of industry groups by giving more pro-tection on drug patents;
establishing an extra-legal investor-state dispute settlement
regime; and does little to assure enforcement of environmen-tal and
labor standards.
Despite the unprecedented se-crecy surrounding the TPP
negotia-tions, leaks of TPP documents are fueling opposition in
many TPP countries, said the Washington activist group Public
Citizen.
Canberras Trade Minister An-
drew Robb told the Australian Financial Review that 90 percent
of the issues had been settled going into this weeks
discussions.
There are unresolved issues, but hopefully these arent
intractable, he said. A conclusion remains within imminent
reach.
Melzer said that even if a deal is reached this week, it will be
months before it goes to governments for ratification.
For the United States, that could mean that a potentially
hostile Con-gress recieves that pact in April or May, just as the
2016 presidential election hits high gear.
If a deal is struck, it could be-come a model for the even
larger Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Washington is negotiating with the European Union. (afp)
Pacific trade ministers aim to seal TPP trade pact
WASHINGTON - Top trade representatives of 12 Pacific Rim
countries begin two days of talks in Atlanta Wednesday hoping to
finalize the ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement after
July negotiations in Hawaii failed.
AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
A currency trader looks at the monitors at the foreign exchange
dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.
Asian currencies from the South Korean won to Malaysian ringgit
strengthened against the dollar Wednesday with confidence returning
to trading floors as regional equity markets recovered after a
global rout.
Asian emerging market currencies rebound against dollar
BANGLI - This dry season has caused the coffee trading business
to grow. The season that commonly brings nightmares to wetland
farm-ers, has contributed to successful processing and maximal
results for coffee growers.
Kintamani business man, I Ko-mang Sukarsana, explained on
Tuesday (Sep. 29) that the hot temperatures caused by the dry
season actually help coffee fam-ers. The dry season speeds up the
drying process and reduces costs, he said.
Sukarsana added that the dry season has also contributed to
in-creasing the quality of the beans. As a result, the selling
price has increas-esd. To date, the price of dry raw coffee is IDR
44,000 per kg, up from IDR 41,00 per KG. This increase in price
started last July - this tends to be true every year. The price of
cof-fee beans has gone up by as much as IDR 3,000 per kg. It is
quite helpful for farmers, he said.
This young entrepreneur also added that he not only targets
local markets, but has managed to pen-etrate exports markets in
Korea, Aus-tralia and Sweden. Kintamani coffee is very popular on
both the local and international market, he said.
Similar opinions were expressed by a farmer from Tembuku, named
I Wayan Sarma. He said that prices have tended to be relatively
stable throughout the years. The newly picked red coffee beans are
sold for some IDR 6,000 per kg. The price of coffee is quite stable
but sometimes it goes up, he said.
Sarma added that so far coffee farming is still quite promising.
However, he regretted that many farmers are willing to cut down
their coffee trees and replace them with tangerine tress. Actually,
the selling price of tangerine is not al-ways stable. Coffee
farming is still more promising, he added.
Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia,
confirmed that the price of coffee in recent months has increased.
According to him, there is very little chance that the price of
coffee will go down. The price of coffee indeed tends to increase,
he said.
With such promising condition, Sudibia hopes that coffee farmers
do not become pessimistic and switch to growing other crops, like
tangerines. If possible, cof-fee farmers should not switch to other
crops, he said with hope. (kmb45)
According to Wiyanto, determi-nation of the suspect was based on
the results of an investigation and the collection of evidence.
Hotel employees were examined as wit-nesses, because they were the
ones who held the unusual event. There has only been one suspect
charged under the article on blasphemy. The suspect is part of the
hotel manage-ment and organized the activity, said Wiyanto.
The investigators also named the same-sex couple as suspects,
but they fled overseas. It is too far for us to go looking for the
newly-wed couple. In the mean-time, investigators are looking for
people considered to be responsible for the event, explained the
police spokesperson, who added that such marriages a re
prohibited.
This is the first case of its kind in Bali. Naturally Balinese
people
are angry. The impact of such be-haviours should be considered,
he said.
As for the the same-sex couple, they reasoned that they had
al-ready held a wedding ceremony in the U.S and just came to Bali
to celebrate, but Wiyanto asserted that the article of blasphemy is
the most appropriate charge. Although they were just celebrating,
because they performed a Hindu ritual, they are considered to have
tarnished religious symbols.
Can they be arrested? There are formal and legal requirements
that must be met in order to retain sus-pects. Based on formal
requirement the suspects could be sentenced to more than five years
in prison, while in terms of material require-ment the suspects did
not try to escape nor destroy the evidence, he said. (kmb36)
Police have named a suspect in cleansing ritual case
DENPASAR - The Gianyar Police responded quickly to the
condemnation of a same-sex marriage celebration ceremony that took
place at a hotel in Ubud, Gianyar. The investigators have named a
suspect, with the initial M, from the hotel man-agement. The
suspect is subject to the article on blasphemy but was not
arrested, said Spokesman of the Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, on
Tuesday (Sep. 29).
IBP/Manik Astajaya
The police are discussing the alleged same sex marriage in
Ubud.
Dry season blessing for coffee entrepreneurs
IBP/Sosiawan
An elderly woman are checking the coffee before it being
processed.
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2015Thursday, October 1, 2015
Indonesian Hajj Chief Organizer for Mecca (Mecca Daker) Arsyad
Hidayat stated that the newly identified bodies of the Indonesian
victims came from the old body container.
Until now, five body contain-ers had yet to be opened. Four of
the containers have been taken to
Jidda, Hidayat noted while pro-viding an update on the data of
the Indonesian victims involved in the Mina stampede, which took
place on September 24.
The 11 bodies were identified through complementary file data at
the Al Muashim morgue and through their fingerprints. The
deteriorating physical condition of the victims bodies has made
the identification process difficult.
We also tried to enter the disas-ter victim identification (DVI)
room to search for Indonesian victims by matching their
fingerprints. The physical appearance of the victims bodies, such
as their faces, has changed. So, fingerprints are a very helpful
tool, Hidayat pointed out.
He said that although the physi-cal condition of the victims
bod-ies had posed difficulties in the
identification process, yet DNA ex-amination had not yet been
deemed necessary.
Fingerprints are still the main tool to identify the victims as
fin-gerprint records of all the pilgrims entering Saudi Arabia had
been maintained.
Mecca Daker Secretary Nur Alia Fitria stated that eight of the
11 newly identified victims came from the flight batch 61 of the
Jakarta-Bekasi embarkation (JKS 61), two from flight batch 14
of the Batam embarkation (BTH 14), and one from flight batch 10
of the Makassar embarkation (UPG 10).
The 11 victims are Lilis Suryani Misbah Ijudin, Otong Bastaman
Sutisnamiharja, Nana Hendiana Idi, Maemunah Dasa Sasmita, Atang
Gumawang Dede Herlan, Karmah Padma Kertapraja, Tuti Kuswarti Daman,
Iis Masriah Kastoni Mardo, Ida Murtika Porie, Suryati Sahran Ribut,
and Nur Alam Iljas. (ant)
BATAM - Two British journalists have gone on trial in Indonesia
for allegedly trying to make a documentary about piracy without the
correct visas, and could face up to five years in jail, an official
said Tuesday.
Neil Bonner, 32, and Rebecca Prosser, 31, appeared in court
together Monday on the western island of Batam accused of having
only tourist visas while attempting to make the film, Ali Akbar, a
senior official at the local prosecutors office, told AFP.
They have broken Indonesian immigra-tion law and could be jailed
for up to five years if found guilty, he said.
Foreign journalists wanting to report in Indonesia must get a
special visa. However, foreign reporters detained in Indonesia for
illegal reporting in the past have been de-ported immediately or
handed short prison terms.
According to their indictment seen by AFP, the pair arrived in
Indonesia in May to shoot the film for production house Wall to
Wall with funding from National Geographic.
It added they had hired several Indone-sians to act out a scene
of a tanker being boarded by a group of pirates off Batam. The
island is in the Malacca Strait, a major
shipping lane.The number of pirate attacks in South-
east Asian waters rose last year, according to watchdog the
International Maritime Bureau, bucking a global trend of falling
piracy incidents.
Acting on tip-off from residents, the Indonesian navy carried
out a raid and ar-rested them, the indictment said, adding they had
carried out activities that were not appropriate on a tourist
visa.
The next hearing is Thursday.Their lawyer Aristo Pangaribuan
told AFP
what they had done was a misdemeanour rather than a serious
criminal act.
This case has been going on since May, the two want to go home
immediately, he said.
A spokesman for the British embassy in Jakarta said: We can
confirm that we are providing consular assistance to the two
British journalists currently detained in Batam, Indonesia, and are
in contact with their families and legal representatives.
Two French journalists were given jail terms of two and a half
months last year after being caught in Indonesias Papua province
trying to make a documentary on a separatist movement while on
tourist visas. (afp)
JAKARTA - Indonesia on Tues-day introduced more stimulus
mea-sures to woo desperately needed investment, in its latest bid
to boost the sliding rupiah and breathe new life into the slowing
economy.
It was the second time this month that Southeast Asias top
economy has unveiled steps to battle a sharp slowdown, as it comes
under pres-sure with other emerging markets due to a strengthening
US economy and turmoil in China.
We are making (investing in In-donesia) as attractive as
possible,
said Chief Economics Minister Darmin Nasution, announcing the
latest measures along with several other ministers. We must fix,
sim-plify, make it cheaper.
New measures announced Tues-day included slashing the time taken
to process investment permits from at least eight days to just
three hours, with processing for permits in mining and geothermal
projects in forested areas to be cut from up to four years to about
15 days.
To keep US dollars in the coun-try, the government said it
was
cutting taxes for exporters who deposit their foreign exchange
rev-enue in the country or convert it to rupiah, which should make
it more attractive than depositing funds in countries such as
neighbouring Sin-gapore, Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro
said.
President Joko Widodo, who has been in office for almost a year,
is faced with a dire economic situation.
The rupiah has plunged about 20 percent against the US dollar
this year, while the economy is forecast
to grow less than five percent in 2015, its slowest pace in six
years.
While many of the challenges fac-ing Indonesia are blamed on
global turmoil, the president must also con-tend with many domestic
problems hampering the economy -- a complex bureaucracy, rickety
infrastructure and confusing investment policies.
The World Bank ranked Indo-nesia 114th in its annual ease of
doing business survey this year.
The first stimulus package, which included such measures as tax
breaks and attempts to simplify
confusing regulations seen as a drag on business, failed to
boost the market and rupiah.
Economists welcomed the new policies but said they would not be
a silver bullet.
This is quite a good move from the government, said Josua
Pardede, an economist from Indo-nesias Bank Permata.
But the market hopes the gov-ernment can do more to build
confidence for portfolio investment and to boost slumping domestic
consumption. (afp)
Indonesian death toll in Mina rises to 57MECCA - The number of
Indonesians who died in the recent
Mina tragedy continues to increase, and until 2 a.m. Saudi Time,
the figure had reached 57, up by 11 pilgrims from the previous
report of 46.
Indonesia unveils new stimulus to lift ailing economy
REUTERS/Beawiharta
A vendor prepares a chicken for a customer at Senen Market in
Jakarta, Sep-tember 30, 2015. Indonesia is set to cull millions of
chickens to ease supply swings in the local meat market caused by a
drive for self-sufficiency, the latest in a string of food policies
that have backfired for the government of President Joko
Widodo.
British journalists on trial over Indonesia piracy film
Putin had to request parliamen-tary approval for any use of
Rus-sian troops abroad, according to the constitution. The last
time he did so was before Russia annexed Ukraines Crimean Peninsula
in March 2014.
The Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian
par-liament, discussed Putins request for the authorization behind
closed doors Wednesday, cutting off its live web broadcast to hold
a debate notable for its quickness.
Sergei Ivanov, chief of Putins administration, said in televised
remarks after the discussion that the parliament voted unanimously
to give the green light to Putins plea. The proposal does not need
to go to another legislative body.
Ivanov insisted that Moscow is not going to send ground troops
to Syria but will only use its air force in order to support the
government Syrian forces in their fight against the Islamic State
group.
Putin and other officials have said Russia was only providing
weapons and training to Syrian President Bashar Assads army to help
it combat the Islamic State group. Recent satellites images,
however, have shown giant Rus-sian military cargo planes in
Syria,
and Russian navy transport vessels have been shuttling back and
forth for weeks to ferry troops, weapons and supplies to Syria.
Putin said in a CBS interview earlier this week that Russia wont
take part in any troop operations in Syria.
Worried by the threat of Russian and U.S. jets clashing
inadvertently over Syrian skies, Washington agreed to talk to
Moscow on how to deconflict their military actions. Last week, U.S.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter had a 50-minute phone call with his
Russian counterpart, the first such military-to-military discussion
between the two coun-tries in more than a year.
Israel has taken similar precau-tions, with Prime Minister
Benja-min Netanyahu visiting Moscow last week to agree with Putin
on a coordination mechanism to avoid any possible confrontation
between Israeli and Russian forces in Syria.
Moscow has always been a top ally for Assad. The war in Syria
against his regime, which began in 2011, has left at least 250,000
dead and forced millions to flee the country. It is also the
driving force behind the record-breaking number of asylum-seekers
fleeing to Europe this year.
Ivanov told reporters that Rus-
sia decided to help Assad in order to protect its own country
from Islamic militants, not because of some foreign policy goals or
am-bitions that our Western partners often accuse us of.
We are talking about Russias national security interests, Ivanov
said, adding that Moscow is worried about the growing number of
Rus-sian recruits going off to fight for the Islamic State group a
number he said was in the thousands.
Moscow should take pre-emp-tive steps and do it on distant
fron-tiers, instead of facing the issue here and later on, said
Ivanov.
Putins troop request comes after his bilateral meeting Monday
with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly meeting in New York, where the two discussed
Russias recent military buildup in Syria.
Ivanov said the motion comes after Moscow received a request
from Assad asking for help. He said the biggest difference be-tween
other countries conducting air strikes in Syria such as the United
States is that they do not comply with the international law, but
we do.
Putin hosted a meeting of the Russian security council at his
residence Tuesday night outside Moscow to discuss terrorism and
extremism, the Kremlin also re-ported. (ap)
ABUJA, Nigeria A spokes-man says Nigerian President Mu-hammadu
Buhari, who has prom-ised to fight corruption in the oil industry,
plans to be the Cabinet minister in charge of the oil sec-tor.
Nigeria is Africas biggest pe-troleum producer, with revenues
providing 80 percent of government income. Buhari has said some
$150 billion has been stolen from the treasury in 10 years.
Analyst Malte Liewerscheidt of
risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft said Buharis move would give
himmaximum power to reform the oil and gas industry but warned that
it is a high-risk strategy that links his fate as president with
successful reform.
Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Buhari, confirmed Wednesday that
Buhari will put his name forward as petroleum minister on a
long-awaited Cabinet list to be presented for Parliaments approval
this week. (ap)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark Denmarks prime minister has appointed
veteran, center-right politician Peter Christensen as the
Scandinavian countrys new de-fense minister after his predecessor
resigned amid a scandal.
The 40-year-old former taxation minister and member of
parliament will be in charge of finalizing talks as the NATO member
decides on the purchase of up to 30 new fighter jets to replace an
aging fleet of F-16s.
The deal is expected to be worth more than 30 billion kroner
($4.5 billion).
Christensens appointment Wednesday came a day after Carl Holst
resigned from the position after admitting using a political aide
whose salary was paid by taxpayers to help with his parliamentary
elec-tion campaign in June.
It was Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussens first scandal since
he took office following the June 18 elections. (ap)
Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP,
file
FILE - In this Sunday, July 26, 2015 file pool photo, Russian
President Vladimir Putin, centre, reviews a Navy parade in Baltisk,
western Russia, during celebration for Russian Navy Day. With
dozens of Russian combat jets and helicopter gunships lined up at
an air base in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for
a big-time show at the United Nations General Assembly.
Russian lawmakers give Putin OK to
use troops in SyriaMOSCOW Russian lawmakers voted
unanimously
Wednesday to let President Vladimir Putin send Russian troops to
Syria. The Kremlin sought to play down the decision, saying it will
only use its air force there, not ground troops.
AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File
FILE - In this Friday, May 29, 2015 file photo, Nigerian
Presi-dent Muhammadu Buhari salutes his supporters during his
inauguration in Abuja, Nigeria.
Denmark gets new defense minister after
political scandal
Nigerian president also plans
to be oil minister
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Bernie Ecclestone does not blame Force India and Sauber for
voicing their dissatisfaction with Formula 1 through an official
com-plaint to the European Union. The teams have lodged a complaint
to
the EU competitions commission regarding F1s governance and
payment structure, as negotiated by commercial rights holder
Eccle-stone and F1 owner CVC Capital Partners.
Frustrated at the additional hand-outs to Ferrari, Mercedes,
McLaren, Red Bull and Williams, the midfield organisations are
hoping an EU investigation will lead to a shake up of F1, and
ultimately result in a
fairer distribution of revenues.We havent discouraged or en-
couraged anybody to do anything, Ecclestone told AUTOSPORT.
Thats what the European Union is there for, for these sorts of
things.
They [the teams] must give it a go, and if theyre successful its
good, and if not then it costs nothing. If the EU decides to
in-vestigate and F1 is found culpable of an abuse of power in the
way it handles its affairs, a fine of 10 per cent of turnover
(which last year was 1.06billion) can be levied, as well as forcing
a shake up of its structure.
Ecclestone remains uncon-cerned, and holds no ill feeling
towards Force India and Sauber in their bid to compete on a more
equal financial footing.
The bottom line is, what they [the teams] are saying is were
giving too much money to some people and not enough to the oth-ers,
added Ecclestone. But all this was done whereby everybody knew what
they would be getting and what would happen, and they all signed
contracts which were
very clear.Theyve had a change of heart
I suppose, and I dont blame them, not at all. Somebody will have
a look at it and either decide the agreements theyve signed are
valid and they stick by them, or theyre not valid and they have to
be changed. From our point of view it wont make any difference at
all.
The contracts referred to by Ecclestone are those signed by the
teams in which it apparently makes clear the five major teams would
receive premium payments, which were agreed upon by way of
bilat-eral agreements signed in 2012.
Ecclestone has confirmed being fully informed by both teams
ahead of the complaint being made, which allowed him to keep CVC
chief executive Donald Mackenzie in the loop. I warned him this was
going to happen, so he feels the same as me. Hes not disappointed
or an-noyed, said Ecclestone.
I knew when it was going to be announced. I was well informed by
the people who are making the complaints, so its OK. No dramas.
(rtr)
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MENGWI - If you are a hob-byist of objects made from clay,
simply come to Basang Tamiang hamlet. The territory belongs to
Kapal village, Mengwi - Badung or about 15 km from Denpasar City is
the central production of pot-tery. Even, the craft production of
the community serves as the main support to pottery shops existing
at Kapal village.
Making pottery poses an activ-
ity carried out by most popula-tion at the hamlet inherited from
generation to generation. Pottery products made are mostly in the
form of ritual paraphernalia used by Hindu community. Among them,
there are drinking earth-enware, holy water container, earthenware
vessel, plate and tray. However, in harmony with the growing demand
of tourism sector, the hamlet also produces
garden lamp, perforated coins and various dishes.
Aside from supplying shop or-ders at Kapal village, local
artisans also meet the demand of general public coming in person to
them. For this category, the orders usu-ally come from local people
of Kapal, other Balinese people and those living outside Bali
(resettle-ment area). Hotels also place direct order for their
pottery needs such
as lampshades, satay roasting pot and large size flower
pots.
Distinctiveness of the pot-tery products of Basang Tamiang
compared to the others is in terms of the design where it is
neutral, without finishing, thicker and ap-plying red brick color.
Balinese pottery was sturdier because its body was thicker than the
products of outside the region such as the pottery or earthenware
bringing
in from Lombok and Yogyakarta. Many Hindu communities living
outside Bali or resettlement area ordered their products.
Moreover, in the season of cremation ceremony, ngenteg ling-gih
and so on, the order would be abundant. Therefore, the artisans
consistently made pottery for ceremonial purposes, though also
getting some orders from hotels and tourists.
IBP/File Photo
Basang Tamiang Hamlet, a hub of pottery artisans
Now the Lynx stand in the way again of the Fever, who, as
Catch-ings put it, werent even expected to make it out of the first
round of the playoffs. The series will begin Sunday in
Minnesota.
Nobody thought wed win the first series, Catchings said. No one
thought wed win this round. No one thinks well win the finals. Were
not done yet.
Catchings, who announced shes retiring at the end of next
season, has willed her team to victories. The Fever won the final
two games in the opening round against Chicago. Then, against New
York, the Fever swept the final two contests, rally-ing from an
18-point deficit in the second quarter in Game 2 to force Tuesdays
contest, which they won 66-51.
This is awesome, Catchings
said. If you had asked me before the season if Id be sitting
right here, were going to try, I dont know. To be sitting here
means a lot for the organization, for my team.
Almost everyone thought Min-nesota would be playing for a
championship. It was the preseason favorite to win a third
championship in five seasons, and the Lynx nearly have Olympians at
every position, headlined by Maya Moore.
Still, Catchings has found a way to will her team to victories.
Indiana is 8-2 in elimination games the past four seasons, and
Catchings is a main reason why. Shes averaged 20.4 points in those
contests. She had 14 points and a bunch of key defensive plays in
the win over the Liberty on Tuesday night.
Shell have her hands full with the Lynx and Moore. The 2014
MVP came up with a huge defen-sive play at the end of Game 2s
win over Phoenix, and then hit the game-winning free throw with 1.5
seconds left after a foul call that the league later said never
should have been made. She finished with a playoff career-best 40
points.
You just keep playing until the last horn, Moore said. I was
just anticipating them passing the ball inside and just tried to
get a deflection. Thats what Ive been trying to do all year, lead
my team in deflections. (ap)
Fever and Lynx to meet in WNBA Finals in rematch of 2012
NEW YORK Four years ago, Tamika Catchings and the Indiana Fever
came into the WNBA Finals as a huge underdog to Minnesota.
Catchings and her squad put forth an incredible effort to pull off
the upset, knocking off the Lynx in four games to win their only
championship in franchise history.
Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings (24) reacts against
the New York Liberty during the second half in Game 3 of
the WNBA basketball Eastern Conference finals at Madison Square
Garden in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. The
Fever defeated the Liberty and will take on the Minneso-
ta Lynx in the WNBA finals. AP Photo/Adam Hunger
Ecclestone responds to F1 teams lodging EU complaint
REUTERS/Max Rossi
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (L) shakes hands with
Formula One supremo Bernie Eccle-stone during the Italian F1 Grand
Prix in Monza September 6, 2015.
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Arsenal, which has advanced past the first group stage every
year since 2001, has now lost both its opening games and still has
two meetings with Group F leader Bay-ern Munich to come. Bayern
beat Dinamo Zagreb 5-0 to take a tight grip on first place in the
group.
It leaves us in a bad position, but we are still in it, Arsenal
man-ager Arsene Wenger said. We have to make a result in our next
game against Bayern at home. We are not out of it.
Felipe Pardo gave Olympiakos the lead in the 33rd, but Theo
Wal-cott equalized two minutes later as Arsenal looked likely to
start an immediate fightback. However, the London club couldnt
prevent Olympiakos from securing its first ever European win in
England in 13 games which included three group-stage losses at
Arsenal in the last six years.
The key factor today was our endurance, Olympiakos coach Marco
Silva said. We ran a lot, we knew how to battle and how to remain
determined to hold onto
the result we deserved until the end. Wenger decided to rest
first-choice goalkeeper Petr Cech, just as in the 2-1 loss at
Dinamo in the first round, and it proved a costly decision.
Ospina misjudged an inswing-ing corner in the 40th minute and
had to backtrack before failing to hold on to the ball, letting it
bounce on the line. The extra official be-hind the extended
goal-line ruled the ball had crossed completely, although some TV
replays seemed inconclusive. There is no goal-line technology in
use in the Champions League. Wenger bristled after the game when he
was asked about the decision to rest Cech.
I dont have to sit here and give you an explanation of every
decision I make, the Frenchman said. Ospina played 19 games last
year and kept 14 clean sheets. ... No keeper is mistake free. It
could have happened to Petr Cech as well.
Olympiakos first goal also came from a corner, when Pardo was
left completely unmarked outside the area, and his shot took a
deflection
to wrongfoot Ospina.Arsenals reaction was swift,
though, as Walcott took a pass from Sanchez and broke into the
left side of the area, firing a low shot toward the far post that
Olympiakos goalkeeper Roberto got his hands to but could only
deflect into his own net.
Still it was the Greek side that went into halftime in the lead
after Ospinas howler, and the two teams traded quick goals again in
the sec-ond half. Walcott turned provider for Sanchez this time as
he lofted a cross into the area and the Chile striker leaned
forward to head in his fourth goal in two games. But Olympiakos was
back ahead a minute later after some more poor defending from
Arsenal.
Pardo set it up this time as his cross from the right flank
found Finnbogason, who beat Per Merte-sacker to the ball and
slotted his effort past Ospina. Mertesacker had come on as a
substitute af-ter Laurent Koscielny went off injured.
With Olivier Giroud suspended, Wenger only had the rarely used
Joel Campbell to throw on in search of a late equalizer, but the
Gunners didnt come any closer than a free kick from Mesut Ozil that
was punched away by Roberto. Walcott had a last chance in injury
time when he broke into the area but shot well wide. (ap)
ZURICH Four years after step-ping down in disgrace, former FIFA
vice president Jack Warner was banned from soccer for life on
Tuesday, accused of repeated acts of bribery related to World Cup
bidding votes. Warner, a long-time ally of President Sepp Blatter
who was allowed to resign from FIFA in 2011 with his presumption of
innocence maintained, is currently fighting extradi-tion from
Trinidad and Tobago on U.S. charges of racketeering, wire fraud and
money-laundering.
The decision by the FIFA ethics committee on Tuesday shows that
judge Hans-Joachim Eckert will pursue offi-cials long after they
have left their jobs.
A more pressing case for the ethics body is an investigation
into Blatter, who was interrogated by Swiss prosecutors on Friday
in part over allegations he undervalued the awarding of World Cup
television rights to Warner. Blatter, who denies wrongdoing, is at
risk of being suspended by his own organization. Warners lifetime
FIFA ban stems from Eckerts report on the bidding process for the
2018 and 2022 World Cups.
I do not believe however that this will serve as the distraction
to the FIFAs present problems as the FIFA wishes it to be, Warner
said. Given what is happening in Zurich with Sepp Blatter I guess
that there is no such thing as a coincidence.
As leader of the CONCACAF region from 1990-2011, Warner gained
consid-erable influence in World Cup votes by the FIFA executive
committee and now the extent of his wrongdoing has been reinforced
by Eckert. Mr. Warner was found to have committed many and vari-ous
acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as
an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at
FIFA and CONCACAF, the FIFA statement said.
In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in
schemes involv-ing the offer, acceptance, and receipt of
undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making
schemes. The case highlights how the specter of corruption has hung
over FIFA under Blatters 17-year presidency.
Former FIFA vice president Chung Mong-joon, who hopes to succeed
Blat-ter in Februarys election, said Tuesday the leadership crisis
is so severe that an emergency task force should be set up to run
the game.
With Blatter under criminal investiga-tion and general secretary
Jerome Valcke suspended from work and being inves-tigated by the
ethics committee, Chung said FIFA is in total meltdown.
Under such circumstances, FIFA and regional confederations
should consider convening extraordinary sessions of their
respective executive committee(s) as well as congress to set-up an
emer-gency task force that will enable FIFA secretariat to function
without interrup-tion, Chung, a former vice president under
Blatter, said in a statement from South Korea.
Among Chungs potential rivals in the election is UEFA President
Michel Pla-tini, who has been questioned as a wit-ness over a
payment from FIFA one of the reasons Blatter was interrogated on
Friday by Swiss authorities. Blatter and Platini denied wrongdoing
as they await news from the ethics committee, which is looking into
the case.
Swiss attorney general Michael Lau-ber said Tuesday that Platini
is being treated as between a witness and an accused person. Lauber
said he would raid Platinis office if necessary to clear up whats
the real truth.
The payment under investigation is the 2 million Swiss francs
(about $2 million) received by Platini in 2011 for work supposedly
carried out in his job as a FIFA adviser between 1998 and 2002.
FIFAs accounts for 1999-2002 show a revenue surplus of 115 million
Swiss francs (about $83 million in 2002). (ap)
BARCELONA - Barcelona coach Luis Enrique woke up on Wednesday
confronted with the twin problems of a lengthening injury list and
the first signs of discontent this season among the demanding fans
at the Nou Camp. Barcas Spain playmaker and captain Andres Iniesta
was the latest to be sidelined, follow-ing the likes of Lionel
Messi and Rafinha, picking up a thigh muscle strain that local
media suggested could keep him out for more than a month.
To make matters worse, some supporters began whistling the team
when they were trailing Bayer Le-verkusen 1-0 in Tuesdays Champions
League Group E game, although they were soon silenced as Barca
stormed back to win 2-1 thanks to late goals from Sergi Roberto and
Luis Suarez.
It may seem incredible that some home fans are angry a mere four
months after Barca secured a treble of Champions League, La Liga
and Kings Cup titles but their performances of late have been less
than convincing and supporters in Spain are notoriously
impatient.
Luis Enrique said Barca would remain competitive despite the
rash of injuries and hit back at the disgrun-tled fans, saying the
players deserved greater respect. We need more support from people
when things arent going our way, Luis Enrique told a news
conference. You can clearly hear the whistles from beside the
pitch, added the former Barca and Spain midfielder.
If we are not running enough fine but the team made a big
effort. There are going to be players out there (due to the
injuries) who need confidence not whistling. One reason Barca have
been left short is a FIFA ban on registering players for the past
two transfer windows.
Barca bought Turkey playmaker Arda Turan and versatile Spain
midfielder Aleix Vidal in the close sea-son but as things stand
neither can play until January.
Barca have asked permission to register Arda due to Rafinhas
long-term knee injury and local media have reported they are
prepared to take their fight to the Court of Arbitration for Sport
(CAS) if necessary.
Tuesdays victory lifted Barca to the top of the sec-tion on four
points from two matches, with Leverkusen second on three points,
level with BATE Borisov. BATE beat AS Roma 3-2 on Tuesday and the
Serie A side are bottom on one point. Barcas next outing is a La
Liga game at Europa League holders Sevilla on Saturday. (rtr)
PORTO, Portugal - Jose Mourinho lamented Chelseas defending from
set-pieces but was otherwise satisfied with his teams display after
they suffered a fifth de-feat of the season on Tuesday, 2-1 at
Porto in the Champions League.
Porto, the club Mourinho led to the Champions League title in
2004, scored in each half through Andre Andre and Maicon while the
2012 winners replied through Willian on the stroke of halftime.
It was a good performance with two ridiculous mistakes, the
Chelsea manager told report-ers. Sometimes you make those mistakes
and you are not punished, we were punished.
With the second goal its a ridiculous mistake. We watched dozens
of repetitions of Porto taking corners, I thought we were
completely ready for that and at a moment when the game was
under control and were preparing to make a change we conceded that
goal.
We had another similar mis-take when they hit the post. Apart
from that I thought we had balance, defensively we had no problems
and the defenders played well, added Mourinho. The basic thing in
football is a defensive set-play, the ball is there, you know the
movements, control the spaces.
Dynamo Kiev and Porto top Group G with four points from two
games. Chelsea are on three while Maccabi Tel Aviv have yet to get
off the mark. The London-ers are also way off the pace in the
Premier League and Mourinho has criticised his side at times during
a difficult start to the season.
On Tuesday night, however, he refused to point the finger of
blame at his squad. I dont think my players deserve me to be
critical of them apart from the two mistakes, he added.
Its a difficult opponent and a difficult place to play. The
Cham-pions League brings a different emotion to matches, to the
crowd and opposing players. I think the team played well.
Portos first-half scorer Andre hailed a memorable performance by
his side. The most important thing is that the team keeps win-ning,
no matter who scores, said the midfielder.
I would be equally happy if we won and I was not the one
scoring. We are all very happy, we played a great match and now we
have to savour this victory. (rtr)
REUTERS/Michael Dalder
Bayern Munichs Robert Lewandowski celebrates after scoring a
goal against Dinamo Zagreb during their Champions League Group F
soccer match in Munich, Germany, September 29, 2015.
BERLIN - Bayern Munichs best start to a Champions League
campaign sees them top of Group F after two wins from two, eight
goals scored and none conceded but the German champions are
expected to get even stronger when key players return from
injury.
Bayern scored four goals in the opening 28 minutes against
Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday and their overall performance in a 5-0
victory fired a warning shot to potential title chal-lengers across
the continent. Striker Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick as
Bayern ended the Croats 45-game unbeaten run.
Bayerns dominance, both at home and in Europe, has come despite
the fact wingers Arjen Robben and Frank Rib-ery, as well as
defenders Holger Badstuber, Jan Kirchhoff and Medhi Benatia, have
been missing due to injury. Spain international Javi Martinez has
only just returned after spend-ing several months on the sidelines
due to injury.
The injuries have given some players the chance to shine,
however, and new signings Douglas Costa and Kingsley Co-man have so
far proved more than adequate replacements for Ribery and Robben on
the wings, while the teams defence does not appear to have been
substantially weakened despite the absences.
Five-time European champions Bayern, who are looking for a first
Champions League title in coach Pep Guardiolas third season in
charge, will soon welcome back Robben, Badstuber and Benatia,
though a date for Riberys return to action has yet to be set.
Six points in two games. This shows the team is in re-ally good
form, Guardiola said. We did not let anything happen at the back
and we had tight control over the game throughout. A day earlier he
had said he would have just 14 or 15 fit players.
With (Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman our game is much better.
Robert and Thomas (Mueller) have much more space in the middle, he
said.
Mueller has netted 11 times in all competitions while
Lewandowski took his tally to a remarkable 10 goals in the past
seven days.
After falling at the semi-final stage in his previous two
seasons on the bench, the Spanish coach is reluctant to get carried
away but he was in confident enough mood to order his players to
attend Munichs beer festival ahead of their Bundesliga derby
against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Now we are off to the
Oktoberfest and then we will start thinking about Borussia Dortmund
on the weekend, he added. (rtr)
Beer for Bayern after five star Champions
League win
Olympiakos stuns Arsenal 3-2 in
Champions LeagueLONDON A goalkeeping blunder by David Ospina
helped Olympiakos beat Arsenal 3-2 in the Champions League on
Tuesday and leave the Gunners in real danger of its first
group-stage exit in 16 years. Ospina fumbled a corner over his line
to give the visitors a 2-1 first-half lead, and substitute Alfred
Finnbogason scored the winner in the 66th minute almost immediately
after Alexis Sanchez had drawn Arsenal level.
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina looks on during the Champions
League Group F soc-cer match between Arsenal and Olympiakos at
Emirates stadium in London Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015.
Mourinho blames ridiculous mistakes for Chelsea defeat
REUTERS/Albert Gea
Barcelonas Andres Iniesta walks off the pitch during their
Champions League group E soccer match against Bayer Leverkusen at
Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, September 29, 2015.
Barca hit by injuries, first signs of fan anger
AP Photo/Anthony Harris, File
FILE - In this Wednesday, June 3, 2015 file photo, former FIFA
vice president Jack Warner speaks at a political rally in
Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago. FIFA has banned former VP Jack
Warner from football for life on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015 in World
Cup bidding probe.
FIFA bans Blatter ally Warner for life over
repeated bribery
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Arsenal, which has advanced past the first group stage every
year since 2001, has now lost both its opening games and still has
two meetings with Group F leader Bay-ern Munich to come. Bayern
beat Dinamo Zagreb 5-0 to take a tight grip on first place in the
group.
It leaves us in a bad position, but we are still in it, Arsenal
man-ager Arsene Wenger said. We have to make a result in our next
game against Bayern at home. We are not out of it.
Felipe Pardo gave Olympiakos the lead in the 33rd, but Theo
Wal-cott equalized two minutes later as Arsenal looked likely to
star