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Law curbing public assembly takes effect in Thailand

At least 50 dead as huge warehouse blasts hit Chinese port

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Continued in page 2Worrying...

Mourinho chided by medics for ‘unjust’ downgrading of doctor


NEW YORK — Johnny Depp is set to perform live with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry as the musical group Hollywood Vampires.

The band on Wednesday an-nounced shows scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17 at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California. Tickets go on sale Friday.

The trio is based off Cooper’s 1970s drinking club, the Hollywood Vam-pires, which included John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Micky Dolenz.

The group will release a self-

titled album Sept. 11 that includes collaborations with Paul McCart-ney, Dave Grohl, Joe Walsh, Slash, Brian Johnson and others. Depp plays guitar throughout the album and sings background on some of the tracks.

Proceeds from the album will benefit MusiCares, which provides financial and personal assistance to musicians.

Hollywood Vampires also will perform at Brazil’s Rock in Rio on Sept. 24. (ap)

Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday released several new photos of baddies Kylo Ren (Adam Driver from “Girls”), Captain Phas-ma (“Game of Thrones” star Gwen-doline Christie) and General Hux (British actor Domhnall Gleeson).

The Hollywood industry maga-zine also revealed some origin sto-ries about the characters, who will appear for the first time in Episode VII of the mega-franchise, due out on December 18.

Kylo Ren is allied with the First

Order, a remnant of the Empire, and his appearance seems heavily influ-enced by Darth Vader -- he is clad in black and wears a mask.

He is seen flanked by Stormtroop-ers and striding through the ruins of a ransacked village on the planet Jakku.

Kylo Ren is not even his real name -- he adopted it when he joined the Knights of Ren, director JJ Abrams -- the brains behind both the new “Star Wars” film and a highly successful “Star Trek” reboot -- told

the magazine.“He is not your prototypical

mustache-twirling bad guy,” Abrams said. “He is a little bit more complex than that, and it was a great joy to work with Adam Driver on this role.”

The article hints that perhaps his parents are characters already known in “Star Wars” mythology.

Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan noted: “I’ve written four Star Wars movies now, and there’s never been a character quite like the one that Adam plays.”

Also included in the magazine’s film preview are images of the black-clad General Hux, a ruthless leader of the First Order played by Gleeson, who played Bill Weasley in the last two “Harry Potter” films.

And Captain Phasma, a First Order warrior, is shown clad in full armor.

Lucasfilm and its parent company Disney have offered a slow drop of information about the film, tanta-lizing the millions of fans eagerly awaiting a return to the “Star Wars” universe.

Those fans are hoping for a bit more information this weekend at the Disney D23 convention in Ana-heim, California. But Entertainment Weekly, quoting an unnamed source, said no new trailer will be released at the event. (afp)

NEW YORK - An album of un-released music by grunge icon Kurt Cobain will come out in November to accompany a documentary on the late Nirvana frontman, the director says.

In researching “Montage of Heck,” filmmaker Brett Morgen discovered more than 100 early cassettes recorded by Cobain, who grew up in the lumber town of Ab-erdeen, Washington.

Some fans have described the music as the equivalent of a solo album from the music legend, who killed himself in 1994 at age 27.

Giving a release date for the first time, Morgen told the AwardsLine website that the music would come out as a soundtrack to “Montage of Heck” on November 6, the same day the documentary goes on sale as a DVD.

The unheard music includes a

12-minute acoustic song by Co-bain, who was known with Nirvana not only for his searing electric guitar but also his unplugged work.

Morgen recently told music industry journal Billboard that the soundtrack would also include a comedy skit in which Cobain plays various characters.

Morgen told AFP earlier this year that the newly discovered cassettes

showed the various sides of Cobain: “The romanticism, the honesty, all of these different emotions.”

“When I first heard it, I was in the storage facility and I had no prior knowledge of it. I put it on and I immediately felt like there was some sort of portal into his mind, like it was one of the most pure ex-pressions of Kurt that I encountered -- maybe more than in most of his songs,” he said.

Morgen made “Montage of Heck” with the cooperation of both Cobain’s widow and fellow rocker Courtney Love and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who has had a complicated relationship with her mother.

Released in theaters and on HBO, “Montage of Heck” was nominated for a number of Emmy Awards, in-cluding Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. (afp)

Kyler Clark via AP

This photo provided by Kyler Clark shows Alice Cooper, left, and Joe Perry from the musical group Hollywood Vampires. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, the band, which includes Johnny Depp, announced shows on Sept. 16 and 17, at The Roxy in West Hollywood, Calif.

Johnny Depp to perform concerts with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry

Kurt Cobain ‘solo album’ coming out in November

New ‘Star Wars’ film images showcase Dark Side

LOS ANGELES - The Dark Side is front and center in the latest images of villains from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” -- the highly anticipated next chapter in the blockbuster space saga due later this year.

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Balinese children performed Balinese dance during the Bali Art Festival that held anually. Balinese culture is now being threatened by the incoming modern culture carried by globalization. In the meantime, the government policy to anticipate this threat has not been carried out to the fullest.

Balinese culture under threat, political will of government unclear

During a round-table discussion on the theme “Cultural Inher-itance System”

that took place at Warung Kopi

Bali 63 on Jalan Vet-eran, Denpasar, on Wednesday (Aug.

12) a number of issues related to the survival of Balinese culture were ex-plored. The era of globalization that is generally engulfing people’s lives has eroded valuable local cultural roots and the alteration of social values is affecting local cultures in general and Bali is no exception. Balinese culture is now being threatened by the values

of the culture of globalization. Mean-while there have been very few gov-ernment policy’s created to deal with this threat. As a result, the system of cultural inheritance is of the utmost importance as part of a strategy to maintain the core values of Balinese culture for future generations.

The rountable discussion in-

volved eight speakers namely; Dr. A.A. Gede Raka, Dr. Wayan Budi Utama, Kadek Wahyudi, Dr. I.B. Jelantik, Kadek Suartaya, Dr. I.B. Radendra Suastama, Jro Puspawati Saskara and I.A. Puji Arsini.

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations 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 umbrel-las 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

Every Sunday, 8am - 12 noon: Sunday Market and craft delights8 August, 7pm: Ubud Style Balinese Painting exhibition opening14 August, 4 pm - Healing dance by Ida Maharishi16 August, 9am - 4pm: Live painting by Balinese master painters15 August, 7pm: Film screening of Balinese movies22 August, 7pm: India-Bali music concert with Sinta Wulur and friends29 August: Indian/gamelan vocal exploration workshop with Sinta2 Septembe: Interior Decor exhibition opening3-4 September, 9 am-5pm: Interior Decor expo15 September, 7pm: Human is Alien video and bamboo instalation

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Balinese and Indonesian cuisine is distinguished by the many freshly ground and blended spices that enliven and add depth to so many dishes. Essential to Balinese cuisine is ‘bumbu,’ a basic spice paste that varies from village to village and from dish to dish. Every day, the first task of one of the chefs at Jimbaran Gardens is to grind up a big batch of fresh spices to make bumbu. Com-mon ingredients include shallots, garlic, ginger, turmeric, galangal, pepper, coriander, candlenuts, chil-

lies, lemongrass, shrimp paste and palm sugar, and each one of these ingredients will pull the flavour in a different direction. The result is a pungent mixture, the foundation of all Balinese dishes. Bumbu can be used in many different ways: as a marinade for meat, for example, a stuffing for a roast, or as a base for a sauce, a soup or a curry. The proper combination of all these ingredi-ents is regarded as an art in Bali, with delicate adjustment required until the exact balance of flavours

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Indonesian spices at InterContinental Bali Resort

JIMBArAN - InterContinental Bali resort showcases the spices of Indonesia at Jimbaran Gardens. Here, you are invited to taste the aromatic and piquant flavours within the delicious and authentic local cuisine. The individual spices are beauti-fully packaged and displayed at Jimbaran Gardens, and all of them are for sale, so if you wish you may purchase some to take home.

is achieved. Other seasonings in-clude coriander, kaffir lime leaves, pandan leaves, and tamarind, while more hot fresh chilli can be found in the fiery ‘sambal’ sauces.

Classic Indonesian dishes on the menu at Jimbaran Gardens include ‘Soto Ayam,’ which is a rich chick-en broth enhanced with turmeric, shallots, garlic, ginger, candlenut, coriander seeds, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves. Another all-time favourite and Balinese specialty is ‘Pepes Ikan,’ a dish of fragrant spiced local fish, wrapped, steamed and grilled in banana leaf packages. The juices are contained inside the parcel and the experience is an explosion of moist smoky flavour. The spices in this delicacy include shallots, garlic, candlenut, turmeric, ginger, lemongrass, coriander leaves, tamarind juice and chilli.

InterContinental Bali Re-sort’s Executive Chef, Christophe Depuichaffray, is passionate about the use of fresh spices in his cook-ing. He maintains, “Spices should be used to heighten the flavour of the main ingredient of a dish; they are invaluable not only for their gustative virtue but also for their antimicrobial properties: chilli, for example, is known to boost im-munity and is used in pain relief; cloves are a powerful natural an-tihistamine; nutmeg is believed to aid digestion; and cinnamon is an anti-inflammatory that can combat nausea.”

Spices such as nutmeg, cloves, pandan leaves and galangal are all native to Indonesia. Cloves are the dried flowerbuds of an ever-green tree native to the islands of Ternate and Tidore in the Moluc-cas – known as the Spice Islands. Whole cloves are frequently used to flavour cooking liquids for simmer-ing fish, poultry or meat.

You can see clove plantations and cloves drying on mats at the sides of the road in Munduk, in Bali’s Buleleng Regency. Nutmeg also comes from the Moluccas; it is native to the tiny Banda Islands, which were once the world’s only source of this spice. Other spices, such as black pepper, turmeric, lemongrass, shallots, cinnamon, candlenut, coriander, tamarind, ginger and garlic were introduced many centuries ago by immigrants and traders from India and China, and thus became integral ingredi-ents in Indonesian cuisine. Black pepper is the world’s most traded spice and was once only available to the wealthy; it is grown on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and its aroma complements strong fla-voured foods. The best known spice

in Indonesian cooking, however, is chilli, and this is now grown in abundance in InterContinental Bali Resort’s organic vegetable and herb garden.

If you are inspired by the taste

and spicy aromas of the dishes at Jimbaran Gardens, you may wish to participate in a Balinese cooking class at InterContinental Bali Re-sort. This can be arranged through the concierge.

To prevent that from happening, the government of Buleleng has started showing its commitment to preserving this tradition by taking such measures as regularly presenting ngocang music at gov-ernment organized events. There is a possibility that the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency will also start including ngoncang as a regular part of its promotional events.

Ngoncang music originated from the practice of pounding rice into flour, with mortar and pestle -as has been done by Balinese women since ancient times. The sound produced from this pound-ing that was often done by 10 to 12 women at a time. It is said that ngoncang msic was developed as a way for Balinese women to keep themselves entertained and not become tired doing this laborious work.

As agricultural practices in this region developed, rice began to be milled by machine and so the use of mortar and pestle became more rare. More seriously, mor-tars and pestled tend to now be sold as antiques in art shops and displayed in major hotels in Bali and elsewhere.

Despite no longer pounding rice, mortar and pestle continue to be displayed in certain situations such as for the playing ngoncang music. In some parts of Bali in-cluding Buleleng ngoncang music -that originated in agrarian culture, is still played in certain ceremonies such as pengrupukan (one day before Nyepi), cremations as well as temple ceremonies at several major temples in Buleleng.

Also, when a lunar eclipse oc-curs, a lot of people still play ngon-cang traditional music. Since the

shift away form agrarian culture, it is not known for sure about the exact meaning and philosophy of ngoncang. Obviously, one reason that it is still played is part of an general effort to preserve the cul-tural heritage of the ancestors, so that it will continue into modern times.

Head of the Buleleng Cul-ture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said that since the local government initiated the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest), the ngoncang tradition is still given space for the troupes to show off it. Bulfest III, which ended on Saturday night (Aug. 8) featured ten ngoncang troupes performing this unique form of music as part of the gov-ernment’s commitment to preserve this tradition.

“Every village has a troupe, but not all of them are active enough to perform on stage. The Regent of Buleleng is committed to pre-serving this tradition, starting by providing a space for the troupes to perform at events such as Bull-fest and others,” he said.

According to Suyasa, other con-servation efforts include creating special ngomcang performances, likely involving participants from many villages. As an initial step towards this conservation effort, the regency is outlining a program and preparing a budget for it. Such performances will hopefully motivate the villages to keep ngoncang alive. “As part of this program, we will provide coaching and encouragement to villagers as a way to revive tho tradition. The program will be designed to make it fun for people so that they will want to perform and thus preserve this tradition,” he added. (mud)

Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Culture at Udayana University, I.B. Jelantik, said that what is hap-pening in Bali is very worrying, especially as it relates to Balinese culture, and the matter of passing it on to the young. Also all agreed that Balinese culture is in grave danger or completely eroding.

Many of the the values passed down from the ancestors, such as the concept of Tri Hita Karana (concept of harmony) has already become distorted. Relationships between humans and between humans and nature are already on quite shacky ground and only the the relationship between humans and God that still remains strong. “This is a threat of Balinese culture,” he explained.

Man’s relationship to nature, said Jelantik has suffered severe distor-tion as evidenced by the fact that 60% of Bali’s environment is damaged. He specifically mentioned the rivers that were formally considered sacred and which are no longer maintained. All of the cliffs and beaches are all lined with buildings, totally ignor-ing the concept of Tri Hitta Karuna. Agricultrual land conversion is also increasingly widespread. In order to curb this trend and make improve-ments, a strong political will towards good governance is required. “At the moment, I have yet to see any signs of that,” he explained.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jro Puspawati Saskara, assessed that many factors have caused changes in Balinese culture. Balinese people’s laissez-faire attitude also contributes to the problem.

For example, when Balinese prod-ucts are copied by others, instead of defending their rights many people are simply proud to have been cop-ied, despite how such copying might adversely effect the sale of their own product.

Creative economic ventures could be built based on existing products: “Creativity and creative ideas are very much needed in order to main-tain competitiveness and economic growth for the local community,” said Jro Puspawati.

Jro Puspawati emphasized the need for artists in Bali to acquire intellectual property rights so that creators are protected, and receive economic benefits from their ideas and products. This in turn will stimu-late new ideas which is the essence of creative economy. (ara)

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Worrying ...

IBP/Mudiarta

Ngoncang tradition becomes a part of agrarian culture to Balinese people in general. However, lately this tradition suffers a shift of function and even goes to extinction.

Buleleng’s Ngoncang tradition

Preserving a heritage by creating events

virtually all villages in Buleleng have had ngoncang or traditional mortar pounding music since ancient times. This music is inseparable from the agriculturally based culture of this region and Bali in general. However, the practice of this musical form, has been fading lately and some fear that it could disappear altogether.

3Friday, August 14, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, August 14, 2015

Taiwanese des igner Amy Chien Ku, of Aimeeku, featured fuchsia and lilac Ankara motifs with colourful tweed for a roman-tic, floral look.

“I like to combine floral and lace details because as an Asian our style tends to be sweet and cute,” she said about her collection. “I love blending these romantic ele-ments with African style.”

Aimeeku’s bandeau skater dresses and short A-line hemmed skirts were a favourite at the two-day London Olympia showcase. “African style is going to be a huge trend not just for Africans but for everybody,” Ku said.

African motifs are increas-ingly cropping up in the the inter-national fashion industry. London

designer Erdem Moralioglu’s spring/summer show was heavily influenced by Katharine Hepburn in “The African Queen” and Af-rican references were interwoven throughout his collection.

Also taking part in the fashion week were Tarryn Shepherd, creative director of Rooi Rok Bokkie, and Shauna Neill, owner of accessories brand Blossom Handmade.

The pair played 1950s South African song “Pata Pata” as mod-els danced on the runway wearing silk geometrical print jumpsuits matched with emerald beads and semi-precious stones.

The annual event has show-cased more than 300 designers since its debut in 2011. (rtr)

IBP/Net

Designers celebrate vibrant Ankara fabric at London’s African Fashion Week

LONDON - Designers from around the world played with the vibrant hues and striking patterns of the African wax print fabric known as Ankara on the runways of London’s African Fashion Week last weekend.

General Manager of PT Pelindo III Celukan Bawang, Dewa Gede Adi Kumarajaya, said that Celukan Bawang is a natural harbor with a deep mooring area for cruise ships. This condi-tion is supported by international service so that it makes it easier for foreign guests to drop in for unwinding. “Our service has international standards and destination of the cruise ship has been set in some tour packages. When compared to the condition of previous Tanah Ampo Harbor in Karangasem, the cruise ship could not anchor. Well, when cruise ship operators tried and could anchor at Celukan Bawang, they were very happy. Moreover, the mooring area at Celukan Bawang is deep enough to berth,” said Adi Kumarajaya.

He considered that the development of Celukan Bawang still needs some improvements in the matter of tourism sup-porting infrastructure and facilities. “In the future, cruise operators hope that the facilities can be improved, including the semi-permanent development and a gazebo as resting place,” he said.

Adi Kumarajaya affirmed that the depth of mooring area at Celukan Bawang Harbor is not inferior to the pier of Benoa Harbor. Maintenance of Benoa Harbor pier, for example, re-quires high cost if there is a problem on the pier infrastructure, like dredging by using equipment on a regular basis. “Benoa Harbor does maintenance and dredging each year, and it needs expensive cost. On the contrary, condition of the Celukan Bawang remains natural and it can be taken advantage to draw the visit of cruise ships to drop in and anchor,” said Adi Kumarajaya. (kmb34)

DENPASAR - This Friday, Ida Maharishi will bring a new flow to reality through an event to inaugu-rate the beautiful space of Bale Ban-jar Bali Global Shankara (#7 Jalan Danau Toba, Sanur, Denpansar, Bali). She will incorporate move-ments in the flow of the meditation and the mantras that naturally flow through her.

The movements will be a combi-nation of traditional Balinese dance and yoga flow that spring from her. The movements are a beautiful flow and at the same time, a mediation in itself. Come to experience the magic at 4pm, this Friday the 14th, 2015.

Ida-Resi is a conduit for the higher plane to touch the seen, and the function she performs can only be described as holy. She is natu-rally a holy woman, and the title of Maharishi just confirms what can be felt in everything she does. The trees seem to naturally bend in her path and the air is lighter when she is present. She is beauty personified,

her delicate features emanate power when she closes her eyes to channel the highest of forces. She naturally can transform what has been into the truth of what is.

Ida, the woman behind the Ma-harishi is a strong woman, who has the ability to manage daily life for the extended family at the Griya, helping her family manage a life-style that they are not accustomed to. She can be found spending half a day to talk to them through the chal-lenges of life, offering compassion and guidance to all.

She is a down to Earth woman who, before her destiny met with her, was dreaming of a normal life, of studying at the university, of a job and of a family. So when people come to her for support and guidance, like a loving mother, she sits with them and allows them to express their concerns. She listens patiently and carefully, with an open mind and an open heart. She care-fully speaks words that touch the heart and bring relief to the mind.

Ida-Resi, even though she is a Maharishi, in the same way she is involved with her family, she al-lows those people that visit her to approach her openly. People come for a ceremony, or for a day, or even a longer stay. She can address problems that range from pain in the body, to emotional heartache, to worries of life from the mind and the heart. She chooses her words carefully and the words touch the heart. She has a beautiful mastery of the English language that allow for many international visitors to find comfort next to her.

She performs the ceremonies daily with whoever comes to see her. Even alone, she would perform the ceremonies anyway, because it is her way of life. Usually though, there are many people flocking around her. She is invited to many locations to offer her blessing and as time passes and her reputation grows, the invitations keep coming. She keeps a simplicity and humility through it all.

She explains that what we chan-nel comes from the oneness. What is creative, what is creation itself, what is a God inside, comes from that oneness. It is in the deepest part of our heart that we must place our intention and our willingness to seek truth. It is through our willing-ness to expand, to perceive life, that we see the creative process that is life and bring it to reality.

For Ida-Resi the roots is Bali, the trunk is the combination of Hinduism and Buddhism that is the religion of Bali, and the leaves are the consciousness, the freedom, the divine connection and tran-scendence. The reality is the truth manifested, bringing something that was beyond as a hope, or a dream into being.

The energy that fuels this process of transcendence is the intention of our heart. This guidance Ida-Resi received as a gift from the Oneness that lives in her heart and guides her through her actions and daily life. (maria kellis)

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Celukan Bawang is a natural harbor with a deep mooring area for cruise ships. This condition is sup-ported by international service so that it makes it easier for foreign guests to drop in for unwinding.

Healing dance by Ida Maharishi at Bale Banjar Bali Global Shankara

Cruise ship operators prefer natural pier at Celukan Bawang

SINGARAJA - Potential for the development of Buleleng waters has high competitiveness in gaining the market share of cruise ship harbor. It can be seen from the high interest of cruise ship to anchor at the Celukan Bawang pier. It has a deep natural mooring area and is favored by foreign cruise ship operators.

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Human rights groups have voiced concern about the Public Assembly Act, which took effect Thursday, and its stiff penalties. It is the latest restrictive measure to be put in place since the military ousted an elected government in a coup last year, fol-lowing years of political demonstra-tions that led to violence and often paralyzed the country’s capital.

Interim Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who organized the coup, said the law requires that protesters apply for permission from police for ral-lies at least 24 hours in advance. It bans all demonstrations within 150 meters (500 feet) of the prime minister’s headquarters known as Government House, Parliament, royal palaces and courthouses un-less a specific area has been autho-rized and designated by authorities. It also bars protesters from blocking

entrances or creating a disturbance at government offices, airports, seaports, train and bus stations, hospitals, schools and embassies.

Thailand has had waves of mas-sive anti-government protests over the past decade that spread to key government offices, Bangkok’s central business district and major airports.

“This law will be strictly en-forced to prevent the type of nui-sance and violence that happened in the past,” Prayuth told reporters. “It’s not possible to have it all — happiness, equality, democracy — without giving us the tools.”

The law details a variety of penalties, including up to 6 months in prison and a 10,000 baht ($300) fine for protesting without police permission and up to 10 years in prison for any disruption of public service, such as public transporta-

tion, telecommunications, water and electricity supplies.

Protesters who ignore police orders to leave a site could face up to a year in prison and a 20,000 baht fine, while protesters armed with guns, explosives or similar weapons could face up to 5 years in prison and a 100,000 baht fine.

The bill was proposed by the police department, approved by the military-installed Cabinet and won a unanimous 182-0 vote in the military-installed National Legislative Assembly before being published last month in the Royal Gazette, which decreed the law would take effect Aug. 13.

Human rights groups say the law gives broad powers to authorities to prohibit public assemblies on vague and arbitrary grounds.

“This law violates the rights of the people. We want this act revoked,” said Nutchapakorn Num-mueng, a representative of iLaw, a legal watchdog and rights advocacy group. (ap)

H E L S I N -KI — Swedish prosecutors said Thursday they have dropped three cases of sexual miscon-d u c t a g a i n s t W i k i L e a k s founder Julian A s s a n g e b e -cause they have expired, but will continue to in-vestigate accu-sations of rape against him.

The Swed-ish Prosecution Authority said it has been un-able to charge the 44-year-old Australian, who escaped a Swed-ish arrest warrant by taking refuge in the Ecuador-ean Embassy in London in 2012 because it had not been possible to question him.

“Since the autumn of 2010, I have tried to gain permission to interview Julian Assange, but he has consistently refused to appear,” said Marianne Ny, the director of public prosecu-tion. “I still hope, however, that I will be able to arrange for an interview, as there are ongoing negotiations between Sweden and Ecuador.”

The agency says that a case of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion expired

T h u r s d a y , while a third case, of sexual moles ta t ion , w o u l d h a v e “time-barred on Aug. 18,” but added that Assange was still wanted for questioning on allegations of rape that expire in 2020.

A s s a n g e , who has denied all accusations, was wanted for questioning by Swedish police on allegations of sexual mis-conduct and one o f rape stemming from a 2010 visit to

Stockholm.He said in London that he was

“extremely disappointed” at the Swedish prosecutor’s decision to continue an investigation against him.

“There was no need for any of this. I am an innocent man,” he said in a statement issued at the Ecuadorean Embassy.

Assange has said he has no intention of going to Sweden for fear of being extradited to the United States because of an ongoing investigation into WikiLeaks’ dissemination of hundreds of thousands of classi-fied U.S. documents. (ap)

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has accepted an invitation from India for a bilateral meeting between security advisers from the two nuclear-armed rival nations later this month, a top government of-ficial said Thursday.

Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on na-tional security and foreign affairs, said he would travel to neighboring India’s capital on Aug. 23 to meet with his Indian counterpart.

Describing his upcoming visit to New Delhi as an ice-breaking, he expressed hope that it would help resolve outstanding issues between the two countries. “We do believe that dialogue resolves

the issues,” Aziz told reporters in Islamabad.

The announcement came weeks after Sharif and Indian Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi agreed on the sidelines of a summit in Russia to arrange a meeting between their security advisers. The discussions at the upcoming meeting are to focus on combatting terrorism in the region.

The hostility between Pakistan and India dates back seven decades, but strains have grown since nation-alist Modi took office a year ago. Also, skirmishes between Pakistani and Indian troops along the border with Kashmir have increased in recent months. (ap)

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, center, talks to reporters at government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Thai authorities are upset about being blacklisted by the U.S. for the second year in a row for failing to do enough to combat modern-day slavery.

Law curbing public assembly takes

effect in ThailandBANGKOK — Thailand’s military-installed prime minister

defended a new law that places tight restrictions on public gath-erings and warned Thursday it will be strictly enforced.

Sweden drops some sex cases against Assange

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WikiLeaks founder Ju-lian Assange gestures during a news confer-ence at the Ecuadorian embassy in central Lon-don, Britain, in this Au-gust 18, 2014 file photo.

Pakistan accepts India’s invitation for security talks

SEMARAPURA - The price of cottoni seaweed at the farm level drops from IDR 10,000 to IDR 7,000 per kg. In the meantime, the spinosum seaweed produced by local farmers is unsalable at the market. As a result, it has an impact on the farmers’ income earned per each harvest.

It is unknown for sure the cause of the decline in the price of seaweed in Nusa Penida. This condition is com-plained by residents of Suana village that rely on their life to seaweed. Moreover, their income also dropped from IDR 2 million to IDR 800,000 per harvest.

The headman of Suana, Putu Rai Sudarta, said that he did not know the exact cause of seaweed price decline, whether it is caused by the trick of middlemen or really unsalable in the export market.

As a headman, Rai Sudarta said that the price slump has started to happen since the last harvest. So far, the seaweed collectors buy cattoni seaweed from farmers at IDR 7,000 per kg, while previously was bought at IDR 10,000 to IDR 15,000 per kg. The more alarming condi-tion is the spinosum seaweed produced by local farmers is unable to be sold. “I do not know exactly why the seaweed prices slump. But we’ve heard that in Java the cattoni and spinosum seaweed are even exported for cosmetic ingredients,” said Sudiarta.

With this issue, Sudiarta hoped the local government, in this case the relevant agencies, can find out a solution. At least the government can provide assistance of seaweed processing or providing training for local human resources. Moreover, approximately 500 residents of Suana village have livelihood as seaweed farmers. Among the three local hamlets namely Suana, Semaya and Karangasari, Semaya relies on the livelihood to seaweed cultivation. “All residents of this hamlet are seaweed farmers, while some residents of the Suana and Karangsari are fisher-men,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Klungkung Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, IGN Badiwangsa, when asked for his confirmation admitted that the price of seaweed in Nusa Penida indeed decreased. According to him, the price of seaweed even reaches IDR 4,000 to IDR 4,500 per kg. The declining price of seaweed is estimated to happen due to excessive stock in the warehouse of the exporter. Lately, it was also said due to feast celebration. As a result, the seaweed of farmers accumulated and can-not be sold. (dwa)

AMLAPURA - Responding to the complaint that the job oppor-tunity as an entrepreneur and dive master is snatched by foreigners in the area of Tulamben marine tourism to Bunutan, the Regional Secretary of Karangasem, Gde Adnya Mulyadi, promptly took action. On Wednesday (Aug. 12), before a meeting with the House, he ordered the First Assistant to the Regional Secretary of Karangasem, Ketut Wage Saputra, to come down for making site inspection with his judicial team.

Besides, he also made coordina-tion with the immigration authori-ties. As reported earlier, a number of legislators of the Karangasem House delivered that their party re-ceived the aspiration regarding the complaints of local entrepreneurs

in marine tourism going bankrupt. The problem is that their job op-portunity is alleged to have been appropriated by foreign workers, while their working permit or visas is still questioned whether they use working visa or tourist visa.

In addition, in the future the foreign tourist arrivals to the tourist areas, especially Tulamben tourist attraction at Amed, Jemeluk to Bu-nutan is incredibly booming in recent months. However, the infrastructure remains miserable. The shortage of infrastructure in the region was deliv-ered by the legislator from Bunutan, Ida Ayu Sutejawati. She pointed out that many travelers take marine tour-ism such as diving or snorkeling.

However, there is no toilet. If it is available, it has been damaged and local residents must independently

repair it. “On Amed Beach and Jemeluk Beach is required toilet facilities,” said Sutejawati.

This former headman of Bu-nutan said that not long ago her party was visited by a number of young people of Bunutan that so far worked in tourism sector. They questioned because their job oppor-tunity as dive master is grabbed by many foreign workers. “I have seen it, even the driver is foreigner. Do the foreign workers have working permit or they use holiday visa for working? Hopefully, the judicial team together with the immigration authority can check it,” she said.

Other than the matter of working permit of the foreign workers, the infrastructure at the local tourist attraction was also questioned by tourism practitioners. The govern-

ment of Karangasem only collects taxes or levy, without ever paying attention to tourism infrastructure. There is no sidewalk from Culik village to Bunutan, whereas it is important as pedestrian facilities for both local residents and travelers.

There is no street lighting, while the street is getting narrower. Road infrastructure is not anticipated, while the economic development of the community runs so quickly from the path of Culik to Bunutan due to tourism booming.

On the other hand, one of the tourism practitioners at Bunutan, Nyoman Suardiana, delivered simi-lar things. According to him, the in-frastructure at the tourist attraction needs to be developed adequately. Likewise, the arrangement is ur-gently needed, so that it will not be

late compared to the development that eventually results in chaotic condition. “With the rapid tourism development at Amed to Bunutan, the effort of local community is quite good. Some residents become chicken meat supplier, while other businesses also work,” said the man from Datah village.

On the other hand, Regional Sec-retary of Karangasem, Gde Adnya Mulyadi, ordered judicial team of Karangasem led by First Assistant to Regional Secretary, Ketut Wage Saputra, made coordination with the immigration authority to check or conduct inspection responding to the information on the allega-tion that the visa of many foreign workers is questioned. “I assign the First Assistant to come down with a complete team,” he said. (013)

Allegation on illegal foreign workers Regional Secretary orders judicial team to inspect

Seaweed price drops to IDR7,000

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The seaweed farmers are transporting their crop

SHANGHAI - China weakened its currency for the third consecu-tive day Thursday, but financial markets that had been shaken by the surprise devaluation took heart as authorities pledged not to let the yuan plummet.

The central bank trimmed the reference rate for the yuan -- also known as the renminbi (RMB) -- by

1.11 percent to 6.4010 yuan for $1, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System said, from the previous day’s 6.3306.

The cut was less than previous two days and came after reports the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) intervened Wednesday to stem the yuan’s fall.

China adopted a more market-

oriented method of calculating the currency rate this week in a move widely seen as a devaluation, raising fresh questions about the health of the world’s second-largest economy.

After global stock and currency markets staggered in response, the PBoC went on the offensive Thursday, telling reporters that the

yuan was still a strong currency and that Beijing would keep the unit stable.

“Currently, there is no basis for the renminbi exchange rate to continue to depreciate,” as-sistant governor Zhang Xiaohui told a briefing, according to a transcript.

“The central bank has the abil-

ity to keep the renminbi basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level,” she said.

The comments drove a relief rally Thursday in Asian shares and Asia-Pacific currencies, which suf-fered their biggest two-day selloff since 1998 this week, although analysts said sentiment remained fragile.

“It’s likely the worst is over,” Patrick Bennett, a strategist at Ca-nadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Hong Kong, told Bloomberg News.

“PBoC intervention has calmed the market. There is not a sense that the onshore yuan will weaken forever.”

The yuan was quoted at 6.4067 to the dollar at midday, down from the previous day’s close of 6.3870.

China keeps a tight grip on the unit, allowing it to fluctuate up or down just two percent on either side of the reference rate, which it sets daily.

The PBoC on Tuesday an-nounced a “one-time correction” of nearly two percent in the yuan’s value against the greenback as it changed the mechanism.

Previously, it based the fixing on a poll of market-makers, but declared it would now also take into account the previous day’s close, foreign exchange supply and demand and the rates of major currencies.

It has since lowered the central rate twice more, and the week’s combined drop is the biggest since China set up its modern foreign exchange system in 1994, when it devalued the yuan by 33 percent at a stroke. (afp)

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Second-quarter growth was 4.9 percent, down from 6.5 percent in the same period last year, as both exports and private consumption weakened, the central bank said.

Future growth prospects for Southeast Asia’s third-largest econ-omy -- which is heavily reliant on

energy exports -- have come under a cloud due to the slump in world oil prices.

The ringgit currency fell to a 17-year low this week after China devalued the yuan, sparking fears Asia’s biggest economy could start a regional currency war where

central banks race to devalue their units.

The ringgit has also been hit by political uncertainty stemming from allegations of financial impro-prieties involving Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, however, said the economy would remain resilient.

“The Malaysian economy is expected to remain on a steady growth path, with domestic demand

continuing to be the key driver of growth,” she said.

Domestic demand growth weak-ened in the second quarter, how-ever, with private consumption ex-penditures expanding 6.4 percent, compared to 8.8 percent in the first quarter.

It had been widely expected to slip due to the April 1 introduction of a consumption tax that many consumers say has caused higher prices of key goods.

Najib, who also is finance min-ister, faces the biggest crisis of his tenure over the alleged irregularities involving debt-ridden state invest-ment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Questions are swirling around the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of dollars in 1MDB money, and it was revealed last month that nearly $700 million was depos-ited into Najib’s personal bank accounts. (afp)

AP Photo/Francois Mori

Chinese tourists wait for their bus in front of a fashion store in Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. China weakened its currency for the third consecutive day Thursday, but financial markets that had been shaken by the surprise devaluation took heart as authorities pledged not to let the yuan plummet.

Malaysian economy grows at slowest pace in nearly two yearsKUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s economy grew at its slowest

pace in nearly two years in the second quarter, the government said Thursday, the latest negative sign for policy-makers faced with a plummeting currency and political turmoil.

China weakens yuan for third day, reassures markets

Some residents met at location said that during high tides and strong winds no one dares to do activities around the beach. The waves are big enough and eventu-ally claims the land owned by local residents. On the east side bordering with the estuary of Medewi River, almost half a hectare of land of residents has disappeared. Simi-larly, the venue of melasti keeps on being critical because the land eroded is progressively narrower due to abrasion.

Currently, the impact of abrasion does not only occur on the land of residents and venue of melasti, but has also spread to Medewi tourist area and the place where fishermen

berth their boat. “When high tide occurs, half the garden of commu-nity disappears and even the venue of melasti has gone,” said one of the residents met last week.

For several years, the venue of melasti has often been moved due to condition of the land that does not enable. Sometimes, the village must borrow the land of resident remaining available. Lately, local residents are forced to use state land disappearing when high tides occur. Besides, the access to the venue of melasti is also difficult because people should pass through small alleys.

Headman of Medewi, Komang Suartika justified the condition. In

the long run, more and more lands will disappear and the venue of melasti has even been eroded by the abrasion. He said that the coastline of Medewi being prone to abrasion spreads along 800 meters. “For-merly, the land on the beach used as the venue of melasti was high and overgrown by thorny shrubs, but now they no longer remain,” he said.

Earlier there are proposals made by the residents for the making of revetment and jogging track, like on Baluk and Candikusuma Beach. Thus, other than protecting it also supports the tourism of Medewi Beach. However, the authority for the making of the revetment lies in central government. According to him, the village will seek to make a proposal related to the handling of the abrasion. Similarly, the solution for narrow road access to the venue of melasti is by making an alterna-tive road access after the revetment can be established. (kmb26)

DENPASAR - Complaints about infrastructure in Denpasar often oc-cur. A number of people complain about the damage to sidewalk on the main streets in Denpasar. Similarly, sidewalk repair is sometimes not worked on comprehensively and just sticks them with new materials without prior dredging.

The Head of the Denpasar Public Works Agency, I Ketut Winarta, recently stated that his party can-not handle the entire existing in-frastructure. Handling authority of some infrastructures in the city of Denpasar lies in the provincial and central government.

He said that the some of the existing main roads in Denpasar cannot be handled by Denpasar Public Works because they are beyond its authority. For example, if there is damage to Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, the Denpasar Public Works has no authority to handle. Since the status is national road, so when the road is damaged, it will be handled by the Road Agency whose authority lies in central govern-ment. In the meantime, the exist-ing provincial road in Denpasar is under the authority of provincial government. “If we handle, it will cause an error. On that account, we

just make coordination,” explained Winarta.

Some members of Commission III of the Denpasar House, A.A. Susruta Ngurah Putra and Wayan Suadi Putra, expected that to realize the quality of physical handling in Denpasar, they encourage coordination. “There should be coordination with the prov-ince when they work on projects in Denpasar,” said Susruta.

He pointed out that workman-ship of sidewalk on Jalan Dewi Sartika that was initially only stacked so that it kindles a concern when it rains. Rainwater will not be channeled properly because of sediment in the drainage has not been dredged. “Fortunately, after being reported by media, the next day there were officers flushing it. Maybe it has not been maximized because it was not done from the beginning,” he said.

The other members, such as Wayan Narsa, I.B. Ketut Kiana and Wayan Suwirya also briefly questioned about the actual amount of physical works in Denpasar. Besides, they also questioned about some proposals submitted in the recess period so that they can be addressed by relevant agencies. (kmb12)

SEMARAPURA - HIV/AIDS case in Klungkung region continues to increase each year. Previously, there were 218 residents found to have the deadly virus. This case in-creases again because three people are found to live with HIV/AIDS in 2015. Ironically, the three people found suffering from the deadly vi-rus are pregnant housewives. It was recognized by the Family Health Section Head of the Klungkung Health Agency, Ida Ayu Megawati, when asked for her confirmation, Wednesday (Aug. 12).

According to Megawati, the three pregnant women are known to have HIV/AIDS when attending HIV testing for pregnant women at public health center. She said that in 2015 there are 572 pregnant women attending the counseling at public health center. But after undergoing an examination at VCT Clinic, in fact, three people have HIV. Moreover, Megawati also admitted to find HIV cases in pregnant women in 2014. At that time, there were 839 pregnant women attending the counseling held in each public health center.

Megawati hoped the pregnant housewives not to hesitate to follow HIV testing for pregnant women

at clinic. Moreover, their secret is assured because it is only known by the officer.

In addition, this effort is also meant to prevent the infection to the babies in the womb. Should there be pregnant women with HIV positive, they will be referred to Sanglah Hospital to get anti-retroviral. “These tests are not enforced. The inspection program is in accordance with the circular of the Minister of Health because with this treatment, the HIV virus is expected to be un-der control and prevents the baby in the womb from being infected by the HIV,” he said.

Similar opinion was given by Acting Head of the Klungkung Health Agency, Nyoman Adi Pu-tra. He admitted there are three pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS. With these cases, Adiputra hoped the pregnant women to take HIV tests conducted in each public health center for the health of their baby. The HIV testing for pregnant women at public health center has been carried out since last year. Originally it was just performed at the Klungkung public health center I, but now it has been done to Nusa Penida. (kmb)

During HIV test, three HIV-positive pregnant women found

Handling of damaged infrastructure

constrained by authority

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The severe abrasion which happen on Medewi Beach

Melasti venue on Medewi Beach

disappears amid abrasion

NEGARA - Aside from becoming a tourist destination in Jem-brana, Medewi Beach at Medewi village, Mendoyo subdistrict, is now threatened by abrasion. Through the years, the impact of abrasion is getting more serious. Currently, the community around Medewi even loses the venue of melasti or purificatory rite. A shrine standing at the venue of melasti has collapsed as battered by violent waves.

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JAKARTA - Thomas Lembong has mingled for years with bankers and private equity executives, but on Wednes-day swapped that to take up the post of Indonesia’s trade minister, an appointment designed to shore up investor faith in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Eloquent, urbane and with a degree from Harvard, Lembong breaks the mould of staid and often feckless politicians that Indonesians have come to expect from their government ministers.

But then he was appointed by Joko Widodo, a former furniture businessman who last October became the coun-try’s first president from outside the political or military establishment.

Widodo plucked Lembong from the executive suite of his Singapore-based private equity company as part of a wider cabinet reshuffle, which followed weeks of criticism that his original economic team had failed to halt a slide in growth to its slowest pace in six years.

“We face a heavy economic challenge,” Lembong said in a speech after the new ministers were sworn in. “The president, vice president and ministers strongly believe that Indonesians have the strength to overcome this. It’s a question of utilising the resources.”

Now in his early 40s, Lembong worked at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley before co-founding Quvat Management private equity firm that specialises in growth capital and buyouts, in particular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

“Tom’s appointment is excellent,” John Riady, a direc-tor at Indonesian retail-to-property conglomerate Lippo Group, told Reuters in an email.

“I believe the market will respond very positively to a trade minister who brings together a deep understanding of how global markets work, how business functions and has a heart for the Indonesian people.”

Lembong becomes trade czar at a time when Indonesian shoe, garment and other businesses have been struggling to compete with Chinese goods, which could become even cheaper after the world’s second-biggest economy devalued its currency this week.

Indonesia’s relations with a key trade partner, Australia, have also been tested after it slashed the number of cattle import permits last month. Australia supplied around 40 percent of the beef consumed in Indonesia last year.

“The introduction of market-friendly Lembong in the trade ministry is positive given the outgoing trade minis-ter adopted nationalist policies that failed to energise the country’s exports,” said Achmad Sukarsono, an analyst at Eurasia Group.

Lembong was the Indonesia representative in a group of global institutional investors overseeing trillions of dollars who visited Jakarta after Widodo took office last year.

After Widodo pitched opportunities in Indonesia’s infrastructure sector to the group, Lembong told Reuters that the new president was “a huge magnet for investors” who “speaks the language of business”.

Even before his appointment to the cabinet, Lembong advised key government officials on infrastructure fi-nancing and accompanied state enterprises minister Rini Soemarno on a trip to Beijing earlier this year, people with knowledge of the matter said.

He also advised Widodo on the need to mobilise the “hundreds of trillions of rupiah in the non-bank sector”, especially pension and insurance funds, to meet his infrastructure ambitions, he told Reuters in an email in March. (rtr)

The Thai-owned Silver Sea 2 was located late Wednesday and escorted about 80 miles (130 kilometers) to a naval base in Sabang on the Indonesian archipelago’s northwestern tip, said Col. Sujatmiko, the local naval chief.

The AP used a satellite beacon signal to trace its path from Papua New Guinea waters, where it was also being sought, into neighboring Indonesia. The navy then spent a week trying to catch it. The ship was close to leaving Indonesian wa-ters by the time it was finally seized.

“I’m so overwhelmed with hap-piness,” said Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti. “It was almost impossible, but we did it.”

The Silver Sea 2 is the same 2,285-ton vessel captured in a high-resolution satellite photo last month in Papua New Guinea showing its hold open and two fishing trawlers tethered to each side, loading fish. The smaller wooden

vessels were identified by analysts as the ones that fled a remote Indonesian island earlier this year, crewed by en-slaved men from poor Southeast Asian countries who are routinely beaten and forced to work nearly nonstop with little or no pay.

An AP investigation revealed their catch reached the supply chains of ma-jor U.S. food sellers, such as Wal-Mart, Sysco and Kroger, and American pet food companies, including Fancy Feast, Meow Mix and Iams. The businesses have all said they strongly condemn labor abuse and vowed to take steps to prevent it.

Pudjiastuti freed hundreds of men earlier this year after the AP exposed they were trapped — including some locked in a cage — on the island vil-lage of Benjina. But 34 boats loaded with slaves escaped before authorities arrived. They remain missing.

Pudjiastuti, who put a moratorium on all foreign fishing last year, said the Sil-ver Sea 2 captain will be questioned, and an investigation will be launched into suspected human trafficking, transport of illegally caught fish and offloading at sea, which allows fishermen to work for months on end without returning to port, making it easier for their captains to exploit them.

“Indonesia’s action here is significant as it demonstrates a commitment to enforcing the actions of vessels within their waters, regardless of whether they are fishing illegally or trafficking labor,” said Tobias Aguirre, executive director of California-based nonprofit Fishwise, which advocates for sustainable, slave-free seafood.

Silver Sea Reefer Co., which owns at least nine refrigerated cargo ships in Thailand, has said it is not involved with the fishermen. (ap)

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Job seekers queue at the Indonesia Spectacular Job Fair 2015 at Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta August 12, 2015. Indonesia’s gross domestic product grew at 4.67 percent in the second quarter, its slowest pace in six years. Since he took office last October, Widodo’s government has passed a raft of measures aimed at boosting industry and consumption that have been criticized by investors as protectionist.

New trade minister plucked from the executive suite

Navy nabs cargo ship loaded with slave-caught fish

JAKARTA — A massive refrigerated cargo ship believed to be loaded with slave-caught fish was seized by Indonesia’s navy and brought to shore after The Associated Press informed authorities that it had entered the country’s waters, officials said Thursday.

Hundreds of people were injured in the explosions shortly before midnight Wednesday, which sent out massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day and shattered windows several kilometers (miles) away. Twelve of the dead were from among the more than 1,000 firefight-ers sent to the mostly industrial zone to fight the ensuing blaze.

“I thought it was an earthquake, so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on,” said Tianjin resident Zhang Siyu, whose home is several kilometers (miles) from the blast site. “Only once I was outside did I realize it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it.”

Zhang said she could see wound-ed people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but “I could feel death.”

The municipal government in Tianjin, a key port and petrochemical processing hub about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Beijing, said 701 people were injured, including 71 in serious condition. It gave no figure

for the missing.There was no indication of what

caused the blasts, and no immediate sign of any toxic cloud in the air as firefighters brought the fire largely under control by morning. However, the Tianjin government suspended further firefighting to allow a team of chemical experts to survey haz-ardous materials at the site, assess dangers to the environment and decide how best to proceed.

State media said senior manage-ment of the company had been de-tained, and that President Xi Jinping demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the ex-plosions. “It was like what we were told a nuclear bomb would be like,” said truck driver Zhao Zhencheng, who spent the night in the cab of his truck after the blasts. “I’ve never even thought I’d see such a thing. It was terrifying, but also beautiful.”

In a sign of sensitivity over the hazardous materials stored at the warehouse, state broadcaster CCTV went into a live broadcast of a news conference in Tianjin when the head of the municipality’s Environmen-

tal Protection Bureau chief, Wen Wurui, was speaking. He said there had been no apparent impact on air monitoring stations, but that water samples were still being examined.

However, when a reporter asked him whether the chemicals at the warehouse had been stored far enough away from residences in the area and Wen seemed at a loss for a response, the broadcaster suddenly cut away from the news conference, only to return to it again later.

Authorities said the blasts started at shipping containers at the ware-house owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it stores hazard-ous materials including flammable petrochemicals, sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate.

The initial blast apparently triggered an even bigger one. The National Earthquake Bureau said the first blast was the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second 21 tons. The enormous fireballs from the blasts rolled through a nearby parking lot, turning a fleet of 1,000 new cars into scorched metal husks. (ap)

MOSCOW — Russia’s prime minister says he has signed an order banning imports of agricul-tural products from several non-EU European nations that have joined the European Union’s sanctions against Russia.

Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday the ban would apply to products from Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

The U.S. and the EU have im-posed sanctions in response to Mos-cow’s annexation of Crimea and

support for pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine. Moscow has retaliated by banning many Western agricultural products. In June, the Kremlin prolonged the ban follow-ing the EU’s decision to extend its sanctions through January.

Medvedev said Russia also would apply the ban to Ukraine starting next year if Russia and the EU fail to negotiate a compromise on taking into account Moscow’s interests in a Ukraine-EU free trade agreement. (ap)

PARIS — A leader of France’s top Muslim organization is criti-cizing a court decision that could jeopardize a decades-old policy in which public schools can offer substitutes to pork when the meat turns up on lunch menus.

Abdullah Zekri of the French Council of the Muslim Faith said Thursday he is worried that the ruling a day earlier in eastern Dijon could sow discord in France.

A legal defense team for Mus-

lims had sought to block applica-tion of an order earlier this year by Gilles Platret, conservative mayor of nearby Chalons-sur-Saone, to pull pork substitutes from school menus. Such substitutes are of-fered across France.

On Twitter, Platret called the ruling a victory for secularism in France. Zekri called the mayor’s order a “provocation” that could pit students against one another. (ap)

LAGOS, Nigeria — Rescu-ers pulled two more bodies from the water Thursday, bringing to six the number of people killed when a helicopter flying from an offshore oil rig plunged into a lagoon in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos.

Marine police and fishermen calling for body bags raced to a dock on Thursday and delivered the bodies of one black man and one white man.

Rescue officials confirmed they were the bodies of two people missing in Wednesday’s crash of a Sikorsky S-76C+ belonging to the Houston, Texas-based Bristow Group. The company said in a statement that preliminary infor-mation indicated 10 passengers and a crew of two were aboard.

Four bodies were recovered Wednesday, officials said after the helicopter crashed in the afternoon

on approach to Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport, according to Bristow.

Six people are hospitalized with injuries, said spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emer-gency Management Agency.

“I saw smoke and then it fell down into the water. We were rush-ing and it was sinking. People were shouting for help,” said Adedayo Hassan, a speedboat driver. “They were wearing life jackets but they were trapped in the chopper ... which was broken in pieces.”

He and his friends dove in, broke the lever to open a door and then cut survivors out of their seat belts and pull them out feet first.

Hassan said they motored back to shore with the men who “were in shock, they just stayed silent.” The rescuers flagged down a taxi and drove the six to a nearby hospital, he said. (ap)

Yue Yuewei/Xinhua via AP

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, smoke rise from the site of explosions from a nearby building in the Binhai New Area in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses said Thursday.


TIANJIN, China — Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored.

Russia expands its food imports ban to some non-EU nations

Bid to keep pork substitutes on French school menus rebuffed

Rescuers pull 2 bodies from lagoon in Nigeria chopper crash

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India’s P.V. Sindhu caused the first major upset at the badminton World Championships when the 20-year-old stunned Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China 21-17 14-21 21-17 in a pulsating women’s singles third round encounter on Thursday.

Sindhu often saves her best for this tournament and will be looking to improve on her two previous bronze medal performances if she can maintain the form that saw her storm to victory past the third seed in 50 minutes of action in Jakarta.

There was also the hint of another upset in same half of the draw when top seed and defending champion Carolina Marin dropped the second game of her match against Taiwan’s Pai Yu-po but the injury-prone Spaniard dug deep to advance 21-11 18-21 21-17.

On a good day for India in the women’s singles, sec-ond seed Saina Nehwal overcame a sluggish start against Japanese southpaw Sayaka Takahashi to book her place in the last eight with a gutsy 21-18 21-14 victory over her fast-starting opponent.

Nehwal looked completely out of sorts in the opening exchanges as she struggled with the drift inside the Istora Senayan arena but the former number one knuckled down to rally for victory after trailing 11-3 at the first mid-game interval.

In the men’s draw, top seed and defending champion Chen Long put on a fine display of attacking badminton and supreme court coverage with a 21-17 21-18 victory over unseeded Thai Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk to book his place in the quarter-finals.

Men’s number four seed Kento Momota of Japan also advanced with a straightforward 21-15 21-16 win over Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh.

Sindhu, seeded 11th, has had an injury-interrupted season but will fancy her chances of another upset against South Korea’s Sung Ji-hyun to set up a possible semi-final showdown against Marin, who rolled her ankle in her match against Pai.

“I just tried to not think about my ankle, because I was so scared, because maybe I could not play,” she told reporters of the incident that halted the first game for several minutes. “I have a physiotherapist here, so he is going to treat me now.”

Long-time rivals Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia and five-time world champion Lin Dan of China are in third round action later on Thursday with the pair on a collision course for a mouth-watering semi-final showdown.(rtr)

MONTREAL — French Open champion Stan Wawrinka urged tennis authorities on Thursday to take action against Nick Kyrgios for an “unacceptable” comment during a match at the Rogers Cup. Wawrinka wrote on his Twitter ac-count that the Australian’s words were “not only unacceptable but also beyond belief.”

A courtside microphone picked up the 20-year-old Kyrgios say-ing that Australian player Thanasi Kokkinakis had slept with a player who is reportedly Wawrinka’s

girlfriend.“There is no need for this kind

of behaviour on or off the court and I hope the governing body of this sport does not stand for this,” the 30-year-old Wawrinka wrote on Twitter.

Wawrinka, ranked fifth in the world, announced in April that he had separated from his wife, with whom he has a daughter. Wawrinka has since been linked with 19-year-old Donna Vekic of Croatia, who is ranked 127th.

Vekic played mixed doubles with

Kokkinakis, also 19 and ranked No. 76, at the 2014 Australian Open as a wild-card entry.

Kyrgios beat Wawrinka on Wednesday when the Swiss retired with a lower-back injury while trailing 4-0 in the third set. In a post-match interview on court, Kyrgios said Wawrinka had pro-voked him.

“He was getting a bit lippy at me so, I don’t know, it’s just in-the-moment sort of stuff,” Kyrgios said. “I don’t really know, I just said it.”(ap)

Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP

Stan Wawrinka, of Switzerland, returns to Nick Kyrgios, of Australia, at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, in Montreal.

Stan Wawrinka urges action against Nick Kyrgios

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

India’s P.V. Sindhu returns a shot during her match against China’s Li Xuerui at the BWF World Champion-ship in Jakarta, Indonesia August 13, 2015.

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Cos-ta Rican national team coach Paulo Wanchope resigned Wednesday after he was involved in a fistfight at a match in Panama. The Central American nation’s soccer federa-tion said in a statement that Wan-chope had decided to “step aside” a day after the incident.

Wanchope was watching Costa Rica’s under-23 team play a pre-Olympic match Tuesday night when the scuffle broke out.

Video of the incident shows Wanchope angrily opening a gate to the field and shoving a youth standing behind it, while apparently receiving a shove from a man stand-ing beside the gate. Wanchope then turns and punches the man, who kicks and hits him before police intervene.

Local news reports indicated the coach was irritated at refereeing of the match, which ended in a score-less draw.

Wanchope, who was at the sta-

dium as an observer, approached the field several times to shout at officials that the match was fixed, said Ramon Cardoze, vice president of the Panama Soccer Federation.

Wanchope had a badge that ap-parently would have allowed him to go onto the pitch after play was over. “He could go down at a certain point, but not in that aggressive way,” Cardoze said.

Costa Rican newspaper La Na-cion called the incident “shameful,” while Prensa Libre called it “embar-rassing.”

Wanchope took over Costa Rica’s team last year after a career as one of Central America’s most famous forwards. He played for several years in the English Pre-mier League and was a star on the national team.

Another CONCACAF side, Mexico, fired its national team coach Miguel Herrera last month for allegedly punching a television broadcaster. (ap)

Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger says he is on the verge of returning to full fitness after picking up a calf injury during the Premier League club’s pre-season tour of the Unites States.

Pep Guardiola, who managed the German international at Bay-ern Munich before his transfer, raised doubts over the 31-year-old’s fitness by claiming that the midfielder was never fully fit during the last three seasons.

“It’s fine. I had three or four days in America where I had this injury and it was not so good for my rhythm,” Schweinsteiger, who came on in the second half in United’s 1-0 win against Tot-tenham Hotspur, told the club website (www.manutd.com). “Now I feel much better and also the game was very important to play 30 minutes.

“The training sessions are very important for me, too. I’m getting better and I hope I will be 100 per cent fit in the next week.” The World Cup winner said he was thrilled with the reception he received from the United fans at Old Trafford when he made his home debut against Spurs on Saturday.

“It was amazing, really. I was surprised and I have to say ‘thank you’ to all the supporters. It was a great feeling and yes, at the end, we won so it was a good day for us,” he said. “This was something new on Saturday. It was great and a special day for me on Saturday.”

Schweinsteiger, who speaks fluent English, thanked his team-mates for helping him settle quickly at the Manchester club.

“It’s getting better and better. Everything is something new for me -- a new step in my life -- and I’m really looking forward to settling in more and more with my team-mates,” Schweinsteiger

BUCHAREST - Former Roma-nia skipper Gheorghe Hagi’s son Ianis became the youngest captain in the Romanian league at the age of 16 when he took the armband in the second half of his team Viitorul Constanta’s 2-1 win at Universi-tatea Craiova on Wednesday.

“It’s something special to wear

the captain’s armband at such a young age but I’m used to it,” Ianis, who is also Romania under-17 captain, told local media. He replaced Razvan Marin 14 minutes after the break. Ianis made his league debut against FC Botosani in December.

His father, nicknamed “Mara-

dona of the Carpathians”, founded, owns and manages Viitorul, known for nurturing young talent in the Black Sea state.

Unbeaten Viitorul, founded in 2009, are second in the standings with 10 points from six matches, only a point behind leaders FC Astra. (rtr)

ROME — Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko has joined Roma on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent transfer.

The Bosnia international scored 72 goals in 189 appearances for City since joining from Wolfsburg in January 2011 but he dropped down the striking pecking order.

City says the 29-year-old Dzeko will move permanently to Roma if “certain conditions are met” at the end of the sea-son. Dzeko has won the Premier League twice. (ap)

PRAGUE — Czech Republic captain Tomas Rosicky could miss European Championship qualifiers against Kazakh-stan and Latvia in September. The Arsenal midfielder injured his knee in June in an-other Euro 2016 qualifying match against Iceland and underwent arthroscopic surgery last week.

Czech football federation head Miro-slav Pelta said Wednesday that “we have information from Arsenal that everything is getting better but time is against us.” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said last week that Rosicky was “on a progressive recovery.”

Rosicky’s agent, Pavel Paska, told Czech newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes on Wednes-day that the player’s recovery should take 4 to 8 weeks.

The Czechs are second in Group A, trail-ing Iceland by two points and three points ahead of the Netherlands in third. (ap)

AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2014 file photo, Costa Rica’s coach Paulo Wanchope flashes two fingers during a friendly soccer match against Uruguay in Montevideo, Uruguay. Videos show Wan-chope in a fistfight at an under-23 match in Panama, Tuesday, Aug, 11, 2015.

Costa Rica soccer coach Wanchope quits after stadium fight

Hagi Jr becomes youngest captain in Romania league at 16

Schweinsteiger expects to be fully fit by next week

Reuters / Jason Cairnduff

Manchester United’s Bastian Schweinsteiger

added.“They are helping me a lot and

we do a lot of things together in our free time. My team-mates help me to choose restaurants,

for example, and golf courses, something like this. “But the most important thing is to be suc-cessful this season and to win the matches.” (rtr)

Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho and

team doctor Eva Car-neiro, right, during the

English Premier League soccer match between

Chelsea and Swansea City at Stamford Bridge sta-

dium in London, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro is set

to lose her place on the bench after criticism

from man-ager Jose Mourinho.


LONDON — After only one weekend of the English Premier League season, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is in familiar territory: Embroiled in an ir-rational dispute and his conduct being denounced. The unexpected target of

Mourinho’s ire is the club doctor whose eagerness to race onto the field to treat an apparently injured Chelsea player incensed the Portuguese coach.

Man City striker Edin Dzeko joins Roma on season-long loan

Czech captain Tomas Rosicky could miss Euro 2016 qualifiers

Although Mourinho’s spats with referees and

media outlets are common-place, he is now being con-demned by medical profes-sionals for the “unjust” axing of Dr. Eva Carneiro from her match-day role on the Chel-sea bench and giving the impression of not prioritiz-ing players’ welfare.

Carneiro’s apparent job downgrading came after Mourinho publicly criticized the actions of his medical staff following the opening-day draw with Swansea. In stoppage time, with Chelsea already down to 10 men after goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off, Eden Hazard was brought down at Stamford Bridge.

The immediate reaction from Carneiro and physiother-apist Jon Fearn was to leave the bench to treat Hazard. The protocol — designed to limit time-wasting by teams — required the winger to leave the field for a short time, temporarily leaving Chelsea with only nine players as the Premier League champions chased a winner.

“I was unhappy with my medical staff. They

were impulsive and naive,” Mourinho said after the game. “Whether you are a kit man, doctor or secretary on the bench you have to understand the game. “You have to know you have one player less and to assist a player you must be sure he has a serious problem.”

Frustrated at dropping two points at the start of Chelsea’s title defense, Mourinho con-cluded that Hazard “did not have a serious problem.”

But the Premier League Doctors Group issued a strong defense on behalf of Carneiro on Wednesday, saying the medics were clearly sum-moned by the referees to attend to Hazard. Refusing to go onto the field would have breached the doctor’s duty to a patient, said Mark Gillett, the group’s chairman who is West Bro-mwich Albion’s performance director.

“The Premier League Doc-tors’ Group considers that removing Dr. Eva Carneiro from the Chelsea team bench for their next match is unjust in the extreme,” Gillett said in a statement. “It is a huge concern that Dr. Carneiro has ... a change in her professional role, merely because she ad-hered to her code of profes-sional conduct and did her job properly.”

Carneiro has remained si-lent in public on the specifics of the case, but she did is-sue a rare social media post-ing on Sunday as the storm over Mourinho’s comments swelled. “I would like to thank the general public for their overwhelming support,” Car-neiro, who previously worked for the British Olympic Medi-cal Institute and UK Athletics, wrote on her verified Facebook account. “Really very much appreciated.”

At a club which frowns on back-room staff beyond

Mourinho and his assistant speaking publicly, such a comment will not have gone down well — particularly as it appeared to expose friction within the club. Chelsea only said Wednesday “we don’t comment on internal staffing matters” even as the club is being criticized for seeming to undermine player welfare.

“The precedent set by this incident demonstrates that the medical care of players ap-pears to be secondary to the result of the game,” said Gil-lett, speaking on behalf of the league’s doctors. Gillet said there is a “pressing need to further establish and highlight the explicit role of a Premier League doctor.”

Mourinho is likely to be asked about it when he faces the media ahead of Sunday’s match against Manchester City, the team Chelsea took the ti t le from last season. Mourinho finding a distraction or a scapegoat is nothing new. Usually, though, the targets to deflect from his team’s shortcomings are referees or the media.

By picking a row with a Chelsea colleague, Mourinho has revived memories of the fall-out with owner Roman Abramovich which led to his first period in charge ending in 2007.

That came a month into his third season in charge — a milestone Mourinho is just weeks away from reaching in his second spell in the west London club’s dugout.

Given Mourinho only signed a new four-year contract last week, his future seems secure. But the doctor dispute in the opening days of the season shows that the self-proclaimed “Special One” is doing little to live up to his pledge on return-ing to Chelsea in 2013 to be the “Happy One.” (ap)

AP Photo/Frank A

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Cos-ta Rican national team coach Paulo Wanchope resigned Wednesday after he was involved in a fistfight at a match in Panama. The Central American nation’s soccer federa-tion said in a statement that Wan-chope had decided to “step aside” a day after the incident.

Wanchope was watching Costa Rica’s under-23 team play a pre-Olympic match Tuesday night when the scuffle broke out.

Video of the incident shows Wanchope angrily opening a gate to the field and shoving a youth standing behind it, while apparently receiving a shove from a man stand-ing beside the gate. Wanchope then turns and punches the man, who kicks and hits him before police intervene.

Local news reports indicated the coach was irritated at refereeing of the match, which ended in a score-less draw.

Wanchope, who was at the sta-

dium as an observer, approached the field several times to shout at officials that the match was fixed, said Ramon Cardoze, vice president of the Panama Soccer Federation.

Wanchope had a badge that ap-parently would have allowed him to go onto the pitch after play was over. “He could go down at a certain point, but not in that aggressive way,” Cardoze said.

Costa Rican newspaper La Na-cion called the incident “shameful,” while Prensa Libre called it “embar-rassing.”

Wanchope took over Costa Rica’s team last year after a career as one of Central America’s most famous forwards. He played for several years in the English Pre-mier League and was a star on the national team.

Another CONCACAF side, Mexico, fired its national team coach Miguel Herrera last month for allegedly punching a television broadcaster. (ap)

Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger says he is on the verge of returning to full fitness after picking up a calf injury during the Premier League club’s pre-season tour of the Unites States.

Pep Guardiola, who managed the German international at Bay-ern Munich before his transfer, raised doubts over the 31-year-old’s fitness by claiming that the midfielder was never fully fit during the last three seasons.

“It’s fine. I had three or four days in America where I had this injury and it was not so good for my rhythm,” Schweinsteiger, who came on in the second half in United’s 1-0 win against Tot-tenham Hotspur, told the club website (www.manutd.com). “Now I feel much better and also the game was very important to play 30 minutes.

“The training sessions are very important for me, too. I’m getting better and I hope I will be 100 per cent fit in the next week.” The World Cup winner said he was thrilled with the reception he received from the United fans at Old Trafford when he made his home debut against Spurs on Saturday.

“It was amazing, really. I was surprised and I have to say ‘thank you’ to all the supporters. It was a great feeling and yes, at the end, we won so it was a good day for us,” he said. “This was something new on Saturday. It was great and a special day for me on Saturday.”

Schweinsteiger, who speaks fluent English, thanked his team-mates for helping him settle quickly at the Manchester club.

“It’s getting better and better. Everything is something new for me -- a new step in my life -- and I’m really looking forward to settling in more and more with my team-mates,” Schweinsteiger

BUCHAREST - Former Roma-nia skipper Gheorghe Hagi’s son Ianis became the youngest captain in the Romanian league at the age of 16 when he took the armband in the second half of his team Viitorul Constanta’s 2-1 win at Universi-tatea Craiova on Wednesday.

“It’s something special to wear

the captain’s armband at such a young age but I’m used to it,” Ianis, who is also Romania under-17 captain, told local media. He replaced Razvan Marin 14 minutes after the break. Ianis made his league debut against FC Botosani in December.

His father, nicknamed “Mara-

dona of the Carpathians”, founded, owns and manages Viitorul, known for nurturing young talent in the Black Sea state.

Unbeaten Viitorul, founded in 2009, are second in the standings with 10 points from six matches, only a point behind leaders FC Astra. (rtr)

ROME — Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko has joined Roma on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent transfer.

The Bosnia international scored 72 goals in 189 appearances for City since joining from Wolfsburg in January 2011 but he dropped down the striking pecking order.

City says the 29-year-old Dzeko will move permanently to Roma if “certain conditions are met” at the end of the sea-son. Dzeko has won the Premier League twice. (ap)

PRAGUE — Czech Republic captain Tomas Rosicky could miss European Championship qualifiers against Kazakh-stan and Latvia in September. The Arsenal midfielder injured his knee in June in an-other Euro 2016 qualifying match against Iceland and underwent arthroscopic surgery last week.

Czech football federation head Miro-slav Pelta said Wednesday that “we have information from Arsenal that everything is getting better but time is against us.” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said last week that Rosicky was “on a progressive recovery.”

Rosicky’s agent, Pavel Paska, told Czech newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes on Wednes-day that the player’s recovery should take 4 to 8 weeks.

The Czechs are second in Group A, trail-ing Iceland by two points and three points ahead of the Netherlands in third. (ap)

AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2014 file photo, Costa Rica’s coach Paulo Wanchope flashes two fingers during a friendly soccer match against Uruguay in Montevideo, Uruguay. Videos show Wan-chope in a fistfight at an under-23 match in Panama, Tuesday, Aug, 11, 2015.

Costa Rica soccer coach Wanchope quits after stadium fight

Hagi Jr becomes youngest captain in Romania league at 16

Schweinsteiger expects to be fully fit by next week

Reuters / Jason Cairnduff

Manchester United’s Bastian Schweinsteiger

added.“They are helping me a lot and

we do a lot of things together in our free time. My team-mates help me to choose restaurants,

for example, and golf courses, something like this. “But the most important thing is to be suc-cessful this season and to win the matches.” (rtr)

Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho and

team doctor Eva Car-neiro, right, during the

English Premier League soccer match between

Chelsea and Swansea City at Stamford Bridge sta-

dium in London, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro is set

to lose her place on the bench after criticism

from man-ager Jose Mourinho.


LONDON — After only one weekend of the English Premier League season, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is in familiar territory: Embroiled in an ir-rational dispute and his conduct being denounced. The unexpected target of

Mourinho’s ire is the club doctor whose eagerness to race onto the field to treat an apparently injured Chelsea player incensed the Portuguese coach.

Man City striker Edin Dzeko joins Roma on season-long loan

Czech captain Tomas Rosicky could miss Euro 2016 qualifiers

Although Mourinho’s spats with referees and

media outlets are common-place, he is now being con-demned by medical profes-sionals for the “unjust” axing of Dr. Eva Carneiro from her match-day role on the Chel-sea bench and giving the impression of not prioritiz-ing players’ welfare.

Carneiro’s apparent job downgrading came after Mourinho publicly criticized the actions of his medical staff following the opening-day draw with Swansea. In stoppage time, with Chelsea already down to 10 men after goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off, Eden Hazard was brought down at Stamford Bridge.

The immediate reaction from Carneiro and physiother-apist Jon Fearn was to leave the bench to treat Hazard. The protocol — designed to limit time-wasting by teams — required the winger to leave the field for a short time, temporarily leaving Chelsea with only nine players as the Premier League champions chased a winner.

“I was unhappy with my medical staff. They

were impulsive and naive,” Mourinho said after the game. “Whether you are a kit man, doctor or secretary on the bench you have to understand the game. “You have to know you have one player less and to assist a player you must be sure he has a serious problem.”

Frustrated at dropping two points at the start of Chelsea’s title defense, Mourinho con-cluded that Hazard “did not have a serious problem.”

But the Premier League Doctors Group issued a strong defense on behalf of Carneiro on Wednesday, saying the medics were clearly sum-moned by the referees to attend to Hazard. Refusing to go onto the field would have breached the doctor’s duty to a patient, said Mark Gillett, the group’s chairman who is West Bro-mwich Albion’s performance director.

“The Premier League Doc-tors’ Group considers that removing Dr. Eva Carneiro from the Chelsea team bench for their next match is unjust in the extreme,” Gillett said in a statement. “It is a huge concern that Dr. Carneiro has ... a change in her professional role, merely because she ad-hered to her code of profes-sional conduct and did her job properly.”

Carneiro has remained si-lent in public on the specifics of the case, but she did is-sue a rare social media post-ing on Sunday as the storm over Mourinho’s comments swelled. “I would like to thank the general public for their overwhelming support,” Car-neiro, who previously worked for the British Olympic Medi-cal Institute and UK Athletics, wrote on her verified Facebook account. “Really very much appreciated.”

At a club which frowns on back-room staff beyond

Mourinho and his assistant speaking publicly, such a comment will not have gone down well — particularly as it appeared to expose friction within the club. Chelsea only said Wednesday “we don’t comment on internal staffing matters” even as the club is being criticized for seeming to undermine player welfare.

“The precedent set by this incident demonstrates that the medical care of players ap-pears to be secondary to the result of the game,” said Gil-lett, speaking on behalf of the league’s doctors. Gillet said there is a “pressing need to further establish and highlight the explicit role of a Premier League doctor.”

Mourinho is likely to be asked about it when he faces the media ahead of Sunday’s match against Manchester City, the team Chelsea took the ti t le from last season. Mourinho finding a distraction or a scapegoat is nothing new. Usually, though, the targets to deflect from his team’s shortcomings are referees or the media.

By picking a row with a Chelsea colleague, Mourinho has revived memories of the fall-out with owner Roman Abramovich which led to his first period in charge ending in 2007.

That came a month into his third season in charge — a milestone Mourinho is just weeks away from reaching in his second spell in the west London club’s dugout.

Given Mourinho only signed a new four-year contract last week, his future seems secure. But the doctor dispute in the opening days of the season shows that the self-proclaimed “Special One” is doing little to live up to his pledge on return-ing to Chelsea in 2013 to be the “Happy One.” (ap)

AP Photo/Frank A

ugstein

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Strategic location between two cliffs behind the Bugbug and Perasi Hill causes the beach to be slightly hidden. To reach the location, travel-ers must cover a distance of about 1 km from the main road to the town of Karangasem. However, the condition of the road infrastructure to Virgin Beach is steep and remains not good.

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India’s P.V. Sindhu caused the first major upset at the badminton World Championships when the 20-year-old stunned Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China 21-17 14-21 21-17 in a pulsating women’s singles third round encounter on Thursday.

Sindhu often saves her best for this tournament and will be looking to improve on her two previous bronze medal performances if she can maintain the form that saw her storm to victory past the third seed in 50 minutes of action in Jakarta.

There was also the hint of another upset in same half of the draw when top seed and defending champion Carolina Marin dropped the second game of her match against Taiwan’s Pai Yu-po but the injury-prone Spaniard dug deep to advance 21-11 18-21 21-17.

On a good day for India in the women’s singles, sec-ond seed Saina Nehwal overcame a sluggish start against Japanese southpaw Sayaka Takahashi to book her place in the last eight with a gutsy 21-18 21-14 victory over her fast-starting opponent.

Nehwal looked completely out of sorts in the opening exchanges as she struggled with the drift inside the Istora Senayan arena but the former number one knuckled down to rally for victory after trailing 11-3 at the first mid-game interval.

In the men’s draw, top seed and defending champion Chen Long put on a fine display of attacking badminton and supreme court coverage with a 21-17 21-18 victory over unseeded Thai Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk to book his place in the quarter-finals.

Men’s number four seed Kento Momota of Japan also advanced with a straightforward 21-15 21-16 win over Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh.

Sindhu, seeded 11th, has had an injury-interrupted season but will fancy her chances of another upset against South Korea’s Sung Ji-hyun to set up a possible semi-final showdown against Marin, who rolled her ankle in her match against Pai.

“I just tried to not think about my ankle, because I was so scared, because maybe I could not play,” she told reporters of the incident that halted the first game for several minutes. “I have a physiotherapist here, so he is going to treat me now.”

Long-time rivals Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia and five-time world champion Lin Dan of China are in third round action later on Thursday with the pair on a collision course for a mouth-watering semi-final showdown.(rtr)

MONTREAL — French Open champion Stan Wawrinka urged tennis authorities on Thursday to take action against Nick Kyrgios for an “unacceptable” comment during a match at the Rogers Cup. Wawrinka wrote on his Twitter ac-count that the Australian’s words were “not only unacceptable but also beyond belief.”

A courtside microphone picked up the 20-year-old Kyrgios say-ing that Australian player Thanasi Kokkinakis had slept with a player who is reportedly Wawrinka’s

girlfriend.“There is no need for this kind

of behaviour on or off the court and I hope the governing body of this sport does not stand for this,” the 30-year-old Wawrinka wrote on Twitter.

Wawrinka, ranked fifth in the world, announced in April that he had separated from his wife, with whom he has a daughter. Wawrinka has since been linked with 19-year-old Donna Vekic of Croatia, who is ranked 127th.

Vekic played mixed doubles with

Kokkinakis, also 19 and ranked No. 76, at the 2014 Australian Open as a wild-card entry.

Kyrgios beat Wawrinka on Wednesday when the Swiss retired with a lower-back injury while trailing 4-0 in the third set. In a post-match interview on court, Kyrgios said Wawrinka had pro-voked him.

“He was getting a bit lippy at me so, I don’t know, it’s just in-the-moment sort of stuff,” Kyrgios said. “I don’t really know, I just said it.”(ap)

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Stan Wawrinka, of Switzerland, returns to Nick Kyrgios, of Australia, at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, in Montreal.

Stan Wawrinka urges action against Nick Kyrgios

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JAKARTA - Thomas Lembong has mingled for years with bankers and private equity executives, but on Wednes-day swapped that to take up the post of Indonesia’s trade minister, an appointment designed to shore up investor faith in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Eloquent, urbane and with a degree from Harvard, Lembong breaks the mould of staid and often feckless politicians that Indonesians have come to expect from their government ministers.

But then he was appointed by Joko Widodo, a former furniture businessman who last October became the coun-try’s first president from outside the political or military establishment.

Widodo plucked Lembong from the executive suite of his Singapore-based private equity company as part of a wider cabinet reshuffle, which followed weeks of criticism that his original economic team had failed to halt a slide in growth to its slowest pace in six years.

“We face a heavy economic challenge,” Lembong said in a speech after the new ministers were sworn in. “The president, vice president and ministers strongly believe that Indonesians have the strength to overcome this. It’s a question of utilising the resources.”

Now in his early 40s, Lembong worked at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley before co-founding Quvat Management private equity firm that specialises in growth capital and buyouts, in particular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

“Tom’s appointment is excellent,” John Riady, a direc-tor at Indonesian retail-to-property conglomerate Lippo Group, told Reuters in an email.

“I believe the market will respond very positively to a trade minister who brings together a deep understanding of how global markets work, how business functions and has a heart for the Indonesian people.”

Lembong becomes trade czar at a time when Indonesian shoe, garment and other businesses have been struggling to compete with Chinese goods, which could become even cheaper after the world’s second-biggest economy devalued its currency this week.

Indonesia’s relations with a key trade partner, Australia, have also been tested after it slashed the number of cattle import permits last month. Australia supplied around 40 percent of the beef consumed in Indonesia last year.

“The introduction of market-friendly Lembong in the trade ministry is positive given the outgoing trade minis-ter adopted nationalist policies that failed to energise the country’s exports,” said Achmad Sukarsono, an analyst at Eurasia Group.

Lembong was the Indonesia representative in a group of global institutional investors overseeing trillions of dollars who visited Jakarta after Widodo took office last year.

After Widodo pitched opportunities in Indonesia’s infrastructure sector to the group, Lembong told Reuters that the new president was “a huge magnet for investors” who “speaks the language of business”.

Even before his appointment to the cabinet, Lembong advised key government officials on infrastructure fi-nancing and accompanied state enterprises minister Rini Soemarno on a trip to Beijing earlier this year, people with knowledge of the matter said.

He also advised Widodo on the need to mobilise the “hundreds of trillions of rupiah in the non-bank sector”, especially pension and insurance funds, to meet his infrastructure ambitions, he told Reuters in an email in March. (rtr)

The Thai-owned Silver Sea 2 was located late Wednesday and escorted about 80 miles (130 kilometers) to a naval base in Sabang on the Indonesian archipelago’s northwestern tip, said Col. Sujatmiko, the local naval chief.

The AP used a satellite beacon signal to trace its path from Papua New Guinea waters, where it was also being sought, into neighboring Indonesia. The navy then spent a week trying to catch it. The ship was close to leaving Indonesian wa-ters by the time it was finally seized.

“I’m so overwhelmed with hap-piness,” said Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti. “It was almost impossible, but we did it.”

The Silver Sea 2 is the same 2,285-ton vessel captured in a high-resolution satellite photo last month in Papua New Guinea showing its hold open and two fishing trawlers tethered to each side, loading fish. The smaller wooden

vessels were identified by analysts as the ones that fled a remote Indonesian island earlier this year, crewed by en-slaved men from poor Southeast Asian countries who are routinely beaten and forced to work nearly nonstop with little or no pay.

An AP investigation revealed their catch reached the supply chains of ma-jor U.S. food sellers, such as Wal-Mart, Sysco and Kroger, and American pet food companies, including Fancy Feast, Meow Mix and Iams. The businesses have all said they strongly condemn labor abuse and vowed to take steps to prevent it.

Pudjiastuti freed hundreds of men earlier this year after the AP exposed they were trapped — including some locked in a cage — on the island vil-lage of Benjina. But 34 boats loaded with slaves escaped before authorities arrived. They remain missing.

Pudjiastuti, who put a moratorium on all foreign fishing last year, said the Sil-ver Sea 2 captain will be questioned, and an investigation will be launched into suspected human trafficking, transport of illegally caught fish and offloading at sea, which allows fishermen to work for months on end without returning to port, making it easier for their captains to exploit them.

“Indonesia’s action here is significant as it demonstrates a commitment to enforcing the actions of vessels within their waters, regardless of whether they are fishing illegally or trafficking labor,” said Tobias Aguirre, executive director of California-based nonprofit Fishwise, which advocates for sustainable, slave-free seafood.

Silver Sea Reefer Co., which owns at least nine refrigerated cargo ships in Thailand, has said it is not involved with the fishermen. (ap)

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Job seekers queue at the Indonesia Spectacular Job Fair 2015 at Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta August 12, 2015. Indonesia’s gross domestic product grew at 4.67 percent in the second quarter, its slowest pace in six years. Since he took office last October, Widodo’s government has passed a raft of measures aimed at boosting industry and consumption that have been criticized by investors as protectionist.

New trade minister plucked from the executive suite

Navy nabs cargo ship loaded with slave-caught fish

JAKARTA — A massive refrigerated cargo ship believed to be loaded with slave-caught fish was seized by Indonesia’s navy and brought to shore after The Associated Press informed authorities that it had entered the country’s waters, officials said Thursday.

Hundreds of people were injured in the explosions shortly before midnight Wednesday, which sent out massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day and shattered windows several kilometers (miles) away. Twelve of the dead were from among the more than 1,000 firefight-ers sent to the mostly industrial zone to fight the ensuing blaze.

“I thought it was an earthquake, so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on,” said Tianjin resident Zhang Siyu, whose home is several kilometers (miles) from the blast site. “Only once I was outside did I realize it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it.”

Zhang said she could see wound-ed people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but “I could feel death.”

The municipal government in Tianjin, a key port and petrochemical processing hub about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Beijing, said 701 people were injured, including 71 in serious condition. It gave no figure

for the missing.There was no indication of what

caused the blasts, and no immediate sign of any toxic cloud in the air as firefighters brought the fire largely under control by morning. However, the Tianjin government suspended further firefighting to allow a team of chemical experts to survey haz-ardous materials at the site, assess dangers to the environment and decide how best to proceed.

State media said senior manage-ment of the company had been de-tained, and that President Xi Jinping demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the ex-plosions. “It was like what we were told a nuclear bomb would be like,” said truck driver Zhao Zhencheng, who spent the night in the cab of his truck after the blasts. “I’ve never even thought I’d see such a thing. It was terrifying, but also beautiful.”

In a sign of sensitivity over the hazardous materials stored at the warehouse, state broadcaster CCTV went into a live broadcast of a news conference in Tianjin when the head of the municipality’s Environmen-

tal Protection Bureau chief, Wen Wurui, was speaking. He said there had been no apparent impact on air monitoring stations, but that water samples were still being examined.

However, when a reporter asked him whether the chemicals at the warehouse had been stored far enough away from residences in the area and Wen seemed at a loss for a response, the broadcaster suddenly cut away from the news conference, only to return to it again later.

Authorities said the blasts started at shipping containers at the ware-house owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it stores hazard-ous materials including flammable petrochemicals, sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate.

The initial blast apparently triggered an even bigger one. The National Earthquake Bureau said the first blast was the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second 21 tons. The enormous fireballs from the blasts rolled through a nearby parking lot, turning a fleet of 1,000 new cars into scorched metal husks. (ap)

MOSCOW — Russia’s prime minister says he has signed an order banning imports of agricul-tural products from several non-EU European nations that have joined the European Union’s sanctions against Russia.

Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday the ban would apply to products from Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

The U.S. and the EU have im-posed sanctions in response to Mos-cow’s annexation of Crimea and

support for pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine. Moscow has retaliated by banning many Western agricultural products. In June, the Kremlin prolonged the ban follow-ing the EU’s decision to extend its sanctions through January.

Medvedev said Russia also would apply the ban to Ukraine starting next year if Russia and the EU fail to negotiate a compromise on taking into account Moscow’s interests in a Ukraine-EU free trade agreement. (ap)

PARIS — A leader of France’s top Muslim organization is criti-cizing a court decision that could jeopardize a decades-old policy in which public schools can offer substitutes to pork when the meat turns up on lunch menus.

Abdullah Zekri of the French Council of the Muslim Faith said Thursday he is worried that the ruling a day earlier in eastern Dijon could sow discord in France.

A legal defense team for Mus-

lims had sought to block applica-tion of an order earlier this year by Gilles Platret, conservative mayor of nearby Chalons-sur-Saone, to pull pork substitutes from school menus. Such substitutes are of-fered across France.

On Twitter, Platret called the ruling a victory for secularism in France. Zekri called the mayor’s order a “provocation” that could pit students against one another. (ap)

LAGOS, Nigeria — Rescu-ers pulled two more bodies from the water Thursday, bringing to six the number of people killed when a helicopter flying from an offshore oil rig plunged into a lagoon in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos.

Marine police and fishermen calling for body bags raced to a dock on Thursday and delivered the bodies of one black man and one white man.

Rescue officials confirmed they were the bodies of two people missing in Wednesday’s crash of a Sikorsky S-76C+ belonging to the Houston, Texas-based Bristow Group. The company said in a statement that preliminary infor-mation indicated 10 passengers and a crew of two were aboard.

Four bodies were recovered Wednesday, officials said after the helicopter crashed in the afternoon

on approach to Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport, according to Bristow.

Six people are hospitalized with injuries, said spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emer-gency Management Agency.

“I saw smoke and then it fell down into the water. We were rush-ing and it was sinking. People were shouting for help,” said Adedayo Hassan, a speedboat driver. “They were wearing life jackets but they were trapped in the chopper ... which was broken in pieces.”

He and his friends dove in, broke the lever to open a door and then cut survivors out of their seat belts and pull them out feet first.

Hassan said they motored back to shore with the men who “were in shock, they just stayed silent.” The rescuers flagged down a taxi and drove the six to a nearby hospital, he said. (ap)

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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, smoke rise from the site of explosions from a nearby building in the Binhai New Area in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses said Thursday.


TIANJIN, China — Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored.

Russia expands its food imports ban to some non-EU nations

Bid to keep pork substitutes on French school menus rebuffed

Rescuers pull 2 bodies from lagoon in Nigeria chopper crash

SHANGHAI - China weakened its currency for the third consecu-tive day Thursday, but financial markets that had been shaken by the surprise devaluation took heart as authorities pledged not to let the yuan plummet.

The central bank trimmed the reference rate for the yuan -- also known as the renminbi (RMB) -- by

1.11 percent to 6.4010 yuan for $1, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System said, from the previous day’s 6.3306.

The cut was less than previous two days and came after reports the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) intervened Wednesday to stem the yuan’s fall.

China adopted a more market-

oriented method of calculating the currency rate this week in a move widely seen as a devaluation, raising fresh questions about the health of the world’s second-largest economy.

After global stock and currency markets staggered in response, the PBoC went on the offensive Thursday, telling reporters that the

yuan was still a strong currency and that Beijing would keep the unit stable.

“Currently, there is no basis for the renminbi exchange rate to continue to depreciate,” as-sistant governor Zhang Xiaohui told a briefing, according to a transcript.

“The central bank has the abil-

ity to keep the renminbi basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level,” she said.

The comments drove a relief rally Thursday in Asian shares and Asia-Pacific currencies, which suf-fered their biggest two-day selloff since 1998 this week, although analysts said sentiment remained fragile.

“It’s likely the worst is over,” Patrick Bennett, a strategist at Ca-nadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Hong Kong, told Bloomberg News.

“PBoC intervention has calmed the market. There is not a sense that the onshore yuan will weaken forever.”

The yuan was quoted at 6.4067 to the dollar at midday, down from the previous day’s close of 6.3870.

China keeps a tight grip on the unit, allowing it to fluctuate up or down just two percent on either side of the reference rate, which it sets daily.

The PBoC on Tuesday an-nounced a “one-time correction” of nearly two percent in the yuan’s value against the greenback as it changed the mechanism.

Previously, it based the fixing on a poll of market-makers, but declared it would now also take into account the previous day’s close, foreign exchange supply and demand and the rates of major currencies.

It has since lowered the central rate twice more, and the week’s combined drop is the biggest since China set up its modern foreign exchange system in 1994, when it devalued the yuan by 33 percent at a stroke. (afp)

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Second-quarter growth was 4.9 percent, down from 6.5 percent in the same period last year, as both exports and private consumption weakened, the central bank said.

Future growth prospects for Southeast Asia’s third-largest econ-omy -- which is heavily reliant on

energy exports -- have come under a cloud due to the slump in world oil prices.

The ringgit currency fell to a 17-year low this week after China devalued the yuan, sparking fears Asia’s biggest economy could start a regional currency war where

central banks race to devalue their units.

The ringgit has also been hit by political uncertainty stemming from allegations of financial impro-prieties involving Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, however, said the economy would remain resilient.

“The Malaysian economy is expected to remain on a steady growth path, with domestic demand

continuing to be the key driver of growth,” she said.

Domestic demand growth weak-ened in the second quarter, how-ever, with private consumption ex-penditures expanding 6.4 percent, compared to 8.8 percent in the first quarter.

It had been widely expected to slip due to the April 1 introduction of a consumption tax that many consumers say has caused higher prices of key goods.

Najib, who also is finance min-ister, faces the biggest crisis of his tenure over the alleged irregularities involving debt-ridden state invest-ment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Questions are swirling around the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of dollars in 1MDB money, and it was revealed last month that nearly $700 million was depos-ited into Najib’s personal bank accounts. (afp)

AP Photo/Francois Mori

Chinese tourists wait for their bus in front of a fashion store in Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. China weakened its currency for the third consecutive day Thursday, but financial markets that had been shaken by the surprise devaluation took heart as authorities pledged not to let the yuan plummet.

Malaysian economy grows at slowest pace in nearly two yearsKUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s economy grew at its slowest

pace in nearly two years in the second quarter, the government said Thursday, the latest negative sign for policy-makers faced with a plummeting currency and political turmoil.

China weakens yuan for third day, reassures markets

Some residents met at location said that during high tides and strong winds no one dares to do activities around the beach. The waves are big enough and eventu-ally claims the land owned by local residents. On the east side bordering with the estuary of Medewi River, almost half a hectare of land of residents has disappeared. Simi-larly, the venue of melasti keeps on being critical because the land eroded is progressively narrower due to abrasion.

Currently, the impact of abrasion does not only occur on the land of residents and venue of melasti, but has also spread to Medewi tourist area and the place where fishermen

berth their boat. “When high tide occurs, half the garden of commu-nity disappears and even the venue of melasti has gone,” said one of the residents met last week.

For several years, the venue of melasti has often been moved due to condition of the land that does not enable. Sometimes, the village must borrow the land of resident remaining available. Lately, local residents are forced to use state land disappearing when high tides occur. Besides, the access to the venue of melasti is also difficult because people should pass through small alleys.

Headman of Medewi, Komang Suartika justified the condition. In

the long run, more and more lands will disappear and the venue of melasti has even been eroded by the abrasion. He said that the coastline of Medewi being prone to abrasion spreads along 800 meters. “For-merly, the land on the beach used as the venue of melasti was high and overgrown by thorny shrubs, but now they no longer remain,” he said.

Earlier there are proposals made by the residents for the making of revetment and jogging track, like on Baluk and Candikusuma Beach. Thus, other than protecting it also supports the tourism of Medewi Beach. However, the authority for the making of the revetment lies in central government. According to him, the village will seek to make a proposal related to the handling of the abrasion. Similarly, the solution for narrow road access to the venue of melasti is by making an alterna-tive road access after the revetment can be established. (kmb26)

DENPASAR - Complaints about infrastructure in Denpasar often oc-cur. A number of people complain about the damage to sidewalk on the main streets in Denpasar. Similarly, sidewalk repair is sometimes not worked on comprehensively and just sticks them with new materials without prior dredging.

The Head of the Denpasar Public Works Agency, I Ketut Winarta, recently stated that his party can-not handle the entire existing in-frastructure. Handling authority of some infrastructures in the city of Denpasar lies in the provincial and central government.

He said that the some of the existing main roads in Denpasar cannot be handled by Denpasar Public Works because they are beyond its authority. For example, if there is damage to Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, the Denpasar Public Works has no authority to handle. Since the status is national road, so when the road is damaged, it will be handled by the Road Agency whose authority lies in central govern-ment. In the meantime, the exist-ing provincial road in Denpasar is under the authority of provincial government. “If we handle, it will cause an error. On that account, we

just make coordination,” explained Winarta.

Some members of Commission III of the Denpasar House, A.A. Susruta Ngurah Putra and Wayan Suadi Putra, expected that to realize the quality of physical handling in Denpasar, they encourage coordination. “There should be coordination with the prov-ince when they work on projects in Denpasar,” said Susruta.

He pointed out that workman-ship of sidewalk on Jalan Dewi Sartika that was initially only stacked so that it kindles a concern when it rains. Rainwater will not be channeled properly because of sediment in the drainage has not been dredged. “Fortunately, after being reported by media, the next day there were officers flushing it. Maybe it has not been maximized because it was not done from the beginning,” he said.

The other members, such as Wayan Narsa, I.B. Ketut Kiana and Wayan Suwirya also briefly questioned about the actual amount of physical works in Denpasar. Besides, they also questioned about some proposals submitted in the recess period so that they can be addressed by relevant agencies. (kmb12)

SEMARAPURA - HIV/AIDS case in Klungkung region continues to increase each year. Previously, there were 218 residents found to have the deadly virus. This case in-creases again because three people are found to live with HIV/AIDS in 2015. Ironically, the three people found suffering from the deadly vi-rus are pregnant housewives. It was recognized by the Family Health Section Head of the Klungkung Health Agency, Ida Ayu Megawati, when asked for her confirmation, Wednesday (Aug. 12).

According to Megawati, the three pregnant women are known to have HIV/AIDS when attending HIV testing for pregnant women at public health center. She said that in 2015 there are 572 pregnant women attending the counseling at public health center. But after undergoing an examination at VCT Clinic, in fact, three people have HIV. Moreover, Megawati also admitted to find HIV cases in pregnant women in 2014. At that time, there were 839 pregnant women attending the counseling held in each public health center.

Megawati hoped the pregnant housewives not to hesitate to follow HIV testing for pregnant women

at clinic. Moreover, their secret is assured because it is only known by the officer.

In addition, this effort is also meant to prevent the infection to the babies in the womb. Should there be pregnant women with HIV positive, they will be referred to Sanglah Hospital to get anti-retroviral. “These tests are not enforced. The inspection program is in accordance with the circular of the Minister of Health because with this treatment, the HIV virus is expected to be un-der control and prevents the baby in the womb from being infected by the HIV,” he said.

Similar opinion was given by Acting Head of the Klungkung Health Agency, Nyoman Adi Pu-tra. He admitted there are three pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS. With these cases, Adiputra hoped the pregnant women to take HIV tests conducted in each public health center for the health of their baby. The HIV testing for pregnant women at public health center has been carried out since last year. Originally it was just performed at the Klungkung public health center I, but now it has been done to Nusa Penida. (kmb)

During HIV test, three HIV-positive pregnant women found

Handling of damaged infrastructure

constrained by authority

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The severe abrasion which happen on Medewi Beach

Melasti venue on Medewi Beach

disappears amid abrasion

NEGARA - Aside from becoming a tourist destination in Jem-brana, Medewi Beach at Medewi village, Mendoyo subdistrict, is now threatened by abrasion. Through the years, the impact of abrasion is getting more serious. Currently, the community around Medewi even loses the venue of melasti or purificatory rite. A shrine standing at the venue of melasti has collapsed as battered by violent waves.

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Human rights groups have voiced concern about the Public Assembly Act, which took effect Thursday, and its stiff penalties. It is the latest restrictive measure to be put in place since the military ousted an elected government in a coup last year, fol-lowing years of political demonstra-tions that led to violence and often paralyzed the country’s capital.

Interim Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who organized the coup, said the law requires that protesters apply for permission from police for ral-lies at least 24 hours in advance. It bans all demonstrations within 150 meters (500 feet) of the prime minister’s headquarters known as Government House, Parliament, royal palaces and courthouses un-less a specific area has been autho-rized and designated by authorities. It also bars protesters from blocking

entrances or creating a disturbance at government offices, airports, seaports, train and bus stations, hospitals, schools and embassies.

Thailand has had waves of mas-sive anti-government protests over the past decade that spread to key government offices, Bangkok’s central business district and major airports.

“This law will be strictly en-forced to prevent the type of nui-sance and violence that happened in the past,” Prayuth told reporters. “It’s not possible to have it all — happiness, equality, democracy — without giving us the tools.”

The law details a variety of penalties, including up to 6 months in prison and a 10,000 baht ($300) fine for protesting without police permission and up to 10 years in prison for any disruption of public service, such as public transporta-

tion, telecommunications, water and electricity supplies.

Protesters who ignore police orders to leave a site could face up to a year in prison and a 20,000 baht fine, while protesters armed with guns, explosives or similar weapons could face up to 5 years in prison and a 100,000 baht fine.

The bill was proposed by the police department, approved by the military-installed Cabinet and won a unanimous 182-0 vote in the military-installed National Legislative Assembly before being published last month in the Royal Gazette, which decreed the law would take effect Aug. 13.

Human rights groups say the law gives broad powers to authorities to prohibit public assemblies on vague and arbitrary grounds.

“This law violates the rights of the people. We want this act revoked,” said Nutchapakorn Num-mueng, a representative of iLaw, a legal watchdog and rights advocacy group. (ap)

H E L S I N -KI — Swedish prosecutors said Thursday they have dropped three cases of sexual miscon-d u c t a g a i n s t W i k i L e a k s founder Julian A s s a n g e b e -cause they have expired, but will continue to in-vestigate accu-sations of rape against him.

The Swed-ish Prosecution Authority said it has been un-able to charge the 44-year-old Australian, who escaped a Swed-ish arrest warrant by taking refuge in the Ecuador-ean Embassy in London in 2012 because it had not been possible to question him.

“Since the autumn of 2010, I have tried to gain permission to interview Julian Assange, but he has consistently refused to appear,” said Marianne Ny, the director of public prosecu-tion. “I still hope, however, that I will be able to arrange for an interview, as there are ongoing negotiations between Sweden and Ecuador.”

The agency says that a case of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion expired

T h u r s d a y , while a third case, of sexual moles ta t ion , w o u l d h a v e “time-barred on Aug. 18,” but added that Assange was still wanted for questioning on allegations of rape that expire in 2020.

A s s a n g e , who has denied all accusations, was wanted for questioning by Swedish police on allegations of sexual mis-conduct and one o f rape stemming from a 2010 visit to

Stockholm.He said in London that he was

“extremely disappointed” at the Swedish prosecutor’s decision to continue an investigation against him.

“There was no need for any of this. I am an innocent man,” he said in a statement issued at the Ecuadorean Embassy.

Assange has said he has no intention of going to Sweden for fear of being extradited to the United States because of an ongoing investigation into WikiLeaks’ dissemination of hundreds of thousands of classi-fied U.S. documents. (ap)

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has accepted an invitation from India for a bilateral meeting between security advisers from the two nuclear-armed rival nations later this month, a top government of-ficial said Thursday.

Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on na-tional security and foreign affairs, said he would travel to neighboring India’s capital on Aug. 23 to meet with his Indian counterpart.

Describing his upcoming visit to New Delhi as an ice-breaking, he expressed hope that it would help resolve outstanding issues between the two countries. “We do believe that dialogue resolves

the issues,” Aziz told reporters in Islamabad.

The announcement came weeks after Sharif and Indian Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi agreed on the sidelines of a summit in Russia to arrange a meeting between their security advisers. The discussions at the upcoming meeting are to focus on combatting terrorism in the region.

The hostility between Pakistan and India dates back seven decades, but strains have grown since nation-alist Modi took office a year ago. Also, skirmishes between Pakistani and Indian troops along the border with Kashmir have increased in recent months. (ap)

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, center, talks to reporters at government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Thai authorities are upset about being blacklisted by the U.S. for the second year in a row for failing to do enough to combat modern-day slavery.

Law curbing public assembly takes

effect in ThailandBANGKOK — Thailand’s military-installed prime minister

defended a new law that places tight restrictions on public gath-erings and warned Thursday it will be strictly enforced.

Sweden drops some sex cases against Assange

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WikiLeaks founder Ju-lian Assange gestures during a news confer-ence at the Ecuadorian embassy in central Lon-don, Britain, in this Au-gust 18, 2014 file photo.

Pakistan accepts India’s invitation for security talks

SEMARAPURA - The price of cottoni seaweed at the farm level drops from IDR 10,000 to IDR 7,000 per kg. In the meantime, the spinosum seaweed produced by local farmers is unsalable at the market. As a result, it has an impact on the farmers’ income earned per each harvest.

It is unknown for sure the cause of the decline in the price of seaweed in Nusa Penida. This condition is com-plained by residents of Suana village that rely on their life to seaweed. Moreover, their income also dropped from IDR 2 million to IDR 800,000 per harvest.

The headman of Suana, Putu Rai Sudarta, said that he did not know the exact cause of seaweed price decline, whether it is caused by the trick of middlemen or really unsalable in the export market.

As a headman, Rai Sudarta said that the price slump has started to happen since the last harvest. So far, the seaweed collectors buy cattoni seaweed from farmers at IDR 7,000 per kg, while previously was bought at IDR 10,000 to IDR 15,000 per kg. The more alarming condi-tion is the spinosum seaweed produced by local farmers is unable to be sold. “I do not know exactly why the seaweed prices slump. But we’ve heard that in Java the cattoni and spinosum seaweed are even exported for cosmetic ingredients,” said Sudiarta.

With this issue, Sudiarta hoped the local government, in this case the relevant agencies, can find out a solution. At least the government can provide assistance of seaweed processing or providing training for local human resources. Moreover, approximately 500 residents of Suana village have livelihood as seaweed farmers. Among the three local hamlets namely Suana, Semaya and Karangasari, Semaya relies on the livelihood to seaweed cultivation. “All residents of this hamlet are seaweed farmers, while some residents of the Suana and Karangsari are fisher-men,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Klungkung Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, IGN Badiwangsa, when asked for his confirmation admitted that the price of seaweed in Nusa Penida indeed decreased. According to him, the price of seaweed even reaches IDR 4,000 to IDR 4,500 per kg. The declining price of seaweed is estimated to happen due to excessive stock in the warehouse of the exporter. Lately, it was also said due to feast celebration. As a result, the seaweed of farmers accumulated and can-not be sold. (dwa)

AMLAPURA - Responding to the complaint that the job oppor-tunity as an entrepreneur and dive master is snatched by foreigners in the area of Tulamben marine tourism to Bunutan, the Regional Secretary of Karangasem, Gde Adnya Mulyadi, promptly took action. On Wednesday (Aug. 12), before a meeting with the House, he ordered the First Assistant to the Regional Secretary of Karangasem, Ketut Wage Saputra, to come down for making site inspection with his judicial team.

Besides, he also made coordina-tion with the immigration authori-ties. As reported earlier, a number of legislators of the Karangasem House delivered that their party re-ceived the aspiration regarding the complaints of local entrepreneurs

in marine tourism going bankrupt. The problem is that their job op-portunity is alleged to have been appropriated by foreign workers, while their working permit or visas is still questioned whether they use working visa or tourist visa.

In addition, in the future the foreign tourist arrivals to the tourist areas, especially Tulamben tourist attraction at Amed, Jemeluk to Bu-nutan is incredibly booming in recent months. However, the infrastructure remains miserable. The shortage of infrastructure in the region was deliv-ered by the legislator from Bunutan, Ida Ayu Sutejawati. She pointed out that many travelers take marine tour-ism such as diving or snorkeling.

However, there is no toilet. If it is available, it has been damaged and local residents must independently

repair it. “On Amed Beach and Jemeluk Beach is required toilet facilities,” said Sutejawati.

This former headman of Bu-nutan said that not long ago her party was visited by a number of young people of Bunutan that so far worked in tourism sector. They questioned because their job oppor-tunity as dive master is grabbed by many foreign workers. “I have seen it, even the driver is foreigner. Do the foreign workers have working permit or they use holiday visa for working? Hopefully, the judicial team together with the immigration authority can check it,” she said.

Other than the matter of working permit of the foreign workers, the infrastructure at the local tourist attraction was also questioned by tourism practitioners. The govern-

ment of Karangasem only collects taxes or levy, without ever paying attention to tourism infrastructure. There is no sidewalk from Culik village to Bunutan, whereas it is important as pedestrian facilities for both local residents and travelers.

There is no street lighting, while the street is getting narrower. Road infrastructure is not anticipated, while the economic development of the community runs so quickly from the path of Culik to Bunutan due to tourism booming.

On the other hand, one of the tourism practitioners at Bunutan, Nyoman Suardiana, delivered simi-lar things. According to him, the in-frastructure at the tourist attraction needs to be developed adequately. Likewise, the arrangement is ur-gently needed, so that it will not be

late compared to the development that eventually results in chaotic condition. “With the rapid tourism development at Amed to Bunutan, the effort of local community is quite good. Some residents become chicken meat supplier, while other businesses also work,” said the man from Datah village.

On the other hand, Regional Sec-retary of Karangasem, Gde Adnya Mulyadi, ordered judicial team of Karangasem led by First Assistant to Regional Secretary, Ketut Wage Saputra, made coordination with the immigration authority to check or conduct inspection responding to the information on the allega-tion that the visa of many foreign workers is questioned. “I assign the First Assistant to come down with a complete team,” he said. (013)

Allegation on illegal foreign workers Regional Secretary orders judicial team to inspect

Seaweed price drops to IDR7,000

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The seaweed farmers are transporting their crop

3Friday, August 14, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, August 14, 2015

Taiwanese des igner Amy Chien Ku, of Aimeeku, featured fuchsia and lilac Ankara motifs with colourful tweed for a roman-tic, floral look.

“I like to combine floral and lace details because as an Asian our style tends to be sweet and cute,” she said about her collection. “I love blending these romantic ele-ments with African style.”

Aimeeku’s bandeau skater dresses and short A-line hemmed skirts were a favourite at the two-day London Olympia showcase. “African style is going to be a huge trend not just for Africans but for everybody,” Ku said.

African motifs are increas-ingly cropping up in the the inter-national fashion industry. London

designer Erdem Moralioglu’s spring/summer show was heavily influenced by Katharine Hepburn in “The African Queen” and Af-rican references were interwoven throughout his collection.

Also taking part in the fashion week were Tarryn Shepherd, creative director of Rooi Rok Bokkie, and Shauna Neill, owner of accessories brand Blossom Handmade.

The pair played 1950s South African song “Pata Pata” as mod-els danced on the runway wearing silk geometrical print jumpsuits matched with emerald beads and semi-precious stones.

The annual event has show-cased more than 300 designers since its debut in 2011. (rtr)

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Designers celebrate vibrant Ankara fabric at London’s African Fashion Week

LONDON - Designers from around the world played with the vibrant hues and striking patterns of the African wax print fabric known as Ankara on the runways of London’s African Fashion Week last weekend.

General Manager of PT Pelindo III Celukan Bawang, Dewa Gede Adi Kumarajaya, said that Celukan Bawang is a natural harbor with a deep mooring area for cruise ships. This condi-tion is supported by international service so that it makes it easier for foreign guests to drop in for unwinding. “Our service has international standards and destination of the cruise ship has been set in some tour packages. When compared to the condition of previous Tanah Ampo Harbor in Karangasem, the cruise ship could not anchor. Well, when cruise ship operators tried and could anchor at Celukan Bawang, they were very happy. Moreover, the mooring area at Celukan Bawang is deep enough to berth,” said Adi Kumarajaya.

He considered that the development of Celukan Bawang still needs some improvements in the matter of tourism sup-porting infrastructure and facilities. “In the future, cruise operators hope that the facilities can be improved, including the semi-permanent development and a gazebo as resting place,” he said.

Adi Kumarajaya affirmed that the depth of mooring area at Celukan Bawang Harbor is not inferior to the pier of Benoa Harbor. Maintenance of Benoa Harbor pier, for example, re-quires high cost if there is a problem on the pier infrastructure, like dredging by using equipment on a regular basis. “Benoa Harbor does maintenance and dredging each year, and it needs expensive cost. On the contrary, condition of the Celukan Bawang remains natural and it can be taken advantage to draw the visit of cruise ships to drop in and anchor,” said Adi Kumarajaya. (kmb34)

DENPASAR - This Friday, Ida Maharishi will bring a new flow to reality through an event to inaugu-rate the beautiful space of Bale Ban-jar Bali Global Shankara (#7 Jalan Danau Toba, Sanur, Denpansar, Bali). She will incorporate move-ments in the flow of the meditation and the mantras that naturally flow through her.

The movements will be a combi-nation of traditional Balinese dance and yoga flow that spring from her. The movements are a beautiful flow and at the same time, a mediation in itself. Come to experience the magic at 4pm, this Friday the 14th, 2015.

Ida-Resi is a conduit for the higher plane to touch the seen, and the function she performs can only be described as holy. She is natu-rally a holy woman, and the title of Maharishi just confirms what can be felt in everything she does. The trees seem to naturally bend in her path and the air is lighter when she is present. She is beauty personified,

her delicate features emanate power when she closes her eyes to channel the highest of forces. She naturally can transform what has been into the truth of what is.

Ida, the woman behind the Ma-harishi is a strong woman, who has the ability to manage daily life for the extended family at the Griya, helping her family manage a life-style that they are not accustomed to. She can be found spending half a day to talk to them through the chal-lenges of life, offering compassion and guidance to all.

She is a down to Earth woman who, before her destiny met with her, was dreaming of a normal life, of studying at the university, of a job and of a family. So when people come to her for support and guidance, like a loving mother, she sits with them and allows them to express their concerns. She listens patiently and carefully, with an open mind and an open heart. She care-fully speaks words that touch the heart and bring relief to the mind.

Ida-Resi, even though she is a Maharishi, in the same way she is involved with her family, she al-lows those people that visit her to approach her openly. People come for a ceremony, or for a day, or even a longer stay. She can address problems that range from pain in the body, to emotional heartache, to worries of life from the mind and the heart. She chooses her words carefully and the words touch the heart. She has a beautiful mastery of the English language that allow for many international visitors to find comfort next to her.

She performs the ceremonies daily with whoever comes to see her. Even alone, she would perform the ceremonies anyway, because it is her way of life. Usually though, there are many people flocking around her. She is invited to many locations to offer her blessing and as time passes and her reputation grows, the invitations keep coming. She keeps a simplicity and humility through it all.

She explains that what we chan-nel comes from the oneness. What is creative, what is creation itself, what is a God inside, comes from that oneness. It is in the deepest part of our heart that we must place our intention and our willingness to seek truth. It is through our willing-ness to expand, to perceive life, that we see the creative process that is life and bring it to reality.

For Ida-Resi the roots is Bali, the trunk is the combination of Hinduism and Buddhism that is the religion of Bali, and the leaves are the consciousness, the freedom, the divine connection and tran-scendence. The reality is the truth manifested, bringing something that was beyond as a hope, or a dream into being.

The energy that fuels this process of transcendence is the intention of our heart. This guidance Ida-Resi received as a gift from the Oneness that lives in her heart and guides her through her actions and daily life. (maria kellis)

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Celukan Bawang is a natural harbor with a deep mooring area for cruise ships. This condition is sup-ported by international service so that it makes it easier for foreign guests to drop in for unwinding.

Healing dance by Ida Maharishi at Bale Banjar Bali Global Shankara

Cruise ship operators prefer natural pier at Celukan Bawang

SINGARAJA - Potential for the development of Buleleng waters has high competitiveness in gaining the market share of cruise ship harbor. It can be seen from the high interest of cruise ship to anchor at the Celukan Bawang pier. It has a deep natural mooring area and is favored by foreign cruise ship operators.

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations 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 umbrel-las 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

Every Sunday, 8am - 12 noon: Sunday Market and craft delights8 August, 7pm: Ubud Style Balinese Painting exhibition opening14 August, 4 pm - Healing dance by Ida Maharishi16 August, 9am - 4pm: Live painting by Balinese master painters15 August, 7pm: Film screening of Balinese movies22 August, 7pm: India-Bali music concert with Sinta Wulur and friends29 August: Indian/gamelan vocal exploration workshop with Sinta2 Septembe: Interior Decor exhibition opening3-4 September, 9 am-5pm: Interior Decor expo15 September, 7pm: Human is Alien video and bamboo instalation

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Balinese and Indonesian cuisine is distinguished by the many freshly ground and blended spices that enliven and add depth to so many dishes. Essential to Balinese cuisine is ‘bumbu,’ a basic spice paste that varies from village to village and from dish to dish. Every day, the first task of one of the chefs at Jimbaran Gardens is to grind up a big batch of fresh spices to make bumbu. Com-mon ingredients include shallots, garlic, ginger, turmeric, galangal, pepper, coriander, candlenuts, chil-

lies, lemongrass, shrimp paste and palm sugar, and each one of these ingredients will pull the flavour in a different direction. The result is a pungent mixture, the foundation of all Balinese dishes. Bumbu can be used in many different ways: as a marinade for meat, for example, a stuffing for a roast, or as a base for a sauce, a soup or a curry. The proper combination of all these ingredi-ents is regarded as an art in Bali, with delicate adjustment required until the exact balance of flavours

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Indonesian spices at InterContinental Bali Resort

JIMBArAN - InterContinental Bali resort showcases the spices of Indonesia at Jimbaran Gardens. Here, you are invited to taste the aromatic and piquant flavours within the delicious and authentic local cuisine. The individual spices are beauti-fully packaged and displayed at Jimbaran Gardens, and all of them are for sale, so if you wish you may purchase some to take home.

is achieved. Other seasonings in-clude coriander, kaffir lime leaves, pandan leaves, and tamarind, while more hot fresh chilli can be found in the fiery ‘sambal’ sauces.

Classic Indonesian dishes on the menu at Jimbaran Gardens include ‘Soto Ayam,’ which is a rich chick-en broth enhanced with turmeric, shallots, garlic, ginger, candlenut, coriander seeds, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves. Another all-time favourite and Balinese specialty is ‘Pepes Ikan,’ a dish of fragrant spiced local fish, wrapped, steamed and grilled in banana leaf packages. The juices are contained inside the parcel and the experience is an explosion of moist smoky flavour. The spices in this delicacy include shallots, garlic, candlenut, turmeric, ginger, lemongrass, coriander leaves, tamarind juice and chilli.

InterContinental Bali Re-sort’s Executive Chef, Christophe Depuichaffray, is passionate about the use of fresh spices in his cook-ing. He maintains, “Spices should be used to heighten the flavour of the main ingredient of a dish; they are invaluable not only for their gustative virtue but also for their antimicrobial properties: chilli, for example, is known to boost im-munity and is used in pain relief; cloves are a powerful natural an-tihistamine; nutmeg is believed to aid digestion; and cinnamon is an anti-inflammatory that can combat nausea.”

Spices such as nutmeg, cloves, pandan leaves and galangal are all native to Indonesia. Cloves are the dried flowerbuds of an ever-green tree native to the islands of Ternate and Tidore in the Moluc-cas – known as the Spice Islands. Whole cloves are frequently used to flavour cooking liquids for simmer-ing fish, poultry or meat.

You can see clove plantations and cloves drying on mats at the sides of the road in Munduk, in Bali’s Buleleng Regency. Nutmeg also comes from the Moluccas; it is native to the tiny Banda Islands, which were once the world’s only source of this spice. Other spices, such as black pepper, turmeric, lemongrass, shallots, cinnamon, candlenut, coriander, tamarind, ginger and garlic were introduced many centuries ago by immigrants and traders from India and China, and thus became integral ingredi-ents in Indonesian cuisine. Black pepper is the world’s most traded spice and was once only available to the wealthy; it is grown on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and its aroma complements strong fla-voured foods. The best known spice

in Indonesian cooking, however, is chilli, and this is now grown in abundance in InterContinental Bali Resort’s organic vegetable and herb garden.

If you are inspired by the taste

and spicy aromas of the dishes at Jimbaran Gardens, you may wish to participate in a Balinese cooking class at InterContinental Bali Re-sort. This can be arranged through the concierge.

To prevent that from happening, the government of Buleleng has started showing its commitment to preserving this tradition by taking such measures as regularly presenting ngocang music at gov-ernment organized events. There is a possibility that the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency will also start including ngoncang as a regular part of its promotional events.

Ngoncang music originated from the practice of pounding rice into flour, with mortar and pestle -as has been done by Balinese women since ancient times. The sound produced from this pound-ing that was often done by 10 to 12 women at a time. It is said that ngoncang msic was developed as a way for Balinese women to keep themselves entertained and not become tired doing this laborious work.

As agricultural practices in this region developed, rice began to be milled by machine and so the use of mortar and pestle became more rare. More seriously, mor-tars and pestled tend to now be sold as antiques in art shops and displayed in major hotels in Bali and elsewhere.

Despite no longer pounding rice, mortar and pestle continue to be displayed in certain situations such as for the playing ngoncang music. In some parts of Bali in-cluding Buleleng ngoncang music -that originated in agrarian culture, is still played in certain ceremonies such as pengrupukan (one day before Nyepi), cremations as well as temple ceremonies at several major temples in Buleleng.

Also, when a lunar eclipse oc-curs, a lot of people still play ngon-cang traditional music. Since the

shift away form agrarian culture, it is not known for sure about the exact meaning and philosophy of ngoncang. Obviously, one reason that it is still played is part of an general effort to preserve the cul-tural heritage of the ancestors, so that it will continue into modern times.

Head of the Buleleng Cul-ture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said that since the local government initiated the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest), the ngoncang tradition is still given space for the troupes to show off it. Bulfest III, which ended on Saturday night (Aug. 8) featured ten ngoncang troupes performing this unique form of music as part of the gov-ernment’s commitment to preserve this tradition.

“Every village has a troupe, but not all of them are active enough to perform on stage. The Regent of Buleleng is committed to pre-serving this tradition, starting by providing a space for the troupes to perform at events such as Bull-fest and others,” he said.

According to Suyasa, other con-servation efforts include creating special ngomcang performances, likely involving participants from many villages. As an initial step towards this conservation effort, the regency is outlining a program and preparing a budget for it. Such performances will hopefully motivate the villages to keep ngoncang alive. “As part of this program, we will provide coaching and encouragement to villagers as a way to revive tho tradition. The program will be designed to make it fun for people so that they will want to perform and thus preserve this tradition,” he added. (mud)

Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Culture at Udayana University, I.B. Jelantik, said that what is hap-pening in Bali is very worrying, especially as it relates to Balinese culture, and the matter of passing it on to the young. Also all agreed that Balinese culture is in grave danger or completely eroding.

Many of the the values passed down from the ancestors, such as the concept of Tri Hita Karana (concept of harmony) has already become distorted. Relationships between humans and between humans and nature are already on quite shacky ground and only the the relationship between humans and God that still remains strong. “This is a threat of Balinese culture,” he explained.

Man’s relationship to nature, said Jelantik has suffered severe distor-tion as evidenced by the fact that 60% of Bali’s environment is damaged. He specifically mentioned the rivers that were formally considered sacred and which are no longer maintained. All of the cliffs and beaches are all lined with buildings, totally ignor-ing the concept of Tri Hitta Karuna. Agricultrual land conversion is also increasingly widespread. In order to curb this trend and make improve-ments, a strong political will towards good governance is required. “At the moment, I have yet to see any signs of that,” he explained.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jro Puspawati Saskara, assessed that many factors have caused changes in Balinese culture. Balinese people’s laissez-faire attitude also contributes to the problem.

For example, when Balinese prod-ucts are copied by others, instead of defending their rights many people are simply proud to have been cop-ied, despite how such copying might adversely effect the sale of their own product.

Creative economic ventures could be built based on existing products: “Creativity and creative ideas are very much needed in order to main-tain competitiveness and economic growth for the local community,” said Jro Puspawati.

Jro Puspawati emphasized the need for artists in Bali to acquire intellectual property rights so that creators are protected, and receive economic benefits from their ideas and products. This in turn will stimu-late new ideas which is the essence of creative economy. (ara)

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Ngoncang tradition becomes a part of agrarian culture to Balinese people in general. However, lately this tradition suffers a shift of function and even goes to extinction.

Buleleng’s Ngoncang tradition

Preserving a heritage by creating events

virtually all villages in Buleleng have had ngoncang or traditional mortar pounding music since ancient times. This music is inseparable from the agriculturally based culture of this region and Bali in general. However, the practice of this musical form, has been fading lately and some fear that it could disappear altogether.

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NEW YORK — Johnny Depp is set to perform live with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry as the musical group Hollywood Vampires.

The band on Wednesday an-nounced shows scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17 at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California. Tickets go on sale Friday.

The trio is based off Cooper’s 1970s drinking club, the Hollywood Vam-pires, which included John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Micky Dolenz.

The group will release a self-

titled album Sept. 11 that includes collaborations with Paul McCart-ney, Dave Grohl, Joe Walsh, Slash, Brian Johnson and others. Depp plays guitar throughout the album and sings background on some of the tracks.

Proceeds from the album will benefit MusiCares, which provides financial and personal assistance to musicians.

Hollywood Vampires also will perform at Brazil’s Rock in Rio on Sept. 24. (ap)

Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday released several new photos of baddies Kylo Ren (Adam Driver from “Girls”), Captain Phas-ma (“Game of Thrones” star Gwen-doline Christie) and General Hux (British actor Domhnall Gleeson).

The Hollywood industry maga-zine also revealed some origin sto-ries about the characters, who will appear for the first time in Episode VII of the mega-franchise, due out on December 18.

Kylo Ren is allied with the First

Order, a remnant of the Empire, and his appearance seems heavily influ-enced by Darth Vader -- he is clad in black and wears a mask.

He is seen flanked by Stormtroop-ers and striding through the ruins of a ransacked village on the planet Jakku.

Kylo Ren is not even his real name -- he adopted it when he joined the Knights of Ren, director JJ Abrams -- the brains behind both the new “Star Wars” film and a highly successful “Star Trek” reboot -- told

the magazine.“He is not your prototypical

mustache-twirling bad guy,” Abrams said. “He is a little bit more complex than that, and it was a great joy to work with Adam Driver on this role.”

The article hints that perhaps his parents are characters already known in “Star Wars” mythology.

Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan noted: “I’ve written four Star Wars movies now, and there’s never been a character quite like the one that Adam plays.”

Also included in the magazine’s film preview are images of the black-clad General Hux, a ruthless leader of the First Order played by Gleeson, who played Bill Weasley in the last two “Harry Potter” films.

And Captain Phasma, a First Order warrior, is shown clad in full armor.

Lucasfilm and its parent company Disney have offered a slow drop of information about the film, tanta-lizing the millions of fans eagerly awaiting a return to the “Star Wars” universe.

Those fans are hoping for a bit more information this weekend at the Disney D23 convention in Ana-heim, California. But Entertainment Weekly, quoting an unnamed source, said no new trailer will be released at the event. (afp)

NEW YORK - An album of un-released music by grunge icon Kurt Cobain will come out in November to accompany a documentary on the late Nirvana frontman, the director says.

In researching “Montage of Heck,” filmmaker Brett Morgen discovered more than 100 early cassettes recorded by Cobain, who grew up in the lumber town of Ab-erdeen, Washington.

Some fans have described the music as the equivalent of a solo album from the music legend, who killed himself in 1994 at age 27.

Giving a release date for the first time, Morgen told the AwardsLine website that the music would come out as a soundtrack to “Montage of Heck” on November 6, the same day the documentary goes on sale as a DVD.

The unheard music includes a

12-minute acoustic song by Co-bain, who was known with Nirvana not only for his searing electric guitar but also his unplugged work.

Morgen recently told music industry journal Billboard that the soundtrack would also include a comedy skit in which Cobain plays various characters.

Morgen told AFP earlier this year that the newly discovered cassettes

showed the various sides of Cobain: “The romanticism, the honesty, all of these different emotions.”

“When I first heard it, I was in the storage facility and I had no prior knowledge of it. I put it on and I immediately felt like there was some sort of portal into his mind, like it was one of the most pure ex-pressions of Kurt that I encountered -- maybe more than in most of his songs,” he said.

Morgen made “Montage of Heck” with the cooperation of both Cobain’s widow and fellow rocker Courtney Love and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who has had a complicated relationship with her mother.

Released in theaters and on HBO, “Montage of Heck” was nominated for a number of Emmy Awards, in-cluding Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. (afp)

Kyler Clark via AP

This photo provided by Kyler Clark shows Alice Cooper, left, and Joe Perry from the musical group Hollywood Vampires. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, the band, which includes Johnny Depp, announced shows on Sept. 16 and 17, at The Roxy in West Hollywood, Calif.

Johnny Depp to perform concerts with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry

Kurt Cobain ‘solo album’ coming out in November

New ‘Star Wars’ film images showcase Dark Side

LOS ANGELES - The Dark Side is front and center in the latest images of villains from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” -- the highly anticipated next chapter in the blockbuster space saga due later this year.

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Balinese children performed Balinese dance during the Bali Art Festival that held anually. Balinese culture is now being threatened by the incoming modern culture carried by globalization. In the meantime, the government policy to anticipate this threat has not been carried out to the fullest.

Balinese culture under threat, political will of government unclear

During a round-table discussion on the theme “Cultural Inher-itance System”

that took place at Warung Kopi

Bali 63 on Jalan Vet-eran, Denpasar, on Wednesday (Aug.

12) a number of issues related to the survival of Balinese culture were ex-plored. The era of globalization that is generally engulfing people’s lives has eroded valuable local cultural roots and the alteration of social values is affecting local cultures in general and Bali is no exception. Balinese culture is now being threatened by the values

of the culture of globalization. Mean-while there have been very few gov-ernment policy’s created to deal with this threat. As a result, the system of cultural inheritance is of the utmost importance as part of a strategy to maintain the core values of Balinese culture for future generations.

The rountable discussion in-

volved eight speakers namely; Dr. A.A. Gede Raka, Dr. Wayan Budi Utama, Kadek Wahyudi, Dr. I.B. Jelantik, Kadek Suartaya, Dr. I.B. Radendra Suastama, Jro Puspawati Saskara and I.A. Puji Arsini.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2my-

radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

Edisi 14 Agustus 2015 | International Bali Post

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