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The riot made three people in-jured and a house burned down.The riot was possibly happened be-cause the land case which involvedthe village with three people whoowned the land certificates. Theyare Gede Sukrana, KomangArnawa, both of them from BuahBanjar, and Wayan Puaji fromAlasangker village.

On the previous case, KetutSupala, the head of Buah Banjarvillage who is also the father in lawof Puaji, was becoming the victimof a crime. Unidentified peopleburn his house and stole his cropsand he suspected that the act is re-lated to the land case.

The riot started on 10 pm localtime when the residents ofLemukih village found a motor-cycle. They suspected that themotorcycle belong to someone in-filtrate the village. To find theowner of the motorcycle, the resi-dents gather in the village officeand together to find the person.

Several hours later a police carpassed by on the scene and theysaw three people were crying forhelp. The police placed them intothe car and planed to bring them

WAYAN Puaji, one of the riot vic-tims, explained the tragedy that hap-pened to him. “I didn’t know any-thing. Suddenly many people werestarting to hit me,” he added. Puajiexplained that on Tuesday night, hewas guarding the garden owned byhis father in law, Ketut Supala, alongwith Sukrana and Arnawa.

By using two motorcycles theywent to the garden. The original guard,Nyoman Mara was unable to work atthat night and he already told the threepeople to hide if something happened.

When they wanted to move their

Riot in Lemukih village

Three victims treated in the hospitalSingaraja (Bali Post) –

After having several cases happened, the situation inLemukih village, Sawan, Singaraja is chaotic. A mass brawlhappened started on Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at nightthrough Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at dawn.

to the nearest police station. Thepolice was trying to get out fromthe village though Gitgit village.

The residents of Lemukih chasedthe police car which filled with fiveofficers and wanted to harm thepeople in it. The police was tryingto escape but in front of Lemukihtemple, the people stop the car. Theywanted to kill the three people es-corted by the police. The residentswere successfully dragging thepeople from the car and beat them.The police could not stop them be-cause there were too many people.

More officers from BulelengPolice Department arrived on thescene shortly and the three peoplewere able to be rescued and rushedinto the nearest hospital. They arestill being treated intensively inBuleleng hospital.

Burn houseAlmost on the same time, a

house belong to Komang Winawanwas burn with flame. It seemed thatthe house was burned down by thepeople regarding the Lemukih landcase. Winawan said “it obviouslydeliberate arson because I didn’tlight any fire at that time.” (kmb15)

Started with finding “durian”motorcycle, they saw many peopleon the parking site. Puaji directlycontacted his father in law and ex-plained the situation. Supala call thepolice and the head of the village toexplain that his son in law and theirfriend wanted to find durian fruit andnot doing any harm. However, hun-dreds of people were starting to beatthem and luckily the police was ableto rescue all three of them. Puaji andArana suffered from wound in theirhead and Sukrana was still uncon-scious because suffering from heavyinjuries in the back of his head. (ole)

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Arnawa (left) and Puaji seen with multiple injuries on their faces

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Sukrana is lying on the bed in Buleleng hospital because suf-fering from heavy injuries in the back of his head.

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A member of Commission B ofDenpasar House, I WayanMariyana Wandhira, following theinauguration of the Head ofDenpasar House, Tuesday (Oct27), asserted this matter. Wandhirasaid that the spread of beach ownedby Denpasar City ranged fromPadanggalak to Mertasari Beach.Within such zone, there were fivepoints becoming the central oftourism activity. The five pointsconsisted of Sunrise Beach, LeMayeur Museum (Inna Grand BaliBeach), Sindu Beach, SemawangBeach, Segara Ayu Beach andMertasari Beach.

It was said that out of five cen-tral points of tourism activity, life-guards filled in not all points. Hisparty worried if something badhappened to visitors, rescuing pro-

Serangan Island being famousfor its seaweed potential and deco-rative fish has changed since 13years ago. Particularly, this hap-pened when Bali Turtle Island De-velopment (BTID) committed ahuge reclamation at the areaknown as Turtle Island.

Reclamation project reachingthreefold of original extent ofSerangan Island originated in theintention of BTID to establish anintegrated tourist resort at loca-tion. Unfortunately, such presti-gious project plan commenced byreclamation since 1996 has nowleft only its plan. Project realiza-tion is still left undecided. How isthe look of Serangan today?

RECLAMATION of SeranganIsland has changed a number oflocal community orders. Today,the extent of Serangan is 491 hect-ares. In other words, the extent ofbeach filled reaches 379 hectares.This reclamation occurred at east-ern, southwestern and northwest-ern part of the island.

This reclamation discourse hasbeen heard when Bali was led byIda Bagus Mantra. At that time, asgovernor of Bali , IB Mantrafirmly rejected the plan. The rea-son was Serangan had its owntypicality. Besides, not all regionsof Bali should build starred hotelsbecause by doing so local commu-nity could not engage in the busi-ness. Starred hotels needed greatcapital. On that account, he wasvery concerned to promote homestay that could be owned by localcommunity. Similarly, it couldmake the house of local residentsinto accommodation for foreigntourists and this way could maxi-mally involve local community.Therefore, uniqueness of Baliwould remain to be maintainedand Balinese community wouldenjoy the advancement of tourismin person.

However, the plan finally passedafter the IB Mantra did no morelead Bali as Governor. Neverthe-less, this megaproject stayed toraise pros and cons in the midst oflocal community. Even, up to thismoment, the problem ensued at thearea has not entirely resolvedthough the project has taken placesince few years ago.

As evidences, a number of prob-lems also appeared to surfacewithin the past few years. For in-stance, there was objection of lo-

Beaches in DenpasarBeaches in DenpasarBeaches in DenpasarBeaches in DenpasarBeaches in DenpasarLack of LifeguardsLack of LifeguardsLack of LifeguardsLack of LifeguardsLack of LifeguardsDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Commitment of Denpasar Government to work on tourism sector being famous for its beauti-ful Sanur Beach, in fact remains half-hearted. Its evidence, the availability of lifeguard becomingmust in creating the security for tourists at coastal area remains insufficient. At this moment,Denpasar only has 10 lifeguards (Balawista). This condition is judged less ideal to maintain thesecurity of visitors at Sanur Beach.

cess and other actions related to res-cuing would find obstacle. For in-stance, the incident occurred onGalungan holiday not long ago. Hesaid the incident afflicted a visitorwith his family swimming atMertasari Beach. It was unknownthe cause where such visitor waswashed away by waves and hookedonto a net of fisher. The rescuingeffort took a long time due to thenon-existence of lifeguard at thattime. “It is the impact of lacking forlifeguards at tourist object likeSanur Beach,” said Wandhira whois also a resident of Sanur.

It was said that it did not onlylack for lifeguards, but also its fa-cilities and infrastructure neededmore attention. If only the CityGovernment had an obvious com-mitment in managing marine tour-

ism, there was possibility to makecooperation with hotels existing atthe area. “Chiefly, it needs specialattention to the provision of facili-ties and infrastructure of lifeguards.Other than lifeguard itself, we alsoconsider that it lacks for facilitiesso it requires serious attention ofDenpasar City Government,” he ex-plained.

On responding on the lacking oflifeguard, the Head of DenpasarGovernment Tourism Office, I PutuBudiasa, admitted to have addedfive lifeguards to the existing onesin Sanur. “If it until reaches the con-trol of Serangan Beach, it needs acomprehensive study. For the timebeing, I think it has been coveredby this number,” said Budiasawhose confirmation was asked onlast Tuesday. (kmb12)

Bali Post/eka

A fisherman is pouring the fish in Serangan. Most of the people in Serangan still work asfishermen for their living.

Thirteen Years after Serangan ReclamationOnce Made into DisposalSite of Evidences

cal residents indicating that theywere forbidden to enter the area ofBTID after the greening projectcommitted by BTID. However, thisproblem was finally resolved afterlocal residents made a meeting atthe office of village head togetherwith the management of BTID.

A resident of Serangan, I KetutArya Saputra, last Tuesday (Oct27) admitted that many impacts oc-curred after reclamation carried outat the area of his village. Its nega-tive impact, he said, was the lossof livelihood of small fishers thatpreviously earned their bread andbutter at Serangan Beach. How-ever, after reclamation, those smallfishers could no more obtain fishclose to their area. They shouldenter into deep-sea area to get fish.More than that, seaweed farmersalso afflicted the impact of recla-mation. Their land for farming di-minished. “Seaweed farmers alsofelt the impact of existing reclama-tion,” said Arya Saputra.

Meanwhile, local residents ob-tained much benefit. By the open-ing of road access to the territoryof village that previously was iso-lated, they could park their vehicleconveniently in their house. Estab-l ishment of infrastructure inSerangan increased since theopening of road access to Bali Is-land.

Head of Serangan Village, IMade Poniman, met at the officeof Denpasar Mayor, last Thursday(Oct 22) confessed that some resi-dents could not entirely under-stand about the policy that wouldbe implemented by investor at thearea. This matter was caused bythe project worked on by BTIDhas not run entirely.

Poniman also admitted on theexistence of some changes tran-spired due the impact of reclama-tion taking place at the area. Forinstance, the matter of livelihoodof coastal community entirely de-pending on the potential of sea ofcourse felt disturbed due to recla-mation.

Arya Saputra acknowledgedthat reclamation carried out byBTID was once made into the areato disposal site of evidences ofcriminal deeds. In addition, manylocal residents found murder caseat the reclamation area. “On thataccount, the entry into BTID areais now made stricter,” said AryaSaputra. (ara)

3Thursday, October 29, 2009International Bali News

Alit continued that since rabies en-gulfed Bali his party has performedelimination and vaccination up to so-cialization. Based on the latest data, thenumber of dog eliminated in nine re-gencies in Bali amounted to 107,891with details as follows, Badung(45,040), Denpasar (36,944), Tabanan(22,478), Gianyar (97), Bangli (913),Klungkung (44), Karangasem (403),Jembrana (2,066) and Buleleng (206).

In the meantime, rabies vaccine re-ceived by Bali Animal Husbandry Ser-vices from central government cometo 240,000 allocated for 240,000 dogs.Those rabies vaccines have been dis-tributed to Badung (55,000), Denpasar(37,400), Tabanan (25,500), Gianyar(10,000), Bangli (5,000), Klungkung(5,000), Jembrana (5,000) andBuleleng (10,000). Meanwhile, stockof rabies vaccine available at Bali Ani-mal Husbandry Services was 80,500dosages.

Other than vaccination in nine re-gencies, it has also carried out elimi-

Amplapura (Bali Post)—After the Mimba Hill, now the west-

ern slope of Gumang Hill, Bugbug,Karangasem, was dismantled for build-ing a villa. The villa belonging to Dutchinvestor was judged to have harmedthe environment and have not compliedwith the allocation. Thus was revealedin the session of Karangasem House,last Tuesday (Oct 27). I Nyoman Sadra,on the session put into question if thevilla had permit. If it had, why it wasallowed to build at the slope of hill al-leged to become the sacred territory ofGumang Temple.

In the meantime, the Head ofKarangasem Agency for Regional De-velopment (Bappeda), I Wayan ArthaDipa, said that he did not know aboutthe matter of permit belonging to villa.“Permit matter of the villa belonged tothe authority of the Head of IntegratedPermit Services,” he said.

Sadra regretted that the villa build-ing was permitted on hill by means ofdismantling the slopes of hill and it wasmade flat. The development sacrific-ing the conservation and beauty of na-ture has triggered a protest among anumber of foreign nature lovers stay-ing at Candidasa tourist resort. “If it isseen eastwardly from CandidasaBeach, the villa is obviously observed,”he affirmed.

Another member of the House,

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Dwellers and operator of Villa Blue

Point located at Pecatu Hamlet, SouthKuta Subdistrict, Badung was madeshocked by the death of one of thedwellers. Victim Faulstron (34) wasfrom Australia. Victim was foundstiffly stretched out at bathroom of villa,last Monday (Oct 26) night.

It was unknown for sure the causeof his death. Clearly, before he wasfound dead, victim was said to drinkalcoholic drink. Police officer did notdare to make sure the cause of victim’sdeath.

According to information, beforedying he was accompanied by his girlmate, Sally, estimated to become his

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Police officer of Southern Denpasar

Sector Police performed repeated iden-tification right away after the incidentof robbery at the house of Satroni (32)on Jalan Pulau Belitung, BabakansariHousing Complex No.27, Pedungan ,South Denpasar, last Monday (Oct 26)night, a number of officers revisited thelocation to look for new evidences.

However, police seemed to undergodifficulty in tracing the perpetrator be-cause based on re-identification, policecould not find any fingerprints of bothperpetrators entering the house of vic-tim. Ordinarily, if perpetrator enteredthe house by prying jalousie windows,it must leave perpetrator’s fingerprints.“However, we could not find their fin-

Forty Dogs Positive Have RabiesForty Dogs Positive Have RabiesForty Dogs Positive Have RabiesForty Dogs Positive Have RabiesForty Dogs Positive Have RabiesBASED on the estimation of 420,602 dogs existing in Bali, 40 of them were stated to be positive

to rabies through laboratory test. “Forty dogs stating to be positive to rabies were found at fiveregencies in Bali such as Badung (26), Denpasar (4), Karangasem (4), Bangli (1) and Tabanan(6),” said the Head of Bali Animal Husbandry Services, IB Alit, last Tuesday (Oct 27). He saidthat one dog stated to be positive to rabies was enough to become a measurement to commit avaccination and elimination to dog at the regency.

nation to wild dogs. Total number ofeliminated dog performed since rabiesengulfed Bali was some 26,698 withdetails as follows: Badung (4,273),Denpasar (979), Tabanan (13.935),Gianyar (57), Bangli (1,218),Klungkung (736), Karangasem (4,586),Jembrana (689) and Buleleng (225).

It was said that during the manage-ment of rabies in Bali, there were someobstacles found in the field such lessawareness and lacking of knowledgeabout rabies. Local community had lessawareness in helping the handling ofrabies.

“It is caused by the less knowledgeowned by community about rabies.Sometimes, when a dog vaccination ac-tivity is held at hamlets, they were re-luctant to bring their dog for vaccina-tion,” said Alit.Other obstacle was thelacking of attendants at regency/city tocommit the vaccination and dog elimi-nation and limited fund availability.

He admitted the fund given by Baliprovincial government to Animal Hus-

bandry Services to handle rabies wasIDR 600 million and has been spent forsome IDR 400 million for socializationand vaccination in the community.

The cost was beyond the provisionof rabies vaccine because it has beenprovided by central government,” saidAlit.He only expected the awarenessof community to rabies could be pro-gressively improved. If bitten by dogthey might not be panic.

It should be cleansed by flowingwater and soap for 15 minutes beforebringing to the nearest communityhealth center to asking for VAR.“Please do not kill the dog biting, butobserve it first.

If it does not die within two weeks,it can be ensured that it is not infectedby rabies,” explained Alit.Additionally,he said that administration of vaccineto dog would be very effective if thedog got booster vaccine or the secondvaccine. “The dog obtained boosterwill have immunity to rabies virus,” headded. (san)

Bali Post/edi

Officers from Denpasar Animal Department eliminate wild dogsin Sumerta Kaja village on Wednesday, October 28th 2009

Gumang Hill Purchased by Investor

Plan to Build a VillaNengah Suparta, stated that the Dutchinvestor just built two villas out of thesix villas planned. He thought that in-vestor has already had a building per-mit.

Sadra also added that before he be-came a member of the House, he onceput it into question to government re-lated to the development of villa onhills. Tenganan became the propertyof foreign investor. Even, investormade an artesian well with the depthof 80 meters on the peak of hill. Al-though this matter has been informedto government the development re-mained to continue. Meanwhile, manylocal residents worried about the mak-ing of artesian well on hills would re-sult in negative impact to other resi-dents under the hills, such as thesprings diminished or even ran dry. Infact, the water of river passing throughTenganan until Nyuh Tebel has de-creased and even the rice field at thearea could not be irrigated.

According to him, the land of Baliwould run out because owned by for-eign investor and finally it would chaseaway Balinese people. Now, local resi-dents have been surrounded, hills werecontrolled by foreign investors and sowas agricultural land. The problem isthat when the land has been owned byinvestor local community could notknow what they do inside. (013)

Alleged to be Drunk, a Tourist Diedgirlfriend. They stayed at villa no. 403.“The information told that victim drankbeer and he was severely drunk,” saida police officer at South Kuta SectorPolice.

On seeing her boyfriend turneddrunk and spoke haphazardly, Sally leftvictim to other room. Not long later,right at 9:30 p.m. Local Time, Sallyreturned to his room to see the condi-tion of victim. Sally entered into theroom of victim but victim was notfound at location.

Worries engulfed the feeling ofSally. She attempted to search for himfrom one room to another. How sur-prised she was when she opened doorof the bathroom. Victim fell headfirst

on the floor of bathroom. Even, the vic-tim was known to have not breathed.

The case was reported to South KutaSector Police to perform further inves-tigation. Based on the investigation atlocation held by police, the head of vic-tim was found swollen due to fallingdown. At location was also found thebreaks of beer’s bottle. “Afterwards,the victim was taken to Kasih Ibu Hos-pital,” he said.

Chief of South Kuta Sector Police,Nanang Prihasmoko, justified the in-cident and his party remained to inves-tigate the case. “We are still commit-ting investigation in details and couldnot ensure the cause of victim’s death,”said Chief Nanang. (kmb21)

Robbery to the Owner of Gypsum Works

Police Difficult to Trace Perpetratorgerprints,” said a source at police sta-tion, Tuesday (Oct 27).

On seeing the action of such perpe-trators (did not leave evidences—ed),this showed that perpetrators were pro-fessional. Besides, it indicated that per-petrator was old player. “Police hadconfident that perpetrators were wellexperienced in committing their ac-tion,” guessed such source whose namewas asked to be made secret.

In the meantime, reconstruction per-formed by police was just intended toknow how victim was threatened andwhere his position was. More than that,victim also clarified from where per-petrators entered the house and howthey left the house. “It is questioned toknow their modus operandi,” he ex-

plained again.Have the perpetrators been identi-

fied? Police officers remained to makeinvestigation. Even though there wasa suspected person, but it was merely asuspicion. In other words, it was un-certain that the suspected person wasthe perpetrator. “The suspected per-son was under pursuit of police of-ficer,” he said. As reported previ-ously, Satroni was robbed by veiledmen, last Sunday (Oct 26) at 3a.m.Local Time. Perpetrators entered thehouse of victim by prying five piecesof jalousie window. Victim, his wifeand his daughter were threatenedwith sickle by perpetrator. A numberof valuables worth IDR 20 millionwere taken away. (kmb21)

International4 Thursday, October 29, 2009 News

Agence France-Presse

WINDSOR - Indian PresidentPratibha Patil received a red-car-pet welcome from Queen Eliza-beth II on Tuesday at the start of athree-day state visit to former co-lonial power Britain.

The queen hosted a banquet forPatil, the first Indian woman to beelected to the ceremonial role, af-ter she was taken in a state carriageprocession to Windsor Castle,where she will stay during the trip.

The queen paid tribute at thedinner to the strong, historic tiesbetween the two countries and thecontribution of India’s populationin Britain.

“Britain and India have a longshared history which today is asource of great strength in buildinga new partnership fit for this newcentury,” she said in a speech toguests who included Prime Minis-

“The military has discovered thismorning four rockets in the south,ready to be fired, in a house underconstruction belonging to the mayorof Hula,” said a Lebanese militaryspokesman.

“Three rockets were in the gar-den and one on the balcony,” thespokesman told AFP.

The mayor is apparently in Beirutand not believed to be involved.

Hula is the border village from

Agence France-Presse

ULAN BATOR - Mongolia’s par-liament on Wednesday approved theresignation of Prime Minister SanjaaBayar, who was forced to step downdue to ill health, state television re-ported.

Bayar, who was seen as an eco-nomic reformer when he first be-came premier of the poor but re-source-rich Asian nation in Novem-ber 2007, said he wished he couldhave seen out his term.

“I regret that I couldn’t finish whatI planned to do,” he told lawmakers,

AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD ZAYAT

Lebanese soldiers inspect a 107mm rocket ready to be fired from the backyard of a house in the southernLebanese village of Hula on October 28, 2009. Four rockets ready to be fired at Israel were discovered by theLebanese army, a day after one was launched into the Jewish state prompting retaliation, the military said.

AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal/WPA POOL

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (R) shows India’s President PratibhaPatil, Indian items from the Royal collection in Windsor Castle, south-ern England, on October 27, 2009.

Rockets aimed at IsraelRockets aimed at IsraelRockets aimed at IsraelRockets aimed at IsraelRockets aimed at Israelfound in Lebanonfound in Lebanonfound in Lebanonfound in Lebanonfound in LebanonAgence France-Presse

BEIRUT - Four rockets ready to be fired at Israel were discovered bythe Lebanese army on Wednesday, a day after one was launched into theJewish state prompting a barrage of retaliatory fire, the military said.

Agence France-Presse

GEORGETOWN - GuyanaTuesday accused Britain of scrap-ping an 8.0 million dollar programto overhaul the country’s policeforce because it refused to allowBritish soldiers to carry out live-fire training near Venezuela andBrazil.

“This decision by the (British)government is believed to be linkedto the administration’s refusal topermit training of British SpecialForces in Guyana using live firingin a hinterland community on thewestern border with Brazil andVenezuela,” President BharratJagdeo’s office said in a statement.

In a two-year-old memoran-dum of understanding, Guyanaand the Britain had expected thatGuyanese police would have ben-efitted from improved financialmanagement, substantial parlia-mentary oversight of the securitysector, and greater public partici-

which a Katyusha rocket was firedlate on Tuesday, landing in openground east of the Israeli town ofKiryat Shmona and starting a firebut causing no serious damage,sources there said.

The attack, which was not im-mediately claimed, was the latestincident in growing cross-bordertensions, and an Israeli militaryspokeswoman laid ultimate blameon the Beirut government.

The Israeli army, she said, con-sidered the attack as “serious, andconsiders that responsibility for itfalls on the Lebanese government.”

She said that “artillery hadopened fire on the sector from whichthe Katyusha rocket was fired.”

The Lebanese army said in a state-ment it was carried out by an “un-known party” and that Israel re-sponded with nine rounds of artilleryin the area, including one which failedto explode, causing no casualties.

The United Nations InterimForce in Lebanon said it haslaunched an inquiry into the inci-dent, the fourth of its kind so far thisyear.

Mongolia parliament approvesPM resignation: state TV

according to images of the parlia-mentary session broadcast live onstate television. “The governmentstill has a lot of work to do.”

Of the 63 MPs present at the ses-sion, 57 of them, or 90.5 percent,voted to approve his resignation.

Health Minister SambuuLambaa, cited by local media, saidlast month that Bayar was suffer-ing from hepatitis C, which causesliver problems, and had soughttreatment in South Korea.

Bayar took office after assumingthe leadership of the MongolianPeople’s Revolutionary Party

(MPRP), which ruled the country fordecades as a one-party communiststate until a peaceful move to multi-party politics in the 1990s.

Lawmakers again voted to keephim in his post in September 2008,two months after riots erupted in thecapital Ulan Bator over a disputedJune parliamentary election victory bythe MPRP. Five people were killed.

The MPRP still controls the 76-seat parliament, but TsakhiagiinElbegdorj of the opposition Demo-cratic Party won the presidency inMay, creating a virtual coalitiongovernment.

Queen welcomes Indianpresident to Britain

ter Gordon Brown, Harry Potter au-thor JK Rowling and leading mem-bers of Britain’s Indian community.

The British monarch also re-membered the Mumbai terroristattacks that killed 166 people andinjured more than 300 others lastNovember.

“I would like to pay tribute tothe courage and steadfastnessshown by the Indian security forcesand the people in the face of thisgreat tragedy.”

Patil, the first Indian head of stateto visit Britain for almost 20 years,praised the shared values of theirtwo countries. She also invited thequeen to visit New Delhi for the2010 Commonwealth Games.

“Your Majesty, the ties betweenIndia and the UK are built uponshared values and traditions. Thereare numerous commonalities be-tween our two countries,” Patilsaid.

Guyana complains Britainscrapped police reform program

pation and inclusiveness in secu-rity sector issues.

Cabinet Secretary, Roger Lun-cheon said in statement late Tues-day that Britain unilaterally revisedthe security sector reformprogramme and abandoned it whenJagdeo was about to present hisown revised version of the initia-tive.

British officials have told AFPthat Guyana had wanted to shift theprogram away from policy reformto modernization.

“It could be that (London) didnot fully appreciate how dearlyheld was our position on the non-violation of the sovereignty ofGuyana,” said Luncheon.

London had been insisting thatan internationally recruited man-agement team have oversight overthe local implementing agency thatwould have been staffed byGuyanese and headed by a formerhead of the Guyana Defence Force(GDF).

General Info Thursday, October 29, 2009 5International

Denpasar

There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongayaand Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance& Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone: 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta,Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com

International SOS Clinic BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4ABr. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

Honorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

Bangli

Bangli General HospitalJl. Kesumayuda 27, BangliPhone : +62 366 91521

Gianyar

Clinic MasJl. Raya Mas, UbudPhone : +62 361 974573

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

Permata Bunda ClinicJl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, GianyarPhone : +62 361 942082

Ubud ClinicJl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, UbudPhone : +62 361 974911

Gianyar General HospitalJl. Ciung Wanara 2, GianyarPhone : +62 361 943049

Karangasem

Karangasem General HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai, KarangasemPhone : +62 363 21001

Klungkung

Klungkung General HospitalJl. Flamboyan 40-4, KlungkungPhone : +62 366 21371

Negara

Negara General HospitalJl. Gelar, NegaraPhone : +62 365 41006

Tabanan

Laboratorium ClinicJl. Gunung semeru No. 8, TabananPhone : +62 361 819260

Mengwi ClinicJl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, TabananPhone : +62 361 880550

Darma Kerti HospitalJl. Teratai 16, TabananPhone : +62 361 812359

Tabanan General HospitalJl. Pahlawan 14, TabananPhone : +62 361 811027

Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

Singaraja

Prodia ClinicJl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali0362 - 24-516

Singaraja HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali0362 - 22-573

Pet ClinicsKayumas: (0361) 226934Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518Sidakarya: (0361) 724492Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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Travis Pastrana, 26, comfortablycleared the revolving chopper bladesby about four metres but the 14-timeX Games medallist said it was acloser call than he would have liked.

“That was a little outside of thebox. I didn’t know what to expect

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SYDNEY - An American daredevil backflipped a dirt bike over a hovering 40-metre helicopterin front of Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge Wednesday in a bid to promote extreme sports.

with the wash and the wind, there wasa little bit of turbulence up there Iwouldn’t recommend it to anyone,”Pastrana told national newswireAAP.

“The wind affects the bike morethan the rider as the bike can take a

mind of its own up there and if youlose focus then you can land short.”

Pastrana’s stunt was aimed at pro-moting the MTV extreme sports se-ries Nitro Circus, which will be film-ing in all of Australia’s state capitalcities in May and June 2010.

Agence France-Presse

TBILISI - Georgian police havearrested the son of the country’s firstpost-Soviet president ZviadGamsakhurdia after he allegedlyshot his neighbour, the interior min-istry said Wednesday.

“Tsotne Gamsakhurdia was ar-rested (Tuesday) night after he al-legedly shot and wounded hisneighbour in the back with a fire-arm,” ministry spokesman ShotaUtiashvili told AFP.

Gamsakhurdia, 33, was being

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan on Wednesdaylaunched an on-site investigationinto a collision between a naval de-stroyer and a South Korean containervessel the previous evening, officialssaid.

The two ships collided late Tues-day in the Kammon Straits betweenthe main Japanese islands of Honshuand Kyushu, sparking fires on bothships and mangling the bow of thewarship and the starboard quarter ofthe Korean vessel.

Television footage Wednesdayshowed some 10 uniformed officersof the Japan Coast Guard boardingthe 5,200-tonne naval escort shipKurama, anchored at Moji port inKitakyushu, near the collision site,to investigate the collision.

One crew member of the naval

Son of ex-Georgian presidentarrested in shooting: ministry

held by police and the victim was inserious condition in hospital,Utiashvili said. He refused to com-ment on the possible motive behindthe shooting.

Gamsakhurdia was last year givena suspended sentence on charges oftreason after police released a videoof him meeting with Russian diplo-mats. He was arrested at Tbilisi air-port in the wake of last August’s briefGeorgia-Russia war.

His father, a Soviet-era dissidentand Georgian nationalist, was oustedamid widespread unrest in 1992 and

was later found dead in mysteriouscircumstances.

His supporters continue to wieldinfluence and current PresidentMikheil Saakashvili has sought torehabilitate the memory of theformer president.

Earlier this month Georgia’s par-liament voted to create a commis-sion to investigate his overthrow anddeath.

Another of the former president’ssons, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, isthe leader of the opposition FreedomParty.

Japan probes collision betweennavy, South Korean cargo ships

ship was injured and five others fellill after inhaling smoke or sufferingdehydration while fighting the blaze,a coast guard spokeswoman said,adding that there were no injuries onthe South Korean ship.

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyamaon Wednesday apologised for the“troubles” brought by the accident,while noting that the governmentwould concentrate on the investiga-tion to clarify the cause of the colli-sion.

The Kurama with some 300 crewaboard was on its way back from afleet review on Sunday in SagamiBay, south of Tokyo, to its home portof Sasebo on Kyushu.

The 7,400-tonne container shipwith 16 people on board was on itsway from the southern South Koreanport city of Busan to Osaka, west-ern Japan.

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CAPE CANAVERAL -Weather delays Tuesday forcedNASA to postpone by 24 hours thelaunch of a prototype rocket de-signed to return astronauts to theMoon, and perhaps one day toMars.

Standing 327 feet (100-meters)tall, the Ares I-X is the longestrocket ever built and when lift-offgoes ahead it will be the firstspacecraft the Kennedy SpaceCenter has launched other than ashuttle in 30 years.

Tuesday, however, proved frus-trating for space enthusiasts as firstthe weather, then a ship at sea, andthen clouds conspired to delay thelong-awaited launch at CapeCanaveral in Florida.

NASA said it would try again ina four-hour window from 8:00 am(1200 GMT) Wednesday. “Overall,the weather will improve,” a spaceagency official said.

The Ares I-X is a prototype ofthe Ares I, which NASA hopes tohave in service by 2015 to replaceits aging shuttle fleet that is due tobe mothballed next year.

During the two-minute testflight NASA aims to gather datafrom more than 700 sensors placedalong the rocket that should enableengineers to fine-tune its design.

The Ares craft is intended tolaunch mission crews into orbit inthe Orion spacecraft, which is stillunder development.

Ares and Orion are part of Con-stellation, NASA’s grand programto send astronauts back to theMoon by 2020, and then on to Marsand other destinations.

The test flight is crucial as theWhite House is considering a re-port ordered by President BarackObama’s administration that raisesconcerns about Ares and the wholeConstellation project.

Launch of new NASA rocketdelayed by 24 hours

A commission, chaired byNorman Augustine, a former chiefexecutive at aerospace giantLockheed Martin, concluded thatthe program “appears to be on anunsustainable trajectory” and seeksto achieve goals not matched by re-sources.

The Ares rocket has sufferedmajor development problems andits hefty price tag has fueled criti-cism of NASA, an agency notori-ous for its cost overruns.

The initial budget for the Con-stellation program was set at 28billion dollars, but has swollen toat least 44 billion.

Ed Crawley, a member of theAugustine commission set up byObama to review the space plansof his predecessor George W.Bush, said that Ares I was “not theright ship” for post-shuttle spaceflight.

“The question is not can webuild Ares I, but should we buildAres I,” Crawley said.

But Doug Cooke, associate ad-ministrator of NASA’s ExplorationSystems Mission Directorate, wasupbeat ahead of the launch.

“This test is very important,” hetold reporters last week. “The datais important to us, regardless ofwhat comes next.”

NASA’s yearly budget is about18 billion dollars, 10 billion ofwhich is plowed into the humanspace flight program, chiefly in de-veloping the Ares I rocket and theOrion Crew Exploration Vehicle.

The Augustine commission saidan additional three billion dollarsa year are needed for NASA tomeet Constellation program goalsor take human space flight the nextstep beyond the existing Interna-tional Space Station (ISS).

If weather delays the test flightagain on Wednesday, the team hasa four-hour launch window eachday until Friday.

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Travis Pastrana (top) of the US performs an FMX back flip on his dirt bike over a hovering 43-foot(13-metre) helicopter (below) in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on October 28, 2009. Pastranahas performed other stunts around the world, including jumping out of a plane with no parachuteand jumping off his motorbike into the Grand Canyon.

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TANJUNGPINANG - Some 78 SriLankan asylum seekers on board the Aus-tralian vessel “Oceanic Viking” have re-fused to be moved to Riau Islands’ immi-gration detention center in Tanjungpinang,an Indonesian diplomat said.

“The Sri Lanka immigrants insist ongoing to Australia instead,” Sujatmiko,the foreign ministry’s diplomatic secu-rity director, said here on Wednesday.

The asylum seekers consisting of 68men, five women and five children hadbeen detained by Australian customs shipOceanic Viking, around 240 miles fromPadang in waters near Enggano Island.

The Oceanic Viking was only al-lowed to moor off Cempedak Isle,Bintan District, near Tanjungpinangtown.

The Indonesian diplomat got confir-mation about the asylum seekers’ refusaldirectly from them when he met themon the Oceanic Viking ship on Tuesday(Oct. 27).

He said Indonesia could not forcethem to move to the Riau Islands’ im-migration detention center because itwould violate international law.

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A student of university in Palu, Centre Sulawesi, holding a mini flag during his action to support therally of Youth Pledge Day. Vice President Boediono attends a ceremony to mark the 81st anniver-sary of Youth Pledge Day in Serang, Banten province, on Wednesday.

If the oil spill is serious, itwould raise sea temperature cre-ating cloud clusters, and may be

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JAKARTA - Vice President Boedionoattends a ceremony to mark the 81st anni-versary of Youth Pledge Day in Serang,Banten province, on Wednesday.

On the occasion the newly inauguratedvice president for the first time deliveredan address to mark the highlights of the 81stanniversary of Youth Pledge Day.

The ceremony was attended by thou-sands of youths from Banten province, StateMinister for Youth and Sports Affairs AndiMalarangeng, State Minister for PublicHousing Suharso Monoarfa, Maritime Af-fairs and Fisheries Minister FadelMuhannad, and Constitution Court (MKRI)chairman Mahfud MD.

Wednesday’s ceremony in Serang,Banten, marked the anniversary of an his-toric event some 81 years ago when Indo-nesian youths from different ethnic groupsand islands in the then Netherlands EastIndies convened a two-day Youth Congressin Batavia (Jakarta), to make a commitmentto One Homeland “Indonesia”, One Nation

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PIDIE, Aceh Province - A herd of wild el-ephants recently entered a village in Geumpangsub district, Aceh province, and ruined threehouses as well as food crops.

“During the past week, a herd of about 17elephants have been rampaging through our vil-lage. They ruined three houses and ate rice plantson our fields,” a local community chief, M Sabi,said here on Wednesday.

The three damaged houses belonged toAbdullah Saman, Yusri Yusuf and Ibnu Abbas.All three residents along with their families hadevacuated to a safer place.

Sabi said, actually two villages in Geumpangsubdistrict - Gampong Pulo and Bangkeh - hadbeen terrorized by wild elephants for the pasttwo months. They had destroyed the villagers’crops. The elephants also chased anyone whocame into their sight.

So far, there had been no action by the au-thorities such as the Natural Resources Conser-vation Agency (BKSDA) to help the villagersovercome the problem.

“Local residents are are now forced to try todrive the elephants away by their own meansand methods such as bamboo cannon. Every

Elephant rampage through Acehvillage, three houses ruined

night we strike the cannon to create sounds whichscare the elephants away,” said Sabi.

Material loss due to the elephant rampages hadyet to be counted. However, Muhammad Gapi, alocal resident, said people in his area had to buycarbide as basic material to fire up the bamboo can-nons with their own money.

“We have to spend Rp 100,000 each night onlyto buy carbide for the cannons,” Gapi said.

Last September, an elephant attack also happened inPauh Ranap village, Riau province, killing RintoLumban Gaol (27), a local resident, and causing inju-ries to his wife whom he married just four months ago.

Edi Susanto, a witness, said the incident hap-pened while Rinto and his wife were taking a restin their house at n an oil-palm plantation where theywere working.

His wife said a herd of elephants totaling around15 suddenly besieged the area and destroyed thehouse, Edi said.

Edi explained the two managed to come out ofthe house and Rinto called on his wife to run andask for help from neighbors. Rinto was unlucky.He was trapped in the middle of the herd of angryanimals. He died after being trampled by a femaleelephant.

“His body was crushed and almost unrecogniz-able,” Susanto said.

Sri Lanka refugees refuse tobudge from Australian ship

They had also initially rejected healthcheck-up by an Indonesian medical rteam but they finally gave up after be-ing persuaded by members of the Indo-nesian foreign affairs ministry’s team.

The Indonesian government suppliesthe Sri Lankans with food while they areon Cempedak Isle waters and two Indo-nesian Navy warships are guarding them.

“Today the Oceanic Viking ship isstill in waters around 12 miles off theBintan District coast,” he said.

The Indonesian government had al-lowed to the Oceanic Viking to moornear Cempedak Isle as the ship was toobig to moor at Kijang harbor. The per-mission would expire next Friday.

The Indonesian government was will-ing to accept the Sri Lankan asylumseekers because of humanitarian reasonsand in order to keep good relations withAustralia.

He denied a report saying that Indo-nesia had received US$50 million ascompensation for accepting the SriLankan immigrants.

Most of Sri Lankan and Afghanistanimmigrants transiting in Indonesia ontheir way to Australia were coordinatedby international syndicates, he said.

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KUPANG - The crude oil contamination of the Timor Sea after theexplosion of the Montara gas field on August 21, 2009, may also affectthe weather over East Nusa Tenggara.

heavy rainfall, the head of theKupang meteorology agency in ElTari Syapii said at his office.

Following the Montara gasfield explosion, a massive spill of500,000 liters, or 1,200 barrels,of crude oil covered the TimorSea everyday.

Syapii said that a comprehen-sive scientific study needs to bedone by competent institutionsfor credible and scientific an-

swers about the massive oil spill.The head of Lasiana Climatol-

ogy Station in Kupang Purwantoon a different occasion revealedthat he still has no idea about theexact impact of the oil spill onweather over NTT.

Meanwhile according to theRegional Environmental Agency

(BLHD) which had conducted aresearch on sea water samples, theTimor Sea waters had been seri-ously contaminated with oil fromthe Montara gas field.

He also said that based the re-sult of physics laboratory analy-sis, the samples had released oilodor.

VP attends youth pledgeday anniversary celebration

“the Indonesian Nation”, and One Lan-guage “Bahasa Indonesia”.

At that time, the archipelago was still acolony of the Netherlands, and Indonesia wasa new word. But still the youth pledged tofight for that one dream homeland, and thecreation of that one nation called Indonesia.As for a national language, in 1928 the Indo-nesian islands had no common language, eachof the more than 300 ethnic groups inhabit-ing this archipelago had their own language.Nonetheless, the Congress chose Bahasa In-donesia, which was based on the Malay lan-guage, and eventually developed into the In-donesian national language.

But it was only 17 years after the 1928Youth Pledge, at the close of World War IIon 17 August 1945 that Soekarno and Hatta,on behalf of the people of Indonesia, fi-nally proclaimed the Independence of In-donesia. And, based on the Youth Pledgeprinciples and spirit, the 1945 Constitutioncame into being as the 5 Principles of theState, the Pancasila, and the Indonesiannational slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika,which means Unity in Diversity.

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“When the climate change hap-pened globally, the sea level will be-come higher and the white sand willbe washed away by the high waves,”he added. In addition to the increas-ing sea level, the temperature will be-come higher so the condition willmake the tourists uncomfortable.

For marine tourism, the globalwarming will make the coral reefwhiten and the view will not beautifulanymore. Sobandono said “there isalso possibility of extreme current sothe condition is not safe for diving.”

Currently, the sea level is in-creasing approximately 10 millime-ters a year. Even though it is verysmall but if it continues then it willeffect the live of living things. Theground is also become lower becausethe high compunction of undergroundwater. The condition made the sealevel higher but actually the groundis lower.

According to Subandono, if the

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DENPASAR - Promoting Bali’sarts, culture and customs under stu-dent exchange programs with othercountries is more effective thanmost conventional means, a localtourism worker said.

Promoting Bali’s tourism throughinternational student exchange pro-grams is not only much less costlybut also more effective, Kawiana

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DENPASAR – The numberof tourists from the Netherlandsvisited Bali increased gradually.They come to the island not onlyto see the beautiful scenery orthe art and culture but also to re-fresh their memory. .

The tourists from Nether-lands like to enjoy the view inUbud and other areas. MadeKawiana, a tour guide, said thatmore and more elderly touristsfrom Netherlands come and stayin Bali and they often spendmore then one week in the is-land.

The tourists also like towatch “Ngaben” ceremony, notlike those from Japan wherethey d idn’t l ike a funera levent. The tourists from Japanlike to play on the beach andsurf better.

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DENPASAR – The director of Sea and Coastal Areas divi-sion in Marine and Fishery Department, SubandonoDiposaptono, said that the climate change affected the tourismespecially the beach tourism.

condition is not properly handled, thenorthern coast of Java will be gone forapproximately 3 kilometers in the next100 years. For the steep beach like inBali, there is the need to decrease thesea level.

He also supported the concept“Tri Hita Karana” of the Balinese be-cause it can maintain the balance ofthe nature. “Tri Hita Karana” promotesthe good relationship between humanand God, with their environment, andwith each other.

Tourists are enjoying watersport activities at Tanjung

Benoa, Bali. The director ofSea and Coastal Areas

division in Marine and Fish-ery Department, Subandono

Diposaptono, said that theclimate change affected the

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Goa Lawah that located in Klungkung was one of the objectthat being showed to the foreign students. Promoting Bali’sarts, culture and customs under student exchange programswith other countries is more effective than most conventionalmeans, a local tourism worker said.

International student exchange program to promote tourismMade, a tourist guide, said.

He said youths who hadjoined the Indonesian NationalCommittee of Indonesian Youth(KNPI) in Klungkung district arepromoting their region by holdinga foreign student exchange programwith other countries at UdayanaUniversity’s Faculty of Letters.

The student exchange pro-grams are part of the Bali Interna-tional Program for Asian Studies

(BIPAS) initiated in 2009 in whichmany foreign students take part,among others from Germany,China, Finland, Denmark and Swit-zerland.

Meanwhile, the secretary ofKNPI’s Klungkung branch, WayanBuda Parwata, said while in Bali theforeign youths were invited to wit-ness the local people’s activity suchas palm sugar making, local teen-agers painting on canvas inKamasan village.

Paintings made inKlungkung’s Kamasan village havedistinctive traditional patterns well-known for a long time among artlovers in Indonesia and foreigncountries.

On their visit to Klungkung,40 km east of Denpasar, the foreignstudents were guided by MadeRajeg, a lecturer at UdayanaUniversity’s Faculty of Letters.They were also invited to see sometourism objects at Pura Goa Lawah,and a handicraft weaving activityin Sampalan Village.

Made Rajeg said the studentexchange program was more effec-tive in promoting Balinese tourismthan the usual promotions carriedout in the market countries, on theground that students who came herecould tell about their experience inthe ‘Island of Gods’ after they re-turn to their home countries.

Moreover, during foreign stu-dent activities in Klungkung, theywere also invited to attend work-shops discussing Balinese culturesuch as customary clothing and Ba-

linese ‘Gamelan’ (traditional percus-sion music).

The participants of the studentexchange programs always seemedvery enthusiastic, he said.

While the tourists from Eu-rope fond of Balinese culture andarts. They said that Balinese cul-ture is very unique and one of akind. The good relationship be-tween Indonesia and the Euro-pean Union made the number oftourists from Europe increasinggradually.

Based on the data by BaliTourism Department, the numberof tourists from Netherlands wasincreasing in the last few months.In June 2009, the number of tour-ists from Netherlands was 4,842people. I t increases become10,863 tourists in July 2009 and10,573 in August 2009. The totalnumber of tourists from Nether-lands during January through Au-gust 2009 period was 47,074people. The number was 35 fromthe total number of foreign tour-ists visi ted Bali which was1,464,738 tourists.

Balinese Culture

Thursday, October 29, 2009 9al

Overview:Unripe

papayas areoften used as avegetable in Bali.If these are notavailable, youcan use summersquash orChinese wintermelon.

Ingredients:1 unripe

papaya,weighing roughly750 gr (1½ lb)

1 cup spice paste for seafood1 liter chicken stock¼ liter coconut milk2 salam leaves1 stalk lemon grass, bruised¼ tsp powdered black pepper100 gr shrimps, clams, and mussels100 gr diced firm fish1 tsp saltFried shallots to garnish

Preparation:1. Heat stock, add seafood, marinade and bring to

boil. Simmer 2 minutes2. Add salam leaves, lemongrass and papaya,

simmer gently until the papaya is 95% tender. Addcoconut milk and seafood and continue to simmer (donot boil) until papaya and seafood is tender.

3. If the stock reduces too much, add more stock4. Season to taste with pepper and salt and garnish

with fried shallots.

Note: If you wish to prepare a lighter version of thissoup then leave coconut milk and seafood out.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Padangbai is located at PadangCustomary Village. For those whoremember, the name Padang waschanged into Padangbai—etymo-logically, the word Padangbaicomes from Padang Bay. Origi-nally, this coastal village enclosedby hills, was small village that of-ten slipped from public attention.But in recent times, Padangbai hasdeveloped rapidly as it is locatednear the Dang Kahyangan SilayuktiTemple—associated with the leg-endary priest who brought Hindu-ism to Bali—as one of the memo-rial sanctuaries for the sage MpuKuturan.

Mpu Kuturan was a great leaderand Hindu seer that came to Balicirca the 10th century AD. South ofthe Silayukti Temple lies TanjungSari Temple of which one of itsshrines is dedicated for the sancti-fication of Mpu Baradah (anotherHindu great seer coming from Javawhen he intended to meet his elderbrother, Mpu Kuturan).

Other than these two greattemples, there is Telaga MasTemple. It functions as a place for

Overview:Tum, leaf-wrapped bundles of highly seasoned food,

are made with almost any basic ingredient in Bali,ranging from eels, to chicken, pork, beef or duck.

Ingredients:600 gr boneless duck, skin removed and minced1 tbsp fried shallots1 tbsp fried garlic1/3 cup coconut milk, thick3 tbsp basic spice paste4 bird’s-eye chilies, sliced1 tbsp salt1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed12 pieces banana leaf, cut in 20 cm (8 in) squares12 ea salam leaves

Preparation:Combine the above ingredients except for banana

leaf and mix well. Fold a heaped tablespoon of themixture into the center of a banana leaf and wrap.Steam parcels for about 15 minutes, until well cooked. Ifbanana leaf, use greaseproof paper in preference toaluminum foil.

The above mixture can also be used for duck satays;simply add 200g of grated coconut and double thequantity of the basic spice paste salt and pepper. Spear2 heaped tablespoons of the paste around a large satayskewer or stalk of lemon grass. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Gedang Mekuah(Green Papaya Soup with Seafood)

Tum Bebek(Minced Duck in Banana Leaf)

Padangbai, the Pastand Present

ritual purification. Then, in the northis a bijou cave—complete with asanctum—the place where MpuKuturan undertook samadhi duringhis age. Several Hindu devoteesregularly visit this location on thefull moon. Apart from offeringprayers, some may take advantageof their visit to see the allure of thegorge along with its cobalt blue seaview.

Close to the Silayukti Templesits a cool hill range with its luxuri-ant trees and forest vegetation. Theallurement of Padangbai Beachalong with its white sand is discern-ible from this fascinating hilltop.The panorama will be increasinglyattractive due to the row of tradi-tional boats nicely parked on thebeach by local fishermen after theycatch fish. Similarly, there are sev-eral small vessels used as transportto Nusa Penida beyond as well as16 ferries providing regular trans-port service from Padangbai harborto Lembar on Lombok Island.

In the evening, the glamor of thebeach and Padangbai Village looksso nice together with glistening

lights on the harbor and in the ships.Padangbai has now been comple-mented by accommodation facilities(hotel and villas); as well as a num-ber of cafés open in the evening tocater to tourists.

Other than beach tourism,Padangbai also offers diving. For-eign guests who take the divingpackage are often conveyed by afishermen’s boat. And fishermenwho have just anchored frequentlybring visitors that would like to gosea sightseeing. Additionally, theycan provide transport to BiastugelBeach, a white sandy beach objectlocated south of Padangbai.

Padangbai tourist areas are situ-ated close to Padangbai harbor. Lastyear, the harbor established a slooppier to receive tourists from cruiseships. Several world cruise ships haveberthed on this alluring beach everyyear. The ones that have frequentlyberthed at Padangbai include theQueen Elizabeth II and Costa Marinaeach bringing hundreds of passengers.Today, Padangbai Beach can bereached within 40 minutes or an hourdrive from Kuta. (BTN/Budana)

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BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s overseas in-vestment in non-financial sectorsnearly tripled in the third quarter fromthe same period last year, the govern-ment said Tuesday, as the Asian giantrebounded from the global crisis.

Investment in mining, manufac-turing and other non-financial sectorsreached 20.5 billion dollars from Julyto September, up 190.4 percent on-year, the commerce ministry said in astatement on its website.

That compared with a total of32.9 billion dollars pumped into over-seas non-financial sectors in the first

The plan to address systemic riskin the financial sector will wind downfailing institutions and end “too big tofail” bailouts that have been borne bytaxpayers, the Treasury and the HouseFinancial Services Committee said.

The proposed Financial StabilityImprovement Act “provides for theorderly wind-down of failing firmsand ends ‘too big to fail’ to ensure thatindustry and shareholders absorb therisks and costs of failure, not taxpay-ers,” they said in a statement.

The measure would be a corner-stone of President Barack Obama’scommitment to reform financial regu-lation and avert costly taxpayer bail-outs of banks and other financial firms.

“The Financial Services Com-mittee and the Obama administra-tion are committed to ensuring thatthe taxpayers are never again calledupon to take responsibility for WallStreet’s business decisions,” thebill’s sponsors said.

Agence France-Presse

CHICAGO - Thousands of protesterschanted “the banks got bailed out, we got soldout” as they marched through the streets of Chi-cago on their way to a meeting of US bankersTuesday.

Carrying signs proclaiming “Hold Wall Streetaccountable” and “Foreclosures ruin communi-ties,” they demanded more help for those who havelost their jobs and their homes as they sang “heyhey, ho ho, those bailout bonuses have got to go.”

The Obama administration last week slashedexecutive salaries at firms rescued by taxpayerbailouts and the Federal Reserve also imposednew rules limiting compensation packages whichencourage excessive risk-taking.

Critics have complained at government in-terference in the free market and warned that thepay cuts may stifle innovation and see alreadystruggling firms lose top executive talent to com-petitors not subject to pay curbs.

But speaker after speaker here castigated thebankers who they accused of profiting from theirrole in bring about the financial crisis and creditcrunch which dragged the United States into thedeepest recession since the Great Depression.

“We cannot rest until we begin to break the

AFP PHOTO/Mira OBERMAN

Thousands of protestors demonstrate for bank reform during amarch to the Sheraton Hotel where the American BankersAssociation’s (ABA) annual convention was being held October27, 2009 in Chicago.

US financialUS financialUS financialUS financialUS financialsector will paysector will paysector will paysector will paysector will payfor failuresfor failuresfor failuresfor failuresfor failuresAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Financial companies with more than 10 billion dollars in assets will have topay for rivals’ failures or rescues, under draft legislation released Tuesday by the US Treasuryand lawmakers.

In a letter to committee chairmanBarney Frank, Obama congratulatedthe panel for the progress made “indesigning a strong package of finan-cial reforms.”

The 253-page draft legislationwould create a federal resource fundto deal with failures or rescues thatwould recover expended funds thathad not been recouped, by imposingassessments on firms with more than100 billion dollars in assets.

The bill would set up an inter-agency council to monitor and over-see the stability of the financial sys-tem and address any related threats.

It would also provide the FederalReserve and other federal financialagencies greater authority to “regulatefor financial stability purposes” andquickly address potential problems.

Among its other provisions, thebill would subject thrift holding com-panies to Fed supervision and give theFederal Deposit Insurance Corpora-

tion, which insures bank deposits, theability to unwind a failing firm.

“Costs to resolve a failing firmwill be repaid first from the assets ofthe failed firm at the expense of share-holders and creditors, and to the ex-tent of any shortfall, from assessmentson all large financial firms,” the state-ment said.

“In this instance, we follow the‘polluter pays’ model where the finan-cial industry has to pay for their mis-takes — not taxpayers.”

Obama praised the panel for act-ing “quickly and in the face of sub-stantial opposition to bring strong pro-tections to consumers from unfair andfraudulent lending practices, to regu-late derivative markets and to requirebanks to change compensation prac-tices.”

But he admitted that more workwas needed “to build a more stablefinancial system and safeguard oureconomy from future crises.”

China says overseas investmentnearly triples in third quarter

nine months of 2009, an increase of 0.5percent on the same period a year ago,it said.

The figures suggested Chinaramped up overseas investment in thethird quarter amid signs the worst of theglobal downturn was over.

Investment through acquisitionamounted to 14.3 billion dollars in thefirst three quarters, or 43.5 percent ofthe total, the statement said.

China is increasingly keen to buyresources across the globe as it seeksto take advantage of falling pricesamid the financial crisis and secureenergy supply to power its expand-ing economy.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

A Chinese man takes a photo near a board showing TiananmenGate and an advertisement for gold bars on the streets of Beijing,China, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. China’s overseas investment innon-financial sectors nearly tripled in the third quarter from thesame period last year, the government said Tuesday, as the Asiangiant rebounded from the global crisis.

Thousands protest bailout bonuses at Chicago bank meetingpower that big banks and corporations have overour economy,” Anna Burger, secretary treasurerof the Service Employees International Union,told the crowd.

“They have spent decades rigging a systemso that no matter what they do, they will alwayswin at our expense.”

Burger called the heads of the major banksthe “architects of our economic collapse” andcalled on lawmakers to “investigate them and, ifnecessary... prosecute them for what they’ve doneto our country.”

The protesters lambasted the American Bank-ers Association and six top banks for spending 35million dollars fighting financial reforms afteraccepting 17.8 trillion dollars in taxpayer bailoutsand backstops.

“We demand accountability for the pain theBig Bankers have inflicted on families who facefinancial ruin, for joblessness, pensions wiped out,foreclosures and bankruptcy,” said RichardTrumka, president of the American Federation ofLabor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

“And we are here to support PresidentObama’s call for tough new regulations to forcethese bankers out of their Wild West mentality,out of their arrogance, out of their contempt forthe public they’re supposed to serve.”

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Now the footage is being releasedin theaters and being billed as notonly just a feature film but instead afull-on fan experience. The mostjaded observers of the entertainmentindustry have not been surprised bythe mad rush to capitalize onJackson’s extraordinary perfor-mance style, but it is hard to thinkanyone imagined just what a spec-tacle this has all become.

The most diehard Jackson fanslined up and camped out overnightfor days to have the chance to beamong the select few who not onlygot the opportunity to see “This Is It,”

ERIC Clapton has pulled outof this week’s Rock and RollHall of Fame concert in NewYork after undergoing gallstonesurgery. Kristen Foster, a publi-cist for the guitarist, said Tues-day that Clapton was doing welland recuperating with his fam-ily in England.

The hall says Jeff Beck willreplace the 64-year-old guitaristfor Friday night’s show at Madi-son Square Garden. Clapton wasto perform as part of a two-nightcelebration in honor of the hall’s25th anniversary. Beck nowjoins U2, Aretha Franklin andMetallica for the final night.

The Thursday lineup includesCrosby, Stills and Nash; StevieWonder; and Bruce Springsteenand the E Street Band. HBO willair the concerts Nov. 29.Clapton’s Web site says he re-mains committed to his 2010concert schedule.

“CRASH” director Paul Haggishas severed his ties with the Churchof Scientology, in part because of whathe alleged as the organization’s stanceagainst gay marriage. Haggis wrote aletter addressed to Tommy Davis, thehead of Scientology’s Celebrity Cen-tre. In it, Haggis said he was disap-pointed by the church’s tacit denial ofgay rights in the debate overCalifornia’s gay marriage ban.

The 56-year-old Haggis, who wonan Oscar in 2005 for co-writing“Crash,” said he was quitting thechurch after 35 years. “I could not,in good conscience, be a member ofan organization where gay-bashingwas tolerated,” Haggis wrote. Thefilmmaker said that he was promisedthat action would be taken but thathe was frustrated after time passed.

“Silence is consent, Tommy,”Haggis wrote. “I refuse to consent.”

The letter, dated Aug. 19, was

TESTIMONY is scheduled to resume Wednesday inthe hearing to determine whether Anna Nicole Smith’sdoctors and boyfriend should stand trial on charges theyillegally funneled drugs to the Playboy model. TestimonyTuesday focused on Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, who is chargedalong with psychiatrist Kristine Eroshevich and Smith’sboyfriend-lawyer Howard K. Stern.

All have pleaded not guilty. Smith died of an acciden-tal overdose of at least nine medications at a Florida hotelin February 2007. Pain management doctor James Gagnesaid Kapoor was feeding Smith’s addiction to prescrip-tion medications by excessively prescribing opiates, in-cluding methadone and Dilaudid, which is nicknamed“hospital heroin,” and sedatives known as benzodiazopines.

Gagne said Kapoor began treating Smith when hetook over the practice of another doctor in April 2004.Kapoor took up the same regimen as his predecessor,who was treating Smith for pain but felt she “had apredominantly psychiatric illness and was trying to keepa lid on it with methadone,” Gagne said.

When Smith fell and fractured two ribs, “Dr. Kapoorprescribed large amounts of Dilaudid, the strongestopiate available,” said Gagne. Smith had requestedDilaudid before and failed to get it, Gagne said. By the

‘Crash’ director PaulHaggis quits Scientology

published in a blog aboutScientology and has since beenwidely circulated online. ZiggyKozlowski, a publicist for Haggis,confirmed that the director wrotethe letter. Kozlowski said the letterwas intended to remain private.

Davis said Haggis’ complaintswere based on misunderstandingsand that he has since spoken to thefilmmaker. Davis strenuously dis-agreed with Haggis’ claim that theChurch of Scientology is in any wayanti-gay. Davis said the San Diegochapter of the Church ofScientology was incorrectly char-acterized as supportive of Prop 8.

“We’re all for civil rights and therights of minorities,” said Davis.“We know what it is to be a minor-ity and have your rights curtailed.We’re very vocal and consistent inour stance on discrimination againstanybody. We take it very seriously.”For an organization often shroudedin secrecy, the letter offered an un-usual window into a dialogue be-tween the church and one of its fa-mous members. Occasionally,Scientology materials are leaked.Last year, a promotional video star-ring its most famous member, TomCruise, was watched by millions.

Haggis also said he was “shocked”that the Church of Scientology waspublicly denying that it adheres to apolicy of disconnection — of sever-ing ties with a friend or family mem-ber who’s antagonistic towardScientology. Haggis said that his wife,Deborah Rennard, was given pre-cisely those orders and didn’t speakto her parents for more than a year.Davis again disagreed with Haggisand said the church doesn’t mandatedisconnection with anybody and thatit was an entirely “self-determineddecision.”

AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, file

Director Paul Haggis arrives atthe Los Angeles Film FestivalAwards Night in Los Angeles.

Gallstones force EricClapton to nix NYC concert

AP Photo/Richard Drew, file

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2008 file photo,Eric Clapton performs at New York’sMadison Square Garden.

Testimony in Anna Nicole Smith hearing to resumeend of September, Kapoor wrote that he was “taperingoff” Smith’s Dilaudid, but the dosages he prescribedactually increased, Gagne testified.

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

Dr. Khristine Erosovich and her attorney Adam Braun,right, leave for the day after testimony in a hearing todetermine if two doctors and Anna Nicole Smith’slawyer/boyfriend should stand trial on charges of con-spiracy to illegally provide Smith with controlled sub-stances, in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 16, 2009.

‘This Is It’ Is For The Fans But‘This Is It’ Is For The Fans But‘This Is It’ Is For The Fans But‘This Is It’ Is For The Fans But‘This Is It’ Is For The Fans ButIs It Too Much Too Soon?Is It Too Much Too Soon?Is It Too Much Too Soon?Is It Too Much Too Soon?Is It Too Much Too Soon?

Michael Jackson has been called the “greatest performer of hisgeneration” by many and even the “greatest performer of all time”by some, albeit perhaps overzealous, music fans. Naturally, everyoneate up his words when he announced his final concert during a pressconference only a few months before his untimely death.

the documentary about the making ofMichael Jackson’s final concert, in thefirst screenings but also received com-memorative gold tickets that could bepressed into scrapbooks and shown totheir children and grandchildren.Some fans brought their young chil-dren with them while camping out, de-termined to show them just what alegend Jackson was and how manypeople shared a love for him.

“This Is It” will only be screen-ing for two weeks, so the fan outpour-ing to get their hands on the ticketsis understandable. Considering thisis the last time (at least until “lost

footage” from the eighties gets“leaked” when his estate dwindleseven more) anyone will see MJ onstage, the fan frenzy is even expected.However, in the day and age of theinternet, camping out for the first tick-ets to watch something on a screen-not even have the person on stage infront of you-just seems excessive.

“The fans meant everything toMichael,” Director and Choreogra-pher Kenny Ortega explained in aninterview about why the raw re-hearsal footage was being cut to-gether and released as a product thatdid not have the final polish of anactual Jackson show. “They were hisfood, his fuel, his life source, hisenergy, and he was energized bythem and he appreciated their loy-alty more than I can ever say. Thisfilm is for the fans.”

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

A video image of Michael Jackson dancing looms over the crowd at the post-premiere after party for “ThisIs It” in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.

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Small is co-author of the research,which was scheduled to be presentedMonday in Chicago at the Societyfor Neuroscience annual meeting.“This makes intuitive sense, thatgetting on the Internet and explor-ing and getting new information andlearning would help,” said PaulSanberg, director of the Universityof South Florida Center of Excel-lence for Aging and Brain Repair inTampa. “It supports the value of ex-ploring the Internet for the elderly.”

Most experts now advocate a“use-it-or-lose-it” approach to men-tal functioning. “We found a num-ber of years ago that people whoengaged in cognitive activities hadbetter functioning and perspectivethan those who did not,” said Dr.Richard Lipton, a professor of neu-

Agence France - Presse

LONDON – Energy producer BGGroup said Wednesday that netprofit tumbled 43.5 percent in thethird quarter due to weaker naturalgas prices and lower-than-expectedoutput. Net profit sank to 484 mil-lion pounds in the three months toSeptember, compared with 857 mil-lion pounds a year earlier. The com-pany, whose operations extend fromNorway to Brazil, said in a quarterlyearnings release that revenue dived32 percent to 2.25 billion pounds.

Reuters -

KATHMANDU – Tigers could become extinct in the wild in twodecades unless the world ramps up conservation efforts to halt the de-cline in their population, wildlife experts said on Wednesday. Barely3,500 tigers are estimated to be roaming in the wild in 12 Asian coun-tries and Russia compared with about 100,000 a century ago, expertsand conservationists said.

Tigers are being illegally killed for their body parts and Asia is ahotspot for the illegal wildlife trade which the international policeorganisation Interpol estimates may be worth more than $20 billion ayear. Skins sell as rugs and cloaks on the black market, where a skin canfetch up to $20,000 in countries like China.

Habitat destruction and depletion of prey base were other perils fac-ing the “Asian heritage”, conservationists said. “A business as usualapproach in tiger conservation will doom the tiger population in thenext 15 to 20 years,” Mahendra Shrestha, programme director of theWashington-based Save the Tiger Fund told Reuters on the sidelines ofa conference on tiger conservation.

He said law enforcement, patrols to stop poaching and the preserva-tion of remaining habitat would improve the situation. “There is hope.We can do it. It is not rocket science. It does not require a lot of newactivities,” Shrestha said. “But there has to be strong political will toconserve tigers and also strong global international support for the ac-tivities of the tiger range countries.”

Tigers still roam terrain in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China,India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailandand Vietnam. John Seidensticker, chief scientist at the Smithsonian Na-tional Zoo’s Conservation Ecology Center, said tiger habitat had de-clined by 40 percent in the last decade due to destruction of forests.

“Our challenge is to make landscapes with tigers alive worth morethan landscapes where tigers have been killed,” Seidensticker said. “Ithink we have a decade from where we will slip from being caretakersto undertakers.”

AFP/File/Shaun Curry

Energy producer BG Group said Wednesday that net profit tumbled43.5 percent in the third quarter due to weaker natural gas prices andlower-than-expected output.

Energy group BG saysthird-quarter profits slide

Production rose five percent to 56.6million barrels of oil equivalent, or615,000 barrels per day, during thereporting period.

However, analyst consensus fore-casts had been for an output increaseof 8.2 percent. The lower-than-ex-pected production gain was largelydue to a delay in the start-up of theHasdrubal facility in Tunisia, BG said.

Despite tumbling profits, BG ChiefExecutive Frank Chapman gave a con-fident outlook for the company, withhigher production levels expectedduring the fourth quarter. “These re-

sults demonstrate once again thestrength of BG Group’s integratedgas business and this, together withcurrent production levels around700,000 barrels per day, up 12 per-cent on the fourth quarter of 2008,provides us with confidence in theoutlook for the group’s perfor-mance,” Chapman said.

“BG Group has assembled anarray of material, long-life projectsand we are now entering a periodwhere we can look forward to theseprojects driving exceptional growthto the end of the next decade.”

REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/Files

A wounded male Royal Bengal Tiger sits in a cage at a veterinaryzoo hospital in March 16, 2009.

World’s tigers years awayfrom extinction - experts

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Surfing the Internet just might be a way to preserve your mental skills as you age. Researchers foundthat older adults who started browsing the Web experienced improved brain function after only a few days.“You can teach an old brain new technology tricks,” said Dr. Gary Small, a psychiatry professor at theSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, and theauthor of iBrain. With people who had little Internet experience, “we found that after just a week of prac-tice, there was a much greater extent of activity particularly in the areas of the brain that make decisions,the thinking brain — which makes sense because, when you’re searching online, you’re making a lot ofdecisions,” he said. “It’s interactive.”

rology and epidemiology at AlbertEinstein College of Medicine inNew York City and director of theEinstein Aging Study. “Our study isoften referenced as the crossword-puzzle study — that doing puzzles,writing for pleasure, playing chessand engaging in a broader array ofcognitive activities seem to protectagainst age-related decline in cog-nitive function and also dementia.”

The new study takes the use-it-or-lose-it concept into the 21st century.For the research, 24 neurologicallynormal adults, aged 55 to 78, wereasked to surf the Internet while hookedup to an MRI machine. Before thestudy began, half the participants hadused the Internet daily, and the otherhalf had little experience with it.

After an initial MRI scan, the par-

ticipants were instructed to doInternet searches for an hour on eachof seven days in the next two weeks.They then returned to the clinic formore brain scans.

“At baseline, those with priorInternet experience showed a muchgreater extent of brain activation,”Small said.

After at-home practice, however,those who had just been introduced tothe Internet were catching up to thosewho were old hands, the study found.“This is a demonstration that, over arelatively short period of time, patternsof brain activation while engaging incognitive activities change,” Liptonsaid. “That is at least a first step to-ward gaining insight into the mecha-nisms that might allow cognitive en-gagement to influence brain function.”

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The 31-year-old superstarcollected his fourth NationalBasketball Association champi-onship ring Tuesday in an pre-game ceremony as the Los An-geles Lakers opened their de-fence of their title with a 99-92win over the Los Angeles Clip-pers.

But just like his other threerings, Bryant says he plans towear this one just once beforeputting it away for good in alocked safe. Bryant was oneof the few Lakers to take the ring

Agence France - Presse

LONDON - Tennis great AndreAgassi has admitted he tested posi-tive for hard drugs during his ca-reer and lied to sporting authori-ties to escape a ban, reports saidWednesday. Agassi, one of theworld’s greatest tennis players witheight Grand Slam titles, reveals inhis autobiography to testing posi-tive for the highly addictive drugcrystal methamphetamine.

The champion, now 39, alsosays that he has always secretlyhated playing tennis and lived infear of his bad-tempered and vio-lent father. In the book, serialisedin London-based The Times news-paper, Agassi reveals how he tookcrystal meth in 1997 when his formwas falling and he was havingdoubts about his impending mar-riage to US actress Brooke Shields.

He duped the Association ofTennis Professionals (ATP) into be-lieving he had taken the drug —possession of which carries a maxi-mum five-year jail sentence in theUnited States — by accident, ac-cording to the newspaper’swebsite. The repercussions forAgassi’s career could have beendisastrous if the positive test wasmade public at the time.

In the book, Agassi recountssitting at home with his assistant,referred to only as Slim, and beingintroduced to the drug. “Slimdumps a small pile of powder onthe coffee table. He cuts it, snortsit. He cuts it again. I snort some. Iease back on the couch and con-

Agence France - Presse

SINGAPORE - Ernie Els hitout Wednesday at the EuropeanTour for scheduling the WorldMatchplay Championship to clashwith the Singapore Open. The bigSouth African is the defendingMatchplay champion and a seven-time winner of the event, but in-stead of being in Spain he is inSingapore where he is committedto play under contractual obliga-tions with sponsor Barclays.

It is the second time in threeyears that Els has found fault with

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(AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, left, and Denver Nuggets’ J.R. Smith dive for a loose ball dur-ing the first quarter of an NBA preseason basketball game Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 in San Diego.

Agence France - Presse

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant may have been last one to receive his championship ringTuesday set with 14 brilliant round-shaped diamonds but he was one of the first to put it on inthe dressing room.

out of its black box and wear itaround the dressing room after thegame at Staples Center arena.

“I never wear them exceptfor the night that I get them,” hesaid. “I do that and then I go homeand put them in a vault.” Bryantsaid he enjoys that first day withthe ring and uses the moment toreminisce about the past season.But asked why he doesn’t wearthem more than once he said, “be-cause it is time to move on to thenext one.”

Bryant’s ring features a laser

image of his face and his jerseynumber on the side and is toppedwith 14 white round-shaped dia-monds surrounding the NBA cham-pionship trophy. The band is madeof 15 karat yellow and white goldto commemorate the 15 champion-ships the Lakers have won.

The newest Laker Ron Artestknows what motivates Bryant, whowas the last player to be presentedwith the ring. “I know once he getsthat ring, he’s going to put it awayand look right away at getting thenext one,” Artest said.

Agassi admits usingcrystal meth

(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Andre Agassi reacts during a friendly exhibition against PeteSampras at the Venetian Hotel in Macau Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009.The two American tennis greats revisited one of the sport’sgreatest rivalries in the 1990s. They last played in the U.S.Open final in 2002.

sider the Rubicon I’ve just crossed,”he said.

“There is a moment of regret,followed by vast sadness. Thencomes a tidal wave of euphoria thatsweeps away every negativethought in my head. I’ve never feltso alive, so hopeful - and I’ve neverfelt such energy. “I’m seized by adesperate desire to clean. I go tear-ing around my house, cleaning itfrom top to bottom. I dust the fur-niture. I scour the tub. I make thebeds.”

That same year he received aphone call from a doctor workingfor the ATP informing him that hehad failed a drugs test - for whichhe could face a three-month suspen-sion for using recreational drugs.“My name, my career, everythingis now on the line. Whatever I’veachieved, whatever I’ve worked for,might soon mean nothing. Dayslater I sit in a hard-backed chair, alegal pad in my lap, and write a let-ter to the ATP.

“It’s filled with lies interwovenwith bits of truth. I say Slim, whomI’ve since fired, is a known druguser, and that he often spikes hissodas with meth - which is true.Then I come to the central lie of theletter. I say that recently I drank ac-cidentally from one of Slim’s spikedsodas, unwittingly ingesting hisdrugs. I ask for understanding andleniency and hastily sign it: Sin-cerely. I feel ashamed, of course. Ipromise myself that this lie is theend of it.” The ATP reviewed thecase — and threw it out, the news-paper cites the book as saying.

Els hits out at EuropeanTour over scheduling

the scheduling after being unable toplay the Volvo Masters in 2007 whenit too clashed with Singapore. At thetime he was leading the EuropeanOrder of Merit and claimed missingthe Masters prevented him finishingthe year on top of the money list.

“It has been a little controver-sial for me,” he said about this year’sscheduling. “The one year here theEuropean Tour put the Volvo Mas-ters up against the Singapore Open(in 2007 when it was an Asian Tourevent) and I could not play the finalevent on the European Tour and itcost me the money title.

“So I was not very pleasedabout that and the fall out from that,the criticism I got about EuropeanTour players playing in an Asianevent. “We have got more contro-versy this week because of theMatchplay which they have put upagainst the Singapore Open, I do notunderstand that. It is a tournament Ihave won seven times.”

The World Matchplay Champi-onship, which has run since 1964,leaves England’s Wentworth GolfClub this year for the first time in itshistory after a break in 2008 afterHSBC pulled out as headline sponsor.

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LONDON - Eight football fanswere arrested as hooligans went onthe rampage at Manchester United’sLeague Cup clash at Barnsley, policesaid Wednesday. Violence broke outand food kiosks were ransacked astrouble flared at Oakwell, where vis-iting English champions United won2-0 in the fourth round tie on Tues-day night.

Riot police were pelted withbottles as they battled to restore or-der in the north stand concourse andpolice dogs were used to drive fansback from the pitch. Eight cateringstaff were trapped inside a food kioskand had to barricade themselves in astore room for around 25 minutes asfans broke in and stole cash from thetill and food from the shelves.

Pitch-side stewards also hadfood hurled at them. “No-one wasinjured during this time but one po-lice officer suffered a minor facialinjury,” said a spokesman for SouthYorkshire Police. “Eight fans were ar-rested, four Manchester United fansand four Barnsley fans.

“They have been taken toBarnsley police station.” Elsewherein Barnsley, two people were also ar-rested after fans jumped onto railwaytracks in a bid to stop a train leavingthe town.

“The club is going to launch afull investigation as soon as pos-sible after substantial damage wascaused in the concourse of the northstand,” said a spokesman for Cham-pionship side Barnsley. “A com-plaint has been made to the policeand we will be taking a look atCCTV footage of the incident be-fore we can comment further.”

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LONDON - Tottenham managerHarry Redknapp is optimistic that mis-fit midfielder David Bentley may haveturned the corner at White Hart Laneafter inspiring his team to victory overEverton in the fourth round of theLeague Cup.

The former Blackburn star createdthe first of Spurs’ goals in a 2-0 win onTuesday which heaps more pressure ondisgruntled Toffees manager DavidMoyes, who refused to turn up to thepost-match press conference. “His(Bentley) attitude in training has notbeen as good as it could have been, I’vetold him and he accepts it, but I thoughthe was fantastic here,” Redknapp saidof his inconsistent midfielder.

“He’s a decent boy with great abil-ity but with Aaron Lennon playing sowell I think he couldn’t see any light atthe end of the tunnel. He got the op-portunity and took it with both hands.It will be very hard not to play him atthe Emirates,” the ex-West Ham bosssaid, referring to Saturday’s north Lon-don derby with Arsenal.

“It all depends on David Bentley.It’s up to him to keep performing likethat, whether he wants to stay or leave,but I want to keep him.” Former Ar-senal player Bentley was named theman-of-the-match but admitted when

Tottenham Hotspur’sRobbie Keane, left,celebrates withWilson Palacios afterscoring againstEverton during theirfourth round EnglishLeague Cup soccermatch at the WhiteHart Lane stadium,London, Tuesday Oct.27, 2009.

Spurs boss sees brighterfuture for Bentley

picking up his award that his attitudehad been questionable of late, claim-ing that his mind had wandered awayfrom football.

“It’s been a difficult time since I’vebeen here. I’ve encountered every prob-lem in the book and it’s just nice to getmy head down now and hopefully con-centrate on football,” he said. “I justlooked to enjoy myself and give 100per cent. Sometimes my efforts havebeen lacking at times because I haven’tbeen fully focused on football.”

The 15-million-pound man hadlooked threatening in the early stagesof Tuesday’s victory without an endproduct, and it was no surprise thatwhen he found his range Spurs took thelead. His curling ball into the boxevaded everyone until it reached TomHuddlestone at the far post, the formerDerby man smashing an emphatic left-foot drive past Tim Howard in theEverton goal.

Victory was sealed by Ireland’sRobbie Keane who scrambled home avolley after Tim Howard had saved thestriker’s penalty kick, inspiring theWhite Hart Lane faithful to believe theycould make it three finals in as manyyears. Redknapp admitted that theteam’s performance had given him aheadache after rare starters RomanPavlyuchenko, Gareth Bale and AlanHutton all impressed.

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Eight arrested in Man Utd cup clash violence

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Police dogs are brought in to control away fans duringBarnsley’s English League Cup soccer match againstManchester United at Oakwell Stadium, Barnsley, England,Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009.

The tiny provincial side, with aminiscule annual budget of just 1.2million euros - 300 times less thantheir esteemed visitors - added anotable footnote to their modest his-tory in front of their home fans atthe 3,000-capacity Estadio Munici-pal de Santo Domingo.

Real were undone by the clubwhich was only founded in 1971with an own goal by formerLiverpool defender Alvaro Arbeloa,Borja Perez’s brace, and ErnestoGomez.

Not pleasant viewing for Realpresident Florentino Perez and clubdirector Jorge Valdano watchingfrom the stands.

If they fail to overturn the lop-sided scoreline in the second leg of

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Real Madrid’s Cristoph Metzelder of Germany, centre reacts withother players during a Copa del Rey soccer match after Alcorconscored at the Santo Domingo stadium in Alcarcon on the out-skirts of Madrid, Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009.

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MADRID - Real Madrid were given a Spanish Cup shock on Tuesday when third divisionminnows and unheralded city neighbours Alcorcon dished out a 4-0 drubbing to the nine-timeEuropean champions.

this Last 32 tie it will by no meansbe the first time Real Madrid havebid a hasty farewell to the Copa delRey.

The Spanish giants, who last col-lected the title way back in 1993,were kicked out of Spain’s premiercup competition in 2008 by ThirdDivision side Real Union, a loss thattriggered the dismissal of coachBernd Schuster.

Real’s embarrassing defeat onTuesday came despite the presenceof Raul and Chilean coach ManuelPellegrini welcoming back injuredstrikers Karim Benzema and Ruudvan Nistelrooy but Portuguesewinger Cristiano Ronaldo and Ar-gentine forward Gonzalo Higuain,who also missed the club’s 0-0 draw

with Sporting Gijon last weekend,were still sidelined.

Frenchman Benzema was injuredin both feet while Dutchman vanNistelrooy has been out for severalweeks with a thigh muscle injury.

Pellegrini elected to rest severaltop players, including Iker Casillas,Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso andKaka, for the match.

Tuesday’s reverse came after abad seven days which started withReal losing to AC Milan in theChampions League and then thegoalless draw at Gijon.

Alcorcon’s achievement mean-while knocked a sizeable dent inPellegrini’s pre-match assertion thatReal’s ambition was “to win everycompetition”.

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However, even though his main jobis done, Button is keen to not ease offthis weekend - as he targets a strongend to his campaign. “It’s a fantasticfeeling to be going into the final racehaving achieved my ambition of win-ning the drivers’ championship andwith the team having wrapped up theconstructors’ championship in Bra-zil,” explained Button.

“We want to finish the season instyle with a great result but we canbe a little more relaxed in our ap-

FORCE India boss VijayMallya says his team has ex-ceeded its own expectations thisseason, and is now aiming to besolidly in the midfield next year.The Silverstone-based squad hadnot scored any points before thisyear, but a strong second half ofthe season has seen Force Indiaemerge as a contender for pointsand even for podium finishes insome races.

Mallya says Force India can bevery proud of its achievementsthis year, and is optimistic histeam can keep its momentum go-ing and be closer to the front in2010. “At the start of the year, wewanted points but I also wantedto show a genuine improvementin every area of the company,”said Mallya.

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World champion Jenson Button says his sights are set on ending the season in style in AbuDhabi this weekend, even though he has already wrapped up the title”.

Buttonaiming toend seasonin style

World champion Jenson Button says his sights are set on end-ing the season in style in Abu Dhabi this weekend, even thoughhe has already wrapped up the title. The Brawn GP driverclinched the crown in Brazil, when rivals Rubens Barrichelloand Sebastian Vettel failed to score the points they needed tokeep the championship race open to this weekend’s race.

proach to the weekend.” Althoughthe Yas Marina circuit is new to ev-eryone, Button is sure that it willhelp deliver an exciting end to theseason.

“It’s always fun to try a new racetrack, particularly one which looksas unique as Yas Marina with theunusual pitlane exit and the day/night race,” he said. “I’m sure AbuDhabi is going to host an excitingweekend and a great finale to the2009 Formula 1 season.”

Force India has‘exceeded expectations’

“We have learned from the mis-takes of last season and have reallytightened up processes, proceduresand working practices, which hasultimately helped us to score pointsand be proud of our achievements.I would say this year has even ex-ceeded our expectations as we havesecured a podium, pole and fastestlap. We can be really proud of this.”

“All the same we have had op-portunities we haven’t been able tomake the most of, for exampleInterlagos, Suzuka and Monza.This slightly mutes the satisfaction,but it does give a lot of cause foroptimism - if we can get into a simi-lar position next year and followthrough all the chances we couldbe solid midfield in both champi-onships.”

Mallya is also hopeful his team

will have a strong final race of theseason in Abu Dhabi this weekend,where he is aiming to make up forthe disappointment of the Brazil-ian Grand Prix, where he reckonsAdrian Sutil could have finishedon the podium. “Brazil was amissed opportunity to score points.Adrian was in a prime position toget some decent points, perhapseven a podium, but it was not tobe,” Mallya added.

“But the Abu Dhabi aero con-figuration is roughly similar toBrazil and Valencia, and eventhough we can’t expect rain, wecan expect a reasonable level ofperformance in qualifying thatshould put us in a good positionfor the race. We could technicallymove up a position in the champi-onship as we’re just 13 points be-hind Renault, but it will be toughso we need to consolidate what wehave already.”

“Toro Rosso have been lookingvery strong in recent races so it’sa matter of personal pride to keepthem behind. Ninth place in thechampionship is one positionhigher than last year and we needthat improvement to validate allthe progress we’ve made thisyear.”

Force India boss VijayMallya says his team hasexceeded its own expecta-tions this season, and isnow aiming to be solidly inthe midfield next year