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LOS ANGELES - Dinosaurs, superheroes and rappers have boosted box office receipts in the United States and worldwide, setting 2015 on course to be the biggest grossing year in movie history.

“It’s not a record summer but we’re still on track for what could be the biggest box office year in theaters,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst at Rentrak, which tracks viewership for the movie industry.

“It could be the first $40 bil-lion year ever worldwide... and that’s pretty impressive consider-ing the competition by the small screen, including Netflix, Hulu and HBO.”

Smash hits like “Jurassic World,” “Avengers: Age of Ul-tron” or “Straight Outta Compton” largely contributed to the estimated $4.4 billion Hollywood is expected to rake in this summer in North America.

And the cash registers are ex-

pected to keep ringing through the end of the year.

“I’m expecting the North Amer-ican box office to exceed $11 bil-lion after a $10.9 billion record in 2013,” Dergarabedian said.

“Worldwide, we could pass $40 billion for the first time after a re-cord $36.7 billion last year.”

He said China had contributed to the uptick in international view-ership, with the Chinese box office up 64 percent so far this year.

Dergarabedian said the diverse slate of movies on offer and the need for audiences to seek enter-tainment outside the home were also contributing factors.

“Jurassic World,” the long-awaited fourth installment in the blockbuster dinosaur franchise launched by Steven Spielberg in 1993, has already taken in $643 million in North America and $1.6 billion globally, putting it right be-hind “Avatar” and “Titanic.”

“Avengers: Age of Ultron” has for its part grossed $457.7 million

in North America and $1.4 billion worldwide.

Animated films “Inside Out” and “Minions,” musical comedy sequel “Pitch Perfect 2” and music biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” which charts the rise and fall of the iconic hip-hop group N.W.A., also contributed to this summer’s box office success. Beyond the variety of movies on offer this summer, theaters are also going all out to draw in audiences.

“In the last decade and a half, there have been some enormous changes in the cinema experi-ence -- in auditoriums, recliner seats, very large screens, food and alcohol serving,” said Patrick Corcoran, spokesman for the US National Association of Theatre Owners.

“3D has also been a useful ad-dition to box office attendance,” he said.

“And the mix of movies means there is a little something for ev-eryone.” (afp)

LONDON — Helen Mirren, Bene-dict Cumberbatch and Maggie Smith are among the British stars to attend this year’s London Film Festival.

Among the highlights to be screened dur-ing the Oct. 7-18 festival are “Trumbo,” star-ring Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for being an alleged Communist sympathizer, and mobster drama “Black Mass,” starring

Cumberbatch and Johnny Depp.Other headlining films announced Tuesday

include “The Lady in the Van,” which stars Smith as an elderly woman who lived in a battered car for over a decade, and “Carol,” a 1950s drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

The festival will open with the European premiere of historical drama “Suffragette,” starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep. The biopic “Steve Jobs,” starring Michael Fassbender, will close the festival. (ap)

MADRID - International crit-ics have voted “Mad Max: Fury Road” as their best film of the year, their main federation said Tuesday. The action movie shot by Australian director George Miller will be awarded the Grand Prix of the International Federa-tion of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain on September 18.

“You could have knocked me over with a feather! It’s lovely to have this great cohort of crit-ics acknowledge our collective labours in this way,” Miller said in the statement.

The vote saw 493 of the world’s top critics, who typically reward less mainstream arthouse films, choose from among movies pre-miered after July 1, 2014.

“Mad Max: Fury Road”, star-ring Tom Hardy and Charlize

Theron -- the fourth film in the apocalyptic adventure franchise shot in the Australian outback -- will receive a special screening at the festival, the highest-profile movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, which runs until September 26.

Last year’s winner of the award was Richard Linklater for “Boy-hood”.

The festival, held each year in San Sebastian, a picturesque seaside resort on Spain’s north-ern Atlantic coast, was originally intended to honour Spanish lan-guage films but has established itself as one of the most important movie festivals in the world.

It hosted the world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller “North by Northwest” in 1959 and Woody Allen’s “Melinda and Melinda” in 2004. (afp)

US box office receipts on course to set record Critics vote ‘Mad Max’ best movie of the year

Benedict Cumberbatch, Helen Mirren lead London Film Fest

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Thai police: Suspect’s prints match those on bomb material

Greece to introduce measures for refugees on islands

Martial signs for Man United, costliest ever teenager

A sixteen year old drug addict with the initials WA, who is cur-rently being re-habilitated at one

of the rehabilita-tion foundations in

Denpasar, gave a testi-mony in which he stated that dozens of teenagers in his hamlet in Buleleng consume drugs.

The provincial narcotic agency (BNNP) immediately looked into the situation. “After coordinating with drug addict rehabilitation centres, we were extremely surprised and did not expect to find at least 40 of WA’s friends (of the same age group) consuming drugs,” said Chief of the BNNP Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa.

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Mahathir, 90, who was Malay-sia’s longest-serving prime minis-ter, electrified crowds at the dem-onstration in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday by calling for a sustained public push to topple Najib.

He also accused Najib of brib-

ing politicians in the ruling party, the United Malays National Or-ganisation (UMNO), to secure their support and said the premier was clinging to power to avoid corruption charges.

“We will call him (Mahathir).

He has made speeches and ac-cusations,” national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar was quoted as saying by online news outlet Malaysiakini.

“Among them, he claimed UMNO leaders had taken bribes so we want to find out more.”

The report gave no further details.

The ruling coalition led by UMNO routinely hauls in op-ponents who take part in anti-

government actions, in what the opposition calls a pattern of systematic harassment.

Mahathir himself took a hard line on dissent during his 1981-2003 term of office. It was not clear whether Mahathir, who remains influential in the ruling party, would face any charges.

Seven people from Bersih, the coalition of Malaysian NGOs and activist groups that staged the weekend demonstrations,

were questioned by police on Wednesday. No charges were filed. (afp)

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Malaysia former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, center, waves to activists from the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BER-SIH) on his arrival during a rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Malaysian police said Wednesday they would question former premier Mahathir Mohamad over statements he made at massive weekend rallies demanding the ousting of current Prime Minister Najib Razak over corruption allegations.

Malaysian police to question ex-PM Mahathir over rally comments

In BulelengMany village teenagers consume drugs

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police said Wednesday they would question former premier Mahathir Mohamad over statements he made at massive weekend rallies demanding the ousting of current Prime Minister Najib Razak over corrup-tion allegations.

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The vouchers will be given out on a first come first serve basis to guests who arrive at each hotel dur-ing the month of September 2015, providing they are not yet regis-tered as an Uber user. Guests will receive a voucher for each room or villa booked and will be given the voucher upon checking-in. Guests wanting to utilize the reward will need to download the Uber ap-plication on their IOS, Android or Windows smartphone and simply follow the registration instructions onscreen to redeem their private air-conditioned transport.

Uber is an American internation-al transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company develops markets and operates the Uber mo-bile app, which allows con-sumers with smartphones to submit a trip request which is then routed to Uber drivers who use their own cars.

“We are thrilled to see various new apps gaining popularity in the Indonesian market. Uber and others like it, have aims to provide excellent services at afford-able pricing. Archipelago International customers have grown to rely on us for the same and we hope this part-nership is the perfect fit ex-clusively for our guests visit-ing Bali. For the month of September, it really doesn’t get any better than free!” said Tenaiya Brook-field, Archipelago International’s VP of Sales and Mar-keting.

Archipe lago International man-ages 19 proper-ties in Bali, from 5 star private villas to smart budget hotels. Operat-ing more than 100 properties all across Indonesia and Malaysia, Ar-chipelago Interna-tional encompass-es the Fave, Neo, Quest, Harper, Alana, Aston and Kamuela brands, and is known as the largest hotel management chain in Indonesia.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Saturday, September 12, 7 PM, Opening “111” exhibition by Aboedt ArtTuesday, September 14, 8 PM, Movie screening of Old Bali’s movie by Aboedt ArtThursday, September 17, 8 PM, Movie screening entitled “Nga ben Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt ArtSaturday, September 19, 7.30 PM, Nusantara live musicTuesday, September 22, 7 PM, Human is Alien video projections on Bamboo installation with live music by Planet BambooThursday, September 24, Movie screening entitled “Bali Sehar ian, Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt ArtSaturday, September 26, Movie screening entitled “Upacara Yadnya Bali, Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt ArtSunday, September 27, Opening of Painting and Artwork Interior 2015 Exhibition with culinary bazaar.Monday, September 28, Sketches painting and interior product exhibitionTuesday, September 29, Talkshow guided by Wayan Suardika (Bali Arts) followed by sketches demoWednesday, September 30, Sketches painting by Budiana and interior painting exhibitionThursday, October 1, Sketches painting and interior painting exhibitionFriday, October 2, Sketches painting and interior painting exhibitionSaturday, October 3, Closing ceremony of Sketches painting and interior product exhibition

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DENPASAr – Archipelago International, together with the worldwide transportation com-pany, Uber, are helping Bali’s visitors explore the Island of the Gods with a free Uber ride during their stay at an Archipelago International hotel or villa.

Until August 2015, the ranks of Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit have arrested 16 drug offenders originating in vari-ous backgrounds such as housewives, workers, farmers, security guards to marketing manager. The officers also detect the involvement of individual civil servant in this illicit goods trafficking. Nevertheless, police are now intensifying the investigation on the large network in Gianyar by targeting traffickers and bookies.

Based on the data from the Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit, throughout the year 2015 to the end of August, police have secured 16 culprits found keeping and having drugs. Fourteen of them have been handed over to prosecutor to be on trial before the court as soon as possible. It has increased from the previous year that only revealed 14 cases of drug abusers.

Aside from the cases, police have secured one dealer, I Gusti Agung Ayu Ary Setyawati. From the examination against the widow from Saba village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, police confiscated a package of crystal meth and logbook recording 24 drug transactions worth tens million of ru-piahs with the bookie having the initial Ode.

“Of the abusers, we just arrested one dealer. Therefore, we will intensify the investigation to reveal the large syndicate until this yearend by targeting bookies and dealers,” said the Chief of Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit, Kadek Ardika, recently.

He admitted that of the 16 culprits becoming the target within the past eight months, the users are still dominated by productive age, such as laborers, housewives, farmers, security guards to marketing manager. Currently, his party has got information that a civil servant is also detected as drug abuser. “Indeed there is information on the civil servant detected to abuse drugs, but we are still deepening the information because it must be caught red-handed,” he explained.

Similarly, he added that transaction process is carried out by hand-to-hand system and the dealers taking ac-tion in Denpasar often becomes an obstacle for him in the investigation process. “They mostly communicate via telephone, and the drug dealers with large stock also belong to the syndicate. As a result, when making investigation in Gianyar we can mostly get the users,” he said. (kmb35)

WA revealed that he was part of a group of about 40 friends in his village who were all consuming drugs. “After reading about BNNP Bali in Bali Post and seeing news about them on Bali TV, WA immediately realized that he needed to repent and so he approached the rehabilitation foundation for help,” said Suastawa.

Based on the case of this Buleleng village, BNNP Bali concluded that drug use is becoming more widespread in Bali and that villages and hamlets are being targeting by drug pushers. Suastawa said that the BNNP is therefore going to be targeting customary villages using the mass media, Facebook and other social media platforms.

Every year the BNNP focusses on educating four villages but this has not been very effective, so they hope that these media platforms can be of benefit. “Each village and hamlet needs to establish a task force through the customary village small assembly. In fact these task forces are the leading forces in this endeavour” he said.

It would appear that illicit drugs dealers are moving into small villages. “We will be going right to the hamlets in order to ascertain the truth. If this in fact the case, we have a very wor-rying condition to contend with as it indicates that there is negligence on the part of parents as well as customary and religious leaders in the hamlet,”

he affirmed, adding that if they do en-counter any evidence it will be further processed.

The BNNP is currently working hard to increase public awareness about drug addiction in order to curb the trend. If people find that anyone around them is showing unnatural signs such as laziness, stubboreness, tend to be very emotional and sometimes have hallu-cinations. People showing such signs, or who seem to want to escape reality or even die, should immediately be reported to the BNNP Bali.

Families therefor play a very im-portant role in the success of this rehabilitation program. Parents need to understand if their children are sick because of drug addiction and should also be able to provide motivation to their children to seek a cure through rehabilitation. The struggle to recover from addiction is a long process and the role of family is required in establish-ing and maintaining harmonious rela-tions and good communication.

“Children who tend to fall into drug addiction, are those who are either, spoiled, over regulated or neglected,” he said.

One parent with the initials GE, whose child is a former drug addict said that he wold like to open the eyes and hearts of drug abusers who have not realized that they have a problem. GE, who works at the Bali Provincial

Narcotic Agency (BNNP), revealed on Monday that his son ended up hanging himself due to drugs. His son’s illness was made worse by his bad marriage. “This tragedy occurred after my son moved into his own house with his wife, maybe if he had stayed with me this incident could have been pre-vented,” said GE.

Even though GE knew that his son was a drug addict and provided access to all forms of rehabilitation and treat-ments, due to strong environmental influences and deep rooted addiction, his son continued to to take drugs anyway.

“Three years ago -I forget the exact day, we returned to our home village in Tabanan. Surprisingly, my son told me to go back to Denpasar, but that he would stay,” said the retired father.

The next morning, GE was called by his relatives in the village and was told that his son was found hanged. Un-derstandably, he was deeply shocked by the incident, and to this day cannot forget it. “My son had said that he felt the pain of his condition in his throat and could bare it no longer. Also his wife had filed for divorce. Maybe that added to his stress,” said GE.

Ever since he started using drugs, his son seemed to become easily bored and changed jobs frequently, and spent all his money on drugs. “I know that I had discovered the problem too late.

Had I known about it form the beginning, maybe the tragedy cold have been pre-vented,” said GE.

Seeing the fate of his son, GE is deeply concerned about the condition of Bali’s younger generation. Quite l ikely many o f t h e m h a v e a l -ready been affected by drugs but have not been monitored by relevant agencies. “What will happen if all the youth become addicted to drugs? The life conditions of the present younger generation is totally different from that of past generations. I ap-peal to parents to be extremely vigilant in overseeing the activi-ties and associations of their children,” said GE hopefully. (kmb36)

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Urine test conducted by the Bali Provincial Narcotic Agency (BNNP) in one of high schools in Denpasar, Bali Island.

In Gianyar

Until August, 16 drug users arrested

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An online tool at www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heartage.htm can help people determine how old their heart is, based on factors like weight, smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For most adults aged 30–74, their predicted heart age is “sig-nificantly higher than their chron-ological age,” said the CDC in its Vital Signs report, released Tuesday.

Researchers found that nearly

69 million adults between the ages of 30 and 74 have a heart age older than their actual age.

“That’s about the number of people living in the 130 largest US cities combined,” the CDC report said.

The average predicted heart age for adult men was nearly eight years older than their chrono-logical age, and 5.4 years older for women, it said.

When researchers divided people according to race, they found the highest heart ages

among African-American men and women, who had an average heart age of 11 years older than their chronological age.

Risk factor data was collected from every US state and informa-tion from the Framingham Heart Study, which began in Massachu-setts in 1948 and has followed thousands of people over time in an effort to identify the causes of cardiovascular disease.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death and serious illness in the United States.

PARIS - Being overweight at the age of 50 may speed the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in old age, said a study Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

A statistical comparison showed that every extra unit in body mass index (BMI, a height-to-weight ratio) in middle age corresponded to earlier onset of Alzheimer’s by about 6.5 months -- what the authors termed a “robust” correlation.

“A healthy BMI at midlife may delay the onset of AD,” the study paper said, referring to Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers used the recorded BMI of more than 1,300 Americans, all of whom were monitored for an average of 14 years after signing up to be studied.

Of the group, 142 developed Al-zheimer’s at an average age of 83.

The debilitating disorder is the most common form of dementia, which the World Health Organization (WHO) says affects nearly 50 million people worldwide -- some 7.7 million new cases per year.

Being obese or overweight in middle age was known to increase the risk for Alzheimer’s later, but it was not clear whether it affected the age of disease onset.

The WHO estimated more than 1.9 billion adults, of the world’s total population of seven billion, were overweight in 2014. Thirteen percent were obese.

“We found that for every unit in-crease in body mass index when these individuals were 50 years of age, they developed Alzheimer’s disease on average 6.5 months earlier,” study lead author Madhav Thambisetty of the National Institute on Aging of the US health department’s National Institutes of Health, said in a video recording.

Most Americans’ hearts are older than their actual years

MIAMI - Three out of four Americans’ hearts are older than their chronological age, raising the risk of heart disease, stroke and premature death, officials said Tuesday.

CDC officials said they were releasing the report and the online tool in the hopes that they would encourage people to be aware of their heart health and take measures to prevent heart disease before it is too late.

“The heart age concept was created to more effectively com-municate a person’s risk of dying from heart attack or stroke -– and to show what can be done to lower that risk,” the report said.

Maintaining a healthy weight, keeping blood pressure under con-trol, not smoking, getting enough exercise and eating right are the top ways to avoid heart disease,

experts say.“Because so many US adults

don’t understand their cardio-vascular disease risk, they are missing out on early opportunities to prevent future heart attacks or strokes,” said Barbara Bowman, director of CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Pre-vention.

“About three in four heart at-tacks and strokes are due to risk factors that increase heart age, so it’s important to continue focusing on efforts to improve heart health and increase access to early and affordable detection and treatment resources nationwide.” (afp)

Overweight in midlife may speed up Alzheimer’s

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Being overweight at the age of 50 may speed the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in old age, said a study Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

“We also found in individuals whose brains we could examine after they died, that every unit of increase in body mass index was associated with more neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, which is one of the key pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s.”

People with a BMI of 25 and higher are generally classified as overweight, and 30 and over obese. In metric terms, it is calculated as your weight in kilogrammes di-

vided by the square of your height in meters.

The average BMI of the study participants at 50 years was 25.8, said the authors. A “unit” increase would be one point, say from a BMI of 25 to 26.

“I think these findings are impor-tant because they add to a substantial amount of knowledge about how obesity affects Alzheimer’s,” said Thambisetty.

“But more importantly, it in-

dicates that if we can maintain a healthy body mass index even as early as midlife, it might have long-lasting protective effects towards delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease decades later.”

If one could delay Alzheimer’s onset by just two years, the world-wide prevalence of disease would drop by about 22.8 million cases in 2050, said the study paper.

The study speculated on a pos-sible role for chronic inflammation

associated with obesity. “Our findings raise the possibility

that inexpensive, non-invasive inter-ventions targeting midlife obesity and over-weight could substantially alter the trajectory of (Alzheimer’s), reducing its global public health and economic impact,” said the paper.

A drawback of the study was that most of the trial subjects were white, highly-educated and healthy individuals, the team said, and more research was needed. (afp)

The meetings, usually held every three years outside Washington where the sibling 188-nation institutions are headquartered, will take place in Nusa Dua in October 2018, the IMF and World Bank said in a joint statement.

The 2015 annual meetings are sched-uled for October 9-11 in Lima, Peru.

“I would like to thank the government

of Indonesia and people for hosting the 2018 Annual Meetings,” Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, said in the statement.

“This will be a great opportunity to showcase Indonesia’s impressive economic and social achievements, as well as the culture, beauty, and vitality of the country.” (afp)

SINGARAJA - The Sanur Village Festival (SVF) holds an annual kite competition. Buleleng organizes the Lov-ina Festival and this year it will be enlivened with kite games. The Lovina Festival will take place on September 27 to October 1, 2015, and the committee will hold the kite cutting contest or mekorot, a traditional game favored by the community of Buleleng by both children and adults.

Since it was created, me-korot pits kites in the air. The kites whose strings get cut are lost in the wind, while the one still flying in the air automatically win. In the kite cutting, many factors can de-termine the champion. One of the factors is the use of high quality glass-coated thread and techniques of pitting the kites against each other.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, af ter lead-ing technical meeting in the Gedong Kertya Hall, Singa-raja on Tuesday (Sep. 1) said that it has been decided that they will present traditional game in the Lovina Festival.

Apart from promoting kites to foreign travelers, it is also intended as a way to preserve this tradition and a way to provide a space for the kite cutting hobbyists to hone their skills. Pparticipants, will be awarded prizes provided by the local government in cooperation with private sec-tors including certificates of appreciation.

Other traditional arts and culinary delights from nine villages near Lovina includ-ing the Pemaron, Tukadmung-ga, Anturan, Kalibukbuk, Ka-liasem, Kayu Putih, Temukus, and other villages who will be presented in the Lovina Festi-val this year. The art perfor-mances will be presented on the main stage on the Binaria Beach, Lovina. Astage for modern music will be located in the west at Kaliasem vil-lage, Banjar subdistrict. “This year, we will have two stages, one for ceremonial sessions and performers and the other for the party located in the west,” he said.

According to Suyasa, the committee agreed that the theme featured this year is

Peace and Harmony of Lovina. It signifies peaceful atmo-sphere and harmony of the arts and culture supporting the development of Lovina tourism. His party targeted the increase of foreign tourist visit to Lovina as the mascot of Buleleng. “From the begin-ning, the concept is purely a tourist promotion for Lovina and I think in the macro level our target is how the tourism industry in this area can con-tinue to develop with some regular events. Hopefully, they will have a positive impact for the future,” he added.

In the meantime, the Sail Indonesia (SI) is ensured to be participated by 44 yachts that will berth on Lovina Beach. As scheduled, the yachts will arrive on Lovina Beach on September 23-28, 2015.

Based on information from Lovina tourism players and village officials, some yachts have arrived on Lovina Beach. Such early arrival of partici-pants indicates that Lovina is interesting to be visited by participants of marine adven-turers to spend longer holi-days at Lovina. (kmb38)

DENPASAR — A former Austin, Texas, police officer has been extra-dited from Indonesia to the United States to face trial in the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.

Vontrey Jamal Clark was deported Wednesday through Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali resort island.

Clark, 32, was handed over to 13 agents of the FBI and was flown to

Texas on a specially chartered plane from the bureau.

Bali police spokesman Hery Wi-yanto said Clark arrived in Indonesia on July 19 on an American Airlines flight through Jakarta. He was then arrested in Canggu neighborhood in Bali on July 30 based on a red notice from Interpol.

Clark is a suspect in the Feb. 4 mur-der of Samantha Dean in Texas. (ap)

IMF, World Bank to hold 2018 annual meetings in Bali

JAKARTA - The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said Tuesday they would hold their 2018 annual meetings on the Indo-nesian island of Bali.

Indonesia extradites ex-police officer sought in US murder

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Vontrey Clark, a former US policeman, is escorted by Indonesian police from a holding cell in Denpasar to Ngurah Rai international airport as he is deported from the resort island of Bali on September 2, 2015. Clark was detained in early August after Interpol, acting on a request from the FBI, issued a red notice for his arrest over alleged links to the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.

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Kite cutting held last year in Lovina Festival. Buleleng organizes the Lovina Festival and this year it will be enlivened with kite games.

Kite cutting contest jazzes up Lovina Festival 2015

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Wednesday that its re-cent expression of “regret” over a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers was not an apology, as Seoul claims — raising doubts about tentative moves toward

detente between the rivals.The statement by Pyongyang’s

powerful National Defense Com-mission is the first explicit denial of Seoul’s interpretation of the key part of an accord that came last week after marathon negotiations allowed

the Koreas to step back from escalat-ing threats of war.

While previous comments by of-ficials had signaled that North Korea did not see its expression of regret for the injuries as an apology, let alone as acknowledgement of responsibil-ity, the vehemence of Wednesday’s denial, coupled with it coming from the highest decision-making body in the country, muddies the prospects for better ties between the Koreas, which remain in a technical state of war. The accord had been vague enough to give both sides seemingly what they wanted.

South Korea immediately inter-preted it publicly as a mini-break-through, claiming that it successfully pushed the North to take responsibil-ity for the blast. North Korea got an end to the cross-border propaganda broadcasts Seoul had started after it said it had evidence that the North had planted the mines. Both sides began making plans for more talks and to resume reunions of families separated by war. North Korea’s new statement, however, is a clear warning.

“This kind of interpretation is the result of ignorance on the meaning of a Korean word and its concept,” said the statement issued by an unidenti-fied spokesman at the commission’s policy department.

“South Korea must not forget for an instant that a misjudgment ... would trigger fatal consequences on North-South relations,” it went on. “Nothing can be cruder and un-handsomer than describing as one side’s unilateral victory a joint state-ment that North and South Korea agreed upon.”

The two Koreas have a history of failing to follow through on past attempts at reconciliation, and their ties have been bad since conserva-tives took power in Seoul in early 2008.

The North’s statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, also criticized South Korea’s live-fire drills with the U.S. last week, saying they showed the South’s belligerence and threatened to scuttle chances for improving ties. South Korean defense officials said the drills, the biggest-ever of their

kind, were routine training between the allies.

South Korea’s Unification Minis-try spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said later Wednesday that it is time for the two Koreas to faithfully try to imple-ment their agreements rather than arguing over wording in them.

In an indication that North Korea’s hard-line stance has not changed de-spite the agreement, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said last week that the deal was achieved not on the negotiating table but thanks to his country’s military capability based on its “nuclear deterrent.” The North’s statement Wednesday reiterated Kim’s stance.

South Korean officials would likely refrain from making com-ments that would further anger North Korea to help realize the family reunions, said Lim Eul Chul, a North Korea expert at South Ko-rea’s Kyungnam University. But he said better inter-Korean ties could depend on whether Seoul bans activ-ists critical of the agreement from sending propaganda leaflets toward the North.(ap)

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The new suspect, identified as Emrah Davutoglu, is the husband of a Thai woman for whom an ar-rest warrant has already been issued because she had rented an apartment where bomb-making materials were found this past weekend. The woman professes innocence and says she is in Turkey. Of the eight people for whom arrest warrants have now been issued, at least two others are also believed to be Turkish.

National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said authorities were still conducting DNA tests but could determine that the man arrested at the Cambodian border “is important and is related or conspired with people who committed” the Aug. 17 bombing at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok. The blast left 20 people dead, more than half of them foreigners, and over 120 injured.

Thailand’s national deputy police chief, Chakthip Chaijinda, told report-ers that he thinks the suspect arrested at the border speaks Turkish, which requires an interpreter. He did not say whether an interpreter has been brought in or if the Turkish Embassy has been approached.

The Turkish connection has fueled speculation the suspects may be part of a group seeking to avenge Thailand’s forced repatriation of ethnic Uighurs to China in July.

Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) are related to Turks, and Turkey is home to a large Uighur community. The Erawan Shrine is especially popu-lar with Chinese tourists, feeding the idea that it could be a target for people who believe the Uighurs are oppressed by China’s government. Beijing says some Uighurs are Islamist terrorists, and that among them is a group that has been smuggled out of China to join Islamic State fighters in Syria.

In a later announcement, Prawut said Davutoglu faces charges of con-spiracy to possess unauthorized war materials. Prawut said he is believed to have been “part of a network that provided accommodation” to those connected with the bombing.

Earlier this week, police issued an arrest warrant for his wife, Thai national Wanna Suansan, whose name was on the lease of an apartment that police raided over the weekend where bomb-making materials were found. Wanna had told police that she

had nothing to do with the bombing and wants to clear her name. Prawut said that Wanna had agreed to come back to Thailand to be questioned by police but then said “she has to think about it.”

The investigation into the attack picked up after police raids this past weekend on two apartments on the outskirts of Bangkok that contained bomb-making materials.

In the first apartment, raided Satur-day in the Bangkok neighborhood of Nong Chok, police arrested a suspect they described as a foreign man and seized bomb-making equipment that included detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe believed to be a bomb casing. The suspect arrested Saturday had a Turkish passport, though Thai authorities say it was fake. At his apartment, they seized more than 200 passports, an unknown number of which appeared to be Turkish and pos-sibly fake. They also took fingerprints from the apartment, which turned out to match those of the suspect arrested Tuesday at the border with Cambodia, Prawut said.

“We can confirm that the man’s fingerprints match with those found on a bottle that contains a bombing sub-stance,” Prawut said, and then added, “He could be the one who brought the bomb out of this apartment or he could have brought the bomb to the crime scene.”(ap)

National Council for Peace and Order via APIn this image provided by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Thai authorities arrest a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a deadly bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok on Aug. 17, 2015.

Thai police: Suspect’s prints match those on bomb material

BANGKOK — Police investigating last month’s Bangkok bombing said Wednesday that the fingerprints of a foreign man arrested at the Thai-Cambodia border match those found on a bottle of bomb-making material, and that they were seeking to arrest a Turkish man linked to the blast.

North Korea denies it apologized over mine blast

The Defense Ministry via AP, FIleFILE - In this Aug. 9, 2015 file photo provided by the Defense Ministry, an unidentified South Korean army official, second from right, gives a briefing to the media at the scene of a blast inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea.

AMLAPURA - Gender gamelan players especially at Tribuana village, Abang subdistrict, Karan-gasem, increasingly scarce. There are quite a lot of gamelean instru-ments there but there is no one to play them, revealed Secretary of Tribuana village, Wayan Pepek, in Karangasem.

He said that at Ngis Kaler, for instance, there are two sets of gen-der gamelan instruments. Similarly, Ngis Kelod also has a set. Almost each hamlet has gender gamelan instruments, but the gamelan play-ers have virtually disappeared. This is because young people rarely learn to play gamelan, anymore,

especially the gender. “To address this worrying condition we want to help support this cultural heritage,” he said.

He admitted that he feels saddened by the gender being abandoned. On that account, his village plans to hold a gender playing competition as a way to revive and rebuild the gender gamelan players community. He hopes that this competition will encourage the revival of gender gamelan playing and other cul-tures in his the village because at Ngis, Basangalas hamlet and surrounding areas had previously been known for having many

artists, including undagi or tra-ditional architect.

The village secretary seeks to draft a budget for the contest, from this year’s amended village budget with the hope that such an event can be organized next year. He also said that as part of the village anniversary, there are holding a month of public services, including a village cleanup to collect all the plastic waste in the area of Purwayu, Basangalas and Ngis customary village. “In addition to a garbage collection contest among local cus-tomary villages, similar contests are also being held in primary schools,” he said. (013)

The Head of the Tabanan En-vironment Agency, A.A. Ngurah Raka Icwara, explained on Tuesday (Sep. 1) that the examination con-ducted on June 4, 2015, indicated that some parameters are still below the threshold except for the Biologi-cal Oxygen Demand (BOD).

According to Raka Icwara, BOD rate exceeding the threshold occurs in the lake area located near the agricultural and forest area. Result of the measurement indicates that BOD rate near the forest reaches 3.23 mg/L, near the agricultural areas (3.23 mg/L), near recreation site (1.19 mg/L) and in the outlet (1.21 mg/L). In the meantime, the BOD threshold is 2 mg/L so that from the water examination in the Lake Beratan near agricultural and forest areas show that the BOD rate exceeds the threshold.

Another parameter used as a reference for water pollution levels is the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). The COD rate in agri-cultural and forest areas is higher than the other points but according Rai Icwara it stays below the COD threshold. “COD threshold is 10 mg/L and in all the points examined indicate that the results are below this figure” he said.

The COD rate of lake water near the agricultural areas is 5 mg/L, near recreation site (5 mg/L, in the middle (3 mg/L) and in the outlet (3 mg/L). High BOD rate in the water of Lake Beratan near agricultural areas, according to Raka Icwara, happens due to accumulation of

chemical fertilizer substances pro-duced by vegetable farm near the lake. “Vegetable farmers near the lake use chemical fertilizers. To reduce the water pollution due to chemical fertilizers, we advise farmers to use organic fertilizer,” explained Raka Icwara.

BOD rates for lake water near the forest area is higher because tourist speed boats idle too long in this location. “Tourists whose these speed boat like to stop for a long time near forest areas to enjoy the view and take photos. The idling of their boats is suspected of causing the high BOD rate,” he explained.

Besides, the water flow towards the outlet of the lake near forest area is not good so water tends to stagnate there so that BOD rates there exceed the threshold.

According to Raka Icwara, as for the Total Suspended Solid (TSS) parameter, the silting is quite high, where the TSS quality standard is 50 mg/L. The TSS near the for-est area reaches 80 mg/L, in the outlet (60 mg/L), near agricultural area (80 mg/L), recreation site (80 mg/L) and the middle of the lake (80 mg/L). “The TSS in the Lake Beratan has exceeded water quality standards,” he explained.

The TSS itself is a solid material, including organic and inorganic ma-terials suspended in the water. High TSS rate will reduce the penetration of sunlight into water thus increasing turbidity and cause a silting.

Although the TSS rate in Lake Beratan exceeds the quality stan-

dards, Raka Icwara acknowledged that his party does not know about how deep the sedimentation goes. Based on the last inspection, the average depth of the Lake Beratan is 12.8 meters, the deepest point is 20 meters and the water surface area reaches 3.85 square kilometers with a maximum capacity of 49.22 million cubic meters.

To prevent the pollution and silting of Lake Beratan from deteriorating any further, the Environment Agency has proposed that the handling of the pollution and the prevention program be submitted to the Ministry of En-vironment. One of the programs that could be run cold be the reforestation of the borderline of the lake.

In regards to the large number

of vendors on the the edge of Lake Beratan, Raka Icwara said that his party has been monitoring the situ-ation and appealed to them and the public not to throw their garbage into the lake. “And the appeal has been adhered to. They usually have their own bins that are then be dumped into landfill,” he said. (kmb24)

Chemical fertilizers cause severe water pollution in Lake Beratan

Gender players increasingly rare

IBP/FileThe youth of Bali are playing “Gender”, one of the traditional musi-cal instruments

TABANAN - Through regular inspection conducted to determine the condition of the water in Lake Beratan, Baturiti, contamination, exceeding the threshold of acceptability has recently been discovered in the lake water near farms and forest areas.

IBP/FileThe tourists are enjoying the beautiful scenery of Lake Beratan

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Hilton is hailing the ride sharing service Uber to help guests reach its hotels and then explore the city where they are staying.

The companies said Tuesday that Hilton guests will be able to set up automatic noti-fications to request Uber rides to and from the chain’s hotels worldwide. Members of the company’s HHonors program also will be to use a digital guide of restaurants and

nightlife spots most frequented by Uber riders.

The companies plan to launch this option later this month in 20 U.S. cities as a feature within the Hilton HHonors mobile app.

Uber connects riders and drivers through a smartphone application and has launched in more than 300 cities.

It’s a staple of the rapidly growing “shar-

ing economy” that involves newer busi-nesses that aim to use the Internet to make it easier for people to earn money by sharing property like cars or homes. Businesses like Airbnb, which arranges for people to rent rooms or apartments, have faced opposi-tion from traditional service providers that complain about being undercut.

Terms of the deal between Hilton and

Uber were not disclosed.McLean, Virginia-based Hilton World-

wide Holdings Inc.’s brands include Em-bassy Suites, Hampton Inn, and Homewood Suites. Shares of Hilton slipped 55 cents to $24.28 in midday trading Tuesday, as broader indexes also fell. The hotel chain’s stock had slipped nearly 5 percent so far this year, as of Monday’s market close. (ap)

While maintaining their upbeat view of the market’s potential in the medium-term, auto manufacturers have had to make some adjust-ments.

They have lowered their fore-casts for sales growth in 2015 and some have expressed concern about a looming price war, and the shares of the industry’s giants have been getting hammered on world markets.

Car sales, a traditional barometer of the economic climate, advanced in China by nearly 14 percent in 2013 and 6.9 percent in 2014.

This year the forecast is gloomy with analysts predicting a sales increase of around 3.0 percent as China’s economic growth has slowed from 7.4 percent last year.

Economists put China’s first-half growth rate at around 6.3 percent, lower than the official 7.0 percent, according to a recent survey by Bloomberg News.

“I don’t think we will see again the growth rates that we saw in the past,” said Yann Lacroix, an expert on the automobile sector at insurer Euler Hermes.

The world’s top carmakers all profited in the Chinese boom years. In 2014 Volkswagen sold 36 percent of its global production in China, General Motors 35 percent, PSA Peugeot Citroen 25 percent, BMW 20 percent and Mercedes-maker Daimler 16 percent.

But the current slowdown “does not affect the outlook for the Chi-nese market on the 2020 horizon,

which remains excellent”, said Flavien Neuvy, auto market analyst for Cetelem.

He pointed to the sustained expansion of the middle class in a country where many households are not yet car owners.

The world’s number one car-maker Toyota, which has seen around 11 percent of its global sales in China, says at this stage it has not experienced any jolts from the country’s stalling econ-omy.

The US giant says it continues “to expect strong results in China for the rest of the year”, while Ger-man auto kings Volkswagen and BMW have revised lower their sales growth estimates for 2015.

“Over the years, the German au-tomobile manufacturers pulled out ahead of the competition, but now conditions are changing for them too,” said Ernst & Young expert Peter Fuss.

Since the start of the year in the domestic market, the cheaper all-Chinese made cars have surpassed the vehicles made by joint ventures. China requires all foreign automak-ers to form joint ventures with local firms.

“If you want to attract new clients in China, you have to veer more towards ‘low-cost’ vehicles,” said Lacroix.

After years of euphoria over booming China, the abrupt slow-ing in the market threatens to lead to overcapacity in the factories, an unknown situation up to now,

analysts say.Joint-venture factories turned out

cars at 94.3 percent of capacity in the first quarter of this year com-pared with more than 107 percent in the same period a year earlier, according to a study by research firm Sanford C. Bernstein recently cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Plants can surpass capacity by add-ing extra work shifts.

That has not discouraged car-makers who still want a stake in this huge market.

Renault, which has been some-what absent from China up to now, is building a factory in the central city of Wuhan set to open next year.

Its CEO Carlos Ghosn recently said that he was aiming for 3.5 percent of the market “as a first step”.

The turbulence in the Chinese economy won’t change that, said a source close to Renault, which remains “calm and confident” about the future of its models on China’s roads. (ap)

Hilton dips toe in ‘sharing economy’ with Uber partnership

Foreign carmakers still driven to invest in China

PARIS - Foreign carmakers that raced into China to profit from what has become the world’s biggest automobile market by volume have no intention of backing out despite slowing sales as the Chinese economy shifts down.

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, FileIn this March 13, 2015 file photo, a worker inspects a new 2015 aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150 truck at the company’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo. Foreign carmakers that raced into China to profit from what has become the world’s biggest automobile market by volume have no intention of backing out despite slowing sales as the Chinese economy shifts down.

MANGUPURA - Repairs being made to the intake structure of Subak Beringkit and Subak Batan Badung has had negative im-

pacts on the Taman Ayun tourist attraction. The structuring project with a budget of IDR 11 billion has caused the river or dam sur-

rounding the Taman Ayun to dry out.Such condition draws the attention of visi-

tors, both foreign and local, visiting this at-tractions located at Mengwi village, Badung. The cool and beautiful atmosphere seems to have disspareaed. The dam bed has started to become overgrown with weeds, while the water on the east side of Taman Ayun is run-ning low and looks muddy.

The Badung Highways and Irrigation (BMP) Agency, working on the project said that the project is being worked on as maintenance of Taman Ayun Temple and the subak irrigation that have been recognized by UNESCO as world’s cultural heritage.

“Since it has been designated as a world’s cultural heritage, it must be maintained. We hope for people’s understanding during the work being done,” said the Head of the Ba-dung Highways and Irrigation Agency, I.B. Surya Suamba.

According to Suamba, if the subak is not maintained, he fears that that UNESCO will revoke the status as a world’s cultural heri-tage. “At the moment, the water that usually flows to Taman Ayun is now being diverted

to the east side of Taman Ayun. The water is still flowing into the surrounding paddy fields and subak areas,” he said.

Suamba explained that the ongoing repair project is being done to normalize the intake structure of the Subak Beringkit and Subak Batan Badung. The project will take 240 days and is being worked on by PT Dawan Sakti. “Current normalization is being done to ir-rigate 100 hectares of paddy fields at Subak Beringkit and Subak Batan Badung in the area of Abianbase. Without these renovations, water flowing into the subak areas will not be optimal” he concluded.

Taman Ayun tourist attraction has an area of 100 x 250 square meters, divided into outermost and innermost courtyards. The outermost courtyard lies outside of the pond, while the innermost courtyard is divided into three area. The first innermost courtyard has a place to rest while enjoying the beauty of the temple; the second one lies in higher place where visitors can see the relief of nine guardians of the compass or in Hinduism they are known as the symbol of Dewata Nawa Sanga. (kmb27)

The approved design includes a four-storey building plus basement. Managing Director of PD Pasar, I Made Westra, when met at his office said that he had in fact received the Mayoral Decree regarding the land utilization right of the ex-Tiara Gro-sir. Moreover, his party has drawn up feasibility studies related to the land utilization. “We are cooperat-ing with Udayana University to prepare the feasibility study,” said Westra.

Apart form the feasibility study, a mockup has also been created. Three partners were designated to create the design, that been approved in accordance with the concept for Denpasar City. The building aims to be as comfortable, fresh and clean as possible for the SME activities and traditional mar-kets. “The usage pattern remains the same as the original draft, namely the SMEs,” he said.

It is said that the fourth floor

will be used for parking. Some spaces on the third floor will be used for parking, while the re-maining area will be used for of-fices and as administrative spaces. The second floor is specifically intended for the SME, while the first floor is intended for modern markets while the basement will be used as a fresh and clean tra-ditional market.

Currently they are just looking for investors to have the building built The business pattern will be cooperation like in the management of Lokitasari Shopping Center on Jalan Thamrin. “We are targeting the end of the year as the start date for construction,” said Westra, Tuesday (Sep. 1).

Westra acknowledged that it took a long time to obtain the may-oral decree for the management rights because of local issues. Tiara Grosir was closed in September 2014 because the municipal gov-

ernment intended to use the land. The extension of the right use of the building (HGB) permit, filed by

the management of Tiara Grosir was therefore rejected by the municipal government. The case was then

brought to the Administrative Court where the Tiara Grosir’s request was rejected. (kmb12)

Land utilization of ex-Tiara Grosir

Building to have four floors plus basement

DENPASAR - After waiting for several months, the land utiliza-tion of the ex-Tiara Grosir has been determined. Mayoral Decree No.188.45/1236/HK/2014 on Land Utilization Determination with HPL No. 1 at Pemecutan Kaja dated December 19, 2015, declares that PD Pasar has been given the right to manage the land. After getting the decree, PD Pasar immediately followed up by making a design for the building.

IBP/FileThe Tiara Grosir is now neglected after the mall closed

Taman Ayun dam dries up

IBP/FileTaman Ayun

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Labour-intensive sectors like manufacturing and mining have shed thousands of jobs in recent months as economic growth in the second quarter slowed to its weakest pace in six years.

“The economy is slowing and companies all over the country are already either closing down or cutting jobs,” said Hariyadi Sukamdani, head of the Indone-sian Employers Association.

“And this could get worse if the annual wage increase is too high,” he said, adding that firms in the association had cut 50,000 jobs since January.

T h o u s a n d s o f w o r k e r s

marched in several cities on Tuesday to protest layoffs and call for higher wages as they contend with rising food prices that made Indonesia’s annual inflation stay above 7 percent in August, the highest in the region.

Union leaders have called for at least a 22 percent rise in mini-mum wage in the capital Jakarta, which is seen as a bellwether for the rest of the country. Jakarta last year saw a rise of 11 percent in its minimum wage to 2.7 mil-lion rupiah ($191.56) a month.

Annual negotiations are get-ting underway between workers,

employers, and local adminis-trations to determine minimum wages later this year.

Unemployment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy stood at 5.81 percent in February, ac-cording to official statistics, but analysts say that doesn’t cover the informal sector and the real figure could be much higher.

“We realize economic condi-tions in Indonesia are not very good at the moment, but the gov-ernment needs to realize it’s the workers and poor people who get hit the hardest,” said Bambang, a Jakarta factory worker who had participated in the rallies. (rtr)

JAKARTA - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Wednesday declared Asian economies were doing “pretty well” despite the volatil-ity caused by China’s slowdown and unease on global financial markets.

Lagarde’s comments in Indo-nesia come as financial markets gyrate over concerns about the health of China’s economy -- the world’s second-largest -- and its effect emerging economies and their currencies.

World stock markets plunged further this week as more evidence emerged of China’s economic slowdown, triggering heavy sell-offs from Tokyo to New York and spurring cuts to global growth forecasts.

Lagarde, in Jakarta for a two-day visit, said the recent turmoil highlighted the “extraordinary gains” made by Asian economies but warned further volatility was on the horizon.

“Now the situation is changing yet again, and we are all feeling

the impact of China’s rebalancing and moving to a revised business model,” she told a conference.

“What has been demonstrated in the last few weeks is how much Asia is at the core of global econ-omy, and how much disruptions occurring in one market in Asia can actually spill over to the rest of the world.”

Slower growth in major econo-mies like China and Japan, lower commodity prices and the pros-pect of higher interest rates in the United States would continue to weigh on regional markets, Lagarde added.

Despite external pressures and the slower pace of expansion in Asia, the IMF chief said “this whole region, in the world, is doing pretty well”, and would continue to be a key source of global growth.

Lagarde this week added her voice to private sector economists that have already cut their world growth estimates, conceding growth would likely be weaker than the 3.3 percent estimate the IMF made just two months ago. (afp)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inau-gurated Teten Masduki as the presidential chief of staff to replace Luhut Binsar Panjaitan at the State Palace on Wednesday.

Masduki was inaugurated based on Presidential Decree No. 91/P/2015 on the dismissal and appointment of the presidential chief of staff.

The presidential decree decides the dismissal of Pan-jaitan and the appointment of Masduki to replace him as the chief of staff of the presidency, with the rights and facilities provided to him being at par with those for a minister.

Masduki was sworn in by Jokowi to accomplish the tasks of the presidential chief of staff that encompass pro-viding strategic information to the president, helping the president design political communication between institu-tions, and helping the president identify strategic issues.

The inauguration ceremony at the State Palace was attended by numerous cabinet ministers.

Born in Garut, West Java, in 1963, Masduki is an Indonesian social activist who was involved in a public clearinghouse that handled information related to cor-ruption, collusion, and nepotism in Indonesia. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2005. (ant)

REUTERS/Nyimas Laula

A porter carries clothes at a traditional retail market in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2, 2015. Indone-sia’s annual inflation rate unexpectedly cooled in August to 7.18 percent, the statistics bureau said on September 1, 2015.

Indonesian employers resist workers’ calls for higher wages

JAKARTA - An Indonesian employers association labelled workers’ demands for steep annual wage hikes as “unrealistic” on Tuesday, and warned there could be more layoffs at companies struggling amid a slowdown in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Asia doing “pretty well” despite China slowdown: IMF chief

Jokowi inaugurates Teten Masduki as presidential chief of staff

The country has borne the brunt of a massive refugee and migration influx to the European Union, with more than 200,000 people arriving so far this year. The coast guard said it had res-cued 1,058 people at sea in 28 incidents from Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning. Those do not include hundreds who make it to the islands themselves.

Three people reported missing at sea overnight off the island of Kos were found alive and rescued by a fishing boat Wednesday, the coast guard said. Authorities on the islands have been over-whelmed by the numbers.

“Measures will be announced

(so that) soon ... there will be an improvement both for the refugees and for the residents of the islands that are facing these difficulties,” said Migration Policy Minister Yannis Mouzalas. The caretaker government will run the country until Sept. 20 elections.

“The problem is very big. I am optimistic that a crisis will be avoided,” said Mouzalas, a doc-tor and member of the Doctors of the World aid organization.

Speaking after discussing the issue with Prime Minister Vassi-liki Thanou, he stressed Euro-pean Union and United Nations intervention was needed.

“If the European Union doesn’t

intervene quickly to absorb the populations, ... if the issue isn’t internationalized on a United Nations level, every so often we will be discussing how to avoid the crisis.” The minister insisted the issue was a refugee, and not a migration matter. “There is no migration issue, remove that — it is a refugee issue,” he told journalists.

Separately, police arrested six suspected smugglers in northern Greece after finding 103 mi-grants or refugees, including 19 children, hidden in a truck head-ing from the Turkish border area to the main northern city of Thes-saloniki, authorities said. (ap)

PARIS — Eight people died in an apartment fire early Wednesday at the foot of Paris’ famed Montmartre hill, and police are investigating whether the fire was started inten-tionally, officials said. Some died leaping out of windows to flee what appeared to be the deadliest blaze in the French capital in a decade.

The dead included two children, and four survivors were hospital-ized, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters at the scene.

Firefighters extinguished a small paper fire around after midnight in the building, then were called back two hours later for a much bigger fire, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus told The Associated Press. It’s unclear what caused both fires, and whether there was any link. When the firefighters returned, Plus said, “We were immediately confronted with a disaster of an exceptional scale.”

People screamed for help from inside the building, and two people who had already jumped from win-dows were on the ground motionless in front of the building, he said. Several windows had been blown out because of the fire.”

Brandet said the fire began in a ground floor stairwell. Plus said it

quickly engulfed all five floors of the building and consumed several apartments and the stairwell, forcing people to flee out windows. More than 100 firefighters were required to extinguish the blaze.

“I was sleeping and I heard cries of people calling for help,” said Flo-rent, who lives in a different entrance of the same building. He spoke on condition that his last name not be used because of security concerns. “I opened the door to see the dam-age ... and I went to get a bucket of water in the panic. Then I reflected and thought the flames were too big to stop them by myself,” and instead called the fire department, he said.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve were on the scene early Wednesday. Hidalgo, asked whether the fire could have been prompted by electrical or gas problems, said the building had not had any previous problems and had been in good condition.

Even French President Francois Hollande issued a statement about the fire, promising all necessary ef-forts “to shed light on the drama.”

It was one of the deadliest fires in Paris since the 2005 fire in a hotel housing African immigrants that left 24 people dead including 11 children. (ap)

AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis

Migrants disembark from the catamaran Terra Jet at the Athens’ port of Piraeus, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. About 1,800 refugees arrived from the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos as the country has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants this year.

Greece to introduce measures for refugees on islands

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s caretaker government will introduce measures to improve conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees and migrants arriving on eastern Greek islands, as well as for the islands’ residents, the migration policy minister said Wednesday.

AP Photo/Francois Mori

A rescue worker climbs a ladder after a fire broke out at a building, Wednesday, Sept.2, 2015 in Paris, France. Officials say eight people died in an apartment fire early Wednesday and police are investigating a possible criminal origin of the blaze.

Blaze in Paris apartment building leaves 8 dead

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Murray, the 2012 U.S. Open cham-pion and 2013 Wimbledon winner, played straight man to the flippant Australian, who unnecessarily tried ‘tweener’ shots through his legs and jumped extravagantly on routine fore-hands that he buried into the net.

Murray had beaten Kyrgios in straight sets in their three previous meetings, eliminating him this year from two other grand slams, in the Australian quarter-finals and third round of the French Open. But the Scotsman still holds the Austra-lian’s game in high regard.

“He’s played well pretty much in every grand slam tournament that he’s been part of,” Murray said about Kyrgios, who has twice reached grand slam quarter-finals. “I expected a very tough match, and that’s what I got.”

The Australian, playing under an ATP Tour probation for crude personal comments made to Stan Wawrinka during a match in Mon-

treal last month, should have made the contest much closer but could only convert three of 14 break point opportunities. “I thought I put in a really good performance tonight,” said Kyrgios. “Obviously, it’s not the result I wanted. But I thought I was focused and ready for today.

“I thought I created opportunities. I tried to take them,” he added, bristling at a suggestion he had “wasted” them. “I thought he served pretty clutch in certain situations. His defence was unbelievable again tonight.” Murray was superior from the service line, hammering in 18 aces to 11 from the hard-hitting Australian.

The Scotsman blasted 46 win-ners, many coming off ill-advised drop shots floated over the net by the 6-foot-4 Kyrgios, while making 23 unforced errors to 39 for his op-ponent. Murray gave the Australian credit for a series of great shots in breaking him at the end of the third set to extend the match, but con-

ceded that Kyrgios can be plagued by lapses of concentration.

“I felt like when he had his dips, I capitalised on them today,” he said. Even Murray can get distracted by the Australian’s antics.

“I’ve done a pretty good job of just concentrating on my side,” Murray said. “But almost all the matches that I’ve played, there have been a couple points where I have laughed on the court or smiled because some of the stuff is funny. “When he let go of the racquet today after the forehand, I mean, that only happens to him,” he said about comic moment that sent the raquet skittering toward the ballboy behind him.

When asked about some of the flashy shots he tries, Kyrgios said it was just his style. “I’ve always been an emotional person on the court. And, yeah, I like going for shots that aren’t high percentage. I just got a really good self-confidence.

“I think obviously I’ve had some really big wins. I don’t think I’d be able to have those wins if I didn’t have that sort of confidence by me.” Murray will next play French left-hander Adrian Mannarino, a 7-6 6-4 6-1 winner over Russian Konstantin Kravchuk.(ap)

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Durban in South Africa will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first African city to be awarded the four-yearly multi-sports event.

The 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth Games Federation made the decision unanimously Wednesday after receiving Durban’s final candidate city briefing at the general assem-bly in Auckland. Durban was the only candidate left when Edmon-ton, Canada withdrew its bid in February, citing costs. The general assembly also voted to increase the number of compulsory sports at the games from 10 to 16.

Scotland’s Louise Martin was elected the first female president of the federation, deposing in-cumbent Prince Tunku Imran of Malaysia who held the role for four years.

Durban’s final pitch to Federa-tion members included contribu-tions from South Africa’s minister for sport Fikile Mbalula and Dur-ban mayor James Nxumalo. The announcement was broadcast live in South Africa.

Members of the South African delegation said while Durban was the lone candidate, it was not a certainty to be awarded the games. It still had to demonstrate it had the ability and the infrastructure

to host a games which would be financially viable.

South Africa’s record in host-ing the football World Cup in 2010 and the Rugby World Cup in 1995 demonstrated its organizational ability but it has not yet hosted a multi-sports event of the scale of the Commonwealth Games.

The games are scheduled to open July 18, 2022 — marking the birthday of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela who died in 2013.

Principals of the Durban bid committee have said existing infrastructure will be used to minimize costs and the games, scheduled to take place over 12 days, will make a profit. An ath-letics track will be installed at the existing Moses Mabhida Stadium and venues are already in place to host cycling, swimming and indoor events. An athlete’s village will be constructed.

Meanwhile, Martin who is the federation’s honorary secretry and was vice-chair of the Glas-gow 2014 organizing committee, edged Prince Imran in a tight vote for the presidency.

Prince Imran was thought to have a strong hold on the position until Martin released a manifesto in which she pledged to secure new sources of funding to boost spending in member nations.(ap)

2022 Commonwealth Games awarded to Durban

REUTERS/Rogan Ward/FilesA general view of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban is seen in this December 8, 2009 file photo. The South African coastal city was selected as the host for the 2022 Commonwealth Games at the Federation’s general assembly in New Zealand on Wednesday.

REUTERS/Carlo AllegriAndy Murray of Britain hits a return to Nick Kyrgios of Australia during their first round match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York, September 1, 2015.

Composed Murray swats aside Kyrgios at US Open

NEW YORK - Third-seeded Briton Andy Murray put on a com-posed display to overcome the mercurial Nick Kyrgios 7-5 6-3 4-6 6-1 under the Arthur Ashe Stadium lights to reach the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Kyrgios showed off his powerful serve and groundstrokes but the 37th-ranked Australian frequently sacrificed efficiency for showmanship and failed to take advantage of his numerous opportunities.

MANGUPURA - Baha tourism village is located in Mengwi District of Badung regency, about 5 km between the attraction of Taman Ayun and Sangeh.

Baha Village in ancient times was one of the bases of freedom fighters in Bali. Since 1992, this village was developed as tourist village with a variety of its tourism potential.

In addition to the beautiful natural scen-ery, there’s also women kecak dance group, Legong performances and recreational

fishing. Baha village is also rich in craft activities such as carvings, cane works, and other household industries.

The uniqueness of this traditional village is the uniformity of the entrance gates of the family compounds combines with the tradi-tional housing structure, which portrays a fascinating appearance for the village.

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Baha Tourism Village

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United is taking a gamble on the 19-year-old Martial, who has been compared by some in France to the great Thierry Henry despite making just 29 senior starts in spells at Lyon and Monaco and only earning a first call-up to his national squad last month.

“He has all the attributes to become a top foot-ball

Manager Roberto Martinez is pleased with Everton’s business in the summer transfer window and said the Premier League club have ensured they will maintain continu-ity at Goodison Park.

The Toffees brought in seven players, including the deadline-day signings of centre-half Ramiro Funes Mori from River Plate and Aaron Lennon from Tottenham Hotspur.

They also signed Tom Cleverly, Gerard Deulofeu, David Henen, Mason Holgate and Leandro Ro-driguez, but probably the club’s best piece of business was resisting three bids from Chelsea for England defender John Stones.

Martinez had earlier declared his intention to sign another striker but the club were left frustrated in their attempts to bring in Andriy Yarmolenko from current Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev, accord-ing to British media reports.

However, the manager said he was happy with the players at his disposal and stressed the impor-tance of being able to hold on to

his key performers.“I feel really pleased about the

way in which our business during this transfer window will allow us to carry on with the continuity in our squad and develop some of our young talent while adding some outstanding characters,” the Span-iard told the club website (www.evertonfc.com).

“Keeping the main performers of the team that attempted that fourth-place finish in the Premier League two seasons ago and shared in some incredible memories in Europe last season will help us to integrate all of our new signings and to carry on reaching better levels of perfor-mance on a consistent basis.

“Four full senior internationals for England, Argentina and Spain reflect the huge calibre of players we have been able to bring in, with some of those -- Gerard Deulofeu and Aaron Lennon -- already know-ing our dressing room and our home,” the 42-year-old added.

“They represent a guarantee in terms of settling in well to our club and adding to our squad.” (rtr)

SEOUL — Despite a disap-pointing start to his tenure as Japan coach, Vahid Halilhodzic has been told by the Japan football associa-tion that his job is not under threat ahead of Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Cambodia.

The Bosnian’s first competi-tive match in charge of the Japan resulted in a disappointing goalless draw at home to Singapore in June and was followed by a last-place finish in the four-nation East Asian Cup in August. Japan’s display with just two points from three games against bitter regional rivals China, South Korea and North Korea was poorly received by the Tokyo media.

“Some of the media is not so pa-tient, but this is a normal situation,” Japan FA vice-president Kohzo Tashima told Associated Press.

“He hasn’t really started, the first game was an unfortunate draw against Singapore and while that was not a good result, we need more time to allow his football in-fluence to be felt.” added Tashima who was elected to FIFA’s Execu-tive Committee in April.

Elsewhere, Japan should be able to take three points from Cambo-dia at home on a Thursday night in Asian soccer, which features a series of regional powers hosting small teams.

Thirty-nine teams have been split into eight groups in this, the second round of qualification, with only the winners and four best runners up progressing to the final stage.

Asian champion Australia takes on Bangladesh in Perth in its first appearance on home soil since win-ning the Asian Cup in January.

Preparations for the Socceroos have been overshadowed by a pay dispute between the players’ union and Football Federation Australia, but Bangladesh boss Lodewijk de Kruif is under no illusions as to the

The Arsenal Supporters’ Trust has called on the Premier League club to carry out a “full review” of recruit-ment policy following a quiet transfer window where goalkeeper Petr Cech was the only major addition to Arsene Wenger’s squad.

Cech arrived from Chelsea for a reported 10 million pounds ($15 million), while 17-year-old French-man Jeff Reine-Adelaide joined from Ligue 2 side Lens along with a flurry of academy recruits. But the transfer

deadline passed on Tuesday without the addition of a blockbuster striker or world class defensive midfielder that supporters have long called for.

The lack of arrivals are not for a paucity of money. In July, Arsenal director Philip Harris said the Gunners had the money to sign “anyone but Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi” and had over 200 million pounds ($306.18 million) in the bank.

“Arsenal are in a strong financial position and it is of course disappoint-

ing that (the) transfer window has closed with just the signing of Petr Cech,” the AST said in a statement posted hours after the window closed. “Arsenal have built a strong squad and just one or two more good additions would have strengthened the chances of winning a first title in 11 years.”

Under Wenger, Arsenal have en-dured a period of severe financial restriction brought on by their shift from their old Highbury ground to the Emirates Stadium before the start

of the 2006-07 season.However, the expensive arrivals

of Mesut Ozil in 2013 and Alexis Sanchez last year led to an end of the prudent years and back-to-back FA Cup wins. The AST, keen for the club to kick on and land a first ever Cham-pions League title and end the wait for another Premier League crown, said a transfer review was long needed.

“No one wants Arsenal to buy players just for the sake of it, but we do want to see the money being

invested to make the club stronger,” the AST added.

“This isn’t an issue that affects just one transfer window and seems to indicate a wider structural issue.

“We urge the board to now open a full review into its arrangements for scouting and purchasing players.

“A review of this type is a good governance practice and can only help Arsenal to become a stronger club. The AST will be raising this with the Arsenal board.” (rtr)

GENEVA — The American prosecutor who launched the bribery case that rocked FIFA is stepping on Sepp Blatter’s home turf. On Sept. 14 in Zurich, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will join her counterpart from Switzerland, Michael Lauber, for a news conference about their separate investigations of corruption in world football.

The joint conference will explain the “status of the two crimi-nal proceedings,” Swiss officials said in a statement on Tuesday. Though the cases are separate, the officials involved are coop-erating in their investigations. Lynch, who helped kick off the FIFA case several years ago as a U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, is scheduled to attend an annual conference of federal prosecutors which is hosted this year by Lauber’s department.

Across town, Blatter is working through the last months of his 18-year presidential spell after citing pressure on FIFA from the criminal cases as a reason to go early. Before deciding on June 2 to leave office, Blatter criticized Lynch — who was sworn into office in April — for conducting her case in Zurich.

“Listen, with all the respect to the judicial system of the U.S. with a new minister of justice,” Blatter said in May, “the Americans, if they have a financial crime that regards American citizens then they must arrest these people there and not in Zurich when we have a congress.”

The American case alleges bribery, fraud, money launder-ing and racketeering, including in the award of hosting rights for the 2010 World Cup to South Africa and broadcasting rights for World Cup qualifying matches and other interna-tional competitions. FIFA was rocked on May 27 when Swiss federal police arrested seven officials, including FIFA’s vice presidents for the North and South American regions, in a dawn raid at a luxury hotel in Zurich at the request of U.S. authorities. They were among 14 football and marketing of-ficials named in a 47-count U.S. indictment unsealed that day. Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, a Cayman Islands banker, accepted extradition to the U.S. and six others remain in Zurich-area prisons fighting the process.

Four more men — including Chuck Blazer, the most senior American in world football for 16 years until 2013 — had their guilty pleas unsealed on May 27. “They corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and enrich themselves,” Lynch said at a news conference in New York hours after the arrests. Two days later, Blatter targeted Lynch in his first media interview after winning re-election.

“I was shocked by what she said,” Blatter told French-language Swiss broadcaster RTS. “As a president I would never make a statement about another organization without knowing.” Lynch is personally close to the FIFA case, which she helped start when U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Her name is on November 2013 court documents detailing Blazer’s plea agreement. Blazer admitted receiving payments in a $10 million bribe scheme to support South Africa’s successful bid to host the 2010 World Cup.

The plot linked Blazer and two other then-FIFA executive com-mi t t ee mem - bers in receiv- ing cash w h i c h South Afri-can off i - cials asked FIFA t o t r a n s - fer through the governing body’s accounts in 2008.

T h e S w i s s case focuses on possible money laundering during the bidding contests for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, won by Russia and Qatar, respectively. (ap)

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

Everton’s John Stones

Everton manager Martinez happy with squad after deadline day

REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa kicks the ball during their Bundesliga first division soccer match against Borussia Moenchengladbach in Gelsenkirchen, Germany August 15, 2015.

No pressure for Japan coach ahead of World Cup qualifiers

size of the challenge that awaits.“We are progressing as a nation

and the chance to play the Asian champion is a great one for us,” the Dutchman told AP. “We will give it everything and use this experience to help us move to the next level.”

South Korea hosts Laos, with new Tottenham Hotspur signing Son Heung-min hoping to show the form that led to the Premier League

club spending a fee reported to be around $33 million on the attacker, a record for an Asian player.

Group-leader Guam travels to Tehran with two wins from two matches, but Iran presents a much tougher test than opening games against Turkmenistan and India.

Elsewhere former Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk has a first game in charge of Saudi Arabia against East Timor. (ap)

Arsenal Supporters’ Trust urges review of transfer policy

US, Swiss federal prosecutors to give update on FIFA cases

Martial signs for Man United, costliest ever teenager

MANCHESTER, England — French forward Anthony Martial became the most expensive teenager in football history on Tuesday when he signed for Manchester United for a reported 36 million pounds ($55.5 million), in the latest deadline-day deal by the English club.

player,” United manager Louis van Gaal said. “However we need to give him

time to adjust to his new environ-ment and the rhythm of the Premier League.”

Marouane Fellaini (2013) and Radamel Falcao (2014) were ex-pensive United signings on the final day of the last two summer transfer windows and Martial is

another last-minute purchase, tak-ing the spending under Van Gaal in

barely a year at the club to more than 250 million pounds

($380 million).U n i t e d m o v e d

to im-

prove its attacking options after scoring only three goals in four games to open the new Premier League season. Wayne Rooney was left as the only senior striker in the squad after Monday’s departure of Javier Hernandez to Bayer Leverkusen, and hasn’t scored a league goal since April 4.

Martial can play as a winger or as a central striker, and has played at all youth levels for France. He scored nine goals in 35 league matches last season and with his speed, technical skills and liking for cutting in from the left, he has many of the same attributes as Henry - France’s record scorer.

“Can he score a lot of goals? I don’t know because he’s only played 5 2 games,” Henry said on Sky Sports. “It’s a massive gam-ble, which you need to take if you are in the situation Man United is.”

It completes a re-markable rise for

Martial, who joined

Mo-n a c o

in 2013 for 5 mil-

l ion euros . Many outside

France will not know much about him.

“Wayne Rooney came to speak to me and asked me who Martial was, because the English press had started to speak (about the transfer),” United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin said at France’s training base at Clairefontaine on Mon-day. “I told him he’s a great player with great potential.” Martial said he doesn’t feel the pressure of his big price tag. “I know there is pressure,” Martial said, “but I’m ready for it.”

The signing of Martial took the spending of Premier League clubs to about 860 million pounds ($1.3 billion), passed its previous record of 835 million pounds set last summer, according to football finance experts Deloitte. (ap)

FILE - This is a Sunday,

Dec. 8, 2013 file photo

of Monaco’s Anthony Martial of France as he reacts during his

French League

One soccer match, in Monaco stadium against Ajaccio.

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File

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United is taking a gamble on the 19-year-old Martial, who has been compared by some in France to the great Thierry Henry despite making just 29 senior starts in spells at Lyon and Monaco and only earning a first call-up to his national squad last month.

“He has all the attributes to become a top foot-ball

Manager Roberto Martinez is pleased with Everton’s business in the summer transfer window and said the Premier League club have ensured they will maintain continu-ity at Goodison Park.

The Toffees brought in seven players, including the deadline-day signings of centre-half Ramiro Funes Mori from River Plate and Aaron Lennon from Tottenham Hotspur.

They also signed Tom Cleverly, Gerard Deulofeu, David Henen, Mason Holgate and Leandro Ro-driguez, but probably the club’s best piece of business was resisting three bids from Chelsea for England defender John Stones.

Martinez had earlier declared his intention to sign another striker but the club were left frustrated in their attempts to bring in Andriy Yarmolenko from current Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev, accord-ing to British media reports.

However, the manager said he was happy with the players at his disposal and stressed the impor-tance of being able to hold on to

his key performers.“I feel really pleased about the

way in which our business during this transfer window will allow us to carry on with the continuity in our squad and develop some of our young talent while adding some outstanding characters,” the Span-iard told the club website (www.evertonfc.com).

“Keeping the main performers of the team that attempted that fourth-place finish in the Premier League two seasons ago and shared in some incredible memories in Europe last season will help us to integrate all of our new signings and to carry on reaching better levels of perfor-mance on a consistent basis.

“Four full senior internationals for England, Argentina and Spain reflect the huge calibre of players we have been able to bring in, with some of those -- Gerard Deulofeu and Aaron Lennon -- already know-ing our dressing room and our home,” the 42-year-old added.

“They represent a guarantee in terms of settling in well to our club and adding to our squad.” (rtr)

SEOUL — Despite a disap-pointing start to his tenure as Japan coach, Vahid Halilhodzic has been told by the Japan football associa-tion that his job is not under threat ahead of Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Cambodia.

The Bosnian’s first competi-tive match in charge of the Japan resulted in a disappointing goalless draw at home to Singapore in June and was followed by a last-place finish in the four-nation East Asian Cup in August. Japan’s display with just two points from three games against bitter regional rivals China, South Korea and North Korea was poorly received by the Tokyo media.

“Some of the media is not so pa-tient, but this is a normal situation,” Japan FA vice-president Kohzo Tashima told Associated Press.

“He hasn’t really started, the first game was an unfortunate draw against Singapore and while that was not a good result, we need more time to allow his football in-fluence to be felt.” added Tashima who was elected to FIFA’s Execu-tive Committee in April.

Elsewhere, Japan should be able to take three points from Cambo-dia at home on a Thursday night in Asian soccer, which features a series of regional powers hosting small teams.

Thirty-nine teams have been split into eight groups in this, the second round of qualification, with only the winners and four best runners up progressing to the final stage.

Asian champion Australia takes on Bangladesh in Perth in its first appearance on home soil since win-ning the Asian Cup in January.

Preparations for the Socceroos have been overshadowed by a pay dispute between the players’ union and Football Federation Australia, but Bangladesh boss Lodewijk de Kruif is under no illusions as to the

The Arsenal Supporters’ Trust has called on the Premier League club to carry out a “full review” of recruit-ment policy following a quiet transfer window where goalkeeper Petr Cech was the only major addition to Arsene Wenger’s squad.

Cech arrived from Chelsea for a reported 10 million pounds ($15 million), while 17-year-old French-man Jeff Reine-Adelaide joined from Ligue 2 side Lens along with a flurry of academy recruits. But the transfer

deadline passed on Tuesday without the addition of a blockbuster striker or world class defensive midfielder that supporters have long called for.

The lack of arrivals are not for a paucity of money. In July, Arsenal director Philip Harris said the Gunners had the money to sign “anyone but Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi” and had over 200 million pounds ($306.18 million) in the bank.

“Arsenal are in a strong financial position and it is of course disappoint-

ing that (the) transfer window has closed with just the signing of Petr Cech,” the AST said in a statement posted hours after the window closed. “Arsenal have built a strong squad and just one or two more good additions would have strengthened the chances of winning a first title in 11 years.”

Under Wenger, Arsenal have en-dured a period of severe financial restriction brought on by their shift from their old Highbury ground to the Emirates Stadium before the start

of the 2006-07 season.However, the expensive arrivals

of Mesut Ozil in 2013 and Alexis Sanchez last year led to an end of the prudent years and back-to-back FA Cup wins. The AST, keen for the club to kick on and land a first ever Cham-pions League title and end the wait for another Premier League crown, said a transfer review was long needed.

“No one wants Arsenal to buy players just for the sake of it, but we do want to see the money being

invested to make the club stronger,” the AST added.

“This isn’t an issue that affects just one transfer window and seems to indicate a wider structural issue.

“We urge the board to now open a full review into its arrangements for scouting and purchasing players.

“A review of this type is a good governance practice and can only help Arsenal to become a stronger club. The AST will be raising this with the Arsenal board.” (rtr)

GENEVA — The American prosecutor who launched the bribery case that rocked FIFA is stepping on Sepp Blatter’s home turf. On Sept. 14 in Zurich, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will join her counterpart from Switzerland, Michael Lauber, for a news conference about their separate investigations of corruption in world football.

The joint conference will explain the “status of the two crimi-nal proceedings,” Swiss officials said in a statement on Tuesday. Though the cases are separate, the officials involved are coop-erating in their investigations. Lynch, who helped kick off the FIFA case several years ago as a U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, is scheduled to attend an annual conference of federal prosecutors which is hosted this year by Lauber’s department.

Across town, Blatter is working through the last months of his 18-year presidential spell after citing pressure on FIFA from the criminal cases as a reason to go early. Before deciding on June 2 to leave office, Blatter criticized Lynch — who was sworn into office in April — for conducting her case in Zurich.

“Listen, with all the respect to the judicial system of the U.S. with a new minister of justice,” Blatter said in May, “the Americans, if they have a financial crime that regards American citizens then they must arrest these people there and not in Zurich when we have a congress.”

The American case alleges bribery, fraud, money launder-ing and racketeering, including in the award of hosting rights for the 2010 World Cup to South Africa and broadcasting rights for World Cup qualifying matches and other interna-tional competitions. FIFA was rocked on May 27 when Swiss federal police arrested seven officials, including FIFA’s vice presidents for the North and South American regions, in a dawn raid at a luxury hotel in Zurich at the request of U.S. authorities. They were among 14 football and marketing of-ficials named in a 47-count U.S. indictment unsealed that day. Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, a Cayman Islands banker, accepted extradition to the U.S. and six others remain in Zurich-area prisons fighting the process.

Four more men — including Chuck Blazer, the most senior American in world football for 16 years until 2013 — had their guilty pleas unsealed on May 27. “They corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and enrich themselves,” Lynch said at a news conference in New York hours after the arrests. Two days later, Blatter targeted Lynch in his first media interview after winning re-election.

“I was shocked by what she said,” Blatter told French-language Swiss broadcaster RTS. “As a president I would never make a statement about another organization without knowing.” Lynch is personally close to the FIFA case, which she helped start when U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Her name is on November 2013 court documents detailing Blazer’s plea agreement. Blazer admitted receiving payments in a $10 million bribe scheme to support South Africa’s successful bid to host the 2010 World Cup.

The plot linked Blazer and two other then-FIFA executive com-mi t t ee mem- bers in receiv- ing cash w h i c h South Afri-can off i - cials asked FIFA t o t r a n s - fer through the governing body’s accounts in 2008.

T h e S w i s s case focuses on possible money laundering during the bidding contests for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, won by Russia and Qatar, respectively. (ap)

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

Everton’s John Stones

Everton manager Martinez happy with squad after deadline day

REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa kicks the ball during their Bundesliga first division soccer match against Borussia Moenchengladbach in Gelsenkirchen, Germany August 15, 2015.

No pressure for Japan coach ahead of World Cup qualifiers

size of the challenge that awaits.“We are progressing as a nation

and the chance to play the Asian champion is a great one for us,” the Dutchman told AP. “We will give it everything and use this experience to help us move to the next level.”

South Korea hosts Laos, with new Tottenham Hotspur signing Son Heung-min hoping to show the form that led to the Premier League

club spending a fee reported to be around $33 million on the attacker, a record for an Asian player.

Group-leader Guam travels to Tehran with two wins from two matches, but Iran presents a much tougher test than opening games against Turkmenistan and India.

Elsewhere former Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk has a first game in charge of Saudi Arabia against East Timor. (ap)

Arsenal Supporters’ Trust urges review of transfer policy

US, Swiss federal prosecutors to give update on FIFA cases

Martial signs for Man United, costliest ever teenager

MANCHESTER, England — French forward Anthony Martial became the most expensive teenager in football history on Tuesday when he signed for Manchester United for a reported 36 million pounds ($55.5 million), in the latest deadline-day deal by the English club.

player,” United manager Louis van Gaal said. “However we need to give him

time to adjust to his new environ-ment and the rhythm of the Premier League.”

Marouane Fellaini (2013) and Radamel Falcao (2014) were ex-pensive United signings on the final day of the last two summer transfer windows and Martial is

another last-minute purchase, tak-ing the spending under Van Gaal in

barely a year at the club to more than 250 million pounds

($380 million).U n i t e d m o v e d

to im-

prove its attacking options after scoring only three goals in four games to open the new Premier League season. Wayne Rooney was left as the only senior striker in the squad after Monday’s departure of Javier Hernandez to Bayer Leverkusen, and hasn’t scored a league goal since April 4.

Martial can play as a winger or as a central striker, and has played at all youth levels for France. He scored nine goals in 35 league matches last season and with his speed, technical skills and liking for cutting in from the left, he has many of the same attributes as Henry - France’s record scorer.

“Can he score a lot of goals? I don’t know because he’s only played 5 2 games,” Henry said on Sky Sports. “It’s a massive gam-ble, which you need to take if you are in the situation Man United is.”

It completes a re-markable rise for

Martial, who joined

Mo-n a c o

in 2013 for 5 mil-

l ion euros . Many outside

France will not know much about him.

“Wayne Rooney came to speak to me and asked me who Martial was, because the English press had started to speak (about the transfer),” United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin said at France’s training base at Clairefontaine on Mon-day. “I told him he’s a great player with great potential.” Martial said he doesn’t feel the pressure of his big price tag. “I know there is pressure,” Martial said, “but I’m ready for it.”

The signing of Martial took the spending of Premier League clubs to about 860 million pounds ($1.3 billion), passed its previous record of 835 million pounds set last summer, according to football finance experts Deloitte. (ap)

FILE - This is a Sunday,

Dec. 8, 2013 file photo

of Monaco’s Anthony Martial of France as he reacts during his

French League

One soccer match, in Monaco stadium against Ajaccio.

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File

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Murray, the 2012 U.S. Open cham-pion and 2013 Wimbledon winner, played straight man to the flippant Australian, who unnecessarily tried ‘tweener’ shots through his legs and jumped extravagantly on routine fore-hands that he buried into the net.

Murray had beaten Kyrgios in straight sets in their three previous meetings, eliminating him this year from two other grand slams, in the Australian quarter-finals and third round of the French Open. But the Scotsman still holds the Austra-lian’s game in high regard.

“He’s played well pretty much in every grand slam tournament that he’s been part of,” Murray said about Kyrgios, who has twice reached grand slam quarter-finals. “I expected a very tough match, and that’s what I got.”

The Australian, playing under an ATP Tour probation for crude personal comments made to Stan Wawrinka during a match in Mon-

treal last month, should have made the contest much closer but could only convert three of 14 break point opportunities. “I thought I put in a really good performance tonight,” said Kyrgios. “Obviously, it’s not the result I wanted. But I thought I was focused and ready for today.

“I thought I created opportunities. I tried to take them,” he added, bristling at a suggestion he had “wasted” them. “I thought he served pretty clutch in certain situations. His defence was unbelievable again tonight.” Murray was superior from the service line, hammering in 18 aces to 11 from the hard-hitting Australian.

The Scotsman blasted 46 win-ners, many coming off ill-advised drop shots floated over the net by the 6-foot-4 Kyrgios, while making 23 unforced errors to 39 for his op-ponent. Murray gave the Australian credit for a series of great shots in breaking him at the end of the third set to extend the match, but con-

ceded that Kyrgios can be plagued by lapses of concentration.

“I felt like when he had his dips, I capitalised on them today,” he said. Even Murray can get distracted by the Australian’s antics.

“I’ve done a pretty good job of just concentrating on my side,” Murray said. “But almost all the matches that I’ve played, there have been a couple points where I have laughed on the court or smiled because some of the stuff is funny. “When he let go of the racquet today after the forehand, I mean, that only happens to him,” he said about comic moment that sent the raquet skittering toward the ballboy behind him.

When asked about some of the flashy shots he tries, Kyrgios said it was just his style. “I’ve always been an emotional person on the court. And, yeah, I like going for shots that aren’t high percentage. I just got a really good self-confidence.

“I think obviously I’ve had some really big wins. I don’t think I’d be able to have those wins if I didn’t have that sort of confidence by me.” Murray will next play French left-hander Adrian Mannarino, a 7-6 6-4 6-1 winner over Russian Konstantin Kravchuk.(ap)

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Durban in South Africa will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first African city to be awarded the four-yearly multi-sports event.

The 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth Games Federation made the decision unanimously Wednesday after receiving Durban’s final candidate city briefing at the general assem-bly in Auckland. Durban was the only candidate left when Edmon-ton, Canada withdrew its bid in February, citing costs. The general assembly also voted to increase the number of compulsory sports at the games from 10 to 16.

Scotland’s Louise Martin was elected the first female president of the federation, deposing in-cumbent Prince Tunku Imran of Malaysia who held the role for four years.

Durban’s final pitch to Federa-tion members included contribu-tions from South Africa’s minister for sport Fikile Mbalula and Dur-ban mayor James Nxumalo. The announcement was broadcast live in South Africa.

Members of the South African delegation said while Durban was the lone candidate, it was not a certainty to be awarded the games. It still had to demonstrate it had the ability and the infrastructure

to host a games which would be financially viable.

South Africa’s record in host-ing the football World Cup in 2010 and the Rugby World Cup in 1995 demonstrated its organizational ability but it has not yet hosted a multi-sports event of the scale of the Commonwealth Games.

The games are scheduled to open July 18, 2022 — marking the birthday of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela who died in 2013.

Principals of the Durban bid committee have said existing infrastructure will be used to minimize costs and the games, scheduled to take place over 12 days, will make a profit. An ath-letics track will be installed at the existing Moses Mabhida Stadium and venues are already in place to host cycling, swimming and indoor events. An athlete’s village will be constructed.

Meanwhile, Martin who is the federation’s honorary secretry and was vice-chair of the Glas-gow 2014 organizing committee, edged Prince Imran in a tight vote for the presidency.

Prince Imran was thought to have a strong hold on the position until Martin released a manifesto in which she pledged to secure new sources of funding to boost spending in member nations.(ap)

2022 Commonwealth Games awarded to Durban

REUTERS/Rogan Ward/FilesA general view of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban is seen in this December 8, 2009 file photo. The South African coastal city was selected as the host for the 2022 Commonwealth Games at the Federation’s general assembly in New Zealand on Wednesday.

REUTERS/Carlo AllegriAndy Murray of Britain hits a return to Nick Kyrgios of Australia during their first round match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York, September 1, 2015.

Composed Murray swats aside Kyrgios at US Open

NEW YORK - Third-seeded Briton Andy Murray put on a com-posed display to overcome the mercurial Nick Kyrgios 7-5 6-3 4-6 6-1 under the Arthur Ashe Stadium lights to reach the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Kyrgios showed off his powerful serve and groundstrokes but the 37th-ranked Australian frequently sacrificed efficiency for showmanship and failed to take advantage of his numerous opportunities.

MANGUPURA - Baha tourism village is located in Mengwi District of Badung regency, about 5 km between the attraction of Taman Ayun and Sangeh.

Baha Village in ancient times was one of the bases of freedom fighters in Bali. Since 1992, this village was developed as tourist village with a variety of its tourism potential.

In addition to the beautiful natural scen-ery, there’s also women kecak dance group, Legong performances and recreational

fishing. Baha village is also rich in craft activities such as carvings, cane works, and other household industries.

The uniqueness of this traditional village is the uniformity of the entrance gates of the family compounds combines with the tradi-tional housing structure, which portrays a fascinating appearance for the village.

In the southern part of Baha, there is an ancient temple with Balinese carving that also can be very interesting object for tourists who visit the village.

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Baha Tourism Village

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Labour-intensive sectors like manufacturing and mining have shed thousands of jobs in recent months as economic growth in the second quarter slowed to its weakest pace in six years.

“The economy is slowing and companies all over the country are already either closing down or cutting jobs,” said Hariyadi Sukamdani, head of the Indone-sian Employers Association.

“And this could get worse if the annual wage increase is too high,” he said, adding that firms in the association had cut 50,000 jobs since January.

T h o u s a n d s o f w o r k e r s

marched in several cities on Tuesday to protest layoffs and call for higher wages as they contend with rising food prices that made Indonesia’s annual inflation stay above 7 percent in August, the highest in the region.

Union leaders have called for at least a 22 percent rise in mini-mum wage in the capital Jakarta, which is seen as a bellwether for the rest of the country. Jakarta last year saw a rise of 11 percent in its minimum wage to 2.7 mil-lion rupiah ($191.56) a month.

Annual negotiations are get-ting underway between workers,

employers, and local adminis-trations to determine minimum wages later this year.

Unemployment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy stood at 5.81 percent in February, ac-cording to official statistics, but analysts say that doesn’t cover the informal sector and the real figure could be much higher.

“We realize economic condi-tions in Indonesia are not very good at the moment, but the gov-ernment needs to realize it’s the workers and poor people who get hit the hardest,” said Bambang, a Jakarta factory worker who had participated in the rallies. (rtr)

JAKARTA - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Wednesday declared Asian economies were doing “pretty well” despite the volatil-ity caused by China’s slowdown and unease on global financial markets.

Lagarde’s comments in Indo-nesia come as financial markets gyrate over concerns about the health of China’s economy -- the world’s second-largest -- and its effect emerging economies and their currencies.

World stock markets plunged further this week as more evidence emerged of China’s economic slowdown, triggering heavy sell-offs from Tokyo to New York and spurring cuts to global growth forecasts.

Lagarde, in Jakarta for a two-day visit, said the recent turmoil highlighted the “extraordinary gains” made by Asian economies but warned further volatility was on the horizon.

“Now the situation is changing yet again, and we are all feeling

the impact of China’s rebalancing and moving to a revised business model,” she told a conference.

“What has been demonstrated in the last few weeks is how much Asia is at the core of global econ-omy, and how much disruptions occurring in one market in Asia can actually spill over to the rest of the world.”

Slower growth in major econo-mies like China and Japan, lower commodity prices and the pros-pect of higher interest rates in the United States would continue to weigh on regional markets, Lagarde added.

Despite external pressures and the slower pace of expansion in Asia, the IMF chief said “this whole region, in the world, is doing pretty well”, and would continue to be a key source of global growth.

Lagarde this week added her voice to private sector economists that have already cut their world growth estimates, conceding growth would likely be weaker than the 3.3 percent estimate the IMF made just two months ago. (afp)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inau-gurated Teten Masduki as the presidential chief of staff to replace Luhut Binsar Panjaitan at the State Palace on Wednesday.

Masduki was inaugurated based on Presidential Decree No. 91/P/2015 on the dismissal and appointment of the presidential chief of staff.

The presidential decree decides the dismissal of Pan-jaitan and the appointment of Masduki to replace him as the chief of staff of the presidency, with the rights and facilities provided to him being at par with those for a minister.

Masduki was sworn in by Jokowi to accomplish the tasks of the presidential chief of staff that encompass pro-viding strategic information to the president, helping the president design political communication between institu-tions, and helping the president identify strategic issues.

The inauguration ceremony at the State Palace was attended by numerous cabinet ministers.

Born in Garut, West Java, in 1963, Masduki is an Indonesian social activist who was involved in a public clearinghouse that handled information related to cor-ruption, collusion, and nepotism in Indonesia. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2005. (ant)

REUTERS/Nyimas Laula

A porter carries clothes at a traditional retail market in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2, 2015. Indone-sia’s annual inflation rate unexpectedly cooled in August to 7.18 percent, the statistics bureau said on September 1, 2015.

Indonesian employers resist workers’ calls for higher wages

JAKARTA - An Indonesian employers association labelled workers’ demands for steep annual wage hikes as “unrealistic” on Tuesday, and warned there could be more layoffs at companies struggling amid a slowdown in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Asia doing “pretty well” despite China slowdown: IMF chief

Jokowi inaugurates Teten Masduki as presidential chief of staff

The country has borne the brunt of a massive refugee and migration influx to the European Union, with more than 200,000 people arriving so far this year. The coast guard said it had res-cued 1,058 people at sea in 28 incidents from Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning. Those do not include hundreds who make it to the islands themselves.

Three people reported missing at sea overnight off the island of Kos were found alive and rescued by a fishing boat Wednesday, the coast guard said. Authorities on the islands have been over-whelmed by the numbers.

“Measures will be announced

(so that) soon ... there will be an improvement both for the refugees and for the residents of the islands that are facing these difficulties,” said Migration Policy Minister Yannis Mouzalas. The caretaker government will run the country until Sept. 20 elections.

“The problem is very big. I am optimistic that a crisis will be avoided,” said Mouzalas, a doc-tor and member of the Doctors of the World aid organization.

Speaking after discussing the issue with Prime Minister Vassi-liki Thanou, he stressed Euro-pean Union and United Nations intervention was needed.

“If the European Union doesn’t

intervene quickly to absorb the populations, ... if the issue isn’t internationalized on a United Nations level, every so often we will be discussing how to avoid the crisis.” The minister insisted the issue was a refugee, and not a migration matter. “There is no migration issue, remove that — it is a refugee issue,” he told journalists.

Separately, police arrested six suspected smugglers in northern Greece after finding 103 mi-grants or refugees, including 19 children, hidden in a truck head-ing from the Turkish border area to the main northern city of Thes-saloniki, authorities said. (ap)

PARIS — Eight people died in an apartment fire early Wednesday at the foot of Paris’ famed Montmartre hill, and police are investigating whether the fire was started inten-tionally, officials said. Some died leaping out of windows to flee what appeared to be the deadliest blaze in the French capital in a decade.

The dead included two children, and four survivors were hospital-ized, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters at the scene.

Firefighters extinguished a small paper fire around after midnight in the building, then were called back two hours later for a much bigger fire, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus told The Associated Press. It’s unclear what caused both fires, and whether there was any link. When the firefighters returned, Plus said, “We were immediately confronted with a disaster of an exceptional scale.”

People screamed for help from inside the building, and two people who had already jumped from win-dows were on the ground motionless in front of the building, he said. Several windows had been blown out because of the fire.”

Brandet said the fire began in a ground floor stairwell. Plus said it

quickly engulfed all five floors of the building and consumed several apartments and the stairwell, forcing people to flee out windows. More than 100 firefighters were required to extinguish the blaze.

“I was sleeping and I heard cries of people calling for help,” said Flo-rent, who lives in a different entrance of the same building. He spoke on condition that his last name not be used because of security concerns. “I opened the door to see the dam-age ... and I went to get a bucket of water in the panic. Then I reflected and thought the flames were too big to stop them by myself,” and instead called the fire department, he said.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve were on the scene early Wednesday. Hidalgo, asked whether the fire could have been prompted by electrical or gas problems, said the building had not had any previous problems and had been in good condition.

Even French President Francois Hollande issued a statement about the fire, promising all necessary ef-forts “to shed light on the drama.”

It was one of the deadliest fires in Paris since the 2005 fire in a hotel housing African immigrants that left 24 people dead including 11 children. (ap)

AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis

Migrants disembark from the catamaran Terra Jet at the Athens’ port of Piraeus, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. About 1,800 refugees arrived from the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos as the country has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants this year.

Greece to introduce measures for refugees on islands

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s caretaker government will introduce measures to improve conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees and migrants arriving on eastern Greek islands, as well as for the islands’ residents, the migration policy minister said Wednesday.

AP Photo/Francois Mori

A rescue worker climbs a ladder after a fire broke out at a building, Wednesday, Sept.2, 2015 in Paris, France. Officials say eight people died in an apartment fire early Wednesday and police are investigating a possible criminal origin of the blaze.

Blaze in Paris apartment building leaves 8 dead

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Hilton is hailing the ride sharing service Uber to help guests reach its hotels and then explore the city where they are staying.

The companies said Tuesday that Hilton guests will be able to set up automatic noti-fications to request Uber rides to and from the chain’s hotels worldwide. Members of the company’s HHonors program also will be to use a digital guide of restaurants and

nightlife spots most frequented by Uber riders.

The companies plan to launch this option later this month in 20 U.S. cities as a feature within the Hilton HHonors mobile app.

Uber connects riders and drivers through a smartphone application and has launched in more than 300 cities.

It’s a staple of the rapidly growing “shar-

ing economy” that involves newer busi-nesses that aim to use the Internet to make it easier for people to earn money by sharing property like cars or homes. Businesses like Airbnb, which arranges for people to rent rooms or apartments, have faced opposi-tion from traditional service providers that complain about being undercut.

Terms of the deal between Hilton and

Uber were not disclosed.McLean, Virginia-based Hilton World-

wide Holdings Inc.’s brands include Em-bassy Suites, Hampton Inn, and Homewood Suites. Shares of Hilton slipped 55 cents to $24.28 in midday trading Tuesday, as broader indexes also fell. The hotel chain’s stock had slipped nearly 5 percent so far this year, as of Monday’s market close. (ap)

While maintaining their upbeat view of the market’s potential in the medium-term, auto manufacturers have had to make some adjust-ments.

They have lowered their fore-casts for sales growth in 2015 and some have expressed concern about a looming price war, and the shares of the industry’s giants have been getting hammered on world markets.

Car sales, a traditional barometer of the economic climate, advanced in China by nearly 14 percent in 2013 and 6.9 percent in 2014.

This year the forecast is gloomy with analysts predicting a sales increase of around 3.0 percent as China’s economic growth has slowed from 7.4 percent last year.

Economists put China’s first-half growth rate at around 6.3 percent, lower than the official 7.0 percent, according to a recent survey by Bloomberg News.

“I don’t think we will see again the growth rates that we saw in the past,” said Yann Lacroix, an expert on the automobile sector at insurer Euler Hermes.

The world’s top carmakers all profited in the Chinese boom years. In 2014 Volkswagen sold 36 percent of its global production in China, General Motors 35 percent, PSA Peugeot Citroen 25 percent, BMW 20 percent and Mercedes-maker Daimler 16 percent.

But the current slowdown “does not affect the outlook for the Chi-nese market on the 2020 horizon,

which remains excellent”, said Flavien Neuvy, auto market analyst for Cetelem.

He pointed to the sustained expansion of the middle class in a country where many households are not yet car owners.

The world’s number one car-maker Toyota, which has seen around 11 percent of its global sales in China, says at this stage it has not experienced any jolts from the country’s stalling econ-omy.

The US giant says it continues “to expect strong results in China for the rest of the year”, while Ger-man auto kings Volkswagen and BMW have revised lower their sales growth estimates for 2015.

“Over the years, the German au-tomobile manufacturers pulled out ahead of the competition, but now conditions are changing for them too,” said Ernst & Young expert Peter Fuss.

Since the start of the year in the domestic market, the cheaper all-Chinese made cars have surpassed the vehicles made by joint ventures. China requires all foreign automak-ers to form joint ventures with local firms.

“If you want to attract new clients in China, you have to veer more towards ‘low-cost’ vehicles,” said Lacroix.

After years of euphoria over booming China, the abrupt slow-ing in the market threatens to lead to overcapacity in the factories, an unknown situation up to now,

analysts say.Joint-venture factories turned out

cars at 94.3 percent of capacity in the first quarter of this year com-pared with more than 107 percent in the same period a year earlier, according to a study by research firm Sanford C. Bernstein recently cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Plants can surpass capacity by add-ing extra work shifts.

That has not discouraged car-makers who still want a stake in this huge market.

Renault, which has been some-what absent from China up to now, is building a factory in the central city of Wuhan set to open next year.

Its CEO Carlos Ghosn recently said that he was aiming for 3.5 percent of the market “as a first step”.

The turbulence in the Chinese economy won’t change that, said a source close to Renault, which remains “calm and confident” about the future of its models on China’s roads. (ap)

Hilton dips toe in ‘sharing economy’ with Uber partnership

Foreign carmakers still driven to invest in China

PARIS - Foreign carmakers that raced into China to profit from what has become the world’s biggest automobile market by volume have no intention of backing out despite slowing sales as the Chinese economy shifts down.

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, FileIn this March 13, 2015 file photo, a worker inspects a new 2015 aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150 truck at the company’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo. Foreign carmakers that raced into China to profit from what has become the world’s biggest automobile market by volume have no intention of backing out despite slowing sales as the Chinese economy shifts down.

MANGUPURA - Repairs being made to the intake structure of Subak Beringkit and Subak Batan Badung has had negative im-

pacts on the Taman Ayun tourist attraction. The structuring project with a budget of IDR 11 billion has caused the river or dam sur-

rounding the Taman Ayun to dry out.Such condition draws the attention of visi-

tors, both foreign and local, visiting this at-tractions located at Mengwi village, Badung. The cool and beautiful atmosphere seems to have disspareaed. The dam bed has started to become overgrown with weeds, while the water on the east side of Taman Ayun is run-ning low and looks muddy.

The Badung Highways and Irrigation (BMP) Agency, working on the project said that the project is being worked on as maintenance of Taman Ayun Temple and the subak irrigation that have been recognized by UNESCO as world’s cultural heritage.

“Since it has been designated as a world’s cultural heritage, it must be maintained. We hope for people’s understanding during the work being done,” said the Head of the Ba-dung Highways and Irrigation Agency, I.B. Surya Suamba.

According to Suamba, if the subak is not maintained, he fears that that UNESCO will revoke the status as a world’s cultural heri-tage. “At the moment, the water that usually flows to Taman Ayun is now being diverted

to the east side of Taman Ayun. The water is still flowing into the surrounding paddy fields and subak areas,” he said.

Suamba explained that the ongoing repair project is being done to normalize the intake structure of the Subak Beringkit and Subak Batan Badung. The project will take 240 days and is being worked on by PT Dawan Sakti. “Current normalization is being done to ir-rigate 100 hectares of paddy fields at Subak Beringkit and Subak Batan Badung in the area of Abianbase. Without these renovations, water flowing into the subak areas will not be optimal” he concluded.

Taman Ayun tourist attraction has an area of 100 x 250 square meters, divided into outermost and innermost courtyards. The outermost courtyard lies outside of the pond, while the innermost courtyard is divided into three area. The first innermost courtyard has a place to rest while enjoying the beauty of the temple; the second one lies in higher place where visitors can see the relief of nine guardians of the compass or in Hinduism they are known as the symbol of Dewata Nawa Sanga. (kmb27)

The approved design includes a four-storey building plus basement. Managing Director of PD Pasar, I Made Westra, when met at his office said that he had in fact received the Mayoral Decree regarding the land utilization right of the ex-Tiara Gro-sir. Moreover, his party has drawn up feasibility studies related to the land utilization. “We are cooperat-ing with Udayana University to prepare the feasibility study,” said Westra.

Apart form the feasibility study, a mockup has also been created. Three partners were designated to create the design, that been approved in accordance with the concept for Denpasar City. The building aims to be as comfortable, fresh and clean as possible for the SME activities and traditional mar-kets. “The usage pattern remains the same as the original draft, namely the SMEs,” he said.

It is said that the fourth floor

will be used for parking. Some spaces on the third floor will be used for parking, while the re-maining area will be used for of-fices and as administrative spaces. The second floor is specifically intended for the SME, while the first floor is intended for modern markets while the basement will be used as a fresh and clean tra-ditional market.

Currently they are just looking for investors to have the building built The business pattern will be cooperation like in the management of Lokitasari Shopping Center on Jalan Thamrin. “We are targeting the end of the year as the start date for construction,” said Westra, Tuesday (Sep. 1).

Westra acknowledged that it took a long time to obtain the may-oral decree for the management rights because of local issues. Tiara Grosir was closed in September 2014 because the municipal gov-

ernment intended to use the land. The extension of the right use of the building (HGB) permit, filed by

the management of Tiara Grosir was therefore rejected by the municipal government. The case was then

brought to the Administrative Court where the Tiara Grosir’s request was rejected. (kmb12)

Land utilization of ex-Tiara Grosir

Building to have four floors plus basement

DENPASAR - After waiting for several months, the land utiliza-tion of the ex-Tiara Grosir has been determined. Mayoral Decree No.188.45/1236/HK/2014 on Land Utilization Determination with HPL No. 1 at Pemecutan Kaja dated December 19, 2015, declares that PD Pasar has been given the right to manage the land. After getting the decree, PD Pasar immediately followed up by making a design for the building.

IBP/FileThe Tiara Grosir is now neglected after the mall closed

Taman Ayun dam dries up

IBP/FileTaman Ayun

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Wednesday that its re-cent expression of “regret” over a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers was not an apology, as Seoul claims — raising doubts about tentative moves toward

detente between the rivals.The statement by Pyongyang’s

powerful National Defense Com-mission is the first explicit denial of Seoul’s interpretation of the key part of an accord that came last week after marathon negotiations allowed

the Koreas to step back from escalat-ing threats of war.

While previous comments by of-ficials had signaled that North Korea did not see its expression of regret for the injuries as an apology, let alone as acknowledgement of responsibil-ity, the vehemence of Wednesday’s denial, coupled with it coming from the highest decision-making body in the country, muddies the prospects for better ties between the Koreas, which remain in a technical state of war. The accord had been vague enough to give both sides seemingly what they wanted.

South Korea immediately inter-preted it publicly as a mini-break-through, claiming that it successfully pushed the North to take responsibil-ity for the blast. North Korea got an end to the cross-border propaganda broadcasts Seoul had started after it said it had evidence that the North had planted the mines. Both sides began making plans for more talks and to resume reunions of families separated by war. North Korea’s new statement, however, is a clear warning.

“This kind of interpretation is the result of ignorance on the meaning of a Korean word and its concept,” said the statement issued by an unidenti-fied spokesman at the commission’s policy department.

“South Korea must not forget for an instant that a misjudgment ... would trigger fatal consequences on North-South relations,” it went on. “Nothing can be cruder and un-handsomer than describing as one side’s unilateral victory a joint state-ment that North and South Korea agreed upon.”

The two Koreas have a history of failing to follow through on past attempts at reconciliation, and their ties have been bad since conserva-tives took power in Seoul in early 2008.

The North’s statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, also criticized South Korea’s live-fire drills with the U.S. last week, saying they showed the South’s belligerence and threatened to scuttle chances for improving ties. South Korean defense officials said the drills, the biggest-ever of their

kind, were routine training between the allies.

South Korea’s Unification Minis-try spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said later Wednesday that it is time for the two Koreas to faithfully try to imple-ment their agreements rather than arguing over wording in them.

In an indication that North Korea’s hard-line stance has not changed de-spite the agreement, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said last week that the deal was achieved not on the negotiating table but thanks to his country’s military capability based on its “nuclear deterrent.” The North’s statement Wednesday reiterated Kim’s stance.

South Korean officials would likely refrain from making com-ments that would further anger North Korea to help realize the family reunions, said Lim Eul Chul, a North Korea expert at South Ko-rea’s Kyungnam University. But he said better inter-Korean ties could depend on whether Seoul bans activ-ists critical of the agreement from sending propaganda leaflets toward the North.(ap)

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The new suspect, identified as Emrah Davutoglu, is the husband of a Thai woman for whom an ar-rest warrant has already been issued because she had rented an apartment where bomb-making materials were found this past weekend. The woman professes innocence and says she is in Turkey. Of the eight people for whom arrest warrants have now been issued, at least two others are also believed to be Turkish.

National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said authorities were still conducting DNA tests but could determine that the man arrested at the Cambodian border “is important and is related or conspired with people who committed” the Aug. 17 bombing at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok. The blast left 20 people dead, more than half of them foreigners, and over 120 injured.

Thailand’s national deputy police chief, Chakthip Chaijinda, told report-ers that he thinks the suspect arrested at the border speaks Turkish, which requires an interpreter. He did not say whether an interpreter has been brought in or if the Turkish Embassy has been approached.

The Turkish connection has fueled speculation the suspects may be part of a group seeking to avenge Thailand’s forced repatriation of ethnic Uighurs to China in July.

Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) are related to Turks, and Turkey is home to a large Uighur community. The Erawan Shrine is especially popu-lar with Chinese tourists, feeding the idea that it could be a target for people who believe the Uighurs are oppressed by China’s government. Beijing says some Uighurs are Islamist terrorists, and that among them is a group that has been smuggled out of China to join Islamic State fighters in Syria.

In a later announcement, Prawut said Davutoglu faces charges of con-spiracy to possess unauthorized war materials. Prawut said he is believed to have been “part of a network that provided accommodation” to those connected with the bombing.

Earlier this week, police issued an arrest warrant for his wife, Thai national Wanna Suansan, whose name was on the lease of an apartment that police raided over the weekend where bomb-making materials were found. Wanna had told police that she

had nothing to do with the bombing and wants to clear her name. Prawut said that Wanna had agreed to come back to Thailand to be questioned by police but then said “she has to think about it.”

The investigation into the attack picked up after police raids this past weekend on two apartments on the outskirts of Bangkok that contained bomb-making materials.

In the first apartment, raided Satur-day in the Bangkok neighborhood of Nong Chok, police arrested a suspect they described as a foreign man and seized bomb-making equipment that included detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe believed to be a bomb casing. The suspect arrested Saturday had a Turkish passport, though Thai authorities say it was fake. At his apartment, they seized more than 200 passports, an unknown number of which appeared to be Turkish and pos-sibly fake. They also took fingerprints from the apartment, which turned out to match those of the suspect arrested Tuesday at the border with Cambodia, Prawut said.

“We can confirm that the man’s fingerprints match with those found on a bottle that contains a bombing sub-stance,” Prawut said, and then added, “He could be the one who brought the bomb out of this apartment or he could have brought the bomb to the crime scene.”(ap)

National Council for Peace and Order via APIn this image provided by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Thai authorities arrest a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a deadly bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok on Aug. 17, 2015.

Thai police: Suspect’s prints match those on bomb material

BANGKOK — Police investigating last month’s Bangkok bombing said Wednesday that the fingerprints of a foreign man arrested at the Thai-Cambodia border match those found on a bottle of bomb-making material, and that they were seeking to arrest a Turkish man linked to the blast.

North Korea denies it apologized over mine blast

The Defense Ministry via AP, FIleFILE - In this Aug. 9, 2015 file photo provided by the Defense Ministry, an unidentified South Korean army official, second from right, gives a briefing to the media at the scene of a blast inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea.

AMLAPURA - Gender gamelan players especially at Tribuana village, Abang subdistrict, Karan-gasem, increasingly scarce. There are quite a lot of gamelean instru-ments there but there is no one to play them, revealed Secretary of Tribuana village, Wayan Pepek, in Karangasem.

He said that at Ngis Kaler, for instance, there are two sets of gen-der gamelan instruments. Similarly, Ngis Kelod also has a set. Almost each hamlet has gender gamelan instruments, but the gamelan play-ers have virtually disappeared. This is because young people rarely learn to play gamelan, anymore,

especially the gender. “To address this worrying condition we want to help support this cultural heritage,” he said.

He admitted that he feels saddened by the gender being abandoned. On that account, his village plans to hold a gender playing competition as a way to revive and rebuild the gender gamelan players community. He hopes that this competition will encourage the revival of gender gamelan playing and other cul-tures in his the village because at Ngis, Basangalas hamlet and surrounding areas had previously been known for having many

artists, including undagi or tra-ditional architect.

The village secretary seeks to draft a budget for the contest, from this year’s amended village budget with the hope that such an event can be organized next year. He also said that as part of the village anniversary, there are holding a month of public services, including a village cleanup to collect all the plastic waste in the area of Purwayu, Basangalas and Ngis customary village. “In addition to a garbage collection contest among local cus-tomary villages, similar contests are also being held in primary schools,” he said. (013)

The Head of the Tabanan En-vironment Agency, A.A. Ngurah Raka Icwara, explained on Tuesday (Sep. 1) that the examination con-ducted on June 4, 2015, indicated that some parameters are still below the threshold except for the Biologi-cal Oxygen Demand (BOD).

According to Raka Icwara, BOD rate exceeding the threshold occurs in the lake area located near the agricultural and forest area. Result of the measurement indicates that BOD rate near the forest reaches 3.23 mg/L, near the agricultural areas (3.23 mg/L), near recreation site (1.19 mg/L) and in the outlet (1.21 mg/L). In the meantime, the BOD threshold is 2 mg/L so that from the water examination in the Lake Beratan near agricultural and forest areas show that the BOD rate exceeds the threshold.

Another parameter used as a reference for water pollution levels is the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). The COD rate in agri-cultural and forest areas is higher than the other points but according Rai Icwara it stays below the COD threshold. “COD threshold is 10 mg/L and in all the points examined indicate that the results are below this figure” he said.

The COD rate of lake water near the agricultural areas is 5 mg/L, near recreation site (5 mg/L, in the middle (3 mg/L) and in the outlet (3 mg/L). High BOD rate in the water of Lake Beratan near agricultural areas, according to Raka Icwara, happens due to accumulation of

chemical fertilizer substances pro-duced by vegetable farm near the lake. “Vegetable farmers near the lake use chemical fertilizers. To reduce the water pollution due to chemical fertilizers, we advise farmers to use organic fertilizer,” explained Raka Icwara.

BOD rates for lake water near the forest area is higher because tourist speed boats idle too long in this location. “Tourists whose these speed boat like to stop for a long time near forest areas to enjoy the view and take photos. The idling of their boats is suspected of causing the high BOD rate,” he explained.

Besides, the water flow towards the outlet of the lake near forest area is not good so water tends to stagnate there so that BOD rates there exceed the threshold.

According to Raka Icwara, as for the Total Suspended Solid (TSS) parameter, the silting is quite high, where the TSS quality standard is 50 mg/L. The TSS near the for-est area reaches 80 mg/L, in the outlet (60 mg/L), near agricultural area (80 mg/L), recreation site (80 mg/L) and the middle of the lake (80 mg/L). “The TSS in the Lake Beratan has exceeded water quality standards,” he explained.

The TSS itself is a solid material, including organic and inorganic ma-terials suspended in the water. High TSS rate will reduce the penetration of sunlight into water thus increasing turbidity and cause a silting.

Although the TSS rate in Lake Beratan exceeds the quality stan-

dards, Raka Icwara acknowledged that his party does not know about how deep the sedimentation goes. Based on the last inspection, the average depth of the Lake Beratan is 12.8 meters, the deepest point is 20 meters and the water surface area reaches 3.85 square kilometers with a maximum capacity of 49.22 million cubic meters.

To prevent the pollution and silting of Lake Beratan from deteriorating any further, the Environment Agency has proposed that the handling of the pollution and the prevention program be submitted to the Ministry of En-vironment. One of the programs that could be run cold be the reforestation of the borderline of the lake.

In regards to the large number

of vendors on the the edge of Lake Beratan, Raka Icwara said that his party has been monitoring the situ-ation and appealed to them and the public not to throw their garbage into the lake. “And the appeal has been adhered to. They usually have their own bins that are then be dumped into landfill,” he said. (kmb24)

Chemical fertilizers cause severe water pollution in Lake Beratan

Gender players increasingly rare

IBP/FileThe youth of Bali are playing “Gender”, one of the traditional musi-cal instruments

TABANAN - Through regular inspection conducted to determine the condition of the water in Lake Beratan, Baturiti, contamination, exceeding the threshold of acceptability has recently been discovered in the lake water near farms and forest areas.

IBP/FileThe tourists are enjoying the beautiful scenery of Lake Beratan

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An online tool at www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heartage.htm can help people determine how old their heart is, based on factors like weight, smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For most adults aged 30–74, their predicted heart age is “sig-nificantly higher than their chron-ological age,” said the CDC in its Vital Signs report, released Tuesday.

Researchers found that nearly

69 million adults between the ages of 30 and 74 have a heart age older than their actual age.

“That’s about the number of people living in the 130 largest US cities combined,” the CDC report said.

The average predicted heart age for adult men was nearly eight years older than their chrono-logical age, and 5.4 years older for women, it said.

When researchers divided people according to race, they found the highest heart ages

among African-American men and women, who had an average heart age of 11 years older than their chronological age.

Risk factor data was collected from every US state and informa-tion from the Framingham Heart Study, which began in Massachu-setts in 1948 and has followed thousands of people over time in an effort to identify the causes of cardiovascular disease.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death and serious illness in the United States.

PARIS - Being overweight at the age of 50 may speed the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in old age, said a study Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

A statistical comparison showed that every extra unit in body mass index (BMI, a height-to-weight ratio) in middle age corresponded to earlier onset of Alzheimer’s by about 6.5 months -- what the authors termed a “robust” correlation.

“A healthy BMI at midlife may delay the onset of AD,” the study paper said, referring to Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers used the recorded BMI of more than 1,300 Americans, all of whom were monitored for an average of 14 years after signing up to be studied.

Of the group, 142 developed Al-zheimer’s at an average age of 83.

The debilitating disorder is the most common form of dementia, which the World Health Organization (WHO) says affects nearly 50 million people worldwide -- some 7.7 million new cases per year.

Being obese or overweight in middle age was known to increase the risk for Alzheimer’s later, but it was not clear whether it affected the age of disease onset.

The WHO estimated more than 1.9 billion adults, of the world’s total population of seven billion, were overweight in 2014. Thirteen percent were obese.

“We found that for every unit in-crease in body mass index when these individuals were 50 years of age, they developed Alzheimer’s disease on average 6.5 months earlier,” study lead author Madhav Thambisetty of the National Institute on Aging of the US health department’s National Institutes of Health, said in a video recording.

Most Americans’ hearts are older than their actual years

MIAMI - Three out of four Americans’ hearts are older than their chronological age, raising the risk of heart disease, stroke and premature death, officials said Tuesday.

CDC officials said they were releasing the report and the online tool in the hopes that they would encourage people to be aware of their heart health and take measures to prevent heart disease before it is too late.

“The heart age concept was created to more effectively com-municate a person’s risk of dying from heart attack or stroke -– and to show what can be done to lower that risk,” the report said.

Maintaining a healthy weight, keeping blood pressure under con-trol, not smoking, getting enough exercise and eating right are the top ways to avoid heart disease,

experts say.“Because so many US adults

don’t understand their cardio-vascular disease risk, they are missing out on early opportunities to prevent future heart attacks or strokes,” said Barbara Bowman, director of CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Pre-vention.

“About three in four heart at-tacks and strokes are due to risk factors that increase heart age, so it’s important to continue focusing on efforts to improve heart health and increase access to early and affordable detection and treatment resources nationwide.” (afp)

Overweight in midlife may speed up Alzheimer’s

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Being overweight at the age of 50 may speed the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in old age, said a study Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

“We also found in individuals whose brains we could examine after they died, that every unit of increase in body mass index was associated with more neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, which is one of the key pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s.”

People with a BMI of 25 and higher are generally classified as overweight, and 30 and over obese. In metric terms, it is calculated as your weight in kilogrammes di-

vided by the square of your height in meters.

The average BMI of the study participants at 50 years was 25.8, said the authors. A “unit” increase would be one point, say from a BMI of 25 to 26.

“I think these findings are impor-tant because they add to a substantial amount of knowledge about how obesity affects Alzheimer’s,” said Thambisetty.

“But more importantly, it in-

dicates that if we can maintain a healthy body mass index even as early as midlife, it might have long-lasting protective effects towards delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease decades later.”

If one could delay Alzheimer’s onset by just two years, the world-wide prevalence of disease would drop by about 22.8 million cases in 2050, said the study paper.

The study speculated on a pos-sible role for chronic inflammation

associated with obesity. “Our findings raise the possibility

that inexpensive, non-invasive inter-ventions targeting midlife obesity and over-weight could substantially alter the trajectory of (Alzheimer’s), reducing its global public health and economic impact,” said the paper.

A drawback of the study was that most of the trial subjects were white, highly-educated and healthy individuals, the team said, and more research was needed. (afp)

The meetings, usually held every three years outside Washington where the sibling 188-nation institutions are headquartered, will take place in Nusa Dua in October 2018, the IMF and World Bank said in a joint statement.

The 2015 annual meetings are sched-uled for October 9-11 in Lima, Peru.

“I would like to thank the government

of Indonesia and people for hosting the 2018 Annual Meetings,” Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, said in the statement.

“This will be a great opportunity to showcase Indonesia’s impressive economic and social achievements, as well as the culture, beauty, and vitality of the country.” (afp)

SINGARAJA - The Sanur Village Festival (SVF) holds an annual kite competition. Buleleng organizes the Lov-ina Festival and this year it will be enlivened with kite games. The Lovina Festival will take place on September 27 to October 1, 2015, and the committee will hold the kite cutting contest or mekorot, a traditional game favored by the community of Buleleng by both children and adults.

Since it was created, me-korot pits kites in the air. The kites whose strings get cut are lost in the wind, while the one still flying in the air automatically win. In the kite cutting, many factors can de-termine the champion. One of the factors is the use of high quality glass-coated thread and techniques of pitting the kites against each other.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, af ter lead-ing technical meeting in the Gedong Kertya Hall, Singa-raja on Tuesday (Sep. 1) said that it has been decided that they will present traditional game in the Lovina Festival.

Apart from promoting kites to foreign travelers, it is also intended as a way to preserve this tradition and a way to provide a space for the kite cutting hobbyists to hone their skills. Pparticipants, will be awarded prizes provided by the local government in cooperation with private sec-tors including certificates of appreciation.

Other traditional arts and culinary delights from nine villages near Lovina includ-ing the Pemaron, Tukadmung-ga, Anturan, Kalibukbuk, Ka-liasem, Kayu Putih, Temukus, and other villages who will be presented in the Lovina Festi-val this year. The art perfor-mances will be presented on the main stage on the Binaria Beach, Lovina. Astage for modern music will be located in the west at Kaliasem vil-lage, Banjar subdistrict. “This year, we will have two stages, one for ceremonial sessions and performers and the other for the party located in the west,” he said.

According to Suyasa, the committee agreed that the theme featured this year is

Peace and Harmony of Lovina. It signifies peaceful atmo-sphere and harmony of the arts and culture supporting the development of Lovina tourism. His party targeted the increase of foreign tourist visit to Lovina as the mascot of Buleleng. “From the begin-ning, the concept is purely a tourist promotion for Lovina and I think in the macro level our target is how the tourism industry in this area can con-tinue to develop with some regular events. Hopefully, they will have a positive impact for the future,” he added.

In the meantime, the Sail Indonesia (SI) is ensured to be participated by 44 yachts that will berth on Lovina Beach. As scheduled, the yachts will arrive on Lovina Beach on September 23-28, 2015.

Based on information from Lovina tourism players and village officials, some yachts have arrived on Lovina Beach. Such early arrival of partici-pants indicates that Lovina is interesting to be visited by participants of marine adven-turers to spend longer holi-days at Lovina. (kmb38)

DENPASAR — A former Austin, Texas, police officer has been extra-dited from Indonesia to the United States to face trial in the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.

Vontrey Jamal Clark was deported Wednesday through Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali resort island.

Clark, 32, was handed over to 13 agents of the FBI and was flown to

Texas on a specially chartered plane from the bureau.

Bali police spokesman Hery Wi-yanto said Clark arrived in Indonesia on July 19 on an American Airlines flight through Jakarta. He was then arrested in Canggu neighborhood in Bali on July 30 based on a red notice from Interpol.

Clark is a suspect in the Feb. 4 mur-der of Samantha Dean in Texas. (ap)

IMF, World Bank to hold 2018 annual meetings in Bali

JAKARTA - The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said Tuesday they would hold their 2018 annual meetings on the Indo-nesian island of Bali.

Indonesia extradites ex-police officer sought in US murder

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Vontrey Clark, a former US policeman, is escorted by Indonesian police from a holding cell in Denpasar to Ngurah Rai international airport as he is deported from the resort island of Bali on September 2, 2015. Clark was detained in early August after Interpol, acting on a request from the FBI, issued a red notice for his arrest over alleged links to the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Kite cutting held last year in Lovina Festival. Buleleng organizes the Lovina Festival and this year it will be enlivened with kite games.

Kite cutting contest jazzes up Lovina Festival 2015

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

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

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

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

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Until August 2015, the ranks of Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit have arrested 16 drug offenders originating in vari-ous backgrounds such as housewives, workers, farmers, security guards to marketing manager. The officers also detect the involvement of individual civil servant in this illicit goods trafficking. Nevertheless, police are now intensifying the investigation on the large network in Gianyar by targeting traffickers and bookies.

Based on the data from the Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit, throughout the year 2015 to the end of August, police have secured 16 culprits found keeping and having drugs. Fourteen of them have been handed over to prosecutor to be on trial before the court as soon as possible. It has increased from the previous year that only revealed 14 cases of drug abusers.

Aside from the cases, police have secured one dealer, I Gusti Agung Ayu Ary Setyawati. From the examination against the widow from Saba village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, police confiscated a package of crystal meth and logbook recording 24 drug transactions worth tens million of ru-piahs with the bookie having the initial Ode.

“Of the abusers, we just arrested one dealer. Therefore, we will intensify the investigation to reveal the large syndicate until this yearend by targeting bookies and dealers,” said the Chief of Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit, Kadek Ardika, recently.

He admitted that of the 16 culprits becoming the target within the past eight months, the users are still dominated by productive age, such as laborers, housewives, farmers, security guards to marketing manager. Currently, his party has got information that a civil servant is also detected as drug abuser. “Indeed there is information on the civil servant detected to abuse drugs, but we are still deepening the information because it must be caught red-handed,” he explained.

Similarly, he added that transaction process is carried out by hand-to-hand system and the dealers taking ac-tion in Denpasar often becomes an obstacle for him in the investigation process. “They mostly communicate via telephone, and the drug dealers with large stock also belong to the syndicate. As a result, when making investigation in Gianyar we can mostly get the users,” he said. (kmb35)

WA revealed that he was part of a group of about 40 friends in his village who were all consuming drugs. “After reading about BNNP Bali in Bali Post and seeing news about them on Bali TV, WA immediately realized that he needed to repent and so he approached the rehabilitation foundation for help,” said Suastawa.

Based on the case of this Buleleng village, BNNP Bali concluded that drug use is becoming more widespread in Bali and that villages and hamlets are being targeting by drug pushers. Suastawa said that the BNNP is therefore going to be targeting customary villages using the mass media, Facebook and other social media platforms.

Every year the BNNP focusses on educating four villages but this has not been very effective, so they hope that these media platforms can be of benefit. “Each village and hamlet needs to establish a task force through the customary village small assembly. In fact these task forces are the leading forces in this endeavour” he said.

It would appear that illicit drugs dealers are moving into small villages. “We will be going right to the hamlets in order to ascertain the truth. If this in fact the case, we have a very wor-rying condition to contend with as it indicates that there is negligence on the part of parents as well as customary and religious leaders in the hamlet,”

he affirmed, adding that if they do en-counter any evidence it will be further processed.

The BNNP is currently working hard to increase public awareness about drug addiction in order to curb the trend. If people find that anyone around them is showing unnatural signs such as laziness, stubboreness, tend to be very emotional and sometimes have hallu-cinations. People showing such signs, or who seem to want to escape reality or even die, should immediately be reported to the BNNP Bali.

Families therefor play a very im-portant role in the success of this rehabilitation program. Parents need to understand if their children are sick because of drug addiction and should also be able to provide motivation to their children to seek a cure through rehabilitation. The struggle to recover from addiction is a long process and the role of family is required in establish-ing and maintaining harmonious rela-tions and good communication.

“Children who tend to fall into drug addiction, are those who are either, spoiled, over regulated or neglected,” he said.

One parent with the initials GE, whose child is a former drug addict said that he wold like to open the eyes and hearts of drug abusers who have not realized that they have a problem. GE, who works at the Bali Provincial

Narcotic Agency (BNNP), revealed on Monday that his son ended up hanging himself due to drugs. His son’s illness was made worse by his bad marriage. “This tragedy occurred after my son moved into his own house with his wife, maybe if he had stayed with me this incident could have been pre-vented,” said GE.

Even though GE knew that his son was a drug addict and provided access to all forms of rehabilitation and treat-ments, due to strong environmental influences and deep rooted addiction, his son continued to to take drugs anyway.

“Three years ago -I forget the exact day, we returned to our home village in Tabanan. Surprisingly, my son told me to go back to Denpasar, but that he would stay,” said the retired father.

The next morning, GE was called by his relatives in the village and was told that his son was found hanged. Un-derstandably, he was deeply shocked by the incident, and to this day cannot forget it. “My son had said that he felt the pain of his condition in his throat and could bare it no longer. Also his wife had filed for divorce. Maybe that added to his stress,” said GE.

Ever since he started using drugs, his son seemed to become easily bored and changed jobs frequently, and spent all his money on drugs. “I know that I had discovered the problem too late.

Had I known about it form the beginning, maybe the tragedy cold have been pre-vented,” said GE.

Seeing the fate of his son, GE is deeply concerned about the condition of Bali’s younger generation. Quite l ikely many o f t h e m h a v e a l -ready been affected by drugs but have not been monitored by relevant agencies. “What will happen if all the youth become addicted to drugs? The life conditions of the present younger generation is totally different from that of past generations. I ap-peal to parents to be extremely vigilant in overseeing the activi-ties and associations of their children,” said GE hopefully. (kmb36)

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Urine test conducted by the Bali Provincial Narcotic Agency (BNNP) in one of high schools in Denpasar, Bali Island.

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LOS ANGELES - Dinosaurs, superheroes and rappers have boosted box office receipts in the United States and worldwide, setting 2015 on course to be the biggest grossing year in movie history.

“It’s not a record summer but we’re still on track for what could be the biggest box office year in theaters,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst at Rentrak, which tracks viewership for the movie industry.

“It could be the first $40 bil-lion year ever worldwide... and that’s pretty impressive consider-ing the competition by the small screen, including Netflix, Hulu and HBO.”

Smash hits like “Jurassic World,” “Avengers: Age of Ul-tron” or “Straight Outta Compton” largely contributed to the estimated $4.4 billion Hollywood is expected to rake in this summer in North America.

And the cash registers are ex-

pected to keep ringing through the end of the year.

“I’m expecting the North Amer-ican box office to exceed $11 bil-lion after a $10.9 billion record in 2013,” Dergarabedian said.

“Worldwide, we could pass $40 billion for the first time after a re-cord $36.7 billion last year.”

He said China had contributed to the uptick in international view-ership, with the Chinese box office up 64 percent so far this year.

Dergarabedian said the diverse slate of movies on offer and the need for audiences to seek enter-tainment outside the home were also contributing factors.

“Jurassic World,” the long-awaited fourth installment in the blockbuster dinosaur franchise launched by Steven Spielberg in 1993, has already taken in $643 million in North America and $1.6 billion globally, putting it right be-hind “Avatar” and “Titanic.”

“Avengers: Age of Ultron” has for its part grossed $457.7 million

in North America and $1.4 billion worldwide.

Animated films “Inside Out” and “Minions,” musical comedy sequel “Pitch Perfect 2” and music biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” which charts the rise and fall of the iconic hip-hop group N.W.A., also contributed to this summer’s box office success. Beyond the variety of movies on offer this summer, theaters are also going all out to draw in audiences.

“In the last decade and a half, there have been some enormous changes in the cinema experi-ence -- in auditoriums, recliner seats, very large screens, food and alcohol serving,” said Patrick Corcoran, spokesman for the US National Association of Theatre Owners.

“3D has also been a useful ad-dition to box office attendance,” he said.

“And the mix of movies means there is a little something for ev-eryone.” (afp)

LONDON — Helen Mirren, Bene-dict Cumberbatch and Maggie Smith are among the British stars to attend this year’s London Film Festival.

Among the highlights to be screened dur-ing the Oct. 7-18 festival are “Trumbo,” star-ring Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for being an alleged Communist sympathizer, and mobster drama “Black Mass,” starring

Cumberbatch and Johnny Depp.Other headlining films announced Tuesday

include “The Lady in the Van,” which stars Smith as an elderly woman who lived in a battered car for over a decade, and “Carol,” a 1950s drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

The festival will open with the European premiere of historical drama “Suffragette,” starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep. The biopic “Steve Jobs,” starring Michael Fassbender, will close the festival. (ap)

MADRID - International crit-ics have voted “Mad Max: Fury Road” as their best film of the year, their main federation said Tuesday. The action movie shot by Australian director George Miller will be awarded the Grand Prix of the International Federa-tion of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain on September 18.

“You could have knocked me over with a feather! It’s lovely to have this great cohort of crit-ics acknowledge our collective labours in this way,” Miller said in the statement.

The vote saw 493 of the world’s top critics, who typically reward less mainstream arthouse films, choose from among movies pre-miered after July 1, 2014.

“Mad Max: Fury Road”, star-ring Tom Hardy and Charlize

Theron -- the fourth film in the apocalyptic adventure franchise shot in the Australian outback -- will receive a special screening at the festival, the highest-profile movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, which runs until September 26.

Last year’s winner of the award was Richard Linklater for “Boy-hood”.

The festival, held each year in San Sebastian, a picturesque seaside resort on Spain’s north-ern Atlantic coast, was originally intended to honour Spanish lan-guage films but has established itself as one of the most important movie festivals in the world.

It hosted the world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller “North by Northwest” in 1959 and Woody Allen’s “Melinda and Melinda” in 2004. (afp)

US box office receipts on course to set record Critics vote ‘Mad Max’ best movie of the year

Benedict Cumberbatch, Helen Mirren lead London Film Fest

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Thai police: Suspect’s prints match those on bomb material

Greece to introduce measures for refugees on islands

Martial signs for Man United, costliest ever teenager

A sixteen year old drug addict with the initials WA, who is cur-rently being re-habilitated at one

of the rehabilita-tion foundations in

Denpasar, gave a testi-mony in which he stated that dozens of teenagers in his hamlet in Buleleng consume drugs.

The provincial narcotic agency (BNNP) immediately looked into the situation. “After coordinating with drug addict rehabilitation centres, we were extremely surprised and did not expect to find at least 40 of WA’s friends (of the same age group) consuming drugs,” said Chief of the BNNP Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa.

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Mahathir, 90, who was Malay-sia’s longest-serving prime minis-ter, electrified crowds at the dem-onstration in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday by calling for a sustained public push to topple Najib.

He also accused Najib of brib-

ing politicians in the ruling party, the United Malays National Or-ganisation (UMNO), to secure their support and said the premier was clinging to power to avoid corruption charges.

“We will call him (Mahathir).

He has made speeches and ac-cusations,” national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar was quoted as saying by online news outlet Malaysiakini.

“Among them, he claimed UMNO leaders had taken bribes so we want to find out more.”

The report gave no further details.

The ruling coalition led by UMNO routinely hauls in op-ponents who take part in anti-

government actions, in what the opposition calls a pattern of systematic harassment.

Mahathir himself took a hard line on dissent during his 1981-2003 term of office. It was not clear whether Mahathir, who remains influential in the ruling party, would face any charges.

Seven people from Bersih, the coalition of Malaysian NGOs and activist groups that staged the weekend demonstrations,

were questioned by police on Wednesday. No charges were filed. (afp)

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Malaysia former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, center, waves to activists from the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BER-SIH) on his arrival during a rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Malaysian police said Wednesday they would question former premier Mahathir Mohamad over statements he made at massive weekend rallies demanding the ousting of current Prime Minister Najib Razak over corruption allegations.

Malaysian police to question ex-PM Mahathir over rally comments

In BulelengMany village teenagers consume drugs

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police said Wednesday they would question former premier Mahathir Mohamad over statements he made at massive weekend rallies demanding the ousting of current Prime Minister Najib Razak over corrup-tion allegations.