Page 6 16 Pages Number 74 8 th Year e-mail: [email protected] online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST 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. Monday, April 18, 2016 Rescuers search Japan quake rubble, Toyota to halt production Page 13 Congress to vote on impeaching Rousseff in divided Brazil Atletico’s Simeone relishing prospect of showdown with Bayern SINGARAJA — The tradi- tion of bull races (sapi gerum- bungan) has an attraction to local and foreign travelers in Buleleng. By and large, it is presented at Kaliasem public square, Banjar subdistrict. Appearance of the bull races is often supported by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency in particular event. The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that bull race has an appeal to foreign travelers. Moreover, they schedule their visit to North Bali if the government has an agenda to or- ganize such an event. The bulls in use have been treated specifically through a series of exercises. “Bull race indeed has an appeal and we will make further coordination with local customary villages. If needed and many lovers have interest in the bull races, we can organize it in the future,” said Sutrisna when confirmed on Saturday (Apr. 16). Continue to page 2 Head and tail... The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Ecuador’s Pacific coast and was felt hundreds of miles (km) away in the capital of Quito as well as in the large commercial city of Guayaquil, where rubble lay strewn in the streets and some buildings were cracked or partially collapsed. A bridge in the city collapsed on top of car, crushing it. The earthquake was Ecuador’s worst in decades and officials said the death toll was likely to rise even higher as rescue teams headed into the hardest-hit areas. “It was terrifying, we were all scared and we’re still out in the streets because we’re worried about aftershocks,” said Guayaquil secu- rity guard Fernando Garcia. “Every- thing is damaged.” A state of emergency was de- clared in six provinces. The areas worst affected include Pedernales, which draws tourists with beaches lined with palm-trees and tropical thatch-hut restaurants, as well as nearby Cojimies. “There are villages that are to- tally devastated,” Pedernales’ mayor, Gabriel Alcivar, said in a radio interview. “What happened here in Pedernales is catastrophic.” Ramon Solorzano, 46, a car parts merchant in the city of Manta, said he was getting ready to leave the city with his family. “Most people are out in the streets with backpacks on, heading for higher ground,” he said, speaking in a trembling voice via a WhatsApp phone call. “The streets are cracked. The power is out and phones are down.” The quake struck at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), and was followed by 55 aftershocks. President Rafael Correa declared a national emergency and cut short a trip to the Vatican to coordinate the rescue efforts. “Everything can be rebuilt, but lost lives cannot be recovered, and that’s what hurts the most,” he told Ecuador’s state television channel from Rome. “The material part is the least important, what is fundamental is guaranteeing human life.” Parts of the capital were with- out power or telephone service for several hours, though the city government said that services were quickly restored and that there were no reports of casualties in the city. The government described it as the worst quake in the country since 1979, when 600 people were killed and 20,000 injured, according to the United States Geological Survey. A tsunami warning was lifted on Saturday night but coastal residents were encouraged to seek higher ground in case tides rise. The OPEC nation’s oil produc- tion was not affected by the quake but that the principal refinery of Es- meraldas, located near the epicenter, had been halted as a precaution. Across the Pacific in Japan, a 7.3 magnitude tremor struck Kumamoto province early Saturday, killing at least 32 people, injuring about a thousand and causing widespread damage, in the second major quake to hit the island of Kyushu in just over 24 hours. The first, late on Thursday, killed nine. (rtr) REUTERS/Paul Ochoa People walk near a damaged house after an earthquake struck off the Pacific coast in Manta, Ecuador, April 16, 2016. Powerful earthquake kills 77 in Ecuador Head and tail of bull races stand while running fast GUAYAQUIL - A powerful earthquake killed at least 77 people, injured hundreds more, ravaged coastal towns and sent residents fleeing for higher ground in Ecuador on Saturday night.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Atletico’s Simeone relishing prospect of showdown with Bayern
WASHINGTON - Musicians Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Common, Janelle Monae and others met Friday with Presi-dent Barack Obama to discuss ways to continue the administration’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative and spur criminal justice reform in the United States.
The musicians who met with Obama have been working on ef-forts to help younger generations of blacks and other minorities stay on the right path. The roster also included Ludacris, Chance the Rapper, J. Cole, Wale and DJ Khaled.
Keys in February pushed for House Speaker Paul Ryan to have the House move on criminal justice overhaul through a flirty Valentine video. Monae has pushed for voter registration; Common has publicly supported the private-sector ef-forts of My Brother’s Keeper; and Ludacris has started a foundation to foster economic development and teach leadership and education skills to young people.
The meeting at the White House
complex Friday afternoon was not announced by the administration, but was confirmed to The Associ-ated Press. Obama was joined at the meeting by Broderick Johnson, chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, businesses, foundations and community groups coordinate investments to come up with or support programs that help keep young people out of the criminal justice system and improve their access to higher education. The president initiated the program in February 2014 to try to help reverse some of the challenges facing black, Hispanic and Native American boys and young men.
So far, private investors includ-ing foundations and businesses have committed more than $500 million in grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in financing through community banks, including in-vestments in schools, mentoring programs, juvenile justice reforms and school redesign. (ap)
No one in the audience Thursday night knew quite what to expect from Taylor. This was only his fourth public performance in the past four years, the last a brief solo at the June 2015 funeral of Ornette Coleman, who along with Taylor revolution-ized jazz by launching the free-jazz movement in the late ‘50s.
But though frail in body, Taylor was strong in spirit. Once his hands touched the keyboard, he again displayed his orchestral approach and commanding virtuosity, with percussive flurries, sudden changes in loud-soft dynamics and dancer-like leaps across the octaves.
After the performance, Jason Moran, a leading contemporary jazz pianist who was in the audience, said he was impressed with just how much ferocity, integrity, pacing and care Taylor showed.
“With Cecil, it’s like all of a sud-den the years peel away,” said Mo-ran, who considers Taylor one of his main influences. “That’s the elixir of the music. .. When musicians get really excited about an idea, it gives them that much energy.”
The performance opened an exhibition titled “Open Plan: Cecil Taylor,” running until April 24.
Taylor performed with two long-time collaborators, Britain’s Tony Oxley on electronics rather than his usual drum kit and Japanese modern dancer Min Tanaka. The energy from Taylor’s piano flowed to Tanaka who moved around the room, shifting from graceful slow-motion movements to frenetic gestures in response to the music. As the music subsided, he waved his arms around Taylor before settling into repose.
It was an appropriate opening for an exhibition celebrating not only Taylor’s music, but also his deep connection to dance, poetry and other art forms.
“I want people to understand why this person who is truly a maverick is an utterly important 20th-century artist,” said the Whitney’s Jay Sand-ers, who co-curated the exhibit with Lawrence Kumpf, artistic director of the Brooklyn-based Issue Project Room. “We want to bring his past forward in the present.”
Though Taylor eschews revisit-
ing his past, the exhibition includes audio and video listening stations, offering music dating back to his 1956 debut album “Jazz Advance.”
On display are album covers and concert posters, scores with his personalized notation system, and hand-written pages from journals of unpublished poems.
The scheduled events include performances by past Taylor col-laborators and film screenings.
The curators hope the Whitney experience will encourage Taylor to perform. The pianist went through a rough patch when his one-time friend and contractor was sentenced to prison for stealing most of the $500,000 he received by winning the prestigious Kyoto Prize in 2013.
Taylor, who has a long association with the Whitney, has been com-ing to the museum’s new building several times a month to practice on a baby grand piano in the private trustee room.
It’s not known whether Taylor will play again during the exhibition, but he did give an unannounced per-formance Thursday night after the trio’s set with an octet he called The New Unit, including spoken word artist Jane Grenier Balgochian and saxophonists Harri Sjostrom, Elliott Levin and Bobby Zankel. (ap)
In this April 14, 2016 photo, pianist Cecil Taylor, 87, who revolutionized jazz by launch-ing the free-jazz movement in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, performs in an unannounced second set at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, kicking off a 10-day exhibi-tion celebrating Taylor’s music as well as his deep connection to dance, poetry and other art forms.
Pianist Cecil Taylor makes triumphant comeback at Whitney
AP Photo/Barbara Woike
NEW YORK — The visionary 87-year-old jazz pianist Cecil Taylor received a standing ovation as he walked slowly to the stage at the Whitney Museum of American Art, using a cane and holding his assistant’s arm.
Obama meets with musicians on My Brother’s Keeper
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File
In this March 23, 2016 file photo, singer Alicia Keys performs in Seattle. Musician Keys and others met with President Barack Obama to discuss ways they can continue the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative and spur criminal justice reform in the U.S.
SINGARAJA — The tradi-tion of bull races (sapi gerum-bungan) has an attraction to local and foreign travelers in Buleleng. By and large, it is presented at Kaliasem public
square, Banjar subdistrict. Appearance of the bull races is
often supported by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency in particular event.
The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that bull race has an appeal to foreign travelers. Moreover, they schedule their visit to North Bali if the government has an agenda to or-ganize such an event. The bulls in use have been treated specifically through a series of exercises. “Bull race indeed has an appeal and we will make further coordination with local customary villages. If needed and many lovers have interest in the bull races, we can organize it in the future,” said Sutrisna when confirmed on Saturday (Apr. 16).
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The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Ecuador’s Pacific coast and was felt hundreds of miles (km) away in the capital of Quito as well as in the large commercial city of Guayaquil, where rubble lay strewn in the streets and some buildings were cracked or partially collapsed. A bridge in the city collapsed on top of car, crushing it.
The earthquake was Ecuador’s worst in decades and officials said the death toll was likely to rise even higher as rescue teams headed into the hardest-hit areas.
“It was terrifying, we were all scared and we’re still out in the
streets because we’re worried about aftershocks,” said Guayaquil secu-rity guard Fernando Garcia. “Every-thing is damaged.”
A state of emergency was de-clared in six provinces.
The areas worst affected include Pedernales, which draws tourists with beaches lined with palm-trees and tropical thatch-hut restaurants, as well as nearby Cojimies.
“There are villages that are to-tally devastated,” Pedernales’ mayor, Gabriel Alcivar, said in a radio interview. “What happened here in Pedernales is catastrophic.”
Ramon Solorzano, 46, a car parts merchant in the city of Manta, said he was getting ready to leave the city with his family.
“Most people are out in the streets with backpacks on, heading for higher ground,” he said, speaking in a trembling voice via a WhatsApp phone call. “The streets are cracked. The power is out and phones are down.”
The quake struck at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), and was followed by 55 aftershocks.
President Rafael Correa declared a national emergency and cut short a trip to the Vatican to coordinate the rescue efforts.
“Everything can be rebuilt, but lost lives cannot be recovered, and that’s what hurts the most,” he told
Ecuador’s state television channel from Rome. “The material part is the least important, what is fundamental is guaranteeing human life.”
Parts of the capital were with-out power or telephone service for several hours, though the city government said that services were quickly restored and that there were no reports of casualties in the city.
The government described it as the worst quake in the country since 1979, when 600 people were killed and 20,000 injured, according to the United States Geological Survey.
A tsunami warning was lifted on Saturday night but coastal residents were encouraged to seek higher ground in case tides rise.
The OPEC nation’s oil produc-tion was not affected by the quake
but that the principal refinery of Es-meraldas, located near the epicenter, had been halted as a precaution.
Across the Pacific in Japan, a 7.3 magnitude tremor struck Kumamoto province early Saturday, killing at least 32 people, injuring about a thousand and causing widespread damage, in the second major quake to hit the island of Kyushu in just over 24 hours. The first, late on Thursday, killed nine. (rtr)
REUTERS/Paul Ochoa
People walk near a damaged house after an earthquake struck off the Pacific coast in Manta, Ecuador, April 16, 2016.
Powerful earthquake kills 77 in Ecuador
Head and tail of bull races stand while running fast
GUAYAQUIL - A powerful earthquake killed at least 77 people, injured hundreds more, ravaged coastal towns and sent residents fleeing for higher ground in Ecuador on Saturday night.
Convening of the bull race tradi-tion in Buleleng resembles to the tradition of using cattle or buffaloes in Madura and Jembrana. The bull race previously organized at the Kaliasem public square poses a tradition having a high value. A pair of bulls driven at the race track is supplied with vitamin or a special diet. “The bull race show is very unique treasures owned by Bule-leng,” he said.
The beauty of their appear-ance when running fast is embel-lished with ornament resembling a
ploughshare in the space between both bulls. It is used to control the bulls so that they will not run carelessly or ran out of the arena. “Ploughshare is generally used to plow paddy fields and then used as a recreational tool in competitions. Normally farmers use it to loosen their soil,” said Sutrisna, the former Head of the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.
He explained that cow’s head is usually decorated with ornaments and small flags of various sizes. Then, the crown-like head orna-ment is painted with golden color to increase the appeal. Besides, it is also equipped with cow bell so as to generate melodious sound
when running in combination with the sound of baleganjur gamelan music presented by the art troupe at the square side. “When running, the head and tail of both bulls are stand-ing upright where it is rated high by the jury. The four pairs of bulls’ legs go hand in hand neatly and then they are whipped to make run faster. After the race, many travelers try to ride and pamper their curiosity,” he said. (kmb34)
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KUTA – Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach is happy to reveala number of dishes from its new menu, cre-ated and tested by Jamie, his mentor and partner Gennaro Contaldo and their talented team of chefs. As always, everything on the menu is produce-driven, with a focus on using high quality ingredients throughout and going local when-ever possible.
Start your meal off with our new menu to share with the table, Italian family style. Try the spicy Meatball Bruschetta, beef & fennel meatballs in a fiery ‘nduja tomato sauce with lemony rocket and Parmesan or Garlic &Chilli Prawns, cooked in their shells with chilli, garlic but-ter & Ciabatta served with baked garlic buns.
The Jamie’s Italian chefs are also making a new delicious Italian farm sausage; herby beef and fennel sausage served grilled on a skewer with crispy pancetta on sweet and sour peppers. New on our list of artisan pizzas is the mouth-watering Fiorentina with Bianco base, lem-ony ricotta, sprouting green, free-range eggs and Parmesan.
Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach continues to listen to the guests’ feedback and with this in mind has made pricing of pizza and pasta dishes more affordable and increas-ing our pizza selection.
On the drinks side of the menu there is the addition of new juice blends, again at an affordable price, and juiced to order: Clean & Green Juice (apple, celery &ginger), Beet the Blues Juice (carrot, celery &beetroot) and the Orange Ginger Juice (orange, apple & ginger). There’s also the silky Bananaberry
smoothie, great for smaller guests as well as bigger ones and great for rehydrating on a hot day.
Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach,for the first time,has introduced some non-Italian wines. The list is small but comprehensive with something to suit every palate and budget, from the smooth and elegant ‘Drylands Pinot Noir’ from Marlborough, New Zealandto lighter whites like the Australian ‘Artisan Sauvignon Blanc.’
The team invites guests to come in, relax and enjoya couple of new non-alcoholic cocktails too – the zesty Ginger Twist and especially for our Australian friends the homemade Lemonade & Lime Bitters – in the fantastic ambience and convenient location of Kuta Beach.
In charge of maintaining the high quality you’d expect from a Ja-mie Oliver restaurant is Head Chef Alex Barman. Hailing from Wales, UK, he has been with Jamie’s Ital-ian for seven years, and is hugely passionate about the brand’s ethos of making fresh food prepared from scratch available for the masses. Having worked in kitchens since
he was 16, his wealth of experience belies his tender young age of 28, and prior tocoming to Bali to head up the first Indonesian operation, he led the kitchen brigade in the highly successful Jamie’s Italian VivoC-ity in Singapore. Alex continues to inspire his team and work with gorgeous Balinese ingredients like fresh local fish and locally grown vegetables sourced from the Bali-nese markets.
Brunch at Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach is coming your way on Saturdays and Sundays! Brunch hours will be from 9 am – 12 pm. Here is a little sneak peak at some new menu items coming soon;Full Monty Breakfast, Steak ‘n’ eggs and fluffy American Style Pan-cakes. Stay tuned for more fantastic and rustic dishes!
The public can get updates and exclusive content on Jamie’s Ital-ian Kuta Beach on its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ja-miesitalianbali. Those looking for an opportunity to break into the world of good food and interested in joining the epic Jamie’s Italian family should apply through www.jamiesitalian.co.id.
The tradition of bull races (sapi gerumbun-gan) has an attraction
to local and foreign travelers in Buleleng.
The pecalang (customary security guard) fashion contest involved the cooperation of the DenPost daily newspaper, customary village
middle assembly (MMDP), Radio Singaraja 92.0 FM, Public Relations and Protocol of Buleleng District, Buleleng Police along with the 1609 /
Buleleng Military District. All the participants of the pecalang fashion contest looked so enthusi-astic and vibrant in following the race.
Chairman of the contest committee, Gede Bob Suardika, said that it is meant to build synergy with the government as well as to enliven the 412th anniversary of Singaraja. He considered that it supports the role of pecalang and is capable of uniting perception among the
pecalang personnel in Buleleng. At the same time, it enables them to combine and integrate the appropriate attributes contained in rules of the MMDP Bali. The entire personnel of pecalang can be more organized and solid in carrying out their customary tasks in the future. “The presence of pecalang becomes the frontline of customary security in their territory. Identity is showed while remaining to maintain security and order. They simultaneously promote the norms of courtesy and hospitality,” he said, Saturday (Apr. 16).
Deputy Regent of Buleleng, I Nyoman Sutjidra, appreciated to the pecalang fashion contest becoming the first one to be held in Bali. The criteria of jury panel can certainly be used as guidance of pecalang fashion in Buleleng for the uniformity. “Under the direction of the regent of Buleleng, later the whole pecalang personnel in Buleleng will receive training from police institution in order that they know very well about security tasks,” he said.
Agus Astapa, a member of jury panel from the element of MUDP Bali, assessed that the criteria used for the assessment in the contest is in accordance the ethical rules of pecalang having been decided by MUDP Bali. It determines that standard costumes of pecalang include white shirt, black vest, red headdress, checkered sarong and black lower sarong. “That is the basis of clothing. Most importantly, pecalang is carrying a kris dag-ger as a characteristic of Balinese culture,” he concluded. (kmb)
Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach Launches Vibrant New Menu Options and New Affordable Prices
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Cultural preservation through pecalang fashion contest
Adult men competed cre-atively in the Buleleng-wide Pecalang Fashion Contest in a series of the 412th anniversary of Singaraja.
SINGARAJA — Appearance of diverse fashion models on the stage has become a common sight. But this one is really unique. It is a cultural preservation showed by 53 couples in the Gde Manik Cultural Hall of Singaraja. Adult men competed creatively in the Buleleng-wide Pecalang Fashion Contest in a series of the 412th anniversary of Singaraja.
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William and Kate sat side by side on the same bench where his late mother was photographed on a solitary visit in 1992.
Kate wore a slimline white dress with a navy pattern by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan, while William braved intense af-
ternoon heat in a blazer and open-necked shirt.
The Duke and Duchess of Cam-bridge were rounding off a tour in which they met another glamorous young royal couple, the king and queen of Bhutan, and saw rhinos and elephants in a national park in
Assam.The final stop at the Taj Mahal
was an emotional one for William, who was 15 when Diana died in a car crash in 1997. He has often spoken of how much he misses his mother, and that he thinks of her every day.
Diana’s solo visit to the 17th-century mausoleum - built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife - came to symbolise her unhappy
marriage to Prince Charles.The couple separated months
later.Three of the Taj Mahal’s four
minarets were swathed in scaf-folding for repairs. Still, images of William and Kate sitting before the onion-domed monument, its ivory coloured marble translucent in the afternoon sunshine, were striking.
Asked about her impression of the Taj Mahal, Kate could be heard saying over the clatter of camera
shutters: “It’s really stunning.”It was raining earlier in the day
when the couple flew out of Bhu-tan’s only international airport, a day after they trekked to a Buddhist monastery 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) up a mountain.
They landed in Agra in after-nooon temperatures that reached 41 degrees Celsius (105.8F). Much of India is suffering a heatwave and severe drought after two years of failed monsoon rains. (rtr)
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Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, April 16, 2016.
In Princess Diana’s footsteps, William and Kate visit Taj Mahal
AGRA - Where Princess Diana went alone, her son Prince William visited the Taj Mahal with his wife Kate on Saturday, bringing the British royal couple’s week-long South Asian tour to a poignant close. “Not to mention, there are also
necessities of hospitals being under construction,” said Chairman of the Indonesia Nurses Association (PPNI) Bali, Dewa Agung Ketut Sudarsana, Friday (Apr. 15). In the meantime, the graduate of nurse each year approximately reaches 1,100 people. So, he said that Bali
still needs a large number of nurses. “Thus, nurses should not only be oriented to be civil servants, but also as job creator through indepen-dent practice, home care, et cetera, and this is in accordance with the Law No.38/2014 on the practice of nurse,” he said.
Minister of Health, Nila F.
Moeloek, recently said that gradu-ate of nurses has been pretty much, so that the demands for nurses must be calculated. “We asked the PPNI to calculate the actual demand for nurses, both as the faculty and nurses really assisting at health care facilities and helping the community, so that the excess must be further discussed with the Higher Educa-tion,” she said.
Lack of nurses must be recruited. However, it is also required to make a mapping in advance. (kmb42)
MANGUPURA — The Na-tional Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali and National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) Badung performed urine tests for all the officials of Badung, Friday (Apr. 15). Other than civil servants, the regent, deputy regent and regional secretary also under-went the similar test.
The Head of the BNNP Bali, Putu Suastawa, said that the urine test was followed by hundreds of of-ficials in the Badung district. “From the data we have, the officials par-ticipating in the urine tests amount to 333 people,” he said.
According to him, the activities coupled with the dissemination about the hazards of drugs did not find any officials consuming drugs. “Entire results of the urine tests are negative to the elements of drugs,” he said.
Regent of Badung, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, ordered all the officials of echelon 2, echelon 3 and echelon 4 to participate in the test. “A leader must become an example and does not give an example,” he said.
This poses a commitment of the government of Badung in support-ing the drug eradication movement and supporting the tasks of the BNNP Bali and BNNK Badung.
Moreover, Giri Prasta also signed an integrity pact that if there are gov-ernment officials getting involved in drugs they will be given sanction of dismissal.
“We welcome this dissemination activity undertaken directly by the BNNP Bali in front of the civil servants in the government of the Badung district,” he said.
The activity, said this regent from Petang, is a concrete effort of the BNNP Bali to build synergy and connectivity with the local govern-ment and yield a generating cadre being free from drugs. “We are very much concerned that Indonesia is declared to be in drug emergency as directed by President Joko Widodo so that we need to take concrete measures,” he said.
Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Suiasa, also conveyed that the government of Badung wants to become a pioneer in the war against drugs. “We are in the administration of the Badung district must clearly and unequivocally declare a war against drugs,” he said.
To that end, all the ranks of the government of Badung from the leadership to the staff must be free from any drug elements,” he con-cluded. (kmb27)
Badung officials undergo urine testRegent to fire civil servants getting involved in drugs
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The National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali and National Nar-cotics Agency (BNNK) Badung performed urine tests for all the officials of Badung, Friday (Apr. 15).
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The demand for nurses at 48 hospitals in Bali reaches 8,000 people, while 12,000 people for home care and 12,000 others are the demand from Japan.
Demand for 42,000 nurses, graduate only reaches 1,000
people per yearMANGUPURA — Nurses are still needed. The demand for
nurses at 48 hospitals in Bali reaches 8,000 people, while 12,000 people for home care and 12,000 others are the demand from Ja-pan. In addition, there are the demands from other sectors such as cabin crew, banking, hotel, police and the armed forces.
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CASPER - Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Ted Cruz won all 14 delegates at stake on Saturday in Wyoming, besting rival Donald Trump, who made little effort to win the rural state, and further nar-rowing the gap in the race for the party’s nomination.
Cruz is trying to prevent Trump from obtaining the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination at the July convention in Cleveland. By continuing to rack up small wins, Cruz is gaining ground on the New York real estate mogul, who has thus far failed to shift his focus on the local-level campaigning necessary to win delegates.
Trump has been critical of the process, again on Saturday calling it “rigged” while speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York. He has repeatedly complained about Colorado, which awarded all 34 of its delegates to Cruz despite not holding a popular vote.
Trump said his supporters are becoming increasingly angry with states such as Wyoming and Colorado.
“They’re going nuts out there; they’re angry,” Trump said in Syra-cuse. “The bosses took away their vote, and I wasn’t going to send big teams of people three, four months ago, have them out there.”
While Trump has won 21 state nominating contests to Cruz’s 10, the billionaire leads the Texas senator by only 196 delegates (755-559). That means he must win nearly 60 percent of those remaining before the party’s political convention in July.
Wyoming does not hold a primary vote. Instead, 475 party activists convened in Casper on Saturday to hold a state convention and award 14 delegates.
Previously, 12 other delegates had been designated at county-level conventions. Cruz won 10 of those, with one going to Trump and another being elected as “unbound.”
Cruz spoke at the convention, capping off a months-long effort to organize support in the state. Trump had originally planned to send former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who remains popular among conservatives, as a surrogate, but she canceled at the last minute.
Cruz spoke about local issues in Wyoming, the largest coal-pro-ducing state. He discussed the Democratic “attack” on the fossil fuel, saying President Barack Obama has tried to put the coal industry out of business through government regulations targeting air pollution. (rtr)
The political crisis, which comes amid Brazil’s worst recession since the 1930s, has deeply divided the South American country and sparked an acrimonious fight be-tween Rousseff and her Vice Presi-dent Michel Temer, who would take over if she is dismissed.
In a frenzied round of last minute deal-making on Saturday, Rousseff appeared to have clawed back the votes of some wavering lawmakers but still appeared to lack the one-third of votes needed in the 513-seat lower house to avoid being sent for trial in the Senate.
Rousseff’s charismatic predeces-sor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, led the deal-making to keep her in of-fice and drafted in governors from several states to pressure legislators on Saturday, swinging the momen-tum back in Rousseff’s favour.
“The governors’ participation is proving decisive,” said Paulo Teix-eira, one of the Workers’ Party’s leaders in the lower house.
Thousands of police were due to deploy in the capital Brasilia on Sunday, and in the mega-cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where hundreds of thousands of
pro- and anti-impeachment dem-onstrators were expected to take to the streets.
A 2-metre (6.5-foot) high wall outside Congress, stretching for more than 1 km (0.6 of a mile) on the grassy esplanade between rows of ministries, showed the stark politi-cal divide in what remains one of the world’s most unequal societies.
Polls suggest that more than 60 percent of Brazil’s 200 million people support impeaching Rous-seff, whose inner circle has been tainted by a vast corruption scandal at state oil company Petrobras.
The Workers Party, however, can still rely on strong support among millions of working class Brazilians, who credit its welfare programmes with pulling their families out of pov-erty during the last decade. (rtr)
MADRID - The health authority of the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia says more than 670 people have been affect-ed by an outbreak of gastroenteritis linked to bottled water. The authority said on its
official Twitter account that, as of Saturday, 678 people had been treated for symptoms including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and high fever.
Catalonia’s regional health agency said in
a statement that bottles of water have been withdrawn from retail outlets and scientific samples are being taken from bottling plants and distributors to determine the source of the outbreak. It did not name the company.
The bottled water company Grupo Eden Springs, however, said in a statement it had withdrawn pallets of bottled water that came from its source in Font d’Arinsal, near Barcelona. (ap)
Water-born gastroenteritis outbreak in Spain affects 670
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Congressmen demonstrate against President of the Chamber of Deputies Cunha during a session to review the request for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, Brazil April 16, 2016. The banner read “Cunha Out”.
Congress to vote on impeaching Rousseff in divided Brazil
BRASILIA - Brazil’s lower house of Congress will decide on Sunday whether to recommend impeaching President Dilma Rousseff on charges of manipulating budgetary accounts, in a vote that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.
Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz plays a game of foosball before a campaign event in Syracuse, New York April 15, 2016.
DENPASAR- The development of education is considered very suitable to be carried out in North Bali, particularly in Buleleng dis-trict. The conditions are adequately representative when compared to South Bali affected by the frenetic tourism. Students and pupils will be able to learn with a better con-centration amid such a favorable atmosphere.
“On that account, we in the pro-vincial government want to design the northern region for students, both from Bali and from all over Indonesia. At least, it can become a university destination for students from the Eastern part of Indone-sia,” said Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, when receiving the audience of the rector of the Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, Dr. I Nyo-man Jampel, at his office, Friday (Apr. 15).
Pastika added that the north-ern region does not only include Buleleng but also Karangasem and Bangli. Moreover, his government is preparing the development of Bali Mandara vocational school in Karangasem and Bangli. “Hope-fully, more and more poor children could go to school,” he added.
Especially for Undiksha, Pastika expected this state university in Buleleng can yield educators with character that really understand about the essence of educating. He also appreciated the achieve-
ment of Undiksha within the past few years believed to have been able to compete in the national level and has been aligned with na-tional prestigious universities like the University of Indonesia (UI), Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and University of Airlangga (UNAIR).
Pastika considered the measure of Undiksha to open the Faculty of Medicine positive because the de-mand for doctors in Bali cannot be met. On that account, he promised to help the process by making coor-dination with the Director General of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Culture. “I will check and endeavor. Besides, I will try to talk to the Ministry of Health,” he said.
In the meantime, Rector I Nyo-man Jampel said that the current plan to establish a Faculty Medicine at the Undiksha is still waiting for a permit from the Ministry of Educa-tion and Culture.
The help of the governor is ex-pected to accelerate the issuance of the permit. The opening of the Faculty of Medicine, belonging to a non-education course, will be able to add more majors of option for students wishing to study in Bali. “Indeed, the demand for the Faculty of Medicine in Bali is very much. We want that more and more young people of Bali can study medicine,” he added. (kmb32)
Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, Ngakan Made Kutha Parwata, admitted that canang merchants are rampantly found lately. However, in the transaction process, the matter of location is frequently overlooked. Actually it is considered to af-fect the sanctity of the oblations. Therefore, it is required a preven-tive measures to arrange it. “With the PHDI, we have an initiative to arrange the canang merchants and would like to provide insight on the sacred goal of the oblation,’ he said.
Arrangement of the merchants
will be further coordinated with the Trade and Industry Agency and other stakeholders. Obviously, this measure needs to get agreement from the merchants. “This measure will be coordinated with relevant agencies,” said Parwata.
Chairman of the PHDI Ban-gli, I Nyoman Sukra, in his speech stressed to the merchants of canang and other ritual means not to only pursue profits. They must increase the understanding on the ethics and procedures for the making and selling of canang as well as the sanctity maintenance as it will be presented to God. “Sanctity of the
canang must be maintained. Do not let the merchant sell it on sidewalk and the inappropriate environment that even tarnishes the sanctity,” he said while adding that when selling canang the merchants should put on medium traditional attires.
The interactive dialogue was also attended by the Head of the In-dustry and Trade Agency I Nengah Sudibia, Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives I Komang Carles and a number of legislators such as I Nengah Darsana, Dewa Gede Oka, Wayan Jamin, Ketut Kariyasa and others. (kmb45)
TABANAN - National examina-tion (UN) no longer becomes a scary thing determining the graduation of students of final grade in the middle school. This happens because the Ministry of Education and Culture has changed the rules of the national ex-amination implementation. Although it no longer absolutely determines the graduation, schools are still expected to show their honesty integrity related to the scores obtained by learners. “Since the graduation is set by school authority, do not then commit cheating in any way to get the whole learners pass. This is not true,” said the Head of the Tabanan Education Agency, Putu Santika.
He said that, for the Tabanan district
his agency always insisted that schools can demonstrate their honesty integrity in the implementation of education. In this case, the education agency merely suggests because the execution is entirely by school. “Moreover, we are working to form a golden generation. If there is no honesty from the begin-ning, how will the golden generation be realized?” he asked.
Besides, Santika assessed the cur-rent national exam policy has been appropriate. When associated with the Law No.19/2005 on the national education standard, it is mandated that it is the education unit determining the graduation. “This means that current education system is not weak but bet-ter,” he said.
Related to fraud remaining to be found even though the national exam is no longer become primary bench-mark of requirement in the students’ graduation, this official from Gubug Tabanan recognized that everything is back to the character and culture of the students and teachers. Undeniably, the elements of education are still found cheating just to maintain the school reputation in the community because their students are graduating with dis-tinction. “They do not realize if this continues the students concerned will be difficult to keep learning at the next education level because so far their scores are always marked up. It would be better if the integrity of honesty is preferred to produce the really genuine quality,” he advised.
In Tabanan, he admitted there are no reports or findings of the ombuds-man during the implementation of the national exam for high school and vocational school. Nevertheless, his agency will continue to improve the quality of education. Moreover, the computer-based national exam (UNBK) in Tabanan district has been implemented at four schools, namely the SMAN 2 Tabanan high school and the SMKN 1, 2 and 3 Tabanan vocational schools. “The junior high school is not ready yet, but we will continue to encourage so that at least next year we can implement the computer-based national exam,” he concluded. (kmb)
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The sales of canang (oblation) particularly at the Kidul Mar-ket Bangli are still carried out at any place by a number of merchants.
BANGLI - The sales of canang (oblation) particularly at the Kidul Market Bangli are still carried out at any place by a number of merchants. As a result, it is considered to affect the sanctity of the oblation. It was highlighted by the legislators of the Bangli House of Representa-tives in the interactive dialogue with the canang merchants at the office of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) Bangli, Saturday (Apr. 16).
North Bali to be designed for students
Not absolutely determine graduationCurrent system of national exam
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National examination (UN) no longer becomes a scary thing deter-mining the graduation of students of final grade in the middle school. This happens because the Ministry of Education and Culture has changed the rules of the national examination implementation.
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WASHINGTON — Global finance officials are vowing to try to rein-vigorate a lackluster global economy and urging governments to embrace free trade and do more to fight tax evasion.
Concluding biannual meetings by the world finance leaders, the 189-nation International Monetary Fund said in a statement that it would work toward “strong, sustainable, inclusive, job-rich and more balanced global growth.”
“The global recovery is continuing, but the expansion is modest,” Agustin Carstens, the head of Mexico’s central bank and chair of the IMF policy panel, told reporters Saturday. “We must implement mutually reinforcing policies to boost global growth and strengthen financial stability.”
Markets have stabilized after a chaotic start to the year, when fears were growing about a possible new global recession. But the IMF cited a long list of threats, from extremist attacks and the Syrian refugee crisis to the shock to global confidence from a potential exit by Britain from the European Union. The IMF foresees global growth of 3.2 percent this year, down from the 3.4 percent it predicted in January.
New threats may imperil efforts to promote greater trade and capital flows between countries.
Many nations buffeted by the forces of globalization have lost jobs and workers’ wages have stagnated. In the United States, this anger has propelled the presidential candidacy of Republican front-runner Donald Trump. In Britain, voters will decide in June whether to leave the European Union. Carstens urged nations “to refrain from all forms of protectionism” as it hampers global growth. The IMF policy group and the G-20 leaders also worked on a stronger response to international tax evasion, stepping up ef-forts to penalize countries that do not share tax information.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde called tax evasion and the use of shell companies a crucial new challenge that must be addressed collectively. “All of us are going to have to think outside the box,” she told reporters. This issue came under renewed scrutiny after the leak this month of 11.5 million confidential documents from a Panamanian law firm. The Panama Papers show how some of the world’s richest people hide assets in shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
Iceland’s prime minister resigned after it was revealed that he and his wife set up a company in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven. British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to release his tax returns for the first time after the papers raised questions about his family’s affairs.
“The Panama revelations show that the G-20 must carry on its action against tax evasion and promote larger transparency,” French Finance Min-ister Michel Sapin said in a statement. “It is a matter of justice and economic efficiency and it is very important for our societies’ cohesion.” (ap)
The attendees, including Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, silently swept past gathered journalists at a luxury hotel in Doha ahead of the meeting. Also on hand was Rus-sia, another of the world’s top oil producers. The U.S., now a major producer because of shale oil, did not attend.
At least 15 oil-producing nations representing about 73 percent of world output were expected at the Doha meeting, Qatar’s energy and industry minister, Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, has said.
The gathering follows a surprise Doha meeting in February between Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, in which they pledged to cap their crude output at Janu-ary levels if other producers do the same.
They hope the cap will help global oil prices rebound from their dramatic fall since the summer of 2014, when prices were above $100 a barrel, though no one is talking seriously about the more dramatic step of cutting production.
Prices dropped briefly under $30 a barrel, a 12-year low, in January, but have climbed to the mid-$40s this week, boosted in part by market speculation about the Qatar meet-ing. Western markets were closed Sunday and not immediately af-fected by the discussions.
Iran decided to stay home late Saturday after saying the day before it would send an emissary to the meeting.
“We reached the conclusion that the Doha meeting is for those who want to sign the oil freeze plans, and if we wanted to have a representa-tive at the meeting, it was to show our support of this project,” Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said, according to a report by the ministry’s SHANA news agency.
“But since Iran is not going to sign this, there is no need for the presence of Iran’s representative at the meeting.”
With many international sanc-tions lifted under its nuclear deal with world powers, Iran began ex-porting oil into the European market
again and is eager to claw back a market share. It produces 3.2 mil-lion barrels of oil a day now, with hopes of increasing to 4 million by April 2017. On Friday, the Iranian Oil Ministry reiterated it would not join a freeze “before it brings its oil exports to the pre-sanctions levels.”
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has said it won’t back any freeze if Iran, its Shiite rival, doesn’t agree to it, throwing into question whether any deal will be reached. The kingdom seems determined to ride out the low prices that could squeeze Tehran.
That dispute underscores the level of discord inside OPEC as it faces arguably its biggest challenge since the oil glut of the 1980s. Even if officials reach a deal, Iran’s pro-duction and oil from other sources, like the U.S., could keep prices down.
The meeting broke up just before 11 a.m. as attendees planned to meet with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said Kabalan Abisaab, Ecuador’s ambassador to Qatar, who was on hand for the meeting. Abisaab said participants would return to the meeting in the afternoon and continue their delib-erations. (ap)
Finance leaders pledge effort to boost global growth
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
From left, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei, and China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, talk at the G-20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governors group photo, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Russian Energy Minister Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, center, arrives at an oil-producers’ meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Oil-producing countries are meeting in Qatar to discuss a possible freeze of production to counter low global prices, but Iran’s last-minute decision to stay home could dilute the impact of any agreement.
Oil producers meet in Qatar to discuss cap, Iran absent
DOHA — Oil-producing countries met Sunday in Qatar to discuss a possible freeze of production to counter low global prices, but Iran’s last-minute decision to stay home could dilute the impact of any agreement.
AP Photo/Jon Gambrell
Jakarta - Chairman of the Supreme Audit Board (BPK) Harry Azhar Azis clarified to the taxation directorate general issue over his named being mentioned in the leaked Panama Papers on Friday.
The leaked Panama Papers exposed holders of thousands of hidden bank accounts implicating
many politicians and business leaders internationally.
The names of many Indonesian were mentioned in the docu-ments suspected of bank fraud, tax evasion and other financial scandals.
Harry was summoned to make clarification denying tax evasion or any activities against the law
by his company operating in Hong Kong.
Harry acknowledged having a company in Hong Kong in 2010 but he said he already sold it in December, 2015.
“It is nothing to do with BPK reports of Sumber Waras Hopi-tal,” he said referring to acquisi-tion of the hospital by the Jakarta
governor at a price allegedly much higher than the market price causing a loss of Rp191 billion to the state.
BPK report lead to the Cor-ruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoning Jakarta Gover-nor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok to make clarification.
Ahok, who is known as a clean
man, denied wrong doing and ac-cused BPK leader of seeking to damage his reputation ahead of election for new governor of the city next year.
Harry, the former polititian of Golkar party, said his company was only registered in Hong Kong but it had made no transac-tions and asset. (ant)
“The exchange of fire between Santoso members and the security officers two weeks ago cut off the logistics distribution lanes of the San-toso group,” Tito said after a ceremony held to observe the anniversary of the Armys Special Strike Forces (Kopas-sus) here Saturday.
His men also arrested two members of the Santoro group who emerged from their hideouts to look for logis-tics, he said. The number of Santoso group has been reduced from 41 to 27 now, which includes two women, the BNPT predicted.
During the armys operation, the lo-cal people also took part and supported the operations, Tito said.
“We are supported by the people, as the people do not support them,” the BNPT chief said.
The Indonesian National Police will also provide a bonus to its person-nel who are able to arrest Santoso, he said. Quoting Police Chief Badrodin Haitis statement, Tito added that the
bonus would be given in the form of extraordinary rank promotion or scholarship.
“The bonus will be provided to arouse the spirit of personnel assigned there,” he said.
In order to arrest members of the Santoso group in Poso, the govern-ment has launched an operation with a special task force called the Tanom-bala task force. The Tinombala task force team arrested two more alleged members of the Eastern Indonesia Mu-jahidin terrorist group under Santoso or Abu Wardah in Central Sulawesi, police said.
The two men, identified as IB alias AM alias ID (21), who joined the group in 2013, and SH alias Faqih (19), who joined it in 2015, were ar-rested near Poso Friday, police spokes-man Brig. Gen. Agus Rianto said here Saturday.
The two arrests brought the number of the group members to 16 killed and arrested under the Tinombala opera-
tions by the police and the military.Ten members of the eastern Indone-
sia Mujahiddin Group had been killed and four others were arrested by the security forces in Central Sulawesi, police said earlier.
“Four of them were caught alive while 10 others died,” the chief of the Central Sulawesi Police Brig. Gen, Rudy Sufahriadi said in Poso Friday.
The arrest of the two suspected terrorists coincided with the arrival in Poso of police chief Badrodin Haiti, chief of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT), Com. Gen. Tito Karnavian, and chief of the police Mobile Brigade Insp. Gen. Murad Ismail.
The three held a meeting with Brig. Gen. Rudy Sufahriadi and district military commander Col. Muhammad Saleh Mustafa and district police chief, Adj. Sen. Comr. Ronny to discuss the security situation in the region.
The Tinombala operation involving 2,500 military and police personnel was formed in January 2016, after strict orders of President Joko Widodo to wipe out the terrorist group, which had made Poso a security threat for years. (ant)
Jakarta - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and members of the National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN) held a discussion on the countrys industrial growth here, Friday.
“The key point is how we can work together to boost economic growth in future,” Minister of Industry Saleh Husin stated at the presidential office following the meeting between President Jokowi and KEIN leaders and members.
Minister Husin noted that during the meeting, the president was accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, Trade Minister Thomas Lembong, Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, and Chairman of the Investment Coordinating Board Franky Sibarani.
KEIN Chairman Sutrisno Bachir affirmed that his committee will continue to offer strategic inputs related to economic and industrial fields to the government.
Indonesia is now experiencing sluggish industrial growth. There-fore, the government needs to boost the production of goods having added value, Bachir remarked.
“We are now aware of the global economic slowdown. Without industrialization and merely selling raw materials, we will be left behind,” he pointed out.
Bachir urged the Indonesian people to use domestic products to help boost local industrial growth.
“We should take a cue from the citizens of other countries, such as Japan, Korea, and India, who harbor a high sense of nationalism and always love their domestic products,” he added. (ant)
BPK chairman clarifies issue over name in leaked Panama Papers
President Jokowi, KEIN leaders discuss indonesia`s industrial growth
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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) with members of the National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN) held a discussion on the country`s industrial growth here in Jakarta.
Head of the National Counter-terrorism
Agency (BNPT) Tito Karnavian
Santoso terrorist group running out of logistics: Agency
Jakarta - Head of the National Counter-terrorism Agency (BNPT) Tito Karnavian said Santosos terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi, is running out of logistics and is now becom-ing weaker and weaker.
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A 7.3 magnitude tremor struck early on Saturday morning, killing at least 32 people, injuring about a thousand more and causing wide-spread damage to houses, roads and bridges.
It was the second major quake to hit Kumamoto province on the island of Kyushu in just over 24 hours. The first, late on Thursday, killed nine people. More than 440 tremors have rocked the area since Thursday, said broadcaster NHK.
Three nuclear plants in the region were unaffected by the quake, but the Nuclear Regulation Authority said it will hold an extraordinary meeting on Monday to discuss the situation.
A massive 9 magnitude quake and tsunami in northern Japan in 2011 caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986, shutting down the nuclear industry for safety checks. The first reactor to restart was Kyushu Electric’s Sendai No. 1, which is at one of the plants in
the region hit on Saturday.The Kumamoto region is an
important manufacturing hub.Toyota Motor Corp said it would
suspend production at plants across Japan after the quakes disrupted its supply chain. Electronics gi-ant Sony Corp said its Kumamoto plant, which makes image sensors for Apple and others, would remain suspended.
All commercial flights to the damaged Kumamoto airport were cancelled and Japan’s bullet train to the region suspended. Expressways are closed in wide areas because of landslides and cracks in the road surface, hindering supplies of water and food reaching survivors. (rtr)
HAVANA - President Raul Castro warned Cubans on Sat-urday that the United States was determined to end Cuba’s socialist revolution despite restoring rela-tions and a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, saying one-party Communism was essential to de-fend the system.
“We must be alert, today more than ever,” Castro said, speaking in front of a giant portrait of his brother Fidel Castro at the inau-guration of the Communist Party’s first congress in five years.
Speaking for over two hours, Castro used a defiant tone that belied the breakthrough between the Cold War enemies. He said Obama’s desire to end U.S. sanc-tions was welcome but just a change of “method”, in reference to efforts by Washington to bring political change to Cuba ever since the Cas-tro brothers toppled a pro-American government in 1959.
Obama and Castro announced in December 2014 they would end decades of hostility and normalize relations. But on a historic trip to the island last month, Obama an-gered the government with a speech broadcast directly into Cubans’ homes calling for more political
freedom and democracy in the one-party state.
Castro and his lieutenants, many of them in their 70s and 80s, faced some discontent ahead of the con-gress among younger members who are critical of their slow delivery on promised economic reforms in the past five years and a lack of trans-parency on discussions.
“The key function of the con-gress is a message that the Obama visit has not changed anything. To reduce expectations,” said Bert Hoffman, a Latin American expert at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
Castro reiterated the party’s commitment to the reforms which he said should be implemented faster. But he said Cuba was not moving towards capitalism, citing China and Vietnam as models, while emphasizing that social ownership and cooperatives were mostly pref-erable to private property.
He celebrated Cuba’s growing number of self-employed people but cautioned that the United States was seeking to turn them into a op-position force. Obama spent hours talking to small business people and entrepreneurs during his Havana visit. (rtr)
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Cuba’s President Raul Castro speaks during the opening cer-emony of the seventh Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana April 16, 2016.
Castro hardens rhetoric, warns Cubans to be
alert to U.S. intentions
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Police officers check a collapsed house after an earthquake in Mashiki town, Kumamoto pre-fecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 17, 2016.
Rescuers search Japan quake
rubble, Toyota to halt production
TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Rescue teams on Sunday scoured the splintered remains of buildings destroyed by a series of deadly earthquakes in southern Japan which forced automaker Toyota to halt production across the country after its supply chain was hit.
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TEXAS - Lin Jarvis says with each day Jorge Lorenzo doesn’t confirm his plans for 2017 the chances of him re-signing for Yamaha reduce.
The Yamaha racing managing director believes the longer Lorenzo takes to make a decision on staying with the Japanese manufacturer or moving to Ducati only adds weight to the theory he will leave for the Italian brand at the end of the season.
On the eve of the season opener in Qatar, Yamaha confirmed both Valentino Rossi and Lorenzo received a new two-year contract offer at the same time. Rossi signed imme-diately, but the reigning MotoGP is yet to make up his mind.
It is understood Ducati, who have seen several attempts to attract Lorenzo from Yamaha in the past fail, have tabled an offer which the Spanish rider is giving seriously contemplation alongside the Yamaha deal.
Speaking to Speedweek.com, Jarvis has confirmed negotiations haven’t been delayed by Lorenzo asking for more money and feels with each day passing since the offer was tabled the chances of him re-signing fall.
“I would say every day that passes since we offered Jorge the new contract reduces our prospects,” Jarvis told Speedweek. “With each additional day of the bidding which he does not decide to accept our offer it reduces our chances with Jorge to stay. And there have already been many days gone.”
Jarvis confirmed in Qatar Lorenzo has a deadline to accept the Yamaha offer, but did not outline when it is - although a decision could come before the next round in Jerez.
Maverick Vinales is favourite to replace Lorenzo, but has an ‘option’ in his contract to continue at Suzuki. It is unclear at pres-ent whether Vinales controls this option or Suzuki. (ap)
Jorge Lorenzo, of Spain, poses for photos after he finished second
in qualifying for the Grand Prix of the Americas MotoGP motorcycle
race, Saturday, April 9, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Despite losing the lead initially to fast starting front row sitter Dan-iel Ricciardo, Rosberg was clear of the drama unfolding behind around turns one and two as Sebastian Vettel tipped Kimi Raikkonen into a spin, with the ensuing concertina effect scattering cars and catching out the hapless Lewis Hamilton, losing his front wing in the melee.
With Rosberg snatching the lead from Ricciardo – just as the luckless Australian suffered a puncture – on lap three, he was never challenged thereafter, stretching more than half a minute clear over the remaining 53 laps for his third win in 2016
and his sixth straight success going back to 2015.
In a frantic race of multiple strategies and some exhilarating on track action, Vettel recovered to second place from a low of 15th at one stage, ahead of Daniil Kvyat, the Russian handing Red Bull its first podium of the season after a faultless drive.
Despite his earlier misfortune, Ricciardo charged back up the order to fourth position as the best of the recovering drivers, with Raikkonen fifth and Hamilton left seventh af-ter making five pit-stops over the course of the race. (ap)
Yamaha: Each day reduces chance of Lorenzo staying 13 April 2016
AP Photo/Eric Gay
Rosberg imperious again as rivals trip up in China
REUTERS/Aly Song
Formula One - Chinese F1 Grand Prix - Shanghai, China - 17/4/16 - Mercedes Formula One driver Nico Rosberg of Germany celebrates after the Chinese Grand Prix.
SHANGHAI - Nico Rosberg has multiplied his lead in the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship standings to 37 points after strolling to a third consecutive win amidst yet more lap one chaotic that neutered the threat from Ferrari and an already compromised Lewis Hamilton.
NEGARA - Rambut Siwi Tem-ple is located in Jembrana regency, east of Yeh Embang village, Men-doyo district. It is about 10 km from Negara and can reach by any cars or motorcycles as well. Local peoples believe that they have to worshipped this temple to get a God bless of securing during the Journey. The Main temple located in cliff bank and and blessed by the breath taking view of the Indian ocean. This temples owns the rep-resentative temple building which is set beside main road of Denpasar to Gilimanuk. Name of Rambut Siwi is contain of a relic which is a lock of sage’s hair (rambut) that is venerated (siwi).
The locals also believe that the Rambut Siwi Temple is a secret temple, today it is difficult to spot
and it is said that there was a time when the temple was secret and held many secret objects and is shrouded with mystery and uncertainty to this day. this certainly adds to the charm of the Rambut Siwi Temple and is one of the reasons that its tucked away and yet grand statue is so impressive and yet humble. Another use of this temple is for the blessing of the journey that is made when traveling in these parts as of-ten the passing of the Rambut Siwi Temple is on a long journey. There are other temples that are used in similar ways but many locals can be seen stopping at the Rambut Siwi Temple for a short time in order to ensure that their journey will be safe one heading either further north or back to the south of Bali. The views in this are sensational ether looking
towards the sea and down over the temple or from the beach looking up to the temple and over the tropical woodland that surrounds it.
The gardens include extremely well kept tropical flowers and trees presented in classic Traditional Balinese styles and maintained with a great amount of care. Visiting the Rambut Siwi Temple is cheap and a very beautiful way to spend part of your day in this area, particularly at sunset when it is at its most beauti-ful. The Rambut Siwi Temple is a far less crowded alternative to the Tanah Lot temple that is the most visited temple in Bali and the most Photographed of all the places in Bali. However you have to be will-ing to make the longer journey to enjoy the Rambut Siwi Temple’s serenity. (IBP/net)
Rambut Siwi Temple
LONDON - Sergio Ague-ro was acclaimed as “the best striker in the Premier League” by manager Manuel Pellegrini after his hat-trick helped Manchester City beat Chelsea 3-0 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
The win capped an ex-cellent week for City, who moved ahead of Arsenal into third place in the table and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League after beating Paris St Germain on Tuesday.
Aguero took his season’s league tally to 21 goals with strikes in the 32nd and 54th minutes and an 80th-minute
penalty after Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off
for upending Fernandinho.The performance delighted
City’s manager Manuel Pellegrini, who said: “I am sure he is the best striker in the league, he makes
a difference playing every game.”
Equally influential in the victory was midfielder Kevin de Bruyne who produced the sort of per-
formance that has left many ques-tioning why Chelsea let their
former midfielder leave without having had the chance to prove
himself at Stamford Bridge.The Belgian’s return from
injury has played a significant part in City’s recent improved form and he was at the hub of most of their attacks, linking superbly with Aguero for the first two goals.
First De Bruyne broke from a Chelsea corner to allow the Ar-gentine to cut inside and open the scoring. Then De Bruyne produced another telling thrust from his own half to again feed Aguero, via Samir Nasri, as City overwhelmed Chelsea with a series of clinical attacks.
Courtois’s rash challenge on Fernandinho gave away the pen-alty which allowed Aguero, who had missed from the spot against PSG on Tuesday, to complete his hat-trick.
Defeat left Chelsea looking ahead to a new start under new manager Antonio Conte, who will join ahead of next season.
“Chelsea are (in) a difficult situ-ation this season,” outgoing boss Guus Hiddink said.
“Chelsea need to be in the first four places. We were knocking on the door but we didn’t create open chances. They outplayed us on 60-70 yard counters.” (rtr)
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Sp rtMonday, April 18, 2016
ARGENTINA and Barcelona star Lionel Messi remains the world’s highest paid footballer with an an-nual income of 74 million euros ($84.3 million, £59.3 million), according to a report set to appear in Tuesday’s edition of France Football magazine.
Messi’s earnings in 2015 rose by nine million euros compared to the previous figures, keeping the five-time Ballon d’Or winner ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (67.4m euros) and Neymar (43.5m eu-ros) as the top three stayed unchanged for the third year running.
France Football’s estimates were based on players’ pre-tax salaries, spon-sorship revenues and various bonuses, it added.
Angel Di Maria was the top-earning player in France with 24 million euros following his off-season move from Manchester United, with the Argentine narrowly ahead of Paris Saint-Germain team-mates Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
However, figures in France only account-ed for player wages and contract bonuses, according to the report.
Despite his sacking from Chelsea in December, Jose Mourinho was the highest earning coach on 24 million euros, with Pep Guardiola and Fabio Capello rounding out the top three. (afp)
Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rum-menigge appeared to belittle Atlet-ico last month when lamenting that Bayern faced Italian cham-pions Juventus in the last 16 of the competition “when there are games like Atletico Madrid-PSV Eindhoven”.
Asked in a news conference if he and his team were keen to make Rummenigge regret his words, Simeone said: “We always respect
all opinions, the only thing we can say is that this is a wonderful op-portunity for us.
“Moving on to the important part, which is our opponents, they are a huge club, with great history and are very strong in these ties. They are a very attacking team with a coach with very clear ideas and they have always competed to win this competition.”
Bayern beat Atletico in the 1974
European Cup final, equalising in the final minute of extra time to draw 1-1 and then winning the replay 4-0.
After beating Champions League holders Barcelona 2-0 on Wednes-day to advance to the semi-finals, Atletico return to domestic action on Sunday when they host strug-gling Granada, who are 17th in the table, two points above the relega-tion zone.
Atletico are second, three points behind leaders Barcelona, and Simeone says his team have no problem competing on two fronts and are still hopeful of catching
Luis Enrique’s side.“ We h a v e a l w a y s
worked hard when we have had to compete parallel to the league... We’re still focused on the league and tomor-row we expect a great atmosphere in the sta-dium,” he said.
“We are in a very clear situation, we need to win and then see what Barcelona do. What we can do is beat Granada.” (rtr)
LONDON - England manag-er Roy Hodgson has played down
West Ham United striker Andy Car-roll’s chances of being picked for this
year’s European Championship.The injury-plagued 27-year-old scored
a Premier League hat-trick against Arsenal last week, prompting calls for Hodgson to include
him in the squad for the tournament in France, which starts in June.
“Every time someone scores a goal and he’s English it is ‘why is he not playing for England?’,” the 68-year-
old told reporters.“I’m certainly not going to pick him on the basis
that he scored a hat-trick so therefore has to be in the England team.”
Carroll’s main strengths are his physical pres-ence and ability in the air, offering a different threat to Hodgson’s other forward options including Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney.
“We know Andy, we know his quali-ties,” Hodgson said.
“In an ideal world, if you had a lot of places at your disposal, you’d always include a guy like him because he is exceptional in the air - but whether or not I’d be able to include him with all these others, I don’t know.”
Carroll won the last of his nine England caps in 2012. (rtr)
Atletico’s Simeone relishing prospect of showdown with Bayern
BARCELONA - Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has described his team’s Champions League semi-final tie with Bayern Munich as “a wonderful opportunity”.
Lionel Messi remains world’s highest paid footballer with annual
income of 84.3 million dollars
AP Photo/Francisco Seco
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi takes a free kick during the Champions League 2nd leg quarterfinal soc-cer match between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday April 13, 2016.
Hodgson plays down Carroll’s Euro 2016 chances
Reuters / John Sibley
West Ham’s Andy Carroll speaks to referee Roger East.
Aguero hat-trick keeps Manchester City on the rise
Reuters / Dylan Martinez
Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero in action with Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic and Gary Cahill.
LONDON - Sergio Ague-ro was acclaimed as “the best striker in the Premier League” by manager Manuel Pellegrini after his hat-trick helped Manchester City beat Chelsea 3-0 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
The win capped an ex-cellent week for City, who moved ahead of Arsenal into third place in the table and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League after beating Paris St Germain on Tuesday.
Aguero took his season’s league tally to 21 goals with strikes in the 32nd and 54th minutes and an 80th-minute
penalty after Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off
for upending Fernandinho.The performance delighted
City’s manager Manuel Pellegrini, who said: “I am sure he is the best striker in the league, he makes
a difference playing every game.”
Equally influential in the victory was midfielder Kevin de Bruyne who produced the sort of per-
formance that has left many ques-tioning why Chelsea let their
former midfielder leave without having had the chance to prove
himself at Stamford Bridge.The Belgian’s return from
injury has played a significant part in City’s recent improved form and he was at the hub of most of their attacks, linking superbly with Aguero for the first two goals.
First De Bruyne broke from a Chelsea corner to allow the Ar-gentine to cut inside and open the scoring. Then De Bruyne produced another telling thrust from his own half to again feed Aguero, via Samir Nasri, as City overwhelmed Chelsea with a series of clinical attacks.
Courtois’s rash challenge on Fernandinho gave away the pen-alty which allowed Aguero, who had missed from the spot against PSG on Tuesday, to complete his hat-trick.
Defeat left Chelsea looking ahead to a new start under new manager Antonio Conte, who will join ahead of next season.
“Chelsea are (in) a difficult situ-ation this season,” outgoing boss Guus Hiddink said.
“Chelsea need to be in the first four places. We were knocking on the door but we didn’t create open chances. They outplayed us on 60-70 yard counters.” (rtr)
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ARGENTINA and Barcelona star Lionel Messi remains the world’s highest paid footballer with an an-nual income of 74 million euros ($84.3 million, £59.3 million), according to a report set to appear in Tuesday’s edition of France Football magazine.
Messi’s earnings in 2015 rose by nine million euros compared to the previous figures, keeping the five-time Ballon d’Or winner ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (67.4m euros) and Neymar (43.5m eu-ros) as the top three stayed unchanged for the third year running.
France Football’s estimates were based on players’ pre-tax salaries, spon-sorship revenues and various bonuses, it added.
Angel Di Maria was the top-earning player in France with 24 million euros following his off-season move from Manchester United, with the Argentine narrowly ahead of Paris Saint-Germain team-mates Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
However, figures in France only account-ed for player wages and contract bonuses, according to the report.
Despite his sacking from Chelsea in December, Jose Mourinho was the highest earning coach on 24 million euros, with Pep Guardiola and Fabio Capello rounding out the top three. (afp)
Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rum-menigge appeared to belittle Atlet-ico last month when lamenting that Bayern faced Italian cham-pions Juventus in the last 16 of the competition “when there are games like Atletico Madrid-PSV Eindhoven”.
Asked in a news conference if he and his team were keen to make Rummenigge regret his words, Simeone said: “We always respect
all opinions, the only thing we can say is that this is a wonderful op-portunity for us.
“Moving on to the important part, which is our opponents, they are a huge club, with great history and are very strong in these ties. They are a very attacking team with a coach with very clear ideas and they have always competed to win this competition.”
Bayern beat Atletico in the 1974
European Cup final, equalising in the final minute of extra time to draw 1-1 and then winning the replay 4-0.
After beating Champions League holders Barcelona 2-0 on Wednes-day to advance to the semi-finals, Atletico return to domestic action on Sunday when they host strug-gling Granada, who are 17th in the table, two points above the relega-tion zone.
Atletico are second, three points behind leaders Barcelona, and Simeone says his team have no problem competing on two fronts and are still hopeful of catching
Luis Enrique’s side.“ We h a v e a l w a y s
worked hard when we have had to compete parallel to the league... We’re still focused on the league and tomor-row we expect a great atmosphere in the sta-dium,” he said.
“We are in a very clear situation, we need to win and then see what Barcelona do. What we can do is beat Granada.” (rtr)
LONDON - England manag-er Roy Hodgson has played down
West Ham United striker Andy Car-roll’s chances of being picked for this
year’s European Championship.The injury-plagued 27-year-old scored
a Premier League hat-trick against Arsenal last week, prompting calls for Hodgson to include
him in the squad for the tournament in France, which starts in June.
“Every time someone scores a goal and he’s English it is ‘why is he not playing for England?’,” the 68-year-
old told reporters.“I’m certainly not going to pick him on the basis
that he scored a hat-trick so therefore has to be in the England team.”
Carroll’s main strengths are his physical pres-ence and ability in the air, offering a different threat to Hodgson’s other forward options including Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney.
“We know Andy, we know his quali-ties,” Hodgson said.
“In an ideal world, if you had a lot of places at your disposal, you’d always include a guy like him because he is exceptional in the air - but whether or not I’d be able to include him with all these others, I don’t know.”
Carroll won the last of his nine England caps in 2012. (rtr)
Atletico’s Simeone relishing prospect of showdown with Bayern
BARCELONA - Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has described his team’s Champions League semi-final tie with Bayern Munich as “a wonderful opportunity”.
Lionel Messi remains world’s highest paid footballer with annual
income of 84.3 million dollars
AP Photo/Francisco Seco
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi takes a free kick during the Champions League 2nd leg quarterfinal soc-cer match between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday April 13, 2016.
Hodgson plays down Carroll’s Euro 2016 chances
Reuters / John Sibley
West Ham’s Andy Carroll speaks to referee Roger East.
Aguero hat-trick keeps Manchester City on the rise
Reuters / Dylan Martinez
Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero in action with Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic and Gary Cahill.
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TEXAS - Lin Jarvis says with each day Jorge Lorenzo doesn’t confirm his plans for 2017 the chances of him re-signing for Yamaha reduce.
The Yamaha racing managing director believes the longer Lorenzo takes to make a decision on staying with the Japanese manufacturer or moving to Ducati only adds weight to the theory he will leave for the Italian brand at the end of the season.
On the eve of the season opener in Qatar, Yamaha confirmed both Valentino Rossi and Lorenzo received a new two-year contract offer at the same time. Rossi signed imme-diately, but the reigning MotoGP is yet to make up his mind.
It is understood Ducati, who have seen several attempts to attract Lorenzo from Yamaha in the past fail, have tabled an offer which the Spanish rider is giving seriously contemplation alongside the Yamaha deal.
Speaking to Speedweek.com, Jarvis has confirmed negotiations haven’t been delayed by Lorenzo asking for more money and feels with each day passing since the offer was tabled the chances of him re-signing fall.
“I would say every day that passes since we offered Jorge the new contract reduces our prospects,” Jarvis told Speedweek. “With each additional day of the bidding which he does not decide to accept our offer it reduces our chances with Jorge to stay. And there have already been many days gone.”
Jarvis confirmed in Qatar Lorenzo has a deadline to accept the Yamaha offer, but did not outline when it is - although a decision could come before the next round in Jerez.
Maverick Vinales is favourite to replace Lorenzo, but has an ‘option’ in his contract to continue at Suzuki. It is unclear at pres-ent whether Vinales controls this option or Suzuki. (ap)
Jorge Lorenzo, of Spain, poses for photos after he finished second
in qualifying for the Grand Prix of the Americas MotoGP motorcycle
race, Saturday, April 9, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Despite losing the lead initially to fast starting front row sitter Dan-iel Ricciardo, Rosberg was clear of the drama unfolding behind around turns one and two as Sebastian Vettel tipped Kimi Raikkonen into a spin, with the ensuing concertina effect scattering cars and catching out the hapless Lewis Hamilton, losing his front wing in the melee.
With Rosberg snatching the lead from Ricciardo – just as the luckless Australian suffered a puncture – on lap three, he was never challenged thereafter, stretching more than half a minute clear over the remaining 53 laps for his third win in 2016
and his sixth straight success going back to 2015.
In a frantic race of multiple strategies and some exhilarating on track action, Vettel recovered to second place from a low of 15th at one stage, ahead of Daniil Kvyat, the Russian handing Red Bull its first podium of the season after a faultless drive.
Despite his earlier misfortune, Ricciardo charged back up the order to fourth position as the best of the recovering drivers, with Raikkonen fifth and Hamilton left seventh af-ter making five pit-stops over the course of the race. (ap)
Yamaha: Each day reduces chance of Lorenzo staying 13 April 2016
AP Photo/Eric Gay
Rosberg imperious again as rivals trip up in China
REUTERS/Aly Song
Formula One - Chinese F1 Grand Prix - Shanghai, China - 17/4/16 - Mercedes Formula One driver Nico Rosberg of Germany celebrates after the Chinese Grand Prix.
SHANGHAI - Nico Rosberg has multiplied his lead in the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship standings to 37 points after strolling to a third consecutive win amidst yet more lap one chaotic that neutered the threat from Ferrari and an already compromised Lewis Hamilton.
NEGARA - Rambut Siwi Tem-ple is located in Jembrana regency, east of Yeh Embang village, Men-doyo district. It is about 10 km from Negara and can reach by any cars or motorcycles as well. Local peoples believe that they have to worshipped this temple to get a God bless of securing during the Journey. The Main temple located in cliff bank and and blessed by the breath taking view of the Indian ocean. This temples owns the rep-resentative temple building which is set beside main road of Denpasar to Gilimanuk. Name of Rambut Siwi is contain of a relic which is a lock of sage’s hair (rambut) that is venerated (siwi).
The locals also believe that the Rambut Siwi Temple is a secret temple, today it is difficult to spot
and it is said that there was a time when the temple was secret and held many secret objects and is shrouded with mystery and uncertainty to this day. this certainly adds to the charm of the Rambut Siwi Temple and is one of the reasons that its tucked away and yet grand statue is so impressive and yet humble. Another use of this temple is for the blessing of the journey that is made when traveling in these parts as of-ten the passing of the Rambut Siwi Temple is on a long journey. There are other temples that are used in similar ways but many locals can be seen stopping at the Rambut Siwi Temple for a short time in order to ensure that their journey will be safe one heading either further north or back to the south of Bali. The views in this are sensational ether looking
towards the sea and down over the temple or from the beach looking up to the temple and over the tropical woodland that surrounds it.
The gardens include extremely well kept tropical flowers and trees presented in classic Traditional Balinese styles and maintained with a great amount of care. Visiting the Rambut Siwi Temple is cheap and a very beautiful way to spend part of your day in this area, particularly at sunset when it is at its most beauti-ful. The Rambut Siwi Temple is a far less crowded alternative to the Tanah Lot temple that is the most visited temple in Bali and the most Photographed of all the places in Bali. However you have to be will-ing to make the longer journey to enjoy the Rambut Siwi Temple’s serenity. (IBP/net)
Rambut Siwi Temple
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W RLDMonday, April 18, 2016
A 7.3 magnitude tremor struck early on Saturday morning, killing at least 32 people, injuring about a thousand more and causing wide-spread damage to houses, roads and bridges.
It was the second major quake to hit Kumamoto province on the island of Kyushu in just over 24 hours. The first, late on Thursday, killed nine people. More than 440 tremors have rocked the area since Thursday, said broadcaster NHK.
Three nuclear plants in the region were unaffected by the quake, but the Nuclear Regulation Authority said it will hold an extraordinary meeting on Monday to discuss the situation.
A massive 9 magnitude quake and tsunami in northern Japan in 2011 caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986, shutting down the nuclear industry for safety checks. The first reactor to restart was Kyushu Electric’s Sendai No. 1, which is at one of the plants in
the region hit on Saturday.The Kumamoto region is an
important manufacturing hub.Toyota Motor Corp said it would
suspend production at plants across Japan after the quakes disrupted its supply chain. Electronics gi-ant Sony Corp said its Kumamoto plant, which makes image sensors for Apple and others, would remain suspended.
All commercial flights to the damaged Kumamoto airport were cancelled and Japan’s bullet train to the region suspended. Expressways are closed in wide areas because of landslides and cracks in the road surface, hindering supplies of water and food reaching survivors. (rtr)
HAVANA - President Raul Castro warned Cubans on Sat-urday that the United States was determined to end Cuba’s socialist revolution despite restoring rela-tions and a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, saying one-party Communism was essential to de-fend the system.
“We must be alert, today more than ever,” Castro said, speaking in front of a giant portrait of his brother Fidel Castro at the inau-guration of the Communist Party’s first congress in five years.
Speaking for over two hours, Castro used a defiant tone that belied the breakthrough between the Cold War enemies. He said Obama’s desire to end U.S. sanc-tions was welcome but just a change of “method”, in reference to efforts by Washington to bring political change to Cuba ever since the Cas-tro brothers toppled a pro-American government in 1959.
Obama and Castro announced in December 2014 they would end decades of hostility and normalize relations. But on a historic trip to the island last month, Obama an-gered the government with a speech broadcast directly into Cubans’ homes calling for more political
freedom and democracy in the one-party state.
Castro and his lieutenants, many of them in their 70s and 80s, faced some discontent ahead of the con-gress among younger members who are critical of their slow delivery on promised economic reforms in the past five years and a lack of trans-parency on discussions.
“The key function of the con-gress is a message that the Obama visit has not changed anything. To reduce expectations,” said Bert Hoffman, a Latin American expert at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
Castro reiterated the party’s commitment to the reforms which he said should be implemented faster. But he said Cuba was not moving towards capitalism, citing China and Vietnam as models, while emphasizing that social ownership and cooperatives were mostly pref-erable to private property.
He celebrated Cuba’s growing number of self-employed people but cautioned that the United States was seeking to turn them into a op-position force. Obama spent hours talking to small business people and entrepreneurs during his Havana visit. (rtr)
REUTERS/Omara Garcia
Cuba’s President Raul Castro speaks during the opening cer-emony of the seventh Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana April 16, 2016.
Castro hardens rhetoric, warns Cubans to be
alert to U.S. intentions
REUTERS/Kyodo
Police officers check a collapsed house after an earthquake in Mashiki town, Kumamoto pre-fecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 17, 2016.
Rescuers search Japan quake
rubble, Toyota to halt production
TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Rescue teams on Sunday scoured the splintered remains of buildings destroyed by a series of deadly earthquakes in southern Japan which forced automaker Toyota to halt production across the country after its supply chain was hit.
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BUSINESS
WASHINGTON — Global finance officials are vowing to try to rein-vigorate a lackluster global economy and urging governments to embrace free trade and do more to fight tax evasion.
Concluding biannual meetings by the world finance leaders, the 189-nation International Monetary Fund said in a statement that it would work toward “strong, sustainable, inclusive, job-rich and more balanced global growth.”
“The global recovery is continuing, but the expansion is modest,” Agustin Carstens, the head of Mexico’s central bank and chair of the IMF policy panel, told reporters Saturday. “We must implement mutually reinforcing policies to boost global growth and strengthen financial stability.”
Markets have stabilized after a chaotic start to the year, when fears were growing about a possible new global recession. But the IMF cited a long list of threats, from extremist attacks and the Syrian refugee crisis to the shock to global confidence from a potential exit by Britain from the European Union. The IMF foresees global growth of 3.2 percent this year, down from the 3.4 percent it predicted in January.
New threats may imperil efforts to promote greater trade and capital flows between countries.
Many nations buffeted by the forces of globalization have lost jobs and workers’ wages have stagnated. In the United States, this anger has propelled the presidential candidacy of Republican front-runner Donald Trump. In Britain, voters will decide in June whether to leave the European Union. Carstens urged nations “to refrain from all forms of protectionism” as it hampers global growth. The IMF policy group and the G-20 leaders also worked on a stronger response to international tax evasion, stepping up ef-forts to penalize countries that do not share tax information.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde called tax evasion and the use of shell companies a crucial new challenge that must be addressed collectively. “All of us are going to have to think outside the box,” she told reporters. This issue came under renewed scrutiny after the leak this month of 11.5 million confidential documents from a Panamanian law firm. The Panama Papers show how some of the world’s richest people hide assets in shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
Iceland’s prime minister resigned after it was revealed that he and his wife set up a company in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven. British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to release his tax returns for the first time after the papers raised questions about his family’s affairs.
“The Panama revelations show that the G-20 must carry on its action against tax evasion and promote larger transparency,” French Finance Min-ister Michel Sapin said in a statement. “It is a matter of justice and economic efficiency and it is very important for our societies’ cohesion.” (ap)
The attendees, including Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, silently swept past gathered journalists at a luxury hotel in Doha ahead of the meeting. Also on hand was Rus-sia, another of the world’s top oil producers. The U.S., now a major producer because of shale oil, did not attend.
At least 15 oil-producing nations representing about 73 percent of world output were expected at the Doha meeting, Qatar’s energy and industry minister, Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, has said.
The gathering follows a surprise Doha meeting in February between Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, in which they pledged to cap their crude output at Janu-ary levels if other producers do the same.
They hope the cap will help global oil prices rebound from their dramatic fall since the summer of 2014, when prices were above $100 a barrel, though no one is talking seriously about the more dramatic step of cutting production.
Prices dropped briefly under $30 a barrel, a 12-year low, in January, but have climbed to the mid-$40s this week, boosted in part by market speculation about the Qatar meet-ing. Western markets were closed Sunday and not immediately af-fected by the discussions.
Iran decided to stay home late Saturday after saying the day before it would send an emissary to the meeting.
“We reached the conclusion that the Doha meeting is for those who want to sign the oil freeze plans, and if we wanted to have a representa-tive at the meeting, it was to show our support of this project,” Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said, according to a report by the ministry’s SHANA news agency.
“But since Iran is not going to sign this, there is no need for the presence of Iran’s representative at the meeting.”
With many international sanc-tions lifted under its nuclear deal with world powers, Iran began ex-porting oil into the European market
again and is eager to claw back a market share. It produces 3.2 mil-lion barrels of oil a day now, with hopes of increasing to 4 million by April 2017. On Friday, the Iranian Oil Ministry reiterated it would not join a freeze “before it brings its oil exports to the pre-sanctions levels.”
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has said it won’t back any freeze if Iran, its Shiite rival, doesn’t agree to it, throwing into question whether any deal will be reached. The kingdom seems determined to ride out the low prices that could squeeze Tehran.
That dispute underscores the level of discord inside OPEC as it faces arguably its biggest challenge since the oil glut of the 1980s. Even if officials reach a deal, Iran’s pro-duction and oil from other sources, like the U.S., could keep prices down.
The meeting broke up just before 11 a.m. as attendees planned to meet with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said Kabalan Abisaab, Ecuador’s ambassador to Qatar, who was on hand for the meeting. Abisaab said participants would return to the meeting in the afternoon and continue their delib-erations. (ap)
Finance leaders pledge effort to boost global growth
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From left, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei, and China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, talk at the G-20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governors group photo, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Russian Energy Minister Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, center, arrives at an oil-producers’ meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Oil-producing countries are meeting in Qatar to discuss a possible freeze of production to counter low global prices, but Iran’s last-minute decision to stay home could dilute the impact of any agreement.
Oil producers meet in Qatar to discuss cap, Iran absent
DOHA — Oil-producing countries met Sunday in Qatar to discuss a possible freeze of production to counter low global prices, but Iran’s last-minute decision to stay home could dilute the impact of any agreement.
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Jakarta - Chairman of the Supreme Audit Board (BPK) Harry Azhar Azis clarified to the taxation directorate general issue over his named being mentioned in the leaked Panama Papers on Friday.
The leaked Panama Papers exposed holders of thousands of hidden bank accounts implicating
many politicians and business leaders internationally.
The names of many Indonesian were mentioned in the docu-ments suspected of bank fraud, tax evasion and other financial scandals.
Harry was summoned to make clarification denying tax evasion or any activities against the law
by his company operating in Hong Kong.
Harry acknowledged having a company in Hong Kong in 2010 but he said he already sold it in December, 2015.
“It is nothing to do with BPK reports of Sumber Waras Hopi-tal,” he said referring to acquisi-tion of the hospital by the Jakarta
governor at a price allegedly much higher than the market price causing a loss of Rp191 billion to the state.
BPK report lead to the Cor-ruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoning Jakarta Gover-nor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok to make clarification.
Ahok, who is known as a clean
man, denied wrong doing and ac-cused BPK leader of seeking to damage his reputation ahead of election for new governor of the city next year.
Harry, the former polititian of Golkar party, said his company was only registered in Hong Kong but it had made no transac-tions and asset. (ant)
“The exchange of fire between Santoso members and the security officers two weeks ago cut off the logistics distribution lanes of the San-toso group,” Tito said after a ceremony held to observe the anniversary of the Armys Special Strike Forces (Kopas-sus) here Saturday.
His men also arrested two members of the Santoro group who emerged from their hideouts to look for logis-tics, he said. The number of Santoso group has been reduced from 41 to 27 now, which includes two women, the BNPT predicted.
During the armys operation, the lo-cal people also took part and supported the operations, Tito said.
“We are supported by the people, as the people do not support them,” the BNPT chief said.
The Indonesian National Police will also provide a bonus to its person-nel who are able to arrest Santoso, he said. Quoting Police Chief Badrodin Haitis statement, Tito added that the
bonus would be given in the form of extraordinary rank promotion or scholarship.
“The bonus will be provided to arouse the spirit of personnel assigned there,” he said.
In order to arrest members of the Santoso group in Poso, the govern-ment has launched an operation with a special task force called the Tanom-bala task force. The Tinombala task force team arrested two more alleged members of the Eastern Indonesia Mu-jahidin terrorist group under Santoso or Abu Wardah in Central Sulawesi, police said.
The two men, identified as IB alias AM alias ID (21), who joined the group in 2013, and SH alias Faqih (19), who joined it in 2015, were ar-rested near Poso Friday, police spokes-man Brig. Gen. Agus Rianto said here Saturday.
The two arrests brought the number of the group members to 16 killed and arrested under the Tinombala opera-
tions by the police and the military.Ten members of the eastern Indone-
sia Mujahiddin Group had been killed and four others were arrested by the security forces in Central Sulawesi, police said earlier.
“Four of them were caught alive while 10 others died,” the chief of the Central Sulawesi Police Brig. Gen, Rudy Sufahriadi said in Poso Friday.
The arrest of the two suspected terrorists coincided with the arrival in Poso of police chief Badrodin Haiti, chief of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT), Com. Gen. Tito Karnavian, and chief of the police Mobile Brigade Insp. Gen. Murad Ismail.
The three held a meeting with Brig. Gen. Rudy Sufahriadi and district military commander Col. Muhammad Saleh Mustafa and district police chief, Adj. Sen. Comr. Ronny to discuss the security situation in the region.
The Tinombala operation involving 2,500 military and police personnel was formed in January 2016, after strict orders of President Joko Widodo to wipe out the terrorist group, which had made Poso a security threat for years. (ant)
Jakarta - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and members of the National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN) held a discussion on the countrys industrial growth here, Friday.
“The key point is how we can work together to boost economic growth in future,” Minister of Industry Saleh Husin stated at the presidential office following the meeting between President Jokowi and KEIN leaders and members.
Minister Husin noted that during the meeting, the president was accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, Trade Minister Thomas Lembong, Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, and Chairman of the Investment Coordinating Board Franky Sibarani.
KEIN Chairman Sutrisno Bachir affirmed that his committee will continue to offer strategic inputs related to economic and industrial fields to the government.
Indonesia is now experiencing sluggish industrial growth. There-fore, the government needs to boost the production of goods having added value, Bachir remarked.
“We are now aware of the global economic slowdown. Without industrialization and merely selling raw materials, we will be left behind,” he pointed out.
Bachir urged the Indonesian people to use domestic products to help boost local industrial growth.
“We should take a cue from the citizens of other countries, such as Japan, Korea, and India, who harbor a high sense of nationalism and always love their domestic products,” he added. (ant)
BPK chairman clarifies issue over name in leaked Panama Papers
President Jokowi, KEIN leaders discuss indonesia`s industrial growth
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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) with members of the National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN) held a discussion on the country`s industrial growth here in Jakarta.
Head of the National Counter-terrorism
Agency (BNPT) Tito Karnavian
Santoso terrorist group running out of logistics: Agency
Jakarta - Head of the National Counter-terrorism Agency (BNPT) Tito Karnavian said Santosos terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi, is running out of logistics and is now becom-ing weaker and weaker.
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CASPER - Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Ted Cruz won all 14 delegates at stake on Saturday in Wyoming, besting rival Donald Trump, who made little effort to win the rural state, and further nar-rowing the gap in the race for the party’s nomination.
Cruz is trying to prevent Trump from obtaining the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination at the July convention in Cleveland. By continuing to rack up small wins, Cruz is gaining ground on the New York real estate mogul, who has thus far failed to shift his focus on the local-level campaigning necessary to win delegates.
Trump has been critical of the process, again on Saturday calling it “rigged” while speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York. He has repeatedly complained about Colorado, which awarded all 34 of its delegates to Cruz despite not holding a popular vote.
Trump said his supporters are becoming increasingly angry with states such as Wyoming and Colorado.
“They’re going nuts out there; they’re angry,” Trump said in Syra-cuse. “The bosses took away their vote, and I wasn’t going to send big teams of people three, four months ago, have them out there.”
While Trump has won 21 state nominating contests to Cruz’s 10, the billionaire leads the Texas senator by only 196 delegates (755-559). That means he must win nearly 60 percent of those remaining before the party’s political convention in July.
Wyoming does not hold a primary vote. Instead, 475 party activists convened in Casper on Saturday to hold a state convention and award 14 delegates.
Previously, 12 other delegates had been designated at county-level conventions. Cruz won 10 of those, with one going to Trump and another being elected as “unbound.”
Cruz spoke at the convention, capping off a months-long effort to organize support in the state. Trump had originally planned to send former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who remains popular among conservatives, as a surrogate, but she canceled at the last minute.
Cruz spoke about local issues in Wyoming, the largest coal-pro-ducing state. He discussed the Democratic “attack” on the fossil fuel, saying President Barack Obama has tried to put the coal industry out of business through government regulations targeting air pollution. (rtr)
The political crisis, which comes amid Brazil’s worst recession since the 1930s, has deeply divided the South American country and sparked an acrimonious fight be-tween Rousseff and her Vice Presi-dent Michel Temer, who would take over if she is dismissed.
In a frenzied round of last minute deal-making on Saturday, Rousseff appeared to have clawed back the votes of some wavering lawmakers but still appeared to lack the one-third of votes needed in the 513-seat lower house to avoid being sent for trial in the Senate.
Rousseff’s charismatic predeces-sor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, led the deal-making to keep her in of-fice and drafted in governors from several states to pressure legislators on Saturday, swinging the momen-tum back in Rousseff’s favour.
“The governors’ participation is proving decisive,” said Paulo Teix-eira, one of the Workers’ Party’s leaders in the lower house.
Thousands of police were due to deploy in the capital Brasilia on Sunday, and in the mega-cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where hundreds of thousands of
pro- and anti-impeachment dem-onstrators were expected to take to the streets.
A 2-metre (6.5-foot) high wall outside Congress, stretching for more than 1 km (0.6 of a mile) on the grassy esplanade between rows of ministries, showed the stark politi-cal divide in what remains one of the world’s most unequal societies.
Polls suggest that more than 60 percent of Brazil’s 200 million people support impeaching Rous-seff, whose inner circle has been tainted by a vast corruption scandal at state oil company Petrobras.
The Workers Party, however, can still rely on strong support among millions of working class Brazilians, who credit its welfare programmes with pulling their families out of pov-erty during the last decade. (rtr)
MADRID - The health authority of the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia says more than 670 people have been affect-ed by an outbreak of gastroenteritis linked to bottled water. The authority said on its
official Twitter account that, as of Saturday, 678 people had been treated for symptoms including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and high fever.
Catalonia’s regional health agency said in
a statement that bottles of water have been withdrawn from retail outlets and scientific samples are being taken from bottling plants and distributors to determine the source of the outbreak. It did not name the company.
The bottled water company Grupo Eden Springs, however, said in a statement it had withdrawn pallets of bottled water that came from its source in Font d’Arinsal, near Barcelona. (ap)
Water-born gastroenteritis outbreak in Spain affects 670
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Congressmen demonstrate against President of the Chamber of Deputies Cunha during a session to review the request for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, Brazil April 16, 2016. The banner read “Cunha Out”.
Congress to vote on impeaching Rousseff in divided Brazil
BRASILIA - Brazil’s lower house of Congress will decide on Sunday whether to recommend impeaching President Dilma Rousseff on charges of manipulating budgetary accounts, in a vote that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.
Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz plays a game of foosball before a campaign event in Syracuse, New York April 15, 2016.
DENPASAR- The development of education is considered very suitable to be carried out in North Bali, particularly in Buleleng dis-trict. The conditions are adequately representative when compared to South Bali affected by the frenetic tourism. Students and pupils will be able to learn with a better con-centration amid such a favorable atmosphere.
“On that account, we in the pro-vincial government want to design the northern region for students, both from Bali and from all over Indonesia. At least, it can become a university destination for students from the Eastern part of Indone-sia,” said Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, when receiving the audience of the rector of the Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, Dr. I Nyo-man Jampel, at his office, Friday (Apr. 15).
Pastika added that the north-ern region does not only include Buleleng but also Karangasem and Bangli. Moreover, his government is preparing the development of Bali Mandara vocational school in Karangasem and Bangli. “Hope-fully, more and more poor children could go to school,” he added.
Especially for Undiksha, Pastika expected this state university in Buleleng can yield educators with character that really understand about the essence of educating. He also appreciated the achieve-
ment of Undiksha within the past few years believed to have been able to compete in the national level and has been aligned with na-tional prestigious universities like the University of Indonesia (UI), Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and University of Airlangga (UNAIR).
Pastika considered the measure of Undiksha to open the Faculty of Medicine positive because the de-mand for doctors in Bali cannot be met. On that account, he promised to help the process by making coor-dination with the Director General of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Culture. “I will check and endeavor. Besides, I will try to talk to the Ministry of Health,” he said.
In the meantime, Rector I Nyo-man Jampel said that the current plan to establish a Faculty Medicine at the Undiksha is still waiting for a permit from the Ministry of Educa-tion and Culture.
The help of the governor is ex-pected to accelerate the issuance of the permit. The opening of the Faculty of Medicine, belonging to a non-education course, will be able to add more majors of option for students wishing to study in Bali. “Indeed, the demand for the Faculty of Medicine in Bali is very much. We want that more and more young people of Bali can study medicine,” he added. (kmb32)
Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, Ngakan Made Kutha Parwata, admitted that canang merchants are rampantly found lately. However, in the transaction process, the matter of location is frequently overlooked. Actually it is considered to af-fect the sanctity of the oblations. Therefore, it is required a preven-tive measures to arrange it. “With the PHDI, we have an initiative to arrange the canang merchants and would like to provide insight on the sacred goal of the oblation,’ he said.
Arrangement of the merchants
will be further coordinated with the Trade and Industry Agency and other stakeholders. Obviously, this measure needs to get agreement from the merchants. “This measure will be coordinated with relevant agencies,” said Parwata.
Chairman of the PHDI Ban-gli, I Nyoman Sukra, in his speech stressed to the merchants of canang and other ritual means not to only pursue profits. They must increase the understanding on the ethics and procedures for the making and selling of canang as well as the sanctity maintenance as it will be presented to God. “Sanctity of the
canang must be maintained. Do not let the merchant sell it on sidewalk and the inappropriate environment that even tarnishes the sanctity,” he said while adding that when selling canang the merchants should put on medium traditional attires.
The interactive dialogue was also attended by the Head of the In-dustry and Trade Agency I Nengah Sudibia, Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives I Komang Carles and a number of legislators such as I Nengah Darsana, Dewa Gede Oka, Wayan Jamin, Ketut Kariyasa and others. (kmb45)
TABANAN - National examina-tion (UN) no longer becomes a scary thing determining the graduation of students of final grade in the middle school. This happens because the Ministry of Education and Culture has changed the rules of the national ex-amination implementation. Although it no longer absolutely determines the graduation, schools are still expected to show their honesty integrity related to the scores obtained by learners. “Since the graduation is set by school authority, do not then commit cheating in any way to get the whole learners pass. This is not true,” said the Head of the Tabanan Education Agency, Putu Santika.
He said that, for the Tabanan district
his agency always insisted that schools can demonstrate their honesty integrity in the implementation of education. In this case, the education agency merely suggests because the execution is entirely by school. “Moreover, we are working to form a golden generation. If there is no honesty from the begin-ning, how will the golden generation be realized?” he asked.
Besides, Santika assessed the cur-rent national exam policy has been appropriate. When associated with the Law No.19/2005 on the national education standard, it is mandated that it is the education unit determining the graduation. “This means that current education system is not weak but bet-ter,” he said.
Related to fraud remaining to be found even though the national exam is no longer become primary bench-mark of requirement in the students’ graduation, this official from Gubug Tabanan recognized that everything is back to the character and culture of the students and teachers. Undeniably, the elements of education are still found cheating just to maintain the school reputation in the community because their students are graduating with dis-tinction. “They do not realize if this continues the students concerned will be difficult to keep learning at the next education level because so far their scores are always marked up. It would be better if the integrity of honesty is preferred to produce the really genuine quality,” he advised.
In Tabanan, he admitted there are no reports or findings of the ombuds-man during the implementation of the national exam for high school and vocational school. Nevertheless, his agency will continue to improve the quality of education. Moreover, the computer-based national exam (UNBK) in Tabanan district has been implemented at four schools, namely the SMAN 2 Tabanan high school and the SMKN 1, 2 and 3 Tabanan vocational schools. “The junior high school is not ready yet, but we will continue to encourage so that at least next year we can implement the computer-based national exam,” he concluded. (kmb)
Keep sanctity of canang, location of merchants to be arranged
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The sales of canang (oblation) particularly at the Kidul Mar-ket Bangli are still carried out at any place by a number of merchants.
BANGLI - The sales of canang (oblation) particularly at the Kidul Market Bangli are still carried out at any place by a number of merchants. As a result, it is considered to affect the sanctity of the oblation. It was highlighted by the legislators of the Bangli House of Representa-tives in the interactive dialogue with the canang merchants at the office of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) Bangli, Saturday (Apr. 16).
North Bali to be designed for students
Not absolutely determine graduationCurrent system of national exam
considered the most correct
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National examination (UN) no longer becomes a scary thing deter-mining the graduation of students of final grade in the middle school. This happens because the Ministry of Education and Culture has changed the rules of the national examination implementation.
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William and Kate sat side by side on the same bench where his late mother was photographed on a solitary visit in 1992.
Kate wore a slimline white dress with a navy pattern by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan, while William braved intense af-
ternoon heat in a blazer and open-necked shirt.
The Duke and Duchess of Cam-bridge were rounding off a tour in which they met another glamorous young royal couple, the king and queen of Bhutan, and saw rhinos and elephants in a national park in
Assam.The final stop at the Taj Mahal
was an emotional one for William, who was 15 when Diana died in a car crash in 1997. He has often spoken of how much he misses his mother, and that he thinks of her every day.
Diana’s solo visit to the 17th-century mausoleum - built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife - came to symbolise her unhappy
marriage to Prince Charles.The couple separated months
later.Three of the Taj Mahal’s four
minarets were swathed in scaf-folding for repairs. Still, images of William and Kate sitting before the onion-domed monument, its ivory coloured marble translucent in the afternoon sunshine, were striking.
Asked about her impression of the Taj Mahal, Kate could be heard saying over the clatter of camera
shutters: “It’s really stunning.”It was raining earlier in the day
when the couple flew out of Bhu-tan’s only international airport, a day after they trekked to a Buddhist monastery 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) up a mountain.
They landed in Agra in after-nooon temperatures that reached 41 degrees Celsius (105.8F). Much of India is suffering a heatwave and severe drought after two years of failed monsoon rains. (rtr)
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Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, April 16, 2016.
In Princess Diana’s footsteps, William and Kate visit Taj Mahal
AGRA - Where Princess Diana went alone, her son Prince William visited the Taj Mahal with his wife Kate on Saturday, bringing the British royal couple’s week-long South Asian tour to a poignant close. “Not to mention, there are also
necessities of hospitals being under construction,” said Chairman of the Indonesia Nurses Association (PPNI) Bali, Dewa Agung Ketut Sudarsana, Friday (Apr. 15). In the meantime, the graduate of nurse each year approximately reaches 1,100 people. So, he said that Bali
still needs a large number of nurses. “Thus, nurses should not only be oriented to be civil servants, but also as job creator through indepen-dent practice, home care, et cetera, and this is in accordance with the Law No.38/2014 on the practice of nurse,” he said.
Minister of Health, Nila F.
Moeloek, recently said that gradu-ate of nurses has been pretty much, so that the demands for nurses must be calculated. “We asked the PPNI to calculate the actual demand for nurses, both as the faculty and nurses really assisting at health care facilities and helping the community, so that the excess must be further discussed with the Higher Educa-tion,” she said.
Lack of nurses must be recruited. However, it is also required to make a mapping in advance. (kmb42)
MANGUPURA — The Na-tional Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali and National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) Badung performed urine tests for all the officials of Badung, Friday (Apr. 15). Other than civil servants, the regent, deputy regent and regional secretary also under-went the similar test.
The Head of the BNNP Bali, Putu Suastawa, said that the urine test was followed by hundreds of of-ficials in the Badung district. “From the data we have, the officials par-ticipating in the urine tests amount to 333 people,” he said.
According to him, the activities coupled with the dissemination about the hazards of drugs did not find any officials consuming drugs. “Entire results of the urine tests are negative to the elements of drugs,” he said.
Regent of Badung, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, ordered all the officials of echelon 2, echelon 3 and echelon 4 to participate in the test. “A leader must become an example and does not give an example,” he said.
This poses a commitment of the government of Badung in support-ing the drug eradication movement and supporting the tasks of the BNNP Bali and BNNK Badung.
Moreover, Giri Prasta also signed an integrity pact that if there are gov-ernment officials getting involved in drugs they will be given sanction of dismissal.
“We welcome this dissemination activity undertaken directly by the BNNP Bali in front of the civil servants in the government of the Badung district,” he said.
The activity, said this regent from Petang, is a concrete effort of the BNNP Bali to build synergy and connectivity with the local govern-ment and yield a generating cadre being free from drugs. “We are very much concerned that Indonesia is declared to be in drug emergency as directed by President Joko Widodo so that we need to take concrete measures,” he said.
Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Suiasa, also conveyed that the government of Badung wants to become a pioneer in the war against drugs. “We are in the administration of the Badung district must clearly and unequivocally declare a war against drugs,” he said.
To that end, all the ranks of the government of Badung from the leadership to the staff must be free from any drug elements,” he con-cluded. (kmb27)
Badung officials undergo urine testRegent to fire civil servants getting involved in drugs
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The National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) Bali and National Nar-cotics Agency (BNNK) Badung performed urine tests for all the officials of Badung, Friday (Apr. 15).
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The demand for nurses at 48 hospitals in Bali reaches 8,000 people, while 12,000 people for home care and 12,000 others are the demand from Japan.
Demand for 42,000 nurses, graduate only reaches 1,000
people per yearMANGUPURA — Nurses are still needed. The demand for
nurses at 48 hospitals in Bali reaches 8,000 people, while 12,000 people for home care and 12,000 others are the demand from Ja-pan. In addition, there are the demands from other sectors such as cabin crew, banking, hotel, police and the armed forces.
Convening of the bull race tradi-tion in Buleleng resembles to the tradition of using cattle or buffaloes in Madura and Jembrana. The bull race previously organized at the Kaliasem public square poses a tradition having a high value. A pair of bulls driven at the race track is supplied with vitamin or a special diet. “The bull race show is very unique treasures owned by Bule-leng,” he said.
The beauty of their appear-ance when running fast is embel-lished with ornament resembling a
ploughshare in the space between both bulls. It is used to control the bulls so that they will not run carelessly or ran out of the arena. “Ploughshare is generally used to plow paddy fields and then used as a recreational tool in competitions. Normally farmers use it to loosen their soil,” said Sutrisna, the former Head of the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.
He explained that cow’s head is usually decorated with ornaments and small flags of various sizes. Then, the crown-like head orna-ment is painted with golden color to increase the appeal. Besides, it is also equipped with cow bell so as to generate melodious sound
when running in combination with the sound of baleganjur gamelan music presented by the art troupe at the square side. “When running, the head and tail of both bulls are stand-ing upright where it is rated high by the jury. The four pairs of bulls’ legs go hand in hand neatly and then they are whipped to make run faster. After the race, many travelers try to ride and pamper their curiosity,” he said. (kmb34)
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KUTA – Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach is happy to reveala number of dishes from its new menu, cre-ated and tested by Jamie, his mentor and partner Gennaro Contaldo and their talented team of chefs. As always, everything on the menu is produce-driven, with a focus on using high quality ingredients throughout and going local when-ever possible.
Start your meal off with our new menu to share with the table, Italian family style. Try the spicy Meatball Bruschetta, beef & fennel meatballs in a fiery ‘nduja tomato sauce with lemony rocket and Parmesan or Garlic &Chilli Prawns, cooked in their shells with chilli, garlic but-ter & Ciabatta served with baked garlic buns.
The Jamie’s Italian chefs are also making a new delicious Italian farm sausage; herby beef and fennel sausage served grilled on a skewer with crispy pancetta on sweet and sour peppers. New on our list of artisan pizzas is the mouth-watering Fiorentina with Bianco base, lem-ony ricotta, sprouting green, free-range eggs and Parmesan.
Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach continues to listen to the guests’ feedback and with this in mind has made pricing of pizza and pasta dishes more affordable and increas-ing our pizza selection.
On the drinks side of the menu there is the addition of new juice blends, again at an affordable price, and juiced to order: Clean & Green Juice (apple, celery &ginger), Beet the Blues Juice (carrot, celery &beetroot) and the Orange Ginger Juice (orange, apple & ginger). There’s also the silky Bananaberry
smoothie, great for smaller guests as well as bigger ones and great for rehydrating on a hot day.
Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach,for the first time,has introduced some non-Italian wines. The list is small but comprehensive with something to suit every palate and budget, from the smooth and elegant ‘Drylands Pinot Noir’ from Marlborough, New Zealandto lighter whites like the Australian ‘Artisan Sauvignon Blanc.’
The team invites guests to come in, relax and enjoya couple of new non-alcoholic cocktails too – the zesty Ginger Twist and especially for our Australian friends the homemade Lemonade & Lime Bitters – in the fantastic ambience and convenient location of Kuta Beach.
In charge of maintaining the high quality you’d expect from a Ja-mie Oliver restaurant is Head Chef Alex Barman. Hailing from Wales, UK, he has been with Jamie’s Ital-ian for seven years, and is hugely passionate about the brand’s ethos of making fresh food prepared from scratch available for the masses. Having worked in kitchens since
he was 16, his wealth of experience belies his tender young age of 28, and prior tocoming to Bali to head up the first Indonesian operation, he led the kitchen brigade in the highly successful Jamie’s Italian VivoC-ity in Singapore. Alex continues to inspire his team and work with gorgeous Balinese ingredients like fresh local fish and locally grown vegetables sourced from the Bali-nese markets.
Brunch at Jamie’s Italian Kuta Beach is coming your way on Saturdays and Sundays! Brunch hours will be from 9 am – 12 pm. Here is a little sneak peak at some new menu items coming soon;Full Monty Breakfast, Steak ‘n’ eggs and fluffy American Style Pan-cakes. Stay tuned for more fantastic and rustic dishes!
The public can get updates and exclusive content on Jamie’s Ital-ian Kuta Beach on its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ja-miesitalianbali. Those looking for an opportunity to break into the world of good food and interested in joining the epic Jamie’s Italian family should apply through www.jamiesitalian.co.id.
The tradition of bull races (sapi gerumbun-gan) has an attraction
to local and foreign travelers in Buleleng.
The pecalang (customary security guard) fashion contest involved the cooperation of the DenPost daily newspaper, customary village
middle assembly (MMDP), Radio Singaraja 92.0 FM, Public Relations and Protocol of Buleleng District, Buleleng Police along with the 1609 /
Buleleng Military District. All the participants of the pecalang fashion contest looked so enthusi-astic and vibrant in following the race.
Chairman of the contest committee, Gede Bob Suardika, said that it is meant to build synergy with the government as well as to enliven the 412th anniversary of Singaraja. He considered that it supports the role of pecalang and is capable of uniting perception among the
pecalang personnel in Buleleng. At the same time, it enables them to combine and integrate the appropriate attributes contained in rules of the MMDP Bali. The entire personnel of pecalang can be more organized and solid in carrying out their customary tasks in the future. “The presence of pecalang becomes the frontline of customary security in their territory. Identity is showed while remaining to maintain security and order. They simultaneously promote the norms of courtesy and hospitality,” he said, Saturday (Apr. 16).
Deputy Regent of Buleleng, I Nyoman Sutjidra, appreciated to the pecalang fashion contest becoming the first one to be held in Bali. The criteria of jury panel can certainly be used as guidance of pecalang fashion in Buleleng for the uniformity. “Under the direction of the regent of Buleleng, later the whole pecalang personnel in Buleleng will receive training from police institution in order that they know very well about security tasks,” he said.
Agus Astapa, a member of jury panel from the element of MUDP Bali, assessed that the criteria used for the assessment in the contest is in accordance the ethical rules of pecalang having been decided by MUDP Bali. It determines that standard costumes of pecalang include white shirt, black vest, red headdress, checkered sarong and black lower sarong. “That is the basis of clothing. Most importantly, pecalang is carrying a kris dag-ger as a characteristic of Balinese culture,” he concluded. (kmb)
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Cultural preservation through pecalang fashion contest
Adult men competed cre-atively in the Buleleng-wide Pecalang Fashion Contest in a series of the 412th anniversary of Singaraja.
SINGARAJA — Appearance of diverse fashion models on the stage has become a common sight. But this one is really unique. It is a cultural preservation showed by 53 couples in the Gde Manik Cultural Hall of Singaraja. Adult men competed creatively in the Buleleng-wide Pecalang Fashion Contest in a series of the 412th anniversary of Singaraja.
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WASHINGTON - Musicians Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Common, Janelle Monae and others met Friday with Presi-dent Barack Obama to discuss ways to continue the administration’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative and spur criminal justice reform in the United States.
The musicians who met with Obama have been working on ef-forts to help younger generations of blacks and other minorities stay on the right path. The roster also included Ludacris, Chance the Rapper, J. Cole, Wale and DJ Khaled.
Keys in February pushed for House Speaker Paul Ryan to have the House move on criminal justice overhaul through a flirty Valentine video. Monae has pushed for voter registration; Common has publicly supported the private-sector ef-forts of My Brother’s Keeper; and Ludacris has started a foundation to foster economic development and teach leadership and education skills to young people.
The meeting at the White House
complex Friday afternoon was not announced by the administration, but was confirmed to The Associ-ated Press. Obama was joined at the meeting by Broderick Johnson, chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, businesses, foundations and community groups coordinate investments to come up with or support programs that help keep young people out of the criminal justice system and improve their access to higher education. The president initiated the program in February 2014 to try to help reverse some of the challenges facing black, Hispanic and Native American boys and young men.
So far, private investors includ-ing foundations and businesses have committed more than $500 million in grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in financing through community banks, including in-vestments in schools, mentoring programs, juvenile justice reforms and school redesign. (ap)
No one in the audience Thursday night knew quite what to expect from Taylor. This was only his fourth public performance in the past four years, the last a brief solo at the June 2015 funeral of Ornette Coleman, who along with Taylor revolution-ized jazz by launching the free-jazz movement in the late ‘50s.
But though frail in body, Taylor was strong in spirit. Once his hands touched the keyboard, he again displayed his orchestral approach and commanding virtuosity, with percussive flurries, sudden changes in loud-soft dynamics and dancer-like leaps across the octaves.
After the performance, Jason Moran, a leading contemporary jazz pianist who was in the audience, said he was impressed with just how much ferocity, integrity, pacing and care Taylor showed.
“With Cecil, it’s like all of a sud-den the years peel away,” said Mo-ran, who considers Taylor one of his main influences. “That’s the elixir of the music. .. When musicians get really excited about an idea, it gives them that much energy.”
The performance opened an exhibition titled “Open Plan: Cecil Taylor,” running until April 24.
Taylor performed with two long-time collaborators, Britain’s Tony Oxley on electronics rather than his usual drum kit and Japanese modern dancer Min Tanaka. The energy from Taylor’s piano flowed to Tanaka who moved around the room, shifting from graceful slow-motion movements to frenetic gestures in response to the music. As the music subsided, he waved his arms around Taylor before settling into repose.
It was an appropriate opening for an exhibition celebrating not only Taylor’s music, but also his deep connection to dance, poetry and other art forms.
“I want people to understand why this person who is truly a maverick is an utterly important 20th-century artist,” said the Whitney’s Jay Sand-ers, who co-curated the exhibit with Lawrence Kumpf, artistic director of the Brooklyn-based Issue Project Room. “We want to bring his past forward in the present.”
Though Taylor eschews revisit-
ing his past, the exhibition includes audio and video listening stations, offering music dating back to his 1956 debut album “Jazz Advance.”
On display are album covers and concert posters, scores with his personalized notation system, and hand-written pages from journals of unpublished poems.
The scheduled events include performances by past Taylor col-laborators and film screenings.
The curators hope the Whitney experience will encourage Taylor to perform. The pianist went through a rough patch when his one-time friend and contractor was sentenced to prison for stealing most of the $500,000 he received by winning the prestigious Kyoto Prize in 2013.
Taylor, who has a long association with the Whitney, has been com-ing to the museum’s new building several times a month to practice on a baby grand piano in the private trustee room.
It’s not known whether Taylor will play again during the exhibition, but he did give an unannounced per-formance Thursday night after the trio’s set with an octet he called The New Unit, including spoken word artist Jane Grenier Balgochian and saxophonists Harri Sjostrom, Elliott Levin and Bobby Zankel. (ap)
In this April 14, 2016 photo, pianist Cecil Taylor, 87, who revolutionized jazz by launch-ing the free-jazz movement in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, performs in an unannounced second set at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, kicking off a 10-day exhibi-tion celebrating Taylor’s music as well as his deep connection to dance, poetry and other art forms.
Pianist Cecil Taylor makes triumphant comeback at Whitney
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NEW YORK — The visionary 87-year-old jazz pianist Cecil Taylor received a standing ovation as he walked slowly to the stage at the Whitney Museum of American Art, using a cane and holding his assistant’s arm.
Obama meets with musicians on My Brother’s Keeper
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In this March 23, 2016 file photo, singer Alicia Keys performs in Seattle. Musician Keys and others met with President Barack Obama to discuss ways they can continue the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative and spur criminal justice reform in the U.S.
SINGARAJA — The tradi-tion of bull races (sapi gerum-bungan) has an attraction to local and foreign travelers in Buleleng. By and large, it is presented at Kaliasem public
square, Banjar subdistrict. Appearance of the bull races is
often supported by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency in particular event.
The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that bull race has an appeal to foreign travelers. Moreover, they schedule their visit to North Bali if the government has an agenda to or-ganize such an event. The bulls in use have been treated specifically through a series of exercises. “Bull race indeed has an appeal and we will make further coordination with local customary villages. If needed and many lovers have interest in the bull races, we can organize it in the future,” said Sutrisna when confirmed on Saturday (Apr. 16).
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The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Ecuador’s Pacific coast and was felt hundreds of miles (km) away in the capital of Quito as well as in the large commercial city of Guayaquil, where rubble lay strewn in the streets and some buildings were cracked or partially collapsed. A bridge in the city collapsed on top of car, crushing it.
The earthquake was Ecuador’s worst in decades and officials said the death toll was likely to rise even higher as rescue teams headed into the hardest-hit areas.
“It was terrifying, we were all scared and we’re still out in the
streets because we’re worried about aftershocks,” said Guayaquil secu-rity guard Fernando Garcia. “Every-thing is damaged.”
A state of emergency was de-clared in six provinces.
The areas worst affected include Pedernales, which draws tourists with beaches lined with palm-trees and tropical thatch-hut restaurants, as well as nearby Cojimies.
“There are villages that are to-tally devastated,” Pedernales’ mayor, Gabriel Alcivar, said in a radio interview. “What happened here in Pedernales is catastrophic.”
Ramon Solorzano, 46, a car parts merchant in the city of Manta, said he was getting ready to leave the city with his family.
“Most people are out in the streets with backpacks on, heading for higher ground,” he said, speaking in a trembling voice via a WhatsApp phone call. “The streets are cracked. The power is out and phones are down.”
The quake struck at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), and was followed by 55 aftershocks.
President Rafael Correa declared a national emergency and cut short a trip to the Vatican to coordinate the rescue efforts.
“Everything can be rebuilt, but lost lives cannot be recovered, and that’s what hurts the most,” he told
Ecuador’s state television channel from Rome. “The material part is the least important, what is fundamental is guaranteeing human life.”
Parts of the capital were with-out power or telephone service for several hours, though the city government said that services were quickly restored and that there were no reports of casualties in the city.
The government described it as the worst quake in the country since 1979, when 600 people were killed and 20,000 injured, according to the United States Geological Survey.
A tsunami warning was lifted on Saturday night but coastal residents were encouraged to seek higher ground in case tides rise.
The OPEC nation’s oil produc-tion was not affected by the quake
but that the principal refinery of Es-meraldas, located near the epicenter, had been halted as a precaution.
Across the Pacific in Japan, a 7.3 magnitude tremor struck Kumamoto province early Saturday, killing at least 32 people, injuring about a thousand and causing widespread damage, in the second major quake to hit the island of Kyushu in just over 24 hours. The first, late on Thursday, killed nine. (rtr)
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People walk near a damaged house after an earthquake struck off the Pacific coast in Manta, Ecuador, April 16, 2016.
Powerful earthquake kills 77 in Ecuador
Head and tail of bull races stand while running fast
GUAYAQUIL - A powerful earthquake killed at least 77 people, injured hundreds more, ravaged coastal towns and sent residents fleeing for higher ground in Ecuador on Saturday night.
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