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Conservative lawmaker DavidAmess said on his website that hewas so appalled by England’s per-formance that he filed a parliamen-tary motion demanding action.

The motion urges parliament tovoice “its great disappointment atEngland’s pathetic exit from theWorld Cup finals” and says the team“let this country and their supportersdown”.

It calls for an urgent inquiry into

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England’s coach FabioCapello reacts at the end ofthe 2010 World Cup round of16 football match Germany vs.England on June 27, 2010 atFree State stadium inMangaung/Bloemfontein. Ger-many defeated England 4-1.

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(L to C) England’s striker Wayne Rooney, England’s midfielder Steven Gerrard and England’sdefender John Terry react among German and English players after the 2010 World Cup roundof 16 football match England versus Germany on June 27, 2010 at Free State Stadium inMangaung/Bloemfontein. Germany won the match 4-1.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia– A court acquitted a Malaysianwoman of killing her Indonesianhousemaid, her lawyer said Thurs-day, in a case that highlightedcomplaints about the abuse of for-eign domestic workers.

Chen Pei Ee was charged in2007 with the murder of Kunarsih,who was found dead with bruises

Malaysian acquitted of killing Indonesian maidon her body in a room in Chen’shome in August that year. Policesaid the 24-year-old maid, who hadbeen working for Chen for fourmonths, died of internal bleeding.

A High Court judge in centralSelangor state acquitted Chen onWednesday because there was insuf-ficient evidence to link her toKunarsih’s death, said Chen’s lawyer,Gooi Soon Seng. Many Indonesiansuse only one name. Irene Fernandez,

director of Malaysian-based workers’rights group Tenaganita, said the out-come was “very, very worrying” be-cause it meant nobody would be pun-ished for Kunarsih’s death.

“Definitely this is a real majorconcern, particularly to domesticworkers. The reason being, they areso isolated,” Fernandez said.

Accusations of maid abuse haveoccasionally strained relations be-tween Indonesia and Malaysia,

which employs some 230,000 maidsfrom its relatively poorer neighbor.

Indonesia last year stoppedsending new maids to Malaysia af-ter several high-profile cases ofmaids being beaten or even founddead. The freeze is expected to endlater this year after both countriescomplete an agreement to beef uplegal protection for housemaids andimprove their welfare, such as bygiving them a day off per week.

British MP wants inquiryinto England exit

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LONDON - A British member of parliament is demanding an inquiry into the state of Englishsoccer, branding the national team’s performance at the World Cup “pathetic”. England wentto the tournament in South Africa with high hopes but went out in the second round on Sundaywhen Germany trounced them 4-1 in Bloemfontein, their worst World Cup finals defeat.

the state of the national game and saysmany players in England’s highly-rated Premier League are “grosslyoverpaid and under-perform”.

Soccer’s governing body FIFAjealously guards the game from po-litical interference.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter threat-ened on Tuesday to ban France’s na-tional and club teams from interna-tional competition if French politiciansdid not stop meddling in soccer affairs.

Amess’s “early day motion” is oneof hundreds filed by members of par-liament (MPs) on a wide range of sub-jects. They are a kind of petition whichother MPs can sign up to but they arenot binding and often do not lead toany action. So far, just one other MP,Liberal Democrat Mike Hancock, hasbacked Amess’s motion.

The British media have savaged theEngland team for their lacklustreshowing, criticised the sub-par perfor-

mance of many of its stars, and calledinto question the future of the team’sItalian coach Fabio Capello.

Many commentators say the Pre-mier League takes precedence in En-gland at the expense of the nationalteam. Britain is not the only countrywhere poor results in South Africahave led to political repercussions.

A senior adviser to NigerianPresident Goodluck Jonathan saidon Wednesday he had suspendedthe side from international compe-tition for two years following theirpoor performance in South Africa,where they went out in the firstround. France was consumed by apolitical inquest after the team fin-ished bottom of its group

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Such interrelated art attractionsassembled in succession describedthe tradition of Sanggau Dayak com-munity in the past. Or at least, thestory reminded us of the traditionsof agrarian society. It was com-menced by an attraction of lifting ricemortar. Before being used to poundrice, the mortar should be moved toa wider space. However, the mortarwas described quite heavy, so it wasrequired the implementation of ritualactivity. Procession of uplifting themortar was accompanied by musicand ritual of reciting spells or ritualprayer. Finally, the mortar could beremoved easily.

Furthermore, the art envoy fea-tured a Betayong Dance. This dancedescribed the invocation of permis-sion to take honey from a beehive. Anumber of beautiful dancers playedthe role as bees and the queen of bee.

‘Coritanya Muntuh Mula’ of the‘Coritanya Muntuh Mula’ of the‘Coritanya Muntuh Mula’ of the‘Coritanya Muntuh Mula’ of the‘Coritanya Muntuh Mula’ of theDayak from West KalimantanDayak from West KalimantanDayak from West KalimantanDayak from West KalimantanDayak from West KalimantanRemind us of agricultural society tradition

Beauty can stop everyone’s eyesflickering. Beauty of the kid song canlullaby a baby. Similarly, beauty alsocan toss the imagination, soothe themind and draw people to get near. Balihas many sources of that beauty offer-ing the charm of nature, culture or ad-venture.

By maintaining traditions inspiredby Hinduism, Balinese people go onrunning in harmony with the time. Inother words, they do not feel inferiorbecause of inheriting those traditions.Beauty in the form of various dancemovements has been introduced sinceearly ages. On seeing a dance staged,a toddler may watch it attentively orits fingers move and move as if imi-tating the movement of the dance.

Virtually all customary villages inBali have gamelan troupe. This troupeplays important role in expressing their

Inland Dayak tribe of Sanggau Regency, West Kalimantan Province participated to enliventhe 32nd Bali Arts Festival (BAF), last Wednesday (Jun 30). By presenting art composition en-titled Coritanya Muntuh Mula, the artists under direction of Department of Culture and Tour-ism of Sanggau Regency could widen the outlook of BAF visitors about Dayak typical arts. Sup-ported by 18 dancers and gamelan players, the art envoy of the regency having adjacent to theborder of neighboring country, namely Serawak, Malaysia, showed off art of attraction consist-ing of nine sections related to each other. Present as leader was the Head of Sanggau Culture andTourism Services, Paul Krosse Oyot and Ruth Alipius as head of the art studio.

Meanwhile, some male dancers por-trayed the honey seekers. The dancedescribed a ritual of invoking permis-sion to take the honey in the beehive.Described, human beings requiredhoney but did not intend to disturbthe bees. The bees also provided theopportunity for people to enjoy thesweetness of honey produced. It is asymbol of appreciation and mutualpreserve of the balance of nature andrespect to all living creatures, includ-ing the small bees. No less interest-ing attraction in the performance wasblow piping. Dayak community ofWest Kalimantan used to do so whenhunting animals in the forest. Blow-pipe is made from bamboo. Blow pip-ing was also done to drive out ani-mals that often interfered with nestof bees such as lemurs and tigers.

Art envoy as participant from out-side Bali also provided playing drum

attraction, (in local language it iscalled bogonang) as an expression ofjoy after successfully completed thejob. Besides, they also staged a whiteplate dance. This dance representeda sign of gratitude or thanks for thesuccessful realization and the plea-sure derived. As an illustration of theDayak communities having an inter-esting game long ago, the art envoyspresented popular folk spin-a-topgame show. This game also containeda profound philosophy that if some-one concentrated or focused on thegoal, he would succeed or become awinner.

As a symbol of mutual assistanceor cooperation is intense among TheDayak community, the art troupe alsofeatured a mat weaving dance. Themat was made in mutual cooperationto be used as the sitting base andsleeping mats. Then, the Kondan

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The picture show the dancer from Dayak tribe perform in the32nd annual Bali Art Festival (BAF) in art center Denpasar.

mass dance was also staged to BAFvisitors describing the interactionswithin the community of SanggauDayak. The dance reflecting the ex-citement was generally performedwhen the local community organizeda regular harvest party.

And, no less interesting attractionwas the toast of wine (drink the palmwine together). Palm wine as symbol

of honor was presented to guests. Infact, a number of BAF visitors werealso invited to taste their wine. Mean-while, the Head of Sanggau Cultureand Tourism Services, Paul KrosseOyot, said to preserve local arts, hisgovernment routinely provided fundseach year to art studios through re-gional budget. Every single villageusually has an art studio. (08)

Balinese women:

In devotional services through the artsentertainment arts and accompanyingevery ritual activity. This existencegives opportunity to villagers fromchild to adult to express their artistictalent especially in dance, drama andgamelan arts. Young girls under twelveor elementary school age have a chanceto participate in performing RejangDance. By wearing white and yellowcostumes and floral decoration on head,they dance beautifully accompanied bygamelan music. Rejang Dance is oneof the sacred dances performed in rela-tion to the organization of temple anni-versary or odalan. Other than putting abasic love to their tradition, they alsoshow devotional service or ngatur ayahthrough the arts.

When they grow older, right on en-tering secondary school, they join cus-tomary village youth club or SekaaTaruna. Here, with their male friends

and their brothers and sisters start tolearn about organization. Many thingscan be learned through this organiza-tion. Since it has affiliation to custom-ary village, they can learn about themaking of some simple oblation un-der guidance of senior oblation makerand various traditional arts. In Bali,this youth club actually play impor-tant role in preparing young genera-tion to maintain their valuable culturalheritages or to prepare themselves forinheriting customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, here theyoung girls also learn to play drama ormore complex traditional arts. Populargenres of performance showed are pureentertainment and the one in combina-tion with sacred dance. The latter usu-ally features Calonarang. This magicaldrama involves a combination of maleand female players. In essence, this

Calonarang drama highlights the end-less fight between truth and untruthsymbolizing by sanctified effigies ortapakan like Rangda and Barong. Byand large, it is also associated with ritualevents at local temple.

In the following stage, whenwoman gets married she will enter thenew organization, namely customaryvillage. Having learned much aboutritual works, it is now the time to prac-tice them in wider social life. Theyshould attend some socio-religiousactivities when the events engage themembers of customary village. At thisstage, household mother can remainto show her devotional service throughthe arts other than social works.Through the arts, they may join thedrama or individual psalmodic sing-ing or pasantian.

How is about their private life? It is

normal as others. They also have op-portunity to build career in their pro-fession. In modern life with heteroge-neous professions as today, womanalso works as men do. Traditions donot impede them to reach outstandingachievement in self-employee or of-fice job. If they work at daytime, somesocial works will be held at theevening.

Tradition is not something obsolete.Even, it retains abundant inspirationsto create something new and creativethat is advantageous for modern life.However, traditions should also be re-viewed and adjust to the current con-dition without leaving behind its core.Tradition does not hinder women toget their career achievement. Even, itstays to give them a channel to expresstheir spiritual sense through devotionalservices. (BTN/punia)

3Friday, July 2, 2010International Bali News

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Rabies spreading is still threat-

ening Denpasar and so DenpasarAnimal Husbandry, Fishery andMarine Agency (Disnakanlut) cameup with a new idea to minimalisethe threat by redoing rabies vacci-nations or called sweeping.

This was confirmed by theAgency’s head, Ir. I Dewa MadeNgurah, who was met duringDenpasar City House of Represen-tatives’ plenary session on Wednes-day (30/6).

Dewa Ngurah mentioned theDenpasar Government’s effort toanticipate rabies will never stop.This was then seen by having themass vaccinations again. “Vil-lages with rabies threats will beprioritized, for its animal victimsand people too,” Ngurah stated.

This is done again as some dogsweren’t vaccine yet in the previ-ous one. Through this, he hopedthose who have rabies infected petdogs can be given a vaccine.

The method they’re going touse is by going to houses door-to-door. This had to be done assome residents won’t go to the

The Central Government ArealMangupraja Mandala has a capa-cious of 46,67 hectares and with thatcapacity, you never can miss it inSempidi from its huge entrance ‘tilthe buildings in every corner of theroad. The artistic looking lights wereplaced through the area and in theeast side there’s at least 10 lightsbrightening the main road.

And yet, that’s just the main one,there are smaller ones for the en-trance and also in the parking lots.If all is turned on in the same time,there’s no areal not covered by lightswhich shows how glorious theBadung Central Government is andalso it made itself a city central too.

It made anyone who saw itamazed by it, including question-ing the expense used from Badungregional budgets (APBD) to ac-commodate this luxurious view.

On Wednesday (30/6), Head of

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Allegation of corruption occur-

ring at the Indonesia Institute of Arts(ISI) Denpasar continues to spread.After Nyoman Suteja and NyomanSanggra were designated as defen-dant, Denpasar State Attorney(Kejari) had secretly set Prof. WRas a suspect. Determination of WRas a suspect was immediately an-nounced by Head of Denpasar StateAttorney, I.B. Siwananda, lastWednesday (Jun 30).

Accompanied by the Head ofSpecial Crime Section (Kasi Pidsus)of Kejari Denpasar, Ridwan Kadir,the official who served in the officeof Attorney General from this Fri-day, said the case had been upgradedto investigation stage. “An investi-gation warrant (Sprindik) has al-ready existed since last May 25,2010. Therefore, we have deter-mined the suspect. Today, investi-gation is underway and there is apossibility on the addition of newdefendant,” he said.

When asked whether the WR wassomeone who had been frequentlymentioned by witnesses in court ofthe same case as defendant NyomanSutedja and Nyoman Sanggra?While smiling Siwananda said thatall would know what he meant. “Ithink you surely have known aboutthe matter,” he said.

Just Like Paiton Areal

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The picture shows Badung central government which is located in Sempidi

Mangupura (Bali Post) –Lights on every corner brightening the central government at Sempidi made the areal some

sort of posh hotel. The lights added great atmosphere, not only at night sometimes during the day.Yet, this condition contrasts the government’s program in energy saving.

General and Supplies Unit BadungRegional Secretariat, I NengahNgarta, admitted does not knowhow much electricity payment willbe asked from the central govern-ment including how much for themaintenance too. Apparently theproject was not fully handover yetfrom Adi Karya to the region gov-ernment. “So it is not yet countedhow much needed to be spent. It’sall still managed by Adi Karya,”Ngarta explained.

After the handover then it willbe known how much Badung’s bud-get has been spent. For sure withall work unit area (SKPD) movingin Badung, the electricity spendingwill increase. “There will be addi-tional. Right now the electricityspending was for the regional sec-retariat including the tennis court atLumintang and more. This is aroundIDR 150 million a month. Mean-

while the old office is in each workunit area,” Ngarka added.

Ngarta explained that the bright-ening atmosphere will be there andhe even said it’s similar to thePaiton Power Plant Areal atSitubondo. The Regional Govern-ment must be efficient in operatingthe lights later on. “Which oneshould be on, which one should beoff will be managed later on,”Ngarta concluded.

Similar statements to Ngarta,Head of Public Relations and Pro-tocol Badung Regional Secretary IGede Wijaya explained, from theessential even esthetic side, thelightings were needed as the centralgovernment has a large area. Eventhough, energy saving has to be con-sidered and done especially in thiselectricity crisis era. And so a strat-egy to be efficient is the most im-portant thing for this situation. (ded)

Allegation of corruption at ISI DenpasarState Attorney decidesProf. WR as suspect

This former Head of AmlapuraState Attorney confirmed that the up-grading of the case was absolutelynot caused by an order, pressure orintervention from any party. It waspurely based on the result of inves-tigation plus some evidences found.“Please be written, that the upgrad-ing status of this case is not causedby any order, pressure or interven-tion,” he asserted.

Why this case was just revealedto surface, according to Siwananda,it could not be separated from theoutbreak of concentration of the in-vestigator, because they shouldhandle the trial process and open anew page the same case. “We do thisin a hurry. On the one hand, of thefirst case of ISI is still under trialprocess, while on the other hand, webegin a new investigation. So, weshould focus on accomplishing themone by one,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Legal CounselSuardana acting on behalf of WRconsidered such determination washighly influenced by political nu-ance. With the intervention of politi-cal elements in the field of law en-forcement, it was believed therewould be a weak point. “It is the rightof investigators to determine our cli-ent as a suspect. However, we willprove everything in the trial lateron,” he asserted. (015)

Rabies Prevention at DenpasarAnimal Husbandry,Fishery and Marine AgencyRedo Rabies Vaccination

communal meeting place (balaibanjar). These residents attitude isdangerous and can be the sourceof rabies. In an infected area, ide-ally all animals infected shouldvaccine to minimalise the threat.“Minimally all the animals in thatinfected area 70 percent shouldhave been given vaccines,”Ngurah explained.

Besides this sweeping, officialsare also going to do socializingand eliminating. Officials haveprepared some supporting equip-ments such as tulup, nets, andmore. “This tulup equipment is tobe used for vaccination or to killby placing the poison inside theequipment,” Ngurah added.

Dewa Ngurah admitted the vac-cine prepared for this programreached 9.500 doze and hoped willbe used this year. Meanwhile thevaccination used since the begin-ning of the year until June wasmore than 18.700 and eliminated5.000 dogs, positive cases reachedm28 dogs spread in 19 villages.“And the human victims reached6 people in 1 ½ years time,”Ngurah concluded. (kmb12)

International4 Friday, July 2, 2010 News

NATO’s International Security As-sistance Force (ISAF) said in a state-ment that the Taliban chief of NawZad, another restive district ofHelmand, was injured and detainedfollowing the fighting.

“Afghan and international securityforces captured the Taliban districtchief of Naw Zad and killed a largenumber of insurgents during an opera-tion in remote Baghran district innorthern Helmand province last night,”it said.

German army General Josef Blotz,a spokesman for ISAF, said at least 31insurgents had been killed in the op-eration. “Throughout the four-hour


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistaniauthorities now believe a dangerousnew militant group, out to avenge adeadly army assault on a mosque inIslamabad three years ago, has carriedout several major bombings in the capi-tal previously blamed on the Taliban.

The emergence of the GhaziForce was part of the outrage amongmany deeply religious PakistaniMuslims over the July 2007 attackby security forces against the LalMasjid, or Red Mosque, a strong-hold of Islamic militants.

The fierce attack, in which scoresof young, heavily armed religiousstudents died, inspired a new gen-eration of militants. These Pakistanishave turned against a governmentthey felt has betrayed them and, totheir dismay, backed the U.S. rolein neighboring Afghanistan.

The brief but bloody history ofthe Ghazi Force illustrates the unin-tended results of Pakistan’s policyof promoting Islamic extremists tofight India in the disputed area ofKashmir. That policy — which Pa-kistan denies it pursues — nowthreatens regional stability as theU.S. and Pakistan’s other Westernpartners pour billions of dollars into


LAGOS, Nigeria – A leader of aradical Muslim sect that left 700people dead in Nigeria allegedly hasissued a videotaped threat calling fornew violence as the one-year anni-versary of their attack nears.

Imam Abubakar Shekau, whompolice claimed to have killed during theJuly 2009 violence, told a Nigerianjournalist that he had taken over asleader of the Boko Haram sect. Shekautold the reporter that he suffered a gun-shot wound to the thigh during the fight-ing, but had been rescued by “fellowbelievers and protected by Allah.”

“I have the intention to retaliate,”Shekau said in the local Hausa lan-guage. The Associated Press could not

AFP PHOTO/Yasuyoshi Chiba

A family of Indian descent watches the 2010 World Cup match Nigeriavs South Korea in Poenix township in Durban on June 22, 2010. Thematch ended in a 2-2 tie, giving South Korea a spot in the second roundof the tournament.

Nigeria: Sect leader threatens retaliationimmediately verify the authenticity ofthe recording cited by Nigeria’s DailyTrust newspaper Thursday. Police of-ficials could not be immediatelyreached for comment.

The newspaper said a reporter gotthe 25-minute interview with Shekauon April 19 after being blindfolded anddriven to a hideout near Maiduguri, thesite of much of the violence last year.The interview took place with Shekauseated before a stack of religious booksand near a Kalashnikov rifle.

Asked where the sect obtainsweapons, Shekau answered: “We getthem from where we get them. Godsaid we should get them, the holyprophet said we should get them.”

Boko Haram — which means“Western education is sacrilege” in

Hausa — has campaigned for theimplementation of strict Shariahlaw. Nigeria, a nation of 150 mil-lion people, is divided between theChristian-dominated south and theMuslim-held north. A dozen statesacross Nigeria’s north already haveShariah law in place, though thearea remains under the control ofsecular state governments.

Boko Haram sect members riotedand attacked police stations and pri-vate homes a year ago this month,sparking a police crackdown. Authori-ties have been accused of killing BokoHaram leader Mohammed Yusuf whilehe was in custody. Police officials saidhe was killed while trying to escape,but army officials said he was alivewhen he was arrested.

AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair, File

FILE - In this July 31, 2007 file photo, pro-Taliban militants take con-trol of a mosque of a shrine which is named after Islamabad’s radi-cal Red Mosque in Lakarai in Pakistan’s tribal area of Mohmandalong Afghanistan’s border.

Vengeful new militantgroup emerges in Pakistan

the country to stop the rise of Is-lamic militancy.

The new group is made up ofrelatives of students who died in theRed Mosque assault. It is namedafter the students’ leader, MaulanaAbdul Rashid Ghazi, who was alsokilled. The mosque’s adjacent reli-gious school, or madrassa, hadbeen a sanctuary for militants op-posed to Pakistan’s support of theU.S.-run war in Afghanistan.

Private television stationsbroadcast vivid scenes of the as-sault — commandos in black fa-tigues rapelling down ropes, thecrackle of gunfire, bodies of black-shrouded girls carried out throughthe smoldering gates. Those im-ages stunned the nation, especiallyfamilies of the students and Paki-stanis with deep religious feelings.

Islamabad’s inspector generalof police, Kalim Imam, told TheAssociated Press that the GhaziForce was behind most of thedeadliest attacks in the capitalduring the last three years. Theattacks targeted the military, theInter-Services Intelligenceagency or ISI — which had tiesto a number of militants — and afive-star hotel frequented by for-eigners and the Pakistani elite.

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Soldiers belonging to Royal Gurkha Rifles fire a light gun towards an insurgent position in Nahr e Saraj,Helmand province, on June 30.

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KABUL – NATO forces in Afghanistan said Thursday they had killed at least 31 Taliban fighters andcaptured a rebel chieftain after a raid on an insurgent hideout in the southern province of Helmand.Troops called in air support during running gunbattles in the province’s troubled Baghran district whicherupted after rebels attacked soldiers moving in on the compound with machine guns and rockets, it said.

firefight enemy forces attempted to useimprovised explosive devices againstthe security force,” he told reporters, re-ferring to home-made bombs regularlyused by the Taliban.

“However Afghan and coalitionforces employed precision air fire andsuppressed the enemy,” adding that ahuge arms cache and a quantity ofopium had been discovered and de-stroyed. Troops captured severalwounded insurgents following the fight-ing, ISAF’s statement said, and no ci-vilian or soldier was hurt.

“This joint force operation dealt an-other significant blow to the Talibannetwork,” said Colonel William Max-

well, ISAF Joint Command CombinedJoint Operations Centre director.

Taliban militants are waging an in-surgency against tens of thousands ofinternational troops in Afghanistanunder UN mandate to help keep Presi-dent Hamid Karzai government’s inpower. The Taliban, who were in powerbetween 1996 and 2001 before beingtoppled in a US-led invasion, have in-tensified their fight in recent years.

In June, 102 foreign soldiers werekilled in the Afghan war, making it thedeadliest month for NATO in nineyears of conflict. So far this year 322troops have been killed, compared to520 for all of 2009.

General Info Friday, July 2, 2010 5International

Denpasar

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

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

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

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

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

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

Badung

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

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

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

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

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

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

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

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

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

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bangli

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

Gianyar

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

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

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

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

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

Karangasem

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

Klungkung

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

Negara

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

Tabanan

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

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

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

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

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

Singaraja

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

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

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

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At least 11 people have died inthe past three weeks of street vio-lence, and a round-the-clock curfewis in force. Shops, businesses,schools and government offices areshut. Authorities have postponedcollege examinations and haveblocked text messages on cellphones in an attempt to prevent dem-onstrators from mobilizing.

It is the third summer in a rowthat deadly protests have erupted, asymptom of the tensions permeat-ing this Muslim-dominated Hima-layan region, which has long chafedunder Indian rule and is patrolled byhundreds of thousands of troops.

A two-decade-long Islamic insur-gency has waned but popular angerhas not. Even moderate Kashmirishoping for greater autonomy withinIndia, which is predominantlyHindu, have been frustrated by thegovernment.

“The unrest has become a cyclewhere what people are fighting foris not even acknowledged as a po-litical issue by New Delhi,” saidSheikh Showkat, a law professor atKashmir University.

There is a long history of separatistmovements in Kashmir, which hasbeen divided between archrivals Indiaand Pakistan since 1947. Most werepeaceful until 1989, when the bloodyarmed insurgency erupted, demandingIndia’s part of the region merge withPakistan or get independence.

More than 68,000 people, mostof them civilians, have been killedin the uprising and subsequent In-

Agence France Presse

THE HAGUE – SupermodelNaomi Campbell will be sum-moned to testify over a “blood dia-mond” she was allegedly given byLiberian ex-president Charles Tay-lor, a war crimes court announcedThursday.


STOCKHOLM – Gunmen shotand killed two men and wounded athird person in the central Swedishcity of Sodertalje early Thursday,police said.

Police spokeswoman BjornEngstrom said the men were shot ata location used for card games in theRonna area of the city, which is about


BEIJING – A Google search fea-ture was blocked in China on Thurs-day, the company said as it awaitedBeijing’s decision on whether to re-new its operating license amid ten-sions over censorship. Mainland us-ers were unable to use the searchgiant’s “suggest” feature, which of-fers possible results as they start totype a query, the company said.

“It appears that search queriesproduced by Google Suggest arebeing blocked for mainland users inChina,” said Google spokeswomanJessica Powell in an e-mail. “Nor-mal searches that do not use querysuggestions are unaffected.”

Google’s relations with Beijinghave been tense since the U.S.-basedsearch giant said in January it nolonger wanted to cooperate withChinese Web filtering followinghacking attacks traced to China.Google Inc. closed its China-basedsearch engine March 22 and beganrouting users to its unfiltered HongKong site. But the company said thisweek it would stop automaticswitching because Beijing objectedand threatened to revoke its license.

The application deadline wasWednesday, and Powell said Googlehas received no word from regulators.She said the license runs through

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SRINAGAR, India – It issummertime in Indian-con-trolled Kashmir and the streetsare roiled by unrest. Youngseparatist protesters in jeansand bandanas hurl rocks at In-dian troops, who respond withtear gas, baton charges and liveammunition.

dian crackdown, and the region re-mains a tinderbox waiting for a matchto light.

The latest street violence eruptedafter a police probe in June foundIndian army soldiers had killed threeKashmiri civilians in a stagedgunbattle and then claimed their vic-tims were militants in order to claima reward. The army responded bysuspending two officers.

In an anti-India protest followingthe incident, a teenager who was re-portedly just passing by was killedwhen he was hit in the head by a teargas grenade fired by police.

That killing sparked more violentdemonstrations and a police crack-down that killed 10 more people, ac-cording to police and witness reports.

“Our fight is against Indian occu-pation and as long as this militaryoccupation continues this place willcontinue to witness human rights vio-lations,” Masarat Alam, a top sepa-ratist politician, told reporters re-cently. According to police, Alam has

gone underground to evade arrest.In an effort to contain the vio-

lence, authorities Wednesday ex-panded a curfew to most parts ofSrinagar, the main city in IndianKashmir, and the key towns ofAnantnag and Baramulla. Thou-sands of government forces alsopatrolled the troubled town ofSopore, under curfew for a sixthstraight day. Police have arrestedabout 100 top separatist leadersand activists.

“This is not a simple law and or-der matter brought about by lack ofgood governance,” Omar Abdullah,chief minister of Indian Kashmir,said after three people were killedTuesday in a shooting blamed ontroops. “It is a battle of ideologies inwhich various anti-national forcesand vested interests have come to-gether to create trouble.”

India has an estimated 700,000soldiers in Kashmir, even thoughpolice estimate only about 500armed rebels remain in the fight.

(AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Indian paramilitary soldiers beat a Kashmiri civilian during aprotest in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Authoritiesbrought new areas under curfew in the Indian portion of Kash-mir on Wednesday to control the worst street violence in a year,triggered by the killing of 11 people allegedly by governmentforces over the past two weeks.

British supermodel NaomiCampbell will be summonedto testify over a “blooddiamond” she was allegedlygiven by Liberian ex-presi-dent Charles Taylor, accordingto a war crimes court forSiera Leone.

Naomi Campbell to testify at war crimes courtTaylor has been on trial since

2008 for his alleged role in the civilwar in neighbouring Sierra Leone,accused of arming rebels in returnfor illegally mined diamonds.

The Special Court for SierraLeone, sitting the The Hague,ruled that Campbell be subpoe-naed to appear before the court toanswer claims by actress Mia Far-row that Campbell was given thediamond by Taylor after a dinnerhosted by former South Africanpresident Nelson Mandela in Sep-tember 1997.

“What it is going to happennow is just a matter of when ithappens,” the court spokesmanPeter Andersen told AFP.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)

Police: Gunmen kill 2men in central Sweden

30 kilometers (18 miles) south ofStockholm. He said police aresearching for two or three gunmen.A scooter they used in their getawaywas later found burning nearby.

The wounded man was hospital-ized and is in a stable condition,Engstrom said.He would not giveany more details about the victimsbecause they have not been fullyidentified yet.

Google says China partiallyblocks search service

2012 but must be renewed annuallyand declined to say what Google’sstatus is while it awaits an answer.

The official Xinhua News Agencysaid “there will be a result soon” andGoogle was “very late” in submit-ting the application. Phone calls tothe regulator, the Ministry of Indus-try and Information Technology,were not answered.

A foreign ministry spokesman,Qin Gang, did not answer directlywhen asked whether Google wouldbe allowed to operate in China.

“Internet operating companies,while doing business in China,should abide by Chinese laws andregulations,” Qin said. “We hope allforeign companies, includingInternet companies, should complywith Chinese laws and regulations.”

The China site, Google.cn, wasoperating Thursday with a tab thatsaid “we have moved togoogle.com.hk.” Clicking on thattook users to the Hong Kong site.

The loss of its Chinese licensewould set back Google’s efforts totap into the world’s most populousInternet market of nearly 400 mil-lion users. Web surfers could reachthe Chinese-language Hong Kongsite by typing in its address, but in-dustry analysts say some are likelyto switch to Chinese competitorssuch as Baidu Inc.

(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

FILE - In this March 23, 2010 file photo, a surveillance camera isseen in front of the Google China headquarters in Beijing, China.Google Inc. said one of its Web search features was blocked inChina on Thursday, July 1, 2010 as the company awaited Beijing’sdecision on whether to renew its operating license in their lat-est skirmish over censorship.

Friday, July 2, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD

Obama film co-director Damien Dematra (L) poses with Ilham Anas, (R), the Indonesian look alike of USPresident Barack Obama at the Jakarta cinema house on June 30, 2010 for the debut screening of “ObamaAnak Menteng” or “Obama the Menteng Kid”, a film about Obama’s childhood days in Indonesia.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A film about USPresident Barack Obama’s child-hood days in Indonesia debuts inJakarta on Wednesday, promising avery different perspective on theman in the White House.

The film, “Obama AnakMenteng” or “Obama the MentengKid”, is set in the upscale Jakartaneighbourhood of Menteng whereObama lived from 1967 to 1971 withhis mother and Indonesian stepfa-ther. Co-director Damien Dematrasaid it would show the US presidentin a light that Americans might findstrange.

“Viewers, especially Westerners,will see a different world. They’llsee Obama eating chicken satay, nothamburgers. They’ll see hisneighbours and friends wearingchequered sarongs and Muslimcaps,” he told AFP.

Even so, producers skirted con-troversy surrounding the extent thatIslam influenced Obama’s earlyyears in the world’s most populousMuslim-majority country.

A scene showing Obama, who isChristian, praying like a Muslim

The victim was knifed seventimes while he slept in the mosquein Sungai Kolok, a border town inNarathiwat province. Six otherstudents were sleeping nearby butnobody else was harmed in the at-tack, police said.

The initial investigation sug-gested the attacked was linked to a

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JAKARTA - The government willissue energy and mineral resourcesdecree No 7 of 2010 dated June 30,2010, on new power rates.

Minister of Energy and MineralResources Darwin Saleh said inJakarta on Wednesday that the de-cree will serve as a legal umbrella


JAKARTA - Indonesian policewill sue a news magazine over a storyon corruption because the cover de-picted an officer with piggy banks,and pigs are considered dirty in Is-lam, the police chief said Thursday.

The threat of legal action againstthe publishers of Tempo magazine,a respected Indonesian and English-language weekly, came days afterit ran an in-depth feature on allegedpolice graft and embezzlement.National police chief BambangHendarso Danuri did not respond tothe corruption allegations but saidofficers had been “hurt” and an-gered by the report, particularly thepiggy banks on the cover.

He claimed that the magazinehad depicted police as pigs, whenin fact the cover shows a graphicof a uniformed officer with threepiggy banks on leashes made ofyellow crime-scene tape.

“The fact that we are illustratedas pigs hurts us a lot,” Danuri told

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NARATHIWAT - An 18-year-old Indonesian religious studentwas stabbed to death at a mosque in the restive Thai south on Thurs-day, police said.

personal quarrel with local teenag-ers, rather than the insurgency thathas gripped the Muslim-majoritysouthernmost provinces of Thailandfor six years. More than 4,100people — both Buddhists and Mus-lims — have been killed during therebellion, which is led by shadowyIslamic separatist militants.

Indonesian police to suemagazine over pig cover

reporters after attending a serviceto mark the 64th anniversary of theestablishment of the mainly Mus-lim country’s police force.

“Don’t illustrate us like that.We’ll try to prevent our personnelfrom being angry because they wereillustrated as pigs, which is haram(forbidden). This will definitely pro-voke our personnel,” he added.

The June 28 edition of Tempoexplored evidence of embezzlementamong senior officers, some ofwhom were allegedly found to havemillions of dollars in bank accounts.

The Indonesian police force is seenas one of the most corrupt institutionsin one of the most corrupt countriesin the world. It also stands accused oftorture and abuse including againstpolitical prisoners and women.

US-based lobby group HumanRights Watch said in a report inMay that Indonesia’s criminal li-bel and defamation laws were in-creasingly being used to intimidatewhistle-blowers and silence criticsof powerful institutions.

Obama movie set for debut in Indonesiawas dropped as it was deemed “toopolitical”, Dematra said.

“He was just imitating other kidswhen they were praying but it didn’tmean he wanted to be Muslim. Thatscene wasn’t even shot because Ididn’t want people to take it out ofcontext and use it against him,” hesaid. Based on his interviews withObama’s surviving neighbours andfriends in the Indonesian capital,Dematra claims the film is “60 per-cent fact and 40 percent fiction”.

It features a cast of little-knownIndonesian actors and was filmed injust over a month in the West Javacity of Bandung — which retainssome of the sleepy charm of 1960sMenteng. Its budget was a milliondollars, Dematra said.

Twelve-year-old AmericanHasan Faruq Ali plays Obama, orBarry as the president was knownto his schoolmates.

Like Obama, Ali — who had noprior acting experience — is the sonof a mixed-race couple and movedfrom the United States to Indonesiaas a toddler.

He speaks Indonesian and En-glish, just as Obama switched be-tween his mother-tongue with his

parents and Indonesian with hisfriends.

Clips available on the Internetshow “little Barry” learning to boxwith his stepfather after getting intoa shoolyard fight, but ultimatelylearning to resolve conflicts throughmeans other than violence.

“You’re from the West, but black.You’ve got weird hair and a bignose,” a neighbourhood boy replieswhen Obama introduces himself asBarry.

“We have to stick together toachieve our goals and resolve ourproblems and fights,” Barry later tellshis friends.

Dematra said he did not want thefilm to be political, but to give view-ers a sense of how Indonesia’s cul-tural diversity — mostly Muslim butwith significant Hindu, Christian andother minorities — might have influ-enced “this pluralist and inspiringfigure”.

But the trip, like another sched-uled for March, was postponed dueto pressing issues in the UnitedStates. Obama is now expected inNovember. The makers are hoping torelease the film internationally inSeptember.

Government to issue new power ratesin the introduction of an average of10 percent raise in power rates start-ing on July 1, 2010.

“The power rates (TDL) hike byan average of 10 percent is carriedin energy and mineral resourcesministrial decree no 7 of 2010 onpower rates provided by state powercompany PT PLN,” he said.

The ministerial decree is based on

Law No 47 of 2009 on the 2010 StateBudget, revised in Law No 2 of 2010on the revised 2010 State Budget onsubsidized electricity of Rp55.1 trillion.

The TDL hike had also consideredthe approval of the House Commis-sion VII in the hearing with the En-ergy and Mineral Resources Minis-ter of June 15, 2010.

With approval of the House Com-

mission VII, the TDL hike did notinclude customers including businesscompanies with a capacity of 450volt ampere (VA), 900 VA and 6,600VA and higher. The Ministerial De-cree No 7 replaces Presidential De-cree No 104 of 2003 on PLN’s TDL.

He also said that energy and mineralresources ministrial decree No 7 of 2010was about PLN’s obligation to meet the

set criterion of service quality.PLN’s Business and Manage-

ment Risk Director MurtaqiSyamsuddin added that the servicequality criterion covers durationand frequency of a power disrup-tion, mistakes in power meetingreadings, speed in power connec-tion, and speed and effectivenessin dealing with power disruptions.

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Understandably, the operationalcosts only must be funded by externalcost. It is considered, the number ofhotel room and restaurant exceeds thetourists that would like to stay or eat.Advisor of Indonesia Hotel and Res-taurant Association (PHRI) ofKarangasem Regency, NyomanSadra, who is now also turning his pro-fessions into a legislator in the LavaLand, revealed the same opinion.

According to both legislators,Karangasem Regency Government, inthis regard the Karangasem Cultureand Tourism Services should find outthe valid data, how many was the av-erage of tourist visit coming and need-ing a hotel room in Karangasem. Hav-ing obtained the proper data, it shouldbe followed by calculation of the ac-tual number of room and restaurantseat required. By doing so, it wouldnot encourage people to sell or con-tract their land to investors, and thendue to insufficiency of tourist visit the

Development of tourism sector inBadung Regency is expected to be-come motivator of a variety of ex-isting socio-economic potentials. Inaddition, it is also intended for thewelfare and intellectual life ofBadung society.

Therefore, Badung Regency be-gan to develop and pioneer the com-munity-based cultural tourism, aswell as to pay attention to environ-mental aspects. “It is one of the des-tination development models thatcan protect the culture of commu-nity, to preserve the environment andto involve the public directly. As theresult, Badung started building ru-ral tourism,” said the Head ofBadung Government Tourism Of-fice, Made Subawa, recently.

It was also said that the currentrural tourism was one of the flagship

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Friday, July 2, 2010BAF Agenda

Time : 09.00 – FinishedActivity : WorkshopPlace : Natya Mandala ISI Denpasar

Time : 10.00 - 12.00Activity : Legong gender creation with Tiger Barong by Yayasan Seni

Puspa Kirana, Banjar Tangkup, Kedisan village, GianyarPlace : Kalangan Angsoka

Time : 17.00 - 18.30Activity : Joged bumbung dance Banjar Payuk Tembuku, BangliPlace : Kalangan Ayodya

Time : 19.30 - 21.00Activity : Wayang kulit parade by Puppet master Gede Sugiantara

from Tejakula village, BulelengPlace : Wantilan

Time : 20.00 - 22.00Activity : Drama Gong parade by TabananPlace : Gedung Ksirarnawa

Time : 20.00 - 22.00Activity : Balaganjur parade to accompanied the performance by

Klungkung, Jembrana, Karangasem, and Tabananregencies

Place : ISI Denpasar open stage

Time : 20.00 - 23.00Activity : Children’s Gong Kebyar parade by Sekaa gong anak-anak

Rare Angon SMPN 2 Abiansemal, Badung with SekaaGong Alit Puspa Sari Banjar Suda Kanginan Kediri, Tabanan

Place : Ardha Candra open stage

Bali Post AMLAPURA - Closure of hotels and restaurants also expanded to Candidasa and Tulamben

area. The Cedi Hotel at Buitan Manggis has never operated and instantly turned dormant. Now, itsproperty becomes a haunted house, partly collapsed. Tourism practitioner who is also a legislator ofKarangasem House, IGA Mas Sumatri, recognized that many hotels and restaurants in Karangasemgrew dormant. It also included the Candi Dasa Beach II, which was not fully in operation.

projects would then be neglected. “Onthat account, do not assume the region-ally generated revenue (PAD) will defi-nitely increase in keeping with thegrowing number of hotels and restau-rants, although tourists are deserted,”added Sadra.

He admitted that he could not helpwondering, when many hotels and res-taurants were uninhabited, low roomoccupancy rates and even forced toclose, but the permit of villa residencebelonging to foreign investors or jointventure with local people, even increas-ingly penetrated into remote villages,hilltops and foot of mountain. “What’sup now? Is it because we are unable tomanage tourism in our own homes?”questioned Sadra again.

Added, tourism objects and attrac-tions in Karangasem were soldcheaply. It was not far different wherethe employees were paid cheaply andthey were even regarded as a house-maid. This mainly happened to the

villa of foreign investment or jointventure with local partner in disguiseas private residential house. Sadraadded at the area of Jasri Beach laidapproximately 50 villas.

Based on information received, thecondition of labor was immensely ap-prehensive. Some of them were paidat IDR 75 thousand a month. Theywere considered lower than a house-maid. Due to low salaries, last yearmany employees left hotels or villasand turned their profession into ateacher. Chairman of PHRIKarangasem, Wayan Tama, admittedthat many hotels and restaurants weredormant or closed. However, sinceinvestors never returned their permit,local government then considered theywere still in operation.

Unpaid Hotel and Restaurant Taxhas been considered as remainder. “Ide-ally, related agencies, Regional Rev-enue Services (Dispenda) and Cultureand Tourism Services should recheckor perform data collection to the fieldin order they could understand aboutthe actual situation whether they are stillin operation but recalcitrant to depositthe tax or already bankrupt. On thataccount, we are not necessary to waitfor the hotel and restaurant taxes (PHR)

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The photo show view of Candidasa village at Karangasem re-gency of Bali Island. Closure of hotels and restaurants also ex-panded to Candidasa and Tulamben area. The Cedi Hotel at BuitanManggis has never operated and instantly turned dormant. Now,its property becomes a haunted house, partly collapsed.

and considered them as claims whereasthe hotel and restaurant themselves hadbeen bankrupt and closed down for solong,” he said.

Tama who is also a legislator ofKarangasem House said to have notknown for sure about how many ho-tels or restaurants were closed inKarangasem. Because, hotels and res-taurant that had been closed or not inoperation did not reported or returntheir license. “We recommend to

record intensively the hotels or restau-rants that are still in operation orclosed,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head ofDispenda Karangasem, I Gede AdnyaMulyadi, acknowledged being difficultto attract taxes or levies from the villasor a house owned by a foreigner or jointventure with local people being underdisguise of residential house. His party,the Karangasem House, suggested a so-lution by making a regulation. (bud)

Rural tourism in Badung:Pangsan Village as a pilot project

programs of the Tourism Office ofBadung Regency. As a flagship pro-gram, it was expected to open newjob opportunities in rural areas, totackle poverty, to invite the commu-nity to implement the behavior ofClean and Healthy Living (PHBS).“Based on monitoring in the field,there are currently a number of vil-lages that have the potential to bedeveloped into rural tourism. One ofthem is Pangsan Village,” he said.

Pangsan Village has panoramicand pristine views and various tour-ist attractions such as rafting andtrekking. Rafting has a mileage of2.5 hours, while two lines of trek-king have relatively hard trekkinglevel with a distance of 5 km andsoft-trekking with a distance ofabout 2 km.

The atmosphere of the route to lo-

cation of rafting and trekking activ-ity is also very beautiful. Because,when having a promenade aroundthe field, you will be presented withunique attraction of plowing ricefields by Bali cow, planting rice, har-vesting rice and other integrated at-tractions. All of these activities havebeen perfectly packed into a singleentity called Simantri (integratedfarming system).

“This is what we have developedat Pangsan Village, so that this vil-lage becomes a pilot project for theBali Provincial Government whichis currently developing a variety ofprograms that also involves planta-tion, animal husbandry and fishery,including the processing of livestockwaste that can produce gas and en-ergy used directly by households,”he said. (image/015)

Balinese Culture

Friday, July 2, 2010 9al

OVERVIEW:A real gourmet

treat from Bali,this could also bemade with hugeprawns. In Bali,coconut chunksare roasteddirectly oncharcoal, then thecharred skinscrapped off andthe flesh gratedfor making thecoconut milk.

INGREDIENTS:4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg

large prawns5 cups water2 lemongrass, bruised2 fragrant lime leaves4 cups coconut milkfew drops white vinegarfried shallots to garnish

SPICE PASTE:5 red chilies, seeded and chopped3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped7 shallots, peeled and chopped5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped4 candlenuts1 ½ tsp coriander½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded2 tbsp oil1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp1 salam leaf1 lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATION:Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all

ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf andlemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all otheringredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to theboil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Removelobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drainand remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water,keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegarto the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups ofstock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster andsimmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallotsand accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints:if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw

prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmerfor 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk,prawns and all other ingredients, simmering untilcooked. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

The 32nd annual Bali Arts Festi-val (BAF) is the event to shows offsome stunning treasures of Ba-linese arts from the classical tocontemporary ones and involvesschool children to the elderly. Forthe whole month, Balinese com-munity and visitors will have anextravaganza. So, do not miss it!

Balinese artists, community andvisitors from around the world willcome together and indulge their artappetite in the season of art per-formances on the bijou island ofBali. It really belongs to them. Par-ticipating artists in the festivalhave made their best preparationfinalized through ‘preliminary ses-sion’ of Bali Arts Festival held byregencies/city across Bali. Ofcourse, they would like to show offtheir best for the sake of their re-spective region.

Perhaps, the most attractive andwanted program in the festival isthe gamelan orchestra and danceshows. One of the objectives of thearts festival is to preserve the an-cient or classical arts once existedin Bali. Without this endeavor,many dance and gamelan compo-sition treasures owned by Bali mayhave come to the edge of extinc-tion. Young generation tends toleave their tradition and gets ab-sorbed in living their life with dailyroutines. So, the presence of festi-val will revive those dormant arts.

Bali Post/Eka Adhyasa

Ngelawang performance that can be seen by tourists at The 32nd Bali Art Festival that beingheld in Art Center. The 32nd annual Bali Arts Festival (BAF) is the event to shows off somestunning treasures of Balinese arts from the classical to contemporary ones and involves schoolchildren to the elderly.

Bali Arts Festival 2010:

A festive extravaganzafor all communities

It is something like new rendezvousbetween the arts themselves withtheir former spectators and younggeneration.

Gamelan composition like GongKebyar always draw myriad ofspectators through the years. As ifthe dynamic tones and lively spir-its of the composition could haveconjured up every single spectatorin the amphitheater. Or dance-drama taking the sequels ofMahabharata or Ramayana all thetimes had some humorous inter-ludes. It drove people to guffaw.Seemingly, to local people, withoutseeing these performances wouldbe incomplete.

Meanwhile, another kind ofdance called Joged Bumbung is noless attractive to see. This socialdance can be said as an interactivedance as the beautiful dancer willhave a session where she invitesone of the spectators to join thedance. This invitation is shown byoffering shawl to the appointed au-dience. All regions across Bali havethis Joged Bumbung dance withslightly different version. Thedance itself is merely intended forentertainment purpose.

Other than performances above,it also presents some kid traditionalgames and gallivanting shows. Ac-cording to local tradition, the latteris intended to exorcise the evil spir-its from the territory of customary

village. For the show, customaryvillager or art troupe dances abarong effigy supported by twoplayers. It is performed from oneentrance gates to another through-out the village where every familywill offer some oblations and in ex-change they will obtain holy waterto be sprinkled within the housecompound and to the entire familymembers for the unseen (niskala)security.

Hindu psalmody known askekawin or kidung also jazzes up thefestival. It is presented throughUtsawa Dharma Gita event or lit-erally means the festival of thesongs on dharma. This involves par-ticipants of adult and school chil-dren. Other than deepening of reli-gious teaching, it also aims at im-planting the love to religious litera-ture and entertainment.

Like welcoming the New Year,this arts festival always offers theold and new ‘art products.’ Asidefrom the basic contents of the festi-val as mentioned above, it also givesopportunity to local handicrafts,painting exhibition, fashion shows,flower arrangement and Balinese tra-ditional culinary festival. To sum up,Bali Arts Festival has some 100 hun-dreds of attractions for you to ex-plore. It is the right rendezvous forart enjoyers from around the worldwhile taking pleasure in the magnifi-cence of Bali Island! (BTN/punia)

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LIKE the water flows, myriad offoreign tourists throng the island ofNusa Lem bongan. So, it is not mis-taken if this bijou island becomesone of the most popular marine tour-ist attractions. Every day, they cometo the tiny island located in theKlungkung Regency. Even, duringpeak season the number of touristscoming can reach 1,500 people.

Sweetness of honey belongs toNusa Lembongan makes a numberof cruise companies selling holidaypackage over there. One of them isBounty Cruise based at Benoa Har-bor. In the morning at around 9:30am Local Time, Bounty Cruise hasstarted its voyage to NusaLembongan. Passengers are just likea king because they are served bythe crews amicably. Like the facil-ity on a luxury cruise, breakfast isavailable aboard.

In order to enjoy the facility, tour-ists must purchase a ticket at IDR700,000 for foreign tourists and IDR500,000 for domestic tourists. Interest-ingly, there is a holiday package spe-cially intended for local residents of

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa LembonganBali at very cheap and affordable price,namely IDR 300,000 per person.

With such budget, we are able toenjoy many games and facilities.Eating as you like, can take advan-tage of the games like banana boat,snorkeling, enjoying the beautifulstreets of Nusa Lembongan Islandup to playing water slide. However,if you want to try diving or jet ski-ing additional cost will be charged.

Owner of the Bounty Cruise,Gede Wiratha, said it was time forthe people of Bali to know more.“Foreign tourists come to Bali for aholiday. Why do not we vacation inour own home? Therefore, we givespecial price to the local community.They also need to enjoy the beautyof Bali,” he said with a distinctivestyle.

The voyage from Benoa to NusaLembongan Island takes approxi-mately one hour by speed at 20-25knots or 45 kilometers per hour.During the voyage, we get to enjoysome entertainment, ranging fromwatching films to sing along on theboat deck. Songs played by the

bands are adjusted to the touristmarket. On Monday, for example, isspecifically serving tourists fromChina, so the song played is a Man-darin song.

At around 10:30 am, the voyage

of Bounty Cruise has reached thepontoon. Pontoon boats are used forberthing because Nusa Lembongandoes not have a quay yet. The pon-toon is like a small island equippedwith a number of facilities, ranging

from restaurants to a variety ofgames. This place is also used as atransit point to the island of NusaLembongan by using a boat with adistance of about one kilometer.(BTN/Doc)

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COLOMBO - Japan has emergedas Sri Lanka’s biggest single lenderfor the first four months of 2010, over-taking China, Russia and the WorldBank, the treasury said Thursday.

Japan, which lent 421.8 milliondollars to build roads, a hydro powerproject, a hospital and clean water fa-cilities, accounted for about a third ofthe 1.49 billion dollars in funds re-ceived from January to April this year.

Sri Lanka received a total of 2.2billion dollars in foreign loans andgrants last year, with China account-ing for more than half of that at 1.2billion dollars.

Sri Lanka depends on Japan, India

“The Swedish economy is de-veloping strongly following the se-vere downturn. The repo rate nowneeds to be raised gradually to-wards more normal levels to attainthe inflation target of two percentand to ensure stable growth in thereal economy,” the Riksbank saidin a statement.

Eight analysts interviewed byDow Jones Newswires had forecastthe 0.25-percentage-point increase.

The central bank also signifi-cantly increased its economicgrowth forecast for this year to 3.8percent, up from 2.2 percent fore-cast in May, but said Sweden’sgross domestic product (GDP)would grow just 3.6 percent in2011, down from its May estimateof 3.7 percent growth.

After being hard-hit by the2008-2009 financial crisis, Swedenhas bounced back and taken a leadin the European economic recovery.

In the first quarter this year, theScandinavian country’s economygrew significantly, jumping 1.4 per-cent from output the previous quar-ter and 3.0 percent on a 12-monthbasis, according to official statistics.


TOKYO - Toyota Motor con-tinued to lead the recovery of domes-tic sales among major Japaneseautomakers despite a succession ofrecalls, an industry body said Thurs-day.

The world’s leading automakersold 140,207 vehicles in Japan in June,up 26.7 percent from the same monthlast year, when the world’s largestautomaker struggled in the deep, glo-bal financial crisis.

The speed of Toyota’s recoveryoutpaced the Japanese auto sector asa whole, whose collective sales vol-ume rose 20.6 percent on year to293,537 units in the month, the JapanAutomobile Dealers Association said


SEOUL - South Korea recordedits largest-ever trade surplus of 7.472billion dollars in June thanks tohealthy overseas demand, officialfigures showed Thursday.

Exports rose 32.4 percent from ayear earlier to 42.653 billion dollarswhile imports increased 36.9 percentto 35.181 billion, according to pre-liminary trade data released by theMinistry of Knowledge Economy.

The previous record surplus was6.5 billion dollars in June 2009.

The figure is the latest in a seriesof strong economic data for Asia’sfourth largest economy, and will fuel

Swedish centralSwedish centralSwedish centralSwedish centralSwedish centralbank raises rate asbank raises rate asbank raises rate asbank raises rate asbank raises rate aseconomy grows fasteconomy grows fasteconomy grows fasteconomy grows fasteconomy grows fastAgence France-Presse

STOCKHOLM - Sweden’s central bank raised its maininterest rate by 0.25 points to 0.5 percent on Thursday, a moveexpected amid a strong rebound in the country’s economy, andit forecast more growth this year.

But the central bank cautionedon Thursday that the economic situ-ation abroad could still slowSweden’s recovery.

“The uncertain public fi-nances situation abroad means atthe same time that many countriesneed to tighten their fiscal policysubstantially to reduce their budgetdeficits,” the bank said.

“This tightening is expectedto dampen GDP growth in the euroarea, which will also hold backGDP growth and inflation in Swe-den in the long run,” it added.

Until its latest decision, thebank’s main interest rate had beenat a historic low of 0.25 percentsince the beginning of July 2009,or exactly one year.

A number of analysts had re-cently warned of the risk of a realestate bubble if the rates were main-tained at such a low level.

The Riksbank meanwhile saidThursday it expected its repo rate toremain at 0.5 percent through thethird quarter, before raising it to 0.9percent in the fourth quarter andgradually pushing it up to 2.1 per-cent by the third quarter next year.

Japan becomes Sri Lanka’stop lender: treasury

and China for aid as traditional West-ern donors have curbed financial as-sistance due to Sri Lanka’s humanrights record and the government’shandling of the final days of the civilwar last year.

The United Nations estimates some7,000 people were killed during thefinal months of the 37-year ethnic con-flict with Tamil Tiger rebels, whichended when government forces wipedout the rebels’ top leadership in May2009.

The US has scaled back militaryassistance to Colombo, while Ger-many and Britain have pruned aid toSri Lanka. The European Union iswithdrawing trade concessions to SriLanka from August 15.

Toyota leads domestic salesrecovery despite recall woes

Separately, Toyota’s luxury Lexusbrand also increased its June sales by16.3 percent to 2,151 cars on year.

Toyota has enjoyed steady re-covery of its sales since the industry-wide crisis of last year, when globalauto sales plunged as banks hesitatedto issue loans to consumers, whowatched their budget due to the sloweconomy.

But robust demand in Asia hashelped to buoy sales and productionof Japanese automakers.

Second-largest maker HondaMotor increased its June sales by 18.5percent to 44,377 from the samemonth last year.

Sales of third-ranked Nissan Mo-tor rose by 11.5 percent to 43,313.

Toyota has benefited from cus-

tomer loyalty, after the company with-drew around 10 million vehicles world-wide since late last year for safety is-sues.

Following the global recall woe,which is linked with fatal accidents inthe US market and has resulted in co-lossal lawsuits, Toyota had to also re-call a number of cars over minor de-fects.

In the latest blow to the brand, Toyotawarned on Thursday of an engine faultworldwide in eight models of its luxuryLexus and Crown sedans, potentially re-quiring a recall that could affect up to270,000 units.

The carmaker on Wednesday issueda total of 50,839 recalls in Japan overfaulty airbags and seat belts in modelsbuilt between 2000-2001.

South Korea reports record trade surplusexpectations of an imminent rise inthe key interest rate from its currentrecord low 2 percent.

“A surge in overseas demand forsemiconductors and automobilescontributed to the unprecedentedexport and trade balance figures,”said An Byung-Hwa, head of theministry’s export-import division.

An, quoted by Yonhap newsagency, said exports of semiconduc-tors jumped 97.3 percent year-on-year and automobiles gained 57.7percent.

An said a sharp rise in shipmentsto China and developing economiesfuelled the gains last month, al-though exports to the United States,

Japan and the European Union alsorose compared to June 2009.

The ministry report forecast a tradesurplus of 18.94 billion dollars in thefirst half, with exports gaining 35.0percent on-year to 222.45 billion andimports rising 40.0 percent to 203.50billion.

The country’s industrial outputgrew year-on-year in May for the 11thstraight month, in another sign that theeconomy is rebounding fast from theglobal downturn.

The finance ministry has raised itsgrowth projection for this year to 5.8percent, up from 5.0 percent previ-ously and compared to actual growthof just 0.2 percent last year.

AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

Toyota Motor’s Lexus brand staff dusts a Lexus luxury car at a Tokyo showroom on July 1, 2010.

Entertainment InternationalFriday, July 2, 201012

That surpassed the previous mid-night record of $26.3 million set onopening day last November by itspredecessor, “The Twilight Saga:New Moon.”

Summit was still counting thenumbers and was not expected tohave a final overnight number untilThursday. But Summit reported thefigure was likely to come in signifi-

After buyingtickets for the

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movie, ‘TheTwilight Saga:

Eclipse,’ premier-ing at midnight.

Reuters

PHOENIX – Rapper Lil Wayne, already serving one year in a NewYork jail for a gun-related crime, was sentenced on Wednesday to threeyears probation in Arizona on a drug possession charge. Wayne, whosereal name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was spared time in an Arizonajail under a plea deal stemming from his January 2008 arrest at a U.S.Border Patrol checkpoint in the state.

Under the deal, the 30-year-old Grammy winner pleaded guilty toone count of possession of a dangerous drug. Three other drug and weap-ons charges were dismissed.

Wayne appeared in court via a video hookup from New York, wherehe has been jailed since March after pleading guilty to attempted crimi-nal possession of a weapon. James Tilson, Carter’s Arizona attorney,said he was pleased with the court’s action.

“We’re quite glad that we were able to wrap everything up,” Tilsontold Reuters. “It’s a favorable plea agreement that will allow Mr. Carterto pursue his career.” Carter will begin his Arizona probation followinghis New York sentence, Tilson said.

The rapper’s tour bus, carrying 11 others, was stopped and searchedby Border Patrol authoritiesafter they said they werealerted by a drug-sniffingdog. Agents found nearlyfour ounces of marijuana, anounce of cocaine, 41 gramsof Ecstasy and a .40-caliberpistol registered to Carter.

Carter, whose album “ThaCarter III” was the biggest-selling U.S. release of 2008and won him best rap albumand three other prizes at the2009 Grammy Awards. Hisalbum “Rebirth” was releasedon February 2 after delaysand largely negative reviews.


HONG KONG – John Woo has received one of the top official hon-ors awarded by his hometown Hong Kong. The Hong Kong governmentannounced Thursday the veteran director has been bestowed the SilverBauhinia Star in recognition of his contributions to Hong Kong andChinese cinema. The award is named after the semiautonomous territory’sofficial flower.

Woo made his name in Hong Kong with stylish action thrillers beforemoving onto Hollywood, where his credits include “Face/Off” and “Mis-sion: Impossible II.” He returned to Chinese film in 2008 with the two-part historical epic “Red Cliff.”

Hong Kong announced its annual honors list Thursday to mark the13th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule.


NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country singer and “Dancing With TheStars” pro Julianne Hough isn’t making her romantic life public,but she is giving hints that rumors linking her to “American Idol”host Ryan Seacrest are true. When asked Tuesday whether she isdating Seacrest, Hough laughed and said that she wasn’t goingto confirm or deny anything. While she answered, Hough lookedup and to the right with a coy smile on her face. Hough went onto say: “Ryan’s great. He’s a really good guy.”

Hough was in Nashville to participate in the ACM LiftingLives Music Camp for people with Williams Syndrome. She sangkaraoke with the campers at a local bar and signed autographs.

AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Norm Dettlaff

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LOS ANGELES – “The Twilight Saga” has rung up another recordmidnight hour. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” took in more than $30million from midnight screenings Wednesday, according to distribu-tor Summit Entertainment.

cantly higher than $30 million.The huge start for “Eclipse” puts

the latest chapter in the vampire-ro-mance series on track for one of thebiggest opening days ever.

“New Moon” also holds that record,taking in $72.7 million in its first day.The new midnight record is even moreimpressive considering “Eclipse” man-aged it in the middle of the week. “New

Moon” opened on Friday, typically abusier day at theaters.

Fans lined up Tuesday hoursahead of the first midnight showtimes for “Eclipse,” which continuesthe story of brooding teen BellaSwan (Kristen Stewart) and her lovetriangle with vampire Edward Cullen(Robert Pattinson) and werewolfJacob Black (Taylor Lautner).

With the Fourth of July weekendahead, “Eclipse” is positioned for acolossal first five days. The recordfive-day haul for a movie openingon Wednesday is $200 million forlast year’s “Transformers: Revengeof the Fallen.”

Julianne Houghkeeps coy on Ryan

Seacrest rumors

FILE - In this June 9, 2010 file photo, Julianne Houghattends the 2010 CMT Music Awards, in Nashville, Tenn. AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file

AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File

FILE - In this July 29, 2008 file photo, Hong Kong director John Woolooks on during an interview in Hong Kong. Woo has received oneof the top official honors awarded by his hometown Hong Kong.

John Woo receives hometownhonors in Hong Kong

Rapper Lil Wayne getsprobation on drug charge

International Friday, July 2, 2010 13Life Style


CHICAGO – Should healthypeople with low cholesterol take apill to lower their cholesterol evenmore in hopes of preventing heartproblems? The question is dividingheart doctors and confusing patients.

An analysis published Mondayquestions research that led federalregulators to allow the statin drugCrestor wider use for prevention.The Food and Drug Administrationbroadened Crestor’s market to mil-lions more people in February,partly because of a study reportedin 2008 by Crestor’s maker.

Consequently, more doctors areputting healthy people on statindrugs, sometimes inappropriately,heart doctors say. And they say toolittle attention is paid to potentialrisks, such as developing diabetes.

The earlier Crestor study fundedby AstraZeneca PLC was contro-versial from the start. Its findings:Crestor cut the risk of certain heartproblems in half for the middle-aged and older men and women inthe study, who had normal levelsof LDL, or “bad” cholesterol (be-low 130), and high levels of a mea-sure of inflammation called C-re-active protein, CRP. It not onlysuggested a new use for Crestor,but a new blood test for CRP.

Critics suggested the dramatic re-

NASA’s intrepid Opportunityrover currently rolling across the sur-face of Mars has just caught its best-yet glimpse of its next stop – the hugeEndeavour Crater. The rover’s latestphoto of the Mars crater has revealednew details not discernable from pre-vious images taken on the ground.Several high points visible along thecrater’s rim can be correlated withspots seen from orbit. The image isa so-called “super-resolution” pic-ture assembled by combining infor-mation from multiple photos toachieve a highly-detailed portrait.

But don’t think Opportunity will bearriving at Endeavour any time soon.The rover, which is now in its seventhyear on Mars, still has many monthsof driving before it reaches the huge

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The picture show a Mars Rover.

Mars Rover Sees Huge Crater Better Than Evercrater, which is 13 miles (21 km) wide.

Opportunity landed on the redplanet in January 2004 along with itssister rover, Spirit. The pair wereoriginally planned to travel the Mar-tian surface for only 90 days each, buthave now set the record for the long-est mission on Mars.

The Endeavour Crater was selectedas a long-term destination for Oppor-tunity in 2008 after the rover finishedup a two-year study of Victoria Cra-ter. Endeavour Crater is about 25times wider than Victoria. Opportu-nity has now covered more than athird of the 12-mile (19-km) routebetween the two craters.

Recent observations of EndeavourCrater taken by a spectrometer onNASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

have revealed clay minerals exposedat the crater. Clay minerals, whichform under wet conditions, havebeen found extensively on Marsfrom orbit, but have not yet beenexamined from the surface. Addi-tional observations with that spec-trometer are helping the rover teamchoose which part of Endeavour’srim to visit first with Opportunity.

Scientists on the Opportunityteam have been informally namingfeatures seen on Endeavour afterplaces visited by British RoyalNavy Capt. James Cook in his1769-1771 Pacific voyage on theH.M.S. Endeavour sailing ship.Spots visible in the new image in-clude “Cape Tribulation,” “CapeByron” and “Cape Dromedary.”

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Researchers said Monday they found no evidence that the choles-terol-reducing drugs known as statins can help extend the life ofpatients at risk of heart disease. AstraZeneca’s Crestor was amongthe drugs studied in the meta-analysis published in the Archives ofInternal Medicine journal.

Cholesterol drugs for thehealthy still debatable

sults might be exaggerated becausethe experiment was stopped after twoyears instead of the planned five.They questioned why the authorsdidn’t report the rates of death fromheart attack and stroke, which whenteased out of the data turned out tobe unaffected by Crestor.

The new analysis, appearing inMonday’s Archives of InternalMedicine, raises those questionsagain. A second paper in the samejournal finds no justification fromthe earlier results for using a test forCRP to make treatment decisions.And a third paper, an analysis of 11published studies including the 2008study, finds no evidence that statinshelp high-risk people without heartdisease live longer.

“Why take a medicine thathasn’t been shown to make you feelbetter or live longer? Yet that’s whatmillions of Americans are doing,”said Archives of Internal Medicineeditor Dr. Rita Redberg, a cardiolo-gist at University of California SanFrancisco.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs, in-cluding statins, are among top sell-ers nationally and globally. Morethan 238 million prescriptions forcholesterol-lowering drugs weredispensed by retail pharmacies in2009, with more than $17 billionin sales, according to the health in-dustry data firm IMS Health.But there can be no doubt that

the creatures unearthed from thehills of Gabon, visible to the nakedeye, have upended standard evolu-tionary timelines.

“The cursor on the origin of com-plex multicellular life is no longer 600million years ago, as has long beenmaintained, but more like 2.1 billionyears,” said Abderrazak El Albani, aresearcher at the University of Poitiersand lead author of the study.

The findings were published inthe British journal Nature. Up tonow, conventional scientific wisdomheld that the planet was populatedonly by single-celled microbes untilthe so-called Cambrian explosion, amajor surge of biodiversity that be-gan some 600 million years ago.

Ever-more complex life forms

A virtualpicture re-leased byFrench scienceinstitute CNRSshows theexternal (L) andinternalmorphology ofa fossil, foundat a site inFranceville,Gabon. Scien-tists unveiledfossils fromwest AfricaThursday thatpush back thedawn ofmulticellularlife on Earth byat least 1.5billion years.

AFP/CNRS/El Albani//Mazurier

Study pushes back dawnStudy pushes back dawnStudy pushes back dawnStudy pushes back dawnStudy pushes back dawnof multicellular life on Earthof multicellular life on Earthof multicellular life on Earthof multicellular life on Earthof multicellular life on EarthAgence France Presse

PARIS – Scientists unveiled fossils from west Africa Thursday thatpush back the dawn of multicellular life on Earth by at least 1.5 bil-lion years. Just how complex the newly discovered organisms are issure to be hotly debated.

emerged rapidly from there, eventu-ally creating an evolutionary tree withhomo sapiens atop one of its branches.

“Multicellularity represents oneof the principle thresholds in evolu-tionary history,” Philip Donoghueand Jonathan Antcliffe from theUniversity of Bristol said in a com-mentary, also in Nature.

But the new organism, which ap-pears to have lived in colonies, showsthat the drive toward complexity be-gan much sooner. Shaped like cook-ies with ragged edges and a lumpyinterior, more than 250 specimenshave been found so far, El Albani said.

“They have different bodyshapes, and vary in size from one to12 centimetres (0.4 to 5.0 inches),”he told AFP by phone. The fossilisedcreatures may also have crossed an-

other threshold of evolution far ear-lier than any other known organism.

Unlike simple bacteria, their cellsappear to have membrane-boundnucleus housing and protecting its chro-mosomes, the genetic blueprints for life.

Geochemical analysis shows thatthe organisms lived in slightly-oxy-genated ocean waters, leading the re-searchers to speculate that oxygenmay have been an essential catalystfor the leap from single- to multi-celllife forms. “The Proterozoic Eon sawtwo major events of oxygen build-up in the atmosphere and theoceans,” El Albani explained.

The first of these would have oc-curred just before the Gabon speci-mens emerged, and the second aheadof the Cambian explosion. Earth’searliest, primitive life forms arethought to have sparked to life about3.9 billion years ago after the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment, a100-million-year fusillade duringwhich our young planet was pum-meled by meteorites that blasted cra-ters the size of Thailand and France.

Friday, July 2, 201014 InternationalWORLD CUP 2010

Luis Fabiano has scored threegoals in four matches in SouthAfrica, two of them after passesfrom Kaka. And the two have beencreating some of the most danger-ous scoring chances for their teamat the World Cup, leaving oppo-nents humbled with their craftymoves.

“We have a perfect connec-tion,” Luis Fabiano said. “We un-derstand each other. I just have toget in position and I know he willget the ball to me.” Kaka setupLuis Fabiano with a perfectthrough ball in Brazil’s 3-1 winover Ivory Coast in the groupstage, leaving the striker in frontof the net for the team’s first goal.

On Monday, in the 3-0 winagainst Chile in the second round,Kaka one-touched a quick pass toLuis Fabiano inside the area, whodribbled past the goalkeeper be-fore finding the open net for theteam’s second goal.

“We have a very good connec-tion, especially because of thetime we played together for SaoPaulo. One look is enough toknow what we are going to do,”


LIVERPOOL – Fulham bossRoy Hodgson was named on Thurs-day as the new manager ofLiverpool, signing a three-year con-tract on Merseyside, the PremierLeague club said. “The 62-year-oldformer Fulham, Inter Milan andSwitzerland manager has agreedterms with the club on a three-yearcontract and becomes the 18th man-ager in our history,” the club said ina statement.

Hodgson takes over from RafaelBenitez, who quit Anfield last monthafter a disappointing season sawthem finish seventh in the table.

He began his management dutiesas early as Thursday by overseeingthe first day of pre-season trainingat the club’s Melwood trainingground. “This is the biggest job inclub football and I’m honoured tobe taking on the role of manager ofBritain’s most successful footballclub,” said Hodgson.

Manager of the year Hodgsonjoins Liverpool after a successfulspell at Fulham, guiding their Pre-mier League rivals to the final of theEuropa Cup in May.

“The club have made a good ap-pointment in Roy Hodgson,” saidclub captain Steven Gerrard. “Rafa(Benitez) left a few weeks ago and Iknow the club were determined totake their time and get the right manfor the job,” the 30-year-old toldLiverpoolfc.tv.

“Roy is hugely experienced and Ibelieve he is the right man forLiverpool. “I think it’s been worth thewait and I’m sure he’s just keen now toget on with it and start to quickly put in

AFP PHOTO / YURI CORTEZ

Brazil’s striker Luis Fabiano (R) celebrates after scoring a goal with Brazil’s midfielder Kakaduring the 2010 World Cup round of 16 football match Brazil vs. Chile on June 28, 2010 at EllisPark stadium in Johannesburg.

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JOHANNESBURG – A quick look. A pass. A goal. Another assist from Kaka and another goalby Luis Fabiano for Brazil. The pair have come up big for the five-time champions at the WorldCup, teaming up like they did when they played for Brazilian club Sao Paulo before becomingtop stars in Europe.

Kaka said. “I hope to give him manymore assists in the rest of the WorldCup and that he ends up as the topscorer.”

Kaka and Luis Fabiano played forSao Paulo from 2001-03, winning the2001 Rio-Sao Paulo title and reachingthe final stages of the Brazilian cham-pionship in 2002. Kaka left for ACMilan in 2003, while Luis Fabianomoved to FC Porto in 2004 and thento Sevilla in Spain a year later.

Luis Fabiano was the leadingscorer in last year’s ConfederationsCup with five goals in five matches,including two in the final against theUnited States to help Brazil win thetitle. This year he is trailingArgentina’s Gonzalo Higuain,Spain’s David Villa and Slovakia’sRobert Vittek, who each have four.

“I’m trying to help Brazil win thetitle, that’s what I want,” said LuisFabiano, whose other goal at thistournament also was against IvoryCoast. “If in the end I’m also the topscorer, better.”

Kaka arrived at the World Cup asBrazil’s biggest star, but he struggledto stay in shape after a seasonplagued by injuries with Real

Madrid. He has yet to score a goal,but said he is perfectly happy stick-ing with the playmaking role inSouth Africa.

“That’s fine,” Kaka said. “Ofcourse everyone wants to score goalsin a World Cup, but honestly, it’s notsomething I worry too much about.I’m happy to keep helping my team-mates score so Brazil can keep win-ning.” Kaka also had an assist onElano’s third goal against Ivory Coast.

Surprisingly, this year thesportmanlike playmaker has alsobeen making headlines for some onthe field trouble. Kaka missedBrazil’s match against Portugal inthe group stage because of a late redcard against Ivory Coast — in a col-lision that could easily have been ano-call. He also received a yellowcard on Monday against Chile, histhird in three matches. “I’ll try to bemore careful now,” Kaka said. “Idon’t want to run the risk of missinga semifinal in the World Cup.”

Brazil will play the Netherlandsin the quarterfinals on Friday in PortElizabeth. Brazil was eliminated byFrance at the same stage four yearsago in Germany.

(AFP/DDP/File/David Hecker)

Roy Hodgson, seen here inApril 2010, was named as thenew manager of Liverpool,signing a three-year contracton Merseyside.


LISBON – Portuguese coachCarlos Queiroz said he would not quitthe post despite returning empty-handed from the World Cup and amidsigns that all was not well between himand star players such as captainCristiano Ronaldo. The 57-year-oldMozambique-born coach - who was,along with Ronaldo, the focus of criti-cism for Portugal’s last 16 1-0 defeatby European champions Spain - saidthat there was no dishonour in their fail-ing to win the trophy for the first time.

“It is totally out of the question (re-signing),” said Queiroz, formerly as-sistant coach to Sir Alex Ferguson atManchester United.

“If the national coach must resignfor having lost 1-0 against Spain in thelast 16 of the World Cup then there issomething that is not right.

“Spain is one of the big favourites.We haven’t succeeded in winning. Thatwill be for the next one,” addedQueiroz, who is in his second spell in

Liverpool appointHodgson as manager

place his plans for the new season.”Hodgson was Liverpool’s first

choice despite a host of other namesbeing mentioned and media reportssaid it cost Liverpool two millionpounds to win the release of the En-glishman from his contract at Cra-ven Cottage.

Former Liverpool stars also wel-comed the appointment and hopedfor a new era of stability and suc-cess at the club. “The club needs asteadying influence and Roy willprovide that,” said former Liverpoolcaptain Phil Thompson.

“He’s done a fantastic job atFulham and has a wealth of experi-ence having managed all over Eu-rope. Former Reds striker JohnAldridge said Hodgson would “fitthe bill perfectly” at Anfield and winthe respect of the squad.

Portugal coachQueiroz rules outquitting

charge of the national side having beenat the helm from 1991-93.

Queiroz, who is credited for un-earthing the ‘golden generation’ ofPortuguese players such as Luis Figoand Rui Costa who ended up reachingthe Euro 2004 final, said that he wouldbe looking towards qualifying for the2012 European Championships.“Continuity is assured,” said Queiroz,who has also coached South Africa,the United Arab Emirates and RealMadrid among others.

“For the moment we are going torest and then do better in the next chal-lenge ... and try and win over two orthree discontented supporters.”

Queiroz’ side only conceded onegoal but similarly only scored in one oftheir four matches - the 7-0 hammer-ing of North Korea.

The coach was criticised for be-ing unimaginative and unambitiousespecially when he replaced lonestriker Hugo Almeida before the hourmark against Spain with the matchstill locked at 0-0.

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After a run of seven straightWimbledon finals and six titles,Federer was eliminated in thequarterfinals Wednesday by hard-hitting Tomas Berdych of the CzechRepublic.

Struggling with what he said waspain in his back and right thigh, thedefending champion was outplayed6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 by the 12th-seededCzech on the court he has calledhome for much of the decade. Sincewinning his 16th Grand Slam titlein Australia in January, Federer hasnot been the usual Federer. Hehasn’t won a single tournament andwas beaten by Robin Soderling inthe quarters in Paris, where he wasthe defending champion.

“Quarters is a decent result,”Federer said in a comment thatwould have seemed unthinkable notlong ago from a man so used to win-ning or playing in finals in everytournament he plays. “Obviouslypeople think quarters is shocking,but people would die to play inquarterfinal stages of Grand Slamplay. It’s not something I’m used todoing, losing in quarterfinals, be-cause it’s not something I’ve donein the last six years.”

AP

BOSTON – The people that matter the most to DocRivers wanted him to keep coaching — so he will. TheBoston Celtics’ coach will return for another season,staying with the team he led to the NBA finals twice inthree years for a run at another championship.

“A lot of soul-searching with the family,” said Riv-ers, who was in San Antonio on Wednesday to watchhis son, Austin, play for the United States against Bra-zil in the final of the FIBA Americas Under-18 Cham-pionship. “Talking to my wife, she was really the onewho said, ‘You’ve got to.’ I just think she wanted meout of the house more than anything.

Switzerland’s Roger Federeracknowledges the crowds ap-plause after losing to CzechRepublic’s Tomas Berdych 6-4,3-6, 6-1, 6-4, during a Men’sQuarter Finals match at theWimbledon Tennis Champion-ships at the All England Ten-nis Club, in south-west Lon-don, on June 30, 2010.

Federer falters again in Grand Slam quartersFederer falters again in Grand Slam quartersFederer falters again in Grand Slam quartersFederer falters again in Grand Slam quartersFederer falters again in Grand Slam quartersAgence France Presse

WIMBLEDON, England – After back-to-back quarterfinal losses at the French Open andWimbledon, Roger Federer is suddenly no longer the Grand Slam certainty he used to be. For thefirst time in eight years, Federer won’t be striding onto the Centre Court grass on Sunday after-noon for the final at the All England Club. He won’t even be playing in Friday’s semifinals.

Federer will have to wait anotheryear to try to equal Pete Sampras’record of seven Wimbledon titles.Not only that, he will drop to No. 3in the ATP rankings next week forthe first time since Nov. 10, 2003. “Ican’t wait for Paris and Wimbledonto come around next year again,that’s for sure,” Federer said.

This is the first time since 2002that Federer has failed to reach thefinal at Wimbledon. Since losing inthe first round to Mario Ancic eightyears ago, Federer had played in thechampionship match a record sevenconsecutive times — losing only toRafael Nadal in 2008.

After winning 23 straight GrandSlam quarterfinals, Federer has nowlost two in a row. After winning 76of 77 grass-court matches dating to2003, he has now lost two of thepast six, including to LleytonHewitt in Halle, Germany, the weekbefore Wimbledon.

Inevitably, questions will beasked about whether the 28-year-old Federer is past his prime. “Ofcourse when you get older andyou’ve accomplished what Rogerhas, at some point, the guy’s a hu-man being, he’s going to have to

sort of face the fact that he’s notgoing to win these things and thathe may never win another thing,”three-time Wimbledon championJohn McEnroe said.

But McEnroe noted that manypeople had written Federer off af-ter he lost his Wimbledon title toNadal in that epic final two yearsago. Federer came back to win fourmajors, completing a career GrandSlam at the French Open, regain-ing his Wimbledon crown andbreaking the all-time record forSlam titles.

“So to write anyone off that’s ac-complished that is stupid,”McEnroe said. “But of course, at thesame time, at some point, it’s inevi-table that it’s going to happen.”

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(AP Photo/Mary Schwalm,File)

FILE - In this May 19, 2008, file photo, BostonCeltics head coach Doc Rivers speaks to themedia at the team’s training facility in Waltham,Mass. Rivers is staying with the team he led tothe NBA finals twice in the last three seasons.

Celtics coach Doc Rivers will return for 2010-11“My kids all said, ‘You’re a coach. That’s what you

are. And you’re a parent, and we appreciate both.’ Andso that made it easier.”

Rivers’ decision was first reported in the BostonHerald. Four hours later, the Celtics released a state-ment confirming Rivers would return.

“Doc is a fantastic coach and leader and I am thrilledhe is coming back for the upcoming season,” Celticsco-owner Steve Pagliuca said in an e-mail to The Asso-ciated Press. “Doc is re-energized and enthusiastic aboutcoming back to make another run at winning a champi-onship with the Celtics,” general manager Danny Aingesaid in the two-sentence statement.

Austin Rivers, a highly recruited guard who willgraduate from Winter Park (Fla.) High School in 2011,scored 19 points in the U.S. team’s 81-78 victory. Hescored a USA Basketball under-18-record 35 pointsTuesday in the Americans’ semifinal victory overCanada.

The inability to watch his four children play in sportswas one of the major things pulling Doc Rivers towardtaking time off from coaching. He said at last week’sNBA draft that he was hoping there would be some com-promise that would allow him to give both his personaland professional lives proper attention.

Rivers lives in the Orlando area in the offseason, andhis family remains there. “It’s like my kids say, ‘Youcome to more games than most parents doing your job,’”he said. “It’s not going to be a big change. I’m still go-ing to get to attend their games.”

Rivers’ decision does not mean that the nucleus ofthe Celtics team that won the franchise’s unprecedented17th NBA title in 2008 will be back for a run in 2010-11. Paul Pierce has reportedly said he will opt out of hiscontract and become a free agent, and Ray Allen is alsodue to become a free agent on Thursday. Rivers said hewas “confident, but I’m not overconfident” aboutPierce’s and Allen’s return.


BUFFALO, N.Y. – Tiger Woodshas been interviewed by federal au-thorities investigating a Canadian doc-tor accused of distributing humangrowth hormone, a person familiarwith the investigation told The Asso-ciated Press on Wednesday. The per-son spoke on the condition of anonym-ity because the investigation of Dr.Anthony Galea is ongoing.

Woods previously acknowledgedthat he’s been treated by the Toronto-based doctor but insisted that he didnot receive any performance-enhanc-ing drugs.

“Tiger willingly spoke to the au-thorities and cooperated fully,” Woods’agent, Mark Steinberg, said in an e-mail. “It was confirmed that becausehe did nothing illegal, he is not thesubject of any criminal investigation.Because there is an ongoing investi-gation involving others, there will beno further comment.”

The New York Times first reportedWoods’ interview, citing two uniden-tified people. Barbara Burns, a spokes-woman for U.S. District Attorney Wil-liam Hochul, declined comment.

The New York Mets’ Jose Reyesand Carlos Beltran are among athleteswho have said they’ve been contactedby federal investigators about Galea,

(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Tiger Woods hits out of a bun-ker on the 14th hole during thePro-Am at the AT&T Nationalgolf tournament at theAronimink Golf Club, Wednes-day, June 30, 2010, in NewtownSquare, Pa.

AP Source: Tiger Woodsinterviewed in Galea probe

who denies any wrongdoing.In April, the New York Yankees’

Alex Rodriguez met with three offi-cials from Major League Baseball andtold them he didn’t receive perfor-mance-enhancing drugs from Galea.

Galea, who is not authorized towork in the United States, is accusedof repeatedly entering the country totreat professional athletes from MajorLeague Baseball, the NFL and Profes-sional Golfers’ Association.

Friday, July 2, 201016 SportI N T E R N A T I O N A L

The Italian squad has been angrysince the Valencia race, whereMcLaren’s Lewis Hamilton finishedin second place despite having toserve a drive-through penalty, whichFerrari reckons came too late to af-fect him. Fernando Alonso, runningright behind Hamilton when thesafety car came out, finished inninth, having respected the safetycar rules.

Massa said he was not interest-ing in joining the controversy, buthe did call for changes to stop thatfrom happening again. “I don’t par-ticularly want to go over what hap-pened after that, because it changesnothing in that our race was ruined,”said Massa on Ferrari’s website.

“However, what happened needsto be looked into because it is notnormal than someone commits aserious infraction like overtaking thesafety car, when there is a danger-ous situation on track and is not re-

SAUBER technical directorJames Key says the team is work-ing hard to prolong its strong formfollowing Kamui Kobayashi’s driveto seventh place at Valencia. Theteam under-performed in the earlypart of the season, but Key is deter-mined to extend its run of good re-sults with update packages plannedfor the next two races.

“We are in a position now wherethe car is more suited to some tracklayouts than to others,” Key said.“Valencia showed that the carworks when it’s in the right condi-

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Ferrari’s Brazilian driver Felipe Massa gives a press conference.

Massa urgesFIA to actover SC rules

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa has urged the FIA to act to reviseFormula 1’s rules in order to avoid a repeat of what happenedat the European Grand Prix last Sunday.

ally penalised in practical terms.“We must talk about this together

and do something to ensure a situa-tion like this does not happen again.The team has told me that, next weekthere will be a meeting of the Sport-ing Working Group: that’s good andit’s an obvious indication that theFIA is paying close attention to thematter.”

The Brazilian, who failed to scorein Sunday’s race, admitted he wasvery encouraged by the pace of hisFerrari following the introduction ofa big upgrade package.

“Looking at the actual perfor-mance of the car over the weekend,I have to say the updates to the aeropackage and revised exhaust systemresulted in the F10 making a goodstep forward, allowing us to fight forthe front places,” he added. “Now itis important to keep pushing on thedevelopment front all the way to theend of the season.”

Sauber eager to prolong good formtions. Silverstone should be bettersuited to our car - it’s mainly a mixof medium and high-speed corners,which our car is definitely well bal-anced for. Hockenheim might be alittle less suited to our car thanSilverstone.

“For Silverstone we have somefront wing updates and modificationsaround the middle of the car. Thenfor Hockenheim we will have a rearend update which includes a diffuserstep as well. The numbers in the windtunnel are progressing well.”

Key says the team is also work-

ing on low downforce performancefor Spa and Monza, as well as dedi-cated a significant portion of its re-sources to next season’s C30.

“We are a private team and wedon’t have unlimited resources todo everything we want,” he said.“We are currently in the process ofsplitting our resources as best wecan between the current car and theC30. We are focusing on Spa andMonza for lower downforce anddrag configurations - and there willbe further steps towards the end ofthe year.”

Sauber’sJapanesedriverKamuiKobayashidrives atthe start ofthe For-mula OneGrand Prixof Europeat theValenciaStreetcircuit onJune 27,2010.

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