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PARIS - Singer Madonna made an emotional appeal following attacks in Paris a month ago that killed 130, shouting “We will not bend down to fear!” during a concert in the French capital on Wednesday.

“I think of what happened almost four weeks ago now,” the visibly emotional artist said. “The heart of Paris and the heart of France beats in the heart of each city.”

She continued: “We are one heart and our heart can beat as one... The power of love is greater than the love of power.

“I came here when I was 20 and it was here, in Paris, that I decided to make music. Thank you Paris for planting that seed in my heart!”

Swathed in a French flag, she sang the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, bringing the concert-goers to their feet.

The star then moved to Place de la Republique, which has become an unofficial hub for mourners of the November 13 attacks, and sang a series of songs to a small crowd.

“It was inspiring, it was raw, it

was real,” said Pete Hall, a 45-year-old tourist from London who had just left Madonna’s concert at Bercy when he saw on social media she was at the square in central Paris.

“She was paying her respects to Paris,” he said.

Wearing a down jacket with a fur hood over her head and accom-panied by her guitarist Monte Pitt-man, Madonna sang her hits “Like a Prayer” and “Ghosttown”, as well as John Lennon’s “Imagine”, ac-cording to those who attended the impromptu concert.

“She wanted to pay tribute, she loves this city,” Pittman told AFP. “It is magical. I will never forget this.”

The November 13 attacks in Paris, which were carried out by the Islamic State group and were the deadliest ever in France, killed 130 people and left 350 others wounded.

Days after the bloodshed, Ma-donna paid a tearful tribute to the victims on stage by singing the clas-sic French song “La vie en rose,” accompanied only by a guitar, dur-ing a concert in Stockholm. (afp)

The social media site said Wednesday that Sheeran, best known for his ballad “Think-ing Out Loud,” generated more chatter than any other entertainer among Facebook’s 1.5 billion users, edging out pop superstar Taylor Swift.

Following them were Kanye West, the omnipresent rapper who has declared his aspirations to run

for president, and then, in a sign of Facebook’s Spanish-language presence, the reggaeton artist Nicky Jam.

The fifth most-talked about artist on Facebook was the rapper Wiz Khalifa.

He topped a separate list from YouTube, which ranked his “See You Again” as the top music video of the year.

“See You Again,” a ballad which features singer Charlie Puth and appears in the action film “Furi-ous 7,” became the second fastest video ever to hit one billion views, YouTube said.

Also high on the year-end list was British singer Adele’s song “Hello,” the first track on her block-buster album “25,” even though it came out less than six weeks ago.

“Hello” was the fastest video to reach 100 million views. It had more than 650 million views by Wednesday. (afp)

‘We will not bend to fear,’ Madonna says of Paris attacks

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

Madonna per-forms on stage,

as part of her Rebel Heart Tour, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Paris.

Winslow Townson/Invision/AP, File

Ed Sheeran the year’s star on Facebook

NEW YORK - British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was the most talked about entertainer this year, at least in the world of Facebook.

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The BDF, initiated by Indonesia in 2008, is an annual, inclu-sive, and open intergovernmental forum on the development of democracy in the Asia-Pacific region.

The forum is aimed to promote and foster regional and inter-national cooperation in the field of peace and democracy through dialog based on sharing experiences and best practices that adhere to the principles of equality and mutual respect and understanding, with the participating countries sharing the ownership.

On the occasion, Vice President Kalla remarked that Indonesia implemented the first ever simultaneous regional head elections that ran smoothly, orderly, and peacefully on December 9, 2015.

The vice president also reminded that the World Bank had recently released the data on poverty and economic inequality in the world, including in Indonesia.

In addition, Kalla emphasized that acts of terrorism and radical-ism were reported almost daily, and therefore, it is paramount for democracy to overcome it.

“Democracy can overcome issues, such as poverty, inequality, and terrorism as well as the problem of poor governance in an effective manner,” he added. (ant)

T H E A S E A N E c o n o m i c

C o m m u n i t y (AEC) starting

this December is being taken into serious consideration by the gov-ernment of Bangli. Exhibitions of products made by small and me-dium industries (SMI) and by small and medium enterprises (SMSE) are being intensified as seen at a recent exhibition held at the Geopark Art Market in Kintamani. A number of

different products were introduced to both locals as well as foreign travellers.

Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, said that the AEC does not only involve the labor sector but also the specific goods produced. Bangli has a lot of potential to create competi-tive products, but local people need to be well prepared so that they can compete against products from other regions.

“The MSME exhibition show-

cased the products of 34 craftsmen who are coalesced into the Ban-gli Association of Small Industries (PIK) as well as the products of young entrepreneurs who have been given guidance by the government of Bangli and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2014,”explained Sudibia.

He added that the main prob-lem that SMEs have been facing is related to marketing and so the exhibition a the Geopark and others like it serve as a way to promote

these products to the general public. “Some entrepreneurs have been promoting their products through websites and with the addition of this exhibition there should be maximal results,” he said.

The Acting Regent of Bangli, I Dewa Gede Mahendra Putra, said that this product exhibition, that coincides with the Grand Opening of the Geopark art market, is a great moment to welcome the AEC and will additionally have a positive impact on tourism.

Sudibia affirmed that: “facing the AEC is not an easy thing to do and that all relevant agencies, ranging from the central govern-ment and regional governments to tourism businesses and community leaders all the way to individual members of the community, need to be involved in creating a common understanding of the challenges being faced.”

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AEC, should not be underestimated

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The opening of Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) that held on Thursday in Nusa Dua, Bali Island.

Political democracy should be in line with public welfare

NUSA DUA - Political democracy must be in line with the objectives to be achieved for the welfare of the com-munity as a whole, Vice President Jusuf Kalla stated in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Thursday. “For all of us, democracy is not a goal but a means to improve the welfare of the people,” Kalla remarked while opening the 8th Bali De-mocracy Forum (BDF) in Nusa Dua.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always hap-pens 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 ar-ranged, 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

COVER STORYBangli is not the only regency

that is gearing up for the AEC. The government of Buleleng’s Manpower Agency for example has been certifying local workers, in cooperation with with the National Professional Certification Board (BNSP) as a way to compete with laborers from outside other AEC nations. Starting on December 31, 2015 certification will become mandatory as refered to in Act No.13/2013 regarding the manpow-er. Certification will allow workers to obtain requisite licenses in order to compete within the AEC.

The Buleleng Manpower Agency is giving priority to the field of tour-ism in terms of issuing licenses and has already certified hotels in East Buleleng so that they can obtain required licenses.

So far the BNSP has certified 1,500 or 60 percent of Buleleng’s workers and hope to have all of them certified by mid-2016. “Most tourism workers in eastern Buleleng have been certified, we will now be focused on those in the west,” said the Head of the Buleleng Manpower Agency, Ni Made Priyanti Putri Koriawan.

Koriawan said that all workers are obliged to be certified in order to comply with the requirements of the AEC. “Even gardners need to be certified. It is set forth by the law and we have already determined the assessors. We have given priority to the tourism industry because it will

be most affected by the AEC, but other fields will soon follow.”

She explained that once workers in the tourism sectos has been ac-complished, then the government will target workers in others sectors for certification, including small and medium enterprises (MSEs), banking, cooperatives, village credit institutions (LPD), and other sectors.

In anticipation of the invasion of foreign workers from the ASEAN countries, the local governments have been improving the qualifica-tions of those entering the work-force, specifically for vocational school students who have been following special training and also for young people in general who have been encouraged to to learn foreign languages more intensely. Meanwhile foreign workers from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand have been preparing themselves for the AEC by learning Bahasa Indonesia and getting ready to be paid less.

“The companies may no longer hire uncertified foreign workers because it has been regulated that certificates are required. We are continuing to supervise the situa-tion in Buleleng, including foreign workers,” said Putri Koriawan. (sos/dgk)

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Samgar won the 5 km race with a time of 17:42. Bambang, part of IndoRunners Bali Team, was a close second at 18:09 and Ridwan finished third with 18:11.

Ni Kadek Ayu Sukarniti was the first female with a time of 21:17, second was Colette at 21:30 and third was Nofi Antariani with 24:06.

The Bethels won the Family Category, while Elle from In-doRunners Bali won the Best Costume category.

Hard Rock Hotel Bali General Manager, Shane Coates, said ”In the last fifteen years, Hard Rock Hotel Bali’s Rock ‘Run has raised over hundreds of millions Rupiah to help great local causes. Bali Pink Ribbon foundation behind the wonderful ef-forts of Gaye Warren and dedicated team of volunteers continue to help provide support to woman of Bali who suffer from breast cancer as well as provide awareness and equipment to help with early detection. All runners have contributed by participating in raising a record figure, which is fantastic.” Shane added “The Committee and sponsors who make this event happen every year also deserve a special mention for giving their time so willingly and joyfully. The Rock ‘n Run would simply not be possible without their hard work and commitment.”

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Rock ‘N Run The 15th Chapter: Another record breaking charity run made

KUTA – Hard rock Hotel Bali – The leading en-tertainment Hotel in Bali – rock ‘N run is an annual charity event organized by Hard rock Hotel Bali and in-line with the Hard rock mantra: “Take Time To Be Kind”. This year in partnership with Bali Pink ribbon, Hard rock Hotel Bali raised IDr 180,000,000 to sup-port women with breast cancer and also to spread the awareness of Breast Cancer in Bali. A record breaking and a first time sold out event, more than 1300 runners participated in this charity run and another 700 people made donations of support.

IBP/Courtesy of Hard Rock Hotel

The Karangasem Manpower and Transmigration Agency, Gusti Nyoman Arya Sulang, that in accordance with the agreement of ten countries starting on De-cember 31, 2015, the workforce in Bali, especially Karangasem, must be completely ready to face competition. He acknowledged quite anxious for this. However, the government is also ready with a variety of efforts.

Among them, the government of Karangasem District, he said, has made cooperation with the

National Professional Certification Board (BNSP). “With the BNSP, we declare ‘Competent Karan-gasem’. With this declaration, we prepare our workforce with profes-sional certification,” he said. In the MoU between the BNSP and the government of Karangasem signed by Chief of the BNSP, Sumarna F. Abdurahman and acting Regent of Karangasem Gusti Ngurah Arda all the workers in the field of tourism sector should be certified.

Currently the certification is attempted to be given to labor in

tourism field because Bali will face tough competition in this field. When asked about how professional certification can be obtained by workforce in Bali, he said that it will be issued af-ter passing through a series of test processes. Temporarily this process will be conducted free of charge by a Professional Certifica-tion Agency (LSP) in Denpasar. At this time, the process is said to have run. Qualified or not for the labor to get professional cer-tification highly depends on the LSP test results provided by the assessor team.

Arya Sulang added that the is-suance of professional certification is welcomed by tourism players in Bali. Many businesses in tour-ism field in Bali, he said, have

to undergo this process to obtain professional certification. So, what about other professions? Arya said that other profession will also fol-low a similar process. However, the profession supporting tourism in Bali is given priority.

Acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, welcomed the declaration of the Competent Karangasem. He encouraged so that the labor of Karangasem will not lose competition in their own home when competing against foreign workers that will invade Bali.

On the other hand, the Man-power and Transmigration Agen-cy is accelerating the process of data collection on foreign workers in Karangasem. This November the agency is attempt-

ing to maximize the data collec-tion. As targeted, it will get more valid data of foreign workers in Karangasem early December. He is confident that based on the cur-rent data many employers using foreign workers do not comply with the rules. Based on the data owned by the agency, there were only 45 foreign workers having the permit of Hiring Foreign Workers (IMTA) because the data were only based on compulsory reporting of foreign workers, without seeing the real conditions in the field.

Based on the data collection, the presence of foreign workers can be followed up whether the manpower plan (RPTK) has been appropriate and complied with other regulations. (kmb31)

THE ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) start-

ing this December is being taken into serious consid-eration by the government

of Bangli.

Karangasem anxious to face AECAHEAD of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) imple-

mentation, Karangasem begins anxious to face labor competition, particularly in the field of tourism. It is inseparable from the readiness of workforce in Karangasem that must compete against foreign workers coming to Bali. Moreover, Bali will become the main target of the foreign workers in the tourism field.

IBP/Swasrina

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PARIS — Fashion power-house Louis Vuitton is show-casing its 160 years of know-how in Paris with a new exhibit that explores the history of the famed monogram bags.

The show, “Volez, Voguez, Voy-agez” opens Thursday in Grand Palais — a place steeped in history for the house since Vuitton first pre-sented its trunks here in 1900 during Paris’ Universal Exhibition.

The exhibit includes 180 pieces spread across nine rooms from the Vuitton archives, including eccen-tric trunks, age-old beauty cases, leather goods and paintings.

And via video installations, it traces Louis Vuitton’s great jour-ney from 1854 till today, through depictions of the maison’s found-ing members, colorful clients and those who still shape the brand today. (ap)

LONDON - A small Span-ish fashion label has been swamped with demand for Princess Charlotte’s floral dress, its owner told AFP on Friday, after the British royal baby was pictured wearing one of its frocks.

Charlotte, the second child of Prince William and his wife Kate turned six months old on November 2 and Kensington Palace has issued fresh photo-graphs of the youngster, taken in early November, to mark the occasion.

The pictures, released on Sunday, show the princess, who is fourth in line to the throne, sitting in a chair and playing with a teddy bear.

The pictures were taken by her mother Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge.

“We don’t know how she got the dress,” said Margarita Pato Cid, the owner of M&H, a family boutique brand which has been running for six years and has five outlets in Spain.

“We found out that Princess Charlotte was wearing it at

the same time as the public, through the photos.

“We think it’s possible, but we’re not sure, that it’s thanks to the nanny of Wil-liam and Kate’s children,” she said, referring to Maria Teresa Turrion, who is Spanish and looks after Charlotte and her two-year-old brother Prince George.

The princess has previously been seen dressed in Spanish label clothes.

The dress, which costs 29.95 euros ($32.50), sold out in quick time after the Charlotte pictures were published.

The brand, which is not sold online, now has a lengthy waiting list for the dress, mainly from British and US customers, its owner said.

“We intend to fulfil every possible request. We have some dresses in the making but we don’t have enough material to meet all the demands,” she said, without revealing the volume of requests.

“It is a great honour for us,” she added. (afp)

Duchess of Cambridge via AP

Hot demand for dress

worn by baby Princess Charlotte

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

Trunks, bags and clothes are displayed during the Louis Vuitton’s exhibition “Fly, Sail, Travel” at the Grand Palais, in Paris.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

Trunks are displayed at the Louis Vuitton’s exhibition “Fly, Sail, Travel” at the Grand Palais, in Paris.

Visitors look a trunk bed (1930) displayed at the Louis Vuit-ton’s exhibition “Fly, Sail, Travel” at the Grand Palais, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Louis

Vuitton exhibit in Paris

explores house’s history

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

According to Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi, the elections happening just a day before the Bali forum would help demonstrate how Indonesia’s democracy has become a robust system.

“This showed the delegates how democracy works in Indonesia. We have carried out direct elections, not only at the national level for electing a president and legislators

but also at the regional level for choosing regional heads,” Minister Retno said.

A total of 83 countries and three international organizations will be taking part in the annual Asia-Pacific forum. Of the participating countries, three states --- the Philip-pines, Singapore, and Timor Leste --- will send their ministers, while 16 others will be represented by

their deputy ministers.Although it is not being inaugu-

rated by President Joko Widodo, the interest among Asia-Pacific countries to take part in the fo-rum is still high. The democracy forum, which began in 2008, has become a strategic agenda in the region.

The annual meeting will be themed, “Democracy and Effective Public Governance,” the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted in a press release published on its official website on Tuesday.

The ministry said the theme was relevant to the current develop-ments, not only at the national but also at the global level. Democracy is inseparable from public gover-

nance to promote public welfare.Democracy and effective public

governance will boost compre-hensive and holistic development through approaches which give pri-ority to transparency, accountability, participation and law enforcement, according to the ministry.

A government, which heeds the needs of the people and meets their aspirations, reflects the fulfillment of the public’s rights, particularly in boosting economic growth, poverty alleviation and sustainable develop-ment, it said.

The BDF this time will hold a public debate and three panel dis-cussions focusing on the themes, “Building Democracy and Effective Public Governance, Challenges to

Democracy and Effective Public Governance, and Choices and Pros-pects of Democracy and Effective Public Governance.”

On the sidelines of the forum, the event’s implementing arm, the Institute for Peace and Democ-racy (IPD), will organize the Bali Civil Society Forum 2015 and Bali Media Forum 2015 on December 8-9, 2015, in association with its partners and the National Press Council.

At the end of the meeting, the forum is expected to issue a Chair’s Statement, which will identify important findings from various debates and concrete programs related to democracy and effective public governance. (ant)

DENPASAR - Determination of the elected candidate pairs in the simultaneous regional election in Bali will probably not be done simultaneously. It will depend on the situation in each district / mu-nicipality of the regional election participants, particularly whether there are candidate pairs filing a lawsuit related to the results of the election or not.

“It varies according to the situ-ation because there is a determina-tion without dispute in the Consti-

tutional Court and determination with a dispute of results in Con-stitutional Court. So far, we do not dare to make sure. Hopefully, there is no dispute. Otherwise, the dispute must be resolved first in the Constitutional Court, just after that the determination will be made,” said Chairman of the Bali Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Kade Wiarsa Raka Sandi, when confirmed on Wednesday (Dec. 9).

Raka Sandi added that so far his

commission has not made any spe-cial preparation if there is a dispute in the simultaneous regional elec-tion in Bali. However, he encour-aged the process of voting and vote counting to run well with the escort of all the parties. He gave emphasis on the role of witnesses to oversee the process until the results of the recapitulation at the subdistrict and district level.

“We constantly respect because filing dispute is the right of the candidate pairs. For the Electoral

Commission, the most important is implementing the stages in ac-cordance with the rules. Having been implemented properly, the data itself will be ready for all,” he explained.

In accordance with the Regu-lation of the Electoral Com-mission No.2/2015, if the re-capi tula t ion of votes a t the district / municipality level has completed, the determination of recapitulation and submission to the provincial Electoral Com-

mission is scheduled on Decem-ber 16-18, 2015. Should there be a lawsuit from the candidate pairs, it can be done within 3 x 24 hours after the determination of the results.

Determination of the elected candidate pairs without dispute of the results of the election is sched-uled on December 21-22. If there is dispute, the determination is made after the decision of the Constitu-tional Court on February 12 - March 13, 2016. (kmb32)

Local elections helped showcase democracy

NUSA DUA - The simultaneous regional head elections on the eve of the Bali Democracy Forum successfully showcased to the delegates the robust functioning of democracy in Indone-sia, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said. The Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali will host the 8th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) over two days, Thursday and Friday. The coun-try organized simultaneous regional heads’ elections (Pilkada) across the nation on Wednesday.

IBP/Bagiarta

Determination of the elected candidate pairs in the simultaneous regional election in Bali will probably not be done simultaneously.

Elected candidate pairs not determined simultaneously

Bali News International4 Friday, December 11, 2015 Friday, December 11, 2015 13International

The shift started with govern-ment critics whose print publica-tions were shut down and who went online instead to express their views. But the powerful royal pal-ace has also gotten in on the game, with a news site of its own attract-ing readers with a ready supply of scoops.

And Moroccan authorities, who prize the country’s reputation as a model for stability in the region, are eyeing ways to better control the sector, which has become an increasingly spirited battleground of ideas.

In Le Desk’s newsroom in Cas-ablanca, a group of journalists huddles around a computer screen, examining the beta version of the site. The modern style of the of-fices, complete with iMacs and white desks, finds expression in the website’s sleek design.

Discussions between journalists

span from infographics to the lat-est gossip in Morocco’s political scene.

It’s a risky time to launch an out-spoken website. In recent months, historian and journalist Maati Monjib was barred from leaving the country and faces charges of “undermining national security” in what rights groups argue is an attempt to undermine freedom of expression. Monjib faces charges along with six other activists and journalists.

“Le Desk stems from an era during which the new press broke taboos,” said journalist Ali Amar. “Between then and now, authorities have battled against independent press.”

Amar’s own background is in-dicative of the shift in the media in Morocco and in several countries touched by the Arab Spring upris-ings, which shook up political struc-

tures and saw a rise of dissenting voices online.

He led publication of the re-spected weekly Le Journal, once the hallmark of critical journalism in Morocco. It published interviews with the leader of the Polisario movement fighting for independence for the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, and reported on the alleged role of then-Prime Minister Abder-rahmane Youssoufi in an attempt to assassinate King Hassan II.

The magazine was shut down in 2010 under the burden of re-peated fines and a state-inspired advertising boycott. A few months later, a new independent publication emerged, the bilingual Lakome, but this one was online and had less overhead, making it less vulnerable to advertising boycotts.

Many ex-staffers of Le Journal were involved, including its co-founder, Aboubakr Jamaï, who ran it together with Ali Anouzla.

“They managed to set a margin of freedom of expression in Mo-rocco that was quite substantial,” explained Bouziane Zaid, assistant professor of communications at Al Akhawayn University. “Lakome led the way.”(ap)

KATHMANDU — Police in Nepal detained about 50 activists protesting outside the Indian Embassy on Thursday to demand an end to a monthslong blockade of supplies from India.

The protesters held banners demanding India halt the border block-ade, calling it a “crime against humanity.” Police said they would be released later in the day.

India has restricted fuel, medicine and other supplies for Nepal since the ethnic Madhesi group in southern Nepal began protesting a new constitution adopted in September.

Members of the ethnic group say the constitution unfairly divides Nepal into seven states with borders that cut through their ancestral homeland.

India has close cultural ties with the group and has asked Nepal to consider its demands for a bigger state, more seats in parliament and greater local authority.

Landlocked Nepal gets most of its fuel from India, as well as many other goods including medicine.

Protesters have blocked a key border point with India, and Nepalese officials say imports through other border points where there are no protests are difficult. India denies it has imposed a blockade. At least 50 people have been killed in the protests since August.(ap)

MOSCOW — More than 1,300 Russians are reading Leo Tol-stoy’s notoriously lengthy novel “War and Peace” aloud in a 60-hour marathon on national television.

The public readings, pre-recorded at locations all over Russia, from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to remote Arctic islands, have been coordinated by Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter and feature Russians from all walks of life, from gas workers to cosmonauts.

By Thursday morning, the readers had made it through two of the four volumes of the novel. The event runs over four days and finishes Friday.

The organizers invited French actress Fanny Ardant to read the numerous French-language passages in the novel, which describes both the Napoleonic wars and French-speaking high society in imperial St. Petersburg. The readings are being webcast live and broadcast on national TV and radio. (ap)

AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar

This Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 photo shows the Le Desk website newsroom in Casablanca, Mo-rocco. The newest entry to Morocco’s media scene has already reported on a disgraced former foreign minister and a scandal about blackmailing the king.

Moroccan government and critics vie for online audiences

CASABLANCA — The newest entrant to Morocco’s media scene has already reported on a disgraced former foreign min-ister and a scandal about blackmailing the king. The investiga-tive website Le Desk is the latest example of the accelerating migration of Moroccan journalism away from heavily restricted print and broadcast outlets toward the less-regulated online media scene.

Nepal police break up anti-India protest over blockade

AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha

Nepalese people form a human chain displaying placard which read “Transit is our right, Lets protest Indian block-ade” , “Lets maintain national unity and social harmony” during a protest against blockade in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Russians read Tolstoy’s War and Peace in 60-hour TV marathon

BANGLI - When entering rainy season, bamboo handicraft entre-preneurs producing sokasi (oblation basket) at Kayang hamlet, Kayubihi began to be frustrated. It happens because their bamboos are moldy so that the quality of products is declining. In addition, the drying of paint is also more difficult.

An artisan, I Nyoman Sudarpa, said on Wednesday (Dec. 9) that his business is quite developing these days. The sales are still fairly

promising and do not only penetrate the market in Bangli. However, it has penetrated outside the region such as the Ubud and Kuta tourism. In addition, some products have been exported. Nevertheless, in fact when rainy season arrives, his busi-ness is hampered. Bamboo as the main raw material mildews causing a decrease in quality. “After raining for a while, the impact is visible. All the bamboo materials mildew so that the quality decreases. It is

easily broken when being woven,” he said.

Further, he also added that he uses Balinese bamboo as the mate-rial. Indeed it is quickly brittle when exposed to water. But when dry season arrives, it is good material for plaiting works. In addition, his business aggravates because the price of bamboo increases sharply as well.

A bamboo log of nine meters long is usually purchased at IDR

30,000. Currently, the price has increased to IDR 40,000. Such price increase is not responded with the increase in product prices. As a result, his turnover also declines. “The price of bamboo is also ex-pensive so that our turnover finally declines,” he explained.

Sudarpa added that rainy season also causes the paint to dry longer. In dry season, the paint can be dried within two days, while now it takes five days. As consequence, he is

threatened to be unable to meet the market demand. “Drying process of the paint is very much disturbed. It cannot be dried within two days,” he admitted.

He added that he cannot do much to address this rainy season. Drying process of his products is still carried out with the help of the sunlight. “Since I have no drying machine, I must rely on the sunlight even though I just can dry it for an hour,” said Sudarpa. (kmb45)

Chief Executive of the Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ida Bagus Ketut Arimbawa, said that his agency continues to receive the reports of residents experiencing a water crisis. The BPBD Karangasem immediately responded by sending clean water. To residents at Taman Seraya hamlet, for instance, the BPBD distributed 10,000 liters of clean water to be placed into two reservoirs, each containing 5,000 liters. Both reservoirs are taken advantage by 180 families for their daily needs.

Distribution of the clean water is also

directly carried to Jumenang hamlet, Bukit. In this region, the BPBD distributes 12,000 liters of clean water placed into three res-ervoirs. Each contains 4,000 liters. A total of 25 families are facing clean water crisis at this hamlet. They are already distraught to meet their daily water needs. Besides, the clean water is also distributed to Pura Kenusut, Penataran Lempuyang Luhur.

In Kubu subdistrict, the clean water is distributed to Baturinggit village. At least, the BPBD distributed 10,000 liters of clean water to be placed into two reservoirs of resident. Each reservoir contains 5,000

liters. Both reservoirs are used by 38 fami-lies. Baturinggit area regularly gets clean water from the beginning because there have been no water sources that can be utilized since two months ago. Heavy rain in almost all the regions in Karangasem last week was not enjoyed by the residents of Baturinggit and Kubu subdistrict in general. As a result, a number of villages in Kubu subdistrict still depend on the water distributed by the BPBD.

“As long as there are reports to us, we at the BPBD of the district and province will always be ready to help. The most frequently we deliver clean water to Kubu subdistrict,” said Arimbawa. He empha-sized that as long as the local people still face clean water shortages, his agency is ready to distribute clean water. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - Ahead of the peak of rainy season in December, Sanglah Hospital antici-pates the occurrence of flood reflecting from the previous rainy season by repairing drains, hallways and cleaning up waste that clog sew-ers or trench within the Sanglah Hospital and in the surrounding areas.

Director of General Affairs and Operations of the Sanglah Hospital, I Gusti Lanang Suar-tana Putra, said that his institution through the Building Facility Repair (IPSGS) undertakes infrastructure repair with the budget of IDR 200 million. Anticipation against the rainy season ended on November 1. “Learning from the experience in previous years, we often get water overflow from the surrounding areas or from high rainfall,” he said.

The repair carried out is to improve the hallway of the hospital. “Hallway leaks as its roof tile is damaged especially the one con-necting the Anggrek to Pudak Room and along the hallway of Lely,” he said. Besides, all the gutters are also repaired and cleaned up so that the water flow will run smoothly. “Based on ex-perience of previous year, the drain is clogged because of waste and now we have cleaned it up,” he added. Drains at the front yard and outside the hospital are also repaired.

For example, the drains at all the hospital roundabouts are deepened and widened. Similarly, stagnant water at hospital has been drained out of the hospital area. “The main problem is the surface water overflow from highway as the location of Sanglah Hospital is lower. However, by repairing and cleaning up the gutters, the entire water coming into the hospital area will go into the ditch and flows out of the hospital area,” he said.

Frequent floods hitting Sanglah Hospital are caused by somewhat lower location than the surrounding area such as the highway so that it makes rainwater come into hospital area. Central point of flood lies in the trenches in front of Sanglah Hospital. As being clogged by garbage the water overflows and spills onto the street, not to mention Sanglah Hospital is located lower than highway.

In essence, the Sanglah Hospital this time is better prepared than previous years. “We are more alert to the cause of stagnant water,” he concluded. (kmb42)

To anticipate flood, Sanglah Hospital repairs drain and hallway

Entering rainy season, bamboo craft business disrupted

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The dry filed is making it difficult for farmer to cultivate their land

Other areas flushed by rain, Karangasem still in water crisis

AMLAPURA - One-day rain in Karangasem seems to have no impact on some areas in Karangasem. As evidence, residents continue to face water cri-sis. As experienced by residents of Seraya village, Baturinggit and Bukit, they are still screaming for water just for drinking and meeting daily needs.

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BUSINESS

WASHINGTON — The United States is bringing a case against China to the World Trade Organization, protesting that taxes on imported aircraft give Chinese manufacturers an unfair advantage.

“China’s discriminatory, unfair tax policy is harmful to American workers and American businesses of all sizes in the critical aviation industry, from parts suppliers to manufacturers of small and medium-sized aircraft,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Tuesday.

The U.S. says that China imposes a 17 per-cent tax on imports of smaller aircraft, including propeller-driven general aviation aircraft, busi-ness jets and some jets that fly regional routes, and that Chinese-made planes are exempt from the tax in violation of WTO rules. Among the Chinese aircraft benefiting is the ARJ21, Chi-na’s first homegrown regional airliner, which is being built by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China.

The Obama administration is requesting consultations with China over the issue at the WTO. That’s the first step in a process that could lead to the WTO assigning a panel to rule on the case.

“China is firmly committed to the WTO rules and regulations,” said Zhu Haiquan, spokesman at the Chinese embassy in Washington. “We hope the trade disputes can be properly dealt with under WTO dispute settlement mecha-nism.”

The news comes as the administration pushes Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an ambitious trade deal involving the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. (ap)

The retreat in the greenback comes just a week before the Fed-eral Reserve’s next policy meeting where it is widely expected to hike interest rates, with some economists suggesting the move has been priced into the US unit.

Crude prices edged up in Asia after the Department of Energy said US inventories fell 3.6 mil-lion barrels in the week ending December 4.

The gains were a small chink of light for oil traders, with the black gold having slumped about nine percent since Friday’s decision by the OPEC oil exporters club not to cut output despite a global over-supply and weakness in the world economy.

That helped currencies reliant on commodities, with the Malay-sian ringgit up 0.3 percent and the Australian dollar almost one

percent up.Indonesia’s rupiah added 0.4

percent and the Singapore dollar added 0.1 percent.

Adding to the Aussie’s strength were better-than-expected jobs figures -- unemployment is now at its lowest since April 2014 -- which eased expectations the Australian central bank will cut interest rates from already record lows.

The New Zealand dollar also rose 0.2 percent on hopes a rate cut by Wellington will be the last for some time.

The US currency edged up against the euro, although the

single currency continues to hold its gains since last week’s European Central Bank stimulus revision that fell well short of expectations.

The euro bought $1.1009 and 133.89 yen from 1.1026 and 133.86 yen New York.

The single currency also got a boost from comments by an ECB governor who said markets were wrong to count on bolder stimu-lus measures from the bank last week, calling their expectations “absurd”.

“The ECB cannot and will not be driven by the markets,” Austrian

central bank head Ewald Nowotny, who is also a member of the ECB governing council, said in Vienna Wednesday.

The dollar bought 121.61 yen from 121.40 yen Wednesday in New York, where it earlier touched 121.10 yen, its lowest level in more than a month.

“Markets will be faced with heightened volatility going into the Fed’s gathering amid risk aver-sion and a lack of fresh news,” Yasuhiro Kaizaki, vice president for global markets at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, told Bloomberg News. (afp)

BEIJING — China’s consumer in-flation rebounded in November after vegetable prices jumped due to unusually frigid winter.

Prices rose 1.5 percent over a year earlier, accelerating from October’s 1.3 percent, data showed Wednesday. That was driven by a 9.4 percent rise in prices of fresh vegetables.

Consumer inflation had been drifting down after hitting 2 percent in August. Relatively low inflation has given Chinese leaders room to cut interest rates six times since last November to stimulate the slow-ing economy.

“Today’s inflation data support our view that domestic price pressures are on the rise,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital

Economics in a report. “Looking ahead, we expect inflation to rise going into 2016.”

Also in November, wholesale prices measured as goods left the factory fell for a 44th straight month, declining by 5.9 percent from a year earlier.

Inflation in non-food consumer prices edged up to 1.1 percent from October’s 0.9 percent. (ap)

Commodity-linked curriences rise in AsiaTOKYO - The dollar eased against most rivals in Asian trade

Thursday, with commodity-linked units enjoying support from a slight uptick in oil prices, while its Australian counterpart surged on the back of a strong jobs report.

US brings WTO case against Chinese tax on aircraft imports

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

Chinese investors nap while monitoring stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015.

China inflation edges higher as food costs rise

BANGLI - Implementation of the regent and deputy regent election of Bangli 2015 on Wednes-day (Dec. 9) in general took place safely and smoothly. Thousands of Bangli residents whose names are registered in the final voter list (DPT) have started to come to polling stations from 07:00 a.m. to use their political rights. They include the regent and deputy regent candidate contesting in the election this time.

Deputy Regent of Bangli with registration num-ber 1 Sang Nyoman Sedana Arta is one of them. Together with his wife Sang Ayu Nyoman Sariasih, the man who is also Chairman of the PDI-P Bangli looked to vote at the polling station 2 of Sulahan at 08:00 a.m. When met after voting, Sedana Arta hoped the regional election process in Bangli can run more safely and peacefully. He hoped the elec-tion can give birth to a Bangli regent and deputy regent that can continue the development of Bangli. “We have accomplished all the efforts and hard works. Now, we leave it entirely to the community of Bangli. People’s vote is the voice of god,” he explained.

Then, the candidate of Bangli regent with regis-tration number 2 Ida Bagus Brahmaputra observed his voting at polling station 2 of Demulih village, Susut. Brahmaputra looked to come to polling station with his wife at 11:00 a.m. When met by Bali Post after the voting, he admitted to be quite proud of seeing the electoral process that takes place favorably.

According to him, it showed that the public awareness of democracy has getting better. He hoped there is no money politics in the regional election this time. “Hopefully, this election can go well and there is no pressure,” he said. Related to voting results later on he claimed to be ready to win and lose.

When asking about his running mate, I Ketut Ridet, who did not participate in the voting, Brah-maputra acknowledged that he still has identity card of Denpasar. Nevertheless, he was confident that the exclusion of Ridet in the voting does not significantly affect the votes obtained. “I’m sure there is an effect when the running mate does not vote. But it will not be much,” he said.

To ensure the security and order situation is well maintained, the Chief of Bangli Police, Benny K Danang, along with the leadership council of Bangli came down in person to monitor a number of poll-ing stations considered vulnerable. Based on the results of monitoring, he said that in general the election of the Bangli region has run safely. There is no crucial matter considered to have disrupted the process stages. However, his institution did find three problems in the field. At Bangli Mental Hospital was found a mistake on the names of prospective voters.

Additionally, the polling station at Petung hamlet 5, Central Batur, Kintamani and polling station 8 at Penaga hamlet, Landih, Bangli were found ballot boxes that cannot be opened with a key so that they were forced by sawing. “Nevertheless, in general the election of Bangli regent runs safely,” he said.

Chairman of the Bangli Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Agung Lidartawan, separately said that the results of monitoring indicated that the vot-ing process in the four subdistricts took place safely and smoothly. He also mentioned that participation of voters in the Bangli election is currently quite high. (kmb40/kmb45)

Actually the voting process at the loca-tion has been problematic from the begin-ning. A number of witnesses from each candidate pair were suspicious because the preparation is not mature. Some pa-tients are suddenly declared to be unable to use their voting rights, though having C6 (voting notification) form. An officer of the KPPS said that the patient must include the A-5 form in order to be able to use their voting rights. A-5 form can be obtained if the patient has exchanged the C6 form to KPPS at the location where the patients are listed as final voter list (DPT). However, the explanation received strong protests from volunteers of Masdipa, Nen-gah Sutiarta. “If patients just checked in last night, how they have time to exchange their C6 form. Does it mean they also lose their right to vote?” asked Sutiarta.

Commissioner of KPU Bali Wirati accompanied by commissioner of KPU Karangasem Putu Deasy Natalia reiterated that pursuant to the rules it cannot be done. Apparently, this problem is increasingly high-

lighted by witnesses and other volunteers. Of the 33 patients having the right to vote in accordance with the data of the KPU, not all patients are carrying the A5 form. Wayan Surati, for instance, a patient dwelling Mawar Room from Muncan, ultimately could not use her right to vote. Likewise, other patients, Gede Raka Kradi from Bale Punduk and Saliyah also lost their right to vote.

This situation was also highlighted by Gusti Putu Artha, a political consultant of Masdipa. Tough not becoming a witness in the vote, he immediately protested the officer of KPPS, commissioner of KPU Bali and KPU Karangasem. In a state of anger, Gusti Putu Artha accused the KPU Karangasem as the election organizer of failing to advocate for voting rights to nu-merous patients at Karangasem Hospital. “Do not let administrative problem elimi-nate the voting rights of people. Without bringing along A5 form, patients must still be able to vote by presenting identity card. If healthy people can only use identity card to vote at polling station, why the sick

cannot?” highlighted Putu Artha.This former commissioner of the

central Electoral Commission conveyed that the election is essentially how the Electoral Commission can facilitate people to use their voting rights. Protested like that, the commissioner of KPU Bali Kade Wirati and KPU Karangasem Putu Deasy Natalia ignored it and continued the casting process. However, after being protested, finally the KPPS officers and commissioner of the KPU allowed the patients to channel their voting rights by using identity card. Due to limited voting time allocated for one hour (12:00-13:00) the KPPS at polling station 1 Susuan car-rying 30 ballots were only utilized nine ballots. The other two KPPS officers at different polling station also organized the voting at Karangasem Hospital but the results have not been known.

On the other hand, Gusti Putu Artha threatened to report the matter to Elec-toral Supervisory Committee (Panwaslih) Karangasem because the voting orga-nizer is considered to have not worked professionally in the field. On the other hand, Putu Deasy Natalia denied it. She only attempted to work according to the mechanism set forth by the KPU. In gen-eral, according to her, there is no problem because the voting process has been going on according to mechanism. (kmb31)

Regent election of Bangli runs safely and smoothly

IBP/Bagiarta

The patients of Karangasem Hospital give their vote during the election

Unorganized, voting process at Karangasem Hospital

AMLAPURA - Voting process at Karangasem Hospital took place less well, Wednesday (Dec. 9). Some patients failed to use their right to vote because the administrative problem. Patients cannot use their voting rights because of having no A-5 (notification of voting move) form. At that time, the winning team of Masdipa protested to voting organizer group (KPPS), commissioner of Electoral Commission (KPU) Karangasem, KPU Bali at the location.

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“The surveillance operations are routinely conducted by 14 naval ships to avoid piracy, illegal smuggling, and the theft of marine resources,” Head of the Pontianak Naval Base First Admiral Heru Santoso stated on Wednesday.

The area is one of the busiest

international sea lanes connecting several straits such as Malaka, Sunda, and Karimata.

After tensions recently height-ened over the South China Sea dispute, the Navy has increased the security level status and has improved the capability of its per-

sonnel.Heru added that the capability

of the Navy personnel has been improved to secure Indonesia’s natural resources and maritime territory from illegal fishing and trading, particularly in the waters of Natuna, Arafura, and Northern Sulawesi.

The waters of Natuna Island, located near Western Kalimantan, have millions of tons of marine

resources including cuttlefish, mackerel, and tuna fish.

The 260 thousand square kilo-meter Natuna waters directly border the South China Sea, and tensions have escalated after China laid claim over the area.

Beijing had earlier conducted striking maneuvers for nearly two years, including constructing artifi-cial islands in the waters.

Seve ra l ASEAN member

countr ies , such as the Phil -ippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Singapore have expressed their wrath over Chi-nese actions.

During the Shangrila Dialogue held last April, Indonesia had proposed a peaceful settlement of the border dispute by supporting regional dialog and conducting joint patrolling operations in the area. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia should be able to take full advantage of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) and not stand merely as a spectator, an official said.

“I am afraid that Indonesia would be more like a spectator in the implementation of AEC in 2016,” Deputy Chairman of the People’s Congress (MPR) Hidayat Nur Wahid said on Wednesday.

Hidayat said many foreign prod-ucts, more competitive in price and quality, would flood the domestic market with the implementation of the AEC.

He said foreign workers, who are more competitive in skills, are feared to look for jobs in Indonesia that the country serve only as a good market for other ASEAN countries.

Many Thais already and are

studying Indonesian language ahead of the implementation of AEC, he said.

Earlier, Trade Minister Thomas Lembong expressed optimism that Indonesian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) would survive and gain from the implementation of AEC. “I have visited many ar-eas and seen trade fairs displaying SME products. SMEs have many success stories. They look forward to the implementation of AEC with enthusiasm not worries,” Thomas said after attending “Apindo CEO’s Gathering”.

He said among the initiatives of the government to help boost SMEs is its massive deregulation measure, simplifying licensing procedure, and abolishing conflicting regula-tions.

ASEAN functional coopera-

tion director at the foreign office J.S. George Lantu said Indonesian workers have no cause for concern in facing AEC.

“There are eight sectors open to workers from other ASEAN coun-tries under the AEC scheme. In the negotiations, the Indonesian delega-tion considered the benefit and the strength Indonesia has in the eight sectors,” George said.

He said Indonesia is superior in four areas of the sectors -- availabil-ity of technicians, and paramedics, tourism, and architecture. The other four areas are related to accounting, survey, medical practitioners, and dentists.

Meanwhile, the Creative Econ-omy Board called on Indonesian youths from all parts of the country to make full use opportunities aris-ing from the AEC implementation

“The youths should be quick to grab any opportunity when the AEC is implemented by the end of the year,” a deputy for infrastructure at the Creative Economy Body Hari Santosa Sungkari said at the IPMI

International Business School on Saturday.

Hari Sungkari said free market in regional level would automati-cally expand the market of creative products. (ant)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 photo, a motorist rides on a bridge built on an area

regularly flooded with seawater in Jakarta, Indonesia. With a certain amount of sea rise considered inevitable

as warmer temperatures melt glaciers and expand oceans, cities will have to adapt quickly in order to spare investors

losses and citizens from disasters.

Indonesia monitoring its territory bordering South China Sea

PONTIANAK - Indonesia has deployed at least 14 naval ships to conduct routine surveillance to secure its territory bordering the South China Sea.

Indonesia must not stand as spectators in AEC

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Police Maj. Gen. Paween Pong-sirin told the Australian Broadcast-ing Corporation and the Guardian Australia newspaper that he was too afraid to return to Thailand and planned to seek political asylum in Australia. A photograph showed him standing on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, where he said he had arrived a few days ago.

It was the first sighting of Paween in weeks, following unconfirmed reports in Thai media that he had fled. His Thai mobile phones were switched off and he could not be reached for comment.

Paween headed a high-profile task force created earlier this year after the discovery of 36 bodies and shallow graves in the mountains of southern Thailand in May. The

finding exposed a network of jungle camps run by traffickers, who hu-man rights groups have long said worked in complicity with corrupt Thai officials, a claim authorities in Bangkok had routinely denied.

Thailand vowed a crackdown and put Paween in charge. Dozens of people were arrested, including local politicians in southern Thai-land, government officials, police and a senior army officer.

Paween told The Guardian that he faced pressure not to pursue the perpetrators too enthusiastically. His investigation was disbanded in September after five months, although it was far from finished, he said.

Soon after, he was abruptly trans-ferred to an insurgency-plagued region of southern Thailand de-

spite his protests that he would be targeted by traffickers and senior police involved in the trade. He quit his job and fled, he said. Asked who halted the probe, Paween said: “Influential people involved in hu-man trafficking.”

He did not name anyone, but added: “Human trafficking is a big network that involves lots of the military, politicians and police. While I was supervising the cases I was warned all along.”

Paween’s comments are bound to embarrass Thailand’s military government, which has promised to rid the country of traffickers and corruption.

The U.S. State Department in July said it was keeping Thailand on its human trafficking blacklist, and retained Thailand’s Tier 3 ranking, the lowest level in its an-nual Trafficking in Persons report. The ranking designates Thailand as a country that has not made suf-ficient progress in tackling human trafficking. (ap)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — About 100 colleagues and family members protested outside Co-lombo’s main railway station on Thursday to urge the Sri Lankan government to conduct a new inves-tigation into the fate of two activists who disappeared four years ago.

The activists — Lalith Kumar Weeraraju and Kugan Muruganan-dan — went missing on Dec. 9, 2011, while organizing a news conference to mark Human Rights Day in the country’s former civil war zone in the north.

Colleagues and relatives have accused the military of abducting them. The military has denied the allegation.

Since January, Sri Lanka’s new government has taken steps to investigate some unresolved dis-appearances and killings and has arrested some suspects.

Sri Lanka is facing international criticism for failing to properly investigate alleged abductions, at-tacks and killings of political op-

ponents, activists and journalists during and after the civil war, which ended in 2009.

Ravindra Mudalige, head of the Movement for Equal Rights which organized Thursday’s protest, said investigations under the previous government failed to reveal the fate of the two activists and “therefore, we urge the new government to conduct a fresh probe and reveal what happened to these two and who are responsible for their abduc-tion and as well as hundreds of other abductions.”

Last month, three experts from a United Nations working group on forced disappearances visited Sri Lanka and said they found a secret underground detention center at a navy base where many post-civil war detainees are believed to have been interrogated and tortured.

The experts said there could be other similar centers used to hold people who disappeared and urged the government to investigate. (ap)

BUCHAREST — Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors have detained an aide to a former prime minister and a newspaper director on charges of taking part in a mas-sive real-estate fraud involving a Romanian prince.

Prosecutors detained business-man Remus Truica, the former head

of Cabinet of ex-Premier Adrian Nastase, Thursday on charges of setting up a criminal group in 2006 that fraudulently acquired 170,000 square meters (1.8 million square feet) of state-owned land for Prince Paul, causing damages of 136 mil-lion euros ($150 million).

Prosecutors said Paul then sold

part of the land to Truica. Truica denies wrongdoing. Prosecutors detained Dan Andronic, manag-ing director of daily Evenimentul Zilei, on charges of belonging to the group. Three other people were also detained. Paul, 67, who is to be questioned, denies wrongdo-ing. (ap)

TEHRAN — Iran’s healthy minister says an outbreak of swine flu has killed at least 42 people in the country over the past month.

Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi says 33 of the deaths from the H1N1 virus occurred in southeastern Ker-man province. He says 600 people who contracted the virus there have been hospitalized. He says the out-break is now under control.

He says other fatalities occurred

in southeastern and southwestern Iran and one person died in Karaj, 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the capital, Tehran. Last year, swine flu claimed at least 89 lives in Iran.

The 2009 H1N1 outbreak started a global pandemic that killed as many as half a million people. The strain has been lethal mostly to those with complicating circum-stances and is now considered a seasonal flu. (ap)

AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena

Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil women hold photographs of their fam-ily members who have gone missing, during a protest to mark the international Human Rights Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015.

Sri Lankans urge new probe into fate of

2 missing activists

Iran’s health minister: Swine flu

kills 42 across countryNewspaper boss, aide to ex-PM detained for alleged fraud

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

Senior adviser to the Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen, right, is escorted by Thai correc-tion officers upon arrival at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.

Thai trafficking investigator flees

to AustraliaSYDNEY — Thailand’s highest-ranking police investigator

in charge of human trafficking has fled to Australia, telling Australian media on Thursday that he feared for his life after his findings implicated “influential people” at home who want to silence him.

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SEMARAPURA - Nusa Lem-bongan is one of the leading desti-nations owned by Klungkung Dis-trict. Beaches, hills, mangroves and seagrass become exquisite and ex-otic scenery. Every weekend many visitors, mainly domestic travelers, flock to Nusa Lembongan.

Other than beaches, the Yellow Bridge is one of the most favorite places for travelers to visit in Nusa

Lembongan. The bridge span con-nects Nusa Ceningan to Nusa Lembongan with a length of 100 meters.

“Many travelers make a visit to the location (Yellow Bridge—Ed). They often call it the ‘bridge of love.’ Many travelers immortal-ize special moments with their partners,” said a local community leader, I Wayan Suarbawa.

Furthermore, he added that most of the travelers visiting the Yellow Bridge are domestic travelers from Denpasar, Surabaya and surround-ing areas. Ahead of the sunset time, the moment is taken advantage by most visitors to take pictures and stroll with their partners.

Komang Diktat, one of the freelance photographers at the location frequently immortalizing

the moment of couples at the Yel-low Bridge, said that other than as tourist destination, this place is very beautiful to be used for background of pre-wedding photo session.

“Well, I can get adequate number of clients and most of them are trav-elers from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. I rarely use the bridge as the background because it is very crowded. With

this condition, I attempt to find the best angle so that the photographs can give good impression as if they were aerial photographs,” he said.

According to a traveler, Dewa Ayu Embas Saraswati, the Yellow Bridge is a top priority destination for travelers when visiting Nusa Lembongan. Apparently it will be incomplete without making a selfie at the Yellow Bridge.

Yellow Bridge at Nusa LembonganIBP/kmb

Former world number one Ed-berg had worked as part of a team led by Federer’s long-term coach Severin Luthi since January 2014, a period in which the 34-year-old revived his career without adding to his tally of grand slam titles.

“After two very successful years, I would like to thank Stefan Edberg, my childhood idol, for agreeing to join my team,” Federer said in Facebook post.

“It was a dream come true. Although it was supposed to only be for 2014, Stefan was great and agreed to extend the partnership through this year which I really appreciated.

“He taught me so much and his influence on my game will remain. He will always be a part of my team. “Severin Luthi, who I have been working with since 2008, will continue to be my main coach and he will be joined by Ivan Ljubicic,” Federer added.

Croatian Ljubicic, who retired in 2012 after a long career which peaked when he reached number

three in the world, coached Canadi-an Milos Raonic for two years until last month. Swede Edberg released a statement to the ATP thanking Federer for what he described as a “wonderful two years”.

“It became very clear from the start that this was going to be a special partnership, working with the greatest ambassador tennis has ever seen,” the six-times grand slam champion said.

“It was exciting for me to be back out on tour and to see that the sport has made so much progress.

“After an amazing 2014, I de-cided to continue on for another year, but with a clear understanding that it would be my last year given the time commitment.”

“I believe Roger still has a lot left to give to the sport of tennis and is capable of winning the big events.”

Federer, who finished 2015 ranked third in the world after winning six titles, will start next season at the Brisbane International in early January.(rtr)

Williams is hitting all its targets in the windtunnel with its “sig-nificantly” different car for the 2016 Formula 1 season, according to per-formance chief Rob Smedley.

The Grove-based team secured third in the constructors’ champi-onship for the second successive year this term, allowing it to stop developing the 2015 machine and focus on both ‘16 and ‘17, when the rules are set for an overhaul.

Regarding his expectations for next season, Smedley is encour-aged by results coming out of the factory.

“Of course, it’s all relative,” he said. “We could have a stellar development and Ferrari and Red Bull could have an even more stellar one. “But everything we are seeing at the minute is good, we are hitting targets.

“We are always looking not just

at headline numbers but in other areas of aero development, other important areas.

“It’s all ongoing, it’s a process of getting us back towards the front and at the minute we’re reasonably happy with what we’re seeing.”

With the rules remaining rela-tively stable into next season, the cars are expected to be an evolu-tion, with Fernando Alonso saying in Abu Dhabi that half the parts on his McLaren have been built for its 2016 car.

But when asked if Williams had done something similar in the final few races, Smedley said: “No.

“The car we have in the windtun-nel for 2016 and the 2015 car we have now are significantly different so we couldn’t do anything from an aerody-namic point of view. “Other parts of R&D and mechanical design, yes we are trialling things all the time.

“Usually you need a package of upgrades with a mechanical car to see any significant laptime im-provement. “All of our significant laptime improvement is back in the windtunnel at Grove.”(rtr)

TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan scored 28 points and Kyle Lowry added 19 as the Toronto Raptors ended the San Antonio Spurs’ four-game winning streak with a 97-94 victory on Wednesday. Luis Scola had 16 points and Toronto never trailed in handing San Antonio just its third loss in the last 18 games.

Manu Ginobili had 17 points off the bench for the Spurs, who also got 13 points from LaMarcus Aldridge.

Danny Green hit a 3-pointer following a timeout to make it a three-point game with 2:47 to play, but Bismack Biyombo threw down a dunk to restore the Raptors’ five-point edge.

Kawhi Leonard’s follow shot later narrowed the advantage to three, but Toronto was able to run out the clock. In Auburn Hills, Michigan, Matt Barnes tossed in a desperation 3-pointer from just inside midcourt with 1.1 seconds left to lift the Memphis Grizzlies over the Detroit Pistons 93-92.

Marcus Morris missed a contested shot with 7 seconds left that could have clinched the game for the Pistons, and Andre Drum-mond’s tip bounced off the rim.

The Grizzlies grabbed the ball and fired an outlet pass to Barnes. He let go a running, two-handed shot as he crossed halfcourt that went in, silencing the Palace crowd as players on the Memphis bench celebrated.

Zach Randolph led Memphis with 21 points and 16 rebounds, while Marc Gasol had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

Boston’s Isaiah Thomas scored nine of his 20 points in the final 3 minutes to lead the Celtics past the Chicago Bulls 105-100.(ap)

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Roger Federer of Switzerland waits for the trophy ceremony after losing to Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their ATP World Tour Finals final tennis match at the O2 Arena in London, Sunday Nov. 22, 2015.

Federer parts ways with Edberg, brings Ljubicic on board

Roger Federer has rejigged his coaching team for next year by parting company with Stefan Edberg and bringing Ivan Ljubicic on board, the 17-times grand slam champion said on Wednesday.

Williams hitting 2016 F1 aero targets says Rob Smedley DeRozan, Raptors snap

Spurs’ streak, 97-94

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Mi-chel Platini will find out Friday morn-ing if his 90-day FIFA ban will be temporarily lifted by the Court of Arbi-tration for Sport. CAS said Thursday it will publish its ruling at 10 a.m. Swiss time (0900 GMT).

Platini asked a CAS panel at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday to be allowed to work. The UEFA president is currently banned and his FIFA presi-dential candidacy is on hold.

In Paris, the UEFA executive com-mittee will meet on Friday morning and the 2016 European Championship draw is set for Saturday evening. The CAS panel could lift the ban without taking a position on Platini’s guilt or innocence. Interim bans can be overturned because the judges feel it is unfair and out of proportion.

Platini and FIFA President Sepp Blatter face life bans at FIFA ethics committee hearings in Zurich next week.

The case centers on Blatter’s ap-proval of $2 million of FIFA money that Platini got in 2011 as backdated salary. Platini was a presidential adviser

to Blatter from 1998-2002. Both deny wrongdoing, but acknowledge there was only a verbal agreement which they say is valid under Swiss law.

Still, FIFA was not required to pay Platini when more than five years elapsed since the work was com-pleted.

The timing of the payment, which was not disclosed to the FIFA and UEFA executive committees, also raised suspicion. Platini was paid in February 2011, three months before a FIFA presidential election which Blat-ter won.

Both men face sanctions for a range of potential FIFA Code of Ethics vio-lations, including bribery, conflicts of interest and false accounting.

Blatter’s hearing is next Thursday with FIFA ethics judge Joachim Eckert and Platini follows at FIFA headquar-ters the next day.

Verdicts are expected within days, before Christmas. Any sanctions can also be challenged at FIFA and CAS with appeals likely to be done before the FIFA presidential election on Feb. 26. (ap)

ArSENAL knew they would get their “massive” win in Greece if they could impose their brand of football on the game, Petr Cech has said the club sealed their last 16 place in the Champions League with a 3-0 win over Olympiakos Piraeus on Wednesday.

The Gunners went into the game knowing they needed to win by any scoreline apart from 1-0 or 2-1 to qualify for the knockout stages for a 16th consecutive year.

“Well, we could! We were searching for it and we knew if we played our game, if we have a great team performance and great individual performances then we will have a chance, and we did say exactly that,” Cech told reporters after the game when asked if anyone could have seen that result coming.

“It is a massive win for us, the club, the supporters and for the future because it will give us

confidence.”Arsenal avoided the

embarrassment of drop-ping into the second tier Europa League thanks to striker Olivier Giroud, who scored his first hat-trick for the club on Wednesday.

Giroud has scored 13 goals in 23 appearances for the club this season and Cech has singled out the Frenchman for praise.

“He scores goals when we need him. He is a real handful when we need to play. What you want from your striker is to score goals and he has been scoring goals which is fantastic,” Cech said.

Arsenal will hope to leapfrog surprise leaders Leicester City, who host champions Chelsea on Monday, in the Premier League

when they travel to take on bot-tom side Aston Villa the previous day. (rtr)

ALL of Chelsea’s potential oppo-nents are hoping to be drawn against the Premier League side in the last 16 of the Champions League, manager Jose Mourinho has said.

Mourinho’s men finished top of Group G after beating Porto 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night and face one of six group runners-up over two legs in the competition’s first knockout round.

The Blues will learn their next opponents after Monday’s draw and could face either Paris St Germain, PSV Eindhoven, Benfica, Juventus, Roma or Gent.

Arsenal and Dynamo Kiev are the two other runners-up, but cannot be drawn against Chelsea as the rules bar teams from the same country and those that have already played each other in the group stages from facing off in the next round.

“Every team finishing second wants to play us or Zenit St Petersburg,” Mourinho told reporters after a win that eased the pressure on the two-times Champions League winner. “Every team doesn’t want to play Barcelona, they don’t want to play Real Madrid, they don’t want to play Atletico (Ma-drid), they don’t want to play Bayern

Munich.”Chelsea are 14th in the Premier

League table after losing eight of their 15 games so far and speculation was rife that Mourinho would be sacked if they failed to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League.

The Portuguese will be happier with his team’s form in Europe, where they have four wins, a draw and one defeat en route to the knockout stages and can take heart from an encouraging perfor-mance from striker Diego Costa.

Mourinho handed the Spaniard a start after dropping him to the bench for Chelsea’s last two games against Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth and Costa was a constant thorn in Porto’s side.

“He could have scored two or three goals today,” Mourinho said, while agreeing that Costa was still short of confidence.

“What is clear was his effort, his commitment, his great movement, which was something he didn’t have for the last couple of matches.

“His touch wasn’t the best. So, yes, clearly there’s a lack of confidence but his attitude was very good and his movement was much better. The goals are coming.” (rtr)

COPENHAGEN — Former Malmo FF manager Age Hareide is the new national coach, Den-mark’s football association said on Thursday. The 62-year-old former Norway international signed a two-year contract with an option for two more years, the association, known as DBU, said.

Hareide will begin in his new job on March 1 in time for Denmark’s 2018 World Cup qualifying cam-paign that kicks off in the second half of 2016. “We need to try to get to the World Cup” in Russia, he told a televised news conference.

Hareide has coached several Scandinavian clubs, and was in charge of Norway from 2003-08. Last week, he announced his departure from Malmo after two years in the job. Hareide played for Hodd and Molde in Norway before signing with Manchester City and Norwich City. He was capped 50 times for Norway.

After his playing career, he be-came a coach and won league titles in the three Scandinavian countries: in Sweden, with Helsingborg IF in 1999 and Malmo in 2014; in Denmark, with Brondby in 2002,

and in Norway, with Rosenborg in 2003.

“I am proud, happy, and humble to be Danish coach and taking over after Morten Olsen, whom I know personally,” he added.

Olsen ended his 15-year tenure last month when Denmark failed to qualify for the 2016 European Championship.

Olsen took the Danes to four major championships; the 2002 and 2010 World Cups, and Euro 2004 and 2012. He was the first Dane to reach 100 national team matches as a player and coach. (ap)

ZAGrEB — Robert Lewandowski scored twice as already-qualified Bayern Munich completed its Champions League group campaign with a 2-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb on Wednesday.

Halftime substitute Thomas Mueller set up Le-wandowski’s opener in the 61st, three minutes before Sebastian Rode played the Poland striker through for his second goal - his seventh in six games.

Mueller struck the post with a penalty in the 87th, though it made no difference as Bayern coach Pep Guardiola celebrated his 50th Champions League victory. “It was a difficult game. We knew we’d have to be patient,” Lewandowski said. “The main thing is that we won.”

Already assured of first place in Group F, Bayern was joined in the last 16 by Arsenal, which won 3-0 at

Olympiakos to deprive the Greek champion of second place thanks to Olivier Giroud’s hat trick.

Bayern, which lost its first Bundesliga game of the season on Saturday, rested Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, while Jerome Boateng, Arturo Vidal, Mueller and Kinsley Coman, who all started on the bench. Franck Ribery made his first start in nine months after recovering from long-standing ankle problems, while American Julian Green started in his second competitive appearance for the side.

Josip Pivaric drew a good save from Sven Ulreich early on. The Bayern reserve ‘keeper also gathered Domagoj Antolic’s effort from the resulting corner.

Green’s mistake let Domagoj Antolic play in El Arabi Hilal Soudani, whose shot Ulreich did well to save in the 26th.(ap)

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho follows the action from the side-lines during the Champions League group G soccer match between Chelsea and FC Porto at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015.

Teams will want to draw Chelsea in last 16, says Mourinho

Action Images via Reuters / Andrew Couldridge

Arsenal’s Petr Cech cel-ebrates at the end of the match

Ex-Malmo manager becomes new Denmark coach

Arsenal saw ‘massive’ win coming, says Cech

Lewandowski gives Bayern Munich 2-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb

Platini to find out Friday if CAS lifts his 90-day FIFA ban

Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP

UEFA-President Michel Platini of France is surrounded by media after a hearing at the interna-tional Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.

Barcelona draws 1-1 with Leverkusen in Champions League

Title holder Barcelona had al-ready qualified and was sure to win Group E. Playing without Neymar, who sustained a groin strain in the final practice on Tuesday, and Luis Suarez, who was rested, Barcelona still went ahead through Messi — the only one of the three forward stars who started the match.

The Barcelona captain picked up a perfect through ball from Ivan Rakitic to score in the 20th. Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez leveled three minutes later.

Barcelona finished with 14 points, ahead of Roma with six. Roma advanced because of a better head-to-head record over Leverkusen, which also had six points. Roma drew 0-0 with BATE

Borisov, which stayed bottom of the group at five points.

With nothing to play for, Bar-celona coach Luis Enrique did not even bring Andres Iniesta and Gerard Pique to Germany.

But Barcelona still took control at the start and Rakitic created the goal for Messi with a perfectly timed through pass . Messi rounded goalkeeper Bernd Leno and slotted home.

Leverkusen replied quickly. Admir Mehmedi sent in a low cross from the left and Her-nandez fired a first-time shot into

the roof of the net.A bad clearance then allowed

Hakan Calhanoglu to have a clear shot but he missed the Barcelona net.

Barcelona’s German goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen produced two outstanding saves to protect Barce lo -na’s

point in the second

half. He first foiled Karim Bellarabi and

then turned away a late effort by Hernandez with one hand.

“All we needed was one more goal so we are very disappointed,” Leverkusen’s Christoph Kramer said. (ap)

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring the

opening goal dur-ing the Champions

League Group E soccer match between Bayer

Leverkusen and FC Barcelona in Le-

verkusen, western Germany, Wednes-

day, Dec. 9, 2015.

LEVErKUSEN — Lionel Messi scored his 80th Cham-pions League goal as a Barcelona side without many of its other stars played to a 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday, sending the German side to the Europa League.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Mi-chel Platini will find out Friday morn-ing if his 90-day FIFA ban will be temporarily lifted by the Court of Arbi-tration for Sport. CAS said Thursday it will publish its ruling at 10 a.m. Swiss time (0900 GMT).

Platini asked a CAS panel at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday to be allowed to work. The UEFA president is currently banned and his FIFA presi-dential candidacy is on hold.

In Paris, the UEFA executive com-mittee will meet on Friday morning and the 2016 European Championship draw is set for Saturday evening. The CAS panel could lift the ban without taking a position on Platini’s guilt or innocence. Interim bans can be overturned because the judges feel it is unfair and out of proportion.

Platini and FIFA President Sepp Blatter face life bans at FIFA ethics committee hearings in Zurich next week.

The case centers on Blatter’s ap-proval of $2 million of FIFA money that Platini got in 2011 as backdated salary. Platini was a presidential adviser

to Blatter from 1998-2002. Both deny wrongdoing, but acknowledge there was only a verbal agreement which they say is valid under Swiss law.

Still, FIFA was not required to pay Platini when more than five years elapsed since the work was com-pleted.

The timing of the payment, which was not disclosed to the FIFA and UEFA executive committees, also raised suspicion. Platini was paid in February 2011, three months before a FIFA presidential election which Blat-ter won.

Both men face sanctions for a range of potential FIFA Code of Ethics vio-lations, including bribery, conflicts of interest and false accounting.

Blatter’s hearing is next Thursday with FIFA ethics judge Joachim Eckert and Platini follows at FIFA headquar-ters the next day.

Verdicts are expected within days, before Christmas. Any sanctions can also be challenged at FIFA and CAS with appeals likely to be done before the FIFA presidential election on Feb. 26. (ap)

ArSENAL knew they would get their “massive” win in Greece if they could impose their brand of football on the game, Petr Cech has said the club sealed their last 16 place in the Champions League with a 3-0 win over Olympiakos Piraeus on Wednesday.

The Gunners went into the game knowing they needed to win by any scoreline apart from 1-0 or 2-1 to qualify for the knockout stages for a 16th consecutive year.

“Well, we could! We were searching for it and we knew if we played our game, if we have a great team performance and great individual performances then we will have a chance, and we did say exactly that,” Cech told reporters after the game when asked if anyone could have seen that result coming.

“It is a massive win for us, the club, the supporters and for the future because it will give us

confidence.”Arsenal avoided the

embarrassment of drop-ping into the second tier Europa League thanks to striker Olivier Giroud, who scored his first hat-trick for the club on Wednesday.

Giroud has scored 13 goals in 23 appearances for the club this season and Cech has singled out the Frenchman for praise.

“He scores goals when we need him. He is a real handful when we need to play. What you want from your striker is to score goals and he has been scoring goals which is fantastic,” Cech said.

Arsenal will hope to leapfrog surprise leaders Leicester City, who host champions Chelsea on Monday, in the Premier League

when they travel to take on bot-tom side Aston Villa the previous day. (rtr)

ALL of Chelsea’s potential oppo-nents are hoping to be drawn against the Premier League side in the last 16 of the Champions League, manager Jose Mourinho has said.

Mourinho’s men finished top of Group G after beating Porto 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night and face one of six group runners-up over two legs in the competition’s first knockout round.

The Blues will learn their next opponents after Monday’s draw and could face either Paris St Germain, PSV Eindhoven, Benfica, Juventus, Roma or Gent.

Arsenal and Dynamo Kiev are the two other runners-up, but cannot be drawn against Chelsea as the rules bar teams from the same country and those that have already played each other in the group stages from facing off in the next round.

“Every team finishing second wants to play us or Zenit St Petersburg,” Mourinho told reporters after a win that eased the pressure on the two-times Champions League winner. “Every team doesn’t want to play Barcelona, they don’t want to play Real Madrid, they don’t want to play Atletico (Ma-drid), they don’t want to play Bayern

Munich.”Chelsea are 14th in the Premier

League table after losing eight of their 15 games so far and speculation was rife that Mourinho would be sacked if they failed to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League.

The Portuguese will be happier with his team’s form in Europe, where they have four wins, a draw and one defeat en route to the knockout stages and can take heart from an encouraging perfor-mance from striker Diego Costa.

Mourinho handed the Spaniard a start after dropping him to the bench for Chelsea’s last two games against Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth and Costa was a constant thorn in Porto’s side.

“He could have scored two or three goals today,” Mourinho said, while agreeing that Costa was still short of confidence.

“What is clear was his effort, his commitment, his great movement, which was something he didn’t have for the last couple of matches.

“His touch wasn’t the best. So, yes, clearly there’s a lack of confidence but his attitude was very good and his movement was much better. The goals are coming.” (rtr)

COPENHAGEN — Former Malmo FF manager Age Hareide is the new national coach, Den-mark’s football association said on Thursday. The 62-year-old former Norway international signed a two-year contract with an option for two more years, the association, known as DBU, said.

Hareide will begin in his new job on March 1 in time for Denmark’s 2018 World Cup qualifying cam-paign that kicks off in the second half of 2016. “We need to try to get to the World Cup” in Russia, he told a televised news conference.

Hareide has coached several Scandinavian clubs, and was in charge of Norway from 2003-08. Last week, he announced his departure from Malmo after two years in the job. Hareide played for Hodd and Molde in Norway before signing with Manchester City and Norwich City. He was capped 50 times for Norway.

After his playing career, he be-came a coach and won league titles in the three Scandinavian countries: in Sweden, with Helsingborg IF in 1999 and Malmo in 2014; in Denmark, with Brondby in 2002,

and in Norway, with Rosenborg in 2003.

“I am proud, happy, and humble to be Danish coach and taking over after Morten Olsen, whom I know personally,” he added.

Olsen ended his 15-year tenure last month when Denmark failed to qualify for the 2016 European Championship.

Olsen took the Danes to four major championships; the 2002 and 2010 World Cups, and Euro 2004 and 2012. He was the first Dane to reach 100 national team matches as a player and coach. (ap)

ZAGrEB — Robert Lewandowski scored twice as already-qualified Bayern Munich completed its Champions League group campaign with a 2-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb on Wednesday.

Halftime substitute Thomas Mueller set up Le-wandowski’s opener in the 61st, three minutes before Sebastian Rode played the Poland striker through for his second goal - his seventh in six games.

Mueller struck the post with a penalty in the 87th, though it made no difference as Bayern coach Pep Guardiola celebrated his 50th Champions League victory. “It was a difficult game. We knew we’d have to be patient,” Lewandowski said. “The main thing is that we won.”

Already assured of first place in Group F, Bayern was joined in the last 16 by Arsenal, which won 3-0 at

Olympiakos to deprive the Greek champion of second place thanks to Olivier Giroud’s hat trick.

Bayern, which lost its first Bundesliga game of the season on Saturday, rested Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, while Jerome Boateng, Arturo Vidal, Mueller and Kinsley Coman, who all started on the bench. Franck Ribery made his first start in nine months after recovering from long-standing ankle problems, while American Julian Green started in his second competitive appearance for the side.

Josip Pivaric drew a good save from Sven Ulreich early on. The Bayern reserve ‘keeper also gathered Domagoj Antolic’s effort from the resulting corner.

Green’s mistake let Domagoj Antolic play in El Arabi Hilal Soudani, whose shot Ulreich did well to save in the 26th.(ap)

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho follows the action from the side-lines during the Champions League group G soccer match between Chelsea and FC Porto at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015.

Teams will want to draw Chelsea in last 16, says Mourinho

Action Images via Reuters / Andrew Couldridge

Arsenal’s Petr Cech cel-ebrates at the end of the match

Ex-Malmo manager becomes new Denmark coach

Arsenal saw ‘massive’ win coming, says Cech

Lewandowski gives Bayern Munich 2-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb

Platini to find out Friday if CAS lifts his 90-day FIFA ban

Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP

UEFA-President Michel Platini of France is surrounded by media after a hearing at the interna-tional Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.

Barcelona draws 1-1 with Leverkusen in Champions League

Title holder Barcelona had al-ready qualified and was sure to win Group E. Playing without Neymar, who sustained a groin strain in the final practice on Tuesday, and Luis Suarez, who was rested, Barcelona still went ahead through Messi — the only one of the three forward stars who started the match.

The Barcelona captain picked up a perfect through ball from Ivan Rakitic to score in the 20th. Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez leveled three minutes later.

Barcelona finished with 14 points, ahead of Roma with six. Roma advanced because of a better head-to-head record over Leverkusen, which also had six points. Roma drew 0-0 with BATE

Borisov, which stayed bottom of the group at five points.

With nothing to play for, Bar-celona coach Luis Enrique did not even bring Andres Iniesta and Gerard Pique to Germany.

But Barcelona still took control at the start and Rakitic created the goal for Messi with a perfectly timed through pass . Messi rounded goalkeeper Bernd Leno and slotted home.

Leverkusen replied quickly. Admir Mehmedi sent in a low cross from the left and Her-nandez fired a first-time shot into

the roof of the net.A bad clearance then allowed

Hakan Calhanoglu to have a clear shot but he missed the Barcelona net.

Barcelona’s German goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen produced two outstanding saves to protect Barce lo -na’s

point in the second

half. He first foiled Karim Bellarabi and

then turned away a late effort by Hernandez with one hand.

“All we needed was one more goal so we are very disappointed,” Leverkusen’s Christoph Kramer said. (ap)

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring the

opening goal dur-ing the Champions

League Group E soccer match between Bayer

Leverkusen and FC Barcelona in Le-

verkusen, western Germany, Wednes-

day, Dec. 9, 2015.

LEVErKUSEN — Lionel Messi scored his 80th Cham-pions League goal as a Barcelona side without many of its other stars played to a 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday, sending the German side to the Europa League.

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SEMARAPURA - Nusa Lem-bongan is one of the leading desti-nations owned by Klungkung Dis-trict. Beaches, hills, mangroves and seagrass become exquisite and ex-otic scenery. Every weekend many visitors, mainly domestic travelers, flock to Nusa Lembongan.

Other than beaches, the Yellow Bridge is one of the most favorite places for travelers to visit in Nusa

Lembongan. The bridge span con-nects Nusa Ceningan to Nusa Lembongan with a length of 100 meters.

“Many travelers make a visit to the location (Yellow Bridge—Ed). They often call it the ‘bridge of love.’ Many travelers immortal-ize special moments with their partners,” said a local community leader, I Wayan Suarbawa.

Furthermore, he added that most of the travelers visiting the Yellow Bridge are domestic travelers from Denpasar, Surabaya and surround-ing areas. Ahead of the sunset time, the moment is taken advantage by most visitors to take pictures and stroll with their partners.

Komang Diktat, one of the freelance photographers at the location frequently immortalizing

the moment of couples at the Yel-low Bridge, said that other than as tourist destination, this place is very beautiful to be used for background of pre-wedding photo session.

“Well, I can get adequate number of clients and most of them are trav-elers from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. I rarely use the bridge as the background because it is very crowded. With

this condition, I attempt to find the best angle so that the photographs can give good impression as if they were aerial photographs,” he said.

According to a traveler, Dewa Ayu Embas Saraswati, the Yellow Bridge is a top priority destination for travelers when visiting Nusa Lembongan. Apparently it will be incomplete without making a selfie at the Yellow Bridge.

Yellow Bridge at Nusa LembonganIBP/kmb

Former world number one Ed-berg had worked as part of a team led by Federer’s long-term coach Severin Luthi since January 2014, a period in which the 34-year-old revived his career without adding to his tally of grand slam titles.

“After two very successful years, I would like to thank Stefan Edberg, my childhood idol, for agreeing to join my team,” Federer said in Facebook post.

“It was a dream come true. Although it was supposed to only be for 2014, Stefan was great and agreed to extend the partnership through this year which I really appreciated.

“He taught me so much and his influence on my game will remain. He will always be a part of my team. “Severin Luthi, who I have been working with since 2008, will continue to be my main coach and he will be joined by Ivan Ljubicic,” Federer added.

Croatian Ljubicic, who retired in 2012 after a long career which peaked when he reached number

three in the world, coached Canadi-an Milos Raonic for two years until last month. Swede Edberg released a statement to the ATP thanking Federer for what he described as a “wonderful two years”.

“It became very clear from the start that this was going to be a special partnership, working with the greatest ambassador tennis has ever seen,” the six-times grand slam champion said.

“It was exciting for me to be back out on tour and to see that the sport has made so much progress.

“After an amazing 2014, I de-cided to continue on for another year, but with a clear understanding that it would be my last year given the time commitment.”

“I believe Roger still has a lot left to give to the sport of tennis and is capable of winning the big events.”

Federer, who finished 2015 ranked third in the world after winning six titles, will start next season at the Brisbane International in early January.(rtr)

Williams is hitting all its targets in the windtunnel with its “sig-nificantly” different car for the 2016 Formula 1 season, according to per-formance chief Rob Smedley.

The Grove-based team secured third in the constructors’ champi-onship for the second successive year this term, allowing it to stop developing the 2015 machine and focus on both ‘16 and ‘17, when the rules are set for an overhaul.

Regarding his expectations for next season, Smedley is encour-aged by results coming out of the factory.

“Of course, it’s all relative,” he said. “We could have a stellar development and Ferrari and Red Bull could have an even more stellar one. “But everything we are seeing at the minute is good, we are hitting targets.

“We are always looking not just

at headline numbers but in other areas of aero development, other important areas.

“It’s all ongoing, it’s a process of getting us back towards the front and at the minute we’re reasonably happy with what we’re seeing.”

With the rules remaining rela-tively stable into next season, the cars are expected to be an evolu-tion, with Fernando Alonso saying in Abu Dhabi that half the parts on his McLaren have been built for its 2016 car.

But when asked if Williams had done something similar in the final few races, Smedley said: “No.

“The car we have in the windtun-nel for 2016 and the 2015 car we have now are significantly different so we couldn’t do anything from an aerody-namic point of view. “Other parts of R&D and mechanical design, yes we are trialling things all the time.

“Usually you need a package of upgrades with a mechanical car to see any significant laptime im-provement. “All of our significant laptime improvement is back in the windtunnel at Grove.”(rtr)

TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan scored 28 points and Kyle Lowry added 19 as the Toronto Raptors ended the San Antonio Spurs’ four-game winning streak with a 97-94 victory on Wednesday. Luis Scola had 16 points and Toronto never trailed in handing San Antonio just its third loss in the last 18 games.

Manu Ginobili had 17 points off the bench for the Spurs, who also got 13 points from LaMarcus Aldridge.

Danny Green hit a 3-pointer following a timeout to make it a three-point game with 2:47 to play, but Bismack Biyombo threw down a dunk to restore the Raptors’ five-point edge.

Kawhi Leonard’s follow shot later narrowed the advantage to three, but Toronto was able to run out the clock. In Auburn Hills, Michigan, Matt Barnes tossed in a desperation 3-pointer from just inside midcourt with 1.1 seconds left to lift the Memphis Grizzlies over the Detroit Pistons 93-92.

Marcus Morris missed a contested shot with 7 seconds left that could have clinched the game for the Pistons, and Andre Drum-mond’s tip bounced off the rim.

The Grizzlies grabbed the ball and fired an outlet pass to Barnes. He let go a running, two-handed shot as he crossed halfcourt that went in, silencing the Palace crowd as players on the Memphis bench celebrated.

Zach Randolph led Memphis with 21 points and 16 rebounds, while Marc Gasol had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

Boston’s Isaiah Thomas scored nine of his 20 points in the final 3 minutes to lead the Celtics past the Chicago Bulls 105-100.(ap)

AP Photo/Tim Ireland

Roger Federer of Switzerland waits for the trophy ceremony after losing to Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their ATP World Tour Finals final tennis match at the O2 Arena in London, Sunday Nov. 22, 2015.

Federer parts ways with Edberg, brings Ljubicic on board

Roger Federer has rejigged his coaching team for next year by parting company with Stefan Edberg and bringing Ivan Ljubicic on board, the 17-times grand slam champion said on Wednesday.

Williams hitting 2016 F1 aero targets says Rob Smedley DeRozan, Raptors snap

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“The surveillance operations are routinely conducted by 14 naval ships to avoid piracy, illegal smuggling, and the theft of marine resources,” Head of the Pontianak Naval Base First Admiral Heru Santoso stated on Wednesday.

The area is one of the busiest

international sea lanes connecting several straits such as Malaka, Sunda, and Karimata.

After tensions recently height-ened over the South China Sea dispute, the Navy has increased the security level status and has improved the capability of its per-

sonnel.Heru added that the capability

of the Navy personnel has been improved to secure Indonesia’s natural resources and maritime territory from illegal fishing and trading, particularly in the waters of Natuna, Arafura, and Northern Sulawesi.

The waters of Natuna Island, located near Western Kalimantan, have millions of tons of marine

resources including cuttlefish, mackerel, and tuna fish.

The 260 thousand square kilo-meter Natuna waters directly border the South China Sea, and tensions have escalated after China laid claim over the area.

Beijing had earlier conducted striking maneuvers for nearly two years, including constructing artifi-cial islands in the waters.

Seve ra l ASEAN member

countr ies , such as the Phil -ippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Singapore have expressed their wrath over Chi-nese actions.

During the Shangrila Dialogue held last April, Indonesia had proposed a peaceful settlement of the border dispute by supporting regional dialog and conducting joint patrolling operations in the area. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia should be able to take full advantage of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) and not stand merely as a spectator, an official said.

“I am afraid that Indonesia would be more like a spectator in the implementation of AEC in 2016,” Deputy Chairman of the People’s Congress (MPR) Hidayat Nur Wahid said on Wednesday.

Hidayat said many foreign prod-ucts, more competitive in price and quality, would flood the domestic market with the implementation of the AEC.

He said foreign workers, who are more competitive in skills, are feared to look for jobs in Indonesia that the country serve only as a good market for other ASEAN countries.

Many Thais already and are

studying Indonesian language ahead of the implementation of AEC, he said.

Earlier, Trade Minister Thomas Lembong expressed optimism that Indonesian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) would survive and gain from the implementation of AEC. “I have visited many ar-eas and seen trade fairs displaying SME products. SMEs have many success stories. They look forward to the implementation of AEC with enthusiasm not worries,” Thomas said after attending “Apindo CEO’s Gathering”.

He said among the initiatives of the government to help boost SMEs is its massive deregulation measure, simplifying licensing procedure, and abolishing conflicting regula-tions.

ASEAN functional coopera-

tion director at the foreign office J.S. George Lantu said Indonesian workers have no cause for concern in facing AEC.

“There are eight sectors open to workers from other ASEAN coun-tries under the AEC scheme. In the negotiations, the Indonesian delega-tion considered the benefit and the strength Indonesia has in the eight sectors,” George said.

He said Indonesia is superior in four areas of the sectors -- availabil-ity of technicians, and paramedics, tourism, and architecture. The other four areas are related to accounting, survey, medical practitioners, and dentists.

Meanwhile, the Creative Econ-omy Board called on Indonesian youths from all parts of the country to make full use opportunities aris-ing from the AEC implementation

“The youths should be quick to grab any opportunity when the AEC is implemented by the end of the year,” a deputy for infrastructure at the Creative Economy Body Hari Santosa Sungkari said at the IPMI

International Business School on Saturday.

Hari Sungkari said free market in regional level would automati-cally expand the market of creative products. (ant)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 photo, a motorist rides on a bridge built on an area

regularly flooded with seawater in Jakarta, Indonesia. With a certain amount of sea rise considered inevitable

as warmer temperatures melt glaciers and expand oceans, cities will have to adapt quickly in order to spare investors

losses and citizens from disasters.

Indonesia monitoring its territory bordering South China Sea

PONTIANAK - Indonesia has deployed at least 14 naval ships to conduct routine surveillance to secure its territory bordering the South China Sea.

Indonesia must not stand as spectators in AEC

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Police Maj. Gen. Paween Pong-sirin told the Australian Broadcast-ing Corporation and the Guardian Australia newspaper that he was too afraid to return to Thailand and planned to seek political asylum in Australia. A photograph showed him standing on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, where he said he had arrived a few days ago.

It was the first sighting of Paween in weeks, following unconfirmed reports in Thai media that he had fled. His Thai mobile phones were switched off and he could not be reached for comment.

Paween headed a high-profile task force created earlier this year after the discovery of 36 bodies and shallow graves in the mountains of southern Thailand in May. The

finding exposed a network of jungle camps run by traffickers, who hu-man rights groups have long said worked in complicity with corrupt Thai officials, a claim authorities in Bangkok had routinely denied.

Thailand vowed a crackdown and put Paween in charge. Dozens of people were arrested, including local politicians in southern Thai-land, government officials, police and a senior army officer.

Paween told The Guardian that he faced pressure not to pursue the perpetrators too enthusiastically. His investigation was disbanded in September after five months, although it was far from finished, he said.

Soon after, he was abruptly trans-ferred to an insurgency-plagued region of southern Thailand de-

spite his protests that he would be targeted by traffickers and senior police involved in the trade. He quit his job and fled, he said. Asked who halted the probe, Paween said: “Influential people involved in hu-man trafficking.”

He did not name anyone, but added: “Human trafficking is a big network that involves lots of the military, politicians and police. While I was supervising the cases I was warned all along.”

Paween’s comments are bound to embarrass Thailand’s military government, which has promised to rid the country of traffickers and corruption.

The U.S. State Department in July said it was keeping Thailand on its human trafficking blacklist, and retained Thailand’s Tier 3 ranking, the lowest level in its an-nual Trafficking in Persons report. The ranking designates Thailand as a country that has not made suf-ficient progress in tackling human trafficking. (ap)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — About 100 colleagues and family members protested outside Co-lombo’s main railway station on Thursday to urge the Sri Lankan government to conduct a new inves-tigation into the fate of two activists who disappeared four years ago.

The activists — Lalith Kumar Weeraraju and Kugan Muruganan-dan — went missing on Dec. 9, 2011, while organizing a news conference to mark Human Rights Day in the country’s former civil war zone in the north.

Colleagues and relatives have accused the military of abducting them. The military has denied the allegation.

Since January, Sri Lanka’s new government has taken steps to investigate some unresolved dis-appearances and killings and has arrested some suspects.

Sri Lanka is facing international criticism for failing to properly investigate alleged abductions, at-tacks and killings of political op-

ponents, activists and journalists during and after the civil war, which ended in 2009.

Ravindra Mudalige, head of the Movement for Equal Rights which organized Thursday’s protest, said investigations under the previous government failed to reveal the fate of the two activists and “therefore, we urge the new government to conduct a fresh probe and reveal what happened to these two and who are responsible for their abduc-tion and as well as hundreds of other abductions.”

Last month, three experts from a United Nations working group on forced disappearances visited Sri Lanka and said they found a secret underground detention center at a navy base where many post-civil war detainees are believed to have been interrogated and tortured.

The experts said there could be other similar centers used to hold people who disappeared and urged the government to investigate. (ap)

BUCHAREST — Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors have detained an aide to a former prime minister and a newspaper director on charges of taking part in a mas-sive real-estate fraud involving a Romanian prince.

Prosecutors detained business-man Remus Truica, the former head

of Cabinet of ex-Premier Adrian Nastase, Thursday on charges of setting up a criminal group in 2006 that fraudulently acquired 170,000 square meters (1.8 million square feet) of state-owned land for Prince Paul, causing damages of 136 mil-lion euros ($150 million).

Prosecutors said Paul then sold

part of the land to Truica. Truica denies wrongdoing. Prosecutors detained Dan Andronic, manag-ing director of daily Evenimentul Zilei, on charges of belonging to the group. Three other people were also detained. Paul, 67, who is to be questioned, denies wrongdo-ing. (ap)

TEHRAN — Iran’s healthy minister says an outbreak of swine flu has killed at least 42 people in the country over the past month.

Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi says 33 of the deaths from the H1N1 virus occurred in southeastern Ker-man province. He says 600 people who contracted the virus there have been hospitalized. He says the out-break is now under control.

He says other fatalities occurred

in southeastern and southwestern Iran and one person died in Karaj, 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the capital, Tehran. Last year, swine flu claimed at least 89 lives in Iran.

The 2009 H1N1 outbreak started a global pandemic that killed as many as half a million people. The strain has been lethal mostly to those with complicating circum-stances and is now considered a seasonal flu. (ap)

AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena

Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil women hold photographs of their fam-ily members who have gone missing, during a protest to mark the international Human Rights Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015.

Sri Lankans urge new probe into fate of

2 missing activists

Iran’s health minister: Swine flu

kills 42 across countryNewspaper boss, aide to ex-PM detained for alleged fraud

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

Senior adviser to the Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen, right, is escorted by Thai correc-tion officers upon arrival at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.

Thai trafficking investigator flees

to AustraliaSYDNEY — Thailand’s highest-ranking police investigator

in charge of human trafficking has fled to Australia, telling Australian media on Thursday that he feared for his life after his findings implicated “influential people” at home who want to silence him.

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WASHINGTON — The United States is bringing a case against China to the World Trade Organization, protesting that taxes on imported aircraft give Chinese manufacturers an unfair advantage.

“China’s discriminatory, unfair tax policy is harmful to American workers and American businesses of all sizes in the critical aviation industry, from parts suppliers to manufacturers of small and medium-sized aircraft,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Tuesday.

The U.S. says that China imposes a 17 per-cent tax on imports of smaller aircraft, including propeller-driven general aviation aircraft, busi-ness jets and some jets that fly regional routes, and that Chinese-made planes are exempt from the tax in violation of WTO rules. Among the Chinese aircraft benefiting is the ARJ21, Chi-na’s first homegrown regional airliner, which is being built by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China.

The Obama administration is requesting consultations with China over the issue at the WTO. That’s the first step in a process that could lead to the WTO assigning a panel to rule on the case.

“China is firmly committed to the WTO rules and regulations,” said Zhu Haiquan, spokesman at the Chinese embassy in Washington. “We hope the trade disputes can be properly dealt with under WTO dispute settlement mecha-nism.”

The news comes as the administration pushes Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an ambitious trade deal involving the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. (ap)

The retreat in the greenback comes just a week before the Fed-eral Reserve’s next policy meeting where it is widely expected to hike interest rates, with some economists suggesting the move has been priced into the US unit.

Crude prices edged up in Asia after the Department of Energy said US inventories fell 3.6 mil-lion barrels in the week ending December 4.

The gains were a small chink of light for oil traders, with the black gold having slumped about nine percent since Friday’s decision by the OPEC oil exporters club not to cut output despite a global over-supply and weakness in the world economy.

That helped currencies reliant on commodities, with the Malay-sian ringgit up 0.3 percent and the Australian dollar almost one

percent up.Indonesia’s rupiah added 0.4

percent and the Singapore dollar added 0.1 percent.

Adding to the Aussie’s strength were better-than-expected jobs figures -- unemployment is now at its lowest since April 2014 -- which eased expectations the Australian central bank will cut interest rates from already record lows.

The New Zealand dollar also rose 0.2 percent on hopes a rate cut by Wellington will be the last for some time.

The US currency edged up against the euro, although the

single currency continues to hold its gains since last week’s European Central Bank stimulus revision that fell well short of expectations.

The euro bought $1.1009 and 133.89 yen from 1.1026 and 133.86 yen New York.

The single currency also got a boost from comments by an ECB governor who said markets were wrong to count on bolder stimu-lus measures from the bank last week, calling their expectations “absurd”.

“The ECB cannot and will not be driven by the markets,” Austrian

central bank head Ewald Nowotny, who is also a member of the ECB governing council, said in Vienna Wednesday.

The dollar bought 121.61 yen from 121.40 yen Wednesday in New York, where it earlier touched 121.10 yen, its lowest level in more than a month.

“Markets will be faced with heightened volatility going into the Fed’s gathering amid risk aver-sion and a lack of fresh news,” Yasuhiro Kaizaki, vice president for global markets at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, told Bloomberg News. (afp)

BEIJING — China’s consumer in-flation rebounded in November after vegetable prices jumped due to unusually frigid winter.

Prices rose 1.5 percent over a year earlier, accelerating from October’s 1.3 percent, data showed Wednesday. That was driven by a 9.4 percent rise in prices of fresh vegetables.

Consumer inflation had been drifting down after hitting 2 percent in August. Relatively low inflation has given Chinese leaders room to cut interest rates six times since last November to stimulate the slow-ing economy.

“Today’s inflation data support our view that domestic price pressures are on the rise,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital

Economics in a report. “Looking ahead, we expect inflation to rise going into 2016.”

Also in November, wholesale prices measured as goods left the factory fell for a 44th straight month, declining by 5.9 percent from a year earlier.

Inflation in non-food consumer prices edged up to 1.1 percent from October’s 0.9 percent. (ap)

Commodity-linked curriences rise in AsiaTOKYO - The dollar eased against most rivals in Asian trade

Thursday, with commodity-linked units enjoying support from a slight uptick in oil prices, while its Australian counterpart surged on the back of a strong jobs report.

US brings WTO case against Chinese tax on aircraft imports

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

Chinese investors nap while monitoring stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015.

China inflation edges higher as food costs rise

BANGLI - Implementation of the regent and deputy regent election of Bangli 2015 on Wednes-day (Dec. 9) in general took place safely and smoothly. Thousands of Bangli residents whose names are registered in the final voter list (DPT) have started to come to polling stations from 07:00 a.m. to use their political rights. They include the regent and deputy regent candidate contesting in the election this time.

Deputy Regent of Bangli with registration num-ber 1 Sang Nyoman Sedana Arta is one of them. Together with his wife Sang Ayu Nyoman Sariasih, the man who is also Chairman of the PDI-P Bangli looked to vote at the polling station 2 of Sulahan at 08:00 a.m. When met after voting, Sedana Arta hoped the regional election process in Bangli can run more safely and peacefully. He hoped the elec-tion can give birth to a Bangli regent and deputy regent that can continue the development of Bangli. “We have accomplished all the efforts and hard works. Now, we leave it entirely to the community of Bangli. People’s vote is the voice of god,” he explained.

Then, the candidate of Bangli regent with regis-tration number 2 Ida Bagus Brahmaputra observed his voting at polling station 2 of Demulih village, Susut. Brahmaputra looked to come to polling station with his wife at 11:00 a.m. When met by Bali Post after the voting, he admitted to be quite proud of seeing the electoral process that takes place favorably.

According to him, it showed that the public awareness of democracy has getting better. He hoped there is no money politics in the regional election this time. “Hopefully, this election can go well and there is no pressure,” he said. Related to voting results later on he claimed to be ready to win and lose.

When asking about his running mate, I Ketut Ridet, who did not participate in the voting, Brah-maputra acknowledged that he still has identity card of Denpasar. Nevertheless, he was confident that the exclusion of Ridet in the voting does not significantly affect the votes obtained. “I’m sure there is an effect when the running mate does not vote. But it will not be much,” he said.

To ensure the security and order situation is well maintained, the Chief of Bangli Police, Benny K Danang, along with the leadership council of Bangli came down in person to monitor a number of poll-ing stations considered vulnerable. Based on the results of monitoring, he said that in general the election of the Bangli region has run safely. There is no crucial matter considered to have disrupted the process stages. However, his institution did find three problems in the field. At Bangli Mental Hospital was found a mistake on the names of prospective voters.

Additionally, the polling station at Petung hamlet 5, Central Batur, Kintamani and polling station 8 at Penaga hamlet, Landih, Bangli were found ballot boxes that cannot be opened with a key so that they were forced by sawing. “Nevertheless, in general the election of Bangli regent runs safely,” he said.

Chairman of the Bangli Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Agung Lidartawan, separately said that the results of monitoring indicated that the vot-ing process in the four subdistricts took place safely and smoothly. He also mentioned that participation of voters in the Bangli election is currently quite high. (kmb40/kmb45)

Actually the voting process at the loca-tion has been problematic from the begin-ning. A number of witnesses from each candidate pair were suspicious because the preparation is not mature. Some pa-tients are suddenly declared to be unable to use their voting rights, though having C6 (voting notification) form. An officer of the KPPS said that the patient must include the A-5 form in order to be able to use their voting rights. A-5 form can be obtained if the patient has exchanged the C6 form to KPPS at the location where the patients are listed as final voter list (DPT). However, the explanation received strong protests from volunteers of Masdipa, Nen-gah Sutiarta. “If patients just checked in last night, how they have time to exchange their C6 form. Does it mean they also lose their right to vote?” asked Sutiarta.

Commissioner of KPU Bali Wirati accompanied by commissioner of KPU Karangasem Putu Deasy Natalia reiterated that pursuant to the rules it cannot be done. Apparently, this problem is increasingly high-

lighted by witnesses and other volunteers. Of the 33 patients having the right to vote in accordance with the data of the KPU, not all patients are carrying the A5 form. Wayan Surati, for instance, a patient dwelling Mawar Room from Muncan, ultimately could not use her right to vote. Likewise, other patients, Gede Raka Kradi from Bale Punduk and Saliyah also lost their right to vote.

This situation was also highlighted by Gusti Putu Artha, a political consultant of Masdipa. Tough not becoming a witness in the vote, he immediately protested the officer of KPPS, commissioner of KPU Bali and KPU Karangasem. In a state of anger, Gusti Putu Artha accused the KPU Karangasem as the election organizer of failing to advocate for voting rights to nu-merous patients at Karangasem Hospital. “Do not let administrative problem elimi-nate the voting rights of people. Without bringing along A5 form, patients must still be able to vote by presenting identity card. If healthy people can only use identity card to vote at polling station, why the sick

cannot?” highlighted Putu Artha.This former commissioner of the

central Electoral Commission conveyed that the election is essentially how the Electoral Commission can facilitate people to use their voting rights. Protested like that, the commissioner of KPU Bali Kade Wirati and KPU Karangasem Putu Deasy Natalia ignored it and continued the casting process. However, after being protested, finally the KPPS officers and commissioner of the KPU allowed the patients to channel their voting rights by using identity card. Due to limited voting time allocated for one hour (12:00-13:00) the KPPS at polling station 1 Susuan car-rying 30 ballots were only utilized nine ballots. The other two KPPS officers at different polling station also organized the voting at Karangasem Hospital but the results have not been known.

On the other hand, Gusti Putu Artha threatened to report the matter to Elec-toral Supervisory Committee (Panwaslih) Karangasem because the voting orga-nizer is considered to have not worked professionally in the field. On the other hand, Putu Deasy Natalia denied it. She only attempted to work according to the mechanism set forth by the KPU. In gen-eral, according to her, there is no problem because the voting process has been going on according to mechanism. (kmb31)

Regent election of Bangli runs safely and smoothly

IBP/Bagiarta

The patients of Karangasem Hospital give their vote during the election

Unorganized, voting process at Karangasem Hospital

AMLAPURA - Voting process at Karangasem Hospital took place less well, Wednesday (Dec. 9). Some patients failed to use their right to vote because the administrative problem. Patients cannot use their voting rights because of having no A-5 (notification of voting move) form. At that time, the winning team of Masdipa protested to voting organizer group (KPPS), commissioner of Electoral Commission (KPU) Karangasem, KPU Bali at the location.

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The shift started with govern-ment critics whose print publica-tions were shut down and who went online instead to express their views. But the powerful royal pal-ace has also gotten in on the game, with a news site of its own attract-ing readers with a ready supply of scoops.

And Moroccan authorities, who prize the country’s reputation as a model for stability in the region, are eyeing ways to better control the sector, which has become an increasingly spirited battleground of ideas.

In Le Desk’s newsroom in Cas-ablanca, a group of journalists huddles around a computer screen, examining the beta version of the site. The modern style of the of-fices, complete with iMacs and white desks, finds expression in the website’s sleek design.

Discussions between journalists

span from infographics to the lat-est gossip in Morocco’s political scene.

It’s a risky time to launch an out-spoken website. In recent months, historian and journalist Maati Monjib was barred from leaving the country and faces charges of “undermining national security” in what rights groups argue is an attempt to undermine freedom of expression. Monjib faces charges along with six other activists and journalists.

“Le Desk stems from an era during which the new press broke taboos,” said journalist Ali Amar. “Between then and now, authorities have battled against independent press.”

Amar’s own background is in-dicative of the shift in the media in Morocco and in several countries touched by the Arab Spring upris-ings, which shook up political struc-

tures and saw a rise of dissenting voices online.

He led publication of the re-spected weekly Le Journal, once the hallmark of critical journalism in Morocco. It published interviews with the leader of the Polisario movement fighting for independence for the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, and reported on the alleged role of then-Prime Minister Abder-rahmane Youssoufi in an attempt to assassinate King Hassan II.

The magazine was shut down in 2010 under the burden of re-peated fines and a state-inspired advertising boycott. A few months later, a new independent publication emerged, the bilingual Lakome, but this one was online and had less overhead, making it less vulnerable to advertising boycotts.

Many ex-staffers of Le Journal were involved, including its co-founder, Aboubakr Jamaï, who ran it together with Ali Anouzla.

“They managed to set a margin of freedom of expression in Mo-rocco that was quite substantial,” explained Bouziane Zaid, assistant professor of communications at Al Akhawayn University. “Lakome led the way.”(ap)

KATHMANDU — Police in Nepal detained about 50 activists protesting outside the Indian Embassy on Thursday to demand an end to a monthslong blockade of supplies from India.

The protesters held banners demanding India halt the border block-ade, calling it a “crime against humanity.” Police said they would be released later in the day.

India has restricted fuel, medicine and other supplies for Nepal since the ethnic Madhesi group in southern Nepal began protesting a new constitution adopted in September.

Members of the ethnic group say the constitution unfairly divides Nepal into seven states with borders that cut through their ancestral homeland.

India has close cultural ties with the group and has asked Nepal to consider its demands for a bigger state, more seats in parliament and greater local authority.

Landlocked Nepal gets most of its fuel from India, as well as many other goods including medicine.

Protesters have blocked a key border point with India, and Nepalese officials say imports through other border points where there are no protests are difficult. India denies it has imposed a blockade. At least 50 people have been killed in the protests since August.(ap)

MOSCOW — More than 1,300 Russians are reading Leo Tol-stoy’s notoriously lengthy novel “War and Peace” aloud in a 60-hour marathon on national television.

The public readings, pre-recorded at locations all over Russia, from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to remote Arctic islands, have been coordinated by Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter and feature Russians from all walks of life, from gas workers to cosmonauts.

By Thursday morning, the readers had made it through two of the four volumes of the novel. The event runs over four days and finishes Friday.

The organizers invited French actress Fanny Ardant to read the numerous French-language passages in the novel, which describes both the Napoleonic wars and French-speaking high society in imperial St. Petersburg. The readings are being webcast live and broadcast on national TV and radio. (ap)

AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar

This Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 photo shows the Le Desk website newsroom in Casablanca, Mo-rocco. The newest entry to Morocco’s media scene has already reported on a disgraced former foreign minister and a scandal about blackmailing the king.

Moroccan government and critics vie for online audiences

CASABLANCA — The newest entrant to Morocco’s media scene has already reported on a disgraced former foreign min-ister and a scandal about blackmailing the king. The investiga-tive website Le Desk is the latest example of the accelerating migration of Moroccan journalism away from heavily restricted print and broadcast outlets toward the less-regulated online media scene.

Nepal police break up anti-India protest over blockade

AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha

Nepalese people form a human chain displaying placard which read “Transit is our right, Lets protest Indian block-ade” , “Lets maintain national unity and social harmony” during a protest against blockade in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Russians read Tolstoy’s War and Peace in 60-hour TV marathon

BANGLI - When entering rainy season, bamboo handicraft entre-preneurs producing sokasi (oblation basket) at Kayang hamlet, Kayubihi began to be frustrated. It happens because their bamboos are moldy so that the quality of products is declining. In addition, the drying of paint is also more difficult.

An artisan, I Nyoman Sudarpa, said on Wednesday (Dec. 9) that his business is quite developing these days. The sales are still fairly

promising and do not only penetrate the market in Bangli. However, it has penetrated outside the region such as the Ubud and Kuta tourism. In addition, some products have been exported. Nevertheless, in fact when rainy season arrives, his busi-ness is hampered. Bamboo as the main raw material mildews causing a decrease in quality. “After raining for a while, the impact is visible. All the bamboo materials mildew so that the quality decreases. It is

easily broken when being woven,” he said.

Further, he also added that he uses Balinese bamboo as the mate-rial. Indeed it is quickly brittle when exposed to water. But when dry season arrives, it is good material for plaiting works. In addition, his business aggravates because the price of bamboo increases sharply as well.

A bamboo log of nine meters long is usually purchased at IDR

30,000. Currently, the price has increased to IDR 40,000. Such price increase is not responded with the increase in product prices. As a result, his turnover also declines. “The price of bamboo is also ex-pensive so that our turnover finally declines,” he explained.

Sudarpa added that rainy season also causes the paint to dry longer. In dry season, the paint can be dried within two days, while now it takes five days. As consequence, he is

threatened to be unable to meet the market demand. “Drying process of the paint is very much disturbed. It cannot be dried within two days,” he admitted.

He added that he cannot do much to address this rainy season. Drying process of his products is still carried out with the help of the sunlight. “Since I have no drying machine, I must rely on the sunlight even though I just can dry it for an hour,” said Sudarpa. (kmb45)

Chief Executive of the Karangasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ida Bagus Ketut Arimbawa, said that his agency continues to receive the reports of residents experiencing a water crisis. The BPBD Karangasem immediately responded by sending clean water. To residents at Taman Seraya hamlet, for instance, the BPBD distributed 10,000 liters of clean water to be placed into two reservoirs, each containing 5,000 liters. Both reservoirs are taken advantage by 180 families for their daily needs.

Distribution of the clean water is also

directly carried to Jumenang hamlet, Bukit. In this region, the BPBD distributes 12,000 liters of clean water placed into three res-ervoirs. Each contains 4,000 liters. A total of 25 families are facing clean water crisis at this hamlet. They are already distraught to meet their daily water needs. Besides, the clean water is also distributed to Pura Kenusut, Penataran Lempuyang Luhur.

In Kubu subdistrict, the clean water is distributed to Baturinggit village. At least, the BPBD distributed 10,000 liters of clean water to be placed into two reservoirs of resident. Each reservoir contains 5,000

liters. Both reservoirs are used by 38 fami-lies. Baturinggit area regularly gets clean water from the beginning because there have been no water sources that can be utilized since two months ago. Heavy rain in almost all the regions in Karangasem last week was not enjoyed by the residents of Baturinggit and Kubu subdistrict in general. As a result, a number of villages in Kubu subdistrict still depend on the water distributed by the BPBD.

“As long as there are reports to us, we at the BPBD of the district and province will always be ready to help. The most frequently we deliver clean water to Kubu subdistrict,” said Arimbawa. He empha-sized that as long as the local people still face clean water shortages, his agency is ready to distribute clean water. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - Ahead of the peak of rainy season in December, Sanglah Hospital antici-pates the occurrence of flood reflecting from the previous rainy season by repairing drains, hallways and cleaning up waste that clog sew-ers or trench within the Sanglah Hospital and in the surrounding areas.

Director of General Affairs and Operations of the Sanglah Hospital, I Gusti Lanang Suar-tana Putra, said that his institution through the Building Facility Repair (IPSGS) undertakes infrastructure repair with the budget of IDR 200 million. Anticipation against the rainy season ended on November 1. “Learning from the experience in previous years, we often get water overflow from the surrounding areas or from high rainfall,” he said.

The repair carried out is to improve the hallway of the hospital. “Hallway leaks as its roof tile is damaged especially the one con-necting the Anggrek to Pudak Room and along the hallway of Lely,” he said. Besides, all the gutters are also repaired and cleaned up so that the water flow will run smoothly. “Based on ex-perience of previous year, the drain is clogged because of waste and now we have cleaned it up,” he added. Drains at the front yard and outside the hospital are also repaired.

For example, the drains at all the hospital roundabouts are deepened and widened. Similarly, stagnant water at hospital has been drained out of the hospital area. “The main problem is the surface water overflow from highway as the location of Sanglah Hospital is lower. However, by repairing and cleaning up the gutters, the entire water coming into the hospital area will go into the ditch and flows out of the hospital area,” he said.

Frequent floods hitting Sanglah Hospital are caused by somewhat lower location than the surrounding area such as the highway so that it makes rainwater come into hospital area. Central point of flood lies in the trenches in front of Sanglah Hospital. As being clogged by garbage the water overflows and spills onto the street, not to mention Sanglah Hospital is located lower than highway.

In essence, the Sanglah Hospital this time is better prepared than previous years. “We are more alert to the cause of stagnant water,” he concluded. (kmb42)

To anticipate flood, Sanglah Hospital repairs drain and hallway

Entering rainy season, bamboo craft business disrupted

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The dry filed is making it difficult for farmer to cultivate their land

Other areas flushed by rain, Karangasem still in water crisis

AMLAPURA - One-day rain in Karangasem seems to have no impact on some areas in Karangasem. As evidence, residents continue to face water cri-sis. As experienced by residents of Seraya village, Baturinggit and Bukit, they are still screaming for water just for drinking and meeting daily needs.

14 InternationalFashionFriday, December 11, 2015 3International Bali News Friday, December 11, 2015

PARIS — Fashion power-house Louis Vuitton is show-casing its 160 years of know-how in Paris with a new exhibit that explores the history of the famed monogram bags.

The show, “Volez, Voguez, Voy-agez” opens Thursday in Grand Palais — a place steeped in history for the house since Vuitton first pre-sented its trunks here in 1900 during Paris’ Universal Exhibition.

The exhibit includes 180 pieces spread across nine rooms from the Vuitton archives, including eccen-tric trunks, age-old beauty cases, leather goods and paintings.

And via video installations, it traces Louis Vuitton’s great jour-ney from 1854 till today, through depictions of the maison’s found-ing members, colorful clients and those who still shape the brand today. (ap)

LONDON - A small Span-ish fashion label has been swamped with demand for Princess Charlotte’s floral dress, its owner told AFP on Friday, after the British royal baby was pictured wearing one of its frocks.

Charlotte, the second child of Prince William and his wife Kate turned six months old on November 2 and Kensington Palace has issued fresh photo-graphs of the youngster, taken in early November, to mark the occasion.

The pictures, released on Sunday, show the princess, who is fourth in line to the throne, sitting in a chair and playing with a teddy bear.

The pictures were taken by her mother Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge.

“We don’t know how she got the dress,” said Margarita Pato Cid, the owner of M&H, a family boutique brand which has been running for six years and has five outlets in Spain.

“We found out that Princess Charlotte was wearing it at

the same time as the public, through the photos.

“We think it’s possible, but we’re not sure, that it’s thanks to the nanny of Wil-liam and Kate’s children,” she said, referring to Maria Teresa Turrion, who is Spanish and looks after Charlotte and her two-year-old brother Prince George.

The princess has previously been seen dressed in Spanish label clothes.

The dress, which costs 29.95 euros ($32.50), sold out in quick time after the Charlotte pictures were published.

The brand, which is not sold online, now has a lengthy waiting list for the dress, mainly from British and US customers, its owner said.

“We intend to fulfil every possible request. We have some dresses in the making but we don’t have enough material to meet all the demands,” she said, without revealing the volume of requests.

“It is a great honour for us,” she added. (afp)

Duchess of Cambridge via AP

Hot demand for dress

worn by baby Princess Charlotte

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

Trunks, bags and clothes are displayed during the Louis Vuitton’s exhibition “Fly, Sail, Travel” at the Grand Palais, in Paris.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

Trunks are displayed at the Louis Vuitton’s exhibition “Fly, Sail, Travel” at the Grand Palais, in Paris.

Visitors look a trunk bed (1930) displayed at the Louis Vuit-ton’s exhibition “Fly, Sail, Travel” at the Grand Palais, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Louis

Vuitton exhibit in Paris

explores house’s history

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

According to Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi, the elections happening just a day before the Bali forum would help demonstrate how Indonesia’s democracy has become a robust system.

“This showed the delegates how democracy works in Indonesia. We have carried out direct elections, not only at the national level for electing a president and legislators

but also at the regional level for choosing regional heads,” Minister Retno said.

A total of 83 countries and three international organizations will be taking part in the annual Asia-Pacific forum. Of the participating countries, three states --- the Philip-pines, Singapore, and Timor Leste --- will send their ministers, while 16 others will be represented by

their deputy ministers.Although it is not being inaugu-

rated by President Joko Widodo, the interest among Asia-Pacific countries to take part in the fo-rum is still high. The democracy forum, which began in 2008, has become a strategic agenda in the region.

The annual meeting will be themed, “Democracy and Effective Public Governance,” the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted in a press release published on its official website on Tuesday.

The ministry said the theme was relevant to the current develop-ments, not only at the national but also at the global level. Democracy is inseparable from public gover-

nance to promote public welfare.Democracy and effective public

governance will boost compre-hensive and holistic development through approaches which give pri-ority to transparency, accountability, participation and law enforcement, according to the ministry.

A government, which heeds the needs of the people and meets their aspirations, reflects the fulfillment of the public’s rights, particularly in boosting economic growth, poverty alleviation and sustainable develop-ment, it said.

The BDF this time will hold a public debate and three panel dis-cussions focusing on the themes, “Building Democracy and Effective Public Governance, Challenges to

Democracy and Effective Public Governance, and Choices and Pros-pects of Democracy and Effective Public Governance.”

On the sidelines of the forum, the event’s implementing arm, the Institute for Peace and Democ-racy (IPD), will organize the Bali Civil Society Forum 2015 and Bali Media Forum 2015 on December 8-9, 2015, in association with its partners and the National Press Council.

At the end of the meeting, the forum is expected to issue a Chair’s Statement, which will identify important findings from various debates and concrete programs related to democracy and effective public governance. (ant)

DENPASAR - Determination of the elected candidate pairs in the simultaneous regional election in Bali will probably not be done simultaneously. It will depend on the situation in each district / mu-nicipality of the regional election participants, particularly whether there are candidate pairs filing a lawsuit related to the results of the election or not.

“It varies according to the situ-ation because there is a determina-tion without dispute in the Consti-

tutional Court and determination with a dispute of results in Con-stitutional Court. So far, we do not dare to make sure. Hopefully, there is no dispute. Otherwise, the dispute must be resolved first in the Constitutional Court, just after that the determination will be made,” said Chairman of the Bali Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Kade Wiarsa Raka Sandi, when confirmed on Wednesday (Dec. 9).

Raka Sandi added that so far his

commission has not made any spe-cial preparation if there is a dispute in the simultaneous regional elec-tion in Bali. However, he encour-aged the process of voting and vote counting to run well with the escort of all the parties. He gave emphasis on the role of witnesses to oversee the process until the results of the recapitulation at the subdistrict and district level.

“We constantly respect because filing dispute is the right of the candidate pairs. For the Electoral

Commission, the most important is implementing the stages in ac-cordance with the rules. Having been implemented properly, the data itself will be ready for all,” he explained.

In accordance with the Regu-lation of the Electoral Com-mission No.2/2015, if the re-capi tula t ion of votes a t the district / municipality level has completed, the determination of recapitulation and submission to the provincial Electoral Com-

mission is scheduled on Decem-ber 16-18, 2015. Should there be a lawsuit from the candidate pairs, it can be done within 3 x 24 hours after the determination of the results.

Determination of the elected candidate pairs without dispute of the results of the election is sched-uled on December 21-22. If there is dispute, the determination is made after the decision of the Constitu-tional Court on February 12 - March 13, 2016. (kmb32)

Local elections helped showcase democracy

NUSA DUA - The simultaneous regional head elections on the eve of the Bali Democracy Forum successfully showcased to the delegates the robust functioning of democracy in Indone-sia, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said. The Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali will host the 8th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) over two days, Thursday and Friday. The coun-try organized simultaneous regional heads’ elections (Pilkada) across the nation on Wednesday.

IBP/Bagiarta

Determination of the elected candidate pairs in the simultaneous regional election in Bali will probably not be done simultaneously.

Elected candidate pairs not determined simultaneously

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Friday, December 11, 2015Friday, December 11, 2015

EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always hap-pens 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 ar-ranged, 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

COVER STORYBangli is not the only regency

that is gearing up for the AEC. The government of Buleleng’s Manpower Agency for example has been certifying local workers, in cooperation with with the National Professional Certification Board (BNSP) as a way to compete with laborers from outside other AEC nations. Starting on December 31, 2015 certification will become mandatory as refered to in Act No.13/2013 regarding the manpow-er. Certification will allow workers to obtain requisite licenses in order to compete within the AEC.

The Buleleng Manpower Agency is giving priority to the field of tour-ism in terms of issuing licenses and has already certified hotels in East Buleleng so that they can obtain required licenses.

So far the BNSP has certified 1,500 or 60 percent of Buleleng’s workers and hope to have all of them certified by mid-2016. “Most tourism workers in eastern Buleleng have been certified, we will now be focused on those in the west,” said the Head of the Buleleng Manpower Agency, Ni Made Priyanti Putri Koriawan.

Koriawan said that all workers are obliged to be certified in order to comply with the requirements of the AEC. “Even gardners need to be certified. It is set forth by the law and we have already determined the assessors. We have given priority to the tourism industry because it will

be most affected by the AEC, but other fields will soon follow.”

She explained that once workers in the tourism sectos has been ac-complished, then the government will target workers in others sectors for certification, including small and medium enterprises (MSEs), banking, cooperatives, village credit institutions (LPD), and other sectors.

In anticipation of the invasion of foreign workers from the ASEAN countries, the local governments have been improving the qualifica-tions of those entering the work-force, specifically for vocational school students who have been following special training and also for young people in general who have been encouraged to to learn foreign languages more intensely. Meanwhile foreign workers from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand have been preparing themselves for the AEC by learning Bahasa Indonesia and getting ready to be paid less.

“The companies may no longer hire uncertified foreign workers because it has been regulated that certificates are required. We are continuing to supervise the situa-tion in Buleleng, including foreign workers,” said Putri Koriawan. (sos/dgk)

From page 1Certification ...

Samgar won the 5 km race with a time of 17:42. Bambang, part of IndoRunners Bali Team, was a close second at 18:09 and Ridwan finished third with 18:11.

Ni Kadek Ayu Sukarniti was the first female with a time of 21:17, second was Colette at 21:30 and third was Nofi Antariani with 24:06.

The Bethels won the Family Category, while Elle from In-doRunners Bali won the Best Costume category.

Hard Rock Hotel Bali General Manager, Shane Coates, said ”In the last fifteen years, Hard Rock Hotel Bali’s Rock ‘Run has raised over hundreds of millions Rupiah to help great local causes. Bali Pink Ribbon foundation behind the wonderful ef-forts of Gaye Warren and dedicated team of volunteers continue to help provide support to woman of Bali who suffer from breast cancer as well as provide awareness and equipment to help with early detection. All runners have contributed by participating in raising a record figure, which is fantastic.” Shane added “The Committee and sponsors who make this event happen every year also deserve a special mention for giving their time so willingly and joyfully. The Rock ‘n Run would simply not be possible without their hard work and commitment.”

IBP/Courtesy of Hard Rock Hotel

Rock ‘N Run The 15th Chapter: Another record breaking charity run made

KUTA – Hard rock Hotel Bali – The leading en-tertainment Hotel in Bali – rock ‘N run is an annual charity event organized by Hard rock Hotel Bali and in-line with the Hard rock mantra: “Take Time To Be Kind”. This year in partnership with Bali Pink ribbon, Hard rock Hotel Bali raised IDr 180,000,000 to sup-port women with breast cancer and also to spread the awareness of Breast Cancer in Bali. A record breaking and a first time sold out event, more than 1300 runners participated in this charity run and another 700 people made donations of support.

IBP/Courtesy of Hard Rock Hotel

The Karangasem Manpower and Transmigration Agency, Gusti Nyoman Arya Sulang, that in accordance with the agreement of ten countries starting on De-cember 31, 2015, the workforce in Bali, especially Karangasem, must be completely ready to face competition. He acknowledged quite anxious for this. However, the government is also ready with a variety of efforts.

Among them, the government of Karangasem District, he said, has made cooperation with the

National Professional Certification Board (BNSP). “With the BNSP, we declare ‘Competent Karan-gasem’. With this declaration, we prepare our workforce with profes-sional certification,” he said. In the MoU between the BNSP and the government of Karangasem signed by Chief of the BNSP, Sumarna F. Abdurahman and acting Regent of Karangasem Gusti Ngurah Arda all the workers in the field of tourism sector should be certified.

Currently the certification is attempted to be given to labor in

tourism field because Bali will face tough competition in this field. When asked about how professional certification can be obtained by workforce in Bali, he said that it will be issued af-ter passing through a series of test processes. Temporarily this process will be conducted free of charge by a Professional Certifica-tion Agency (LSP) in Denpasar. At this time, the process is said to have run. Qualified or not for the labor to get professional cer-tification highly depends on the LSP test results provided by the assessor team.

Arya Sulang added that the is-suance of professional certification is welcomed by tourism players in Bali. Many businesses in tour-ism field in Bali, he said, have

to undergo this process to obtain professional certification. So, what about other professions? Arya said that other profession will also fol-low a similar process. However, the profession supporting tourism in Bali is given priority.

Acting Regent of Karangasem, Ida Bagus Ngurah Arda, welcomed the declaration of the Competent Karangasem. He encouraged so that the labor of Karangasem will not lose competition in their own home when competing against foreign workers that will invade Bali.

On the other hand, the Man-power and Transmigration Agen-cy is accelerating the process of data collection on foreign workers in Karangasem. This November the agency is attempt-

ing to maximize the data collec-tion. As targeted, it will get more valid data of foreign workers in Karangasem early December. He is confident that based on the cur-rent data many employers using foreign workers do not comply with the rules. Based on the data owned by the agency, there were only 45 foreign workers having the permit of Hiring Foreign Workers (IMTA) because the data were only based on compulsory reporting of foreign workers, without seeing the real conditions in the field.

Based on the data collection, the presence of foreign workers can be followed up whether the manpower plan (RPTK) has been appropriate and complied with other regulations. (kmb31)

THE ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) start-

ing this December is being taken into serious consid-eration by the government

of Bangli.

Karangasem anxious to face AECAHEAD of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) imple-

mentation, Karangasem begins anxious to face labor competition, particularly in the field of tourism. It is inseparable from the readiness of workforce in Karangasem that must compete against foreign workers coming to Bali. Moreover, Bali will become the main target of the foreign workers in the tourism field.

IBP/Swasrina

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PARIS - Singer Madonna made an emotional appeal following attacks in Paris a month ago that killed 130, shouting “We will not bend down to fear!” during a concert in the French capital on Wednesday.

“I think of what happened almost four weeks ago now,” the visibly emotional artist said. “The heart of Paris and the heart of France beats in the heart of each city.”

She continued: “We are one heart and our heart can beat as one... The power of love is greater than the love of power.

“I came here when I was 20 and it was here, in Paris, that I decided to make music. Thank you Paris for planting that seed in my heart!”

Swathed in a French flag, she sang the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, bringing the concert-goers to their feet.

The star then moved to Place de la Republique, which has become an unofficial hub for mourners of the November 13 attacks, and sang a series of songs to a small crowd.

“It was inspiring, it was raw, it

was real,” said Pete Hall, a 45-year-old tourist from London who had just left Madonna’s concert at Bercy when he saw on social media she was at the square in central Paris.

“She was paying her respects to Paris,” he said.

Wearing a down jacket with a fur hood over her head and accom-panied by her guitarist Monte Pitt-man, Madonna sang her hits “Like a Prayer” and “Ghosttown”, as well as John Lennon’s “Imagine”, ac-cording to those who attended the impromptu concert.

“She wanted to pay tribute, she loves this city,” Pittman told AFP. “It is magical. I will never forget this.”

The November 13 attacks in Paris, which were carried out by the Islamic State group and were the deadliest ever in France, killed 130 people and left 350 others wounded.

Days after the bloodshed, Ma-donna paid a tearful tribute to the victims on stage by singing the clas-sic French song “La vie en rose,” accompanied only by a guitar, dur-ing a concert in Stockholm. (afp)

The social media site said Wednesday that Sheeran, best known for his ballad “Think-ing Out Loud,” generated more chatter than any other entertainer among Facebook’s 1.5 billion users, edging out pop superstar Taylor Swift.

Following them were Kanye West, the omnipresent rapper who has declared his aspirations to run

for president, and then, in a sign of Facebook’s Spanish-language presence, the reggaeton artist Nicky Jam.

The fifth most-talked about artist on Facebook was the rapper Wiz Khalifa.

He topped a separate list from YouTube, which ranked his “See You Again” as the top music video of the year.

“See You Again,” a ballad which features singer Charlie Puth and appears in the action film “Furi-ous 7,” became the second fastest video ever to hit one billion views, YouTube said.

Also high on the year-end list was British singer Adele’s song “Hello,” the first track on her block-buster album “25,” even though it came out less than six weeks ago.

“Hello” was the fastest video to reach 100 million views. It had more than 650 million views by Wednesday. (afp)

‘We will not bend to fear,’ Madonna says of Paris attacks

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon

Madonna per-forms on stage,

as part of her Rebel Heart Tour, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Paris.

Winslow Townson/Invision/AP, File

Ed Sheeran the year’s star on Facebook

NEW YORK - British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was the most talked about entertainer this year, at least in the world of Facebook.

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Barcelona draws 1-1 with Leverkusen in Champions League

The BDF, initiated by Indonesia in 2008, is an annual, inclu-sive, and open intergovernmental forum on the development of democracy in the Asia-Pacific region.

The forum is aimed to promote and foster regional and inter-national cooperation in the field of peace and democracy through dialog based on sharing experiences and best practices that adhere to the principles of equality and mutual respect and understanding, with the participating countries sharing the ownership.

On the occasion, Vice President Kalla remarked that Indonesia implemented the first ever simultaneous regional head elections that ran smoothly, orderly, and peacefully on December 9, 2015.

The vice president also reminded that the World Bank had recently released the data on poverty and economic inequality in the world, including in Indonesia.

In addition, Kalla emphasized that acts of terrorism and radical-ism were reported almost daily, and therefore, it is paramount for democracy to overcome it.

“Democracy can overcome issues, such as poverty, inequality, and terrorism as well as the problem of poor governance in an effective manner,” he added. (ant)

T H E A S E A N E c o n o m i c

C o m m u n i t y (AEC) starting

this December is being taken into serious consideration by the gov-ernment of Bangli. Exhibitions of products made by small and me-dium industries (SMI) and by small and medium enterprises (SMSE) are being intensified as seen at a recent exhibition held at the Geopark Art Market in Kintamani. A number of

different products were introduced to both locals as well as foreign travellers.

Head of the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, said that the AEC does not only involve the labor sector but also the specific goods produced. Bangli has a lot of potential to create competi-tive products, but local people need to be well prepared so that they can compete against products from other regions.

“The MSME exhibition show-

cased the products of 34 craftsmen who are coalesced into the Ban-gli Association of Small Industries (PIK) as well as the products of young entrepreneurs who have been given guidance by the government of Bangli and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2014,”explained Sudibia.

He added that the main prob-lem that SMEs have been facing is related to marketing and so the exhibition a the Geopark and others like it serve as a way to promote

these products to the general public. “Some entrepreneurs have been promoting their products through websites and with the addition of this exhibition there should be maximal results,” he said.

The Acting Regent of Bangli, I Dewa Gede Mahendra Putra, said that this product exhibition, that coincides with the Grand Opening of the Geopark art market, is a great moment to welcome the AEC and will additionally have a positive impact on tourism.

Sudibia affirmed that: “facing the AEC is not an easy thing to do and that all relevant agencies, ranging from the central govern-ment and regional governments to tourism businesses and community leaders all the way to individual members of the community, need to be involved in creating a common understanding of the challenges being faced.”

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AEC, should not be underestimated

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The opening of Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) that held on Thursday in Nusa Dua, Bali Island.

Political democracy should be in line with public welfare

NUSA DUA - Political democracy must be in line with the objectives to be achieved for the welfare of the com-munity as a whole, Vice President Jusuf Kalla stated in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Thursday. “For all of us, democracy is not a goal but a means to improve the welfare of the people,” Kalla remarked while opening the 8th Bali De-mocracy Forum (BDF) in Nusa Dua.