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After shipwreck, Lebanese survivors return to poverty

Milan undone by majestic Pirlo free kicks

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The Warner Bros. adventure debuted with $55.55 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday — the biggest October opening ever and the biggest openings for Bullock and Clooney. The film also dominated the international box office, adding another $27.4 million overseas. “It’s all good news,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution.

He credited director and co-writer Al-fonso Cuaron, who takes viewers into orbit with a story set almost entirely in space that explores challenges faced by two astronauts during a spacewalk. Cuaron’s team devel-oped equipment and technology to replicate the weightlessness of space.

“It’s never been seen before, visual ef-fects like this,” Fellman said. “Just the space shots are mind-boggling. It looks like you’re right there.”

Last week’s top movie, Sony’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2,” rolled

into second place with $21.5 million. The animated sequel features the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris and a cast of “foodi-mals,” like tacodiles and shrimpanzees.

R-rated fare rounds out the top six. Twentieth Century Fox’s “Runner Runner,” starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, opened in third place with $7.6 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Prisoners,” starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, locked onto the fourth spot. Universal’s racing tale “Rush,” starring Chris Hemsworth, drove into fifth place, followed by “Don Jon,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut about a porn addict looking for love.

“The adult drama is back, and fall is the season for the adult drama,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “This is when you get your more challenging films, some of the more esoteric fare, and a lot of those movies, by their nature, have to be rated R.”

Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The “Gravity” premiere red carpet as seen from a reflec-tion in an astronaut’s helmet

at the AMC Lincoln Square Theaters on Tuesday, Oct. 1,

2013, in New York.

‘Gravity’ soars to top of weekend box officeAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Sandra Bullock-George Clooney space drama “Gravity” rocketed to the top of the box office and into industry record books during its opening weekend.

Associated Press Writer

SALT LAKE CITY — Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint. “Move and I will kill you!” her captor hissed.

It was one of several fleeting times Smart watched a rescue slip away during her nine-month or-deal, she recounts in “My Story,” a 308-page book being released by St. Martin’s Press on Monday.

She writes that she was so ter-rified of the street preacher who kidnapped her that when she was rescued by police in a Salt Lake City suburb in March 2003, she only reluctantly identified herself.

Between the heartbreak of missed chances, Smart writes, she was treated as a sex object by Brian David Mitchell and as a slave by his wife, Wanda Barzee. She says they denied her food and water for days at a time.

A U.S. attorney called it one

of the kidnapping crimes of the century. Smart, a quiet, devout Mormon who played the harp and loved horses, vanished with-out a trace from her home high above Salt Lake City. Her case galvanized attention just months after Salt Lake City took the world stage with the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Smart, now 25, is married, living in Park City, finishing a music degree at Brigham Young University and traveling across the country giving speeches and doing advocacy work. She created the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to bring awareness to predatory crimes against children. For her, the book was another way to help bring nine months of brutality to a close.

“I want people to know that I’m happy in my life right now,” Smart told The Associated Press in an interview. “I also, even more so, want to reach out to people who might not be in a good situation. Maybe they’re in a situation that was similar to the one that I was in.”

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File

FILE - In this May 7, 2013, file photo, Elizabeth Smart talks with a reporter before an interview in Park City, Utah.

Elizabeth Smart details kidnapping in new memoir

The US federal shutdown has stopped President Barack Obama from attending the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, and another summit this week of East Asian leaders in Brunei.

US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed anew Obama’s determination to remain engaged with the Pacific Rim region, but his absence has left the arena clear for the leader of one-party China to trumpet the mounting heft of the world’s second largest economy.

Interviewed by the Jakarta Post, President Xi Jinping said the “world economy has entered a period of deep readjustment” but China was ready to lead the way to a brighter day as part of “the world’s most dynamic and most promising region”.

The communist leader has been touring Southeast Asia,

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center,

and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the Leaders Retreat during the Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) forum in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

APEC Summit

China grabs limelightAgence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - China took centre-stage on Monday as Asia-Pacific leaders opened an annual economic summit in the shadow of global growth clouds that are darkening by the day with the US government paralysed by infighting.

where there is much disquiet about China’s territorial ambitions, and also touted the benefits of free trade pacts after securing commercial deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Indonesia and Malaysia.

China is involved in talks on a trade agreement grouping 16 East Asian nations just as Washington’s rival “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP) of 12 countries appears to be running into trouble.

While sympathetic to Obama’s political plight, the leaders of US allies in APEC such as Singapore expressed disappointment that he had been unable to throw his presi-dential weight personally behind the TPP and Washington’s stop-start “pivot” towards Asia.

Foreign friends and rivals alike, as well as financial markets, are worried by a threat bigger even than the shutdown: the possibility that the US government might

default on its colossal debts unless Congress raises the federal borrowing limit by October 17.

An unprecedented default by the holder of the world’s reserve currency would affect “the entire planet, and not just those coun-tries with a strong geographical and economic linkage to the US”, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said at an APEC business summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed similar sentiments to the business leaders gathered for the event.

“The dollar of the United States is still the biggest reserve cur-rency in the world, so it is of utmost importance to all of us,” he said.”

But Kerry, taking Obama’s place at APEC, said the president’s epic tussle with the Republicans was merely “a moment in politics” that did not deflect the United States from its strategic goals.

“I want to emphasise that there is nothing that will shake the commitment of the rebalance to Asia that President Obama is lead-ing,” Kerry told the business forum.

The United States is stumbling politically at a moment when, according to a statement by APEC foreign and trade ministers, the world economy can ill afford more instability following the 2008 financial crisis.

China, Taiwan’s head delegates meet in Bali

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Calendar Event for October 4 through 28, 2013

4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Selod-ing BesakihPura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih

6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayu-putih Buleleng

8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Taro TegalalangPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Ta-bananPura Pasek Gelgel TulikupPura manik Bingin Sidemen

9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMerajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon CemenggonPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-GianyarPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih

17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonMerajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon KintamaniPura Pulaki BulelengPura Tirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Tirta Negari Singapadu

Pura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPura Penataran Agung TegallalangPura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji BatubulanPura Puseh Singakerta UbudPura Nataran Sanding TampaksiringPura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan UbudPura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami Bra-banPura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh KrambitanPura Pasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan SelemadegPura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem KarangasemPura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow SulutPura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemPura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukalu-wih Tejakula BulelengPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang BulelengPura Ulun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniPura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura PapuaPura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh DenpasarPura Pejengaji TegalalangPura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Keram-bitanPura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemPura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung TengahPura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh KerambitanPura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karan-gasemPura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemPura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga BulelengPura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa PenidaPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur KintamaniPura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh keram-bitanPura Penataran Ubud

Pura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken BlahbatuhPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu BulelengPura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel SukawatiPura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung Baturn-ingMambal Abiansemal

22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta TimurPura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijan-tung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, BadungPura Luhur Cemenggon, SukawatiPura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

27 Oct redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti BatubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah SelemadegPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gi-anyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan BusungbiuPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

“We are thrilled to announce a new meeting room to favehotel By-pass, joining the already successful meeting rooms that cater to our savvy and professional travelers. With the increasing demand for MICE facilities in Bali, we look forward to hosting all of our future guests” said Yohanes S. Hadi, Archipelago’s Bali based Regional General Manager.

The budget hotel features 160 modern, functional and stylish rooms & suites with the added conveniences of free high-speed WiFi, 24-hour front desk and security service, express check-in and check-out, a complimentary shuttle service to the

center of Kuta as well as a compre-hensive room and laundry service. The hotel also boasts the signature Lime Restaurant and Coffee Shop, a modern bar and a large swimming pool & kids pool.

The favehotel Bypass Kuta – Bali enjoys a privileged location on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Bali’s main artery and the cross road to all of Bali’s offerings. With its affordable yet stylish accommodation, the hotel aims to offer a fun, fresh and friendly alternative to holiday and business travelers, whilst providing the ideal vantage point from which to discover the island. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Favehotel Bypass expands new conference centerIBP

KUTA – In a response to the increasing demand for MICE

facilities in Bali, favehotel Bypass Kuta has expanded its smart and modern MICE amenities by adding an extra meeting room. The latest meeting room can accommodate up to 100 guests, matching the hotel’s two existing meeting rooms that total a capacity of 200 persons. The facilities are complimented by the hotel’s convenient location on Jalan Bypass Ngurah rai as well as the ample parking space with enough room for buses.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Closure of the Ngurah Rai Airport in con-

junction with the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) Summit in Bali this year was criticized by Consumer Care Foundation (YLPK) Bali as it violated the Law No.1/2010 on the flight.

“The closure is clearly detrimental to the rights of the public and society at large whereas the closure of airport throughout the day, even though for the benefit of VVIP, is prohibited by Law No.1 /2010 about Flight. Other than disrupting local residents, the closure of Ngurah Rai Airport may also interfere with foreign tourists who want to spend holiday in Bali,” said Putu Armaya, Direc-tor of YLPK Bali, Sunday (Oct 6).

Further, he said the closure of Ngurah Rai Air-port posed the act against the law. “Also compare to the case when President SBY attended similar summit or G 20, after the president got off the plane, the Garuda aircraft carrying the president’s entourage was immediately told to leave the air-port (move to other airport),” he said.

Related to this matter, the YLPK Bali urged the government to reopen the Ngurah Rai Airport and move the parking of VVIP aircraft to the airport nearby such as Lombok, Surabaya, El Tari Kupang and so on.

Still regarding the airport closure during the APEC implementation, information from a number of sources told that Garuda Indonesia cancelled 139 domestic and international flights. Meanwhile, Air Asia decided to cancel 81 flights and Lion Air cancelled approximately 65 flights to Bali.

Nevertheless, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu, amid the “APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Travel Facilita-tion” in Kuta stated that APEC Summit activities were not too distracting tourists visiting Bali though there was closure to schedule of the airport because the announcement had been disseminated to travel agencies of the world far in advance. “We think tourists visiting Bali will not be too bothered as it has been announced long time ago to travel agencies around the world,” she said.

She convinced that tourist arrival in Bali and Indonesia would increase after the APEC Sum-mit activities because the participating countries would inform the situation of Bali and Indonesia. “At the same time, this will tell the world that Indonesia is a secure country and able to host in-ternational events like this,” she said. (kmb20)

Minister of Finance, Chatib Basri, said the VAT Refund posed a tax incentive to individual holding foreign passport in the form of VAT Refund that has been paid on taxable goods purchased in Indonesia, which was then taken out of the customs area or abroad.

“This VAT Refund is a pilot project and will give a psychological impact on tourists. Though it is only worth 10 dollars, it will give confidence,” said the Minister of Finance, Chatib Basri, recently.

According to him, the VAT Refund service for tourist would be an attrac-tion for foreign tourists and be able to support the increase in international trade because the service was intended for foreign tourists by providing facility in the effort of returning VAT of goods taken advantage overseas.

“This psychological impact and tax service will even increase the confidence of tourists because tax is not only a mat-ter of income but also a matter of service. When foreign travelers feel more com-fortable, then they will shop more. Talk-ing about service is not about the loss but the cost for the service,” he added.

Director General of Taxation, A. Fuad Rahmany, said the service was provided by Directorate General of Taxation (DGT) with reference to international standards and practices that were also implemented in many developed countries related to the application of international fairness practice on consumption tax.

“The value of VAT under IDR 5 million will be paid in cash, while the higher value will be paid through bank account,” he said.

Currently, the Directorate General

of Taxation had provided VAT Refund services for tourist in five international airports, namely the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Jakarta), Ngurah Rai International Airport (Denpasar), Adi Sutjipto International Airport (Yo-gyakarta), Juanda International Airport (Surabaya) and Kuala Namu Interna-tional Airport (Medan).

“VAT Refund for tourist service has showed an increase in quality im-provement compared to the previous application, so that the implementation can achieve a better level of service for tourists,” he explained.

He added that Directorate General of Taxation had successfully updated the business processes and upgraded the web-based application service related to the VAT Refund for tourist service. (kmb27)

YLPK Bali criticizes airport closure during APEC meeting

IBP/File

The newly developed Ngurah Rai In ternational Airport.

Foreign tourists redeem VAT Refunds at Ngurah Rai AirportMangupura (Bali Post)—

Foreign tourists visiting Bali can now redeem or take the value Added Tax (vAT) refund at Ngurah rai Inter-national Airport. The vAT refund is a refund of value added tax that has been paid in Indonesia.

3Tuesday, October 8, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Trond Larsen, with the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Conservation International, said in a phone interview that the team catalogued creatures and studied freshwater resources during a three-week expedition in pristine forest of southeast Suriname near the border with Brazil.

The upper Palumeu River wa-tershed is among the world’s most remote and unexplored rainforests, the Arlington, Virginia-based group said. It has worked for years in Suriname, a sparsely populated country of 63,000 square miles (162, 265 square kilometers) on the north shoulder of South America.

The creatures that could be new to science include a brown tree frog dubbed the “cocoa frog” and a type of poison dart frog, which secretes powerful toxins employed by local people for hunting.

“Given the rate at which so many populations of frogs are declining and disappearing around the world, it’s pretty exciting to be discovering new species,” Larsen said.

Scientists also catalogued a potentially new type of colorful tetra fish, an unusually pigmented catfish and nine other types of fish after dragging nets through waterways. A 2.3 millimeter (less than an inch) reddish dung beetle that may be the second smallest one in South America was among apparently previously unknown kinds of insects found.

The research team collected data on 1,378 species of plants, birds, mammals, insects, fish and amphibians. The scientists were supported by 30 indigenous men who helped negotiate supply-laden boats through raging rivers and guided them through the

forests.Suriname, a Dutch colony

until the 1970s, has made great efforts to protect its rainforests. In 1998, the government created the roughly 4 million-acre (1.6 million-hectare) Central Suriname Nature Reserve, setting aside some 10 percent of the country.

But thousands of illegal min-ers, many of them Brazilian, have also long worked throughout the interior, contaminating rivers in some areas with mercury used to separate gold from ore.

Researchers found high qual-ity water conditions in the region they studied, but some of their samples had mercury above safe levels for drinking even though there was apparently no upstream mining. Larsen said he believes the mercury is blowing in from mining and industrial activities in neighboring nations.


It wasn’t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A huge cluster of jellyfish forced one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common.

Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor number three on Sunday after tons of jellyfish clogged the pipes that bring in cool water to the plant’s turbines.

By Tuesday, the pipes had been cleaned of the jellyfish and engi-neers were preparing to restart the reactor, which at 1,400 megawatts of output is the largest boiling-water reactor in the world, said Anders Osterberg, a spokesman for OKG, the plant operator.

All three Oskharshamn reactors are boiling-water types, the same technology at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant that suffered a cata-strophic failure in 2011 after a tsunami breached the facility’s walls and flooded its equipment.

Jellyfish are not a new problem for nuclear power plants. Last year the California-based Diablo Canyon facility had to shut its reactor two after gobs of sea salp — a gelatinous, jellyfish-like organism — clogged intake pipes. In 2005, the first unit at Oskarshamn was temporarily turned off due to a sudden jellyfish influx.

Nuclear power plants need a constant flow of water to cool their reactor and turbine systems, which is why many such plants are built near large bodies of water.

Marine biologists, meanwhile, say they would not be surprised if more jellyfish shutdowns occur in the future.

“It’s true that there seems to be more and more of these extreme cases of blooming jellyfish,” said Lene Moller, a researcher at the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment. “But it’s very difficult to say if there are more jellyfish, because there is no historical data.”

AP Photo/Conservation International, Stuart V. Nielsen

In this handout photo released by Conservation International on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, a sleek chocolate-colored frog dubbed the “cocoa frog,” that may be new to science, is seen in Suriname.

60 possible new species found in Suriname forestAssociated Press Writer

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Braving perilous river rapids in Suriname’s rainforest, international scientists found six frogs and 11 fish that are among 60 creatures that may be new species, a tropical ecologist with a U.S.-based conservation group said Thursday.

Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 file photo, moon jel-lyfish are pictured in an aquarium of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

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NUSA DUA - Indonesia and Peru signed a memorandum of un-derstanding (MOU) on agriculture cooperation on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera-tion (APEC) Summit.

The MOU was signed by In-donesian Agriculture Minister Suswono and Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Eda Rivas in the presence of the presidents of both countries.

The two countries also estab-lished cooperation in interna-tional agreement management. The agreement was signed by In-donesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Peru-vian counterpart, Eda Rivas.

Prior to the signing of the MOU and the agreement, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a bilateral meeting with his Peruvian counterpart.

Yudhoyono said both nations have a lot of potential that can be developed further.

“If we combine our potential with new opportunities, our coop-eration in the economic and other

sectors will increase,” he said.Among those present at the

meeting were Coordinating Minis-ter for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinat-ing Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa, and Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi.

Earlier, Indonesia signed plans of action on strategic partnership with Vietnam and Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia and Vietnam signed the plan of action on the imple-mentation of strategic partnership for 2014-2018 period.

The plan of action was signed by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Binh Minh, in the presence of President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.

Natalegawa pointed out that the plan contains detailed steps that will be taken by the two countries to achieve strategic partnership.

The two countries want to achieve clear and measurable tar-gets by signing the plan of action, added Natalegawa.

“We positively welcome the meeting which is carried out by of-ficials of both sides for the first time in 60 years,” Taiwan`s Chairman of Council for Economic Planning and Development Chung-Ming Kuan said in an interview on Sunday.

However he declined to predict the direction of China-Taiwan`s relations in the future after the his-toric meeting.

Earlier China`s news agency Xinhua reported President Xi Jin-ping during meeting with Taiwan`s former Vice President Vincent Siew reiterated the Chinese mainland`s readiness to conduct equal consul-tations with Taiwan on cross-Strait political issues under the one China framework and make reasonable arrangements.

He pointed out that enhancing cross-Strait political mutual trust and consolidating common political foundation are vital to ensure the

peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

Noting that in a long run, the cross-Strait political disputes which have long existed could be gradu-ally and eventually resolved, Xi said, “we cannot hand those prob-lems down from generation to generation.”

Xi said that the two sides across the Taiwan Strait should stick to the correct path of peaceful develop-ment of the cross-Strait relations.

He said the concept that “both sides of the Strait are of one family” should be advocated, adding that the two sides should strengthen com-munication and cooperation and jointly work for the great rejuvena-tion of the Chinese nation.

He called for more efforts to in-stitutionalize cross-Strait economic cooperation and urged greater im-portance to be attached to industrial cooperation.

AntaraNUSA DUA - The Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) issued five recommendations for the 21 APEC member economies at the APEC CEO Business Summit, which ended on Monday.

The recommendations cover regional eco-nomic integration, sustainable development, entrepreneurship and small and medium busi-nesses, economic and banking forum, and indus-try dialogues within the framework of scientific innovation.

The ABAC recommended accelerating trade and investment liberalization, pursuing new agendas in the services field and enhancing supply chain connectivity for goods and ser-vices in the region through regional economic integration,.

The recommendation on sustainable develop-ment included food, energy and water supply security, infrastructure development and invest-ment, transparency and efficiency in the procure-ment of government goods and services, and the dissemination of technology and innovation.

In the small and medium businesses segment, ABAC expressed hope that the APEC economic

entities would support the creation of a new busi-ness model, ensure business continuity, facilitate the use of information technology, encourage meetings of small and medium entrepreneurs, promote the participation of women and youth in the business sector and impose a business code of ethics on small and medium entrepreneurs.

In the financial and macroeconomic field, ABAC called for the immediate formation of an Asia-Pacific Financial Forum, financial in-tegration, private, public partnership and infra-structure financing, and financial solutions for financial inclusion.

ABAC also expressed the hope that industry dialogue would encourage APEC Scientific In-novation and dialogues on APEC Chemicals.

Established in 1995, ABAC represents the interests of businesses attending APEC. ABAC is composed of up to three members from each of the 21 member economies, with business representatives appointed by APEC Leaders. The annual APEC CEO Summit and regular Industry dialogues also provide opportunities for regional business leaders to interact with APEC leaders and address key issues affecting businesses in the region.

China, Taiwan’s head delegates meet in BaliAntara

NUSA DUA - China`s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan`s Head of Delegation Vincent Siew met here on Sunday ahead of APEC Leaders Meeting to be held on October 7-8.

Indonesia, Peru sign MOU on agriculture cooperation

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E

Attendees at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit are silhouetted against the stage screen in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) issued five recommendations for the 21 APEC member economies at the APEC CEO Business Summit, which ended on Monday.

ABAC issues five recommendations

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This traffic control system keeps activities inside cells from descending into chaos and has helped researchers gain a better un-derstanding of a range of diseases including diabetes and disorders affecting the immune system, the committee said.

The discoveries have helped doctors diagnose a severe form of epilepsy and immune deficiency diseases in children, Nobel com-mittee secretary Goran Hansson said. In the future, scientists hope the research could lead to medi-cines against more common types of epilepsy, diabetes and other me-tabolism deficiencies, he said.

Rothman, 62, is a professor at Yale University while Schek-man, 64, is at the University of California, Berkeley. Suedhof, 57, joined Stanford University in 2008. Schekman said he was awakened at 1 a.m. at his home in California

by the chairman of the prize com-mittee and was still suffering from jetlag after returning from a trip to Germany the night before.

“I wasn’t thinking too straight. I didn’t have anything elegant to say,” he told The Associated Press. “All I could say was ‘Oh my God,’ and that was that.”

He called the prize a wonderful acknowledgment of the work he and his students had done and said he knew it would change his life. “I called my lab manager and I told him to go buy a couple bottles of Champagne and expect to have a celebration with my lab,” he said.

The Nobel committee said the three researchers work on “vesicle traffic” — the transport system of our cells — helped scientists un-derstand how “cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time” in-side cells. Vesicles are tiny bubbles that act as cargo carriers.

“Imagine hundreds of thousands of people who are traveling around hundreds of miles of streets; how are they going to find the right way? Where will the bus stop and open its doors so that people can get out?” said Hansson, the committee’s secretary. “There are similar problems in the cell, to find the right way between the different organelles and out to the surface of the cell.”

In the 1970s, Schekman discov-ered a set of genes that were re-quired for vesicle transport, while Rothman revealed in the 1980s and 1990s how proteins dock with their target membranes like two sides of a zipper. Also in the ‘90s, Suedhof found out how vesicles release their cargo with precision. “This is not an overnight thing. Most of it has been accomplished and developed over many years, if not decades,” Rothman told the AP.

AP Photo/ TT News Agency Janerik HenrikssonImages of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, as Karolinska In-stitute Nobel committee chairman Goran Hansson announces them as the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine.

2 Americans, German win Nobel medicine prizeAssociated Press Writer

STOCKHOLM — Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.


MASIK PASS, North Korea — The secretary-general of North Korea’s ski association views the sprawling alpine landscape before him with unabashed pride. Facing a strong, cold wind, he points to a dip in the rugged, tree-covered mountains and says the sunrise there is a sight of unmatched beauty, worthy of the nation’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un.

This is the Masik Pass ski resort, North Korea’s latest mega-project, the product of 10 months of furious labor intended to show that this country, so often derided for its poverty and isola-tion, is as civilized and culturally advanced as any other.

The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will formally open Thursday, though late last month the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells, potholes filled the ac-cess roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings.

Who will ski here? Perhaps Kim Jong Un, who reportedly enjoyed the sport as a teenager studying in Switzerland. By the estimate of the ski official, Kim Tae Yong, there are only about 5,500 North Korean skiers in this country of 24 million — a skiing population of 0.02 percent.

Even so, as he sweeps his hand over the scene, the official displays no doubt that what his country really needs right now is a multimillion-dollar ski resort in the secluded depths of North Korea’s east coast. Kim bristles at the suggestion Masik will be a playground for the nation’s elite and a trickle of eccentric tourists. This, he says, is his country at work. It is proof of the great love of the great leader.

Just 10 years after the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan’s use of race in admissions as a necessary step to foster campus diversity, the justices are set to decide whether that state’s voters are allowed to ban affirmative action in ad-missions entirely.

The case, Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, is one of several controversial cases on the docket in the 2013-14 term, which begins Monday.

The justices are also set to decide cases concerning campaign finance, prayer at legislative meetings, and abortion rights.

If the justices decide in Michigan voters’ favor, it could lead to a spate of states banning affirmative action through ballot initiatives and would almost certainly result in declining en-rollments of minority students in public colleges around the country.

In 2006, Michigan voters approved a measure to amend the state consti tut ion to prohibit the government from “discriminat[ing] against, or grant[ing] preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnic-ity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.” The voter initiative, called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, effectively banned affirmative action at state schools.

The measure came just three years after the 2003 Grutter v Bollinger case, where the court decided in a 5-4 vote that the University of Michigan Law School could grant admissions preferences to minority applicants in the interest of fostering diversity for the entire study body. (The decision barred the use of racial admissions quotas, however.)

Black enrollment has plummeted 30 percent at Michigan’s undergraduate and law schools since the 2006 affirmative action ballot initiative. Nine other states have barred the use of race in admissions as well, and the Supreme Court’s decision this year could either cement those policies or effectively eliminate them, depending on its scope.

Supreme Court to decide whether affirmative action can be left up to state voters

NKorea rushes to finish lavish ski resortSemarapura (Bali Post)—

A house at Pundukdawa hamlet, Pesinggahan village, Dawan sub-district, Klungkung, burned down in the flames, Sunday (Oct 6). The fire instantly burned the whole con-tent of the house whose roof looked in disarray. No casualties were reported in the incident. However, the losses were estimated to reach hundreds of millions of rupiahs.

The house consisting of three bedrooms and a kitchen located between the hills was known to belong to Ketut Lambih, 60, a resident from Timbul Sukahati hamlet, Pesinggahan. An eyewit-ness, Wayan Sudiarta, 45, a mason, who was working on the house angkul-angkul entrance gates said last Sunday the great fire incident occurred around 2:00 p.m. He ad-mitted to just learn the fire when he saw the fire having burned the roof of the house standing on 300 square meters of land. “I was shocked, suddenly the fire was large and quickly engulfed the whole roof of the house,” he said.

In a panic condition, he imme-diately rushed to evacuate people in the house. At that time, the

homeowner‘s wife, Wayan Lantri, 45, and six-year old grandson Ari were in the house. “They happened to be asleep. With the help of local community, I immediately break down the door and evacuate them because Lantri was paralytic,” he explained.

At the same time, the fire was said to immediately enlarge and quick-ly burned the house. Not long after, two units of fire brigade immediately rushed to location and extinguish the fire. In addition, the officers of Dawan Police and Klungkung Police also looked to secure the location. The fire could just be extinguished about 30 minutes after the firefighters struggled for putting out the blaze. After the fire was extinguished, the roof debris of the victim’s house looked to litter on the floor. Police immediately set police line around the location. Sudiarta said his possessions also burned down in the house such as cash worth tens of millions of rupiahs, electronic appli-ances like television, clothing and all household items. In addition, his gold jewelries were also on fire.

Chief of Criminal Detective Sec-tion of Klungkung Police, I Nyoman Suparta, said on Sunday after receiv-

ing an explanation from the PLN also coming down to location that the fire was alleged to have been caused by short circuit. Potentially, it happened because the PLN officer found the cable that did not met the standard of PLN for indoor use. “Standard cable of indoor use for house is 2.5 inches, but it used the cable of 0.5 inches. So, the fire was alleged to be triggered by short circuit,” he said.

Meanwhile, the victim’s brother, Komang Sumerta, 50, immediately notified the victim having the pro-fession as driver and victim’s son Komang Suryadana, 29. Meanwhile, the victim’s wife was evacuated to his house at Timbul Sukahati hamlet, Pesinggahan village.

The incident drew the attention of hundreds of local residents and some of them admitted to concern with the incident. Meanwhile, the victim’s brother and son seemed busy scavenging the debris of pre-cious items such as gold jewelry that could still be saved. Some resi-dents also helped clean up the roof debris of the house that had burned down. So far, Suparta admitted the fire incident stayed under police investigation. (kmb31)

The two areas dredged and flat-tened are respectively located at the edge of Jalan Raya Singaraja-Denpasar at kilometer stone 19 and 19.4. Information compiled at loca-tion on Sunday (Oct 6) told if the land dredged on the hill at kilometer stone 19 had been carried out since the beginning of last week. Aside from being dredged by heavy equip-ment, the land owned by a resident from Denpasar was also leveled by a number of workers. Residents in the vicinity said the land was lev-eled to be planted with coffee and other trees.

Meanwhile, the dredging activ-ity on the land at kilometer stone 19.4 had been going on since a few weeks ago. By chance, there was a road and bridge widening project at kilometer stone 19.4 so that many people thought if the dredging on

the hill was a part of the project whereas it was carried out on private land planned to be constructed with a house by the land owner.

Interestingly, Regent of Bule-leng Putu Agus Suradnyana who happened to pass on the road sec-tion on Sunday was surprised to see the dredging on the road side hill. He immediately got angry and threatened to report the dredging activity to police as violating the environmental laws. “Who issued the permit for the dredging activity? It’s against the law and I can report it to police,” he said.

Due to being too upset, he im-mediately called for the Subdistrict Head of Sukasada, Made Dwi Adnyana, to talk to him at Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club at Pancasari village because the regent happened to open a golf tournament.

Subdistrict Head Dwi Adnyana did not know in details about the dredg-ing activity on the road side hill. “I just found it out yesterday, sir. And I have contacted the land owner,” said Head Dwi Adnyana.

At that time, Regent Agus Surad-nyana instructed the Subdistrict Head Dwi Adnyana to stop the dredging activity and summon the land owner. “Stop the dredging and banish the heavy equipment right now,” said the regent.

Subdistrict Head Dwi Adnyana said he would meet with the land-owner on Monday (Oct 7) and instructed to stop the dredging activity. In addition, the subdis-trict head also asked why the land should be dredged and leveled and what the purpose was. “We will meet next Monday,” said Dwi Adnyana. (kmb15)

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Request of bamboo ahead of feast shows an increase. More-

over, the bamboo will be used to make penjor ahead of Galungan and Kuningan feast. From early on, traders of bamboo for penjor in Gianyar have started to bring in hundreds of bamboo stem for the benefit of the feast celebration. Those traders bring in bamboo from Bangli and Tabanan region.

Such condition could be seen at one of the bamboo traders at the area of Keramas village, Blahbatuh, Sunday (Oct 6). Within the past few days, a lot of community activities required bamboo. They were customary activities like cremation ceremony, temple anniversary to preparation of Galungan and Kuningan. Especially bamboo for the making of penjor, it had been sought after by residents, explained Grandpa Kobar, a bamboo trader.

Six months ago, about 400 stems of bamboo for penjor were sold out. Residents from various villages were looking for bamboo to make a penjor. As happened to six months ago, the bamboo request for penjor for next feast was also estimated to be in large number.

Selling price of bamboo for penjor usually reached IDR 25,000. There was possibility if the price would rise when the feast was around the corner. When approaching the feast, the request of bamboo for penjor also increased. Grandpa Kobar, said the bamboo on sale was accidentally brought in from the area of Kayang, Bangli. It was brought in along with other types of bamboo with a capacity of one truck, containing about 400 stems. (kmb16)

Bukit dredged Regent gets angry, threatens to report it to policeSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Two small hills at different locations on the edge of Singaraja-Denpasar road section, precisely at Amerta Sari hamlet, Pegayaman village, Sukasada, have been dredged and flattened since a few days ago by the owner. Aside from having the potential to cause significant erosion, the dredging also violates environmental laws.

Alleged to be caused by short circuitA house of Pesinggahan resident burns down

IBP/FileThe bamboo is highly demanded by the Balinese near Galun-gan Day

Request of bamboo for penjor pole increases ahead of feast

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SINGAPORE - The World Bank on Monday lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region.

The estimate for this year’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is down from a forecast of 7.8 percent in April, and lower than the 7.5 percent growth recorded in 2012 and 8.3 percent in 2011.

Regional GDP growth in 2014 and 2015 was forecast at 7.2 percent for both years with middle-income economies like Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand also softening. Excluding China, the region is expected to grow 5.2 percent in 2013 and 5.3 percent in 2014.

Bert Hofman, the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific chief economist, told journalists that the bank was expecting a “smooth resolution” of the budgetary impasse that has forced parts of the US government to shut down.

However, he added: “If there were to be a sustained deadlock, it could actually

be quite damaging also for the East Asian economies.

“For every percentage point growth lost in the United States, we would see about half a percentage point growth lost in East Asia.”

The US impasse has raised fears US lawmakers will not increase the country’s borrowing limit before an October 17 deadline, which could lead the government to default on its debts.

Hofman said: “Any refusal on the increase in the debt ceiling is so unprec-edented that it is very hard to predict what would happen. So we don’t have that in the simulation.”

In a report, the bank said East Asia is still the fastest growing in the world despite a slowdown in powerhouse China and a softening in places such as Indonesia and Thailand this year.

“East Asia-Pacific continues to be the engine driving the global economy, con-tributing 40 percent of the world’s GDP growth -- more than any other region,” said Axel van Trotsenburg, the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice President.

“With overall global growth accel-erating, now is the time for developing economies to make structural and policy reforms to sustain growth, reduce poverty and improve the lives of the poor and vul-nerable,” he added in a statement.

The bank noted that in recent months speculation about the withdrawal of the US Federal Reserve’s stimulus pro-gramme led to stock market sell-offs and currency depreciation in East Asia, hurting countries with large foreign participation in their financial markets.

“The Federal Reserve’s decision to delay (a wind down of the stimulus) sta-bilised markets for now, giving countries a second opportunity to take measures to lower risks from future volatility,” said Bert Hofman, World Bank East Asia and Pacific Chief Economist.

“Reducing reliance on short-term and foreign currency denominated debt, accepting a weaker exchange rate when growth is below potential, and building policy buffers to respond to changing global liquidity conditions are some of the ways that can help countries be pre-pared.”

The US government shutdown has stopped President Barack Obama from attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

That has worried US allies at a time when China is on the rise and Washington is trying to push through an ambitious 12-nation trade pact that excludes Beijing.

Obama’s enforced absence at both APEC and an East Asia summit straight afterwards in Brunei has left the stage clear for Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has been touring the region and will address a parallel meeting of APEC business leaders later Monday.

The title of Xi’s speech is “China in transi-tion: what can the Asia-Pacific expect?” Some expect an economic bonanza. Others, looking nervously at Beijing’s far-reaching territorial claims, expect a more turbulent region and want reassurance from Washington.

But the United States may be ill-equipped to offer much immediate global leadership as it confronts a menace mightier than even the shutdown: the possibility that it might default on its colossal debts unless Congress raises the federal borrowing limit by October 17.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in Bali that “the debt ceiling has got to be reviewed, otherwise the consequences would be quite severe”.

The United States is hobbled at a moment when, according to a statement by APEC for-eign and trade ministers, the world economy can ill afford more uncertainty following the 2008 financial crisis.

Previewing Tuesday’s final summit declara-tion, they said that “global growth is too weak, risks remain tilted to the downside, and the economic outlook suggests growth is likely to be slower and less balanced than desired”.

Interviewed by Monday’s Jakarta Post, Xi agreed that the “world economy has entered a period of deep readjustment” but said China was ready to lead the way as part of “the world’s most dynamic and most promising region”.

He also touted the benefits of free-trade pacts. China is leading talks on another trade agree-ment grouping 16 East Asian nations just as Washington’s rival “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP) appears to be running into trouble.

“China is very important for the Southeast Asian economies, like it or not,” said Finance Minister Chatib Basri of Indonesia, which has stayed out of the TPP talks.

APEC leaders meet in shadow of US shutdowns


NUSA DUA - Asia-Pacific leaders opened an annual economic summit on Monday in the shadow of global growth clouds that are darkening by the day as the United States struggles to shake off policy paralysis.

AP Photo/Matt RourkeIn this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a consumer exits a store with a sale sign posted in the windows in Philadelphia. The World Bank on Monday lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region.

World Bank lowers East Asia growth forecast to 7.1%

VIRTUALLY all villages in Buleleng County located on hilly re-gions still look natural. However, Sudaji village, other than remaining pristine, also has a number of advantages, especially in the matter of plants.

It was visible when the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana with his officials made a touring on a motorcycle to Sudaji village, Saturday (Oct 5).

Sudaji had the center of fruit nursery centers, ranging from durian, mango and sugar apple to rambutan. Besides, it also had the nurseries of different types of plants like clove plantation. In wetland agriculture, Sudaji cultivated a distinctive rice variety that could produce fluffier and pithy rice. It was called Sudaji Rice and now it was rarely planted at the village located on the hills with beautiful natural scenery.

So, it is not mistaken if Sudaji village is then developed into eco-tourism village. The rural potential of ecotourism is currently being intensively developed in Buleleng, especially the villages having the potential beauty of nature and pristine indigenous wisdom like Sudaji village. In addition to Sudaji, the successful development of ecotourism had been made at the area of Lake Tamblingan, precisely at Munduk village, Banjar subdistrict.

Regent Putu Agus Suradnyana said that in the Regional Bylaw on Buleleng Spatial Plan, Sudaji and Munduk village had been included in the tourism village, where the indigenous values would be preserved as tourist attraction to be enjoyed as natural charm of Bali. “Combination of indigenous wisdom and beauty of nature becomes the leading tour-ist attraction owned by Buleleng. We will develop such potential and hopefully the positive impact could be accepted by society,” he said.

A tourism businessman of Sudaji village, Sansan, said the nature-based tourism had given many benefits to Sudaji community and surrounding villages either in terms of the environmental, cultural or economic aspect. It happened because the visiting tourists were more interested in social life of local community. “Friendly service and simplicity can be an attraction and promotion to foreign tourists,” said Sansan also known as the founder of the Omunity Bali. (kmb15)

As observation made on Sun-day, the passing vehicles entering and leaving the Ngurah Rai Air-port were minimal. Many spaces at parking lot usually filled with vehicles including taxis were in fact empty. Taxi drivers commonly clustered while waiting for passen-gers also reduced drastically.

Traders earning a livelihood from the airport were automati-cally affected by the lack of activ-ity at the airport. Employees at the airport counter traders were not as busy as on usual days. Even, few counters were forced to close temporarily. Such condition was estimated to take place on October 8 and 9.

One of the traders at the Ngurah

Rai Airport, I Nyoman Suharta, said that his party was forced to close due to lacking of activity at the airport trader counters. Al-though claiming difficult, Suharta could only surrender against such condition considering it was an international event.

He was also reluctant to com-ment when asked whether there was compensation for the closing of the airport. Suharta could only hope that APEC meeting could bring in a positive impact on tour-ism and the economy of Bali. Such an event was really hoped to boost the tourism sector in Bali.

Regarding the impact of the closure against the Ngurah Rai Airport for the sake of APEC

meeting, the Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, recently did not deny if it would be experienced by community. He said it was a tem-porary impact because if the APEC Summit 2013 could work well, it would even bring in a greater posi-tive impact on Bali.

His party also admitted not to worry about the number of tour-ist arrival. According to him, the decline might occur in tourist segment that were purely intend-ing to spend holiday. However, the APEC belonged to MICE cat-egory. The delegates, media and participating APEC officials did not just attend the APEC activi-ties, but also enjoyed the beauty of Bali. (kmb25)

IBP/DedyNgurah Rai Airport looked very quiet on Sunday (Oct 6). Airport activities such as passengers going back and forth were minimal. Similarly, many trader counters at the airport were closed.

Closed, Ngurah Rai Airport lacks of activitiesBali Post

MANGUPURA - Ngurah Rai Airport looked very quiet on Sunday (Oct 6). Airport activities such as passengers going back and forth were minimal. Similarly, many trader counters at the airport were closed. It was the impact of the closing and opening schedule of the airport, especially commercial flight during the implementation of the APEC 2013.

IBP/OleSudaji village, other than remaining pristine, also has a number of advantages, especially in the matter of plants.

Still pristineSudaji village develops ecotourism

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The 36-year-old, who could now pass for 50, was among 18 shell-shocked Lebanese who returned on Sunday after surviving a shipwreck off Indonesia that killed dozens of impoverished migrants from the Middle East.

The Lebanese aboard the Austra-lia-bound boat mainly hailed from the northern Akkar region, where an influx of refugees from neighbour-ing Syria has compounded the en-demic poverty of one of Lebanon’s poorest areas.

“We were desperate to leave, and we had hope for a better life, because there is nothing for us here,” Assaad said as he stared ahead blankly, still reliving the tragedy.

“I lost everything -- my wife, my children, my home,” he says, sitting in his parents’ modest house where the crushing silence is only occasionally broken by neighbours

calling in to quietly offer their con-dolences.

In Kabiit, a village nestled be-neath verdant mountains, Assaad supported his family on $13 a day before deciding to sell everything -- his house, his car, his land and his cow -- to pay for passage to Austra-lia, the “Eden” to which many of his fellow villagers had gone.

“I don’t want to be rich. I just want to live decently. Here we live in humiliation,” he said.

Criminal networks have descend-ed on the region to take advantage of Syrians fleeing the civil war, offer-ing cut-rate passage to Australia via Indonesia that has encouraged poor Lebanese to try their luck as well.

“Many of those who left lead good lives now. We were not so lucky,” said Assaad, who paid $70,000 to smugglers. He de-scribes the moment when he lost

everything.“It was like an explosion. The

boat just disintegrated. It was inde-scribable,” he said. “I would have preferred to die with my family.”

Between 80 and 120 people, most of them from the Middle East, were on board the boat. Twenty-eight bodies, many of them women and children, were recovered but 22 others are still missing.

Assaad wants the Lebanese state to “open its eyes” to the situation in Akkar, where residents are forced to work the land or, in his case, fell trees for charcoal.

In Kabiit -- three hours north of Beirut -- pot-holed streets run past shuttered shops and children fill plastic bottles with water from a public tap before hauling them back to homes without plumbing. The closest hospital is 20 kilome-tres (12 miles) away.

AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

Mohammed Ahmed, 23, center, one of many Lebanese survivors of a boat that sunk on its way toward Australia, is welcomed by his relatives upon his arrival, at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

After shipwreck, Lebanese survivors return to povertyAgence France Presse

Kabiit (Lebanon) - Assaad Assaad sold everything to escape poverty in Lebanon, but now he is back, after watching his wife and three children, and his dreams of a better life, perish at sea.

Reuters

TOKYO - The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Monday that pumps used to inject water to cool damaged reactors were hit by a power failure, but a backup system kicked in immediately.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority said a worker conducting system inspections mistakenly pushed a button turning off power to some of the systems in the four reactor buildings at the Fukushima plant.

The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, pours hundreds of tonnes of water a day over the reactors to keep them cool after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered meltdowns and hydrogen explosions.

Tepco said water was being pumped to the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors at the plant and pools storing spent fuel rods were being cooled.

The latest incident is another reminder of the precarious state of the Fukushima plant, which has suffered a series of mishaps and accidents this year. Earlier this year, Tepco lost power to cool spent uranium fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after a rat tripped an electrical wire.

Tepco has come under increased scrutiny after it found in August that 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water had leaked from one of the hastily built storage tanks at the Fukushima site. Japan stepped up sup-port for the embattled utility last month, pledging half a billion dollars to help contain contaminated water at Fukushima.

The utility is struggling to store massive amounts of contaminated water at the site while planning a complex decommission that could take decades to complete.

Shares in Tepco dropped by as much as 8.9 percent on Monday, to a 5-week low, and last traded at 488 yen, down 7.6 percent.

Agence France Presse

Dubai - A Bahraini court jailed nine Shiite Muslims for life Monday after convicting them of making bombs for “terrorist” purposes and for their al-leged involvement in a 2011 attack, a judicial source said.

Four of the defendants were in court for the verdict and the remaining five, tried in absentia, were handed an 10 additional years in jail for failing to hand themselves in. Life imprisonment in Bahrain is a 25-year-sentence.

Monday’s ruling brings to 104 the number of Shiites jailed since Sep-tember 29 in connection with violence in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom that began with the February 2011 uprising. In court the four men had alleged that they were tortured, mistreated and held in solitary confinement, accord-ing to lawyers.

The defendants found guilty of “joining a group with the intention of disturbing public order and using terrorism to endanger Bahrain’s security,” the chargesheet said.

They were also convicted of making bombs and training others how to produce them, and “owning and using explosives for a terrorist purpose and carrying out bombings to terrorise citizens.”

Bahrain’s attorney general said that investigations proved the defendants were involved in “bombings” carried out on November 22, 2011, near the Exhibition Park in the capital Manama. The attack damaged several cars but caused no casualties. Monday’s ruling is the fifth tough sentence handed to Shiites since late last month. In August, King Hamad decreed stiffer penal-ties for “terror acts” in the country rocked by Shiite-led Arab Spring-inspired protests since March 2011.

These include a minimum 10-year jail term for an attempted bombing. If the attacks cause casualties, the sentence can be life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Fukushima worker accidentally switches off cooling pumps, backup kicks in

Bahrain jails 9 Shiite ‘bombers’ for life

AntaraLANGKAT - Floods have inundated at

least 910 houses in the Batang Serangan sub-district of Langkat District in North Sumatra, following which hundreds of families have been evacuated from the area.

“Floods have inundated several resi-dences in the Batang Serangan sub-district,” Agussalim, the Head of the Logistics and Emergency Division at the Langkat Regional Disaster Mitiga-tion Agency (BPBD) said on Sunday evening.

Agussalim further stated that the heavy rain had triggered the nearby river to overflow and rendered at least 910 families homeless with their resi-dences being buried in over a meter of flood water.

Preliminary data revealed that out of the 910 flood-affected families, at least 150 were from the Batangan Serangan

village.The flood had also impacted 510

families¿ residences in the Sei Bamban village and 250 families in the Sukajadi village, Agussalim pointed out.

“There are several people who sought refuge in their relatives’ houses, which had remained unaffected by the floods,” he said.

Agusaalim also noted that 150 dis-placed residents had been moved to the nearest mosque.

“The flood has not resulted in any casualties so far. However, many proper-ties could not be saved as the floods were unexpected,” he stated.

The Langkat BPBD has established a command post in Batang Serangan’s administration office after the floods.

The institution has also distributed instant noodles and mineral water to the flood victims in cooperation with the of-fice of the Langkat Social District.

Subsidized fuel consumption is expected to touch 47.4 to 47.5 mil-lion kiloliters by the end of this year, Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Susilo Siswoutomo stated on Monday.

He added that subsidized diesel oil consumption was likely to exceed its quota. However, subsidized gasoline and kerosene consumption would stay within the allocated quota.

Siswoutomo attributed the decline in subsidized fuel consumption this year to a fuel price hike, the gasoline-to-biodiesel conversion program and a crackdown on the illegal use of sub-sidized fuels.

Muchamad Iskandar, Vice President

for Fuel Retail Marketing at state-owned oil and gas company PT Per-tamina, pointed out that subsidized fuel consumption had reached 34.3 million kiloliters by September this year, up by 1 million kiloliters from 33.3 million kiloliters in the same period last year.

Subsidized gasoline consumption till September recorded a 4.4 percent increase to 21.82 million kiloliters, up from 20.9 million kiloliters in the same period last year, Siswoutomo said.

However, subsidized kerosene consumption fell by 0.06 percent to 0.83 million kiloliters in the first nine months of this year, compared with 0.88 million kiloliters in the same period last year.

AntaraJAKARTA - The government has decided

to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) to salvage the Constitutional Court after its chief was named suspect over alleged bribery case.

The coordinating minister for political, security and legal affairs, Djoko Suyanto, told newsmen in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Sunday after-noon that the decision was constitutional.

“Perppu is the right and the authority of the President constitutionally regulated in Article 22 of the 1945 Constitution,” he said.

The minister made the statement in re-sponse to criticism from former Constitutional Court chief Jimly Asshidiqie that the Perppu was in-constitutional.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made the decision to issue the Perppu after meeting with heads of state institutions except the Constitutional Court on Saturday follow-ing the arrest of Constitutional Court chief justice Akil Mochtar.

He said based on Article 22 of the country’s 1945 Constitution the president has aright and authority to produce Perppu in case of

emergency.Paragraph two of the article states the Per-

ppu must be approved by the House of Repre-sentatives before it was enacted and based on paragraph three if the House of Representives rejects it the government must revoke it.

“In view of Article 22 it means Jimly’s statement is wrong because Perppu is the right and authority of the President,” he said.

Djoko also denied that the decision was an emotional decision and hastily made.

He explained that the decision was made through intensive discussion along with heads of state institutions that attended the meeting namely chairmen of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR), the Regional Representatives Council (DPD), the Supreme Court, the Judicial Commission and the State Audit Board.

“So, it is not true that the idea was an emotional one and hastily made. This was made through an institutional process and not by the President by himself. The President made the decision after consulting with the heads of state institutions, exchanging views with them, listening to them and their views,” he said.

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Students shout slogan during a demonstration against the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation (APEC) forum being held in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, outside the Finance Ministry building in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

Subsidized fuel consumption might fall short of allocated quotaAntara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has predicted that this year’s subsidized fuel consumption might fall short of the quota of 48 million kiloliters, which was set in the revised 2013 state budget.

Flash floods inundate hundreds of houses in North Sumatera

Government issues “Perppu” to save constitutional court

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In papyrus of Dwijendra Tattwa elabo-rate that Danghyang Nirartha (who one spread out the Hinduism in Bali) besides executing Tirtha Yatra (visit the holy places) in Bali area, he also do at Lombok and Sumbawa Island . When he does the tirta yatra in Lombok and Sumbawa Island , he leave in Bali passing the north area of Bali and then it is named by Denbukit. Hereinafter narrated that Danghyang Nirartha found the lodging that is located in coastal periphery with its stone bank and steep rather sordid to sea in the form of a foreland which is called Ponjok. After omitting a few moments in the lodging then he go to Lombok and Sumbawa Island to conduct the Tirtha Yatra. At the end, the Pesraman/lodging of Danghyang Nirartha is built an altar named with Pon-jok Batu Temple which has been existing since 16 century. It is founded together with the execution of Danghyang Nirartha journey in north part of Bali.

Ponjok Batu Temple

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BULELENG - Ponjok Batu Temple is a stone temple where all temple buildings are made from stone. It is located Banjar Alasari, Pacung countryside, Tejakula sub district and Singaraja regency about 24 km eastside of Singaraja town or north part of Bali. This temple area own the wide area about 35 acre in form of black stones bank. The position of this temple is rather sticking out to the sea as a foreland or Ponjok. Base on the position and condition then this place is named by Ponjok Batu so that the temple is standing above foreland petrify and it is referred as Ponjok Batu Temple.

Serb Novak Djokovic, who will lose top spot when the new rankings are announced on Mon-day, brushed aside Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4 6-2 in the other semi-final to set up a mouth-watering final against arch-rival Nadal.

Berdych, trailing 2-4 in the opening set, tweaked his back while running for a backhand slice and needed a medical time- out. He did return to the court but after a few points decided he could no longer continue, handing the 27-year-old Spaniard an easy passage to Sunday’s final.

Nadal, who boosted his grand slam singles tally to 13 this year by winning the French and U.S. Opens, has not been ranked num-ber one since July 2011 but has produced a stunning run since returning from a long injury lay-off in February.

“(This is) a great year, one of the best years of my career without any doubt,” Nadal told reporters. “(It) sure is special be back to the top position of the rankings after more than a half year without playing tennis.

“At the end, it’s just a num-ber... What (makes) me happy is (everything) I did to be back where I am today.” He has lost two finals since his return, win-ning 10 tournaments and adding over $10 million in prize money in 2013.

The semi-final victory ex-tended Nadal’s winning run to 21 matches and another triumph on Sunday would give him his first China Open title since 2005.

“(It) will be a great finish (to) the season if I am able to finish the season (at) the No. 1 spot,” the Spaniard added. “For that, I am sure I need to win more matches if I want to be there. “I (won’t) go to sleep tonight feeling that I am the best player of the world. That’s something that I never thought, and I don’t... think (that) now today. “I played a very complete season, and that’s why I am the best in the rankings today.”

His job will not be easy, though, as Djokovic might have a point to prove. The Serb was broken by Gasquet in the fourth game of the opening set but came back strongly to advance.

AP Photo/Andy WongNovak Djokovic of Serbia, right, and Rafael Nadal of Spain pose with their trophies after the final of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, China Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Djokovic defeated Nadal 6-3, 6-4.

Nadal reclaims top spot after Berdych retiresReuters

Rafa Nadal will return to the top of the world rankings after Tomas Berdych retired with a back injury during their China Open semi-final on Saturday.


MANILA, Philippines — The Houston Rockets and the Indiana Pacers are in the Philippines to treat overseas fans to the first NBA game in this basketball-crazy Southeast Asian nation. Both teams flew in early Monday ahead of the NBA’s pre-season Global Games in the Philippines on Thursday evening.

Basketball is the country’s most popular sport and the NBA game has created a buzz on social media and radio and TV, with tickets going on sale months in advance. “We’re just excited to come over to play the game and give Filipinos a great show,” Houston Rockets guard James Harden said.

The Rockets squad for the games in the Philippines and Taiwan includes Jer-emy Lin, the league’s first American-born player of Taiwanese descent. The Indiana Pacers roster features Danny Granger and NBA All-Stars Paul George, Roy Hibbert, and David West.

Organizers said the game is part of the NBA’s comprehensive global schedule that will have eight teams play in eight cities

in six countries this October. After Manila, the Rockets and Pacers play in Taipei on Sunday.

In the Global Games series, there’ll be 12 teams playing outside the U.S. and Canada, the most ever, and the league will play regular-season games in two countries beyond those for the first time.

There are stops in old standbys and first-time trips to cities in Brazil and Spain that will be hosting major international competitions in the next few years.

The Philippines tops the list of countries following the NBA on Facebook and Twit-ter outside the United States, the organiz-ers said. Additionally, the NBA conducts each year local events in the Philippines, including the Jr. NBA program, which has reached more than 60,000 students, parents and coaches over the past five years, and NBA 3X, the league’s global fan event.

A total of 16,000 tickets went on sale for Thursday’s game at the seaside Mall of Asia Arena, with premium seats going for 32,300 pesos ($751) and the cheapest 550 pesos ($12), in a country where wrenching poverty affects a third of the population of 96 million.

AP Photo/Bullit MarquezThe Houston Rockets’ James Harden greets Filipino fans upon arrival Monday Oct.7, 2013 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines.

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Pirlo, who spent ten seasons at Milan, cancelled out Sulley Mun-tari’s lightning strike by scoring direct from a free kick and saw another effort hit the bar and fall for Giorgio Chiellini to fire home for Juve’s third.

In between, substitute Giovinco put Juventus 2-1 ahead two minutes after coming on as the titleholders kept up the pressure on AS Roma, who made it seven wins out of seven on Saturday with a 3-0 vic-tory at previously unbeaten Inter


BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A goal by Emmanuel Gigliotti was enough for Boca Juniors to defeat Buenos Aires archrival River Plate 1-0 on Sunday in Argentina’s first division.

Gigliotti scored in the 23rd min-ute before a sellout at River Plate’s

Monumental Stadium. For security reasons, the game was played with only home fans in attendance, the rule in force now in Argentina as a way to control hooligan violence.

Boca improved to 19 points with the victory, four points be-hind leader Newell’s Old Boys and one behind San Lorenzo has 20. River Plate has 14.

It was a dour game for both clubs, and it may have been costly for Boca. Often-injured midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme left in the 58th minute with a knee injury, replaced by Gonzalo Escalante.

“For us it was very important to win,” Riquelme said. “This is what we wanted.” He described the knee injury as “no big deal.”

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Southampton’s unlikely rise to fourth in the Premier League encap-sulates a start to the season that is making the race for the title one of the most entertaining and unpredictable in years.

Following a two-week break for World Cup qualifiers, the Saints will travel to champions Manchester United on the back of three straight victories and five clean sheets in seven outings, a remarkable effort for a side spending just its second season back in English soccer’s top tier after a seven-year absence.

A trip to Old Trafford is one that many teams fear but given United have already lost three league games under new manager David Moyes, including a 4-1 thrashing by Manchester City, the south coast club will head north with a renewed sense of optimism and expectation.

“I always look forward to this kind of pressure in my career, it is what I thrive on, what I relish,” manager Mauricio Pochettino said after his side’s 2-0 win over Swansea City on Sunday.

“The players need to be a lot more self-demanding, very ambitious and learn how to withstand the great expectation that is being placed on them.”

Southampton are not the only team ignoring expectations, with Arsenal, buoyed by the record-signing of German playmaker Mesut Ozil, sitting on top of the league after a rare goal from Jack Wilshere secured a point at West Bromwich Albion.

Arsenal had been expected to struggle, but have not lost a match since the opening day defeat to Aston Villa and lead Liverpool on goal difference at the Premier League summit.

It is a sign of the progress being made under Brendan Rodgers that the Liverpool manager was upset with his side’s 3-1 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday.

“I was probably as disappointed as I’ve ever been because we played counter-attack football and we didn’t keep the ball so well,” the North-ern Irishman told the club’s website (www.liverpoolfc.com).


CARSON, California — Landon Donovan would be more excited about his latest piece of MLS his-tory if he wasn’t so consumed with the Los Angeles Galaxy’s push for another league title.

Donovan scored twice in the first half, equaling Jeff Cunning-ham’s MLS career goals record in the Galaxy’s 5-0 victory over Chivas USA on Sunday. Donovan has 134 regular-season goals, pass-ing second-place Jaime Moreno (133) and matching Cunningham’s total.

“If this had happened earlier in my career, I would have thought

about it more,” Donovan said. “But we’re in a playoff race right now, so for us, it’s about winning. “It would be nice to get (the record) out of the way so there’s no atten-tion on it.”

The U.S. international scored in the 23rd minute on a sharp pass from Gyasi Zardes before equaling the MLS record in the 41st minute with a beautiful chip shot over Chivas goalie Dan Kennedy.

Robbie Keane also scored two goals for the two-time defending champion Galaxy, who ended a four-match winless skid. “The way we started until the end was very professional, very dominat-ing,” Keane said.

While Donovan reached mile-stones and Keane put on yet another multigoal performance, the game also was a showcase for Zardes, whose runs down the left side caused misery for Chivas’ defense, particularly Mario De Luna. The midfielder also scored on a scramble in the box in the 26th minute.

In the other match at Vancouver, Camilo Sanvezzo scored twice in a 2-minute span in the second half to help the home team to a 2-2 draw with Portland to keep their playoff hopes alive. The Timbers missed a chance to move into second place in the West despite extending their unbeaten streak to five games.

Reuters LISBON - Portugal have called

up centre back Sereno to replace the injured Bruno Alves for the World Cup Group F qualifying matches against Israel on Friday

and Luxembourg four days later.Sereno plays for Turkish top-

flight club Kayserispor and won his first international cap in June.

The Portuguese Football Feder-ation confirmed the withdrawal of experienced Fenerbahce defender

Alves in a statement but did not disclose his injury.

Portugal are second in the table, one point behind leaders Russia and five ahead of Israel. Luxembourg are second from bottom.

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Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo, back to camera center, scores during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AC Milan at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.


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Andrea Pirlo’s majestic free kicks and a stunning entrance from Sebastian Giovinco undid AC Milan as Juventus recovered from conceding a goal after only 20 seconds to beat their bitter rivals 3-2 in Serie A on Sunday.

Milan.Napoli also stayed in touch

with the leaders by brushing aside Livorno 4-0 earlier on Sunday while there was plenty of drama elsewhere. There were shades of the 1978 World Cup when Sampdoria had a goal cancelled out at home to Torino because the referee had blown for halftime seconds before the ball entered the net.

Genoa snatched a late 1-1 draw at Catania as coach Gian Piero Gasperini returned for a second

stint at the club after some atrocious defending by both teams while Parma played the entire second half with 10 men and still beat Sas-suolo 3-1.

There were ugly scenes at Bo-logna where visiting Hellas Ve-rona fans chanted throughout the minute’s silence for victims of the Lampedusa migrant boat disaster before seeing their team win 4-1.

Other games were also preceded by a minute’s silence, impeccably observed elsewhere, after a boat

carrying around 500 migrants sank off the island of Lampedusa on Thursday. The Italian authorities say 181 bodies have been recov-ered and more than a hundred are still missing.

Roma top the table with 21 points, followed by Napoli and Juventus on 19. There is then five-point gap to Inter while Milan are down in 12th place on eight points.

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Milan kicked off and were im-mediately in front when Ghana midfielder Muntari turned in Anto-nio Nocerino’s deflected shot. But Juve were level after 15 minutes

when playmaker Pirlo curled in a typically exquisite free kick.

The game was evenly-balanced, tense and niggly until a disastrous six-minute spell for the visitors. Gio-vinco replaced Fabio Quagliarella in the 67th minute and put Juventus in front two minutes later, brilliantly twisting past Cristian Zapata and slotting in from close range.

Milan defender Philippe Mexes was sent off for a second booking, Pirlo crashed the resulting free kick against the crossbar and Chiellini volleyed home the rebound from the edge of the area.

Muntari gave Milan hope when he dispossessed Paul Pogba and blasted a deflected shot past Gian-luigi Buffon but it was too late.

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Southampton’s Jay Rodriguez, right, is congratulated by teammate Danny Fox, left, after scoring his side’s second goal of the game during their English Premier League soc-cer match against Swansea City at St Marys, Southampton, England, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

Southampton rise highlights Premier League intrigue

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Boca Juniors’ Juan Manuel Martinez , right, shoots past River Plate’s Ariel Rojas , left, during an Argentina’s league soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

Gigliotti goal gives Boca 1-0 win over River Plate

Donovan ties goals mark, LA Galaxy beat Chivas 5-0

Portugal call up defender Sereno for injured Alves

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Pirlo, who spent ten seasons at Milan, cancelled out Sulley Mun-tari’s lightning strike by scoring direct from a free kick and saw another effort hit the bar and fall for Giorgio Chiellini to fire home for Juve’s third.

In between, substitute Giovinco put Juventus 2-1 ahead two minutes after coming on as the titleholders kept up the pressure on AS Roma, who made it seven wins out of seven on Saturday with a 3-0 vic-tory at previously unbeaten Inter


BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A goal by Emmanuel Gigliotti was enough for Boca Juniors to defeat Buenos Aires archrival River Plate 1-0 on Sunday in Argentina’s first division.

Gigliotti scored in the 23rd min-ute before a sellout at River Plate’s

Monumental Stadium. For security reasons, the game was played with only home fans in attendance, the rule in force now in Argentina as a way to control hooligan violence.

Boca improved to 19 points with the victory, four points be-hind leader Newell’s Old Boys and one behind San Lorenzo has 20. River Plate has 14.

It was a dour game for both clubs, and it may have been costly for Boca. Often-injured midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme left in the 58th minute with a knee injury, replaced by Gonzalo Escalante.

“For us it was very important to win,” Riquelme said. “This is what we wanted.” He described the knee injury as “no big deal.”

Reuters

Southampton’s unlikely rise to fourth in the Premier League encap-sulates a start to the season that is making the race for the title one of the most entertaining and unpredictable in years.

Following a two-week break for World Cup qualifiers, the Saints will travel to champions Manchester United on the back of three straight victories and five clean sheets in seven outings, a remarkable effort for a side spending just its second season back in English soccer’s top tier after a seven-year absence.

A trip to Old Trafford is one that many teams fear but given United have already lost three league games under new manager David Moyes, including a 4-1 thrashing by Manchester City, the south coast club will head north with a renewed sense of optimism and expectation.

“I always look forward to this kind of pressure in my career, it is what I thrive on, what I relish,” manager Mauricio Pochettino said after his side’s 2-0 win over Swansea City on Sunday.

“The players need to be a lot more self-demanding, very ambitious and learn how to withstand the great expectation that is being placed on them.”

Southampton are not the only team ignoring expectations, with Arsenal, buoyed by the record-signing of German playmaker Mesut Ozil, sitting on top of the league after a rare goal from Jack Wilshere secured a point at West Bromwich Albion.

Arsenal had been expected to struggle, but have not lost a match since the opening day defeat to Aston Villa and lead Liverpool on goal difference at the Premier League summit.

It is a sign of the progress being made under Brendan Rodgers that the Liverpool manager was upset with his side’s 3-1 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday.

“I was probably as disappointed as I’ve ever been because we played counter-attack football and we didn’t keep the ball so well,” the North-ern Irishman told the club’s website (www.liverpoolfc.com).


CARSON, California — Landon Donovan would be more excited about his latest piece of MLS his-tory if he wasn’t so consumed with the Los Angeles Galaxy’s push for another league title.

Donovan scored twice in the first half, equaling Jeff Cunning-ham’s MLS career goals record in the Galaxy’s 5-0 victory over Chivas USA on Sunday. Donovan has 134 regular-season goals, pass-ing second-place Jaime Moreno (133) and matching Cunningham’s total.

“If this had happened earlier in my career, I would have thought

about it more,” Donovan said. “But we’re in a playoff race right now, so for us, it’s about winning. “It would be nice to get (the record) out of the way so there’s no atten-tion on it.”

The U.S. international scored in the 23rd minute on a sharp pass from Gyasi Zardes before equaling the MLS record in the 41st minute with a beautiful chip shot over Chivas goalie Dan Kennedy.

Robbie Keane also scored two goals for the two-time defending champion Galaxy, who ended a four-match winless skid. “The way we started until the end was very professional, very dominat-ing,” Keane said.

While Donovan reached mile-stones and Keane put on yet another multigoal performance, the game also was a showcase for Zardes, whose runs down the left side caused misery for Chivas’ defense, particularly Mario De Luna. The midfielder also scored on a scramble in the box in the 26th minute.

In the other match at Vancouver, Camilo Sanvezzo scored twice in a 2-minute span in the second half to help the home team to a 2-2 draw with Portland to keep their playoff hopes alive. The Timbers missed a chance to move into second place in the West despite extending their unbeaten streak to five games.

Reuters LISBON - Portugal have called

up centre back Sereno to replace the injured Bruno Alves for the World Cup Group F qualifying matches against Israel on Friday

and Luxembourg four days later.Sereno plays for Turkish top-

flight club Kayserispor and won his first international cap in June.

The Portuguese Football Feder-ation confirmed the withdrawal of experienced Fenerbahce defender

Alves in a statement but did not disclose his injury.

Portugal are second in the table, one point behind leaders Russia and five ahead of Israel. Luxembourg are second from bottom.

AP Photo/Massimo Pinca

Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo, back to camera center, scores during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AC Milan at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.


Reuters

Andrea Pirlo’s majestic free kicks and a stunning entrance from Sebastian Giovinco undid AC Milan as Juventus recovered from conceding a goal after only 20 seconds to beat their bitter rivals 3-2 in Serie A on Sunday.

Milan.Napoli also stayed in touch

with the leaders by brushing aside Livorno 4-0 earlier on Sunday while there was plenty of drama elsewhere. There were shades of the 1978 World Cup when Sampdoria had a goal cancelled out at home to Torino because the referee had blown for halftime seconds before the ball entered the net.

Genoa snatched a late 1-1 draw at Catania as coach Gian Piero Gasperini returned for a second

stint at the club after some atrocious defending by both teams while Parma played the entire second half with 10 men and still beat Sas-suolo 3-1.

There were ugly scenes at Bo-logna where visiting Hellas Ve-rona fans chanted throughout the minute’s silence for victims of the Lampedusa migrant boat disaster before seeing their team win 4-1.

Other games were also preceded by a minute’s silence, impeccably observed elsewhere, after a boat

carrying around 500 migrants sank off the island of Lampedusa on Thursday. The Italian authorities say 181 bodies have been recov-ered and more than a hundred are still missing.

Roma top the table with 21 points, followed by Napoli and Juventus on 19. There is then five-point gap to Inter while Milan are down in 12th place on eight points.

NIGGLY MATCH

Milan kicked off and were im-mediately in front when Ghana midfielder Muntari turned in Anto-nio Nocerino’s deflected shot. But Juve were level after 15 minutes

when playmaker Pirlo curled in a typically exquisite free kick.

The game was evenly-balanced, tense and niggly until a disastrous six-minute spell for the visitors. Gio-vinco replaced Fabio Quagliarella in the 67th minute and put Juventus in front two minutes later, brilliantly twisting past Cristian Zapata and slotting in from close range.

Milan defender Philippe Mexes was sent off for a second booking, Pirlo crashed the resulting free kick against the crossbar and Chiellini volleyed home the rebound from the edge of the area.

Muntari gave Milan hope when he dispossessed Paul Pogba and blasted a deflected shot past Gian-luigi Buffon but it was too late.

AP Photo/Clive Gee, PA Wire

Southampton’s Jay Rodriguez, right, is congratulated by teammate Danny Fox, left, after scoring his side’s second goal of the game during their English Premier League soc-cer match against Swansea City at St Marys, Southampton, England, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

Southampton rise highlights Premier League intrigue

AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano

Boca Juniors’ Juan Manuel Martinez , right, shoots past River Plate’s Ariel Rojas , left, during an Argentina’s league soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

Gigliotti goal gives Boca 1-0 win over River Plate

Donovan ties goals mark, LA Galaxy beat Chivas 5-0

Portugal call up defender Sereno for injured Alves

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In papyrus of Dwijendra Tattwa elabo-rate that Danghyang Nirartha (who one spread out the Hinduism in Bali) besides executing Tirtha Yatra (visit the holy places) in Bali area, he also do at Lombok and Sumbawa Island . When he does the tirta yatra in Lombok and Sumbawa Island , he leave in Bali passing the north area of Bali and then it is named by Denbukit. Hereinafter narrated that Danghyang Nirartha found the lodging that is located in coastal periphery with its stone bank and steep rather sordid to sea in the form of a foreland which is called Ponjok. After omitting a few moments in the lodging then he go to Lombok and Sumbawa Island to conduct the Tirtha Yatra. At the end, the Pesraman/lodging of Danghyang Nirartha is built an altar named with Pon-jok Batu Temple which has been existing since 16 century. It is founded together with the execution of Danghyang Nirartha journey in north part of Bali.

Ponjok Batu Temple

IBP/File Photo

IBP

BULELENG - Ponjok Batu Temple is a stone temple where all temple buildings are made from stone. It is located Banjar Alasari, Pacung countryside, Tejakula sub district and Singaraja regency about 24 km eastside of Singaraja town or north part of Bali. This temple area own the wide area about 35 acre in form of black stones bank. The position of this temple is rather sticking out to the sea as a foreland or Ponjok. Base on the position and condition then this place is named by Ponjok Batu so that the temple is standing above foreland petrify and it is referred as Ponjok Batu Temple.

Serb Novak Djokovic, who will lose top spot when the new rankings are announced on Mon-day, brushed aside Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4 6-2 in the other semi-final to set up a mouth-watering final against arch-rival Nadal.

Berdych, trailing 2-4 in the opening set, tweaked his back while running for a backhand slice and needed a medical time- out. He did return to the court but after a few points decided he could no longer continue, handing the 27-year-old Spaniard an easy passage to Sunday’s final.

Nadal, who boosted his grand slam singles tally to 13 this year by winning the French and U.S. Opens, has not been ranked num-ber one since July 2011 but has produced a stunning run since returning from a long injury lay-off in February.

“(This is) a great year, one of the best years of my career without any doubt,” Nadal told reporters. “(It) sure is special be back to the top position of the rankings after more than a half year without playing tennis.

“At the end, it’s just a num-ber... What (makes) me happy is (everything) I did to be back where I am today.” He has lost two finals since his return, win-ning 10 tournaments and adding over $10 million in prize money in 2013.

The semi-final victory ex-tended Nadal’s winning run to 21 matches and another triumph on Sunday would give him his first China Open title since 2005.

“(It) will be a great finish (to) the season if I am able to finish the season (at) the No. 1 spot,” the Spaniard added. “For that, I am sure I need to win more matches if I want to be there. “I (won’t) go to sleep tonight feeling that I am the best player of the world. That’s something that I never thought, and I don’t... think (that) now today. “I played a very complete season, and that’s why I am the best in the rankings today.”

His job will not be easy, though, as Djokovic might have a point to prove. The Serb was broken by Gasquet in the fourth game of the opening set but came back strongly to advance.

AP Photo/Andy WongNovak Djokovic of Serbia, right, and Rafael Nadal of Spain pose with their trophies after the final of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, China Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Djokovic defeated Nadal 6-3, 6-4.

Nadal reclaims top spot after Berdych retiresReuters

Rafa Nadal will return to the top of the world rankings after Tomas Berdych retired with a back injury during their China Open semi-final on Saturday.


MANILA, Philippines — The Houston Rockets and the Indiana Pacers are in the Philippines to treat overseas fans to the first NBA game in this basketball-crazy Southeast Asian nation. Both teams flew in early Monday ahead of the NBA’s pre-season Global Games in the Philippines on Thursday evening.

Basketball is the country’s most popular sport and the NBA game has created a buzz on social media and radio and TV, with tickets going on sale months in advance. “We’re just excited to come over to play the game and give Filipinos a great show,” Houston Rockets guard James Harden said.

The Rockets squad for the games in the Philippines and Taiwan includes Jer-emy Lin, the league’s first American-born player of Taiwanese descent. The Indiana Pacers roster features Danny Granger and NBA All-Stars Paul George, Roy Hibbert, and David West.

Organizers said the game is part of the NBA’s comprehensive global schedule that will have eight teams play in eight cities

in six countries this October. After Manila, the Rockets and Pacers play in Taipei on Sunday.

In the Global Games series, there’ll be 12 teams playing outside the U.S. and Canada, the most ever, and the league will play regular-season games in two countries beyond those for the first time.

There are stops in old standbys and first-time trips to cities in Brazil and Spain that will be hosting major international competitions in the next few years.

The Philippines tops the list of countries following the NBA on Facebook and Twit-ter outside the United States, the organiz-ers said. Additionally, the NBA conducts each year local events in the Philippines, including the Jr. NBA program, which has reached more than 60,000 students, parents and coaches over the past five years, and NBA 3X, the league’s global fan event.

A total of 16,000 tickets went on sale for Thursday’s game at the seaside Mall of Asia Arena, with premium seats going for 32,300 pesos ($751) and the cheapest 550 pesos ($12), in a country where wrenching poverty affects a third of the population of 96 million.

AP Photo/Bullit MarquezThe Houston Rockets’ James Harden greets Filipino fans upon arrival Monday Oct.7, 2013 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines.

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The 36-year-old, who could now pass for 50, was among 18 shell-shocked Lebanese who returned on Sunday after surviving a shipwreck off Indonesia that killed dozens of impoverished migrants from the Middle East.

The Lebanese aboard the Austra-lia-bound boat mainly hailed from the northern Akkar region, where an influx of refugees from neighbour-ing Syria has compounded the en-demic poverty of one of Lebanon’s poorest areas.

“We were desperate to leave, and we had hope for a better life, because there is nothing for us here,” Assaad said as he stared ahead blankly, still reliving the tragedy.

“I lost everything -- my wife, my children, my home,” he says, sitting in his parents’ modest house where the crushing silence is only occasionally broken by neighbours

calling in to quietly offer their con-dolences.

In Kabiit, a village nestled be-neath verdant mountains, Assaad supported his family on $13 a day before deciding to sell everything -- his house, his car, his land and his cow -- to pay for passage to Austra-lia, the “Eden” to which many of his fellow villagers had gone.

“I don’t want to be rich. I just want to live decently. Here we live in humiliation,” he said.

Criminal networks have descend-ed on the region to take advantage of Syrians fleeing the civil war, offer-ing cut-rate passage to Australia via Indonesia that has encouraged poor Lebanese to try their luck as well.

“Many of those who left lead good lives now. We were not so lucky,” said Assaad, who paid $70,000 to smugglers. He de-scribes the moment when he lost

everything.“It was like an explosion. The

boat just disintegrated. It was inde-scribable,” he said. “I would have preferred to die with my family.”

Between 80 and 120 people, most of them from the Middle East, were on board the boat. Twenty-eight bodies, many of them women and children, were recovered but 22 others are still missing.

Assaad wants the Lebanese state to “open its eyes” to the situation in Akkar, where residents are forced to work the land or, in his case, fell trees for charcoal.

In Kabiit -- three hours north of Beirut -- pot-holed streets run past shuttered shops and children fill plastic bottles with water from a public tap before hauling them back to homes without plumbing. The closest hospital is 20 kilome-tres (12 miles) away.

AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

Mohammed Ahmed, 23, center, one of many Lebanese survivors of a boat that sunk on its way toward Australia, is welcomed by his relatives upon his arrival, at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013.

After shipwreck, Lebanese survivors return to povertyAgence France Presse

Kabiit (Lebanon) - Assaad Assaad sold everything to escape poverty in Lebanon, but now he is back, after watching his wife and three children, and his dreams of a better life, perish at sea.

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TOKYO - The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Monday that pumps used to inject water to cool damaged reactors were hit by a power failure, but a backup system kicked in immediately.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority said a worker conducting system inspections mistakenly pushed a button turning off power to some of the systems in the four reactor buildings at the Fukushima plant.

The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, pours hundreds of tonnes of water a day over the reactors to keep them cool after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered meltdowns and hydrogen explosions.

Tepco said water was being pumped to the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors at the plant and pools storing spent fuel rods were being cooled.

The latest incident is another reminder of the precarious state of the Fukushima plant, which has suffered a series of mishaps and accidents this year. Earlier this year, Tepco lost power to cool spent uranium fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after a rat tripped an electrical wire.

Tepco has come under increased scrutiny after it found in August that 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water had leaked from one of the hastily built storage tanks at the Fukushima site. Japan stepped up sup-port for the embattled utility last month, pledging half a billion dollars to help contain contaminated water at Fukushima.

The utility is struggling to store massive amounts of contaminated water at the site while planning a complex decommission that could take decades to complete.

Shares in Tepco dropped by as much as 8.9 percent on Monday, to a 5-week low, and last traded at 488 yen, down 7.6 percent.

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Dubai - A Bahraini court jailed nine Shiite Muslims for life Monday after convicting them of making bombs for “terrorist” purposes and for their al-leged involvement in a 2011 attack, a judicial source said.

Four of the defendants were in court for the verdict and the remaining five, tried in absentia, were handed an 10 additional years in jail for failing to hand themselves in. Life imprisonment in Bahrain is a 25-year-sentence.

Monday’s ruling brings to 104 the number of Shiites jailed since Sep-tember 29 in connection with violence in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom that began with the February 2011 uprising. In court the four men had alleged that they were tortured, mistreated and held in solitary confinement, accord-ing to lawyers.

The defendants found guilty of “joining a group with the intention of disturbing public order and using terrorism to endanger Bahrain’s security,” the chargesheet said.

They were also convicted of making bombs and training others how to produce them, and “owning and using explosives for a terrorist purpose and carrying out bombings to terrorise citizens.”

Bahrain’s attorney general said that investigations proved the defendants were involved in “bombings” carried out on November 22, 2011, near the Exhibition Park in the capital Manama. The attack damaged several cars but caused no casualties. Monday’s ruling is the fifth tough sentence handed to Shiites since late last month. In August, King Hamad decreed stiffer penal-ties for “terror acts” in the country rocked by Shiite-led Arab Spring-inspired protests since March 2011.

These include a minimum 10-year jail term for an attempted bombing. If the attacks cause casualties, the sentence can be life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Fukushima worker accidentally switches off cooling pumps, backup kicks in

Bahrain jails 9 Shiite ‘bombers’ for life

AntaraLANGKAT - Floods have inundated at

least 910 houses in the Batang Serangan sub-district of Langkat District in North Sumatra, following which hundreds of families have been evacuated from the area.

“Floods have inundated several resi-dences in the Batang Serangan sub-district,” Agussalim, the Head of the Logistics and Emergency Division at the Langkat Regional Disaster Mitiga-tion Agency (BPBD) said on Sunday evening.

Agussalim further stated that the heavy rain had triggered the nearby river to overflow and rendered at least 910 families homeless with their resi-dences being buried in over a meter of flood water.

Preliminary data revealed that out of the 910 flood-affected families, at least 150 were from the Batangan Serangan

village.The flood had also impacted 510

families¿ residences in the Sei Bamban village and 250 families in the Sukajadi village, Agussalim pointed out.

“There are several people who sought refuge in their relatives’ houses, which had remained unaffected by the floods,” he said.

Agusaalim also noted that 150 dis-placed residents had been moved to the nearest mosque.

“The flood has not resulted in any casualties so far. However, many proper-ties could not be saved as the floods were unexpected,” he stated.

The Langkat BPBD has established a command post in Batang Serangan’s administration office after the floods.

The institution has also distributed instant noodles and mineral water to the flood victims in cooperation with the of-fice of the Langkat Social District.

Subsidized fuel consumption is expected to touch 47.4 to 47.5 mil-lion kiloliters by the end of this year, Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Susilo Siswoutomo stated on Monday.

He added that subsidized diesel oil consumption was likely to exceed its quota. However, subsidized gasoline and kerosene consumption would stay within the allocated quota.

Siswoutomo attributed the decline in subsidized fuel consumption this year to a fuel price hike, the gasoline-to-biodiesel conversion program and a crackdown on the illegal use of sub-sidized fuels.

Muchamad Iskandar, Vice President

for Fuel Retail Marketing at state-owned oil and gas company PT Per-tamina, pointed out that subsidized fuel consumption had reached 34.3 million kiloliters by September this year, up by 1 million kiloliters from 33.3 million kiloliters in the same period last year.

Subsidized gasoline consumption till September recorded a 4.4 percent increase to 21.82 million kiloliters, up from 20.9 million kiloliters in the same period last year, Siswoutomo said.

However, subsidized kerosene consumption fell by 0.06 percent to 0.83 million kiloliters in the first nine months of this year, compared with 0.88 million kiloliters in the same period last year.

AntaraJAKARTA - The government has decided

to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) to salvage the Constitutional Court after its chief was named suspect over alleged bribery case.

The coordinating minister for political, security and legal affairs, Djoko Suyanto, told newsmen in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Sunday after-noon that the decision was constitutional.

“Perppu is the right and the authority of the President constitutionally regulated in Article 22 of the 1945 Constitution,” he said.

The minister made the statement in re-sponse to criticism from former Constitutional Court chief Jimly Asshidiqie that the Perppu was in-constitutional.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made the decision to issue the Perppu after meeting with heads of state institutions except the Constitutional Court on Saturday follow-ing the arrest of Constitutional Court chief justice Akil Mochtar.

He said based on Article 22 of the country’s 1945 Constitution the president has aright and authority to produce Perppu in case of

emergency.Paragraph two of the article states the Per-

ppu must be approved by the House of Repre-sentatives before it was enacted and based on paragraph three if the House of Representives rejects it the government must revoke it.

“In view of Article 22 it means Jimly’s statement is wrong because Perppu is the right and authority of the President,” he said.

Djoko also denied that the decision was an emotional decision and hastily made.

He explained that the decision was made through intensive discussion along with heads of state institutions that attended the meeting namely chairmen of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR), the Regional Representatives Council (DPD), the Supreme Court, the Judicial Commission and the State Audit Board.

“So, it is not true that the idea was an emotional one and hastily made. This was made through an institutional process and not by the President by himself. The President made the decision after consulting with the heads of state institutions, exchanging views with them, listening to them and their views,” he said.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Students shout slogan during a demonstration against the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation (APEC) forum being held in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, outside the Finance Ministry building in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

Subsidized fuel consumption might fall short of allocated quotaAntara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has predicted that this year’s subsidized fuel consumption might fall short of the quota of 48 million kiloliters, which was set in the revised 2013 state budget.

Flash floods inundate hundreds of houses in North Sumatera

Government issues “Perppu” to save constitutional court

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SINGAPORE - The World Bank on Monday lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region.

The estimate for this year’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is down from a forecast of 7.8 percent in April, and lower than the 7.5 percent growth recorded in 2012 and 8.3 percent in 2011.

Regional GDP growth in 2014 and 2015 was forecast at 7.2 percent for both years with middle-income economies like Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand also softening. Excluding China, the region is expected to grow 5.2 percent in 2013 and 5.3 percent in 2014.

Bert Hofman, the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific chief economist, told journalists that the bank was expecting a “smooth resolution” of the budgetary impasse that has forced parts of the US government to shut down.

However, he added: “If there were to be a sustained deadlock, it could actually

be quite damaging also for the East Asian economies.

“For every percentage point growth lost in the United States, we would see about half a percentage point growth lost in East Asia.”

The US impasse has raised fears US lawmakers will not increase the country’s borrowing limit before an October 17 deadline, which could lead the government to default on its debts.

Hofman said: “Any refusal on the increase in the debt ceiling is so unprec-edented that it is very hard to predict what would happen. So we don’t have that in the simulation.”

In a report, the bank said East Asia is still the fastest growing in the world despite a slowdown in powerhouse China and a softening in places such as Indonesia and Thailand this year.

“East Asia-Pacific continues to be the engine driving the global economy, con-tributing 40 percent of the world’s GDP growth -- more than any other region,” said Axel van Trotsenburg, the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice President.

“With overall global growth accel-erating, now is the time for developing economies to make structural and policy reforms to sustain growth, reduce poverty and improve the lives of the poor and vul-nerable,” he added in a statement.

The bank noted that in recent months speculation about the withdrawal of the US Federal Reserve’s stimulus pro-gramme led to stock market sell-offs and currency depreciation in East Asia, hurting countries with large foreign participation in their financial markets.

“The Federal Reserve’s decision to delay (a wind down of the stimulus) sta-bilised markets for now, giving countries a second opportunity to take measures to lower risks from future volatility,” said Bert Hofman, World Bank East Asia and Pacific Chief Economist.

“Reducing reliance on short-term and foreign currency denominated debt, accepting a weaker exchange rate when growth is below potential, and building policy buffers to respond to changing global liquidity conditions are some of the ways that can help countries be pre-pared.”

The US government shutdown has stopped President Barack Obama from attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

That has worried US allies at a time when China is on the rise and Washington is trying to push through an ambitious 12-nation trade pact that excludes Beijing.

Obama’s enforced absence at both APEC and an East Asia summit straight afterwards in Brunei has left the stage clear for Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has been touring the region and will address a parallel meeting of APEC business leaders later Monday.

The title of Xi’s speech is “China in transi-tion: what can the Asia-Pacific expect?” Some expect an economic bonanza. Others, looking nervously at Beijing’s far-reaching territorial claims, expect a more turbulent region and want reassurance from Washington.

But the United States may be ill-equipped to offer much immediate global leadership as it confronts a menace mightier than even the shutdown: the possibility that it might default on its colossal debts unless Congress raises the federal borrowing limit by October 17.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in Bali that “the debt ceiling has got to be reviewed, otherwise the consequences would be quite severe”.

The United States is hobbled at a moment when, according to a statement by APEC for-eign and trade ministers, the world economy can ill afford more uncertainty following the 2008 financial crisis.

Previewing Tuesday’s final summit declara-tion, they said that “global growth is too weak, risks remain tilted to the downside, and the economic outlook suggests growth is likely to be slower and less balanced than desired”.

Interviewed by Monday’s Jakarta Post, Xi agreed that the “world economy has entered a period of deep readjustment” but said China was ready to lead the way as part of “the world’s most dynamic and most promising region”.

He also touted the benefits of free-trade pacts. China is leading talks on another trade agree-ment grouping 16 East Asian nations just as Washington’s rival “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP) appears to be running into trouble.

“China is very important for the Southeast Asian economies, like it or not,” said Finance Minister Chatib Basri of Indonesia, which has stayed out of the TPP talks.

APEC leaders meet in shadow of US shutdowns


NUSA DUA - Asia-Pacific leaders opened an annual economic summit on Monday in the shadow of global growth clouds that are darkening by the day as the United States struggles to shake off policy paralysis.

AP Photo/Matt RourkeIn this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a consumer exits a store with a sale sign posted in the windows in Philadelphia. The World Bank on Monday lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region.

World Bank lowers East Asia growth forecast to 7.1%

VIRTUALLY all villages in Buleleng County located on hilly re-gions still look natural. However, Sudaji village, other than remaining pristine, also has a number of advantages, especially in the matter of plants.

It was visible when the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana with his officials made a touring on a motorcycle to Sudaji village, Saturday (Oct 5).

Sudaji had the center of fruit nursery centers, ranging from durian, mango and sugar apple to rambutan. Besides, it also had the nurseries of different types of plants like clove plantation. In wetland agriculture, Sudaji cultivated a distinctive rice variety that could produce fluffier and pithy rice. It was called Sudaji Rice and now it was rarely planted at the village located on the hills with beautiful natural scenery.

So, it is not mistaken if Sudaji village is then developed into eco-tourism village. The rural potential of ecotourism is currently being intensively developed in Buleleng, especially the villages having the potential beauty of nature and pristine indigenous wisdom like Sudaji village. In addition to Sudaji, the successful development of ecotourism had been made at the area of Lake Tamblingan, precisely at Munduk village, Banjar subdistrict.

Regent Putu Agus Suradnyana said that in the Regional Bylaw on Buleleng Spatial Plan, Sudaji and Munduk village had been included in the tourism village, where the indigenous values would be preserved as tourist attraction to be enjoyed as natural charm of Bali. “Combination of indigenous wisdom and beauty of nature becomes the leading tour-ist attraction owned by Buleleng. We will develop such potential and hopefully the positive impact could be accepted by society,” he said.

A tourism businessman of Sudaji village, Sansan, said the nature-based tourism had given many benefits to Sudaji community and surrounding villages either in terms of the environmental, cultural or economic aspect. It happened because the visiting tourists were more interested in social life of local community. “Friendly service and simplicity can be an attraction and promotion to foreign tourists,” said Sansan also known as the founder of the Omunity Bali. (kmb15)

As observation made on Sun-day, the passing vehicles entering and leaving the Ngurah Rai Air-port were minimal. Many spaces at parking lot usually filled with vehicles including taxis were in fact empty. Taxi drivers commonly clustered while waiting for passen-gers also reduced drastically.

Traders earning a livelihood from the airport were automati-cally affected by the lack of activ-ity at the airport. Employees at the airport counter traders were not as busy as on usual days. Even, few counters were forced to close temporarily. Such condition was estimated to take place on October 8 and 9.

One of the traders at the Ngurah

Rai Airport, I Nyoman Suharta, said that his party was forced to close due to lacking of activity at the airport trader counters. Al-though claiming difficult, Suharta could only surrender against such condition considering it was an international event.

He was also reluctant to com-ment when asked whether there was compensation for the closing of the airport. Suharta could only hope that APEC meeting could bring in a positive impact on tour-ism and the economy of Bali. Such an event was really hoped to boost the tourism sector in Bali.

Regarding the impact of the closure against the Ngurah Rai Airport for the sake of APEC

meeting, the Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, recently did not deny if it would be experienced by community. He said it was a tem-porary impact because if the APEC Summit 2013 could work well, it would even bring in a greater posi-tive impact on Bali.

His party also admitted not to worry about the number of tour-ist arrival. According to him, the decline might occur in tourist segment that were purely intend-ing to spend holiday. However, the APEC belonged to MICE cat-egory. The delegates, media and participating APEC officials did not just attend the APEC activi-ties, but also enjoyed the beauty of Bali. (kmb25)

IBP/DedyNgurah Rai Airport looked very quiet on Sunday (Oct 6). Airport activities such as passengers going back and forth were minimal. Similarly, many trader counters at the airport were closed.

Closed, Ngurah Rai Airport lacks of activitiesBali Post

MANGUPURA - Ngurah Rai Airport looked very quiet on Sunday (Oct 6). Airport activities such as passengers going back and forth were minimal. Similarly, many trader counters at the airport were closed. It was the impact of the closing and opening schedule of the airport, especially commercial flight during the implementation of the APEC 2013.

IBP/OleSudaji village, other than remaining pristine, also has a number of advantages, especially in the matter of plants.

Still pristineSudaji village develops ecotourism

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This traffic control system keeps activities inside cells from descending into chaos and has helped researchers gain a better un-derstanding of a range of diseases including diabetes and disorders affecting the immune system, the committee said.

The discoveries have helped doctors diagnose a severe form of epilepsy and immune deficiency diseases in children, Nobel com-mittee secretary Goran Hansson said. In the future, scientists hope the research could lead to medi-cines against more common types of epilepsy, diabetes and other me-tabolism deficiencies, he said.

Rothman, 62, is a professor at Yale University while Schek-man, 64, is at the University of California, Berkeley. Suedhof, 57, joined Stanford University in 2008. Schekman said he was awakened at 1 a.m. at his home in California

by the chairman of the prize com-mittee and was still suffering from jetlag after returning from a trip to Germany the night before.

“I wasn’t thinking too straight. I didn’t have anything elegant to say,” he told The Associated Press. “All I could say was ‘Oh my God,’ and that was that.”

He called the prize a wonderful acknowledgment of the work he and his students had done and said he knew it would change his life. “I called my lab manager and I told him to go buy a couple bottles of Champagne and expect to have a celebration with my lab,” he said.

The Nobel committee said the three researchers work on “vesicle traffic” — the transport system of our cells — helped scientists un-derstand how “cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time” in-side cells. Vesicles are tiny bubbles that act as cargo carriers.

“Imagine hundreds of thousands of people who are traveling around hundreds of miles of streets; how are they going to find the right way? Where will the bus stop and open its doors so that people can get out?” said Hansson, the committee’s secretary. “There are similar problems in the cell, to find the right way between the different organelles and out to the surface of the cell.”

In the 1970s, Schekman discov-ered a set of genes that were re-quired for vesicle transport, while Rothman revealed in the 1980s and 1990s how proteins dock with their target membranes like two sides of a zipper. Also in the ‘90s, Suedhof found out how vesicles release their cargo with precision. “This is not an overnight thing. Most of it has been accomplished and developed over many years, if not decades,” Rothman told the AP.

AP Photo/ TT News Agency Janerik HenrikssonImages of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, as Karolinska In-stitute Nobel committee chairman Goran Hansson announces them as the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine.

2 Americans, German win Nobel medicine prizeAssociated Press Writer

STOCKHOLM — Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.


MASIK PASS, North Korea — The secretary-general of North Korea’s ski association views the sprawling alpine landscape before him with unabashed pride. Facing a strong, cold wind, he points to a dip in the rugged, tree-covered mountains and says the sunrise there is a sight of unmatched beauty, worthy of the nation’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un.

This is the Masik Pass ski resort, North Korea’s latest mega-project, the product of 10 months of furious labor intended to show that this country, so often derided for its poverty and isola-tion, is as civilized and culturally advanced as any other.

The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will formally open Thursday, though late last month the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells, potholes filled the ac-cess roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings.

Who will ski here? Perhaps Kim Jong Un, who reportedly enjoyed the sport as a teenager studying in Switzerland. By the estimate of the ski official, Kim Tae Yong, there are only about 5,500 North Korean skiers in this country of 24 million — a skiing population of 0.02 percent.

Even so, as he sweeps his hand over the scene, the official displays no doubt that what his country really needs right now is a multimillion-dollar ski resort in the secluded depths of North Korea’s east coast. Kim bristles at the suggestion Masik will be a playground for the nation’s elite and a trickle of eccentric tourists. This, he says, is his country at work. It is proof of the great love of the great leader.

Just 10 years after the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan’s use of race in admissions as a necessary step to foster campus diversity, the justices are set to decide whether that state’s voters are allowed to ban affirmative action in ad-missions entirely.

The case, Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, is one of several controversial cases on the docket in the 2013-14 term, which begins Monday.

The justices are also set to decide cases concerning campaign finance, prayer at legislative meetings, and abortion rights.

If the justices decide in Michigan voters’ favor, it could lead to a spate of states banning affirmative action through ballot initiatives and would almost certainly result in declining en-rollments of minority students in public colleges around the country.

In 2006, Michigan voters approved a measure to amend the state consti tut ion to prohibit the government from “discriminat[ing] against, or grant[ing] preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnic-ity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.” The voter initiative, called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, effectively banned affirmative action at state schools.

The measure came just three years after the 2003 Grutter v Bollinger case, where the court decided in a 5-4 vote that the University of Michigan Law School could grant admissions preferences to minority applicants in the interest of fostering diversity for the entire study body. (The decision barred the use of racial admissions quotas, however.)

Black enrollment has plummeted 30 percent at Michigan’s undergraduate and law schools since the 2006 affirmative action ballot initiative. Nine other states have barred the use of race in admissions as well, and the Supreme Court’s decision this year could either cement those policies or effectively eliminate them, depending on its scope.

Supreme Court to decide whether affirmative action can be left up to state voters

NKorea rushes to finish lavish ski resortSemarapura (Bali Post)—

A house at Pundukdawa hamlet, Pesinggahan village, Dawan sub-district, Klungkung, burned down in the flames, Sunday (Oct 6). The fire instantly burned the whole con-tent of the house whose roof looked in disarray. No casualties were reported in the incident. However, the losses were estimated to reach hundreds of millions of rupiahs.

The house consisting of three bedrooms and a kitchen located between the hills was known to belong to Ketut Lambih, 60, a resident from Timbul Sukahati hamlet, Pesinggahan. An eyewit-ness, Wayan Sudiarta, 45, a mason, who was working on the house angkul-angkul entrance gates said last Sunday the great fire incident occurred around 2:00 p.m. He ad-mitted to just learn the fire when he saw the fire having burned the roof of the house standing on 300 square meters of land. “I was shocked, suddenly the fire was large and quickly engulfed the whole roof of the house,” he said.

In a panic condition, he imme-diately rushed to evacuate people in the house. At that time, the

homeowner‘s wife, Wayan Lantri, 45, and six-year old grandson Ari were in the house. “They happened to be asleep. With the help of local community, I immediately break down the door and evacuate them because Lantri was paralytic,” he explained.

At the same time, the fire was said to immediately enlarge and quick-ly burned the house. Not long after, two units of fire brigade immediately rushed to location and extinguish the fire. In addition, the officers of Dawan Police and Klungkung Police also looked to secure the location. The fire could just be extinguished about 30 minutes after the firefighters struggled for putting out the blaze. After the fire was extinguished, the roof debris of the victim’s house looked to litter on the floor. Police immediately set police line around the location. Sudiarta said his possessions also burned down in the house such as cash worth tens of millions of rupiahs, electronic appli-ances like television, clothing and all household items. In addition, his gold jewelries were also on fire.

Chief of Criminal Detective Sec-tion of Klungkung Police, I Nyoman Suparta, said on Sunday after receiv-

ing an explanation from the PLN also coming down to location that the fire was alleged to have been caused by short circuit. Potentially, it happened because the PLN officer found the cable that did not met the standard of PLN for indoor use. “Standard cable of indoor use for house is 2.5 inches, but it used the cable of 0.5 inches. So, the fire was alleged to be triggered by short circuit,” he said.

Meanwhile, the victim’s brother, Komang Sumerta, 50, immediately notified the victim having the pro-fession as driver and victim’s son Komang Suryadana, 29. Meanwhile, the victim’s wife was evacuated to his house at Timbul Sukahati hamlet, Pesinggahan village.

The incident drew the attention of hundreds of local residents and some of them admitted to concern with the incident. Meanwhile, the victim’s brother and son seemed busy scavenging the debris of pre-cious items such as gold jewelry that could still be saved. Some resi-dents also helped clean up the roof debris of the house that had burned down. So far, Suparta admitted the fire incident stayed under police investigation. (kmb31)

The two areas dredged and flat-tened are respectively located at the edge of Jalan Raya Singaraja-Denpasar at kilometer stone 19 and 19.4. Information compiled at loca-tion on Sunday (Oct 6) told if the land dredged on the hill at kilometer stone 19 had been carried out since the beginning of last week. Aside from being dredged by heavy equip-ment, the land owned by a resident from Denpasar was also leveled by a number of workers. Residents in the vicinity said the land was lev-eled to be planted with coffee and other trees.

Meanwhile, the dredging activ-ity on the land at kilometer stone 19.4 had been going on since a few weeks ago. By chance, there was a road and bridge widening project at kilometer stone 19.4 so that many people thought if the dredging on

the hill was a part of the project whereas it was carried out on private land planned to be constructed with a house by the land owner.

Interestingly, Regent of Bule-leng Putu Agus Suradnyana who happened to pass on the road sec-tion on Sunday was surprised to see the dredging on the road side hill. He immediately got angry and threatened to report the dredging activity to police as violating the environmental laws. “Who issued the permit for the dredging activity? It’s against the law and I can report it to police,” he said.

Due to being too upset, he im-mediately called for the Subdistrict Head of Sukasada, Made Dwi Adnyana, to talk to him at Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club at Pancasari village because the regent happened to open a golf tournament.

Subdistrict Head Dwi Adnyana did not know in details about the dredg-ing activity on the road side hill. “I just found it out yesterday, sir. And I have contacted the land owner,” said Head Dwi Adnyana.

At that time, Regent Agus Surad-nyana instructed the Subdistrict Head Dwi Adnyana to stop the dredging activity and summon the land owner. “Stop the dredging and banish the heavy equipment right now,” said the regent.

Subdistrict Head Dwi Adnyana said he would meet with the land-owner on Monday (Oct 7) and instructed to stop the dredging activity. In addition, the subdis-trict head also asked why the land should be dredged and leveled and what the purpose was. “We will meet next Monday,” said Dwi Adnyana. (kmb15)

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Request of bamboo ahead of feast shows an increase. More-

over, the bamboo will be used to make penjor ahead of Galungan and Kuningan feast. From early on, traders of bamboo for penjor in Gianyar have started to bring in hundreds of bamboo stem for the benefit of the feast celebration. Those traders bring in bamboo from Bangli and Tabanan region.

Such condition could be seen at one of the bamboo traders at the area of Keramas village, Blahbatuh, Sunday (Oct 6). Within the past few days, a lot of community activities required bamboo. They were customary activities like cremation ceremony, temple anniversary to preparation of Galungan and Kuningan. Especially bamboo for the making of penjor, it had been sought after by residents, explained Grandpa Kobar, a bamboo trader.

Six months ago, about 400 stems of bamboo for penjor were sold out. Residents from various villages were looking for bamboo to make a penjor. As happened to six months ago, the bamboo request for penjor for next feast was also estimated to be in large number.

Selling price of bamboo for penjor usually reached IDR 25,000. There was possibility if the price would rise when the feast was around the corner. When approaching the feast, the request of bamboo for penjor also increased. Grandpa Kobar, said the bamboo on sale was accidentally brought in from the area of Kayang, Bangli. It was brought in along with other types of bamboo with a capacity of one truck, containing about 400 stems. (kmb16)

Bukit dredged Regent gets angry, threatens to report it to policeSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Two small hills at different locations on the edge of Singaraja-Denpasar road section, precisely at Amerta Sari hamlet, Pegayaman village, Sukasada, have been dredged and flattened since a few days ago by the owner. Aside from having the potential to cause significant erosion, the dredging also violates environmental laws.

Alleged to be caused by short circuitA house of Pesinggahan resident burns down

IBP/FileThe bamboo is highly demanded by the Balinese near Galun-gan Day

Request of bamboo for penjor pole increases ahead of feast

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Trond Larsen, with the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Conservation International, said in a phone interview that the team catalogued creatures and studied freshwater resources during a three-week expedition in pristine forest of southeast Suriname near the border with Brazil.

The upper Palumeu River wa-tershed is among the world’s most remote and unexplored rainforests, the Arlington, Virginia-based group said. It has worked for years in Suriname, a sparsely populated country of 63,000 square miles (162, 265 square kilometers) on the north shoulder of South America.

The creatures that could be new to science include a brown tree frog dubbed the “cocoa frog” and a type of poison dart frog, which secretes powerful toxins employed by local people for hunting.

“Given the rate at which so many populations of frogs are declining and disappearing around the world, it’s pretty exciting to be discovering new species,” Larsen said.

Scientists also catalogued a potentially new type of colorful tetra fish, an unusually pigmented catfish and nine other types of fish after dragging nets through waterways. A 2.3 millimeter (less than an inch) reddish dung beetle that may be the second smallest one in South America was among apparently previously unknown kinds of insects found.

The research team collected data on 1,378 species of plants, birds, mammals, insects, fish and amphibians. The scientists were supported by 30 indigenous men who helped negotiate supply-laden boats through raging rivers and guided them through the

forests.Suriname, a Dutch colony

until the 1970s, has made great efforts to protect its rainforests. In 1998, the government created the roughly 4 million-acre (1.6 million-hectare) Central Suriname Nature Reserve, setting aside some 10 percent of the country.

But thousands of illegal min-ers, many of them Brazilian, have also long worked throughout the interior, contaminating rivers in some areas with mercury used to separate gold from ore.

Researchers found high qual-ity water conditions in the region they studied, but some of their samples had mercury above safe levels for drinking even though there was apparently no upstream mining. Larsen said he believes the mercury is blowing in from mining and industrial activities in neighboring nations.


It wasn’t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A huge cluster of jellyfish forced one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common.

Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor number three on Sunday after tons of jellyfish clogged the pipes that bring in cool water to the plant’s turbines.

By Tuesday, the pipes had been cleaned of the jellyfish and engi-neers were preparing to restart the reactor, which at 1,400 megawatts of output is the largest boiling-water reactor in the world, said Anders Osterberg, a spokesman for OKG, the plant operator.

All three Oskharshamn reactors are boiling-water types, the same technology at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant that suffered a cata-strophic failure in 2011 after a tsunami breached the facility’s walls and flooded its equipment.

Jellyfish are not a new problem for nuclear power plants. Last year the California-based Diablo Canyon facility had to shut its reactor two after gobs of sea salp — a gelatinous, jellyfish-like organism — clogged intake pipes. In 2005, the first unit at Oskarshamn was temporarily turned off due to a sudden jellyfish influx.

Nuclear power plants need a constant flow of water to cool their reactor and turbine systems, which is why many such plants are built near large bodies of water.

Marine biologists, meanwhile, say they would not be surprised if more jellyfish shutdowns occur in the future.

“It’s true that there seems to be more and more of these extreme cases of blooming jellyfish,” said Lene Moller, a researcher at the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment. “But it’s very difficult to say if there are more jellyfish, because there is no historical data.”

AP Photo/Conservation International, Stuart V. Nielsen

In this handout photo released by Conservation International on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, a sleek chocolate-colored frog dubbed the “cocoa frog,” that may be new to science, is seen in Suriname.

60 possible new species found in Suriname forestAssociated Press Writer

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Braving perilous river rapids in Suriname’s rainforest, international scientists found six frogs and 11 fish that are among 60 creatures that may be new species, a tropical ecologist with a U.S.-based conservation group said Thursday.

Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 file photo, moon jel-lyfish are pictured in an aquarium of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

Antara

NUSA DUA - Indonesia and Peru signed a memorandum of un-derstanding (MOU) on agriculture cooperation on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera-tion (APEC) Summit.

The MOU was signed by In-donesian Agriculture Minister Suswono and Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Eda Rivas in the presence of the presidents of both countries.

The two countries also estab-lished cooperation in interna-tional agreement management. The agreement was signed by In-donesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Peru-vian counterpart, Eda Rivas.

Prior to the signing of the MOU and the agreement, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a bilateral meeting with his Peruvian counterpart.

Yudhoyono said both nations have a lot of potential that can be developed further.

“If we combine our potential with new opportunities, our coop-eration in the economic and other

sectors will increase,” he said.Among those present at the

meeting were Coordinating Minis-ter for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinat-ing Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa, and Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi.

Earlier, Indonesia signed plans of action on strategic partnership with Vietnam and Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia and Vietnam signed the plan of action on the imple-mentation of strategic partnership for 2014-2018 period.

The plan of action was signed by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Binh Minh, in the presence of President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.

Natalegawa pointed out that the plan contains detailed steps that will be taken by the two countries to achieve strategic partnership.

The two countries want to achieve clear and measurable tar-gets by signing the plan of action, added Natalegawa.

“We positively welcome the meeting which is carried out by of-ficials of both sides for the first time in 60 years,” Taiwan`s Chairman of Council for Economic Planning and Development Chung-Ming Kuan said in an interview on Sunday.

However he declined to predict the direction of China-Taiwan`s relations in the future after the his-toric meeting.

Earlier China`s news agency Xinhua reported President Xi Jin-ping during meeting with Taiwan`s former Vice President Vincent Siew reiterated the Chinese mainland`s readiness to conduct equal consul-tations with Taiwan on cross-Strait political issues under the one China framework and make reasonable arrangements.

He pointed out that enhancing cross-Strait political mutual trust and consolidating common political foundation are vital to ensure the

peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

Noting that in a long run, the cross-Strait political disputes which have long existed could be gradu-ally and eventually resolved, Xi said, “we cannot hand those prob-lems down from generation to generation.”

Xi said that the two sides across the Taiwan Strait should stick to the correct path of peaceful develop-ment of the cross-Strait relations.

He said the concept that “both sides of the Strait are of one family” should be advocated, adding that the two sides should strengthen com-munication and cooperation and jointly work for the great rejuvena-tion of the Chinese nation.

He called for more efforts to in-stitutionalize cross-Strait economic cooperation and urged greater im-portance to be attached to industrial cooperation.

AntaraNUSA DUA - The Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) issued five recommendations for the 21 APEC member economies at the APEC CEO Business Summit, which ended on Monday.

The recommendations cover regional eco-nomic integration, sustainable development, entrepreneurship and small and medium busi-nesses, economic and banking forum, and indus-try dialogues within the framework of scientific innovation.

The ABAC recommended accelerating trade and investment liberalization, pursuing new agendas in the services field and enhancing supply chain connectivity for goods and ser-vices in the region through regional economic integration,.

The recommendation on sustainable develop-ment included food, energy and water supply security, infrastructure development and invest-ment, transparency and efficiency in the procure-ment of government goods and services, and the dissemination of technology and innovation.

In the small and medium businesses segment, ABAC expressed hope that the APEC economic

entities would support the creation of a new busi-ness model, ensure business continuity, facilitate the use of information technology, encourage meetings of small and medium entrepreneurs, promote the participation of women and youth in the business sector and impose a business code of ethics on small and medium entrepreneurs.

In the financial and macroeconomic field, ABAC called for the immediate formation of an Asia-Pacific Financial Forum, financial in-tegration, private, public partnership and infra-structure financing, and financial solutions for financial inclusion.

ABAC also expressed the hope that industry dialogue would encourage APEC Scientific In-novation and dialogues on APEC Chemicals.

Established in 1995, ABAC represents the interests of businesses attending APEC. ABAC is composed of up to three members from each of the 21 member economies, with business representatives appointed by APEC Leaders. The annual APEC CEO Summit and regular Industry dialogues also provide opportunities for regional business leaders to interact with APEC leaders and address key issues affecting businesses in the region.

China, Taiwan’s head delegates meet in BaliAntara

NUSA DUA - China`s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan`s Head of Delegation Vincent Siew met here on Sunday ahead of APEC Leaders Meeting to be held on October 7-8.

Indonesia, Peru sign MOU on agriculture cooperation

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E

Attendees at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit are silhouetted against the stage screen in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) issued five recommendations for the 21 APEC member economies at the APEC CEO Business Summit, which ended on Monday.

ABAC issues five recommendations

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Calendar Event for October 4 through 28, 2013

4 Oct Tilem Sasih Ketiga Odalan Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Raja Puraus di Merajan Selod-ing BesakihPura Ulun Kulkuk Besakih

6 Oct Saniscara Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kayu-putih Buleleng

8 Oct Anggarkasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Taro TegalalangPura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Ta-bananPura Pasek Gelgel TulikupPura manik Bingin Sidemen

9 Oct Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncaksari Pdi Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMerajan Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon CemenggonPura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-GianyarPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Besakih

17 Oct Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonMerajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

19 Oct Purnama Sasih Kapat Bathara Tiga Sakti Penataran Agung BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon KintamaniPura Pulaki BulelengPura Tirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Puseh, Pura Desa, Pura Penataran, Pura Luhuring Akasa, Bhatara Hyang Basukih Desa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Tirta Negari Singapadu

Pura Puseh, Desa, Penataran Tangsub SukawatiPura Penataran Agung TegallalangPura Desa Denjalan, Tegaltamu, Tegehe, Batu Yang lan Batuaji BatubulanPura Puseh Singakerta UbudPura Nataran Sanding TampaksiringPura Bakuang Ceningan Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Getas Kawan Kedewataan UbudPura Agung Dukuh Sakti Pangku Subami Bra-banPura Pasek Gelgel Carik Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Klanting Dukuh KrambitanPura Pasek Bendesa Mas Gadungan SelemadegPura Agung Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari SelemadegPura Penataran Pasek Kayu Putih Bandem KarangasemPura Puseh Werdi Agung Bolang Mangondow SulutPura Dukuh Segening Wangsiang KarangasemPura Dalem Khayangan Arya Gajahpara Sukalu-wih Tejakula BulelengPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Kertabumi Taman Mini Indonesia Indah JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa Asah Badung Sepang BulelengPura Ulun Danu Batur Songan KintamaniPura Agung Bhuwana Skyline Jayapura PapuaPura Dalem Bengkel Banjar Benoh Ubung DenpasarMerajan Suci Geriya Penataran Banjar Gemeh DenpasarPura Pejengaji TegalalangPura Panti PasekGelgel Desa Meliling Keram-bitanPura Pejenengan Dukuh Ogan Desa Sangkan Gunung Rendang KarangasemPura Dadia Dukuh Segening Desa Swastika Buana Saputih Banyak Lampung TengahPura Dukuh Sakti Belatung Kukuh KerambitanPura Gumang (Bukit Juru) Desa Bugbug Karan-gasemPura Kawitan Arya Samping Banjar Langon KapalPura Pejenengan Pule Sari Desa Dukuh Sidemen KarangasemPura Segara Penimbangan Banjar Galiran Desa Bakti Seraga BulelengPura Puseh Yeh Ulakan Desa Suana Nusa PenidaPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur KintamaniPura Pasek Tangkas Kori Agung Kukuh keram-bitanPura Penataran Ubud

Pura Luhur Giri Kusuma Dauh Peken BlahbatuhPemerajan Agung Jambe Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Sari Busungbiu Busungbiu BulelengPura Giri Jagat Nata Ketewel SukawatiPura Dang Khayangan Penataran Agung Baturn-ingMambal Abiansemal

22 Oct Penampahan Galungan 23 Oct Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta TimurPura Mustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijan-tung Jakarta Timur.

24 Oct Wraspati Umanis Dungulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa.

25 Oct Sukra Paing Dungulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran, BadungPura Luhur Cemenggon, SukawatiPura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

26 Oct Saniscara Pon Dungulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

27 Oct redite Paing Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti BatubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

28 Oct Soma Kliwon Kuningan Pura Desa Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah SelemadegPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gi-anyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuan BusungbiuPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan

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The budget hotel features 160 modern, functional and stylish rooms & suites with the added conveniences of free high-speed WiFi, 24-hour front desk and security service, express check-in and check-out, a complimentary shuttle service to the

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The favehotel Bypass Kuta – Bali enjoys a privileged location on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Bali’s main artery and the cross road to all of Bali’s offerings. With its affordable yet stylish accommodation, the hotel aims to offer a fun, fresh and friendly alternative to holiday and business travelers, whilst providing the ideal vantage point from which to discover the island. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Favehotel Bypass expands new conference centerIBP

KUTA – In a response to the increasing demand for MICE

facilities in Bali, favehotel Bypass Kuta has expanded its smart and modern MICE amenities by adding an extra meeting room. The latest meeting room can accommodate up to 100 guests, matching the hotel’s two existing meeting rooms that total a capacity of 200 persons. The facilities are complimented by the hotel’s convenient location on Jalan Bypass Ngurah rai as well as the ample parking space with enough room for buses.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Closure of the Ngurah Rai Airport in con-

junction with the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) Summit in Bali this year was criticized by Consumer Care Foundation (YLPK) Bali as it violated the Law No.1/2010 on the flight.

“The closure is clearly detrimental to the rights of the public and society at large whereas the closure of airport throughout the day, even though for the benefit of VVIP, is prohibited by Law No.1 /2010 about Flight. Other than disrupting local residents, the closure of Ngurah Rai Airport may also interfere with foreign tourists who want to spend holiday in Bali,” said Putu Armaya, Direc-tor of YLPK Bali, Sunday (Oct 6).

Further, he said the closure of Ngurah Rai Air-port posed the act against the law. “Also compare to the case when President SBY attended similar summit or G 20, after the president got off the plane, the Garuda aircraft carrying the president’s entourage was immediately told to leave the air-port (move to other airport),” he said.

Related to this matter, the YLPK Bali urged the government to reopen the Ngurah Rai Airport and move the parking of VVIP aircraft to the airport nearby such as Lombok, Surabaya, El Tari Kupang and so on.

Still regarding the airport closure during the APEC implementation, information from a number of sources told that Garuda Indonesia cancelled 139 domestic and international flights. Meanwhile, Air Asia decided to cancel 81 flights and Lion Air cancelled approximately 65 flights to Bali.

Nevertheless, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu, amid the “APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Travel Facilita-tion” in Kuta stated that APEC Summit activities were not too distracting tourists visiting Bali though there was closure to schedule of the airport because the announcement had been disseminated to travel agencies of the world far in advance. “We think tourists visiting Bali will not be too bothered as it has been announced long time ago to travel agencies around the world,” she said.

She convinced that tourist arrival in Bali and Indonesia would increase after the APEC Sum-mit activities because the participating countries would inform the situation of Bali and Indonesia. “At the same time, this will tell the world that Indonesia is a secure country and able to host in-ternational events like this,” she said. (kmb20)

Minister of Finance, Chatib Basri, said the VAT Refund posed a tax incentive to individual holding foreign passport in the form of VAT Refund that has been paid on taxable goods purchased in Indonesia, which was then taken out of the customs area or abroad.

“This VAT Refund is a pilot project and will give a psychological impact on tourists. Though it is only worth 10 dollars, it will give confidence,” said the Minister of Finance, Chatib Basri, recently.

According to him, the VAT Refund service for tourist would be an attrac-tion for foreign tourists and be able to support the increase in international trade because the service was intended for foreign tourists by providing facility in the effort of returning VAT of goods taken advantage overseas.

“This psychological impact and tax service will even increase the confidence of tourists because tax is not only a mat-ter of income but also a matter of service. When foreign travelers feel more com-fortable, then they will shop more. Talk-ing about service is not about the loss but the cost for the service,” he added.

Director General of Taxation, A. Fuad Rahmany, said the service was provided by Directorate General of Taxation (DGT) with reference to international standards and practices that were also implemented in many developed countries related to the application of international fairness practice on consumption tax.

“The value of VAT under IDR 5 million will be paid in cash, while the higher value will be paid through bank account,” he said.

Currently, the Directorate General

of Taxation had provided VAT Refund services for tourist in five international airports, namely the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Jakarta), Ngurah Rai International Airport (Denpasar), Adi Sutjipto International Airport (Yo-gyakarta), Juanda International Airport (Surabaya) and Kuala Namu Interna-tional Airport (Medan).

“VAT Refund for tourist service has showed an increase in quality im-provement compared to the previous application, so that the implementation can achieve a better level of service for tourists,” he explained.

He added that Directorate General of Taxation had successfully updated the business processes and upgraded the web-based application service related to the VAT Refund for tourist service. (kmb27)

YLPK Bali criticizes airport closure during APEC meeting

IBP/File

The newly developed Ngurah Rai In ternational Airport.

Foreign tourists redeem VAT Refunds at Ngurah Rai AirportMangupura (Bali Post)—

Foreign tourists visiting Bali can now redeem or take the value Added Tax (vAT) refund at Ngurah rai Inter-national Airport. The vAT refund is a refund of value added tax that has been paid in Indonesia.

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The Warner Bros. adventure debuted with $55.55 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday — the biggest October opening ever and the biggest openings for Bullock and Clooney. The film also dominated the international box office, adding another $27.4 million overseas. “It’s all good news,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution.

He credited director and co-writer Al-fonso Cuaron, who takes viewers into orbit with a story set almost entirely in space that explores challenges faced by two astronauts during a spacewalk. Cuaron’s team devel-oped equipment and technology to replicate the weightlessness of space.

“It’s never been seen before, visual ef-fects like this,” Fellman said. “Just the space shots are mind-boggling. It looks like you’re right there.”

Last week’s top movie, Sony’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2,” rolled

into second place with $21.5 million. The animated sequel features the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris and a cast of “foodi-mals,” like tacodiles and shrimpanzees.

R-rated fare rounds out the top six. Twentieth Century Fox’s “Runner Runner,” starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, opened in third place with $7.6 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Prisoners,” starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, locked onto the fourth spot. Universal’s racing tale “Rush,” starring Chris Hemsworth, drove into fifth place, followed by “Don Jon,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut about a porn addict looking for love.

“The adult drama is back, and fall is the season for the adult drama,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “This is when you get your more challenging films, some of the more esoteric fare, and a lot of those movies, by their nature, have to be rated R.”

Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The “Gravity” premiere red carpet as seen from a reflec-tion in an astronaut’s helmet

at the AMC Lincoln Square Theaters on Tuesday, Oct. 1,

2013, in New York.

‘Gravity’ soars to top of weekend box officeAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Sandra Bullock-George Clooney space drama “Gravity” rocketed to the top of the box office and into industry record books during its opening weekend.


SALT LAKE CITY — Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint. “Move and I will kill you!” her captor hissed.

It was one of several fleeting times Smart watched a rescue slip away during her nine-month or-deal, she recounts in “My Story,” a 308-page book being released by St. Martin’s Press on Monday.

She writes that she was so ter-rified of the street preacher who kidnapped her that when she was rescued by police in a Salt Lake City suburb in March 2003, she only reluctantly identified herself.

Between the heartbreak of missed chances, Smart writes, she was treated as a sex object by Brian David Mitchell and as a slave by his wife, Wanda Barzee. She says they denied her food and water for days at a time.

A U.S. attorney called it one

of the kidnapping crimes of the century. Smart, a quiet, devout Mormon who played the harp and loved horses, vanished with-out a trace from her home high above Salt Lake City. Her case galvanized attention just months after Salt Lake City took the world stage with the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Smart, now 25, is married, living in Park City, finishing a music degree at Brigham Young University and traveling across the country giving speeches and doing advocacy work. She created the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to bring awareness to predatory crimes against children. For her, the book was another way to help bring nine months of brutality to a close.

“I want people to know that I’m happy in my life right now,” Smart told The Associated Press in an interview. “I also, even more so, want to reach out to people who might not be in a good situation. Maybe they’re in a situation that was similar to the one that I was in.”

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File

FILE - In this May 7, 2013, file photo, Elizabeth Smart talks with a reporter before an interview in Park City, Utah.

Elizabeth Smart details kidnapping in new memoir

The US federal shutdown has stopped President Barack Obama from attending the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, and another summit this week of East Asian leaders in Brunei.

US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed anew Obama’s determination to remain engaged with the Pacific Rim region, but his absence has left the arena clear for the leader of one-party China to trumpet the mounting heft of the world’s second largest economy.

Interviewed by the Jakarta Post, President Xi Jinping said the “world economy has entered a period of deep readjustment” but China was ready to lead the way to a brighter day as part of “the world’s most dynamic and most promising region”.

The communist leader has been touring Southeast Asia,

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center,

and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the Leaders Retreat during the Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) forum in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

APEC Summit

China grabs limelightAgence France-Presse

NUSA DUA - China took centre-stage on Monday as Asia-Pacific leaders opened an annual economic summit in the shadow of global growth clouds that are darkening by the day with the US government paralysed by infighting.

where there is much disquiet about China’s territorial ambitions, and also touted the benefits of free trade pacts after securing commercial deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Indonesia and Malaysia.

China is involved in talks on a trade agreement grouping 16 East Asian nations just as Washington’s rival “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP) of 12 countries appears to be running into trouble.

While sympathetic to Obama’s political plight, the leaders of US allies in APEC such as Singapore expressed disappointment that he had been unable to throw his presi-dential weight personally behind the TPP and Washington’s stop-start “pivot” towards Asia.

Foreign friends and rivals alike, as well as financial markets, are worried by a threat bigger even than the shutdown: the possibility that the US government might

default on its colossal debts unless Congress raises the federal borrowing limit by October 17.

An unprecedented default by the holder of the world’s reserve currency would affect “the entire planet, and not just those coun-tries with a strong geographical and economic linkage to the US”, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said at an APEC business summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed similar sentiments to the business leaders gathered for the event.

“The dollar of the United States is still the biggest reserve cur-rency in the world, so it is of utmost importance to all of us,” he said.”

But Kerry, taking Obama’s place at APEC, said the president’s epic tussle with the Republicans was merely “a moment in politics” that did not deflect the United States from its strategic goals.

“I want to emphasise that there is nothing that will shake the commitment of the rebalance to Asia that President Obama is lead-ing,” Kerry told the business forum.

The United States is stumbling politically at a moment when, according to a statement by APEC foreign and trade ministers, the world economy can ill afford more instability following the 2008 financial crisis.

China, Taiwan’s head delegates meet in Bali

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