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NEW YORK — Justin Bieber will mark a comeback on the road with a 58-city tour in 2016.

The pop star announced his “Purpose World Tour” on Wednesday, which kicks off on March 9, 2016, in Seattle, Washington, and wraps in New York City at Madison Square Garden on July 18, 2016.

Tickets go on sale Friday, when Bieber will release his new album, “Purpose.” Two songs from his album, “What Do You Mean” and “Sorry,” are currently in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.

Bieber’s tour also will stop in Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Mi-ami, Toronto and Montreal.

On Friday, the 21-year-old will play a concert dubbed “An Evening with Justin Bieber” at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tickets cost $18. (ap)

The rap duo will debut a new song. Coldplay will sing the first single from their new album. And Stefani will perform her current single, “Used to Love You.”

Previously announced performers in-clude One Direction, Carrie Underwood,

Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, 5 Seconds of Summer, Luke Bryan, Meghan Trainor, Demi Lovato and Walk the Moon. Jennifer Lopez will host the fan-voted show, which will air live on ABC. Taylor Swift is the leader with six nominations. (ap)

NEW YORK — Kate Hudson is the latest actress with advice to share on health and wellness. Dey Street Books announced Tuesday that it is publishing Hudson’s “Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body,” set for release in February.

According to Dey Street, an im-print of William Morrow, the Oscar-nominated actress will offer “inspi-ration and motivation” for women on “fitness, nutrition and a mindful lifestyle.”

Cameron Diaz, Lea Michele and Jessica Alba are among the other ac-tresses who have recently published lifestyle books.

Hudson, 36, is best known for the film “Almost Famous.” She currently co-stars with Bill Murray in “Rock the Kasbah.” In 2013, she co-founded Fabletics, a line of athletic wear. (ap)

Coldplay, Gwen Stefani to perform at American Music Awards

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NEW YORK — Coldplay and Gwen Stefani have been added to the list of performers for the 2015 American Music Awards. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will also hit the stage at the Nov. 22 show at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Justin Bieber announces 58-city ‘Purpose World Tour’

Kate Hudson lifestyle advice book coming out in February

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BALI is home to many sacred places, which is why it is often referred to as the Island of the Gods. Balinese people need to preserve these places and not sac rice the sanctity of a location for the benefit of capital investors

looking to turn a profit, Benoa is irrefutably a sacred place according to Balinese Hindus

and as such needs to be preserved.“We should maintain the sanctity of all the different

sacred places in Bali. High mountain areas have special sacred significance, and coastal areas are used for puri-fication rites, while the places in between are used for residences,” said Ida Bhagawan Ratu Manik.

According to Ida Bhagawan, when a sacred area used for improper or unsuitable activities there is an energetic impact. So if for example the sacred area of Benoa Bay is to be reclaimed for tourism, not only will this degrade the sanctity of the location but this mega project will also sap many of Bali’s resources. “Most importantly, will Bali be able to provide for the needs in the area? For example PDAM (Municipal Water Works) already has trouble supplying enough water for the City of Denpasar and the rest of Badung, especially during the dry season. So we need to question whether there is enough water to sustain this project,” he explained.

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Turnbull met Indonesian Presi-dent Joko Widodo in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, as part of an effort to restore diplomatic and economic relations, which reached a historic low under the previous Australian prime minister.

“The closer we are, the higher the intensity in our relationship, and the higher also the potential for frictions,” Widodo said at the presidential palace at the beginning

of their meeting.Turnbull, who replaced Tony

Abbott as prime minister in Sep-tember, inherited ties strained by rows over spying, the execution of Australian citizens in Indonesia and a tough Australian asylum-seeker policies.

“With our great meeting, we have really strong momentum to work in making our two great na-tions, greater still,” Turnbull told

reporters as the two leaders toured Indonesia’s biggest retail market, in central Jakarta.

He said Australia would sup-port any effort by Indonesia to join the TPP, which will set com-mon standards on issues ranging from workers’ rights to intel-lectual property protection in 12 Pacific nations.

“If Indonesia chooses to apply to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, we would support the application, absolutely,” Turnbull said.

Widodo said last month during a visit to Washington he intended to join the TPP. But government

officials in Jakarta said it could take years for Indonesia to be ready.

Turnbull and Widodo also dis-cussed improving cooperation o fighting terrorism and education.

The two countries cooperate closely on counter-terrorism, an area of growing concern as Islamic State militants seek footholds out-side the Middle East, where Austra-lia is bombing the group as part of a U.S.-led military campaign.

Indonesia is Australia’s 10th largest overall trading partner and is the largest export market for Australian wheat worth A$1.3 bil-lion ($917 million) in 2014, as well

as a major destination for live cattle and sugar.

Australia will send its largest business delegation to Indonesia next week, with more than 300 companies expected to be repre-sented. (rtr)

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L) and Indonesian President Joko Widodo visit a market in central Jakarta, Indonesia November 12, 2015.

Australia PM says Indonesia welcome in TPP as frictions ease

JAKARTA - Australia would welcome Indonesia into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, as the two countries set aside past friction to focus on building closer economic ties.

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beauti-fully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Chairman of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, said the development of Benoa Bay reclamation would be definitely beneficial for several officials in Bali Province, not the public. Villages at Benoa Bay would be isolated by the presence of tourist destinations in the version of inves-tors because the tourist destination development was impossible to be coupled with the daily life of local community all at once.

“The tourist destinations will only get in touch with tourist management services, so the ac-cess control of tourism will isolate the locals. If the investors are said to bring in job opportunities, it is only a slogan that is not proved to have a positive impact on the com-munity, especially at the location of Benoa Bay,” said Sudjana.

He said the parameter of job opportunities defined by the Bali government was too narrow, where the investors were expressed as

the carriers of growth and em-ployment providers. Meanwhile, the government was remarkably ignoring that livelihood as farm-ers and fishermen at Benoa Bay was also job opportunity. Even, they were more independent than they should devote themselves as laborers on investors.

“The development of tourism facilities and industry is a kind of exclusive industry that will surely close all the access having no in-terest in the tourist services. Then, it can be ascertained if the entire customary villages in the Benoa Bay area will be isolated, as well as establishes a new enclave and becomes strangers in their own re-spective region. Economic impact could not be ascertained to drip to Balinese people because the busi-ness drive controlled by outside investors would not likely to share beyond business rules. No investor would dare to fight for the liveli-hood of poor people,” he said.

According to him, armed with the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014,

the local investors would invite foreign investors to invest in the development of Benoa Bay tourist destination, so the investors got fresh capital to build facilities in the tourist destination. Local investors could also use foreign investors as a weapon to suppress Balinese people because the inconvenience to foreign investors would be linked to the future of international tourism. Investors with limited capital could share risk and foreign investors were used as a weapon in facing the people of Bali.

“Meanwhile, Bali government will allow the process of search-ing for funds to foreign investors because it would get a share from the transaction process. Thus, the collaboration will benefit the in-vestors, having prosperous impact on the livelihoods of the officials because the investors can control the state land at a low price, rather than purchasing ready-to-use land from the people. People who have performed rituals for the peace of Balinese people do not get any share,” he said.

He argued if the reclama-tion process was still ongoing, it proved that it was impossible to be carried out without the knowledge of Bali government. On that ac-

count, the lawsuits and escort to the reclamation process should be directed at the local government. Besides, if there were facts indi-cating the four hamlets at Tanjung Benoa village already agreed to reject the reclamation, presum-ably the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) of Bali should no longer need to invite a hearing for the socialization of the reclamation feasibility by the four universities other than Udayana University because the study was not relevant.

“The provincial government should acknowledge that not every corner of Bali’s land can be sold to make money and used as a source of income because money is not everything for the people of Bali,” he said.

He mentioned that it was not the right time to work on the Benoa Bay mega project because the current condition the people did not have adequate resources, so the reclamation of Benoa Bay would only result in a new class of people, local community would be marginalized because it was impossible to combine the management of tourism industry with daily life of the surrounding communities. (kmb27)

Ida Bhagawan also said that he worries about the power that large companies have over the fate of common people, because of their purchasing power. Large companies can perhaps afford to buy water but these water will certainly not be used for the welfare of the people. Whatsmore, given the fact that the hotel market is already satu-rated, we should also be questioning what the Benao Bay reclamation plan investors have in mind.

“So, what are they looking for? Another hotel -especially a mega scale project like this one, will certainly have negative im-pacts on existing hotels. Also in terms of our Balinese religious beliefs, we have to take care of Mother Nature. This land is like our mother, who has given us milk so that we can live, so we must not torture her who get more stuff,” he explained.

Ida Bhagawan went on to say that when investors come to Bali we must not forget our motherland. In any country, if people do not show they appreciation for Mother Naure, they is sure to be destruction.

In Bali in particular, we can see that many building projects are destroying places that have always been considered sacred by the people of Bali.

“So, we must rethink things. Decisions that concern the land of Bali cannot be made by one or two people, even if they of-ficially represent Bali. Such matters should be decided by referendum. In other words, all Balinese people should be responsible for which decisions are made about the fate of our island,” he said.

Rsi Hari Anom Palguna added that the people of Bali will have a hard time ac-cepting if 60 sacred sites in Benoa Bay are backfilled for the interest of a few real estate investors. As Palguna said, Bali is not admired for its modern building develop-ments but rather for its traditional ways of life, for the way the Balinese people still respond and intact with their natural sur-roundings.

“Let Bali be Bali. I am not opposed to ‘advancements,’ but we need to look at cultural norms held by Balinese people, especially in terms of their customs and traditional world view,” he said.

Palguna admitted to being actively in-volved in praying activities related to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan both in terms of the projects plans at sea and on land. There is only one prayer uttered, he said and that is: appealing to the gods to provide the Hindus of Bali with the best solutions. “Personally, I do not dare to oppose the government. But I do not want Bali to be torn apart just because one area is used for an exceptional idea, exceptional in the sense that it is not appropriate. Therefor I always say prayers asking that Bali be sparred of improper things according to Gods’ intention,” he said. (kmb32)

Reclamation of Benoa Bay kindles new poverty pockets

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Reclamation plan of Benoa Bay continues to reap criticism from various elements of Balinese society. People con-sider the policy will not only bring in socio-economic impacts on the people of Bali, but even result in environmental damage and new poverty pockets.

rEClAMAtIoN plan of Benoa Bay continues to reap criticism from various elements of Balinese society. People consider the policy will not only bring in socio-economic impacts on the people of Bali, but even result in environ-mental damage and new poverty pockets.

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Veteran VS walkers like Lily Aldridge and Alessandra Ambro-sio were joined by newbie angels, including Martha Hunt and Elsa Hosk. Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid were among the non-winged supermodels new to the glitzy show that generates weeks of ad-vance buzz and will be seen in 192 countries by more than 500 million people, according to company of-ficials.

In all, 47 models blew air kisses, flirted on stage with the camera and flipped their varied wings around as they strutted on the runway in 75 looks at a Manhattan armory. But first, there was hair and makeup to be done and a “pink carpet” of celebrity guests to be walked. Questlove and Nick Cannon were on hand, along with a dapper mem-ber of the Mets, Matt Harvey, in a black Versace suit.

Caitlyn Jenner was among those who attended the runway show to cheer on daughter Kendall.

Hadid said backstage that she has big respect for the veteran angels and hopes to earn her own wings one day. Brand new angel Rachel Hilbert, from Rochester, New York, was in the Pink USA squad on the runway, and was also in awe of the longtime ladies, including Brazil-ian beauty Adriana Lima, seated just inches away on a comfy white couch in rollers backstage.

“Uh, yeah, Adriana Lima. She’s sitting right there,” Hilbert smiled as all wore pink-and-white striped robes, curlers in their hair, while manicures, pedicures, spray tanning and makeup commenced. “She’s such a sweetheart. Her advice was just breathe and just take it in.”

So how were the nerves for the newcomers?

“Actually, surprisingly, not bad,” Hadid said before the show. “I was really nervous in rehearsal.”

She shared the stage later with Gomez and Goulding.

“I love both of them,” said Had-id, who fell to the floor and gasped in a video of her audition, when she was told she was picked.

The show featured sections of ‘60s boho angels flashing piece signs in teeny bras and panties, swinging fringe and showing off wings made of sculptured paper, leather and feathers, including Jenner. Her gal

pal Hadid was among a group of exotic butterflies with wings and outfits sparkling with crystals. The patriotic pink group included an American-flagged theme outfit and wings.

This year’s iteration of the an-nual Fantasy Bra was fashioned in bursts of fireworks, the theme for one of the liveliest sections of the show. The demi-bra and match-ing belt are worth $2 million and were worn by Aldridge. They were created by the jewelry company Mouawad in 18-karat gold and en-crusted with 6,500 diamonds, blue topaz, yellow sapphires and other precious stones.

Hunt was the last firework, closing the show in another center piece, courtesy of Swarovski, one of the evening’s sponsors. It was a corset sparkling with 90,000 gold, red, green and blue crystals. The look, along with her light-up wings, included 20,000 crystals and 1,200 battery-powered LED lights. The battery pack she lugged weighed in at 19 pounds. (ap)

Sexy Victoria’s Secret lingerie show hits 20-year mark

NEW YORK — Some lit up, others were pretty — and pa-triotic — in pink and still more burst forth like fireworks. Yes, Tuesday was Victoria’s Secret sexpot angel time, though the masses will have to wait until 10 p.m. EST on Dec. 8 to watch the 20th annual lingerie extravaganza on CBS. This was just the taping, including musical performances by The Weeknd, Ellie Goulding and Selena Gomez, after Rihanna abruptly canceled.

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Taylor Hill, left, and Megan Puleri, right,

walk the runway as Selena Gomez

performs during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at

the Lexington Ar-mory on Tuesday,

Nov. 10, 2015, in New York.

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Gigi Hadid walks the runway as Ellie Goulding performs

during the Victo-ria’s Secret Fash-

ion Show at the Lexington Armory on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in New

York.

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Gigi Hadid walks the runway during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexing-ton Armory on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in New York.

Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Martha Hunt walks the runway during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Armory on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in New York.

Many people are optimistic that this ritual can attract visitors to Buleleng. The Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency recently starting seriously considering this possi-bility as they set their calendar of events. The idea will be discussed again by involving the priest of the Pura Agung Pulaki, supporting

devotees and Banyupoh village, Gerokgak and related agencies.

Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said that the Wanara Laba ritual has so far is only been known for its psychical interest. Hindus all over Bali know that every full moon in October for the piodalan (temple

anniversary) of Pura Agung Pulaki the Wanara Laba ritual is held.

But aside from its draw as a psychical event this ritual has other unique aspects that could be of interest to a wider range of people. Suyasa is confident that the ritual can become a tourist attraction and cited the example of a unique fruit eating tradition in Thailand that was turned into a tourist attraction and has helped tourism in that country. “We are thing kin that something similar

could be done with the Wanara Laba without of course disturb-ing the unfolding of the ritual. We thin that this ritual is unique and could be packaged into a tourist attraction. We are confident it would have a positive impact on the development of tourism in our region,” said Suyasa.

The idea is that the Wanara Laba ritual would take place as usual in-side Pura Agung Pulaki temple, but then outside the temple, an impres-sive jumbo sized pyramid of fruits,

eggs and other monkey food would be consecrated psychically.

Once the offering is made the contents of the pyramid would be given to the herds of monkeys that are believed to guard Pura Pulaki and other temples in West Buleleng. “This ritual is unique and interest-ing to watch,” he said.

Suyaa added that the unique Wa-nara Laba ritual feeding of the herd of monkeys is more effective than if pilgrims feeding the monkeys themselves. (mud)

TABANAN - Head of the Tabanan Forestry and Plantation Agency, Roemi Liestyowati, re-cently stated that not only have Tabana’s rice fields been affected but that Tabanan’s production of mangosteen, coffee, cacao and other commodities has also decreased due to the prolonged dry season.

“The prolonged dry season in-deed disrupts crop production at the farmer level. As a result, production slows down eventually causing prices to rise,” she said.

Especially because many of Tabanan’s crops are now exported, farmers are encouraged to maintain the quality of their harvests. “We urge them to maintain the quality of production even though the amount that they can produce has decreased, because the export market depends a lot on quality. Even though pro-duction is down, famers can benefit by the price hike of their products on the markets, if they maintain the quality of their products,” explained Liestyowati.

One of Tabanan’s agricultural commodities that is currently be-ing given a boost is robusta coffee beans. In order to ensure high quality production, the Tabanan Forestry and Plantation Agency has provided training to farmers about how to maintaining soil moisture for coffee plants so that the dry season they can still produce quality beans.

She acknowledged that many coffee flowers have dried up be-cause of the prolongs dry season this year but added that despite the

decline in the amount of beans pro-duced, by maintaining the quality of the beans can ensure that farm-ers continue to prosper by selling their beans for higher price,” said Liestyowati.

Tabanan’s robusta coffee is most-ly absorbed by the Korean market, while Belgium and Australia only import a little. Liestyowati, how-ever, explained that despite having penetrated the export market, most Tabanan benefit very little from this because they rely in middlemen

who make most of the profit.The Tabanan Forestry and Plan-

tation Agency has therefore re-quested that the Trade and Industry Agency facilitate coffee farmers in Pupuan in acquiring export licenses. Export licenses will allow local farmers to make direct transactions with buyers overseas. The current market price for coffee is some-where between IDR 17,000 to IDR 19,000 per kg but farmers sell their coffee to middlemen for much less than this. (kmb24)

Despite lack of waterCoffee farmers produce quality beans

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The Wanara Laba (feeding monkeys) ritual takes place at Pura Agung Pulaki Gerokgak, West Buleleng once a year according to the Balinese calendar. Recently some people have been inspired to make this ritual into a tourist attraction.

Wanara Laba ritual could become tourist attraction

THE WANARA Laba (feeding monkeys) ritual takes place at Pura Agung Pulaki Gerokgak, West Buleleng once a year according to the Balinese calendar. Recently some people have been inspired to make this ritual into a tourist attraction.

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Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has won more than 80 percent of the seats declared so far in the lower house, a result that puts her on course to form the new cabinet, and is well ahead in the upper house and regional assemblies.

If the full results confirm the trend, Suu Kyi’s triumph will sweep out an old guard of former generals that has run Myanmar since Thein Sein in ushered in sweeping democratic and economic reforms four years ago. “U.S. President Obama...congratulated the president and the entire government on having been able to hold a historic free and fair general election,” said presidential spokesman and Information Minister Ye Htut on his Facebook page.

“He said America would continue co-operating with the Myanmar government.” Obama has visited Myanmar twice in the past three years, hoping to make its transition to democracy a foreign policy legacy of his presidency.

Thein Sein and the powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing have already endorsed Suu Kyi’s victory, congratulating her on Wednes-day on winning the majority of the seats in the first free election in 25 years.

The two reiterated their commitment to respect the result and agreed to Suu Kyi’s request to hold reconciliation talks soon,

although the parties are still to agree on the details.

Such unambiguous endorsements of Suu Kyi’s victory could smooth the lengthy post-election transition, ahead of the first session of parliament which reconvenes on Monday. It also sets the stage for cooperation between democratic activists and the army, which had fought them during half a century of iron-fisted rule before a handover to a semi-civilian government in 2011.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE“The government will respect and follow

the people’s choice and decision, and work on transferring power peacefully according to the timetable,” read a statement posted on the Facebook page of the presidential spokes-

man, adding that the president would work with “all other people” to ensure stability in the post-election period.

The armed forces also congratulated Suu Kyi. The military continues to wield considerable power in Myanmar’s political institutions, under a constitution drafted before the end of nearly 50 years of junta rule. In addition to holding an unelected 25 percent bloc of seats in parliament, the commander-in-chief nominates the heads of three powerful ministries - interior, defence and border security.

The interior ministry gives him control of the Southeast Asian nation’s pervasive bureaucracy, which could pose a significant obstacle to the NLD’s ability to execute policy. It is unclear how Suu Kyi and the

generals will work together.“Tatmadaw will do what is best in co-

operation with the new government during the post-election period. Public trust can be won through correct deeds,” said Min Aung Hlaing in a speech posted to his Facebook account, refering to the military. “Tatmadaw will continue to strength the multi-party de-mocracy system,” he said.

Although Min Aung Hlaing’s tone matched Suu Kyi’s statements seeking reconcilitation, their relationship is said to be strained.

One of the biggest sources of tension between Suu Kyi and the military is a clause in the constitution barring her from the presidency because her children are foreign nationals. Few doubt the military inserted the clause to rule her out. (ap)

BUCHAREST, Romania — Two more people have died of burns sustained in a deadly night-club fire in the Romanian capital, bringing the total number of deaths in the tragedy to 53.

Spokesman for the Floreasca Emergency Hospital Bogdan Oprita said Thursday two people died at

the unit during the night.Twenty-six people initially died

in the Oct. 30 blaze in the Colectiv nightclub which erupted when a spark ignited foam decor during a heavy-metal concert, sending panicked revelers stampeding for the single-door exit. Patients have succumbed to their injuries almost on a daily basis since.

The blaze sparked mass pro-tests that caused the collapse of the government. People blamed widespread corruption and bad governance for the fire.

President Klaus Iohannis has appointed former EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos to form a technocrat government. (ap)

2 more die of injuries in nightclub fire, death toll is 53

AP Photo/Eduardo Dui Baia, file

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005 file photo, relatives and friends of the victims who died in a nightclub fire that killed over 180 people pray and light candles before a march through the streets of Buenos Aires.

Obama calls Myanmar president, endorses election as Suu Kyi eyes majority

YANGON - U.S. President Barack Obama called Myanmar leader Thein Sein to congratulate him on Thursday on the staging of a historic general election, in which democracy cham-pion Aung San Suu Kyi trounced the ruling camp.

REUTERS/Jorge Silva TPX

People walk around Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, November 10, 2015.

TABANAN - Tista village, in Keram-bitan, has magnificent agricultural lands that have a lot of potential to be used as a tourist attraction. Although not as dramatic as Jatiwuluh’s terraced rice paddies, the people of Trista could certainly benefit from maintaining their agricultural land for tourism rather than converting arable land into building developments. There is a cus-tomary rule or perarem aimed at preserving the wetlands, however some people in this community have been lured by housing developers into breaking this rule.

Headman of Tista, I Made Suardana Pu-tra, said that the idea of developing the idea of turning Tista into a tourism village was inspired by field work (KKN) conducted by students from Udayana University. Given the potential that village tourism has to contribute to improving the welfare of the villagers, this idea has gradually been ex-ecuted. “To establish a tourism village, the village authorities of Tista have conducted tests and interviews and created a plan that has been submitted to the federal govern-ment,” explained Suardana

Tista villagers routinely do volunteer work to make improvements to the village and more and more tourists have been coming to visit. “Currently the wetlands are experiencing drought, but normally the paddy fields are verdant and remain productive to this day,” he said.

Apart from the potential of agriculture to draw visitors, Tista also has a unique and outstanding cultural heritage, including the traditional art of Andir that combines Calonarang and Legong Kraton that is only found in Trista.

The Headman of Tista has conducted comparative visits to a number of other tourism villages. “The concept used at Jatiluwih’s tourist attraction will be imple-mented in Tista. We are preparing a bros-sure now and hope to have things running in 2016,” said Suardana.

The dream of making Tista into a tourism village has however started to be overshadowed by land conversions at Subak Buluh that are being carried out by a housing developer. At least 3,000 square meters of land located in the middle of the subak area have been dredged. Although Tista has a perarem that forbids any such development in the region, this rule has been breached but eh developer. Ruling representatives of Subak Buluh a log with the support of the customary and admin-istrative village authorities of Tista have blocked the entrance to the land being dredged.

“This is being done in an effort to minimize land conversion in Tista village. What’s more, Subak Buluh 87 hectares of paddy fields have become the icon of the tourism village that will developed in a similar way as Jatiluwih,” said Suardana. (kmb28)

Chief of the Gianyar Sanitation and Landscap-ing Agency (DKP), I Wayan Kujus Pawitra, said on Wednesday (Nov. 11) that Gianyar District has actually implemented clean river program as an effort to anticipate floods. The program mainly targets a number of areas considered vulnerable to flooding or passed through by dirty streams and experienced silting.

However, such an effort is not enough. Floods can occur any time if the clean river program is not followed up with joint efforts of all the com-ponents in maintaining sanitation. “Sustainable synergy between the government, private sector and the communities in maintaining sanitation especially in the rivers and drains is critical to prevent flooding,” he said.

He said that sanitation of the rivers and drains must be maintained from the upstream to down-stream area. In addition to regular cleanup, the community can also play an active role to keep sanitation and leave the habit of disposing of waste carelessly.

“Rivers or drains are not trash. When waste is continuously dumped into waterways, after a long time the accumulation can clog waterways. When prolonged or torrential rain occurs, cer-tainly the water in the drains is unable to run smoothly so that it will inundate the streets or residential areas. When this happens, of course we all will suffer losses,” said Kujus. (kmb25)

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The Hindus held “Pakelem” ceremony in Tamblingan Lake, Buleleng. The ceremony is to ask for safety and welafare of all of the people.

Tista potential as tourism village overshadowed by forbidden land conversions

Waterways not for trashGIANYAR - Flooding becomes a worry

of its own when rainy season arrives, no exception for Gianyar. Large amount of waste dumped into rivers causing flood-ing is difficult to avoid. On that account, the government of Gianyar District again urged people to participate in maintain-ing the sanitation of rivers and drains.

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The waterways is filled with trash and it cause flood

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SHANGHAI - E-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday that Chinese and international consumers spent more than $14 billion in the world’s biggest online shopping day, as it sought to soothe worries over China’s slowing economy.

The November 11 “Singles Day”, which fell on Wednesday, has evolved into the globe’s biggest online shopping festival since Alibaba began using the date in 2009 to promote sales through its platforms. The $14.3 billion worth of merchandise volume this year smashed through last year’s tally of $9.3 billion, according to figures from Alibaba.

“This day demonstrates the power of domestic China consump-tion and the Chinese consumer’s strong demand for international products,” Alibaba chief executive officer Daniel Zhang said in a statement.

The total was more than double the $6.6 billion recorded last year in online buying during the peak US retail period, the five days from the Thanksgiving holiday to the following Monday, according to Internet analytics firm comScore.

Alibaba’s New York-listed stock has been hammered by worries over the Chinese economy, serving as a proxy for slowing growth. It closed down 1.94 percent at $79.85 on Wednesday despite the shopping festival.

Chinese growth hit a 24-year low in 2014 and has slowed further this year, as it tries to shift from investment and exports to domestic consumption. Under what leaders call the “new normal”, the country logged its worst economic performance since the global financial cri-sis in the third quarter, with the economy growing just 6.9 percent.

In a bright spot, October retail sales -- a key indicator of consumer spending -- jumped 11.0 percent from a year earlier, the fastest increase since December last year, official figures showed Wednes-day. Alibaba stands to benefit as its Taobao platform dominates the consumer-to-consumer online market, while its Tmall platform is believed to command more than half the Chinese market for business-to-consumer transactions.

Alibaba’s online payment unit, Alipay, processed 710 million transactions during the shopping festival, the statement said, peaking at almost 86,000 per second.

The number of buyers using mobile devices -- a key priority for Alibaba -- reached 95 million through Taobao and Tmall, it said, without giving a figure for total buyers. (afp)

In a report on the importance of vanguard innovation on economic growth, the World Intellectual Property Organization said nearly all patents within the cutting-edge areas of 3D printing, robotics and nanotechnology were held by a handful of countries.

“We need to reinforce the envi-ronments that give rise to the break-through technologies of tomorrow,” said WIPO director Francis Gurry.

The UN agency pointed out that in the past, game-changing inven-tions like airplanes, antibiotics and

semiconductors created booming industries and became “the root of long-lasting expansions in eco-nomic output”.

In the same way, 3D printing for instance, with its ability to “print” anything from guns to cars, prosthetics and works of art, is predicted to transform our lives in coming decades as dramatically as the Internet did before it.

The same goes for robotics, used in a wide range of fields, for in-stance replacing humans in danger-ous environments or manufacturing

processes, or to create prosthetics, and nanotechnology -- the creation of systems and objects on atomic and molecular scale.

But the WIPO report found that only six countries, Japan, the United States, Germany, France, Britain and South Korea have since 1995 filed more than 75 percent of all patents in the three areas.

China meanwhile appears to be catching up. When counting just since 2005, the country has been responsible for more than a quarter of patents worldwide in the areas of 3D printing and robotics, and almost 15 percent of nanotechnol-ogy filings.

In contrast to the longer es-tablished innovating countries,

Chinese patents in these areas are filed mainly by universities and public research organisations, WIPO said.

While there is not always a direct link between where an invention is patented and where a technology will develop and flourish, “initial conditions matter”, WIPO’s chief economist Carsten Fink told re-porters.

Gurry meanwhile hinted more countries could likely benefit from diving into cutting-edge innovation, pointing to the well-known links “between technological progress ... or innovation and economic growth”.

Japanese companies are leading in the area of robotics, the report

found, pointing out that eight out of 10 patent applications in the field came from firms like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Sony.

US companies meanwhile col-lectively top the list of nanotechnol-ogy patents, even though Samsung is single-handedly the top patent filer in the field.

US entities also file for most 3D printing patents, with 3D Systems and Stratasys topping the list, and with General Electric and United Technologies among the top 10.

Three German companies -- Siemens, MTU Aero Engines and EOS -- along with three Japanese companies -- Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Toshiba also figure among the top 3D printing patent filers. (afp)

UN urges more investment in cutting-edge technologies to drive growth

GENEVA - Japan, the United States but also increasingly China, are among the few nations driving global innovations like 3D-printing, the UN said Wednesday, urging more invest-ments in fields expected to carry future economic growth.

World’s biggest online shopping day nets over $14 billion

AP Photo/Andy Wong

Jack Ma, executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, center, speaks near Tom Farley, CEO of New York Stock Exchange, centre left, and invited guests before ringing the bell for the opening of New York Stock Exchange ceremony to celebrate the “Singles’ Day” global online shopping festival in front of a giant screen showing real-time sales figures of e-commerce giant Alibaba, held at National Aquatic Center, also known as the “Water Cube” in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015.

NEGARA - After being post-poned because there is no readiness of support, residents of Negara pub-lic market coalesced into the Sanji Merta Association give indication to support the revitalization of the market.

This support was delivered by the Chief of the Sanji Merta As-sociation, Gusti Putu Adnyana, to reporters on the sidelines of the Pura Melanting renovation at the local market, coinciding with the Rambut Sedana temple ceremony, Wednesday (Nov. 11).

Indeed, according to Adnyana, after the rejection against revitaliza-tion two years ago, his association claimed to have no problem with Jembrana District. All this time, communication has been constantly made and there have been discus-sions on the revitalization plan in accordance with the expectation of the market merchants.

According to him, the mer-chants also began to realize the building has been damaged. Later on, the pattern of revitalization will be determined through the proposal of merchants. Previously, there was indeed a miscommuni-cation.

Furthermore, the renovation of Pura Melanting was begun with de-molition of the eight shrines of the Pura Melanting last Wednesday. It is carried out independently. Since it was built in 1974, the temple sup-ported by 215 supporting devotees was last renovated around 1984. Today, the total buildings have been fragile. Palm fiber of the shrine roof has started to leak. According to him, the renovation will be made in two stages.

Firstly, it will be focused on the shrines and then resumed to the offering pavilion and compound wall. In accordance with budget

plan, the first stage will spend IDR 129.5 million and the second stage IDR 302.75 million, making a total of IDR 580.25 million. For funding need, the committee will firstly expect the donation of market residents. Later on, it may ask for financial assistance, including from local government.

He said that the government of Jembrana as the owner of the asset indeed has not yet provided any assistance. So far, the committee has not submitted a proposal to the government. Probably, the proposal may be submitted in the second stage. (kmb26)

Chief of the Klungkung Transportation Agency, Nen-gah Sukasta, revealed that his agency has increased his personnel at a number of traditional crossing ports to an-ticipate the surge in passengers on Buda Cemeng Klawu or Wednesday. According to him, although the roro vessel has been operated since Wednesday morning, the number of passengers using the services remains normal. The pas-senger crossing from Nusa Penida to Padang Bai is not even more than 10 people.

Despite the losses in terms of the number of passengers, Nengah Sukasta asserted that roro vessel will continue to operate regardless of the number of passengers. The de-crease in the number of passengers using roro vessel is also caused by the lack of information regarding the readiness of vessel operation. The vessel planned to operate on Monday (Nov. 9), in fact could not operate due to the damage to gear box after having repaired costing about IDR 2 billion.

On the other hand, traditional crossing has now been equipped with a fast boat that can cross to Nusa Penida within 30 minutes. This improved service also makes passengers more comfortable to cross through traditional ports. Associated with readiness of traditional port to face the surge, Nengah Sukasta claimed to have coordinated with boat owners in order to increase their vessel to cope with the increasing number of crossings.

In addition, he hoped that passenger security when crossing through traditional port can always be maintained. Thus, passengers can arrive safely. (dwa)

Residents of public market hints revitalization

The renovation of the temple in Negara public market is

started before it is being revitalized IBP/File

Surge of crossing to Nusa Penida

Transportation Agency directs to traditional crossing

IBP/Dewa Farend

One of the Ships use for transportation to Nusa Penida

SEMARAPURA - Although the KMP Nusa Jaya Abadi or roro vessel has been operated from Wednesday, people crossing to Nusa Penida prefer to cross through traditional ports. The Transpor-tation Agency of Klungkung has anticipated the surge of passenger by operating more vessels.

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BANGKOK - Fourteen orangutans smuggled into Thai-land illegally were sent back to Indonesia on Thursday, but the operation was not without incident -- one of the powerful apes tore a wildlife officer’s finger off when he tried to put them in cages.

Twelve of the orangutans were smuggled into Thailand as babies and rescued seven years ago by police and sent to a wildlife breeding center in Ratchaburi, 80 kms (50 miles) west of Bangkok. Two of the great apes were born at the centre.

“The animals were still babies when we got them and they should have been sent back right away,” Edwin Wiek, director of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand told Reu-ters. “Now it’s too late for them to go back to the wild.”

Documents from Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conversation said the orangutans originated from the island of Borneo in Indonesia.

The illegal trade in endangered orangutans sees the great apes poached from Indonesian forests for food, to obtain infants for the domestic and international pet trade, or for traditional medicine. Between 2006 and 2007, Thailand returned 52 smuggled orangutans to Indonesia.

The latest apes to be sent back to Indonesia were sent to Bangkok’s international Don Muang airport on Wednesday and put in cages ahead of their five hour journey to Jakarta, a department statement said.

One tore an officer’s finger off when he tried to put them in cages, the department said. Around five years of age, an orangutan has the strength of an adult male human, and by maturity will be as strong as five to seven adult male humans.

The orangutans will spend 60 days in quarantine at a Jakarta safari park and will be moved to a rescue center in Borneo, home to 2,000 orangutans. (rtr)

The comments, which reflect an apparent delay in implement-ing President Joko Widodo’s six-month-old decision to scrap the curbs in politically-sensitive Papua, came the same day that a human rights body queried why they still persist.

On a visit to the remote prov-ince, Widodo said foreign jour-

nalists no longer needed special permission to travel there, a requirement imposed decades ago because of a long-simmering secessionist movement.

“I don’t see any restrictions anymore,” Indonesia’s security chief, Luhut Panjaitan, told re-porters on Wednesday, when asked about the media curbs. “I

need someone to call me if there is a problem - I’ll fix the problem.”

Asked why the national police still required all foreign journal-ists to apply for a travel permit for Papua, he responded, “If it is necessary we can fire them”.

In a repor t publ ished on Wednesday, titled “Something to Hide?”, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch questioned why the media restrictions still remain in place.

Widodo needs to issue a writ-ten directive, said Phelim Kine, the group’s deputy Asia director,

adding that journalists seeking travel permits still faced intense opposition from officials.

Soon after Widodo’s announce-ment of the removal of the re-strictions, senior government and security officials had maintained that foreign journalists would still need permission and permits to visit the area.

Last year, two French journal-ists convicted of misusing their tourist visas to work as journalists in Papua spent 11 weeks in deten-tion before being sent home.

Papua, which is home to one of the biggest copper mines operated by U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, was incorporated into Indonesia under a widely criticised U.N.-backed vote in 1969, after Jakarta took over the area in 1963 at the end of Dutch colonial rule.

Following decades of neglect, Widodo is looking to open up the impoverished region, which has a history of clashes between security forces and the insurgents. (rtr)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo has called on all security personnel to be on alert during the upcoming simultaneous regional head elections (pilkada) to antici-pate any conflict.

“To every security personnel, I order you to not just play the role of a firefighter,” the head of state affirmed when opening a national coordinating meeting on the imple-mentation of pilkada on Thursday.

The president urged the personnel to take anticipatory measures in order to prevent conflicts. “Do not let a small one become bigger. Do not let a small incident embarrass us. Regardless of how small the is-sue is, all local police resort chiefs, prosecutors, and military chiefs must be able to detect it as soon as possible before it escalates into a bigger crisis,” Jokowi stated.

The pilkada 2015 is important

as the people in 269 regions will, for the first time, be able to simul-taneously and directly elect local regional heads.

This year’s pilkada will be held to elect nine governors and vice gover-nors, 224 district heads and their depu-ties, and 36 mayors and their deputies.

The head of state expressed hope that the local elections would run smoothly and peacefully.

Also present during the opening

ceremony of the coordinating meet-ing were Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, Coordinating Minister for Culture and Human Development Puan Maharani, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Chief Sutiyoso, among others.

Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo reiterated that the meeting

was held to consolidate the pilkada this year to democratically elect re-gional and deputy regional heads.

On December 9, 2015, Indone-sia will organize the first stage of pilkada, while the second stage will be held in 2017.

The government has planned to use an e-voting system in the pilkada in 2017 and in the legisla-tive and presidential elections in 2019. (ant)

No foreign media curbs in PapuaJAKARTA - Indonesia has no travel restrictions on foreign

journalists in its easternmost province of Papua, the country’s security chief said on Wednesday, vowing to dismiss any police officials who blocked such freedom.

President calls for security alert during head elections

Thailand returns 14 smuggled orangutans to Indonesia

REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Orangutans look on in a cage at Kao Pratubchang Conservation Centre in Ratchaburi, Thailand, November 11, 2015.

The decision by a Nordic state that touts itself as a “humanitarian superpower” underscored how the flow of refugees into the European Union is straining its prized system of open internal borders close to breaking point.

Germany warned it could start sending Syrian refugees back to other EU states from which they came, prompting Hungary to insist it would take none, while Swe-den’s neighbour Denmark said it was tightening immigration rules and Slovenia began to emulate Budapest in erecting new border fences.

Sweden has welcomed more asylum-seeking refugees and mi-grants per capita than any other EU country and authorities forecast that up to 190,000 asylum seekers could arrive this year, double the previous record from the early 1990s.

“Our signal to the rest of the EU is crystal clear - Sweden is the country that has shouldered the greatest responsibility for the refugee crisis,” Interior Minis-ter Anders Ygeman told a news conference hastily called by the centre-left government. “If we are

to cope with this mutual challenge, the other countries must take their responsibility.”

Sweden’s border controls will primarily extend to the bridge across the Oresund strait separating Sweden and Denmark and ferry ports in the region. They will be imposed from Thursday for a period of 10 days and could be extended by 20-day periods.

The government acted on the same day as EU leaders, at a sum-mit in Malta with African counter-parts, offered them aid and better access to Europe for African busi-ness and other travellers in return for help in curbing chaotic bouts of migration across the Mediter-ranean from Africa and promises to take back migrants expelled by EU states.

After African delegations depart on Thursday, EU leaders will hold an emergency summit of their own to review slow progress in imple-menting steps meant to control the flow of refugees entering the EU via Greece, and negotiations with Turkey to get its help in slowing departures of Syrian refugees.

In Berlin, Finance Minister

Wolfgang Schaeuble described Germany’s refugee crisis as being like an avalanche. Chancellor An-gela Merkel has come under fierce pressure since offering shelter to close to a million asylum-seekers this year.

“Avalanches can be caused if a careless skier ... sets some snow on the move,” Schaeuble told an event on European integration held in Berlin. “Whether we are at the stage where the avalanche has already reached the valley below, or whether we are at the stage at the top of the slope, I don’t know.”

TENTS FOR REFUGEESSweden’s government had

warned last week that it could no longer guarantee finding accommo-dation for newly-arrived refugees. The minority government has faced pressure also from the centre-right opposition and far-right, anti-im-migrant Sweden Democrats - who are rising in polls - to tighten up on refugees.

The Swedish Migration Agency already plans to shelter thousands of refugees in heated tents due to a housing shortage, while some peo-ple may be accommodated in venues such as ski resorts and a theme park. Some 10,000 refugees arrived last week, and 2,000 in one day - both records for Sweden. Compounding concerns, there have been more than a dozen suspected arson attacks on buildings earmarked for refugees in the last few months.

“The fact the we can see that hundreds of people now can’t be provided with a roof over their heads by the Migration Agency and are forced to sleep outdoors or in railway stations, that risks creating threats to order and security,” Yge-man said. Stockholm has also ap-plied to the European Commission to arrange for some of those to be moved to other EU countries.

The U.N. refugee agency UN-HCR said last week that refugees and migrants were likely to con-tinue to arrive in Europe at a rate of up to 5,000 per day via Turkey this winter.

More than 760,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to EU territory this year, entering mainly via Greece and Italy, after fleeing wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as conflicts and deprivation in Eritrea, other parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the U.N. agency says. (rtr)

BEIJING — His arms were bent behind the chair, his wrists cuffed so tightly his hands swelled. During 99 days in police detention, Beijing-based lawyer Yu Wensheng was interrogated about 200 times — often late into the night and while in severe pain.

“It was so painful I thought it would be better to die than to live,” said Yu, who has represented civil rights activists and was detained last year by Chinese police on a minor public disturbance charge.

The lawyer’s case is one ex-ample of how China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, as documented by the human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Thursday.

The expose comes just days before a United Nation panel is scheduled to meet in Geneva to review whether China has followed through on its promises to eradicate the use of torture.

While Beijing is expected to tout how it has fulfilled its promises, Amnesty said the country’s deep-rooted use of torture to extract confessions from suspects has seen little improvement despite legal reforms introduced since 2010.

The report echoes findings by Human Rights Watch in a May study, with both saying unlawful and inhumane practices remain routine and that reforms have done little to curb them. Amnesty came to the conclusion after interview-ing 37 lawyers throughout China, analyzing 590 court decisions and parsing judicial rules and proce-dures.

“For the police, obtaining a

confession is still the easiest way to secure a conviction,” said Pat-rick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International.

China’s Foreign Ministry de-clined to comment directly on the report Thursday, although a spokes-man said Beijing was committed to ensuring “fairness and justice in every case.”

“Extorting a confession by tor-ture is explicitly banned by China’s laws. The person who is found exercising torture during interroga-tion will be subject to punishment,” spokesman Hong Lei told reporters at a regular news conference.

While torture is commonly used to force confessions from common criminals, it becomes more brutal against political dissidents, social activists and religious practitioners, said Yu, who was released after he confessed to being a trouble-maker.

“The practice of torture is com-monplace and deeply entrenched,” he said. “It fundamentally lies within a political system that has no checks.”

Despite regular accounts by victims, reports by international human rights groups and exposes in state media, Chinese authorities say the practice is waning or now non-existent.

In April 2014, Zhao Chunguang, a senior public security official overseeing police detention fa-cilities, said there had not been a single case of coercing confessions through torture following new rules aimed at preventing the use of torture. The public security and justice ministries did not respond to faxed questions about the use of torture. (ap)

BERLIN — Berlin police say they’ve raided 10 buildings in the German capital as part of a crackdown on far-right hate speech on social media networks.

Police said Thursday that the morning raids involved 60 of-ficers, who confiscated smartphones and computers as evidence, which are now being evaluated. They didn’t have any immediate information on arrests.

They say the raids are part of an ongoing investigation into hate speech spread over social media meant to incite people against asylum-seekers and refugee housing.

Berlin’s top security official, Frank Henkel, says authorities “won’t turn away if racism or incitement is being spread on the Internet.”

He says that the authorities alone can’t police hate speech online and appealed for social networks themselves to combat it more effectively. (ap)

China use of torture uncurbed by legal reform

Berlin police raid sites in crackdown on

online hate speech

Refugee haven Sweden imposes temporary border

controls in EU migration crisisSTOCKHOLM - Sweden will impose temporary border con-

trols from Thursday in response to a record influx of refugees, a turnaround for a country known for its open-door policies that also threw down the gauntlet to other EU nations hit by a migration crisis.

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GIANYAR - If you are a spiritualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple estimated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawegunung hamlet, Pejeng vil-lage, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar. By car, it is about 50 minutes away or about 34 km from Denpasar. This historic site is now becoming a tourist destination visited by many foreign travelers.

Other than being known as a tourist destination with an abundance of temples, Bali also retains a good few of cave. One of them is Goa Garba posing one of the ancient relics having a great significance. Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

It is situated on a steep cliff, right on the bank of the Pakerisan River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a hermitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakeri-san River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heritage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Meanwhile, the entrance gate is made of sand stone. It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of stepping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attrac-tion has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

Goa Garba

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Harrison Barnes added 19 points for Golden State, which won its ninth straight to open the season. Curry’s was 9 of 21 from the field, but only 3 of 10 from outside the arc. The Warriors finished shoot-ing 41 percent from 3-point range, 11 of 27.

Marc Gasol had 26 points, Zach Randolph added 19 and Tony Allen finished with 15 as the Grizzlies lost their fourth straight.

San Antonio’s LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points in his return to Portland, leading the Spurs to a 113-101 win over the Trail Blazers.

Aldridge, who played nine sea-sons in Portland before leaving as a free agent this summer, added six rebounds. Kawhi Leonard finished with 20 points for the Spurs, who won their third straight.

Damian Lillard led the Blaz-ers with 22 points, including five

3-pointers, and nine assists. Port-land has lost three straight.

In Dallas, Dirk Nowitzki scored a season-high 31 points to lead the Mavericks over the Los Angeles Clippers 118-108 in DeAndre Jor-dan’s first visit since backing out on an agreement to sign with the Mavericks in free agency.

A tight second half upstaged the sideshow of the return of Jordan, who was booed throughout before coach Doc Rivers pulled him in the fourth quarter with Dallas success-fully using the hack-a-Jordan tactic against one of the NBA’s worst free throw shooters.

As Dallas pulled away in the fi-nal minute, the crowd chanted a de-rogatory phrase at Jordan, who had nine points and 11 rebounds with a minus-23 scoring margin while he was in the game. Blake Griffin led Los Angeles with 21 points. The Atlanta Hawks downed the New

Orleans Pelicans 106-98 after Al Horford scored 26 points.

After trailing by 12 points in the first half, the Hawks pulled away down the stretch. Paul Millsap con-verted a couple of three-point plays to help seal the victory for Atlanta, which bounced back from a home loss to Minnesota two nights earlier.

Denver’s Kenneth Faried re-bounded Danilo Gallinari’s errant shot in the lane for a putback with 5 seconds remaining to give the Nug-gets a 103-102 victory over the Mil-waukee Bucks, while the Toronto Raptors defeated the Philadelphia 76ers after Kyle Lowry scored 23 points and Luis Scola had 21.

In other games Nik Vucevic hit a fallaway 18-footer at the buzzer as the Orlando Magic edged the Los Angeles Lakers 101-99, the Char-lotte Hornets edged the New York Knicks 95-93, the Indiana Pacers beat the Boston Celtics 102-91, the Brooklyn Nets overcame the Houston Rockets 106-98 and the Los Angeles Kings were 101-92 winners over the Detroit Pistons. (ap)

MOSCOW — Facing allegations that Russia engages in extensive, state-sponsored doping, President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called on sports officials to carry out an internal investigation - but said that clean athletes shouldn’t be punished for the actions of those who take banned drugs.

Putin’s comments at a late-night meeting in Sochi, the city that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, reflected concerns that Russia’s track and field athletes could be hit with a blanket ban for next year’s summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Putin ordered Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and “all colleagues con-nected with sport” to pay close attention to the doping allegations and for an internal investigation to be conducted - one that guaranteed full cooperation with international anti-doping bodies.

“The struggle with doping in sports, unfortunately, remains a pressing issue and it requires unending attention,” he said.

However, Putin also drew a clear distinction with clean athletes. “It’s absolutely clear that athletes who stay away from dope ... shouldn’t be held responsible” for those who use performance enhancing drugs, he said.

After the meeting, Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukhov echoed that position.

“I am confident that Russian athletes who are honest and clean, who never used doping, who undergo various checks -- no one has the right to strip them of the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games,” he said, according to state news agency Tass.

The meeting was delayed by hours because of heavy rains that pre-vented sports federation heads from flying to Sochi. However, Putin’s determination to press ahead with the session indicated the sensitivity of the issue for Russia.

The meeting came in the wake of Monday’s report by an independent commission appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency that said Rus-sian sports is plagued by extensive, state-sanctioned doping.

As a result of the report, Putin is now up against a Friday deadline for track’s governing body to decide on whether to suspend Russia - a first step toward excluding its athletes from next year’s Olympics.

Sports are a substantial piece of Russia’s self-esteem -- both in ath-letes’ performances and its ability to host huge international events. Putin himself has built much of his image on vigorous athletic exploits of his own. (ap)

Putin calls for investigation of Russian doping allegations

Warriors remain unbeaten with 100-84 win over Grizzlies

AP Photo/Brandon Dill

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) chases the ball after knocking it loose from Memphis Grizzlies guard Courtney Lee in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednes-day, Nov. 11, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Stephen Curry scored 28 points and Andre Iguodala added 20 as the Golden State Warriors matched a club record for most wins to start a season with a 100-84 vic-tory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday.

AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin

A view of the Luzhniki stadium which was the main venue at the 1980 Summer Olympics and hosted the Opening and Clos-ing Ceremonies, Athletics, Football finals, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015.

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Norway and Hungary get the ball rolling in Oslo on Thursday with Bosnia hosting Ireland in Zenica on Friday. On Saturday, Ukraine host Slovenia in Lviv and Sweden take on the Danes in Stockholm.

The 34-year-old Ibrahimovic, still the Swedes’ most potent weapon, was named his country’s Footballer of the Year for the 10th time on Monday, fulfilling a promise he made last year to collect the prize again. “I don’t know if I can promise the same thing for next year,” said Ibrahi-movic, who could play at next year’s Olympics as an over-age player.

MIDFIELD ABSENCESThe playoffs could be the last

matches in charge for oppos-ing coaches Erik Hamren and Morten Olsen. Having missed

out on qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil, Sweden’s Hamren is unlikely to continue if they go out while Olsen will definitely step down when Denmark’s interest ends.

Both teams have seen their midfield ranks depleted by inju-ries, with the Danes losing Pione Sisto and Leon Andreasen, while Sweden are without Albin Ekdal and Pontus Wernbloom.

Norway failed to automati-cally qualify when a final-game defeat by Italy allowed Croatia to finish runners-up in Group H but Per-Mathias Hogmo’s side will be confident of overcom-ing a Hungary team who have not reached a major tournament since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

The Norwegians have been revitalised by the energetic mid-field performances of the likes of

Alexander Tettey, Jo Inge Berget and Stefan Johansen, as well as 16-year-old forward Martin Ode-gaard, and can point to not hav-ing lost against Hungary since 1981 as grounds for optimism.

BOSNIA UPBEATBosnia’s hopes of reaching the

finals have been boosted by the return of top scorer Edin Dzeko who missed their final two group-stage qualifiers with a knee injury. “Our key players are in good form and this is one of the reasons we are very optimistic,” coach Mehmed Bazdarevic told Bosnian media.

Ireland manager Martin O’Neill has injury and suspension problems to overcome. Defender John O’Shea and midfielder Jonathan Walters are banned, although both are eligible for the return in Dublin, while striker Shane Long and goalkeeper Rob Elliot are battling to be fit.

Ukraine’s clash with Slovenia is a rematch of the Euro 2000 playoff which the Slovenians won 3-2 on aggregate to reach their first major tournament as

an independent nation.Slovenia secured a play-

off spot after finishing third behind England and Switzer-land in Group E and will look to 36-year old striker Milivoje Novakovic, who bagged six goals in qualifying, to carry the attack to a Ukraine side with-out injured influential m i d f i e l d e r R u s l a n R o t a n for both legs.

Ukraine c o a c h M y k h a y l o Fomenko also has to fill another gap in midfield with Taras Stepanenko banned for the first leg, along with full back Olexandr Kuch-er. (rtr)

ZURICH — Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa was listed as an official FIFA presidential candidate on Thursday, while Musa Bility of Liberia was left out after failing an integrity check.

FIFA announced the five declared candidates for the Feb. 26 election, with Michel Platini a potential sixth man. Platini’s candidature was not judged at this stage by the FIFA elec-tion committee pending his ethics case.

The five candidates are: Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, Jerome Champagne of France, Gianni Infantino of Swit-zerland and Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa. They are in the running the replace Sepp Blatter, who announced in June he would step down as presi-dent after FIFA was plunged into crisis following U.S. and Swiss corruption investigations.

Sheikh Salman passed an integ-rity check by FIFA’s election pan-

el despite protests filed by rights groups in Bahrain. Activists claimed Sheikh Salman took part in a process of abusing rights of athlete protesters during pro-democracy events in 2011.

The integrity check weighed “hu-man rights violations” among “po-tential red flags,” which also included fraudulent behavior and match-fixing, FIFA said in a statement.

Bility, the Liberia soccer federation president, was excluded “in view of the content of the integrity check report relating to him,” the FIFA statement said.

“For reasons of protection of per-sonality rights, the ad-hoc electoral committee — while it has explained its considerations in detail to Musa Bility — will not comment publicly on the specifics of its decision,” the statement said.

The integrity check also considered “corporate records, litigation cases, bankruptcy proceedings, potential regulatory actions taken against the candidate and a review of media re-ports concerning potential red flags.”

Platini is currently suspended for 90 days by the FIFA ethics committee, which aims to have a full hearing by the end of the year. The former France captain is implicated in a Swiss crimi-nal investigation over a $2 million pay-ment from FIFA approved by Blatter in 2011. Blatter is also suspended from presidential duty and awaiting the eth-ics investigation. (ap)

ManCHesteR CIty winger Raheem Sterling does not regret forcing through a move away from Liverpool during a “difficult” off season and feels settled now that the negativity surrounding his transfer has died down. Sterling fell out with Liv-erpool and their supporters dur-ing the protracted transfer saga, which ended in the 20-year-old’s 49 million pound ($74.50 mil-lion) move to City, which made him the most expensive English player in history.

The winger appears to have found his feet at his new club, bagging four goals in his last six appearances after a slow start to the season. “I’m not trying to say I proved anyone wrong. It’s just what I thought at the time was right for me. My heart was saying that is what I should do (move

to City) and I have no regrets,” Sterling was quoted as saying by the British media.

“I’m really stubborn. I’m re-ally, really stubborn. Everything goes through one ear and out the other -- my mum says that as well. If there is something I want to do, I do it. “It was difficult. Obviously, you have negativ-ity around you. No one likes to hear the negatives, you want to hear positives all the time,” he added.

The England international, who maintained that his desire to move to City was driven by footballing reasons and not money, thanked his club team mates for helping to make him a better player.

“I go into training every day and see the players of the calibre that I am working with -- like

Vinny (Vincent Kompany), Ser-gio (Aguero), David (Silva), Joe (Hart),” he said. “There is only one thing you can do and that is improve with players like that, who have been around for many years and achieving stuff.”

Sterling, who is likely to fea-ture in England’s friendlies against Spain on Friday and France on Tuesday, has set his sights on winning a century of caps for his country -- a feat only nine players have so far achieved. “I want to do my best for my country and hopefully try to achieve 100 caps in the future,” Sterling said.

“I’m not going to hide that. I’ve got 18 now so hopefully if I keep working hard and do well for my club then I can be picked for more squads. “It’s a long time away, but 100 caps is definitely my ambition.” (rtr)

BUenOs aIRes - Brazil will sit back and absorb Argen-tina pressure before breaking out in counter-attacks in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier, according to home coach Gerardo Martino. “I think it will be a match in which attacking should permit us to have less defensive worries,” Martino told a news conference on Wednesday.

“It will determine if we are going to suffer more or less from quick breaks by Brazil, who will surely wait for us in their own half,” he said on the eve of the South American ‘cla-sico’ at the River Plate stadium. Martino, looking for his first win against Brazil after a 2-0 defeat in a friendly in Beijing last year,

said another key factor was his captain Lionel Messi’s absence through injury.

Argentina are a lowly seventh in the 10-nation South American group after picking up only one point and failing to score in Messi’s absence in their first two qualifiers. “Leo’s absence is always directly linked to the team’s result... Whenever we win, ‘Messi-dependence’ doesn’t exist, but where we lose it’s because of his absence and that’s not unimportant,” Martino said.

Martino’s opposite num-ber Dunga has a good record against Argentina with victories in a 2006 friendly in London, the 2007 Copa America final in

Venezuela, a World Cup qualifier in Rosario in 2009 and last year’s triumph in Beijing.

Dunga was sacked after a 2010 World Cup quarter-final defeat by the Netherlands but earned a recall last year after his country’s poor tournament on home soil while Martino inherited the runners-up from Alejandro Sabella and led them to second place at this year’s Copa America in Chile.

Newspaper reports say that with Argentine FA presidential elections next month, Martino will be closely scrutinised in Wednesday’s match and their next qualifier away to Colombia on Tuesday. “They would be dis-cussing my continuity anyway,

it’s got nothing to do with the political year,” he said brushing aside suggestions his job was on the line.

However, Martino could be made to suffer on Thursday by Neymar, to whom he gave his debut at Barcelona when he was their coach in the 2013-14 season and is now in brilliant form for the Spanish champions.

“Every player needs time to adapt. I trained a very good Neymar but what he’s doing now puts him on a level with the two footballers we consider above the rest,” he said, referring to Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ron-aldo. (rtr)

L a U s a n n e , Switzerland — Sepp

Blatter remains in a Swiss hospi-

tal after what his spokes-man called a “small break-down” related

to s t ress . The 79-year-old suspended

FIFA president expects to

leave the hospital next Monday, Zurich-based spokesman Klaus Stoehlker told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

“(Blatter) will be back of-ficially in business on Tuesday next week,” Stoehlker said in a telephone interview. “The checkup is finished and he is recovering.”

On Friday, Blatter’s American lawyer told the AP that he was at

a hospital. On Wednesday, long-time Blatter aide Walter Gagg told the AP “he was always at the hospital.” Blatter is appealing against his 90-day provisional ban by the FIFA ethics com-mittee over suspected financial misconduct.

He still hopes to host the Ballon d’Or award ceremony in Zurich on Jan. 11, after the suspension expires, Gagg said

on the sidelines of a meeting of Olympic sports. Blatter’s main goal is to host the FIFA election congress on Feb. 26, Gagg said.

On that day in Zurich, FIFA will elect a successor to Blatter, ending his more than 40 years working for soccer’s governing body.

Even if Blatter gets his interim ban lifted, by the FIFA appeal committee or Court of Arbitra-

tion for Sport, he then faces a full hearing before the ethics committee.

Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini were banned in the wake of a Swiss criminal case investigating financial miscon-duct at FIFA. The criminal case centers on whether Blatter mis-used FIFA money by making a $2 million payment to Platini for backdated salary in 2011. (ap)

Brazil will counter-attack against Argentina, says Martino

Sweden’s forward Zlatan Ibrahi-movic, wearing a mask against the cold, in action during train-ing ahead of the Euro 2016 play-off match Sweden vs. Denmark in Stockholm on Thursday Nov, 11, 2015.

Sweden and Ibra aim to silence Danes in playoffs

LOnDOn - sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic said last year’s World Cup was not worth watching without him and hopes history does not repeat itself when they play Denmark for a place at euro 2016. the scandinavian derby is one of four two-legged playoffs to fill the final four places for next year’s expanded 24-team tournament in France.

AP Photo/Vincent Thian, FILE

FILE - In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain speaks during an AFC conference in Kuala Lumpur.

FIFA passes Sheikh Salman as election candidate

Blatter remains in hospital after stress-related ‘breakdown’

No regrets over City move, says ‘stubborn’ Sterling

Action Images via Reuters / Jason Cairnduff

Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling shoots at goal

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Norway and Hungary get the ball rolling in Oslo on Thursday with Bosnia hosting Ireland in Zenica on Friday. On Saturday, Ukraine host Slovenia in Lviv and Sweden take on the Danes in Stockholm.

The 34-year-old Ibrahimovic, still the Swedes’ most potent weapon, was named his country’s Footballer of the Year for the 10th time on Monday, fulfilling a promise he made last year to collect the prize again. “I don’t know if I can promise the same thing for next year,” said Ibrahi-movic, who could play at next year’s Olympics as an over-age player.

MIDFIELD ABSENCESThe playoffs could be the last

matches in charge for oppos-ing coaches Erik Hamren and Morten Olsen. Having missed

out on qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil, Sweden’s Hamren is unlikely to continue if they go out while Olsen will definitely step down when Denmark’s interest ends.

Both teams have seen their midfield ranks depleted by inju-ries, with the Danes losing Pione Sisto and Leon Andreasen, while Sweden are without Albin Ekdal and Pontus Wernbloom.

Norway failed to automati-cally qualify when a final-game defeat by Italy allowed Croatia to finish runners-up in Group H but Per-Mathias Hogmo’s side will be confident of overcom-ing a Hungary team who have not reached a major tournament since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

The Norwegians have been revitalised by the energetic mid-field performances of the likes of

Alexander Tettey, Jo Inge Berget and Stefan Johansen, as well as 16-year-old forward Martin Ode-gaard, and can point to not hav-ing lost against Hungary since 1981 as grounds for optimism.

BOSNIA UPBEATBosnia’s hopes of reaching the

finals have been boosted by the return of top scorer Edin Dzeko who missed their final two group-stage qualifiers with a knee injury. “Our key players are in good form and this is one of the reasons we are very optimistic,” coach Mehmed Bazdarevic told Bosnian media.

Ireland manager Martin O’Neill has injury and suspension problems to overcome. Defender John O’Shea and midfielder Jonathan Walters are banned, although both are eligible for the return in Dublin, while striker Shane Long and goalkeeper Rob Elliot are battling to be fit.

Ukraine’s clash with Slovenia is a rematch of the Euro 2000 playoff which the Slovenians won 3-2 on aggregate to reach their first major tournament as

an independent nation.Slovenia secured a play-

off spot after finishing third behind England and Switzer-land in Group E and will look to 36-year old striker Milivoje Novakovic, who bagged six goals in qualifying, to carry the attack to a Ukraine side with-out injured influential m i d f i e l d e r R u s l a n R o t a n for both legs.

Ukraine c o a c h M y k h a y l o Fomenko also has to fill another gap in midfield with Taras Stepanenko banned for the first leg, along with full back Olexandr Kuch-er. (rtr)

ZURICH — Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa was listed as an official FIFA presidential candidate on Thursday, while Musa Bility of Liberia was left out after failing an integrity check.

FIFA announced the five declared candidates for the Feb. 26 election, with Michel Platini a potential sixth man. Platini’s candidature was not judged at this stage by the FIFA elec-tion committee pending his ethics case.

The five candidates are: Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, Jerome Champagne of France, Gianni Infantino of Swit-zerland and Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa. They are in the running the replace Sepp Blatter, who announced in June he would step down as presi-dent after FIFA was plunged into crisis following U.S. and Swiss corruption investigations.

Sheikh Salman passed an integ-rity check by FIFA’s election pan-

el despite protests filed by rights groups in Bahrain. Activists claimed Sheikh Salman took part in a process of abusing rights of athlete protesters during pro-democracy events in 2011.

The integrity check weighed “hu-man rights violations” among “po-tential red flags,” which also included fraudulent behavior and match-fixing, FIFA said in a statement.

Bility, the Liberia soccer federation president, was excluded “in view of the content of the integrity check report relating to him,” the FIFA statement said.

“For reasons of protection of per-sonality rights, the ad-hoc electoral committee — while it has explained its considerations in detail to Musa Bility — will not comment publicly on the specifics of its decision,” the statement said.

The integrity check also considered “corporate records, litigation cases, bankruptcy proceedings, potential regulatory actions taken against the candidate and a review of media re-ports concerning potential red flags.”

Platini is currently suspended for 90 days by the FIFA ethics committee, which aims to have a full hearing by the end of the year. The former France captain is implicated in a Swiss crimi-nal investigation over a $2 million pay-ment from FIFA approved by Blatter in 2011. Blatter is also suspended from presidential duty and awaiting the eth-ics investigation. (ap)

ManCHesteR CIty winger Raheem Sterling does not regret forcing through a move away from Liverpool during a “difficult” off season and feels settled now that the negativity surrounding his transfer has died down. Sterling fell out with Liv-erpool and their supporters dur-ing the protracted transfer saga, which ended in the 20-year-old’s 49 million pound ($74.50 mil-lion) move to City, which made him the most expensive English player in history.

The winger appears to have found his feet at his new club, bagging four goals in his last six appearances after a slow start to the season. “I’m not trying to say I proved anyone wrong. It’s just what I thought at the time was right for me. My heart was saying that is what I should do (move

to City) and I have no regrets,” Sterling was quoted as saying by the British media.

“I’m really stubborn. I’m re-ally, really stubborn. Everything goes through one ear and out the other -- my mum says that as well. If there is something I want to do, I do it. “It was difficult. Obviously, you have negativ-ity around you. No one likes to hear the negatives, you want to hear positives all the time,” he added.

The England international, who maintained that his desire to move to City was driven by footballing reasons and not money, thanked his club team mates for helping to make him a better player.

“I go into training every day and see the players of the calibre that I am working with -- like

Vinny (Vincent Kompany), Ser-gio (Aguero), David (Silva), Joe (Hart),” he said. “There is only one thing you can do and that is improve with players like that, who have been around for many years and achieving stuff.”

Sterling, who is likely to fea-ture in England’s friendlies against Spain on Friday and France on Tuesday, has set his sights on winning a century of caps for his country -- a feat only nine players have so far achieved. “I want to do my best for my country and hopefully try to achieve 100 caps in the future,” Sterling said.

“I’m not going to hide that. I’ve got 18 now so hopefully if I keep working hard and do well for my club then I can be picked for more squads. “It’s a long time away, but 100 caps is definitely my ambition.” (rtr)

BUenOs aIRes - Brazil will sit back and absorb Argen-tina pressure before breaking out in counter-attacks in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier, according to home coach Gerardo Martino. “I think it will be a match in which attacking should permit us to have less defensive worries,” Martino told a news conference on Wednesday.

“It will determine if we are going to suffer more or less from quick breaks by Brazil, who will surely wait for us in their own half,” he said on the eve of the South American ‘cla-sico’ at the River Plate stadium. Martino, looking for his first win against Brazil after a 2-0 defeat in a friendly in Beijing last year,

said another key factor was his captain Lionel Messi’s absence through injury.

Argentina are a lowly seventh in the 10-nation South American group after picking up only one point and failing to score in Messi’s absence in their first two qualifiers. “Leo’s absence is always directly linked to the team’s result... Whenever we win, ‘Messi-dependence’ doesn’t exist, but where we lose it’s because of his absence and that’s not unimportant,” Martino said.

Martino’s opposite num-ber Dunga has a good record against Argentina with victories in a 2006 friendly in London, the 2007 Copa America final in

Venezuela, a World Cup qualifier in Rosario in 2009 and last year’s triumph in Beijing.

Dunga was sacked after a 2010 World Cup quarter-final defeat by the Netherlands but earned a recall last year after his country’s poor tournament on home soil while Martino inherited the runners-up from Alejandro Sabella and led them to second place at this year’s Copa America in Chile.

Newspaper reports say that with Argentine FA presidential elections next month, Martino will be closely scrutinised in Wednesday’s match and their next qualifier away to Colombia on Tuesday. “They would be dis-cussing my continuity anyway,

it’s got nothing to do with the political year,” he said brushing aside suggestions his job was on the line.

However, Martino could be made to suffer on Thursday by Neymar, to whom he gave his debut at Barcelona when he was their coach in the 2013-14 season and is now in brilliant form for the Spanish champions.

“Every player needs time to adapt. I trained a very good Neymar but what he’s doing now puts him on a level with the two footballers we consider above the rest,” he said, referring to Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ron-aldo. (rtr)

L a U s a n n e , Switzerland — Sepp

Blatter remains in a Swiss hospi-

tal after what his spokes-man called a “small break-down” related

to s t ress . The 79-year-old suspended

FIFA president expects to

leave the hospital next Monday, Zurich-based spokesman Klaus Stoehlker told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

“(Blatter) will be back of-ficially in business on Tuesday next week,” Stoehlker said in a telephone interview. “The checkup is finished and he is recovering.”

On Friday, Blatter’s American lawyer told the AP that he was at

a hospital. On Wednesday, long-time Blatter aide Walter Gagg told the AP “he was always at the hospital.” Blatter is appealing against his 90-day provisional ban by the FIFA ethics com-mittee over suspected financial misconduct.

He still hopes to host the Ballon d’Or award ceremony in Zurich on Jan. 11, after the suspension expires, Gagg said

on the sidelines of a meeting of Olympic sports. Blatter’s main goal is to host the FIFA election congress on Feb. 26, Gagg said.

On that day in Zurich, FIFA will elect a successor to Blatter, ending his more than 40 years working for soccer’s governing body.

Even if Blatter gets his interim ban lifted, by the FIFA appeal committee or Court of Arbitra-

tion for Sport, he then faces a full hearing before the ethics committee.

Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini were banned in the wake of a Swiss criminal case investigating financial miscon-duct at FIFA. The criminal case centers on whether Blatter mis-used FIFA money by making a $2 million payment to Platini for backdated salary in 2011. (ap)

Brazil will counter-attack against Argentina, says Martino

Sweden’s forward Zlatan Ibrahi-movic, wearing a mask against the cold, in action during train-ing ahead of the Euro 2016 play-off match Sweden vs. Denmark in Stockholm on Thursday Nov, 11, 2015.

Sweden and Ibra aim to silence Danes in playoffs

LOnDOn - sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic said last year’s World Cup was not worth watching without him and hopes history does not repeat itself when they play Denmark for a place at euro 2016. the scandinavian derby is one of four two-legged playoffs to fill the final four places for next year’s expanded 24-team tournament in France.

AP Photo/Vincent Thian, FILE

FILE - In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain speaks during an AFC conference in Kuala Lumpur.

FIFA passes Sheikh Salman as election candidate

Blatter remains in hospital after stress-related ‘breakdown’

No regrets over City move, says ‘stubborn’ Sterling

Action Images via Reuters / Jason Cairnduff

Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling shoots at goal

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GIANYAR - If you are a spiritualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple estimated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawegunung hamlet, Pejeng vil-lage, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar. By car, it is about 50 minutes away or about 34 km from Denpasar. This historic site is now becoming a tourist destination visited by many foreign travelers.

Other than being known as a tourist destination with an abundance of temples, Bali also retains a good few of cave. One of them is Goa Garba posing one of the ancient relics having a great significance. Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

It is situated on a steep cliff, right on the bank of the Pakerisan River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a hermitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakeri-san River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heritage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Meanwhile, the entrance gate is made of sand stone. It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of stepping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attrac-tion has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

Goa Garba

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Harrison Barnes added 19 points for Golden State, which won its ninth straight to open the season. Curry’s was 9 of 21 from the field, but only 3 of 10 from outside the arc. The Warriors finished shoot-ing 41 percent from 3-point range, 11 of 27.

Marc Gasol had 26 points, Zach Randolph added 19 and Tony Allen finished with 15 as the Grizzlies lost their fourth straight.

San Antonio’s LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points in his return to Portland, leading the Spurs to a 113-101 win over the Trail Blazers.

Aldridge, who played nine sea-sons in Portland before leaving as a free agent this summer, added six rebounds. Kawhi Leonard finished with 20 points for the Spurs, who won their third straight.

Damian Lillard led the Blaz-ers with 22 points, including five

3-pointers, and nine assists. Port-land has lost three straight.

In Dallas, Dirk Nowitzki scored a season-high 31 points to lead the Mavericks over the Los Angeles Clippers 118-108 in DeAndre Jor-dan’s first visit since backing out on an agreement to sign with the Mavericks in free agency.

A tight second half upstaged the sideshow of the return of Jordan, who was booed throughout before coach Doc Rivers pulled him in the fourth quarter with Dallas success-fully using the hack-a-Jordan tactic against one of the NBA’s worst free throw shooters.

As Dallas pulled away in the fi-nal minute, the crowd chanted a de-rogatory phrase at Jordan, who had nine points and 11 rebounds with a minus-23 scoring margin while he was in the game. Blake Griffin led Los Angeles with 21 points. The Atlanta Hawks downed the New

Orleans Pelicans 106-98 after Al Horford scored 26 points.

After trailing by 12 points in the first half, the Hawks pulled away down the stretch. Paul Millsap con-verted a couple of three-point plays to help seal the victory for Atlanta, which bounced back from a home loss to Minnesota two nights earlier.

Denver’s Kenneth Faried re-bounded Danilo Gallinari’s errant shot in the lane for a putback with 5 seconds remaining to give the Nug-gets a 103-102 victory over the Mil-waukee Bucks, while the Toronto Raptors defeated the Philadelphia 76ers after Kyle Lowry scored 23 points and Luis Scola had 21.

In other games Nik Vucevic hit a fallaway 18-footer at the buzzer as the Orlando Magic edged the Los Angeles Lakers 101-99, the Char-lotte Hornets edged the New York Knicks 95-93, the Indiana Pacers beat the Boston Celtics 102-91, the Brooklyn Nets overcame the Houston Rockets 106-98 and the Los Angeles Kings were 101-92 winners over the Detroit Pistons. (ap)

MOSCOW — Facing allegations that Russia engages in extensive, state-sponsored doping, President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called on sports officials to carry out an internal investigation - but said that clean athletes shouldn’t be punished for the actions of those who take banned drugs.

Putin’s comments at a late-night meeting in Sochi, the city that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, reflected concerns that Russia’s track and field athletes could be hit with a blanket ban for next year’s summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Putin ordered Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and “all colleagues con-nected with sport” to pay close attention to the doping allegations and for an internal investigation to be conducted - one that guaranteed full cooperation with international anti-doping bodies.

“The struggle with doping in sports, unfortunately, remains a pressing issue and it requires unending attention,” he said.

However, Putin also drew a clear distinction with clean athletes. “It’s absolutely clear that athletes who stay away from dope ... shouldn’t be held responsible” for those who use performance enhancing drugs, he said.

After the meeting, Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukhov echoed that position.

“I am confident that Russian athletes who are honest and clean, who never used doping, who undergo various checks -- no one has the right to strip them of the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games,” he said, according to state news agency Tass.

The meeting was delayed by hours because of heavy rains that pre-vented sports federation heads from flying to Sochi. However, Putin’s determination to press ahead with the session indicated the sensitivity of the issue for Russia.

The meeting came in the wake of Monday’s report by an independent commission appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency that said Rus-sian sports is plagued by extensive, state-sanctioned doping.

As a result of the report, Putin is now up against a Friday deadline for track’s governing body to decide on whether to suspend Russia - a first step toward excluding its athletes from next year’s Olympics.

Sports are a substantial piece of Russia’s self-esteem -- both in ath-letes’ performances and its ability to host huge international events. Putin himself has built much of his image on vigorous athletic exploits of his own. (ap)

Putin calls for investigation of Russian doping allegations

Warriors remain unbeaten with 100-84 win over Grizzlies

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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) chases the ball after knocking it loose from Memphis Grizzlies guard Courtney Lee in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednes-day, Nov. 11, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Stephen Curry scored 28 points and Andre Iguodala added 20 as the Golden State Warriors matched a club record for most wins to start a season with a 100-84 vic-tory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday.

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A view of the Luzhniki stadium which was the main venue at the 1980 Summer Olympics and hosted the Opening and Clos-ing Ceremonies, Athletics, Football finals, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015.

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BANGKOK - Fourteen orangutans smuggled into Thai-land illegally were sent back to Indonesia on Thursday, but the operation was not without incident -- one of the powerful apes tore a wildlife officer’s finger off when he tried to put them in cages.

Twelve of the orangutans were smuggled into Thailand as babies and rescued seven years ago by police and sent to a wildlife breeding center in Ratchaburi, 80 kms (50 miles) west of Bangkok. Two of the great apes were born at the centre.

“The animals were still babies when we got them and they should have been sent back right away,” Edwin Wiek, director of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand told Reu-ters. “Now it’s too late for them to go back to the wild.”

Documents from Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conversation said the orangutans originated from the island of Borneo in Indonesia.

The illegal trade in endangered orangutans sees the great apes poached from Indonesian forests for food, to obtain infants for the domestic and international pet trade, or for traditional medicine. Between 2006 and 2007, Thailand returned 52 smuggled orangutans to Indonesia.

The latest apes to be sent back to Indonesia were sent to Bangkok’s international Don Muang airport on Wednesday and put in cages ahead of their five hour journey to Jakarta, a department statement said.

One tore an officer’s finger off when he tried to put them in cages, the department said. Around five years of age, an orangutan has the strength of an adult male human, and by maturity will be as strong as five to seven adult male humans.

The orangutans will spend 60 days in quarantine at a Jakarta safari park and will be moved to a rescue center in Borneo, home to 2,000 orangutans. (rtr)

The comments, which reflect an apparent delay in implement-ing President Joko Widodo’s six-month-old decision to scrap the curbs in politically-sensitive Papua, came the same day that a human rights body queried why they still persist.

On a visit to the remote prov-ince, Widodo said foreign jour-

nalists no longer needed special permission to travel there, a requirement imposed decades ago because of a long-simmering secessionist movement.

“I don’t see any restrictions anymore,” Indonesia’s security chief, Luhut Panjaitan, told re-porters on Wednesday, when asked about the media curbs. “I

need someone to call me if there is a problem - I’ll fix the problem.”

Asked why the national police still required all foreign journal-ists to apply for a travel permit for Papua, he responded, “If it is necessary we can fire them”.

In a repor t publ ished on Wednesday, titled “Something to Hide?”, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch questioned why the media restrictions still remain in place.

Widodo needs to issue a writ-ten directive, said Phelim Kine, the group’s deputy Asia director,

adding that journalists seeking travel permits still faced intense opposition from officials.

Soon after Widodo’s announce-ment of the removal of the re-strictions, senior government and security officials had maintained that foreign journalists would still need permission and permits to visit the area.

Last year, two French journal-ists convicted of misusing their tourist visas to work as journalists in Papua spent 11 weeks in deten-tion before being sent home.

Papua, which is home to one of the biggest copper mines operated by U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, was incorporated into Indonesia under a widely criticised U.N.-backed vote in 1969, after Jakarta took over the area in 1963 at the end of Dutch colonial rule.

Following decades of neglect, Widodo is looking to open up the impoverished region, which has a history of clashes between security forces and the insurgents. (rtr)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo has called on all security personnel to be on alert during the upcoming simultaneous regional head elections (pilkada) to antici-pate any conflict.

“To every security personnel, I order you to not just play the role of a firefighter,” the head of state affirmed when opening a national coordinating meeting on the imple-mentation of pilkada on Thursday.

The president urged the personnel to take anticipatory measures in order to prevent conflicts. “Do not let a small one become bigger. Do not let a small incident embarrass us. Regardless of how small the is-sue is, all local police resort chiefs, prosecutors, and military chiefs must be able to detect it as soon as possible before it escalates into a bigger crisis,” Jokowi stated.

The pilkada 2015 is important

as the people in 269 regions will, for the first time, be able to simul-taneously and directly elect local regional heads.

This year’s pilkada will be held to elect nine governors and vice gover-nors, 224 district heads and their depu-ties, and 36 mayors and their deputies.

The head of state expressed hope that the local elections would run smoothly and peacefully.

Also present during the opening

ceremony of the coordinating meet-ing were Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Minister/State Secretary Pratikno, Coordinating Minister for Culture and Human Development Puan Maharani, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Chief Sutiyoso, among others.

Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo reiterated that the meeting

was held to consolidate the pilkada this year to democratically elect re-gional and deputy regional heads.

On December 9, 2015, Indone-sia will organize the first stage of pilkada, while the second stage will be held in 2017.

The government has planned to use an e-voting system in the pilkada in 2017 and in the legisla-tive and presidential elections in 2019. (ant)

No foreign media curbs in PapuaJAKARTA - Indonesia has no travel restrictions on foreign

journalists in its easternmost province of Papua, the country’s security chief said on Wednesday, vowing to dismiss any police officials who blocked such freedom.

President calls for security alert during head elections

Thailand returns 14 smuggled orangutans to Indonesia

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Orangutans look on in a cage at Kao Pratubchang Conservation Centre in Ratchaburi, Thailand, November 11, 2015.

The decision by a Nordic state that touts itself as a “humanitarian superpower” underscored how the flow of refugees into the European Union is straining its prized system of open internal borders close to breaking point.

Germany warned it could start sending Syrian refugees back to other EU states from which they came, prompting Hungary to insist it would take none, while Swe-den’s neighbour Denmark said it was tightening immigration rules and Slovenia began to emulate Budapest in erecting new border fences.

Sweden has welcomed more asylum-seeking refugees and mi-grants per capita than any other EU country and authorities forecast that up to 190,000 asylum seekers could arrive this year, double the previous record from the early 1990s.

“Our signal to the rest of the EU is crystal clear - Sweden is the country that has shouldered the greatest responsibility for the refugee crisis,” Interior Minis-ter Anders Ygeman told a news conference hastily called by the centre-left government. “If we are

to cope with this mutual challenge, the other countries must take their responsibility.”

Sweden’s border controls will primarily extend to the bridge across the Oresund strait separating Sweden and Denmark and ferry ports in the region. They will be imposed from Thursday for a period of 10 days and could be extended by 20-day periods.

The government acted on the same day as EU leaders, at a sum-mit in Malta with African counter-parts, offered them aid and better access to Europe for African busi-ness and other travellers in return for help in curbing chaotic bouts of migration across the Mediter-ranean from Africa and promises to take back migrants expelled by EU states.

After African delegations depart on Thursday, EU leaders will hold an emergency summit of their own to review slow progress in imple-menting steps meant to control the flow of refugees entering the EU via Greece, and negotiations with Turkey to get its help in slowing departures of Syrian refugees.

In Berlin, Finance Minister

Wolfgang Schaeuble described Germany’s refugee crisis as being like an avalanche. Chancellor An-gela Merkel has come under fierce pressure since offering shelter to close to a million asylum-seekers this year.

“Avalanches can be caused if a careless skier ... sets some snow on the move,” Schaeuble told an event on European integration held in Berlin. “Whether we are at the stage where the avalanche has already reached the valley below, or whether we are at the stage at the top of the slope, I don’t know.”

TENTS FOR REFUGEESSweden’s government had

warned last week that it could no longer guarantee finding accommo-dation for newly-arrived refugees. The minority government has faced pressure also from the centre-right opposition and far-right, anti-im-migrant Sweden Democrats - who are rising in polls - to tighten up on refugees.

The Swedish Migration Agency already plans to shelter thousands of refugees in heated tents due to a housing shortage, while some peo-ple may be accommodated in venues such as ski resorts and a theme park. Some 10,000 refugees arrived last week, and 2,000 in one day - both records for Sweden. Compounding concerns, there have been more than a dozen suspected arson attacks on buildings earmarked for refugees in the last few months.

“The fact the we can see that hundreds of people now can’t be provided with a roof over their heads by the Migration Agency and are forced to sleep outdoors or in railway stations, that risks creating threats to order and security,” Yge-man said. Stockholm has also ap-plied to the European Commission to arrange for some of those to be moved to other EU countries.

The U.N. refugee agency UN-HCR said last week that refugees and migrants were likely to con-tinue to arrive in Europe at a rate of up to 5,000 per day via Turkey this winter.

More than 760,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to EU territory this year, entering mainly via Greece and Italy, after fleeing wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as conflicts and deprivation in Eritrea, other parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the U.N. agency says. (rtr)

BEIJING — His arms were bent behind the chair, his wrists cuffed so tightly his hands swelled. During 99 days in police detention, Beijing-based lawyer Yu Wensheng was interrogated about 200 times — often late into the night and while in severe pain.

“It was so painful I thought it would be better to die than to live,” said Yu, who has represented civil rights activists and was detained last year by Chinese police on a minor public disturbance charge.

The lawyer’s case is one ex-ample of how China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, as documented by the human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Thursday.

The expose comes just days before a United Nation panel is scheduled to meet in Geneva to review whether China has followed through on its promises to eradicate the use of torture.

While Beijing is expected to tout how it has fulfilled its promises, Amnesty said the country’s deep-rooted use of torture to extract confessions from suspects has seen little improvement despite legal reforms introduced since 2010.

The report echoes findings by Human Rights Watch in a May study, with both saying unlawful and inhumane practices remain routine and that reforms have done little to curb them. Amnesty came to the conclusion after interview-ing 37 lawyers throughout China, analyzing 590 court decisions and parsing judicial rules and proce-dures.

“For the police, obtaining a

confession is still the easiest way to secure a conviction,” said Pat-rick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International.

China’s Foreign Ministry de-clined to comment directly on the report Thursday, although a spokes-man said Beijing was committed to ensuring “fairness and justice in every case.”

“Extorting a confession by tor-ture is explicitly banned by China’s laws. The person who is found exercising torture during interroga-tion will be subject to punishment,” spokesman Hong Lei told reporters at a regular news conference.

While torture is commonly used to force confessions from common criminals, it becomes more brutal against political dissidents, social activists and religious practitioners, said Yu, who was released after he confessed to being a trouble-maker.

“The practice of torture is com-monplace and deeply entrenched,” he said. “It fundamentally lies within a political system that has no checks.”

Despite regular accounts by victims, reports by international human rights groups and exposes in state media, Chinese authorities say the practice is waning or now non-existent.

In April 2014, Zhao Chunguang, a senior public security official overseeing police detention fa-cilities, said there had not been a single case of coercing confessions through torture following new rules aimed at preventing the use of torture. The public security and justice ministries did not respond to faxed questions about the use of torture. (ap)

BERLIN — Berlin police say they’ve raided 10 buildings in the German capital as part of a crackdown on far-right hate speech on social media networks.

Police said Thursday that the morning raids involved 60 of-ficers, who confiscated smartphones and computers as evidence, which are now being evaluated. They didn’t have any immediate information on arrests.

They say the raids are part of an ongoing investigation into hate speech spread over social media meant to incite people against asylum-seekers and refugee housing.

Berlin’s top security official, Frank Henkel, says authorities “won’t turn away if racism or incitement is being spread on the Internet.”

He says that the authorities alone can’t police hate speech online and appealed for social networks themselves to combat it more effectively. (ap)

China use of torture uncurbed by legal reform

Berlin police raid sites in crackdown on

online hate speech

Refugee haven Sweden imposes temporary border

controls in EU migration crisisSTOCKHOLM - Sweden will impose temporary border con-

trols from Thursday in response to a record influx of refugees, a turnaround for a country known for its open-door policies that also threw down the gauntlet to other EU nations hit by a migration crisis.

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Flowers and candles are placed at the site where a refriger-ated truck with decomposing bodies was found by an Austrian motorway patrol near the Hungarian border, near Parndorf, Austria, in this August 28, 2015 file photo. To match Special Report.

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SHANGHAI - E-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday that Chinese and international consumers spent more than $14 billion in the world’s biggest online shopping day, as it sought to soothe worries over China’s slowing economy.

The November 11 “Singles Day”, which fell on Wednesday, has evolved into the globe’s biggest online shopping festival since Alibaba began using the date in 2009 to promote sales through its platforms. The $14.3 billion worth of merchandise volume this year smashed through last year’s tally of $9.3 billion, according to figures from Alibaba.

“This day demonstrates the power of domestic China consump-tion and the Chinese consumer’s strong demand for international products,” Alibaba chief executive officer Daniel Zhang said in a statement.

The total was more than double the $6.6 billion recorded last year in online buying during the peak US retail period, the five days from the Thanksgiving holiday to the following Monday, according to Internet analytics firm comScore.

Alibaba’s New York-listed stock has been hammered by worries over the Chinese economy, serving as a proxy for slowing growth. It closed down 1.94 percent at $79.85 on Wednesday despite the shopping festival.

Chinese growth hit a 24-year low in 2014 and has slowed further this year, as it tries to shift from investment and exports to domestic consumption. Under what leaders call the “new normal”, the country logged its worst economic performance since the global financial cri-sis in the third quarter, with the economy growing just 6.9 percent.

In a bright spot, October retail sales -- a key indicator of consumer spending -- jumped 11.0 percent from a year earlier, the fastest increase since December last year, official figures showed Wednes-day. Alibaba stands to benefit as its Taobao platform dominates the consumer-to-consumer online market, while its Tmall platform is believed to command more than half the Chinese market for business-to-consumer transactions.

Alibaba’s online payment unit, Alipay, processed 710 million transactions during the shopping festival, the statement said, peaking at almost 86,000 per second.

The number of buyers using mobile devices -- a key priority for Alibaba -- reached 95 million through Taobao and Tmall, it said, without giving a figure for total buyers. (afp)

In a report on the importance of vanguard innovation on economic growth, the World Intellectual Property Organization said nearly all patents within the cutting-edge areas of 3D printing, robotics and nanotechnology were held by a handful of countries.

“We need to reinforce the envi-ronments that give rise to the break-through technologies of tomorrow,” said WIPO director Francis Gurry.

The UN agency pointed out that in the past, game-changing inven-tions like airplanes, antibiotics and

semiconductors created booming industries and became “the root of long-lasting expansions in eco-nomic output”.

In the same way, 3D printing for instance, with its ability to “print” anything from guns to cars, prosthetics and works of art, is predicted to transform our lives in coming decades as dramatically as the Internet did before it.

The same goes for robotics, used in a wide range of fields, for in-stance replacing humans in danger-ous environments or manufacturing

processes, or to create prosthetics, and nanotechnology -- the creation of systems and objects on atomic and molecular scale.

But the WIPO report found that only six countries, Japan, the United States, Germany, France, Britain and South Korea have since 1995 filed more than 75 percent of all patents in the three areas.

China meanwhile appears to be catching up. When counting just since 2005, the country has been responsible for more than a quarter of patents worldwide in the areas of 3D printing and robotics, and almost 15 percent of nanotechnol-ogy filings.

In contrast to the longer es-tablished innovating countries,

Chinese patents in these areas are filed mainly by universities and public research organisations, WIPO said.

While there is not always a direct link between where an invention is patented and where a technology will develop and flourish, “initial conditions matter”, WIPO’s chief economist Carsten Fink told re-porters.

Gurry meanwhile hinted more countries could likely benefit from diving into cutting-edge innovation, pointing to the well-known links “between technological progress ... or innovation and economic growth”.

Japanese companies are leading in the area of robotics, the report

found, pointing out that eight out of 10 patent applications in the field came from firms like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Sony.

US companies meanwhile col-lectively top the list of nanotechnol-ogy patents, even though Samsung is single-handedly the top patent filer in the field.

US entities also file for most 3D printing patents, with 3D Systems and Stratasys topping the list, and with General Electric and United Technologies among the top 10.

Three German companies -- Siemens, MTU Aero Engines and EOS -- along with three Japanese companies -- Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Toshiba also figure among the top 3D printing patent filers. (afp)

UN urges more investment in cutting-edge technologies to drive growth

GENEVA - Japan, the United States but also increasingly China, are among the few nations driving global innovations like 3D-printing, the UN said Wednesday, urging more invest-ments in fields expected to carry future economic growth.

World’s biggest online shopping day nets over $14 billion

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Jack Ma, executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, center, speaks near Tom Farley, CEO of New York Stock Exchange, centre left, and invited guests before ringing the bell for the opening of New York Stock Exchange ceremony to celebrate the “Singles’ Day” global online shopping festival in front of a giant screen showing real-time sales figures of e-commerce giant Alibaba, held at National Aquatic Center, also known as the “Water Cube” in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015.

NEGARA - After being post-poned because there is no readiness of support, residents of Negara pub-lic market coalesced into the Sanji Merta Association give indication to support the revitalization of the market.

This support was delivered by the Chief of the Sanji Merta As-sociation, Gusti Putu Adnyana, to reporters on the sidelines of the Pura Melanting renovation at the local market, coinciding with the Rambut Sedana temple ceremony, Wednesday (Nov. 11).

Indeed, according to Adnyana, after the rejection against revitaliza-tion two years ago, his association claimed to have no problem with Jembrana District. All this time, communication has been constantly made and there have been discus-sions on the revitalization plan in accordance with the expectation of the market merchants.

According to him, the mer-chants also began to realize the building has been damaged. Later on, the pattern of revitalization will be determined through the proposal of merchants. Previously, there was indeed a miscommuni-cation.

Furthermore, the renovation of Pura Melanting was begun with de-molition of the eight shrines of the Pura Melanting last Wednesday. It is carried out independently. Since it was built in 1974, the temple sup-ported by 215 supporting devotees was last renovated around 1984. Today, the total buildings have been fragile. Palm fiber of the shrine roof has started to leak. According to him, the renovation will be made in two stages.

Firstly, it will be focused on the shrines and then resumed to the offering pavilion and compound wall. In accordance with budget

plan, the first stage will spend IDR 129.5 million and the second stage IDR 302.75 million, making a total of IDR 580.25 million. For funding need, the committee will firstly expect the donation of market residents. Later on, it may ask for financial assistance, including from local government.

He said that the government of Jembrana as the owner of the asset indeed has not yet provided any assistance. So far, the committee has not submitted a proposal to the government. Probably, the proposal may be submitted in the second stage. (kmb26)

Chief of the Klungkung Transportation Agency, Nen-gah Sukasta, revealed that his agency has increased his personnel at a number of traditional crossing ports to an-ticipate the surge in passengers on Buda Cemeng Klawu or Wednesday. According to him, although the roro vessel has been operated since Wednesday morning, the number of passengers using the services remains normal. The pas-senger crossing from Nusa Penida to Padang Bai is not even more than 10 people.

Despite the losses in terms of the number of passengers, Nengah Sukasta asserted that roro vessel will continue to operate regardless of the number of passengers. The de-crease in the number of passengers using roro vessel is also caused by the lack of information regarding the readiness of vessel operation. The vessel planned to operate on Monday (Nov. 9), in fact could not operate due to the damage to gear box after having repaired costing about IDR 2 billion.

On the other hand, traditional crossing has now been equipped with a fast boat that can cross to Nusa Penida within 30 minutes. This improved service also makes passengers more comfortable to cross through traditional ports. Associated with readiness of traditional port to face the surge, Nengah Sukasta claimed to have coordinated with boat owners in order to increase their vessel to cope with the increasing number of crossings.

In addition, he hoped that passenger security when crossing through traditional port can always be maintained. Thus, passengers can arrive safely. (dwa)

Residents of public market hints revitalization

The renovation of the temple in Negara public market is

started before it is being revitalized IBP/File

Surge of crossing to Nusa Penida

Transportation Agency directs to traditional crossing

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One of the Ships use for transportation to Nusa Penida

SEMARAPURA - Although the KMP Nusa Jaya Abadi or roro vessel has been operated from Wednesday, people crossing to Nusa Penida prefer to cross through traditional ports. The Transpor-tation Agency of Klungkung has anticipated the surge of passenger by operating more vessels.

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Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has won more than 80 percent of the seats declared so far in the lower house, a result that puts her on course to form the new cabinet, and is well ahead in the upper house and regional assemblies.

If the full results confirm the trend, Suu Kyi’s triumph will sweep out an old guard of former generals that has run Myanmar since Thein Sein in ushered in sweeping democratic and economic reforms four years ago. “U.S. President Obama...congratulated the president and the entire government on having been able to hold a historic free and fair general election,” said presidential spokesman and Information Minister Ye Htut on his Facebook page.

“He said America would continue co-operating with the Myanmar government.” Obama has visited Myanmar twice in the past three years, hoping to make its transition to democracy a foreign policy legacy of his presidency.

Thein Sein and the powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing have already endorsed Suu Kyi’s victory, congratulating her on Wednes-day on winning the majority of the seats in the first free election in 25 years.

The two reiterated their commitment to respect the result and agreed to Suu Kyi’s request to hold reconciliation talks soon,

although the parties are still to agree on the details.

Such unambiguous endorsements of Suu Kyi’s victory could smooth the lengthy post-election transition, ahead of the first session of parliament which reconvenes on Monday. It also sets the stage for cooperation between democratic activists and the army, which had fought them during half a century of iron-fisted rule before a handover to a semi-civilian government in 2011.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE“The government will respect and follow

the people’s choice and decision, and work on transferring power peacefully according to the timetable,” read a statement posted on the Facebook page of the presidential spokes-

man, adding that the president would work with “all other people” to ensure stability in the post-election period.

The armed forces also congratulated Suu Kyi. The military continues to wield considerable power in Myanmar’s political institutions, under a constitution drafted before the end of nearly 50 years of junta rule. In addition to holding an unelected 25 percent bloc of seats in parliament, the commander-in-chief nominates the heads of three powerful ministries - interior, defence and border security.

The interior ministry gives him control of the Southeast Asian nation’s pervasive bureaucracy, which could pose a significant obstacle to the NLD’s ability to execute policy. It is unclear how Suu Kyi and the

generals will work together.“Tatmadaw will do what is best in co-

operation with the new government during the post-election period. Public trust can be won through correct deeds,” said Min Aung Hlaing in a speech posted to his Facebook account, refering to the military. “Tatmadaw will continue to strength the multi-party de-mocracy system,” he said.

Although Min Aung Hlaing’s tone matched Suu Kyi’s statements seeking reconcilitation, their relationship is said to be strained.

One of the biggest sources of tension between Suu Kyi and the military is a clause in the constitution barring her from the presidency because her children are foreign nationals. Few doubt the military inserted the clause to rule her out. (ap)

BUCHAREST, Romania — Two more people have died of burns sustained in a deadly night-club fire in the Romanian capital, bringing the total number of deaths in the tragedy to 53.

Spokesman for the Floreasca Emergency Hospital Bogdan Oprita said Thursday two people died at

the unit during the night.Twenty-six people initially died

in the Oct. 30 blaze in the Colectiv nightclub which erupted when a spark ignited foam decor during a heavy-metal concert, sending panicked revelers stampeding for the single-door exit. Patients have succumbed to their injuries almost on a daily basis since.

The blaze sparked mass pro-tests that caused the collapse of the government. People blamed widespread corruption and bad governance for the fire.

President Klaus Iohannis has appointed former EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos to form a technocrat government. (ap)

2 more die of injuries in nightclub fire, death toll is 53

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005 file photo, relatives and friends of the victims who died in a nightclub fire that killed over 180 people pray and light candles before a march through the streets of Buenos Aires.

Obama calls Myanmar president, endorses election as Suu Kyi eyes majority

YANGON - U.S. President Barack Obama called Myanmar leader Thein Sein to congratulate him on Thursday on the staging of a historic general election, in which democracy cham-pion Aung San Suu Kyi trounced the ruling camp.

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People walk around Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, November 10, 2015.

TABANAN - Tista village, in Keram-bitan, has magnificent agricultural lands that have a lot of potential to be used as a tourist attraction. Although not as dramatic as Jatiwuluh’s terraced rice paddies, the people of Trista could certainly benefit from maintaining their agricultural land for tourism rather than converting arable land into building developments. There is a cus-tomary rule or perarem aimed at preserving the wetlands, however some people in this community have been lured by housing developers into breaking this rule.

Headman of Tista, I Made Suardana Pu-tra, said that the idea of developing the idea of turning Tista into a tourism village was inspired by field work (KKN) conducted by students from Udayana University. Given the potential that village tourism has to contribute to improving the welfare of the villagers, this idea has gradually been ex-ecuted. “To establish a tourism village, the village authorities of Tista have conducted tests and interviews and created a plan that has been submitted to the federal govern-ment,” explained Suardana

Tista villagers routinely do volunteer work to make improvements to the village and more and more tourists have been coming to visit. “Currently the wetlands are experiencing drought, but normally the paddy fields are verdant and remain productive to this day,” he said.

Apart from the potential of agriculture to draw visitors, Tista also has a unique and outstanding cultural heritage, including the traditional art of Andir that combines Calonarang and Legong Kraton that is only found in Trista.

The Headman of Tista has conducted comparative visits to a number of other tourism villages. “The concept used at Jatiluwih’s tourist attraction will be imple-mented in Tista. We are preparing a bros-sure now and hope to have things running in 2016,” said Suardana.

The dream of making Tista into a tourism village has however started to be overshadowed by land conversions at Subak Buluh that are being carried out by a housing developer. At least 3,000 square meters of land located in the middle of the subak area have been dredged. Although Tista has a perarem that forbids any such development in the region, this rule has been breached but eh developer. Ruling representatives of Subak Buluh a log with the support of the customary and admin-istrative village authorities of Tista have blocked the entrance to the land being dredged.

“This is being done in an effort to minimize land conversion in Tista village. What’s more, Subak Buluh 87 hectares of paddy fields have become the icon of the tourism village that will developed in a similar way as Jatiluwih,” said Suardana. (kmb28)

Chief of the Gianyar Sanitation and Landscap-ing Agency (DKP), I Wayan Kujus Pawitra, said on Wednesday (Nov. 11) that Gianyar District has actually implemented clean river program as an effort to anticipate floods. The program mainly targets a number of areas considered vulnerable to flooding or passed through by dirty streams and experienced silting.

However, such an effort is not enough. Floods can occur any time if the clean river program is not followed up with joint efforts of all the com-ponents in maintaining sanitation. “Sustainable synergy between the government, private sector and the communities in maintaining sanitation especially in the rivers and drains is critical to prevent flooding,” he said.

He said that sanitation of the rivers and drains must be maintained from the upstream to down-stream area. In addition to regular cleanup, the community can also play an active role to keep sanitation and leave the habit of disposing of waste carelessly.

“Rivers or drains are not trash. When waste is continuously dumped into waterways, after a long time the accumulation can clog waterways. When prolonged or torrential rain occurs, cer-tainly the water in the drains is unable to run smoothly so that it will inundate the streets or residential areas. When this happens, of course we all will suffer losses,” said Kujus. (kmb25)

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The Hindus held “Pakelem” ceremony in Tamblingan Lake, Buleleng. The ceremony is to ask for safety and welafare of all of the people.

Tista potential as tourism village overshadowed by forbidden land conversions

Waterways not for trashGIANYAR - Flooding becomes a worry

of its own when rainy season arrives, no exception for Gianyar. Large amount of waste dumped into rivers causing flood-ing is difficult to avoid. On that account, the government of Gianyar District again urged people to participate in maintain-ing the sanitation of rivers and drains.

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The waterways is filled with trash and it cause flood

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, November 13, 2015Friday, November 13, 2015

Veteran VS walkers like Lily Aldridge and Alessandra Ambro-sio were joined by newbie angels, including Martha Hunt and Elsa Hosk. Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid were among the non-winged supermodels new to the glitzy show that generates weeks of ad-vance buzz and will be seen in 192 countries by more than 500 million people, according to company of-ficials.

In all, 47 models blew air kisses, flirted on stage with the camera and flipped their varied wings around as they strutted on the runway in 75 looks at a Manhattan armory. But first, there was hair and makeup to be done and a “pink carpet” of celebrity guests to be walked. Questlove and Nick Cannon were on hand, along with a dapper mem-ber of the Mets, Matt Harvey, in a black Versace suit.

Caitlyn Jenner was among those who attended the runway show to cheer on daughter Kendall.

Hadid said backstage that she has big respect for the veteran angels and hopes to earn her own wings one day. Brand new angel Rachel Hilbert, from Rochester, New York, was in the Pink USA squad on the runway, and was also in awe of the longtime ladies, including Brazil-ian beauty Adriana Lima, seated just inches away on a comfy white couch in rollers backstage.

“Uh, yeah, Adriana Lima. She’s sitting right there,” Hilbert smiled as all wore pink-and-white striped robes, curlers in their hair, while manicures, pedicures, spray tanning and makeup commenced. “She’s such a sweetheart. Her advice was just breathe and just take it in.”

So how were the nerves for the newcomers?

“Actually, surprisingly, not bad,” Hadid said before the show. “I was really nervous in rehearsal.”

She shared the stage later with Gomez and Goulding.

“I love both of them,” said Had-id, who fell to the floor and gasped in a video of her audition, when she was told she was picked.

The show featured sections of ‘60s boho angels flashing piece signs in teeny bras and panties, swinging fringe and showing off wings made of sculptured paper, leather and feathers, including Jenner. Her gal

pal Hadid was among a group of exotic butterflies with wings and outfits sparkling with crystals. The patriotic pink group included an American-flagged theme outfit and wings.

This year’s iteration of the an-nual Fantasy Bra was fashioned in bursts of fireworks, the theme for one of the liveliest sections of the show. The demi-bra and match-ing belt are worth $2 million and were worn by Aldridge. They were created by the jewelry company Mouawad in 18-karat gold and en-crusted with 6,500 diamonds, blue topaz, yellow sapphires and other precious stones.

Hunt was the last firework, closing the show in another center piece, courtesy of Swarovski, one of the evening’s sponsors. It was a corset sparkling with 90,000 gold, red, green and blue crystals. The look, along with her light-up wings, included 20,000 crystals and 1,200 battery-powered LED lights. The battery pack she lugged weighed in at 19 pounds. (ap)

Sexy Victoria’s Secret lingerie show hits 20-year mark

NEW YORK — Some lit up, others were pretty — and pa-triotic — in pink and still more burst forth like fireworks. Yes, Tuesday was Victoria’s Secret sexpot angel time, though the masses will have to wait until 10 p.m. EST on Dec. 8 to watch the 20th annual lingerie extravaganza on CBS. This was just the taping, including musical performances by The Weeknd, Ellie Goulding and Selena Gomez, after Rihanna abruptly canceled.

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Taylor Hill, left, and Megan Puleri, right,

walk the runway as Selena Gomez

performs during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at

the Lexington Ar-mory on Tuesday,

Nov. 10, 2015, in New York.

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Gigi Hadid walks the runway as Ellie Goulding performs

during the Victo-ria’s Secret Fash-

ion Show at the Lexington Armory on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in New

York.

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Gigi Hadid walks the runway during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexing-ton Armory on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in New York.

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Martha Hunt walks the runway during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Armory on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in New York.

Many people are optimistic that this ritual can attract visitors to Buleleng. The Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency recently starting seriously considering this possi-bility as they set their calendar of events. The idea will be discussed again by involving the priest of the Pura Agung Pulaki, supporting

devotees and Banyupoh village, Gerokgak and related agencies.

Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, said that the Wanara Laba ritual has so far is only been known for its psychical interest. Hindus all over Bali know that every full moon in October for the piodalan (temple

anniversary) of Pura Agung Pulaki the Wanara Laba ritual is held.

But aside from its draw as a psychical event this ritual has other unique aspects that could be of interest to a wider range of people. Suyasa is confident that the ritual can become a tourist attraction and cited the example of a unique fruit eating tradition in Thailand that was turned into a tourist attraction and has helped tourism in that country. “We are thing kin that something similar

could be done with the Wanara Laba without of course disturb-ing the unfolding of the ritual. We thin that this ritual is unique and could be packaged into a tourist attraction. We are confident it would have a positive impact on the development of tourism in our region,” said Suyasa.

The idea is that the Wanara Laba ritual would take place as usual in-side Pura Agung Pulaki temple, but then outside the temple, an impres-sive jumbo sized pyramid of fruits,

eggs and other monkey food would be consecrated psychically.

Once the offering is made the contents of the pyramid would be given to the herds of monkeys that are believed to guard Pura Pulaki and other temples in West Buleleng. “This ritual is unique and interest-ing to watch,” he said.

Suyaa added that the unique Wa-nara Laba ritual feeding of the herd of monkeys is more effective than if pilgrims feeding the monkeys themselves. (mud)

TABANAN - Head of the Tabanan Forestry and Plantation Agency, Roemi Liestyowati, re-cently stated that not only have Tabana’s rice fields been affected but that Tabanan’s production of mangosteen, coffee, cacao and other commodities has also decreased due to the prolonged dry season.

“The prolonged dry season in-deed disrupts crop production at the farmer level. As a result, production slows down eventually causing prices to rise,” she said.

Especially because many of Tabanan’s crops are now exported, farmers are encouraged to maintain the quality of their harvests. “We urge them to maintain the quality of production even though the amount that they can produce has decreased, because the export market depends a lot on quality. Even though pro-duction is down, famers can benefit by the price hike of their products on the markets, if they maintain the quality of their products,” explained Liestyowati.

One of Tabanan’s agricultural commodities that is currently be-ing given a boost is robusta coffee beans. In order to ensure high quality production, the Tabanan Forestry and Plantation Agency has provided training to farmers about how to maintaining soil moisture for coffee plants so that the dry season they can still produce quality beans.

She acknowledged that many coffee flowers have dried up be-cause of the prolongs dry season this year but added that despite the

decline in the amount of beans pro-duced, by maintaining the quality of the beans can ensure that farm-ers continue to prosper by selling their beans for higher price,” said Liestyowati.

Tabanan’s robusta coffee is most-ly absorbed by the Korean market, while Belgium and Australia only import a little. Liestyowati, how-ever, explained that despite having penetrated the export market, most Tabanan benefit very little from this because they rely in middlemen

who make most of the profit.The Tabanan Forestry and Plan-

tation Agency has therefore re-quested that the Trade and Industry Agency facilitate coffee farmers in Pupuan in acquiring export licenses. Export licenses will allow local farmers to make direct transactions with buyers overseas. The current market price for coffee is some-where between IDR 17,000 to IDR 19,000 per kg but farmers sell their coffee to middlemen for much less than this. (kmb24)

Despite lack of waterCoffee farmers produce quality beans

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The Wanara Laba (feeding monkeys) ritual takes place at Pura Agung Pulaki Gerokgak, West Buleleng once a year according to the Balinese calendar. Recently some people have been inspired to make this ritual into a tourist attraction.

Wanara Laba ritual could become tourist attraction

THE WANARA Laba (feeding monkeys) ritual takes place at Pura Agung Pulaki Gerokgak, West Buleleng once a year according to the Balinese calendar. Recently some people have been inspired to make this ritual into a tourist attraction.

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

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beauti-fully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Chairman of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, said the development of Benoa Bay reclamation would be definitely beneficial for several officials in Bali Province, not the public. Villages at Benoa Bay would be isolated by the presence of tourist destinations in the version of inves-tors because the tourist destination development was impossible to be coupled with the daily life of local community all at once.

“The tourist destinations will only get in touch with tourist management services, so the ac-cess control of tourism will isolate the locals. If the investors are said to bring in job opportunities, it is only a slogan that is not proved to have a positive impact on the com-munity, especially at the location of Benoa Bay,” said Sudjana.

He said the parameter of job opportunities defined by the Bali government was too narrow, where the investors were expressed as

the carriers of growth and em-ployment providers. Meanwhile, the government was remarkably ignoring that livelihood as farm-ers and fishermen at Benoa Bay was also job opportunity. Even, they were more independent than they should devote themselves as laborers on investors.

“The development of tourism facilities and industry is a kind of exclusive industry that will surely close all the access having no in-terest in the tourist services. Then, it can be ascertained if the entire customary villages in the Benoa Bay area will be isolated, as well as establishes a new enclave and becomes strangers in their own re-spective region. Economic impact could not be ascertained to drip to Balinese people because the busi-ness drive controlled by outside investors would not likely to share beyond business rules. No investor would dare to fight for the liveli-hood of poor people,” he said.

According to him, armed with the Presidential Regulation No.51/2014,

the local investors would invite foreign investors to invest in the development of Benoa Bay tourist destination, so the investors got fresh capital to build facilities in the tourist destination. Local investors could also use foreign investors as a weapon to suppress Balinese people because the inconvenience to foreign investors would be linked to the future of international tourism. Investors with limited capital could share risk and foreign investors were used as a weapon in facing the people of Bali.

“Meanwhile, Bali government will allow the process of search-ing for funds to foreign investors because it would get a share from the transaction process. Thus, the collaboration will benefit the in-vestors, having prosperous impact on the livelihoods of the officials because the investors can control the state land at a low price, rather than purchasing ready-to-use land from the people. People who have performed rituals for the peace of Balinese people do not get any share,” he said.

He argued if the reclama-tion process was still ongoing, it proved that it was impossible to be carried out without the knowledge of Bali government. On that ac-

count, the lawsuits and escort to the reclamation process should be directed at the local government. Besides, if there were facts indi-cating the four hamlets at Tanjung Benoa village already agreed to reject the reclamation, presum-ably the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) of Bali should no longer need to invite a hearing for the socialization of the reclamation feasibility by the four universities other than Udayana University because the study was not relevant.

“The provincial government should acknowledge that not every corner of Bali’s land can be sold to make money and used as a source of income because money is not everything for the people of Bali,” he said.

He mentioned that it was not the right time to work on the Benoa Bay mega project because the current condition the people did not have adequate resources, so the reclamation of Benoa Bay would only result in a new class of people, local community would be marginalized because it was impossible to combine the management of tourism industry with daily life of the surrounding communities. (kmb27)

Ida Bhagawan also said that he worries about the power that large companies have over the fate of common people, because of their purchasing power. Large companies can perhaps afford to buy water but these water will certainly not be used for the welfare of the people. Whatsmore, given the fact that the hotel market is already satu-rated, we should also be questioning what the Benao Bay reclamation plan investors have in mind.

“So, what are they looking for? Another hotel -especially a mega scale project like this one, will certainly have negative im-pacts on existing hotels. Also in terms of our Balinese religious beliefs, we have to take care of Mother Nature. This land is like our mother, who has given us milk so that we can live, so we must not torture her who get more stuff,” he explained.

Ida Bhagawan went on to say that when investors come to Bali we must not forget our motherland. In any country, if people do not show they appreciation for Mother Naure, they is sure to be destruction.

In Bali in particular, we can see that many building projects are destroying places that have always been considered sacred by the people of Bali.

“So, we must rethink things. Decisions that concern the land of Bali cannot be made by one or two people, even if they of-ficially represent Bali. Such matters should be decided by referendum. In other words, all Balinese people should be responsible for which decisions are made about the fate of our island,” he said.

Rsi Hari Anom Palguna added that the people of Bali will have a hard time ac-cepting if 60 sacred sites in Benoa Bay are backfilled for the interest of a few real estate investors. As Palguna said, Bali is not admired for its modern building develop-ments but rather for its traditional ways of life, for the way the Balinese people still respond and intact with their natural sur-roundings.

“Let Bali be Bali. I am not opposed to ‘advancements,’ but we need to look at cultural norms held by Balinese people, especially in terms of their customs and traditional world view,” he said.

Palguna admitted to being actively in-volved in praying activities related to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan both in terms of the projects plans at sea and on land. There is only one prayer uttered, he said and that is: appealing to the gods to provide the Hindus of Bali with the best solutions. “Personally, I do not dare to oppose the government. But I do not want Bali to be torn apart just because one area is used for an exceptional idea, exceptional in the sense that it is not appropriate. Therefor I always say prayers asking that Bali be sparred of improper things according to Gods’ intention,” he said. (kmb32)

Reclamation of Benoa Bay kindles new poverty pockets

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Reclamation plan of Benoa Bay continues to reap criticism from various elements of Balinese society. People con-sider the policy will not only bring in socio-economic impacts on the people of Bali, but even result in environmental damage and new poverty pockets.

rEClAMAtIoN plan of Benoa Bay continues to reap criticism from various elements of Balinese society. People consider the policy will not only bring in socio-economic impacts on the people of Bali, but even result in environ-mental damage and new poverty pockets.

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NEW YORK — Justin Bieber will mark a comeback on the road with a 58-city tour in 2016.

The pop star announced his “Purpose World Tour” on Wednesday, which kicks off on March 9, 2016, in Seattle, Washington, and wraps in New York City at Madison Square Garden on July 18, 2016.

Tickets go on sale Friday, when Bieber will release his new album, “Purpose.” Two songs from his album, “What Do You Mean” and “Sorry,” are currently in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.

Bieber’s tour also will stop in Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Mi-ami, Toronto and Montreal.

On Friday, the 21-year-old will play a concert dubbed “An Evening with Justin Bieber” at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tickets cost $18. (ap)

The rap duo will debut a new song. Coldplay will sing the first single from their new album. And Stefani will perform her current single, “Used to Love You.”

Previously announced performers in-clude One Direction, Carrie Underwood,

Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, 5 Seconds of Summer, Luke Bryan, Meghan Trainor, Demi Lovato and Walk the Moon. Jennifer Lopez will host the fan-voted show, which will air live on ABC. Taylor Swift is the leader with six nominations. (ap)

NEW YORK — Kate Hudson is the latest actress with advice to share on health and wellness. Dey Street Books announced Tuesday that it is publishing Hudson’s “Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body,” set for release in February.

According to Dey Street, an im-print of William Morrow, the Oscar-nominated actress will offer “inspi-ration and motivation” for women on “fitness, nutrition and a mindful lifestyle.”

Cameron Diaz, Lea Michele and Jessica Alba are among the other ac-tresses who have recently published lifestyle books.

Hudson, 36, is best known for the film “Almost Famous.” She currently co-stars with Bill Murray in “Rock the Kasbah.” In 2013, she co-founded Fabletics, a line of athletic wear. (ap)

Coldplay, Gwen Stefani to perform at American Music Awards

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NEW YORK — Coldplay and Gwen Stefani have been added to the list of performers for the 2015 American Music Awards. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will also hit the stage at the Nov. 22 show at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Justin Bieber announces 58-city ‘Purpose World Tour’

Kate Hudson lifestyle advice book coming out in February

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BALI is home to many sacred places, which is why it is often referred to as the Island of the Gods. Balinese people need to preserve these places and not sac rice the sanctity of a location for the benefit of capital investors

looking to turn a profit, Benoa is irrefutably a sacred place according to Balinese Hindus

and as such needs to be preserved.“We should maintain the sanctity of all the different

sacred places in Bali. High mountain areas have special sacred significance, and coastal areas are used for puri-fication rites, while the places in between are used for residences,” said Ida Bhagawan Ratu Manik.

According to Ida Bhagawan, when a sacred area used for improper or unsuitable activities there is an energetic impact. So if for example the sacred area of Benoa Bay is to be reclaimed for tourism, not only will this degrade the sanctity of the location but this mega project will also sap many of Bali’s resources. “Most importantly, will Bali be able to provide for the needs in the area? For example PDAM (Municipal Water Works) already has trouble supplying enough water for the City of Denpasar and the rest of Badung, especially during the dry season. So we need to question whether there is enough water to sustain this project,” he explained.

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Turnbull met Indonesian Presi-dent Joko Widodo in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, as part of an effort to restore diplomatic and economic relations, which reached a historic low under the previous Australian prime minister.

“The closer we are, the higher the intensity in our relationship, and the higher also the potential for frictions,” Widodo said at the presidential palace at the beginning

of their meeting.Turnbull, who replaced Tony

Abbott as prime minister in Sep-tember, inherited ties strained by rows over spying, the execution of Australian citizens in Indonesia and a tough Australian asylum-seeker policies.

“With our great meeting, we have really strong momentum to work in making our two great na-tions, greater still,” Turnbull told

reporters as the two leaders toured Indonesia’s biggest retail market, in central Jakarta.

He said Australia would sup-port any effort by Indonesia to join the TPP, which will set com-mon standards on issues ranging from workers’ rights to intel-lectual property protection in 12 Pacific nations.

“If Indonesia chooses to apply to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, we would support the application, absolutely,” Turnbull said.

Widodo said last month during a visit to Washington he intended to join the TPP. But government

officials in Jakarta said it could take years for Indonesia to be ready.

Turnbull and Widodo also dis-cussed improving cooperation o fighting terrorism and education.

The two countries cooperate closely on counter-terrorism, an area of growing concern as Islamic State militants seek footholds out-side the Middle East, where Austra-lia is bombing the group as part of a U.S.-led military campaign.

Indonesia is Australia’s 10th largest overall trading partner and is the largest export market for Australian wheat worth A$1.3 bil-lion ($917 million) in 2014, as well

as a major destination for live cattle and sugar.

Australia will send its largest business delegation to Indonesia next week, with more than 300 companies expected to be repre-sented. (rtr)

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L) and Indonesian President Joko Widodo visit a market in central Jakarta, Indonesia November 12, 2015.

Australia PM says Indonesia welcome in TPP as frictions ease

JAKARTA - Australia would welcome Indonesia into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, as the two countries set aside past friction to focus on building closer economic ties.

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