The two Koreas, which are divided and remain in a technical state of war, agreed to hold the fam- ily reunions for the first time since February last year after negotiating the end of a standoff at the military border in August. Participants, some as old as 88, were reunited at the resort of Mount Kumgang just north of the militarised border with children and spouses from whom they had been separated when the peninsula was divided at the end of the war. “Father, it’s me, your son,” Chae Hee-yang, 65, from the South told Chae Hoon-sik, 88, from the North, as they wept at their first meeting since the younger man was just a year old, according to a report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. Foreign news outlets were not allowed to cover the event. Families separated since the war have no means of communication and often do not know if relatives on the other side are surviving. In the first round of reunions starting Tuesday, 96 North Koreans and their families met about 390 people travelling from the South. The second round reunites about 190 North Koreans with 90 South Koreans and their families. The South Koreans, mostly elderly and some in wheelchairs, had gathered on Monday in the east coast city of Sokcho near the border for medical check-ups and a briefing on appropriate conduct while in the North. On Tuesday morning they board- ed buses to cross the border. The reunions, held in a ballroom at the Mount Kumgang resort, are watched by officials and media and include only two hours of private time before they end on Thursday. South Korean participants are advised to steer clear of a long list of topics, such as the North’s politi- cal leadership or living standards, to the frustration of some of the visitors. Page 6 16 Pages Number 210 7 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 Page 13 Wednesday, October 21, 2015 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. Page 8 Injured Bale criticised for putting Wales ahead of Real Bangladesh investigates alleged radical threat against media Son of late PM Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s new leader THE DESIRE of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources to make Bali a center of clean energy in Indonesia is not a new discourse. Previously, this has been revealed in the meeting between the Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta and the Acceleration Task Force of the Renewable Energy Development (P2EBT) of the Min- istry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Wiswasabha Building, June 18. At that time, the Task Force of the P2EBT, Reza Kusumaatmadja, said that the Bali clean energy development framework is divided into three tiers. They consist of grid energy in 2015-2016 (0-18 months), off grid energy in 2016-2017 (12-36 months), and future clean energy in 2017-2018 (next 6 months). The grid energy stage includes the development of geothermal energy at Bedugul. “One of the things that can be followed up like in terms of the improve- ment of communication is the Bedugul geothermal,” he said. Continue to page 2 Geothermal ... Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP South Korean Min Ho-shik, 84, center, hugs his North Korean family member Min Un Sik, right, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Korean families torn by war six decades ago rejoice in reunions SOKCHO, South Korea - Nearly 400 South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday to be reunited, in an outpouring of emotions and tears, with family members separated for more than six decades since the 1950- 53 Korean War. Bali serves as center of energy or revives geothermal energy?
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The two Koreas, which are divided and remain in a technical state of war, agreed to hold the fam-ily reunions for the first time since February last year after negotiating the end of a standoff at the military border in August.
Participants, some as old as 88, were reunited at the resort of Mount Kumgang just north of the militarised border with children and spouses from whom they had been separated when the peninsula was divided at the end of the war.
“Father, it’s me, your son,” Chae Hee-yang, 65, from the South told Chae Hoon-sik, 88, from the North, as they wept at their first meeting since the younger man was just a year old, according to a report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
Foreign news outlets were not allowed to cover the event.
Families separated since the war have no means of communication and often do not know if relatives on the other side are surviving.
In the first round of reunions starting Tuesday, 96 North Koreans and their families met about 390 people travelling from the South. The second round reunites about
190 North Koreans with 90 South Koreans and their families.
The South Koreans, mostly elderly and some in wheelchairs, had gathered on Monday in the east coast city of Sokcho near the border for medical check-ups and a briefing on appropriate conduct while in the North.
On Tuesday morning they board-ed buses to cross the border.
The reunions, held in a ballroom at the Mount Kumgang resort, are watched by officials and media and include only two hours of private time before they end on Thursday.
South Korean participants are advised to steer clear of a long list of topics, such as the North’s politi-cal leadership or living standards, to the frustration of some of the visitors.
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Injured Bale criticised for putting Wales ahead of Real
Bangladesh investigates alleged radical threat against media
Son of late PM Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s new leader
LOS ANGELES — Blake Shelton sued the tabloid magazine In Touch Weekly on Monday over a cover story claiming heavy drinking by the country music star contributed to his divorce from Miranda Lambert and that he was headed to rehab.
Shelton’s defamation lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeks more than $1 million in damages over the story that his lawyers say is false.
The lawsuit against In Touch pub-lisher, Bauer Publishing Co., contends the tabloid has repeatedly published false information about the singer and his breakup with Lambert.
“Blake Shelton has had enough,” the lawsuit begins before refuting claims made in the article and laying out the Grammy-nominated singer’s busy schedule. “Mr. Shelton is not in rehab and has no plans to go to rehab.”
An email sent to publicists for In Touch was not immediately returned.
The lawsuit points out that Shelton
continues to work as a judge on NBC’s “The Voice” and on an upcoming great-est hits album.
In Touch published the story in late September that alleged Shelton was drinking heavily and that his actions contributed to the end of his marriage to Lambert. It previously published a story claiming Shelton had cheated on Lambert and that contributed to their divorce.
The rehab cover story also pro-claimed that Shelton had hit “rock bottom.”
“To be clear: Mr. Shelton has not hit rock bottom,” the lawsuit states. It ac-cuses In Touch of publishing the story without reaching out to the singer’s lawyers or other representatives.
The lawsuit states Shelton, 39, has sought a retraction of the story but received no response.
In addition to monetary damages, Shelton is seeking an injunction that would prevent In Touch from repeating allegations in the disputed story. (ap)
Take pay equity, for instance, and the reality that worthy actresses sometimes make less than their male counterparts.
“It never changed. It’s always the same. It’s always the same like before, but not only in the movies. Even in life sometimes, unfortu-nately,” Loren said on the red carpet Monday night before the nonprofit Americans for the Arts honored her at its National Arts Awards.
Loren received the Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achieve-ment Award, presented to her by director and choreographer Rob
Marshall before a star-studded crowd that included Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga and artists Chuck Close and Jeff Koons.
Herbie Hancock and Gaga were also among the honorees, but it was Loren who stole hearts in a black evening gown, accompanied by son Edoardo Ponti and daughter-in-law Sasha Alexander.
At 81, Loren still works when the mood strikes. The word retirement is not in her vocabulary.
“That’s terrible, the word retire. Never,” she said. “We start always like it was the beginning of a long
career.”With the onslaught of technology
and the speed at which the world turns today, Loren said she enjoys embracing the “new” in life.
“Well I think you have to get accustomed to the new things that come out and try to run after them and try to be always living in a world that belongs to you, even though you have to learn many things more,” she explained.
What is Loren’s best advice for young actresses today?
“To take life seriously,” she said, “to do the right things and not to take life easily, as sometimes the girls, they do because they don’t have experience.”
She added: “They need good mothers, good parents.” (ap)
NEW YORK — A couple of big-time movie stars will be ap-pearing off-Broadway next fall when Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo star in a production of William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at New York Theatre Workshop.
Sam Gold, a Tony-winner for “Fun Home” will direct the trag-edy, with “Selma” star Oyelowo playing the title role and super spy 007 Craig as Iago. The show is slated for fall 2016 and addi-tional casting will be announced later.
Like Hamlet and Macbeth, Othello is a Shakespearean protag-onist driven mad by suspicion and fear. In the play, Othello’s trusted lieutenant spins a web to make him doubt his wife’s fidelity.
Craig plays James Bond in “Spectre” out next month and Oyelowo is next slated to co-star with Zoe Saldana in “Nina” about singer Nina Simone. (ap)
Sophia Loren: Retire? Never!NEW YORK — Some things about the film business have
changed for actresses in the more than five decades since So-phia Loren was first discovered, and some things have stayed exactly the same.
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Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo to star in ‘Othello’ in NYC
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THE DESIRE of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources to make Bali a center of clean energy in Indonesia
is not a new discourse. Previously, this has been
revealed in the meeting between the Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta and the Acceleration Task Force of the Renewable Energy Development (P2EBT) of the Min-istry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Wiswasabha Building, June 18.
At that time, the Task Force of the
P2EBT, Reza Kusumaatmadja, said that the Bali clean energy development framework is divided into three tiers. They consist of grid energy in 2015-2016 (0-18 months), off grid energy in 2016-2017 (12-36 months), and future clean energy in 2017-2018 (next 6 months). The grid energy stage includes
the development of geothermal energy at Bedugul. “One of the things that can be followed up like in terms of the improve-ment of communication is the Bedugul geothermal,” he said.
Continue to page 2Geothermal ...
Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP
South Korean Min Ho-shik, 84, center, hugs his North Korean family member Min Un Sik, right, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015.
Korean families torn by war six decades ago rejoice in reunions
SOKCHO, South Korea - Nearly 400 South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday to be reunited, in an outpouring of emotions and tears, with family members separated for more than six decades since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Bali serves as center of energy or revives geothermal energy?
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Green School boasts one of the most beautiful campuses imaginable. Located along the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, the island’s unique artistic and religious culture enriches the Green School learning experience. There are currently 360 Green School students from over 30 countries in Pre-K through to Grade 12. Boarding is also offered for students in Grades 6 and up. Since its founding, the school has been visited by many influential and prominent figures such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Dr. Jane Goodall. After his 2014 visit, Ki Moon described the school as “the most unique and impressive school I have ever visited.”
In 2012, Green School was awarded the “Greenest School on Earth” by U.S. Green Building Council. Rachel Gutter, director of Green Schools noted, “Green
School Bali possesses a deep, even spiri-tual connection with the community, and exists in perfect harmony with the earth it sits on.” In 2011, Green School partnered with renewable energy producer Akuo Energy to further their goal towards 100% sustainability. Akuo engineers and Green School community members worked to-gether to build a customized solar power project and Gravitational Water Vortex which both create sustainable energy for the school. The school also has an organic garden, aquatic systems, sustain-able waste and water usage systems, and a bird conservatory.
The school will open its campus on 23rd of October, 20th of November and 11th of December to prospective families to tour around the natural campus and have a lunch with the Admissions team.
Green School Bali opens its campus for Bali residents
MANGUPUrA - Green School Bali was founded in 2008 by John and Cynthia Hardy. As acclaimed jewelry designers and local residents of Bali for 30 years, they recognized a unique opportunity to create something truly inspiring and outside the structural, conceptual, and physical limitations of most traditional schools. Today, Green School aims are to be the number one model of sustain-ability in education through offering an unparalleled education which integrates traditional academics with experiential, hands-on learning. Staying true to the founders’ core values of celebrating and respecting Balinese culture, the school proudly supports a Local Scholar Programme which allows local Balinese and Indonesian children to experience a Green School education. It is the school’s long-term goal to have 20% local student enrolment.
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In addition to geothermal, on grid energy also includes the conversion of coal into diesel or gas (Pemaron power plant and Gilimanuk power plant), the development of new
power plant on the west and east, preparation of gas fuel station, and conversion of waste into energy at Suwung landfill. The development of Center of Excellence for renew-able energy in Bali is just planned at the stage of future clean energy.
In the same meeting, the Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudik-
erta spontaneously stated that geothermal should be implemented. Moreover, the matter of hampering permit has been overcome after the revision of Law No. 5/1990 on Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems.
“Indeed, it was formerly a conser-vation area that is not allowed to be
built. But to my knowledge, this law has been revised into the area that can be utilized. I have the time to read the revised law,” said Sudikerta.
He also mentioned that Balinese people actually do not reject the geothermal. Moreover, geother-mal energy is eco-friendly and can support Bali to be independent in terms of energy. “We expect the gas (eco-friendly energy—Ed) can be produced by the geothermal at Bedugul but it was stopped by a minority of NGOs in Bali. How-ever, people actually do not,” he explained.
Not long after, the Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika stated to be still consistent with previous stance that rejected geothermal. Other than currently having suf-ficient power supply, geothermal is also said to be incompatible with socio-cultural condition of Balinese people. Aside from impact on water discharge of the lake, it will also threaten the survival of Bali.
Chairman of the Bali Dwipa Care Forum, Gede Bangun Nusan-tara, stated that he saw something behind the declaration of Bali as the center for clean energy. Mainly it leads to geothermal energy, whereas it has been rejected by the people of Bali through the Bali House of Representatives and the Governor of Bali. Scientific studies also stated that the geothermal is not feasible.
“I really wonder whereas all
the studies have been disqualified and the people of Bali have denied why it insists on being resumed. What the hell is this? In terms of mountainward-seaward (nyegara-gunung) concept, obviously it will damage the upstream and down-stream of Bali,” he said.
Bangun added that mountains and the ocean are sacred areas for the Balinese Hindus whose sanctity must be preserved by distancing them from various exploits. Never revive the geothermal. Central government is better planning of re-newable energy such as power plant by ocean currents in Nusa Penida Strait or energy by windmill.
A member of Commission III of the Bali House of Representa-tives, Wayan Diesel Astawa, argued that Bali should have autonomy in terms of electricity. Eco-friendly energy alternatives like the geo-thermal should be designed from now. Do not fall asleep with the statement that Bali has a surplus of electricity.
“If it is said to be a sacred area or the upstream area, I have cross-checked it. There is no such presumption and the community even supports it. Though we are currently surplus of energy, in the context of the future, we still have to prepare. Must we wait for the surplus to run out, and we think about it after that? When blackout happens, people will complain because they must pay expensive electricity,” he said. (kmb13)
As the first step, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Governor of Bali have signed the MoU in July. The MoU is related to Bali as a pilot project or center of excellence for clean energy development in Indonesia. “We chose Bali because Bali is a destination visited by the com-munity from around the globe, not only from Indonesia. As a result, all good things happened can im-mediately be disseminated,” said Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Sudirman Said, after serving as keynote speaker in the Renewable Energy Forum in Nusa
Dua, Saturday (Oct. 17).Sudirman added that some steps
have been made towards Bali as the center for clean energy. It has been started by the PLN that gradually replaces fossil fuels with gas or steam and even with renewable energy. His institution has started to gather the best experts for the pur-poses of the center of excellence. It includes the cooperation with the Udayana University and similar institutions namely the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
“The experts include the natives to Indonesia and those of global community. Then, they build up
research and technological capabil-ity as well as facilitate the process of investment. Armed with that, the development of new energy be-comes integrated and the governor just now gave the message that it should not simply come to surface as idealism but must be feasible for commercial construction and we commit to get there,” he said.
Sudirman did not dismiss if the geothermal at Bedugul is also included in the development plan of clean energy in Bali. However, his institution has not designated who will become the investor. So far, it just makes the overall program as well as manages the roadmap. Moreover, the geother-mal still gets resistance from the people of Bali.
“The governor just now said that
in principle we must respect local wisdom and then we will come up with a concrete program,” he explained. The Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, said that so far the geothermal is deemed unsuitable by the people of Bali. Balinese people supports the Tri Mandala concept (vertical orienta-tion), where the mountain is con-sidered as the head.
“So, culturally it is impossible to drill the mountain as considered to be the head. Technically (the geothermal) may be possible, but culturally it is not, well ... we cannot do it. What is the use to get pinch of energy but we then destroy our culture and environment. Tri Hita Karana should not be contested, it is the fundamental if we want to survive,” he said.
Pastika added that much alter-native renewable energy can be developed. They are including the solar, wind, ocean currents to sea-weeds. Especially for sea currents, according to him, there has been a survey in Nusa Penida so has the energy of seaweeds having begun to be prepared in Bali.
“This year it has begun at the Ngurah Rai Airport with the instal-lation of solar panel producing 4 MW of energy, after that it will be resumed to governor’s office. We install the roof with solar panel and the energy is stored. In the morning, people will come with motorcycle and car to recharge their energy there. In the afternoon after leav-ing the office, the governor rides electric car, may not consume fuel,” he explained. (kmb32)
Bali as clean energy center
Governor assures there is no geothermalTHE Ministry of Energy and Mineral resources and the
government of Bali Province are committed to making Bali as the center for clean energy. In 2019, the clean energy must support almost 100 percent of Bali.
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Geothermal is said to be incompatible with socio-cultural condition of Balinese people. Aside from impact on water discharge of the lake, it will also threaten the survival of Bali.
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The iPhone maker made the an-nouncement a day after researchers discovered hundreds of apps using Chinese advertising software that extracts “personally identifiable user information.”
Apple confirmed that discovery Monday.
“We’ve identified a group of apps that are using a third-party
advertising SDK (software devel-opment kit), developed by Youmi, a mobile advertising provider, that... gather private information, such as user email addresses and device identifiers, and route data to its company server,” the California-based company said in a statement to AFP.
“This is a violation of our se-
curity and privacy guidelines. The apps using Youmi’s SDK will be removed from the App Store and any new apps submitted to the App Store using this SDK will be rejected.
“We are working closely with developers to help them get updated versions of their apps that are safe for customers and in compliance with our guidelines back in the App Store quickly.”
Apple does not allow third-party applications to share data about
a user without obtaining users’ permission, and it rejects apps that require users to share personal in-formation, such as email addresses or birth dates.
Researchers at the mobile analytics firm SourceDNA said Sunday they had discovered hun-dreds of apps that extract personal information, saying it was “the first time we’ve seen iOS apps successfully bypass the app re-view process.”
“But, based on what we learned,
it might not be the last.”The researchers said they found
256 apps with an estimated one million downloads that have a ver-sion of Youmi that violates user privacy.
“Most of the developers are located in China,” the researchers said in a blog post. “We believe the developers of these apps aren’t aware of this since the SDK is de-livered in binary form, obfuscated, and user info is uploaded to Youmi’s server.” (afp)
NEW YORK — Millions of Americans are getting new credit and debit cards with more secure chip technology, and that’s already leading to headaches for companies that rely on working cards to charge their customers every month.
Video and music streaming com-panies, dating websites, gyms and other subscription-based companies can take a hit when customers don’t update their accounts after receiv-ing a new card. It’s always been a hassle, but with millions of cards carrying the new chip technology being mailed out all at once it’s creating bigger problems.
Netflix this week said large num-bers of cards that weren’t updated were partly to blame for slower subscriber growth in their most recent quarter.
The video steaming site said Wednesday that an unusual number of accounts were cancelled during the three months that ended in Sep-tember. Netflix Inc., which has 69 million members around the world, expects the issue to continue into the next quarter as more new chip cards roll out.
With subscription services gain-ing in popularity, where customers have funds automatically with-drawn from checking accounts every month for a service, it has become increasingly noticeable
when people don’t update the cards that they use for those services, or are unaware that they need to.
Often, the number on the card is still the same, but the expira-tion date has changed, said Matt Schulz, a senior analyst at credit card comparison site CreditCards.com. Typically, payments won’t go through if the expiration date is different.
Recurly, a San Francisco com-pany that manages bill payments for more than 1,900 subscription businesses, said it has seen a slight increase in card declines. Recurly uses a service for its clients that au-tomatically updates when new card numbers are issued, so the customer doesn’t have to do it themselves, said CEO Dan Burkhart, though not every bank participates in the service. Burkhart said subscription companies will face some “turbu-lence” as customers get new cards, but those issues typically resolve within a few months.
The problem has hurt Netflix before.
A year ago, the Los Gatos, Cali-fornia, company said a number of customer’s accounts were put on hold due to The Home Depot data breach, which forced many cus-tomers who shopped at the home improvements store to get new credit cards. (ap)
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is trying to phase out passwords with an update to its mobile application for its email service.
The renovated app released Thursday for iPhones and Android devices will include an option called “Account Key” that allows people to sign into their email ac-counts by pressing on a notification sent to their smartphones instead of typing in a password.
Yahoo believes the new feature
will be more secure because most people rely on passwords that are easy for hackers to guess. Yahoo’s email users can still continue to type in a password if they prefer.
The Sunnyvale, California, com-pany wants to change the way Inter-net security works because Yahoo “is synonymous with the Internet in many countries,” said Jeff Bonforte, the company’s senior vice president of communication products. “We
always feel a burden of consumer protection.”
Although Yahoo email remains among the world’s most popular, it has been eclipsed in recent years by Google’s Gmail. Yahoo’s email had 190 million users in August, a 16 percent decline from the same time last year, according to the research firm comScore. Gmail boasted 411 million, a 5 percent increase.
The updated app also will make it possible to connect Yahoo email
with competing services from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL. The company hopes to make the app work with Gmail eventually, though it isn’t giving a timetable for making it happen.
An update to the Gmail app earlier this year allowed its users to connect with Yahoo email and Microsoft’s Outlook.com.
The app update is important to Yahoo Inc. because more than half of its email users primarily check
their messages on mobile devices. Email users also are an impor-tant source of traffic at Yahoo’s other major services, including sports, entertainment and finance that help sell the advertising that generates most of the company’s revenue.
Yahoo’s revenue has been declining or barely growing for years as advertisers pour more of their money into Google and Facebook. (ap)
Apple quashes apps that collect personal data
SAN FRANSISCO - Apple is kicking out applications that collect personal data in violation of the company’s privacy poli-cies from its online store, the tech giant said Monday.
Yahoo’s updated email app aims to kill the password
New technology in credit cards leads to headaches for some
AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
This Wednesday, June 10, 2015, file photo, shows a chip-based credit card, in Philadelphia.
Aside from the rapid develop-ment of the market and fashion trend, this woven fabric also in-creasingly evolves and the price is quite promising. In tourist areas, woven fabrics are frequently eyed by travelers. In addition to serving as a souvenir, this fabric with natu-ral shades is also used as fashion materials.
However, behind the high pros-pects offered, in fact, the fate of
this woven fabric craft is even threatened. It happens because the interest of younger generations to learn this household business is fading. Currently, more woven fabrics are worked on by the hands of the older generation over 35 years old. Similar condition is also experienced by the woven fabric business located at Jalan Sriwijaya 1 Bangli. Since a few years, this business is difficult to find work-
ers. “Now, it is very difficult to hire weavers. Young generation has little interest in this business,” explained the business owner, Ida Dewa AA Sukreni Anggreni.
She added, actually being a weaver is a beneficial provision for old age as it can be worked on at home. Similarly, the selling price is high enough. For instance, a piece of cotton woven fabric is sold for IDR 200,000 and silk woven fab-ric ranging from IDR 400,000 to IDR 500,000. “The selling price is very promising and market is never empty. Moreover, the circles of em-ployees often use this woven fabric,” she said when met directly.
In addition, younger generations
are reluctant to learn to weave because they consider the weaving process is complicated. However, when learning to weave seriously, it will only take you two days. “The most important thing is the intention. Apparently weaving is difficult. If it is learned, two days are enough,” she said.
To make this ancestral heritage survive, now Agung Anggreni inten-sively provides training, one of them is provided for the Bangli Disable School (SLB). “I hope that other schools can follow the measure of this Disable School,” she hoped.
Similar opinion was also ex-pressed by a weaver from Manuk hamlet, Susut, Nyoman Gari, 55. She considered the interest of
younger generations to weave has faded. Currently they tend to become consumer rather than pro-ducer. “Only few young generations are now willing to weave. Most of them prefer to buy,” she said.
In the meantime, the Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, justified that weaving activities are more en-gaged by old people. To stimulate the rise of interest in the younger generation, the village authority is also asked to participate. “We have made dissemination. Since the village receives funding from the government, we hope that it can be used to develop the weaving craft,” he said. (sos)
ThE Ministry of Tourism con-tinues to actively promote diving tourism of Indonesia considering the potential of diving tourism stretches from Sabang to Merauke. “We will hold a Diving Sales Mis-sion in Tokyo to attract Japanese travelers. It is the continuation of similar activity in Beijing,” said Deputy Foreign Tourism Marketing Development, Prof. I Gde Pitana.
According to Pitana, the Indone-
sian coastline is one of the longest in the world. Besides, Indonesia can offer endless diving tourist at-tractions. It is believed that marine tourism can contribute to foreign exchange four times more than the current amount. The sales mission is one of the main strategies of the Indonesian tourism marketing en-titled the Branding, Advertising and Selling (BAS). “This selling activ-ity is one of the measures taken by
the Ministry of Tourism to realize the target of 529,000 tourist arrivals from Japan,” said Pitana.
This target, said Pitana, is sup-ported by visa-free facility for Japa-nese travelers as having been set forth in the Presidential Regulation No.69/2015. “This year the Minis-try of Tourism targets 10 million tourist arrivals,” said Pitana.
Pitana said that Indonesia has a great potential for diving tourism.
Diving points spread from Weh Is-land in the west end to Raja Ampat in the eastern end. Between the two points, there are the Banda Islands, Bunaken, Wakatobi, Lembeh Strait, Alor Island, Togean, Gili Air, Ko-modo Island and Cendrawasih Bay that offer alluring underwater beauty. “Indonesia has numerous diving spots becoming the paradise for divers. The world even recognizes that Indonesia has some of the best
diving spots in the world,” he said.He added that visa-free policy
will open up more opportunities to gain foreign exchange and raise people’s income from tourism. “Interestingly the marine tourism has contributed 35 percent of total tourism activity in Indonesia,” he explained while adding that a total of 35 percent of Japanese travelers perform activities associated with the beach, including diving. (010)
To promote diving, Indonesia targets Japanese travelers
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The fate of this woven fabric craft is even threatened. It happens because the interest of younger generations to learn this household business is fading.
High value, people’s interest in learning to weave fades
BANGLI - Woven fabric is one of the traditional cultures of fabric produced in almost all the regions in Indonesia. This craft is meaningful as well as having historical value and high technique in terms of color, motif and type of materials used. Some regions make this woven product as their own regional pride and identity.
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The victory in Monday’s elec-tion by Trudeau’s Liberal Party was stunning. The Liberals were on a path to win at least 184 seats out of 338 - a parliamentary majority that will allow Trudeau to govern without relying on other parties. The Liberals received 39.5 percent of the overall vote compared to 32 percent for the Conservatives and 19.6 for the New Democrats.
Harper, one of the longest-serving Western leaders, will step down as Conservative leader, the party announced as the scope of its loss became apparent.
Trudeau’s victory could result in improved ties with the United States, at least for the remainder of Barack Obama’s presidency. Harper was frustrated by Obama’s reluctance to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas and clashed with the president on other issues, including the Iran
nuclear deal. Although Trudeau supports the Keystone pipeline, he argues relations should not hinge on the project.
Trudeau is the son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who swept to office in 1968 on a wave of support dubbed “Trudeauma-nia.” He was prime minister until 1984 with a short interruption and remains one of the few Canadian politicians known in America, his charisma often drawing compari-sons to John F. Kennedy.
Trudeau channels the star power — if not quite the political heft — of his father. Tall and trim, he is a former school teacher and member of Parliament since 2008. At 43, he becomes the second youngest prime minister in Canadian history and has been likened to Obama.
“Tonight Canada is becoming the country it was before,” Trudeau told a victory rally in Montreal.
Trudeau has re-energized the Liberal Party since its worst elec-toral defeat four years ago when they won just 34 seats and fin-ished third behind the tradition-ally weaker New Democrat Party. Trudeau promises to raise taxes on the rich and run deficits for three years to boost government spend-ing. He said positive politics led to his victory.
“We beat fear with hope,” Trudeau said. “We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vi-sion that brings Canadians together. Most of all we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less.”
Canada shifted to the center-right under Harper, who lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change legislation, and strongly supported the oil and gas extraction industry.
“The people are never wrong,” Harper told supporters in Calgary. “The disappointment is my respon-sibility and mine alone.” Harper said he had called Trudeau to con-gratulate him. (ap)
KUBINKA, Russia — A vast workshop that upgrades warplanes of the kind Russia is using in Syria is this town’s lifeblood, and support for the Syria campaign is strong.
“We’ve extended a helping hand and that’s how it should be,” said 70-year-old Tamara Vlasenko, a resident of the town 65 kilometers (40 miles) outside Moscow. “Those who started the conflict will pay handsomely, as they should.”
Like Vlasenko, more than 70 percent of Russians support Presi-dent Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin airstrikes, which Russia says are directed against the Islamic State extremist group, according to a poll from the independent Levada Center.
Although many Russians are still unsettled by the grisly and humiliating Soviet involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the new foreign military campaign doesn’t faze Kubinka’s people.
“I don’t think Syria will turn into another Afghanistan for Russia,” said Tatyana Okhapkina, 43, bounc-ing her 7-month-old granddaughter on her lap. “I’m not too worried it will affect my grandchildren, or even my children. I really believe in our president. He knows what he is doing.”
Only about 14 percent of Rus-
sians are against the airstrikes in Syria, according to the Levada Cen-ter poll, which was conducted Oct. 2-5 nationwide and has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
An opposition-organized protest against the Syria campaign on Sat-urday in Moscow attracted about 250 people. Among them was Al-exandra Bukvaryova, 29, who said she feared Syria would become a second Afghanistan.
“I am disappointed that so few people are here,” said Bukvaryova, who works for a non-governmental organization. “Because our people don’t understand that this will affect them. As it was said here (at the ral-ly), their children will die in Syria. And it is not clear for what.”
Russia’s aerial campaign in Syria has necessitated military-to-military dialogue between Russian and the Western coalition that is running a separate campaign against IS, while simultaneously driving a wedge between the two sides. The coalition, which includes the United States and France, has accused Russia, a longtime ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, of conducting “indiscriminate mili-tary operations against the Syrian opposition” under the pretext of eliminating terrorist threats in Syria. (ap)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 , a Sukhoi SU-27 jet of the aerobatics team Russian Knights approaches to land at Kubinka Air Base in Kubinka, 65 kilometers (40 miles) outside Moscow, Russia.
Russians support airstrikes in Syria, despite Afghan legacy
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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau makes his way to the stage with wife Sophie Gregoire at the Liberal party headquarters in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015.
Son of late PM Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s new leader
TORONTO — Canadian voters reclaimed their country’s liberal identity sending Justin Trudeau — the son of one of the country’s most dynamic politicians — to the prime minister’s office and ending nearly a decade of conservative leadership under Stephen Harper.
BANGLI - Facing the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in December 2015, a number of small and medium industries (SMIs) in Bangli are still experiencing capital difficulties and shortage of equipment. Actually, these two elements are essen-tial to support the development of the industry.
The Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, explained that the AEC program is a major challenge for the SMI sector. In Bangli, the number of SMIs reaches 10,691 units involving a total of 28,379 people. Most of them are still faced with limited capital. In addition, some industries are still short of supporting facilities. This leads to slower development of the industry. “Inevitably, the SMI sector is still constrained by capital and equipment. It’s a great challenge in the face of the AEC,” he said amid the industrial techni-cal guidance held at Penglipuran village, Monday (Oct. 19).
Sudibia delivered that to address this issue his institution can only facilitate the SMIs with financial institutions and the central government, in this case the Ministry of Industry. “If the SMI players need capital, we’ll make a proposal and then submit it to financial institution or the ministry,” he explained.
Related to equipment assistance, he said that it is very difficult to be procured following the issuance of the Law No.23/2014 governing the assistance that it can only be given to institutions having Indonesian legal entity. As for SMIs in Bangli, none has owned the legal entity of Indonesia.
Sudibia said that to be able to develop the SMIs amid the crush of a number of problems, his institu-tion aggressively provides coaching and training. He also explained that his institution has held technical guidance to some wood and bamboo industries in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry as one of the efforts to deal with the AEC. “To address this issue, we boost training activities and those facing capital constraints are given solution what to do next,” he said.
In addition to the SMI sector, formerly the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are still constrained by some problems. However, they are not related to capital matter, but it lies in the low awareness of the MSMEs to register their Intellec-tual Property Rights (IPR). “Of the total of 8,000 SMEs, only 97 units have registered their IPR,” said the Head of the Bangli Cooperatives and the SMEs Agency, IDG Suparta.
He added that dissemination of information on the importance of registering the IPR has also been done. Apparently, it has not been taken seri-ously. The MSMEs seem to still underestimate that IPR is not so important. “We’ve disseminated the information on the importance of the IPR. But in reality many entrepreneurs did not register theirs,” he said.
Suparta affirmed that IPR protection is very important to have, especially towards the AEC program. It is intended to avoid the ‘theft’ of ideas and design, especially on products having high eco-nomic value. If the other parties want to produce, of course, they must obtain the permission from the right holder. “Especially before the AEC, the IPR of the MSME products must be protected so that it will not be claimed by other countries. To that end, business people should immediately register their property right because it is free of charge,” he said. (kmb45)
According to one of the students’ par-ents identified as Ek, ahead of making thesis assignment, the faculty organizes a study tour to Singapore. “This is the first program and the committee seems inexperienced,” he said.
Considering it is the program of the faculty, all the students must participate. Each student is charged at IDR 7.8 mil-lion. “As information obtained, the owner of the travel agency has not paid the hotel and airfare. Actually they are going to fly Garuda Indonesia around 5:00 p.m.,” said Ek.
Since Monday afternoon, the study tour participants began to arrive at the former Alfa Supermarket. They came along with a bag of clothes. However, there was no clear information provided by the com-mittee regarding the certainty of departure. By all means, it made the students’ parents
get angry and quarrel with the committee. “The management of Garuda also came to ask about the certainty of departure. It is said the owner of the travel agency just paid as much as IDR 100 million for the tour accommodation. Actually, it must be IDR 500 million, so that the program results in problem,” said Ek.
“If cancelled, it does not matter pro-vided that the money of my son can be refunded. It’s a pity on my son, he must go back and forth from Negara to Denpasar just to deal with this,” said a parent of the other student. To anticipate the more severe commotion, police officers of the Diponegoro Station directly came to lo-cation and secured the committee. After that, they were taken to the West Denpasar Police station.
Chief of the West Denpasar Police, Wisnu Wardana, accompanied by the
Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit Putu Ika Prabawa said that his institu-tion secured the committee to avoid any undesirable thing happening to them. “The victims consist of 130 students of the English Department. Total losses are estimated approximately IDR 1 billion. The report we direct to Denpasar Police considering the scene is outside West Denpasar, including the travel agency located on Jalan Goa Gong, South Kuta,” said Wisnu.
According to Ika, based on testimony of the lecturer, the committee of the study tour is handled by the students of the English Department. Originally it was about to be taken over by lecturers but the participants did not want and insisted on being handled by the committee. “The contract agreement is not stamped, so that the evidence is not valid. If this happens, it will have an impact on the lecturer,” he said.
A lecturer met at the West Denpasar Police station told that some of the stu-dents have been in Singapore with trans-port costs on their personal account. They are worried about this incident, so they are stranded there. “Parents of the students are at the campus now to approach our dean,” said the lecturer. (kmb36)
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A farmer is looking at his ricefield that is not yet cultivated in Tumbak Bayuh, Badung. The farmer can-not work in the ricefield due to the prolonged draught that happen thoughout the island.
Ahead of AEC, SMI sector constrained by capital and equipment
Money of study tour taken away
DENPASAR - Hundreds of students of the English Department, Fac-ulty of Letters and Humanities, Udayana University, accompanied by their parents were furious and railed the Singapore study tour commit-tee on the patio of the former Alfa Supermarket on Jalan Diponegoro, Denpasar, Monday (Oct. 19). It happened because the students of the seventh semester failed to depart because the owner of the travel agency with the initial Hd escaped while taking away the payment estimated to reach IDR 1.1 billion.
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FRANKFURT - Europe’s battered financial sector is showing further signs of mending and banks are increasingly competing for custom by lowering credit standards, a key European Central Bank survey showed on Tuesday.
The ECB said its quarterly bank lending survey showed banks are easing credit standards for loans to enterprises, an encouraging sign, since the chronic weakness of credit activity in the euro area has previously been blamed for the absence of any noticeable recovery in the 19 countries that share the single currency.
“In the October 2015 bank lending survey (BLS), euro area banks reported a net easing of credit standards on loans to enterprises in the third quarter of 2015, which was stronger than banks’ expectations in the previous survey round,” the ECB report said, attributing the development to “competitive pressures”.
At the same time, banks reported a net tighten-ing of credit standards on loans to households for house purchases, saying that tighter national regu-lation offsets the easing effect of competition.
Demand for loans is also increasing, the ECB found.
“Net demand for loans to enterprises increased, due mainly to the general level of interest rates, as well as to increased needs for fixed investments. Net demand for housing loans continued to in-crease due to the low level of interest rates and housing market prospects,” the ECB said.
The eurozone central bank has previously com-plained that its ultra-easy monetary policy had not been feeding through into the real economy, because banks are not passing the money on in loans, particularly to the small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) which are the region’s eco-nomic backbone.
In an attempt to address this, the bank cut its interest rates to new all-time lows and also embarked on a series of programmes to pump liquidity into the economy.
For example, it is making cheap funding available to banks via its TLTRO or targeted long-term refinancing operation programme on the condition that the banks will lend the cash on to businesses.
Most recently, the ECB embarked on a contro-versial programme of sovereign bond purchases, known as quantitative easing or QE.
The ECB said the additional liquidity made available to banks via its asset purchase pro-gramme was being used to grant loans.
Looking ahead to the fourth quarter, “banks expect a further net easing in credit standards on loans to enterprises,” the ECB said.
“For households, credit standards on hous-ing loans are expected to be broadly unchanged and a slight net easing is expected for consumer credit.”
On the demand side, “banks expect a further considerable increase in demand from enterprises in the fourth quarter of 2015,” the ECB said. (afp)
But equities markets staged a rebound following earlier China-linked morning losses.
After suffering their worst quarter in four years during July-September, global traders have been on a buying spree in October as expectations of a US inter-est rate increase this year receded and hopes rise for fresh Chinese stimulus measures.
But confidence took a knock after data Monday showed China’s economy growing at its slowest rate for six years
during the third quarter.Matthew Sherwood, head of invest-
ment strategy at Perpetual Ltd. in Syd-ney, said in an email to clients: “The three-week recovery is approaching an exhaustion point.”
Higher-yielding, riskier assets took a hit after Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president John Williams said the US central bank was close to achiev-ing its mandate of stable prices and maxi-mum employment and should increase borrowing costs in the near future.
“We always have to be looking through the front window” in setting monetary policy since it works on the economy with a lag, he told Bloomberg Television Monday. “My own view is that the economy is still on a good trajectory.”
While they said in early 2015 that a rise was expected as the US economy picked up pace, bank policymakers have gradually lowered expectations, with tur-moil unleashed by China’s yuan deprecia-tion in August playing a major role.
A recent run of weak data out of Washington -- including below-par jobs growth and retail sales -- have also mud-died the Fed’s waters. (afp)
ECB survey shows bank sector on mend
AP Photo/Kin Cheung
A man walks past a dollar sign outside a money exchange shop in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The dollar climbed against most emerging-market currencies in Asia Tuesday on fears about the global economy and renewed talk of a US interest rate rise this year.
Dollar up against emerging currencies, Asia stocks bounce
HONG KONG - The dollar climbed against most emerging-market cur-rencies in Asia Tuesday on fears about the global economy and renewed talk of a US interest rate rise this year.
Twelve months on, critics say those hopes have come to nought.
Widodo, known by his nickname “Jokowi”, swept to power on a wave of popular support for his hands-on approach and his image as a corruption-free, fresh face in a country long dominated by oligarchs from the era of dictator Suharto.
The former Jakarta governor, who would campaign in the slums wearing casual clothes, was elected after a bruising battle against a controversial ex-general with a chequered human rights record, becoming the country’s first leader
from outside the political and mili-tary elite.
But running the world’s fourth most-populous country has proved even more difficult.
Widodo’s plans to kick-start the economy have made little progress, he has been criticised for backslid-ing in the fight against corruption in one of the world’s most graft-ridden nations, and his image abroad has been tarnished by the execution of foreign drug convicts.
“It has been a rocky first year for Joko Widodo,” said Professor Jeffrey Winters, an Indonesia expert from Northwestern University in
the United States. “The Indonesian people are
tired of business as usual and they voted for Jokowi to bring change -- but there hasn’t been much change.”
The president took office on October 20, 2014 and got off to a good start by cutting fuel price subsidies that ate up a huge chunk of the government’s budget, freeing up billions of dollars to invest in boosting the slowing economy.
But red tape and a lack of organi-sation hampered efforts to launch vital infrastructure projects, and Widodo’s attempts to attract inves-tors were undercut by protectionist policies unilaterally announced by ministers, such as the abrupt cancellation of thousands of import licences.
A year on, economic growth is languishing at a six-year low and the rupiah has fallen heavily.
While global market turmoil has played a major role, Widodo has also faced criticism for not doing enough to fix the economy -- his main focus.
In a recent BBC interview, he defended his record, saying that reforming the economy was a “long process”, adding: “It takes time to manage a country as big as Indonesia.”
For many Indonesians, an even bigger disappointment has been what they see as Widodo’s failure to step up the fight against graft, in a country where facing demands for kickbacks is just part of everyday life for many.
In particular, the president faced
criticism over his nomination of a controversial figure as the new national police chief -- a move observers believe was aimed at keeping the powerful head of his party and political patron, Mega-wati Sukarnoputri, on side.
The nomination triggered a row between the notoriously corrupt police and the popular anti-graft agency, which accused the nominee of bribery. Widodo withdrew the candidate, but only after dithering, by which point the anti-corruption body had been severely weakened by attacks from the police.
His popularity has been sliding ever since. A survey by pollster Indo Barometer this month showed public satisfaction with Widodo at 46 percent in September, down from 57 percent in March. (afp)
JAKARTA - Indonesia will not compel foreign workers to take examinations to demonstrate pro-ficiency in Bahasa, government officials said on Monday, denying media reports of plans for such a requirement to be introduced by the end of the year.
President Joko Widodo, who took office a year ago, is making a concerted effort to attract much-needed foreign investment into Southeast Asia’s largest economy, from reshuffling his cabinet to adopting new stimulus measures.
In March, the government decided against language tests for foreigners seeking work permits, following protests by investors who viewed the step as a pro-tectionist measure.
On Monday, an official of the manpower ministry said the government would not require, but only rec-ommend, that foreigners learn the local language, in order to ease the transfer of knowledge and technology to Indonesians.
“There is no language requirement for foreign-ers,” Heri Sudarmanto, director of foreign workers, told Reuters. “This requirement will not be applied to foreign workers looking to extend their work permit.”
His comments came in the wake of Friday’s reports quoting an official of the manpower ministry as saying the language requirement would apply to foreigners seeking to extend work permits after working in In-donesia for a year.
A senior adviser to the manpower minister, Mu-hammad Hanif Dhakiri, confirmed that President Widodo’s administration would not impose any language requirements. However, local governments could independently decide to adopt such measures, he added.
Currently, foreigners do not have to speak Indone-sian to receive a work permit. (rtr)
Widodo marks disappointing first year in power
JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office last year on hopes that an outsider and “man of the people” would swiftly usher in a new era of cleaner, more effective governance.
Officials say no language tests for foreign workers
REUTERS/Beawiharta
British journalists Neil Bonner (R) and Becky Prosser sit at the court room as they wait for the start of their trial at Batam District Court in Batam, Indonesia Riau Islands, October 19, 2015. Local media reported that Indonesia’s public prosecutors delayed the sentencing of the two British journalists to Thursday, who according to immigration authorities, were detained for making a documentary about piracy while being on tourists visas.
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The email — sent after a series of deadly attacks targeting moder-ates and foreigners — contains a six-point directive that includes telling women to stay at home. It urges businesses to fire any female employees, and says that working outside of the home is a “punishable offense” according to Shariah, or Islamic law. It does not elaborate what would constitute appropriate punishment.
The letter is signed by the group Ansarullah Bangla Team, which is allegedly linked with several other groups that claimed responsibility for killing four atheist bloggers this year.
It threatens to kill more atheist
bloggers, naming six in Bangladesh and nine others living abroad to be targeted as soon as they returned to the South Asian country. It said the list of 15 names is not final, warning that anyone who attempts to degrade Islam would face serious consequences and anyone supporting the atheist bloggers will not “be spared.”
Authorities said they are tak-ing the threat seriously and are investigating. “Higher authorities have been informed,” Dhaka police spokesman Muntasirul Islam told reporters.
The email, received Monday by many Bangladeshi media outlets but not the AP, has renewed con-cerns about radical forces within
Bangladesh.Since late September, two for-
eigners — an Italian aid worker and a Japanese agricultural worker — have been gunned down in daylight attacks. Responsibility for both attacks was claimed by the Sunni radical group Islamic State, but the Bangladesh government rejected those claims along with any suggestion that IS was active in the country.
The email was signed with the name Abdullah bin Salim, who said he is an Ansarullah spokes-man. Authorities determined it had been sent from a computer in the southeastern district of Chittagong, according to local media that re-ceived the email including online news service bdnews24.com and the Dhaka Tribune newspaper. An-sarullah also allegedly has ties with al-Qaida’s branch in South Asia, launched last year in India. (ap)
LONDON — Supporters of Chinese President Xi Jinping are gathering in London for a gala ar-rival ceremony to mark the official start of his state visit. Chinese and British flags lined the route where the procession will take place, with some dancing in the street with a dragon costume.
Others wore T-shirts with “I
(Heart) China,” with half of the heart filled in with part of the Chi-nese flag and the other half with part of the Union Jack, and small Chinese flags painted on their cheeks.
Xi is to receive a formal wel-coming ceremony and a carriage ride to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday before he addresses both
houses of Parliament. Xi will be a guest of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip.
His visit is expected to spark some protests by those who ques-tion closer ties to China because of its human rights record. Xi is also expected to meet with Prince Charles Tuesday and to attend a palace banquet. (ap)
JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius was with his family at his uncle’s mansion Tuesday after the Olympic athlete who killed his girlfriend was released from prison under cover of darkness and moved to house arrest a day earlier than expected.
“Oscar is here, and Oscar is at home with the family,” said Anneliese Burgess, the spokes-woman for the Pistorius family, addressing dozens of reporters outside Arnold Pistorius’ home in Waterkloof, an upmarket suburb of South Africa’s capital Pretoria. “The family is happy that Oscar is at home,” Burgess said.
Pistorius, the double-amputee runner who fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, was moved from a central Pretoria jail on Monday night when he had been expected to be released on Tues-day.
He left the jail at 7:30 p.m. local time, the Department of Corrections said, and appears to have slipped unnoticed by media into the three-story, red-bricked home that stands behind ornate black gates.
The murder trial of Pistorius generated intense international interest. The surprising deci-sion to release Pistorius a day early, and at night, appeared to have avoided the spectacle and logistical challenges caused by a large gathering of TV crews and other journalists hoping to catch a glimpse of Pistorius on the way out of prison, nearly a year to the day after he was sent to jail.
Pistorius has served a year of a five-year sentence for man-slaughter for killing Steenkamp. Under South African law, he is eligible to serve the remainder under correctional supervision, a form of house arrest.
The decision to release the 28-year-old Pistorius early was only communicated to his fam-ily at short-notice, Burgess said. Confirming Pistorius’ release, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said that the decision over when and how an offender is released is made by the prison.
“The handling of the actual placement is an operational mat-
ter of the local management, and how they handle it is their prerogative that is carried out in the best interest of all parties concerned,” Manelisi Wolela, a spokesman for the corrections department, said in a cellphone text message.
Burgess was surrounded by reporters and camera crews — many of whom had camped out at the house overnight — when reading a prepared statement outside Arnold Pistorius’ house on Tuesday morning. Pisto-rius will be under house arrest at the grand home with lush, landscaped gardens and a large, cross-shaped swimming pool. Many ambassadorial residences line the street.
Apparently responding to criticism that Pistorius’ release after just a year in prison was too lenient, Burgess said Pistorius’ sentence “has not been shortened or reduced.” “He now enters the next phase of his sentence. He will serve this under the strict conditions that govern correc-tional supervision,” she said.
Under South African law, an offender sentenced to five years or less in jail can be released to correctional supervision after serving one-sixth of the term — in Pistorius’ case 10 months.
The full conditions under which Pistorius must live for the next four years have not been released by the corrections de-partment and Burgess would not detail them on Tuesday. Only two conditions for Pistorius’ house arrest were previously made public: Pistorius must continue to undergo psychotherapy while under house arrest and he is not allowed to handle any firearms.
Typically, offenders under correctional supervision can only leave their home for specific reasons, like to attend church or to do grocery shopping. They generally cannot leave the house at night. Pistorius will not be required to wear an electronic tagging device. Pistorius would “strictly adhere to” the conditions of his release, Burgess said, and his family would “support him.” (ap)
Pistorius at uncle’s mansion after being released from jail
Supporters of Chinese president gather in London
AP Photo/ A. M. Ahad
Bangladeshi journalists gather at the National Press Club area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tues-day, Oct. 20, 2015.
Bangladesh investigates alleged radical threat
against mediaDHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh police said Tuesday they
are investigating an email sent to various media organizations reportedly by a banned Islamist group threatening to topple “towering buildings” and telling the media not to run anything that goes against what it called jihad.
A guidebook suggests advance preparation of notes for subjects to be discussed with North Korean kin, such as the dates of parental deaths, as time is limited and the emotions can be overwhelming.
Before leaving on Tuesday for a reunion with his elder brother in the North, Kim Ki-joo struggled to frame the questions he would ask at their first meeting in 65 years.
“It is thrilling but I can’t organise my thoughts,” Kim said. “I can’t think of what to say. We are being reunited after 65 years, when I was 11. I want to ask if he can recognise me.” (rtr)
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BANGLI - Dalem Balingkang Temple situated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur. It is situated on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town, precisely in Pinggan Village, Kinatamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles.
Reaching the parking area, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple.
The word Balingkang translates King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali.
Based on folklore, in the 11th century,
there was a king named Sri Kesari Wa-radewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng. The marriage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date.
Even the palace it self has been influ-
enced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others, the building of Ge-dong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date.
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Marquez eventually prevailed to take the 50th grand prix win of his career after diving up the inside of Lorenzo at MG corner on the last lap, a move made all the more re-markable given that the Honda rider had started the final tour in third.
In their wake, Iannone - who had earlier passed Rossi and Marquez in a single move - outmanoevred Rossi on the last lap to snatch the final podium place as the quartet crossed the line covered by just one second. “When I look at the Moto3 race I [normally] say ‘I want to be
there!’” said Marquez.“But this race was one of the best
in MotoGP in my career. “It was 27 laps [but] when I checked the board it was just five laps remaining - I enjoyed it a lot.
“Fifty victories are a lot and for me every victory is special but to get the 50th victory with this kind of race is even is more special.”
Despite missing out on the win, compatriot Lorenzo spoke of the pair’s battle with equal pleasure, and agreed it had been reminiscent of the traditionally more wild lower
categories rather than the top class. “[It was] one of the hardest races in my life - especially at the beginning because Andrea always overtook me on the straight,” he said.
“I was trying everything in the last sector to get a little advantage but he always passed me; [it] was very difficult to be patient and to wait for the opportunity, for him to make some little mistake to overtake him again. “With Marc, [it was] very hard to keep pace and in the last laps I gave everything I have.
“It reminds me a little bit of the old times of 125cc when I gave everything in the last laps. “For the people watching, this was the best this year and probably the best in the last five, 10 years.” (rtr)
PARIS — The route for next year’s Tour de France should suit the all-around riding skills of de-fending champion Chris Froome. Two individual time trials and 28 tough climbs will be on the sched-ule in July, organizers announced Tuesday.
The 3,519-kilometer (2,186-mile) trek will scale the Pyrenees before the Alps, just as the Tour did this year, again going counter-clockwise around France. That breaks with tradition, because generally the Tour alternates be-tween clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Froome, the British rider who won in 2013 and ‘15, is a contender both on climbs and in individual time trials, making him an early favorite for 2016.
An ascent of Mont Ventoux in
Provence on Bastille Day on July 14 will test the best climbers. Froome was the stage winner when the Tour last scaled its barren, 1,909-meter (6,263-foot) peak in 2013.
The Mont-Saint-Michel, a World Heritage Benedictine abbey perched on a rock off the Normandy coast, will provide a picture-postcard start for the race. The first stage ends at Utah Beach, used for the 1944 D-Day landings.
The Tour will swing briefly through the bumpy Massif Central before hitting even bigger moun-tains in the Pyrenees. In the Alps, which will decide the final placings before the July 24 finish in Paris, the Tour will loop past Mont Blanc, western Europe’s highest peak. “It’s going to be extraordinary,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.(ap)
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Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain (L) takes the lead from Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo (R) of Spain on his way to winning the Australian Grand Prix on Phillip Island, October 18, 2015.
MotoGP riders hail Australian GP as the best race of the modern era
The pair, along with Ducati’s Andrea Iannone and Lorenzo’s Yamaha team-mate and championship leader Valentino Rossi, were embroiled in a race-long battle in which the lead changed hands 13 times in 27 laps, and there were countless more passes for the podium positions.
Tour de France route good for defending champion Froome
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This photo provided by ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) and released on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, shows the official map of the 2016 Tour de France cycling race.The route for next year’s Tour de France should suit the all-around riding skills of defending champion Chris Froome.
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Bale has suffered a succession of injuries since joining Real in 2013 and the calf strain that saw him go off at half time in the week-end La Liga win over Levante was the fifth time he has had a problem in the same area.
The fact that his latest injury is directly related to the calf problem he had before the international break when he played two full games for Wales, has not gone down well among many in the Spanish capital.
He was being used sparingly, playing as a substitute against Atletico Madrid before joining up for Wales where he gave
his all, including in the second match against Andorra when they were already qualified for Euro 2016.
“It is irritating for any Real Madrid supporter,” said As jour-nalist Tomas Roncero. “It’s one thing to be unfortunate and we all back you then but you (Bale) made a joke of Real Madrid, I’ll say it clearly.
“You have prioritised your country over the club that pays you. We are all patriotic but you were classified and still go to the party, and on top of that play 90 minutes.
“You can not do that it is unac-
ceptable. You cost 100 million euros, the club can not just sit back and let this happen.”
The newspaper refers to Cris-tiano Ronaldo who was in a similar situation with Portugal and chose not to play against Serbia but instead return to train with Real.
Bale misses a crunch Cham-pions League clash away to Paris St Germain on Wednes-day with both teams tied on six points from two games.
This latest incident follows controversy over comments by Bale’s agent Jonathan Barnett that suggested the Welshman and Ronaldo had a poor relationship, which were later denied by coach Rafa Benitez. (rtr)
MOSCOW - Manchester United return to the scene of their 2008 Champions League triumph looking for a second away win over CSKA Moscow in exactly six years on Wednesday. United, who won their third crown when they beat Chelsea on penalties at the Luzhniki Stadium in May 2008, returned to the Russian capital on Oct. 21, 2009 and beat CSKA 1-0 with a late goal by Antonio Valencia.
The Red Devils will be look-ing to repeat that victory at a different venue, the Arena Khimki, as the Luzhniki is un-der reconstruction for the 2018 World Cup finals. United will travel to Moscow in good heart after an excellent 3-0 win away to Everton kept them third in the Premier League at the weekend.
Manager Louis van Gaal was delighted with that return to form following a defeat by the same score away to Arsenal in the previous game. Morgan Schneiderlin, Ander Herrera and Wayne Rooney scored the goals, with Rooney once again playing just behind new young striker Anthony Martial, who has made a fine impression since joining from AS Monaco in the close-season.
“Maybe it is the start of many, many victories. I am not stupid, I won’t change too much on Wednesday,” said Van Gaal, who left out fellow Dutchmen
Danny Blind and Memphis De-pay at the weekend following the Netherlands’ failure to qualify for Euro 2016.
While United may have one eye on next Sunday’s local derby against Manchester City, they would do well not to underesti-mate a CSKA side who have been in excellent form domestically as well. CSKA are unbeaten in their last 19 matches in the Rus-sian Premier League, equaling a club record set in 2001, and beat Ural 3-2 on Saturday to stay five points clear of second placed Lokomotiv Moscow.
However, head coach Leonid Slutskiy has been critical of his team’s performance. “Unfor-tunately we are unable to fully control the whole match,” said the 44-year-old, who in August also started to coach the Russian national team.
CSKA will be without Bibras Natcho who is suffering from a head injury, but fellow midfielder Roman Eremenko is expected to be fit following a groin strain. Experienced central defender Vasili Berezutski is also expected to return.
Russian international goal-keeper Igor Akinfeev will be hoping for an upturn in fortunes. CSKA’s captain is looking to end an unwanted record, having failed to keep a clean sheet in 33 consecutive appearances in the Champions League. (rtr)
ZURICH — Complaining that he is being “dragged through the mud” in the FIFA corruption investigation, Michel Platini believes he is “bullet proof” and has not lost support in his bid to replace Sepp Blatter as the head of world soccer’s govern-ing body.
The UEFA president, who has
been suspended for 90 days along with Blatter, confirmed in an in-terview published Monday in the French daily Le Monde that he had no written contract for the $2 million payment he received from FIFA in 2011.
Risking further FIFA ethics sanctions by breaking confidenti-ality rules, Platini gave a detailed
defense in the case that threatens to end his presidential hopes.
The extra pay for his job advis-ing Blatter from 1998-2002 was “a thing between two men,” Platini said, giving a new version of why FIFA could not pay him in full more than a decade ago.
“I think it’s shameful to be dragged through the mud,” he said, insisting the case was not a scandal.
Platini submitted his FIFA elec-tion application papers before being suspended and hopes that his provisional suspension will be lifted — by the FIFA appeal com-mittee or Court of Arbitration for Sport — to allow him to run.
Platini must still pass an in-tegrity check by FIFA’s election committee, which will scrutinize all applicants after the deadline closes next Monday. “I don’t think I’ve lost many votes and those who know me know I can look myself in the mirror,” Platini told Le Monde. “I’m bullet-proof.”
On Friday, Blatter told a Swiss broadcaster the payment deal being investigated by Swiss prosecutors as a “disloyal payment” from FIFA funds was a “gentlemen’s agree-
ment.”Platini and Blatter are appealing
against the suspensions imposed this month by the FIFA ethics committee while it investigates the case.
The ethics panel has in recent cases imposed strict bans when soc-cer officials discussed their cases in the media.
“What annoys me most is to have been lumped in with the oth-ers,” said Platini, who joins a long list of past and current colleagues on the FIFA executive committee who have been implicated in cor-ruption allegations.
Platini told Le Monde that Blat-ter, newly elected as FIFA’s presi-dent in 1998, asked him to name his salary to work as a personal adviser.
“’How much to you want?’ Blat-ter asks,” Platini told Le Monde. “I reply: ‘One million.’ ‘Of what?’ ‘Whatever you want, rubles, pounds, dollars.’ There was still no euro then. He replies, ‘Agreed. One million Swiss francs per year.’”
The former France great has previously said FIFA did not pay him in full at the time because of the governing body’s financial
problems.Platini told Le Monde that Blat-
ter suggested that FIFA’s salary policy prevented him from having a contract that paid the Frenchman more than then secretary general Michel Zen-Ruffinen.
“I worked for several months without pay,” Platini said. “After a while, I go see Blatter: ‘You have a problem paying me?’ He says: ‘Yes, I can’t pay you 1 million because of the wage structure. You must understand that the secretary general gets 300,000 Swiss francs. You can’t get more than three times his salary. So we’ll write you a contract for 300,000 Swiss francs and pay the rest later.’ And that’s what happened. Only later never arrived.”
Platini said he invoiced FIFA for 2 million Swiss francs in 2011 because he mistakenly recalled that he had been paid 500,000 Swiss francs annually at the time, and not 300,000.
FIFA paid Platini in February 2011, weeks ahead of a presiden-tial contest between Blatter and Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar, who both sought Platini’s endorse-ment. (ap)
KUWAIT - Kuwait has stepped down as host of December’s Gulf Cup of Nations, its cabinet said on Monday, following FIFA’s decision last week to suspend the country’s football as-sociation.
FIFA said the ban was handed down because of government interference in the running of the KFA.
Kuwait were also banned twice for government interference in 2007 and 2008 but the latest suspension could have ramifications for the Febru-ary election that will decide the new president of world soccer’s governing body.
The emirate is home to influential sports power broker Sheikh Ahmad Al-
Fahad Al-Sabah. He is a former oil min-ister, honorary president of the KFA, a FIFA executive committee member and president of the Association of National Olympic Committees. Sheikh Ahmad carries significant sway in the 47-member Asian Football Confedera-tion. Qatar beat hosts Saudi Arabia 2-1 to win last year’s Gulf Cup. (rtr)
ZURICH — Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi again head the list of candidates for the player of the year award, which they have combined to win for the past seven years. All 23 players named on the Ballon D’Or Award shortlist Tuesday play for Eu-ropean clubs, though eight are from South America and one, Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure, is African.
No Asian player or club featured in the nominations compiled by FIFA and France Football magazine. Eng-lish and Italian players also failed to make the list. Messi was joined by Neymar and Luis Suarez giving Bar-celona its complete forward line on the list. The Champions League win-ners have a total of six candidates.
Copa America champion Chile has Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal nominated, plus coach Jorge Sam-paoli on the 10-man list of nominees for coach of the year. The winners will be announced on Jan. 11 at a ceremony in Zurich.
The list of Ballon d’Or nominees will be shortened to the final three contenders on Nov. 30 with Messi and Ronaldo almost certain to make the cut.
Despite neither winning a major national team title, Messi and Ron-aldo have shared the Ballon d’Or since 2008. Messi has won four awards and Ronaldo three, including in 2013 and 2014.
Sampaoli is competing with nine coaches of European clubs, includ-
ing Luis Enrique of Barcelona and Jose Mourinho of English champion Chelsea.
Voting is by national team coaches and captains, plus a selected journal-ist, from each of FIFA’s 209 member federations. Polling closes on Nov. 20. (ap)
MINSK - Barcelona are hopeful Neymar’s rich vein of form will help the Spanish and European champi-ons cope during the glaring absence of injured talisman Lionel Messi, midfielder Sergio Busquets said on Monday.
Messi damaged knee ligaments in a La Liga game at the end of September and the prolific Argentina forward is not expected to return until the middle of next month.
Brazil forward Neymar hit four goals past Rayo Vallecano and set one up for Luis Suarez in a brilliant performance in Saturday’s 5-2 La Liga win at the Nou Camp and has a league-leading eight in Spain’s top
flight this term.“The system is the same and we
all have to contribute a bit more but it is impossible not to feel Messi’s absence,” Busquets told a news conference previewing Tuesday’s Champions League Group E match at BATE Borisov.
“He’s the one who scores the most goals and makes the most as-sists,” added the Spain international. “But Neymar is also a leader for his playing style and what he brings to the team.
“When he is on form it has a big impact and we hope his good run continues now that Messi can’t be with us.”
Barca, chasing a fourth Euro-pean triumph in eight years, drew their opening match in the group at AS Roma 1-1 before fighting back from a goal down to beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 at the Nou Camp in their second outing.
The last time they faced BATE, in the 2011-12 group stage, they hammered the perennial Belarussian champions 5-0 in Minsk and 4-0 in the return game in Barcelona.
BATE, who have former Barca and Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb in their ranks, secured a 10th successive Belarus championship after a 2-0 victory against Vitebsk on Friday. (rtr)
Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney and Chris Smalling as manager Louis van Gaal looks on during training.
Man Utd back in Moscow after six-year absence
Injured Bale criticised for putting Wales ahead of Real
AP Photo/Michael Probst, File
FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo President of UEFA Michel Platini grimaces during a press conference following a meet-ing of the UEFA board ahead of the FIFA congress in a hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.
Suspended UEFA President Michel Platini: ‘I’m bullet proof’
Reuters / Rebecca Naden
Gareth Bale cele-brates after scoring the second goal for Wales.
ReAl MAdRId forward Gareth Bale’s latest injury has led to heated criticism in the Spanish media that he is putting Wales ahead of his club side.
Barca looking to Neymar in Messi’s absence-Busquets
Player shortlist: Sergio Aguero (Argentina/Manchester City), Ga-reth Bale (Wales/Real Madrid), Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium/Wolfsburg/Manchester City), Eden Hazard (Belgium/Chelsea), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden/Paris Saint-Germain), Andres Iniesta (Spain/Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Germany/Real Madrid), Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich), Javier Mascherano (Argentina/Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona), Thomas Mueller (Germany/Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Germany/Bayern Munich), Neymar (Brazil/Barcelona), Paul Pogba (France/Juventus), Ivan Rakitic (Croatia/Bar-celona), Arjen Robben (Netherlands/Bayern Munich), James Rodriguez (Colombia/Real Madrid), Alexis Sanchez (Chile/Arsenal), Luis Suarez (Uruguay/Barcelona), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast/Manchester City), Arturo Vidal (Chile/Juventus/Bayern Munich).
Coach shortlist : Massimiliano Allegri (Italy/Juventus), Carlo An-celotti (Italy/Real Madrid), Laurent Blanc (France/Paris Saint-Germain), Unai Emery (Spain/Sevilla), Pep Guardiola (Spain/Bayern Munich), Luis Enrique Martinez (Spain/Barcelona), Jose Mourinho (Portugal/Chelsea), Jorge Sampaoli (Argentina/Chile national team), Diego Simeone (Ar-gentina/Atletico Madrid), Arsene Wenger (France/Arsenal).
FIFA names 23-player shortlist for Ballon d’Or
Banned Kuwait steps down as host of 2015 Gulf Cup
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Bale has suffered a succession of injuries since joining Real in 2013 and the calf strain that saw him go off at half time in the week-end La Liga win over Levante was the fifth time he has had a problem in the same area.
The fact that his latest injury is directly related to the calf problem he had before the international break when he played two full games for Wales, has not gone down well among many in the Spanish capital.
He was being used sparingly, playing as a substitute against Atletico Madrid before joining up for Wales where he gave
his all, including in the second match against Andorra when they were already qualified for Euro 2016.
“It is irritating for any Real Madrid supporter,” said As jour-nalist Tomas Roncero. “It’s one thing to be unfortunate and we all back you then but you (Bale) made a joke of Real Madrid, I’ll say it clearly.
“You have prioritised your country over the club that pays you. We are all patriotic but you were classified and still go to the party, and on top of that play 90 minutes.
“You can not do that it is unac-
ceptable. You cost 100 million euros, the club can not just sit back and let this happen.”
The newspaper refers to Cris-tiano Ronaldo who was in a similar situation with Portugal and chose not to play against Serbia but instead return to train with Real.
Bale misses a crunch Cham-pions League clash away to Paris St Germain on Wednes-day with both teams tied on six points from two games.
This latest incident follows controversy over comments by Bale’s agent Jonathan Barnett that suggested the Welshman and Ronaldo had a poor relationship, which were later denied by coach Rafa Benitez. (rtr)
MOSCOW - Manchester United return to the scene of their 2008 Champions League triumph looking for a second away win over CSKA Moscow in exactly six years on Wednesday. United, who won their third crown when they beat Chelsea on penalties at the Luzhniki Stadium in May 2008, returned to the Russian capital on Oct. 21, 2009 and beat CSKA 1-0 with a late goal by Antonio Valencia.
The Red Devils will be look-ing to repeat that victory at a different venue, the Arena Khimki, as the Luzhniki is un-der reconstruction for the 2018 World Cup finals. United will travel to Moscow in good heart after an excellent 3-0 win away to Everton kept them third in the Premier League at the weekend.
Manager Louis van Gaal was delighted with that return to form following a defeat by the same score away to Arsenal in the previous game. Morgan Schneiderlin, Ander Herrera and Wayne Rooney scored the goals, with Rooney once again playing just behind new young striker Anthony Martial, who has made a fine impression since joining from AS Monaco in the close-season.
“Maybe it is the start of many, many victories. I am not stupid, I won’t change too much on Wednesday,” said Van Gaal, who left out fellow Dutchmen
Danny Blind and Memphis De-pay at the weekend following the Netherlands’ failure to qualify for Euro 2016.
While United may have one eye on next Sunday’s local derby against Manchester City, they would do well not to underesti-mate a CSKA side who have been in excellent form domestically as well. CSKA are unbeaten in their last 19 matches in the Rus-sian Premier League, equaling a club record set in 2001, and beat Ural 3-2 on Saturday to stay five points clear of second placed Lokomotiv Moscow.
However, head coach Leonid Slutskiy has been critical of his team’s performance. “Unfor-tunately we are unable to fully control the whole match,” said the 44-year-old, who in August also started to coach the Russian national team.
CSKA will be without Bibras Natcho who is suffering from a head injury, but fellow midfielder Roman Eremenko is expected to be fit following a groin strain. Experienced central defender Vasili Berezutski is also expected to return.
Russian international goal-keeper Igor Akinfeev will be hoping for an upturn in fortunes. CSKA’s captain is looking to end an unwanted record, having failed to keep a clean sheet in 33 consecutive appearances in the Champions League. (rtr)
ZURICH — Complaining that he is being “dragged through the mud” in the FIFA corruption investigation, Michel Platini believes he is “bullet proof” and has not lost support in his bid to replace Sepp Blatter as the head of world soccer’s govern-ing body.
The UEFA president, who has
been suspended for 90 days along with Blatter, confirmed in an in-terview published Monday in the French daily Le Monde that he had no written contract for the $2 million payment he received from FIFA in 2011.
Risking further FIFA ethics sanctions by breaking confidenti-ality rules, Platini gave a detailed
defense in the case that threatens to end his presidential hopes.
The extra pay for his job advis-ing Blatter from 1998-2002 was “a thing between two men,” Platini said, giving a new version of why FIFA could not pay him in full more than a decade ago.
“I think it’s shameful to be dragged through the mud,” he said, insisting the case was not a scandal.
Platini submitted his FIFA elec-tion application papers before being suspended and hopes that his provisional suspension will be lifted — by the FIFA appeal com-mittee or Court of Arbitration for Sport — to allow him to run.
Platini must still pass an in-tegrity check by FIFA’s election committee, which will scrutinize all applicants after the deadline closes next Monday. “I don’t think I’ve lost many votes and those who know me know I can look myself in the mirror,” Platini told Le Monde. “I’m bullet-proof.”
On Friday, Blatter told a Swiss broadcaster the payment deal being investigated by Swiss prosecutors as a “disloyal payment” from FIFA funds was a “gentlemen’s agree-
ment.”Platini and Blatter are appealing
against the suspensions imposed this month by the FIFA ethics committee while it investigates the case.
The ethics panel has in recent cases imposed strict bans when soc-cer officials discussed their cases in the media.
“What annoys me most is to have been lumped in with the oth-ers,” said Platini, who joins a long list of past and current colleagues on the FIFA executive committee who have been implicated in cor-ruption allegations.
Platini told Le Monde that Blat-ter, newly elected as FIFA’s presi-dent in 1998, asked him to name his salary to work as a personal adviser.
“’How much to you want?’ Blat-ter asks,” Platini told Le Monde. “I reply: ‘One million.’ ‘Of what?’ ‘Whatever you want, rubles, pounds, dollars.’ There was still no euro then. He replies, ‘Agreed. One million Swiss francs per year.’”
The former France great has previously said FIFA did not pay him in full at the time because of the governing body’s financial
problems.Platini told Le Monde that Blat-
ter suggested that FIFA’s salary policy prevented him from having a contract that paid the Frenchman more than then secretary general Michel Zen-Ruffinen.
“I worked for several months without pay,” Platini said. “After a while, I go see Blatter: ‘You have a problem paying me?’ He says: ‘Yes, I can’t pay you 1 million because of the wage structure. You must understand that the secretary general gets 300,000 Swiss francs. You can’t get more than three times his salary. So we’ll write you a contract for 300,000 Swiss francs and pay the rest later.’ And that’s what happened. Only later never arrived.”
Platini said he invoiced FIFA for 2 million Swiss francs in 2011 because he mistakenly recalled that he had been paid 500,000 Swiss francs annually at the time, and not 300,000.
FIFA paid Platini in February 2011, weeks ahead of a presiden-tial contest between Blatter and Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar, who both sought Platini’s endorse-ment. (ap)
KUWAIT - Kuwait has stepped down as host of December’s Gulf Cup of Nations, its cabinet said on Monday, following FIFA’s decision last week to suspend the country’s football as-sociation.
FIFA said the ban was handed down because of government interference in the running of the KFA.
Kuwait were also banned twice for government interference in 2007 and 2008 but the latest suspension could have ramifications for the Febru-ary election that will decide the new president of world soccer’s governing body.
The emirate is home to influential sports power broker Sheikh Ahmad Al-
Fahad Al-Sabah. He is a former oil min-ister, honorary president of the KFA, a FIFA executive committee member and president of the Association of National Olympic Committees. Sheikh Ahmad carries significant sway in the 47-member Asian Football Confedera-tion. Qatar beat hosts Saudi Arabia 2-1 to win last year’s Gulf Cup. (rtr)
ZURICH — Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi again head the list of candidates for the player of the year award, which they have combined to win for the past seven years. All 23 players named on the Ballon D’Or Award shortlist Tuesday play for Eu-ropean clubs, though eight are from South America and one, Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure, is African.
No Asian player or club featured in the nominations compiled by FIFA and France Football magazine. Eng-lish and Italian players also failed to make the list. Messi was joined by Neymar and Luis Suarez giving Bar-celona its complete forward line on the list. The Champions League win-ners have a total of six candidates.
Copa America champion Chile has Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal nominated, plus coach Jorge Sam-paoli on the 10-man list of nominees for coach of the year. The winners will be announced on Jan. 11 at a ceremony in Zurich.
The list of Ballon d’Or nominees will be shortened to the final three contenders on Nov. 30 with Messi and Ronaldo almost certain to make the cut.
Despite neither winning a major national team title, Messi and Ron-aldo have shared the Ballon d’Or since 2008. Messi has won four awards and Ronaldo three, including in 2013 and 2014.
Sampaoli is competing with nine coaches of European clubs, includ-
ing Luis Enrique of Barcelona and Jose Mourinho of English champion Chelsea.
Voting is by national team coaches and captains, plus a selected journal-ist, from each of FIFA’s 209 member federations. Polling closes on Nov. 20. (ap)
MINSK - Barcelona are hopeful Neymar’s rich vein of form will help the Spanish and European champi-ons cope during the glaring absence of injured talisman Lionel Messi, midfielder Sergio Busquets said on Monday.
Messi damaged knee ligaments in a La Liga game at the end of September and the prolific Argentina forward is not expected to return until the middle of next month.
Brazil forward Neymar hit four goals past Rayo Vallecano and set one up for Luis Suarez in a brilliant performance in Saturday’s 5-2 La Liga win at the Nou Camp and has a league-leading eight in Spain’s top
flight this term.“The system is the same and we
all have to contribute a bit more but it is impossible not to feel Messi’s absence,” Busquets told a news conference previewing Tuesday’s Champions League Group E match at BATE Borisov.
“He’s the one who scores the most goals and makes the most as-sists,” added the Spain international. “But Neymar is also a leader for his playing style and what he brings to the team.
“When he is on form it has a big impact and we hope his good run continues now that Messi can’t be with us.”
Barca, chasing a fourth Euro-pean triumph in eight years, drew their opening match in the group at AS Roma 1-1 before fighting back from a goal down to beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 at the Nou Camp in their second outing.
The last time they faced BATE, in the 2011-12 group stage, they hammered the perennial Belarussian champions 5-0 in Minsk and 4-0 in the return game in Barcelona.
BATE, who have former Barca and Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb in their ranks, secured a 10th successive Belarus championship after a 2-0 victory against Vitebsk on Friday. (rtr)
Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney and Chris Smalling as manager Louis van Gaal looks on during training.
Man Utd back in Moscow after six-year absence
Injured Bale criticised for putting Wales ahead of Real
AP Photo/Michael Probst, File
FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo President of UEFA Michel Platini grimaces during a press conference following a meet-ing of the UEFA board ahead of the FIFA congress in a hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.
Suspended UEFA President Michel Platini: ‘I’m bullet proof’
Reuters / Rebecca Naden
Gareth Bale cele-brates after scoring the second goal for Wales.
ReAl MAdRId forward Gareth Bale’s latest injury has led to heated criticism in the Spanish media that he is putting Wales ahead of his club side.
Barca looking to Neymar in Messi’s absence-Busquets
Player shortlist: Sergio Aguero (Argentina/Manchester City), Ga-reth Bale (Wales/Real Madrid), Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium/Wolfsburg/Manchester City), Eden Hazard (Belgium/Chelsea), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden/Paris Saint-Germain), Andres Iniesta (Spain/Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Germany/Real Madrid), Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich), Javier Mascherano (Argentina/Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona), Thomas Mueller (Germany/Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Germany/Bayern Munich), Neymar (Brazil/Barcelona), Paul Pogba (France/Juventus), Ivan Rakitic (Croatia/Bar-celona), Arjen Robben (Netherlands/Bayern Munich), James Rodriguez (Colombia/Real Madrid), Alexis Sanchez (Chile/Arsenal), Luis Suarez (Uruguay/Barcelona), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast/Manchester City), Arturo Vidal (Chile/Juventus/Bayern Munich).
Coach shortlist : Massimiliano Allegri (Italy/Juventus), Carlo An-celotti (Italy/Real Madrid), Laurent Blanc (France/Paris Saint-Germain), Unai Emery (Spain/Sevilla), Pep Guardiola (Spain/Bayern Munich), Luis Enrique Martinez (Spain/Barcelona), Jose Mourinho (Portugal/Chelsea), Jorge Sampaoli (Argentina/Chile national team), Diego Simeone (Ar-gentina/Atletico Madrid), Arsene Wenger (France/Arsenal).
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BANGLI - Dalem Balingkang Temple situated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur. It is situated on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town, precisely in Pinggan Village, Kinatamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles.
Reaching the parking area, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple.
The word Balingkang translates King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali.
Based on folklore, in the 11th century,
there was a king named Sri Kesari Wa-radewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng. The marriage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date.
Even the palace it self has been influ-
enced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others, the building of Ge-dong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date.
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Marquez eventually prevailed to take the 50th grand prix win of his career after diving up the inside of Lorenzo at MG corner on the last lap, a move made all the more re-markable given that the Honda rider had started the final tour in third.
In their wake, Iannone - who had earlier passed Rossi and Marquez in a single move - outmanoevred Rossi on the last lap to snatch the final podium place as the quartet crossed the line covered by just one second. “When I look at the Moto3 race I [normally] say ‘I want to be
there!’” said Marquez.“But this race was one of the best
in MotoGP in my career. “It was 27 laps [but] when I checked the board it was just five laps remaining - I enjoyed it a lot.
“Fifty victories are a lot and for me every victory is special but to get the 50th victory with this kind of race is even is more special.”
Despite missing out on the win, compatriot Lorenzo spoke of the pair’s battle with equal pleasure, and agreed it had been reminiscent of the traditionally more wild lower
categories rather than the top class. “[It was] one of the hardest races in my life - especially at the beginning because Andrea always overtook me on the straight,” he said.
“I was trying everything in the last sector to get a little advantage but he always passed me; [it] was very difficult to be patient and to wait for the opportunity, for him to make some little mistake to overtake him again. “With Marc, [it was] very hard to keep pace and in the last laps I gave everything I have.
“It reminds me a little bit of the old times of 125cc when I gave everything in the last laps. “For the people watching, this was the best this year and probably the best in the last five, 10 years.” (rtr)
PARIS — The route for next year’s Tour de France should suit the all-around riding skills of de-fending champion Chris Froome. Two individual time trials and 28 tough climbs will be on the sched-ule in July, organizers announced Tuesday.
The 3,519-kilometer (2,186-mile) trek will scale the Pyrenees before the Alps, just as the Tour did this year, again going counter-clockwise around France. That breaks with tradition, because generally the Tour alternates be-tween clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Froome, the British rider who won in 2013 and ‘15, is a contender both on climbs and in individual time trials, making him an early favorite for 2016.
An ascent of Mont Ventoux in
Provence on Bastille Day on July 14 will test the best climbers. Froome was the stage winner when the Tour last scaled its barren, 1,909-meter (6,263-foot) peak in 2013.
The Mont-Saint-Michel, a World Heritage Benedictine abbey perched on a rock off the Normandy coast, will provide a picture-postcard start for the race. The first stage ends at Utah Beach, used for the 1944 D-Day landings.
The Tour will swing briefly through the bumpy Massif Central before hitting even bigger moun-tains in the Pyrenees. In the Alps, which will decide the final placings before the July 24 finish in Paris, the Tour will loop past Mont Blanc, western Europe’s highest peak. “It’s going to be extraordinary,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.(ap)
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Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain (L) takes the lead from Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo (R) of Spain on his way to winning the Australian Grand Prix on Phillip Island, October 18, 2015.
MotoGP riders hail Australian GP as the best race of the modern era
The pair, along with Ducati’s Andrea Iannone and Lorenzo’s Yamaha team-mate and championship leader Valentino Rossi, were embroiled in a race-long battle in which the lead changed hands 13 times in 27 laps, and there were countless more passes for the podium positions.
Tour de France route good for defending champion Froome
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This photo provided by ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) and released on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, shows the official map of the 2016 Tour de France cycling race.The route for next year’s Tour de France should suit the all-around riding skills of defending champion Chris Froome.
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The email — sent after a series of deadly attacks targeting moder-ates and foreigners — contains a six-point directive that includes telling women to stay at home. It urges businesses to fire any female employees, and says that working outside of the home is a “punishable offense” according to Shariah, or Islamic law. It does not elaborate what would constitute appropriate punishment.
The letter is signed by the group Ansarullah Bangla Team, which is allegedly linked with several other groups that claimed responsibility for killing four atheist bloggers this year.
It threatens to kill more atheist
bloggers, naming six in Bangladesh and nine others living abroad to be targeted as soon as they returned to the South Asian country. It said the list of 15 names is not final, warning that anyone who attempts to degrade Islam would face serious consequences and anyone supporting the atheist bloggers will not “be spared.”
Authorities said they are tak-ing the threat seriously and are investigating. “Higher authorities have been informed,” Dhaka police spokesman Muntasirul Islam told reporters.
The email, received Monday by many Bangladeshi media outlets but not the AP, has renewed con-cerns about radical forces within
Bangladesh.Since late September, two for-
eigners — an Italian aid worker and a Japanese agricultural worker — have been gunned down in daylight attacks. Responsibility for both attacks was claimed by the Sunni radical group Islamic State, but the Bangladesh government rejected those claims along with any suggestion that IS was active in the country.
The email was signed with the name Abdullah bin Salim, who said he is an Ansarullah spokes-man. Authorities determined it had been sent from a computer in the southeastern district of Chittagong, according to local media that re-ceived the email including online news service bdnews24.com and the Dhaka Tribune newspaper. An-sarullah also allegedly has ties with al-Qaida’s branch in South Asia, launched last year in India. (ap)
LONDON — Supporters of Chinese President Xi Jinping are gathering in London for a gala ar-rival ceremony to mark the official start of his state visit. Chinese and British flags lined the route where the procession will take place, with some dancing in the street with a dragon costume.
Others wore T-shirts with “I
(Heart) China,” with half of the heart filled in with part of the Chi-nese flag and the other half with part of the Union Jack, and small Chinese flags painted on their cheeks.
Xi is to receive a formal wel-coming ceremony and a carriage ride to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday before he addresses both
houses of Parliament. Xi will be a guest of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip.
His visit is expected to spark some protests by those who ques-tion closer ties to China because of its human rights record. Xi is also expected to meet with Prince Charles Tuesday and to attend a palace banquet. (ap)
JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius was with his family at his uncle’s mansion Tuesday after the Olympic athlete who killed his girlfriend was released from prison under cover of darkness and moved to house arrest a day earlier than expected.
“Oscar is here, and Oscar is at home with the family,” said Anneliese Burgess, the spokes-woman for the Pistorius family, addressing dozens of reporters outside Arnold Pistorius’ home in Waterkloof, an upmarket suburb of South Africa’s capital Pretoria. “The family is happy that Oscar is at home,” Burgess said.
Pistorius, the double-amputee runner who fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, was moved from a central Pretoria jail on Monday night when he had been expected to be released on Tues-day.
He left the jail at 7:30 p.m. local time, the Department of Corrections said, and appears to have slipped unnoticed by media into the three-story, red-bricked home that stands behind ornate black gates.
The murder trial of Pistorius generated intense international interest. The surprising deci-sion to release Pistorius a day early, and at night, appeared to have avoided the spectacle and logistical challenges caused by a large gathering of TV crews and other journalists hoping to catch a glimpse of Pistorius on the way out of prison, nearly a year to the day after he was sent to jail.
Pistorius has served a year of a five-year sentence for man-slaughter for killing Steenkamp. Under South African law, he is eligible to serve the remainder under correctional supervision, a form of house arrest.
The decision to release the 28-year-old Pistorius early was only communicated to his fam-ily at short-notice, Burgess said. Confirming Pistorius’ release, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said that the decision over when and how an offender is released is made by the prison.
“The handling of the actual placement is an operational mat-
ter of the local management, and how they handle it is their prerogative that is carried out in the best interest of all parties concerned,” Manelisi Wolela, a spokesman for the corrections department, said in a cellphone text message.
Burgess was surrounded by reporters and camera crews — many of whom had camped out at the house overnight — when reading a prepared statement outside Arnold Pistorius’ house on Tuesday morning. Pisto-rius will be under house arrest at the grand home with lush, landscaped gardens and a large, cross-shaped swimming pool. Many ambassadorial residences line the street.
Apparently responding to criticism that Pistorius’ release after just a year in prison was too lenient, Burgess said Pistorius’ sentence “has not been shortened or reduced.” “He now enters the next phase of his sentence. He will serve this under the strict conditions that govern correc-tional supervision,” she said.
Under South African law, an offender sentenced to five years or less in jail can be released to correctional supervision after serving one-sixth of the term — in Pistorius’ case 10 months.
The full conditions under which Pistorius must live for the next four years have not been released by the corrections de-partment and Burgess would not detail them on Tuesday. Only two conditions for Pistorius’ house arrest were previously made public: Pistorius must continue to undergo psychotherapy while under house arrest and he is not allowed to handle any firearms.
Typically, offenders under correctional supervision can only leave their home for specific reasons, like to attend church or to do grocery shopping. They generally cannot leave the house at night. Pistorius will not be required to wear an electronic tagging device. Pistorius would “strictly adhere to” the conditions of his release, Burgess said, and his family would “support him.” (ap)
Pistorius at uncle’s mansion after being released from jail
Supporters of Chinese president gather in London
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Bangladeshi journalists gather at the National Press Club area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tues-day, Oct. 20, 2015.
Bangladesh investigates alleged radical threat
against mediaDHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh police said Tuesday they
are investigating an email sent to various media organizations reportedly by a banned Islamist group threatening to topple “towering buildings” and telling the media not to run anything that goes against what it called jihad.
A guidebook suggests advance preparation of notes for subjects to be discussed with North Korean kin, such as the dates of parental deaths, as time is limited and the emotions can be overwhelming.
Before leaving on Tuesday for a reunion with his elder brother in the North, Kim Ki-joo struggled to frame the questions he would ask at their first meeting in 65 years.
“It is thrilling but I can’t organise my thoughts,” Kim said. “I can’t think of what to say. We are being reunited after 65 years, when I was 11. I want to ask if he can recognise me.” (rtr)
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FRANKFURT - Europe’s battered financial sector is showing further signs of mending and banks are increasingly competing for custom by lowering credit standards, a key European Central Bank survey showed on Tuesday.
The ECB said its quarterly bank lending survey showed banks are easing credit standards for loans to enterprises, an encouraging sign, since the chronic weakness of credit activity in the euro area has previously been blamed for the absence of any noticeable recovery in the 19 countries that share the single currency.
“In the October 2015 bank lending survey (BLS), euro area banks reported a net easing of credit standards on loans to enterprises in the third quarter of 2015, which was stronger than banks’ expectations in the previous survey round,” the ECB report said, attributing the development to “competitive pressures”.
At the same time, banks reported a net tighten-ing of credit standards on loans to households for house purchases, saying that tighter national regu-lation offsets the easing effect of competition.
Demand for loans is also increasing, the ECB found.
“Net demand for loans to enterprises increased, due mainly to the general level of interest rates, as well as to increased needs for fixed investments. Net demand for housing loans continued to in-crease due to the low level of interest rates and housing market prospects,” the ECB said.
The eurozone central bank has previously com-plained that its ultra-easy monetary policy had not been feeding through into the real economy, because banks are not passing the money on in loans, particularly to the small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) which are the region’s eco-nomic backbone.
In an attempt to address this, the bank cut its interest rates to new all-time lows and also embarked on a series of programmes to pump liquidity into the economy.
For example, it is making cheap funding available to banks via its TLTRO or targeted long-term refinancing operation programme on the condition that the banks will lend the cash on to businesses.
Most recently, the ECB embarked on a contro-versial programme of sovereign bond purchases, known as quantitative easing or QE.
The ECB said the additional liquidity made available to banks via its asset purchase pro-gramme was being used to grant loans.
Looking ahead to the fourth quarter, “banks expect a further net easing in credit standards on loans to enterprises,” the ECB said.
“For households, credit standards on hous-ing loans are expected to be broadly unchanged and a slight net easing is expected for consumer credit.”
On the demand side, “banks expect a further considerable increase in demand from enterprises in the fourth quarter of 2015,” the ECB said. (afp)
But equities markets staged a rebound following earlier China-linked morning losses.
After suffering their worst quarter in four years during July-September, global traders have been on a buying spree in October as expectations of a US inter-est rate increase this year receded and hopes rise for fresh Chinese stimulus measures.
But confidence took a knock after data Monday showed China’s economy growing at its slowest rate for six years
during the third quarter.Matthew Sherwood, head of invest-
ment strategy at Perpetual Ltd. in Syd-ney, said in an email to clients: “The three-week recovery is approaching an exhaustion point.”
Higher-yielding, riskier assets took a hit after Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president John Williams said the US central bank was close to achiev-ing its mandate of stable prices and maxi-mum employment and should increase borrowing costs in the near future.
“We always have to be looking through the front window” in setting monetary policy since it works on the economy with a lag, he told Bloomberg Television Monday. “My own view is that the economy is still on a good trajectory.”
While they said in early 2015 that a rise was expected as the US economy picked up pace, bank policymakers have gradually lowered expectations, with tur-moil unleashed by China’s yuan deprecia-tion in August playing a major role.
A recent run of weak data out of Washington -- including below-par jobs growth and retail sales -- have also mud-died the Fed’s waters. (afp)
ECB survey shows bank sector on mend
AP Photo/Kin Cheung
A man walks past a dollar sign outside a money exchange shop in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The dollar climbed against most emerging-market currencies in Asia Tuesday on fears about the global economy and renewed talk of a US interest rate rise this year.
Dollar up against emerging currencies, Asia stocks bounce
HONG KONG - The dollar climbed against most emerging-market cur-rencies in Asia Tuesday on fears about the global economy and renewed talk of a US interest rate rise this year.
Twelve months on, critics say those hopes have come to nought.
Widodo, known by his nickname “Jokowi”, swept to power on a wave of popular support for his hands-on approach and his image as a corruption-free, fresh face in a country long dominated by oligarchs from the era of dictator Suharto.
The former Jakarta governor, who would campaign in the slums wearing casual clothes, was elected after a bruising battle against a controversial ex-general with a chequered human rights record, becoming the country’s first leader
from outside the political and mili-tary elite.
But running the world’s fourth most-populous country has proved even more difficult.
Widodo’s plans to kick-start the economy have made little progress, he has been criticised for backslid-ing in the fight against corruption in one of the world’s most graft-ridden nations, and his image abroad has been tarnished by the execution of foreign drug convicts.
“It has been a rocky first year for Joko Widodo,” said Professor Jeffrey Winters, an Indonesia expert from Northwestern University in
the United States. “The Indonesian people are
tired of business as usual and they voted for Jokowi to bring change -- but there hasn’t been much change.”
The president took office on October 20, 2014 and got off to a good start by cutting fuel price subsidies that ate up a huge chunk of the government’s budget, freeing up billions of dollars to invest in boosting the slowing economy.
But red tape and a lack of organi-sation hampered efforts to launch vital infrastructure projects, and Widodo’s attempts to attract inves-tors were undercut by protectionist policies unilaterally announced by ministers, such as the abrupt cancellation of thousands of import licences.
A year on, economic growth is languishing at a six-year low and the rupiah has fallen heavily.
While global market turmoil has played a major role, Widodo has also faced criticism for not doing enough to fix the economy -- his main focus.
In a recent BBC interview, he defended his record, saying that reforming the economy was a “long process”, adding: “It takes time to manage a country as big as Indonesia.”
For many Indonesians, an even bigger disappointment has been what they see as Widodo’s failure to step up the fight against graft, in a country where facing demands for kickbacks is just part of everyday life for many.
In particular, the president faced
criticism over his nomination of a controversial figure as the new national police chief -- a move observers believe was aimed at keeping the powerful head of his party and political patron, Mega-wati Sukarnoputri, on side.
The nomination triggered a row between the notoriously corrupt police and the popular anti-graft agency, which accused the nominee of bribery. Widodo withdrew the candidate, but only after dithering, by which point the anti-corruption body had been severely weakened by attacks from the police.
His popularity has been sliding ever since. A survey by pollster Indo Barometer this month showed public satisfaction with Widodo at 46 percent in September, down from 57 percent in March. (afp)
JAKARTA - Indonesia will not compel foreign workers to take examinations to demonstrate pro-ficiency in Bahasa, government officials said on Monday, denying media reports of plans for such a requirement to be introduced by the end of the year.
President Joko Widodo, who took office a year ago, is making a concerted effort to attract much-needed foreign investment into Southeast Asia’s largest economy, from reshuffling his cabinet to adopting new stimulus measures.
In March, the government decided against language tests for foreigners seeking work permits, following protests by investors who viewed the step as a pro-tectionist measure.
On Monday, an official of the manpower ministry said the government would not require, but only rec-ommend, that foreigners learn the local language, in order to ease the transfer of knowledge and technology to Indonesians.
“There is no language requirement for foreign-ers,” Heri Sudarmanto, director of foreign workers, told Reuters. “This requirement will not be applied to foreign workers looking to extend their work permit.”
His comments came in the wake of Friday’s reports quoting an official of the manpower ministry as saying the language requirement would apply to foreigners seeking to extend work permits after working in In-donesia for a year.
A senior adviser to the manpower minister, Mu-hammad Hanif Dhakiri, confirmed that President Widodo’s administration would not impose any language requirements. However, local governments could independently decide to adopt such measures, he added.
Currently, foreigners do not have to speak Indone-sian to receive a work permit. (rtr)
Widodo marks disappointing first year in power
JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office last year on hopes that an outsider and “man of the people” would swiftly usher in a new era of cleaner, more effective governance.
Officials say no language tests for foreign workers
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British journalists Neil Bonner (R) and Becky Prosser sit at the court room as they wait for the start of their trial at Batam District Court in Batam, Indonesia Riau Islands, October 19, 2015. Local media reported that Indonesia’s public prosecutors delayed the sentencing of the two British journalists to Thursday, who according to immigration authorities, were detained for making a documentary about piracy while being on tourists visas.
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The victory in Monday’s elec-tion by Trudeau’s Liberal Party was stunning. The Liberals were on a path to win at least 184 seats out of 338 - a parliamentary majority that will allow Trudeau to govern without relying on other parties. The Liberals received 39.5 percent of the overall vote compared to 32 percent for the Conservatives and 19.6 for the New Democrats.
Harper, one of the longest-serving Western leaders, will step down as Conservative leader, the party announced as the scope of its loss became apparent.
Trudeau’s victory could result in improved ties with the United States, at least for the remainder of Barack Obama’s presidency. Harper was frustrated by Obama’s reluctance to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas and clashed with the president on other issues, including the Iran
nuclear deal. Although Trudeau supports the Keystone pipeline, he argues relations should not hinge on the project.
Trudeau is the son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who swept to office in 1968 on a wave of support dubbed “Trudeauma-nia.” He was prime minister until 1984 with a short interruption and remains one of the few Canadian politicians known in America, his charisma often drawing compari-sons to John F. Kennedy.
Trudeau channels the star power — if not quite the political heft — of his father. Tall and trim, he is a former school teacher and member of Parliament since 2008. At 43, he becomes the second youngest prime minister in Canadian history and has been likened to Obama.
“Tonight Canada is becoming the country it was before,” Trudeau told a victory rally in Montreal.
Trudeau has re-energized the Liberal Party since its worst elec-toral defeat four years ago when they won just 34 seats and fin-ished third behind the tradition-ally weaker New Democrat Party. Trudeau promises to raise taxes on the rich and run deficits for three years to boost government spend-ing. He said positive politics led to his victory.
“We beat fear with hope,” Trudeau said. “We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vi-sion that brings Canadians together. Most of all we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less.”
Canada shifted to the center-right under Harper, who lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change legislation, and strongly supported the oil and gas extraction industry.
“The people are never wrong,” Harper told supporters in Calgary. “The disappointment is my respon-sibility and mine alone.” Harper said he had called Trudeau to con-gratulate him. (ap)
KUBINKA, Russia — A vast workshop that upgrades warplanes of the kind Russia is using in Syria is this town’s lifeblood, and support for the Syria campaign is strong.
“We’ve extended a helping hand and that’s how it should be,” said 70-year-old Tamara Vlasenko, a resident of the town 65 kilometers (40 miles) outside Moscow. “Those who started the conflict will pay handsomely, as they should.”
Like Vlasenko, more than 70 percent of Russians support Presi-dent Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin airstrikes, which Russia says are directed against the Islamic State extremist group, according to a poll from the independent Levada Center.
Although many Russians are still unsettled by the grisly and humiliating Soviet involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the new foreign military campaign doesn’t faze Kubinka’s people.
“I don’t think Syria will turn into another Afghanistan for Russia,” said Tatyana Okhapkina, 43, bounc-ing her 7-month-old granddaughter on her lap. “I’m not too worried it will affect my grandchildren, or even my children. I really believe in our president. He knows what he is doing.”
Only about 14 percent of Rus-
sians are against the airstrikes in Syria, according to the Levada Cen-ter poll, which was conducted Oct. 2-5 nationwide and has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
An opposition-organized protest against the Syria campaign on Sat-urday in Moscow attracted about 250 people. Among them was Al-exandra Bukvaryova, 29, who said she feared Syria would become a second Afghanistan.
“I am disappointed that so few people are here,” said Bukvaryova, who works for a non-governmental organization. “Because our people don’t understand that this will affect them. As it was said here (at the ral-ly), their children will die in Syria. And it is not clear for what.”
Russia’s aerial campaign in Syria has necessitated military-to-military dialogue between Russian and the Western coalition that is running a separate campaign against IS, while simultaneously driving a wedge between the two sides. The coalition, which includes the United States and France, has accused Russia, a longtime ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, of conducting “indiscriminate mili-tary operations against the Syrian opposition” under the pretext of eliminating terrorist threats in Syria. (ap)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 , a Sukhoi SU-27 jet of the aerobatics team Russian Knights approaches to land at Kubinka Air Base in Kubinka, 65 kilometers (40 miles) outside Moscow, Russia.
Russians support airstrikes in Syria, despite Afghan legacy
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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau makes his way to the stage with wife Sophie Gregoire at the Liberal party headquarters in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015.
Son of late PM Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s new leader
TORONTO — Canadian voters reclaimed their country’s liberal identity sending Justin Trudeau — the son of one of the country’s most dynamic politicians — to the prime minister’s office and ending nearly a decade of conservative leadership under Stephen Harper.
BANGLI - Facing the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) in December 2015, a number of small and medium industries (SMIs) in Bangli are still experiencing capital difficulties and shortage of equipment. Actually, these two elements are essen-tial to support the development of the industry.
The Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, explained that the AEC program is a major challenge for the SMI sector. In Bangli, the number of SMIs reaches 10,691 units involving a total of 28,379 people. Most of them are still faced with limited capital. In addition, some industries are still short of supporting facilities. This leads to slower development of the industry. “Inevitably, the SMI sector is still constrained by capital and equipment. It’s a great challenge in the face of the AEC,” he said amid the industrial techni-cal guidance held at Penglipuran village, Monday (Oct. 19).
Sudibia delivered that to address this issue his institution can only facilitate the SMIs with financial institutions and the central government, in this case the Ministry of Industry. “If the SMI players need capital, we’ll make a proposal and then submit it to financial institution or the ministry,” he explained.
Related to equipment assistance, he said that it is very difficult to be procured following the issuance of the Law No.23/2014 governing the assistance that it can only be given to institutions having Indonesian legal entity. As for SMIs in Bangli, none has owned the legal entity of Indonesia.
Sudibia said that to be able to develop the SMIs amid the crush of a number of problems, his institu-tion aggressively provides coaching and training. He also explained that his institution has held technical guidance to some wood and bamboo industries in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry as one of the efforts to deal with the AEC. “To address this issue, we boost training activities and those facing capital constraints are given solution what to do next,” he said.
In addition to the SMI sector, formerly the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are still constrained by some problems. However, they are not related to capital matter, but it lies in the low awareness of the MSMEs to register their Intellec-tual Property Rights (IPR). “Of the total of 8,000 SMEs, only 97 units have registered their IPR,” said the Head of the Bangli Cooperatives and the SMEs Agency, IDG Suparta.
He added that dissemination of information on the importance of registering the IPR has also been done. Apparently, it has not been taken seri-ously. The MSMEs seem to still underestimate that IPR is not so important. “We’ve disseminated the information on the importance of the IPR. But in reality many entrepreneurs did not register theirs,” he said.
Suparta affirmed that IPR protection is very important to have, especially towards the AEC program. It is intended to avoid the ‘theft’ of ideas and design, especially on products having high eco-nomic value. If the other parties want to produce, of course, they must obtain the permission from the right holder. “Especially before the AEC, the IPR of the MSME products must be protected so that it will not be claimed by other countries. To that end, business people should immediately register their property right because it is free of charge,” he said. (kmb45)
According to one of the students’ par-ents identified as Ek, ahead of making thesis assignment, the faculty organizes a study tour to Singapore. “This is the first program and the committee seems inexperienced,” he said.
Considering it is the program of the faculty, all the students must participate. Each student is charged at IDR 7.8 mil-lion. “As information obtained, the owner of the travel agency has not paid the hotel and airfare. Actually they are going to fly Garuda Indonesia around 5:00 p.m.,” said Ek.
Since Monday afternoon, the study tour participants began to arrive at the former Alfa Supermarket. They came along with a bag of clothes. However, there was no clear information provided by the com-mittee regarding the certainty of departure. By all means, it made the students’ parents
get angry and quarrel with the committee. “The management of Garuda also came to ask about the certainty of departure. It is said the owner of the travel agency just paid as much as IDR 100 million for the tour accommodation. Actually, it must be IDR 500 million, so that the program results in problem,” said Ek.
“If cancelled, it does not matter pro-vided that the money of my son can be refunded. It’s a pity on my son, he must go back and forth from Negara to Denpasar just to deal with this,” said a parent of the other student. To anticipate the more severe commotion, police officers of the Diponegoro Station directly came to lo-cation and secured the committee. After that, they were taken to the West Denpasar Police station.
Chief of the West Denpasar Police, Wisnu Wardana, accompanied by the
Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit Putu Ika Prabawa said that his institu-tion secured the committee to avoid any undesirable thing happening to them. “The victims consist of 130 students of the English Department. Total losses are estimated approximately IDR 1 billion. The report we direct to Denpasar Police considering the scene is outside West Denpasar, including the travel agency located on Jalan Goa Gong, South Kuta,” said Wisnu.
According to Ika, based on testimony of the lecturer, the committee of the study tour is handled by the students of the English Department. Originally it was about to be taken over by lecturers but the participants did not want and insisted on being handled by the committee. “The contract agreement is not stamped, so that the evidence is not valid. If this happens, it will have an impact on the lecturer,” he said.
A lecturer met at the West Denpasar Police station told that some of the stu-dents have been in Singapore with trans-port costs on their personal account. They are worried about this incident, so they are stranded there. “Parents of the students are at the campus now to approach our dean,” said the lecturer. (kmb36)
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A farmer is looking at his ricefield that is not yet cultivated in Tumbak Bayuh, Badung. The farmer can-not work in the ricefield due to the prolonged draught that happen thoughout the island.
Ahead of AEC, SMI sector constrained by capital and equipment
Money of study tour taken away
DENPASAR - Hundreds of students of the English Department, Fac-ulty of Letters and Humanities, Udayana University, accompanied by their parents were furious and railed the Singapore study tour commit-tee on the patio of the former Alfa Supermarket on Jalan Diponegoro, Denpasar, Monday (Oct. 19). It happened because the students of the seventh semester failed to depart because the owner of the travel agency with the initial Hd escaped while taking away the payment estimated to reach IDR 1.1 billion.
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The iPhone maker made the an-nouncement a day after researchers discovered hundreds of apps using Chinese advertising software that extracts “personally identifiable user information.”
Apple confirmed that discovery Monday.
“We’ve identified a group of apps that are using a third-party
advertising SDK (software devel-opment kit), developed by Youmi, a mobile advertising provider, that... gather private information, such as user email addresses and device identifiers, and route data to its company server,” the California-based company said in a statement to AFP.
“This is a violation of our se-
curity and privacy guidelines. The apps using Youmi’s SDK will be removed from the App Store and any new apps submitted to the App Store using this SDK will be rejected.
“We are working closely with developers to help them get updated versions of their apps that are safe for customers and in compliance with our guidelines back in the App Store quickly.”
Apple does not allow third-party applications to share data about
a user without obtaining users’ permission, and it rejects apps that require users to share personal in-formation, such as email addresses or birth dates.
Researchers at the mobile analytics firm SourceDNA said Sunday they had discovered hun-dreds of apps that extract personal information, saying it was “the first time we’ve seen iOS apps successfully bypass the app re-view process.”
“But, based on what we learned,
it might not be the last.”The researchers said they found
256 apps with an estimated one million downloads that have a ver-sion of Youmi that violates user privacy.
“Most of the developers are located in China,” the researchers said in a blog post. “We believe the developers of these apps aren’t aware of this since the SDK is de-livered in binary form, obfuscated, and user info is uploaded to Youmi’s server.” (afp)
NEW YORK — Millions of Americans are getting new credit and debit cards with more secure chip technology, and that’s already leading to headaches for companies that rely on working cards to charge their customers every month.
Video and music streaming com-panies, dating websites, gyms and other subscription-based companies can take a hit when customers don’t update their accounts after receiv-ing a new card. It’s always been a hassle, but with millions of cards carrying the new chip technology being mailed out all at once it’s creating bigger problems.
Netflix this week said large num-bers of cards that weren’t updated were partly to blame for slower subscriber growth in their most recent quarter.
The video steaming site said Wednesday that an unusual number of accounts were cancelled during the three months that ended in Sep-tember. Netflix Inc., which has 69 million members around the world, expects the issue to continue into the next quarter as more new chip cards roll out.
With subscription services gain-ing in popularity, where customers have funds automatically with-drawn from checking accounts every month for a service, it has become increasingly noticeable
when people don’t update the cards that they use for those services, or are unaware that they need to.
Often, the number on the card is still the same, but the expira-tion date has changed, said Matt Schulz, a senior analyst at credit card comparison site CreditCards.com. Typically, payments won’t go through if the expiration date is different.
Recurly, a San Francisco com-pany that manages bill payments for more than 1,900 subscription businesses, said it has seen a slight increase in card declines. Recurly uses a service for its clients that au-tomatically updates when new card numbers are issued, so the customer doesn’t have to do it themselves, said CEO Dan Burkhart, though not every bank participates in the service. Burkhart said subscription companies will face some “turbu-lence” as customers get new cards, but those issues typically resolve within a few months.
The problem has hurt Netflix before.
A year ago, the Los Gatos, Cali-fornia, company said a number of customer’s accounts were put on hold due to The Home Depot data breach, which forced many cus-tomers who shopped at the home improvements store to get new credit cards. (ap)
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is trying to phase out passwords with an update to its mobile application for its email service.
The renovated app released Thursday for iPhones and Android devices will include an option called “Account Key” that allows people to sign into their email ac-counts by pressing on a notification sent to their smartphones instead of typing in a password.
Yahoo believes the new feature
will be more secure because most people rely on passwords that are easy for hackers to guess. Yahoo’s email users can still continue to type in a password if they prefer.
The Sunnyvale, California, com-pany wants to change the way Inter-net security works because Yahoo “is synonymous with the Internet in many countries,” said Jeff Bonforte, the company’s senior vice president of communication products. “We
always feel a burden of consumer protection.”
Although Yahoo email remains among the world’s most popular, it has been eclipsed in recent years by Google’s Gmail. Yahoo’s email had 190 million users in August, a 16 percent decline from the same time last year, according to the research firm comScore. Gmail boasted 411 million, a 5 percent increase.
The updated app also will make it possible to connect Yahoo email
with competing services from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL. The company hopes to make the app work with Gmail eventually, though it isn’t giving a timetable for making it happen.
An update to the Gmail app earlier this year allowed its users to connect with Yahoo email and Microsoft’s Outlook.com.
The app update is important to Yahoo Inc. because more than half of its email users primarily check
their messages on mobile devices. Email users also are an impor-tant source of traffic at Yahoo’s other major services, including sports, entertainment and finance that help sell the advertising that generates most of the company’s revenue.
Yahoo’s revenue has been declining or barely growing for years as advertisers pour more of their money into Google and Facebook. (ap)
Apple quashes apps that collect personal data
SAN FRANSISCO - Apple is kicking out applications that collect personal data in violation of the company’s privacy poli-cies from its online store, the tech giant said Monday.
Yahoo’s updated email app aims to kill the password
New technology in credit cards leads to headaches for some
AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
This Wednesday, June 10, 2015, file photo, shows a chip-based credit card, in Philadelphia.
Aside from the rapid develop-ment of the market and fashion trend, this woven fabric also in-creasingly evolves and the price is quite promising. In tourist areas, woven fabrics are frequently eyed by travelers. In addition to serving as a souvenir, this fabric with natu-ral shades is also used as fashion materials.
However, behind the high pros-pects offered, in fact, the fate of
this woven fabric craft is even threatened. It happens because the interest of younger generations to learn this household business is fading. Currently, more woven fabrics are worked on by the hands of the older generation over 35 years old. Similar condition is also experienced by the woven fabric business located at Jalan Sriwijaya 1 Bangli. Since a few years, this business is difficult to find work-
ers. “Now, it is very difficult to hire weavers. Young generation has little interest in this business,” explained the business owner, Ida Dewa AA Sukreni Anggreni.
She added, actually being a weaver is a beneficial provision for old age as it can be worked on at home. Similarly, the selling price is high enough. For instance, a piece of cotton woven fabric is sold for IDR 200,000 and silk woven fab-ric ranging from IDR 400,000 to IDR 500,000. “The selling price is very promising and market is never empty. Moreover, the circles of em-ployees often use this woven fabric,” she said when met directly.
In addition, younger generations
are reluctant to learn to weave because they consider the weaving process is complicated. However, when learning to weave seriously, it will only take you two days. “The most important thing is the intention. Apparently weaving is difficult. If it is learned, two days are enough,” she said.
To make this ancestral heritage survive, now Agung Anggreni inten-sively provides training, one of them is provided for the Bangli Disable School (SLB). “I hope that other schools can follow the measure of this Disable School,” she hoped.
Similar opinion was also ex-pressed by a weaver from Manuk hamlet, Susut, Nyoman Gari, 55. She considered the interest of
younger generations to weave has faded. Currently they tend to become consumer rather than pro-ducer. “Only few young generations are now willing to weave. Most of them prefer to buy,” she said.
In the meantime, the Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, justified that weaving activities are more en-gaged by old people. To stimulate the rise of interest in the younger generation, the village authority is also asked to participate. “We have made dissemination. Since the village receives funding from the government, we hope that it can be used to develop the weaving craft,” he said. (sos)
ThE Ministry of Tourism con-tinues to actively promote diving tourism of Indonesia considering the potential of diving tourism stretches from Sabang to Merauke. “We will hold a Diving Sales Mis-sion in Tokyo to attract Japanese travelers. It is the continuation of similar activity in Beijing,” said Deputy Foreign Tourism Marketing Development, Prof. I Gde Pitana.
According to Pitana, the Indone-
sian coastline is one of the longest in the world. Besides, Indonesia can offer endless diving tourist at-tractions. It is believed that marine tourism can contribute to foreign exchange four times more than the current amount. The sales mission is one of the main strategies of the Indonesian tourism marketing en-titled the Branding, Advertising and Selling (BAS). “This selling activ-ity is one of the measures taken by
the Ministry of Tourism to realize the target of 529,000 tourist arrivals from Japan,” said Pitana.
This target, said Pitana, is sup-ported by visa-free facility for Japa-nese travelers as having been set forth in the Presidential Regulation No.69/2015. “This year the Minis-try of Tourism targets 10 million tourist arrivals,” said Pitana.
Pitana said that Indonesia has a great potential for diving tourism.
Diving points spread from Weh Is-land in the west end to Raja Ampat in the eastern end. Between the two points, there are the Banda Islands, Bunaken, Wakatobi, Lembeh Strait, Alor Island, Togean, Gili Air, Ko-modo Island and Cendrawasih Bay that offer alluring underwater beauty. “Indonesia has numerous diving spots becoming the paradise for divers. The world even recognizes that Indonesia has some of the best
diving spots in the world,” he said.He added that visa-free policy
will open up more opportunities to gain foreign exchange and raise people’s income from tourism. “Interestingly the marine tourism has contributed 35 percent of total tourism activity in Indonesia,” he explained while adding that a total of 35 percent of Japanese travelers perform activities associated with the beach, including diving. (010)
To promote diving, Indonesia targets Japanese travelers
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The fate of this woven fabric craft is even threatened. It happens because the interest of younger generations to learn this household business is fading.
High value, people’s interest in learning to weave fades
BANGLI - Woven fabric is one of the traditional cultures of fabric produced in almost all the regions in Indonesia. This craft is meaningful as well as having historical value and high technique in terms of color, motif and type of materials used. Some regions make this woven product as their own regional pride and identity.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Green School boasts one of the most beautiful campuses imaginable. Located along the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, the island’s unique artistic and religious culture enriches the Green School learning experience. There are currently 360 Green School students from over 30 countries in Pre-K through to Grade 12. Boarding is also offered for students in Grades 6 and up. Since its founding, the school has been visited by many influential and prominent figures such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Dr. Jane Goodall. After his 2014 visit, Ki Moon described the school as “the most unique and impressive school I have ever visited.”
In 2012, Green School was awarded the “Greenest School on Earth” by U.S. Green Building Council. Rachel Gutter, director of Green Schools noted, “Green
School Bali possesses a deep, even spiri-tual connection with the community, and exists in perfect harmony with the earth it sits on.” In 2011, Green School partnered with renewable energy producer Akuo Energy to further their goal towards 100% sustainability. Akuo engineers and Green School community members worked to-gether to build a customized solar power project and Gravitational Water Vortex which both create sustainable energy for the school. The school also has an organic garden, aquatic systems, sustain-able waste and water usage systems, and a bird conservatory.
The school will open its campus on 23rd of October, 20th of November and 11th of December to prospective families to tour around the natural campus and have a lunch with the Admissions team.
Green School Bali opens its campus for Bali residents
MANGUPUrA - Green School Bali was founded in 2008 by John and Cynthia Hardy. As acclaimed jewelry designers and local residents of Bali for 30 years, they recognized a unique opportunity to create something truly inspiring and outside the structural, conceptual, and physical limitations of most traditional schools. Today, Green School aims are to be the number one model of sustain-ability in education through offering an unparalleled education which integrates traditional academics with experiential, hands-on learning. Staying true to the founders’ core values of celebrating and respecting Balinese culture, the school proudly supports a Local Scholar Programme which allows local Balinese and Indonesian children to experience a Green School education. It is the school’s long-term goal to have 20% local student enrolment.
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In addition to geothermal, on grid energy also includes the conversion of coal into diesel or gas (Pemaron power plant and Gilimanuk power plant), the development of new
power plant on the west and east, preparation of gas fuel station, and conversion of waste into energy at Suwung landfill. The development of Center of Excellence for renew-able energy in Bali is just planned at the stage of future clean energy.
In the same meeting, the Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudik-
erta spontaneously stated that geothermal should be implemented. Moreover, the matter of hampering permit has been overcome after the revision of Law No. 5/1990 on Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems.
“Indeed, it was formerly a conser-vation area that is not allowed to be
built. But to my knowledge, this law has been revised into the area that can be utilized. I have the time to read the revised law,” said Sudikerta.
He also mentioned that Balinese people actually do not reject the geothermal. Moreover, geother-mal energy is eco-friendly and can support Bali to be independent in terms of energy. “We expect the gas (eco-friendly energy—Ed) can be produced by the geothermal at Bedugul but it was stopped by a minority of NGOs in Bali. How-ever, people actually do not,” he explained.
Not long after, the Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika stated to be still consistent with previous stance that rejected geothermal. Other than currently having suf-ficient power supply, geothermal is also said to be incompatible with socio-cultural condition of Balinese people. Aside from impact on water discharge of the lake, it will also threaten the survival of Bali.
Chairman of the Bali Dwipa Care Forum, Gede Bangun Nusan-tara, stated that he saw something behind the declaration of Bali as the center for clean energy. Mainly it leads to geothermal energy, whereas it has been rejected by the people of Bali through the Bali House of Representatives and the Governor of Bali. Scientific studies also stated that the geothermal is not feasible.
“I really wonder whereas all
the studies have been disqualified and the people of Bali have denied why it insists on being resumed. What the hell is this? In terms of mountainward-seaward (nyegara-gunung) concept, obviously it will damage the upstream and down-stream of Bali,” he said.
Bangun added that mountains and the ocean are sacred areas for the Balinese Hindus whose sanctity must be preserved by distancing them from various exploits. Never revive the geothermal. Central government is better planning of re-newable energy such as power plant by ocean currents in Nusa Penida Strait or energy by windmill.
A member of Commission III of the Bali House of Representa-tives, Wayan Diesel Astawa, argued that Bali should have autonomy in terms of electricity. Eco-friendly energy alternatives like the geo-thermal should be designed from now. Do not fall asleep with the statement that Bali has a surplus of electricity.
“If it is said to be a sacred area or the upstream area, I have cross-checked it. There is no such presumption and the community even supports it. Though we are currently surplus of energy, in the context of the future, we still have to prepare. Must we wait for the surplus to run out, and we think about it after that? When blackout happens, people will complain because they must pay expensive electricity,” he said. (kmb13)
As the first step, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Governor of Bali have signed the MoU in July. The MoU is related to Bali as a pilot project or center of excellence for clean energy development in Indonesia. “We chose Bali because Bali is a destination visited by the com-munity from around the globe, not only from Indonesia. As a result, all good things happened can im-mediately be disseminated,” said Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Sudirman Said, after serving as keynote speaker in the Renewable Energy Forum in Nusa
Dua, Saturday (Oct. 17).Sudirman added that some steps
have been made towards Bali as the center for clean energy. It has been started by the PLN that gradually replaces fossil fuels with gas or steam and even with renewable energy. His institution has started to gather the best experts for the pur-poses of the center of excellence. It includes the cooperation with the Udayana University and similar institutions namely the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
“The experts include the natives to Indonesia and those of global community. Then, they build up
research and technological capabil-ity as well as facilitate the process of investment. Armed with that, the development of new energy be-comes integrated and the governor just now gave the message that it should not simply come to surface as idealism but must be feasible for commercial construction and we commit to get there,” he said.
Sudirman did not dismiss if the geothermal at Bedugul is also included in the development plan of clean energy in Bali. However, his institution has not designated who will become the investor. So far, it just makes the overall program as well as manages the roadmap. Moreover, the geother-mal still gets resistance from the people of Bali.
“The governor just now said that
in principle we must respect local wisdom and then we will come up with a concrete program,” he explained. The Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, said that so far the geothermal is deemed unsuitable by the people of Bali. Balinese people supports the Tri Mandala concept (vertical orienta-tion), where the mountain is con-sidered as the head.
“So, culturally it is impossible to drill the mountain as considered to be the head. Technically (the geothermal) may be possible, but culturally it is not, well ... we cannot do it. What is the use to get pinch of energy but we then destroy our culture and environment. Tri Hita Karana should not be contested, it is the fundamental if we want to survive,” he said.
Pastika added that much alter-native renewable energy can be developed. They are including the solar, wind, ocean currents to sea-weeds. Especially for sea currents, according to him, there has been a survey in Nusa Penida so has the energy of seaweeds having begun to be prepared in Bali.
“This year it has begun at the Ngurah Rai Airport with the instal-lation of solar panel producing 4 MW of energy, after that it will be resumed to governor’s office. We install the roof with solar panel and the energy is stored. In the morning, people will come with motorcycle and car to recharge their energy there. In the afternoon after leav-ing the office, the governor rides electric car, may not consume fuel,” he explained. (kmb32)
Bali as clean energy center
Governor assures there is no geothermalTHE Ministry of Energy and Mineral resources and the
government of Bali Province are committed to making Bali as the center for clean energy. In 2019, the clean energy must support almost 100 percent of Bali.
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Geothermal is said to be incompatible with socio-cultural condition of Balinese people. Aside from impact on water discharge of the lake, it will also threaten the survival of Bali.
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The two Koreas, which are divided and remain in a technical state of war, agreed to hold the fam-ily reunions for the first time since February last year after negotiating the end of a standoff at the military border in August.
Participants, some as old as 88, were reunited at the resort of Mount Kumgang just north of the militarised border with children and spouses from whom they had been separated when the peninsula was divided at the end of the war.
“Father, it’s me, your son,” Chae Hee-yang, 65, from the South told Chae Hoon-sik, 88, from the North, as they wept at their first meeting since the younger man was just a year old, according to a report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
Foreign news outlets were not allowed to cover the event.
Families separated since the war have no means of communication and often do not know if relatives on the other side are surviving.
In the first round of reunions starting Tuesday, 96 North Koreans and their families met about 390 people travelling from the South. The second round reunites about
190 North Koreans with 90 South Koreans and their families.
The South Koreans, mostly elderly and some in wheelchairs, had gathered on Monday in the east coast city of Sokcho near the border for medical check-ups and a briefing on appropriate conduct while in the North.
On Tuesday morning they board-ed buses to cross the border.
The reunions, held in a ballroom at the Mount Kumgang resort, are watched by officials and media and include only two hours of private time before they end on Thursday.
South Korean participants are advised to steer clear of a long list of topics, such as the North’s politi-cal leadership or living standards, to the frustration of some of the visitors.
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LOS ANGELES — Blake Shelton sued the tabloid magazine In Touch Weekly on Monday over a cover story claiming heavy drinking by the country music star contributed to his divorce from Miranda Lambert and that he was headed to rehab.
Shelton’s defamation lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeks more than $1 million in damages over the story that his lawyers say is false.
The lawsuit against In Touch pub-lisher, Bauer Publishing Co., contends the tabloid has repeatedly published false information about the singer and his breakup with Lambert.
“Blake Shelton has had enough,” the lawsuit begins before refuting claims made in the article and laying out the Grammy-nominated singer’s busy schedule. “Mr. Shelton is not in rehab and has no plans to go to rehab.”
An email sent to publicists for In Touch was not immediately returned.
The lawsuit points out that Shelton
continues to work as a judge on NBC’s “The Voice” and on an upcoming great-est hits album.
In Touch published the story in late September that alleged Shelton was drinking heavily and that his actions contributed to the end of his marriage to Lambert. It previously published a story claiming Shelton had cheated on Lambert and that contributed to their divorce.
The rehab cover story also pro-claimed that Shelton had hit “rock bottom.”
“To be clear: Mr. Shelton has not hit rock bottom,” the lawsuit states. It ac-cuses In Touch of publishing the story without reaching out to the singer’s lawyers or other representatives.
The lawsuit states Shelton, 39, has sought a retraction of the story but received no response.
In addition to monetary damages, Shelton is seeking an injunction that would prevent In Touch from repeating allegations in the disputed story. (ap)
Take pay equity, for instance, and the reality that worthy actresses sometimes make less than their male counterparts.
“It never changed. It’s always the same. It’s always the same like before, but not only in the movies. Even in life sometimes, unfortu-nately,” Loren said on the red carpet Monday night before the nonprofit Americans for the Arts honored her at its National Arts Awards.
Loren received the Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achieve-ment Award, presented to her by director and choreographer Rob
Marshall before a star-studded crowd that included Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga and artists Chuck Close and Jeff Koons.
Herbie Hancock and Gaga were also among the honorees, but it was Loren who stole hearts in a black evening gown, accompanied by son Edoardo Ponti and daughter-in-law Sasha Alexander.
At 81, Loren still works when the mood strikes. The word retirement is not in her vocabulary.
“That’s terrible, the word retire. Never,” she said. “We start always like it was the beginning of a long
career.”With the onslaught of technology
and the speed at which the world turns today, Loren said she enjoys embracing the “new” in life.
“Well I think you have to get accustomed to the new things that come out and try to run after them and try to be always living in a world that belongs to you, even though you have to learn many things more,” she explained.
What is Loren’s best advice for young actresses today?
“To take life seriously,” she said, “to do the right things and not to take life easily, as sometimes the girls, they do because they don’t have experience.”
She added: “They need good mothers, good parents.” (ap)
NEW YORK — A couple of big-time movie stars will be ap-pearing off-Broadway next fall when Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo star in a production of William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at New York Theatre Workshop.
Sam Gold, a Tony-winner for “Fun Home” will direct the trag-edy, with “Selma” star Oyelowo playing the title role and super spy 007 Craig as Iago. The show is slated for fall 2016 and addi-tional casting will be announced later.
Like Hamlet and Macbeth, Othello is a Shakespearean protag-onist driven mad by suspicion and fear. In the play, Othello’s trusted lieutenant spins a web to make him doubt his wife’s fidelity.
Craig plays James Bond in “Spectre” out next month and Oyelowo is next slated to co-star with Zoe Saldana in “Nina” about singer Nina Simone. (ap)
Sophia Loren: Retire? Never!NEW YORK — Some things about the film business have
changed for actresses in the more than five decades since So-phia Loren was first discovered, and some things have stayed exactly the same.
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THE DESIRE of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources to make Bali a center of clean energy in Indonesia
is not a new discourse. Previously, this has been
revealed in the meeting between the Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta and the Acceleration Task Force of the Renewable Energy Development (P2EBT) of the Min-istry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Wiswasabha Building, June 18.
At that time, the Task Force of the
P2EBT, Reza Kusumaatmadja, said that the Bali clean energy development framework is divided into three tiers. They consist of grid energy in 2015-2016 (0-18 months), off grid energy in 2016-2017 (12-36 months), and future clean energy in 2017-2018 (next 6 months). The grid energy stage includes
the development of geothermal energy at Bedugul. “One of the things that can be followed up like in terms of the improve-ment of communication is the Bedugul geothermal,” he said.
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South Korean Min Ho-shik, 84, center, hugs his North Korean family member Min Un Sik, right, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015.
Korean families torn by war six decades ago rejoice in reunions
SOKCHO, South Korea - Nearly 400 South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday to be reunited, in an outpouring of emotions and tears, with family members separated for more than six decades since the 1950-53 Korean War.
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