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Urban circus‘Traces’ offers athrilling show

Scenes of ransacked stores,torched cars and blackenedbuildings frightened and out-raged Britons just a year beforetheir country is to host nextsummer’s Olympic Games,bringing demands for a tougherresponse from law enforcement.Police across the country havemade more than 1,100 arrestssince the violence broke out overthe weekend.

In London, where armored ve-hicles and convoys of police vanspatrolled the streets, authoritiessaid there would be 16,000 offic-ers on duty — almost triple thenumber present Monday. Theysaid a large presence would re-main in the city through the next24 hours at least.

The show of force seems tohave worked.

Agence France-Presse

Colombia said Tuesday itwas awaiting word from Indo-nesia to extradite the ex-trea-surer of Indonesian PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono’sparty after weeks on the run overcorruption allegations.

“After three months of searchin Southeast Asia, Oceania and theUnited States, the Colombian Na-tional Police found on behalf ofInterpol one of the most wantedcriminals of the Republic of Indo-nesia,” Muhammad Nazaruddin,police said in a statement.

Police “exhausted identifica-tion protocols using the Interpolred notice, fingerprints and pho-tographs of Nazaruddin, who iscurrently awaiting an extraditionrequest to be issued by the gov-ernment in Jakarta,” it added.

Police calm London

But riots flare across UK

AP Photo/Peter Byrne/PA

Merseyside Police officers help clean up a burnt out caravan in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, England Wednesday Aug. 10,2011 following rioting in the area Tuesday night. Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London in a bid to endBritain’s worst rioting in a generation.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Thousands of extra police officers floodedinto London Wednesday in a bid to end Britain’s worst riot-ing in a generation. An eerie calm prevailed in the capital,but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of vio-lence driven by diverse and brazen crowds of young people.

“Without wishing to speak toosoon it’s been reasonably quiet forus so far tonight,” London’s FireBrigade said in a message postedto Twitter earlier in the evening.“Let’s hope it stays that way.”

But outside the capital, chaoswas spreading.

In the northwestern city ofManchester, hundreds of youths— some looking as young as 10— rampaged through the city cen-ter, hurling bottles and stones atpolice and vandalizing stores. Awomen’s clothing store on thecity’s main shopping street was setablaze, along with a disused li-brary in nearby Salford.

Manchester’s assistant chiefconstable Garry Shewan said loot-ing and arson had taken place thereon an unprecedented scale.Continued on page 6

Colombia waiting toextradite Indonesian fugitive

Nazaruddin was arrested Mon-day at the airport in Cartagena,some 900 kilometers (560 miles)north of Bogota, as he prepared toget on a place to the capital city.

Indonesian national policespokesman Anton Bachrul Alamsaid the disgraced Democratic Partyformer treasurer had used a falsename on his passport but kept hisown photograph on the document.

The 32-year-old had come toColombia on a charter flightfrom Washington, according toColombian police, who did notindicate his date of arrival.

Nazaruddin has been on therun since May, when anti-graftinvestigators linked him to abribery scandal involving con-tracts on a $23 million athletes’village for the Southeast AsianGames scheduled in November.Continued on page 6

Pakistan toextradite Bali bombsuspect this month

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Denpasar (Bali Post)-All this time Bali has budgeted

IDR 28 Billion to protect Bali riceproduction so it won’t be sent out-side Bali during harvesting time yetnow it was stated it turns out that isnot enough as at least IDR 3.4 Tril-lion is needed to do so by Head ofBali Agriculture Agency, PutraSuryawan, last Tuesday (9/8).

Nationally Bali paddy produc-tion lands is narrow yet its produc-tivity has gone over the approxima-tion where 5,85 – 6 tonnes per hect-are per harvest is more than thenational’s approx of 5,5 tonnes perhectare per harvest. “Rice harvestin Bali almost happened every dayespecially in Tabanan, Badung andGianyar also a number of lands inother regencies. While huge harvesttimes are around March to May

Different to what happened toBangli House of Representativesmember, I Nyoman GelgelWisnawa, he was almost hypno-tised almost in the same time asKrista. While taking money fromBRI Bank ATM in Denpasar

Semarapura (Bali Post) –Farmers screeched as around

20 hectares of rice fields at subak(irr igation) Lunjungan,Banjarangkan, failed its harvestfor the second time as the threemonths plants did not grew wellso their taken off for cow foodinstead as explained by onefarmer, Nyoman Manik, lastTuesday (9/8).

According to Manik on thefirst few months the paddies grewwell yet all of a sudden it wentdry then withers with no rice

20 Hectares Rice Fields Fail to Harvestseeds in it when actually theyhave done the usual procedure.“When it’s time to manure, wegave it, when it’s time to spray,we sprayed, and for the wildgrasses in between, we took themoff,” Manik stated.

In a good condition, the pro-duction could reach up to 7tonnes per hectare yet after thisfailure again Manik doesn’t knowwhat will be planted yet for surethe system in this subak is twotimes other corps and one timepaddies. “If I plant other corps it

won’t grow well either plus afterthis failure I don’t have any capi-tal anymore,” Manik concluded.

Meanwhile Head of Agricul-tural Extension Centre (UPTDBPP) Banjarangkan, MadeLanus, stated the failure was dueto the belas attack (stalks dry up)which then he suggested farmersto spray toxin yet this is done selfbuying so it might be not enoughwas bought due to the farmerslimited budget as there are nostock of it in the AgricultureAgency. (kmb20)

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A farmer is cutting his rice paddy because of the damage plants.

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Bangli (Bali Post) –Hypnotiser seems not to just only do it by face to face, but also using a cell phone in finding

its victim as what happened last Monday (8/8), Budi Krista, a reporter in a Bali newspaper inBangli, was phoned with an offer of a Blackberry phone priced IDR 1.5 million. Before hereceived a SMS from the caller and after replied they kept on texting and then had a conversa-tion through the phone. As Krista seemed interested, the hypnotiser then asked victim to trans-fer the price of the phone IDR 1.5 million from an ATM and victim did so. He realised he washypnotised after transferring the money. On Tuesday (9/8), Krista admitted not knowing thecaller, the name, whereabouts and origin. “I actually wanted to see the phone’s condition firstyet not knowing why I was following the caller’s order and without knowing I transferred themoney through ATM,” he explained.

nearby Katrangan Street, a manand woman tapped his shoulderand he almost lost his conscious.Knowing what happened, he thenget off his motorcycle and tookoff his sandals.

With barefoot he then face the

two people and the they kneeledfor forgiveness. Turns out theywanted to ask IDR 40,000 withthe reason their mother is ill yetwhen about to be given the twopeople declined and escaped.(kmb17)

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One of the car that use non Bali licence plate is seen on thestreet of Denpasar

Denpasar (Bali Post)-Bali Tourism Transportation Group

(Pawiba) is complaining the fact thereare more and many tourism transpor-tation coming from outside Bali. Headof the group, Bagus Soediana, ex-plained that government has been notclear enough and not consequent ontourism vehicles law and regulations.He also expected that these non Balinumber plates vehicle will reachedhundreds of units. “Those local tour-ism transportations with permits aretruly disadvantaged with these ve-hicles and caused an unhealthy com-petition. Their tax also goes outside astheir vehicles are not on Bali’s data anddisadvantaging government too,” heexplained last Tuesday (9/8).

Non Bali LicencePlates Flooding In

Government Not Act Enough

Bali Rice Production Protection3.4 Trillion Budget Needed

Head of Bali Transportation, Infor-mation and Communication Agencydid admit to have sent a team to disci-pline those non Bali tourism vehiclesalso for illegal tourism vehicles, rentedvehicles and taxis will be fined, evensent to its origin with the owners calledin. Head of Bali Regional Transporta-tion Organisation Council (DPDOrganda), Ketut Edy Dharma Putra,stated his side is very supporting re-gional government’s policy in disci-plining non Bali number plates’ ve-hicles. “If they are using it here of coursethey pay their tax in their origin whichdisadvantages Bali as its operating andmaybe damaging roads in Bali. This isinjustice and needs to be ordered anddisciplined,” he stated. (par)

every year. So I guarantee the stockin Bali is safe for the next twomonths even more, it won’t godown significantly,” he explained.

Yet Bali keep finding itself short-age in rice when actually this past fiveyears at least 870,000 tonnes per yearis produced while consumption inBali reaches 400,000 tonnes per year.It was then found that dry paddies stillwith its skin (gabah) were bought byEast Java producers to be processedas new rice and marketed in Baliagain. With that in mind, a surplus ofgabah should not stop Bali Provinceprotecting the farmers by buying itabove the government’s price (HPP).“We will keep working with Perpadiand this gabah price protection donewith Village Economy Entrepreneur-ship Institution (LUEP),” Suryawanconcluded. (bit)

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—One of the areas in Denpasar

invaded by urbanites is RenonVillage. As a result, the area offarmland is increasingly declin-ing. Of the 74 hectares of farm-land remaining to survive, itnow sets to diminish in har-mony with the growth rate ofhousing development. Thiscondition makes a number ofcomponents of Renon commu-nity began to worry about thethreat of extinction of theirfarmland.

This matter was disclosed by

Cremation procession of UbudPalace becomes tourist attractionGianyar (Bali Post)—

Cremation ceremony of UbudRoyal Palace for the late AANiang Rai, who is also the bio-logical mother of Gianyar RegentTjokorda Oka Artha ArdanaSukawati, will be held on the up-coming August 18. Procession ofthe Ngaben cremation organizedby the royal palace will becomea spectacle of tourist attractionsin Ubud a usual.

Based on information given bythe royal family on Tuesday (Aug9), procession of the cremationwould involve about 4,500people coming from 16 custom-ary hamlets, either from UbudVillage or outside Ubud. TheBade tower of 26 meters highwith capacity of 300 bearerswould be carried in relay mannerwith seven spots. On that ac-count, to carry the Bade wouldbe involving about 2,100 people,not to mention the bearers of bullsarcophagus and other ritualparaphernalia. Meanwhile,weight of the Bade tower carriedwould reach up to 10 tons.

Tjokorda Gede Putra AstawaSukawati (Tjok Putra) stated theinvolvement of many people inthe cremation activities of the de-ceased was estimated to disruptthe traffic condition in Ubud dur-ing the event. So far, conditionof Ubud known to frequently facetraffic congestion would possiblybe getting more serious due to theimplementation of the ceremony.“We have been coordinating withrelevant agencies to help reachthe smoothness of the activities,”he explained.

Anticipative measure by theUbud Chief Police, GedeRedastra, for the security of theroad section passed throughwould be undertaken by closingthe traffic flows at the junctionof Kedewatan to Ubud and junc-tion of Ambengan to Royal Pal-ace. Meanwhile, public parkinghad been provided in the Ubud

Subdistrict Square, while parkingspace for the invitees would beprovided in front of the UbudMarket and Puri Lukisan Mu-seum. Closure of road sectionwould be carried out on August11 coinciding with the Nyiraminor bathing ritual and August 18as the peak of cremation cer-emony.

The number of personnel in-volved in the event reached 400consisting of the elements of po-lice, army, transportation agency,pecalang (customary security

taskforce) and public order offic-ers (Satpol PP). Involvement ofsuch hundreds of personnel wasalso caused by the implementa-tion of cremation of three peopleorganized on the same day,namely August 18. However,they would use different cemeter-ies, where cremation of the latewife of King of Ubud would beorganized at Dalem Puri cem-etery located about 900 meterseastwards, while two otherswould use the cemetery in thewest of Royal Palace. (kmb16)

BI’s sets to beBI’s sets to beBI’s sets to beBI’s sets to beBI’s sets to bevisited by residentsvisited by residentsvisited by residentsvisited by residentsvisited by residents

From observation of Bali Post onTuesday (Aug 9), the number ofpeople who exchanged small de-nomination cash seemed to huddle.BI itself predicted the peak crowdof residents to exchange small de-nomination cash would be going tohappen next week ahead of IdulFitri. Nevertheless, BI set to antici-pate the surge of exchange by re-stricting the maximal amount of themoney exchanged. For instance,denomination of IDR 20,000 wasrestricted up to worth IDR 20 mil-lion, denomination of IDR 10,000(IDR10 million), denomination ofIDR 5,000 (IDR 5 million), denomi-nation of IDR 2,000 (IDR 2 mil-lion), and denomination of IDR1,000 (IDR 300,000).

Previously, the Bali office head ofBank Indonesia (BI), JeffreyKairupan, ensured that his party was

IBP/Gung Dar

The preparation for the cremation procession in Ubud Palace.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Even though Idul Fitri feast day stays a few weeks to go, the

residents look to enthusiastically respond the penny exchangeservices provided by Bank Indonesia (BI). As seen in BIDenpasar, since the opening at 09:00 am, the exchange counterfor cash in small denomination or pennies which would be usedfor the needs of Idul Fitri set to be thronged by residents.

ready to anticipate the surge in thedemand for penny exchange beforeIdul Fitri. With the existing stock ofcash in the BI, according to him, BIDenpasar would not be overwhelmed.“Cash stock in the BI Denpasar is al-ways safe, will not lack, and so far ithas never been lacking,” he said.

Jeffrey Kairupan explained thatBI Denpasar provided cash worthIDR 3 trillion to IDR 5 trillion. Es-pecially for small denomination of,BI Denpasar allocated cash as muchas IDR 1 trillion to IDR 1.5 trillion.To provide convenience for resi-dents who wanted to exchange formoney of small denominations, BIDenpasar also operated roving cashservices. “Ahead of Idul Fitri, weare going to intensify the rovingcash services to serve the small de-nomination cash exchange of theresidents,” he said. (par)

IBP/Edi

A woman is changing her money to smaller bills to be broughthome for Lebaran.

Agricultural land in Renon under threatsChief of Renon Customary Vil-lage, I Made Sutama, during thesocialization of joint agreement(SKB) in Wantilan Hall of the lo-cal Dalem Temple, Renon Vil-lage, Tuesday (Aug 9). The threatof diminishing farmland shouldbe dammed to avoid the runningout of farmland at this villagearea.

Sutama recognized the currentcondition of farmland at Renonhad deteriorated in terms of qual-ity. It was inseparable from theincreasingly recessive conditionof the farmland due to the rate of

growth of housing development.Even, when farmers began trans-planting their rice seedlings, ahouse construction was begunbeside them. As consequence, theirrigation channel became im-paired, so the water flows to therice fields were then disturbed.

He said the area of Renonreaching 240 hectares had nowbeen inhabited by urbanites inmajority. Based on data avail-able, the number of native resi-dent was around 800 families,while regional migrant popula-tion had reached 3,200 families.

This condition proved that peoplerush to Renon was high enough.“This is one of the causes of pro-gressively declining farmland,”he said.To minimize the conver-sion of farmland, his partyneeded to formulate a strategythrough synergy with all compo-nents of society, primarily mutualcoordination among the existingvillage institution such as cus-tomary villages, administrativevillages, as well as subak irriga-tion cooperative. The synergywas not only in terms of main-taining the agricultural land but

also arranging the village ingeneral. “Rural economic is-sues must become the concernof all components of society,”he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Vil-lage Community Empower-ment Agency, I Ketut Dunia,was gland to welcome the com-mitment of Renon CustomaryVillage to maintain their agri-cultural area properly. It wasnot only intended to sustain theagriculture, but also to increasethe welfare of society in gen-eral. (kmb12)

International4 Thursday, August 11, 2011 News

High tensions persist along thedisputed western sea border, whichhas been the scene of bloody navalskirmishes in recent years.

The ministry said its troops heardthe sound of three shells and saw oneof them fall near the border known of-ficially as the Northern Limit Line(NLL). They were thought to have beenfired by the North’s coastal artillery,

Reuters

BANGKOK - Thailand’s newprime minister, YingluckShinawatra, has appointed a mar-ket-friendly former centralbanker as finance minister in hercabinet to be sworn in onWednesday, which should helpsoothe fears about her populistcampaign pledges.

Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubalawas among a handful of non-partyoutsiders in a cabinet that appearsto have been selected to appeaseall sides in a country that has gonethrough six years of sometimesbloody political upheaval.

Although the line-up is domi-nated by members of Yingluck’sPuea Thai Party, which won alandslide election victory on July3, it includes some ministers seenas moderates close to both herself-exiled brother, former pre-mier Thaksin Shinawatra, and hisenemies among the military androyalist establishment.

Thirachai, 59, who was headof Thailand’s financial marketswatchdog until last week and was


NAIROBI, Kenya — TheWorld Food Program is sending800 metric tons of high energybiscuits to East Africa to helpfight the famine in Somalia.

The U.N. food agency saidTuesday that the series of nine air-lifts will be enough to feed 1.6million people for a day. The bis-cuits are being delivered to Kenya AP Photo/Jerome Delay

Somalia famine: WFPbegins 800-ton airlift of food

for onward delivery throughoutthe Horn of Africa.

More than 12 million peopleare suffering from the effects ofdrought in East Africa.

The U.S. on Monday an-nounced an additional $105 mil-lion in aid for famine relief ef-forts. The top U.S. aid officialsaid during a trip to a refugeecamp in Kenya that models showthat hundreds of thousands of So-

A pregnant Somali woman sitsby a tree trunk at UNHCR’s Ifo

Extension camp outsideDadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kms

(60 miles) from the Somaliborder, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011.

mali children could die in the fam-ine if there is not a strong aid re-sponse.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

A man walks past armored vehicles at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday,Aug. 10, 2011. South Korean marines returned fire Wednesday after North Korea launched artillery shells intowaters near the disputed maritime line that separates the two rivals, South Korean defense officials said.

Seoul fires warning shotsSeoul fires warning shotsSeoul fires warning shotsSeoul fires warning shotsSeoul fires warning shotsafter N. Korea shellfireafter N. Korea shellfireafter N. Korea shellfireafter N. Korea shellfireafter N. Korea shellfireAgence France Presse

South Korean Marines fired warning shots Wednesday after aNorth Korean artillery shell landed off an island near the flashpointYellow Sea border, Seoul’s defence ministry said. The incident sparkeda brief panic on the South’s Yeonpyeong island, which was hit by adeadly North Korean barrage last November, but Seoul officials saidthe situation was now stable.

possibly during a training exercise.In response Marines based on

Yeonpyeong broadcast a warning andthen fired three warning shots fromK-9 self-propelled guns. These landednear the NLL. “The situation is nowstable,” a ministry spokesman toldAFP. “After we fired back, there wasno further response from the North.

“We are still on alert but it seems

that there will be no further provoca-tive acts from North Korea at themoment.” Troops on Yeonpyeongand other frontline islands have beenon high alert since last November’sbombardment, which killed fourSouth Koreans including civiliansand damaged scores of buildings.

The government has reinforcedtroops and sent extra weaponry to theislands. The firing briefly sparkedalarm on Yeonpyeong, where some1,800 civilians live along with theMarine garrison. “The residents werepreparing to evacuate their homes forshelters since they went through asimilar thing in the past,” a spokes-woman for Ongjin county, whichoversees the island, told AFP.

REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Members of Thailand’s new cabinet take a group photo at the Gov-ernment House in Bangkok August 10, 2011.

Thirachai namedfinance minister as Thaigovernment unveiled

also in the running for the centralbank governor’s job last year, hasa background that should allaysome concerns about Thailand’seconomic outlook.

“The economic ministers are ac-ceptable to foreign investors, soworries about runaway deficits andinflation are likely to decline,” saidRoberto Herrara-Lim, an analystwith Eurasia Group in New York.

Yingluck promised a big in-crease in the minimum wage andother populist policies that havebrought forecasts of a wage-pricespiral from economists, plus awarning from the central bank thatinterest rates might have to beraised even higher than antici-pated to combat inflation.

Writing on his Facebook pageon Wednesday, Thirachai said hewelcomed efforts to raise livingstandards but his job was to en-sure fiscal stability. He noted thathe had played no part in drawingup Puea Thai’s policy.

“Truth and political dreamshave to deal with the sustainabilityof the country’s fiscal status —that’s my concern,” he wrote.

Activities Thursday, August 11, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 7 through August 30, 2011

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days,depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

Balinese TempleCeremony

7 AugRedite Paing PahangPasek Toh Jiwa Kekeran - Mengwi -BadungPasek Sadra Peguyangan - Badung

9 AugAnggara Wage PahangBatu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihHyang Tibha Batuan Sakah

10 augBuda Keliwon PahangLuhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananSilayukti Temple Padangbai-KarangasemAer Jeruk SukawatiDangin Pasar Batuan-SukawatiPenataran Temple Batuyang-BatubulanDesa Lembeng Ketewel-SukawatiPasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-TabananKawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarKresek Banyuning-BulelengPuseh Temple Bebandem-KarangasemMerajan Pasek Kubayan-GajiMerajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-SonganMerajan Pasek Subrata TemagaMerajan Pasek Gelgel BungbunganSad Kahyangan Batu Medahu. S Nusa PenidaBuda Kliwon Penatih-DenpasarPenataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem KarangasemPasek Bendesa Temple Tagtag PaguyanganPulasari Temple Sibang Gede AbiansemalBatur Sari Temple UbudPenataran Agung Temple Sukawati

13 AugPurnama KaroGelap Temple BesakihDangkahyangan Temple Pengukur-ukur PejengMerajan Gerya Temple Kebon TabananCandi Goro Temple Tianyar-Kubu KarangasemPonjok Batu Temple Tejakula-Buleleng

15 AugSoma Keliwon KrulutPasel Gelgel Kekeran Temple Mngwi BadungMerajan Pasek Subadra Temple Kramas-Gianyar

20 AugTumpek KrurutPasek Gelgel Temple Br Tengah BulelengDalem Pemuteran Temple Jelantik Tojan - KlungkungPedarmaan Bhujangga W. Temple BesakihTaman Sari Temple Gunungsari Penebel - TabananDalem Tarukan Temple Bebalang BangliBenua Kangin Temple BesakihMerajan Kanginan Temple Besakih

21 AugRedite Umanis MerakihParangan Tengah Temple Ceningan Kangin - LembonganDalem Temple Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar

24 AugBuda Wage MerakihBendesa Mas Kepisah Temple Pedungan - Denpasar SelatanNatih Temple Banjar Kalah - BatubulanPuseh. Temple Silakarang - Singapadudalem Petitenget Temple Kerobokan - KutaDalem Pulasari Temple Samplangan - GianyarKubayan - Kepisah Temple Pedungan - Denpasar - SelatanPasek gelgel Temple Banjar Tanahpegat - TabananPaibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - DenpasarPasek Temple Lumintang - DenpasarPanti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding - TampaksiringPasar Agung Temple Kaba-kaba - Tabanan

30 AugAnggar Kasih TambirDalem Puri Batuan Temple SukawatiDalem Kediri Temple Silakarang - SingapaduDalem Temple SukawatiDalem Temple Singakerta - Ubuddalem Lembeng Temple Ketewel - SukawatiPaibon Pasek Tangkas Temple Peliatan - Ubud

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Thursday, August 11, 20116 News

But skeptics question whetherany new leader will fare much bet-ter than his five predecessors, noneof whom lasted long in office andwho all struggled to implementpolicies to end two decades of eco-nomic stagnation and fix the deepstructural problems of a fast-agingsociety.

Japanese media said Kan’sDemocratic Party was planning tovote on a new leader as early asAugust 28, although a party sourcesaid the schedule could slip a bit ifit took longer to enact pending leg-islation, including a bill allowingthe government to issue more bondsto pay for this year’s budget.

A lower house panel on


MONTERREY, Mexico — Atractor trailer loaded with cementcrashed into a day-care center innorthern Mexico on Tuesday, kill-ing three small girls and threeadults.

Nuevo Leon state officials saidthe truck might have had a brake

Endgame nearing forEndgame nearing forEndgame nearing forEndgame nearing forEndgame nearing forunpopular Japan PMunpopular Japan PMunpopular Japan PMunpopular Japan PMunpopular Japan PMReuters

TOKYO - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan looked likely to finally step downthis month after parliament made headway on key legislation on Wednesday, setting the stagefor Japan’s sixth prime minister in five years. Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, a low-keyfiscal conservative, is a key contender to succeed Kan.

Wednesday approved that bill, pas-sage of which Kan has said was aprerequisite for his resignation.“No one knows what he will do,but the conditions for Kan’s resig-nation are firming up,” saidMikitaka Masuyama at the Na-tional Graduate Institute for PolicyStudies.

A new prime minister will haveto find funds to rebuild Japan’snortheast from the ravages of themassive March tsunami despitepublic debt already twice the $5trillion economy, forge a new en-ergy policy in the wake of thenuclear crisis at a crippled powerplant and tackle tax and social se-curity reforms.

Finance Minister YoshihikoNoda, who like Kan sees reiningin ballooning public debt as apolicy priority, appears to havepole position. Surveys show, how-ever, that he lacks appeal amongordinary voters and his calls forhigher levies could make him anunpopular choice in some quartersof the ruling party.

Whether to raise taxes and howto pull the world’s third-biggesteconomy out of deflation willlikely be a focus of the party race,with some potential contenderscalling for more aggressive loos-ening of monetary policy and waryof a plan to double the sales tax to10 percent by mid-decade.

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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) speaks with Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as theyattend a committee meeting in parliament’s lower house in Tokyo August 10, 2011.

Truck crashes into Mexicannursery school, kills 6

failure before it crashed into thesmall building, which was made ofmud bricks and is run by a socialservice agency of the Mexican gov-ernment.

The girls were aged 2, 4 and 6,State Civil Defense Director JorgeCamacho Rincon said. The adultsincluded a man whose car was hitby the truck near the building and

two inside.Rincon said a girl about 18

months old was being treated at ahospital along with the truck driver,who was from the eastern state ofVeracruz.

The accident happened in theremote town of Arramberi and he-licopters were used to evacuate theinjured.

Britain’s riots began Saturday whenan initially peaceful protest over a po-lice shooting in London’s Tottenhamneighborhood turned violent. Thatclash has morphed into a general law-lessness in London and several othercities that police have struggled to halt.

With police struggling to controlthe violence, some residents stoodguard to protect their neighborhoods.Outside a Sikh temple in Southall, westLondon, residents vowed to defendtheir place of worship if mobs of youngrioters appeared. Another groupmarched through Enfield, in northLondon, aiming to deter looters.

In a potentially troublesome devel-opment, one far-right group said about1,000 of its members around the coun-try were taking to the streets to deterrioters.

“We’re going to stop the riots —police obviously can’t handle it,”Stephen Lennon, leader of the far-rightEnglish Defense League, told The As-sociated Press. He warned that hecouldn’t guarantee there wouldn’t beviolent clashes with rioting youths.

Anders Behring Breivik, who hasconfessed to the bombing and massa-cre that killed 77 people in Norwaylast month, has cited the EDL as aninspiration.

Meanwhile virtually every majorcity in England was seeing some formof unrest.

In the central England city ofNottingham, police said rioters hurledfirebombs though the window of a po-lice station, and set fire to a school anda vehicle outside a second police sta-tion — but there were no reports ofinjuries. A total of 90 people were ar-rested in attacks on stores, a college, acommunity center and cars.

Some 250 people were arrested af-ter two days of violence in Birming-ham — where police launched a mur-der investigation after the deaths ofthree men who were hit by a car. Itwasn’t immediately clear if the deathswere linked to the rioting. Police arealso looking into unconfirmed reportsof shots fired in a restive inner-cityneighborhood.

In the northern city of Liverpool,about 200 youths hurled missiles atpolice and firefighters in a second nightof unrest, and the area’s police forcereported 44 arrests.

There also were minor clashes forthe first time in the central and west-ern England locations of Leicester,Wolverhampton, West Bromwich,Bristol, and Gloucester — where po-

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lice and firefighters tackled a blaze anddisturbance in the city’s Brunswickdistrict.

In London, stores, offices and nurs-ery schools had closed early Tuesdayevening amid fears of fresh rioting.Several usually busy streets were quietas some cafes, restaurants and pubsalso decided to shut down for the night.

Many shops had their metal blindspulled down, while other businessowners rushed to secure plywood overtheir windows before nightfall.

In east London’s Bethnal Greendistrict, convenience store ownerAdnan Butt, 28, said the situation wasstill tense.

Prime Minister David Cameron’sgovernment rejected calls by Conser-vative lawmaker Patrick Mercer andsome members of the public forstrong-arm riot measures that Britishpolice generally avoid, such as tear gasand water cannons.

“They should have the tools avail-able and they should use them if thecommander on the ground thinks it’snecessary,” Mercer said.

So far 768 people have been ar-rested in London and 167 charged —including an 11-year-old boy — andthe capital’s prison cells were over-flowing. Britain’s Crown ProsecutionService said it had teams of lawyersworking 24 hours a day to help policedecide whether to charge suspects,allowing them to quickly clear policestation cells.

A total of 111 officers and 14 mem-bers of the public have been hurt sofar in the rioting, including a man inhis 60s who was attacked as he at-tempted to put out a fire startedby members of a mob.

Police said the injured man hadbeen tackling a blaze in a garbagebin, when he was set upon by sev-eral rioters. “It was quite a graveassault and his condition is caus-ing us some concern,” said policecommander Simon Foy.

The unrest has been Britain’sworst since race riots set Londonablaze in the 1980s.

A soccer match scheduled forWednesday between England andthe Netherlands at London’sWembley stadium was canceledto free up police officers for riotduty. Britain’s soccer authoritiessaid they were in talks with po-lice to see whether this weekend’sseason-opening matches of thePremier League could still goahead in London.

Colombia...

He allegedly demanded bribes worth around $3 million to approve thecontracts, according to The Jakarta Post newspaper. Three other peoplehave been arrested over the scandal.

Wearing a hat and speaking from an unknown location, he recentlyappeared on Indonesian television making graft allegations against sev-eral high-ranking officials from the Democratic Party.

Yudhoyono has won two elections on the back of promises to stampout corruption in Indonesia, which according to independent watchdogTransparency International is one of the world’s most corrupt countries.

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CIKEUSIK — When Dani binMisra was released from prison lastweek after serving just threemonths for smashing in the skull ofa member of a Muslim sect, thisconservative Indonesian town letout a triumphant cry.

“He’s a hero!” Rasna bin Wildansaid of the teenage killer.

The ferociousness of the attack,captured on video and circulatedwidely on the Internet, guaranteedno one from the Ahmadiyah groupwould dare set foot in Cikeusikagain, the 38-year-old farmer saidas others nodded in agreement.

Their reaction is part of a widerwave of intolerance against reli-gious minorities that is challengingIndonesia’s image as a beacon ofhow Islam and liberalism can co-exist.

Once the preserve of hard-linepreachers, the hatred of Ahmadis now

“This reflects that the future of Indonesia’s oil and gas indus-try will be dominated by gas,” Gde Pradnyana, spokesman forBPMigas, said in statement.

These projects are expected to produce 1,750 million standardcubic feet of gas per day (MMSCFD); 20,000 barrels oil per day(bpd); and 26,000 BPD of oil condensate, BPMigas’s spokesmanGde Pradnyana said in a statement.

Pradnyana said gas output from the project would be prioritisedfor the domestic market, but export will remain an option.

The list does not include ExxonMobil’s Cepu block, Indonesia’sbiggest oil project in the pipeline, which is entering its full de-velopment phase towards the targeted peak production of 165,000bpd from around 20,000 bpd now.

Indonesia, a former OPEC member, has been struggling withdeclining oil output from ageing fields and rising demand for gas,which is limiting its gas export potential.

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MEDAN - Police in Medan,North Sumatra, have arrestedSyarifuddin whose passport wasused by corruption suspectNazaruddin to travel abroad.

The director of the North SumatraPolice Command‘s Criminal Inves-tigation Unit, Senior CommissionerAgus Andrianto, confirmed here onTuesday Syarifuddin was arrested athis new home in Medan.

Agus did not discloseSyarifuddin‘s new address nor thetime he was arrested. He said the

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JAKARTA - Indonesia has 10 oil and gas projects with to-tal investment of $4.725 billion in the pipeline and are expectedto come onstream between 2011 and 2014, with most of thenew production skewed towards gas, said oil and gas watch-dog BPMigas.

Brokers trade atthe Bahana

Securities officein Jakarta on

August 10, 2011.Indonesianshares lost

115.15 points or2.99 percent to

3,735.11 theprevious day led

by selling byforeign funds

amid concernsover the state of

the USeconomy, but

pared somelosses after the

central bankmaintained its

key interestrate.

Police arrest man whose passportwas used by Nazaruddin

arrest was made upon a requestfrom the National Police‘s Crimi-nal Investigation Department inJakarta.

Nazaruddin, the former treasurerof the ruling Democrat Party, wasarrested in Cartagena, Colombia, at2am local time on Sunday (Aug 7)after ignoring Corruption Eradica-tion Commission (KPK) sum-monses for the past few months.

The KPK had named Nazaruddina suspect in connection with thebribery at the SEA Games AthleteBuilding project.

Nazaruddin left for Singapore on

May 23 or a day before the KPK re-quested for a travel ban for him.

When caught in Colombia,Nazaruddin was with his wife andseveral other persons.

He went from Singapore to Vietnamand then Cambodia where he then de-parted on a chartered plane to Bogotathrough Madrid and the DominicanRepublic. Nazaruddin has drawn pub-lic attention following his statementsfrom his hiding that some party elitewere also involved in his case.

Many quarters hoped he wouldexplain about the issue later when hereturned to the country.

No shame for religious killings in Indonesian townseems to be spreading among ordi-nary people in pockets of the world’smost populous Muslim nation.Whether the government can checkthis and other intolerance could bekey to how Indonesia, home to 240million people and one of the world’sfastest growing economies, evolvesin the 21st century.

There are reasons to worry, ana-lysts say.

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono, who relies heavily onIslamic parties for support in par-liament, has remained silent ashard-liners shuttered Christianchurches, threw Molotov cocktailsat one of their theology schools,and attacked worshippers andpriests with knives and clubs asthey headed to morning prayers.

A string of attacks on theAhmadiyah — including the torch-ing of mosques and homes — onlygot worse after a 2008 governmentdecree that said those who follow

their practices or proselytize couldface up to five years in prison.

Soon after, residents in Cikeusik,a rough-and-tumble farming com-munity less than 120 miles (200 ki-lometers) from Jakarta, elected anew village chief, Muhammad Johar— the only candidate pledging totake a tough stand against the sect.

Many mainstream Muslims con-sider the Ahmadis heretics becausethey do not believe Muhammad wasthe final prophet.

In the eyes of the villagers, Daniand other members of the frenziedmob who killed three Ahmadis inFebruary were just helping get thejob done. Six were wounded, and theothers fled with only the clothes ontheir backs, their houses destroyedand looted.

“I do feel bad people had to die,”said Asep Setiadi, 40, as he headedout to his rice field. “But I’m grate-ful that they’re finally gone.”

Twenty-eight-year-old Siti

Zubaidah, holding her baby girl ina sling as she chatted with a neigh-bor, had nothing but praise for Dani.

“We had to clean our village,”added Wildan bin Satim, 72. “Thisis no place for the followers of acult.”

The Ahmadiyah, established in1889 in India, consider its founderMirza Ghulam Ahmad to be a saviorand messiah, counter to traditionalIslamic teaching. They have tens ofmillions of members worldwide andaround 200,000 in Indonesia.

They were not always unwel-come in Cikeusik, where men carryswords as they walk the dusty,potholed roads after nightfall toward off beggars, thieves and otherpotential troublemakers.

Matori Abdullah was the firstAhmadi to arrive.

He, his wife and eight childrenlived peacefully alongside otherMuslims in the 1980s and early’90s, attending the same mosque

and religious ceremonies.But the situation began to dete-

riorate after the ouster in 1998 oflongtime dictator Suharto, who hadsuppressed hard-liners and evendiscouraged the wearing ofheadscarves by women.

Conservatives in Cikeusik used anewfound freedom of expression toinsult the Ahmadiyah, who by thennumbered about 35, most of thempart of Abdullah’s extended family.

Clerics raised questions duringsermons about the validity of theirfaith, and residents whispered asthey passed in the streets.

“Sometimes teachers would tellthe class the Ahmadis are heretics,”said 15-year-old Arief MuhammadZainal, now living in fear in the out-skirts of Jakarta with others fromthe village. “The other studentswould point and stare. Other timeskids would pinch or slap me, mut-tering ‘Ahmadiyah boy’ as theypassed.”

8 InternationalThursday, August 11, 2011

Bali TodayBali Post

DENPASAR - The impact ofdebt crisis of the United Stateson Bali tourism in the short termwill not be visible. Deteriorationof the U.S. economy, marked bythe decline in capital market in-dices in various countries, makesmany circles anxious.

Head of Bali GovernmentTourism Office, IB KadeSubhiksu, was optimistic be-cause the foreign tourist visitsfrom the U.S. to the Island of theGods were not influenced by theU.S. crisis. “There is no great im-pact on Bali. Trend of their visitto Bali even shows an increase,and until the first half of thisyear, the number of visit hasreached 72,000 tourists,” saidKade Subhiksu in Denpasar onTuesday (Aug 9).

The impact of the U.S.economy would come into viewnext 3 to 6 months. Similarly, hedid not know for sure whether thecrisis was affecting the level offoreign tourist visit from othercountries to Bali. “To be sure,people will refrain from travel-ing. They would prefer to pay at-tention to expenses according totheir scale of priorities,” he said.

Bali tourism was said to haveoften faced the arising shocksand all had been faced. “Withouta doubt, the influence of the U.S.crisis indeed exists, howeverthere are many tourists who havemiddle to upper income level thatwill not change their decision foran excursion as usual,” he said.

He explained that tourism wasan activity that was not so vul-nerable to the influence of crisisthat was haunting the businessand economy of the world. How-ever, it was very vulnerable tosafety and comfort conditions oftourists in enjoying their holi-days.

Citizens of the United Stateswere becoming a potential mar-ket for Bali in the midst of de-clining Japanese tourist visit toBali after the tsunami disaster.Bali Government Tourism Officenoted that spending of touristsfrom the Superpower countryduring their stay in Bali reachedUSD 136.81 to USD 163.60 perday.

Based on the market charac-teristics, the American citizensmade Bali one of their favoritetourist destinations. However,since it had not been worked on

Bali tourism notaffected by U.S. crisis

Indonesian national UmarPatek had a $1 million bounty onhis head when he was capturedin the Pakistani town ofAbbottabad Jan. 25, four monthsbefore Osama bin Laden waskilled there in a U.S. commandoattack.

The 41-year-old Patek alleg-edly built the bombs used in thesuicide attacks on Bali nightclubspacked with foreign tourists.Many of the victims were Aus-tralians.

Anti-Terrorism Agency chiefAnsyaad Mbai told The Associ-ated Press on Wednesday thatPatek would be returned to Indo-nesia before Aug. 30 to standtrial.

Pakistan to extradite Balibomb suspect this monthAsspociated Press Writer

JAKARTA — A top anti-terrorism official says Pakistan will extradite a key suspect in the2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people to Indonesia by the end of the month.

The Bali administration isaiming to develop the island asa medical tourism destinationin a bid to boost tourist arriv-als and fund free medicalhealthcare for poor residents.

Governor Made MangkuPastika said Bali had a greattourism industry, but also un-tapped potential for medicaltourism.

“Considering the hugepopulation in Indonesia andthe fact that there are manyexpatriates in Bali who goabroad to get medical treat-ment, why don’t we developthe island’s medical tourism,”the governor said early thisweek.

To realize the target, the ad-ministration will build an in-ternational standard hospital.

“We need to have one inter-

maximally, of the 30 millionpeople traveling overseas everyyear, the majority of them visitedCanada, Mexico, Europe and theCaribbean. “Among the 89.13percent of the U.S. travelers vis-iting Bali for a holiday, only asmall fraction came for businesspurposes. Their loyalty to Balidestination is the same as loyaltyof Japanese and Australian tour-ists,” he explained.

During their stay on the Islandof the Gods, they mostly choseto stay at star hotels, namelyaround 59.78 percent. So far, themost favorite international des-tinations for them were the Car-ibbean, Mexico, Europe, Asia,Latin America and Canada.Meanwhile, specifically for theAsia Pacific region, they choseSingapore, Hong Kong, Seouland Bangkok.

Pursuant to the data on touristvisit released by Central Statis-tics Agency (BPS) of Bali Prov-ince, during the period of Janu-ary to June of 2011, most foreigntourists coming to Bali were fromAustralia, China, Japan, Malay-sia as well as Taiwan and they oc-cupied the largest number withrespective percentage of 26.73percent, 8.16 percent, 6.80 per-cent, 6.40 percent and 5.01 per-cent. Meanwhile, the UnitedStates ranked tenth with the ar-rival of 41,303 people. (par)

Bali sets sight on developing medical tourismnational standard hospital that wedesign as a tourism hospital,”Pastika said.

The construction of the hospi-tal will commence early nextyear, and is estimated to cost Rp200 billion (US$23.6 million) toRp 300 billion. The plan is tocomplete the hospital before theAPEC conference in 2013.

Pastika said the hospital wouldbe built on a three-hectare plotbelonging to the provincial ad-ministrat ion on Jl . By PassNgurah Rai, Sanur. A feasibilitystudy is underway to realize theproject.

The project will be financedthrough the provincial budget,the governor said.

With a large number of tour-ists coming to Bali, the governorsaid he was upbeat the interna-tional hospital would yield a high

return on investment.More than 2 million foreigners

come to Bali for holiday every year.About 1.27 million tourists visitedthe island in the first half of thisyear, a 10 percent increase from thesame period last year, according tothe Bali Tourism Agency.

“If we could attract at least 5percent of the tourists to come toBali to get medical treatment, wewould have served a hundred thou-sand of them. That number still ex-cludes domestic tourists,” Pastikasaid.

“Singapore, Malaysia andThailand are advancing in medi-cal tourism, so why can’t we?”

He said he recognized the needto prepare competent human re-sources to manage the interna-tional hospital.

“This will be one of the resultsof the feasibil i ty study. We

should consider who would beable to manage this hospital,because it would not be easy.”

He said the hospital wouldalso accommodate poor pa-tients covered by the BaliMandara free healthcarescheme (JKBM).

Al Purwa, the chairman ofIndonesian Tours and Travel(Asita) in Bali, said develop-ing Bali as a medical tourismdestination was a good idea,and that the provincial admin-istration should have lookedinto the opportunity 10 years.

He said Bali had the chanceto attract more than the targetof 5 percent of tourist arrivalsas medical tourists, consider-ing that the patients would beaccompanied by their families,as well as relatives that wouldcome to visit them.

In this 2007 file photoobtained by the Associated

Press from a Philippinesecurity official, Indonesian

militant Umar Patek ad-dresses fellow militants in

an Abu Sayyaf mountainencampment on Jolo island

in southern Philippines. AP Photo/File

Balinese Culture

Thursday, August 11, 2011 9

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International

Balinese DrinksThere are various kinds of beverages that are

unique to Bali or to Indonesia.

Cendol:Jello-like consistency, green pieces of tapioka,

mixed with water and santan or coconut milk, andsweetened by a liquified gula jawa or brown sugar.

Es campur (Mixed drink):somewhat similar to cendol, but it contains a variety

of things. In addition to different kinds of tapiokaproducts, sometimes people different kinds of fruits likeavocado, nangka or jackfruit, etc.

Like tit for tat. The intention ofBadung government to develop theNorthern Badung region as a tour-ism destination receive positive re-spond from the community ofPangsan Village, Petang Subdis-trict. The village inhabited by apopulation of 2,205 people andspreading on the extent of 553 hect-ares is now keeping on improvingitself to craete Pangsan as a tour-ism village. Aside from preservingthe culture, maintaining the beautyof environment and indigenous wis-dom, the village also has a tourismproduct invariably becomes a tour-ist attraction in the form of raftingand trekking attraction.

Village Head of Pangsan, I MadeSuarjana, said that local communityhad done various preparations torealize Pangsan as a tourism village.Armed with the vivacity ‘from us,by us, and for us” the communitywork hand in hand in managing theenvironment. For example, theyplanted trees, cleaned up the envi-ronment and cleared the path oftrekking. He added there are no in-vestors or travel agents providingthe support. His party is only as-sisted by the Badung Regency Gov-ernment in the form of coaching.

The pathways passing throughthe area of Pangsan Village hadbeen already well prepared. Even,the existing bridge within the terri-tory of Subak Bregiding would berepaired in the near future with thefunds obtained from a French do-nor. However, he was aware that Brem (Rice wine):

As described above, brem is a by-product of tape.The wine comes out of the rice because offermentation. Arak:

arak is a kind of hard liquor. It is fermented from thesap of a special kind of palm tree.

Additionally, there are variants of non-alcoholicbeverages above that have met Balinese creativity andoutside influence, resulting in various kinds ofinteresting drinks. Air kelapa muda (young coconutjuice) with various kinds of liquors like rum or tequilacan be found in many restaurants, presentedattractively in the coconut fruit itself. And what can bemore interesting than a Pina-Colada like drink servedinside a freshly cut out pineapple? (http://asiarecipe.com)

Air kelapa muda (Youngcoconut juice)

Fruit juice: you can find various kinds of fruit juicedrinks, from papaya to markisah (passion fruit) tosirsak (Dutch durian).

For alcoholic beverages, there are two primarydrinks:

Pangsan Comes Out as Tourism Villagethere were some drawbacks, so theyneeded an improvement. “Pangsanhas been prepared to be a tourismvillage and needs a little improve-ment. Even, it is ready to representBadung in the competition of tour-ism village,” he explained.

As a matter of fact, explainedSuarjana, the idea to developPangsan into a tourism village wasfrom foreign tourists. After enjoy-ing rafting adventure, they saw anatmosphere of beautiful village, sothe idea to develop a tracking pro-gram emerged. One of the partici-pants was interested to stay longerat Pangsan Village, and then it wasresumed with the desire of estab-lishing a home stay. “There havebeen many tourists staying in thepeople’s homes. As a result, theimpact of tourism is truly enjoyedby the community of Pangsan Vil-lage,” he said.

Comparable opinion was alsodelivered by Chief of Pangsan Cus-tomary Village, I Nyoman Lendra,that for the preparation of humanresources, his party made coopera-tion with the government of BadungRegency to provide foreign lan-guage training and the ways to re-ceive guests. In addition, his partyalso took advantage of the tourismfigures at the local village. “Hope-fully, government could lend a handto this village in order ours couldpromptly become a tourism vil-lage,” he said.

Nyoman Kitha, as chairman oftourism venture group (Pokdarwis)

of Pangsan Village said that it re-mained a single step ahead to de-velop Pangsan as a tourism village.This village, he explained, had ap-pealing environmental aspect suchas agriculture, plantations, livestockand unique fishery worth introduc-ing to tourists. In addition, the vil-lage was rich in rare plants such ascacao, mangosten, durian, vanilla,papaya, kepundung (Baccaurearacemosa), ceroring (LansiumDomesticum), and many others. “Interms of cultural aspect, Pangsan isvery rich in arts. We have a gamelantroupe, dancers, art of masks, un-leashed dance, arja operetta,psalmodic group, and specialbarong dance for performing art. Inaddition, the village had potentialin appealing handicraft, Balinesecake making, oblation making,ironsmith and rice milling as a homeindustry. In the near future, peoplewill establish a woman’s cak acappella troupe,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head ofBadung Government Tourism Of-fice, Cokorda Raka Darmawan,admitted to be proud of the spiritindicated by Pangsan as a tourismvillage. It was necessary becausetourism sector was required toplay an important role in promot-ing the regional economic growthand welfare. The cultural, eco-friendly and community-basedtourism posed an attempt to im-prove the participation of localcommunities in tourismmanagement.(BTN/015)

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Penelokan is situated on the southern part of BaturTengah Village of Kintamani District, around 20 kmsfrom the town of Bangli or some 63 km fromDenpasar, the capital of Bali Province.

Many guests, domestic or foreign choose this placeso they can enjoy the cold but refreshing air of themountainous land. Of course, while they taste thestunning views of the solid black lavas of MountBatur’s eruption in 1917 that devastated the surround-ing village.

Batur has scenic views and is part of Kintamanithat is in the northern side of Bangli Regency.Penelokan (Look Out Point) is the best ppalce to seethe drooping jaws sceneries offered by Mount andLake Batur. It is about 1,500 meters above sea level.Its temperature is at the average 22 degress Celciusat noo and 16 degress Celcius during the night.

And we invite those adventurous to climb themountain until reaching the peak. The crater seemsto be a beautiful painting carved to the mountain.

In addition to seeing the mountain, Batur also of-fers the charming Lake Batur with its clean waterand the unique graveyard and Barong Brutuk ofTrunyan Village, that cannot be found anywhere elsein Bali.

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SINGAPORE — Export reliantSingapore cut its 2011 economicgrowth and trade forecasts Wednes-day amid growing fears consumerdemand from the U.S. and Europecould be weaker than previouslyexpected.

Gross domestic product shouldgrow between 5 percent and 6 per-cent this year, down from a previ-ous forecast of as much as 7 per-cent, the Trade and Industry Min-istry said.

The ministry also reduced itsgrowth forecast for non-oil domes-tic exports to between 6 percent and7 percent from an earlier predictionof between 8 percent and 10 per-cent.

“While a recession is not withinour central scenario and growthmomentum is still likely to pick upin the second half, the uplift couldbe weaker than anticipated giventhe downside risks to the globaleconomy,” said Irvin Seah, an ana-lyst with DBS bank, which loweredits GDP forecast to 6.2 percent from7 percent.

Singapore’s economy — whichdepends on manufacturing, tourismand finance — is one of the mostsensitive in Asia to global growth.The city-state suffered a brief butsharp recession in the first half of2009 in the wake of the global fi-nancial crisis, but roared back with15 percent growth last year.

Despite slowing economicgrowth, the central bank plans tomaintain its current policy of allow-ing a gradual appreciation of theSingapore dollar in a bid to containinflation, Ong Chong Tee, deputymanaging director of the Monetary

China’s trade growth rebounds in JulyChina’s trade growth rebounds in JulyChina’s trade growth rebounds in JulyChina’s trade growth rebounds in JulyChina’s trade growth rebounds in JulyAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING — China’s trade growth rebounded in July despite weakening global demand andits politically sensitive trade surplus rose to its highest level in more than two years.

Export growth for the world’ssecond-largest economy re-bounded to 20.4 percent fromJune’s 17.9 percent, while importsrose 22.9 percent, up from June’s19.3 percent, customs datashowed Wednesday.

The unexpectedly strong im-port growth is a bright spot foreconomies that are looking toChina to drive demand for iron ore

and other imports. But that de-mand is weakening as Chineseindustrial activity slows amid gov-ernment efforts to cool aneconomy that grew by 9.5 percentin the latest quarter.

China’s exports also have beenunusually resilient, though globaldemand for Chinese goods is ex-pected to decline as economicprospects for key U.S. and Euro-

pean export markets worsen.The country’s global trade sur-

plus swelled to a 30-month highof $31.5 billion, possibly fuelingdemands by the United States andother governments for Beijing toease its exchange-rate controls.

Exports rose to a new monthlyhigh of $175.1 billion while im-ports grew to $143.6 billion de-spite cooling Chinese industrial

activity.China’s trade balance reversed

course early this year, recordinga rare deficit in the first quarter.It has rebounded strongly sincethen and analysts expect the coun-try to record a global surplus of$160 billion to $200 billion for theyear.

Manufacturing has declined inrecent months due to curbs oncredit and weaker overseas de-mand. A survey by HSBC Corp.released earlier showed manufac-turing contracted in July for thefirst time this year.

China’s trade surplus with theUnited States widened 7 percentover a year ago to $20.9 billionwhile the gap with the 27-nationEuropean Union, its biggest trad-ing partner, grew 28 percent to$17.4 billion.

Beijing is under pressure fromWashington and other tradingpartners to ease controls that theycomplain keep the country’s cur-rency, the yuan, undervalued andswell China’s trade surplus. Thecommunist government has al-lowed the currency to rise but notas fast as critics want.

Oil above $82 as Fedpledges low rates to 2013Associated Press Writer

SINGAPORE — Oil prices rose above $82 a barrel Wednes-day in Asia after the U.S. central bank said it will keep lendingrates at record low levels for the next two years.

Benchmark oil for September delivery was up $2.99 to $82.29a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading onthe New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude fell $2.01 to settle at$79.30 on Tuesday.

In London, Brent crude was up $2.30 at $104.87 per barrel onthe ICE Futures exchange.

The U.S. Federal Reserve said Tuesday it plans to keep its keyinterest rate low until at least 2013, news that helped calm inves-tors nervous the economy could be heading for recession.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 4 percent Tuesday,reversing earlier losses after the Fed statement. Asian stock mar-kets were mostly higher Wednesday.

A report showing an unexpected decline in U.S. crude sup-plies also helped push oil prices higher.

The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crudeinventories fell 5.2 million barrels last week while analysts sur-veyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.,had predicted an increase of 1.8 million barrels.

Inventories of gasoline dropped 1.0 million barrels last weekwhile distillates decreased 600,000 barrels, the API said.

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administrationreports its weekly supply data later Wednesday.

Oil prices have dropped about 30 percent since May and areback near where they were in January before violent politicalupheavals in the Middle East and North Africa threatened sup-plies in the oil-rich region.

Some analysts expect crude to fall further as consumer de-mand falters amid muted economic growth in developed coun-tries.

“The global economic dynamics that set this sharp oil pricedecline into motion a few weeks ago remain very much intactand capable of forcing a price decline into the $70-75 zone,”energy consultant Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report.

“The main theme behind the oil trade of the past month re-mains one in which heightened economic uncertainties mainlyrelated to Europe and the U.S. are bringing into clearer focus asignificant downdraft in oil demand,” it said.

In other Nymex trading in September contracts, heating oilrose 7.0 cents to $2.84 a gallon while gasoline gained 6.8 centsat $2.74 a gallon. Natural gas futures advanced 1.4 cents at $4.01per 1,000 cubic feet.

Singapore cuts forecastsfor economy, exports

Authority of Singapore, told report-ers Wednesday.

“Both price stability and eco-nomic growth is important consid-erations that we took into accountin our monetary policy formula-tion,” Ong said. “We believe that thecurrent monetary policy stance re-mains appropriate.”

The Singapore dollar has gainedabout 5 percent so far this year toSG$1.21 per U.S. dollar afterstrengthening 9.3 percent last year.Singapore’s central bank uses itscurrency, rather than interest rates,to influence economic conditions.

Singapore’s annual inflation ratejumped to 5.2 percent in June from4.5 percent in May.

The city-state’s economy grew

0.9 percent in the April to June pe-riod from a year earlier, more thanthe 0.5 percent growth in prelimi-nary results released last month, theministry said. The economy con-tracted a seasonally adjusted andannualized 6.5 percent from the firstquarter, better than the 7.8 percentdrop initially announced.

Manufacturing slid 5.9 percentin the second quarter from a yearearlier while services grew 3.9 per-cent and construction expanded 1.5percent, the ministry said.

Non-oil domestic exports grew2.1 percent last quarter after jump-ing 12 percent in the first quarter,weighed down by a 11 percent dropin demand for electronics in the firsthalf, the ministry said.

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, file

In this Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, the Marina Bay Sands is seenagainst the financial skyline in Singapore. Export reliantSingapore cut its 2011 economic growth and trade forecastsWednesday amid growing fears consumer demand from theU.S. and Europe could be weaker than previously expected.

Entertainment InternationalThursday, August 11, 201112

The mood is set from the begin-ning when an offstage voice sub-verts the traditional warning to turnoff all cell phones with the encour-agement to keep them on. Why?You never know who may be try-ing to call. We are also told to notethe locations of the emergency ex-its because “something terriblecould happen at any moment.”

Indeed it could. With the perform-ers so close in this intimate, 499-seattheater, the creators — the Montreal-based collective known as 7 Fingers— have found a perfect location forthis kinetic, beautifully sinister, ur-ban “circus on a human scale.”

The 90-minute hip-hop-flavoredshow mixes high-risk acrobatics,music and dance with the thrill ofstreet performance. The seven-member ensemble goes from tra-ditional eye-popping stunts such asspinning inside a 6-foot whirlingring to leaping through hoops towhipping around a basketball todoing skateboard tricks.

NEW YORK - Jay-Z and Kanye West con-sider themselves the kings of the rap game.Not only have they said as much with the titleof their newly released album — “Watch theThrone” — but they take every opportunity tobrag about their private jets, their cars and any-thing else with a big price tag.

Whatever you think of their music — butreally, what’s not to like? — it turns out theyare justified. Forbes has released its list ofthe past year’s top earners among hip-hopartists — never mind that Jay-Z is definitivelya rapper — and Jay and Kanye come in at

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LOS ANGELES - With its “Smurfs” be-coming perhaps the biggest surprise hit atthe box office this summer, Sony an-nounced Tuesday that it’s moving forwardwith a sequel.

“Smurfs 2” will debut August 2, 2013,the studio said, with Jordan Kerner serv-ing as producer.

Sony didn’t release any other details, in-cluding whether or not Neil Patrick Harris willbe back to take on the live-action lead role.

Code Blue! SonyGreenlights “Smurfs 2”

The original “Smurfs,” produced at acost of $110 million, has grossed $135 mil-lion after less than two weeks of worldwiderelease (the film went wide internationallylast weekend in 23 territories).

Projected to take in no more than $30million its domestic premiere two weeksago, the film outperformed expectations,grossed $35.6 million, and nearly toppedthe under-performing “Cowboys & Aliens”for the box-office crown that weekend.Sony acquired the project on turnaroundfrom Paramount and produced it inhouse.

REUTERS/Mike Segar

Costumed “Smurfs” characters wave on the main trading floor of the New York StockExchange, after ringing the opening bell for the Exchange’s session July 29, 2011.

FILE- Inthis Sept.13, 2010,file photo,KanyeWest, left,makes aguestappear-ance asJay-Zperformsat YankeeStadium inNew York.

Jay-Z, Diddy, Kanye Westare Forbes’ cash kings

first and third respectively.Sandwiched in between? Sean “Diddy”

Combs. Jay-Z laps everyone but Diddy, rak-ing in $37 million to Diddy’s $35 million. Westaccrued a paltry-in-comparison $16 million.

While the collaboration between Jay-Z andWest has been and will continue to be lucra-tive, it has also strained an already tense rela-tionship. So don’t get your hopes up for acollaboration between all three.

As for the rest of the list, Lil Wayne, Bird-man, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Akonand Ludacris round out the top 10.

AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File

AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Michael Meseke

In this theater publicity image released by The Hartman Group, performers are shown during a perfor-mance of “Traces,” in New York.

Urban circus ‘Traces’ offers a thrilling showUrban circus ‘Traces’ offers a thrilling showUrban circus ‘Traces’ offers a thrilling showUrban circus ‘Traces’ offers a thrilling showUrban circus ‘Traces’ offers a thrilling showAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — If the idea of seeing the circus sounds like a nicediversion from modern life, “Traces” is not for you. The thrilling off-Broadway show that opened Monday at the Union Square Theatre ismore likely to leave you with a delicious sense of dread. Send in theclowns? More like send in the goons.

The acts are interestingly —though not always flawlessly —connected by a post-apocalypticfeel. It all takes place in a make-shift shelter made from tarps andseems to get kicked off by an ex-plosion or a car crash, thrusting theseven together. A projector occa-sionally beams images from abovethe stage to a back screen, further-ing the sense of paranoia by addinga touch of surveillance.

The threat of violence is alwaysaround the corner: The hand-balancer’s act using chairs begins asa police interrogation, the teeterboardsection starts as a gang assault andthe pole act seems to originate in aprison. Police lights sometimes flashand chalk outlines are made of eachacrobat, which doubles as a cleverway of applying the chalk needed todecrease friction on equipment.

Directed and choreographed byShana Carroll and Gypsy Snider,the pace is breathless and electric.The seven performers — six guys

and one woman all dressed in pantsand jackets — sweat and puff andstep forward to reveal intimate de-tails of themselves.

One was born in 1986. Anotherweighs 160 pounds. One says hismother and father were both physi-

ologists. One confesses to beingclumsy, another inflexible (ha!).One says he’s a romantic. By theend, they are more than just per-formers, something Cirque duSoleil can’t accomplish.

The music veers from whimsical

— the acrobats dance with their boardsas if in a Busby Berkeley musical tothe song “It’s Only a Paper Moon” —to songs by Radiohead, Blackaliciousand John Zorn. The performers alsoplay piano on stage, an odd but touch-ing requirement from the creators.

International Thursday, August 11, 2011 13Science

“These new discoveries are veryimportant, because the insects andsunflower seeds confirm the type ofclimate that existed during the Mi-ocene period,” Honninger said in atelephone interview from the north-ern city of Chiclayo.

The paleontologists discovered“hundreds of pieces of amber upto 12 centimeters (five inches)

Agence France Presse

The tsunami that struck Japanon March 11 propagated wavesthat hit an ice shelf in Antarc-tica 13,000 kilometres (8,100miles) away, smashing parts ofit into huge icebergs, the Euro-pean Space Agency (ESA) saidon Tuesday. On March 12,ESA’s Envisat Earth-monitoringsatellite spotted icebergs thathad broken from the Sulzbergerice shelf, and on March 16, thepieces were seen floating intothe Ross Sea, it said.

The largest berg measuredabout 9.5 kms (5.9 miles) by 6.5kms (four miles), making itslightly bigger in surface areathan Manhattan, and had a likelydepth of about 80 metres (260feet). The tsunami was at least23 metres (76 feet) high after ithad been generated by an under-water quake of 9.0 magnitude,according to Japanese estimates

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A combo image made available by the European Space Agency (ESA)from March 2011 shows newly formed icebergs in Antarctica.

THE ongoing legal battles be-tween Apple and Samsung are heat-ing up. According to multiple re-ports, Apple has been granted a pre-liminary injunction that preventsSamsung from selling its GalaxyTab 10.1 in all countries in the Eu-ropean Union with the exemptionof the Netherlands.

A second lawsuit in Australia hashad in a similar outcome.Australia’s Sydney Morning Heraldreports that Samsung has “agreedto stop advertising the Galaxy Tab

Apple blocks the sale of Samsung’sGalaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe, Australia

10.1 in Australia and not to sell thedevice until it wins court approvalor the lawsuit is resolved.”

The feud between the two com-panies has been escalating sinceApril when Apple first filed its law-suit against Samsung in the US onthe grounds that “Samsung has fol-lowed each of Apple’sgroundbreaking products with imi-tation products that incorporateApple’s technology and distinctivedesign.” The products in questioninclude Samsung’s “iPad-like” Gal-

axy Tab 10.1 and its line of “iPhone-inspired” Galaxy smartphones.

Samsung issued the followingstatement to technology blog TheNext Web following reports its Gal-axy Tab 10.1 had been blocked fromsale in the EU: “Samsung is disap-pointed with the court’s decisionand we intend to act immediately todefend our intellectual propertyrights through the ongoing legalproceedings in Germany and willcontinue to actively defend theserights throughout the world.”

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A picture released in Lima by the Peruvian Paleontological Meyer-Hönningen Museum of Chiclayo innorthern Peru, shows detailed fossilized insect remains preserved in amber for over 23 million years,found in an excavation in the Santiago river basin, in the Amazon region.

Peru researchers makePeru researchers makePeru researchers makePeru researchers makePeru researchers makerare ancient insect findrare ancient insect findrare ancient insect findrare ancient insect findrare ancient insect findAgence France Presse

Researchers in Peru said Tuesday they have discovered the remainsof ancient insects and sunflower seeds trapped inside amber datingfrom the Miocene epoch, some 23 million years ago. The rare findwas made in the remote mountainous jungle region near Peru’s north-ern border with Ecuador, paleontologist Klaus Honninger told AFP.

large containing several types ofinsects,” Honninger said. The in-sects trapped in the amber — fos-silized tree resin — are extremelywell preserved and include an-cient beetles, barklice, flies andspiders.

Honninger, director of theChiclayo-based Meyer-HonningerPaleontology Museum, said that the

experts discovered “an unknownspecies of arachnid” with a headlike a dog and legs four times longerthan the body. The discovery wasmade in April in the Santiago Riverarea of northern Peru.

Extreme climate change from theMiocene epoch (23 to five millionyears ago) was likely the reason theinsects became extinct, Honningersaid. The same team of researchersannounced in January it had discov-ered a fossilized squid from the Cre-taceous era (145 to 65 million yearsago) some 3,700 meters (12,100feet) above sea level in the MaranonRiver Valley, also in far northernPeru.

Tsunami causedManhattan-sizediceberg in Antarctica

published a week after the event.Analysis of Envisat’s radar

pictures by experts in the UnitedStates suggests that the waveswere probably only about 30centimetres (18 inches) high bythe time they had crossed 13,000kilometres (8,100 miles) ofocean.

Even so, the rhythmic up-and-down movement was enough tostress the ice shelf’s rigid struc-ture, causing chunks to break offat its edge, ESA said in a pressrelease. Research that linked thetsunami to the iceberg calvingwas carried out by a team led byKelly Brunt, an ice specialist atNASA’s Goddard Space FlightCenter in Maryland. Their studyappears in an online publication,the Journal of Glaciology.

Ice shelves are thick floatingbeds of ice that are attached tothe coastline. They are created byglaciers whose ice is dischargedinto the sea.

Thursday, August 11, 201114 InternationalSport

“It was an informal meeting.We listened to their proposal butas we’re talking about an impor-tant player it’s not a transfer thatcan be completed in one after-noon. We’ll meet again,” Inter

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Barcelona winger Pedro Rodriguez believes Real Madridwill be “even more dangerous” this season, ahead of Sunday’sfirst ‘clasico’ between the bitter rivals. “What we want is towin the SuperCup,” for a third consecutive year, the 24-year-old told the Barcelona-based sports daily El Mundo Deportivopublished Wednesday.

“It is a major challenge. We measure ourselves againstMadrid, and have a title at stake. They will be two games ofhigh stress, very beautiful and competitive. It will be a greattest for the team.” The Spanish and European champions faceReal, last season’s King’s Cup winners, on Sunday in the firstleg of the SuperCup, at the Bernabeu stadium, with the returnleg at Camp Nou three days later.

“We will definitely play very well against them, but it is aclasico, the match in which anything can happen. The dy-namics can change, so we have to start off well.” Real fin-ished last season second behind league winners and arch-ri-vals Barcelona for the third successive year, star coach JoseMourinho’s first season in charge.

But Pedro, a key member of the Spain team that won lastyear’s World Cup, warned that Real will be a different pros-pect this season. “Real Madrid will be even more dangerous.Now the players are much more committed. It will be a toughleague. “They play very well. Above all we must watch outfor counter-attacks. They have a lot of speed up front, they’redifficult to stop.”

Manchester United leg-end Roy Keane believes hisold club will romp to thePremier League title astheir rivals fall by the way-side, i t was reportedWednesday. The outspokenIrish midfielder said Unitedwere firm favourites to re-tain the Premier Leaguecrown and dismissed thechances of Chelsea,Liverpool and Arsenal.

“Even Sir Alex Fergusonsaid the other day theleague’s getting tougher.But I don’t think so,” Keanetold The Sun.

“If United are really at it,which they will be, they’llwin it comfortably. Evenlast year when United wereslipping up, no team wasstrong enough to take ad-vantage of it.”

Keane said the arrival ofChelsea manager AndreVillas-Boas would not beenough to turn around theLondon club’s fortunes.

Mega-rich Russianoutfit AnzhiMakhachkala are intalks with Inter Milanover a possibletransfer ofCameroonianforward SamuelEto’o, the Serie Aclub revealed onTuesday

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Russian club Anzhi in talks for Inter’s Eto’oRussian club Anzhi in talks for Inter’s Eto’oRussian club Anzhi in talks for Inter’s Eto’oRussian club Anzhi in talks for Inter’s Eto’oRussian club Anzhi in talks for Inter’s Eto’oAgence France Presse

Mega-rich Russian outfit Anzhi Makhachkala are in talks with Inter Milan over a possibletransfer of Cameroonian forward Samuel Eto’o, the Serie A club revealed on Tuesday. Italianpress reports claim Anzhi, owned by Russian billionaire Suleyman Kerimov, have made a 30-million-euro bid for the former African footballer of the year and are prepared to pay him 60million euros net over three years.

technical director Marco Brancatold La Gazzetta dello Sport.

The newspaper said Anzhi hadsent a four-man delegation toMilan to thrash out a deal, includ-ing former Real Madrid striker

Pedrag Mijatovic. Eto’o, who wasrepresented at the meeting by hisagent Claudio Vigorelli, is believedto be holding out for a four-yeardeal with the same conditions.

Anzhi are based in the captial of

the restless Russian Republic ofDagestan. They play their homematches there but the players liveand train in Moscow due to the low-level Islamic insurgency that hasseen occasional spates of violenceand terrorism break-out in the re-public, which borders Chechnya.

However, businessman and phi-lanthropist Kerimov has alreadymanaged to attract other star namesto the club since buying it in Janu-ary. Former Brazil and RealMadrid left-back Roberto Carlos is

the club captain while fellowBrazilian international Jucileihas joined from Corinthians.

Russian international YuriZhirkov joined the club in thesummer from Chelsea whileAnzhi made an unsuccessful bidto tempt AC Milan’s GennaroGattuso with an offer of 10 mil-lion euros a year. The sale ofEto’o would free up Inter fundsfor a bid for Manchester City’sunsettled Argentina forwardCarlos Tevez.

Keane backs ManUtd for EPL title

Barca’s Pedro says Real ‘moredangerous’ this year

Real’s German playmaker Mesut Ozil said recently theteam are “stronger and more mature than last year.” The clubadded Spanish midfielder-striker Jose Maria Callejon to theiralready hugely impressive array of attacking talent that in-cludes the world’s most expensive player, Cristiano Ronaldo,and the prolific Argentine Gonzalo Higuain.

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Barcelona winger Pedro Rodriguez, seen here inMarch 2011.

“Everybody is on about thisnew young manager — butI don’t think the managerwill be the problem,” Keanesaid.

“It’s always the playersdown there, they all seem toself-destruct. They’re bigpals one minute and the nextyou hear they’re all bicker-ing with each other and play-ers aren’t happy if someoneelse scores.” Keane also dis-missed the challenges of Ar-senal and Liverpool.

“Arsenal haven’t reallybought anybody,” he said.“They’ve signed a striker,Gervinho, and, while thejury’s out, you always haveto give a boy a chance.

“Liverpool have boughtgood attacking players butI think it’s actually defend-ers that they need. I thinkwe’ve seen that a little bitin pre-season. “Don’t getcarried away, Liverpool arein no position to win theleague, nowhere near.”

Thursday, August 11, 2011 15International Sport

John Doleva, the president andCEO of the Hall, said Tuesdaythat Yao has been nominated by amember of the Chinese media andhis credentials will be consideredby an international panel. As acontributor, Yao would bypass theusual five-year waiting period forretired players.

The 7-foot-6 Yao retired inJuly after leg and foot injuriesended his eight-year NBA career.The eight-time All-Star averaged19 points and 9.2 rebounds in theNBA. He’ll also be rememberedfor his global impact on theleague, almost single-handedlyexpanded its reach throughoutAsia.

Doleva said a panel of seven“experts on the internationalgame” will consider Yao’s cre-


LONDON — A few miles fromthe worst violence to hit the city in25 years, beach volleyball playersdived headlong in the sand, themost summery of Olympic sportson display less than a year beforethe London Games.

The matches were played underthe shadow of the London Eye bigwheel, and not far fromBuckingham Palace and No. 10Downing Street. Yet no historicbackdrop could block the images ofrioting and looting that have sweptthe city the past three days and lefta mark on British sports.

The soccer game between En-gland and the Netherlands atWembley was the biggest casualty.And as IOC officials arrived to re-view progress leading to the 2012Games, they were greeted by a for-bidding landscape a short way fromwhere the Olympics will unfold.

Plumes of smoke rose from run-down neighborhoods. Businessesclosed early — many of themboarded up — as authoritiesstruggled to contain the country’sworst unrest since race riots setLondon ablaze in the 1980s.

It was hardly the image Britainhoped to present to the world. Thiswas a time when fans should havebeen reveling in the expectation ofa successful Olympics and the startof English soccer season.

Instead, athletes fielded callsfrom worried relatives watching TV


GENEVA — Swisswatchmaker Tag Heuer saysit’s ended its 10-year com-mercial relationship with Ti-ger Woods and hopes he can“overcome his difficulties.”Tag Heuer chief executiveJean-Christophe Babin saysin a statement the companyis “confident that Tiger willeventually regain full trustwith the public.”

Woods has “huge talentand mental strength (which)will help him overcome hisdifficulties,” Babin says.

Tag Heuer stopped pro-moting Woods’ image in theUnited States in December2009, weeks after revelationsabout his marital problemsbegan to emerge. Babin saidthen Tag Heuer had to “takeaccount of the sensitivity ofsome consumers.”

Tag Heuer will continueto support Woods’s chari-table foundation throughsales of a watch he de-signed.

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HOUSTON — Retired Houston Rockets center Yao Ming could enter the Naismith Basket-ball Hall of Fame as early as next year — not as a player, but as a contributor to the game.

dentials, and six of the seven willhave to approve Yao’s election.The panel is only allowed to se-lect one individual, and Dolevasaid Yao will be facing about 12-15 other candidates for inductionnext year.

The deadline for nominationsis Nov. 1. Doleva says a memberof the Chinese media contactedhim to ask about the categoriesavailable for individuals, andsubmitted a formal applicationthis week on Yao’s behalf.

“It has to go through the pro-cess,” Doleva said. “There is noguarantee when someone isnominated that they will beelected in their first year. That’skind of what makes the processwork. The committee takes alook at the pros and cons.” Yao

can certainly make a compellingargument.

His charisma and popularityhelped spike merchandise salesand prompted record TV ratingsfor games after the Rockets madehim the top overall pick in the2002 draft. NBA commissionerDavid Stern called Yao “a trans-formational player and a testa-ment to the globalization of ourgame.”

REUTERS/China Daily

Former NBA player Yao Mingsmiles while holding amicrophone during his

retirement ceremony byChina’s Basketball Associa-tion in Beijing July 25, 2011.

The Chinese character in thebackground reads, “Retire”.

Swisswatchmaker Tag

Heuer dropsTiger Woods

Olympic host city under scrutiny amid London riotsfootage of burning buildings andvehicles. Officials tried to downplaythe impact of the violence that be-gan Saturday night in the Tottenhamarea of north London following thefatal shooting of a local man by po-lice.

“My friends and family have

been calling,” Canadian beach vol-leyball player Heather Bansley said.“They keep checking in to makesure we’re OK. It’s not a great thingto be happening to London.”

The disorder comes less than twoweeks after London celebrated withgreat fanfare the one-year count-

down to the opening of the gameson July 27, 2012. On Monday, theviolence spread to Hackney, one theboroughs encompassing the Olym-pic Park in east London. The unresttook place about four miles from thepark, site of the main Olympic Sta-dium and other key venues.

AP Photo/Sang Tan

Canada’s Jamie Lynn Broder and Ashley Voth, front, against Britain’s Denise Johns and LucyBoulton during FIVB Beach Volley International Olympic test event tournament at Horse GuardsParade in London, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.

Thursday, August 11, 201116 SportI N T E R N A T I O N A L

Marco Simoncelli and the Gresini team plan to usethe second ‘half’ of the MotoGP season to deliver onthe huge promise shown in the first 10 races of theyear by the Italian and the satellite Honda squad.

The Italian has been the subject of much contro-versy in 2011, having collided with severalfrontrunners and been accused by both Dani Pedrosaand Jorge Lorenzo of being over-aggressive and caus-ing avoidable accidents with them.

Simoncelli has also demonstrated strong pace onthe factory RC212V however, producing two pole po-sitions in Spain and Holland and starting from the frontrow a total of six times.

But the 24-year-old former 250cc world championhas yet to convert them into anything higher than threefifth-place finishes - something he is determined toresolve in the final eight races of the season.

“I go to Brno looking for the best possible result,”he said. “We have to focus on the second half of theseason and try to score some positive results. “Thecircuit suits my riding style even though I didn’t go sowell there last year in MotoGP. I have won there be-fore in the 250 class and I have also been on pole andon the podium in 125. Overall it is a track I like and Ihope to do well.”

Team boss Fausto Gresini, the last privateer teamowner to win a MotoGP event – with Ton Elias in Por-

SERGIO Perez is confident he will have a much strongersecond season in Formula 1 next year after a solid debut cam-paign with Sauber. Perez, the first Mexican Formula 1 driverin nearly 30 years, has enjoyed a strong first half of the sea-son with the Swiss squad, having scored eight points so far.

The rookie is optimistic, however, that he will be able tobuild on his first year in Formula 1 to be much better in 2012,both on and off the track. “I think a lot stronger,” he toldAUTOSPORT when asked about the prospects for next year.

“Not only on the track, but off the track. When you comeinto Formula 1 you realise it’s a different world, and as ayoung driver I think it takes some time to adapt to this world.

REUTERS/Max Rossi

Sauber Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Mexico drives duringthe Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit nearBudapest July 31, 2011.

Perez expect stronger 2012 season“I think next year is going to be a lot more normal for me anda lot better season if F1, and this is my aim: to have a muchbetter second season.”

He says having secured a deal for next year early has alsohelped him focus on his job. “Of course, it always helps toknow so early what you are doing next year. Normally as adriver, not that you worry but you want to find the best futurefor your career, and I think it was always a good idea to stay atSauber. For me, it was of course a very clear decision.”

He added: “I think it has been an up-and-down season. The[Monaco] accident did not help. After Australia, in Malaysiaand Shanghai I had some bad luck, but we’ve been always right

there in the pace and this is very important.“Unfortunately my accident did not help at

all because I lost some momentum, and to getback in the proper rhythm as a racing driver isnot so easy after such a big impact in the head.Its getting better and I’m getting more comfort-able in the car every time, and I’m sure that itwas the right decision.”

The Mexican admitted the accident he suf-fered during the Monaco Grand Prix, afterwhich he was forced to miss two races, was avery hard moment to cope with.

“It was very difficult, it was not easy at all,”he said. “It was a big shame because it was avery big accident, I could have ended my ca-reer early. Fortunately that did not happen, noth-ing big, and I just missed two races - two im-portant races where the team scored very goodpoints, they were two circuits that suited ourstrategy mainly quite well.

“Unfortunately I lost some points there andsome rhythm, but then I went back in the car inValencia and it was all okay, I was in the rhythmstraight away and it was all fine.”

Simoncelli aiming for strong resultsin second half of season

Honda MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli of Italy ridesduring the third free practice of the U.S. Grand Prix at

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California July23, 2011.

tugal 2006 – says the squad will do all it can to helpSimoncelli convert his pace into results.

“The Czech Republic Grand Prix is bound to bean interesting one for the future of MotoGP with alot of negotiations ongoing but our goal is to carryforward the Simoncelli project with the same pro-fessionalism as always,” he said. “Our objectiveremains to help him achieve the results thathave so far escaped him for various rea-sons.

“Brno is a circuit that has al-ways brought our team luck –I won my first 125cc WorldChampionship here and wecelebrated our first po-dium here with AlexBarros as well as the 100thlast year with Toni Elias. It isfriendly territory for us and wehope it brings us more good times this weekend.” REUTERS/Chad Ziemendorf

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