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Myanmar aiding Rohingya trafficking

The third-quarter growth was fu-eled by all sectors, with the service sector recording the highest growth of 8.05 percent, chief of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) office in Bali

province Panusunan Siregar said.The agricultural sector mean-

while grew by 0.03 percent, which is the lowest among other sectors.

The third-quarter economic

growth expanded by 6.53 percent year-on-year, fueled by all eco-nomic sectors, he said.

The construction sector recorded the highest growth of 10.61 percent

and the agricultural sector posted the lowest growth of 1.86 percent.

Cumulatively, the Balinese econ-omy grew by 6.08 percent till the third quarter of 2014.

Panasunan said the nominal value of Bali’s regional gross do-mestic product (PDRB) reached Rp27.10 trillion based on the cur-rent prices in the third quarter of

2014, and Rp9.40 trillion based on the constant prices of 2000.

On the component use side, house-hold consumption and exports still contributed the greatest chunk of the PDRB in the third quarter of 2014.

He said the economic slowdown in the third quarter was caused by low household and government consumption.

Economy slows down to 2.78 percent in Q3

Passengers entered Domestic Terminal at Ngurah Rai Air-port recently. The Balinese economy in the third quarter of 2014 grew at a slower pace than in the previous

quarter, contracting 0.03 point to 2.78

percent.

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DENPASAR - The Balinese economy in the third quarter of 2014 grew at a slower pace than in the previous quarter, contracting 0.03 point to 2.78 percent.

“After 9 months of intensive devel-opment, Team Downey is pleased to announce our 2014 fall/winter project,” the A-list star joked on his Facebook page, adding that she was born early Tuesday.

“Principal photography commenced 11-14 and will continue until she says, ‘Dad! You are embarrassing me...I’m 30, this has gotta stop,’” the veteran actor added.

Her full name is Avri Roel Downey, she weighs seven pounds, spans 20 inches and “is accompanied by a va-riety of Susan’s traits that have seem-ingly overwritten my ‘junk DNA,’” he wrote.

“I’ll post pics here + there when I’m not too busy staring,” Downey Jr quipped.

The new arrival is the couple’s second child, joining two-and-a-half year-old Exton Elias. Downey Jr also has a 21-year-old son, Indio, from a previous marriage.

Downey Jr, Hollywood’s highest-paid actor, is currently starring in “The Judge,” in which he plays a lawyer who returns to his hometown to lay his mother to rest but also to bury the hatchet with his father.

He is due to reprise his “Iron Man” role in next year’s blockbuster Marvel sequel “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Singer Miranda Lam-bert won four Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, and Luke Bryan took home the top honor as entertainer of the year as U.S. politics and the absence of Taylor Swift played supporting roles in the televised ceremony.

Lambert, 30, who led all nominees with nine nods, earned her record fifth female vocalist of the year award.

“I don’t know what to say. I can’t believe I’m standing here. I can’t believe this is my life,” an emotional Lambert said accepting the award she has won five con-secutive years. “Damn it! I cry every time.”

The Texan also won CMA Awards for album of the year for “Plati-num,” single of the year for the wistful “Automatic” as well as sharing the musical event of the year award with Aussie singer Keith Urban for “We Were Us.”

Bryan, 38, earned his first CMA on the back of five hits from his 2013 al-bum “Crash My Party.”

“I have long sought to have one of these in my hands,” Bryan told report-ers.

The 48th annual CMA awards show, which com-petes with the springtime’s Academy of Country Music Awards for prestige and tele-vision audience, is one of the top promotional events on the country music calendar. Winners are chosen by the CMA’s 6,000 members.

Blake Shelton, Lambert’s hus-band, also won his fifth con-secutive male vocalist of the year award.

Hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie

Underwood’s show opening drew attention to the absence of Swift, who has shed her country roots for pop music, with a comical song about

“Postpartum Taylor Swift Disorder,” or PPTSD.

Underwood and Paisley’s joke that President Barack Obama not caring about PPTSD contributed to Repub-licans winning the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, drawing strong cheers from the audience.

The duo sang “Quarantine” to the tune of Dolly Parton’s classic, “Jolene”, poking fun at nurse Kaci Hickox, who defied her Ebola quarantine

order.Paisley drew criticism

on social media for a joke referencing TV sitcom “Black-ish”, about an upper-middle-class Af-

rican-American family.“If you were looking for ‘Black-

ish’ tonight, yeah, this ain’t it. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy White-

ish,” Paisley said about the mostly white world of country music.

Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” won the songwriters’ award song of the year, sharing the award with fellow songwriters Brandy Clark and

Shane McAnally.Noted for its gay-friendly message and

references to marijuana, “Follow Your Ar-row” is a thematic outlier in the conserva-tive-leaning country music world.

Brett Eldredge, 28, won new artist of the year.

Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan win big at country music awards

Miranda Lambert, winner of the awards for album of the year, fe-male vocalist of the year, single of the year and musical event of the year, poses in the press room at the 48th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Nashville.

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LOS ANGELES - Forty-nine year-old “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr has welcomed a second child with his wife Susan, a baby girl named Avri, he announced Wednesday.

Myanmar aiding Roh-ingya trafficking

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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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7th Purnama Sasih KalimaTemple Festival at:Aci-Aci Penawung Di Pura Batmadeg-BesakihPr. Pande Bang- Ds. Camnggaon, Sukawati.Pr. Kentel Gumi- Ds. Batur, Kintamani.Pr. Pedharman Agung- Satria, Denpasar.Ngusabha Di Pura Kehen- Bangli.Pr. Segara – Br. Sasih, BatubulanPr. Desa Pemenang- LombokPr. Agung Pasek Gelgel-Ds. Sumertha, DenpasarPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kekeran Delod Sema, MengwiPr. Dalem Puri Agung – KintamaniPr. Dalem Agung- Br. Sekar, Nongan, KarangasemPr. Dalem Balingkang- Ds. Pinggan, KintamaniPr. Tampur Hyang Pusat/Kawitan Maha Gotra Catur Sanak- Ds. Songan,

KintamaniPr. Dalem Pulasari- Ds. Bantas, Sudaji, BulelengMr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Lebih, GianyarPr. Panyungsungan Pasek Toh Jiwa- Ds. Wanagiri, Selemadeg, TabananPamerajan Agung Pamecutan- DenpasarPr. Suranadhi- Lombok,Pr. Pucak Bukit- TampaksiringPr. Dalem Ubung Kupang- Ds. Dukuh, Panebel, TabananPr. Pasar Agung Besakih- Ds. Sebudi, KarangasemPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Tengkulak Kaja, Kemenuh- GianyarPr. Suci- Ds. Tianyar, Kubu, KarangasemPr. Dadia Dalem Renon- Br. Kukuh, Kerambitan, Tabanan, Ds. Adat ,Andala Merta Ds. Kenangan /SP Sembilan

12th Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan/ Buda Kliwon Gumbreg

Temple Festival at:Pr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kukuh,Marga, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel – Ds. Kukuh, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Mambang, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Puseh+Desa- Ds. Guwang, SukawatiMr. Pasek Ketewel- Ds. Ketewel, Sukawati,Pr. Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung- Jeroan SadingPr. Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul- Ds. Suwana Nusa Penida

17th Coma Kliwon Wariga, Temple Festival at: Pr. Gelap - Besakih

19th Buda Paing Wariga,Temple Festival at:Pr. Jati- Ds. BaturMr. Pasek Gaduh- Ds. Kayubihi,Bangli

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UBUD - From more than 7,000 hotels in Indonesia listed in Agoda.com, Bebek Tepi Sawah villas Ubud was elected to win the Agoda Gold Circle Award 2014 that held in Sundara at the Four Seasons resort in Jimbaran Bali on the 23rd of October 2014. A very tight evaluation that have been done from a year to all hotels in Indonesia, Agoda has select 40 hotels in Indonesia to receive an award as their best hotel partners. Bapak Gede Gunawan as the Country Director Indonesia of Agoda in his speech at the event, has share how to win the awards, that based on customers satisfaction, be an agoda top account, and have the best in class HD content. All of the winners are very proud and hope that Bebek Tepi Sawah villas can keep maintain its reputation in the future.

Bebek Tepi Sawah Villas won award

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Bali PostSINGARAJA - Within the past few

days, the fuel scarcity in Buleleng was taken advantage of by individuals to get profits by breaking the law related to subsidized fuel. The Criminal Investiga-tion Unit of Buleleng Police detained a suspect of subsidized fuel trafficking. The suspect was prooven to be guilty of misusing the transportation of the sub-sidized fuel and fuel transport activities without being equipped a transportation business permit.

The suspect is named Made Putu Artawan aka MPA, 60, from Kanginan hamlet, Menyali village, Sawan subdis-trict. The suspect was arrested by police on Sunday (Nov 2) around 3:30 a.m. The arrest of the suspect was based on public information obtained by police which staed that the petrol station on Jalan Ah-mad Yani Singaraja often sold subsidized diesel fuel and gasoline to someone using a pick-up truck which did not have the required paper work.

The Chief of the Buleleng Police Crim-inal Investigation Unit, I Ketut Adnyana TJ, along with the consent of the Buleleng Police Chief Benny Arjanto said that based on field investigatios, police found the pickup truck with license plate DK 9609 UY coming from the East to the West. Thhe truck pulled into the petrol station to look for Pertamax and Premium fuel. The suspect MPA was known to have purchase 104 liters of subsidized diesel fuel worth

IDR 577,500. which were put into four jerrycans. Then, the suspect bribed the petrol station attendant for IDR 15,000 to allow this illegal trasaction to take place. The total amount of money spent by the suspect reached IDR 592,500. At the scene the suspect could not escape and was im-mediately escorted to the Buleleng Police station for further investigation.

“The suspect was unable to present a permit for the fuel purchase, so we brought the suspect to the police station for further investigation. The suspect planned to first collect and then sell the fuel, taking advanttage of fuel price hike,” said Adnyana TJ.

This middle-aged man was arrested by police and the evidence consisting of eight jerrycans with 240 liters of Premium fuel, four jerrycans with 105 liters of diesel fuel, a unit of Suzuki pickup truck with license plate DK 9609 UY, key, vehicle registration and two receipts of purchase we seized. “I bought fuel by using jerrycan to put in my car and often bought at the petrol station on Jalan Ahmad Yani and Jalan Gajah Mada. I bought every week and it was also allowed by the petrol sta-tion attendants,” said the suspect MPA.

For his action, the suspect was charged with the Article 55 of the Law No.22/2001 about Oil and Gas, with the sanction of imprisonment for six years and a maxi-mal fine of IDR 60 billion, or a maximal punishment of four years and a maximal fine of IDR 40 billion. (kmb34)

Section Head of the Fire Bri-gade, Wayan Toya, admitted the matter, Wednesday (Nov 5). When being on duty to extinguish fire at the SMPN 3 Banjarangkan, many people had a pity on the fire-fighters of Klungkung. Amidst the spirit of the personnel, the existing fire truck was very limited. Even, a local resident claimed that it was in agony. The Klungkung Fire Brigade only had three fire trucks. Even, one of them was still out of order and being repaired. “For the time being, only two trucks can be operated,” he said.

As a result, when a fire oc-curred they could not do much. Sometimes it was forced to ask for a help from the fire brigade of Gianyar, Bangli and Karangasem. When extinguishing fire, the hose used to spray water got a lot of leaks. Thus, the spray of water from the hose to the hotspots was not optimal.

Even, local community should help clog the leaks from the base to another tip of the hose. Not only that, while on duty, the protec-tive equipment such as helmet, heat-resistant jacket and special fire-fighting boot shoes was still lacking. “We only have five sets of safety equipment, while our personnel amount to 30 people. Besides, our personnel do not have employment risk assurance,” he said.

The budget allocation for the Klungkung Fire Brigade was very minimal for years. Thankfully, the budget had been increased start-ing this year, where the allocation reached IDR 291 million. Mean-while, in previous years such as in the year 2011 it only came to IDR 50 million, IDR 80 million (2012) and IDR 180 million (2013). To realize a good manage-ment area, his party admitted to still lack for fire trucks. Ideally,

each subdistrict had a unit of fire truck, except for Nusa Penida that should have at least two units because the area was quite exten-sive. However, the Deputy Regent of Klungkung, Made Kasta, said that started in 2015, the local government began to add the fire truck by degrees. Next year, the addition of fire truck along with the personnel safety equipment had been drafted.

The fire truck was said to have the capacity of 4,000 liters to 5,000 liters. In the future, he said that the fire truck would be designed with the ideal capacity as expressed by Wayan Toya. Thus, when needed it would al-ways be alert and ready to serve the community. Lately, the fire incident was very rampant so that it required the readiness of fire brigade to respond to such condi-tion was absolutely needed in the midst of society. (kmb31)

Bali PostAMLAPURA - Evidently the endeavor

of Karangasem County to plant cherry trees is in vain. Dozens of cherry trees planted in line 11 or Jalan Veteran have been withered due to drought. Even, some of them dried up and died without any leaves. Allegedly the different climatic condition of Karangasem from Japan has caused the death of the cherry trees.

When asking for confirmation about the cherry tree, the Head of Karangasem Sanitation and Landscaping Agency, I Made Suama, admitted that some cherry trees planted in the Jalur Sebelas had been withered or dead. He reasoned the poor condition of the cherry trees planted by the government occurred due to different weather condition from its natural habitat. “Probably it is not appropriate with the weather in Indonesia. So, most of the cherry trees died,” said I Made Suama.

Due to many cherry trees died, Suama admitted that his party had withdrawn some of them. On that account, his party asserted that some pots indeed contained no cherry trees. However, it did not neces-sarily disappear, but had been withdrawn. “Some cherry trees were indeed with-drawn because they died,” said I Made Suama.

As condition in the field, a number of cherry trees fenced in by bamboo pieces looked dry, like unkempt. “It has always been like that. I often passed here, but the flowers remained like that. They did not want to grow, and the leaf is rare. Probably they lack for water so that they indicated such a growth,” said a resident of Jalan Untung Suropati, I Ketut Sulendra, Thurs-day. The leaves of cherry tree planted two years ago did not grow and only the stems looked to line. Even, some of them already disappeared. (dwa)

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The fire figthers in Klungkung Regency are trying to put out the fire

Fire incident rampant, equipments ‘in agony’Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - After the fire hitting the SMPN 3 Banjarangkan junior high school, the equipment of the Klungkung Fire Brigade and safety equipment of the personnel reaped a public criticism. Many people judged the equipment and personnel protection while on duty were very minimal whereas the risk of working in the field was very high. More seriously, the risk assurance of fire brigade personnel was not available.

Cherry trees withered due to drought

Buleleng Police arrest subsidized fuel trafficker

3Friday, November 7, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, November 7, 2014

Evidently there was complaint from the Chief of Subak Aseman II, Nengah Sukanama, and subgroup head of Munduk Lantang, Made Wi-darma, who said that farmers at Subak Aseman II spreading in the area of 45.65 hectares were threatened to be unable to grow crops as their irrigation channel was closed.

Related to the problem, the gov-ernment was urged to stop the project. “If it indeed has deviated from the context of the land designation and is detrimental to farmers in the vicinity, it is better to close the project. The executive should be able to take a firm stance,” said I Ketut Loka Antara, a former legislator of Tabanan during the period of 2009-2014, Thursday.

This former legislator from East Selemadeg coalesced into the spe-cial committee of the green belt was disappointed with the change of the designation. He said that during the discussion on the Green Belt in the regional bylaw, there was a request from the community for the opening of the Green Belt in the area of Jelijih, Megati along 900 meters with a depth of about 100 meters. “Initially, his party faced a prolonged discussion. Since we saw a clear designation, and the review of the special committee

makes sense as there is no longer a strategic location in East Selemadeg, we agreed to revoke the green belt. Unfortunately, it deviated from the original designation. So, it is regret-table,” he explained.

He also requested the govern-ment to actively look at how the real situation looked like. If the investor was even detrimental to the economy of local community, it was better to discontinue the project. “Frankly speaking, we need invest-ments but they should not harm the public,” he said.

Tough there was no certainty, the discourse on establishing a committee emerged some time ago was also very urgent to be realized. Even, Loka, a former member of the previous spe-cial committee, was ready if the spe-cial committee needed an explanation regarding the revocation of the green belt. “We hope the colleagues in the House could conduct a study as soon as possible because many people had complained. Even, if the necessary, the subdistrict development must be delayed, before the problem can be resolved,” he said.

As known earlier, the proposal for green belt revocation was intended for the development plan of the East Sele-

madeg subdistrict where the location was previously planned for public fa-cilities such as civic center, subdistrict market and public field development plan including the development of the East Selemadeg Public Health Center 1 so that it would have hospitalization services.

Chairman of the Tabanan House, Ketut ‘Boping’ Suryadi when asked for his confirmation about the estab-lishment of the special committee said that currently the House still focused on the discussion about the regional budget. However, there was a pos-sibility for the House to also review the public complaints. “First of all, the Commission will assign to review, so that the establishment of the special committee must not be made in a hurry,” he said after holding a meeting with the forum of headmen throughout Tabanan.

Nevertheless, he still affirmed that any investment opened in Tabanan should be at least capable of generat-ing practical economic benefits since there was correlation between the investment and the public life. “We need to examine it first. If the project has owned permission, we are surely unable to close it haphazardly,” he said. (kmb28)

AntaraDENPASAR - Bali will host the

World Pneumonia Day campaign on Friday (Nov. 7), at Niti Mandala Renon Field, Denpasar, to urge the people and government agencies to be heedful of the dangers of the disease.

“Let us save our children from the dangers of pneumonia and suppress the number of child death cases caused by the disease. As of now, pneumonia is still ranked fifth for the reason behind child deaths in the world,” Dr Putu Siadi Purniti, the chairman of the World Pneumonia Day Commit-tee, stated.

The campaign urges parents to immediately bring their children who are suffering pneumonia to medical centers for further treatment.

The World Pneumonia Day cam-

paign will be inaugurated by the Gov-ernor of Bali Province Made Mangku Pastika. To commemorate the event, a run will be flagged off around the Niti Mandala Renon Field on Friday morn-ing, at 6:30 a.m. local time.

The campaign event will also be attended by the representatives of the Central Board of the Indonesian Pediatric Association (PP IDAI) and Directorate General of Disease Con-trol and Environmental Health.

“After the run, a seminar will be organized for the cadres of the neigh-boring health center in the city of Den-pasar, which will take place at Wisma Sabha at 11 p.m.,” she noted.

About 459 cadres of the neigh-boring health center will also attend the seminar on pneumonia and its symtoms.

AntaraDENPASAR - The Institute of

National Aviation and Space (Lapan) said Indonesia needs space technology of remote sensing that could draw the map of the country’s marine potentials altogether and systematically.

“In order to back development of the maritime sector a technology is needed that could monitor the entire sea territory systematically,” Chief spokesman of Lapan Jasyanto said.

Jasyanto said remote sensing tech-nology using satellite service would be effective to monitor and detect marine natural resources.

The technology could be used to spot ridges of rock and in planning development of the marine potentials for economy and tourism, he cited.

He added, with the remote sensing technology, the physical and biologi-cal aspects of the sea such as surface temperature and chlorophyll content could be detected.

Those elements are important to locate the potential fishing ground in the sea through the Indonesian fish catching potential zone (ZPPI).

“With the ZPPI, fishermen would be easy to find a location where there are many fishes,” he said.

Remote sensing is also important to get information about islands in outer areas for security purposes, he said.

“Monitoring of natural resources and sea security would be more efficient and effective as satellite could give informa-tion with wide coverage,” he said.

Development of remote sensing technology would be discussed in an international conference titled “Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference” (PORSEC) to be held by Lapan in co-operation with the state Udayana Uni-versity in Denpasar from Nov. 4-7.

PORSEC is an organization dedi-cated to helping developing countries

Bali to host world pneumonia day campaign

Indonesia needs sea remote sensing technology

to promote science especially in the application of remote sensing technol-ogy in the sea.

The conference which is held every two years attended by 400 participants from Indonesia and other countries -- all professional in their remote sensing and representatives of space agencies like Lapan, JAXA (Japan), and NASA (the United States).

“Indonesia is a big maritime coun-try. The condition forces the country to give much attention to marine and maritime affairs in line with one of the big visions of President Joko Widodo,” he said.

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A bridge project conducted at Selemadeg, Tabanan. The plan of a warehouse construction owned by one of the prominent dealers at the former green belt located at Subak Aseman I, Jelijih Tegeh hamlet, Megati, East Selemadeg was in fact considered detrimental to farmers.

Stop the project at former green beltBali Post

TABANAN - The plan of a warehouse construction owned by one of the prominent dealers at the former green belt located at Subak Aseman I, Jelijih Tegeh hamlet, Megati, East Selemadeg was in fact considered detrimental to farmers.

It’s not every day the black cape-clad “Star Wars” villain struts his stuff on the runway, flanked by two stormtroopers packing serious fire-power.

The “Star Wars”-themed fall-winter 2015 collection at Triton was the ostensible reason behind Vader’s catwalk cameo, with models sporting

black hooded Obi-Wan Kenobi capes over their mini dresses and leggings fitted with lozenge-shaped appli-ques that evoked an urban take on a stormtrooper’s plastic armor.

Despite the “Star Wars” star power at Triton, the most applauded col-lection of the day, clothes-wise, was Iodice’s tribal chic, floppy little dresses

that quivered with fringe and swam in graphic prints. The Santa Fe sophisti-cate look at Sacada was another win-ner, with its pastel hued cocoon coats covered in geometric, vaguely Native American designs.

Sao Paulo’s fashion week, the most important sartorial event in Latin America, continues Thursday.

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NEW YORK — From Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hugh Jackman to Mikhail Baryshnikov, luminaries of the fashion, entertainment and media worlds packed a Manhattan church on Monday for the private funeral of legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.

Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, joined actors Jackman and Matthew Broderick, newswomen Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer (with husband Mike Nichols) and Andrea Mitchell, dance great Baryshnikov, and design-ers Diane von Furstenberg, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Donna Karan and Tommy Hilfiger at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, along with Vogue editor Anna Wintour, photographer Annie Leibovitz, and supermodel Karlie Kloss.

De la Renta died on Oct. 20 at his Connecticut home at the age of 82, following a battle with cancer.

Jerry and Syd Shaw, who attended the funeral, said de la Renta worked

until the end.“That was his life. He loved it. He

loved working. He loved people,” Jer-ry Shaw said following the service.

The funeral, Syd Shaw said, truly reflected de la Renta’s life. “I think he would be overwhelmed because he had all kinds of people from all parts of his life,” she said.

The Dominican-born designer, famous for glamorous garments that combined intricate workmanship with luxurious materials, was as admired on Hollywood red carpets as he was at socialites’ soirees. Most recently, Amal Alamuddin wore a de la Renta-designed dress when she married George Clooney at a lavish wedding in Venice.

Monday’s service lasted about one hour. According to the printed program, honorary ushers included the designer’s son, Moises de la Renta; TV newsman Charlie Rose, and singer Ju-lio Iglesias. Readings were to be given by Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others.

Agence France-Presse

SAO PAULO - Stella McCartney on Wednesday launched an exclusive range for Brazilian consumers at Sao Paulo Fashion Week, saying she was targeting a “cool and sexy” market.

“For me, Brazilian women are cool and sexy I have to say, and they are definitely aware when it comes to fash-ion,” the 43-year-old designer said.

“I think they’re very much at the forefront of fashion,” said McCartney, daughter of Beatles legend Paul, as she launched the apparel for C&A.

She added she was driven by a desire to take a sustainable and respon-sible approach to her work -- values she said came from her parents.

“I grew up in the countryside, on an organic farm, so I was very aware of the seasons of nature.

“So for me, when I went into fashion, I wanted to be responsible, and have a different take on luxury fashion, where I would not work with fur or leather,” said McCartney, adding she wanted her collection to be affordable options for the buying public at large.

“I try to approach what I do in fash-ion in a sustainable and a responsible way, so not only in the materials that I use, but the way that I source and manufacture my product,” she said of a range priced between $35 and $150 and made from fabrics including cot-ton, viscose, lame and lace.

Working on collaborations such as her current one with the C&A chain

meant “pausing fast-fashion, just slow-ing it down for a moment, so that the consumer who maybe can’t afford our clothes can come and have a different experience with C&A.”

McCartney said she saw her range as “quite timeless, so it’s fast-fashion -- but it’s meeting luxury in a way that you will have these garments, I hope, in the way they’re designed, in the way which we’ve sourced the highest (quality) materials we could with C&A.

“I think what we have done here is a good example of what we can do with fast fashion. I think they will last you longer than normal fast-fashion,” said McCartney, adding she was “emotionally attached to everything I create.”

She told reporters fashion was “not just about luxury,” hence her collabo-ration with a high street store.

“I also worked with a lot of sustain-able and environmentally friendly fabrics in this collaboration, so for me, it’s about doing fast-fashion in a way that just slows it down a little bit,” McCartney explained.

“C&A is an incredible brand. It’s been really exciting as we’ve worked together once before.

Much, but not all, of the collec-tion is Brazil-made, with some items produced in Asia -- primarily China and India -- C&A vice president Paulo Correa said.

Correa noted McCartney had launched an exclusive Brazil range in 2011 “and it was very successful.”

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SAO PAULO — A bevy of top Brazilian models lent their star power to day three of Sao Paulo fashion week, but Wednesday’s uncontested catwalk sensation was Darth Vader.

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In a joint news conference with Abbott, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte revealed that investigators had retrieved more human remains this week from the rebel-held site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on July 17 with the loss of 298 lives, mostly Dutch and including Australians.

He announced recently that a team of Dutch, Ukrainian and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe rescue workers last week safely reached the area where the Boeing 777’s wreckage is scattered and retrieved an unspecified number of human remains. The tragedy was at the top of the agenda in meetings Thursday among Rutte, Abbott and the Aus-tralian Cabinet.

Abbott said he would hold a bi-lateral meeting with Putin as soon

as possible either at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ summit in Beijing on Nov. 9-10 or a week later in the Australian city of Brisbane where Australia will chair a G20 meeting of leaders of wealthy and developing countries.

“One way or another, I will take the chance to speak to the Russian president sometime over the next week or so,” Abbott told reporters.

Russian officials ridiculed Ab-bott’s threat last month to “shirt-front” Putin — using an Austra-lian football term for a head-on shoulder-charge to an opponent’s chest — and insisted that Abbot would have no opportunity since no bilateral meeting had been scheduled.

Abbott said Thursday that he and Rutte were united in expecting full Russian cooperation with the Dutch-led investigation. “We don’t

want the investigation ridiculed; we don’t want the investigation compromised or sabotaged,” Ab-bott said.

Rutte said he gave Putin a similar message on the sidelines of an Asia-Europe Meeting, or ASEM, summit last month in Milan, Italy.

“I used the opportunity again to tell him that I expect him to do everything he can to put pressure on the separatists to allow unhin-dered access to the crash site,” Rutte said.

During the meeting with Putin, Rutte said he compared the disaster to the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk which sank with the loss of all 118 lives aboard in the Barents Sea in 2000 and was sal-vaged by a Dutch consortium. Rutte said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak would also try to meet Putin during the APEC summit.

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TANAUAN, Philippines — The Saavedras waited for death as Typhoon Haiyan tore their roof, knocked down walls and unleashed torrents of seawater below them. All they could do was pray, say “I love you” one last time and take a picture. David Saavedra raised his cellphone in the chaos to snap a group selfie to record their final moments. He took it for his eldest sister in Manila, hoping to show that at the end, her family was together — even serene.

That explains his smile, incon-gruous against the wind-ripped scene and the terror-stricken faces of his younger sister, Veronica, and their mother. The picture was intended to go on top of David’s coffin, but instead it is a reminder of the family’s immense luck, and of the obligation they feel to help neighbors who weren’t nearly as fortunate when the massive ty-phoon hit Nov. 8, 2013.

More than 7,300 people died or went missing when Haiyan slammed the central Philippines, including the Saavedras’ laidback farming town of Tanauan, as one of the most ferocious typhoons ever to hit land. The monster storm displaced about 4 million people and turned a large swath of densely populated regions into a wasteland.

“I said ‘I love you’ to my parents because I felt at that time that it

was our last day alive,” Veronica Saavedra said in an interview in the family’s old house, now partially cleaned up and repaired. “I was so afraid I was trembling and I said, ‘Lord, if this is my last day, forgive me for everything.’”

The 21-year-old college student said even while praying, she was terrified by the loud hissing of the wind, and memories of the ris-ing water hounded her sleep for months. The Saavedras — David, Veronica, their brother JR, their mother and their father — all sur-vived. Three other siblings were in Manila, and one was in Kuwait. Many other families had much dif-ferent fates. In a nearby village, all but two members of a 45-member clan are buried in a mass grave.

When the rain and wind finally subsided hours after the storm hit, David, a 26-year-old accountant, left the cramped hallway on the sec-ond floor of the wood-and-concrete home where he and his family were huddled while hell broke loose. He saw bodies floating on the street outside. The next-door neighbors were drenched and shuddering on the second floor of their house, its walls gone. One paraplegic neigh-bor was clinging to a post near the roof of his house. Others were cry-ing, many in shock.

“In just one click, everything can be snatched from you,” David said, tears welling in his eyes. “But the feeling that you are still alive after that is really overwhelming.”

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, talks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, unseen, during a meeting at parliament house in Canberra, Australia Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014.

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Russia leaderAssociated Press

CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that he remained determined to secure a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand full cooperation in the investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine.

Meaning in a selfie, 1 year after Philippine storm

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In this Oct. 12, 2014 photo, Typhoon Haiyan survivors carry their new boats to shore after blessing rites in Tanauan, Leyte province, central Philippines.

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TABANAN - Nowadays, tech-nology is an unavoidable require-ment in public life. When applied for positive matters, technology can be very helpful, especially for work efficiency. Looking at the positive side, the Tabanan County plans to institute the e-Government system and transparency in provid-ing services for the public using techology..

To that end, the Tabanan govern-ment launched the Smart Regency 2020 and information about this has been transmited to all agencies in Tabanan. Regional Secretary of Ta-banan, Nyoman Wirna Ariwangsa, representing the regent of Tabanan, said that by using the online system the bureaucracy among the agencies and the community was expected to be more effective and efficient. “Efficiency can be reflected in the budget absorption and accumula-tion of income because everything will use the online system. Other than the use of technology, commu-nication from the leadership to staff will also be faster,” he said.

In establishing the Tabanan Smart Regency, the government of Tabanan also invited an expert in

this field, namely the Director of PT Lima Titik Satu, Aditya, to provide exposure to the technology. Accord-ing to Aditya, the current users of internet technology hadsreached 35 percent of the global population or 2 billion of the 7 billion world population. Meanwhile, the popu-lation of Indonesia is 251 million, with about 15 percent or 38 million people using the internet.

“In terms of these data, Indo-nesian people have more than one phone on average,” he said. To implement the technology in the government, then there were a few main things that should be imple-mented namely a common vision as well as online collaboration to make the communication run efficiently and transparently so that the data processed were valid without being easily modified.

The Tabanan Smart Regency itself would be implemented gradu-ally. Chairman of the Commission II of the Tabanan House, Putu Eka Nurcahayadi, said that the imple-mentation of the e-Government was certainly welcomed and should be handled seriously. However, it should consider the budget along with the facilities and infrastructure in the implementation. (kmb24)

“The joint team was once under siege. Rather than dying ridiculous-ly, the officers immediately gave warning shot for some 25 times. We managed to repulse the masses,” said the officer of Bali Police.

The ra id , he added , was planned very carefully. Any small mistake would make their life at stake. On that account, the personnel of Bali Police, West Sumba Police and Laura Police coalesced into the team armed themselves with revolver, V2 and AK47. “Condition of the people at Umban Ronggo, Ate Dalo, Kodi subdistr ict , Southwest Sumba (NTT) is much differ-ent from that of Bali. Thus, the preparation must be mature and situation of the target must be re-ally under control,” he said.

The opportunity was utilized by both suspects to escape into the forest. The team consisting of 20 personnel immediately spread. Due

to the alertness of the officers, the professional killers were success-fully besieged. Nevertheless, they counter-attacked by using machetes and poisoned arrows. Such resis-tance did not last long because they could be defeated by shoots.

The officers asking for anonym-ity revealed that after murdering the British traveler, Wednesday (Oct 22), the suspect UB aka UR, 24, YN alias DN, 24, MT, 25, and EJ, 28, left Bali to NTT by airplane. In addition, the Yamaha Byson motorcycle belonging to one of the suspects was sent by the expedition.

“At that time, they got the pay-ment right after killing the victim. That is why they chose to depart by air. Having been checked to Ngurah Rai Airport, it is really correct,” he said. Spokesman of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, said that the team was still hunting for the two other suspects. According

to the Spokesperson, their position had been tracked.

“Hopefully, they can be immedi-ately arrested because their escape position has been known. We have often urged them to surrender but it was ignored. They are all the ex-ecutors, but I have no authority to deliver their role. At the trial, it will surely be revealed,” he said.

As has been known, the hunting for the four executors of the Brit-ish traveler, Robert Kevin Ellis, 60, was successful. The Crime and Violence Unit, Sub-Directorate III of the General Criminal Investiga-tion Unit, Bali Police, led by Putu Pande Sugiarta, backed up by West Sumba Police (NTT) could arrest the two suspects identified as UB aka UR, 24, and YN alias DN, 24, in the forest, Tuesday (Nov 4). Both suspects were ready to attack the officers with poisoned arrows, but they could be first paralyzed with a shot. (kmb36)

Briton murderers captured

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DENPASAR – The murderers of Briton, Robert Kevin Ellis captured during a raided. The joint team members hunting for the professional killers should risk their life. When raiding the hideout of the suspect UB alias UR and YN alias DN, the joint team led by Chief of Crime and Violence Unit, Sub Directorate III of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit led by Pande Sugiarta was yelled ‘catch the thief.’ Residents directly went out by carrying machetes and poisoned arrows.

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The police officers are trying to raid the murderers hide out

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AMLAPURA - The fire in the protected forest on Mount Agung continues to escalate. During the day, thick smoke was seen billow-ing from the scene of fire. Dozens of hotspots which have been seen by residents since Friday (Oct 31) on the eastern slopes of the highest mountain in Bali have not gone out. In fact they continue to expand, and until Monday (Nov 3) had spread to the slopes leading to the southeast and approached the Tanah Aron area.

A number of residents claimed to fear that the Pasar Agung Si-betan Temple or the other temple on the mountain slopes could be threatened by the fire, It seems no effort to extinguish the fire has been made, only effforts to stop the fire from spreading.

The quick spread of the fire was not only caused by the dry ground and withered bushes in the forest, due to the prolonged dry season and high temperatures, but also due to strong winds on the mountain. Since the fire in the protected for-est began at the foot of the slopes

and higher up, reaching the eastern and southeastern top, the team of the Forest Service and the Karan-gasem Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency did not make any efforts to extinguish the fire. They have only monitored and prevented the fire from approaching residential and temple areas.

It is estimated that the fire in the protected forest has reached an area of hundreds of hectares. However, the Karangasem Forestry Service and the Forest Resort Manage-ment claim that it only reached 15 hectares.

The Chief of Abang Ranger, Nyoman Dadi, conveyed that large flames were seen by people start-ing on Saturday morning. The first hotspot was seen at two points around the milepost number 635 and 636 above or in the west region of Kedampal hamlet, Datah vil-lage, Karangasem. After that, the fire spread, and on Sunday (Nov 2) it already spread to 20 hotspots to milepost number 640, 642, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641 and 642 within the forestry land regis-ter of the Mount Abang complex. (013)

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BANGLI - When holding a piodalan or temple anniversary, the Hindu community in Bali usually does it with great fanfare. It is always accompanied with the gamelan music performance, hymns and holy bell sounds. How-ever, different celebration occurs at Dalem Umbalan Temple, Yangapi village, Tembuku subdistrict, Ban-gli. Thus, the piodalan is held with a very quiet atmosphere.

Residents who come into the tem-ple area are not allowed to speak. This abstinence is not only valid when organizing the piodalan, but also on normal days. The temple priest of-ficiating over the ritual will only do pooja and chant the mantra by heart. Likewise, when instructing resident to do the five worships, the priest will only provide a direction by using a gesture or sign language having been understood by the residents.

A local village community leader, Nyoman Sutami, said the abstinence to speak at the Dalem Umbalan Temple, especially in the innermost courtyard, indeed had become a tradition to local community from time immemo-rial. The tradition was estimated to have been handed down since the temple was built. “Especially in the innermost courtyard, the residents are not allowed to speak. All com-munications are done simply by using a code or sign language,” he explained.

Residents were only allowed to speak, added Sutami, when they were already beyond the innermost courtyard, such as in the middle or outermost courtyard. Such absti-nence was based on the belief of local residents that the deities abid-

ing at the temple were not happy with noises. Anyone entering the temple was forbidden to whisper let alone speak.

Sutami also said that piodalan at the temple was usually held in the middle of the night, around 12:00 p.m. “And the piodalan will begin to be implemented after the sound of local deity’s property in the form of frog,” she said. Local people really believed in such tradition. If any people dared to violate, then disaster would soon befall them. It had been proved by some incidents having happened to the people of Umbalan. “About a year ago, there was a resident who died while car-rying out mutual cooperation in the innermost courtyard of the temple. At that time, the resident was break-ing the abstinence prevailing at the temple,” she said.

Actually, explained Sutami, the resident was already aware of the abstinence, but he still spoke. Shortly afterward he died in the temple area whereas he was not talking about bad things. What hap-pened to her resident, said Sutami, did not just happen at that moment. At least, the incident already hap-pened about twice. “Such incidents made the local residents adhere to the abstinence prevailing at the temple,” she said.

Other than the abstinence to speak, local people also had an-other belief related to the Dalem Umbalan Temple. Any personal belongings of residents were ac-cidentally left at the innermost courtyard of the temple, it might not be taken on the same day, but could only be taken in the next piodalan (six months later).

In the past, at the end of a pioda-lan one of the residents inadver-

tently left her tray inside the temple. When the owner tried to take it back into the temple area, the owner was made very surprised. Her tray made of woven palm leaf was seen to transform into a curled snake. Suddenly, she was frightened and

did not dare to take it back. Another story told that a house-

wife wanted to take back her left item in the innermost courtyard of the temple in the next morning. But when she wanted to take the object it was actually invisible. And

she really remembered well where the position of her possession was left behind. “On the next piodalan ceremony or six months later, the possession was found. Thus, local residents believe, so they are always obedient,” she added. (ina)

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The European Union misspent nearly 7 billion euros ($8.76 billion) in 2013, an ombudsman said Wednesday, warning that Brussels must focus on getting better results for its money.

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BRUSSELS - The European Union misspent nearly 7 billion euros ($8.76 billion) in 2013, an ombuds-man said Wednesday, warning that Brussels must focus on getting better results for its money.

The so-called error rate for spend-ing fell to 4.7 percent in the EU’s 2013 budget of 148.5 billion euros, against 4.8 percent the previous year, the Eu-ropean Court of Auditors said.

The report comes as Brussels faces increasing pressure from member states to tighten spending, especially amid a row with Britain over a huge demand for back payments.

“From now on, there has to be more careful management and control of EU funds,” said Vitor Caldeira, the head of the independent watchdog.

“Once again it is clear from our audit just how much of that spending is not in compliance with the rules.”

The European Commission, the powerful executive branch of the 28-nation EU, said the report showed its efforts to tackle misspending were “starting to pay off”.

The watchdog said the two most error-prone spending areas were re-gional policy, with a misspending rate of 6.9 percent, and rural development, on 6.7 percent, the auditor said.

It cited mistakes including a com-pany claiming funds as a small business

when it was actually owned by a large firm; the managers of an airport project adding to a contract without letting other firms bid; and a farmer claiming a subsidy for grassland that was partly covered by bushes and trees.

The EU’s focus on a “use it or lose it” approach, instead of checking how well money was spent, is a “funda-mental flaw in the design of much of the EU budget,” it added.

It said however that the figures were “not a measure of fraud, inef-ficiency or waste” but examined how EU money was not spent within the bloc’s rules.

Caldeira called for “more incen-tives to improve performance and to deliver value for money.”

The EU’s budget is a perennial source of debate at a time when the continent’s economy is in the dol-drums and many member states face tough decisions on austerity.

The European Commissioner for the budget, Kristalina Georgieva, said the commission would do more to stop spending errors but said they had to be seen in “context”.

“I am pleased that the court’s audit findings show that last years’ trend of increasing error rates has been stopped,” she said.

She said the EU had to work with member states to improve the situa-tion “without adding more costs and bureaucracy.”

It was announced by Secre-tary of the Karangasem AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPA), Ida Bagus Putra Udaya, in the in-teractive dialogue on HIV/AIDS in Radio SWiB, Tuesday (Oct 4) in Karangasem. He said that not all the HIV-infected pregnant women transmitted HIV to their children. It happened because children had its own immune sys-tem. But to prevent the children born from being infected by HIV through their mother, there was a management for that purpose. On that account, the mothers having

the risk of HIV infection should be examined first to VCT in order to prevent the transmission to children. “A mother living with HIV/AIDS will not necessarily transmit the HIV to her children, provided that she makes preven-tion,” said Udaya.

According to the Head of the Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) clinic of Karangasem Hospital, Nariata, by maintaining the health of people living with HIV, it was expected their quality of life could be longer. Besides, it was also meant to avoid premature death

or the death ahead of the time. In developed countries, the death of people living with HIV had been below 20 percent, while in Africa it was reported to be more than 25 percent,” he said.

Nariata admitted that within the past few months more and more people came to his VCT clinic. He did not know why, but allegedly there had been an awareness of anticipating the infectious disease with VCT. He also suspected there was a rumor in the community mentioning that someone spread HIV. As a result,

people were aware and worried if they would be infected due to their behavior. Within a few months, approximately 60 people came to take VCT. Among the people coming to the VCT clinic each month, around 9 -10 percent was known to be positive. “It sounds bad because more and more people are recorded to be positive to HIV/AIDS. However, it is good for the future in order to break the chain of the transmission,” said Nariata.

Actually, added Udaya, the more people took the VCT services, the better would be. Though it was cat-egorized to be somewhat bad for the health agency because many people were infected in one area, it would be good for the future because it could perform anticipative measure

more effectively. By knowing for sure in advance, it could be antici-pated so that new infections could be avoided, while the quality of life of the people living with HIV would be well maintained.

From the existing data, the residents of Karangasem known to live with HIV/AIDS after taking VCT increased by 50 people in the past year. In 2013, the number reached totally 313 people and up to August increased to 363 people. They mostly belonged to produc-tive age of 19-49 years. Sufferers were found in all the subdistricts in Karangasem. Quantitatively, the most sufferers were found in Karangasem subdistrict and it was then followed by Kubu and Abang subdistrict. (013)

The US-based International Consortium of Investigative Jour-nalists (ICIJ) said a six-month investigation had found household firms such as Pepsi, IKEA and Deutsche Bank were among com-panies which had taken advantage of legal tax avoidance schemes with Luxembourg.

The ICIJ said it had reviewed around 28,000 pages of leaked documents which detailed complex financial structures that enabled companies to dramatically slash their tax liabilities.

The organization said hundreds of billions of dollars had been fun-neled through Luxembourg as part of the agreements, wiping billions

of dollars in taxes from the compa-nies’ bottom lines.

Global accounting giant Price-waterhouseCoopers had helped the companies in question secure at least 548 tax rulings in Lux-embourg between 2002 and 2010 according to an ICIJ analysis of the documents.

The documents uncovered de-tails of Advance Tax Agreements -- deals which set out how companies will be taxed.

“It’s like taking your tax plan to the government and getting it blessed ahead of time,” the ICIJ quoted Connecticut School of Law tax expert Richard Pomp as saying.

“And most are blessed. Luxem-bourg has a very user-friendly tax department.”

The ICIJ said its investigation had involved a team of more than 80 journalists from 26 countries working for outlets including The Guardian, Le Monde and Ger-many’s Suddeutsche Zeitung.

The Guardian said in its report of the investigation that the ar-rangements forged between the companies and the tiny EU member state were “perfectly legal.”

But it said the agreements were enabling tax avoidance on “an in-dustrial scale.”

Other companies that benefited from the schemes included Burb-

erry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx.

The ICIJ said some companies had been able to achieve effective tax rates of less than one percent on profits channeled through Lux-embourg.

It said many cases involved Luxembourg subsidiaries of the companies in question, even if they maintained only a marginal busi-ness presence in the country. It said 1,600 companies were registered at one address alone.

The Guardian quoted US Trea-sury tax expert Stephen Shay as saying Luxembourg was akin to a “magical fairyland.”

“Clearly the database is evidenc-ing a pervasive enabling by Luxem-bourg of multinationals’ avoidance of taxes [around the world],” said Shay, a Harvard Law School pro-fessor who gave expert testimony during a US Senate investigation

last year into Apple’s tax avoidance structures.

The revelations come against a backdrop of mounting scrutiny by authorities worldwide of tax arrangements involving major firms.

Last month, the EU snagged Internet titan Amazon in a widen-ing probe into sweetheart tax deals for major multinationals, saying they were unfair to competitors and taxpayers.

The move follows similar probes announced in September into US tech icon Apple in Ireland, coffee-shop chain Starbucks in the Neth-erlands, and the financial arm of Italian automaker Fiat, also in Luxembourg like Amazon.

European Union anti-trust regu-lators will examine if Amazon’s tax arrangements with Luxembourg amount to illegal state aid, giving the company an unfair advantage.

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Global firms’ tax avoidance schemes revealedAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of the world’s biggest companies have brokered secret deals with Luxembourg to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes according to a trove of leaked documents published by an investigative journalism group on Wednesday.

EU misspent nearly 7 billion euros last year: watchdog

In Karangasem, 25 children infected by HIVBali Post

AMLAPURA - In Karangasem, it is recorded that 25 children suffer HIV/AIDS. The total number of people living with HIV/AIDS is known to reach 363 people up to last August.

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The revitalization is in a bid to support the country’s ambition to become the world largest cocoa producer, Jokowi said during his visit to West Sulawesi, on Thursday.

“The revitalization is expected to take three to four years starting 2015,” he told cocoa farmers in Saletto in the district of Mamuju, West Sulawesi.

The president asked Minister of Agrarian affairs Ferry Mur-sidan to immediately prepare the certificate for the people’s plantations.

He also asked banks to help with credits for cocoa plantations. He said he would encourage de-velopment of cocoa processing industry in cocoa production

centers. He said in three years Indone-

sia should be the world’s largest producer of cocoa.

Currently the country is the third largest producer after the Ivory Coast and Ghana in Af-rica.

“For that purpose the farm-ers need to work the harder,” he said.

Earlier Jokowi inspected ir-rigation system in Beru-Beru, Mamuju and symbolically dis-tributed the Healthy Indonesian cards, Smart Indonesian cards and Prosperous Family cards to a number of the villager. With the cards the farmers are entitled to free medical treatment and educa-tional cost for their children.

AntaraJAKARTA - An Iranian oil and

gas company said it is ready to supply crude oil to feed Indonesian oil refin-eries, an official said on Thursday.

Care taker Oil and Gas Director General Naryanto Wagimin said the Indonesian government welcomes the offer. “We will discuss that matter further in a working group,” Naryanto said after accompanying representa-tive of the Iranian Energy Ministry to a meeting with the Energy and Mineral Resource Minister Sudirman Said.

He said the Iranian embassy said crude oil from Iran meets the specifications needed by the Cilacap oil refinery of the state oil and gas company PT Pertamina.

He said Iran also wants to renew talks on cooperation to build an oil refinery, negotiations on which halted recently. Under the scheme the refin-ery would be built in cooperation with Indonesia company with crude oil to be supplied from Iran.

“The minister is enthusiastic with the plan to build the refinery. Therefore a working group would be formed,” he said.

As for the incentives asked by the

investor, discussion would be held further, he added.

“I have heard about an Indonesia investor wanting to build an oil refin-ery, but there was no progress made so far,” he said.

In 2007, Iran through its oil and gas state company National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Com-pany (NIORDC) indicated interest in building an oil refinery with a processing capacity of 300,000 bar-rels of crude oil per day to cost around US$6 billion.

The plan dated back to a meeting between former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

The project was to be built in Bojanegara, Banten, in cooperation with Pertamina with NIORDC to have a 40 percent stake, Pertamina 40 percent and Malaysian Petrofield 20 percent.

The refinery would be operated by a joint venture company named PT Banten Bay Refinery. The project was already approved by the Oil and Gas Directorate General on 27 May, 2008 and the Capital Investment Coordinat-ing Board on 27 November 2008.

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Economic Minister Sofyan Djalil has submitted his wealth dis-closure forms to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday verifying that his

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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said he would set aside Rp1.2 trillion for the revitalization of the country’s cocoa plantations.

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MAMUJU - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said he would set aside Rp1.2 trillion for the revitalization of the country’s cocoa plantations.

Iran ready to supply crude oil

Coordinating economic minister exposes his wealth

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Coordinating Economic Minister Sofyan Djalil has submitted his wealth disclosure forms to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday verifying that his total wealth is Rp52.8 billion and US$580,000.

total wealth is Rp52.8 billion and US$580,000. “The total wealth of mine is Rp52.8 billion and $US580,000,” he told journalists shortly after handing his wealth disclosure forms to the antigraft body.

Sofyan Djali l became the fourth minister who submitted their wealth disclosure forms to the KPK after Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Min-ister Yuddy Chrisnandi, Health Minister Nila Djowita Moeloek and Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman.

Djalil said that he had debt totaling Rp3.5 billion when re-cently buying a house located in Central Jakarta’s Menteng Dalam area but he refused to detail his wealth.

“I do not want to announce this. The KPK will do that. This is a publicly-accessible docu-ment. Please wait until the KPK processes and announces it. For your information, I have reported my wealth disclosure forms for five times,” he said.

The first report on his wealth was made in 2001 while the second time was in 2004 when he became the minister of com-munication and informatics, and then in 2007 and 2009 (when becoming state enterprises min-ister), he said.

Helping them on their way: Myanmar’s own security forces, who are profiting off the mass departure of one of the world’s most persecuted minorities by extracting payments from those fleeing. A report to be released Friday by the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights, and reporting by The Associated Press, indicate the practice is far more widespread and organized than previously thought, with Myanmar naval boats going so far as to escort asylum seekers out sea, where larger ships oper-ated by transnational criminal networks wait to pick them up.

“Myanmar authorities are not only making life so intolerable for Rohingya that they have to flee, but they’re also complicit in the process — they’re taking payments and profiting off their exodus,” said Matthew Smith, director of Fortify Rights.

Rakhine state spokesman Win

Myaing dismissed the allegations as “rumors,” saying he has not “heard of anything happening like that.” He said any naval boats ap-proaching such vessels were likely aiming to help fishermen in need.

More than 100,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s western shores by boat since Buddhist-Muslim violence erupted in Rakh-ine state two years ago, according to estimates provided by experts tracking their movements.

Chris Lewa, director of the advocacy group Arakan Project, said increasing desperation is be-hind a huge surge since Oct. 15, with an average of 900 people per day piling into cargo ships parked offshore. In Rakhine state, an ag-gressive campaign by authorities over the last few months to regis-ter family members and officially categorize them as “Bengalis” — implying they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh — has aggravated their situation.

The deepening crisis comes ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to Myanmar next week for a regional summit, his second in two years. Obama, who has repeatedly pointed to demo-cratic reforms in Myanmar as a foreign policy bright spot, called President Thein Sein recently by telephone to express concerns about recent backslides.

Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 50 million that is still struggling to emerge from half a century of military rule, has an estimated 1.3 million Rohingya, and most are considered stateless. Though many of their families arrived from Bangladesh genera-tions ago, almost all have been de-nied citizenship by Myanmar and Bangladesh. In the last two years, attacks by Buddhist mobs have left hundreds dead and 140,000 trapped in camps where they live without access to adequate health care, education or jobs.

Associated Press

CAIRO — A bomb blast aboard a train traveling in the Nile Delta north of Cairo killed four people and wounded nine, security offi-cials said on Thursday. They said the blast took place shortly before midnight on Wednesday and that two policemen were among those killed.

Also late Wednesday, three people were wounded when a home-made bomb went off aboard a commuter train in the Cairo suburb of al-Marg, said the officials. On Thursday morning in Cairo, a woman was slightly injured when a homemade explosive device went off near one of the city’s presidential facilities, the infrequently used al-Quba palace, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for planting any of the three bombs, but the attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamic militants fighting the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a general-turned-politician who took office in June, nearly a year after he led the military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Authorities have for years battled Islamic militants in the Sinai Pen-insula, but the unrest there has escalated into a full-fledged insurgency since Morsi’s ouster in July last year. The attacks, mainly targeting security forces, have spread to the Nile Delta and Cairo itself.

The attacks in Cairo have mainly involved small, homemade bombs that cause few casualties. But they have still revealed meticulous planning and execution by the militants and exposed the inefficiency of the police.

One such attack involved three homemade bombs that went off less than 20 meters (yards) away from the walls of Cairo’s presidential It-tihadiya palace, where el-Sissi conducts business on daily basis. Two senior police officers were killed, one of whom was trying to defuse a bomb while in civilian clothes and without wearing protective gear.

Associated Press

KABUL — The head of NATO paid an unannounced visit to Kabul on Thursday, where he vowed that the Western alliance would continue supporting the country after foreign combat troops withdraw at the end of the year.

“We are ending the combat mission and are starting a new chap-ter in which the future of Afghanistan is in the hands if the Afghan people,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

NATO has committed to continued funding for Afghan national forces of $4.1 billion annually and to an open-ended training and support mission to help the government combat a still-potent Taliban insurgency. Stoltenberg, who took over as the head of the alliance on Oct. 1, also visited a training center for Afghan special forces.

President Ashraf Ghani, who assumed office earlier this year following a protracted election dispute, accepted an invitation to attend a NATO ministerial meeting on Dec. 2. He said cooperation with the international community would focus on a wide range of non-security issues, including women’s rights, governance and environmental protection. “Give us a break,” he said, referring to the challenges facing his one-month-old government.

NATO and the United States are withdrawing combat forces from Afghanistan at the end of the year, after 13 years of fight-ing the Taliban. A residual force of up to 12,000 U.S. and NATO forces will remain to provide training and backup for Afghanistan’s 350,000 security forces.

The Taliban remain an imposing force in much of the country and continue to carry out near-daily attacks mainly targeting se-curity forces. On Thursday police in the eastern Paktia province received the bodies of 10 civilians who had been shot dead, ac-cording to provincial police chief Gen. Zalmai Huryakhil. He said police did not know when or why the people were killed.

The bodies were brought to the police by local village elders because the security forces cannot operate in the area where the bodies were found.

AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe

In this June 26, 2014 photo, Rohingya man carries vegetables in the rain at The Chaung village, north of Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Bomb blast aboard Egyptian train kills 4

NATO leader in Afghanistan vows continued support

Myanmar aiding Rohingya traffickingAssociated Press

MYIN HLUT, Myanmar — The small wooden boats leave the shores of western Myanmar nearly every day, overloaded with desperate Rohingya Muslims who are part of one the largest boat exoduses in Asia since the Vietnam War.

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The forward was mobbed by his Jazz teammates in a scene reminiscent of a college tourna-ment game. San Antonio’s Tim Duncan had 17 points and 13 rebounds as the Spurs held on for their 17th straight win 94-92 at home over the Atlanta Hawks.

The Spurs had a season-high 25 assists for a balanced scoring effort that they needed to fend off the Hawks’ furious rally in the final quarter. Tony Parker scored 17 points and Manu Gi-nobili added 12, including a pair of free throws with 3.8 seconds remaining. DeMarre Carroll and Paul Millsap each had 17 points for Atlanta (1-2). Al Horford

added 10.At Milwaukee, Derrick Rose

returned from his latest injury to help the Chicago Bulls to a 95-86 victory over the Bucks.

Taj Gibson scored 23 points, Pau Gasol added 22 and Rose had 13 points and seven assists in 32 minutes for the Bulls, who have beaten the Bucks nine straight times in Milwaukee. Giannis An-tetokounmpo had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Bucks.

The Memphis Grizzlies downed the Phoenix Suns 102-91 after Mike Conley had 24 points and 11 assists, while Greg Monroe had 23 points and 18 rebounds in the Detroit Pistons’ 98-95 win over

the New York Knicks.In other games, Kyle Lowry

scored 35 points and had a key steal in the closing minute to lead the Toronto Raptors over the Bos-ton Celtics 110-107, the Charlotte Hornets beat the Miami Heat 96-89, the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Brooklyn Nets 98-91 and the Washington Wizards claimed a 96-95 overtime win over the Indiana Pacers.

The Orlando Magic edged the Philadelphia 76ers 91-89, the Golden State Warriors trounced the Los Angeles Clippers 121-104 and the Sacramento Kings were 131-109 winners over the Denver Nuggets.

Radical action from Formula 1’s small teams over Bernie Eccle-stone’s failure to address cost issues would do more harm than good, insist leading team bosses. After a United States Grand Prix weekend where the smaller outfits whipped up talk of a strike - even though they never actually threatened it openly - there is pressure on Ecclestone to address the matter.

Talks between Ecclestone and Sauber, Force India and Lotus were scheduled for this week, amid hopes that an agreement could be reached by the Brazilian GP.

Red Bull boss Christian Horner and Mercedes chief Toto Wolff have urged Ecclestone to prevent the current problems dragging on, and ensure the wild idea of a boycott does not become real. Wolff said: “I’m not into strikes - it’s kept me stranded with Air France and Luf-thansa before. “So I don’t think a strike is what you do these days, and threatening to strike even less.

“I don’t think it would be good for Formula 1. That wouldn’t help

the smaller teams either. “It’s about sitting around the table, clearing the air, saying this is what we think should happen and then discuss-ing it with the commercial rights holder.”

Horner believes a protest by the three teams would achieve nothing, and suggested that even talking about the idea was hurting F1’s reputation. “They are here to compete,” he said. “Force India is trying to beat McLaren. If they are sitting in the garage, they are not going to be going anywhere. That doesn’t work.

“And doing it publicly is the wrong way to do it. “What F1 has done during the last couple of weeks with the public slanging matches that have gone on are not good for the sport, because the sport should be focusing on what we have seen in America: good racing, wheel to wheel racing.

“The politics and the fiscal issues should be dealt behind closed doors, with the commercial rights holder, and get sorted.” Jazz beat Cavs

on Hayward’s jumper at buzzer

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Gordon Hayward made a step-back jump shot at the buzzer, one-upping LeBron James and boosting the Utah Jazz to a 102-100 victory over the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday. Hayward, who had 21 points, broke free of James to catch an inbounds pass, faked a move to the basket and then stepped back on the right wing and swished a 21-foot jump shot as the horn sounded.

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Utah Jazz’s Gordon Hayward (20) shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers’ Tristan Thompson (13) in the closing seconds of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Utah won 102-100.

Mercedes, Red Bull say small team rebellion would

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Bayern won in Rome 7-1 two weeks ago and dominated again, but this time Roma defended better, without much ambition in attack.

“The 7-1 was an accident, a result once in a lifetime,” Bayern coach pep Guardiola said. “They are pros, they don’t want to lose and they played good defense. We stepped up our game in the second half.” Roma began the match with Francesco Totti , Gervinho and Miralem Pjanic on the bench, while Bayern rested Thomas Mueller. Bayern winger Arjen Robben missed the match with a stomach problem.

Bayern now has 12 points from four wins in four matches. Roma and CSKA Moscow have four points each. Moscow won 2-1 at Manchester City, which has two.

Bayern went ahead in the 38th, when Ribery sent David Alaba racing down the left flank. The Austria international played the

ball back to Ribery and the winger slotted home, with the ball bounc-ing off the inside of the post into the net.

Goetze secured Bayern’s vic-tory in the 64th after a cross from Robert Lewandowski. Goetze displayed outstanding control to lift the ball softly past Roma goal-keeper Lukasz Skorupski. “We knew it wouldn’t be that easy as in Rome,” Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said. “They defended well, often with six men, and it wasn’t easy to create chances.”

Ribery, starting only his sec-ond match after a knee injury, said Roma defended well in the first half, when Bayern had few chances apart from the goal. “But we played better in the second half and it’s been a nice week for us,” Ribery said. Lahm narrowly missed the target and a chance to make it a three-goal lead and Alaba’s free kick sailed wide.

Gervinho came on late in the

game and created Roma’s only decent opportunity, setting up Radja Nainggolan, but Manuel Neuer produced an outstanding save to deny Roma.

Bayern was never forced to switch into a higher gear and Roma rarely managed to hold the ball long enough to threaten the German cham-pion.

G u a r d i o l a ’s team became the first German side to make sure of winning a Cham-pions League group with two matches to spare.

Associated Press

AMSTERDAM — Lionel Messi’s brace gave Barcelona a 2-0 victory Wednesday over 10-man Ajax and moved him level with Raul Gonzalez’s all-time Champions League scoring record

of 71 goals. Messi scored his 70th Champions League goal in the 36th minute with a soft header after Ajax failed to clear a free kick and linked with substitute Pedro Ro-driguez for his second on the night in the 76th.

The win assured Bar-celona of qualification for the knockout stage of Europe’s top club competi-tion as Paris Saint-Germain

beat APOEL Nicosia 1-0 to stay top of Group F.

Ajax played the last 20 minutes with 10 men after

defender Joel Veltman was sent off for his second yellow card. Veltman also was red carded last year when Ajax beat Barcelona 2-1 in Amsterdam.

“The record wasn’t the goal for today, that was the three points that qualified us for the next round and that’s why we are leaving feeling happy,” Messi told Canal Plus television.

“We played against a team that

plays football well and, if you let them, move you from one side of the pitch to the other. It was difficult for us to pressure them because of their mobility, but we took advantage of the chances we got. Later, they went down to 10, but in general the match was even.”

Messi notched his record-leveling goals in his 90th match in Europe’s top club competition. Former Real Madrid and Schalke striker Raul took 142 matches to reach his tally. “Messi is abso-lutely the best player I have ever seen as player or coach,” said Barcelona coach Luis Enrique.

His strikes came a night af-ter Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored 70 Champions League goals, failed to find the net in Real Madrid’s 1-0 victory over Liver-pool. Ajax had the best of the early exchanges and Lucas Andersen shot just wide in the 18th minute after a surging run by 19-year-old winger Anwar El Ghazi.

Andersen, Lasse Schone and El Ghazi all stretched the Bar-celona defense as Ajax piled on the pressure, but Frank de Boer’s team could not convert its pos-session into a goal and Barce-lona made them pay. “We made a game of it in the first half,” De Boer said. “It’s a shame we

weren’t rewarded for our good play.”

Jasper Cillessen did well to save a 35th-minute Messi free kick but Ajax failed to clear and center back Marc Bartra hooked the ball back into the area for Messi to score with a soft header that Ricardo van Rhijn just failed to clear off the line.

Neymar almost doubled Bar-celona’s lead five minutes after the break when he shrugged off two defenders but his shot struck the outside of the post.

Messi showed he is more than just a goal scorer when his perfectly weighted through ball put Luis Suarez one-on-one against Cillessen but the former Ajax striker shot straight at the goalkeeper and Messi’s rebound shot curled into the side netting. Suarez was playing his first Champions League match for his new club since serving out his long suspension for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. But this night was all about Messi.

After Veltman was sent off, the Argentina star ruthlessly exposed the space in Ajax’s back four as he played a one-two with Pedro and slid to poke the ball past Cil-lessen for his record-equalling goal.

Associated Press

MARIBOR, Slovenia — Eden Hazard had a late penalty saved as Chelsea missed a chance to advance from Group G in the Champions League on Wednesday, drawing 1-1 with Maribor.

Unrecognizable from the side that was crushed 6-0 by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge two weeks ago, Maribor took a deserved lead in the 50th minute when Agim Ibraimi’s superb curling shot beat Petr Cech in the Chelsea goal.

Chelsea, which leads the group with eight points, equalized in the 73rd minute through Nemanja Mat-ic who latched onto a John Terry header to score from close range.

Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho felt his side had become compla-cent in what many expected would be another straightforward victory over the Slovenians.

“Many times surprises happen when people are not fully focused, when they believe the game can’t be a difficult one,” Mourinho said. “Only when Maribor scored did the players realize the game was in dan-ger. After that, a fantastic reaction. We deserved to win, clearly.”

Mourinho reacted to a poor first-half showing by his side at

the Stadion Ljudski vrt by making a double substitution at halftime, introducing striker Diego Costa and Oscar. Luka Zahovic missed a fine chance to double the advantage and enhance Maribor’s claims of inflicting Chelsea’s first defeat of the season, before Matic’s effort 17 minutes from time saved the Blues’ blushes.

Maribor goalkeeper Jasmin Han-danovic saved well from Hazard and Costa, who had the ball in the net after 79 minutes, only for the strike to be ruled out for offside. The decision by Italian referee Daniele Orsato was criticized by the Chelsea coach.

“We scored two goals, two very good goals. The second goal, the referee decided to disallow but it’s a clear goal,” Mourinho said.

“We didn’t reach the number of goals that we should have in the second half, but the team played well... And the referee’s team did not have a good night.”

Hazard was fouled for the 85th-minute spot-kick, but the Belgian’s effort was too central and Han-danovic saved.

Maribor remains rooted to the bottom of the group with three points. Schalke is second on five points, one more than Sporting in third.

Reuters BUCHAREST - FC Viitorul Con-

stanta centre back Alin Seroni has been banned for 16 matches for a reckless foul in a domestic match, the Romanian football federation’s (FRF) said late on Wednesday.

The punishment came a few hours after the FRF decided to ban FCM Targu Mures midfielder Gabriel Muresan for 16 matches following a violent tackle during his team’s 1-0 league win over champions Steaua Buchrast on Oct. 26.

Targu Mures’s general director Daniel Stanciu reacted angrily to Muresan’s pun-ishment, saying other players had com-mitted bad fouls but escaped serious bans. Seroni was handed the heavy punishment following a poor challenge on Universi-

tatea Craiova’s Nicusor Bancu during a Romanian Cup match on Oct. 29.

Bancu suffered an ankle fracture in the first period of extra-time with referee Flo-rin Miron immediately showing Seroni a second yellow card. Universitatea won the round of 16 match 2-1 and will meet Steaua in the quarter-finals.

The 28-year-old defender, who joined Viitorul from Poli Timisoara earlier this year, will not return on the field before April.

Viitorul, who are 11th in the league standings, are expected to announce whether they’ll appeal the sanction later on Thursday.

Viitorul were founded by former Ro-mania great Gheorghe Hagi in 2009 and won promotion to the top flight only three years later.

Reuters

SANTIAGO - Midfielder Jorge Valdivia, who backtracked on his decision to quit the Chile team after the World Cup, has been recalled for this month’s friendlies against Ven-ezuela and Uruguay. Coach Jorge Sampaoli’s decision follows Alexis Sanchez’s request after last month’s 2-2 draw at home to Bolivia that he needed an attacking midfielder like Valdivia or Matias Fernandez to link up with.

Arsenal’s Sanchez often dropped back dur-ing that match looking for the ball and was berated by Arturo Vidal for complicating his task as playmaker.

Valdivia, who last played for Chile in the last 16 at the World Cup where they lost to hosts Brazil on penalties, has been in fine form for Palmeiras in the Brazilian championship.

Fernandez, however, was not included on a list of 18 foreign-based players named by the Chilean association ANFP. Sampaoli is expected to add home-based players after weekend league matches.

Sampaoli also did not include Argentine-born West Ham United striker Mauro Zarate, who announced last week he was available for Chile after deciding his chances of inter-national football for the country of his birth were virtually non-existent.

Porto central defender Igor Lichnovsky, whose grandfather was Slovakian and father Austrian, was picked and is in line for his first cap.

Chile, who host next year’s Copa America and are looking to win the trophy for a first time, face Venezuela on Nov. 14 and Uruguay four days later, both at home.

AP Photo/Peter Dejong

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his side’s 2nd goal during the Group F Cham-pions League match between AFC Ajax and FC Barcelona at ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

Messi brace equals record as Barca beats Ajax 2-0

AP Photo/Nikola Solic

Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic celebrates his goal during the Cham-pions League group G soccer match between Chelsea FC and Maribor, in Maribor, Slovenia, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

Chelsea draws 1-1 with Maribor in Champions League

Bayern beats Roma 2-0 in Champions LeagueAssociated Press

MUNICH — Bayern Munich cruised past Roma 2-0 on Wednesday to make sure of advancing to the knock-out stage of the Champions League. Goals by Franck Ribery and Mario Goetze on either side of halftime also secured first place in Group E for the five-time champion, with two matches to spare.

AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson

Roma’s Daniele De Rossi kicks the ball during the Champions League group E soccer match between Bayern Munich and Roma in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 05, 2014.

Second Romanian player gets 16-match ban

Valdivia makes Chile return with Sanchez in mind

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Bayern won in Rome 7-1 two weeks ago and dominated again, but this time Roma defended better, without much ambition in attack.

“The 7-1 was an accident, a result once in a lifetime,” Bayern coach pep Guardiola said. “They are pros, they don’t want to lose and they played good defense. We stepped up our game in the second half.” Roma began the match with Francesco Totti , Gervinho and Miralem Pjanic on the bench, while Bayern rested Thomas Mueller. Bayern winger Arjen Robben missed the match with a stomach problem.

Bayern now has 12 points from four wins in four matches. Roma and CSKA Moscow have four points each. Moscow won 2-1 at Manchester City, which has two.

Bayern went ahead in the 38th, when Ribery sent David Alaba racing down the left flank. The Austria international played the

ball back to Ribery and the winger slotted home, with the ball bounc-ing off the inside of the post into the net.

Goetze secured Bayern’s vic-tory in the 64th after a cross from Robert Lewandowski. Goetze displayed outstanding control to lift the ball softly past Roma goal-keeper Lukasz Skorupski. “We knew it wouldn’t be that easy as in Rome,” Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said. “They defended well, often with six men, and it wasn’t easy to create chances.”

Ribery, starting only his sec-ond match after a knee injury, said Roma defended well in the first half, when Bayern had few chances apart from the goal. “But we played better in the second half and it’s been a nice week for us,” Ribery said. Lahm narrowly missed the target and a chance to make it a three-goal lead and Alaba’s free kick sailed wide.

Gervinho came on late in the

game and created Roma’s only decent opportunity, setting up Radja Nainggolan, but Manuel Neuer produced an outstanding save to deny Roma.

Bayern was never forced to switch into a higher gear and Roma rarely managed to hold the ball long enough to threaten the German cham-pion.

G u a r d i o l a ’s team became the first German side to make sure of winning a Cham-pions League group with two matches to spare.

Associated Press

AMSTERDAM — Lionel Messi’s brace gave Barcelona a 2-0 victory Wednesday over 10-man Ajax and moved him level with Raul Gonzalez’s all-time Champions League scoring record

of 71 goals. Messi scored his 70th Champions League goal in the 36th minute with a soft header after Ajax failed to clear a free kick and linked with substitute Pedro Ro-driguez for his second on the night in the 76th.

The win assured Bar-celona of qualification for the knockout stage of Europe’s top club competi-tion as Paris Saint-Germain

beat APOEL Nicosia 1-0 to stay top of Group F.

Ajax played the last 20 minutes with 10 men after

defender Joel Veltman was sent off for his second yellow card. Veltman also was red carded last year when Ajax beat Barcelona 2-1 in Amsterdam.

“The record wasn’t the goal for today, that was the three points that qualified us for the next round and that’s why we are leaving feeling happy,” Messi told Canal Plus television.

“We played against a team that

plays football well and, if you let them, move you from one side of the pitch to the other. It was difficult for us to pressure them because of their mobility, but we took advantage of the chances we got. Later, they went down to 10, but in general the match was even.”

Messi notched his record-leveling goals in his 90th match in Europe’s top club competition. Former Real Madrid and Schalke striker Raul took 142 matches to reach his tally. “Messi is abso-lutely the best player I have ever seen as player or coach,” said Barcelona coach Luis Enrique.

His strikes came a night af-ter Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored 70 Champions League goals, failed to find the net in Real Madrid’s 1-0 victory over Liver-pool. Ajax had the best of the early exchanges and Lucas Andersen shot just wide in the 18th minute after a surging run by 19-year-old winger Anwar El Ghazi.

Andersen, Lasse Schone and El Ghazi all stretched the Bar-celona defense as Ajax piled on the pressure, but Frank de Boer’s team could not convert its pos-session into a goal and Barce-lona made them pay. “We made a game of it in the first half,” De Boer said. “It’s a shame we

weren’t rewarded for our good play.”

Jasper Cillessen did well to save a 35th-minute Messi free kick but Ajax failed to clear and center back Marc Bartra hooked the ball back into the area for Messi to score with a soft header that Ricardo van Rhijn just failed to clear off the line.

Neymar almost doubled Bar-celona’s lead five minutes after the break when he shrugged off two defenders but his shot struck the outside of the post.

Messi showed he is more than just a goal scorer when his perfectly weighted through ball put Luis Suarez one-on-one against Cillessen but the former Ajax striker shot straight at the goalkeeper and Messi’s rebound shot curled into the side netting. Suarez was playing his first Champions League match for his new club since serving out his long suspension for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. But this night was all about Messi.

After Veltman was sent off, the Argentina star ruthlessly exposed the space in Ajax’s back four as he played a one-two with Pedro and slid to poke the ball past Cil-lessen for his record-equalling goal.

Associated Press

MARIBOR, Slovenia — Eden Hazard had a late penalty saved as Chelsea missed a chance to advance from Group G in the Champions League on Wednesday, drawing 1-1 with Maribor.

Unrecognizable from the side that was crushed 6-0 by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge two weeks ago, Maribor took a deserved lead in the 50th minute when Agim Ibraimi’s superb curling shot beat Petr Cech in the Chelsea goal.

Chelsea, which leads the group with eight points, equalized in the 73rd minute through Nemanja Mat-ic who latched onto a John Terry header to score from close range.

Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho felt his side had become compla-cent in what many expected would be another straightforward victory over the Slovenians.

“Many times surprises happen when people are not fully focused, when they believe the game can’t be a difficult one,” Mourinho said. “Only when Maribor scored did the players realize the game was in dan-ger. After that, a fantastic reaction. We deserved to win, clearly.”

Mourinho reacted to a poor first-half showing by his side at

the Stadion Ljudski vrt by making a double substitution at halftime, introducing striker Diego Costa and Oscar. Luka Zahovic missed a fine chance to double the advantage and enhance Maribor’s claims of inflicting Chelsea’s first defeat of the season, before Matic’s effort 17 minutes from time saved the Blues’ blushes.

Maribor goalkeeper Jasmin Han-danovic saved well from Hazard and Costa, who had the ball in the net after 79 minutes, only for the strike to be ruled out for offside. The decision by Italian referee Daniele Orsato was criticized by the Chelsea coach.

“We scored two goals, two very good goals. The second goal, the referee decided to disallow but it’s a clear goal,” Mourinho said.

“We didn’t reach the number of goals that we should have in the second half, but the team played well... And the referee’s team did not have a good night.”

Hazard was fouled for the 85th-minute spot-kick, but the Belgian’s effort was too central and Han-danovic saved.

Maribor remains rooted to the bottom of the group with three points. Schalke is second on five points, one more than Sporting in third.

Reuters BUCHAREST - FC Viitorul Con-

stanta centre back Alin Seroni has been banned for 16 matches for a reckless foul in a domestic match, the Romanian football federation’s (FRF) said late on Wednesday.

The punishment came a few hours after the FRF decided to ban FCM Targu Mures midfielder Gabriel Muresan for 16 matches following a violent tackle during his team’s 1-0 league win over champions Steaua Buchrast on Oct. 26.

Targu Mures’s general director Daniel Stanciu reacted angrily to Muresan’s pun-ishment, saying other players had com-mitted bad fouls but escaped serious bans. Seroni was handed the heavy punishment following a poor challenge on Universi-

tatea Craiova’s Nicusor Bancu during a Romanian Cup match on Oct. 29.

Bancu suffered an ankle fracture in the first period of extra-time with referee Flo-rin Miron immediately showing Seroni a second yellow card. Universitatea won the round of 16 match 2-1 and will meet Steaua in the quarter-finals.

The 28-year-old defender, who joined Viitorul from Poli Timisoara earlier this year, will not return on the field before April.

Viitorul, who are 11th in the league standings, are expected to announce whether they’ll appeal the sanction later on Thursday.

Viitorul were founded by former Ro-mania great Gheorghe Hagi in 2009 and won promotion to the top flight only three years later.

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SANTIAGO - Midfielder Jorge Valdivia, who backtracked on his decision to quit the Chile team after the World Cup, has been recalled for this month’s friendlies against Ven-ezuela and Uruguay. Coach Jorge Sampaoli’s decision follows Alexis Sanchez’s request after last month’s 2-2 draw at home to Bolivia that he needed an attacking midfielder like Valdivia or Matias Fernandez to link up with.

Arsenal’s Sanchez often dropped back dur-ing that match looking for the ball and was berated by Arturo Vidal for complicating his task as playmaker.

Valdivia, who last played for Chile in the last 16 at the World Cup where they lost to hosts Brazil on penalties, has been in fine form for Palmeiras in the Brazilian championship.

Fernandez, however, was not included on a list of 18 foreign-based players named by the Chilean association ANFP. Sampaoli is expected to add home-based players after weekend league matches.

Sampaoli also did not include Argentine-born West Ham United striker Mauro Zarate, who announced last week he was available for Chile after deciding his chances of inter-national football for the country of his birth were virtually non-existent.

Porto central defender Igor Lichnovsky, whose grandfather was Slovakian and father Austrian, was picked and is in line for his first cap.

Chile, who host next year’s Copa America and are looking to win the trophy for a first time, face Venezuela on Nov. 14 and Uruguay four days later, both at home.

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his side’s 2nd goal during the Group F Cham-pions League match between AFC Ajax and FC Barcelona at ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

Messi brace equals record as Barca beats Ajax 2-0

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Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic celebrates his goal during the Cham-pions League group G soccer match between Chelsea FC and Maribor, in Maribor, Slovenia, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

Chelsea draws 1-1 with Maribor in Champions League

Bayern beats Roma 2-0 in Champions LeagueAssociated Press

MUNICH — Bayern Munich cruised past Roma 2-0 on Wednesday to make sure of advancing to the knock-out stage of the Champions League. Goals by Franck Ribery and Mario Goetze on either side of halftime also secured first place in Group E for the five-time champion, with two matches to spare.

AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson

Roma’s Daniele De Rossi kicks the ball during the Champions League group E soccer match between Bayern Munich and Roma in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 05, 2014.

Second Romanian player gets 16-match ban

Valdivia makes Chile return with Sanchez in mind

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The forward was mobbed by his Jazz teammates in a scene reminiscent of a college tourna-ment game. San Antonio’s Tim Duncan had 17 points and 13 rebounds as the Spurs held on for their 17th straight win 94-92 at home over the Atlanta Hawks.

The Spurs had a season-high 25 assists for a balanced scoring effort that they needed to fend off the Hawks’ furious rally in the final quarter. Tony Parker scored 17 points and Manu Gi-nobili added 12, including a pair of free throws with 3.8 seconds remaining. DeMarre Carroll and Paul Millsap each had 17 points for Atlanta (1-2). Al Horford

added 10.At Milwaukee, Derrick Rose

returned from his latest injury to help the Chicago Bulls to a 95-86 victory over the Bucks.

Taj Gibson scored 23 points, Pau Gasol added 22 and Rose had 13 points and seven assists in 32 minutes for the Bulls, who have beaten the Bucks nine straight times in Milwaukee. Giannis An-tetokounmpo had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Bucks.

The Memphis Grizzlies downed the Phoenix Suns 102-91 after Mike Conley had 24 points and 11 assists, while Greg Monroe had 23 points and 18 rebounds in the Detroit Pistons’ 98-95 win over

the New York Knicks.In other games, Kyle Lowry

scored 35 points and had a key steal in the closing minute to lead the Toronto Raptors over the Bos-ton Celtics 110-107, the Charlotte Hornets beat the Miami Heat 96-89, the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Brooklyn Nets 98-91 and the Washington Wizards claimed a 96-95 overtime win over the Indiana Pacers.

The Orlando Magic edged the Philadelphia 76ers 91-89, the Golden State Warriors trounced the Los Angeles Clippers 121-104 and the Sacramento Kings were 131-109 winners over the Denver Nuggets.

Radical action from Formula 1’s small teams over Bernie Eccle-stone’s failure to address cost issues would do more harm than good, insist leading team bosses. After a United States Grand Prix weekend where the smaller outfits whipped up talk of a strike - even though they never actually threatened it openly - there is pressure on Ecclestone to address the matter.

Talks between Ecclestone and Sauber, Force India and Lotus were scheduled for this week, amid hopes that an agreement could be reached by the Brazilian GP.

Red Bull boss Christian Horner and Mercedes chief Toto Wolff have urged Ecclestone to prevent the current problems dragging on, and ensure the wild idea of a boycott does not become real. Wolff said: “I’m not into strikes - it’s kept me stranded with Air France and Luf-thansa before. “So I don’t think a strike is what you do these days, and threatening to strike even less.

“I don’t think it would be good for Formula 1. That wouldn’t help

the smaller teams either. “It’s about sitting around the table, clearing the air, saying this is what we think should happen and then discuss-ing it with the commercial rights holder.”

Horner believes a protest by the three teams would achieve nothing, and suggested that even talking about the idea was hurting F1’s reputation. “They are here to compete,” he said. “Force India is trying to beat McLaren. If they are sitting in the garage, they are not going to be going anywhere. That doesn’t work.

“And doing it publicly is the wrong way to do it. “What F1 has done during the last couple of weeks with the public slanging matches that have gone on are not good for the sport, because the sport should be focusing on what we have seen in America: good racing, wheel to wheel racing.

“The politics and the fiscal issues should be dealt behind closed doors, with the commercial rights holder, and get sorted.” Jazz beat Cavs

on Hayward’s jumper at buzzer

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SALT LAKE CITY — Gordon Hayward made a step-back jump shot at the buzzer, one-upping LeBron James and boosting the Utah Jazz to a 102-100 victory over the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday. Hayward, who had 21 points, broke free of James to catch an inbounds pass, faked a move to the basket and then stepped back on the right wing and swished a 21-foot jump shot as the horn sounded.

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Utah Jazz’s Gordon Hayward (20) shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers’ Tristan Thompson (13) in the closing seconds of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Utah won 102-100.

Mercedes, Red Bull say small team rebellion would

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Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives during the qualifying session of the U.S. Grand Prix at the Cir-cuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, November 1, 2014. The U.S. Grand Prix will take place on Sunday.

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The revitalization is in a bid to support the country’s ambition to become the world largest cocoa producer, Jokowi said during his visit to West Sulawesi, on Thursday.

“The revitalization is expected to take three to four years starting 2015,” he told cocoa farmers in Saletto in the district of Mamuju, West Sulawesi.

The president asked Minister of Agrarian affairs Ferry Mur-sidan to immediately prepare the certificate for the people’s plantations.

He also asked banks to help with credits for cocoa plantations. He said he would encourage de-velopment of cocoa processing industry in cocoa production

centers. He said in three years Indone-

sia should be the world’s largest producer of cocoa.

Currently the country is the third largest producer after the Ivory Coast and Ghana in Af-rica.

“For that purpose the farm-ers need to work the harder,” he said.

Earlier Jokowi inspected ir-rigation system in Beru-Beru, Mamuju and symbolically dis-tributed the Healthy Indonesian cards, Smart Indonesian cards and Prosperous Family cards to a number of the villager. With the cards the farmers are entitled to free medical treatment and educa-tional cost for their children.

AntaraJAKARTA - An Iranian oil and

gas company said it is ready to supply crude oil to feed Indonesian oil refin-eries, an official said on Thursday.

Care taker Oil and Gas Director General Naryanto Wagimin said the Indonesian government welcomes the offer. “We will discuss that matter further in a working group,” Naryanto said after accompanying representa-tive of the Iranian Energy Ministry to a meeting with the Energy and Mineral Resource Minister Sudirman Said.

He said the Iranian embassy said crude oil from Iran meets the specifications needed by the Cilacap oil refinery of the state oil and gas company PT Pertamina.

He said Iran also wants to renew talks on cooperation to build an oil refinery, negotiations on which halted recently. Under the scheme the refin-ery would be built in cooperation with Indonesia company with crude oil to be supplied from Iran.

“The minister is enthusiastic with the plan to build the refinery. Therefore a working group would be formed,” he said.

As for the incentives asked by the

investor, discussion would be held further, he added.

“I have heard about an Indonesia investor wanting to build an oil refin-ery, but there was no progress made so far,” he said.

In 2007, Iran through its oil and gas state company National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Com-pany (NIORDC) indicated interest in building an oil refinery with a processing capacity of 300,000 bar-rels of crude oil per day to cost around US$6 billion.

The plan dated back to a meeting between former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

The project was to be built in Bojanegara, Banten, in cooperation with Pertamina with NIORDC to have a 40 percent stake, Pertamina 40 percent and Malaysian Petrofield 20 percent.

The refinery would be operated by a joint venture company named PT Banten Bay Refinery. The project was already approved by the Oil and Gas Directorate General on 27 May, 2008 and the Capital Investment Coordinat-ing Board on 27 November 2008.

AntaraJAKARTA - Coordinat ing

Economic Minister Sofyan Djalil has submitted his wealth dis-closure forms to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday verifying that his

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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said he would set aside Rp1.2 trillion for the revitalization of the country’s cocoa plantations.

Jokowi plans Rp1.2 trillion investment to revitalize cocoa plantationsAntara

MAMUJU - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said he would set aside Rp1.2 trillion for the revitalization of the country’s cocoa plantations.

Iran ready to supply crude oil

Coordinating economic minister exposes his wealth

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Coordinating Economic Minister Sofyan Djalil has submitted his wealth disclosure forms to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday verifying that his total wealth is Rp52.8 billion and US$580,000.

total wealth is Rp52.8 billion and US$580,000. “The total wealth of mine is Rp52.8 billion and $US580,000,” he told journalists shortly after handing his wealth disclosure forms to the antigraft body.

Sofyan Djali l became the fourth minister who submitted their wealth disclosure forms to the KPK after Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Min-ister Yuddy Chrisnandi, Health Minister Nila Djowita Moeloek and Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman.

Djalil said that he had debt totaling Rp3.5 billion when re-cently buying a house located in Central Jakarta’s Menteng Dalam area but he refused to detail his wealth.

“I do not want to announce this. The KPK will do that. This is a publicly-accessible docu-ment. Please wait until the KPK processes and announces it. For your information, I have reported my wealth disclosure forms for five times,” he said.

The first report on his wealth was made in 2001 while the second time was in 2004 when he became the minister of com-munication and informatics, and then in 2007 and 2009 (when becoming state enterprises min-ister), he said.

Helping them on their way: Myanmar’s own security forces, who are profiting off the mass departure of one of the world’s most persecuted minorities by extracting payments from those fleeing. A report to be released Friday by the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights, and reporting by The Associated Press, indicate the practice is far more widespread and organized than previously thought, with Myanmar naval boats going so far as to escort asylum seekers out sea, where larger ships oper-ated by transnational criminal networks wait to pick them up.

“Myanmar authorities are not only making life so intolerable for Rohingya that they have to flee, but they’re also complicit in the process — they’re taking payments and profiting off their exodus,” said Matthew Smith, director of Fortify Rights.

Rakhine state spokesman Win

Myaing dismissed the allegations as “rumors,” saying he has not “heard of anything happening like that.” He said any naval boats ap-proaching such vessels were likely aiming to help fishermen in need.

More than 100,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s western shores by boat since Buddhist-Muslim violence erupted in Rakh-ine state two years ago, according to estimates provided by experts tracking their movements.

Chris Lewa, director of the advocacy group Arakan Project, said increasing desperation is be-hind a huge surge since Oct. 15, with an average of 900 people per day piling into cargo ships parked offshore. In Rakhine state, an ag-gressive campaign by authorities over the last few months to regis-ter family members and officially categorize them as “Bengalis” — implying they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh — has aggravated their situation.

The deepening crisis comes ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to Myanmar next week for a regional summit, his second in two years. Obama, who has repeatedly pointed to demo-cratic reforms in Myanmar as a foreign policy bright spot, called President Thein Sein recently by telephone to express concerns about recent backslides.

Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 50 million that is still struggling to emerge from half a century of military rule, has an estimated 1.3 million Rohingya, and most are considered stateless. Though many of their families arrived from Bangladesh genera-tions ago, almost all have been de-nied citizenship by Myanmar and Bangladesh. In the last two years, attacks by Buddhist mobs have left hundreds dead and 140,000 trapped in camps where they live without access to adequate health care, education or jobs.

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CAIRO — A bomb blast aboard a train traveling in the Nile Delta north of Cairo killed four people and wounded nine, security offi-cials said on Thursday. They said the blast took place shortly before midnight on Wednesday and that two policemen were among those killed.

Also late Wednesday, three people were wounded when a home-made bomb went off aboard a commuter train in the Cairo suburb of al-Marg, said the officials. On Thursday morning in Cairo, a woman was slightly injured when a homemade explosive device went off near one of the city’s presidential facilities, the infrequently used al-Quba palace, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for planting any of the three bombs, but the attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamic militants fighting the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a general-turned-politician who took office in June, nearly a year after he led the military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Authorities have for years battled Islamic militants in the Sinai Pen-insula, but the unrest there has escalated into a full-fledged insurgency since Morsi’s ouster in July last year. The attacks, mainly targeting security forces, have spread to the Nile Delta and Cairo itself.

The attacks in Cairo have mainly involved small, homemade bombs that cause few casualties. But they have still revealed meticulous planning and execution by the militants and exposed the inefficiency of the police.

One such attack involved three homemade bombs that went off less than 20 meters (yards) away from the walls of Cairo’s presidential It-tihadiya palace, where el-Sissi conducts business on daily basis. Two senior police officers were killed, one of whom was trying to defuse a bomb while in civilian clothes and without wearing protective gear.

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KABUL — The head of NATO paid an unannounced visit to Kabul on Thursday, where he vowed that the Western alliance would continue supporting the country after foreign combat troops withdraw at the end of the year.

“We are ending the combat mission and are starting a new chap-ter in which the future of Afghanistan is in the hands if the Afghan people,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

NATO has committed to continued funding for Afghan national forces of $4.1 billion annually and to an open-ended training and support mission to help the government combat a still-potent Taliban insurgency. Stoltenberg, who took over as the head of the alliance on Oct. 1, also visited a training center for Afghan special forces.

President Ashraf Ghani, who assumed office earlier this year following a protracted election dispute, accepted an invitation to attend a NATO ministerial meeting on Dec. 2. He said cooperation with the international community would focus on a wide range of non-security issues, including women’s rights, governance and environmental protection. “Give us a break,” he said, referring to the challenges facing his one-month-old government.

NATO and the United States are withdrawing combat forces from Afghanistan at the end of the year, after 13 years of fight-ing the Taliban. A residual force of up to 12,000 U.S. and NATO forces will remain to provide training and backup for Afghanistan’s 350,000 security forces.

The Taliban remain an imposing force in much of the country and continue to carry out near-daily attacks mainly targeting se-curity forces. On Thursday police in the eastern Paktia province received the bodies of 10 civilians who had been shot dead, ac-cording to provincial police chief Gen. Zalmai Huryakhil. He said police did not know when or why the people were killed.

The bodies were brought to the police by local village elders because the security forces cannot operate in the area where the bodies were found.

AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe

In this June 26, 2014 photo, Rohingya man carries vegetables in the rain at The Chaung village, north of Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Bomb blast aboard Egyptian train kills 4

NATO leader in Afghanistan vows continued support

Myanmar aiding Rohingya traffickingAssociated Press

MYIN HLUT, Myanmar — The small wooden boats leave the shores of western Myanmar nearly every day, overloaded with desperate Rohingya Muslims who are part of one the largest boat exoduses in Asia since the Vietnam War.

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BANGLI - When holding a piodalan or temple anniversary, the Hindu community in Bali usually does it with great fanfare. It is always accompanied with the gamelan music performance, hymns and holy bell sounds. How-ever, different celebration occurs at Dalem Umbalan Temple, Yangapi village, Tembuku subdistrict, Ban-gli. Thus, the piodalan is held with a very quiet atmosphere.

Residents who come into the tem-ple area are not allowed to speak. This abstinence is not only valid when organizing the piodalan, but also on normal days. The temple priest of-ficiating over the ritual will only do pooja and chant the mantra by heart. Likewise, when instructing resident to do the five worships, the priest will only provide a direction by using a gesture or sign language having been understood by the residents.

A local village community leader, Nyoman Sutami, said the abstinence to speak at the Dalem Umbalan Temple, especially in the innermost courtyard, indeed had become a tradition to local community from time immemo-rial. The tradition was estimated to have been handed down since the temple was built. “Especially in the innermost courtyard, the residents are not allowed to speak. All com-munications are done simply by using a code or sign language,” he explained.

Residents were only allowed to speak, added Sutami, when they were already beyond the innermost courtyard, such as in the middle or outermost courtyard. Such absti-nence was based on the belief of local residents that the deities abid-

ing at the temple were not happy with noises. Anyone entering the temple was forbidden to whisper let alone speak.

Sutami also said that piodalan at the temple was usually held in the middle of the night, around 12:00 p.m. “And the piodalan will begin to be implemented after the sound of local deity’s property in the form of frog,” she said. Local people really believed in such tradition. If any people dared to violate, then disaster would soon befall them. It had been proved by some incidents having happened to the people of Umbalan. “About a year ago, there was a resident who died while car-rying out mutual cooperation in the innermost courtyard of the temple. At that time, the resident was break-ing the abstinence prevailing at the temple,” she said.

Actually, explained Sutami, the resident was already aware of the abstinence, but he still spoke. Shortly afterward he died in the temple area whereas he was not talking about bad things. What hap-pened to her resident, said Sutami, did not just happen at that moment. At least, the incident already hap-pened about twice. “Such incidents made the local residents adhere to the abstinence prevailing at the temple,” she said.

Other than the abstinence to speak, local people also had an-other belief related to the Dalem Umbalan Temple. Any personal belongings of residents were ac-cidentally left at the innermost courtyard of the temple, it might not be taken on the same day, but could only be taken in the next piodalan (six months later).

In the past, at the end of a pioda-lan one of the residents inadver-

tently left her tray inside the temple. When the owner tried to take it back into the temple area, the owner was made very surprised. Her tray made of woven palm leaf was seen to transform into a curled snake. Suddenly, she was frightened and

did not dare to take it back. Another story told that a house-

wife wanted to take back her left item in the innermost courtyard of the temple in the next morning. But when she wanted to take the object it was actually invisible. And

she really remembered well where the position of her possession was left behind. “On the next piodalan ceremony or six months later, the possession was found. Thus, local residents believe, so they are always obedient,” she added. (ina)

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The European Union misspent nearly 7 billion euros ($8.76 billion) in 2013, an ombudsman said Wednesday, warning that Brussels must focus on getting better results for its money.

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BRUSSELS - The European Union misspent nearly 7 billion euros ($8.76 billion) in 2013, an ombuds-man said Wednesday, warning that Brussels must focus on getting better results for its money.

The so-called error rate for spend-ing fell to 4.7 percent in the EU’s 2013 budget of 148.5 billion euros, against 4.8 percent the previous year, the Eu-ropean Court of Auditors said.

The report comes as Brussels faces increasing pressure from member states to tighten spending, especially amid a row with Britain over a huge demand for back payments.

“From now on, there has to be more careful management and control of EU funds,” said Vitor Caldeira, the head of the independent watchdog.

“Once again it is clear from our audit just how much of that spending is not in compliance with the rules.”

The European Commission, the powerful executive branch of the 28-nation EU, said the report showed its efforts to tackle misspending were “starting to pay off”.

The watchdog said the two most error-prone spending areas were re-gional policy, with a misspending rate of 6.9 percent, and rural development, on 6.7 percent, the auditor said.

It cited mistakes including a com-pany claiming funds as a small business

when it was actually owned by a large firm; the managers of an airport project adding to a contract without letting other firms bid; and a farmer claiming a subsidy for grassland that was partly covered by bushes and trees.

The EU’s focus on a “use it or lose it” approach, instead of checking how well money was spent, is a “funda-mental flaw in the design of much of the EU budget,” it added.

It said however that the figures were “not a measure of fraud, inef-ficiency or waste” but examined how EU money was not spent within the bloc’s rules.

Caldeira called for “more incen-tives to improve performance and to deliver value for money.”

The EU’s budget is a perennial source of debate at a time when the continent’s economy is in the dol-drums and many member states face tough decisions on austerity.

The European Commissioner for the budget, Kristalina Georgieva, said the commission would do more to stop spending errors but said they had to be seen in “context”.

“I am pleased that the court’s audit findings show that last years’ trend of increasing error rates has been stopped,” she said.

She said the EU had to work with member states to improve the situa-tion “without adding more costs and bureaucracy.”

It was announced by Secre-tary of the Karangasem AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPA), Ida Bagus Putra Udaya, in the in-teractive dialogue on HIV/AIDS in Radio SWiB, Tuesday (Oct 4) in Karangasem. He said that not all the HIV-infected pregnant women transmitted HIV to their children. It happened because children had its own immune sys-tem. But to prevent the children born from being infected by HIV through their mother, there was a management for that purpose. On that account, the mothers having

the risk of HIV infection should be examined first to VCT in order to prevent the transmission to children. “A mother living with HIV/AIDS will not necessarily transmit the HIV to her children, provided that she makes preven-tion,” said Udaya.

According to the Head of the Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) clinic of Karangasem Hospital, Nariata, by maintaining the health of people living with HIV, it was expected their quality of life could be longer. Besides, it was also meant to avoid premature death

or the death ahead of the time. In developed countries, the death of people living with HIV had been below 20 percent, while in Africa it was reported to be more than 25 percent,” he said.

Nariata admitted that within the past few months more and more people came to his VCT clinic. He did not know why, but allegedly there had been an awareness of anticipating the infectious disease with VCT. He also suspected there was a rumor in the community mentioning that someone spread HIV. As a result,

people were aware and worried if they would be infected due to their behavior. Within a few months, approximately 60 people came to take VCT. Among the people coming to the VCT clinic each month, around 9 -10 percent was known to be positive. “It sounds bad because more and more people are recorded to be positive to HIV/AIDS. However, it is good for the future in order to break the chain of the transmission,” said Nariata.

Actually, added Udaya, the more people took the VCT services, the better would be. Though it was cat-egorized to be somewhat bad for the health agency because many people were infected in one area, it would be good for the future because it could perform anticipative measure

more effectively. By knowing for sure in advance, it could be antici-pated so that new infections could be avoided, while the quality of life of the people living with HIV would be well maintained.

From the existing data, the residents of Karangasem known to live with HIV/AIDS after taking VCT increased by 50 people in the past year. In 2013, the number reached totally 313 people and up to August increased to 363 people. They mostly belonged to produc-tive age of 19-49 years. Sufferers were found in all the subdistricts in Karangasem. Quantitatively, the most sufferers were found in Karangasem subdistrict and it was then followed by Kubu and Abang subdistrict. (013)

The US-based International Consortium of Investigative Jour-nalists (ICIJ) said a six-month investigation had found household firms such as Pepsi, IKEA and Deutsche Bank were among com-panies which had taken advantage of legal tax avoidance schemes with Luxembourg.

The ICIJ said it had reviewed around 28,000 pages of leaked documents which detailed complex financial structures that enabled companies to dramatically slash their tax liabilities.

The organization said hundreds of billions of dollars had been fun-neled through Luxembourg as part of the agreements, wiping billions

of dollars in taxes from the compa-nies’ bottom lines.

Global accounting giant Price-waterhouseCoopers had helped the companies in question secure at least 548 tax rulings in Lux-embourg between 2002 and 2010 according to an ICIJ analysis of the documents.

The documents uncovered de-tails of Advance Tax Agreements -- deals which set out how companies will be taxed.

“It’s like taking your tax plan to the government and getting it blessed ahead of time,” the ICIJ quoted Connecticut School of Law tax expert Richard Pomp as saying.

“And most are blessed. Luxem-bourg has a very user-friendly tax department.”

The ICIJ said its investigation had involved a team of more than 80 journalists from 26 countries working for outlets including The Guardian, Le Monde and Ger-many’s Suddeutsche Zeitung.

The Guardian said in its report of the investigation that the ar-rangements forged between the companies and the tiny EU member state were “perfectly legal.”

But it said the agreements were enabling tax avoidance on “an in-dustrial scale.”

Other companies that benefited from the schemes included Burb-

erry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx.

The ICIJ said some companies had been able to achieve effective tax rates of less than one percent on profits channeled through Lux-embourg.

It said many cases involved Luxembourg subsidiaries of the companies in question, even if they maintained only a marginal busi-ness presence in the country. It said 1,600 companies were registered at one address alone.

The Guardian quoted US Trea-sury tax expert Stephen Shay as saying Luxembourg was akin to a “magical fairyland.”

“Clearly the database is evidenc-ing a pervasive enabling by Luxem-bourg of multinationals’ avoidance of taxes [around the world],” said Shay, a Harvard Law School pro-fessor who gave expert testimony during a US Senate investigation

last year into Apple’s tax avoidance structures.

The revelations come against a backdrop of mounting scrutiny by authorities worldwide of tax arrangements involving major firms.

Last month, the EU snagged Internet titan Amazon in a widen-ing probe into sweetheart tax deals for major multinationals, saying they were unfair to competitors and taxpayers.

The move follows similar probes announced in September into US tech icon Apple in Ireland, coffee-shop chain Starbucks in the Neth-erlands, and the financial arm of Italian automaker Fiat, also in Luxembourg like Amazon.

European Union anti-trust regu-lators will examine if Amazon’s tax arrangements with Luxembourg amount to illegal state aid, giving the company an unfair advantage.

ICIJ Document

Global firms’ tax avoidance schemes revealedAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of the world’s biggest companies have brokered secret deals with Luxembourg to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes according to a trove of leaked documents published by an investigative journalism group on Wednesday.

EU misspent nearly 7 billion euros last year: watchdog

In Karangasem, 25 children infected by HIVBali Post

AMLAPURA - In Karangasem, it is recorded that 25 children suffer HIV/AIDS. The total number of people living with HIV/AIDS is known to reach 363 people up to last August.

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In a joint news conference with Abbott, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte revealed that investigators had retrieved more human remains this week from the rebel-held site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on July 17 with the loss of 298 lives, mostly Dutch and including Australians.

He announced recently that a team of Dutch, Ukrainian and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe rescue workers last week safely reached the area where the Boeing 777’s wreckage is scattered and retrieved an unspecified number of human remains. The tragedy was at the top of the agenda in meetings Thursday among Rutte, Abbott and the Aus-tralian Cabinet.

Abbott said he would hold a bi-lateral meeting with Putin as soon

as possible either at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ summit in Beijing on Nov. 9-10 or a week later in the Australian city of Brisbane where Australia will chair a G20 meeting of leaders of wealthy and developing countries.

“One way or another, I will take the chance to speak to the Russian president sometime over the next week or so,” Abbott told reporters.

Russian officials ridiculed Ab-bott’s threat last month to “shirt-front” Putin — using an Austra-lian football term for a head-on shoulder-charge to an opponent’s chest — and insisted that Abbot would have no opportunity since no bilateral meeting had been scheduled.

Abbott said Thursday that he and Rutte were united in expecting full Russian cooperation with the Dutch-led investigation. “We don’t

want the investigation ridiculed; we don’t want the investigation compromised or sabotaged,” Ab-bott said.

Rutte said he gave Putin a similar message on the sidelines of an Asia-Europe Meeting, or ASEM, summit last month in Milan, Italy.

“I used the opportunity again to tell him that I expect him to do everything he can to put pressure on the separatists to allow unhin-dered access to the crash site,” Rutte said.

During the meeting with Putin, Rutte said he compared the disaster to the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk which sank with the loss of all 118 lives aboard in the Barents Sea in 2000 and was sal-vaged by a Dutch consortium. Rutte said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak would also try to meet Putin during the APEC summit.

Associated Press

TANAUAN, Philippines — The Saavedras waited for death as Typhoon Haiyan tore their roof, knocked down walls and unleashed torrents of seawater below them. All they could do was pray, say “I love you” one last time and take a picture. David Saavedra raised his cellphone in the chaos to snap a group selfie to record their final moments. He took it for his eldest sister in Manila, hoping to show that at the end, her family was together — even serene.

That explains his smile, incon-gruous against the wind-ripped scene and the terror-stricken faces of his younger sister, Veronica, and their mother. The picture was intended to go on top of David’s coffin, but instead it is a reminder of the family’s immense luck, and of the obligation they feel to help neighbors who weren’t nearly as fortunate when the massive ty-phoon hit Nov. 8, 2013.

More than 7,300 people died or went missing when Haiyan slammed the central Philippines, including the Saavedras’ laidback farming town of Tanauan, as one of the most ferocious typhoons ever to hit land. The monster storm displaced about 4 million people and turned a large swath of densely populated regions into a wasteland.

“I said ‘I love you’ to my parents because I felt at that time that it

was our last day alive,” Veronica Saavedra said in an interview in the family’s old house, now partially cleaned up and repaired. “I was so afraid I was trembling and I said, ‘Lord, if this is my last day, forgive me for everything.’”

The 21-year-old college student said even while praying, she was terrified by the loud hissing of the wind, and memories of the ris-ing water hounded her sleep for months. The Saavedras — David, Veronica, their brother JR, their mother and their father — all sur-vived. Three other siblings were in Manila, and one was in Kuwait. Many other families had much dif-ferent fates. In a nearby village, all but two members of a 45-member clan are buried in a mass grave.

When the rain and wind finally subsided hours after the storm hit, David, a 26-year-old accountant, left the cramped hallway on the sec-ond floor of the wood-and-concrete home where he and his family were huddled while hell broke loose. He saw bodies floating on the street outside. The next-door neighbors were drenched and shuddering on the second floor of their house, its walls gone. One paraplegic neigh-bor was clinging to a post near the roof of his house. Others were cry-ing, many in shock.

“In just one click, everything can be snatched from you,” David said, tears welling in his eyes. “But the feeling that you are still alive after that is really overwhelming.”

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, talks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, unseen, during a meeting at parliament house in Canberra, Australia Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014.

Australian leader determined to meet

Russia leaderAssociated Press

CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that he remained determined to secure a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand full cooperation in the investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine.

Meaning in a selfie, 1 year after Philippine storm

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In this Oct. 12, 2014 photo, Typhoon Haiyan survivors carry their new boats to shore after blessing rites in Tanauan, Leyte province, central Philippines.

Bali Post

TABANAN - Nowadays, tech-nology is an unavoidable require-ment in public life. When applied for positive matters, technology can be very helpful, especially for work efficiency. Looking at the positive side, the Tabanan County plans to institute the e-Government system and transparency in provid-ing services for the public using techology..

To that end, the Tabanan govern-ment launched the Smart Regency 2020 and information about this has been transmited to all agencies in Tabanan. Regional Secretary of Ta-banan, Nyoman Wirna Ariwangsa, representing the regent of Tabanan, said that by using the online system the bureaucracy among the agencies and the community was expected to be more effective and efficient. “Efficiency can be reflected in the budget absorption and accumula-tion of income because everything will use the online system. Other than the use of technology, commu-nication from the leadership to staff will also be faster,” he said.

In establishing the Tabanan Smart Regency, the government of Tabanan also invited an expert in

this field, namely the Director of PT Lima Titik Satu, Aditya, to provide exposure to the technology. Accord-ing to Aditya, the current users of internet technology hadsreached 35 percent of the global population or 2 billion of the 7 billion world population. Meanwhile, the popu-lation of Indonesia is 251 million, with about 15 percent or 38 million people using the internet.

“In terms of these data, Indo-nesian people have more than one phone on average,” he said. To implement the technology in the government, then there were a few main things that should be imple-mented namely a common vision as well as online collaboration to make the communication run efficiently and transparently so that the data processed were valid without being easily modified.

The Tabanan Smart Regency itself would be implemented gradu-ally. Chairman of the Commission II of the Tabanan House, Putu Eka Nurcahayadi, said that the imple-mentation of the e-Government was certainly welcomed and should be handled seriously. However, it should consider the budget along with the facilities and infrastructure in the implementation. (kmb24)

“The joint team was once under siege. Rather than dying ridiculous-ly, the officers immediately gave warning shot for some 25 times. We managed to repulse the masses,” said the officer of Bali Police.

The ra id , he added , was planned very carefully. Any small mistake would make their life at stake. On that account, the personnel of Bali Police, West Sumba Police and Laura Police coalesced into the team armed themselves with revolver, V2 and AK47. “Condition of the people at Umban Ronggo, Ate Dalo, Kodi subdistr ict , Southwest Sumba (NTT) is much differ-ent from that of Bali. Thus, the preparation must be mature and situation of the target must be re-ally under control,” he said.

The opportunity was utilized by both suspects to escape into the forest. The team consisting of 20 personnel immediately spread. Due

to the alertness of the officers, the professional killers were success-fully besieged. Nevertheless, they counter-attacked by using machetes and poisoned arrows. Such resis-tance did not last long because they could be defeated by shoots.

The officers asking for anonym-ity revealed that after murdering the British traveler, Wednesday (Oct 22), the suspect UB aka UR, 24, YN alias DN, 24, MT, 25, and EJ, 28, left Bali to NTT by airplane. In addition, the Yamaha Byson motorcycle belonging to one of the suspects was sent by the expedition.

“At that time, they got the pay-ment right after killing the victim. That is why they chose to depart by air. Having been checked to Ngurah Rai Airport, it is really correct,” he said. Spokesman of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, said that the team was still hunting for the two other suspects. According

to the Spokesperson, their position had been tracked.

“Hopefully, they can be immedi-ately arrested because their escape position has been known. We have often urged them to surrender but it was ignored. They are all the ex-ecutors, but I have no authority to deliver their role. At the trial, it will surely be revealed,” he said.

As has been known, the hunting for the four executors of the Brit-ish traveler, Robert Kevin Ellis, 60, was successful. The Crime and Violence Unit, Sub-Directorate III of the General Criminal Investiga-tion Unit, Bali Police, led by Putu Pande Sugiarta, backed up by West Sumba Police (NTT) could arrest the two suspects identified as UB aka UR, 24, and YN alias DN, 24, in the forest, Tuesday (Nov 4). Both suspects were ready to attack the officers with poisoned arrows, but they could be first paralyzed with a shot. (kmb36)

Briton murderers captured

Bali Post

DENPASAR – The murderers of Briton, Robert Kevin Ellis captured during a raided. The joint team members hunting for the professional killers should risk their life. When raiding the hideout of the suspect UB alias UR and YN alias DN, the joint team led by Chief of Crime and Violence Unit, Sub Directorate III of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit led by Pande Sugiarta was yelled ‘catch the thief.’ Residents directly went out by carrying machetes and poisoned arrows.

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The police officers are trying to raid the murderers hide out

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - The fire in the protected forest on Mount Agung continues to escalate. During the day, thick smoke was seen billow-ing from the scene of fire. Dozens of hotspots which have been seen by residents since Friday (Oct 31) on the eastern slopes of the highest mountain in Bali have not gone out. In fact they continue to expand, and until Monday (Nov 3) had spread to the slopes leading to the southeast and approached the Tanah Aron area.

A number of residents claimed to fear that the Pasar Agung Si-betan Temple or the other temple on the mountain slopes could be threatened by the fire, It seems no effort to extinguish the fire has been made, only effforts to stop the fire from spreading.

The quick spread of the fire was not only caused by the dry ground and withered bushes in the forest, due to the prolonged dry season and high temperatures, but also due to strong winds on the mountain. Since the fire in the protected for-est began at the foot of the slopes

and higher up, reaching the eastern and southeastern top, the team of the Forest Service and the Karan-gasem Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency did not make any efforts to extinguish the fire. They have only monitored and prevented the fire from approaching residential and temple areas.

It is estimated that the fire in the protected forest has reached an area of hundreds of hectares. However, the Karangasem Forestry Service and the Forest Resort Manage-ment claim that it only reached 15 hectares.

The Chief of Abang Ranger, Nyoman Dadi, conveyed that large flames were seen by people start-ing on Saturday morning. The first hotspot was seen at two points around the milepost number 635 and 636 above or in the west region of Kedampal hamlet, Datah vil-lage, Karangasem. After that, the fire spread, and on Sunday (Nov 2) it already spread to 20 hotspots to milepost number 640, 642, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641 and 642 within the forestry land regis-ter of the Mount Abang complex. (013)

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Evidently there was complaint from the Chief of Subak Aseman II, Nengah Sukanama, and subgroup head of Munduk Lantang, Made Wi-darma, who said that farmers at Subak Aseman II spreading in the area of 45.65 hectares were threatened to be unable to grow crops as their irrigation channel was closed.

Related to the problem, the gov-ernment was urged to stop the project. “If it indeed has deviated from the context of the land designation and is detrimental to farmers in the vicinity, it is better to close the project. The executive should be able to take a firm stance,” said I Ketut Loka Antara, a former legislator of Tabanan during the period of 2009-2014, Thursday.

This former legislator from East Selemadeg coalesced into the spe-cial committee of the green belt was disappointed with the change of the designation. He said that during the discussion on the Green Belt in the regional bylaw, there was a request from the community for the opening of the Green Belt in the area of Jelijih, Megati along 900 meters with a depth of about 100 meters. “Initially, his party faced a prolonged discussion. Since we saw a clear designation, and the review of the special committee

makes sense as there is no longer a strategic location in East Selemadeg, we agreed to revoke the green belt. Unfortunately, it deviated from the original designation. So, it is regret-table,” he explained.

He also requested the govern-ment to actively look at how the real situation looked like. If the investor was even detrimental to the economy of local community, it was better to discontinue the project. “Frankly speaking, we need invest-ments but they should not harm the public,” he said.

Tough there was no certainty, the discourse on establishing a committee emerged some time ago was also very urgent to be realized. Even, Loka, a former member of the previous spe-cial committee, was ready if the spe-cial committee needed an explanation regarding the revocation of the green belt. “We hope the colleagues in the House could conduct a study as soon as possible because many people had complained. Even, if the necessary, the subdistrict development must be delayed, before the problem can be resolved,” he said.

As known earlier, the proposal for green belt revocation was intended for the development plan of the East Sele-

madeg subdistrict where the location was previously planned for public fa-cilities such as civic center, subdistrict market and public field development plan including the development of the East Selemadeg Public Health Center 1 so that it would have hospitalization services.

Chairman of the Tabanan House, Ketut ‘Boping’ Suryadi when asked for his confirmation about the estab-lishment of the special committee said that currently the House still focused on the discussion about the regional budget. However, there was a pos-sibility for the House to also review the public complaints. “First of all, the Commission will assign to review, so that the establishment of the special committee must not be made in a hurry,” he said after holding a meeting with the forum of headmen throughout Tabanan.

Nevertheless, he still affirmed that any investment opened in Tabanan should be at least capable of generat-ing practical economic benefits since there was correlation between the investment and the public life. “We need to examine it first. If the project has owned permission, we are surely unable to close it haphazardly,” he said. (kmb28)

AntaraDENPASAR - Bali will host the

World Pneumonia Day campaign on Friday (Nov. 7), at Niti Mandala Renon Field, Denpasar, to urge the people and government agencies to be heedful of the dangers of the disease.

“Let us save our children from the dangers of pneumonia and suppress the number of child death cases caused by the disease. As of now, pneumonia is still ranked fifth for the reason behind child deaths in the world,” Dr Putu Siadi Purniti, the chairman of the World Pneumonia Day Commit-tee, stated.

The campaign urges parents to immediately bring their children who are suffering pneumonia to medical centers for further treatment.

The World Pneumonia Day cam-

paign will be inaugurated by the Gov-ernor of Bali Province Made Mangku Pastika. To commemorate the event, a run will be flagged off around the Niti Mandala Renon Field on Friday morn-ing, at 6:30 a.m. local time.

The campaign event will also be attended by the representatives of the Central Board of the Indonesian Pediatric Association (PP IDAI) and Directorate General of Disease Con-trol and Environmental Health.

“After the run, a seminar will be organized for the cadres of the neigh-boring health center in the city of Den-pasar, which will take place at Wisma Sabha at 11 p.m.,” she noted.

About 459 cadres of the neigh-boring health center will also attend the seminar on pneumonia and its symtoms.

AntaraDENPASAR - The Institute of

National Aviation and Space (Lapan) said Indonesia needs space technology of remote sensing that could draw the map of the country’s marine potentials altogether and systematically.

“In order to back development of the maritime sector a technology is needed that could monitor the entire sea territory systematically,” Chief spokesman of Lapan Jasyanto said.

Jasyanto said remote sensing tech-nology using satellite service would be effective to monitor and detect marine natural resources.

The technology could be used to spot ridges of rock and in planning development of the marine potentials for economy and tourism, he cited.

He added, with the remote sensing technology, the physical and biologi-cal aspects of the sea such as surface temperature and chlorophyll content could be detected.

Those elements are important to locate the potential fishing ground in the sea through the Indonesian fish catching potential zone (ZPPI).

“With the ZPPI, fishermen would be easy to find a location where there are many fishes,” he said.

Remote sensing is also important to get information about islands in outer areas for security purposes, he said.

“Monitoring of natural resources and sea security would be more efficient and effective as satellite could give informa-tion with wide coverage,” he said.

Development of remote sensing technology would be discussed in an international conference titled “Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference” (PORSEC) to be held by Lapan in co-operation with the state Udayana Uni-versity in Denpasar from Nov. 4-7.

PORSEC is an organization dedi-cated to helping developing countries

Bali to host world pneumonia day campaign

Indonesia needs sea remote sensing technology

to promote science especially in the application of remote sensing technol-ogy in the sea.

The conference which is held every two years attended by 400 participants from Indonesia and other countries -- all professional in their remote sensing and representatives of space agencies like Lapan, JAXA (Japan), and NASA (the United States).

“Indonesia is a big maritime coun-try. The condition forces the country to give much attention to marine and maritime affairs in line with one of the big visions of President Joko Widodo,” he said.

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A bridge project conducted at Selemadeg, Tabanan. The plan of a warehouse construction owned by one of the prominent dealers at the former green belt located at Subak Aseman I, Jelijih Tegeh hamlet, Megati, East Selemadeg was in fact considered detrimental to farmers.

Stop the project at former green beltBali Post

TABANAN - The plan of a warehouse construction owned by one of the prominent dealers at the former green belt located at Subak Aseman I, Jelijih Tegeh hamlet, Megati, East Selemadeg was in fact considered detrimental to farmers.

It’s not every day the black cape-clad “Star Wars” villain struts his stuff on the runway, flanked by two stormtroopers packing serious fire-power.

The “Star Wars”-themed fall-winter 2015 collection at Triton was the ostensible reason behind Vader’s catwalk cameo, with models sporting

black hooded Obi-Wan Kenobi capes over their mini dresses and leggings fitted with lozenge-shaped appli-ques that evoked an urban take on a stormtrooper’s plastic armor.

Despite the “Star Wars” star power at Triton, the most applauded col-lection of the day, clothes-wise, was Iodice’s tribal chic, floppy little dresses

that quivered with fringe and swam in graphic prints. The Santa Fe sophisti-cate look at Sacada was another win-ner, with its pastel hued cocoon coats covered in geometric, vaguely Native American designs.

Sao Paulo’s fashion week, the most important sartorial event in Latin America, continues Thursday.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — From Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hugh Jackman to Mikhail Baryshnikov, luminaries of the fashion, entertainment and media worlds packed a Manhattan church on Monday for the private funeral of legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.

Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, joined actors Jackman and Matthew Broderick, newswomen Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer (with husband Mike Nichols) and Andrea Mitchell, dance great Baryshnikov, and design-ers Diane von Furstenberg, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Donna Karan and Tommy Hilfiger at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, along with Vogue editor Anna Wintour, photographer Annie Leibovitz, and supermodel Karlie Kloss.

De la Renta died on Oct. 20 at his Connecticut home at the age of 82, following a battle with cancer.

Jerry and Syd Shaw, who attended the funeral, said de la Renta worked

until the end.“That was his life. He loved it. He

loved working. He loved people,” Jer-ry Shaw said following the service.

The funeral, Syd Shaw said, truly reflected de la Renta’s life. “I think he would be overwhelmed because he had all kinds of people from all parts of his life,” she said.

The Dominican-born designer, famous for glamorous garments that combined intricate workmanship with luxurious materials, was as admired on Hollywood red carpets as he was at socialites’ soirees. Most recently, Amal Alamuddin wore a de la Renta-designed dress when she married George Clooney at a lavish wedding in Venice.

Monday’s service lasted about one hour. According to the printed program, honorary ushers included the designer’s son, Moises de la Renta; TV newsman Charlie Rose, and singer Ju-lio Iglesias. Readings were to be given by Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others.

Agence France-Presse

SAO PAULO - Stella McCartney on Wednesday launched an exclusive range for Brazilian consumers at Sao Paulo Fashion Week, saying she was targeting a “cool and sexy” market.

“For me, Brazilian women are cool and sexy I have to say, and they are definitely aware when it comes to fash-ion,” the 43-year-old designer said.

“I think they’re very much at the forefront of fashion,” said McCartney, daughter of Beatles legend Paul, as she launched the apparel for C&A.

She added she was driven by a desire to take a sustainable and respon-sible approach to her work -- values she said came from her parents.

“I grew up in the countryside, on an organic farm, so I was very aware of the seasons of nature.

“So for me, when I went into fashion, I wanted to be responsible, and have a different take on luxury fashion, where I would not work with fur or leather,” said McCartney, adding she wanted her collection to be affordable options for the buying public at large.

“I try to approach what I do in fash-ion in a sustainable and a responsible way, so not only in the materials that I use, but the way that I source and manufacture my product,” she said of a range priced between $35 and $150 and made from fabrics including cot-ton, viscose, lame and lace.

Working on collaborations such as her current one with the C&A chain

meant “pausing fast-fashion, just slow-ing it down for a moment, so that the consumer who maybe can’t afford our clothes can come and have a different experience with C&A.”

McCartney said she saw her range as “quite timeless, so it’s fast-fashion -- but it’s meeting luxury in a way that you will have these garments, I hope, in the way they’re designed, in the way which we’ve sourced the highest (quality) materials we could with C&A.

“I think what we have done here is a good example of what we can do with fast fashion. I think they will last you longer than normal fast-fashion,” said McCartney, adding she was “emotionally attached to everything I create.”

She told reporters fashion was “not just about luxury,” hence her collabo-ration with a high street store.

“I also worked with a lot of sustain-able and environmentally friendly fabrics in this collaboration, so for me, it’s about doing fast-fashion in a way that just slows it down a little bit,” McCartney explained.

“C&A is an incredible brand. It’s been really exciting as we’ve worked together once before.

Much, but not all, of the collec-tion is Brazil-made, with some items produced in Asia -- primarily China and India -- C&A vice president Paulo Correa said.

Correa noted McCartney had launched an exclusive Brazil range in 2011 “and it was very successful.”

‘Star Wars’ storms Sao Paulo catwalksAssociated Press

SAO PAULO — A bevy of top Brazilian models lent their star power to day three of Sao Paulo fashion week, but Wednesday’s uncontested catwalk sensation was Darth Vader.

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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.

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Friday, November 7, 2014

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7th Purnama Sasih KalimaTemple Festival at:Aci-Aci Penawung Di Pura Batmadeg-BesakihPr. Pande Bang- Ds. Camnggaon, Sukawati.Pr. Kentel Gumi- Ds. Batur, Kintamani.Pr. Pedharman Agung- Satria, Denpasar.Ngusabha Di Pura Kehen- Bangli.Pr. Segara – Br. Sasih, BatubulanPr. Desa Pemenang- LombokPr. Agung Pasek Gelgel-Ds. Sumertha, DenpasarPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kekeran Delod Sema, MengwiPr. Dalem Puri Agung – KintamaniPr. Dalem Agung- Br. Sekar, Nongan, KarangasemPr. Dalem Balingkang- Ds. Pinggan, KintamaniPr. Tampur Hyang Pusat/Kawitan Maha Gotra Catur Sanak- Ds. Songan,

KintamaniPr. Dalem Pulasari- Ds. Bantas, Sudaji, BulelengMr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Lebih, GianyarPr. Panyungsungan Pasek Toh Jiwa- Ds. Wanagiri, Selemadeg, TabananPamerajan Agung Pamecutan- DenpasarPr. Suranadhi- Lombok,Pr. Pucak Bukit- TampaksiringPr. Dalem Ubung Kupang- Ds. Dukuh, Panebel, TabananPr. Pasar Agung Besakih- Ds. Sebudi, KarangasemPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Tengkulak Kaja, Kemenuh- GianyarPr. Suci- Ds. Tianyar, Kubu, KarangasemPr. Dadia Dalem Renon- Br. Kukuh, Kerambitan, Tabanan, Ds. Adat ,Andala Merta Ds. Kenangan /SP Sembilan

12th Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan/ Buda Kliwon Gumbreg

Temple Festival at:Pr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kukuh,Marga, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel – Ds. Kukuh, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Mambang, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Puseh+Desa- Ds. Guwang, SukawatiMr. Pasek Ketewel- Ds. Ketewel, Sukawati,Pr. Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung- Jeroan SadingPr. Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul- Ds. Suwana Nusa Penida

17th Coma Kliwon Wariga, Temple Festival at: Pr. Gelap - Besakih

19th Buda Paing Wariga,Temple Festival at:Pr. Jati- Ds. BaturMr. Pasek Gaduh- Ds. Kayubihi,Bangli

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Bebek Tepi Sawah Villas won award

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Bali PostSINGARAJA - Within the past few

days, the fuel scarcity in Buleleng was taken advantage of by individuals to get profits by breaking the law related to subsidized fuel. The Criminal Investiga-tion Unit of Buleleng Police detained a suspect of subsidized fuel trafficking. The suspect was prooven to be guilty of misusing the transportation of the sub-sidized fuel and fuel transport activities without being equipped a transportation business permit.

The suspect is named Made Putu Artawan aka MPA, 60, from Kanginan hamlet, Menyali village, Sawan subdis-trict. The suspect was arrested by police on Sunday (Nov 2) around 3:30 a.m. The arrest of the suspect was based on public information obtained by police which staed that the petrol station on Jalan Ah-mad Yani Singaraja often sold subsidized diesel fuel and gasoline to someone using a pick-up truck which did not have the required paper work.

The Chief of the Buleleng Police Crim-inal Investigation Unit, I Ketut Adnyana TJ, along with the consent of the Buleleng Police Chief Benny Arjanto said that based on field investigatios, police found the pickup truck with license plate DK 9609 UY coming from the East to the West. Thhe truck pulled into the petrol station to look for Pertamax and Premium fuel. The suspect MPA was known to have purchase 104 liters of subsidized diesel fuel worth

IDR 577,500. which were put into four jerrycans. Then, the suspect bribed the petrol station attendant for IDR 15,000 to allow this illegal trasaction to take place. The total amount of money spent by the suspect reached IDR 592,500. At the scene the suspect could not escape and was im-mediately escorted to the Buleleng Police station for further investigation.

“The suspect was unable to present a permit for the fuel purchase, so we brought the suspect to the police station for further investigation. The suspect planned to first collect and then sell the fuel, taking advanttage of fuel price hike,” said Adnyana TJ.

This middle-aged man was arrested by police and the evidence consisting of eight jerrycans with 240 liters of Premium fuel, four jerrycans with 105 liters of diesel fuel, a unit of Suzuki pickup truck with license plate DK 9609 UY, key, vehicle registration and two receipts of purchase we seized. “I bought fuel by using jerrycan to put in my car and often bought at the petrol station on Jalan Ahmad Yani and Jalan Gajah Mada. I bought every week and it was also allowed by the petrol sta-tion attendants,” said the suspect MPA.

For his action, the suspect was charged with the Article 55 of the Law No.22/2001 about Oil and Gas, with the sanction of imprisonment for six years and a maxi-mal fine of IDR 60 billion, or a maximal punishment of four years and a maximal fine of IDR 40 billion. (kmb34)

Section Head of the Fire Bri-gade, Wayan Toya, admitted the matter, Wednesday (Nov 5). When being on duty to extinguish fire at the SMPN 3 Banjarangkan, many people had a pity on the fire-fighters of Klungkung. Amidst the spirit of the personnel, the existing fire truck was very limited. Even, a local resident claimed that it was in agony. The Klungkung Fire Brigade only had three fire trucks. Even, one of them was still out of order and being repaired. “For the time being, only two trucks can be operated,” he said.

As a result, when a fire oc-curred they could not do much. Sometimes it was forced to ask for a help from the fire brigade of Gianyar, Bangli and Karangasem. When extinguishing fire, the hose used to spray water got a lot of leaks. Thus, the spray of water from the hose to the hotspots was not optimal.

Even, local community should help clog the leaks from the base to another tip of the hose. Not only that, while on duty, the protec-tive equipment such as helmet, heat-resistant jacket and special fire-fighting boot shoes was still lacking. “We only have five sets of safety equipment, while our personnel amount to 30 people. Besides, our personnel do not have employment risk assurance,” he said.

The budget allocation for the Klungkung Fire Brigade was very minimal for years. Thankfully, the budget had been increased start-ing this year, where the allocation reached IDR 291 million. Mean-while, in previous years such as in the year 2011 it only came to IDR 50 million, IDR 80 million (2012) and IDR 180 million (2013). To realize a good manage-ment area, his party admitted to still lack for fire trucks. Ideally,

each subdistrict had a unit of fire truck, except for Nusa Penida that should have at least two units because the area was quite exten-sive. However, the Deputy Regent of Klungkung, Made Kasta, said that started in 2015, the local government began to add the fire truck by degrees. Next year, the addition of fire truck along with the personnel safety equipment had been drafted.

The fire truck was said to have the capacity of 4,000 liters to 5,000 liters. In the future, he said that the fire truck would be designed with the ideal capacity as expressed by Wayan Toya. Thus, when needed it would al-ways be alert and ready to serve the community. Lately, the fire incident was very rampant so that it required the readiness of fire brigade to respond to such condi-tion was absolutely needed in the midst of society. (kmb31)

Bali PostAMLAPURA - Evidently the endeavor

of Karangasem County to plant cherry trees is in vain. Dozens of cherry trees planted in line 11 or Jalan Veteran have been withered due to drought. Even, some of them dried up and died without any leaves. Allegedly the different climatic condition of Karangasem from Japan has caused the death of the cherry trees.

When asking for confirmation about the cherry tree, the Head of Karangasem Sanitation and Landscaping Agency, I Made Suama, admitted that some cherry trees planted in the Jalur Sebelas had been withered or dead. He reasoned the poor condition of the cherry trees planted by the government occurred due to different weather condition from its natural habitat. “Probably it is not appropriate with the weather in Indonesia. So, most of the cherry trees died,” said I Made Suama.

Due to many cherry trees died, Suama admitted that his party had withdrawn some of them. On that account, his party asserted that some pots indeed contained no cherry trees. However, it did not neces-sarily disappear, but had been withdrawn. “Some cherry trees were indeed with-drawn because they died,” said I Made Suama.

As condition in the field, a number of cherry trees fenced in by bamboo pieces looked dry, like unkempt. “It has always been like that. I often passed here, but the flowers remained like that. They did not want to grow, and the leaf is rare. Probably they lack for water so that they indicated such a growth,” said a resident of Jalan Untung Suropati, I Ketut Sulendra, Thurs-day. The leaves of cherry tree planted two years ago did not grow and only the stems looked to line. Even, some of them already disappeared. (dwa)

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The fire figthers in Klungkung Regency are trying to put out the fire

Fire incident rampant, equipments ‘in agony’Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - After the fire hitting the SMPN 3 Banjarangkan junior high school, the equipment of the Klungkung Fire Brigade and safety equipment of the personnel reaped a public criticism. Many people judged the equipment and personnel protection while on duty were very minimal whereas the risk of working in the field was very high. More seriously, the risk assurance of fire brigade personnel was not available.

Cherry trees withered due to drought

Buleleng Police arrest subsidized fuel trafficker

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The third-quarter growth was fu-eled by all sectors, with the service sector recording the highest growth of 8.05 percent, chief of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) office in Bali

province Panusunan Siregar said.The agricultural sector mean-

while grew by 0.03 percent, which is the lowest among other sectors.

The third-quarter economic

growth expanded by 6.53 percent year-on-year, fueled by all eco-nomic sectors, he said.

The construction sector recorded the highest growth of 10.61 percent

and the agricultural sector posted the lowest growth of 1.86 percent.

Cumulatively, the Balinese econ-omy grew by 6.08 percent till the third quarter of 2014.

Panasunan said the nominal value of Bali’s regional gross do-mestic product (PDRB) reached Rp27.10 trillion based on the cur-rent prices in the third quarter of

2014, and Rp9.40 trillion based on the constant prices of 2000.

On the component use side, house-hold consumption and exports still contributed the greatest chunk of the PDRB in the third quarter of 2014.

He said the economic slowdown in the third quarter was caused by low household and government consumption.

Economy slows down to 2.78 percent in Q3

Passengers entered Domestic Terminal at Ngurah Rai Air-port recently. The Balinese economy in the third quarter of 2014 grew at a slower pace than in the previous

quarter, contracting 0.03 point to 2.78

percent.

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DENPASAR - The Balinese economy in the third quarter of 2014 grew at a slower pace than in the previous quarter, contracting 0.03 point to 2.78 percent.

“After 9 months of intensive devel-opment, Team Downey is pleased to announce our 2014 fall/winter project,” the A-list star joked on his Facebook page, adding that she was born early Tuesday.

“Principal photography commenced 11-14 and will continue until she says, ‘Dad! You are embarrassing me...I’m 30, this has gotta stop,’” the veteran actor added.

Her full name is Avri Roel Downey, she weighs seven pounds, spans 20 inches and “is accompanied by a va-riety of Susan’s traits that have seem-ingly overwritten my ‘junk DNA,’” he wrote.

“I’ll post pics here + there when I’m not too busy staring,” Downey Jr quipped.

The new arrival is the couple’s second child, joining two-and-a-half year-old Exton Elias. Downey Jr also has a 21-year-old son, Indio, from a previous marriage.

Downey Jr, Hollywood’s highest-paid actor, is currently starring in “The Judge,” in which he plays a lawyer who returns to his hometown to lay his mother to rest but also to bury the hatchet with his father.

He is due to reprise his “Iron Man” role in next year’s blockbuster Marvel sequel “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Singer Miranda Lam-bert won four Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, and Luke Bryan took home the top honor as entertainer of the year as U.S. politics and the absence of Taylor Swift played supporting roles in the televised ceremony.

Lambert, 30, who led all nominees with nine nods, earned her record fifth female vocalist of the year award.

“I don’t know what to say. I can’t believe I’m standing here. I can’t believe this is my life,” an emotional Lambert said accepting the award she has won five con-secutive years. “Damn it! I cry every time.”

The Texan also won CMA Awards for album of the year for “Plati-num,” single of the year for the wistful “Automatic” as well as sharing the musical event of the year award with Aussie singer Keith Urban for “We Were Us.”

Bryan, 38, earned his first CMA on the back of five hits from his 2013 al-bum “Crash My Party.”

“I have long sought to have one of these in my hands,” Bryan told report-ers.

The 48th annual CMA awards show, which com-petes with the springtime’s Academy of Country Music Awards for prestige and tele-vision audience, is one of the top promotional events on the country music calendar. Winners are chosen by the CMA’s 6,000 members.

Blake Shelton, Lambert’s hus-band, also won his fifth con-secutive male vocalist of the year award.

Hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie

Underwood’s show opening drew attention to the absence of Swift, who has shed her country roots for pop music, with a comical song about

“Postpartum Taylor Swift Disorder,” or PPTSD.

Underwood and Paisley’s joke that President Barack Obama not caring about PPTSD contributed to Repub-licans winning the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, drawing strong cheers from the audience.

The duo sang “Quarantine” to the tune of Dolly Parton’s classic, “Jolene”, poking fun at nurse Kaci Hickox, who defied her Ebola quarantine

order.Paisley drew criticism

on social media for a joke referencing TV sitcom “Black-ish”, about an upper-middle-class Af-

rican-American family.“If you were looking for ‘Black-

ish’ tonight, yeah, this ain’t it. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy White-

ish,” Paisley said about the mostly white world of country music.

Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” won the songwriters’ award song of the year, sharing the award with fellow songwriters Brandy Clark and

Shane McAnally.Noted for its gay-friendly message and

references to marijuana, “Follow Your Ar-row” is a thematic outlier in the conserva-tive-leaning country music world.

Brett Eldredge, 28, won new artist of the year.

Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan win big at country music awards

Miranda Lambert, winner of the awards for album of the year, fe-male vocalist of the year, single of the year and musical event of the year, poses in the press room at the 48th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Nashville.

Downey Jr welcomes baby daughter with Facebook joke

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LOS ANGELES - Forty-nine year-old “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr has welcomed a second child with his wife Susan, a baby girl named Avri, he announced Wednesday.

Myanmar aiding Roh-ingya trafficking

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