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Police in Lake Elsinore, where the doughnut shop is located, said they and Riverside County public health officials were investigating the leaked video, which appeared to show the 22-year-old singer and a man with her “maliciously lick” the doughnuts.

Mayra Solis, 22, a cashier on duty at Wolfee Donuts when Grande went into the store, said the singer didn’t purchase any of the dough-nuts she licked.

“She was really rude,” Solis told The Associated Press.

Earlier Wednesday, Grande said in a statement to the AP that she’s a proud American.

“I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American and I’ve always made it clear that I love my country. What I said in a private moment with my friend, who was buying the dough-nuts, was taken out of context and I am sorry for not using more discre-tion with my choice of words,” the

statement read.In the video posted Tuesday by

TMZ, Grande says “What ... is that? I hate Americans. I hate America” when a tray of doughnuts appears in front of her.

Grande said she chose to express herself as she did because she leads a healthy lifestyle and is upset with “how freely we as Americans eat and consume things without giving any thought to the consequences.”

“The fact that the United States has one of the highest child obesity rates in the world frustrates me. We need to do more to educate ourselves and our children about the dangers of overeating and the poison that we put into our bodies,” she said. “However I should have known better in how I expressed myself; and with my new respon-sibility to others as a public figure I will strive to be better.”

Asked about the police inves-tigation, Grande’s representatives

said she would not have further comment.

Dottie Ellis-Merki, a spokes-woman for the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health, said the agency was inves-tigating why the doughnuts were left out unprotected and exposed to the public, in violation of state food laws. She said investigators found no further issues at the shop on Wednesday.

“During the investigation, the manager did state they normally don’t leave donuts out like was shown in the video,” Ellis-Merki said in an email to the AP. “The em-ployee went to the back to retrieve freshly made donuts by request of the customer and left the trays out while getting other trays.”

Grande also announced Wednes-day that she would not perform at the MLB All-Star Concert on Sat-urday. She said it had nothing to do with the leaked video. (ap)

NEW YORK — The foul-mouthed cartoon characters of Comedy Central’s “South Park” have turned into television main-stays — and they’ll be sticking around at least through 2019.

Comedy Central on Wednes-day announced a three-year deal to keep the series going, with the

team of Trey Parker and Matt Stone continuing to write, direct and edit every episode. Parker and Stone started the series in 1997.

The deal extends “South Park” through a 23rd season with 304 original episodes, the network said.

A new season of “South Park” will start on Sept. 16. (ap)

RABAT, Morocco - A Moroccan regulator said Tuesday it rejected a request to sanction a television channel for broadcasting a “scantily dressed” American pop star Jennifer Lopez at a concert in the highly conservative Muslim country.

The request from Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane came after Lopez sparked controversy over her performance before record crowds at the annual Mawazine music festival in May.

Media criticised her for her “suggestive poses” and for being “scantily” dressed during a show broadcast on public television channel 2M.

Government spokesman Mus-tapha Khalfi, a member of the rul-ing Justice and Development party, strongly denounced the broadcast,

saying it was “unacceptable and goes against broadcasting law”.

Following that, Benkirane sent a letter to the High Audiovisual Communication Authority (HACA) urging it to take action.

He called for sanctions against the channel’s management, say-ing the performance had “sexual connotations” and provoked the “religious and moral values of the country”.

But HACA rejected the request, saying on its website that such ac-tions were outside its remit.

According to the Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities, HACA’s mission is to “ensure... the respect of universal principles of pluralism and information ob-jectivity, as well as the values of Moroccan civilisation.” (afp)

Morocco won’t sanction TV over ‘scantily dressed’ J-Lo

Comedy Central extends ‘South Park’ through 2019

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This image released by Comedy Central shows the cast of the animated series, “South Park.”

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Ariana Grande’s video doughnut licking investigated

CALIFORNIA - Police said Wednesday they were investigating video that appears to show Ariana Grande licking doughnuts at a shop in Southern California. Earlier, Grande apologized for saying “I hate America” in the same video.

Mahadewi, who is also a lecturer at the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua, also said that it is impor-tant that we recognize that foreign investors are keen to take advantage of opportunities in Bali and that they can easily do so by utilizing their vast networks of contacts and of course the large capital which

they have access to. This makes the playing field somewhat uneven.

Most local investors still have limited business networks and their professionalism is not optimal. However, this does not necessarily mean that local investors cannot match or even exceed the abili-ties of foreign investors to turn a

profit here. According to Eka, their remain many opportunities that are wide open fro locals, as long as the government creates a space for locals though appropriate regula-tions.

She pointed out that little things like language acquisition can make a big difference. Ideally, the govern-ment would have the courage to mandate that foreigners who wish to invest in Indonesia, especially in Bali should learn to speak Indo-nesian. “Language should not be underestimated. Actually language is what we use to communicate to sell things. If there were such a rule, the space for foreign investors would automatically be narrowed,”

she said.She added that local investors

also need the government to fa-cilitate access to banking services. Presently banks will not extend credit without proof of credibil-ity on the part of the borrowers. Therefor the government should require banks to commit to raising the potential of local investors. In the sector of Small Medium En-terprises, Eka mentioned that the government has in fact recently opened the way for SMEs to access banking services.

However, government efforts must still be made to ensure that the local community continues to grow economically. We should not

let SMEs face unnecessary setbacks that allow foreign investors to take over. “Local investors must not be suppressed. Any little effort made by the grass roots must be supported if the government is indeed serious in wanting to provide a wider space for local investors to function. We must not foreign parties take our opportu-nities,” she concluded. (kmb25)

Wales among top seeds for World Cup qualifying draw

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Tourists flocked in Ubud, Gianyar during summer holiday. The govern-ment needs to seriously protect local investors as well as nurture their

potential. To do so, the government must first be sensitive to and aware of the various problems that local investors face.

Bali tourism

Government should opens opportunities for local investorsDENPASAR - The government needs to seriously protect

local investors as well as nurture their potential. To do so, the government must first be sensitive to and aware of the various problems that local investors face. Otherwise, foreign investors will increasingly dominate Bali tourism including at the micro level. Deputy Secretary General of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, Ni Made Eka Mahadewi, recently elucidated the current situation.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2my-

radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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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 beau-tifully 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The CSR activity named “Shar-ing is Caring” is conducted con-currently in 6 major cities in Greater Jakarta, Bandung, Sura-baya, Yogyakarta, Balikpapan, and Bali and participated by all hotel units in the region such as favehotel, NEO, Quest, Harper, Aston, Alana, Kamuela as well as selected hotels like Aston at Kuningan Suites and The Grove Suite by Grand Aston.

The cleaning of the mosque is carried out by most of the hotel units in Jakarta, communally cleaning the rest rooms and ablu-tion areas in the mosque before dis-tributing sweet treats to pedestrians and street vendors in the Taman Suropati area.

At the same time, sweet treats are also given out to people who pass the Hayam Wuruk Street -

close to Istiqlal Mosque. Whilst in Bandung, sweet treats are shared in Braga Street, Pasteur, and Dipati Ukur area to the the homeless and to bikers, drivers, and people in cars who are caught in traffic jams prior to the fast breaking time. In Yogyakarta, “Ta’jil on the Road” is held in Sagan area and Ngabean, whilst for Balikpapan - Kaliman-tan, sweet treats is given at the T-Junction of BC and Rapak, in Surabaya at Taman Bungkul and in Bali at the mosques in Kuta.

The total number of sweet treats being distributed across the regions is more than 6000 packets from all of Archipelago International’s hotel units.

On the other hand, Archipelago International also visits the orphan-age Yayasan Yatim Piatu Nurul Iman Jafariah in Menteng Jaya,

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Embraces the spirit of Ramadhan with “Sharing is Caring” event

JAKArTA - During the holy month of ramadhan, Archipel-ago International as the leading hotel operator in Indonesia, is holding its annual Corporate Social responsibility (CSr) event by helping to clean the Sunda Kelapa Mosque in Central Ja-karta, and to distribute sweet treats across the region as ta’jil.

Central Jakarta to enjoy fast break-ing with the orphans. Furthermore, in Bogor, fast breaking is held in Islamic Boarding School Al Islami, Pabuaran - Bogor.

“The Sharing is Caring event is an annual event or activity that

we hold during Ramadhan. Last year, Archipelago International also held breakfasting or “Buka Bersama” with the children of a local orphanage. Routine activities like these carried out by Archi-pelago International and our seven

brands aims to share the joy and togetherness of Ramadhan, as well as strengthening the relationship between ourselves and the local communities.” Said Mr. Lukas Samali, VP of Human Resources - Archipelago International.

Around 11:20 a.m., the Denpasar Police arrived at Ubung Terminal where they spread out and targeted people suspected of selling fraudulent tickets. They also searched the be-longings of several passengers. “We arrested seven people indicted for brokering. They are being held at the Ubung Police Station for processing,” he said.

Artana confirmed that that the police have carried out similar operations several times already and in so doing have managed to arrest a total of 127 people. At this time of celebration of Galungan and Eid, police continue to pre-vent social diseases such as people comitting brokering and thuggery.

“Presently our operations are mainly tar-geting bus ticket frauders at locations such as Ngurah Rai Aiport and the harbour which will also be investigated,” said Artana.

Operation Cipkpn Agung, will be fol-

lowed by Operation Ketupat 2015 to ensure the smooth flow of people returning from Java after the holidays.“The operation will be carried out for seven days before and seven days after Eid. We have prepared per-sonnel who will assigned to predetermined stations,” Artana said.

In addition, the Denpasar Police have also prepared police service posts in tourist areas such as Kuta, Sanur and Nusa Dua. Monitoring stations have also been set up on the borders between Denpasar and Gianyar, Kuta and Ubung.

“We appeal to those coming home and traveling by motorcycles not to carry exces-sive baggage. We will also be checking the condition of vehicles and their paperwork. Most importantly, please be careful during the journey to your home village,” he con-cluded. (kmb26)

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The fish farmers in Batur Lake are worried becuase the increasing gas exhaust from the lake. If the condition continues then it will affect the fish production

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The Head of Bali Police Ronny F Sompie visited Ubung terminal during the inspec-tion near Eid Celebration

TABANAN - Homecoming season this year appears to be flowing well. However, in order to ensure smooth-ness and anticipate traffic bottlenecks, the Ministry of Transportation through Directorate General of Land Transport has issued a ban on freight operators. This prohibition is valid for ten days starting July 12, on national lines in the province of Lampung, Java and Bali, including the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section.

According to the Head of the Ta-banan Transport, Communications and Informatics Agency, I Made Agus Harta Wiguna, in accordance with rules No.SK.1364 /AJ.201/DRJD/ 2015, the regulation of traffic in the homecoming season will be effectively carried out from July 12.

“Traffic management is commenced

five days before the holiday, especially for homecoming traffic. However, since Tabanan has no departure and ar-rival stations, the focus is on the ban of freight transportation,” he explained.

In general, he continued, the regula-tion affirms that all freight whether by trailer truck or containers is prohibited from moving between July 12-July 21. Execptions are made for certain goods such as food staples which are still allowed to be transported. “The trans-portation of fuel or gas, fertilizer, milk and postal items are also still allowed to be transported,” he explained.

This rule will be enforced after co-ordinating with police authorities. “We will always coordinate with the police because the rule is run in harmony with the implementation of Operation Ketupat,” he said. (kmb28)

Freight transport stops for ten days

Bus ticket frauders arrested at Ubung Terminal

DENPASAr - Ahead of the Galungan and Eid celebrations, the Denpasar Police applied Operation ‘Cipkon Agung 2015’ at the Ubung Terminal, on Wednesday (Jul. 8). Led by Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police, Nyoman Ar-tana, the operation led to the arrest of eight people suspected to be selling fraudulent bus ticket. After being arrested they were made to sign an agree-ment stating that they would not repeat the crime in the future. According to Artana, 50 officers from the Denpasar Police and West Denpasar Police were involved in the operation. The raids targeted civilian and bus ticket frauders as a way to ensure the security and comfort of passengers at Ubung terminal, especially those going to Java to celebrate Eid.

3Friday, July 10, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, July 10, 2015

The 37th Bali Art FestivalFriday, July 10, 2015

Time Place Event

11.00 Angsoka Stage Reconstruction performances by Gong Luang Troupe, Denpasar

11.00 Ayodya Stage Drama performances by Rwa Bhineda Art Troupe, Denpasar

20.00 Ayodya Stage Drama Gong Parade by Tilotama Semarabumi Troupe 20.00 Wantilan Puppet performances by I Wayan Wija,

Gianyar 20.00 Ksirarnawa Hall Semara Pagulingan parade by Semara

Yowana Troupe and Gurnita Sari Troupe

In a typically elaborate staging -- last year he recreated a Parisian bistro on the runway -- Lagerfeld showed his first of two couture collections at Paris Fashion Week, with his all-fur production for Fendi on Wednesday seen as the highlight of the five-day fashion extravaganza.

British singer Rita Ora, French singer Vanessa Paradis and her daughter with Johnny Depp, Lily-Rose, were also featured as high rollers sat around roulette tables in the centre of the runway.

Slot machines circled the pe-rimetre of the muted, cosy room where models in sharply-cut black bobs, with bright lipstick and thickly-spread blush took to the runway in an atmosphere of the heady 1920s.

The iconic Chanel suit sported square-cut shoulders and boxy

jackets, appearing three dimen-sional thanks to a technique called selective laser sintering which Lagerfeld used to take the look into the 21st century.

The technique sees a laser aimed into space where it binds powdered material according to a 3D model, creating a solid structure.

“The idea is to take the most iconic jacket of the 20th century and make a 21st century version, which technically was unimagi-nable in the period when it was born,” Lagerfeld told AFP after the show.

“The vest is one piece, there is no sewing, it is moulded.”

The Chanel designer said the technique “widens haute couture” and would be used more and more in the future.

“What keeps couture alive, is

to move with the times. If it stays like sleeping beauty in the woods in an ivory tower, you can forget it,” he said.

“The women who buy couture today are not the bourgeoises of the past, they are young, modern women.”

The haute couture designation is protected by French law and at-tributed exclusively by the minis-try of industry to 14 houses whose clothes are entirely made by hand and tailored to each client.

Lagerfeld’s dresses had layered skirts or a high-low hem -- short in the front and long in the back -- and as seen in several other col-lections this week, grazed ankles and necklines plunged nearly to the navel.

One dress was almost entirely made out of feathers, with a gold collar.

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Model present a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2015/2016 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel at the Grand Palais which is transformed into a casino in Paris, France, July 7, 2015.

Lagerfeld gambles with 3D-printed suit in Chanel casino

PARIS - US actresses Kristen Stewart and Julianne Moore played roulette in Karl Lager-feld’s celebrity-studded runway casino Tuesday where the fashion legend used 3D printing for a futuristic version of the classic Chanel suit.

The show was capped by US model Kendall Jenner as the Chanel bride in a white trouser suit with a long bridal train.

Lagerfeld said his modern clients were also a lot richer than when Coco Chanel first started out, when mostly women from America or South America would fly to Paris to see couture collec-tions.

“Today it is private jets that transport clothes for women to try on around the globe. At Chanel we have four haute couture work-shops with hundreds of workers: they are always snowed under.

“It is a clientele which doesn’t show itself, which doesn’t come to the runway shows, they live on another planet,” said Lagerfeld.

He said his decor was inspired by “the ambiance of casinos at a time when people dressed up.”

“They didn’t appear to try and win to pay the rent at the end of the month. Today casinos are a bit more dreary because people

no longer get dolled up.”On Wednesday the indefati-

gable Lagerfeld, 81, will unveil a collection celebrating his 50 years with Italy’s Fendi, which has hailed the “longest relationship between a designer and a fashion house.”

The show will be entirely “haute fourrure” or couture fur -- a material the luxury fashion brand has never shied away from.

French film icon and ardent animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has already registered her disapproval by writing a letter to Choupette Lagerfeld, the designer’s pampered feline companion.

Bardot appealed to the cat -- who has become famous with 48,000 Twitter followers -- to “purr in the ear” of her master and save her “furry friends”.

But not even Choupette, whose every whim is usually catered to, is likely to stop the show from going ahead. (afp)

At present there are 22 subak abian organizations producing cacao in Jembrana and they have been giving and receiving training about how to create export standard products.

Director of the Kalimajari Founda-tion, Anak Agung Sidiastuti, said that the world’s best chocolate factory in France, Valrhona, has been target-ing cacao produced in Jembrana for about a year now. Valrhona became interested in the fermented dried cacao of Jembrana because the beans have been fermented well and are

UTZ certified and because the cocao farmers have consistently abided by the code of conduct (COC) over the past four years. For four years, the Kalimajari Foundation along with the KSS Cooperative have been providing assistance to the farmers, while the local government has been providing guidance and encourage-ment about how to comply with with export standards.

This export opportunity is also an opportunity to market the the positive image of Jembrana cacao in particular

and Bali cacao in general. In this case the buyer is working directly with the cooperative. According to Sidiastuti, in order to strengthen the coopera-tives position in building a sustainable cocao commodity, they need the sup-port of either th government or banks or both. Some banking institutions have already provided assistance in maintaining the certification of the cooperatives beans. This August, the cooperative will deliver 12.5 metric tons of fermented cacao bean to Val-rhona. (kmb26)

SINGARAJA - Following the recent eruption of Mount Raung in Bondowoso, East Java, residents of Buleleng have felt the impact of the blast in the form of the volcanic dust. This dust is not only found on peoples front porches and the like, but it is also blown by the wind caus-ing people to suffer eye irritation and such. Residents are being advised to were medical masks when riding their motorcycles.

As of Sunday (Jul. 5), residents started noticing dust accumulat-ing around their homes.Gerokgak subdistrict or West Buleleng area in particular is feeling the effects of the blast as they are quite close to East Java.

Pemaron village, Banyuning (Buleleng subdistrict), Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict and Sangsit village, Sawan subdistrict as well as areas around Singaraja have also encountered the fine black dust. Some motorists who suddenly found their eyes being irritated did not im-mediate realize that it was due to the volcanic dust from Mount Raung.

Last Wednesday, Managing Di-rector of Buleleng Hospital, Made Wiartana, said that the impact of air mixed with volcanic ash is very dangerous to human health. Inhaling air mixed with the fine dust, is likely to harm the health of the human re-spiratory organ. In fact, in the long term, it can contribute to respiratory infection. “Naturally if one breathes in volcanic dust without being aware of it, it can cause disruptions to breathing and even cause respiratory tract infections,” he said.

To prevent such illness, Wiartana suggests that people who need to leave their house, use medical masks to prevent dust particles from enter-ing their lungs, particularly if they are riding on motorcycle. Being in the habit of wearing a medical mask is the most effective way of prevent-ing the inhalation of the dust which apparently is originating from the eruption of Mount Raung in Bon-dowoso, East Java.

According to hospital reports, so far their have been very few people complaining of the effects of the dust. Wiartana however, cannot say for sure whether the volcanic ash has been disturbing peoples health or not, because often people will seek consultation at local health clinics before going to the hospital. “Here at the hospital, we don’t have access to accurate data. Public health centers may have a better idea of how things are looking. Preliminary data about patients suffering from respiratory infection or other dust related ill-nesses are compiled and stored at the public health centers,” he said.

Chief Executive of the Buleleng Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ketut Yasa, confirmed that there have been reports of residents encounter-

ing dust alleged to be coming from the eruption of Mount Raung. He said that they have received reports from a few village and subdisctrict officials from the western region of Buleleng. The BPBD disaster station has not received reports of dust from other regions.

“It’s true that we have received many reports from village officials about residents encountering fine black dust including from my na-tive Kaliuntu. Dust distribution very much depends on where the wind blows, and so far the dust is mostly found in coastal settlements,” he said.

Yasa added that the BPBD are still analysing the data from the reports that they have received from the public and are also await-ing confirmation about the source of the dust and other information from the National Weather Service (BMKG) and the Control and Op-erations Center (Pusdalops). While waiting for confirmation the BPBD is coordinating with relevant tech-nical agencies so as to take further measures.

“We do not want to assume that the dust is coming from Mount Raung until we hear from the Na-tional Weather Service or Control and Operations Center as it is pos-sible that the dust is coming from some other source. We are still waiting for definite information. Hopefully, residents will not fret, and we are recommending that people wear medical masks when they leave their homes so as to avoid respiratory or eye infection,” he af-firmed. (kmb38)

Volcanic dust from Mount Raung reaches Buleleng

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Cacao, one of the leading products owned by Jembrana plantation, has been interested by a French chocolate factory for a year.

Jembrana cacao beans exported to Europe

NEGARA - Cacao, one of Jembrana’s leading plantation products, garnered the interest of a french chocolate factory last year. Cacao production in Jembrana which has been UTZ certified, is considered to have an aromatic profile distinctive of Indonesia. A number of subak organizations are now starting to make improvements and joining the Kerta Semaya Samaniya (KSS) Cooperative.

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A U.S. government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity on Wednesday because the report has not been released, says Malaysia will be upgraded back onto a watch list next week when Secretary of State John Kerry launches the an-nual U.S. assessment of how 188 governments around the world have performed in fighting the flesh trade and other forms of exploitative labor.

It’s a quick improvement from 2014, when Malaysia, and neigh-boring Thailand, were among 23 countries to receive the lowest ranking, “tier 3.” Incumbents at that level included Iran, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Zimbabwe.

Malaysia’s upgrade is likely to be seen as recognition for working to identify, shelter and repatriate victims of trafficking, although widespread forced labor and worker abuses have been widely document-ed. Politically, it is sure to ame-liorate diplomatic relations as the Obama administration negotiates the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which includes Malaysia.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said Wednesday that a politi-cally motivated ranking would be a “perversion of the trafficking list.” “The deplorable human trafficking crisis in Malaysia merits a global cry for action and justice — not an attempt to sweep them under the rug for political expediency,” he said.

State Department spokesman John Kirby said the report is being

finalized and that it’s premature to speculate on what it will ultimately look like. Kirby said the depart-ment’s rankings are based on a pragmatic analysis of the best infor-mation possible, and underscore its interest in human rights.

Malaysian Deputy Home Min-ister Wan Junaidi Jaafar said his country has been doing its best to fulfil its obligations under interna-tional law. “Since the beginning of 2014 we have made tremendous ef-forts,” he told the AP on Thursday. He said Malaysia would attempt to improve further in industries such as agriculture and electron-ics. Despite the expected upgrade, Malaysia has continued to face hu-man trafficking issues throughout the past year.

In May, Malaysian authorities found abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers that contained more than 100 suspected graves as well as pens likely used as cages for migrants, shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people.

The finding followed a similar discovery earlier that month by police in Thailand, who unearthed dozens of bodies from shallow graves on the Thai side of the bor-der. The discoveries have exposed hidden networks of jungle camps run by human smugglers, who have for years held countless desperate people captive while extorting ran-soms from their families.

Phil Robertson, deputy director of

Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, said the move says more about U.S. politics than Malaysian progress. “Malaysia has little to distinguish its record on human trafficking since last year — its service to victims is poor, anti-trafficking law conceptually con-flated with people-smuggling, and protection for vulnerable migrants minimal,” he said.

Most of those who have fallen victim to the trafficking networks are impoverished refugees fleeing Myanmar and migrants from Ban-

gladesh, part of a wave of people who have fled their homelands to reach countries like Malaysia, where they hope to find work or live free from persecution.

Thousands of those refugees are Rohingya, Muslims who have for decades suffered from state-sanctioned discrimination in Bud-dhist-majority Myanmar. Earlier this year hundreds of Rohingya on boats were turned away when they tried to disembark in Malaysia.

Amnesty International’s Ma-

laysia executive director Shamini Darshni was not completely sur-prised at the news, but said the deci-sion was motivated not by human rights, but by “the value of trade this would bring.”

An upgrade “indicates the U.S.’ willingness to sidestep one of the world’s worst rights crises in the Southeast Asian region, of which Malaysia is a contributing cause,” said Darshni. “Malaysia’s anti-traf-ficking efforts have been severely wanting.”(ap)

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says he expects to be given the official mandate to form a new government later in the day.

Davutoglu’s ruling party won Turkey’s general election on June 7 but lost its parliamentary majority, forcing it to seek a coalition part-nership with one of three smaller parties in parliament.

Davutoglu said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was likely to task

him to form the government on Thursday. He said he would begin coalition-building talks with other party leaders next week. He laid down a marker for the coalition talks, saying Erdogan’s role was not up for debate.

Davutoglu’s most likely co-alition partners accuse Erdogan of exceeding his presidential powers and have made reining him in a priority for any alli-ance. (ap)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 2, 2015 file photo,Turkey’s Prime Minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ahmet Davutoglu waves to his supporters following his speech at an election campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey.

Davutoglu expects to be tasked to form new government

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Malaysian religious officers and villagers place coffins containing remains of Rohingya migrants for a mass burial ceremony in Kedah, Malaysia Monday, June 22, 2015. Malaysian authorities have given a Muslim burial to 21 human trafficking victims, believed to be Rohingya Muslim refugees, found in shallow graves in jungles bordering Thailand.

US to boost Malaysia for addressing human traffickingThe U.S. plans to laud Malaysia for improving efforts to com-

bat human trafficking in an upcoming annual report just a year after blacklisting the Southeast Asian country for failing to protect men, women and children forced into modern-day slavery.

TABANAN - The potential of regionally generated revenue (PAD) that cannot be maximally increased seems to compound the development rate to be performed by the government of Tabanan in 2016. In the discussion of the public policy on regional budget (KUA) and plafond of provisional budget use (PPAS) 2016, the potential of regionally generated revenue from 2015 only increased some IDR 7 billion. On the other hand, the regional budget of Tabanan in 2016 will be burdened by the allocation for rural fund as mandated by the Law on Village.

Chairman of the Tabanan House doubling as Chairman of the Budgetary Agency, I Ketut ‘Boping’ Suryadi, recognized that the development in 2016 is not much different from that of 2015. This happens because the revenue to fund the development does not increase significantly.

In 2015, the regionally generated revenue only amounts to some IDR 243.78 billion, and in 2016 the potential for the addition is only about IDR 7 billion so that it will totally come to IDR 250 billion more. “Through discussion with the executives, the potential of the regionally generated revenue only increases about IDR 7 billion in 2016 from 2015. In other words, the development will not be much different from the previous year,” he said recently.

Seeing this condition, this PDI-P politician from Bajera acknowledged that it is difficult for the rice barn region of Bali to be able to do the development due to lack of funds. “We hope more budget will be obtained from central government for the development either for the DAK or DAU,” he said.

However, so far he said that his party does not know yet about the amount of the DAK and DAU fund including the BKK from central government and provincial government. President will only be delivering his financial memorandum on the National Budget 2016 to the House of Representatives on next August 16.

“In the meantime, our discussion is only on the potential for increasing local revenues. We are unable to talk about the others,” he said.

If the central government has submitted its financial memorandum, then the local government has got an illustration of general allocation fund (DAU), special allocation fund (DAK) and special financial assistance (BKK) that will be received. “After that we can make budgetary adjustment in the discussion on the regional budget draft 2016,” he said.

Today, his party puts more concentrations on the discussion of the regionally generated revenue sector. In fact, all members of the budgetary agency have come down to tourist attractions becoming the largest revenue producer for Tabanan like the Tanah Lot, Bedugul and Ulundanu including Jatiluwih.

Despite the presence of a larger budget to rural fund, local government can give more concentrations on the development of infrastructure because the participatory fund is not allowed and other funds including social fund. His party can concentrate on the discussion of infrastructure, especially roads having the status. “In essence, we will concentrate more on the development of infrastructure,” he concluded. (kmb28)

DeNPASAR - Creative hands of Bantiran community, Pupuan, Tabanan, has created innova-tive product. It poses the central producer of mangosteen so that local community gets inspired to process mangosteen skin because it is known to have remarkable properties.

When met at Sunday Market, the group of community named Amertha Bantiran processes man-gosteen skin into mangosteen juice. Nengah Sucipta, a member of the Amertha Bantiran group, said that mangosteen skin is crushed and

then fermented for three weeks.First of all, the mangosteen

batter is leavened. Having been fermented, it is filtered, boiled for 30 minutes and then added with honey and palm sugar. It takes three weeks to make the man-gosteen juice.

The business commenced in 2013 was inspired by the abun-dance of raw materials of man-gosteen at Bantiran. “The raw materials are easily to get in the area. Incidentally it is also the central producer of mangosteen. In addition, the raw materials of

mangosteen are also processed to produce toffee worked on by women farmer group at local village.

“The process of making it is the same as that of Balinese tof-fee, where its ingredients consist of mangosteen, palm sugar, gluti-nous rice flour, coconut milk and coconut. The preparation is very easy,” he said.

Each month he can sell up to 500 bottles assisted by other mem-bers of the group. His marketing has penetrated the Cilacap and Jakarta areas. (kmb42)IBP/file

Juice and Toffee made from Mangosteen

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One of the damage road in Tabanan Regency.

Potential PAD revenue IDR 7 billion, Tabanan development stagnant

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KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA - A move by Indonesia to enforce rules on airlines’ finances pushed shares in Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Bhd to their biggest single-day fall as investors feared its Jakarta-based affiliate could be grounded for a lack of funds.

Indonesia’s transport ministry said PT Indonesia AirAsia was one of 13 carriers that must repair stretched balance sheets by July 31 - or face shutdown. Already hit in recent weeks by questions over accounting that the airline rejected, AirAsia shares tumbled more than 15 percent on Wednesday at one stage.

The ministry’s directive means Indonesia AirAsia, 49 percent-owned by Asia’s biggest low-cost carrier, has just over three weeks to raise at least $230 million to reverse its shareholder funds deficit, analysts said. The parent company’s stock fell by nearly $140 million on Wednesday, giving it a market value of $952 million.

The tighter scrutiny on finance is part of a concerted drive by Indo-nesia, a loss-making but key market for AirAsia, to bolster its aviation safety credentials.

“If they don’t meet the requirement, we will suspend them,” ministry spokesman J.A. Barata told Reuters.

In a statement, Sunu Widyatmoko, President Director of Indonesia AirAsia, said there is no risk to its licence to operate in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Its level of equity has “never been an issue”, Widyatmoko said, and the carrier will seek active discussions with the transport ministry.

AirAsia stock closed 12.8 percent lower while its long-haul arm, AirA-sia X, ended down 2.4 percent. The benchmark index eased 1 percent.

The focus on the Indonesia affiliate comes at an awkward moment for AirAsia, led by Tony Fernandes, one of Asia’s best-known chief executives.

While its operational performance has improved since stiff competi-tion squeezed it into a loss at the end of last year, investors’ nerves are still jangled by a June 10 report by Hong Kong-based GMT Research that said AirAsia uses transactions with loss-making associate carriers to boost its earnings. Shares have fallen by more than a third since then.

According to a person familiar with AirAsia’s strategy, speaking on condition of anonymity, AirAsia has known “for a while” that there is a need for its Indonesia affiliate to raise funds. The company has been exploring options including a stock market listing for the affiliate, tap-ping the debt market or getting existing investors to inject more cash, he said.

Despite the sharp market reaction, some analysts were sceptical on whether Jakarta can realistically enforce such a tight deadline on raising equity. (rtr)

SANUR - A total of eleven unique works of art having rich imagination by the artists of various schools are presented in a joint exhibition at the Santrian Gallery, Sanur. The exhibition entitled “The Sense” presents idealistic ideas in combination with interesting look and full of messages deserving to be observed. The Sense exhibition was opened by Mr. Raphael Devianne on Friday (Jun. 26) and lasts until August 14, 2015.

The Sense features a number of young artists wishing to present their best. Combination of idea, colors, themes and trends result in beauty representing their existence. Visually and extrinsically their works are very much de-pendent on the depth of their respective contemplation. Undeniably, their existence sources from themselves.

The eleven artists participating in the exhibition include Antonius Kho, Made Kaek, Nyoman Sujana Kenyem, Ni Nyoman Sani, Uuk Paramahita, Lekung Sugantika, Atmi Kristia Dewi, Made Somadita, Ketut Adi Candra, Tien Hong and Bambang Juliartha. In current The Sense, each artist shows off the best.

Their works pose the result of wander as high as the sense they can achieve. In other words, when the sense serves as part of the mind, then it is very difficult to have the same tendency as the others’. Each artist has its own struggle realm as well as has a style and the way to ex-press their ideas.

Related to reception of the art as the realm of mind and heart, Uuk Paramahita said that featuring the exhibition with the title The Sense becomes interesting. The title is meant to embrace the art temperament. Sense in the English has multiple meanings. “The word sense in the title of this ex-hibition is related to the context and it works,” she said.

In terms of sense, the artists can perform extensive wander in the broader sense including the wander into their inner self, namely the intellect. When daring to choose the sense as a major theme, it should be commensurate with great responsibilities anyway. Since the sense is an existential reality, and this poses a fierce, persistent and conceptual gamble when it is sent into the realm of dis-course. Anyhow, when the art—in its process—exceeds science, it has too much time, opportunity and freedom to exploit the medium, the idea, method following its trial-and-error. (kmb)

BUBUR Sumsum or Fine por-ridge is a traditional cake of Bali-nese Hindu community. This sweet porridge is the most preferred by children. It has elegant green color and a distinctive aroma. Natural green substance in use really makes this serving healthy and safe to be consumed. While, the main ingre-dients of this porridge consist of rice flour mixed with the extract of dracaena and screwpine leaf.

Dracaena leaf functions to give natural greenish color, while the screwpine will give delicious flavor and scenting aroma. This fine por-ridge is served on a small dish, and then sprinkled with grated coconut and palm sugar sauce.

Formerly, this porridge was served on a tekor or banana leaf

package. Generally, it was served when villagers organized a social work such as grandiose religious ceremony and involved the hamlet community. Meanwhile, when farmers transplanted their seedlings in the rice field, they would involve their group in a mutual assistance. Here, the members were also pro-vided with such fine porridge. At that time, it was served with other traditional cakes and accompanied with coffee drink.

In Tabanan and other regions in Bali, the fine porridge serves as one of the ritual means used in celebrat-ing the Tumpek Bubuh or ritual for cultivated plants. Along with the presentation of ritual, people will then smear the porridge on tree trunks as an expression of gratitude

for the God’s grace. Today, such fine porridge can

be found in traditional markets, supermarkets and pastry shops. However, consumer should pay a great attention to the coloring agent in use as the improper one may harm the health. In general, people are now reluctant to make it because they consider it difficult and complicated to serve.

How to make it? First of all, mix the rice flour with the extract of dra-caena leaf and salt to taste. Afterward, stir them well and evenly. At the same time prepare some warm water filled with screwpine leaf. Then, the warm water is poured into the flour and stir again. When all the ingredients have mixed well, the porridge is now ready to serve. (kmb)

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Fine porridge served on all occasionsIBP/kmb

Santrian Gallery Sanur comes with ‘The Sense’

SAN FRANCISCO — Micro-soft is cutting 7,800 jobs and writ-ing off $7.6 billion in connection with its purchase of Nokia’s phone business, as the giant software maker tries to narrow its focus and pull back from a series of ill-fated forays onto rival tech companies’ turf.

The cuts announced Wednesday come on top of 18,000 jobs that Microsoft trimmed last year, just months after the company paid $7.3 billion for Nokia in the hope of expanding its footprint in the

smartphone hardware business where Apple and Samsung are market leaders.

Three years ago, Microsoft wrote off another big sum, $6.2 billion, on its purchase of digital advertising firm aQuantive. Mi-crosoft bought aQuantive for $6.3 billion in a bid to increase its role in the online ad sector that was dominated by the likes of Google and Yahoo.

Both the Nokia and aQuantive deals were engineered by former CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought

to compete against younger, faster-growing tech companies by expand-ing beyond Microsoft’s original business of making software for desktop computers.

But Microsoft’s new boss, Satya Nadella, has been pulling back from phone hardware and digital adver-tising after seeing weak returns on those ventures. Last month, he an-nounced a deal to hand over most of Microsoft’s remaining display advertising business to AOL Inc.

Wall Street seems to prefer Na-della’s strategy of focusing on soft-

ware and Internet services. Analysts have said the Nokia business was a drag on Microsoft’s profits. After seeing a slight rise in the morning, Microsoft shares closed Wednesday at $44.24, down 6 cents on a day when a number of tech stocks saw declines.

“We believe these cuts are posi-tive for Microsoft as they help streamline the business by getting rid of non-core components,” said Mark Moerdler, an investment ana-lyst with Bernstein Research, in a note to investors.

“The new CEO has got to right the ship,” agreed David Mitchell Smith, an industry analyst with the Gartner research firm. “They were heading in some directions that needed course correction, and he’s doing it.”

That doesn’t mean Microsoft is out of the woods. The Redmond, Washington, company has struggled to adapt as consumers have increas-ingly turned away from personal computers, in favor of smartphones and tablets that run software made by Apple and Google. (ap)

Microsoft cuts 7,800 jobs as phone sales flag

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AirAsia crew members walk at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta, July 8, 2015. A move by In-donesia to enforce rules on airlines’ finances sent shares in Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Bhd skidding on Wednesday as investors fretted over whether its Jakarta-based affiliate will be grounded for a lack of funds.

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The Australian Federal Police “Operational Intelligence Report”, published online by investigative website The Intercept, said the pilots were “likely employees” of AirAsia and Premiair and came to their attention through their Face-book pages.

It said their postings “inferred support to the Islamic State (IS)” group.

“Upon review of the content from both accounts it is assessed that these persons are likely being influenced by radical elements -- at least from the online environment --- and as a result, may pose a se-curity threat,” it said.

In a statement to AFP, the fed-eral police would not comment on whether the document, entitled “Identification of Indonesian pilots with possible extremist persua-sions” and dated March 18 this year, was genuine.

“The Australian Federal Police does not comment on matters of intelligence,” it said.

“The Australian Federal Police maintains strong relationships with its domestic and foreign law enforcement partners to ensure the ongoing safety of Australians both within Australia and abroad.”

The AirAsia pilot graduated from its academy in 2010, the docu-ment said, and flew international routes including to Hong Kong and Singapore.

It said a change in his Facebook posting style became evident in September last year “wherein he started posting material indicative of support to IS”.

Around this time, he began in-teracting online with a second pilot, said to be a former Indonesian navy pilot who now works for Premiair, who “liked” his postings on IS.

This pilot had flown to Austra-

lia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, the intelligence report claimed, with recent reposts on Facebook including “extremist related articles”.

“Both appear to be influenced by pro-IS elements including extremist online propaganda by well-known radical Indonesia outlets and a sus-pected Indonesian terrorist fighter who is likely to be in either Syria or Iraq,” the police report concluded.

The Intercept said it was distrib-uted to law enforcement agencies in Turkey, Jordan, Britain, Europe and the United States.

AFP was seeking comment from Malaysia-based AirAsia and Pre-miair, a leading aviation services and aircraft management operator headquartered in Jakarta.

The Intercept has published the re-port at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2158913-pilots-re-dacted.html#document/. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s army chief of staff was promoted to head of the military Wednesday, breaking with a tradition that saw the job rotated between branches of the forces and raising concerns about the army’s growing influence.

General Gatot Nurmantyo was sworn in as armed forces chief by President Joko Widodo at a cer-emony in the capital Jakarta and replaces General Moeldoko, who had also been a senior figure in the army.

The job was expected to go to the air force chief, and the decision to appoint Nurmantyo has sparked fears about the army’s increasing influence almost two decades after it was stripped of much of its power following the downfall of dictator Suharto, himself a general.

“I think following the tradition of rotation is better,” said Hendardi, chairman of rights group the Setara Institute who goes by one name, adding that the army was getting “privileged” treatment.

He said that Widodo, known universally as Jokowi, was “playing politics” and seeking to shore up his weakened position by getting closer to the army.

The election last year of Wido-do, Indonesia’s first leader from

outside the political and military elites, fuelled hopes of a new era in the graft-ridden country but his administration has beset by crises and criticised for a series of policy flip-flops.

With the end of authoritarian rule in 1998 and the introduction of democracy, serving military mem-bers lost the right to take on senior political roles and were limited to defence roles.

Indonesia’s new leaders also decided to rotate the job of armed forces chief between the three branches of the military to ensure that none became too powerful, in particular the influential army.

But by installing an army figure as head of the military for a second consecutive time, Widodo has bro-ken with that practice.

Also on Wednesday, Widodo swore in retired army general Sutiyoso as the country’s new intel-ligence chief -- another figure with long-standing links to the army.

The controversy over Nurmantyo followed recent concerns about the rising influence of the Indonesian military in public life more gener-ally, with the armed forces signing agreements with the government to guard key infrastructure and help in the fight against drugs. (afp)

SEMARANG - Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao said he will visit a Filipina on death row in Indonesia on Friday and also plans to raise her case with President Joko Widodo.

Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death in Indonesia after being arrested in 2009 with 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds) of heroin sewn into the lining of her suitcase.

She was set to face the firing squad in April with several other foreign drug convicts but was granted an 11th hour reprieve after a woman suspected of recruiting her was arrested in the Philippines. The alleged recruiter and an accom-plice now face charges in the Philippines.

After Veloso was given a reprieve, the Indonesian government stressed the decision was only a “postponement” to allow time for police investigations.

The single mother of two young children has always maintained her innocence, claiming she was duped by an international human-trafficking gang into bringing the drugs into Indonesia.

Her case attracted huge attention in both Indonesia and the Philippines, with near daily rallies of support and celebrities including Philippine star Pacquiao pleading for her

life to be spared.Pacquiao, who arrived in Indonesia on

Tuesday, said he would meet Veloso in prison later this week.

“I will visit her on Friday,” he told reporters in the central Java city of Semarang, not far from the prison where Veloso is being held, adding he would see how he could help her.

“I’m going to meet the president on Friday, so we will see what we can do.”

Eight-weight world champion Pacquiao made global headlines in May when was beaten by Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas in what was dubbed “the fight of the century”.

Local media reported Pacquiao was also film-ing a TV advert during his visit to Indonesia.

The Indonesian attorney-general’s office could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Widodo has vowed there will be no clem-ency for drug traffickers on death row as Indonesia is facing an “emergency” due to rising narcotics use.

Seven other foreign drug convicts and one Indonesian were executed as planned on the prison island of Nusakambangan in late April, sparking an international outcry. (afp)

Two Indonesian pilots may pose security threat: leaked document

SYDNEY - Australian authorities believe two Indonesian pilots may pose a security threat after being radicalised by Islamic State, a leaked intelligence document obtained by an investigative website shows, although officials Thursday refused to confirm its veracity.

New Indonesian military chief sparks concerns

ANTARA FOTO/Regina Safri

Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao gave an autograph to a fans during his visit to Semarang, Wednesday. Pacquiao said he will visit a Filipina on death row in Indonesia on Friday and also plans to raise her case with President Joko Widodo.

Manny Pacquiao to visit death row Filipina in IndonesiaMillions of commuters jammed

buses, rented bicycles or simply walked for miles as a 24-hour strike shut down the British capi-tal’s well-known subway system and threw public transport into chaos.

Train drivers on the London Underground solidly supported the strike in a dispute over pay and schedules that take effect when 24-hour service is introduced on some lines later this year. That unanimity has made this strike more severe than previous ones in which management was able to keep a few Tube lines operating.

Business groups say the strike will cost London tens of millions of pounds (dollars) in lost pro-ductivity.

“I have to file a statement for today — I don’t know how I am going to do it. I am utterly fed up,” said distraught attorney Susan Miller, 48. “I just don’t think (strikers) have seen the big

picture here.”London’s subway system, with

4 million journeys a day, normally shuts down between midnight and 1 a.m., with the overnight shift reserved for track maintenance. While it has operated all night on New Year’s Eve, the move to have some lines running 24 hours on weekends marks a huge shift for a 152-year-old system.

London Underground’s manag-ing director Mike Brown apolo-gized for the disruption but in-sisted it was a “remarkably fair” pay offer. “This strike is unneces-sary,” he said.

Transport officials say the offer included a 2 percent sal-ary increase, a 500 pound ($770) night Tube launch bonus and an additional 2,000 pound ($3,080) bonus for night Tube train driv-ers.

Unions say management is try-ing to bulldoze new work patterns that will cause stress and wreck

the work/life balance of people in critical safety jobs.

“We’ve wasted three months in negotiations that failed to address staff concerns,” said the RMT union’s general secretary Mick Cash. The one thing everyone agreed on is that the city’s com-muters took it on the chin.

Lida Fallah-ardakani, 53, tried to attend a medical appointment she had scheduled five months ago. The journey normally takes an hour, but three hours into her trip Thursday she was still trying to get to St. Mary’s Hospital.

“I came out of the house at 6 in the morning. But I am still in the bus to the hospital and I am not sure if I can be seen,” she said. Some commuters supported the strikers.

“You have to take action some-times when you are up against the ... forces of capitalism,” said Tricha Passes, a 58-year-old uni-versity lecturer. (ap)

NEW DELHI — India’s top court Thursday ordered a federal investigation into a multimillion-dollar college admission and gov-ernment job recruitment scandal in central India said to be linked to dozens of mysterious deaths.

The Supreme Court ordered the Central Bureau of Inves-tigation, India’s FBI, to take over from the state police the investigation into the alleged irregularities in job recruitment and college admissions as well as the deaths of nearly 50 people associated with the scam.

Police have arrested hundreds of parents and students for paying bribes and officials for allegedly rigging eligibility tests for ad-mission to medical colleges and recruitment for jobs in the police force, schools and banking sector in Madhya Pradesh state.

The court also directed the Madhya Pradesh government to respond to a petition demanding the removal of the state’s feder-ally appointed governor after questions were raised about his involvement in the scandal . Gov. Ram Naresh Yadav’s son Shailesh Yadav died mysteriously in May after the younger man was alleged to have accepted bribes in the governor’s house.

Opposition Congress party leaders had been demanding a federal inquiry into the scam, accusing the Madhya Pradesh government of trying to influence the outcome of the inquiry by the state police.

Congress leader Digvijay

Singh demanded the resignation of Madhya Pradesh’s top elected official, saying Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should step down to allow for a free and fair investigation.

“Students who have been ar-rested in connection with the scam should be made witnesses for the state,” Singh said. “Isn’t it strange that hundreds of students and their parents are in jail, while those who took the bribes are roaming free,” he told reporters Thursday.

More than 2,500 people have been accused in connection with the scandal and around 1,900 of them have been arrested.

Dozens of people, either wit-nesses or accused participants in the scam, have died over the last five years in inexplicable circum-stances. Congress leaders have alleged that some top state bu-reaucrats and politicians accepted millions of dollars in bribes to facilitate the admissions.

The scandal has come to be known in India as the “Vyapam scandal,” after the Hindi lan-guage acronym for the state-run employment agency in Madhya Pradesh. For the past couple of weeks, Indian media have given wide coverage to the sudden deaths of a number of people connected to the scam.

The scandal hit the front pages of newspapers once again last weekend after the death of an investigative journalist who had gone to Madhya Pradesh to speak with witnesses. (ap)

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

During a 24 hour London underground train strike, people queue up for buses in London, Thursday, July 9, 2015. London commuters needed to give more time to arrive for work Thurs-day to navigate a strike that’s shut down the city’s subway system.

London’s commuters make do as strike shuts subway system

LONDON — The choices Thursday in London: take a hike, ride a bike, try to find a bus you like.

AP Photo/Saurabh Das

Activists of the left wing, All India Students’ Association (AISA), shout slogans against Madhya Pradesh state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, during a protest against a job scam in the central Indian state in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 9, 2015.

India’s top court orders investigation into job scam, deaths

“We weren’t chatting about any-thing. It was just, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ Nothing interesting,” Mur-ray recounted. “We get on well. But obviously, on Friday — different story.” Yes, they’ll meet up again Friday, only the setting will be far different and things might be a tad less cordial, because the two past Wimbledon titlists face each other at Centre Court in the semifinals.

The No. 2-seeded Federer is closing in on his record eighth tro-phy at the grass-court tournament; No. 3 Murray’s 2013 championship was the first for a British man at Wimbledon in 77 years.

Plus, they have history on this particular patch of grass. In 2012, Federer won his 17th — and, to date, last — Grand Slam title by beating Murray in the Wimbledon final. A few weeks later, also at Cen-tre Court, Murray repaid the favor, beating Federer for the singles gold medal at the London Games.

“We both like to look back at that summer,” said Federer, who is 12-11 against Murray. “Me, not so much at the Olympics; him, prob-ably not so much at Wimbledon.” Both advanced in quarterfinals slowed only by a pair of rain de-lays. Federer’s 116-hold streak in service games, dating to his previ-ous tournament, ended, but that was merely a blip during a 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 victory over No. 12 Gilles Simon of France.

Murray was hardly troubled at all by a weary Vasek Pospisil of Canada and won 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in a match that finished with the retract-able roof closed at Center Court, in front of an audience that included Prince William and his wife Kate.

Another past champion, No. 1 Novak Djokovic, also barely was tested, eliminating No. 9 Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to improve to 13-0 against the 2014 U.S. Open winner.

Djokovic, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, plays No. 21 Richard Gasquet of France next. Gasquet emerged from the most compelling quarterfinal — featuring

two beautiful one-handed back-hands — with a 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 11-9 win over No. 4 Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland.

“It was great to watch them go backhand-to-backhand today,” said Djokovic, who is 11-1 against Gasquet. “Some great points, great exchanges.” Until Gasquet dropped to his back at the baseline when French Open champion Wawrin-ka’s last backhand sailed long, it appeared this might be the first Wimbledon semifinals in 20 years involving men seeded 1-4. Gasquet truly is an interloper, the only re-maining man without a major title. Never been to a final, even.

“I’m the worst,” Gasquet said with a smirk, “when you see Feder-

er, Djokovic and Murray and me.” He’ll be in his third Grand Slam semifinal. Djokovic, in contrast, owns eight major championships and reached his 27th major semifi-nal, sixth in a row at Wimbledon.

“Obviously,” Djokovic said, “the experience of being in these final stages of Wimbledon many times is going to help me.” Imagine how Federer feels. He’s into his 10th Wimbledon semifinal (he’s 9-0) and 37th at all majors (25-11).

“I’m very proud of my achieve-ments here, don’t get me wrong,” said Federer, who turns 34 on Aug. 8. “But it’s not like some-thing I walk around, beating my chest, saying, like, ‘I’m great here.’”(ap)

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GIANYAR - Aura of this temple is very intense. It does not only retain shrines in Balinese architecture, but also features a temple of old Java-nese style. This sacred ancient relic remains to survive up to these days. For a venue of meditation, it must be solemn. Moreover, if it is carried out in Garba Cave located in the east of the temple exactly at the Pakerisan riverside, the ambience will surely be more stable. Foreign tourists are very eager to visit the sanctuary.

It’s the Pengukurukuran Temple. It is believed to be the first to mea-

sure the strength of Bali in the past time. Here, the strength of Kebo Iwa was measured before becoming a chief minister in ancient Balinese kingdom. The location on the edge of Pakerisan River was used as a school for the kings of Bali. Its loca-tion is at the Sawagunung custom-ary village, Pejeng, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar County.

Chief of local temple priests, Jero Mangku Dewa Gede Rauh, revealed the temple had some shrines along with the sites originat-ing from ancient times. The temple

spreading across 2 hectares of land was said to be the venue where the kings of ancient Bali measured the land, including finding a suitable place to build the center of a temple. The values of prehistoric and his-toric remains in the form of Great Temple were stored in the shrine of Ratu Bujangga. Meanwhile, in the east of the temple, exactly on the edge of Pakerisan Temple, lay a relic named Garba Cave believed to guard the temple. It was said the cave was once taken advantage by Chief Minister Kebo Iwa from

Bedahulu kingdom.In the south of the temple oc-

curred a stone path and rock stone gates. The road was heading for the Garba Cave. There was a stone containing a trace of footprint whose size exceeded the size of a human foot soles and believed if it belonged to Kebo Iwa. At the making of a ladder, the stones were said to walk by itself pursuant to the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time stepping down the stairs, the amount was always different.

According to story developing in

the area, before Kebo Iwa became a Chief Minister of Bedahulu his competency was tested by the royal officials, including by Ki Pasung Grigis, known to have a supernatu-ral power. The place where to mea-sure the supernatural strength was known as Dharmma Hanyar. Since Kebo Iwa was unbeaten he was fi-nally accepted to fill in the position as Chief Minister of Bedahulu. On that account, the capability of Kebo Iwa was measured in the Dharmma Hanyar, where the place was then called Pengukurukuran.

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Pengukurukuran Temple

AMIENS - German Andre Greipel was again far too strong for the opposition as he claimed his second win in this year’s Tour de France with an impressive sprint in the fifth stage on Wednesday. German Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick Step) retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey.

Lotto Soudal rider Greipel, who holds the green jersey for the points classification, started his effort late in the final straight but easily went past Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Etixx-Quick Step). Cavendish, looking far from his past best as he sought to add to his 25 Tour stage wins, again came up short and finished third after taking fourth in Sunday’s second stage won by Greipel.

Slovakian Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) finished a strong second at the end of a 189.5-km ride marred by seven crashes on the slippery roads of northern France. “Two victories, it’s great,” said Greipel. “The whole team worked well for this sprint. It was the first bunch sprint, it’s interesting... with 300 metres I thought I was boxed in but I saw an opening and went for it.”

France’s Nacer Bouhanni was an early casualty of the pile-ups, abandoning the race when he was caught up in a crash that involved four of his team mates. The sprint ace, who was looking to win a stage and possibly aiming for the green jersey, was taken to a hospital for checks. His Cofidis team manager said the 24-year-old had not suffered any fracture. WIth 77 km left, the BMC and Sky teams at the front accelerated and split the peloton as crosswinds made for yet another nervous day on the Tour.

No big guns were trapped behind and the favourites avoided trouble. Martin still leads Briton Chris Froome (Sky) by 12 sec-onds overall and American Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) by 25. Spain’s Alberto Contador (Tinkoff Saxo) remains eighth, 48 seconds behind, while defending champion Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) is 13th and 1:50 adrift. Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar) lies 17th, 2:08 off the pace.

Greipel leads the points classification with 151 points, 32 ahead of Sagan. The ride took the peloton through several World War I battlefields on a day of remembrance on the Tour.

Early in the morning, a metal blue cornflower was inaugu-rated at Mont St Eloi, where 1909 Tour winner Francois Faber died 100 years ago.(rtr)

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Lotto-Soudal rider Andre Greipel of Germany (C) cel-ebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 189.5-km (117.7 miles) 5th stage of the 102nd Tour de France cy-cling race from Arras to Amiens, France, July 8, 2015.

Greipel wins fifth stage, Martin

still leads Tour

Adam Davy/PA via AP

Former champion Roger Federer serves during practice at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in Wimbledon London Sunday June 28, 2015. The Wimbledon tennis championships begin on Monday.

Federer, Murray in Wimbledon

showdown; Djokovic gets Gasquet

LONDON — Roger Federer and Andy Murray ran into each other Wednesday morning in the champions’ locker room at the All England Club, then walked together over to the practice area to prepare — on adjacent courts — for their respective quarterfinals later in the day.

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Chris Coleman’s side, top of Euro 2016 qualifying Group B, will be in Pot 1 when UEFA’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers draw is made in St Petersburg on July 25, meaning they will avoid the likes of fellow top seeds Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

England, Romania and Croatia are also named as top seeds but 1998 World Cup win-ners France and Italy, triumphant in 2006, are among the second qualification seeds for Russia 2018 along with Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Wales, who shot up 12 places to 10th in

the July FIFA rankings, entering the top 10 for the first time in history, have only quali-fied for a major international tournament once in their history when they reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup before losing to Brazil.

Gareth Bale’s goal secured a 1-0 win over Belgium in a Euro 2016 qualifier in June and they are three points clear at the top of Group B with four games remain-ing.

Russia qualify automatically as hosts, while the remaining 52 European teams will be involved in the preliminary draw and will be put into seven groups of six teams

and two groups of five teams according to the FIFA rankings of July 2015.

Each team will play each other home and away between Sept. 4 2016 and 10 Oct. 10 2017, while UEFA have requested that England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Neth-erlands must be drawn into a group containing six teams.

The nine group winners will qualify for Russia 2018, while the eight best group-runners up will take part in a play-off in Novem-ber 2017. (rtr)

MADRID — Atletico Madrid has signed Argentine striker Lu-ciano Vietto from fellow Spanish club Villarreal, in a deal which sees the 21-year-old reunited with coach Diego Simeone.

Vietto, who has agreed a six-year

contract with the 2014 Spanish champions, was greeted by Atleti-co’s fans at its practice grounds on Thursday a day after participating in his first training session under Simeone.

Simeone gave Vietto his profes-

sional debut at the age of 17 while coaching Argentine club Racing.

Vietto scored 20 goals for Villar-real last season, his first in Spain. He will share an attack with fellow newcomer Jackson Martinez and Fernando Torres. (ap)

ZURICH/BERN - Former FIFA execu-tive committee member Chuck Blazer, a key figure in a U.S. investigation into corruption by soccer officials, on Thursday was banned for life from football activities by the sport’s governing body.

Blazer, who in 2013 secretly pleaded guilty in the United States to bribery and financial of-fences, was found by FIFA’s ethics committee to have breached rules on loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and bribery and corruption.

“Mr Blazer committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF (which governs the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean),” the ethics committee said in statement.

“In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, ac-ceptance, payment and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other money-making schemes.” U.S.-based lawyers for Blazer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Through a 2013 U.S. plea agreement, Blazer become a cooperating witness in the U.S. probe, which has engulfed FIFA and pressured the

governing body’s president, Sepp Blatter, to step down.

Blazer agreed to provide prosecutors infor-mation, turn over any documents he possessed related to the probe, participate in undercover activities and testify at trial. The 70-year-old, who has a curly white beard and has in the past tipped the scales at more than 400 lb, is now in hospital with rectal cancer, type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease.

Blazer was on FIFA’s executive committee which awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively, a process which is under investigation by Swiss authorities.

Over the past years, as a critical spotlight has been increasingly turned on the organsation and the awarding of World Cups, FIFA has handed down bans to a number of officials. Among them, Asian soccer chief Mohamed Bin Ham-mam was banned for life for ethics breaches.

FIFA said on Monday Harold Mayne-Nicholls, who led the teams which inspected bids for 2018 and 2022, was banned from all football for seven years. He said on Twitter he would appeal.

FIFA has said it is cooperating with the in-vestigations. Qatar and Russia deny wrongdoing and say they are preparing to hold the tourna-ments on schedule. (rtr)

ZURICH — Commercial in-terests are set to be a factor in the European qualifying groups draw for the 2018 World Cup. Teams

from Europe’s biggest televi-sion markets are likely to be guaranteed the most possible matches in six-nation groups, FIFA said Thursday in detail-ing procedure for the July 25 draw in Russia.

FIFA said that a UEFA proposal asks for England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and

Spain to avoid being drawn into groups

containing five teams. It would

allow popular teams to play t h e m o s t

m a t c h -e s , a n d increase the value of broad-cast ing r ights which UEFA sells on behalf of member associa-tions.

Four years ago, defending champion Spain and 2006 World Cup winner France were both drawn in a five-team group and played only eight matches. France

then played two more in the play-off round. With 52 European teams chasing 13 qualifying places in this World Cup draw, those in the seven six-nation groups will play 10 qualifying matches.

Teams in the two five-nation groups will play only eight quali-fiers. Nine group winners qualify direct and the eight best runners-up advance to a playoff round.

UEFA said Thursday that it applied the same draw proposal to 2016 European Championship qualifying. Then, the single five-nation group got Portugal as its main attraction. The other eight groups were made up of six teams. FIFA’s World Cup organizing com-mittee must approve the proposal one day before the draw in St. Petersburg. The panel should also agree that European seeding will be judged by FIFA ranking alone.

That would send France and Italy into the second-seeded pot, setting up potential blockbuster groups with top-seeded Germany and Spain.

Romania and Wales entered the top 10 on FIFA’s rankings on Thursday after going unbeaten to lead their Euro 2016 qualifying groups. Both are likely to be seed-ed by FIFA despite neither playing at the World Cup since 1998 and 1958, respectively. (ap)

CARSON - Joel McAnuff’s second-half goal earned Jamaica a surprise 2-2 draw with Costa Rica, while Canada and El Salvador fin-ished scoreless in Group B of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Wednesday.

McAnuff slotted home past Esteban Al-vardo in the 48th minute to earn Jamaica an unexpected point against Costa Rica, who are CONCACAF’S top team in the FIFA world rankings at 14.

Jamaica, ranked 65th, had also grabbed a surprise lead in the 13th minute through Ga-rath McCleary before Costa Rica, Gold Cup runners-up in 2002, stormed back with two goals in four minutes at StubHub stadium.

Roy Miller got his head on a cross to equal-ise in the 33rd minute and David Ramirez then put the ‘Ticos’ ahead.

In the day’s other Group B game at the same venue, Canada and El Salvador played out a drab 0-0 draw.

El Salvador were the more dangerous side throughout but it was Canada who produced the best scoring chance late in the opening half.

Cyle Larin broke in on goal, dribbled around the goalkeeper and with the goal at his mercy drove the ball high and wide.

The Gold Cup determines the regional champions for North and Central America and the Caribbean. (rtr)

SANTIAGO, Ch i l e — Chile’s star midfielder Arturo Vidal has reached a deal with prosecutors and will avoid trial after he crashed his Ferrari while driving under the influence of alcohol.

Vidal appeared before a Chilean judge Wednesday. He apologized for insulting a police officer, agreed to pay an undisclosed compensation to a driver involved in the crash and to donate sports equipment.

The Juventus player also was ordered to deliver motivational speeches to in-mates and was banned from driving for two years.

Vidal and his wife suffered minor injuries in the June 16 crash. He later offered a teary apology and was al-lowed to continue to play the Copa America.

Chile won the South American championship at home Saturday when it beat Argentina on penal-ties. (ap)

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Luciano Vietto

Atletico presents striker Luciano Vietto

Big Euro teams to avoid small World Cup qualifying groups

FIFA bans Chuck Blazer from soccer for life

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2008, CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer, left, and President Jack Warner chat during a news conference in Miami.

Gareth Bale celebrates

after scoring the first goal for Wales

Chile’s Vidal avoids trial after deal in

DUI, Ferrari crash

Jamaica hold Costa Rica for first Gold Cup surprise

Wales among top seeds for World Cup qualifying draw

LONDON - Wales are among the top European seeds for the 2018 World Cup qualifying draw after being ranked as one of UEFA’s top nine teams for the tournament.

Reuters / R

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Chris Coleman’s side, top of Euro 2016 qualifying Group B, will be in Pot 1 when UEFA’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers draw is made in St Petersburg on July 25, meaning they will avoid the likes of fellow top seeds Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

England, Romania and Croatia are also named as top seeds but 1998 World Cup win-ners France and Italy, triumphant in 2006, are among the second qualification seeds for Russia 2018 along with Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Wales, who shot up 12 places to 10th in

the July FIFA rankings, entering the top 10 for the first time in history, have only quali-fied for a major international tournament once in their history when they reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup before losing to Brazil.

Gareth Bale’s goal secured a 1-0 win over Belgium in a Euro 2016 qualifier in June and they are three points clear at the top of Group B with four games remain-ing.

Russia qualify automatically as hosts, while the remaining 52 European teams will be involved in the preliminary draw and will be put into seven groups of six teams

and two groups of five teams according to the FIFA rankings of July 2015.

Each team will play each other home and away between Sept. 4 2016 and 10 Oct. 10 2017, while UEFA have requested that England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Neth-erlands must be drawn into a group containing six teams.

The nine group winners will qualify for Russia 2018, while the eight best group-runners up will take part in a play-off in Novem-ber 2017. (rtr)

MADRID — Atletico Madrid has signed Argentine striker Lu-ciano Vietto from fellow Spanish club Villarreal, in a deal which sees the 21-year-old reunited with coach Diego Simeone.

Vietto, who has agreed a six-year

contract with the 2014 Spanish champions, was greeted by Atleti-co’s fans at its practice grounds on Thursday a day after participating in his first training session under Simeone.

Simeone gave Vietto his profes-

sional debut at the age of 17 while coaching Argentine club Racing.

Vietto scored 20 goals for Villar-real last season, his first in Spain. He will share an attack with fellow newcomer Jackson Martinez and Fernando Torres. (ap)

ZURICH/BERN - Former FIFA execu-tive committee member Chuck Blazer, a key figure in a U.S. investigation into corruption by soccer officials, on Thursday was banned for life from football activities by the sport’s governing body.

Blazer, who in 2013 secretly pleaded guilty in the United States to bribery and financial of-fences, was found by FIFA’s ethics committee to have breached rules on loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and bribery and corruption.

“Mr Blazer committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF (which governs the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean),” the ethics committee said in statement.

“In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, ac-ceptance, payment and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other money-making schemes.” U.S.-based lawyers for Blazer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Through a 2013 U.S. plea agreement, Blazer become a cooperating witness in the U.S. probe, which has engulfed FIFA and pressured the

governing body’s president, Sepp Blatter, to step down.

Blazer agreed to provide prosecutors infor-mation, turn over any documents he possessed related to the probe, participate in undercover activities and testify at trial. The 70-year-old, who has a curly white beard and has in the past tipped the scales at more than 400 lb, is now in hospital with rectal cancer, type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease.

Blazer was on FIFA’s executive committee which awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively, a process which is under investigation by Swiss authorities.

Over the past years, as a critical spotlight has been increasingly turned on the organsation and the awarding of World Cups, FIFA has handed down bans to a number of officials. Among them, Asian soccer chief Mohamed Bin Ham-mam was banned for life for ethics breaches.

FIFA said on Monday Harold Mayne-Nicholls, who led the teams which inspected bids for 2018 and 2022, was banned from all football for seven years. He said on Twitter he would appeal.

FIFA has said it is cooperating with the in-vestigations. Qatar and Russia deny wrongdoing and say they are preparing to hold the tourna-ments on schedule. (rtr)

ZURICH — Commercial in-terests are set to be a factor in the European qualifying groups draw for the 2018 World Cup. Teams

from Europe’s biggest televi-sion markets are likely to be guaranteed the most possible matches in six-nation groups, FIFA said Thursday in detail-ing procedure for the July 25 draw in Russia.

FIFA said that a UEFA proposal asks for England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and

Spain to avoid being drawn into groups

containing five teams. It would

allow popular teams to play t h e m o s t

m a t c h -e s , a n d increase the value of broad-cast ing r ights which UEFA sells on behalf of member associa-tions.

Four years ago, defending champion Spain and 2006 World Cup winner France were both drawn in a five-team group and played only eight matches. France

then played two more in the play-off round. With 52 European teams chasing 13 qualifying places in this World Cup draw, those in the seven six-nation groups will play 10 qualifying matches.

Teams in the two five-nation groups will play only eight quali-fiers. Nine group winners qualify direct and the eight best runners-up advance to a playoff round.

UEFA said Thursday that it applied the same draw proposal to 2016 European Championship qualifying. Then, the single five-nation group got Portugal as its main attraction. The other eight groups were made up of six teams. FIFA’s World Cup organizing com-mittee must approve the proposal one day before the draw in St. Petersburg. The panel should also agree that European seeding will be judged by FIFA ranking alone.

That would send France and Italy into the second-seeded pot, setting up potential blockbuster groups with top-seeded Germany and Spain.

Romania and Wales entered the top 10 on FIFA’s rankings on Thursday after going unbeaten to lead their Euro 2016 qualifying groups. Both are likely to be seed-ed by FIFA despite neither playing at the World Cup since 1998 and 1958, respectively. (ap)

CARSON - Joel McAnuff’s second-half goal earned Jamaica a surprise 2-2 draw with Costa Rica, while Canada and El Salvador fin-ished scoreless in Group B of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Wednesday.

McAnuff slotted home past Esteban Al-vardo in the 48th minute to earn Jamaica an unexpected point against Costa Rica, who are CONCACAF’S top team in the FIFA world rankings at 14.

Jamaica, ranked 65th, had also grabbed a surprise lead in the 13th minute through Ga-rath McCleary before Costa Rica, Gold Cup runners-up in 2002, stormed back with two goals in four minutes at StubHub stadium.

Roy Miller got his head on a cross to equal-ise in the 33rd minute and David Ramirez then put the ‘Ticos’ ahead.

In the day’s other Group B game at the same venue, Canada and El Salvador played out a drab 0-0 draw.

El Salvador were the more dangerous side throughout but it was Canada who produced the best scoring chance late in the opening half.

Cyle Larin broke in on goal, dribbled around the goalkeeper and with the goal at his mercy drove the ball high and wide.

The Gold Cup determines the regional champions for North and Central America and the Caribbean. (rtr)

SANTIAGO, Ch i l e — Chile’s star midfielder Arturo Vidal has reached a deal with prosecutors and will avoid trial after he crashed his Ferrari while driving under the influence of alcohol.

Vidal appeared before a Chilean judge Wednesday. He apologized for insulting a police officer, agreed to pay an undisclosed compensation to a driver involved in the crash and to donate sports equipment.

The Juventus player also was ordered to deliver motivational speeches to in-mates and was banned from driving for two years.

Vidal and his wife suffered minor injuries in the June 16 crash. He later offered a teary apology and was al-lowed to continue to play the Copa America.

Chile won the South American championship at home Saturday when it beat Argentina on penal-ties. (ap)

BPM/rtr

Luciano Vietto

Atletico presents striker Luciano Vietto

Big Euro teams to avoid small World Cup qualifying groups

FIFA bans Chuck Blazer from soccer for life

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2008, CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer, left, and President Jack Warner chat during a news conference in Miami.

Gareth Bale celebrates

after scoring the first goal for Wales

Chile’s Vidal avoids trial after deal in

DUI, Ferrari crash

Jamaica hold Costa Rica for first Gold Cup surprise

Wales among top seeds for World Cup qualifying draw

LONDON - Wales are among the top European seeds for the 2018 World Cup qualifying draw after being ranked as one of UEFA’s top nine teams for the tournament.

Reuters / R

ebecca Naden Livepic

“We weren’t chatting about any-thing. It was just, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ Nothing interesting,” Mur-ray recounted. “We get on well. But obviously, on Friday — different story.” Yes, they’ll meet up again Friday, only the setting will be far different and things might be a tad less cordial, because the two past Wimbledon titlists face each other at Centre Court in the semifinals.

The No. 2-seeded Federer is closing in on his record eighth tro-phy at the grass-court tournament; No. 3 Murray’s 2013 championship was the first for a British man at Wimbledon in 77 years.

Plus, they have history on this particular patch of grass. In 2012, Federer won his 17th — and, to date, last — Grand Slam title by beating Murray in the Wimbledon final. A few weeks later, also at Cen-tre Court, Murray repaid the favor, beating Federer for the singles gold medal at the London Games.

“We both like to look back at that summer,” said Federer, who is 12-11 against Murray. “Me, not so much at the Olympics; him, prob-ably not so much at Wimbledon.” Both advanced in quarterfinals slowed only by a pair of rain de-lays. Federer’s 116-hold streak in service games, dating to his previ-ous tournament, ended, but that was merely a blip during a 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 victory over No. 12 Gilles Simon of France.

Murray was hardly troubled at all by a weary Vasek Pospisil of Canada and won 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in a match that finished with the retract-able roof closed at Center Court, in front of an audience that included Prince William and his wife Kate.

Another past champion, No. 1 Novak Djokovic, also barely was tested, eliminating No. 9 Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to improve to 13-0 against the 2014 U.S. Open winner.

Djokovic, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, plays No. 21 Richard Gasquet of France next. Gasquet emerged from the most compelling quarterfinal — featuring

two beautiful one-handed back-hands — with a 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 11-9 win over No. 4 Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland.

“It was great to watch them go backhand-to-backhand today,” said Djokovic, who is 11-1 against Gasquet. “Some great points, great exchanges.” Until Gasquet dropped to his back at the baseline when French Open champion Wawrin-ka’s last backhand sailed long, it appeared this might be the first Wimbledon semifinals in 20 years involving men seeded 1-4. Gasquet truly is an interloper, the only re-maining man without a major title. Never been to a final, even.

“I’m the worst,” Gasquet said with a smirk, “when you see Feder-

er, Djokovic and Murray and me.” He’ll be in his third Grand Slam semifinal. Djokovic, in contrast, owns eight major championships and reached his 27th major semifi-nal, sixth in a row at Wimbledon.

“Obviously,” Djokovic said, “the experience of being in these final stages of Wimbledon many times is going to help me.” Imagine how Federer feels. He’s into his 10th Wimbledon semifinal (he’s 9-0) and 37th at all majors (25-11).

“I’m very proud of my achieve-ments here, don’t get me wrong,” said Federer, who turns 34 on Aug. 8. “But it’s not like some-thing I walk around, beating my chest, saying, like, ‘I’m great here.’”(ap)

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GIANYAR - Aura of this temple is very intense. It does not only retain shrines in Balinese architecture, but also features a temple of old Java-nese style. This sacred ancient relic remains to survive up to these days. For a venue of meditation, it must be solemn. Moreover, if it is carried out in Garba Cave located in the east of the temple exactly at the Pakerisan riverside, the ambience will surely be more stable. Foreign tourists are very eager to visit the sanctuary.

It’s the Pengukurukuran Temple. It is believed to be the first to mea-

sure the strength of Bali in the past time. Here, the strength of Kebo Iwa was measured before becoming a chief minister in ancient Balinese kingdom. The location on the edge of Pakerisan River was used as a school for the kings of Bali. Its loca-tion is at the Sawagunung custom-ary village, Pejeng, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar County.

Chief of local temple priests, Jero Mangku Dewa Gede Rauh, revealed the temple had some shrines along with the sites originat-ing from ancient times. The temple

spreading across 2 hectares of land was said to be the venue where the kings of ancient Bali measured the land, including finding a suitable place to build the center of a temple. The values of prehistoric and his-toric remains in the form of Great Temple were stored in the shrine of Ratu Bujangga. Meanwhile, in the east of the temple, exactly on the edge of Pakerisan Temple, lay a relic named Garba Cave believed to guard the temple. It was said the cave was once taken advantage by Chief Minister Kebo Iwa from

Bedahulu kingdom.In the south of the temple oc-

curred a stone path and rock stone gates. The road was heading for the Garba Cave. There was a stone containing a trace of footprint whose size exceeded the size of a human foot soles and believed if it belonged to Kebo Iwa. At the making of a ladder, the stones were said to walk by itself pursuant to the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time stepping down the stairs, the amount was always different.

According to story developing in

the area, before Kebo Iwa became a Chief Minister of Bedahulu his competency was tested by the royal officials, including by Ki Pasung Grigis, known to have a supernatu-ral power. The place where to mea-sure the supernatural strength was known as Dharmma Hanyar. Since Kebo Iwa was unbeaten he was fi-nally accepted to fill in the position as Chief Minister of Bedahulu. On that account, the capability of Kebo Iwa was measured in the Dharmma Hanyar, where the place was then called Pengukurukuran.

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Pengukurukuran Temple

AMIENS - German Andre Greipel was again far too strong for the opposition as he claimed his second win in this year’s Tour de France with an impressive sprint in the fifth stage on Wednesday. German Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick Step) retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey.

Lotto Soudal rider Greipel, who holds the green jersey for the points classification, started his effort late in the final straight but easily went past Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Etixx-Quick Step). Cavendish, looking far from his past best as he sought to add to his 25 Tour stage wins, again came up short and finished third after taking fourth in Sunday’s second stage won by Greipel.

Slovakian Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) finished a strong second at the end of a 189.5-km ride marred by seven crashes on the slippery roads of northern France. “Two victories, it’s great,” said Greipel. “The whole team worked well for this sprint. It was the first bunch sprint, it’s interesting... with 300 metres I thought I was boxed in but I saw an opening and went for it.”

France’s Nacer Bouhanni was an early casualty of the pile-ups, abandoning the race when he was caught up in a crash that involved four of his team mates. The sprint ace, who was looking to win a stage and possibly aiming for the green jersey, was taken to a hospital for checks. His Cofidis team manager said the 24-year-old had not suffered any fracture. WIth 77 km left, the BMC and Sky teams at the front accelerated and split the peloton as crosswinds made for yet another nervous day on the Tour.

No big guns were trapped behind and the favourites avoided trouble. Martin still leads Briton Chris Froome (Sky) by 12 sec-onds overall and American Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) by 25. Spain’s Alberto Contador (Tinkoff Saxo) remains eighth, 48 seconds behind, while defending champion Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) is 13th and 1:50 adrift. Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar) lies 17th, 2:08 off the pace.

Greipel leads the points classification with 151 points, 32 ahead of Sagan. The ride took the peloton through several World War I battlefields on a day of remembrance on the Tour.

Early in the morning, a metal blue cornflower was inaugu-rated at Mont St Eloi, where 1909 Tour winner Francois Faber died 100 years ago.(rtr)

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Lotto-Soudal rider Andre Greipel of Germany (C) cel-ebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 189.5-km (117.7 miles) 5th stage of the 102nd Tour de France cy-cling race from Arras to Amiens, France, July 8, 2015.

Greipel wins fifth stage, Martin

still leads Tour

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Former champion Roger Federer serves during practice at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in Wimbledon London Sunday June 28, 2015. The Wimbledon tennis championships begin on Monday.

Federer, Murray in Wimbledon

showdown; Djokovic gets Gasquet

LONDON — Roger Federer and Andy Murray ran into each other Wednesday morning in the champions’ locker room at the All England Club, then walked together over to the practice area to prepare — on adjacent courts — for their respective quarterfinals later in the day.

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The Australian Federal Police “Operational Intelligence Report”, published online by investigative website The Intercept, said the pilots were “likely employees” of AirAsia and Premiair and came to their attention through their Face-book pages.

It said their postings “inferred support to the Islamic State (IS)” group.

“Upon review of the content from both accounts it is assessed that these persons are likely being influenced by radical elements -- at least from the online environment --- and as a result, may pose a se-curity threat,” it said.

In a statement to AFP, the fed-eral police would not comment on whether the document, entitled “Identification of Indonesian pilots with possible extremist persua-sions” and dated March 18 this year, was genuine.

“The Australian Federal Police does not comment on matters of intelligence,” it said.

“The Australian Federal Police maintains strong relationships with its domestic and foreign law enforcement partners to ensure the ongoing safety of Australians both within Australia and abroad.”

The AirAsia pilot graduated from its academy in 2010, the docu-ment said, and flew international routes including to Hong Kong and Singapore.

It said a change in his Facebook posting style became evident in September last year “wherein he started posting material indicative of support to IS”.

Around this time, he began in-teracting online with a second pilot, said to be a former Indonesian navy pilot who now works for Premiair, who “liked” his postings on IS.

This pilot had flown to Austra-

lia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, the intelligence report claimed, with recent reposts on Facebook including “extremist related articles”.

“Both appear to be influenced by pro-IS elements including extremist online propaganda by well-known radical Indonesia outlets and a sus-pected Indonesian terrorist fighter who is likely to be in either Syria or Iraq,” the police report concluded.

The Intercept said it was distrib-uted to law enforcement agencies in Turkey, Jordan, Britain, Europe and the United States.

AFP was seeking comment from Malaysia-based AirAsia and Pre-miair, a leading aviation services and aircraft management operator headquartered in Jakarta.

The Intercept has published the re-port at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2158913-pilots-re-dacted.html#document/. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s army chief of staff was promoted to head of the military Wednesday, breaking with a tradition that saw the job rotated between branches of the forces and raising concerns about the army’s growing influence.

General Gatot Nurmantyo was sworn in as armed forces chief by President Joko Widodo at a cer-emony in the capital Jakarta and replaces General Moeldoko, who had also been a senior figure in the army.

The job was expected to go to the air force chief, and the decision to appoint Nurmantyo has sparked fears about the army’s increasing influence almost two decades after it was stripped of much of its power following the downfall of dictator Suharto, himself a general.

“I think following the tradition of rotation is better,” said Hendardi, chairman of rights group the Setara Institute who goes by one name, adding that the army was getting “privileged” treatment.

He said that Widodo, known universally as Jokowi, was “playing politics” and seeking to shore up his weakened position by getting closer to the army.

The election last year of Wido-do, Indonesia’s first leader from

outside the political and military elites, fuelled hopes of a new era in the graft-ridden country but his administration has beset by crises and criticised for a series of policy flip-flops.

With the end of authoritarian rule in 1998 and the introduction of democracy, serving military mem-bers lost the right to take on senior political roles and were limited to defence roles.

Indonesia’s new leaders also decided to rotate the job of armed forces chief between the three branches of the military to ensure that none became too powerful, in particular the influential army.

But by installing an army figure as head of the military for a second consecutive time, Widodo has bro-ken with that practice.

Also on Wednesday, Widodo swore in retired army general Sutiyoso as the country’s new intel-ligence chief -- another figure with long-standing links to the army.

The controversy over Nurmantyo followed recent concerns about the rising influence of the Indonesian military in public life more gener-ally, with the armed forces signing agreements with the government to guard key infrastructure and help in the fight against drugs. (afp)

SEMARANG - Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao said he will visit a Filipina on death row in Indonesia on Friday and also plans to raise her case with President Joko Widodo.

Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death in Indonesia after being arrested in 2009 with 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds) of heroin sewn into the lining of her suitcase.

She was set to face the firing squad in April with several other foreign drug convicts but was granted an 11th hour reprieve after a woman suspected of recruiting her was arrested in the Philippines. The alleged recruiter and an accom-plice now face charges in the Philippines.

After Veloso was given a reprieve, the Indonesian government stressed the decision was only a “postponement” to allow time for police investigations.

The single mother of two young children has always maintained her innocence, claiming she was duped by an international human-trafficking gang into bringing the drugs into Indonesia.

Her case attracted huge attention in both Indonesia and the Philippines, with near daily rallies of support and celebrities including Philippine star Pacquiao pleading for her

life to be spared.Pacquiao, who arrived in Indonesia on

Tuesday, said he would meet Veloso in prison later this week.

“I will visit her on Friday,” he told reporters in the central Java city of Semarang, not far from the prison where Veloso is being held, adding he would see how he could help her.

“I’m going to meet the president on Friday, so we will see what we can do.”

Eight-weight world champion Pacquiao made global headlines in May when was beaten by Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas in what was dubbed “the fight of the century”.

Local media reported Pacquiao was also film-ing a TV advert during his visit to Indonesia.

The Indonesian attorney-general’s office could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Widodo has vowed there will be no clem-ency for drug traffickers on death row as Indonesia is facing an “emergency” due to rising narcotics use.

Seven other foreign drug convicts and one Indonesian were executed as planned on the prison island of Nusakambangan in late April, sparking an international outcry. (afp)

Two Indonesian pilots may pose security threat: leaked document

SYDNEY - Australian authorities believe two Indonesian pilots may pose a security threat after being radicalised by Islamic State, a leaked intelligence document obtained by an investigative website shows, although officials Thursday refused to confirm its veracity.

New Indonesian military chief sparks concerns

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Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao gave an autograph to a fans during his visit to Semarang, Wednesday. Pacquiao said he will visit a Filipina on death row in Indonesia on Friday and also plans to raise her case with President Joko Widodo.

Manny Pacquiao to visit death row Filipina in IndonesiaMillions of commuters jammed

buses, rented bicycles or simply walked for miles as a 24-hour strike shut down the British capi-tal’s well-known subway system and threw public transport into chaos.

Train drivers on the London Underground solidly supported the strike in a dispute over pay and schedules that take effect when 24-hour service is introduced on some lines later this year. That unanimity has made this strike more severe than previous ones in which management was able to keep a few Tube lines operating.

Business groups say the strike will cost London tens of millions of pounds (dollars) in lost pro-ductivity.

“I have to file a statement for today — I don’t know how I am going to do it. I am utterly fed up,” said distraught attorney Susan Miller, 48. “I just don’t think (strikers) have seen the big

picture here.”London’s subway system, with

4 million journeys a day, normally shuts down between midnight and 1 a.m., with the overnight shift reserved for track maintenance. While it has operated all night on New Year’s Eve, the move to have some lines running 24 hours on weekends marks a huge shift for a 152-year-old system.

London Underground’s manag-ing director Mike Brown apolo-gized for the disruption but in-sisted it was a “remarkably fair” pay offer. “This strike is unneces-sary,” he said.

Transport officials say the offer included a 2 percent sal-ary increase, a 500 pound ($770) night Tube launch bonus and an additional 2,000 pound ($3,080) bonus for night Tube train driv-ers.

Unions say management is try-ing to bulldoze new work patterns that will cause stress and wreck

the work/life balance of people in critical safety jobs.

“We’ve wasted three months in negotiations that failed to address staff concerns,” said the RMT union’s general secretary Mick Cash. The one thing everyone agreed on is that the city’s com-muters took it on the chin.

Lida Fallah-ardakani, 53, tried to attend a medical appointment she had scheduled five months ago. The journey normally takes an hour, but three hours into her trip Thursday she was still trying to get to St. Mary’s Hospital.

“I came out of the house at 6 in the morning. But I am still in the bus to the hospital and I am not sure if I can be seen,” she said. Some commuters supported the strikers.

“You have to take action some-times when you are up against the ... forces of capitalism,” said Tricha Passes, a 58-year-old uni-versity lecturer. (ap)

NEW DELHI — India’s top court Thursday ordered a federal investigation into a multimillion-dollar college admission and gov-ernment job recruitment scandal in central India said to be linked to dozens of mysterious deaths.

The Supreme Court ordered the Central Bureau of Inves-tigation, India’s FBI, to take over from the state police the investigation into the alleged irregularities in job recruitment and college admissions as well as the deaths of nearly 50 people associated with the scam.

Police have arrested hundreds of parents and students for paying bribes and officials for allegedly rigging eligibility tests for ad-mission to medical colleges and recruitment for jobs in the police force, schools and banking sector in Madhya Pradesh state.

The court also directed the Madhya Pradesh government to respond to a petition demanding the removal of the state’s feder-ally appointed governor after questions were raised about his involvement in the scandal . Gov. Ram Naresh Yadav’s son Shailesh Yadav died mysteriously in May after the younger man was alleged to have accepted bribes in the governor’s house.

Opposition Congress party leaders had been demanding a federal inquiry into the scam, accusing the Madhya Pradesh government of trying to influence the outcome of the inquiry by the state police.

Congress leader Digvijay

Singh demanded the resignation of Madhya Pradesh’s top elected official, saying Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should step down to allow for a free and fair investigation.

“Students who have been ar-rested in connection with the scam should be made witnesses for the state,” Singh said. “Isn’t it strange that hundreds of students and their parents are in jail, while those who took the bribes are roaming free,” he told reporters Thursday.

More than 2,500 people have been accused in connection with the scandal and around 1,900 of them have been arrested.

Dozens of people, either wit-nesses or accused participants in the scam, have died over the last five years in inexplicable circum-stances. Congress leaders have alleged that some top state bu-reaucrats and politicians accepted millions of dollars in bribes to facilitate the admissions.

The scandal has come to be known in India as the “Vyapam scandal,” after the Hindi lan-guage acronym for the state-run employment agency in Madhya Pradesh. For the past couple of weeks, Indian media have given wide coverage to the sudden deaths of a number of people connected to the scam.

The scandal hit the front pages of newspapers once again last weekend after the death of an investigative journalist who had gone to Madhya Pradesh to speak with witnesses. (ap)

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During a 24 hour London underground train strike, people queue up for buses in London, Thursday, July 9, 2015. London commuters needed to give more time to arrive for work Thurs-day to navigate a strike that’s shut down the city’s subway system.

London’s commuters make do as strike shuts subway system

LONDON — The choices Thursday in London: take a hike, ride a bike, try to find a bus you like.

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Activists of the left wing, All India Students’ Association (AISA), shout slogans against Madhya Pradesh state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, during a protest against a job scam in the central Indian state in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 9, 2015.

India’s top court orders investigation into job scam, deaths

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KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA - A move by Indonesia to enforce rules on airlines’ finances pushed shares in Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Bhd to their biggest single-day fall as investors feared its Jakarta-based affiliate could be grounded for a lack of funds.

Indonesia’s transport ministry said PT Indonesia AirAsia was one of 13 carriers that must repair stretched balance sheets by July 31 - or face shutdown. Already hit in recent weeks by questions over accounting that the airline rejected, AirAsia shares tumbled more than 15 percent on Wednesday at one stage.

The ministry’s directive means Indonesia AirAsia, 49 percent-owned by Asia’s biggest low-cost carrier, has just over three weeks to raise at least $230 million to reverse its shareholder funds deficit, analysts said. The parent company’s stock fell by nearly $140 million on Wednesday, giving it a market value of $952 million.

The tighter scrutiny on finance is part of a concerted drive by Indo-nesia, a loss-making but key market for AirAsia, to bolster its aviation safety credentials.

“If they don’t meet the requirement, we will suspend them,” ministry spokesman J.A. Barata told Reuters.

In a statement, Sunu Widyatmoko, President Director of Indonesia AirAsia, said there is no risk to its licence to operate in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Its level of equity has “never been an issue”, Widyatmoko said, and the carrier will seek active discussions with the transport ministry.

AirAsia stock closed 12.8 percent lower while its long-haul arm, AirA-sia X, ended down 2.4 percent. The benchmark index eased 1 percent.

The focus on the Indonesia affiliate comes at an awkward moment for AirAsia, led by Tony Fernandes, one of Asia’s best-known chief executives.

While its operational performance has improved since stiff competi-tion squeezed it into a loss at the end of last year, investors’ nerves are still jangled by a June 10 report by Hong Kong-based GMT Research that said AirAsia uses transactions with loss-making associate carriers to boost its earnings. Shares have fallen by more than a third since then.

According to a person familiar with AirAsia’s strategy, speaking on condition of anonymity, AirAsia has known “for a while” that there is a need for its Indonesia affiliate to raise funds. The company has been exploring options including a stock market listing for the affiliate, tap-ping the debt market or getting existing investors to inject more cash, he said.

Despite the sharp market reaction, some analysts were sceptical on whether Jakarta can realistically enforce such a tight deadline on raising equity. (rtr)

SANUR - A total of eleven unique works of art having rich imagination by the artists of various schools are presented in a joint exhibition at the Santrian Gallery, Sanur. The exhibition entitled “The Sense” presents idealistic ideas in combination with interesting look and full of messages deserving to be observed. The Sense exhibition was opened by Mr. Raphael Devianne on Friday (Jun. 26) and lasts until August 14, 2015.

The Sense features a number of young artists wishing to present their best. Combination of idea, colors, themes and trends result in beauty representing their existence. Visually and extrinsically their works are very much de-pendent on the depth of their respective contemplation. Undeniably, their existence sources from themselves.

The eleven artists participating in the exhibition include Antonius Kho, Made Kaek, Nyoman Sujana Kenyem, Ni Nyoman Sani, Uuk Paramahita, Lekung Sugantika, Atmi Kristia Dewi, Made Somadita, Ketut Adi Candra, Tien Hong and Bambang Juliartha. In current The Sense, each artist shows off the best.

Their works pose the result of wander as high as the sense they can achieve. In other words, when the sense serves as part of the mind, then it is very difficult to have the same tendency as the others’. Each artist has its own struggle realm as well as has a style and the way to ex-press their ideas.

Related to reception of the art as the realm of mind and heart, Uuk Paramahita said that featuring the exhibition with the title The Sense becomes interesting. The title is meant to embrace the art temperament. Sense in the English has multiple meanings. “The word sense in the title of this ex-hibition is related to the context and it works,” she said.

In terms of sense, the artists can perform extensive wander in the broader sense including the wander into their inner self, namely the intellect. When daring to choose the sense as a major theme, it should be commensurate with great responsibilities anyway. Since the sense is an existential reality, and this poses a fierce, persistent and conceptual gamble when it is sent into the realm of dis-course. Anyhow, when the art—in its process—exceeds science, it has too much time, opportunity and freedom to exploit the medium, the idea, method following its trial-and-error. (kmb)

BUBUR Sumsum or Fine por-ridge is a traditional cake of Bali-nese Hindu community. This sweet porridge is the most preferred by children. It has elegant green color and a distinctive aroma. Natural green substance in use really makes this serving healthy and safe to be consumed. While, the main ingre-dients of this porridge consist of rice flour mixed with the extract of dracaena and screwpine leaf.

Dracaena leaf functions to give natural greenish color, while the screwpine will give delicious flavor and scenting aroma. This fine por-ridge is served on a small dish, and then sprinkled with grated coconut and palm sugar sauce.

Formerly, this porridge was served on a tekor or banana leaf

package. Generally, it was served when villagers organized a social work such as grandiose religious ceremony and involved the hamlet community. Meanwhile, when farmers transplanted their seedlings in the rice field, they would involve their group in a mutual assistance. Here, the members were also pro-vided with such fine porridge. At that time, it was served with other traditional cakes and accompanied with coffee drink.

In Tabanan and other regions in Bali, the fine porridge serves as one of the ritual means used in celebrat-ing the Tumpek Bubuh or ritual for cultivated plants. Along with the presentation of ritual, people will then smear the porridge on tree trunks as an expression of gratitude

for the God’s grace. Today, such fine porridge can

be found in traditional markets, supermarkets and pastry shops. However, consumer should pay a great attention to the coloring agent in use as the improper one may harm the health. In general, people are now reluctant to make it because they consider it difficult and complicated to serve.

How to make it? First of all, mix the rice flour with the extract of dra-caena leaf and salt to taste. Afterward, stir them well and evenly. At the same time prepare some warm water filled with screwpine leaf. Then, the warm water is poured into the flour and stir again. When all the ingredients have mixed well, the porridge is now ready to serve. (kmb)

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Santrian Gallery Sanur comes with ‘The Sense’

SAN FRANCISCO — Micro-soft is cutting 7,800 jobs and writ-ing off $7.6 billion in connection with its purchase of Nokia’s phone business, as the giant software maker tries to narrow its focus and pull back from a series of ill-fated forays onto rival tech companies’ turf.

The cuts announced Wednesday come on top of 18,000 jobs that Microsoft trimmed last year, just months after the company paid $7.3 billion for Nokia in the hope of expanding its footprint in the

smartphone hardware business where Apple and Samsung are market leaders.

Three years ago, Microsoft wrote off another big sum, $6.2 billion, on its purchase of digital advertising firm aQuantive. Mi-crosoft bought aQuantive for $6.3 billion in a bid to increase its role in the online ad sector that was dominated by the likes of Google and Yahoo.

Both the Nokia and aQuantive deals were engineered by former CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought

to compete against younger, faster-growing tech companies by expand-ing beyond Microsoft’s original business of making software for desktop computers.

But Microsoft’s new boss, Satya Nadella, has been pulling back from phone hardware and digital adver-tising after seeing weak returns on those ventures. Last month, he an-nounced a deal to hand over most of Microsoft’s remaining display advertising business to AOL Inc.

Wall Street seems to prefer Na-della’s strategy of focusing on soft-

ware and Internet services. Analysts have said the Nokia business was a drag on Microsoft’s profits. After seeing a slight rise in the morning, Microsoft shares closed Wednesday at $44.24, down 6 cents on a day when a number of tech stocks saw declines.

“We believe these cuts are posi-tive for Microsoft as they help streamline the business by getting rid of non-core components,” said Mark Moerdler, an investment ana-lyst with Bernstein Research, in a note to investors.

“The new CEO has got to right the ship,” agreed David Mitchell Smith, an industry analyst with the Gartner research firm. “They were heading in some directions that needed course correction, and he’s doing it.”

That doesn’t mean Microsoft is out of the woods. The Redmond, Washington, company has struggled to adapt as consumers have increas-ingly turned away from personal computers, in favor of smartphones and tablets that run software made by Apple and Google. (ap)

Microsoft cuts 7,800 jobs as phone sales flag

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AirAsia crew members walk at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta, July 8, 2015. A move by In-donesia to enforce rules on airlines’ finances sent shares in Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Bhd skidding on Wednesday as investors fretted over whether its Jakarta-based affiliate will be grounded for a lack of funds.

AirAsia shares tumble on fears Indonesia affiliate could be grounded

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A U.S. government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity on Wednesday because the report has not been released, says Malaysia will be upgraded back onto a watch list next week when Secretary of State John Kerry launches the an-nual U.S. assessment of how 188 governments around the world have performed in fighting the flesh trade and other forms of exploitative labor.

It’s a quick improvement from 2014, when Malaysia, and neigh-boring Thailand, were among 23 countries to receive the lowest ranking, “tier 3.” Incumbents at that level included Iran, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Zimbabwe.

Malaysia’s upgrade is likely to be seen as recognition for working to identify, shelter and repatriate victims of trafficking, although widespread forced labor and worker abuses have been widely document-ed. Politically, it is sure to ame-liorate diplomatic relations as the Obama administration negotiates the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which includes Malaysia.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said Wednesday that a politi-cally motivated ranking would be a “perversion of the trafficking list.” “The deplorable human trafficking crisis in Malaysia merits a global cry for action and justice — not an attempt to sweep them under the rug for political expediency,” he said.

State Department spokesman John Kirby said the report is being

finalized and that it’s premature to speculate on what it will ultimately look like. Kirby said the depart-ment’s rankings are based on a pragmatic analysis of the best infor-mation possible, and underscore its interest in human rights.

Malaysian Deputy Home Min-ister Wan Junaidi Jaafar said his country has been doing its best to fulfil its obligations under interna-tional law. “Since the beginning of 2014 we have made tremendous ef-forts,” he told the AP on Thursday. He said Malaysia would attempt to improve further in industries such as agriculture and electron-ics. Despite the expected upgrade, Malaysia has continued to face hu-man trafficking issues throughout the past year.

In May, Malaysian authorities found abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers that contained more than 100 suspected graves as well as pens likely used as cages for migrants, shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people.

The finding followed a similar discovery earlier that month by police in Thailand, who unearthed dozens of bodies from shallow graves on the Thai side of the bor-der. The discoveries have exposed hidden networks of jungle camps run by human smugglers, who have for years held countless desperate people captive while extorting ran-soms from their families.

Phil Robertson, deputy director of

Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, said the move says more about U.S. politics than Malaysian progress. “Malaysia has little to distinguish its record on human trafficking since last year — its service to victims is poor, anti-trafficking law conceptually con-flated with people-smuggling, and protection for vulnerable migrants minimal,” he said.

Most of those who have fallen victim to the trafficking networks are impoverished refugees fleeing Myanmar and migrants from Ban-

gladesh, part of a wave of people who have fled their homelands to reach countries like Malaysia, where they hope to find work or live free from persecution.

Thousands of those refugees are Rohingya, Muslims who have for decades suffered from state-sanctioned discrimination in Bud-dhist-majority Myanmar. Earlier this year hundreds of Rohingya on boats were turned away when they tried to disembark in Malaysia.

Amnesty International’s Ma-

laysia executive director Shamini Darshni was not completely sur-prised at the news, but said the deci-sion was motivated not by human rights, but by “the value of trade this would bring.”

An upgrade “indicates the U.S.’ willingness to sidestep one of the world’s worst rights crises in the Southeast Asian region, of which Malaysia is a contributing cause,” said Darshni. “Malaysia’s anti-traf-ficking efforts have been severely wanting.”(ap)

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says he expects to be given the official mandate to form a new government later in the day.

Davutoglu’s ruling party won Turkey’s general election on June 7 but lost its parliamentary majority, forcing it to seek a coalition part-nership with one of three smaller parties in parliament.

Davutoglu said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was likely to task

him to form the government on Thursday. He said he would begin coalition-building talks with other party leaders next week. He laid down a marker for the coalition talks, saying Erdogan’s role was not up for debate.

Davutoglu’s most likely co-alition partners accuse Erdogan of exceeding his presidential powers and have made reining him in a priority for any alli-ance. (ap)

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 2, 2015 file photo,Turkey’s Prime Minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ahmet Davutoglu waves to his supporters following his speech at an election campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey.

Davutoglu expects to be tasked to form new government

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Malaysian religious officers and villagers place coffins containing remains of Rohingya migrants for a mass burial ceremony in Kedah, Malaysia Monday, June 22, 2015. Malaysian authorities have given a Muslim burial to 21 human trafficking victims, believed to be Rohingya Muslim refugees, found in shallow graves in jungles bordering Thailand.

US to boost Malaysia for addressing human traffickingThe U.S. plans to laud Malaysia for improving efforts to com-

bat human trafficking in an upcoming annual report just a year after blacklisting the Southeast Asian country for failing to protect men, women and children forced into modern-day slavery.

TABANAN - The potential of regionally generated revenue (PAD) that cannot be maximally increased seems to compound the development rate to be performed by the government of Tabanan in 2016. In the discussion of the public policy on regional budget (KUA) and plafond of provisional budget use (PPAS) 2016, the potential of regionally generated revenue from 2015 only increased some IDR 7 billion. On the other hand, the regional budget of Tabanan in 2016 will be burdened by the allocation for rural fund as mandated by the Law on Village.

Chairman of the Tabanan House doubling as Chairman of the Budgetary Agency, I Ketut ‘Boping’ Suryadi, recognized that the development in 2016 is not much different from that of 2015. This happens because the revenue to fund the development does not increase significantly.

In 2015, the regionally generated revenue only amounts to some IDR 243.78 billion, and in 2016 the potential for the addition is only about IDR 7 billion so that it will totally come to IDR 250 billion more. “Through discussion with the executives, the potential of the regionally generated revenue only increases about IDR 7 billion in 2016 from 2015. In other words, the development will not be much different from the previous year,” he said recently.

Seeing this condition, this PDI-P politician from Bajera acknowledged that it is difficult for the rice barn region of Bali to be able to do the development due to lack of funds. “We hope more budget will be obtained from central government for the development either for the DAK or DAU,” he said.

However, so far he said that his party does not know yet about the amount of the DAK and DAU fund including the BKK from central government and provincial government. President will only be delivering his financial memorandum on the National Budget 2016 to the House of Representatives on next August 16.

“In the meantime, our discussion is only on the potential for increasing local revenues. We are unable to talk about the others,” he said.

If the central government has submitted its financial memorandum, then the local government has got an illustration of general allocation fund (DAU), special allocation fund (DAK) and special financial assistance (BKK) that will be received. “After that we can make budgetary adjustment in the discussion on the regional budget draft 2016,” he said.

Today, his party puts more concentrations on the discussion of the regionally generated revenue sector. In fact, all members of the budgetary agency have come down to tourist attractions becoming the largest revenue producer for Tabanan like the Tanah Lot, Bedugul and Ulundanu including Jatiluwih.

Despite the presence of a larger budget to rural fund, local government can give more concentrations on the development of infrastructure because the participatory fund is not allowed and other funds including social fund. His party can concentrate on the discussion of infrastructure, especially roads having the status. “In essence, we will concentrate more on the development of infrastructure,” he concluded. (kmb28)

DeNPASAR - Creative hands of Bantiran community, Pupuan, Tabanan, has created innova-tive product. It poses the central producer of mangosteen so that local community gets inspired to process mangosteen skin because it is known to have remarkable properties.

When met at Sunday Market, the group of community named Amertha Bantiran processes man-gosteen skin into mangosteen juice. Nengah Sucipta, a member of the Amertha Bantiran group, said that mangosteen skin is crushed and

then fermented for three weeks.First of all, the mangosteen

batter is leavened. Having been fermented, it is filtered, boiled for 30 minutes and then added with honey and palm sugar. It takes three weeks to make the man-gosteen juice.

The business commenced in 2013 was inspired by the abun-dance of raw materials of man-gosteen at Bantiran. “The raw materials are easily to get in the area. Incidentally it is also the central producer of mangosteen. In addition, the raw materials of

mangosteen are also processed to produce toffee worked on by women farmer group at local village.

“The process of making it is the same as that of Balinese tof-fee, where its ingredients consist of mangosteen, palm sugar, gluti-nous rice flour, coconut milk and coconut. The preparation is very easy,” he said.

Each month he can sell up to 500 bottles assisted by other mem-bers of the group. His marketing has penetrated the Cilacap and Jakarta areas. (kmb42)IBP/file

Juice and Toffee made from Mangosteen

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One of the damage road in Tabanan Regency.

Potential PAD revenue IDR 7 billion, Tabanan development stagnant

3Friday, July 10, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, July 10, 2015

The 37th Bali Art FestivalFriday, July 10, 2015

Time Place Event

11.00 Angsoka Stage Reconstruction performances by Gong Luang Troupe, Denpasar

11.00 Ayodya Stage Drama performances by Rwa Bhineda Art Troupe, Denpasar

20.00 Ayodya Stage Drama Gong Parade by Tilotama Semarabumi Troupe 20.00 Wantilan Puppet performances by I Wayan Wija,

Gianyar 20.00 Ksirarnawa Hall Semara Pagulingan parade by Semara

Yowana Troupe and Gurnita Sari Troupe

In a typically elaborate staging -- last year he recreated a Parisian bistro on the runway -- Lagerfeld showed his first of two couture collections at Paris Fashion Week, with his all-fur production for Fendi on Wednesday seen as the highlight of the five-day fashion extravaganza.

British singer Rita Ora, French singer Vanessa Paradis and her daughter with Johnny Depp, Lily-Rose, were also featured as high rollers sat around roulette tables in the centre of the runway.

Slot machines circled the pe-rimetre of the muted, cosy room where models in sharply-cut black bobs, with bright lipstick and thickly-spread blush took to the runway in an atmosphere of the heady 1920s.

The iconic Chanel suit sported square-cut shoulders and boxy

jackets, appearing three dimen-sional thanks to a technique called selective laser sintering which Lagerfeld used to take the look into the 21st century.

The technique sees a laser aimed into space where it binds powdered material according to a 3D model, creating a solid structure.

“The idea is to take the most iconic jacket of the 20th century and make a 21st century version, which technically was unimagi-nable in the period when it was born,” Lagerfeld told AFP after the show.

“The vest is one piece, there is no sewing, it is moulded.”

The Chanel designer said the technique “widens haute couture” and would be used more and more in the future.

“What keeps couture alive, is

to move with the times. If it stays like sleeping beauty in the woods in an ivory tower, you can forget it,” he said.

“The women who buy couture today are not the bourgeoises of the past, they are young, modern women.”

The haute couture designation is protected by French law and at-tributed exclusively by the minis-try of industry to 14 houses whose clothes are entirely made by hand and tailored to each client.

Lagerfeld’s dresses had layered skirts or a high-low hem -- short in the front and long in the back -- and as seen in several other col-lections this week, grazed ankles and necklines plunged nearly to the navel.

One dress was almost entirely made out of feathers, with a gold collar.

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Model present a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Haute Couture Fall Winter 2015/2016 fashion show for French fashion house Chanel at the Grand Palais which is transformed into a casino in Paris, France, July 7, 2015.

Lagerfeld gambles with 3D-printed suit in Chanel casino

PARIS - US actresses Kristen Stewart and Julianne Moore played roulette in Karl Lager-feld’s celebrity-studded runway casino Tuesday where the fashion legend used 3D printing for a futuristic version of the classic Chanel suit.

The show was capped by US model Kendall Jenner as the Chanel bride in a white trouser suit with a long bridal train.

Lagerfeld said his modern clients were also a lot richer than when Coco Chanel first started out, when mostly women from America or South America would fly to Paris to see couture collec-tions.

“Today it is private jets that transport clothes for women to try on around the globe. At Chanel we have four haute couture work-shops with hundreds of workers: they are always snowed under.

“It is a clientele which doesn’t show itself, which doesn’t come to the runway shows, they live on another planet,” said Lagerfeld.

He said his decor was inspired by “the ambiance of casinos at a time when people dressed up.”

“They didn’t appear to try and win to pay the rent at the end of the month. Today casinos are a bit more dreary because people

no longer get dolled up.”On Wednesday the indefati-

gable Lagerfeld, 81, will unveil a collection celebrating his 50 years with Italy’s Fendi, which has hailed the “longest relationship between a designer and a fashion house.”

The show will be entirely “haute fourrure” or couture fur -- a material the luxury fashion brand has never shied away from.

French film icon and ardent animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has already registered her disapproval by writing a letter to Choupette Lagerfeld, the designer’s pampered feline companion.

Bardot appealed to the cat -- who has become famous with 48,000 Twitter followers -- to “purr in the ear” of her master and save her “furry friends”.

But not even Choupette, whose every whim is usually catered to, is likely to stop the show from going ahead. (afp)

At present there are 22 subak abian organizations producing cacao in Jembrana and they have been giving and receiving training about how to create export standard products.

Director of the Kalimajari Founda-tion, Anak Agung Sidiastuti, said that the world’s best chocolate factory in France, Valrhona, has been target-ing cacao produced in Jembrana for about a year now. Valrhona became interested in the fermented dried cacao of Jembrana because the beans have been fermented well and are

UTZ certified and because the cocao farmers have consistently abided by the code of conduct (COC) over the past four years. For four years, the Kalimajari Foundation along with the KSS Cooperative have been providing assistance to the farmers, while the local government has been providing guidance and encourage-ment about how to comply with with export standards.

This export opportunity is also an opportunity to market the the positive image of Jembrana cacao in particular

and Bali cacao in general. In this case the buyer is working directly with the cooperative. According to Sidiastuti, in order to strengthen the coopera-tives position in building a sustainable cocao commodity, they need the sup-port of either th government or banks or both. Some banking institutions have already provided assistance in maintaining the certification of the cooperatives beans. This August, the cooperative will deliver 12.5 metric tons of fermented cacao bean to Val-rhona. (kmb26)

SINGARAJA - Following the recent eruption of Mount Raung in Bondowoso, East Java, residents of Buleleng have felt the impact of the blast in the form of the volcanic dust. This dust is not only found on peoples front porches and the like, but it is also blown by the wind caus-ing people to suffer eye irritation and such. Residents are being advised to were medical masks when riding their motorcycles.

As of Sunday (Jul. 5), residents started noticing dust accumulat-ing around their homes.Gerokgak subdistrict or West Buleleng area in particular is feeling the effects of the blast as they are quite close to East Java.

Pemaron village, Banyuning (Buleleng subdistrict), Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict and Sangsit village, Sawan subdistrict as well as areas around Singaraja have also encountered the fine black dust. Some motorists who suddenly found their eyes being irritated did not im-mediate realize that it was due to the volcanic dust from Mount Raung.

Last Wednesday, Managing Di-rector of Buleleng Hospital, Made Wiartana, said that the impact of air mixed with volcanic ash is very dangerous to human health. Inhaling air mixed with the fine dust, is likely to harm the health of the human re-spiratory organ. In fact, in the long term, it can contribute to respiratory infection. “Naturally if one breathes in volcanic dust without being aware of it, it can cause disruptions to breathing and even cause respiratory tract infections,” he said.

To prevent such illness, Wiartana suggests that people who need to leave their house, use medical masks to prevent dust particles from enter-ing their lungs, particularly if they are riding on motorcycle. Being in the habit of wearing a medical mask is the most effective way of prevent-ing the inhalation of the dust which apparently is originating from the eruption of Mount Raung in Bon-dowoso, East Java.

According to hospital reports, so far their have been very few people complaining of the effects of the dust. Wiartana however, cannot say for sure whether the volcanic ash has been disturbing peoples health or not, because often people will seek consultation at local health clinics before going to the hospital. “Here at the hospital, we don’t have access to accurate data. Public health centers may have a better idea of how things are looking. Preliminary data about patients suffering from respiratory infection or other dust related ill-nesses are compiled and stored at the public health centers,” he said.

Chief Executive of the Buleleng Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ketut Yasa, confirmed that there have been reports of residents encounter-

ing dust alleged to be coming from the eruption of Mount Raung. He said that they have received reports from a few village and subdisctrict officials from the western region of Buleleng. The BPBD disaster station has not received reports of dust from other regions.

“It’s true that we have received many reports from village officials about residents encountering fine black dust including from my na-tive Kaliuntu. Dust distribution very much depends on where the wind blows, and so far the dust is mostly found in coastal settlements,” he said.

Yasa added that the BPBD are still analysing the data from the reports that they have received from the public and are also await-ing confirmation about the source of the dust and other information from the National Weather Service (BMKG) and the Control and Op-erations Center (Pusdalops). While waiting for confirmation the BPBD is coordinating with relevant tech-nical agencies so as to take further measures.

“We do not want to assume that the dust is coming from Mount Raung until we hear from the Na-tional Weather Service or Control and Operations Center as it is pos-sible that the dust is coming from some other source. We are still waiting for definite information. Hopefully, residents will not fret, and we are recommending that people wear medical masks when they leave their homes so as to avoid respiratory or eye infection,” he af-firmed. (kmb38)

Volcanic dust from Mount Raung reaches Buleleng

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Cacao, one of the leading products owned by Jembrana plantation, has been interested by a French chocolate factory for a year.

Jembrana cacao beans exported to Europe

NEGARA - Cacao, one of Jembrana’s leading plantation products, garnered the interest of a french chocolate factory last year. Cacao production in Jembrana which has been UTZ certified, is considered to have an aromatic profile distinctive of Indonesia. A number of subak organizations are now starting to make improvements and joining the Kerta Semaya Samaniya (KSS) Cooperative.

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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 beau-tifully 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The CSR activity named “Shar-ing is Caring” is conducted con-currently in 6 major cities in Greater Jakarta, Bandung, Sura-baya, Yogyakarta, Balikpapan, and Bali and participated by all hotel units in the region such as favehotel, NEO, Quest, Harper, Aston, Alana, Kamuela as well as selected hotels like Aston at Kuningan Suites and The Grove Suite by Grand Aston.

The cleaning of the mosque is carried out by most of the hotel units in Jakarta, communally cleaning the rest rooms and ablu-tion areas in the mosque before dis-tributing sweet treats to pedestrians and street vendors in the Taman Suropati area.

At the same time, sweet treats are also given out to people who pass the Hayam Wuruk Street -

close to Istiqlal Mosque. Whilst in Bandung, sweet treats are shared in Braga Street, Pasteur, and Dipati Ukur area to the the homeless and to bikers, drivers, and people in cars who are caught in traffic jams prior to the fast breaking time. In Yogyakarta, “Ta’jil on the Road” is held in Sagan area and Ngabean, whilst for Balikpapan - Kaliman-tan, sweet treats is given at the T-Junction of BC and Rapak, in Surabaya at Taman Bungkul and in Bali at the mosques in Kuta.

The total number of sweet treats being distributed across the regions is more than 6000 packets from all of Archipelago International’s hotel units.

On the other hand, Archipelago International also visits the orphan-age Yayasan Yatim Piatu Nurul Iman Jafariah in Menteng Jaya,

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Embraces the spirit of Ramadhan with “Sharing is Caring” event

JAKArTA - During the holy month of ramadhan, Archipel-ago International as the leading hotel operator in Indonesia, is holding its annual Corporate Social responsibility (CSr) event by helping to clean the Sunda Kelapa Mosque in Central Ja-karta, and to distribute sweet treats across the region as ta’jil.

Central Jakarta to enjoy fast break-ing with the orphans. Furthermore, in Bogor, fast breaking is held in Islamic Boarding School Al Islami, Pabuaran - Bogor.

“The Sharing is Caring event is an annual event or activity that

we hold during Ramadhan. Last year, Archipelago International also held breakfasting or “Buka Bersama” with the children of a local orphanage. Routine activities like these carried out by Archi-pelago International and our seven

brands aims to share the joy and togetherness of Ramadhan, as well as strengthening the relationship between ourselves and the local communities.” Said Mr. Lukas Samali, VP of Human Resources - Archipelago International.

Around 11:20 a.m., the Denpasar Police arrived at Ubung Terminal where they spread out and targeted people suspected of selling fraudulent tickets. They also searched the be-longings of several passengers. “We arrested seven people indicted for brokering. They are being held at the Ubung Police Station for processing,” he said.

Artana confirmed that that the police have carried out similar operations several times already and in so doing have managed to arrest a total of 127 people. At this time of celebration of Galungan and Eid, police continue to pre-vent social diseases such as people comitting brokering and thuggery.

“Presently our operations are mainly tar-geting bus ticket frauders at locations such as Ngurah Rai Aiport and the harbour which will also be investigated,” said Artana.

Operation Cipkpn Agung, will be fol-

lowed by Operation Ketupat 2015 to ensure the smooth flow of people returning from Java after the holidays.“The operation will be carried out for seven days before and seven days after Eid. We have prepared per-sonnel who will assigned to predetermined stations,” Artana said.

In addition, the Denpasar Police have also prepared police service posts in tourist areas such as Kuta, Sanur and Nusa Dua. Monitoring stations have also been set up on the borders between Denpasar and Gianyar, Kuta and Ubung.

“We appeal to those coming home and traveling by motorcycles not to carry exces-sive baggage. We will also be checking the condition of vehicles and their paperwork. Most importantly, please be careful during the journey to your home village,” he con-cluded. (kmb26)

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The fish farmers in Batur Lake are worried becuase the increasing gas exhaust from the lake. If the condition continues then it will affect the fish production

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The Head of Bali Police Ronny F Sompie visited Ubung terminal during the inspec-tion near Eid Celebration

TABANAN - Homecoming season this year appears to be flowing well. However, in order to ensure smooth-ness and anticipate traffic bottlenecks, the Ministry of Transportation through Directorate General of Land Transport has issued a ban on freight operators. This prohibition is valid for ten days starting July 12, on national lines in the province of Lampung, Java and Bali, including the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section.

According to the Head of the Ta-banan Transport, Communications and Informatics Agency, I Made Agus Harta Wiguna, in accordance with rules No.SK.1364 /AJ.201/DRJD/ 2015, the regulation of traffic in the homecoming season will be effectively carried out from July 12.

“Traffic management is commenced

five days before the holiday, especially for homecoming traffic. However, since Tabanan has no departure and ar-rival stations, the focus is on the ban of freight transportation,” he explained.

In general, he continued, the regula-tion affirms that all freight whether by trailer truck or containers is prohibited from moving between July 12-July 21. Execptions are made for certain goods such as food staples which are still allowed to be transported. “The trans-portation of fuel or gas, fertilizer, milk and postal items are also still allowed to be transported,” he explained.

This rule will be enforced after co-ordinating with police authorities. “We will always coordinate with the police because the rule is run in harmony with the implementation of Operation Ketupat,” he said. (kmb28)

Freight transport stops for ten days

Bus ticket frauders arrested at Ubung Terminal

DENPASAr - Ahead of the Galungan and Eid celebrations, the Denpasar Police applied Operation ‘Cipkon Agung 2015’ at the Ubung Terminal, on Wednesday (Jul. 8). Led by Deputy Chief of Denpasar Police, Nyoman Ar-tana, the operation led to the arrest of eight people suspected to be selling fraudulent bus ticket. After being arrested they were made to sign an agree-ment stating that they would not repeat the crime in the future. According to Artana, 50 officers from the Denpasar Police and West Denpasar Police were involved in the operation. The raids targeted civilian and bus ticket frauders as a way to ensure the security and comfort of passengers at Ubung terminal, especially those going to Java to celebrate Eid.

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Police in Lake Elsinore, where the doughnut shop is located, said they and Riverside County public health officials were investigating the leaked video, which appeared to show the 22-year-old singer and a man with her “maliciously lick” the doughnuts.

Mayra Solis, 22, a cashier on duty at Wolfee Donuts when Grande went into the store, said the singer didn’t purchase any of the dough-nuts she licked.

“She was really rude,” Solis told The Associated Press.

Earlier Wednesday, Grande said in a statement to the AP that she’s a proud American.

“I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American and I’ve always made it clear that I love my country. What I said in a private moment with my friend, who was buying the dough-nuts, was taken out of context and I am sorry for not using more discre-tion with my choice of words,” the

statement read.In the video posted Tuesday by

TMZ, Grande says “What ... is that? I hate Americans. I hate America” when a tray of doughnuts appears in front of her.

Grande said she chose to express herself as she did because she leads a healthy lifestyle and is upset with “how freely we as Americans eat and consume things without giving any thought to the consequences.”

“The fact that the United States has one of the highest child obesity rates in the world frustrates me. We need to do more to educate ourselves and our children about the dangers of overeating and the poison that we put into our bodies,” she said. “However I should have known better in how I expressed myself; and with my new respon-sibility to others as a public figure I will strive to be better.”

Asked about the police inves-tigation, Grande’s representatives

said she would not have further comment.

Dottie Ellis-Merki, a spokes-woman for the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health, said the agency was inves-tigating why the doughnuts were left out unprotected and exposed to the public, in violation of state food laws. She said investigators found no further issues at the shop on Wednesday.

“During the investigation, the manager did state they normally don’t leave donuts out like was shown in the video,” Ellis-Merki said in an email to the AP. “The em-ployee went to the back to retrieve freshly made donuts by request of the customer and left the trays out while getting other trays.”

Grande also announced Wednes-day that she would not perform at the MLB All-Star Concert on Sat-urday. She said it had nothing to do with the leaked video. (ap)

NEW YORK — The foul-mouthed cartoon characters of Comedy Central’s “South Park” have turned into television main-stays — and they’ll be sticking around at least through 2019.

Comedy Central on Wednes-day announced a three-year deal to keep the series going, with the

team of Trey Parker and Matt Stone continuing to write, direct and edit every episode. Parker and Stone started the series in 1997.

The deal extends “South Park” through a 23rd season with 304 original episodes, the network said.

A new season of “South Park” will start on Sept. 16. (ap)

RABAT, Morocco - A Moroccan regulator said Tuesday it rejected a request to sanction a television channel for broadcasting a “scantily dressed” American pop star Jennifer Lopez at a concert in the highly conservative Muslim country.

The request from Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane came after Lopez sparked controversy over her performance before record crowds at the annual Mawazine music festival in May.

Media criticised her for her “suggestive poses” and for being “scantily” dressed during a show broadcast on public television channel 2M.

Government spokesman Mus-tapha Khalfi, a member of the rul-ing Justice and Development party, strongly denounced the broadcast,

saying it was “unacceptable and goes against broadcasting law”.

Following that, Benkirane sent a letter to the High Audiovisual Communication Authority (HACA) urging it to take action.

He called for sanctions against the channel’s management, say-ing the performance had “sexual connotations” and provoked the “religious and moral values of the country”.

But HACA rejected the request, saying on its website that such ac-tions were outside its remit.

According to the Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities, HACA’s mission is to “ensure... the respect of universal principles of pluralism and information ob-jectivity, as well as the values of Moroccan civilisation.” (afp)

Morocco won’t sanction TV over ‘scantily dressed’ J-Lo

Comedy Central extends ‘South Park’ through 2019

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This image released by Comedy Central shows the cast of the animated series, “South Park.”

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Ariana Grande’s video doughnut licking investigated

CALIFORNIA - Police said Wednesday they were investigating video that appears to show Ariana Grande licking doughnuts at a shop in Southern California. Earlier, Grande apologized for saying “I hate America” in the same video.

Mahadewi, who is also a lecturer at the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua, also said that it is impor-tant that we recognize that foreign investors are keen to take advantage of opportunities in Bali and that they can easily do so by utilizing their vast networks of contacts and of course the large capital which

they have access to. This makes the playing field somewhat uneven.

Most local investors still have limited business networks and their professionalism is not optimal. However, this does not necessarily mean that local investors cannot match or even exceed the abili-ties of foreign investors to turn a

profit here. According to Eka, their remain many opportunities that are wide open fro locals, as long as the government creates a space for locals though appropriate regula-tions.

She pointed out that little things like language acquisition can make a big difference. Ideally, the govern-ment would have the courage to mandate that foreigners who wish to invest in Indonesia, especially in Bali should learn to speak Indo-nesian. “Language should not be underestimated. Actually language is what we use to communicate to sell things. If there were such a rule, the space for foreign investors would automatically be narrowed,”

she said.She added that local investors

also need the government to fa-cilitate access to banking services. Presently banks will not extend credit without proof of credibil-ity on the part of the borrowers. Therefor the government should require banks to commit to raising the potential of local investors. In the sector of Small Medium En-terprises, Eka mentioned that the government has in fact recently opened the way for SMEs to access banking services.

However, government efforts must still be made to ensure that the local community continues to grow economically. We should not

let SMEs face unnecessary setbacks that allow foreign investors to take over. “Local investors must not be suppressed. Any little effort made by the grass roots must be supported if the government is indeed serious in wanting to provide a wider space for local investors to function. We must not foreign parties take our opportu-nities,” she concluded. (kmb25)

Wales among top seeds for World Cup qualifying draw

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Tourists flocked in Ubud, Gianyar during summer holiday. The govern-ment needs to seriously protect local investors as well as nurture their

potential. To do so, the government must first be sensitive to and aware of the various problems that local investors face.

Bali tourism

Government should opens opportunities for local investorsDENPASAR - The government needs to seriously protect

local investors as well as nurture their potential. To do so, the government must first be sensitive to and aware of the various problems that local investors face. Otherwise, foreign investors will increasingly dominate Bali tourism including at the micro level. Deputy Secretary General of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, Ni Made Eka Mahadewi, recently elucidated the current situation.

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