One hundred mostly elderly people from each country will be reunited with their relatives Oct. 20-26 at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry and North Korean state media.

The decision came after over-night talks among the Koreas’ Red Cross officials at the border village of Panmunjom that began Monday. The Koreas initially agreed to push for the reunions af-ter striking a deal last month that eased a standoff that had flared after a mine explosion blamed on Pyongyang maimed two South Korean soldiers.

The highly emotional reunions have not happened since early last year. But even Tuesday’s announcement doesn’t guaran-tee success. The rivals have a long history of failing to follow through on reconciliation ef-forts.

Planned reunions in 2013 were scrapped at the last minute because of North Korean anger in part over its claim that the South was trying to overthrow Pyong-yang’s government.

Most applicants are in their 70s or older and desperate to see their loved ones before they die. Many Koreans don’t even know

whether relatives on the other side of the border are still alive be-cause their governments mostly ban the exchange of letters, phone calls or emails.

Some foreign analysts also re-main skeptical about inter-Korean ties because of speculation that North Korea will fire what it calls a satellite to celebrate the 70th birthday on Oct. 10 of its ruling party. Similar past launches trig-gered an international standoff as South Korea and other neigh-boring countries called them disguised tests for long-range missiles. Such a launch would endanger the reunions.

About 22,500 Koreans had participated in brief reunions — 18,800 in person and the others by video — during a period of detente. None were given a sec-ond chance to meet their relatives, according to South Korea’s Red Cross.

South Korean officials have long called for holding reunions more regularly and expanding the number of people taking part. North Korea is seen as worry-ing that doing so could open the country to influence from more affluent South Korea and threaten the ruling party’s grip on power.

SO FAR this year, no grants from Bali’s provincial government have been disbursed to

any customary village.

According to the data from the Bali Culture Service, a total of 102 customary villages in eight counties and one municipality should already have received their grants worth IDR 200 million each. All custom-

ary villages have already given in their accountability reports for their grants from the previous year.

Meanwhile, 92 of the 102 customary villages listed have submitted proposals

for this year’s grants but none of these have been processed by the Finance Bureau of the Secretariat of the Province of Bali.

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VENICE, Italy — Shia LaBeouf says his new film, “Man Down,” helped him get back on track. The actor plays a traumatized U.S. Marine searching for his estranged wife and son after cataclysm strikes in the thriller “Man Down,” which is competing in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section for new discover-ies.

Despite its blood-and-guts drama, LaBoeuf and director Dito Montiel say “Man Down” isn’t a war story, but the tale of a man trying to get his son back — almost a post-apocalyptic “Kramer vs. Kramer.”

It’s LaBeouf’s second film with director Montiel, after 2006 drama “A Guide to Rec-ognizing Your Saints,” and he says the script came at exactly the right time.

“He came to my house when I was in a really low place and offered it to me like therapy, like ‘here’s a healing process so we can jump into together and get well,’” LaBeouf told reporters in Venice on Sunday.

The 29-year-old “Transformers” star has made headlines with a series of bizarre esca-pades — including yelling from the audience during a Broadway show and wearing a paper

bag on his head to a movie premiere — and has been treated for an alcohol problem.

From now on, he says he’s only working with “friends.” (ap)

Sony’s “War Room” fought its way to first place in its second weekend in release, earning $12.6 million across the four-day holiday weekend, according to Rentrak estimates on Monday. The micro-budget family drama, which cost only $3.5 million to produce, has grossed $27.9 million to date.

Financial success for faith-based films is not exactly a surprise at this point, but “War Room’s” impres-sive hold from its opening weekend

is significant.Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s

senior media analyst, attributes “War Room’s” second weekend success to heightened awareness after it nearly usurped “Straight Outta Compton” last weekend.

Also, word of mouth is strong for “War Room.” Dergarabedian said according to exit polling, 75 percent of the audience said they would definitely recommend the movie — a substantial and interest-

ing contrast to the dismal critical reception for the film.

“It’s just a great story of a film that really filled a void in the mar-ketplace, with a message that the audience could really get behind,” he said.

New release “A Walk in the Woods,” debuted in third place, behind previous champ “Straight Outta Compton,” with $10.5 mil-lion from 1,960 screens. The buddy dramedy based on Bill Bryson’s memoir starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte cost a reported $8 million to make and has taken in $12.2 million since its Wednesday opening.

The action pic “The Transporter

Refueled,” meanwhile, opened in fifth with a lackluster $9 million from over 3,400 screens. Costing only $21 million to produce, this franchise outing subbed in a rela-tively unknown actor, Ed Skrein, for star Jason Statham, who had helped the previous three films succeed.

Dergarabedian said while both films will likely perform decently in theaters, their VOD earning po-tential is great.

“Both of those movies will end up being profitable on the small screen down the road,” he said.

But, it was Pantelion’s Spanish-language animated film “Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos,” that truly

stood out among the pack, taking in $4.4 million from just 395 loca-tions over the four-day weekend. Although it doesn’t come close to the sensational $10.4 million Labor Day weekend debut of Pantelion’s 2013 film “Instructions Not In-cluded,” it does still illustrate the significant power of an underserved audience.

“Latinos represent 17 percent of the population and buy 24 percent of movie tickets. They go to the movies all the time and they go to movies as families. If we can create a film that resonates with families over a holiday weekend, it tends to do well,” said Paul Presburger, CEO of Pantelion. (ap)

‘War Room,’ Spanish language cartoon stand out at box office

LOS ANGELES — Summer blockbusters gave way to the small and highly targeted over a sleepy Labor Day weekend at the box office, with notable performances from the faith-based “War Room” and the Spanish language cartoon “Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos.”

NEW YORK — Months after de-nying their relationship was over, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt are split-ting up. Hamm and Westfeldt released a statement Monday through publicist Annett Wolf that “with great sadness” they were separating after 18 years. The couple, who never married, said they would “continue to be supportive of each other in every way possible.” The statement first appeared on the web site of People magazine.

Earlier this year, the “Mad Men” ac-tor completed treatment for alcohol ad-diction and praised Westfeldt, an actress and filmmaker, for her support, Wolf said at the time. In April, they disputed reports they were breaking up. (ap)

‘Mad Men’ star Hamm and Westfeldt split after 18 years

In this Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, file photo, actors Jon Hamm and Jen-

nifer Westfeldt attend the premiere of “Into The Woods,” at the Zieg-

feld Theatre in New York.Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

Shia LaBeouf says from now on he’s only working with friends

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Ex-cop is face of Singapore opposition in general elections

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on fence speeds up

Mueller leads Germany to 3-2 win over Scot-land in qualifier

Koreas to hold October reunions of war-divided families

SEOUL — North and South Korea agreed Tuesday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that just last month were threatening each other with war.

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South Korean Jun Joo-eul, 85, who was separated from his family during the Korean War, looks through documents for family reunion in front of messages wishing for the family reunions between two Koreas at the video meeting room for separated families at the Korea Red Cross headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 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 celebra-tion of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beauti-fully 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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KUTA - Life begins at Forty is a fitting way to describe the spirit by all the Staff and Man-agement Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas. For 40 years, the Resort & Villa concept hotel has suc-ceeded in keeping up with the tight competition of the hospitality industry in Bali. The Manage-ment has strategically made improvement to the quality of their prodcuts and services over the years.

This extremely well managed hotel has suc-ceeded in increasing their profits and surviving the ebbs and flows of time. PT. Patrajasa has also continuously created social programs for the surrounding community as part of the companies corporate vision

Celebrations of Patra Jasa Resort & Villas 40th anniversary which took place on July 7th, included a blood drive in collaboration with PMI (Nation Blood Association). Blood, medication 9 basic needs materials (Sembako) were also donated to a man in Klungkung to help alleviate

his living conditions. He also received materials needed to make repairs to the roof of his house. All of which was amassed from donations made by the management and staff of the hotel as part of their share and care policy.

There was also an “employee fun gather-ing” at the tennis courts on August 9th with the theme ‘one heart, one spirit one goal’ as in; uniting heart and spirit to reach a common goal. Everyone wore sporty clothes and joined in the fun games that included; group cheers, ‘pass the stick’, ‘balloon racing’ and ‘crazy bridge’. Everyone was enthusiastic including General Manager of the hotel, Mrs. Cok Istri R. Lahriani.

“This event is a way to strength the team spirit of the employees and inspire them to work in a more lively manner, so that Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas can continue to thrive amid the tight competition of the hospitality industry” said Mrs. CokIstri R. Lahriani in her speech.

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Head of the Bali Culture Service, Dewa Putu Be-ratha, reasoned that the disbursement process is ham-pered by Law No.23/2014 on Regional Governments.

“According to this law, grants can only be awarded to social organizations that hold Indonesian legal status. Whereas, customary villages, subaks, sekaas (troupe) and committees for culture-related development hold no legal status,” he said.

Actually, continued Beratha, grants to customary villages are particularly important to fortify Balinese culture. On that account, he hopes that Bali can be ex-cluded from the rule that requires grantees to hold legal status. Assistant III of the Bali Provincial Secretariat is said to have left for Jakarta to coordinate the matter with central government. “Now, we are still waiting,” explained Beratha.

Nyoman Parta, member of Commission IV of the Bali House, says that he had predicted that the posi-tion of customary villages will become increasingly difficult in the future. Evidently, one of the rules made under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is now hampering the disbursement process of grants for customary villages.

“This is why we had previously insisted on register-ing customary villages. Those who rejected the registra-tion of customary villages should be held responsible now,” he said.

Parta added that whatever happens, Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, must dare to disburse the grants to customary villages as well as the grants for the 174 irrigated and non-irrigated subak organizations that should be each be receiving IDR 50 million.

“The governor must now stand behind the statement that he has often put forth, saying ‘even though the sky is falling, customary villages must continue to exist. The governor must have the courage to disburse the grants for customary villages and subaks,” he said.

Special financial assistance In addition to grants, Bali’s provincial government,

through the Culture Services, also has the responsibil-ity of disbursing special financial assistance (BKK) to administrative villages, customary villages as well as irrigated and non-irrigated subak organizations. The amount of the special assistance is the same as the grant, namely IDR 200 million for each administrative village and customary village, and IDR 50 million for irrigated and non-irrigated subaks.

Unlike the grants, some of the special financial as-sistance funds have been disbursed, though not all. In this case the lack of disbursement is due the fact that not all administrative villages, customary villages and irrigated and non-irrigated subak organizations have submitted proposals to the Culture Services.

“Law No.23 only governs social grants, while the special financial assistance or BKK is not regulated so that the administrative process is still running,” said the Head of Bali Culture Service, Dewa Putu Beratha.

Data from the Bali Culture Services states that as of August 31, 2015, there are 606 administrative vil-lages, 1,386 customary villages, 1,438 irrigated subak and 1,092 non-irrigated subak organizations that have been approved to received the BKK funds. However, the funds have only been disbursed to 58 administrative villages, 141 customary villages, 77 irrigated subak organizations and 168 non-irrigated subak organiza-tions. (kmb32)

BAli’s Governor Made Mangku Pastika has ensured the people of Bali that 2015’s grants and financial aid specifically for customary village and Subak could be disbursed soon. Pastika expressed certainty on the matter after delivering Bali’s Budget Plan of 2016, on Tuesday.

“It can, it can” he replied shortly when asked about the funds.

Although this year the aid can be disbursed, he added, for dis-bursement in the future requires some adjustments, such as a Governor Regulation (Pergub) that will have to be included in the Budget of the Village (APBDes).

“A Governor Regulation is being designed by the Secretary, because without it, the umbrella

does not exist” he said.Pastika added, that funds to

Pakraman and Subak should be included in APBDes for special financial assistance (BKK) sup-plied from the provincial gov-ernment of Bali’s descent to the village (village official), of the village offices then submitted to Pakraman.

As for Bali, he added, grants have been given continuously (every year) because they are required, so the law is not in ac-cordance with the grant criteria.

“Essentially, we will con-tinue to support Pakraman and Subak, related to customs, tra-ditions, culture and religion. It should still be supported, but we should not break the rules” said Pastika.

Meanwhile, Provincial

Secretary Cokorda Ngurah Pemayun said that based on the answer recently given by Ministry of Interior Affairs, the disbursement of funds in Bali still run according to the old rules of Regulation No. 37, Year 2007 in the distribution of grants and the BKK fund. “However, next year, all should be in ac-cordance with Regulation No. 113 Year 2014 on the Financial Management of Villages,” said Cok Pemayun.

This year, every customary village in Bali is scheduled to receive funds and grants from the provincial government of Bali amounting to IDR 200 million per village, while each Subak and Subak abian (dry-land) will get IDR 50 million. According to the data of the

Bali Culture Services, as of August 31, 2015, there are 606 administrative villages, 1,386 customary villages, 1,438 ir-rigated subak and 1,092 non-irrigated subak organizations that are eligible to receive the BKK funds. However, only 58 administrative villages, 141 customary villages, 77 irrigated subak organizations and 168 non-irrigated subak organizations have received their funding.

Non-Legal EntitiesUp until now, the funds from

Bali’s provincial government to customary villages have not been disbursed. The process is hampered by regulation No.23 of 2014 on Regional Governments. In the legislation, grants can only be awarded to community organizations institutions incor-porated in Indonesia. Meanwhile traditional villages, customary villages, and Subaks have no legal status.

Member of the DPRD Bali, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana said that because the Executive, did not want to register the indig-enous villages. If they had regis-tered traditional villages, then the grants would have automatically been disbursed, without the need to deal with the issue of being a legal entity now.

“This is a mistake made by the executive branch in address-ing the Legal status villages,” he said.

Kariyasa added that the grants can still be disbursed by making a Governor Regulation. Bali must agree to register indigenous villages. (kmb32/ant)

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Bali’s Governor Made Mangku Pastika (middle) has ensured the people of Bali that 2015’s grants and financial aid specifically for customary village and Subak could be disbursed soon.

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Experts said the approach is on the cutting edge of a growing field known as immunotherapy, which coaxes the body to kill off cancer and may someday revolutionize oncology by ending the use of toxic chemotherapy.

The method, known as CTL019, was developed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine, which is now reporting the first long-term results on a group of 14 initial patients.

Eight of the adults enrolled in the study (57 percent) responded to the treatment, with four going into long-term remission and the other four experiencing a partial response, said the findings in the journal Sci-ence Translational Medicine.

The first person to be treated recently marked five years cancer-free. Two others have made it to four and half years with no sign of cancer’s return. The fourth was in remission for 21 months, then died of an infection following a

surgery that was unrelated to the leukemia.

“Our tests of patients who experi-enced complete remissions showed that the modified cells remain in patients’ bodies for years after their infusions, with no sign of cancerous or normal B cells,” said senior author Carl June, professor of immunother-apy in Penn’s department of pathol-ogy and laboratory medicine.

“This suggests that at least some of the CTL019 cells retain their ability to hunt for cancerous cells for long periods of time.”

Four of the patients (29 percent) responded to the therapy, for a median of seven months, but their cancer eventually returned.

Researchers first reported initial results on three adult patients in 2011, showing that two of the three had gone into remission in the first year of treatment.

Normally, the immune system tries to attack cancer but fails be-cause cancer can evade the body’s defenses.

The experimental therapy is made from patients’ own immune cells, sometimes known as T-cells, which are collected by researchers and reprogrammed to better search for and kill cancer.

They are modified to contain a protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which targets the CD19 protein found on the surface

of cancerous B cells.After the immune cells are col-

lected and re-engineered, the patient undergoes chemotherapy to wipe out their current immune system before they are re-infused with their newly empowered immune cells.

Jacqueline Barrientos, a medi-cal oncologist at the North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute who was not involved in the study, described the approach as “revolutionary,” because of its ability to wipe out CLL for years.

“This is an exciting time,” she told AFP, adding that many experts think June is likely to win the Nobel Prize someday for shepherding in a new era of cancer treatment. (afp)

Killer T-cell therapy shows promise against leukemia

In the realm of avian research, the chicks with the glow-in-the-dark beaks and feet might one day rock the poultry world.

British scientists say they have genetically modified chickens in a bid to block bird flu and that early experiments show promise for fighting off the disease that has devastated the U.S. poultry and egg industries.

Their research, which has been backed by the UK government and top chicken companies, could potentially prevent repeats of this

year’s wipeout: 48 million chick-ens and turkeys killed because of the disease since December in the United States alone.

But these promising chickens - injected with a fluorescent protein to distinguish them from normal birds in experiments - won’t likely gatecrash their way into poultry production any time soon. Health regulators around the world have yet to approve any animals bred as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for use in food because of long-standing safety and environ-

mental concerns.Bird flu has become a global

concern among researchers over the past decade because of its threat to poultry and human health, and UK researchers have been toiling in genetic engineering for years to control its spread.

People who are in close contact with infected poultry are most at risk for flu infections, and scientists are concerned about the risk for a human pandemic if the virus infects some-one and then mutates. No humans have been infected in the latest U.S.

outbreak, but there have been cases in Asia in recent years.

“The public is obviously aware of these outbreaks when they’re reported and wondering why there’s not more done to control it,” said Laurence Tiley, a senior lecturer in molecular virology at the Univer-sity of Cambridge, who is involved in the experiments.

Scientists argue that GMO live-stock could help control diseases and feed the world’s growing population. But if salmon’s arduous swim to approval is anything to go

by, their breakthroughs will be slow to come to market.

The U.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration (FDA) has been reviewing a type of GMO salmon for the past 20 years, even though the agency deemed it safe for humans in 2010. Developed by AquaBounty Tech-nologies Inc, it was engineered to grow faster than normal.

Consumer activists have pushed back hard against GMO animals for food, arguing that GMO crops, already widely used and marketed, contribute to health and environ-mental problems.

At Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, sci-entists are using genetic engineer-ing to try to control bird flu in two ways: by blocking initial infections in egg-laying chickens and prevent-ing birds from transmitting the virus if they become infected.

Two of the world’s biggest chicken breeders, Germany’s EW Group and Arkansas-based Cobb-Vantress, have funded parts of the research, though they too harbor significant reservations about GMO breeding.

EW Group is interested in re-search to learn more about how chickens respond to flu, said Jim McKay, group director for science and technology. However, the com-pany has a policy against breeding GMO animals and feels consumers are not ready to accept them in the food chain.

Cobb-Vantress, owned by top U.S. chicken company Tyson Foods Inc, has stopped supporting re-search into GMO chickens “at this time” because there is no approved commercial use, said Mitch Abra-hamsen, vice president of research and development. (rtr)

MIAMI - A cancer-killing therapy that engineers a patient’s own immune cells to wipe out chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has shown long-term success in a handful of people, a US study said Wednesday.

Glowing in the dark, GMO chickens shed light on bird flu fight

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A baby chick, genetically modified to block transmission of bird flu, glows under an ultraviolent light, next to a chick that has not been modified, in this undated handout photo provided by Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.

The Head of the Buleleng Man-power Agency, Ni Made Dwi Pri-yanti Putri Koriawan, when met at her office on Monday (Sep. 7), said that Buleleng ranks second as the the county with the highest number of foreign workers form PRC, after Badung.

“Two foreign workers without employment permits have been repatriated by their company. Now, we note there are now 136 foreign foreign workers from China work-ing at the Celukan Bawang power plant. Originally, the submission of requests for foreign worker employ-ment permits was handled by the

central government. The extension was not able to be carried out in the county/municipal manpower of-fice. As a result, they had to submit the request for an extension to the province, whereas it should actually be handled at the county level,” said Putri Koriawan.

Koriawan explained that accord-ing to Regional Bylaw No.4/2014, the Buleleng Manpower Agency ex-amines foreign workers selectively. This includes the calculation of the power plant capacity and establish-ment capital of the Celukan Bawang power plant, relative to the number of foreign workers from China on

record. “We did not know about the new situation, because we only got involved in the case after it was inaugurated. The Foreign Worker Usage Plan (RPTKA) was also issued by the central government, while the Celukan Bawang power plant project started running in 2007,” she explained.

In anticipation of a large influx of foreign workers from the PRC, the Buleleng Manpower Agency declared that each foreign worker is required to report their full identity to the Buleleng Manpower Agency. “The foreign workers are obliged to report to the Buleleng Manpower Agency. Indeed, there is no sanction, but their foreign worker employment permits and foreign worker usage plans must be reported to us each year,” she said.

Since the establishment of the Celukan Bawang coal-fired power

plant, continued Putri Koriawan, the number of workers has grown to more than 1,300, both local and foreign workers. For this reason, The Buleleng Manpwer Agency, has coordinated with the Ministry of Labor Affairs to handle the issue of identity documents, by applying the Regional Bylaw. This is also part of an effort to protect the local workforce. “We must make our workforce feel comfortable, both in terms of health and performance. Moreover, we will be facing the implementation of the MEA at the end of 2015, which means that lo-cal workers will have to compete for job opportunities with people from all over Asia, including Thai-land and Vietnam, many of whom already speak Indonesian profi-ciently,” she added.

Meanwhile most migrant work-ers from Bali prefer to work over-seas on a cruise ships. Every year,

between 150 and 200 young people choose to work overseas rather than exploring the potential of working in the region. In Buleleng there are 50 to 90 young people choosing to work on cruise ships. “Yes, our young people prefer to work over-seas in the field of tourism, either as restaurant staff or in hotels or spas,” said Putri Koriawan.

She emphasized that the people of Buleleng prefer to work overseas rather than compete for jobs in Buleleng. She is still looking for a solution whether it be in terms of salary or job opportunities. On that account, this issue is still being discussed comprehensively with Commission IV of the Buleleng House of representatives. “We will be discussing this matter with Com-mission IV of the Buleleng House, as soon as possible and have already prepared the subject matter of the discussion,” she said. (kmb34)

DEnPASAR - Frequent traffic jams at a number of road sections in Denpasar was highlighted by the Acting Mayor of Denpasar, A.A. Gede Geriya. The City of Denpasar is looking into engineering traffic so as to diminish congestion. One street especially prone to congestion is Jalan Nusa Indah, and so after much insis-tence, the Denpasar Transportation Agency is ready to conduct a study to determine whether the city’s plan

to make it a one-way street is feasible or not.

“If we are instructed to make Nusa Indah into a one-way street, we are ready to conduct a study on the matter immediately” said the Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika.

The Transportation Agency will wait until the study is comlete before determining a course of action. “Right now we are unable to comment as to

whether it is possible or not. We are going to conduct the study first, and then will submit our findings to traffic experts, including police authority in order to determine the next policy,” said Astika.

However, in principle, Jalan Nusa Indah has the same condition as Jalan Katrangan and Jalan Kecubung that are both one-way streets. According to Astika, if one-way status is imple-mented, it will likely be similar to

Jalan Katrangan, where four-wheeled vehicles can only drive southward whereas motorcycles can still drive northward. If Nusa Indah becomes a one way street, four wheeled vehicles would only be able to drive northward but two wheelers would still be able to go south. Earlier, Acting Mayor of Denpasar, A.A. Gede Geriya, said that apart from issues of trash and the chaotic numbering of houses, another important thing that Denpasar

needs to address immediately is the problem of traffic congestion. The capital of the province has seen a surge in its population which has been accompanied by increasing numbers of vehicles.

“Present road conditions do not favor a smooth flow of traffic, so en-gineering is required. Jalan Nusa Indah in East Denpasar is one example of a street that could possibly be turned into a one-way street,” he said. (kmb12)

Buleleng tightens permit parameters for Chinese workers

SInGARAJA - The Buleleng Manpower Agency had on re-cord that about 138 foreign workers (TKA) from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were working at the Celukan Bawang coal-fired power plant. Two of them namely Zou May and Xie Ling Ling were forced to be repatriated because they did not have complete identity documents and foreign worker employ-ment permit (IMTA).

Transportation Agency conducts study about one-way traffic on Jalan Nusa Indah

Indian national Sayed Moham-med Said, cen-ter, is escorted by Indonesian

customs officers after a press

conference at the local customs’ of-fice in Bali, Indo-

nesia, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. In-

donesian authori-ties arrested the

Indian man on Sept. 5 on allega-tion of attempting

to smuggle 1.5 kilograms (3.3

lbs.) of metham-phetamine into

the tourist island of Bali.

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After crashing ianto pedestrians, tourist strikes traffic officers

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A policewoman-turned law teacher-turned-politician, Lim is the face of Singapore’s resurgent opposition that just three elections ago in 2001 had hit a political nadir. Its leader, the late J.B. Jeyaretnam who attained folklore stature in the country’s politics, had been bank-rupted after contesting a series of lawsuits unleashed by the ruling People’s Action Party. The Work-ers’ Party and another opposition group had only one seat each in the 84-member Parliament.

As Singapore heads into another general election on Friday, the PAP is set to extend its 50-year hold on power by another five years. Only, this time the inheritors of Jeyaret-nam’s mantle — Lim and her col-leagues in the Workers’ Party — are presenting the stiffest challenge ever faced by the PAP, and will likely emerge as a potent force in what has been a virtual one-party state.

“Have you seen how the PAP deals with the opposition? You need a lot of guts to come out and speak up against them,” said oil technician Voon Swee Heng, 59 at Lim’s rally last Sunday where blue party flags with the ham-mer symbol abounded. “I like to hear her talk. She flags out Singaporean issues like that of the population, train breakdowns and education. Things that concern me,” he said.

The Workers’ Party is riding an anti-establishment wave, thanks

to the disenchantment with the PAP over the rising cost of living, income inequality, restrictions on freedom of expression, and a rising tide of immigration to fill not only low-paying jobs but also middle and high-paying positions.

The frustrations have eroded the popularity of the PAP. Led by Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew (who died in March), the party established itself through an enviable track record after taking the reins of power in 1965 when Singapore became independent.

The PAP government raised standards of living by attracting foreign investors, promoting a free market, emphasizing education and running an efficient, largely cor-ruption free government and civil service. Today, the annual per capita income in Singapore is $56,287, slightly more than the U.S., mak-ing them the ninth and 10th richest nations in the world.

“Sure the key (election) issue more broadly will be about a gov-ernment and opposition movement that is able to ensure that Singapore enjoys effective and good govern-ment,” said Gillian Koh, a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. “A socially inclusive Singapore that is prosperous because it is innova-tive, and where people always feel hopeful about making progress in

their lives.”While Singapore prospered, Lee

and his successors also maintained strict controls on free speech and politics. Government critics includ-ing opposition leaders and foreign media were slapped with expensive — and successful — defamation and libel lawsuits. Mainstream local media remain controlled by the government. Some opposition leaders were locked up. Public gath-erings and demonstrations without police permit remained banned until 2000, when the rule was relaxed. Demonstrations are now allowed, but only in the Hong Lim park designated for such activities.

The party also used a unique electoral rule to its advantage -- some constituencies are contested in groups of four to six members. The opposition was hard pressed to find enough candidates to contest, and the PAP won many seats uncon-tested. But the opposition is catch-ing up as more young people throw their lot with them. In 2001, the PAP won 55 seats uncontested and 37 in 2006, but only five in 2011.

This year, for the first time in Singapore’s history, opposition parties are contesting all 89 seats at stake. The Workers’ Party, which holds seven seats in the outgoing Parliament, is fighting for 28 seats, most of them in its stronghold of eastern Singapore.

“I think it’s all very healthy. There is an aspiration for Singa-pore to be developed, in terms of its democratic processes as well. It’s very hard for Singaporeans to live in a cocoon,” Lim, 50, told The Associated Press. (ap)

BEIJING — A Chinese court publicly apologized to 19 people it wrongfully convicted of financial crimes in a rare show of contrition by the country’s authoritarian and highly opaque legal system.

The apology from the People’s High Court for the eastern prov-ince of Anhui appeared in a local newspaper on Monday. The court said it wished to help restore the reputations of the individuals, all of whom were imprisoned in 2012 on charges of illegal fundraising, or fraud.

The 19 people were accused in a single case involving China’s so-

called grey economy, which loans money to business ventures too small to obtain loans from large state banks. The court said a review of the case revealed the convictions were wrongful, but it didn’t explain why.

The convictions of the 19 defen-dants were overturned as well as the original indictments against them.

Chinese courts are controlled by the ruling Communist Party, and trials almost always result in con-victions. Wrongful convictions, in-cluding those resulting in the death penalty, are not unusual because of political considerations, reliance on confessions rather than evidence,

and pressure to solve homicides and other major cases.

Some cases have been overturned with restitution paid, but courts have hardly ever apologized.

In the Anhui case, the apology should be seen as a sign of progress in how the judicial system deals with its mistakes, said Gu Chengli-ang, a law professor at Shanghai’s Jiaotong University.

“This is a move that deserves positive affirmation. It definitely marks progress in the legal system and is a position that courts should take when there’s indeed injustice,” Gu said. (ap)

Ex-cop is face of Singapore opposition in general elections

SINGAPORE — As the day turns into night, they gather in the green field in the eastern corner of this island nation just above the equator. Some have come with foldable stools, some with picnic mats while others settle down on bare grass waving blue flags and yellow inflatable hammers. Soon the crowd swells to about 30,000, waiting to hear the star of the night’s show -- opposition leader Sylvia Lim.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanIn this Sept. 7, 2015, photo, Sylvia Lim, Singapore’s opposition Workers’ Party candidate, speaks during a rally in Singapore. A policewoman-turned law teacher-turned-politician, Lim is the face of Singapore’s resurgent opposition that just three elections ago in 2001 had hit a political nadir.

Chinese court publicly apologizes for wrongful convictions

REUTERS/Stringer A migrant worker watches a live broadcast of a military parade mark-ing the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, at his dormitory in Hefei, Anhui province, China, September 3, 2015.

BANGLI - The Bangli Narcotic Prison is the only prison in Bali specifically established to accom-modate inmates that were involved in drug cases. This prison is lo-cated at Buungan hamlet, Tiga vil-lage, Susut subdistrict. Other than serving as a place of incarceration, the prison, that opened in March 2015 is a place for rehabilitating drug addicts.

Chief of the Bangli Narcotic

Prison, Bambang Maryanto, ex-plained on Tuesday that currently there are 32 inmates being held at the Bangli Narcotics Prison who were transferred from several detention centres and prisons in Bali. Of the 32 occupants, 29 of them are currently undergoing rehabilitation in a special reha-bilitation block. “The inmates that are involved in the rehabilitation program at the Bangli Narcotics

Prison are those who only have 6 months remaining in their sen-tence,” he explained.

Maryanto said that the reha-bilitation process provided for the inmates in the Bangli Narcotic Prison involves social rehabilita-tion. During the rehabilitation process, the inmates are invited to engage in activities such as exercising, sharing, chatting and having discussions. To help cure

them of their drug addiction, the inmates are accompanied by a team of counselors from the prison and the National Narcotic Agency (BNNP), Province of Bali division. “Here, we provide social rehabili-tation -not medical rehabilitation as in the administration of medi-cine,” he explained.

He added that the inmates are scheduled to undergo rehabilita-tion for three months. If there are

inmates who do not recover within three months, their rehabilitation period will be extended for another three months. “This pre-rehabilita-tion is meant to change their mind-set from drug dependency. So far, the pre-rehabilitation of the past two months has given reasonable results. There is a trend towards the participants not wanting to use such illicit substances anymore,” he added. (kmb40)

One red brick businessmen, Made Sudi-ana, and headman of Tegal Badeng Barat, said on Monday (Sep. 7), that currently the price of red bricks in Negara is IDR

480,000 per thousand pieces, while it costs IDR 190,00 to produce just 1,000 bricks -not including molding and firing them. “So, the profit margin is very small. The raw materi-als required to make the bricks have run out in Tegal Badeng, as a consequence we’re forced to purchase them from other region,” he explained.

Wahts more, red brick producers have to compete against the light white bricks pro-duced in Java. Safari, a molding laborer of

red bricks from Tengah hamlet, Tegal Badeng Barat, said that he is paid IDR 130,000 to mold 1,000 bricks, which takes him three days of work.

“Actually this is not enough money to live on, and it has just been increased from IDR 110,000, but I have no other options than to take this job,” he said.

He hopes that he can continue to work at this job so that he can support three of nine children. (kmb)

MANGUPURA - A 49 year old American traveler with the initials CS was arrested by traffic police on Sun-day (Sep. 6), after crashing into two pedestrians on Jalan Raya Kuta. The driver did not surrender to the arrest but instead went into a rage and struck the police officers when they tried to arrest him.

Chief of the Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Nuryana, revealed that at 7:40 p.m., the offender was rid-ing a Honda motorcycle with license plate DK 7448 OL and crashed into two pedestrians who were crossing the street in front of a women’s boutique on Jalan Raya Kuta. Victim Andy Chindra, 25, from Jakarta was staying at Hotel Central Park Kuta, suffered abrasions on the hand and a broken bone in her forehead. The other victim was a 23 three year old traveler from Taiwan, named Chiang Yu Anc Yuonne. “The Taiwanese victim however, did not suf-fer any injuries,” said Nuryana.

The alleged offender was riding southwards at a high speed and did not yield to the pedestrians. “At the time, he (offender—Ed) did not have his motorcycle headlight turned on. Possibly he was under the influence of alcohol,” he added.

The traffic accident drew the atten-tion of many people around the scene. No one dared to approach given that the offender was clearly angry. A few minutes later, some traffic cops arrived at the scene after having received a report of the incident by phone from a local resident. Police tried to calm down the offender, who would not apologies and instead struck the traffic police. Fortunately the police officers were able to move quickly and ap-prehend the angry man who was then loaded in the patrol car and taken to the Kuta Police Station. While in Bali the offender is being held in Puri Gading, Jimbaran, Kuta. “We appeal to both local and foreign road users to be more careful and obey traffic signs, especially in Kuta which is very busy,” said Nuryana. (kmb36)

Bangli narcotics prison rehabilitates 29 drug addicts

IBP/tunikariThe brick producer in Tegal Badeng Barat village, has turned sluggish. This is due to increasingly expensive production costs and lowered demand.

Negara’s red brick business sluggish

NEGARA - Lately, the red brick busi-ness in the territory of Negara, Jembrana, chiefly at Tegal Badeng Barat village, has turned sluggish. This is due to increasingly expensive production costs and lowered demand.

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PEKANBARU - Thick smokes still blanketing part of Riau disrupting flight schedules from and to this provincial city of Pekanbaru.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics office (BMKG) said visibility in the smoke blanketed areas in the province range from 100 meters to 400 meters.

“The worst is in Dumai and Pelalawan, where visibility is around 100 meters,” head of the regional office of BMKG in Pekanbaru Sugarin said on Tuesday.

In Pekanbaru the visibility is around 400 meters and in Kota Rengan of the regency of Indragiri Hulu it is meters, Sug-arin said.He said the smokes came from neighboring province of Jambi, adding, there was no hot spot detected in Riau.

In Jambi and South Sumatra there are tens of hot spots send-ing thick smokes to the air and were blown by the winds to Riau. Riau has been widely reported to be the sources of thick smokes polluting the air as far as the neighboring countries.

Jefry Noer, regent of Kampar in Riau, said the black haze of smokes came from peat land not from forests.

“The smokes come not from forest fires but from certain fires in peat lands owned by farmers and companies,” Jefry said.

Meanwhile, General Manager of the airport of the Sultan Syarif Kasim II Pekanbaru Dani Irawan a number of flights have been delayed on Tuesday.

The condition, however, improved toward mid of the day allowing airlines to resume flight including to Jakarta, Dani said.

“All airlines have to reschedule flights in the day. Citilink, Garuda Indonesia and Air Asia resumed flight in the middle of the day,” he said.

From 2 to 7 September or for six days Citilink canceled 58 flights from the International Airport of Sultan Syarif Kasim II in four routes Pekanbaru-Jakarta, Pekanbaru-Yogyakarta, Pekanbaru-Batam and Pekanbaru-Surabaya. In West Kalim-antan, police in Ketapang are investigating reports against local community and company owners charged with setting forest on fire.

Ketapang police chief Adj. Sr. Comr Hady Poerwanto said the suspects are facing 10 years in jail with a fine of Rp1 bil-lion if found guilty.

The heavy punishment is expected to serve as a deterrent against committing forest fires, Hady said. (ant)

“The first phase of the village funds should be entirely disbursed this month,” Minister of Rural Development of Disadvantaged Re-gions and Transmigration Marwan Jafar noted on Monday.

The ceiling for village funds in the APBN-P 2015 is Rp20.7 tril-lion, which will be distributed in three stages.

The first stage of distribution will be carried out in September 2015 and would amount to 40 percent of the ceiling stated in APBN-P 2015.

The second distribution will be conducted in October 2015, and the third will be in November 2015.

“The amount to be distributed

during the second and the third stages will be 40 percent and 20 percent of the ceiling respectively,” the minister stated.

Currently, the minister noted that several regulations of the mayor and sub-district head are hampering the distribution of village funds.

“The main problem was not the central government but the lo-cal administration,” the minister remarked.

Therefore, the minister contin-ues to coordinate with the mayors and sub-district heads to overcome the delay in the absorption of the funds.

“This week, we will formulate the joint ministerial decree (SKB)

to revise all existing regulations,” the minister stated.

He pointed out that the SKB will facilitate the disbursement of funds, which is conducted by the local government.

With regard to the legal sanc-tions, the minister has coordinated with the prosecutors and police.

“Matters concerning policies cannot be criminalized. I have con-veyed it through the media and dur-ing a meeting with the sub-district heads,” he remarked.

The minister revealed that irri-gation and road development were the two priority programs for the utilization of village funds.

“The strengthening of the rural economy can vary. The local gov-ernment can develop farms and crafts and help small and medium enterprises/businesses as part of its

efforts to boost economy in the local regions,” the minister emphasized.

Earlier, Finance Minister Bam-bang Brodjonegoro stated that the village funds allocated for 2015, amounting to Rp20.7 trillion, can be maximally absorbed by the end of the year.

“In the first stage, the central government has transferred 90 percent of the funds to 90 percent of the over 74 thousand villages in Indonesia,” the finance minister noted. Minister Brodjonegoro was visiting Lola, Bolaang Mongodow District, North Sulawesi, to popu-larize the village fund policy.

The minister pointed out that the problem lies in how to optimally utilize the funds once they are al-ready transferred to the accounts of the villages.

“Of course, we will understand if

the absorption of the funds is slow because this policy is the first of its kind. This is the first experience for village heads, district chiefs, and mayors,” Brodjonegoro said.

The delay in the absorption of the funds can be due to the fact that villages have to draft budgets and projects that they will finance.

Therefore, the minister added that the Ministry of Home Affairs will organize technical training for village apparatuses in an effort to increase the capacity of village heads and financial managers.

He affirmed that the training would be conducted after the popu-larization of the village fund policy was conducted. The technical train-ing will focus on how to optimally manage the village funds and to ac-count for their usage in accordance with the law. (ant)

Government to disburse 40 percent of village funds in September

JAKARTA - Until September, the government has targeted to dis-tribute village funds amounting to around 40 percent of the ceiling set in the Revised State Budget (APBN-P) 2015.

Thick smokes still blanketing part of Riau

AP Photo/Binsar BakkaraMotorists ride through the roads blanketed by haze from wildfires in neighboring province of Riau, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Thick smokes still blanketing part of Riau disrupting flight schedules from and to this provincial city of Pekanbaru.

TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, according to revised data Tuesday, as economists warned China’s slowdown and financial market turmoil might weaken an expected recovery in the second half.

The figure was better than the preliminary estimate last month of a 1.6 percent contraction but economists said the general trend is weak.

“The details were hardly reassuring,” Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics said in a commentary. Corporate invest-ment fell 0.9 percent.

He expects growth to be positive but tepid in the current quarter.

Public investment and private residential investment were the strongest areas of growth in the April-June quarter. Revi-sions to tax laws have led many property owners to raze old houses for reconstruction, helping boost housing starts.

But other areas such as auto registrations and industrial production have been lackluster. China’s slowing growth has also cast a pall on the outlook for exports in coming months.

“We recognize the downside risk to our growth forecast, with continuing disappointing news from Asian neighbors and recent market turmoil,” Masamichi Adachi of JPMorgan said in a research note. He said he expects the economy to still recover in the second half of the year.

“In all, we continue to think that domestic demand is firming, but external demand may be weaker than we cur-rently anticipate,” he said.

Domestic demand was essentially flat in the April-June quarter. On a quarterly basis, the economy contracted 0.3 percent versus the earlier estimate of a 0.4 percent contrac-tion.

The government hopes to boost growth through inflation, but sluggish wages and exports have frustrated that effort.

Employee compensation fell 0.2 percent in April-June. Japan’s fiscal year begins in April, so public spending tends to be highest in the spring, as construction projects resume or get underway. (ap)

Communist authorities have promised to give market forces the “decisive role” in the economy, but the European Union Chamber of Commerce said the pledges were not being fulfilled and unequal re-strictions on investment remain.

China has vowed to rebalance its economy by shifting towards hi-tech industries and services and away from unproductive big-ticket investment, but worries about slow-ing growth have sent global markets into turmoil.

China on Monday lowered its official gross domestic product (GDP) growth figure for last year to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent, which was already the lowest in a quarter of a century.

Implementing change has taken on an “urgency with the economy slowing down”, European Chamber president Joerg Wuttke told AFP.

“The leadership has analysed it well,” he said, adding: “It is some-times disappointing to see how little this derives into real time action”.

In its annual report the Cham-ber said China’s “markedly slow progress” in opening up more of its economy to private companies was “very unsettling for business”.

It cited examples of restrictions on European firms operating in the country from finance and insurance to rail and automotive equipment, such as having to form joint ven-tures with Chinese partners.

The chamber called on China to drop complex “foreign investment catalogues” which control overseas involvement in its economy, in favour of a streamlined “negative list” of prohibited sectors.

“The biggest stumbling block is local protectionism, state-owned

enterprises and nepotism,” Wuttke said, pointing out restrictions on European banks opening branches in China, while Chinese institutions have been able to do so compara-tively easily in Europe.

The comments come after a huge stock market intervention cost hun-dreds of billions of dollars but failed to reverse plunging share prices, raising questions over the ruling party’s economic management.

Authorities should use the rout as a catalyst for reform, rather than “panic” over the falls, Wuttke said. “They threw money deliberately at everyone untransparently,” he told AFP.

“It would be terrible if they

would waste a crisis. The stagnation of Japan should be a warning of where China could end up.”

In its report the Chamber said that some progess had been made in areas such as streamlining govern-ment administration.

But it added that a raft of laws recently introduced on grounds of national security were “vague” and will act as a crimp on foreign firms.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) still dominate China’s business landscape, but are widely seen as inefficient, and the Chamber warned there were concerns that “meaning-ful SOE reform will not be forthcom-ing any time soon”. (afp)

EU businesses warn China over ‘slow’ reforms

BEIJING - The main European business lobby in China warned Tuesday that “slow” implementation of market reforms risks plunging the country into stagnation, as concerns mount about slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

Japan economy contracted 1.2 percent in April-June quarter

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiIn this April 22, 2015 file photo, a cargo is loaded onto a truck at a port in Tokyo. Japan’s economy contracted at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, according to revised data Tuesday, as economists warned China’s slowdown and financial market turmoil might weaken an expected recovery in the second half.

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Outside the border village of Ro-szke, around 400 migrants were at a collection point at noontime (1000 GMT), waiting to be taken a fenced-in registration area nearby. Impatience among the migrants who had crossed over from Serbia was growing, as only two buses had been sent to get them since 6 a.m. (0400 GMT).

Despite the efforts of volunteers offering water and some clothes, there were few amenities. The area was strewn with garbage and more people could be seen walking along railroad tracks in Serbia on their way to Hungary.

At Budapest’s Keleti train station, migrants were being allowed to board trains bound for Austria and Germany. In some cases, they were segregated from other passengers and told they could only enter the last carriages. The queue of people waiting to board a train to the West was backing up, with about 200 people Tuesday morning waiting for the next train.

Almost all of those passing through Hungary are hoping to reach Germany or other Western European countries with generous welfare benefits and open asylum regulations. Almost none wish to remain in Hungary, which is seen as unwelcoming to asylum-seekers and which does not have the same economic opportunities as much richer Germany.

After a stand-off with Hungarian authorities last week that saw thou-sands of migrants trapped at Keleti and elsewhere, the travelers were greatly relieved when Germany opened its

doors to the haggard and desperate people over the weekend.

Nada Mahmod, a 30-year-old from Syria, delayed her departure from Hungary because she became separated from her 14-year-old son, Mohammad Diar. Her agony ended happily with a reunion, and they boarded a train to the West. “We lost him in the forest. He went with another group. I don’t know anything about him,” she told The Associated Press before the boy was located. “Police in Hungary don’t help. Everybody else helps. Not the police.”

As waves of people have fled war, persecution and poverty, Europe has become divided between Germany and other Western European countries opening their doors to refugees and Eastern European members of the EU who have agreed to take very small numbers.

Poland, which was so far agreed to accept 2,000 refugees, has been wide-ly criticized for lacking solidarity with Germany, which has said it expects to take in 800,000 asylum-seekers this year and is able to absorb half a million per year for a few years.

Poland’s defense minister and deputy prime minister, Tomasz Sie-moniak, defended his country’s ap-proach to the crisis on Tuesday and faulted the current European plan for not having developed a thought-out strategy to handle the crisis and for pushing for EU states to accept quotas of refugees.

He called that a “road to nowhere” because it would only encourage more

people to come. He also said that Germany should not feel it has the right to teach Poland about solidarity, given that Poland was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, a mass movement that helped bring down communism in the former Soviet bloc a quarter century ago.

“I think that our position is filled with solidarity and with the vision that we will not solve the problem with such summary, hasty decisions,” Siemoniak said.

In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban was quoted in Tuesday’s edi-tion of the pro-government Magyar Idok (Hungarian Times) daily news-paper as saying that he was persuaded to deploy more workers to finish the fence along the border after an unan-nounced inspection of the barrier on Monday with his chief of staff, Janos Lazar.

The 4-meter (13-feet) high fence along the 174-kilometer (109-mile) border with Serbia was supposed to be completed by Aug. 31, but is facing delays. Defense Minister Csaba Hende, who was overseeing the construction, resigned Monday after Orban’s visit.

Now there are several coils of razor-wire stretched out along the whole border but it has been regularly breached by migrants, who usually crawl under it. The higher barrier is up only on some sections and no new completion deadline has been announced.

Hungarian police said Tuesday that they have detained more than 169,000 people for “crossing the bor-der illegally” this year, including 2,706 on Monday. In that same period, the Migration Office has received nearly 158,000 asylum requests.

In Greece, the coast guard said Tuesday its patrol vessels picked up nearly 500 migrants in 11 search and rescue missions over the previous 24 hours in the eastern Aegean Sea.

The people, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, were found in small boats near the islands of Lesbos — which accounts for nearly one in two migrant arrivals in Greece — Samos, Kos and the islet of Agathonissi.

More than 15,000 refugees and migrants are stranded on Lesbos, awaiting screening before they can board a ferry to the Greek mainland — from where they head north through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary to seek asylum in more prosperous European coun-tries. (ap)

ANKARA — A roadside bomb killed 14 policemen in eastern Tur-key after Turkish jets carried out airstrikes against Kurdish rebels and their camps in northern Iraq, state media reports said Tuesday.

Kurdish rebels were suspected of detonating a bomb in the eastern province of Igdir as a police vehicle escorting a group of customs of-ficials to a border gate was passing by, the Anadolu Agency reported. Other officers were injured in the attack in the province that borders Armenia, the agency said.

The customs officials were go-ing to a border crossing between Turkey and the Azerbaijani en-clave of Nakhchivan following the kidnapping of a group of customs officials by Kurdish rebels. The officials were released unharmed on Tuesday.

The attack on the policemen comes amid a sharp escalation of violence between Turkey’s security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Sixteen soldiers were killed in

a similar attack by the PKK on Sunday — the deadliest assault on the Turkish security forces since the renewed fighting erupted in July, derailing a peace process with the Kurds.

Earlier, Turkey’s state-run news agency said Turkish jets had carried out airstrikes against a group of Kurdish rebels as well as the mili-tants’ camps in northern Iraq. It said up to 40 rebels died in the overnight aerial operations. The airstrikes were confirmed by Firat news, a website close to the rebels.

Anadolu Agency said F-16 and F-4 fighter jets bombed a group of up to 25 PKK rebels believed to have carried out the bombing with improvised explosive devices that killed 16 soldiers near the border with Iraq on Sunday. The agency said the jets struck the rebels on their escape routes in Iraq and also targeted six rebel camps there. Anadolu said 53 planes were involved in the strikes.

The agency did not cite a source for report and there was no immedi-ate official confirmation. (ap)

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on

fence speeds up

Edvard Molnar/MTI via AP

A migrant runs after he entered the territory of Hungary by cross-ing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border as a Hungarian police car approaches at Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015.

BUDAPEST — Thousands of people seeking new lives in Europe entered Hungary on Tuesday, even as the government pledged renewed efforts to stop the human wave from the Mid-dle East, Asia and Africa with a fence on the Serbian border.

AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Pool

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, a day after Turkey’s military announced Monday that 16 soldiers were killed and six oth-ers were wounded in a Kurdish rebel attack against troops in southeast Turkey on Sunday.

14 policemen killed in bomb attack in Turkey

During the talks, South Korea reiterated its demands that both coun-tries regularize reunions, and allow separated family members to check whether their loved ones are still alive and exchange letters. North Korea wanted to focus on next month’s reunion, chief South Korean negotiator Lee Duk-haeng told reporters in a televised briefing.

Lee said the countries agreed to try to resolve the issue of separated families and hold Red Cross talks again soon.

The two Koreas remain divided along the world’s most heavily forti-fied border since the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. (ap)

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TABANAN - This Subak Museum is located at Sanggulan Village or 2 kilometers east of Tabanan town and about 4 km west of the road intersection leading to Kediri. Subak is irrigation system that can only be found on the Island of the Gods. The museum itself is established to persistently preserve the tools or knowledge about subak irrigation system.

When entering the museum, we will experience a shady atmosphere because many large trees shade the museum. The museum was inaugu-

rated by Governor of Bali on Octo-ber 13, 1981. It belongs to Special Museum highlighting the Balinese agricultural system known as subak. The museum complex consists of the main building and open building. Collections that can be seen here are such as rice cutter, plow, fish trap, eel fishing, and nets for catching dragonflies, miniature of ancient farming village in Bali and miniature of traditional kitchen. The museum is open each weekday at: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday at: 8:00 to 13:00 and Sunday is closed.

Subak Museum

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Two David v Goliath matchups, however, ended all too predictably as 97th ranked British qualifier Johanna Konta saw her Flushing Meadows joy ride ended 7-5 6-3 by fifth seeded Czech Petra Kvitova and 68th ranked American Donald Young ran out of comeback magic in a 6-4 1-6 6-3 6-4 loss to fifth seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland.

Tomas Berdych’s time in Flush-ing Meadows also came to an end with the sixth seeded Czech fall-ing 2-6 6-3 6-4 6-1 to 12th seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet.

Seven times before the six-foot, eight-inch (2.03m) Anderson had progressed to the fourth round of a grand slam but never beyond until his 7-6(5) 6-3 6-7(2) 7-6(0) victory over third seeded Scot Murray.

Murray had battled his way back from two sets down in the second round against France’s Adrian Man-narino, but could not work another miracle against the 14th-ranked, 29-year-old, who swept the final tiebreak 7-0.

“That’s obviously something that is disappointing to lose,” said Murray after watching his run of reaching 18 consecutive grand slam quarter-finals come to an end. “That’s many years’ work that’s gone into building that sort of consistency.

“Also to lose a match like that, that was over four hours, tough obviously after a couple of tough matches earlier in the tournament, as well. It’s a hard one to lose, for sure.” Second seed Federer also came face-to-face with one of the ATP Tour’s biggest hitters and coolly defused six-foot, 10-inch (2.08m) Isner’s booming serve to claim a 7-6(0) 7-6(6) 7-5 victory.

Federer held his own from the service line to thwart Isner, never losing his serve, and used his re-turning skills to derail a pair of long streaks enjoyed by the American. The 34-year-old Federer closed out the two hour, 39 minute fourth-round match by breaking Isner’s serve, ending the American’s string of 108 consecutive service holds at the U.S. Open.

His perfect scoreline in the opening set tiebreak snapped an even longer Isner streak. In 429 tiebreakers played by Isner, he had never dropped one 7-0.

“Seven-love obviously is a pretty good score against John,” said Federer. Second seed Simona Halep overcame a thigh injury, baking heat and finally big-hitting German Sabine Lisicki to also reach the U.S. Open quarters for the first time.

It was Labor Day in the United States but it was certainly no holi-

day for Halep who had to work for her spot in the last eight, needing two hours and 38 minutes under a broiling sun to dispatch Lisicki 6-7(6) 7-5 6-2 and reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals for the first time.

Waiting for the Romanian in the last eight is two-time U.S. Open finalist Victoria Azarenka, who advanced with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 win over American Varvara Lepchenko.

After a couple of days of relief, the heat returned to Flushing Mead-ows turning the fourth round clash between Halep and Lisicki into a test of survival.

After dropping the opening set Halep called out the trainer to have treatment on her left thigh and at the end of the second the players left the court when the heat rule came into effect, but through it all the exhausted Romanian was able to gut out a victory.

Her left leg heavily strapped, a wounded Halep sensed her oppor-tunity when Lisicki began to cramp in the third set and stretch between every point.

Halep, who converted 10 of 11 break chances, claimed the most crucial one to go ahead 4-2 and then held serve to break her 24th seeded opponent again and clinch a spot in the last eight.

Italy’s Flavia Pennetta returned to the quarter-finals for the fourth consecutive year easing past 2011 U.S. Open winner Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-4 6-4. (ap)

The handling problems that stymied the first part of Honda’s 2015 MotoGP season are still present in wet conditions, says Marc Marquez. The reigning world champion crashed out of second place in last weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone while chasing Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha in increasingly heavy rain.

Marquez’s title defence has been hampered by the aggressive power delivery of the 2015 Honda not suiting his riding style. His discomfort with the bike was a factor in a string of early-season errors that dropped him out of the championship battle.

A switch back to a 2014 chassis has cured much of the problem in the dry, but Marquez said Silver-stone proved work is still needed to make the bike amenable to ride on a wet track. “The floating feel-ing at the rear that we had at the beginning of the season in dry conditions, in the rain I have that feeling again,” he explained.

“In the end, I lost the rear and when I tried to save the crash I was

already flying. “In dry conditions you are able to try different set-ups but the last time I tried the bike in the wet was Austin, and then we had big problems with the floating feeling.

“The biggest problem with the floating feeling is that you don’t have any control to save the crash. “If you don’t have grip at the exit of the corner, maybe you will be slower but you will be safe because the traction control is going in.

“When you have this floating feeling, the problem is that when it comes you cannot do anything, just try to manage. “And a small mistake means a crash.”

He said Honda had now found solutions to work around the fun-damental problems in the 2015 design. “After the Montmelo [Barcelona] race we changed the chassis and we did some big changes on the bike, and then from Holland I was able to change the riding style,” said Marquez.

“The character and the prob-lems are still there, but we are able to fix them now.” (rtr)

DEL MAR, California — Jockey Corey Nakatani was thrown from his mount when it fell in the third race Monday at California’s Del Mar race track.

Tirpitz fell on the stretch turn, tossing Nakatani to the turf. The 3-year-old gelding and the jockey lay on the turf near the rail while the race finished. Track workers rushed to hold up green screens that shielded the horse and jockey from the

view of fans. Trained by J. Eric Kruljac, Tirpitz was loaded onto an ambulance and later euthanized.

Nakatani was taken to a hos-pital for examination of a shoul-der issue, according to his agent Jim Pegram. He was removed from his three remaining mounts on the final day of Del Mar’s summer meet. The 44-year-old jockey has won three riding titles at the seaside track. (ap)

REUTERS/Carlo AllegriKevin Anderson of South Africa celebrates after defeating Andy Murray of Britain in their fourth round match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York, September 7, 2015.

Anderson stuns Murray, Federer in quarters

NEW YORK - Persistence finally paid off for Kevin Anderson as the towering South African prevailed in a slugfest with Andy Murray to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Monday while another tennis giant John Isner was slain by Roger Federer.

Bike still problematic in the wet, says Marquez

REUTERS/Darren StaplesYamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy takes a corner ahead of Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, Britain August 30, 2015.

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Thomas Mueller led Germany to a 3-2 away win over Scotland on Monday as the world champions took a big step toward European Champion-ship qualification. Mueller opened the scoring in the 18th minute and claimed his second in the 34th, six minutes after Scotland had equalized through Mats Hummels’ own goal.

James McArthur pulled Scotland level for a second time two min-utes before the break, but Mueller and Ilkay Gundogan exchanged passes for the latter to claim Germany’s winner in the 54th. With two games remaining, Germany is assured of at least a playoff place and needs just one more point to assure qualification.

Also in Group D, second-place Poland routed Gibraltar 8-1 at home, while Ireland consolidated third place and boosted its hopes of a playoff with a 1-0 win over Georgia in Dublin.

The top two qualify for Euro 2016 in France, as does the best third-placed team from all the groups, while the other eight third-placed finishers enter the playoffs. Mueller now has five goals in three Bundesliga games for Bayern Munich and three goals in two qualifiers for Germany since the season began.

“It’s going well at the moment. I feel good, the ball is falling in the right place and I’m making the right decisions,” said Mueller, who has scored 13 goals and set up three more in 16 games for Germany since the start of the World Cup last year. The attacking midfielder broke the deadlock by running at the Scottish defense and firing a shot that was deflected before rolling inside the right post.

Scotland equalized when Manuel Neuer saved Shaun Maloney’s free kick only for the ball to rebound off Hummels’ chest and in. Emre Can gave the free kick needlessly away, though he atoned with his involvement in Mueller’s second goal. Scotland goalkeeper David Marshall could only parry the unmarked Can’s shot and Muel-ler was well-placed to head in the rebound. “Thomas has a run and he’s where a forward has to be. He has a nose for such situations,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said.

Neuer was beaten for a second time when McArthur lashed in a thumping shot after the German defense could only half-clear a corner.

But Mueller stepped up again, producing an intelligent off-the-ball run for Gundogan to play him through and then returning the favor for the Borussia Dortmund midfielder to score via the post. “He set it up so well there was nothing for me to do but shoot the ball into the goal,” Gundogan said.

In Warsaw, Kamil Grosicki, Robert Lewandowski and Arkadiusz Milik all scored twice, Jakub Blaszczykowski converted a penalty and substitute Bartosz Kapustka netted late for Poland, before Jake Gosling claimed an 87th-minute consolation for Gibraltar.

John Walters’ 69th-minute goal was enough for Ireland, which looked short of inspiration until Jeff Hendrick cut open the Geor-gian defense.

Hendrick eluded two defenders on the edge of the penalty area, then skipped past another challenge and squared the ball for Walters to prod home from close range.

Ireland, which next plays Germany at home then Poland away, has a five-point lead over Scotland, which plays Poland at home then Gibraltar away. (ap)

Manager Louis van Gaal’s trust has given Manchester United goalkeeper Sergio Romero confidence and the Ar-gentine is not taking his starting spot in the team for granted.

Romero, who replaced Spaniard David de Gea as United’s first choice keeper, has kept four clean sheets but was criticised for their 2-1 loss to Swansea City be-fore the interna-tional break.

“ P l a y i n g for United is a dream and if God helps me this dream will never end,” the 28-year-old Rome-r o w a s q u o t e d as saying b y A r -gent ine daily La Nacion.

“ A s I h a v e b e e n saying, I have to thank Van Gaal for trusting me. Al-though I had not done a pre-season, I started playing for the biggest club in the world.

“It’s important for

a goalkeeper to have this support because there is no rotation

between goalkeepers -- a goal-keeper starts or he is benched. They are the only two choices -- there is not a third one.”

De Gea’s failed transfer to Real Madrid will put more pressure on Romero but the goalkeeper, currently on international duty with

Argentina, is up for the challenge.

“Let me tell you, I don’t

think that the goal-k e e p e r s p o t i n United is a l r e a d y mine. I do know that I have a huge sup-port from Van Gaal

a n d h i s staff,” Rome-

ro said.U n i t e d ,

who currently sit f if th in the Premier League tab le , resume their campaign

against arch ri-vals Liverpool on Saturday. (rtr)

MADRID - Real Madrid players had little idea what the European Cup was when the record winners played their first fixture in the competition exactly 60 years ago on Tuesday, accord-ing to club great Paco Gento.

Real beat Swiss side Servette 2-0 in Geneva on Sept. 8, 1955 and claimed the first of five straight titles by beating Stade de Reims 4-3 in the final in Paris the following June.

The tournament was an ini-tiative of French sports daily L’Equipe and its then-editor Gabriel Hanot. World governing body FIFA gave their backing un-der the condition it was organised by their European counterpart UEFA.

“I must confess that we had no idea how significant the tournament would become,” Spaniard Gento was quoted as saying in an interview with Spanish sports daily As on Tuesday. “We went to play and that was it,” added the 81-year-old former left winger, who is the only player to win the competition six times.

“Nobody explained to us what would happen, neither the com-petition format nor that it was going to be something important for many years to come.

“I don’t think we really rea-lised what it all meant until we won the first title in the final in

Paris.“Then we were able to see

what the European Cup was all about. It was something inde-scribable.”

Real, the world’s richest club by income, have amassed 10 continental crowns, their latest coming in 2014 when they beat city rivals Atletico Madrid in the final in Lisbon.

Gento said he would “give anything” to see footage of the match in Geneva but as far as he was aware none existed.

“There was no television, no

videos,” he said. “I would love to be able to show my grand-children those images from 60 years ago. “Now that we see everything, I miss being able to have more of my things from that era.”

Real have been drawn in Group A of the latest edition, which was renamed the Cham-pions League in 1992, along with Paris St Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo. They begin their bid for an 11th European crown at home to Shakhtar on Sept. 15. (rtr)

THE tiny Pacific nation of Guam held Oman to a goalless draw in their World Cup quali-fier on Tuesday, rekindling their fairytale start to the Asian qualify-ing competition.

Guam showed no signs of letdown after their 6-0 thrashing away to Iran last week as they maintained their unbeaten run at home against the more fancied Oman team.

The two teams are now tied at the top of the Asian Group D standings with seven points each, although Oman has a game in hand.

Guam, with a population of little more than 170,000, had

never won a World Cup qualifier before this year with their first and last attempt to qualify for a major tournament ending in a 19-0 loss to Iran in 2000, followed two days later by a 16-0 defeat by

Tajikistan.But under the guidance of Eng-

lish coach Gary White, Guam have recorded wins over Turkmenistan and India and now drawn with Oman. (rtr)

ELBASAN, Albania — Portugal closed in on a spot at the European Championship after midfielder Miguel Veloso scored in injury time to snatch a 1-0 win at Albania in qualifying on Monday.

Both teams had hit the woodwork be-fore Veloso headed in substitute Ricardo Quaresma’s pass for the late winner. “I thought the ball was for me and fortu-nately it made it,” Veloso said.

Elsewhere, Denmark was stymied at Armenia for a second 0-0 draw in four days, complicating the Danes’ chances to secure a berth for the 2016 tournament with a top-two finish in the group.

Portugal increased its lead of Group I to 15 points. Denmark has 12 while Albania has 11, but both Portugal and Albania have a game in hand.

Portugal’s Nani hit the goal frame in the 13th minute, while Sokol Cikalleshi of Al-bania sent a shot off the bar in the 75th.

Two minutes later, Cristiano Ronaldo had an opportunity to put Portugal in front, but goalkeeper Etrit Berisha made a save. The victory came exactly one year after Albania stunned Portugal 1-0. Armenia has two points, while Serbia is in last place with one.

“After halftime our team had one of its worst matches,” said Denmark coach Morten Olsen. “We failed in the last 20 minutes. The Armenians also proved they can play. The fact they have only got two points must be a mistake.”

Portugal hosts Denmark on Oct. 8 when a draw will be enough to qualify, while Albania plays Serbia at home. (ap)

SYDNEY — Australia’s two-game series against Women’s World Cup champion the United States is in doubt after the players went on strike ahead of the last practice.

Football Federation Australia said it condemned the Profes-sional Footballers Australia’s decision to take industrial action without notice, forcing national women’s coach, Alen Stajcic, to cancel practice on Tuesday and jeopardize the matches scheduled for Sept. 17 and 20 in the U.S.

The PFA instructed the players to boycott practice, hours before negotiations on a Collective Bargaining Agreement were set to restart.

The PFA is seeking an in-crease in the salary cap at each of the 10 A-League clubs, an increase in payments for inter-

national matches, and increases in spending on wages, air travel, accommodation, and benefits for the Matildas, the national women’s team.

The men’s team was instructed to boycott sponsored community events before a World Cup Asian qualifier in Perth last week.

“It’s sad that the Matildas have been dragged into a dispute that’s primarily about the A-League,” the FFA said in a statement. “The offer to the Matildas would basi-cally double their pay over the next four years.”

The FFA said it had “opened the books” to show the PFA what it could afford and would “continue to pursue an agreement that’s sensible and protects the interests of the game.”

Players’ union chief executive Adam Vivian said the players had been left with little option but to

take action.“FFA has failed to recognize

the significant sacrifices the Mat-ildas players are forced to make in playing for their country,” Vivian said. “The players have sought to have their contribution to the game respected.” Goal-keeper Lydia Williams said the players were united in taking the industrial action.

“This was an extremely diffi-cult decision to make,” Williams said. “For the past two months the players have been unpaid and have made every attempt to reach an agreement that gives the women’s game a platform for growth.

“This is about the future of Australian football. We want to establish football as the sport of choice for Australian women, and we want to be one of the best nations in the world.” (ap)

European Cup? We didn’t know what it was, Gento says

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Paco Gento

Australia women’s team goes on strike before American tour

Van Gaal’s trust gives me confidence, says Romero

Portugal beats Albania 1-0 in Euro 2016 qualifying

Action Images via Reuters / John Sibley

Manchester United’s Sergio Romero

Mueller leads Germany to 3-2 win over Scotland in qualifier

REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

Germany’s Thomas Mueller falls over Poland’s Maciej Rybus during their Euro 2016 qualification match in Frankfurt, Germany, September 4, 2015.

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Thomas Mueller led Germany to a 3-2 away win over Scotland on Monday as the world champions took a big step toward European Champion-ship qualification. Mueller opened the scoring in the 18th minute and claimed his second in the 34th, six minutes after Scotland had equalized through Mats Hummels’ own goal.

James McArthur pulled Scotland level for a second time two min-utes before the break, but Mueller and Ilkay Gundogan exchanged passes for the latter to claim Germany’s winner in the 54th. With two games remaining, Germany is assured of at least a playoff place and needs just one more point to assure qualification.

Also in Group D, second-place Poland routed Gibraltar 8-1 at home, while Ireland consolidated third place and boosted its hopes of a playoff with a 1-0 win over Georgia in Dublin.

The top two qualify for Euro 2016 in France, as does the best third-placed team from all the groups, while the other eight third-placed finishers enter the playoffs. Mueller now has five goals in three Bundesliga games for Bayern Munich and three goals in two qualifiers for Germany since the season began.

“It’s going well at the moment. I feel good, the ball is falling in the right place and I’m making the right decisions,” said Mueller, who has scored 13 goals and set up three more in 16 games for Germany since the start of the World Cup last year. The attacking midfielder broke the deadlock by running at the Scottish defense and firing a shot that was deflected before rolling inside the right post.

Scotland equalized when Manuel Neuer saved Shaun Maloney’s free kick only for the ball to rebound off Hummels’ chest and in. Emre Can gave the free kick needlessly away, though he atoned with his involvement in Mueller’s second goal. Scotland goalkeeper David Marshall could only parry the unmarked Can’s shot and Muel-ler was well-placed to head in the rebound. “Thomas has a run and he’s where a forward has to be. He has a nose for such situations,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said.

Neuer was beaten for a second time when McArthur lashed in a thumping shot after the German defense could only half-clear a corner.

But Mueller stepped up again, producing an intelligent off-the-ball run for Gundogan to play him through and then returning the favor for the Borussia Dortmund midfielder to score via the post. “He set it up so well there was nothing for me to do but shoot the ball into the goal,” Gundogan said.

In Warsaw, Kamil Grosicki, Robert Lewandowski and Arkadiusz Milik all scored twice, Jakub Blaszczykowski converted a penalty and substitute Bartosz Kapustka netted late for Poland, before Jake Gosling claimed an 87th-minute consolation for Gibraltar.

John Walters’ 69th-minute goal was enough for Ireland, which looked short of inspiration until Jeff Hendrick cut open the Geor-gian defense.

Hendrick eluded two defenders on the edge of the penalty area, then skipped past another challenge and squared the ball for Walters to prod home from close range.

Ireland, which next plays Germany at home then Poland away, has a five-point lead over Scotland, which plays Poland at home then Gibraltar away. (ap)

Manager Louis van Gaal’s trust has given Manchester United goalkeeper Sergio Romero confidence and the Ar-gentine is not taking his starting spot in the team for granted.

Romero, who replaced Spaniard David de Gea as United’s first choice keeper, has kept four clean sheets but was criticised for their 2-1 loss to Swansea City be-fore the interna-tional break.

“ P l a y i n g for United is a dream and if God helps me this dream will never end,” the 28-year-old Rome-r o w a s q u o t e d as saying b y A r -gent ine daily La Nacion.

“ A s I h a v e b e e n saying, I have to thank Van Gaal for trusting me. Al-though I had not done a pre-season, I started playing for the biggest club in the world.

“It’s important for

a goalkeeper to have this support because there is no rotation

between goalkeepers -- a goal-keeper starts or he is benched. They are the only two choices -- there is not a third one.”

De Gea’s failed transfer to Real Madrid will put more pressure on Romero but the goalkeeper, currently on international duty with

Argentina, is up for the challenge.

“Let me tell you, I don’t

think that the goal-k e e p e r s p o t i n United is a l r e a d y mine. I do know that I have a huge sup-port from Van Gaal

a n d h i s staff,” Rome-

ro said.U n i t e d ,

who currently sit f if th in the Premier League tab le , resume their campaign

against arch ri-vals Liverpool on Saturday. (rtr)

MADRID - Real Madrid players had little idea what the European Cup was when the record winners played their first fixture in the competition exactly 60 years ago on Tuesday, accord-ing to club great Paco Gento.

Real beat Swiss side Servette 2-0 in Geneva on Sept. 8, 1955 and claimed the first of five straight titles by beating Stade de Reims 4-3 in the final in Paris the following June.

The tournament was an ini-tiative of French sports daily L’Equipe and its then-editor Gabriel Hanot. World governing body FIFA gave their backing un-der the condition it was organised by their European counterpart UEFA.

“I must confess that we had no idea how significant the tournament would become,” Spaniard Gento was quoted as saying in an interview with Spanish sports daily As on Tuesday. “We went to play and that was it,” added the 81-year-old former left winger, who is the only player to win the competition six times.

“Nobody explained to us what would happen, neither the com-petition format nor that it was going to be something important for many years to come.

“I don’t think we really rea-lised what it all meant until we won the first title in the final in

Paris.“Then we were able to see

what the European Cup was all about. It was something inde-scribable.”

Real, the world’s richest club by income, have amassed 10 continental crowns, their latest coming in 2014 when they beat city rivals Atletico Madrid in the final in Lisbon.

Gento said he would “give anything” to see footage of the match in Geneva but as far as he was aware none existed.

“There was no television, no

videos,” he said. “I would love to be able to show my grand-children those images from 60 years ago. “Now that we see everything, I miss being able to have more of my things from that era.”

Real have been drawn in Group A of the latest edition, which was renamed the Cham-pions League in 1992, along with Paris St Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo. They begin their bid for an 11th European crown at home to Shakhtar on Sept. 15. (rtr)

THE tiny Pacific nation of Guam held Oman to a goalless draw in their World Cup quali-fier on Tuesday, rekindling their fairytale start to the Asian qualify-ing competition.

Guam showed no signs of letdown after their 6-0 thrashing away to Iran last week as they maintained their unbeaten run at home against the more fancied Oman team.

The two teams are now tied at the top of the Asian Group D standings with seven points each, although Oman has a game in hand.

Guam, with a population of little more than 170,000, had

never won a World Cup qualifier before this year with their first and last attempt to qualify for a major tournament ending in a 19-0 loss to Iran in 2000, followed two days later by a 16-0 defeat by

Tajikistan.But under the guidance of Eng-

lish coach Gary White, Guam have recorded wins over Turkmenistan and India and now drawn with Oman. (rtr)

ELBASAN, Albania — Portugal closed in on a spot at the European Championship after midfielder Miguel Veloso scored in injury time to snatch a 1-0 win at Albania in qualifying on Monday.

Both teams had hit the woodwork be-fore Veloso headed in substitute Ricardo Quaresma’s pass for the late winner. “I thought the ball was for me and fortu-nately it made it,” Veloso said.

Elsewhere, Denmark was stymied at Armenia for a second 0-0 draw in four days, complicating the Danes’ chances to secure a berth for the 2016 tournament with a top-two finish in the group.

Portugal increased its lead of Group I to 15 points. Denmark has 12 while Albania has 11, but both Portugal and Albania have a game in hand.

Portugal’s Nani hit the goal frame in the 13th minute, while Sokol Cikalleshi of Al-bania sent a shot off the bar in the 75th.

Two minutes later, Cristiano Ronaldo had an opportunity to put Portugal in front, but goalkeeper Etrit Berisha made a save. The victory came exactly one year after Albania stunned Portugal 1-0. Armenia has two points, while Serbia is in last place with one.

“After halftime our team had one of its worst matches,” said Denmark coach Morten Olsen. “We failed in the last 20 minutes. The Armenians also proved they can play. The fact they have only got two points must be a mistake.”

Portugal hosts Denmark on Oct. 8 when a draw will be enough to qualify, while Albania plays Serbia at home. (ap)

SYDNEY — Australia’s two-game series against Women’s World Cup champion the United States is in doubt after the players went on strike ahead of the last practice.

Football Federation Australia said it condemned the Profes-sional Footballers Australia’s decision to take industrial action without notice, forcing national women’s coach, Alen Stajcic, to cancel practice on Tuesday and jeopardize the matches scheduled for Sept. 17 and 20 in the U.S.

The PFA instructed the players to boycott practice, hours before negotiations on a Collective Bargaining Agreement were set to restart.

The PFA is seeking an in-crease in the salary cap at each of the 10 A-League clubs, an increase in payments for inter-

national matches, and increases in spending on wages, air travel, accommodation, and benefits for the Matildas, the national women’s team.

The men’s team was instructed to boycott sponsored community events before a World Cup Asian qualifier in Perth last week.

“It’s sad that the Matildas have been dragged into a dispute that’s primarily about the A-League,” the FFA said in a statement. “The offer to the Matildas would basi-cally double their pay over the next four years.”

The FFA said it had “opened the books” to show the PFA what it could afford and would “continue to pursue an agreement that’s sensible and protects the interests of the game.”

Players’ union chief executive Adam Vivian said the players had been left with little option but to

take action.“FFA has failed to recognize

the significant sacrifices the Mat-ildas players are forced to make in playing for their country,” Vivian said. “The players have sought to have their contribution to the game respected.” Goal-keeper Lydia Williams said the players were united in taking the industrial action.

“This was an extremely diffi-cult decision to make,” Williams said. “For the past two months the players have been unpaid and have made every attempt to reach an agreement that gives the women’s game a platform for growth.

“This is about the future of Australian football. We want to establish football as the sport of choice for Australian women, and we want to be one of the best nations in the world.” (ap)

European Cup? We didn’t know what it was, Gento says

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Paco Gento

Australia women’s team goes on strike before American tour

Van Gaal’s trust gives me confidence, says Romero

Portugal beats Albania 1-0 in Euro 2016 qualifying

Action Images via Reuters / John Sibley

Manchester United’s Sergio Romero

Mueller leads Germany to 3-2 win over Scotland in qualifier

REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

Germany’s Thomas Mueller falls over Poland’s Maciej Rybus during their Euro 2016 qualification match in Frankfurt, Germany, September 4, 2015.

Spirited Guam hold Oman in World Cup qualifier

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TABANAN - This Subak Museum is located at Sanggulan Village or 2 kilometers east of Tabanan town and about 4 km west of the road intersection leading to Kediri. Subak is irrigation system that can only be found on the Island of the Gods. The museum itself is established to persistently preserve the tools or knowledge about subak irrigation system.

When entering the museum, we will experience a shady atmosphere because many large trees shade the museum. The museum was inaugu-

rated by Governor of Bali on Octo-ber 13, 1981. It belongs to Special Museum highlighting the Balinese agricultural system known as subak. The museum complex consists of the main building and open building. Collections that can be seen here are such as rice cutter, plow, fish trap, eel fishing, and nets for catching dragonflies, miniature of ancient farming village in Bali and miniature of traditional kitchen. The museum is open each weekday at: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday at: 8:00 to 13:00 and Sunday is closed.

Subak Museum

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Two David v Goliath matchups, however, ended all too predictably as 97th ranked British qualifier Johanna Konta saw her Flushing Meadows joy ride ended 7-5 6-3 by fifth seeded Czech Petra Kvitova and 68th ranked American Donald Young ran out of comeback magic in a 6-4 1-6 6-3 6-4 loss to fifth seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland.

Tomas Berdych’s time in Flush-ing Meadows also came to an end with the sixth seeded Czech fall-ing 2-6 6-3 6-4 6-1 to 12th seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet.

Seven times before the six-foot, eight-inch (2.03m) Anderson had progressed to the fourth round of a grand slam but never beyond until his 7-6(5) 6-3 6-7(2) 7-6(0) victory over third seeded Scot Murray.

Murray had battled his way back from two sets down in the second round against France’s Adrian Man-narino, but could not work another miracle against the 14th-ranked, 29-year-old, who swept the final tiebreak 7-0.

“That’s obviously something that is disappointing to lose,” said Murray after watching his run of reaching 18 consecutive grand slam quarter-finals come to an end. “That’s many years’ work that’s gone into building that sort of consistency.

“Also to lose a match like that, that was over four hours, tough obviously after a couple of tough matches earlier in the tournament, as well. It’s a hard one to lose, for sure.” Second seed Federer also came face-to-face with one of the ATP Tour’s biggest hitters and coolly defused six-foot, 10-inch (2.08m) Isner’s booming serve to claim a 7-6(0) 7-6(6) 7-5 victory.

Federer held his own from the service line to thwart Isner, never losing his serve, and used his re-turning skills to derail a pair of long streaks enjoyed by the American. The 34-year-old Federer closed out the two hour, 39 minute fourth-round match by breaking Isner’s serve, ending the American’s string of 108 consecutive service holds at the U.S. Open.

His perfect scoreline in the opening set tiebreak snapped an even longer Isner streak. In 429 tiebreakers played by Isner, he had never dropped one 7-0.

“Seven-love obviously is a pretty good score against John,” said Federer. Second seed Simona Halep overcame a thigh injury, baking heat and finally big-hitting German Sabine Lisicki to also reach the U.S. Open quarters for the first time.

It was Labor Day in the United States but it was certainly no holi-

day for Halep who had to work for her spot in the last eight, needing two hours and 38 minutes under a broiling sun to dispatch Lisicki 6-7(6) 7-5 6-2 and reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals for the first time.

Waiting for the Romanian in the last eight is two-time U.S. Open finalist Victoria Azarenka, who advanced with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 win over American Varvara Lepchenko.

After a couple of days of relief, the heat returned to Flushing Mead-ows turning the fourth round clash between Halep and Lisicki into a test of survival.

After dropping the opening set Halep called out the trainer to have treatment on her left thigh and at the end of the second the players left the court when the heat rule came into effect, but through it all the exhausted Romanian was able to gut out a victory.

Her left leg heavily strapped, a wounded Halep sensed her oppor-tunity when Lisicki began to cramp in the third set and stretch between every point.

Halep, who converted 10 of 11 break chances, claimed the most crucial one to go ahead 4-2 and then held serve to break her 24th seeded opponent again and clinch a spot in the last eight.

Italy’s Flavia Pennetta returned to the quarter-finals for the fourth consecutive year easing past 2011 U.S. Open winner Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-4 6-4. (ap)

The handling problems that stymied the first part of Honda’s 2015 MotoGP season are still present in wet conditions, says Marc Marquez. The reigning world champion crashed out of second place in last weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone while chasing Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha in increasingly heavy rain.

Marquez’s title defence has been hampered by the aggressive power delivery of the 2015 Honda not suiting his riding style. His discomfort with the bike was a factor in a string of early-season errors that dropped him out of the championship battle.

A switch back to a 2014 chassis has cured much of the problem in the dry, but Marquez said Silver-stone proved work is still needed to make the bike amenable to ride on a wet track. “The floating feel-ing at the rear that we had at the beginning of the season in dry conditions, in the rain I have that feeling again,” he explained.

“In the end, I lost the rear and when I tried to save the crash I was

already flying. “In dry conditions you are able to try different set-ups but the last time I tried the bike in the wet was Austin, and then we had big problems with the floating feeling.

“The biggest problem with the floating feeling is that you don’t have any control to save the crash. “If you don’t have grip at the exit of the corner, maybe you will be slower but you will be safe because the traction control is going in.

“When you have this floating feeling, the problem is that when it comes you cannot do anything, just try to manage. “And a small mistake means a crash.”

He said Honda had now found solutions to work around the fun-damental problems in the 2015 design. “After the Montmelo [Barcelona] race we changed the chassis and we did some big changes on the bike, and then from Holland I was able to change the riding style,” said Marquez.

“The character and the prob-lems are still there, but we are able to fix them now.” (rtr)

DEL MAR, California — Jockey Corey Nakatani was thrown from his mount when it fell in the third race Monday at California’s Del Mar race track.

Tirpitz fell on the stretch turn, tossing Nakatani to the turf. The 3-year-old gelding and the jockey lay on the turf near the rail while the race finished. Track workers rushed to hold up green screens that shielded the horse and jockey from the

view of fans. Trained by J. Eric Kruljac, Tirpitz was loaded onto an ambulance and later euthanized.

Nakatani was taken to a hos-pital for examination of a shoul-der issue, according to his agent Jim Pegram. He was removed from his three remaining mounts on the final day of Del Mar’s summer meet. The 44-year-old jockey has won three riding titles at the seaside track. (ap)

REUTERS/Carlo AllegriKevin Anderson of South Africa celebrates after defeating Andy Murray of Britain in their fourth round match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York, September 7, 2015.

Anderson stuns Murray, Federer in quarters

NEW YORK - Persistence finally paid off for Kevin Anderson as the towering South African prevailed in a slugfest with Andy Murray to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Monday while another tennis giant John Isner was slain by Roger Federer.

Bike still problematic in the wet, says Marquez

REUTERS/Darren StaplesYamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy takes a corner ahead of Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, Britain August 30, 2015.

Horse euthanized, jockey tossed after fall in Del Mar race

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Outside the border village of Ro-szke, around 400 migrants were at a collection point at noontime (1000 GMT), waiting to be taken a fenced-in registration area nearby. Impatience among the migrants who had crossed over from Serbia was growing, as only two buses had been sent to get them since 6 a.m. (0400 GMT).

Despite the efforts of volunteers offering water and some clothes, there were few amenities. The area was strewn with garbage and more people could be seen walking along railroad tracks in Serbia on their way to Hungary.

At Budapest’s Keleti train station, migrants were being allowed to board trains bound for Austria and Germany. In some cases, they were segregated from other passengers and told they could only enter the last carriages. The queue of people waiting to board a train to the West was backing up, with about 200 people Tuesday morning waiting for the next train.

Almost all of those passing through Hungary are hoping to reach Germany or other Western European countries with generous welfare benefits and open asylum regulations. Almost none wish to remain in Hungary, which is seen as unwelcoming to asylum-seekers and which does not have the same economic opportunities as much richer Germany.

After a stand-off with Hungarian authorities last week that saw thou-sands of migrants trapped at Keleti and elsewhere, the travelers were greatly relieved when Germany opened its

doors to the haggard and desperate people over the weekend.

Nada Mahmod, a 30-year-old from Syria, delayed her departure from Hungary because she became separated from her 14-year-old son, Mohammad Diar. Her agony ended happily with a reunion, and they boarded a train to the West. “We lost him in the forest. He went with another group. I don’t know anything about him,” she told The Associated Press before the boy was located. “Police in Hungary don’t help. Everybody else helps. Not the police.”

As waves of people have fled war, persecution and poverty, Europe has become divided between Germany and other Western European countries opening their doors to refugees and Eastern European members of the EU who have agreed to take very small numbers.

Poland, which was so far agreed to accept 2,000 refugees, has been wide-ly criticized for lacking solidarity with Germany, which has said it expects to take in 800,000 asylum-seekers this year and is able to absorb half a million per year for a few years.

Poland’s defense minister and deputy prime minister, Tomasz Sie-moniak, defended his country’s ap-proach to the crisis on Tuesday and faulted the current European plan for not having developed a thought-out strategy to handle the crisis and for pushing for EU states to accept quotas of refugees.

He called that a “road to nowhere” because it would only encourage more

people to come. He also said that Germany should not feel it has the right to teach Poland about solidarity, given that Poland was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, a mass movement that helped bring down communism in the former Soviet bloc a quarter century ago.

“I think that our position is filled with solidarity and with the vision that we will not solve the problem with such summary, hasty decisions,” Siemoniak said.

In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban was quoted in Tuesday’s edi-tion of the pro-government Magyar Idok (Hungarian Times) daily news-paper as saying that he was persuaded to deploy more workers to finish the fence along the border after an unan-nounced inspection of the barrier on Monday with his chief of staff, Janos Lazar.

The 4-meter (13-feet) high fence along the 174-kilometer (109-mile) border with Serbia was supposed to be completed by Aug. 31, but is facing delays. Defense Minister Csaba Hende, who was overseeing the construction, resigned Monday after Orban’s visit.

Now there are several coils of razor-wire stretched out along the whole border but it has been regularly breached by migrants, who usually crawl under it. The higher barrier is up only on some sections and no new completion deadline has been announced.

Hungarian police said Tuesday that they have detained more than 169,000 people for “crossing the bor-der illegally” this year, including 2,706 on Monday. In that same period, the Migration Office has received nearly 158,000 asylum requests.

In Greece, the coast guard said Tuesday its patrol vessels picked up nearly 500 migrants in 11 search and rescue missions over the previous 24 hours in the eastern Aegean Sea.

The people, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, were found in small boats near the islands of Lesbos — which accounts for nearly one in two migrant arrivals in Greece — Samos, Kos and the islet of Agathonissi.

More than 15,000 refugees and migrants are stranded on Lesbos, awaiting screening before they can board a ferry to the Greek mainland — from where they head north through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary to seek asylum in more prosperous European coun-tries. (ap)

ANKARA — A roadside bomb killed 14 policemen in eastern Tur-key after Turkish jets carried out airstrikes against Kurdish rebels and their camps in northern Iraq, state media reports said Tuesday.

Kurdish rebels were suspected of detonating a bomb in the eastern province of Igdir as a police vehicle escorting a group of customs of-ficials to a border gate was passing by, the Anadolu Agency reported. Other officers were injured in the attack in the province that borders Armenia, the agency said.

The customs officials were go-ing to a border crossing between Turkey and the Azerbaijani en-clave of Nakhchivan following the kidnapping of a group of customs officials by Kurdish rebels. The officials were released unharmed on Tuesday.

The attack on the policemen comes amid a sharp escalation of violence between Turkey’s security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Sixteen soldiers were killed in

a similar attack by the PKK on Sunday — the deadliest assault on the Turkish security forces since the renewed fighting erupted in July, derailing a peace process with the Kurds.

Earlier, Turkey’s state-run news agency said Turkish jets had carried out airstrikes against a group of Kurdish rebels as well as the mili-tants’ camps in northern Iraq. It said up to 40 rebels died in the overnight aerial operations. The airstrikes were confirmed by Firat news, a website close to the rebels.

Anadolu Agency said F-16 and F-4 fighter jets bombed a group of up to 25 PKK rebels believed to have carried out the bombing with improvised explosive devices that killed 16 soldiers near the border with Iraq on Sunday. The agency said the jets struck the rebels on their escape routes in Iraq and also targeted six rebel camps there. Anadolu said 53 planes were involved in the strikes.

The agency did not cite a source for report and there was no immedi-ate official confirmation. (ap)

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on

fence speeds up

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A migrant runs after he entered the territory of Hungary by cross-ing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border as a Hungarian police car approaches at Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015.

BUDAPEST — Thousands of people seeking new lives in Europe entered Hungary on Tuesday, even as the government pledged renewed efforts to stop the human wave from the Mid-dle East, Asia and Africa with a fence on the Serbian border.

AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Pool

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, a day after Turkey’s military announced Monday that 16 soldiers were killed and six oth-ers were wounded in a Kurdish rebel attack against troops in southeast Turkey on Sunday.

14 policemen killed in bomb attack in Turkey

During the talks, South Korea reiterated its demands that both coun-tries regularize reunions, and allow separated family members to check whether their loved ones are still alive and exchange letters. North Korea wanted to focus on next month’s reunion, chief South Korean negotiator Lee Duk-haeng told reporters in a televised briefing.

Lee said the countries agreed to try to resolve the issue of separated families and hold Red Cross talks again soon.

The two Koreas remain divided along the world’s most heavily forti-fied border since the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. (ap)

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PEKANBARU - Thick smokes still blanketing part of Riau disrupting flight schedules from and to this provincial city of Pekanbaru.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics office (BMKG) said visibility in the smoke blanketed areas in the province range from 100 meters to 400 meters.

“The worst is in Dumai and Pelalawan, where visibility is around 100 meters,” head of the regional office of BMKG in Pekanbaru Sugarin said on Tuesday.

In Pekanbaru the visibility is around 400 meters and in Kota Rengan of the regency of Indragiri Hulu it is meters, Sug-arin said.He said the smokes came from neighboring province of Jambi, adding, there was no hot spot detected in Riau.

In Jambi and South Sumatra there are tens of hot spots send-ing thick smokes to the air and were blown by the winds to Riau. Riau has been widely reported to be the sources of thick smokes polluting the air as far as the neighboring countries.

Jefry Noer, regent of Kampar in Riau, said the black haze of smokes came from peat land not from forests.

“The smokes come not from forest fires but from certain fires in peat lands owned by farmers and companies,” Jefry said.

Meanwhile, General Manager of the airport of the Sultan Syarif Kasim II Pekanbaru Dani Irawan a number of flights have been delayed on Tuesday.

The condition, however, improved toward mid of the day allowing airlines to resume flight including to Jakarta, Dani said.

“All airlines have to reschedule flights in the day. Citilink, Garuda Indonesia and Air Asia resumed flight in the middle of the day,” he said.

From 2 to 7 September or for six days Citilink canceled 58 flights from the International Airport of Sultan Syarif Kasim II in four routes Pekanbaru-Jakarta, Pekanbaru-Yogyakarta, Pekanbaru-Batam and Pekanbaru-Surabaya. In West Kalim-antan, police in Ketapang are investigating reports against local community and company owners charged with setting forest on fire.

Ketapang police chief Adj. Sr. Comr Hady Poerwanto said the suspects are facing 10 years in jail with a fine of Rp1 bil-lion if found guilty.

The heavy punishment is expected to serve as a deterrent against committing forest fires, Hady said. (ant)

“The first phase of the village funds should be entirely disbursed this month,” Minister of Rural Development of Disadvantaged Re-gions and Transmigration Marwan Jafar noted on Monday.

The ceiling for village funds in the APBN-P 2015 is Rp20.7 tril-lion, which will be distributed in three stages.

The first stage of distribution will be carried out in September 2015 and would amount to 40 percent of the ceiling stated in APBN-P 2015.

The second distribution will be conducted in October 2015, and the third will be in November 2015.

“The amount to be distributed

during the second and the third stages will be 40 percent and 20 percent of the ceiling respectively,” the minister stated.

Currently, the minister noted that several regulations of the mayor and sub-district head are hampering the distribution of village funds.

“The main problem was not the central government but the lo-cal administration,” the minister remarked.

Therefore, the minister contin-ues to coordinate with the mayors and sub-district heads to overcome the delay in the absorption of the funds.

“This week, we will formulate the joint ministerial decree (SKB)

to revise all existing regulations,” the minister stated.

He pointed out that the SKB will facilitate the disbursement of funds, which is conducted by the local government.

With regard to the legal sanc-tions, the minister has coordinated with the prosecutors and police.

“Matters concerning policies cannot be criminalized. I have con-veyed it through the media and dur-ing a meeting with the sub-district heads,” he remarked.

The minister revealed that irri-gation and road development were the two priority programs for the utilization of village funds.

“The strengthening of the rural economy can vary. The local gov-ernment can develop farms and crafts and help small and medium enterprises/businesses as part of its

efforts to boost economy in the local regions,” the minister emphasized.

Earlier, Finance Minister Bam-bang Brodjonegoro stated that the village funds allocated for 2015, amounting to Rp20.7 trillion, can be maximally absorbed by the end of the year.

“In the first stage, the central government has transferred 90 percent of the funds to 90 percent of the over 74 thousand villages in Indonesia,” the finance minister noted. Minister Brodjonegoro was visiting Lola, Bolaang Mongodow District, North Sulawesi, to popu-larize the village fund policy.

The minister pointed out that the problem lies in how to optimally utilize the funds once they are al-ready transferred to the accounts of the villages.

“Of course, we will understand if

the absorption of the funds is slow because this policy is the first of its kind. This is the first experience for village heads, district chiefs, and mayors,” Brodjonegoro said.

The delay in the absorption of the funds can be due to the fact that villages have to draft budgets and projects that they will finance.

Therefore, the minister added that the Ministry of Home Affairs will organize technical training for village apparatuses in an effort to increase the capacity of village heads and financial managers.

He affirmed that the training would be conducted after the popu-larization of the village fund policy was conducted. The technical train-ing will focus on how to optimally manage the village funds and to ac-count for their usage in accordance with the law. (ant)

Government to disburse 40 percent of village funds in September

JAKARTA - Until September, the government has targeted to dis-tribute village funds amounting to around 40 percent of the ceiling set in the Revised State Budget (APBN-P) 2015.

Thick smokes still blanketing part of Riau

AP Photo/Binsar BakkaraMotorists ride through the roads blanketed by haze from wildfires in neighboring province of Riau, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Thick smokes still blanketing part of Riau disrupting flight schedules from and to this provincial city of Pekanbaru.

TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, according to revised data Tuesday, as economists warned China’s slowdown and financial market turmoil might weaken an expected recovery in the second half.

The figure was better than the preliminary estimate last month of a 1.6 percent contraction but economists said the general trend is weak.

“The details were hardly reassuring,” Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics said in a commentary. Corporate invest-ment fell 0.9 percent.

He expects growth to be positive but tepid in the current quarter.

Public investment and private residential investment were the strongest areas of growth in the April-June quarter. Revi-sions to tax laws have led many property owners to raze old houses for reconstruction, helping boost housing starts.

But other areas such as auto registrations and industrial production have been lackluster. China’s slowing growth has also cast a pall on the outlook for exports in coming months.

“We recognize the downside risk to our growth forecast, with continuing disappointing news from Asian neighbors and recent market turmoil,” Masamichi Adachi of JPMorgan said in a research note. He said he expects the economy to still recover in the second half of the year.

“In all, we continue to think that domestic demand is firming, but external demand may be weaker than we cur-rently anticipate,” he said.

Domestic demand was essentially flat in the April-June quarter. On a quarterly basis, the economy contracted 0.3 percent versus the earlier estimate of a 0.4 percent contrac-tion.

The government hopes to boost growth through inflation, but sluggish wages and exports have frustrated that effort.

Employee compensation fell 0.2 percent in April-June. Japan’s fiscal year begins in April, so public spending tends to be highest in the spring, as construction projects resume or get underway. (ap)

Communist authorities have promised to give market forces the “decisive role” in the economy, but the European Union Chamber of Commerce said the pledges were not being fulfilled and unequal re-strictions on investment remain.

China has vowed to rebalance its economy by shifting towards hi-tech industries and services and away from unproductive big-ticket investment, but worries about slow-ing growth have sent global markets into turmoil.

China on Monday lowered its official gross domestic product (GDP) growth figure for last year to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent, which was already the lowest in a quarter of a century.

Implementing change has taken on an “urgency with the economy slowing down”, European Chamber president Joerg Wuttke told AFP.

“The leadership has analysed it well,” he said, adding: “It is some-times disappointing to see how little this derives into real time action”.

In its annual report the Cham-ber said China’s “markedly slow progress” in opening up more of its economy to private companies was “very unsettling for business”.

It cited examples of restrictions on European firms operating in the country from finance and insurance to rail and automotive equipment, such as having to form joint ven-tures with Chinese partners.

The chamber called on China to drop complex “foreign investment catalogues” which control overseas involvement in its economy, in favour of a streamlined “negative list” of prohibited sectors.

“The biggest stumbling block is local protectionism, state-owned

enterprises and nepotism,” Wuttke said, pointing out restrictions on European banks opening branches in China, while Chinese institutions have been able to do so compara-tively easily in Europe.

The comments come after a huge stock market intervention cost hun-dreds of billions of dollars but failed to reverse plunging share prices, raising questions over the ruling party’s economic management.

Authorities should use the rout as a catalyst for reform, rather than “panic” over the falls, Wuttke said. “They threw money deliberately at everyone untransparently,” he told AFP.

“It would be terrible if they

would waste a crisis. The stagnation of Japan should be a warning of where China could end up.”

In its report the Chamber said that some progess had been made in areas such as streamlining govern-ment administration.

But it added that a raft of laws recently introduced on grounds of national security were “vague” and will act as a crimp on foreign firms.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) still dominate China’s business landscape, but are widely seen as inefficient, and the Chamber warned there were concerns that “meaning-ful SOE reform will not be forthcom-ing any time soon”. (afp)

EU businesses warn China over ‘slow’ reforms

BEIJING - The main European business lobby in China warned Tuesday that “slow” implementation of market reforms risks plunging the country into stagnation, as concerns mount about slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

Japan economy contracted 1.2 percent in April-June quarter

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiIn this April 22, 2015 file photo, a cargo is loaded onto a truck at a port in Tokyo. Japan’s economy contracted at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, according to revised data Tuesday, as economists warned China’s slowdown and financial market turmoil might weaken an expected recovery in the second half.

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A policewoman-turned law teacher-turned-politician, Lim is the face of Singapore’s resurgent opposition that just three elections ago in 2001 had hit a political nadir. Its leader, the late J.B. Jeyaretnam who attained folklore stature in the country’s politics, had been bank-rupted after contesting a series of lawsuits unleashed by the ruling People’s Action Party. The Work-ers’ Party and another opposition group had only one seat each in the 84-member Parliament.

As Singapore heads into another general election on Friday, the PAP is set to extend its 50-year hold on power by another five years. Only, this time the inheritors of Jeyaret-nam’s mantle — Lim and her col-leagues in the Workers’ Party — are presenting the stiffest challenge ever faced by the PAP, and will likely emerge as a potent force in what has been a virtual one-party state.

“Have you seen how the PAP deals with the opposition? You need a lot of guts to come out and speak up against them,” said oil technician Voon Swee Heng, 59 at Lim’s rally last Sunday where blue party flags with the ham-mer symbol abounded. “I like to hear her talk. She flags out Singaporean issues like that of the population, train breakdowns and education. Things that concern me,” he said.

The Workers’ Party is riding an anti-establishment wave, thanks

to the disenchantment with the PAP over the rising cost of living, income inequality, restrictions on freedom of expression, and a rising tide of immigration to fill not only low-paying jobs but also middle and high-paying positions.

The frustrations have eroded the popularity of the PAP. Led by Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew (who died in March), the party established itself through an enviable track record after taking the reins of power in 1965 when Singapore became independent.

The PAP government raised standards of living by attracting foreign investors, promoting a free market, emphasizing education and running an efficient, largely cor-ruption free government and civil service. Today, the annual per capita income in Singapore is $56,287, slightly more than the U.S., mak-ing them the ninth and 10th richest nations in the world.

“Sure the key (election) issue more broadly will be about a gov-ernment and opposition movement that is able to ensure that Singapore enjoys effective and good govern-ment,” said Gillian Koh, a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. “A socially inclusive Singapore that is prosperous because it is innova-tive, and where people always feel hopeful about making progress in

their lives.”While Singapore prospered, Lee

and his successors also maintained strict controls on free speech and politics. Government critics includ-ing opposition leaders and foreign media were slapped with expensive — and successful — defamation and libel lawsuits. Mainstream local media remain controlled by the government. Some opposition leaders were locked up. Public gath-erings and demonstrations without police permit remained banned until 2000, when the rule was relaxed. Demonstrations are now allowed, but only in the Hong Lim park designated for such activities.

The party also used a unique electoral rule to its advantage -- some constituencies are contested in groups of four to six members. The opposition was hard pressed to find enough candidates to contest, and the PAP won many seats uncon-tested. But the opposition is catch-ing up as more young people throw their lot with them. In 2001, the PAP won 55 seats uncontested and 37 in 2006, but only five in 2011.

This year, for the first time in Singapore’s history, opposition parties are contesting all 89 seats at stake. The Workers’ Party, which holds seven seats in the outgoing Parliament, is fighting for 28 seats, most of them in its stronghold of eastern Singapore.

“I think it’s all very healthy. There is an aspiration for Singa-pore to be developed, in terms of its democratic processes as well. It’s very hard for Singaporeans to live in a cocoon,” Lim, 50, told The Associated Press. (ap)

BEIJING — A Chinese court publicly apologized to 19 people it wrongfully convicted of financial crimes in a rare show of contrition by the country’s authoritarian and highly opaque legal system.

The apology from the People’s High Court for the eastern prov-ince of Anhui appeared in a local newspaper on Monday. The court said it wished to help restore the reputations of the individuals, all of whom were imprisoned in 2012 on charges of illegal fundraising, or fraud.

The 19 people were accused in a single case involving China’s so-

called grey economy, which loans money to business ventures too small to obtain loans from large state banks. The court said a review of the case revealed the convictions were wrongful, but it didn’t explain why.

The convictions of the 19 defen-dants were overturned as well as the original indictments against them.

Chinese courts are controlled by the ruling Communist Party, and trials almost always result in con-victions. Wrongful convictions, in-cluding those resulting in the death penalty, are not unusual because of political considerations, reliance on confessions rather than evidence,

and pressure to solve homicides and other major cases.

Some cases have been overturned with restitution paid, but courts have hardly ever apologized.

In the Anhui case, the apology should be seen as a sign of progress in how the judicial system deals with its mistakes, said Gu Chengli-ang, a law professor at Shanghai’s Jiaotong University.

“This is a move that deserves positive affirmation. It definitely marks progress in the legal system and is a position that courts should take when there’s indeed injustice,” Gu said. (ap)

Ex-cop is face of Singapore opposition in general elections

SINGAPORE — As the day turns into night, they gather in the green field in the eastern corner of this island nation just above the equator. Some have come with foldable stools, some with picnic mats while others settle down on bare grass waving blue flags and yellow inflatable hammers. Soon the crowd swells to about 30,000, waiting to hear the star of the night’s show -- opposition leader Sylvia Lim.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanIn this Sept. 7, 2015, photo, Sylvia Lim, Singapore’s opposition Workers’ Party candidate, speaks during a rally in Singapore. A policewoman-turned law teacher-turned-politician, Lim is the face of Singapore’s resurgent opposition that just three elections ago in 2001 had hit a political nadir.

Chinese court publicly apologizes for wrongful convictions

REUTERS/Stringer A migrant worker watches a live broadcast of a military parade mark-ing the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, at his dormitory in Hefei, Anhui province, China, September 3, 2015.

BANGLI - The Bangli Narcotic Prison is the only prison in Bali specifically established to accom-modate inmates that were involved in drug cases. This prison is lo-cated at Buungan hamlet, Tiga vil-lage, Susut subdistrict. Other than serving as a place of incarceration, the prison, that opened in March 2015 is a place for rehabilitating drug addicts.

Chief of the Bangli Narcotic

Prison, Bambang Maryanto, ex-plained on Tuesday that currently there are 32 inmates being held at the Bangli Narcotics Prison who were transferred from several detention centres and prisons in Bali. Of the 32 occupants, 29 of them are currently undergoing rehabilitation in a special reha-bilitation block. “The inmates that are involved in the rehabilitation program at the Bangli Narcotics

Prison are those who only have 6 months remaining in their sen-tence,” he explained.

Maryanto said that the reha-bilitation process provided for the inmates in the Bangli Narcotic Prison involves social rehabilita-tion. During the rehabilitation process, the inmates are invited to engage in activities such as exercising, sharing, chatting and having discussions. To help cure

them of their drug addiction, the inmates are accompanied by a team of counselors from the prison and the National Narcotic Agency (BNNP), Province of Bali division. “Here, we provide social rehabili-tation -not medical rehabilitation as in the administration of medi-cine,” he explained.

He added that the inmates are scheduled to undergo rehabilita-tion for three months. If there are

inmates who do not recover within three months, their rehabilitation period will be extended for another three months. “This pre-rehabilita-tion is meant to change their mind-set from drug dependency. So far, the pre-rehabilitation of the past two months has given reasonable results. There is a trend towards the participants not wanting to use such illicit substances anymore,” he added. (kmb40)

One red brick businessmen, Made Sudi-ana, and headman of Tegal Badeng Barat, said on Monday (Sep. 7), that currently the price of red bricks in Negara is IDR

480,000 per thousand pieces, while it costs IDR 190,00 to produce just 1,000 bricks -not including molding and firing them. “So, the profit margin is very small. The raw materi-als required to make the bricks have run out in Tegal Badeng, as a consequence we’re forced to purchase them from other region,” he explained.

Wahts more, red brick producers have to compete against the light white bricks pro-duced in Java. Safari, a molding laborer of

red bricks from Tengah hamlet, Tegal Badeng Barat, said that he is paid IDR 130,000 to mold 1,000 bricks, which takes him three days of work.

“Actually this is not enough money to live on, and it has just been increased from IDR 110,000, but I have no other options than to take this job,” he said.

He hopes that he can continue to work at this job so that he can support three of nine children. (kmb)

MANGUPURA - A 49 year old American traveler with the initials CS was arrested by traffic police on Sun-day (Sep. 6), after crashing into two pedestrians on Jalan Raya Kuta. The driver did not surrender to the arrest but instead went into a rage and struck the police officers when they tried to arrest him.

Chief of the Denpasar Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Nuryana, revealed that at 7:40 p.m., the offender was rid-ing a Honda motorcycle with license plate DK 7448 OL and crashed into two pedestrians who were crossing the street in front of a women’s boutique on Jalan Raya Kuta. Victim Andy Chindra, 25, from Jakarta was staying at Hotel Central Park Kuta, suffered abrasions on the hand and a broken bone in her forehead. The other victim was a 23 three year old traveler from Taiwan, named Chiang Yu Anc Yuonne. “The Taiwanese victim however, did not suf-fer any injuries,” said Nuryana.

The alleged offender was riding southwards at a high speed and did not yield to the pedestrians. “At the time, he (offender—Ed) did not have his motorcycle headlight turned on. Possibly he was under the influence of alcohol,” he added.

The traffic accident drew the atten-tion of many people around the scene. No one dared to approach given that the offender was clearly angry. A few minutes later, some traffic cops arrived at the scene after having received a report of the incident by phone from a local resident. Police tried to calm down the offender, who would not apologies and instead struck the traffic police. Fortunately the police officers were able to move quickly and ap-prehend the angry man who was then loaded in the patrol car and taken to the Kuta Police Station. While in Bali the offender is being held in Puri Gading, Jimbaran, Kuta. “We appeal to both local and foreign road users to be more careful and obey traffic signs, especially in Kuta which is very busy,” said Nuryana. (kmb36)

Bangli narcotics prison rehabilitates 29 drug addicts

IBP/tunikariThe brick producer in Tegal Badeng Barat village, has turned sluggish. This is due to increasingly expensive production costs and lowered demand.

Negara’s red brick business sluggish

NEGARA - Lately, the red brick busi-ness in the territory of Negara, Jembrana, chiefly at Tegal Badeng Barat village, has turned sluggish. This is due to increasingly expensive production costs and lowered demand.

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Experts said the approach is on the cutting edge of a growing field known as immunotherapy, which coaxes the body to kill off cancer and may someday revolutionize oncology by ending the use of toxic chemotherapy.

The method, known as CTL019, was developed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine, which is now reporting the first long-term results on a group of 14 initial patients.

Eight of the adults enrolled in the study (57 percent) responded to the treatment, with four going into long-term remission and the other four experiencing a partial response, said the findings in the journal Sci-ence Translational Medicine.

The first person to be treated recently marked five years cancer-free. Two others have made it to four and half years with no sign of cancer’s return. The fourth was in remission for 21 months, then died of an infection following a

surgery that was unrelated to the leukemia.

“Our tests of patients who experi-enced complete remissions showed that the modified cells remain in patients’ bodies for years after their infusions, with no sign of cancerous or normal B cells,” said senior author Carl June, professor of immunother-apy in Penn’s department of pathol-ogy and laboratory medicine.

“This suggests that at least some of the CTL019 cells retain their ability to hunt for cancerous cells for long periods of time.”

Four of the patients (29 percent) responded to the therapy, for a median of seven months, but their cancer eventually returned.

Researchers first reported initial results on three adult patients in 2011, showing that two of the three had gone into remission in the first year of treatment.

Normally, the immune system tries to attack cancer but fails be-cause cancer can evade the body’s defenses.

The experimental therapy is made from patients’ own immune cells, sometimes known as T-cells, which are collected by researchers and reprogrammed to better search for and kill cancer.

They are modified to contain a protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which targets the CD19 protein found on the surface

of cancerous B cells.After the immune cells are col-

lected and re-engineered, the patient undergoes chemotherapy to wipe out their current immune system before they are re-infused with their newly empowered immune cells.

Jacqueline Barrientos, a medi-cal oncologist at the North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute who was not involved in the study, described the approach as “revolutionary,” because of its ability to wipe out CLL for years.

“This is an exciting time,” she told AFP, adding that many experts think June is likely to win the Nobel Prize someday for shepherding in a new era of cancer treatment. (afp)

Killer T-cell therapy shows promise against leukemia

In the realm of avian research, the chicks with the glow-in-the-dark beaks and feet might one day rock the poultry world.

British scientists say they have genetically modified chickens in a bid to block bird flu and that early experiments show promise for fighting off the disease that has devastated the U.S. poultry and egg industries.

Their research, which has been backed by the UK government and top chicken companies, could potentially prevent repeats of this

year’s wipeout: 48 million chick-ens and turkeys killed because of the disease since December in the United States alone.

But these promising chickens - injected with a fluorescent protein to distinguish them from normal birds in experiments - won’t likely gatecrash their way into poultry production any time soon. Health regulators around the world have yet to approve any animals bred as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for use in food because of long-standing safety and environ-

mental concerns.Bird flu has become a global

concern among researchers over the past decade because of its threat to poultry and human health, and UK researchers have been toiling in genetic engineering for years to control its spread.

People who are in close contact with infected poultry are most at risk for flu infections, and scientists are concerned about the risk for a human pandemic if the virus infects some-one and then mutates. No humans have been infected in the latest U.S.

outbreak, but there have been cases in Asia in recent years.

“The public is obviously aware of these outbreaks when they’re reported and wondering why there’s not more done to control it,” said Laurence Tiley, a senior lecturer in molecular virology at the Univer-sity of Cambridge, who is involved in the experiments.

Scientists argue that GMO live-stock could help control diseases and feed the world’s growing population. But if salmon’s arduous swim to approval is anything to go

by, their breakthroughs will be slow to come to market.

The U.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration (FDA) has been reviewing a type of GMO salmon for the past 20 years, even though the agency deemed it safe for humans in 2010. Developed by AquaBounty Tech-nologies Inc, it was engineered to grow faster than normal.

Consumer activists have pushed back hard against GMO animals for food, arguing that GMO crops, already widely used and marketed, contribute to health and environ-mental problems.

At Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, sci-entists are using genetic engineer-ing to try to control bird flu in two ways: by blocking initial infections in egg-laying chickens and prevent-ing birds from transmitting the virus if they become infected.

Two of the world’s biggest chicken breeders, Germany’s EW Group and Arkansas-based Cobb-Vantress, have funded parts of the research, though they too harbor significant reservations about GMO breeding.

EW Group is interested in re-search to learn more about how chickens respond to flu, said Jim McKay, group director for science and technology. However, the com-pany has a policy against breeding GMO animals and feels consumers are not ready to accept them in the food chain.

Cobb-Vantress, owned by top U.S. chicken company Tyson Foods Inc, has stopped supporting re-search into GMO chickens “at this time” because there is no approved commercial use, said Mitch Abra-hamsen, vice president of research and development. (rtr)

MIAMI - A cancer-killing therapy that engineers a patient’s own immune cells to wipe out chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has shown long-term success in a handful of people, a US study said Wednesday.

Glowing in the dark, GMO chickens shed light on bird flu fight

REUTERS/Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute

A baby chick, genetically modified to block transmission of bird flu, glows under an ultraviolent light, next to a chick that has not been modified, in this undated handout photo provided by Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.

The Head of the Buleleng Man-power Agency, Ni Made Dwi Pri-yanti Putri Koriawan, when met at her office on Monday (Sep. 7), said that Buleleng ranks second as the the county with the highest number of foreign workers form PRC, after Badung.

“Two foreign workers without employment permits have been repatriated by their company. Now, we note there are now 136 foreign foreign workers from China work-ing at the Celukan Bawang power plant. Originally, the submission of requests for foreign worker employ-ment permits was handled by the

central government. The extension was not able to be carried out in the county/municipal manpower of-fice. As a result, they had to submit the request for an extension to the province, whereas it should actually be handled at the county level,” said Putri Koriawan.

Koriawan explained that accord-ing to Regional Bylaw No.4/2014, the Buleleng Manpower Agency ex-amines foreign workers selectively. This includes the calculation of the power plant capacity and establish-ment capital of the Celukan Bawang power plant, relative to the number of foreign workers from China on

record. “We did not know about the new situation, because we only got involved in the case after it was inaugurated. The Foreign Worker Usage Plan (RPTKA) was also issued by the central government, while the Celukan Bawang power plant project started running in 2007,” she explained.

In anticipation of a large influx of foreign workers from the PRC, the Buleleng Manpower Agency declared that each foreign worker is required to report their full identity to the Buleleng Manpower Agency. “The foreign workers are obliged to report to the Buleleng Manpower Agency. Indeed, there is no sanction, but their foreign worker employment permits and foreign worker usage plans must be reported to us each year,” she said.

Since the establishment of the Celukan Bawang coal-fired power

plant, continued Putri Koriawan, the number of workers has grown to more than 1,300, both local and foreign workers. For this reason, The Buleleng Manpwer Agency, has coordinated with the Ministry of Labor Affairs to handle the issue of identity documents, by applying the Regional Bylaw. This is also part of an effort to protect the local workforce. “We must make our workforce feel comfortable, both in terms of health and performance. Moreover, we will be facing the implementation of the MEA at the end of 2015, which means that lo-cal workers will have to compete for job opportunities with people from all over Asia, including Thai-land and Vietnam, many of whom already speak Indonesian profi-ciently,” she added.

Meanwhile most migrant work-ers from Bali prefer to work over-seas on a cruise ships. Every year,

between 150 and 200 young people choose to work overseas rather than exploring the potential of working in the region. In Buleleng there are 50 to 90 young people choosing to work on cruise ships. “Yes, our young people prefer to work over-seas in the field of tourism, either as restaurant staff or in hotels or spas,” said Putri Koriawan.

She emphasized that the people of Buleleng prefer to work overseas rather than compete for jobs in Buleleng. She is still looking for a solution whether it be in terms of salary or job opportunities. On that account, this issue is still being discussed comprehensively with Commission IV of the Buleleng House of representatives. “We will be discussing this matter with Com-mission IV of the Buleleng House, as soon as possible and have already prepared the subject matter of the discussion,” she said. (kmb34)

DEnPASAR - Frequent traffic jams at a number of road sections in Denpasar was highlighted by the Acting Mayor of Denpasar, A.A. Gede Geriya. The City of Denpasar is looking into engineering traffic so as to diminish congestion. One street especially prone to congestion is Jalan Nusa Indah, and so after much insis-tence, the Denpasar Transportation Agency is ready to conduct a study to determine whether the city’s plan

to make it a one-way street is feasible or not.

“If we are instructed to make Nusa Indah into a one-way street, we are ready to conduct a study on the matter immediately” said the Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika.

The Transportation Agency will wait until the study is comlete before determining a course of action. “Right now we are unable to comment as to

whether it is possible or not. We are going to conduct the study first, and then will submit our findings to traffic experts, including police authority in order to determine the next policy,” said Astika.

However, in principle, Jalan Nusa Indah has the same condition as Jalan Katrangan and Jalan Kecubung that are both one-way streets. According to Astika, if one-way status is imple-mented, it will likely be similar to

Jalan Katrangan, where four-wheeled vehicles can only drive southward whereas motorcycles can still drive northward. If Nusa Indah becomes a one way street, four wheeled vehicles would only be able to drive northward but two wheelers would still be able to go south. Earlier, Acting Mayor of Denpasar, A.A. Gede Geriya, said that apart from issues of trash and the chaotic numbering of houses, another important thing that Denpasar

needs to address immediately is the problem of traffic congestion. The capital of the province has seen a surge in its population which has been accompanied by increasing numbers of vehicles.

“Present road conditions do not favor a smooth flow of traffic, so en-gineering is required. Jalan Nusa Indah in East Denpasar is one example of a street that could possibly be turned into a one-way street,” he said. (kmb12)

Buleleng tightens permit parameters for Chinese workers

SInGARAJA - The Buleleng Manpower Agency had on re-cord that about 138 foreign workers (TKA) from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were working at the Celukan Bawang coal-fired power plant. Two of them namely Zou May and Xie Ling Ling were forced to be repatriated because they did not have complete identity documents and foreign worker employ-ment permit (IMTA).

Transportation Agency conducts study about one-way traffic on Jalan Nusa Indah

Indian national Sayed Moham-med Said, cen-ter, is escorted by Indonesian

customs officers after a press

conference at the local customs’ of-fice in Bali, Indo-

nesia, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. In-

donesian authori-ties arrested the

Indian man on Sept. 5 on allega-tion of attempting

to smuggle 1.5 kilograms (3.3

lbs.) of metham-phetamine into

the tourist island of Bali.

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

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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 celebra-tion of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beauti-fully 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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KUTA - Life begins at Forty is a fitting way to describe the spirit by all the Staff and Man-agement Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas. For 40 years, the Resort & Villa concept hotel has suc-ceeded in keeping up with the tight competition of the hospitality industry in Bali. The Manage-ment has strategically made improvement to the quality of their prodcuts and services over the years.

This extremely well managed hotel has suc-ceeded in increasing their profits and surviving the ebbs and flows of time. PT. Patrajasa has also continuously created social programs for the surrounding community as part of the companies corporate vision

Celebrations of Patra Jasa Resort & Villas 40th anniversary which took place on July 7th, included a blood drive in collaboration with PMI (Nation Blood Association). Blood, medication 9 basic needs materials (Sembako) were also donated to a man in Klungkung to help alleviate

his living conditions. He also received materials needed to make repairs to the roof of his house. All of which was amassed from donations made by the management and staff of the hotel as part of their share and care policy.

There was also an “employee fun gather-ing” at the tennis courts on August 9th with the theme ‘one heart, one spirit one goal’ as in; uniting heart and spirit to reach a common goal. Everyone wore sporty clothes and joined in the fun games that included; group cheers, ‘pass the stick’, ‘balloon racing’ and ‘crazy bridge’. Everyone was enthusiastic including General Manager of the hotel, Mrs. Cok Istri R. Lahriani.

“This event is a way to strength the team spirit of the employees and inspire them to work in a more lively manner, so that Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas can continue to thrive amid the tight competition of the hospitality industry” said Mrs. CokIstri R. Lahriani in her speech.

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Head of the Bali Culture Service, Dewa Putu Be-ratha, reasoned that the disbursement process is ham-pered by Law No.23/2014 on Regional Governments.

“According to this law, grants can only be awarded to social organizations that hold Indonesian legal status. Whereas, customary villages, subaks, sekaas (troupe) and committees for culture-related development hold no legal status,” he said.

Actually, continued Beratha, grants to customary villages are particularly important to fortify Balinese culture. On that account, he hopes that Bali can be ex-cluded from the rule that requires grantees to hold legal status. Assistant III of the Bali Provincial Secretariat is said to have left for Jakarta to coordinate the matter with central government. “Now, we are still waiting,” explained Beratha.

Nyoman Parta, member of Commission IV of the Bali House, says that he had predicted that the posi-tion of customary villages will become increasingly difficult in the future. Evidently, one of the rules made under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is now hampering the disbursement process of grants for customary villages.

“This is why we had previously insisted on register-ing customary villages. Those who rejected the registra-tion of customary villages should be held responsible now,” he said.

Parta added that whatever happens, Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, must dare to disburse the grants to customary villages as well as the grants for the 174 irrigated and non-irrigated subak organizations that should be each be receiving IDR 50 million.

“The governor must now stand behind the statement that he has often put forth, saying ‘even though the sky is falling, customary villages must continue to exist. The governor must have the courage to disburse the grants for customary villages and subaks,” he said.

Special financial assistance In addition to grants, Bali’s provincial government,

through the Culture Services, also has the responsibil-ity of disbursing special financial assistance (BKK) to administrative villages, customary villages as well as irrigated and non-irrigated subak organizations. The amount of the special assistance is the same as the grant, namely IDR 200 million for each administrative village and customary village, and IDR 50 million for irrigated and non-irrigated subaks.

Unlike the grants, some of the special financial as-sistance funds have been disbursed, though not all. In this case the lack of disbursement is due the fact that not all administrative villages, customary villages and irrigated and non-irrigated subak organizations have submitted proposals to the Culture Services.

“Law No.23 only governs social grants, while the special financial assistance or BKK is not regulated so that the administrative process is still running,” said the Head of Bali Culture Service, Dewa Putu Beratha.

Data from the Bali Culture Services states that as of August 31, 2015, there are 606 administrative vil-lages, 1,386 customary villages, 1,438 irrigated subak and 1,092 non-irrigated subak organizations that have been approved to received the BKK funds. However, the funds have only been disbursed to 58 administrative villages, 141 customary villages, 77 irrigated subak organizations and 168 non-irrigated subak organiza-tions. (kmb32)

BAli’s Governor Made Mangku Pastika has ensured the people of Bali that 2015’s grants and financial aid specifically for customary village and Subak could be disbursed soon. Pastika expressed certainty on the matter after delivering Bali’s Budget Plan of 2016, on Tuesday.

“It can, it can” he replied shortly when asked about the funds.

Although this year the aid can be disbursed, he added, for dis-bursement in the future requires some adjustments, such as a Governor Regulation (Pergub) that will have to be included in the Budget of the Village (APBDes).

“A Governor Regulation is being designed by the Secretary, because without it, the umbrella

does not exist” he said.Pastika added, that funds to

Pakraman and Subak should be included in APBDes for special financial assistance (BKK) sup-plied from the provincial gov-ernment of Bali’s descent to the village (village official), of the village offices then submitted to Pakraman.

As for Bali, he added, grants have been given continuously (every year) because they are required, so the law is not in ac-cordance with the grant criteria.

“Essentially, we will con-tinue to support Pakraman and Subak, related to customs, tra-ditions, culture and religion. It should still be supported, but we should not break the rules” said Pastika.

Meanwhile, Provincial

Secretary Cokorda Ngurah Pemayun said that based on the answer recently given by Ministry of Interior Affairs, the disbursement of funds in Bali still run according to the old rules of Regulation No. 37, Year 2007 in the distribution of grants and the BKK fund. “However, next year, all should be in ac-cordance with Regulation No. 113 Year 2014 on the Financial Management of Villages,” said Cok Pemayun.

This year, every customary village in Bali is scheduled to receive funds and grants from the provincial government of Bali amounting to IDR 200 million per village, while each Subak and Subak abian (dry-land) will get IDR 50 million. According to the data of the

Bali Culture Services, as of August 31, 2015, there are 606 administrative villages, 1,386 customary villages, 1,438 ir-rigated subak and 1,092 non-irrigated subak organizations that are eligible to receive the BKK funds. However, only 58 administrative villages, 141 customary villages, 77 irrigated subak organizations and 168 non-irrigated subak organizations have received their funding.

Non-Legal EntitiesUp until now, the funds from

Bali’s provincial government to customary villages have not been disbursed. The process is hampered by regulation No.23 of 2014 on Regional Governments. In the legislation, grants can only be awarded to community organizations institutions incor-porated in Indonesia. Meanwhile traditional villages, customary villages, and Subaks have no legal status.

Member of the DPRD Bali, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana said that because the Executive, did not want to register the indig-enous villages. If they had regis-tered traditional villages, then the grants would have automatically been disbursed, without the need to deal with the issue of being a legal entity now.

“This is a mistake made by the executive branch in address-ing the Legal status villages,” he said.

Kariyasa added that the grants can still be disbursed by making a Governor Regulation. Bali must agree to register indigenous villages. (kmb32/ant)

Governor ensures that customary

village funds will be disbursed soon

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Bali’s Governor Made Mangku Pastika (middle) has ensured the people of Bali that 2015’s grants and financial aid specifically for customary village and Subak could be disbursed soon.

One hundred mostly elderly people from each country will be reunited with their relatives Oct. 20-26 at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry and North Korean state media.

The decision came after over-night talks among the Koreas’ Red Cross officials at the border village of Panmunjom that began Monday. The Koreas initially agreed to push for the reunions af-ter striking a deal last month that eased a standoff that had flared after a mine explosion blamed on Pyongyang maimed two South Korean soldiers.

The highly emotional reunions have not happened since early last year. But even Tuesday’s announcement doesn’t guaran-tee success. The rivals have a long history of failing to follow through on reconciliation ef-forts.

Planned reunions in 2013 were scrapped at the last minute because of North Korean anger in part over its claim that the South was trying to overthrow Pyong-yang’s government.

Most applicants are in their 70s or older and desperate to see their loved ones before they die. Many Koreans don’t even know

whether relatives on the other side of the border are still alive be-cause their governments mostly ban the exchange of letters, phone calls or emails.

Some foreign analysts also re-main skeptical about inter-Korean ties because of speculation that North Korea will fire what it calls a satellite to celebrate the 70th birthday on Oct. 10 of its ruling party. Similar past launches trig-gered an international standoff as South Korea and other neigh-boring countries called them disguised tests for long-range missiles. Such a launch would endanger the reunions.

About 22,500 Koreans had participated in brief reunions — 18,800 in person and the others by video — during a period of detente. None were given a sec-ond chance to meet their relatives, according to South Korea’s Red Cross.

South Korean officials have long called for holding reunions more regularly and expanding the number of people taking part. North Korea is seen as worry-ing that doing so could open the country to influence from more affluent South Korea and threaten the ruling party’s grip on power.

SO FAR this year, no grants from Bali’s provincial government have been disbursed to

any customary village.

According to the data from the Bali Culture Service, a total of 102 customary villages in eight counties and one municipality should already have received their grants worth IDR 200 million each. All custom-

ary villages have already given in their accountability reports for their grants from the previous year.

Meanwhile, 92 of the 102 customary villages listed have submitted proposals

for this year’s grants but none of these have been processed by the Finance Bureau of the Secretariat of the Province of Bali.

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VENICE, Italy — Shia LaBeouf says his new film, “Man Down,” helped him get back on track. The actor plays a traumatized U.S. Marine searching for his estranged wife and son after cataclysm strikes in the thriller “Man Down,” which is competing in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section for new discover-ies.

Despite its blood-and-guts drama, LaBoeuf and director Dito Montiel say “Man Down” isn’t a war story, but the tale of a man trying to get his son back — almost a post-apocalyptic “Kramer vs. Kramer.”

It’s LaBeouf’s second film with director Montiel, after 2006 drama “A Guide to Rec-ognizing Your Saints,” and he says the script came at exactly the right time.

“He came to my house when I was in a really low place and offered it to me like therapy, like ‘here’s a healing process so we can jump into together and get well,’” LaBeouf told reporters in Venice on Sunday.

The 29-year-old “Transformers” star has made headlines with a series of bizarre esca-pades — including yelling from the audience during a Broadway show and wearing a paper

bag on his head to a movie premiere — and has been treated for an alcohol problem.

From now on, he says he’s only working with “friends.” (ap)

Sony’s “War Room” fought its way to first place in its second weekend in release, earning $12.6 million across the four-day holiday weekend, according to Rentrak estimates on Monday. The micro-budget family drama, which cost only $3.5 million to produce, has grossed $27.9 million to date.

Financial success for faith-based films is not exactly a surprise at this point, but “War Room’s” impres-sive hold from its opening weekend

is significant.Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s

senior media analyst, attributes “War Room’s” second weekend success to heightened awareness after it nearly usurped “Straight Outta Compton” last weekend.

Also, word of mouth is strong for “War Room.” Dergarabedian said according to exit polling, 75 percent of the audience said they would definitely recommend the movie — a substantial and interest-

ing contrast to the dismal critical reception for the film.

“It’s just a great story of a film that really filled a void in the mar-ketplace, with a message that the audience could really get behind,” he said.

New release “A Walk in the Woods,” debuted in third place, behind previous champ “Straight Outta Compton,” with $10.5 mil-lion from 1,960 screens. The buddy dramedy based on Bill Bryson’s memoir starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte cost a reported $8 million to make and has taken in $12.2 million since its Wednesday opening.

The action pic “The Transporter

Refueled,” meanwhile, opened in fifth with a lackluster $9 million from over 3,400 screens. Costing only $21 million to produce, this franchise outing subbed in a rela-tively unknown actor, Ed Skrein, for star Jason Statham, who had helped the previous three films succeed.

Dergarabedian said while both films will likely perform decently in theaters, their VOD earning po-tential is great.

“Both of those movies will end up being profitable on the small screen down the road,” he said.

But, it was Pantelion’s Spanish-language animated film “Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos,” that truly

stood out among the pack, taking in $4.4 million from just 395 loca-tions over the four-day weekend. Although it doesn’t come close to the sensational $10.4 million Labor Day weekend debut of Pantelion’s 2013 film “Instructions Not In-cluded,” it does still illustrate the significant power of an underserved audience.

“Latinos represent 17 percent of the population and buy 24 percent of movie tickets. They go to the movies all the time and they go to movies as families. If we can create a film that resonates with families over a holiday weekend, it tends to do well,” said Paul Presburger, CEO of Pantelion. (ap)

‘War Room,’ Spanish language cartoon stand out at box office

LOS ANGELES — Summer blockbusters gave way to the small and highly targeted over a sleepy Labor Day weekend at the box office, with notable performances from the faith-based “War Room” and the Spanish language cartoon “Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos.”

NEW YORK — Months after de-nying their relationship was over, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt are split-ting up. Hamm and Westfeldt released a statement Monday through publicist Annett Wolf that “with great sadness” they were separating after 18 years. The couple, who never married, said they would “continue to be supportive of each other in every way possible.” The statement first appeared on the web site of People magazine.

Earlier this year, the “Mad Men” ac-tor completed treatment for alcohol ad-diction and praised Westfeldt, an actress and filmmaker, for her support, Wolf said at the time. In April, they disputed reports they were breaking up. (ap)

‘Mad Men’ star Hamm and Westfeldt split after 18 years

In this Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, file photo, actors Jon Hamm and Jen-

nifer Westfeldt attend the premiere of “Into The Woods,” at the Zieg-

feld Theatre in New York.Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

Shia LaBeouf says from now on he’s only working with friends

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Ex-cop is face of Singapore opposition in general elections

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on fence speeds up

Mueller leads Germany to 3-2 win over Scot-land in qualifier

Koreas to hold October reunions of war-divided families

SEOUL — North and South Korea agreed Tuesday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that just last month were threatening each other with war.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

South Korean Jun Joo-eul, 85, who was separated from his family during the Korean War, looks through documents for family reunion in front of messages wishing for the family reunions between two Koreas at the video meeting room for separated families at the Korea Red Cross headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015.