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Manpower Minister Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri earlier this month told reporters the government would require existing and prospective for-eigners to pass Indonesian language tests to work in the country, a move seen by many foreign investors as protectionist.
Currently, foreigners do not have to speak Indonesian to receive a work permit for Southeast Asia’s largest
economy.“Coordinating ministers agreed
last week that the planned regulation should be dropped. The details are now being worked out within the cabinet,” said a government official, with knowledge of the matter, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A second government official
confirmed that the plan for language tests would be withdrawn after “many people complained, including domes-tic investors who said they needed foreign expertise.”
Minister Dhakiri on Friday denied that the language test requirements would be cancelled. The minister was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
Companies have increasingly
raised concerns about the growing difficulties of obtaining work permits for foreign workers, with language exams being the latest example.
“If they do withdraw this, we are encouraged by that. It is an unneces-sary barrier,” said Lin Neumann, managing director of the American Chamber of Commerce Indonesia.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla told Reuters last week that the planned regulation was “well intentioned” to protect low-skilled jobs ahead
of the ASEAN Economic Commu-nity (AEC) integration this year, but should be reviewed because of its potential impact on investment.
President Joko Widodo, who took office in October, wants to spur economic growth from an estimated 5.1 percent in 2014 to 5.8 percent this year, relying mainly on higher investment. (rtr)
IBP/File Photo
Foreigners work as chef at one of hotels in Bali Island. Indonesia will withdraw a plan that would force foreign workers to take local language proficiency exams after protests from investors, two government officials said.
Indonesia to withdraw local language plan for foreign workers-sources
JAKARTA - Indonesia will withdraw a plan that would force foreign workers to take local language proficiency exams after protests from investors, two government officials said.
MEXICO CITY - US singer, actress and businesswoman Jennifer Lopez took her fashion line outside the United States for the first time on Monday, launching in Mexico.
Speaking in Spanish, the star -- a New Yorker whose parents are from Puerto Rico -- said she wanted to make her designs affordable to low-income women who want some glamor in their lives.
“I think that, coming from the Bronx, I have a good urban mix,”
Lopez, 45, said at a news confer-ence, wearing a black shirt and pants ensemble with a white jacket. “I’m more interested in doing (de-signs for working people) instead of luxury.”
She inaugurated a store in the capital in cooperation with Mexi-can retail chain Coppel. Her line -- which includes clothing, ac-cessories and suitcases -- will be available in more than 1,000 stores in Mexico. (afp)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is making Internet address suffixes beyond the usual .com or .org available for people and busi-nesses to use. While some are in Chinese or other languages besides
English, others could include the likes of .music, .app or, of course, .porn.
To check what brands, groups and celebrities have bought their domain names, visit http://icmreg-istry.com/domaincheck. According
to the site, Microsoft has bought not only Microsoft.porn but Office.porn and Office.adult as well.
Representatives for Taylor Swift, Microsoft and Harvard could not immediately be reached for com-ment. (ap)
WASHINGTON - Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie announced Tuesday that she has had her ova-ries and fallopian tubes removed over fears of cancer, following her double mastectomy two years ago.
The actress, who has lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to the disease, said she had the proce-dure last week after results from a blood test raised fears that she may be in the early stages of cancer.
Although later tests showed that wasn’t the case, Jolie said she
chose to go ahead with the surgery because of her family history and because she carries a gene mutation that had given her a 50 percent risk of developing ovarian cancer, the same mutation that put her at 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer.
“I did not do this solely because I carry the BRCA1 gene muta-tion, and I want other women to hear this,” Jolie wrote in an op-ed piece in the New York Times, the same venue where she announced her double mastectomy two years
ago.“A positive BRCA test does not
mean a leap to surgery,” said Jolie, who is married to fellow Holly-wood heavyweight Brad Pitt.
“In my case, the Eastern and Western doctors I met agreed that surgery to remove my tubes and ovaries was the best option, because on top of the BRCA gene, three women in my family have died from cancer,” she wrote.
Her doctors said that she should have the preventive surgery about a decade before the earliest onset of
cancer in her female relatives.“My mother’s ovarian cancer
was diagnosed when she was 49. I’m 39.”
Jolie said that she had been pre-paring for the possibility of ovary removal ever since her double mastectomy.
But two weeks ago, she said, she got a call from a doctor who said her blood test results had “a number of inflammatory markers that are elevated, and taken together they could be a sign of early cancer.”
She was told to see a surgeon
immediately.“I went through what I imagine
thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren,” Jolie wrote.
“I called my husband in France, who was on a plane within hours. The beautiful thing about such mo-ments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters. It is polarizing, and it is peaceful.” (afp)
Angelina Jolie has ovaries removed over cancer fears
Jennifer Lopez takes fashion line to Mexico
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
Jennifer Lopez holds up a blouse during the unveiling of her clothing and accessories collection at the Coppel store in Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2015.
Taylor Swift, Microsoft among those buying up .porn suffixes
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
NEW YORK — The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer.
French media report plane crash in the Alps, 148 aboard
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International2 Wednesday, March 25, 2015 15International Activities
Bali News
EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
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This prestigious award presentation is in its 6th year, primarily aimed to rec-ognize and pay tribute to boutique hotels with good design in both architecture and experience. This year’s theme is based on “Intellectual Shape and Delicate Mind”. In the past, the award focuses on giving hon-ours to more than 400 hotels over Greater China, but has now open up to include overseas properties, outside China.
The judging process was based on 50% voting by the judging panel(comprising of prominent Chinesearchitects like Mr Liang Jing Hua, Mr Hao Lin, Mr Li Ying to artists such as Fashion Designer Ms Li Hongyan, Pianist Mr Zhao Yinyin, artist Ms Cui Xiu-Wen and Designer Mr Lv YongZhong) and the remaining 50% was voted by public through we-chat and weibo.
For the overseas hotel award category,
the editorial team of the award organizer will first research on the property and provide their views, thereafter, the profes-sional judging panelists will make their vote. The judging criteria is based on architectural style, interior décor, unique personalized elements, facilities and services to location and guest experience satisfaction.
The structure of this Awards is catego-rized into “ Hardware Design”, “Experi-ence Design” and “ General Awards”.
“We are proud of this winning and it will certainly allow the L Hotels & Resorts brand to gain better recognition amongst the China market. L stands for “Live Life”, the hotel’s epitome of embracing Life and the key feature is personalization in every frontier of the Brand’s innovation and service delivery.” remarks Adeline Quek,
Director Brand Management, Sales & Marketing.
Creating a unique experience, comple-menting the heritage of the place with designer interiors is a strong DNA for L Hotel Seminyak. Including the highly praised Personalised Butler team whom guests have so far appreciated and return again and again to their ‘home’ here to be pampered by our distinguished butlers.
“Our butlers are trained, in addition to their experience, to serve with attention, dedication and to tailor make individual experiences that create memories” says Adeline.
Since opening, L Hotel Seminyak has won numerous awards. (Favourite Re-sort – Asia Pacifi 2013, voted by Globla Agents of SLH), (“One of The Top Three Best Boutique Hotels 2013”- Hospitality
This man of Tabanan-born on June 4, 1975 is not only known for its cheery smile but also his impor-tant role in processing food. His name is I Komang Aryana, a Sous Chef of Aston Denpasar. “Cooking activity poses a unique culinary art to me because there are always new things to be created,” said the Sous Chef who loved to cook since his junior high school.
According to Aryana, the people considered professional in cooking when they upheld hygiene and sani-tation in kitchen area, worked based on the Standard of Operations, pro-cessed ingredients properly and paid attention to simple things like set-ting the size of fire that would affect the cooking. “Cooking must also be
carried out responsively and lived with a heart,” he said friendly.
The Sous Chef who liked jog-ging also revealed that when getting involved in the culinary world, the task was not only to cook but also to give satisfaction to guests, serve tasty and healthy food and create a different impression for the res-taurant.
Creating new menus, said Arya-na, such as Grilled Chicken Sand-wich Yanchao, Middle East Green Salad, Pasta Bake and other menus were an experience in examining the self-capabilities in cooking. “Consume healthy foods that are free from preservatives and use the product of Indonesian spices,” he added. (kmb) IBP/kmb
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L Hotel Seminyak wins “Best Overseas Hotel of The Year 2015” SEMINyAK - L Hotels & resorts is pleased to announce her latest accolade “ Best Overseas Hotel of
The Year 2015” awarded to her flagship L Hotel Seminyak in Bali at the annual “ The Best Design Hotels Award” held the Ritz Carlton Shanghai, Pudong recently in January 2015.
Investment World Indonesia) and (“Country Winner- Luxury New Hotel”- World Luxury Hotels Awards 2013).
There are plans to expand and open in Ubud another L Resort in the near future, as a continuity of offering guests experiential stays in different precincts in Bali, to allow the charms of the areas and our people personalities to evoke and delight.
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I Komang AryanaCooking with heart
Visitors who want to tour the lake are taken by traditional boat or canoe by members of the local community. The lake is becoming a favorite recreational site for local and foreign travelers who want to breathe fresh air while enjoying beautiful scenery. The boats on lake are in fact owned by fishermen but can be leased so as to enjoy the beauty of the lake.
“We rent out our 4 passenger canoe for IDR 350,000. We also out rent an ancu (fishing platform) in the middle of the lake for visitors who want to fish,” said Nyoman Sudani, a tour guide on the lake.
According to her, Lake Tamblin-gan, with is surrounded by forest and located in the highlands makes for cool weather conditions most of the time. The attraction of this place is not only its natural charm, but also the many temples that represent the history and develop-ment of Balinese civilization and culture, particularly concerning the formation and development of
BANGLI - Starting on April 16, all mini-markets, shops and stalls in Bangli will be prohibited from selling class A liquor in ac-cordance with the Regulation of the Ministry of Trade of the RI on the control and supervision of the procurement, distribution and sales of liquor.
“We’re still finalizing the prep-arations for the implementation of
the regulation. Prohibition of the sale of class A liquor (alcohol con-tent of less than 5 percent) will be in effect as of April 16th” said the Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, Nengah Sudibya.
He said that before the pro-hibition is imposed, inspections will be held in stalls and mini-markets that sell liquor. How-ever, because it is not known
how many mini-markets and stalls sell class A liquor in Ban-gli, during the inspections, the Trade agency will collect data so as to get exact figures on the number of liquor retailers. The planned raids which still in the preliminary phase, started on Monday (Mar. 23), with a team that includes police authorities. If during the inspections, the
team finds a mini-market selling class A liquor, a warning will be issued. By contrast, if liquor is found during the post April 16th inspections, sanctions will be imposed. “For the time being, we want to make sure that the owners and employers of mini-market and other class A liquor retailers know about the regulation com-ing into effect,” he explained.
Sudibya added that his party has already been spreading infor-mation about the prohibition on the sale of liquor -including to the mini markets of Bangli for some time. “In fact this is part of a pro-cess of information dissemination that included our sending letters to mini-markets, liquor retailers as well as all subdistrict heads,” added Sudibya. (kmb40)
Starting April 16, merchants prohibited from selling liquor
IOBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Tourists are enjoying their tima at Tamblingan Lake
Explore the charms of Lake Tamblingan
SINGARAJA - When you visit North Bali, do not miss the natural tourist attraction of Lake Tamblingan. The lake has not been developed into a modern tourist site for the sake of preserving the natural environment. The tourist at-traction located on the north-ern slope of Mount Lesung, near Munduk village, Banjar, Buleleng, is free of motor bear-ing boats so that the area can remain free of pollution.
Tamblingan village.With all the facilities required
by visitors, and a trekking path that runs around the lake area, Tamblin-gan is frequently used as a location for photo shoots. The trekking path is quite simple and uncomplicated little to no winding and very smooth surface. While strolling on this
path, travelers pass under the shade of the trees and encounter the hos-pitality of the local people.
“We are here also providing trekking tours around the jungle. European travellers generally en-joy this sport the most,” said Putu Gabong, an overland tour guide.
He explained that the rate
charged for the adventure of for-est trekking varies between about IDR 280,000 and IDR 600,000. “Depending on the route, like the trekking at Dasong takes four hours and costs IDR 600,000. There is also longer trek, up to seven hours, called the Jatiluwih tour, which is offered at different
rate,” he explained.He mentioned that, other than
trekking, visitors can also enjoy-ing camping here. It is one of the exciting activities that can be orga-nized here. Setting up a tent while enjoying a silent night vacation is an option for travelers who want relieve from fatigue. (par)
3Wednesday, March 25, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Tag Heuer’s version is expected to be ready at the end of the year. The companies did not say what it will look like or how much it will cost, but watches from the luxury time-piece maker typically cost $1,000 and up.
The Apple Watch will start at $350 when it goes on sale April 24, but ones made with 18-karat gold begin at $10,000.
The Tag Heuer watch won’t be the only fashionable smartwatch competing with Apple. Clothing
maker Guess worked with a startup, Martian Watches, to create a line of fashionable smartwatches modeled on Rigor, a traditional watch line from Guess. Another small company, Burg, has a model with Swarovski crystals.
The Tag Heuer smartwatch will use technology from Intel Corp., whose Basis subsidiary already makes a fitness tracker called Peak. It will run Google Inc.’s Android Wear system, which is already used in smartwatches by Motorola, Sony,
LG and others. Android Wear em-phasizes voice controls, although some selections can be made through buttons and touch screens.
Like most smartwatches, Tag Heuer’s version will require that a wearer keep a smartphone nearby for all the watch’s functions to work.
Tag Heuer, Google and Intel made the announcement at Basel-world, a watch and jewelry trade show in Switzerland. Tag Heuer is a part of French luxury goods group LVMH. (ap)
SAN FRANCISCO - Instagram on Monday released a stand-alone application that makes it easy to create collages of iPhone pictures.
The move by the Facebook-owned smartphone photo sharing service was in keeping with a strategy by social network co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to field separate, specialized applications aimed at ways people like to use mobile devices.
“When you open Layout, we automatically show you previews of custom layouts as you chose photos from your camera roll,” Instagram said in an online post introducing Layout.
Layout features include the ability to automatically find pictures containing faces, and the option of share collages at leading social network Facebook as well as at Instagram.
The Layout application released on Monday was tailored for mobile devices powered by Apple soft-ware. A version of the app for use on Android gadgets should be available in coming months, according to Instagram.
Instagram finished last year with more than 300 million users. (afp)
SEOUL — Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty: Move over. And make way for laidback Brown bear and his irrepress-ible girlfriend Cony the bunny. Once just digital stickers that users of mobile messaging app Line send to each other like emoticons, the bear, the bunny and their seven friends will soon be un-leashed through stores, virtual reality and possibly an animated film.
For smartphone users in Asia where most of Line’s 181 million monthly users are located, the characters are as familiar as old school icons such as Hello Kitty and Disney’s animated stars. They are not well known in America or Europe but owner Line Corp. hopes to change that.
It plans to open 100 stores selling Brown dolls and other cute “Line Friends” paraphernalia worldwide over the next three years. It has already opened two stores in Seoul and its first Shanghai and New York stores will open this year.
Though partly an accidental strat-egy, the company says the bricks-and-mortar presence will draw more users to the app and help replicate its rapid Asian success in other regions. It will also give the company a backdoor into China, where Line is blocked along with other foreign messaging apps and social media sites.
“We never intended to do a char-acter business,” Yoon Sunmin, who oversees Line’s character business, said in an interview that was the first time the company has outlined its merchandizing plans in detail. “It ex-ploded by accident,” he said, drinking coffee from a paper cup emblazoned with the dazed face of Brown.
Visitors to the newly opened flag-
ship shop in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district screamed with delight when they saw an outsized Brown bear greeting them near the entrance of the three-story store. Locals and tourists from Vietnam, China and Hong Kong queued to take a picture with Brown and other human-size cutout Line characters, as if they were pop stars.
Evelyn Tan, a 27-year-old from northwestern China, and her friend Keira Yi, 23, from Beijing, said they don’t use Line in China but came to look at Brown and other cute dolls.
“I have some friends from Taiwan and they use Line,” said Tan. “The stickers. They are so cute.”
Larger and more expressive than emoticons, the stickers have been a draw card for Line whose users are mostly in Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, India and Spain. They also set Line apart from the bare bones interface of rival WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook for about $22 billion. Line is worth about $18 billion based on revenue from monthly users, according to Marcello Ahn, a fund manager at Quad Investment Management.
The popularity of the Brown and Cony stickers has also shaped a new trend in mobile communication.
Instead of typing messages, many users simply tapped a sticker show-ing a coy-looking Brown sitting on a toilet or eating a bowl of ramen. Users began to associate themselves with certain characters and the lineup now includes a bespectacled middle-aged man named Boss and James, a blond narcissist.
“People express their emotion with the characters so the depth of the inter-
Tag Heuer to make smartwatches with Google and Intel
NEW YORK — Watch out Apple: Swiss company Tag Heuer is developing its own smartwatch with tech rivals Google and Intel. The announcement comes a month before Apple Inc. starts selling its smartwatch.
Instagram releases collage-making app called Layout
AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
In this March 16, 2015 photo, figures of Cony the bunny, one of Line’s characters, are dis-played at the Line Friends flagship shop in Seoul, South Korea.
Big in Asia, Line app hopes cute factor will win worldwideaction is different,” Yoon said.
Stickers also made Line the rare mobile messenger that rakes in cash, first by selling stickers for $2 a pack to mobile phone users and later by adding new businesses such as games and a taxi hailing service. Users can now sell stickers they make themselves to other Line users. There are more than 200,000 people around the world who do that.
Line Corp.’s net profit jumped 50 percent in 2014 to 126 billion won ($112 million) on revenue of 670 bil-lion won ($594 million), according to its parent, South Korea’s Naver Corp. The app was launched in June 2011.
Line also cashed in on the rock star popularity of its animal charac-ters through mobile games and an
animated TV show in Japan.In China, the company hopes the
stores and other ventures will put it in a strong starting position in case authorities ever relent on their block-ing of the app.
The first Line Friends store in China will open in Shanghai’s Xin-tiandi shopping district in May, selling Brown dolls, Cony pens, Sally mugs and other goods such as kitchen uten-sils, stationary, jewelry and toys.
“We hope to resume the Line app service someday” in China, Yoon said. “If the Line app is resumed at a time when our characters are well known, it would be a powerful launch. We hope that in the countries where the Line app is not used actively, Line characters would promote the app.”
Apart from stores, Line is in talks to open a virtual reality amusement park in China. The first such park, where visitors can explore a virtual space with Line characters, will open in Bangkok this summer.
Line is also negotiating with Hol-lywood producers to turn its cute characters into an animated film for theaters or series for TV.
Line spun off Line Friends earlier this month to operate the character-related business independently from the company’s app business.
Though analysts are skeptical about the app’s future in China where Tencent’s WeChat is dominant, they say the merchandizing business could be effective in the U.S. and in Latin America. (ap)
However, the permits for the five in-vestors planning to invest in the tourist accommodation business have not been cleared yet. “So far, the five investors have filed for the permit for building accommodations in the southern region, but they are still in the process of inspec-tions and compliance of other permits,” he said.
Additionally, it was also revealed that there are five other investors who already have permits for the construction of tour-ist accommodations in the area. These will consist of the development of villas and star hotel accommodations. “Five companies already have a permit. Cur-rently they are in the process of develop-ment. We estimate that one of them will begin to operate this year,” he said.
Darmajati added that the devel-opments of the five investors are in conformity with the designation of the area. It is said that the construction of
accommodations in the area of Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra particularly to the South, with a view overlooking the beach and sea is increasingly being developed with villas and hotels continuing to pop up in the area. “This is due in large part because this area has both coastal access and is also relatively close to other tourist destinations,” he said.
When asked about the invasion of investors trying their luck in the sector of tourist accommodations in the coastal areas of Gianyar, it was confirmed that in fact investors are being encouraged to build there so as to even out the develop-ment of tourism between East and West Gianyar. “Everything has been done according to the rules and regulations. For instance, the development of accom-modations is not permitted in the middle of East Gianyar, which is reserved for tourism supporting facilities only,” stated Darmajati. (kmb35)
SEMARAPURA - Blacksmith and silversmith at Kamasan village have continued to evolve lately. They persistently innovate to cre-ate new products that can compete against local craftsmen and those from outside Bali. However, when the orders start to increase, they even face a shortage of labor to fulfill the orders of customers.
Such condition is felt by one of the famous craftsmen at Kamasan village, Made Sugandi. When met at his factory recently, the demand for metal and silver products like per-forated coin and other perforated-coin-based crafts remains high. This condition triggers the development of similar business for the people of Kamasan village. Sugandi him-self admitted to be overwhelmed to accept the orders by employing 12 workers. Actually he has added some workers from Java, but this owner of Bali Koin Antik business at Kamasan is still overwhelmed.
He produces some kinds of perforated coins such as the pan-cadatu with lotus and lotus script motif, kuci or the so-called female money, coin with puppet characters and many other types. “Among the existing types, the most sought-after type is the pancadatu because Bali-
nese community needs it for Hindu religious ceremony,” said Sugandi. For perforated coin industry, an-other problem also comes from Java. Competition against similar industry in Java becomes more severe. Admittedly, the perforated coin produced in Java is commonly sold at very cheap price in Bali.
Perforated coin produced in Java is sold for IDR 300,000 per thousand pieces. Meanwhile, the local perforated coin of Kamasan is sold at least for IDR 450,000 per thousand pieces. “The price offered at Kamasan has been very low in terms of the materials we use because the perforated coin industry does not only talk about business, but also about holy sacrifice,” said Sugandi.
Every day he admitted to pro-duce thousands of coins. Ideally, he needs 40 workers. Unfortunately, the local labor at Kamasan village is rarely willing to get involved in the business. Labor need of that amount is also following the new craft product business whose order starts flooding.
Other than perforated coin, the Bali Antik Koin itself also devel-ops some other products such as decorative lighting, carved furniture
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Indonesian prison guard escorts Heather Mack, left, from Chicago, Ill., carrying her baby underneath a shawl upon returning to the prison from a hospital in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, March 23, 2015. Mack, standing trial in Indonesia on a charge of murdering her mother, gave birth to a girl last week at a hospital on the resort island of Bali.
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Blacksmith and silversmith at Kamasan village have contin-ued to evolve lately. They persistently innovate to create new products that can compete against local craftsmen and those from outside Bali. However, when the orders start to increase, they even face a shortage of labor to fulfill the orders of cus-tomers.
Many orders, craftsmen at Kamasan lack of workersas well as craft for hotel and villa component. These new products have been flooded with orders from hotels in Indonesia having chain overseas. “Now, these products re-ceive the largest number of orders.
Unfortunately, we have trouble in obtaining workers,” said the son of Sugandi, I Made Hendra Prasetya who continues his father’s busi-ness. Now, he is working to find additional local workers to meet
the labor needs of his business. (kmb31)
Gianyar coast targeted for tourist accommodation development
GIANYAR - Gianyar region known as an oasis of the arts is indeed inseparable from tourism. This can be seen from the density tourist accom-modation in West Gianyar such as in Ubud and Sukawati. Investors have begun to switch their attention and snatch up land in the area stretching to the south of side of Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra. According to the Head of BPPT Gianyar, Ngakan Putu Darmajati, between January and Mid-March 2015, five investors applied to to the Integrated Licensing Service (BPPT) of Gianyar for permission to build tourist accommodations there.
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As chief of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission, Lajoie regularly sent intelligence-gathering patrols into communist East Germany and confrontations were not unusual. But he’d never gotten a call to re-spond personally to an incident. He remembered worrying that his men may have run over an East German civilian.
What he actually faced had even deeper political ramifications: A Soviet sentry had shot and killed unarmed U.S. Maj. Arthur Nich-olson, letting him bleed out where he fell on the tank firing range he had been reconnoitering. “Everyone knew it was kind of dangerous, but it was a big shock when Nicholson was killed,” Lajoie said.
Nicholson’s death 30 years ago Tuesday came only two weeks after Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader. It was his first major crisis, threatening to pull Washington and Moscow back into the depths of the Cold War.
When Nicholson’s body arrived back in the U.S. at Andrews Air
Force Base, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, flanked by the slain officer’s wife and young daughter, slammed the Soviets, say-ing “this sort of brutal international behavior jeopardizes directly the improvements in relations.”
Nicholson, whom everyone called “Nick,” was one of 14 American officers assigned to East Germany along with support staff as part of a 1947 agreement. The Soviets were allowed to station re-ciprocal numbers of officers in West Germany. The Soviet and Western interpretation of where U.S., British and French teams were allowed to go differed, which led to regular run-ins and injuries, but Nicholson was one of only two mission mem-bers killed, and the only American. “We were not cowboys, but we did tour aggressively,” recalled retired U.S. Marine Col. Lawrence Kelley, who now lives in southern Germany.
The information produced by the missions, including photos of Soviet equipment and troop dis-
positions, was considered some of the best intelligence available since it was collected and assessed by American or other allied experts.
At times the teams would push the envelope. Nicholson himself was part of a team that got inside a Soviet tank and photographed the entire interior. But the March 24, 1985, mission was routine, and the tank firing range a target that teams had been to many times. “It should have been a milk run,” Lajoie, who retired in 1994 as a major general, said in a telephone interview from his home in New Hampshire.
Lajoie grabbed Kelley and a driver and headed out at high speed toward the site near Ludwigslust, two hours outside Berlin. Soviet troops met them and escorted them to the site — still without telling the Americans what had happened.
“It was dark by then. And there was this ring of trucks with their headlights on, illuminating the area,” Lajoie said. “I thought, ‘This is bad.’” (ap)
NEW DELHI — India’s top court affirmed people’s right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send “offensive” messages by computer or cellphone. The provi-sion, known as Section 66A of the 2008 Information Technology Act, had made sending such messages a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the provision was “clearly vague” in not clarifying what should be construed as offensive. It also said the provision violates people’s freedom of speech and their right to share information. “The public’s right to know is directly affected,” the judges said in deeming the provision uncon-stitutional.
A law student who filed the challenge in 2012, Shreya Singhal, applauded the court’s rejection of a provision she said was “grossly offensive to our rights, our freedom of speech and expression.” “Today the Supreme Court has upheld that, they have supported our rights,” Singhal said. “I am ecstatic.”
The law has been invoked in at least 10 recent cases, most often involving criticism of political lead-ers. In 2012, a chemistry professor and his neighbor in Kolkata were arrested for forwarding a cartoon that made fun of West Bengal’s top elected official, Mamata Banerjee.
Police arrested a man last year for saying on Facebook that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then still a candidate, would start a holocaust in India if elected to office.
And last week, police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh ar-rested a teenage student for posting comments on Facebook he attrib-uted to a top state minister.
The student, jailed for two days
before being released on bail, told reporters he was happy the provi-sion was scrapped, though he was still recovering from “a very rough time.” Former finance and home minister P. Chidambaram wel-comed the court’s ruling, although his son had filed a police complaint in 2012 against a businessman for allegedly disparaging him in Twit-ter messages.
“The section was poorly drafted and was vulnerable,” Chidamba-ram said of the law, which was passed while his Congress party was in power. “It was capable of being misused and, in fact, it was misused.”
Cyber analysts said the ruling marked a positive step in ensuring that the Internet would be governed by the same norms and laws as newspapers, TV commentary and other forms of communication as India’s Internet users increase from today’s 100 million online.
“This sets the tone for the future of India’s democracy and participa-tion in this medium,” said Samir Saran of the New Delhi think tank, Observer Research Foundation. “It’s the ethos around freedom of expression that is being reaffirmed. It tells us that arbitrary executive infringements of the constitution will be struck down.”
He and other analysts said, however, that there was still more work to be done in guaranteeing the Internet was governed fairly, including a provision that allows the government to block websites without announcing or explaining its decision to do so. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld that part of the law.
“That’s wrong. That’s bad,” Saran said, calling for a review to decide criteria for “why something should be blocked and when it should be blocked.”(ap)
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An Indian woman leans on metal railings as she surfs the internet on her smartphone at a hospital in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. India’s top court reaffirmed people’s right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send “offensive” messages by computer or mobile phone.
Indian court rejects ban on ‘offensive’ Internet messages
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FILE - In this March 24, 1985 file photo honor guards of US Army carry the casket with the body of Major Arthur D. Nicholson to a hearse at Frankfurt’s, Germany, Rhine-Main airbase, where Nicholson’s body arrived from West Berlin aboard US Army C-12 plane.
30 years after Cold War killing, US
officer is rememberedBERLIN — U.S. Col. Roland Lajoie had just arrived home in West Berlin on a cool March
day in 1985 when he got the call from his headquarters: the Soviets were demanding to see him immediately in East Germany.
The tradition of mbed-mbedan is a kind of tug-of-war, using a rope made from the vine like bark of a tree that grows in the Semate cemetary. Locals here call it bun kalot interestingly; it is not only teenagers who participate in the mbed-mbedan but the prajuru or village authorities and com-munity leaders also participate, enlivening the atmosphere.
“Mbed-mbedan has taken
place in the customary village of Semate for a long time. Winning or losing is not important for the participants,” said the Chief of Semate, I Gede Suryadi.
Suryadi explained that this traditional tug-of-war has two groups, each pulling the vine like rope in opposite directions trying to force the other group to fall forward. Local people believe that the tradition does not seek
to have winners or losers, but is considered over when one group manages to wrangle the rope free of the other group.
As in years past, the Mbed-mbedan was held in front of the Desa / Puseh Temple, located on Kapal-Abianbase road. Before starting the mbed-mbedan, resi-dents of Semate village come to the Temple to say prayers and of-fer ritual paraphernalia. After the
prayers, the residents flock to the streets. This tradition has existed for longer than anyone knows and is usually played after Nyepi.
“Residents of Semate custom-ary village open the new life that follows Nyepi or Caka New Year (Ngembak Geni) with the spirit of togetherness. During the past year, there might be some mistakes and through the mbed-mbedan we share mutual forgiveness,” he said.
Implementation of the tradi-tion, he said, also acts to preserve the traditional heritage of Semate village. It also strengthens fam-
ily ties because after the mbed-mbedan people re-assemble at the local temple and enjoy a convivial atmosphere with people enjoying tipat and bantal (rice cake) together. The family atmosphere and spirit of togeth-erness are clearly visible during the ceremony.
The customary village of Se-mate consists of approximately 65 families. “We will maintain this tradition. Every year after the celebration of Nyepi, this tradition is carried out to unify all the residents of our village,” concluded Suryadi. (kmb27)
BANGLI - Parading of the ogoh-ogoh on Pengrupukan Nyepi, Friday (Mar. 20) is usually done by men. However, residents of Jehem village in Tembuku subdistrict, Bangli did things differently this year. As part of the emancipation of women, the parading of ogoh-ogoh was also done by women. Their ogoh-ogoh was of average size and the dozens of women who paraded the ogoh-ogoh did so vivaciously.
The annual parading of the ogoh-ogoh was -this time, followed by about sixty girls. Previously, parading of ogoh-ogoh in local village was carried out uniquely by men, with women only enlivening the atmosphere. The spirit of the women parading the ogoh-ogoh this year was not inferior to the spirit of men and they followed the custom of all wearing a uniform.
The parade around Jehem Kaja and Jehem Kelod hamlets was also accom-panied by the sound of bamboo split drum (kentongan).
According to one of the coordina-tors, Jro Mangku Eko Astana from the Swasti Bila Center Foundation of Jehem Kelod, the parading of the ogoh-ogoh by women was a first for Jehem and for the county of Bangli as a whole.
He said that the women wanted to show that they too can take part in adding cheer to the Nyepi celebrations. Also, participating in this activity is also a part of improving women’s emancipation and creating mutual re-spect among members of the customary village youth clubs in local villages. “Through this activity, the customary village youth clubs can gain mutually respect,” he said.
Astana added that women should have the same opportunities as men. “Women also have creativity and skill in the arts and it needs to be expressed,” he said. He added that women’s partici-pation in this pre-Nyepi activity will likely continue every year. (kmb45)
Semate customary village holds mbed-mbedan
MANGUPURA -The customary village of Semate, under the administrative authority of Abianbase village, Mengwi, organized a traditional mbed-mbedan that took place on Sunday (Mar. 22). This ancestral sporting tradition, passed down through generations is played on Ngembak Geni, the day after Nyepi.
Emancipation, women participate in parading ogoh-ogoh
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The women of Jehem Village in Bangli took part in ogoh-ogoh parade during Pengerupukan Day
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LONDON — When Rohini Anand took over diversity programs at multinational catering company Sodexo in 2002, she had one goal: To prove that it pays for a company to have equal numbers of male and female managers.
Sodexo, which has 419,000 em-ployees in 80 countries, says she’s done just that. A company-wide study last year found that units with equal numbers of men and women in management roles delivered more profits more consistently than those dominated by men.
“It has become embedded now. It’s not just me talking about it anymore,” Anand says with “I told you so” sat-isfaction.
Evidence is growing that gender equity is not just politically correct window-dressing, but good business. Companies are trying to increase the number of women in executive posi-tions, yet many are struggling to do so because of a failure to adapt work-place conditions in a way that ensures qualified women do not drop off the corporate ladder, surveys show.
The case for companies to act is compelling.
In a survey last year of 366 com-panies, consultancy McKinsey & Co. found that those whose leadership roles were most balanced between men and women were more likely to report financial returns above their national industry median.
Companies with more balanced leadership do a better job recruiting and retaining talented workers, reduc-ing the costs associated with replacing top executives, McKinsey found. They also have stronger customer relations because management better reflects the diversity of society, and they tend to make better business decisions because a wider array of viewpoints is considered.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who came out as gay last year, told PBS it was important to hire people who “comple-ment you, because you want to build a puzzle.”
While most big companies now have programs to increase gender diversity, many executives express frustration these programs aren’t working. McKinsey found that 63 percent of the employers it surveyed had at least 20 initiatives to address gender equity, but women held less
than a quarter of the top jobs in 92 percent of the companies.
Sandrine Devillard, who has been studying the issue for the consultancy for about 16 years, said companies were nonchalant about retaining top female talent when she started. Now they want to know what programs work. Fast.
That’s because a woman’s pros-pects for promotion fall off at every step of the career ladder, according to a separate survey of 130 large compa-nies conducted by McKinsey in 2012. While women made up 37 percent of the total workforce, they comprised 22 percent of middle managers, 14 percent of senior managers and vice presidents, 9 percent of executive committee members and 2 percent of CEOs.
In France, Norway, Spain and most recently Germany, governments have sought to mandate progress by impos-ing quotas for women on boards.
Norway had the highest percentage of women on boards — 35 percent — among 20 countries in Western Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region last year, according to data compiled by Catalyst, which
researches gender equity. The U.S. and Australia were tied for 10th at 19 percent.
Board quotas alone won’t close the gender gap because they only ad-dress the final step in the career ladder, researchers say. The real challenge for employers is to hire, train and promote talented women so they have a pipe-line of qualified female candidates when they need to fill senior roles.
“We’re on the cusp of a revolu-tion,” says Cary Cooper, a professor at Lancaster University Management School in Britain. “If organizations don’t allow more flexibility, more autonomy, they’re just going to keep losing (women).”
The average workplace remains locked in a post-war factory mentality with structured hours and a require-ment to be at the office — and the expectation to keep working from home even when not physically pres-ent, researchers say. The use of the Internet has helped working remotely, but for top managerial jobs that might lead to the boardroom, physical pres-ence in the office and attending work-related social events remain crucial. Add in broader social factors, such as
expectations that moms do domestic duty, and the pressures can become too much.
Take Emma Arkell. As a top di-vorce attorney at a large London law firm, she counted celebrities and the British aristocrats among her clients. Her career seemed certain to soar — until the kids came along.
After watching female colleagues struggle to balance family responsi-bilities with demands at work, Arkell realized she couldn’t do both. Instead, she started her own company making a line of natural skincare products after developing a cream that successfully treated her daughter’s rashes.
“I could do it from home,” she said of the business. “I had complete control of it.”
It’s not just about hours. Women often struggle with a male-domi-nated culture at executive levels, surveys show. Some have accused such a culture for the aggressive risk-taking that led to the global financial crisis. IMF chief Christine Lagarde quipped that if collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, the crisis would look different. (ap)
Takehiko Nakao’s comments came after Washington softened its opposition to the Chinese-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and suggested it work to-gether with existing entities such the World Bank.
The Manila-based ADB is ready to collaborate with the AIIB if it meets environmental, social and other standards for lending, Nakao said in an interview ahead of Tues-day’s release of his bank’s regional economic outlook.
U.S. officials worry the bank might become an instrument of Chinese foreign policy and un-dermine the World Bank or other institutions by offering credit with few conditions.
“I think we can complement each other,” Nakao said.
China proposed the bank in 2013 to finance construction of roads, ports and other infrastructure. It has
pledged to put up most of its initial $50 billion in capital.
Britain broke with Washington last week to announce it wanted to join the Chinese-led bank. France, Germany and Switzerland fol-lowed.
The ADB has talked with Chi-nese officials to share its “knowl-edge and experience” based on its 50-year history and staff of some 3,000 throughout the region, said Nakao, a former deputy Japanese finance minister.
In its economic outlook, the ADB said this year’s overall growth in developing Asia-Pacific countries should hold steady at last year’s 6.3 percent.
China should slow to 7.2 percent from last year’s 7.4 percent as the communist government tries to steer the economy to a more sustain-able expansion and reduce reliance on trade and investment, the bank
said. It said growth should decline further to 7 percent next year.
Growth in India, the region’s other economic giant, should accel-erate to 7.8 percent from last year’s 7.4 percent following regulatory changes aimed at removing “struc-tural bottlenecks,” the bank said. It said that should rise further to 8.2 percent next year.
The ADB says developing Asia-Pacific economies need some $7 trillion in investment in roads, ports and other infrastructure in the decade through 2020.
Meanwhile, the ADB plans to step up its lending to as much as $18 billion a year from the current $13 billion.
Nakao said plans call for increas-ing credit for the poorest countries, such as Cambodia and Afghanistan, by some 70 percent and lending and investing more in industries such as renewable energy. (ap)
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ADB president: China-led bank potential partner, not rival
BEIJING — The president of the Asian Development Bank says a proposed Chinese-led regional bank is a potential partner rather than a rival and the ADB is talking with Beijing to share its experience.
One of the basic principles in Hinduism is the belief in the soul. All creatures are brought to life by vital energy or soul (atman). It represents the fragment of God (Brahman). Since material body bonds them, they could not iden-tify their pure self. Human being endowed with power, words and mind has dominant role in main-taining the relations. He considers God dwells inside all creatures. On that account, he respects them all as equal creation.
Animal particularly cattle, for instance, has helped human be-ing in living their life. Cow has provided him with the power to plough his soil in the rice field or garden, milk for children and adult, and its dung for fertilizing the soil. Meanwhile, other cattle give hu-man some eggs or fleshes.
As a means of thanksgiving, Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate a day in 210 days as special ceremo-ny to their cattle. It is called Tum-pek Kandang falling on Saturday Kliwon Wuku Uye. On that day, the Hindus in Bali will celebrate it by presenting some oblations showing a deep gratitude for being given with the energy assistance, healthy drink or delicious food. The same
respect is given to cultivated plants that are honored through Tumpek Pengatag or Bubuh (Saturday Kli-won Wariga) and human itself has birthday (otonan) celebrated once in 210 days on the same day as his birth, not birthdate (on the same date). From the morning, girls or household mothers will be busy preparing everything for the ritual. It would be a great chance if you could see the Balinese perform the procession.
Since human being has a mind, there is an opportunity for him to get reunion with God because he can think and learn about God. This denotes another belief of Hinduism, namely moksha. Mean-while, animal and plant do not have this opportunity. However, human being can provide help for this purpose in order the soul of animal and plant can reach higher level in their next life.
Dharma Caruban manuscript describes the correct way to slaughter animals and to take plants for the use of rituals. Before slaughtering them, they are given particular mantra in the hope they could reach higher level of life in the next reincarnation. This treatment is equally given to any
plants, fish (ekapada), fowl (dwi-pada) and four-legged animals (catur pada).
Regarding to this human-an-imal relation, there is another manuscript, namely Darmaning Pemaculan or Shri Tattwa, describ-ing about spiritual farming-related activities, ranging from how to build different sizes of dam, land cultivation and plant’s disease eradication to rituals held in each phase of the activity. In handling plant’s disease, local farmers re-main to say prayers in order God or His manifestation keeps the animal properly, not disturb the plants. As the compensation for the animals, devotees will present proper food (lelabaan). Otherwise, the farmers will set up trap or natural poison.
When getting in touch with human life, all animals are treated as God’s creation and communi-cation maintained. Human offers thanksgiving oblation for the help extended; invocation for better life when animals are in use for rituals ingredients; acknowledg-ment and repressive action to plant diseases if they attack hu-man plants. In short, he remains to give proper treatment as equal God’s creation. (kmb)
DENPASAR - Telkomsel 4G technology have been held in Bali in the last two months. It turns out that the highest speed of 4G service reached about 33.63 Mbps. As stated in the open drive test held on Tuesday.
According to GM ICT Operations Telkomsel Regional Bali Nusra, Danny Agus Triawan, 4G signal checking in Denpasar and Badung was held in the densest communications area, namely region Teuku Umar, Imam Bonjol, Sunset Road, and I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. Tests were conducted using bus equipped with Drive Radio Cellular Performance Monitoring Test. It proves that 4G service is very good.
He said the average of the tests carried out for about 2 hours touring route Denpasar - Badung - Denpasar, reaches 12.04 Mbps on speed access. While the top speed obtained was 33.63 Mbps. “As the first mobile operator that launch 4G LTE commercial service in Bali, we are responsible for presenting the best service so that people can feel optimum quality of LTE 4G service,” he said.
He said there are three parameters used in this test, the Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) to measure the signal strength, Sig-nal to Noise Ratio (SNR) to measure the signal quality and through-put FTP parameters to measure the quality of 4G data services.
Currently, Telkomsel has held 154 eNode B or 4G base stations covering 80 percent area of Badung and 90 percent of Denpasar. “Currently, Telkomsel subscribers can enjoy 4G services in hundreds of locations, among others in the business district Teuku Umar, Imam Bonjol, Sanur, Renon, and the tourist area of Kuta, Legian, Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, GWK, and Uluwatu,” he said.
Judging from the number of users of these 4G services, GM Sales Telkomsel Regional Bali Nusra Gatot Priyo Utomo said pretty good. Currently users has reached 20 thousand subscribers. From a total of 4G service users, there are roamers (user sim card from another country). However, the number of USIM Indonesia users are on an upward trend. “The use of data for the 4G service is on average about 500 GB per day,” said Gatot.
He said to be able to enjoy 4G services Telkomsel, in addition to using a smartphone that supports 4G service, also must use sim card that 4G LTE ready called USIM. He explained customers can find USIM card in five Grapari located in Bali, namely Grapari Gatot Subroto, Grapari Diponegoro, Grapari Mal Bali Galeria, Grapari Kutabex, and Grapari Nusa Dua. (kmb18)
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GM ICT Operations Telkomsel Regional Bali Nusra, Danny Agus Triawan during the open drive test that conducted to monitor LTE service in Denpasar and Badung, on Tuesday.
Top speed 4G service reaches
33.63 Mbps
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As a means of thanksgiving, Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate a day in 210 days as special ceremony to their cattle. It is called Tumpek Kandang falling on Saturday Kliwon Wuku Uye. On that day, the Hindus in Bali will celebrate it by presenting some oblations showing a deep gratitude for being given with the energy assistance, healthy drink or delicious food.
Three indigenous wisdoms in human-animal relation
DENPASAR - Nature is so kind to its dwellers, namely plants, animal and human. It has provided all things or sustenance required for the survival around the clock. All require the presence of one another. However, human being is the most determining elements among the three because he is the only creature bestowed with the capability of thinking.
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The bodies of the two soldiers were found face down and half naked in a re-mote area in northern Aceh, said spokes-man Machfud. The hands of one soldier had been bound behind his back.
“Authorities found the bodies this morning in a jungle close to the location where they were kidnapped,” Machfud, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP.
Police had yet to determine a motive for the killings, or the identities of the gunmen.
Witnesses said a group of gunmen ambushed the soldiers as they returned from questioning residents about former rebels considered active in the east and
north of the province on Sumatra island’s northernmost tip.
Their car was found abandoned a short time later.
Machfud denied the military was questioning local residents, saying its presence in the province was limited to “social work such as helping farmers in paddy fields”.
The episode was a reminder of the fragile security situation in Aceh a decade after a peace deal ended a 30-year sepa-ratist insurgency in the province that left some 25,000 people dead.
Attacks on soldiers are now rare in Aceh, although gun-related violence is not uncommon. (afp)
JAMBI - The Jambi police has arrested a youth found keeping in his house attributes including flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Police arrested Novaldi (18) on report from his own father, Jambi police chief Brig.Gen.Bambang Sudarisman said on Tuesday.
Bambang said Novaldi’s father reported to police that Novaldi had threatened to hurt him with sharp weapon and held his younger son hostage.
Novaldi threatened his father Mulyadi (47) and his younger brother Maulana (6), who was held hostage at the family’s food-stuff store in the sub-district of Sijenmjang, East Jambi.
The incident began when Novaldi asked his father for Rp300 million, but when his father asked what the money for Novaldi took a a machete and attacked his father and locked his younger brother in a room of the store.
Mulyadi, then ran to police and reported the incident.
Novali is now at police detention for further investigation.
Police found a number of ISIS attributes including ISIS flag, an AK-56 replica, and a long knife, a sweater written in Arabic
language, a book on jihad war, etc. Mulyadi said Novaldi had changed lately refusing to communicate with his family members.
Indonesia has declared war against ISIS after ISIS threatened to kill a number of Indonesian leaders.
Last Saturday, the country’s police’s anti terror squad arrested six people allegedly assisting and financing recruitment of Indo-nesians to travel to Syria to join ISIS.
The six were arrested in in Jakarta, Tangerang and Bekasi at the same day, but only four were actively involved in the recruitment, police said.
The four identified as Aprianul Henri, Engkos Koswara, Fachry and Muhammad Amin Mude funded and recruited Indone-sians wanting to join ISIS and prepared Islamic state propaganda, police spokesman Sr.Comr Rikwanto said.
Turkey is detaining 16 Indonesians ar-rested on that country’s border with Syria and 12 of them would be repatriated to Indonesia, head of the State Intelligence Agency Marciano Norman said.
Meanwhile another group of 16 Indo-nesians are missing in Turkey believed to have cross to Syria to join ISIS. Around 500 Indonesians have been reported to have joined ISIS in Middle East. (ant)
JAKARTA — Four Chinese Uighurs went on trial Monday in Indonesia on charges they engaged in an “evil conspiracy” with Indo-nesian terrorists including a fugitive militant alleged to be behind murders of police.
The four Chinese men were arrested in September while they were allegedly trying to meet Indonesia’s most wanted extremist, Abu Wardah Santoso, in Central Sulawesi province. Police said they found stickers with the Islamic State group’s symbol on them in the car carry-ing the four men when they were arrested.
Ahmet Mahmud, Abdullah alias Altinci Bayyram and Abdulbasit Tuzer are being tried in one case and Ahmet Bozoglan in a separate trial at the North Jakarta District Court.
Prosecutors said the four men violated Indonesia’s harsh anti-terror law and vio-lated immigration law by using fake Turkish passports.
The same court is holding trials also for four Indonesians accused of being militant as-sociates of Santoso, a fugitive suspect known as the leader of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur.
“The defendant has been involved in evil
conspiracy with Santoso’s terrorist group in Poso,” said Dicky Octavian, a prosecutor for the trial of Bozoglan.
Poso, in Central Sulawesi, was a flashpoint for violence between Christians and Muslims in which more than 1,000 people died in 2001 and 2002 and authorities believe the district is a terrorist hotbed.
Asludin Hatjani, a lawyer for the foreign-ers, said they would not submit objections to the prosecutors’ statement immediately, which means the next hearings in the case will in-volve presentation of the witnesses. The trials were adjourned until next week.
The case against the four Uighurs does not involve any alleged activities on behalf of the Islamic State group. Indonesia has outlawed membership in the group, but Turkey said on Friday it had stopped 16 Indonesians and was looking for others suspected of trying to enter Syria to join the group.
China has alleged that members of the Muslim Uighur minority joined the Islamic State and returned home to engage in terror-ist plots. (ap)
Gunmen kidnap, kill two Indonesian soldiers in Aceh
BANDA ACEH - Two Indonesian intelligence officers were found shot dead Tuesday, a day after being kidnapped by gunmen in the for-mer separatist rebel heartland of Aceh in the country’s west, a military spokesman said.
Police arrest youth with ISIS attributes
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A police officer escorts alleged members of China’s ethnic Uighur minority, from left to right, Abdulbasit Tuzer, Abdullah alias Altinci Bayyram and Ahmet Mahmud walk toward the courtroom prior to the start of their trial hearing at North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 23, 2015. An Indonesian court has opened the trial of four alleged members, including them, charged with involvement in ter-rorism activities and using fake passports.
Indonesia tries 4 Chinese Uighurs charged in terrorism case
The regional paper cited French civil aviation authorities for the number of people. According to the paper, the plane crashed between Digne et Barcelonnette.
Airbus said it is aware of the reports of a crash but could not confirm.
French President Francois Hol-lande says no survivors are likely in the Alpine crash of a passenger jet carrying 148 people.
The Germanwings passenger jet crashed Tuesday in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, French officials said. Eric Ciotti, the head of the regional council, said search-and-rescue teams were headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels.
In a live briefing Tuesday, Hol-lande said the area of the crash was remote and it was not clear whether anyone on the ground had been
hurt. Hollande said it was prob-able that a number of the victims are German.
“It’s a tragedy on our soil,” he said, adding he would be speaking shortly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The French newspaper La Provence, citing aviation officials, said the Airbus plane carried at least 142 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants. (ap)
BEIJING — Amnesty Interna-tional awarded its top honor Tues-day to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shin-ing light on his country’s restrictive political atmosphere, and to U.S. folk singer Joan Baez for her civil rights activism.
Both were named recipients of Amnesty’s Ambassador of Con-science Award, which recognizes lifetime human rights leadership.
Ai told The Associated Press that the award reminded him of
his social responsibilities as an artist, especially as the Chinese government tightens its grip on free expression and activism.
He noted that the repression was affecting “ordinary people around us concerned about basic issues” while answering a question about five women’s rights activists who remain in custody for planning anti-sexual harassment protests.
“I think as an artist, I use my own way to fulfill my responsibility to society,” the bearded 57-year-old
said. “Whether we have compas-sion for our own people or other countries, we all have to take re-sponsibility.”
Baez was cited by Amnesty In-ternational for her involvement in the U.S. civil rights activism since the 1960s.
Over the past four years, Ai has paid a high price for his activism, having been beaten by the authori-ties, imprisoned and blocked from leaving the country. In the process, he’s become one of China’s most
internationally known figures, a fame that has partially protected him.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying declined com-ment on the award, but said China hopes Amnesty can regard China “objectively.” Ai made his first big splash by helping design Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He fell afoul of Chinese authorities after taking up causes such as those of parents angry over what they said
was shoddy construction of schools that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, killing hundreds of children.
Ai said Tuesday that he hasn’t had a passport since his 2011 ar-rest for tax evasion, which he has called politically motivated, but still hoped he would be able to at-tend the May 21 award ceremony in Berlin. Previous award winners include Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and Irish rock band U2. (ap)
TUNIS, Tunisia — The curator of the Tunisian museum targeted by a terrorist attack announced Tuesday it is postponing its re-opening, for logistical and secu-rity reasons. The National Bardo Museum in Tunis was scheduled to reopen Tuesday for the first time since gunmen opened fire on tourists March 18. The attack killed 21 people, and two gunmen were killed by police.
Curator Moncef Ben Moussa told The Associated Press that there will be a “symbolic” cer-emony Tuesday for select guests, but the museum will not open to the public until Sunday. He blamed the delay on “organiza-tional” problems.
Museum spokeswoman Hanane Srarfi said the problems were primarily logistical, but added,
“There is obviously also the se-curity aspect being taken into ac-count.” She said there have been no threats against the museum, but “we should be vigilant.”
Authorities have arrested sev-eral people in the attack, the worst in Tunisia in 13 years, and are still hunting for the sus-pected mastermind. Five leading security officials were fired after the attack, and a police officer charged with surveillance of the museum was jailed. Officials have said none of the museum’s major archaeological treasures suffered damage.
Tuesday’s ceremony will in-clude a tribute to the victims of the attack and a concert by the Tunis symphony orchestra. Ac-tivists also plan a “march against terrorism” to the museum. (ap)
Ai Weiwei, Joan Baez honored by Amnesty International
AP Photo/Ali Louati
Tunisian’s president Beji Caid Essebsi, left, lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Bardo Mu-seum in Tunis, Sunday March 22, 2015.
Tunisia: Museum hit by terrorist attack delays reopening
AP Photo/Martin Meissner
FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2014 an Airbus A 320 of the German airline Germanwings is parked at the airport in Cologne, Germany, as their pilots went on strike.
French media report plane crash in the Alps, 148 aboard
PARIS — The French newspaper La Provence says an Airbus plane with at least 142 pas-sengers, two pilots and four flight attendants on board has crashed in the Alps region.
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TABANAN - Perhaps, you have ever visited the Tanah Lot tourist attraction. It is located at Beraban village, Kediri subdis-trict (Tabanan) or about 15 km west of Denpasar City and has become a favorite tourist destina-tion in recent years. In addition to offering an exotic panorama,
the attraction denoting a blend of nature and culture is also famous for a positive aura.
Nevertheless, not all locations can be visited in this tourist area. There are particular sacred zones that cannot be visited by anyone, or can only be passed through by certain people. Thus, pay a
particular attention to instruction available at location for safety. Or ask the information center before choosing a good place to relax.
For instance, the sacred zone of Titi Mamah located on the west of Tanah Lot, precisely in front of the Pakendungan Temple
leading to the beach area (now, Surya Mandala). Titi Mamah is a small bridge made of two large stones. This place should not be passed by pregnant women. If this ban is violated, the pregnant woman may miscarry.
The titi mamah area is cat-egorized into quite sacred and
austere. In the east lies the Titih Mamah Temple made of black stone. Meanwhile, in the west of Titi Mamah grows hibiscus tree that is not too large. Right on the hibiscus trees, there is a small stone believed by the Hindus to put offerings intended for the Titi Mamah occupants.
Titi Mamah Temple, Tanah Lot
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LONDON - Maria Sharapova’s life-changing move from Siberia to Florida as a seven-year-old propelled her on a path to fame and fortune but she says she would never turn her back on her mother country. It is sometimes easy to forget that five-times grand slam champion Sharapova, the world’s highest-paid female athlete, is actually Russian until you witness her conduct a post-match press conference in her native tongue.
With $32 million in prize money alone, a string of lucrative en-dorsements, her own candy business and even a famous boyfriend she is the living embodiment of the American dream. Yet, Sharapova baulks at the idea that she would want to trade her Russian passport for an American one, as former Czech Martina Navratilova did early in her glittering career.
“I would have if I wanted to (change citizenships) but it’s never been actually a question in my family or in my team whether I want-ed to change citizenships,” the Russian told CNBC in an interview to be screened on Wednesday. Sharapova, who won the Wimbledon title aged 17, still gives her all for Russia in the Fed Cup and was a torch bearer at the Sochi Winter Olympics a year ago.
She said her Russian heritage moulded her instincts. “It is about the family environment, it is about the rich culture,” the 27-year-old said.
“Just life experiences that I look back to and I know that for so many years I was shaped into the individual I was from those experi-ences. “And not necessarily simply the country, but the people, the mentality and the toughness and that never giving up attitude.”
World number two Sharapova will not have to venture too far from her adopted home at the Miami Open which starts this week. Should the tournament go according to rankings she will play nemesis Serena Williams in the final.
She beat the American in the 2004 Wimbledon final and again a few months later but lost the next 16, most recently in this year’s Australian Open final.
But Sharapova said their rivalry still burned strong. “She’s at the peak of her career. I am now number two in the world,” she said. “I feel like we’re still driven and hungry to be the best tennis players. “I don’t think anyone in the tennis world believed that, in 10 years’ time, we would still be rivals. I think it’s an incredible story.” (rtr)
Curry also had six assists and five rebounds as the NBA-leading Warriors (57-13) moved closer to securing the league’s top playoff seed. Golden State has a huge lead over Memphis (50-21) in the Western Conference and is pulling away from East-leading Atlanta (53-17) as well. Boston’s Evan Turner had 19 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds as the Celtics downed the New Jersey Nets 110-91 to end a three-game losing streak that had dropped them out of playoff position.
Avery Bradley scored 20 points to lead the Celtics, who moved a half-game ahead of Charlotte for the final playoff spot in the East-
ern Conference. The Hornets lost 98-86 at Chicago. Brook Lopez scored 31 points for the Nets, who had won two in a row to give them-selves renewed playoff hopes.
In Indianapolis, James Harden scored 19 of his 44 points in the fourth quarter as the Houston Rock-ets handed the Pacers their sixth straight loss 110-100. Josh Smith added 18 points for the Rockets (47-23), who have won four of five. Indiana’s sinking playoff hopes took another big hit despite 23 points from C.J. Watson.
The Chicago Bulls clinched a playoff spot after Nikola Mirotic scored 14 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter in a 98-86 win over
the Charlotte Hornets.Pau Gasol had 27 points and 12
rebounds as Chicago moved into a tie with Toronto for third place in the Eastern Conference. Jimmy Butler added 19 points in his re-turn to the lineup after missing 11 games with a sprained left elbow.
In other games, Zach Randolph scored 23 points and Marc Gasol had 21 as the Memphis Grizzlies secured a playoff spot with a 103-82 road win over the Brooklyn Knicks, while Minnesota rookie guard Zach LaVine scored 27 points, including two 3-pointers to force overtime, as the Timber-wolves edged the Utah Jazz 106-104. (ap)
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) celebrates after scoring against the Wash-ington Wizards during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif., Monday, March 23, 2015.
Warriors smother Wizards in 3rd quarter
for 107-76 winOAKLAND, California — Stephen Curry had 24 points as the Golden State Warriors used
a smothering defensive effort in the third quarter to pound the Washington Wizards 107-76 on Monday. The Warriors held the Wizards without a field goal for nearly 11 minutes after half-time, with Washington missing its first 15 shots. Golden State outscored the Wizards 29-8 in the quarter to take a 24-point lead.
My Russian heritage is non-negotiable,
says Sharapova
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
Maria Sharapova (RUS) during her match against Flavia Pennetta (ITA) in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Pennetta won 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
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“I’m proud of my team mates,” Totti, who missed the game due to injury, wrote on his personal blog (http://www.francescototti.com). “But I especially embrace Daniele. His goal allowed us to win at a difficult time for us and for him.”
Roma have won only three games since the Christmas break and a one-point gap on leaders Juventus has turned into a 14-point deficit which, with 10 league games remaining, has all but ended any realistic title hopes for Rudy Garcia’s men. “Finishing in second place is our goal,” midfielder Radja Nainggolan told reporters. “We have 10 games left and we have to try to grab as many points as we can.”
Holding on to second place, which guarantees a spot in next season’s Champions League, will not be easy, however, with surging Lazio have narrowed the gap to one point after winning their sixth successive game against Verona.
The outcome could be decided in the second-last fixture of the season when the Roman sides meet in the most anticipated derby since the 2013 Coppa Italia final which Lazio won 1-0.
After being torn apart at home by Fiorentina in Thursday’s Europa League game Garcia had promised
that he would make changes and only use
players who were ready to battle.
The French coach was true to his word against Cesena as 21-year old Salih Ucan was in the starting line-up for the first time this season and was replaced by youth-team midfielder Lorenzo Pellegrini. “They (Ucan and Pellegrini) showed they’re ready to lend us a hand,” Garcia said. “I’m happy for them.”
January transfer window signings Seydou Doumbia and Victor Ibarbo also played their parts and Roma now have almost two weeks to prepare for the next match against fifth-placed Napoli. (rtr)
ROTTERDAM — Former Netherlands defender Giovanni van Bronckhorst has been ap-pointed Feyenoord’s new coach from next season when Fred Rut-ten’s one-year contract expires.
Feyenoord announced Monday that Van Bronckhorst, currently one of Rutten’s two assistants in Rotterdam, has agreed a two-year contract with the team where he began his illustrious playing ca-reer as a youngster in the club’s academy.
The 40-year-old won league titles in Scotland, England and Spain with Rangers, Arsenal and Barcelona before returning to Feyenoord to finish his playing days. He won 106 caps for the Netherlands and captained the team that lost the 2010 World Cup final to Spain.
Van Bronckhorst says it is “an enormous honor” to coach the team he joined as a junior. Feyenoord is currently third in the Dutch top-flight Eredivisie. (ap)
LONDON — Liverpool de-fender Martin Skrtel has been charged with violent conduct by the FA following an incident with Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.
Skrtel appeared to step on de
Gea near the end of his side’s 2-1 defeat at Anfield on Sunday.
The player has until Tuesday evening to respond to the Football Association’s charge.
If found guilty, Skrtel could face a three-match ban. (ap)
VIENNA — UEFA President Michel Platini was warned that nationalism and hooliganism is threatening European football. Rising extremism in European society is an “insidious trend (that) can also be observed in our stadi-ums,” Platini told UEFA’s annual meeting on Tuesday.
The France great, who wit-nessed the Heysel Stadium tragedy in 1985 playing for Juventus, said recent violent incidents revived “certain images that I thought were a thing of the past.” “We need tougher stadium bans at European level and, I will say it again, the
creation of a European sports po-lice force,” Platini said.
The UEFA leader will be re-elected unopposed later Tuesday, though he ignored commenting on the upcoming FIFA election and President Sepp Blatter.
Platini’s address did echo Blat-ter calling himself captain of a FIFA ship in troubled waters, on his previous election day in June 2011 when the world football body was rocked by vote-buying scandals.
However, Platini described himself as a teammate, “not the captain of a ship that is being
battered by a storm.” A printed version of the speech distributed earlier by UEFA suggested Platini would refer to a captain “clinging to the helm for dear life.” How-ever, Platini did not deliver the line, speaking minutes after Blat-ter’s own speech was conciliatory toward UEFA and respectfully applauded by delegates.
Blatter appeared at a UEFA meeting for the first time since senior European officials told him last June in Sao Paulo that he had lost credibility leading the scandal-hit world governing body and should not stand for re-election.
“We should not have anger in our hearts,” Blatter said on Tues-day, calling for unity. He did not refer to the May 29 election where he faces Michael van Praag of the Netherlands, Luis Figo of Portu-gal, and UEFA-backed Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan. Platini’s strongest message raised concern at increasing incidents of violence, and extreme views at club and national team matches. “Unfortu-nately, I have two worrying devel-opments to report today,” Platini cautioned leaders of UEFA’s 54 member federations.
Platini raised concerns of re-
turning to “the dark days of a not-so-distant past — a past where hooligans and all manner of fa-natics called the shots in certain European stadiums.”
“Some of us experienced that past at first hand. In my case, it was exactly 30 years ago,” said Platini who scored the only goal in the 1985 European Cup final in Brus-sels. The match was played after 39 fans died in the stadium in riot-ing provoked by Liverpool fans. Platini urged public authorities to better support football which often felt “as if we have been left to fend for ourselves.” (ap)
LONDON — The number of foreign players in English Premier League squads is set to be reduced under new rules designed to prevent the development of homegrown youngsters being stifled by imports. The English Football Association announced Monday that the non-European players will find it harder to gain British work permits from May when more stringent eligibility requirements come into force. The FA is also trying to gain Premier League approval for new limits on foreign players in squads.
“We believe too many talented English kids are currently not get-ting through the system and being lost,” FA chairman Greg Dyke said. The new rules would have prevented Arsenal from signing Spanish mid-fielder Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal as a 16-year-old and Stoke from bring-ing in American duo Geoff Cameron and Brek Shea.
Dyke is acting now before clubs experience a cash bonanza from the new Premier League television deals from the 2016-17 season, with domestic rights alone soaring 70 percent to around $8 billion over three years.
“We are concerned that there is a downside — all of the historical evidence shows that every time the television income goes up, so do the number of foreign players play-ing in our game,” Dyke said. “The unparalleled success of the Premier League, and the pressure this has put on managers, means that time after time clubs turn to experienced overseas players rather than giving home-grown youth a chance.”
The FA has been working on the new rules since 2013, but their neces-sity was highlighted by England’s group-stage exit at the 2014 World Cup. Dyke believes Harry Kane’s sudden rise — from fringe player to
Tottenham’s key asset — helped him secure the work permit changes.
“It must have done mustn’t it, suddenly an English kid who was out on loan at four different places who was touch and go to get a game in the first team is suddenly the top scorer in English football,” Dyke said. “It’s great news. How many more Harry Kanes are there out there, who just can’t get a game?”
The 21-year-old Kane, who was called up by England for the first time last week, only broke into the Tottenham first team after the ineffec-tiveness of Emmanuel Adebayor of Togo and Roberto Soldado of Spain became clear. The 19 league goals from Kane, an academy graduate, are only matched by Chelsea’s $48 mil-lion Spain forward Diego Costa.
Dyke wants Premier League approval for the number of non-homegrown players in squads to be cut from 17 to 13 by 2020, and for at
least two homegrown players to have been with the club for three years before their 18th birthday. A player is currently defined as homegrown if they have been affiliated with an English or Welsh club for three years before their 21st birthday.
“We will go round and try to con-vince them,” Dyke said. “We will ask: Are you sure you haven’t got a Harry Kane playing in your youth side?”
There are English kids in Premier League clubs’ academies who just need first-team opportunities to prove their value to first teams, according to Dyke. Dyke said he received Home Office department approval on Friday for a “fundamental reform of the non-EU work visa processes which will come into effect for next season.”
Currently non-European players desiring a British work permit must have featured in at least 75 percent of competitive international games in the previous two years for a top-
70 ranked team. Now only players from the top 50 FIFA nations will be considered, with a sliding scale of appearances required — from 30 percent of games over two years for the 1-10 teams to 75 percent for 31-50 teams.
FA research found that a third of the work permits applications for non-European players approved between 2009 and 2013 — 42 — would have been rejected under the new rules.
“The new system will make it far easier for us to identify and attract top quality players that truly are at the elite level,” Dyke said. “It will make it far tougher for those who don’t meet the quality standard to get to play in Britain.”
From next season Premier League teams could also be allowed to field their under 21s sides in the Football League Trophy for third and fourth tier clubs if an agreement is reached. (ap)
New English work permit rules to curb foreign soccer imports
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo, Netherlands’ Captain Giovanni Van Bronck-horst, controls the ball during their World Cup group 9 qualifying soccer match against Scotland at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst signs deal to coach Feyenoord
Skrtel charged for stamp on goalkeeper De Gea
Manchester United’s goal-keeper David De Gea, left, tussles with Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel during the English Pre-mier League soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester United at An-field Stadium, Liverpool, England, Sun-day, March 22, 2015.
AP Photo/Jon Super
AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File
AS Roma’s Daniele De Rossi celebrates after scoring against
Cesena during their Italian Serie A soccer match in Cesena
March 22, 2015.
UEFA chief Platini warns of rising extremism, hooliganism
Totti hails De Rossi in battling Roma win
ROME - AS Roma showed they still have an appetite for the fight in a hard-fought 1-0 win at Cesena, their first victory in over a month, in a match decided by a goal from “capitan futuro” Daniele De Rossi. The club’s “captain of the future” was praised by cur-rent skipper and Roma stalwart Francesco Totti.
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“I’m proud of my team mates,” Totti, who missed the game due to injury, wrote on his personal blog (http://www.francescototti.com). “But I especially embrace Daniele. His goal allowed us to win at a difficult time for us and for him.”
Roma have won only three games since the Christmas break and a one-point gap on leaders Juventus has turned into a 14-point deficit which, with 10 league games remaining, has all but ended any realistic title hopes for Rudy Garcia’s men. “Finishing in second place is our goal,” midfielder Radja Nainggolan told reporters. “We have 10 games left and we have to try to grab as many points as we can.”
Holding on to second place, which guarantees a spot in next season’s Champions League, will not be easy, however, with surging Lazio have narrowed the gap to one point after winning their sixth successive game against Verona.
The outcome could be decided in the second-last fixture of the season when the Roman sides meet in the most anticipated derby since the 2013 Coppa Italia final which Lazio won 1-0.
After being torn apart at home by Fiorentina in Thursday’s Europa League game Garcia had promised
that he would make changes and only use
players who were ready to battle.
The French coach was true to his word against Cesena as 21-year old Salih Ucan was in the starting line-up for the first time this season and was replaced by youth-team midfielder Lorenzo Pellegrini. “They (Ucan and Pellegrini) showed they’re ready to lend us a hand,” Garcia said. “I’m happy for them.”
January transfer window signings Seydou Doumbia and Victor Ibarbo also played their parts and Roma now have almost two weeks to prepare for the next match against fifth-placed Napoli. (rtr)
ROTTERDAM — Former Netherlands defender Giovanni van Bronckhorst has been ap-pointed Feyenoord’s new coach from next season when Fred Rut-ten’s one-year contract expires.
Feyenoord announced Monday that Van Bronckhorst, currently one of Rutten’s two assistants in Rotterdam, has agreed a two-year contract with the team where he began his illustrious playing ca-reer as a youngster in the club’s academy.
The 40-year-old won league titles in Scotland, England and Spain with Rangers, Arsenal and Barcelona before returning to Feyenoord to finish his playing days. He won 106 caps for the Netherlands and captained the team that lost the 2010 World Cup final to Spain.
Van Bronckhorst says it is “an enormous honor” to coach the team he joined as a junior. Feyenoord is currently third in the Dutch top-flight Eredivisie. (ap)
LONDON — Liverpool de-fender Martin Skrtel has been charged with violent conduct by the FA following an incident with Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.
Skrtel appeared to step on de
Gea near the end of his side’s 2-1 defeat at Anfield on Sunday.
The player has until Tuesday evening to respond to the Football Association’s charge.
If found guilty, Skrtel could face a three-match ban. (ap)
VIENNA — UEFA President Michel Platini was warned that nationalism and hooliganism is threatening European football. Rising extremism in European society is an “insidious trend (that) can also be observed in our stadi-ums,” Platini told UEFA’s annual meeting on Tuesday.
The France great, who wit-nessed the Heysel Stadium tragedy in 1985 playing for Juventus, said recent violent incidents revived “certain images that I thought were a thing of the past.” “We need tougher stadium bans at European level and, I will say it again, the
creation of a European sports po-lice force,” Platini said.
The UEFA leader will be re-elected unopposed later Tuesday, though he ignored commenting on the upcoming FIFA election and President Sepp Blatter.
Platini’s address did echo Blat-ter calling himself captain of a FIFA ship in troubled waters, on his previous election day in June 2011 when the world football body was rocked by vote-buying scandals.
However, Platini described himself as a teammate, “not the captain of a ship that is being
battered by a storm.” A printed version of the speech distributed earlier by UEFA suggested Platini would refer to a captain “clinging to the helm for dear life.” How-ever, Platini did not deliver the line, speaking minutes after Blat-ter’s own speech was conciliatory toward UEFA and respectfully applauded by delegates.
Blatter appeared at a UEFA meeting for the first time since senior European officials told him last June in Sao Paulo that he had lost credibility leading the scandal-hit world governing body and should not stand for re-election.
“We should not have anger in our hearts,” Blatter said on Tues-day, calling for unity. He did not refer to the May 29 election where he faces Michael van Praag of the Netherlands, Luis Figo of Portu-gal, and UEFA-backed Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan. Platini’s strongest message raised concern at increasing incidents of violence, and extreme views at club and national team matches. “Unfortu-nately, I have two worrying devel-opments to report today,” Platini cautioned leaders of UEFA’s 54 member federations.
Platini raised concerns of re-
turning to “the dark days of a not-so-distant past — a past where hooligans and all manner of fa-natics called the shots in certain European stadiums.”
“Some of us experienced that past at first hand. In my case, it was exactly 30 years ago,” said Platini who scored the only goal in the 1985 European Cup final in Brus-sels. The match was played after 39 fans died in the stadium in riot-ing provoked by Liverpool fans. Platini urged public authorities to better support football which often felt “as if we have been left to fend for ourselves.” (ap)
LONDON — The number of foreign players in English Premier League squads is set to be reduced under new rules designed to prevent the development of homegrown youngsters being stifled by imports. The English Football Association announced Monday that the non-European players will find it harder to gain British work permits from May when more stringent eligibility requirements come into force. The FA is also trying to gain Premier League approval for new limits on foreign players in squads.
“We believe too many talented English kids are currently not get-ting through the system and being lost,” FA chairman Greg Dyke said. The new rules would have prevented Arsenal from signing Spanish mid-fielder Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal as a 16-year-old and Stoke from bring-ing in American duo Geoff Cameron and Brek Shea.
Dyke is acting now before clubs experience a cash bonanza from the new Premier League television deals from the 2016-17 season, with domestic rights alone soaring 70 percent to around $8 billion over three years.
“We are concerned that there is a downside — all of the historical evidence shows that every time the television income goes up, so do the number of foreign players play-ing in our game,” Dyke said. “The unparalleled success of the Premier League, and the pressure this has put on managers, means that time after time clubs turn to experienced overseas players rather than giving home-grown youth a chance.”
The FA has been working on the new rules since 2013, but their neces-sity was highlighted by England’s group-stage exit at the 2014 World Cup. Dyke believes Harry Kane’s sudden rise — from fringe player to
Tottenham’s key asset — helped him secure the work permit changes.
“It must have done mustn’t it, suddenly an English kid who was out on loan at four different places who was touch and go to get a game in the first team is suddenly the top scorer in English football,” Dyke said. “It’s great news. How many more Harry Kanes are there out there, who just can’t get a game?”
The 21-year-old Kane, who was called up by England for the first time last week, only broke into the Tottenham first team after the ineffec-tiveness of Emmanuel Adebayor of Togo and Roberto Soldado of Spain became clear. The 19 league goals from Kane, an academy graduate, are only matched by Chelsea’s $48 mil-lion Spain forward Diego Costa.
Dyke wants Premier League approval for the number of non-homegrown players in squads to be cut from 17 to 13 by 2020, and for at
least two homegrown players to have been with the club for three years before their 18th birthday. A player is currently defined as homegrown if they have been affiliated with an English or Welsh club for three years before their 21st birthday.
“We will go round and try to con-vince them,” Dyke said. “We will ask: Are you sure you haven’t got a Harry Kane playing in your youth side?”
There are English kids in Premier League clubs’ academies who just need first-team opportunities to prove their value to first teams, according to Dyke. Dyke said he received Home Office department approval on Friday for a “fundamental reform of the non-EU work visa processes which will come into effect for next season.”
Currently non-European players desiring a British work permit must have featured in at least 75 percent of competitive international games in the previous two years for a top-
70 ranked team. Now only players from the top 50 FIFA nations will be considered, with a sliding scale of appearances required — from 30 percent of games over two years for the 1-10 teams to 75 percent for 31-50 teams.
FA research found that a third of the work permits applications for non-European players approved between 2009 and 2013 — 42 — would have been rejected under the new rules.
“The new system will make it far easier for us to identify and attract top quality players that truly are at the elite level,” Dyke said. “It will make it far tougher for those who don’t meet the quality standard to get to play in Britain.”
From next season Premier League teams could also be allowed to field their under 21s sides in the Football League Trophy for third and fourth tier clubs if an agreement is reached. (ap)
New English work permit rules to curb foreign soccer imports
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo, Netherlands’ Captain Giovanni Van Bronck-horst, controls the ball during their World Cup group 9 qualifying soccer match against Scotland at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst signs deal to coach Feyenoord
Skrtel charged for stamp on goalkeeper De Gea
Manchester United’s goal-keeper David De Gea, left, tussles with Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel during the English Pre-mier League soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester United at An-field Stadium, Liverpool, England, Sun-day, March 22, 2015.
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AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File
AS Roma’s Daniele De Rossi celebrates after scoring against
Cesena during their Italian Serie A soccer match in Cesena
March 22, 2015.
UEFA chief Platini warns of rising extremism, hooliganism
Totti hails De Rossi in battling Roma win
ROME - AS Roma showed they still have an appetite for the fight in a hard-fought 1-0 win at Cesena, their first victory in over a month, in a match decided by a goal from “capitan futuro” Daniele De Rossi. The club’s “captain of the future” was praised by cur-rent skipper and Roma stalwart Francesco Totti.
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TABANAN - Perhaps, you have ever visited the Tanah Lot tourist attraction. It is located at Beraban village, Kediri subdis-trict (Tabanan) or about 15 km west of Denpasar City and has become a favorite tourist destina-tion in recent years. In addition to offering an exotic panorama,
the attraction denoting a blend of nature and culture is also famous for a positive aura.
Nevertheless, not all locations can be visited in this tourist area. There are particular sacred zones that cannot be visited by anyone, or can only be passed through by certain people. Thus, pay a
particular attention to instruction available at location for safety. Or ask the information center before choosing a good place to relax.
For instance, the sacred zone of Titi Mamah located on the west of Tanah Lot, precisely in front of the Pakendungan Temple
leading to the beach area (now, Surya Mandala). Titi Mamah is a small bridge made of two large stones. This place should not be passed by pregnant women. If this ban is violated, the pregnant woman may miscarry.
The titi mamah area is cat-egorized into quite sacred and
austere. In the east lies the Titih Mamah Temple made of black stone. Meanwhile, in the west of Titi Mamah grows hibiscus tree that is not too large. Right on the hibiscus trees, there is a small stone believed by the Hindus to put offerings intended for the Titi Mamah occupants.
Titi Mamah Temple, Tanah Lot
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LONDON - Maria Sharapova’s life-changing move from Siberia to Florida as a seven-year-old propelled her on a path to fame and fortune but she says she would never turn her back on her mother country. It is sometimes easy to forget that five-times grand slam champion Sharapova, the world’s highest-paid female athlete, is actually Russian until you witness her conduct a post-match press conference in her native tongue.
With $32 million in prize money alone, a string of lucrative en-dorsements, her own candy business and even a famous boyfriend she is the living embodiment of the American dream. Yet, Sharapova baulks at the idea that she would want to trade her Russian passport for an American one, as former Czech Martina Navratilova did early in her glittering career.
“I would have if I wanted to (change citizenships) but it’s never been actually a question in my family or in my team whether I want-ed to change citizenships,” the Russian told CNBC in an interview to be screened on Wednesday. Sharapova, who won the Wimbledon title aged 17, still gives her all for Russia in the Fed Cup and was a torch bearer at the Sochi Winter Olympics a year ago.
She said her Russian heritage moulded her instincts. “It is about the family environment, it is about the rich culture,” the 27-year-old said.
“Just life experiences that I look back to and I know that for so many years I was shaped into the individual I was from those experi-ences. “And not necessarily simply the country, but the people, the mentality and the toughness and that never giving up attitude.”
World number two Sharapova will not have to venture too far from her adopted home at the Miami Open which starts this week. Should the tournament go according to rankings she will play nemesis Serena Williams in the final.
She beat the American in the 2004 Wimbledon final and again a few months later but lost the next 16, most recently in this year’s Australian Open final.
But Sharapova said their rivalry still burned strong. “She’s at the peak of her career. I am now number two in the world,” she said. “I feel like we’re still driven and hungry to be the best tennis players. “I don’t think anyone in the tennis world believed that, in 10 years’ time, we would still be rivals. I think it’s an incredible story.” (rtr)
Curry also had six assists and five rebounds as the NBA-leading Warriors (57-13) moved closer to securing the league’s top playoff seed. Golden State has a huge lead over Memphis (50-21) in the Western Conference and is pulling away from East-leading Atlanta (53-17) as well. Boston’s Evan Turner had 19 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds as the Celtics downed the New Jersey Nets 110-91 to end a three-game losing streak that had dropped them out of playoff position.
Avery Bradley scored 20 points to lead the Celtics, who moved a half-game ahead of Charlotte for the final playoff spot in the East-
ern Conference. The Hornets lost 98-86 at Chicago. Brook Lopez scored 31 points for the Nets, who had won two in a row to give them-selves renewed playoff hopes.
In Indianapolis, James Harden scored 19 of his 44 points in the fourth quarter as the Houston Rock-ets handed the Pacers their sixth straight loss 110-100. Josh Smith added 18 points for the Rockets (47-23), who have won four of five. Indiana’s sinking playoff hopes took another big hit despite 23 points from C.J. Watson.
The Chicago Bulls clinched a playoff spot after Nikola Mirotic scored 14 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter in a 98-86 win over
the Charlotte Hornets.Pau Gasol had 27 points and 12
rebounds as Chicago moved into a tie with Toronto for third place in the Eastern Conference. Jimmy Butler added 19 points in his re-turn to the lineup after missing 11 games with a sprained left elbow.
In other games, Zach Randolph scored 23 points and Marc Gasol had 21 as the Memphis Grizzlies secured a playoff spot with a 103-82 road win over the Brooklyn Knicks, while Minnesota rookie guard Zach LaVine scored 27 points, including two 3-pointers to force overtime, as the Timber-wolves edged the Utah Jazz 106-104. (ap)
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) celebrates after scoring against the Wash-ington Wizards during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif., Monday, March 23, 2015.
Warriors smother Wizards in 3rd quarter
for 107-76 winOAKLAND, California — Stephen Curry had 24 points as the Golden State Warriors used
a smothering defensive effort in the third quarter to pound the Washington Wizards 107-76 on Monday. The Warriors held the Wizards without a field goal for nearly 11 minutes after half-time, with Washington missing its first 15 shots. Golden State outscored the Wizards 29-8 in the quarter to take a 24-point lead.
My Russian heritage is non-negotiable,
says Sharapova
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Maria Sharapova (RUS) during her match against Flavia Pennetta (ITA) in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Pennetta won 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
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The bodies of the two soldiers were found face down and half naked in a re-mote area in northern Aceh, said spokes-man Machfud. The hands of one soldier had been bound behind his back.
“Authorities found the bodies this morning in a jungle close to the location where they were kidnapped,” Machfud, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP.
Police had yet to determine a motive for the killings, or the identities of the gunmen.
Witnesses said a group of gunmen ambushed the soldiers as they returned from questioning residents about former rebels considered active in the east and
north of the province on Sumatra island’s northernmost tip.
Their car was found abandoned a short time later.
Machfud denied the military was questioning local residents, saying its presence in the province was limited to “social work such as helping farmers in paddy fields”.
The episode was a reminder of the fragile security situation in Aceh a decade after a peace deal ended a 30-year sepa-ratist insurgency in the province that left some 25,000 people dead.
Attacks on soldiers are now rare in Aceh, although gun-related violence is not uncommon. (afp)
JAMBI - The Jambi police has arrested a youth found keeping in his house attributes including flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Police arrested Novaldi (18) on report from his own father, Jambi police chief Brig.Gen.Bambang Sudarisman said on Tuesday.
Bambang said Novaldi’s father reported to police that Novaldi had threatened to hurt him with sharp weapon and held his younger son hostage.
Novaldi threatened his father Mulyadi (47) and his younger brother Maulana (6), who was held hostage at the family’s food-stuff store in the sub-district of Sijenmjang, East Jambi.
The incident began when Novaldi asked his father for Rp300 million, but when his father asked what the money for Novaldi took a a machete and attacked his father and locked his younger brother in a room of the store.
Mulyadi, then ran to police and reported the incident.
Novali is now at police detention for further investigation.
Police found a number of ISIS attributes including ISIS flag, an AK-56 replica, and a long knife, a sweater written in Arabic
language, a book on jihad war, etc. Mulyadi said Novaldi had changed lately refusing to communicate with his family members.
Indonesia has declared war against ISIS after ISIS threatened to kill a number of Indonesian leaders.
Last Saturday, the country’s police’s anti terror squad arrested six people allegedly assisting and financing recruitment of Indo-nesians to travel to Syria to join ISIS.
The six were arrested in in Jakarta, Tangerang and Bekasi at the same day, but only four were actively involved in the recruitment, police said.
The four identified as Aprianul Henri, Engkos Koswara, Fachry and Muhammad Amin Mude funded and recruited Indone-sians wanting to join ISIS and prepared Islamic state propaganda, police spokesman Sr.Comr Rikwanto said.
Turkey is detaining 16 Indonesians ar-rested on that country’s border with Syria and 12 of them would be repatriated to Indonesia, head of the State Intelligence Agency Marciano Norman said.
Meanwhile another group of 16 Indo-nesians are missing in Turkey believed to have cross to Syria to join ISIS. Around 500 Indonesians have been reported to have joined ISIS in Middle East. (ant)
JAKARTA — Four Chinese Uighurs went on trial Monday in Indonesia on charges they engaged in an “evil conspiracy” with Indo-nesian terrorists including a fugitive militant alleged to be behind murders of police.
The four Chinese men were arrested in September while they were allegedly trying to meet Indonesia’s most wanted extremist, Abu Wardah Santoso, in Central Sulawesi province. Police said they found stickers with the Islamic State group’s symbol on them in the car carry-ing the four men when they were arrested.
Ahmet Mahmud, Abdullah alias Altinci Bayyram and Abdulbasit Tuzer are being tried in one case and Ahmet Bozoglan in a separate trial at the North Jakarta District Court.
Prosecutors said the four men violated Indonesia’s harsh anti-terror law and vio-lated immigration law by using fake Turkish passports.
The same court is holding trials also for four Indonesians accused of being militant as-sociates of Santoso, a fugitive suspect known as the leader of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur.
“The defendant has been involved in evil
conspiracy with Santoso’s terrorist group in Poso,” said Dicky Octavian, a prosecutor for the trial of Bozoglan.
Poso, in Central Sulawesi, was a flashpoint for violence between Christians and Muslims in which more than 1,000 people died in 2001 and 2002 and authorities believe the district is a terrorist hotbed.
Asludin Hatjani, a lawyer for the foreign-ers, said they would not submit objections to the prosecutors’ statement immediately, which means the next hearings in the case will in-volve presentation of the witnesses. The trials were adjourned until next week.
The case against the four Uighurs does not involve any alleged activities on behalf of the Islamic State group. Indonesia has outlawed membership in the group, but Turkey said on Friday it had stopped 16 Indonesians and was looking for others suspected of trying to enter Syria to join the group.
China has alleged that members of the Muslim Uighur minority joined the Islamic State and returned home to engage in terror-ist plots. (ap)
Gunmen kidnap, kill two Indonesian soldiers in Aceh
BANDA ACEH - Two Indonesian intelligence officers were found shot dead Tuesday, a day after being kidnapped by gunmen in the for-mer separatist rebel heartland of Aceh in the country’s west, a military spokesman said.
Police arrest youth with ISIS attributes
AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim
A police officer escorts alleged members of China’s ethnic Uighur minority, from left to right, Abdulbasit Tuzer, Abdullah alias Altinci Bayyram and Ahmet Mahmud walk toward the courtroom prior to the start of their trial hearing at North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 23, 2015. An Indonesian court has opened the trial of four alleged members, including them, charged with involvement in ter-rorism activities and using fake passports.
Indonesia tries 4 Chinese Uighurs charged in terrorism case
The regional paper cited French civil aviation authorities for the number of people. According to the paper, the plane crashed between Digne et Barcelonnette.
Airbus said it is aware of the reports of a crash but could not confirm.
French President Francois Hol-lande says no survivors are likely in the Alpine crash of a passenger jet carrying 148 people.
The Germanwings passenger jet crashed Tuesday in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, French officials said. Eric Ciotti, the head of the regional council, said search-and-rescue teams were headed to the crash site at Meolans-Revels.
In a live briefing Tuesday, Hol-lande said the area of the crash was remote and it was not clear whether anyone on the ground had been
hurt. Hollande said it was prob-able that a number of the victims are German.
“It’s a tragedy on our soil,” he said, adding he would be speaking shortly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The French newspaper La Provence, citing aviation officials, said the Airbus plane carried at least 142 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants. (ap)
BEIJING — Amnesty Interna-tional awarded its top honor Tues-day to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shin-ing light on his country’s restrictive political atmosphere, and to U.S. folk singer Joan Baez for her civil rights activism.
Both were named recipients of Amnesty’s Ambassador of Con-science Award, which recognizes lifetime human rights leadership.
Ai told The Associated Press that the award reminded him of
his social responsibilities as an artist, especially as the Chinese government tightens its grip on free expression and activism.
He noted that the repression was affecting “ordinary people around us concerned about basic issues” while answering a question about five women’s rights activists who remain in custody for planning anti-sexual harassment protests.
“I think as an artist, I use my own way to fulfill my responsibility to society,” the bearded 57-year-old
said. “Whether we have compas-sion for our own people or other countries, we all have to take re-sponsibility.”
Baez was cited by Amnesty In-ternational for her involvement in the U.S. civil rights activism since the 1960s.
Over the past four years, Ai has paid a high price for his activism, having been beaten by the authori-ties, imprisoned and blocked from leaving the country. In the process, he’s become one of China’s most
internationally known figures, a fame that has partially protected him.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying declined com-ment on the award, but said China hopes Amnesty can regard China “objectively.” Ai made his first big splash by helping design Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He fell afoul of Chinese authorities after taking up causes such as those of parents angry over what they said
was shoddy construction of schools that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, killing hundreds of children.
Ai said Tuesday that he hasn’t had a passport since his 2011 ar-rest for tax evasion, which he has called politically motivated, but still hoped he would be able to at-tend the May 21 award ceremony in Berlin. Previous award winners include Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and Irish rock band U2. (ap)
TUNIS, Tunisia — The curator of the Tunisian museum targeted by a terrorist attack announced Tuesday it is postponing its re-opening, for logistical and secu-rity reasons. The National Bardo Museum in Tunis was scheduled to reopen Tuesday for the first time since gunmen opened fire on tourists March 18. The attack killed 21 people, and two gunmen were killed by police.
Curator Moncef Ben Moussa told The Associated Press that there will be a “symbolic” cer-emony Tuesday for select guests, but the museum will not open to the public until Sunday. He blamed the delay on “organiza-tional” problems.
Museum spokeswoman Hanane Srarfi said the problems were primarily logistical, but added,
“There is obviously also the se-curity aspect being taken into ac-count.” She said there have been no threats against the museum, but “we should be vigilant.”
Authorities have arrested sev-eral people in the attack, the worst in Tunisia in 13 years, and are still hunting for the sus-pected mastermind. Five leading security officials were fired after the attack, and a police officer charged with surveillance of the museum was jailed. Officials have said none of the museum’s major archaeological treasures suffered damage.
Tuesday’s ceremony will in-clude a tribute to the victims of the attack and a concert by the Tunis symphony orchestra. Ac-tivists also plan a “march against terrorism” to the museum. (ap)
Ai Weiwei, Joan Baez honored by Amnesty International
AP Photo/Ali Louati
Tunisian’s president Beji Caid Essebsi, left, lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Bardo Mu-seum in Tunis, Sunday March 22, 2015.
Tunisia: Museum hit by terrorist attack delays reopening
AP Photo/Martin Meissner
FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2014 an Airbus A 320 of the German airline Germanwings is parked at the airport in Cologne, Germany, as their pilots went on strike.
French media report plane crash in the Alps, 148 aboard
PARIS — The French newspaper La Provence says an Airbus plane with at least 142 pas-sengers, two pilots and four flight attendants on board has crashed in the Alps region.
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LONDON — When Rohini Anand took over diversity programs at multinational catering company Sodexo in 2002, she had one goal: To prove that it pays for a company to have equal numbers of male and female managers.
Sodexo, which has 419,000 em-ployees in 80 countries, says she’s done just that. A company-wide study last year found that units with equal numbers of men and women in management roles delivered more profits more consistently than those dominated by men.
“It has become embedded now. It’s not just me talking about it anymore,” Anand says with “I told you so” sat-isfaction.
Evidence is growing that gender equity is not just politically correct window-dressing, but good business. Companies are trying to increase the number of women in executive posi-tions, yet many are struggling to do so because of a failure to adapt work-place conditions in a way that ensures qualified women do not drop off the corporate ladder, surveys show.
The case for companies to act is compelling.
In a survey last year of 366 com-panies, consultancy McKinsey & Co. found that those whose leadership roles were most balanced between men and women were more likely to report financial returns above their national industry median.
Companies with more balanced leadership do a better job recruiting and retaining talented workers, reduc-ing the costs associated with replacing top executives, McKinsey found. They also have stronger customer relations because management better reflects the diversity of society, and they tend to make better business decisions because a wider array of viewpoints is considered.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who came out as gay last year, told PBS it was important to hire people who “comple-ment you, because you want to build a puzzle.”
While most big companies now have programs to increase gender diversity, many executives express frustration these programs aren’t working. McKinsey found that 63 percent of the employers it surveyed had at least 20 initiatives to address gender equity, but women held less
than a quarter of the top jobs in 92 percent of the companies.
Sandrine Devillard, who has been studying the issue for the consultancy for about 16 years, said companies were nonchalant about retaining top female talent when she started. Now they want to know what programs work. Fast.
That’s because a woman’s pros-pects for promotion fall off at every step of the career ladder, according to a separate survey of 130 large compa-nies conducted by McKinsey in 2012. While women made up 37 percent of the total workforce, they comprised 22 percent of middle managers, 14 percent of senior managers and vice presidents, 9 percent of executive committee members and 2 percent of CEOs.
In France, Norway, Spain and most recently Germany, governments have sought to mandate progress by impos-ing quotas for women on boards.
Norway had the highest percentage of women on boards — 35 percent — among 20 countries in Western Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region last year, according to data compiled by Catalyst, which
researches gender equity. The U.S. and Australia were tied for 10th at 19 percent.
Board quotas alone won’t close the gender gap because they only ad-dress the final step in the career ladder, researchers say. The real challenge for employers is to hire, train and promote talented women so they have a pipe-line of qualified female candidates when they need to fill senior roles.
“We’re on the cusp of a revolu-tion,” says Cary Cooper, a professor at Lancaster University Management School in Britain. “If organizations don’t allow more flexibility, more autonomy, they’re just going to keep losing (women).”
The average workplace remains locked in a post-war factory mentality with structured hours and a require-ment to be at the office — and the expectation to keep working from home even when not physically pres-ent, researchers say. The use of the Internet has helped working remotely, but for top managerial jobs that might lead to the boardroom, physical pres-ence in the office and attending work-related social events remain crucial. Add in broader social factors, such as
expectations that moms do domestic duty, and the pressures can become too much.
Take Emma Arkell. As a top di-vorce attorney at a large London law firm, she counted celebrities and the British aristocrats among her clients. Her career seemed certain to soar — until the kids came along.
After watching female colleagues struggle to balance family responsi-bilities with demands at work, Arkell realized she couldn’t do both. Instead, she started her own company making a line of natural skincare products after developing a cream that successfully treated her daughter’s rashes.
“I could do it from home,” she said of the business. “I had complete control of it.”
It’s not just about hours. Women often struggle with a male-domi-nated culture at executive levels, surveys show. Some have accused such a culture for the aggressive risk-taking that led to the global financial crisis. IMF chief Christine Lagarde quipped that if collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, the crisis would look different. (ap)
Takehiko Nakao’s comments came after Washington softened its opposition to the Chinese-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and suggested it work to-gether with existing entities such the World Bank.
The Manila-based ADB is ready to collaborate with the AIIB if it meets environmental, social and other standards for lending, Nakao said in an interview ahead of Tues-day’s release of his bank’s regional economic outlook.
U.S. officials worry the bank might become an instrument of Chinese foreign policy and un-dermine the World Bank or other institutions by offering credit with few conditions.
“I think we can complement each other,” Nakao said.
China proposed the bank in 2013 to finance construction of roads, ports and other infrastructure. It has
pledged to put up most of its initial $50 billion in capital.
Britain broke with Washington last week to announce it wanted to join the Chinese-led bank. France, Germany and Switzerland fol-lowed.
The ADB has talked with Chi-nese officials to share its “knowl-edge and experience” based on its 50-year history and staff of some 3,000 throughout the region, said Nakao, a former deputy Japanese finance minister.
In its economic outlook, the ADB said this year’s overall growth in developing Asia-Pacific countries should hold steady at last year’s 6.3 percent.
China should slow to 7.2 percent from last year’s 7.4 percent as the communist government tries to steer the economy to a more sustain-able expansion and reduce reliance on trade and investment, the bank
said. It said growth should decline further to 7 percent next year.
Growth in India, the region’s other economic giant, should accel-erate to 7.8 percent from last year’s 7.4 percent following regulatory changes aimed at removing “struc-tural bottlenecks,” the bank said. It said that should rise further to 8.2 percent next year.
The ADB says developing Asia-Pacific economies need some $7 trillion in investment in roads, ports and other infrastructure in the decade through 2020.
Meanwhile, the ADB plans to step up its lending to as much as $18 billion a year from the current $13 billion.
Nakao said plans call for increas-ing credit for the poorest countries, such as Cambodia and Afghanistan, by some 70 percent and lending and investing more in industries such as renewable energy. (ap)
For business, more women in charge means bigger profitsAP Photo/Heng Sinith
ADB president: China-led bank potential partner, not rival
BEIJING — The president of the Asian Development Bank says a proposed Chinese-led regional bank is a potential partner rather than a rival and the ADB is talking with Beijing to share its experience.
One of the basic principles in Hinduism is the belief in the soul. All creatures are brought to life by vital energy or soul (atman). It represents the fragment of God (Brahman). Since material body bonds them, they could not iden-tify their pure self. Human being endowed with power, words and mind has dominant role in main-taining the relations. He considers God dwells inside all creatures. On that account, he respects them all as equal creation.
Animal particularly cattle, for instance, has helped human be-ing in living their life. Cow has provided him with the power to plough his soil in the rice field or garden, milk for children and adult, and its dung for fertilizing the soil. Meanwhile, other cattle give hu-man some eggs or fleshes.
As a means of thanksgiving, Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate a day in 210 days as special ceremo-ny to their cattle. It is called Tum-pek Kandang falling on Saturday Kliwon Wuku Uye. On that day, the Hindus in Bali will celebrate it by presenting some oblations showing a deep gratitude for being given with the energy assistance, healthy drink or delicious food. The same
respect is given to cultivated plants that are honored through Tumpek Pengatag or Bubuh (Saturday Kli-won Wariga) and human itself has birthday (otonan) celebrated once in 210 days on the same day as his birth, not birthdate (on the same date). From the morning, girls or household mothers will be busy preparing everything for the ritual. It would be a great chance if you could see the Balinese perform the procession.
Since human being has a mind, there is an opportunity for him to get reunion with God because he can think and learn about God. This denotes another belief of Hinduism, namely moksha. Mean-while, animal and plant do not have this opportunity. However, human being can provide help for this purpose in order the soul of animal and plant can reach higher level in their next life.
Dharma Caruban manuscript describes the correct way to slaughter animals and to take plants for the use of rituals. Before slaughtering them, they are given particular mantra in the hope they could reach higher level of life in the next reincarnation. This treatment is equally given to any
plants, fish (ekapada), fowl (dwi-pada) and four-legged animals (catur pada).
Regarding to this human-an-imal relation, there is another manuscript, namely Darmaning Pemaculan or Shri Tattwa, describ-ing about spiritual farming-related activities, ranging from how to build different sizes of dam, land cultivation and plant’s disease eradication to rituals held in each phase of the activity. In handling plant’s disease, local farmers re-main to say prayers in order God or His manifestation keeps the animal properly, not disturb the plants. As the compensation for the animals, devotees will present proper food (lelabaan). Otherwise, the farmers will set up trap or natural poison.
When getting in touch with human life, all animals are treated as God’s creation and communi-cation maintained. Human offers thanksgiving oblation for the help extended; invocation for better life when animals are in use for rituals ingredients; acknowledg-ment and repressive action to plant diseases if they attack hu-man plants. In short, he remains to give proper treatment as equal God’s creation. (kmb)
DENPASAR - Telkomsel 4G technology have been held in Bali in the last two months. It turns out that the highest speed of 4G service reached about 33.63 Mbps. As stated in the open drive test held on Tuesday.
According to GM ICT Operations Telkomsel Regional Bali Nusra, Danny Agus Triawan, 4G signal checking in Denpasar and Badung was held in the densest communications area, namely region Teuku Umar, Imam Bonjol, Sunset Road, and I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. Tests were conducted using bus equipped with Drive Radio Cellular Performance Monitoring Test. It proves that 4G service is very good.
He said the average of the tests carried out for about 2 hours touring route Denpasar - Badung - Denpasar, reaches 12.04 Mbps on speed access. While the top speed obtained was 33.63 Mbps. “As the first mobile operator that launch 4G LTE commercial service in Bali, we are responsible for presenting the best service so that people can feel optimum quality of LTE 4G service,” he said.
He said there are three parameters used in this test, the Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) to measure the signal strength, Sig-nal to Noise Ratio (SNR) to measure the signal quality and through-put FTP parameters to measure the quality of 4G data services.
Currently, Telkomsel has held 154 eNode B or 4G base stations covering 80 percent area of Badung and 90 percent of Denpasar. “Currently, Telkomsel subscribers can enjoy 4G services in hundreds of locations, among others in the business district Teuku Umar, Imam Bonjol, Sanur, Renon, and the tourist area of Kuta, Legian, Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, GWK, and Uluwatu,” he said.
Judging from the number of users of these 4G services, GM Sales Telkomsel Regional Bali Nusra Gatot Priyo Utomo said pretty good. Currently users has reached 20 thousand subscribers. From a total of 4G service users, there are roamers (user sim card from another country). However, the number of USIM Indonesia users are on an upward trend. “The use of data for the 4G service is on average about 500 GB per day,” said Gatot.
He said to be able to enjoy 4G services Telkomsel, in addition to using a smartphone that supports 4G service, also must use sim card that 4G LTE ready called USIM. He explained customers can find USIM card in five Grapari located in Bali, namely Grapari Gatot Subroto, Grapari Diponegoro, Grapari Mal Bali Galeria, Grapari Kutabex, and Grapari Nusa Dua. (kmb18)
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GM ICT Operations Telkomsel Regional Bali Nusra, Danny Agus Triawan during the open drive test that conducted to monitor LTE service in Denpasar and Badung, on Tuesday.
Top speed 4G service reaches
33.63 Mbps
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As a means of thanksgiving, Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate a day in 210 days as special ceremony to their cattle. It is called Tumpek Kandang falling on Saturday Kliwon Wuku Uye. On that day, the Hindus in Bali will celebrate it by presenting some oblations showing a deep gratitude for being given with the energy assistance, healthy drink or delicious food.
Three indigenous wisdoms in human-animal relation
DENPASAR - Nature is so kind to its dwellers, namely plants, animal and human. It has provided all things or sustenance required for the survival around the clock. All require the presence of one another. However, human being is the most determining elements among the three because he is the only creature bestowed with the capability of thinking.
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As chief of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission, Lajoie regularly sent intelligence-gathering patrols into communist East Germany and confrontations were not unusual. But he’d never gotten a call to re-spond personally to an incident. He remembered worrying that his men may have run over an East German civilian.
What he actually faced had even deeper political ramifications: A Soviet sentry had shot and killed unarmed U.S. Maj. Arthur Nich-olson, letting him bleed out where he fell on the tank firing range he had been reconnoitering. “Everyone knew it was kind of dangerous, but it was a big shock when Nicholson was killed,” Lajoie said.
Nicholson’s death 30 years ago Tuesday came only two weeks after Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader. It was his first major crisis, threatening to pull Washington and Moscow back into the depths of the Cold War.
When Nicholson’s body arrived back in the U.S. at Andrews Air
Force Base, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, flanked by the slain officer’s wife and young daughter, slammed the Soviets, say-ing “this sort of brutal international behavior jeopardizes directly the improvements in relations.”
Nicholson, whom everyone called “Nick,” was one of 14 American officers assigned to East Germany along with support staff as part of a 1947 agreement. The Soviets were allowed to station re-ciprocal numbers of officers in West Germany. The Soviet and Western interpretation of where U.S., British and French teams were allowed to go differed, which led to regular run-ins and injuries, but Nicholson was one of only two mission mem-bers killed, and the only American. “We were not cowboys, but we did tour aggressively,” recalled retired U.S. Marine Col. Lawrence Kelley, who now lives in southern Germany.
The information produced by the missions, including photos of Soviet equipment and troop dis-
positions, was considered some of the best intelligence available since it was collected and assessed by American or other allied experts.
At times the teams would push the envelope. Nicholson himself was part of a team that got inside a Soviet tank and photographed the entire interior. But the March 24, 1985, mission was routine, and the tank firing range a target that teams had been to many times. “It should have been a milk run,” Lajoie, who retired in 1994 as a major general, said in a telephone interview from his home in New Hampshire.
Lajoie grabbed Kelley and a driver and headed out at high speed toward the site near Ludwigslust, two hours outside Berlin. Soviet troops met them and escorted them to the site — still without telling the Americans what had happened.
“It was dark by then. And there was this ring of trucks with their headlights on, illuminating the area,” Lajoie said. “I thought, ‘This is bad.’” (ap)
NEW DELHI — India’s top court affirmed people’s right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send “offensive” messages by computer or cellphone. The provi-sion, known as Section 66A of the 2008 Information Technology Act, had made sending such messages a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the provision was “clearly vague” in not clarifying what should be construed as offensive. It also said the provision violates people’s freedom of speech and their right to share information. “The public’s right to know is directly affected,” the judges said in deeming the provision uncon-stitutional.
A law student who filed the challenge in 2012, Shreya Singhal, applauded the court’s rejection of a provision she said was “grossly offensive to our rights, our freedom of speech and expression.” “Today the Supreme Court has upheld that, they have supported our rights,” Singhal said. “I am ecstatic.”
The law has been invoked in at least 10 recent cases, most often involving criticism of political lead-ers. In 2012, a chemistry professor and his neighbor in Kolkata were arrested for forwarding a cartoon that made fun of West Bengal’s top elected official, Mamata Banerjee.
Police arrested a man last year for saying on Facebook that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then still a candidate, would start a holocaust in India if elected to office.
And last week, police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh ar-rested a teenage student for posting comments on Facebook he attrib-uted to a top state minister.
The student, jailed for two days
before being released on bail, told reporters he was happy the provi-sion was scrapped, though he was still recovering from “a very rough time.” Former finance and home minister P. Chidambaram wel-comed the court’s ruling, although his son had filed a police complaint in 2012 against a businessman for allegedly disparaging him in Twit-ter messages.
“The section was poorly drafted and was vulnerable,” Chidamba-ram said of the law, which was passed while his Congress party was in power. “It was capable of being misused and, in fact, it was misused.”
Cyber analysts said the ruling marked a positive step in ensuring that the Internet would be governed by the same norms and laws as newspapers, TV commentary and other forms of communication as India’s Internet users increase from today’s 100 million online.
“This sets the tone for the future of India’s democracy and participa-tion in this medium,” said Samir Saran of the New Delhi think tank, Observer Research Foundation. “It’s the ethos around freedom of expression that is being reaffirmed. It tells us that arbitrary executive infringements of the constitution will be struck down.”
He and other analysts said, however, that there was still more work to be done in guaranteeing the Internet was governed fairly, including a provision that allows the government to block websites without announcing or explaining its decision to do so. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld that part of the law.
“That’s wrong. That’s bad,” Saran said, calling for a review to decide criteria for “why something should be blocked and when it should be blocked.”(ap)
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An Indian woman leans on metal railings as she surfs the internet on her smartphone at a hospital in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. India’s top court reaffirmed people’s right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send “offensive” messages by computer or mobile phone.
Indian court rejects ban on ‘offensive’ Internet messages
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FILE - In this March 24, 1985 file photo honor guards of US Army carry the casket with the body of Major Arthur D. Nicholson to a hearse at Frankfurt’s, Germany, Rhine-Main airbase, where Nicholson’s body arrived from West Berlin aboard US Army C-12 plane.
30 years after Cold War killing, US
officer is rememberedBERLIN — U.S. Col. Roland Lajoie had just arrived home in West Berlin on a cool March
day in 1985 when he got the call from his headquarters: the Soviets were demanding to see him immediately in East Germany.
The tradition of mbed-mbedan is a kind of tug-of-war, using a rope made from the vine like bark of a tree that grows in the Semate cemetary. Locals here call it bun kalot interestingly; it is not only teenagers who participate in the mbed-mbedan but the prajuru or village authorities and com-munity leaders also participate, enlivening the atmosphere.
“Mbed-mbedan has taken
place in the customary village of Semate for a long time. Winning or losing is not important for the participants,” said the Chief of Semate, I Gede Suryadi.
Suryadi explained that this traditional tug-of-war has two groups, each pulling the vine like rope in opposite directions trying to force the other group to fall forward. Local people believe that the tradition does not seek
to have winners or losers, but is considered over when one group manages to wrangle the rope free of the other group.
As in years past, the Mbed-mbedan was held in front of the Desa / Puseh Temple, located on Kapal-Abianbase road. Before starting the mbed-mbedan, resi-dents of Semate village come to the Temple to say prayers and of-fer ritual paraphernalia. After the
prayers, the residents flock to the streets. This tradition has existed for longer than anyone knows and is usually played after Nyepi.
“Residents of Semate custom-ary village open the new life that follows Nyepi or Caka New Year (Ngembak Geni) with the spirit of togetherness. During the past year, there might be some mistakes and through the mbed-mbedan we share mutual forgiveness,” he said.
Implementation of the tradi-tion, he said, also acts to preserve the traditional heritage of Semate village. It also strengthens fam-
ily ties because after the mbed-mbedan people re-assemble at the local temple and enjoy a convivial atmosphere with people enjoying tipat and bantal (rice cake) together. The family atmosphere and spirit of togeth-erness are clearly visible during the ceremony.
The customary village of Se-mate consists of approximately 65 families. “We will maintain this tradition. Every year after the celebration of Nyepi, this tradition is carried out to unify all the residents of our village,” concluded Suryadi. (kmb27)
BANGLI - Parading of the ogoh-ogoh on Pengrupukan Nyepi, Friday (Mar. 20) is usually done by men. However, residents of Jehem village in Tembuku subdistrict, Bangli did things differently this year. As part of the emancipation of women, the parading of ogoh-ogoh was also done by women. Their ogoh-ogoh was of average size and the dozens of women who paraded the ogoh-ogoh did so vivaciously.
The annual parading of the ogoh-ogoh was -this time, followed by about sixty girls. Previously, parading of ogoh-ogoh in local village was carried out uniquely by men, with women only enlivening the atmosphere. The spirit of the women parading the ogoh-ogoh this year was not inferior to the spirit of men and they followed the custom of all wearing a uniform.
The parade around Jehem Kaja and Jehem Kelod hamlets was also accom-panied by the sound of bamboo split drum (kentongan).
According to one of the coordina-tors, Jro Mangku Eko Astana from the Swasti Bila Center Foundation of Jehem Kelod, the parading of the ogoh-ogoh by women was a first for Jehem and for the county of Bangli as a whole.
He said that the women wanted to show that they too can take part in adding cheer to the Nyepi celebrations. Also, participating in this activity is also a part of improving women’s emancipation and creating mutual re-spect among members of the customary village youth clubs in local villages. “Through this activity, the customary village youth clubs can gain mutually respect,” he said.
Astana added that women should have the same opportunities as men. “Women also have creativity and skill in the arts and it needs to be expressed,” he said. He added that women’s partici-pation in this pre-Nyepi activity will likely continue every year. (kmb45)
Semate customary village holds mbed-mbedan
MANGUPURA -The customary village of Semate, under the administrative authority of Abianbase village, Mengwi, organized a traditional mbed-mbedan that took place on Sunday (Mar. 22). This ancestral sporting tradition, passed down through generations is played on Ngembak Geni, the day after Nyepi.
Emancipation, women participate in parading ogoh-ogoh
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The women of Jehem Village in Bangli took part in ogoh-ogoh parade during Pengerupukan Day
3Wednesday, March 25, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Tag Heuer’s version is expected to be ready at the end of the year. The companies did not say what it will look like or how much it will cost, but watches from the luxury time-piece maker typically cost $1,000 and up.
The Apple Watch will start at $350 when it goes on sale April 24, but ones made with 18-karat gold begin at $10,000.
The Tag Heuer watch won’t be the only fashionable smartwatch competing with Apple. Clothing
maker Guess worked with a startup, Martian Watches, to create a line of fashionable smartwatches modeled on Rigor, a traditional watch line from Guess. Another small company, Burg, has a model with Swarovski crystals.
The Tag Heuer smartwatch will use technology from Intel Corp., whose Basis subsidiary already makes a fitness tracker called Peak. It will run Google Inc.’s Android Wear system, which is already used in smartwatches by Motorola, Sony,
LG and others. Android Wear em-phasizes voice controls, although some selections can be made through buttons and touch screens.
Like most smartwatches, Tag Heuer’s version will require that a wearer keep a smartphone nearby for all the watch’s functions to work.
Tag Heuer, Google and Intel made the announcement at Basel-world, a watch and jewelry trade show in Switzerland. Tag Heuer is a part of French luxury goods group LVMH. (ap)
SAN FRANCISCO - Instagram on Monday released a stand-alone application that makes it easy to create collages of iPhone pictures.
The move by the Facebook-owned smartphone photo sharing service was in keeping with a strategy by social network co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to field separate, specialized applications aimed at ways people like to use mobile devices.
“When you open Layout, we automatically show you previews of custom layouts as you chose photos from your camera roll,” Instagram said in an online post introducing Layout.
Layout features include the ability to automatically find pictures containing faces, and the option of share collages at leading social network Facebook as well as at Instagram.
The Layout application released on Monday was tailored for mobile devices powered by Apple soft-ware. A version of the app for use on Android gadgets should be available in coming months, according to Instagram.
Instagram finished last year with more than 300 million users. (afp)
SEOUL — Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty: Move over. And make way for laidback Brown bear and his irrepress-ible girlfriend Cony the bunny. Once just digital stickers that users of mobile messaging app Line send to each other like emoticons, the bear, the bunny and their seven friends will soon be un-leashed through stores, virtual reality and possibly an animated film.
For smartphone users in Asia where most of Line’s 181 million monthly users are located, the characters are as familiar as old school icons such as Hello Kitty and Disney’s animated stars. They are not well known in America or Europe but owner Line Corp. hopes to change that.
It plans to open 100 stores selling Brown dolls and other cute “Line Friends” paraphernalia worldwide over the next three years. It has already opened two stores in Seoul and its first Shanghai and New York stores will open this year.
Though partly an accidental strat-egy, the company says the bricks-and-mortar presence will draw more users to the app and help replicate its rapid Asian success in other regions. It will also give the company a backdoor into China, where Line is blocked along with other foreign messaging apps and social media sites.
“We never intended to do a char-acter business,” Yoon Sunmin, who oversees Line’s character business, said in an interview that was the first time the company has outlined its merchandizing plans in detail. “It ex-ploded by accident,” he said, drinking coffee from a paper cup emblazoned with the dazed face of Brown.
Visitors to the newly opened flag-
ship shop in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district screamed with delight when they saw an outsized Brown bear greeting them near the entrance of the three-story store. Locals and tourists from Vietnam, China and Hong Kong queued to take a picture with Brown and other human-size cutout Line characters, as if they were pop stars.
Evelyn Tan, a 27-year-old from northwestern China, and her friend Keira Yi, 23, from Beijing, said they don’t use Line in China but came to look at Brown and other cute dolls.
“I have some friends from Taiwan and they use Line,” said Tan. “The stickers. They are so cute.”
Larger and more expressive than emoticons, the stickers have been a draw card for Line whose users are mostly in Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, India and Spain. They also set Line apart from the bare bones interface of rival WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook for about $22 billion. Line is worth about $18 billion based on revenue from monthly users, according to Marcello Ahn, a fund manager at Quad Investment Management.
The popularity of the Brown and Cony stickers has also shaped a new trend in mobile communication.
Instead of typing messages, many users simply tapped a sticker show-ing a coy-looking Brown sitting on a toilet or eating a bowl of ramen. Users began to associate themselves with certain characters and the lineup now includes a bespectacled middle-aged man named Boss and James, a blond narcissist.
“People express their emotion with the characters so the depth of the inter-
Tag Heuer to make smartwatches with Google and Intel
NEW YORK — Watch out Apple: Swiss company Tag Heuer is developing its own smartwatch with tech rivals Google and Intel. The announcement comes a month before Apple Inc. starts selling its smartwatch.
Instagram releases collage-making app called Layout
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In this March 16, 2015 photo, figures of Cony the bunny, one of Line’s characters, are dis-played at the Line Friends flagship shop in Seoul, South Korea.
Big in Asia, Line app hopes cute factor will win worldwideaction is different,” Yoon said.
Stickers also made Line the rare mobile messenger that rakes in cash, first by selling stickers for $2 a pack to mobile phone users and later by adding new businesses such as games and a taxi hailing service. Users can now sell stickers they make themselves to other Line users. There are more than 200,000 people around the world who do that.
Line Corp.’s net profit jumped 50 percent in 2014 to 126 billion won ($112 million) on revenue of 670 bil-lion won ($594 million), according to its parent, South Korea’s Naver Corp. The app was launched in June 2011.
Line also cashed in on the rock star popularity of its animal charac-ters through mobile games and an
animated TV show in Japan.In China, the company hopes the
stores and other ventures will put it in a strong starting position in case authorities ever relent on their block-ing of the app.
The first Line Friends store in China will open in Shanghai’s Xin-tiandi shopping district in May, selling Brown dolls, Cony pens, Sally mugs and other goods such as kitchen uten-sils, stationary, jewelry and toys.
“We hope to resume the Line app service someday” in China, Yoon said. “If the Line app is resumed at a time when our characters are well known, it would be a powerful launch. We hope that in the countries where the Line app is not used actively, Line characters would promote the app.”
Apart from stores, Line is in talks to open a virtual reality amusement park in China. The first such park, where visitors can explore a virtual space with Line characters, will open in Bangkok this summer.
Line is also negotiating with Hol-lywood producers to turn its cute characters into an animated film for theaters or series for TV.
Line spun off Line Friends earlier this month to operate the character-related business independently from the company’s app business.
Though analysts are skeptical about the app’s future in China where Tencent’s WeChat is dominant, they say the merchandizing business could be effective in the U.S. and in Latin America. (ap)
However, the permits for the five in-vestors planning to invest in the tourist accommodation business have not been cleared yet. “So far, the five investors have filed for the permit for building accommodations in the southern region, but they are still in the process of inspec-tions and compliance of other permits,” he said.
Additionally, it was also revealed that there are five other investors who already have permits for the construction of tour-ist accommodations in the area. These will consist of the development of villas and star hotel accommodations. “Five companies already have a permit. Cur-rently they are in the process of develop-ment. We estimate that one of them will begin to operate this year,” he said.
Darmajati added that the devel-opments of the five investors are in conformity with the designation of the area. It is said that the construction of
accommodations in the area of Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra particularly to the South, with a view overlooking the beach and sea is increasingly being developed with villas and hotels continuing to pop up in the area. “This is due in large part because this area has both coastal access and is also relatively close to other tourist destinations,” he said.
When asked about the invasion of investors trying their luck in the sector of tourist accommodations in the coastal areas of Gianyar, it was confirmed that in fact investors are being encouraged to build there so as to even out the develop-ment of tourism between East and West Gianyar. “Everything has been done according to the rules and regulations. For instance, the development of accom-modations is not permitted in the middle of East Gianyar, which is reserved for tourism supporting facilities only,” stated Darmajati. (kmb35)
SEMARAPURA - Blacksmith and silversmith at Kamasan village have continued to evolve lately. They persistently innovate to cre-ate new products that can compete against local craftsmen and those from outside Bali. However, when the orders start to increase, they even face a shortage of labor to fulfill the orders of customers.
Such condition is felt by one of the famous craftsmen at Kamasan village, Made Sugandi. When met at his factory recently, the demand for metal and silver products like per-forated coin and other perforated-coin-based crafts remains high. This condition triggers the development of similar business for the people of Kamasan village. Sugandi him-self admitted to be overwhelmed to accept the orders by employing 12 workers. Actually he has added some workers from Java, but this owner of Bali Koin Antik business at Kamasan is still overwhelmed.
He produces some kinds of perforated coins such as the pan-cadatu with lotus and lotus script motif, kuci or the so-called female money, coin with puppet characters and many other types. “Among the existing types, the most sought-after type is the pancadatu because Bali-
nese community needs it for Hindu religious ceremony,” said Sugandi. For perforated coin industry, an-other problem also comes from Java. Competition against similar industry in Java becomes more severe. Admittedly, the perforated coin produced in Java is commonly sold at very cheap price in Bali.
Perforated coin produced in Java is sold for IDR 300,000 per thousand pieces. Meanwhile, the local perforated coin of Kamasan is sold at least for IDR 450,000 per thousand pieces. “The price offered at Kamasan has been very low in terms of the materials we use because the perforated coin industry does not only talk about business, but also about holy sacrifice,” said Sugandi.
Every day he admitted to pro-duce thousands of coins. Ideally, he needs 40 workers. Unfortunately, the local labor at Kamasan village is rarely willing to get involved in the business. Labor need of that amount is also following the new craft product business whose order starts flooding.
Other than perforated coin, the Bali Antik Koin itself also devel-ops some other products such as decorative lighting, carved furniture
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Indonesian prison guard escorts Heather Mack, left, from Chicago, Ill., carrying her baby underneath a shawl upon returning to the prison from a hospital in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, March 23, 2015. Mack, standing trial in Indonesia on a charge of murdering her mother, gave birth to a girl last week at a hospital on the resort island of Bali.
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Blacksmith and silversmith at Kamasan village have contin-ued to evolve lately. They persistently innovate to create new products that can compete against local craftsmen and those from outside Bali. However, when the orders start to increase, they even face a shortage of labor to fulfill the orders of cus-tomers.
Many orders, craftsmen at Kamasan lack of workersas well as craft for hotel and villa component. These new products have been flooded with orders from hotels in Indonesia having chain overseas. “Now, these products re-ceive the largest number of orders.
Unfortunately, we have trouble in obtaining workers,” said the son of Sugandi, I Made Hendra Prasetya who continues his father’s busi-ness. Now, he is working to find additional local workers to meet
the labor needs of his business. (kmb31)
Gianyar coast targeted for tourist accommodation development
GIANYAR - Gianyar region known as an oasis of the arts is indeed inseparable from tourism. This can be seen from the density tourist accom-modation in West Gianyar such as in Ubud and Sukawati. Investors have begun to switch their attention and snatch up land in the area stretching to the south of side of Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra. According to the Head of BPPT Gianyar, Ngakan Putu Darmajati, between January and Mid-March 2015, five investors applied to to the Integrated Licensing Service (BPPT) of Gianyar for permission to build tourist accommodations there.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
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This prestigious award presentation is in its 6th year, primarily aimed to rec-ognize and pay tribute to boutique hotels with good design in both architecture and experience. This year’s theme is based on “Intellectual Shape and Delicate Mind”. In the past, the award focuses on giving hon-ours to more than 400 hotels over Greater China, but has now open up to include overseas properties, outside China.
The judging process was based on 50% voting by the judging panel(comprising of prominent Chinesearchitects like Mr Liang Jing Hua, Mr Hao Lin, Mr Li Ying to artists such as Fashion Designer Ms Li Hongyan, Pianist Mr Zhao Yinyin, artist Ms Cui Xiu-Wen and Designer Mr Lv YongZhong) and the remaining 50% was voted by public through we-chat and weibo.
For the overseas hotel award category,
the editorial team of the award organizer will first research on the property and provide their views, thereafter, the profes-sional judging panelists will make their vote. The judging criteria is based on architectural style, interior décor, unique personalized elements, facilities and services to location and guest experience satisfaction.
The structure of this Awards is catego-rized into “ Hardware Design”, “Experi-ence Design” and “ General Awards”.
“We are proud of this winning and it will certainly allow the L Hotels & Resorts brand to gain better recognition amongst the China market. L stands for “Live Life”, the hotel’s epitome of embracing Life and the key feature is personalization in every frontier of the Brand’s innovation and service delivery.” remarks Adeline Quek,
Director Brand Management, Sales & Marketing.
Creating a unique experience, comple-menting the heritage of the place with designer interiors is a strong DNA for L Hotel Seminyak. Including the highly praised Personalised Butler team whom guests have so far appreciated and return again and again to their ‘home’ here to be pampered by our distinguished butlers.
“Our butlers are trained, in addition to their experience, to serve with attention, dedication and to tailor make individual experiences that create memories” says Adeline.
Since opening, L Hotel Seminyak has won numerous awards. (Favourite Re-sort – Asia Pacifi 2013, voted by Globla Agents of SLH), (“One of The Top Three Best Boutique Hotels 2013”- Hospitality
This man of Tabanan-born on June 4, 1975 is not only known for its cheery smile but also his impor-tant role in processing food. His name is I Komang Aryana, a Sous Chef of Aston Denpasar. “Cooking activity poses a unique culinary art to me because there are always new things to be created,” said the Sous Chef who loved to cook since his junior high school.
According to Aryana, the people considered professional in cooking when they upheld hygiene and sani-tation in kitchen area, worked based on the Standard of Operations, pro-cessed ingredients properly and paid attention to simple things like set-ting the size of fire that would affect the cooking. “Cooking must also be
carried out responsively and lived with a heart,” he said friendly.
The Sous Chef who liked jog-ging also revealed that when getting involved in the culinary world, the task was not only to cook but also to give satisfaction to guests, serve tasty and healthy food and create a different impression for the res-taurant.
Creating new menus, said Arya-na, such as Grilled Chicken Sand-wich Yanchao, Middle East Green Salad, Pasta Bake and other menus were an experience in examining the self-capabilities in cooking. “Consume healthy foods that are free from preservatives and use the product of Indonesian spices,” he added. (kmb) IBP/kmb
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L Hotel Seminyak wins “Best Overseas Hotel of The Year 2015” SEMINyAK - L Hotels & resorts is pleased to announce her latest accolade “ Best Overseas Hotel of
The Year 2015” awarded to her flagship L Hotel Seminyak in Bali at the annual “ The Best Design Hotels Award” held the Ritz Carlton Shanghai, Pudong recently in January 2015.
Investment World Indonesia) and (“Country Winner- Luxury New Hotel”- World Luxury Hotels Awards 2013).
There are plans to expand and open in Ubud another L Resort in the near future, as a continuity of offering guests experiential stays in different precincts in Bali, to allow the charms of the areas and our people personalities to evoke and delight.
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I Komang AryanaCooking with heart
Visitors who want to tour the lake are taken by traditional boat or canoe by members of the local community. The lake is becoming a favorite recreational site for local and foreign travelers who want to breathe fresh air while enjoying beautiful scenery. The boats on lake are in fact owned by fishermen but can be leased so as to enjoy the beauty of the lake.
“We rent out our 4 passenger canoe for IDR 350,000. We also out rent an ancu (fishing platform) in the middle of the lake for visitors who want to fish,” said Nyoman Sudani, a tour guide on the lake.
According to her, Lake Tamblin-gan, with is surrounded by forest and located in the highlands makes for cool weather conditions most of the time. The attraction of this place is not only its natural charm, but also the many temples that represent the history and develop-ment of Balinese civilization and culture, particularly concerning the formation and development of
BANGLI - Starting on April 16, all mini-markets, shops and stalls in Bangli will be prohibited from selling class A liquor in ac-cordance with the Regulation of the Ministry of Trade of the RI on the control and supervision of the procurement, distribution and sales of liquor.
“We’re still finalizing the prep-arations for the implementation of
the regulation. Prohibition of the sale of class A liquor (alcohol con-tent of less than 5 percent) will be in effect as of April 16th” said the Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, Nengah Sudibya.
He said that before the pro-hibition is imposed, inspections will be held in stalls and mini-markets that sell liquor. How-ever, because it is not known
how many mini-markets and stalls sell class A liquor in Ban-gli, during the inspections, the Trade agency will collect data so as to get exact figures on the number of liquor retailers. The planned raids which still in the preliminary phase, started on Monday (Mar. 23), with a team that includes police authorities. If during the inspections, the
team finds a mini-market selling class A liquor, a warning will be issued. By contrast, if liquor is found during the post April 16th inspections, sanctions will be imposed. “For the time being, we want to make sure that the owners and employers of mini-market and other class A liquor retailers know about the regulation com-ing into effect,” he explained.
Sudibya added that his party has already been spreading infor-mation about the prohibition on the sale of liquor -including to the mini markets of Bangli for some time. “In fact this is part of a pro-cess of information dissemination that included our sending letters to mini-markets, liquor retailers as well as all subdistrict heads,” added Sudibya. (kmb40)
Starting April 16, merchants prohibited from selling liquor
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Tourists are enjoying their tima at Tamblingan Lake
Explore the charms of Lake Tamblingan
SINGARAJA - When you visit North Bali, do not miss the natural tourist attraction of Lake Tamblingan. The lake has not been developed into a modern tourist site for the sake of preserving the natural environment. The tourist at-traction located on the north-ern slope of Mount Lesung, near Munduk village, Banjar, Buleleng, is free of motor bear-ing boats so that the area can remain free of pollution.
Tamblingan village.With all the facilities required
by visitors, and a trekking path that runs around the lake area, Tamblin-gan is frequently used as a location for photo shoots. The trekking path is quite simple and uncomplicated little to no winding and very smooth surface. While strolling on this
path, travelers pass under the shade of the trees and encounter the hos-pitality of the local people.
“We are here also providing trekking tours around the jungle. European travellers generally en-joy this sport the most,” said Putu Gabong, an overland tour guide.
He explained that the rate
charged for the adventure of for-est trekking varies between about IDR 280,000 and IDR 600,000. “Depending on the route, like the trekking at Dasong takes four hours and costs IDR 600,000. There is also longer trek, up to seven hours, called the Jatiluwih tour, which is offered at different
rate,” he explained.He mentioned that, other than
trekking, visitors can also enjoy-ing camping here. It is one of the exciting activities that can be orga-nized here. Setting up a tent while enjoying a silent night vacation is an option for travelers who want relieve from fatigue. (par)
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Manpower Minister Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri earlier this month told reporters the government would require existing and prospective for-eigners to pass Indonesian language tests to work in the country, a move seen by many foreign investors as protectionist.
Currently, foreigners do not have to speak Indonesian to receive a work permit for Southeast Asia’s largest
economy.“Coordinating ministers agreed
last week that the planned regulation should be dropped. The details are now being worked out within the cabinet,” said a government official, with knowledge of the matter, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A second government official
confirmed that the plan for language tests would be withdrawn after “many people complained, including domes-tic investors who said they needed foreign expertise.”
Minister Dhakiri on Friday denied that the language test requirements would be cancelled. The minister was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
Companies have increasingly
raised concerns about the growing difficulties of obtaining work permits for foreign workers, with language exams being the latest example.
“If they do withdraw this, we are encouraged by that. It is an unneces-sary barrier,” said Lin Neumann, managing director of the American Chamber of Commerce Indonesia.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla told Reuters last week that the planned regulation was “well intentioned” to protect low-skilled jobs ahead
of the ASEAN Economic Commu-nity (AEC) integration this year, but should be reviewed because of its potential impact on investment.
President Joko Widodo, who took office in October, wants to spur economic growth from an estimated 5.1 percent in 2014 to 5.8 percent this year, relying mainly on higher investment. (rtr)
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Foreigners work as chef at one of hotels in Bali Island. Indonesia will withdraw a plan that would force foreign workers to take local language proficiency exams after protests from investors, two government officials said.
Indonesia to withdraw local language plan for foreign workers-sources
JAKARTA - Indonesia will withdraw a plan that would force foreign workers to take local language proficiency exams after protests from investors, two government officials said.
MEXICO CITY - US singer, actress and businesswoman Jennifer Lopez took her fashion line outside the United States for the first time on Monday, launching in Mexico.
Speaking in Spanish, the star -- a New Yorker whose parents are from Puerto Rico -- said she wanted to make her designs affordable to low-income women who want some glamor in their lives.
“I think that, coming from the Bronx, I have a good urban mix,”
Lopez, 45, said at a news confer-ence, wearing a black shirt and pants ensemble with a white jacket. “I’m more interested in doing (de-signs for working people) instead of luxury.”
She inaugurated a store in the capital in cooperation with Mexi-can retail chain Coppel. Her line -- which includes clothing, ac-cessories and suitcases -- will be available in more than 1,000 stores in Mexico. (afp)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is making Internet address suffixes beyond the usual .com or .org available for people and busi-nesses to use. While some are in Chinese or other languages besides
English, others could include the likes of .music, .app or, of course, .porn.
To check what brands, groups and celebrities have bought their domain names, visit http://icmreg-istry.com/domaincheck. According
to the site, Microsoft has bought not only Microsoft.porn but Office.porn and Office.adult as well.
Representatives for Taylor Swift, Microsoft and Harvard could not immediately be reached for com-ment. (ap)
WASHINGTON - Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie announced Tuesday that she has had her ova-ries and fallopian tubes removed over fears of cancer, following her double mastectomy two years ago.
The actress, who has lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to the disease, said she had the proce-dure last week after results from a blood test raised fears that she may be in the early stages of cancer.
Although later tests showed that wasn’t the case, Jolie said she
chose to go ahead with the surgery because of her family history and because she carries a gene mutation that had given her a 50 percent risk of developing ovarian cancer, the same mutation that put her at 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer.
“I did not do this solely because I carry the BRCA1 gene muta-tion, and I want other women to hear this,” Jolie wrote in an op-ed piece in the New York Times, the same venue where she announced her double mastectomy two years
ago.“A positive BRCA test does not
mean a leap to surgery,” said Jolie, who is married to fellow Holly-wood heavyweight Brad Pitt.
“In my case, the Eastern and Western doctors I met agreed that surgery to remove my tubes and ovaries was the best option, because on top of the BRCA gene, three women in my family have died from cancer,” she wrote.
Her doctors said that she should have the preventive surgery about a decade before the earliest onset of
cancer in her female relatives.“My mother’s ovarian cancer
was diagnosed when she was 49. I’m 39.”
Jolie said that she had been pre-paring for the possibility of ovary removal ever since her double mastectomy.
But two weeks ago, she said, she got a call from a doctor who said her blood test results had “a number of inflammatory markers that are elevated, and taken together they could be a sign of early cancer.”
She was told to see a surgeon
immediately.“I went through what I imagine
thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren,” Jolie wrote.
“I called my husband in France, who was on a plane within hours. The beautiful thing about such mo-ments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters. It is polarizing, and it is peaceful.” (afp)
Angelina Jolie has ovaries removed over cancer fears
Jennifer Lopez takes fashion line to Mexico
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
Jennifer Lopez holds up a blouse during the unveiling of her clothing and accessories collection at the Coppel store in Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2015.
Taylor Swift, Microsoft among those buying up .porn suffixes
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
NEW YORK — The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer.
French media report plane crash in the Alps, 148 aboard
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