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Keanu Reeves will star in science-fiction thriller “Repli-cas” for Lotus Entertainment and di Bonaventura Pictures. The announcement comes on the heels of a solid reception of Reeves’ “John Wick,” which opened in second place at the U.S. box office.

“Hysteria” di-rector Tanya Wexler will helm “Rep-licas” from a screenplay by Chad St. John, based on a treatment de-veloped by S te -

pehen Hamel and Reeves. Pro-ducers are Lorenzo di Bonaven-tura, Stephen Hamel, Reeves, and Fundamental Films.

Lotus will introduce the film to foreign buyers starting at the upcoming American Film Market. CAA is handling domestic rights. Shooting will start in the spring.

Reeves will portray a neuro-scientist whose family is killed in a traffic accident and will stop at nothing to bring them back — pitting himself against a government-controlled labora-tory, a police task force and the physical laws of science. Di Bo-naventura noted that he’s eager to work with Reeves again.

“From my experience work-ing with Keanu on ‘The

Matrix’ franchise through our collaboration on ‘Constantine,’ I have always been impressed by Keanu’s ability to bring a genuine level of humanity to the sci-fi genre through his performance. I am looking forward to collaborating with Keanu once again on this unique take on what lengths a person will go to alter the past, and the implications of those actions.”

Ben Affleck, who plays Batman in the movie; Amy Adams, who plays Lois Lane; and Zack Snyder, the film’s director, appear in an Organization for

Bat Conservation video posted online Monday to coincide with National Bat Week. Some of the movie is being filmed in Detroit.

The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/1tLH9Ka ) that the inspiration for the public service announcement was a National Public Radio story that Snyder heard on white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that’s devastating U.S. bat populations.

Materials from the movie’s sets are being repurposed to build bat houses.

Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - They spend their nights like famished coyotes, hunting fresh meat. “If it bleeds, it leads,” as one character in “Nightcrawler” says, summarizing the link between gore and breaking TV news.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the film’s title comes from the nickname given to the kind of freelance video journalists who shoot bloody traffic accidents to sell to local TV sta-tions.

The Oscar-nominated star plays Lou Bloom, a jobless and hungry Angeleno who turns to nocturnal body-chasing across Los Angeles to survive. He lost 10 kilos for the film, released on Friday in the United States.

Gyllenhaal said he and director

Dan Gilroy “talked a lot about coy-otes .. in Los Angeles particularly at night, the wild animals that come down (from the hills) and are kind of surviving, even though the metropolis has taken over.”

“He’s a coyote. He’s hungry,” said the actor, nominated for an Acad-emy Award for 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain.”

One cut scene had Bloom ordering a cheeseburger to eat in a fast-food restaurant, then deciding to take it out because it was 99 cents cheaper.

“This is a guy who doesn’t eat much,” said the 33-year-old blue-eyed actor, who is more used to being on the other side of the paparazzi cam-era’s lens.

The thriller, which sometimes comically satirizes our voyeuristic society, sees Gyllenhaal’s character

slowly transform into a psychopath risking his own life and others’ to shoot video with no apparent em-pathy, or instinct to help those he is filming.

“It is supposed to be the journal-ist’s responsibility to capture the story, to feed the audience .. no matter what. And he’s doing nothing really that can be called illegal,” said the actor.

“He didn’t commit the murders, he’s innocent. But is he?” he asked.

Bloom is pushed to go ever further in his morbid journalistic race by Nina (played by Rene Russo), the TV producer he is working for, who wants the goriest possible footage. “Think of our newscast as a scream-ing woman running down the street with her throat cut,” she tells him at one point in the movie.

New Batman Affleck backs bat-protection efforts

Associated Press

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich — Two of the stars of the upcom-ing movie “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” have added some Hollywood heft to a Detroit-area group’s efforts to protect bats.

Keanu Reeves to star in “Replicas”

AP Photo/Open Road Films, Chuck Zlotnick

In this image released by Open Road Films, Jake Gyllenhaal, left, and Riz Ahmed appear in a scene from the film, “Nightcrawler.”

Jake Gyllenhaal breaks brutal news in ‘Nightcrawler’

Not creative nor innovative, Bali SMEs grow

wheezily

But in reality, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bali have not been able to survive in face of the competition. This sector tends to grow sporatically or seasonally. For example, before religious holidays such as Eid, Nyepi and Galungan, SMEs increase theri profits.

However, when there are no religious holydays, their numbers decrease. Such conditions, along with lack of human resources and capital makes it even harder for them to compete. Despite this, the existence of SMEs on the Island of

the Gods, provides a real contribu-tion to reducing unemployment.

An academician from Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjana Yasa, stated that SMEs including cooperatives have a huge potential, an daccount for 99 per-cent of the existing businesses.

However, the growth of this sec-tor is very volatile and businesses appear and disappear quickly. “There needs to be a study that maps them out, so that the obstacles and barriers hampering the advance of the SMEs can be overcome,” said

Murjana Yasa in Denpasar.According to Yasa, one of the

barriers to SME development is the availability of human resources.

This weakness poses a funda-mental challenge to the develop-ment of SMEs, especailly when first setting up the business but also for the creative and innovative aspects of implementation.

Human resources issues can be addressed through education, improving conditions from elem-netary school all the way up to university. Secondly, people needed capital. Many cheap loans were rolled out by the government, but they could rarely be accessed by the SMEs because they were unable to meet the requirements established

by the banking institution. This issue requires a clear solu-

tion so that conceptually, the SMEs and microfinance institutions are contiguous. In other words, mi-crofinance institutions develope around people with low incomes, so that the informal relationships between banks and the SMEs had to run synergetically.

He said the difficulty in accessing official financial services, has nour-ished moneylender businesses with high interest rates. Alonside these, there has also develloped coopera-tives which could be empowered.

For example, commercial banks appointed by the government to channel cheap credit, appoint a third party, namely the cooperative as a

partner to run the loan program.“The institutions which channel

cheap loans should have other arms, such as cooperative providing loans to artisans for example or alternatly artisans or other goups can set up their own coops. Extending such loans should not have inflated inter-est rates” he said.

Meanwhile, the Rector of Un-diknas University, Prof. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, also considered that the difficulties faced by the SMEs in accessing bank services was not only felt in Bali. This classic prob-lem is also experienced by SMEs thoughout Indonesia because banks are still in doubt about the track record of the average SME.

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The photo shows a woman woven Balinese traditional cloth called endek. SMEs are claimed to be the economic anchor and immune to the onslaught of financial crisis. But in reality, the existence of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bali has not been able to survive in the face of competition.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - SMEs are said to be an economic anchor and provide immunity to the onslaught of the financial crisis.

Soldiers in desperate search for Sri Lanka landslide victims

Obama’s next campaign stop: Maine

Real Madrid cruise to victory in Cup opener

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Friday, October 31, 2014Friday, October 31, 2014

IBP

UBUD - Alam Ubud is not only a resort but a new place for the Indonesian culture in the surrounding of Ubud area.

Located at the amazing river valley and tropical forest, only minutes away from the centre of Ubud Bali, Alam Ubud spa-ciously set within a 4 hectare river villa and garden landscape. The scenery along the road from center of Ubud the Alam ubud area is an observation and culture environment. So, you can imagine the location is very unique and special in Ubud. In every terrace and garden area you also can find old culture from Java island and some of culture that date back to the 15th century until the 19th century we found in area of Villas.

Alam Ubud features a freshwater swimming pool with swim-up bar. A range of spa treatments are also offered and so are an outdoor picnic / barbeque area, restaurant and library. With art and nature being the key themes to this resort, artworks from many Indonesian Islands hang in the resort buildings, villas and the on-site art museum.

Maximizing the natural setting, the villas of Alam Ubud is set high on gravity defining wooden pillar (adopted from traditional house in java), blench modern finishing touch décor and interior, end suite marble bathroom.

Luxury Balinese private villas are set in the hillsides and stand-ing each unit which hug the curves of hillsides and surrounding by rice terraces, offering an uninterrupted peaceful view, quietness and relax.Get inspired by the rich culture and history of Ubud, enjoy culinary delights with spectacular views and discover secrets of Balinese well-being at the spa. Alam Ubud is the tradition of Ubud as the perfect place to escape, relax and unwind.

Calendar Event for October 28 through November 6, 2014

October28th Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan/Anggara Kasih Kulantir :Temple Festival at :- Pr. Penataran Tangkas-Tebuwana, Sukawati- Pr. Dalem Langan-Bebalang, Bangli- Pr. Peseh, Lembeng Ketewel, Sukawati- Pr. Pasek Gelgel Penulisan. Kerambitan, Tabanan- Pr. Gaduh-Sading- Pr. Dalem Gandamayu-Klungkung- Pr. Sanghyang Tegal-Taro Kaja, Tegalalang- Pr. Penataran Agung/Odalan Ida

Ratu Mas Magelung-Besakih- Mr. Dadia Dalem Tarukan-Kubu, Bangli

November2nd Buda Kliwon Tolu, Temple Festival at: Pr. Alas Harum-Tegal Kepuh,Kaba-Kaba, Kediri,Tabanan3rd Coma Umanis ToluTemple Festival at:- Pr. Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang- Panebel,Tabanan,- Pr. Kawitan Sekula Gotra Pasung Gerigih- Kaba-Kaba,Kediri,Tabanan

- Pr. Bhujangga Resi- Tumbak Banyuh,- Pr. Batu Madeg- Besakih- Pr. Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung- Ceningan Kanginan,Nusa Penida- Pr. Penataran Agung Penatih- Br. Sabha, Penatih- Pr . Penataran Sanggem- Sidemen, Karangasem5th Buda Pon Tolu, Temple Festival at: Pr. Catur Bhuwana-Sanding, Tampaksiring.6th Wraspati Wage ToluTemple Festival at:- Pr. Paninjoan-Besakih- Pr. Dalem Tenggaling- Ds. Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

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Bali Post

NEGARA - Dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Subak Tamblang, Dangin Tukadaya and Sangkara-gung, have turned dormant. At least 50 hectares of paddy field of Subak Tamblang were not planted and looked barren. The irrigation chan-nel also looked dry without a single drop of water.

One of the farmers of the Subak Tamblang, Ketut Nawa, said this

year was the longest dry season in a long time.

Due to prolonged periods of dryness, the land, usually cultivated with paddy plants or other crops changed into a cattle pasture. According to Ketut, the dry season startedlast May. Usually by September, the rains have come. How-ever, so far we are at the end of October and there has been no sign of rain.

Except for Tamblang, approxi-mately 100 hectares of agricul-tural land at Subak Sangkar Agung,

Sangkar Agung village also turned dormant. Although farmers could use artesian wells to irrigate their fileds, they worried that this water would not suffice causing worse problems. As a result, the overlay of paddy field spreading from Sangkar Agung village to the frontier of Budeng looked barren. Not a single plot was planted as the land was totally dry. On the overlay of the dry paddy field was the sight of many cattle grazing. (kmb26)

The waiting list for electri-cal connections in Nusa Penida has now reached

a demand for 1.8 mega-watts. It is mostly requested by hotel operations and other businesses, for the operation of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) and the needs of local residents. The condition has been recognized by the former Head of PLN Nusa Penida, I Nyoman Sudiatmika.

Sudiatmika who now occu-pies the position as the supervi-sor and controller of the PLN construction for East Bali area said that the arrival of a new power plant for PLN Nusa Penida could not guarantee that the supply of electricity in Nusa Penida would be secure.

The new engine attempted by the Klungkung Regent, Ny-oman Suwirta, has the capacity of 4.8 megawatts. The assis-tance of new machines initially became a glimmer of hope for the people of Nusa Penida. Previously when reaching the peak load, there were regular blackouts which greatly dis-trubed their activitiies.

With the assistance of teh new engine, the electrical energy to Nusa Penida could be adequately assisted. After regular operations, there was still an energy reserve of 1.3 megawatts. However, on the other hand, he affirmed that the waiting list of residents for power connection in Nusa Penida was also quite high, reaching a demand for 1.8 more megawatts. He admit-ted that such needs could not be met given that the energy needed during peak load was very high. Usage is dominated by the needs of the community which reaches 0.8 megawatts,

Municipal Waterworks (0.5 megawatts) and hotel opera-tions in Lembongan and Jun-gut Batu tourist area (0.5s megawatt).

Meanwhile, the eco-friendly energy sources at Pucak Mundi such as the wind power station and solar power station could benefit local residents. When first initiated, they were capa-ble of supplying 2.7 megawatts of electricity.

Thus providing a surplus of electrical energy for the needs in Nusa Penida. However, they only ran for one year because the eco-friendly power station was damaged.

The wind power and solar power station built in 2007 gradually wore out and were totally out of order by 2013.

Suwirta hoped that after he stpped serving as Regent that the breakthrough project of using submarine cables to Nusa Penida would be refocused. Af-ter four months of testing, the submarine power cables from Saba Beach, Gianyar broke down about nine kilometers from the

shoreline.Currently, his party was

conducting a feasability study of implementation and opera-tion, to see whether the sub-marine cable could be recon-nected or alternatly a new one installed. It is believed that, if the power supply from Java could be channeled to Nusa Penida, the electrical needs of local residents, would be met. (kmb31)

Bali Post

BANGLI - Environmental sanitation remains an obstacle for the develop-ment of Trunyan tourism.

On the other hand, the number of tourist visits to the village, famous for its unique burial

system, continues to experience a significant though intermittent in-crease.

“We still need time to change peo-ple’s mindset about environmental sanitation,” said I

Wayan Bona, a resident of Trunyan doubling as the Division Head of the Tourist Destination Development in the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency.

Bona argued that the unresolved sanitation problems, particularly the waste management at Trunyan, is

in part caused by the behavior of residents, but is also affected by the geographical conditions of Trunyan which lies in a very narrow area at the foot of a hill.

“People are still have a hard time disposing of waste. Trash cans have even been provided, but the transpor-tation to landfill remains an obstacle,” said Bona.

Verily, added Bona, resident’s awareness about keeping the environ-ment clean had risen.

Local leaders were involved in changing people’s mindset. “To that end, we have been working

with the village authority both in rela-tion to the efforts to change the people’s behavior and the possibility for the provision of supporting facilities such as garbage truck,” said Bona. (kmb)

IBP/kmb

Environmental sanitation remains an obstacle for the development of Trunyan tourism. On the other hand, the number of tourist visits to the village, famous for its unique burial system, continues to ex-perience a significant though intermittent increase.

IBP/Surya Dharma

Dozens of hectares of paddy fields at Subak Tamblang, Dangin Tukadaya and Sangkaragung, have turned dor-mant. At least 50 hectares of paddy fields in Subak Tam-blang were not planted and looked barren.

Prolonged dry season, agricultural land turns dormant

Garbage, a classic problem in Trunyan

Nusa Penida lacks 1.8 MW of electricity powerBali Post

SEMArAPUrA - The demand for electricity on the islands of Nusa Penida has begun to rise recently. Despite having brought in a new power plant, The demands for electricity in Nusa Penida remain unmet.

Alam Ubud Villa

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, October 31, 2014Friday, October 31, 2014

Agence France-Presse

LONDON - Former pop star and model turned fashion impresario Victoria Beckham has come top in a yearly ranking of Britain’s 100 best managers for her “finely tuned business acumen”.

“The entrepreneur formerly known as Posh Spice is queen of the catwalk now,” Management Today magazine said of the 40-year-old mother of four, who is married to football icon David Beckham.

Beckham has grown her business

over the past five years from a £1 million (1.3 million euro, $1.6 mil-lion) a year turnover to £30 million and from three employees to 100.

She launched her label in 2008 and opened a large boutique in the upmarket Mayfair area in central London last month.

The list, which came out on Sunday and was reported in Brit-ish media on Monday, included 15 women -- up from 11 identified in the 2011 edition.

There are also nine names from Britain’s South Asian community,

including in the number two spot brother-and-sister team Amit and Meeta Patel, who own a pharma-ceutical business.

Mahmud Kamani of the online fashion site Boohoo.com came third.

The magazine said the 100 managers named had proved to be “real job creators”, adding 61,556 employees over the past five years for a total of 158,189 people -- far outstripping the rate of employment growth in the Brit-ish economy.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - For most people, the scattered twigs or branches on the beach area are just considered as waste littering the beach. But who will think that at the skilled hands of craftsman this kind of waste can be processed into a variety of handicraft products hav-ing high value.

In Badung, the craft works made from junk branches can be found in Abiansemal. Gusti Putu Widya is one of the craftsmen getting in-volved in the creative works. Since 2008, he has conjured up many junk timbers found on the beach into a variety of craft products

such as tables, chairs, decorative lamps, picture frames, windows and statues.

Widya said the handicraft from junk woods had its own distinction. The tree branches sorted and arranged in such a way could result in products with attractive motif and antique im-pression. Moreover, the finished goods were not colored or left natural.

Besides, the twigs of wood used were also not arbitrary. Not all junk branches could be used. “We just use the junk woods found on the beaches or estuaries. However, the best was the marine debris,” said Widya accompanied by his wife, Ni Made Dewi Astuti.

Coastal junk woods had light,

strong, easily processed and du-rable characteristics. According to Widya, this happened due to natural process as the influence of sea water. Junk wood materials used by Widya were brought in mainly from Jembrana County. A truck of coastal junk wood was bought at the price of IDR 4.5 million. Then, such a truck of raw materials could produce maximally 15 tables.

According to him, during dry season as today, the junk wood was very hard to find. Unlike dur-ing the monsoon season, the junk wood was very easy to find on the beach. “Only during rainy season, especially floods, we can order a lot of raw materials. But, it is now hard

to get them. Therefore, when there is an order from guest it will take a little longer,” he said.

Price of his junk wood craft product highly varied, depending on the size and complexity. The cheap-est one was candle holder sold for IDR 60,000 per piece. Meanwhile, a table was sold at the price of around IDR 1.1 million. His junk timber craft was quite dominantly demanded by foreigners. So, the products of Widya were widely purchased for villas in Bali. As for exports, so far his products were mostly exported to France. What about the turnover? Widya had no definite count. He just mentioned that he got a net gain per year of

about IDR 30 million.Junk wood handicraft product

had a promising potential. The Division Head of Cooperatives and SMEs Business Development, the Badung Cooperative, Industry and Trade Agency, Ida Ayu Istri Yanti Agustini, said that the Badung gov-ernment continued to develop the potential of the SMEs in the com-munity. Her party also mentioned that the government was trying to facilitate crafters to participate in a variety of prestigious exhibitions including building a partnership with relevant parties. (kmb25)

With the advantage of having coastal areas, Buleleng has the opportunity to exploit the under-sea natural resources through the integrated fisherman empower-ment system. With the coastal length spreading along 157.05 kilometers and marine area of 319,680 hectares, the potential of marine fish and pearls in Buleleng could still be developed to the maximum in the future.

To that end, the role of govern-ment and private companies in empowering the marine potential and fishing management should be done sustainably.

An owner of snapper farm named Abdul cultivated snapper in the waters of Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, West Buleleng. He said that during the production pro-cess of snapper, he could harvest snapper every week. With such

condition, he could produce four tons of snapper each month to be marketed to Japan and Australia. “We cultivate snapper and export it once a month,” he said.

Meanwhile, the potential other than fish is pearl at Gondol vil-lage, Gerokgak. Such quite prom-ising oyster breeding is capable of producing hundreds of beauti-ful pearls denoting the result of pearl oyster cultivation.

Generally, the high quality pearls are carefully reprocessed and prepared for the use in jewelry and exported to foreign countries. “Here, the pearls are very well cultivated. Visitors wishing to learn about the pearl cultivation can watch the stage-by-stage cultivation. Even, they can also see from the planting of nucleus into the oyster until the harvest process,” said one of the local workers, Ayu Kadek.

Meanwhile, the development of marine potential in Buleleng is inseparable from the consis-tency of Buleleng government through the Fisheries and Marine Resources. The Head of Buleleng

Fisheries and Marine Resources, Nyoman Sutrisna, recently said that some cooperation with pri-vate companies also helped market the marine cultivation products in Buleleng. With the cooperation, all the marine poten-tials were the results of hard work with the community in preserving the marine life and reaching the target of overseas markets. “The management of marine areas applies the eco-friendly pattern. By implementing the return-to-nature pattern, the snapper and pearl farming is able to produce valuable products and improve the welfare of the local commu-nity,” he said. (kmb34)

Pearl, snapper potential to export to Japan, Australia

Bali Post

BULELENG - Buleleng has a wide range of natural resources in abundant number with dif-ferent types of marine life. Communities of Buleleng living in coastal areas utilize the existing potential by exporting tons of seafood, ranging from snapper to pearls. Currently, the main target of the export market consists of Japan and Australia.

Coastal junk wood craft in Badung exported to France

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

For most people, the scattered twigs or branches on the beach area are just considered as waste littering the beach. But who will think that at the skilled hands of craftsman this kind of waste can be processed into a variety of handicraft products hav-ing high value.

“Women Fashion Power” at the Design Museum traces key moments in the development of women’s clothing since 1850, cul-minating in a collection of modern outfits contributed by some of the most influential women of the 21st century.

The exhibition comprises items from underwear to red carpet gowns, interspersed with photo-

graphs, memorabilia and a pair of Reebok Freestyle Hi Tops trainers, revealing how women adopt fash-ion trends to create a style that suits their lives.

“It’s about clothes and how women can use them to empower themselves to intimidate people and to make themselves feel sexy,” said co-curator Colin McDowell.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

opened the exhibition as one of 26 powerful women from around the world who contributed an outfit -- in her case, slim-fitting black trousers, a black jacket, a silk blouse and a wool scarf.

“The clothes you wear, par-ticularly as a woman in politics, are inevitably the first statement you make to people who come to meet you, before they even hear

you speak,” she told AFP.Wearing a black dress and black

leather jacket, Hidalgo said she dresses primarily “for comfort, something in which I feel good”.

A Prada cape worn by architect Zaha Hadid -- who designed the exhibition -- a red Dior crocodile jacket worn by Hong-Kong-born gallery owner Pearl Lam and an Akris Dove evening dress from Princess Charlene of Monaco are also on display.

Going back 150 years, the exhi-bition traces how women’s outfits have evolved from the constraints of the corset through to flapper

dresses, mini-skirts, female tux-edos, power-dresses, sportswear, grunge and eco fashion.

The exhibition includes the blue Mansfield skirt suit worn by former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher when she was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1975.

The black Jacques Azagury dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales on her 36th birthday also features, as does a striking Zandra Rhodes-designed wedding dress from 1977.

“Women Fashion Power” runs from October 29 to April 26, 2015.

Female power dressing on show in LondonAgence France-Presse

LONDON - Jettisoning the corset, donning a designer gown, wearing a punk wedding dress or even trainers -- the various ways women take control of their lives through fashion are the subject of a new exhibition opening in London on Wednesday.

Agence France-Presse

LONDON - US singer Beyonce and British high-street retailer TopShop said Monday they were launching a fashion brand for “athletic streetwear” that will be available this time next year.

The joint venture, Parkwood TopShop Athletic, will include “clothing, footwear and accessories across dance, fitness and sports categories,” the chain said in a statement.

Philip Green, head of Arcadia Group, which owns TopShop, said the project was a way of developing “fashion-inspired fitness”.

“Creating a partnership with Beyonce... who spends many hours of her life dancing, rehearsing and training is a unique opportunity to develop this category,” he said.

TopShop was founded in a de-partment store basement in north-ern England in 1964 and has been praised for the variety of clothes it offers and the sharp eye of its designers.

It launched the high-end Unique label in 2001 and has expanded internationally, opening 80 stores and retail outlets in 13 countries in 2013, including in Australia and France.

Beyonce shot to fame in the 1990s with the R’n’B girl group Destiny’s Child and was named by Forbes magazine this year as the most influential celebrity in the world.

The 33-year-old advertises a variety of fashion labels and man-ages her own ready-to-wear brand, House of Dereon, with her mother Tina Knowles, a fashion designer.

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Beyonce allies with TopShop for new fashion brand

Victoria Beckham tops British managers list

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Victoria Beckham

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SINGARAJA - Lake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdis-trict has experienced silting for the last few years. Aside from silting, the water puddle is now filled with the progressively flourishing water hyacinths. To overcome this condi-tion, the Buleleng government along with the Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS) has planned a dredging of the silting for 2015. The funds used to clean up the water hyacinths in Lake Buyan will be fully covered by the Bali-Penida River Agency. This was revealed by the Head of Buleleng Environment Agency, Nyoman Surya Temaja, after at-tending a meeting at the Buleleng House, Wednesday (Oct 29).

Furthermore, he added that based on the study of some experts, the lake located at Pancasari village is beginning to become polluted. Results of the research indicate that the pollution is caused by the excessive use of chemical fertilizers in the agriculture around the lake. The fertilizers fused with the soil and were then washed away to the lake when it rained. Such conditions triggered the water hyacinths to overgrow and other wild shrubs to grow luxuriantly, covering the water puddles in the lake.

“Results of the research made by the lake experts indicate that the pol-lution is caused by farming activi-ties around the lake and buffer zones which use chemical fertilizers. So, the water hyacinths and wild shrubs grow flourishingly, completly cov-ering the lake,” he said.

Aside from this, added Surya Temaja, the lake also experienced severe silting. It is estimated, that the current silting reaches about two meters.

It has been occurring for the last few years and had not been handled well. “The silting has been occur-ring for a few years and though

we do not have the exact numbers regarding the silting, it probably reaches about two meters down,” he said.

To address the two issues hitting the Lake Buyan, said Surya Tem-aja, the Buleleng government had submitted a proposal to the Bali-Penida River Agency. The proposal requests help for cleaning out the water hyacinths and dredging up the sedimentation. This proposed pan of action has been approved and will be implemented starting in 2015.

All the funds required for clean-ing and dredging of the sedimenta-tion in Lake Buyan will be borne by the Bali-Penida River Agency.

Meanwhile, the local govern-ment will transport the dredged sedimentation materials and the water hyacinths once cleared. The water hyacinths and wild shrubs will be processed into compost. “All this has been approved and will surely be done next year. Ac-cording to the agreement, we are only transporting the sedimentation materials and the water hyacinth will be processed into compost by the Buleleng Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency,” he added.

Then, the subsequent handling is intended to prevent pollution due to chemical fertilizers in the area around the lake and buffer zones. In an integrated manner, it will involve technical

agencies in Buleleng County to make the farmers aware of the harm of such fetilizers so that they will willingly switch to us-ing organic fertilizers. In addition, another attempt was made to curb the growth of water hyacinth and wild shrubs; digging wells in order to accommodate the infiltration of the agricultural land around the lake so that the water would not all reach the lake. Thus, the lake would not get covered by water hyacinth and wild shrubs. (kmb38)

“At the moment, we just only their nicknamesn and their photo-graphs has not been madeavailable,” said the Spokesman, Wednesday (Oct 29). Hery was reluctant to reveal the direction of the search against the four executors. Obvi-ously, said Hery, the team was still tracking their hideout.

“They were taken by the suspect Aril to murder the victim. They are the executors,” he said.

Hery said that searching for liv-ing persons was not easy because they could move. Evertheless, the personnel of General Criminal In-vestigator were still working hard on the chase. “I hope they will be arrested quickly. It is only a matter

of time. They will surely be ar-rested,” he said.

Related to the payment of a fee, Hery could not ascertain such facts because the four perpetrators had not been arrested. “The suspect Aril, for instance, received IDR 39 million. Maybe the distribution is uneven. We know that they were paid IDR 150 million for murdering the victim,” said Hery.

Meanwhile, the team tracking the executors are checking exit strategies from Bali. On Wednes-day, police already checked the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban. “Who knows, they could run away by plane after having been paid,” said the police officer.

When asked about the direction of the search, the officer was reluctant to answer. He argued the tracking was still under progress and that their exact position could not be known. “We have checked everywhere, in-cluding the harbor,” he said.

As reported, the Chief of Bali Po-lice, Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu, affirmed that so far,

the case qualified as premedi-tated, so that the accused would be charged under Article 340 of the Criminal Code with the subsidiary of Article 338 of the Criminal Code with a maximum of lifetime imprisonment.

Related to the four executors that have not been arrested yet, the two-star general, said the

authorities had put them on the most wanted list which has been disseminated. The Police

chief affirmed that if the suspect felt guilty about getting involved in the murder case, they should surren-der as gentlemen. (kmb36)

IBP/Yudi KarnaediPolice conducted crime scene investigation on Robert Kevin Ellis case recently. The four executors of Robert Kevin Ellis have the initials MT, 25, EJ, 28, DN, 24, UR, 24. All of them are from East Nusa Teng-gara (NTT).

Incomplete identity

Most wanted list of Robert’s executors not yet disseminatedBali Post

DENPASAR - The four executors of Robert Kevin Ellis have the initials MT, 25, EJ, 28, DN, 24, UR, 24. All of them are from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). According to Spokesman of the Bali Police, Hery Wi-yanto, the perpetrators on the most wanted list could not be disseminated yet because their identity and photographs were incomplete.

Filled with water hyacinth Lake Buyan goes through natural silting

IBP/Eka AdhiyasaLake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdistrict has experienced silting since the past few years. Aside from silting, the water puddle is now filled with the progressively flourishing water hyacinth.

Agence France-Presse

STOCKHOLM - Sweden on Thursday officially recognised the state of Palestine, Stockholm’s foreign minister said, less than a month after the government announced its intention to make the controversial move.

“Today the government takes the decision to recognise the state of Palestine,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement published in the Dagens Nyheter daily.

“It is an important step that confirms the Palestin-ians’ right to self-determination,” she said, adding that “we hope that this will show the way for others.”

Sweden’s new Prime Minister Stefan Loefven announced in his inaugural address to parliament in early October that his country would become the first EU member in western Europe to recognise a Palestinian state.

While the Palestinians cheered the move, Israel summoned Sweden’s ambassador to protest and ex-press disappointment.

Israel has long insisted that the Palestinians can only receive their promised state through direct nego-tiations and not through other diplomatic channels.

Seven EU members in eastern European and the Mediterranean have already recognised a Palestinian state -- Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hun-gary, Malta, Poland and Romania. Non-EU member Iceland is the only other western European nation to have done so.

The United States cautioned Sweden against recognition, calling it “premature” and saying the Palestinian state could only come through a negotiated solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

In Thursday’s announcement, Sweden’s foreign minister said that “the government considers that in-ternational law criteria for recognition of a Palestinian state have been fulfilled.”

Hundreds of troops were clawing through tonnes of mud that buried tin-roofed homes at the plantation on Wednes-day, and reinforcements have been de-ployed, but there was little hope of finding survivors.

“We are also bringing in an additional 200 troops to add to the 500 already here to carry out the search,” the region’s top military officer, Major General Mano Perera, told reporters.

Rescue efforts were being hampered by persistent monsoon rains, blamed for the initial mudslide, that have also made the surrounding hills unstable, he said.

“There were no concrete structures which could have acted as air traps for victims to survive,” he added.

Shop keeper Vevaratnam Marathamuttu said he ran when tonnes of earth came crashing down the hill on Wednesday morning, fearing there had been an ex-plosion.

“I thought it was some sort of a bomb blast and fled from my shop,” Maratha-muttu said. “I saved my life because I ran away.”

Truck driver Sinniah Yogarajan, 48, said there was “no point in my living” after five members of his family along with his friends were buried in the disaster.

“The entire neighbourhood has van-ished. Now there is a river of mud where our houses once stood,” Yogarajan told AFP at a nearby school where survivors were sheltering.

“The soldiers are trying their best but every time they scoop out some of the mud the hole then just gets filled up again with more mud,” he said. Top officials have warned the chances of finding survivors are slim, while a government minister voiced fears the death toll could hit 100.

“What I gathered is that about 100 people have been buried alive,” Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Ama-raweera told AFP after visiting the site on Wednesday afternoon.

There had been fears of an even higher toll when officials initially said that up to 300 people were unaccounted for, but the minister said most of those who were classified as missing were later found to be at work or in schools.

President Mahinda Rajapakse spoke with survivors during a visit Thursday to one of the two schools turned into tem-porary shelters. More than 300 survivors camped overnight in the schools near the Meeriyabedda tea plantation which bore the full brunt of the mudslide.

But hundreds more workers and their families from neighbouring plantations were flocking to the schools, fearing land-slides would also strike their homes.

Sri Lanka’s picturesque hill region is famed for producing Ceylon tea and has become a major tourist attraction with visi-tors able to stay on the plantations.

General Perera, who is overseeing the clearing operation, said an area less than one square kilometre was affected.

“(But) The area is flooded with muddy water, so we don’t hold out much hope of finding survivors,” Perera added.

The number of homes destroyed was revised down to 63 on Thursday from 150 given earlier by the national Disaster Management Centre(DMC).

“We had difficulty communicating with our officers and sometimes rumours were reported to us as facts,” the Colombo-based DMC spokesman Sarath Kumara told AFP. An office where village records were main-tained was also destroyed in the disaster, causing problems for the authorities in compiling reliable casualty figures.

Agence France-Presse

TAIPEI - Taiwan police arrested a 79-year-old man after he sliced off his girlfriend’s nose, ears and lips and flushed them down the toilet, suspect-ing that she was cheating on him, officials said Thursday.

The man, identified only by his family name Huang, tied the 47-year-old woman to a bed in his home in central Changhua city and attacked her with a knife. He later flushed the body parts down the toilet before calling for an ambulance.

Police found a note written by Huang that said: “The thing I can’t have I will never allow others to easily obtain. I will end it in the bloodiest way.”

News of the brutal crime was splashed across front pages of several local dailies.

Huang, a wealthy landlord whose wife passed away last month, began dating the woman, a yoga instructor, six months ago but the relationship soured after she revealed having another suitor, police said.

Taiwan man mutilates girl-friend’s face in jealous rage

Sweden recognises Palestinian state

REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteRescue team members conduct a search at the site of a landslide at the Koslanda tea plantation near Haldummulla October 30, 2014. Hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light on Thursday, though a government minister cut the estimated death toll to more than 100 from 300 the previous night.

Soldiers in desperate search for Sri Lanka landslide victimsAgence France-Presse

KOSLANDA - Soldiers using heavy diggers stepped up their desperate search Thursday for victims of a landslide in central Sri Lanka, feared to have buried alive 100 people on a picturesque tea plantation.

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Reuters

SEOUL - As South Korea’s population rapidly ages, makers of consumer goods from washing

machines to packaged foods and pet products are increasingly targeting people like Lee Dong-soo, who is 34 and lives alone with his cat.

Spending by so-called “golden

singles” - young unmarrieds living alone - who splash out more on food and other goods, is a bright spot for an economy plagued by sluggish consumer demand that has lagged overall growth for most of the past two years.

“Compared with married friends, I spend considerable money on food, shopping and dabbling in new hobbies,” said Lee, a professional singer living in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district.

The South Korean population is the world’s fastest-aging, and younger people are getting married later or not at all. The average age of first-time marriages last year was 32.2 for men and 29.6 for women, up from 27.8 and 24.8 in 1990.

Similar demographic trends have been taking place in many devel-oped nations, but they have been particularly rapid in Asia’s fourth largest economy, whose companies are proving to be creative in their response.

To woo consumers like Lee, Samsung Electronics in August launched a “Slim Style” refrigera-tor that is narrower and taller than ordinary fridges and is “optimised for the lifestyle of single-person households”, said Koo-yeun Choi, a Samsung senior vice president.

CJ Cheiljedang Corp, South Korea’s largest food manufacturer, is expanding a singles-focused mar-keting strategy launched last year for its prepared foods business.

“We hold promotion events and open cooking classes for singletons, especially to office workers and col-lege students,” said Kim Tai-joon, CJ Cheiljedang’s executive vice president.

One-person households in South Korea made up 25.3 percent of the total in 2012, a share that is on track to grow to 34.3 percent in 2035, ac-cording to Statistics Korea.

South Korea is undergoing a demographic shift similar to that experienced in recent years by Ja-pan, where the share of one-person households reached 31.5 percent in 2011, up from 27.9 percent 10 years earlier, according to Euromonitor.

The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade expects the spending power of single-person households to reach $113 billion by 2020, doubling from 2010.

LG Electronics and Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corp have been actively targeting single-person households since last year, with solo-friendly home appliances such as small-load washing machines, robot vacuum cleaners and portable TVs.

The market for packaged, ready-made and predominantly single-portion meals was valued at about 3 trillion won ($2.9 billion) in 2013 and is expected to grow 15 percent this year, said Baek Woon-mok, a retail sector analyst at Daewoo Securities.

The monthly average consumer expenditure of one-person house-holds stood at 973,700 won in 2012, compared to 847,300 won per person for two-person households, in the latest available official figure from Statistics Korea.

“While the consumer goods market in South Korea is in a slump, the uncharted market for minimised electronics, packaged premium foods and handy distribution stores has only begun to respond,” said Nam Ok-jin, consumer sector ana-lyst at Samsung Securities.

Consumer spending accounts for just over half of South Korea’s $1.3 trillion economy.

Makers of mid-priced cosmet-ics, such as Amorepacific Corp and Cosmax Inc, are poised to gain as the share of women living alone grows, while the leisure, travel and beauty industries are also beneficia-ries of the growing share of young people living in solo households, Nam said.

In provisional estimates re-leased Thursday, the National Statistics Institute said the econ-omy grew by 1.6 percent over the past 12 months, up from the 1.3 percent year-on-year increase registered in the second quarter.

The July-September growth figure was slightly below the

0.6 percent quarterly rate posted in the previous three-month period.

Spain fell into the first of two severe recessions in the second half of 2008 after its real estate sector collapsed. It emerged from the second slump in the latter half of 2013.

Spanish economy grows for 5th quarter in a rowAssociated Press

MADRID — Spain’s economy grew by 0.5 percent in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, its fifth consecutive quarterly growth.

REUTERS/Sergio PerezPeople walk past the Bank of Spain in central Madrid October 23, 2014. The Bank of Spain on Thursday said it expected the Spanish economy to have expanded by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months between July and September after 0.6 percent growth in the second quarter.

Korea Inc targets “golden singles” amid consumer slump

REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiA woman shops at a store selling small-sized products for a single-person household, at a department store in Seoul October 28, 2014. Spending by so-called “golden singles” - young unmarrieds living alone - who splash out more on food and other goods, is a bright spot for an economy plagued by sluggish consumer demand that has lagged overall growth for most of the past two years. Picture taken October 28, 2014.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Developing an ideal Bali must pay attention to many aspects and certain rules spe-cifically such as the customs, culture and religion. It should not be let go up against the principles of harmony known as the Tri Hita Karana be-coming the benchmark to do various things including the development in Bali. Synergy among the pawongan (social aspect), palemahan (envi-ronmental aspect) and parhyangan (spiritual aspect) must be guarded harmoniously.

Essentially, developing Bali should not be equated to Hawaii. Bali should be developed with comprehensive and holistic approach by consider-ing various aspects. It is a personal opinion of Ida Pandita Mpu Nabe Shiva Putra Perama Daksa Manu-aba when giving feedback about the reclamation in the area of 838 hectares at Benoa Bay at the Geria Agung Bongkasa, Bongkasa village, Abiansemal. This high priest having educated and passed 160 high priests (sulinggih) spreading across numer-ous hermitages (geriya) as well as 14 priests said the leader’s role was very important in order to maintain Bali to become good.

When people needed a help, the leaders should maintain the commit-ment of their leadership by giving attention and appreciation to the community. At least, the leaders should keep their promise. What they had said was really done and so did the matter of reclamation. If more people disagreed and the project feasibility study carried out by the Udayana University did not support, then why the leaders did not support the community.

Responding to the field facts, the leaders should dare not to support the reclamation. “Moreover, Benoa is a sea becoming the sacred abode of Lord Varuna. When the sea denoting the center of happiness is explored and intervened artificially or unnatu-rally, then the implication will be cer-tainly not good,” said Ida Mpu Nabe Shiva Putra Perama Daksa Manuaba. He personally did not matter as long as the project did not harm Balinese customs and culture and the com-munity interests. However, if it was not in accordance with the interests the tradition and culture as well as people did not accommodate, then how was the logic of the government allowing the investors to commit the development?

“Instead of hoarding the sea to hundreds of hectares highly purified in Bali, hoarding the land on main-land needs to comply with the pro-cedures, including the proper ritual procession,” he concluded. (ram)

“We are waiting for the clarity from the government. As a state-owned enterprise, we will review the feasibility study because it is inseparable from the study we are developing whether it can provide benefits for the Angkasa Pura I, the community and provincial govern-ment. This must be studied together not only in terms of the Angkasa Pura’s interest,” said Corporate Secretary of Angkasa Pura I, Farid Indra Nugraha, in Nusa Dua.

According to him, the Angkasa Pura had communicated to central government related to the airport development that had not been realized so far. “We’ve been doing communi-cation, but until now there has been no deci-sion. Probably, Buleleng still has particular values to be considered by central government, and we do not know what they are,” he said.

Farid declined to comment when asked whether the investors were not interested in the airport development in Singaraja. “If in Bule-leng, we cannot answer. However, the investors are very interested in the existing small airports. Even, right now the Asia Pacific is regarded as a place having a great business potential due to passenger growth rate is quite high,” he said.

Besides, the development of airlines and the increase of middle class people in Indonesia were quite high. Ambon, for instance, was very attractive to investors. “However, they

ask the involvement of local partner. I heard if central government, namely the Transporta-tion Department, was reviewing the rules on the airport operators, especially beyond the state-owned enterprise,” he explained.

He argued that in realizing the airport was required the supporting facilities, such as road infrastructure, accommodation, transportation and others. “Many things must be considered when building an airport. So, the concept of feasibility study or the environmental impact assessment must be comprehensive and does not only consider in terms of the airport alone. Hopefully, our new government will have a breakthrough. For instance, the concept of de-velopment is not only carried out by the airport. In principle, the infrastructural development is not the responsibility of the state-owned enter-prise, but that of the government. However, the implementation can be done by the state-owned enterprise. When we talk in terms of the state-owned enterprises, there must be calculation to generate profit,” he explained.

Previously, the Regent of Buleleng, Agus Suradnyana, stated to have received the results of the feasibility study from central govern-ment determining the location in Kubutam-bahan. “The coordinate point of the airport development has been issued by central gov-ernment. As the central government does not

want to spend money, now we are still waiting for investors,” said Agus Suradnyana during a visit to the K Nadha Press Building.

Even, he argued, the development of the new airport should be realized with zero cost by exploiting the land in the vicinity of the airport, but without marginalizing the local communities. “Conceptually, it is by involv-ing the surrounding community. Customary village has enough land for the airport, pro-vided that it must involve the Kubutambahan communities whether they will be given to occupy the existing tenants. Hopefully, this calculation works,” he said.

Nevertheless, Agus Suradnyana was still con-fused to look for investors for the development of the new airport aiming to improve the welfare of communities in the North and the East. “The land for the airport is already available, namely the unproductive land owned by customary village in Kubutambahan, so that it will not harm. But, who will build it?” he said while asserting that the development was meant to reduce the burden of the Ngurah Rai Airport. The government especially the Angkasa Pura should intervene because it was the most feasible.

As previous news, the discourse on the new airport development in Northern Bali resulted in two alternative locations. The location consisted of Sumberkima village in Gerokgak subdistrict and Kubutambahan vil-lage in Kubutambahan subdistrict. Meanwhile, central government attempted to balance the development in Bali with the construction of a new airport by selecting the location in Northern Bali. (kmb27)

Bali, do not be equated to Hawaii

To realize airport in Buleleng

AP I awaits clarity from local government

IBP/Dewa KusumaAngkasa Pura I (Persero) is still waiting for the continuation of local government related to airport development plan in Buleleng, as so far there has been no clarity. The international airport development plan is located in Kubutambahan.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Angkasa Pura I (Persero) is still waiting for the continuation of local government related to airport development plan in Buleleng, as so far there has been no clarity. The international airport development plan is located in Kubutambahan.

BUSINESS

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From page 1“The main problem in accessing banking services is trust. Banks will

look at the prospects for the proposed business to see whether it is likely to be profitable in the future or not, to be sure that the SMEs can repay the debt and avoide busineeses deffering on their loans” he said.

Prof. Darma arguea that many SMEs do not run their businesses seri-ously. By and large, they are run without innovation or breakthroughs that could increase the confidence of banks towards the SME sector.

“Many SMEs are doing slow business, but only a few of them promote their businesses with uniqueness with value added,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Bali Cooperatives and SMEs Agency noted that the number of small and medium enterprises on the Island of the Gods up til 2013 reached 262,037. These numbers were spread across all the coun-ties and municipalities and were predominantly running businesses in trade, agriculture, non-agricultural industries and miscellaneous services. (kmb27)

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Reuters

JAKARTA - Born in poverty in a rebel stronghold, Indonesia’s new chief economics minister once sold duck eggs on the street to pay his school fees.

Sofyan Djalil later studied law in Indonesia and then went to Tufts University in the United States where he received two masters’ degrees and a doctorate. A decade ago, he became a minister in the cabinet.

He will need all that ability to overcome disadvantages as he takes on the uphill battle to revive South-east Asia’s biggest economy from its worst slowdown in five years.

When President Joko Widodo announced on Sunday the little known 61-year-old technocrat would be his economic “captain at the helm,” markets were unim-pressed and reacted little the fol-lowing day.

Investors were hoping an ex-perienced economist would take the reins, such as World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati or central bank Governor Agus Martowardojo.

“(Djalil) is reportedly close to Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and

might have to work doubly hard to prove that his appointment is not purely on that basis alone,” said Wellian Wiranto, an economist at Singapore’s OCBC Bank.

Kalla and Djalil were both in the first administration of former Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, but neither figured in his second 2009-2014 cabinet.

When Kalla was elected as Widodo’s running mate, many expected Djalil would make it to the cabinet, but his wife said the appointment came as a surprise.

“He found out he was going to be appointed chief economics minister three or four days before the announcement,” said Ratna Megawangi, Djalil’s wife for 32 years. “It was last minute.”

Djalil is known for achieving results from people and getting rid of those who perform poorly, col-leagues said. As minister, he placed newly hired company directors on one-year probationary periods, and worked to remove political ap-pointees from the boardrooms of state-owned firms.

“He is a person who doesn’t have any hesitation to replace people because he is very hon-est, his integrity is high and he

doesn’t compromise. That is one of his greatest strengths,” said Tanri Abeng, a former state-owned enter-prises minister who Djalil assisted in 1998-99.

In his current job, Djalil has his work cut out for him, with a potential fiscal disaster fast ap-proaching.

A huge shortfall in tax revenue threatens to bust a legal limit that could place his new boss into a po-litical crisis in his first two months in office.

The quickest solution is to cut ballooning fuel subsidies, a po-litically difficult move that in the past has led to violent protests and contributed to the downfall of long-time autocrat Suharto in 1998.

As economics supremo, Djalil will have to deal with the fallout of a potential fuel price hike and ensure the 10 ministries that he oversees, from finance and trade to agriculture and state-owned enterprises, keep to the president’s vision.

While slashing the deficit, he also has to revive economic growth and crank up Indonesia’s creaky infrastructure.

Gross domestic product grew by 5.1 percent on an annual basis in the

second quarter, the slowest pace for five years.

Indonesia’s inadequate roads, ports, electricity and other basic ser-vices, along with its corruption and daunting bureaucracy, have begun to disenchant foreign investors, who are essential for the resource-based economy to grow.

“The configuration of the cabinet

suggests that President (Widodo) plans to lean on Sofyan very heav-ily,” said John Kurtz, head of Asia Pacific for the consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

“He is a skilled and diplomatic operator, who listens, chooses his own inner circle well, and shows support and loyalty to those he respects.”

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is heading to Maine to rally votes for the Democratic candidate for governor, the latest in a burst of campaign appear-ances Obama is making before next week’s midterm elections after months of sitting on the sidelines because of his low approval ratings and unpopularity in some states.

Obama is headlining a rally Thursday in Portland for Mike Mi-chaud, a six-term congressman who hopes to unseat Republican Gov. Paul LePage in their neck-and-neck race. Independent candidate Eliot Cutler is running a distant third.

The president largely has avoided appearing in public with Democratic candidates. Many of them have not wanted to be seen with him because of his poor standing in the polls. Obama is also unpopular in a hand-ful of states where competitive Sen-ate races will help determine which

party controls Congress’ upper chamber for the two years Obama has left in office. Democrats have the majority, but stand to lose control if Republicans gain six seats.

Instead, Obama has spent the time raising money for Democratic candidates. Before the Maine rally, he was attending a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at a private home.

However, Democrats hope a vis-it by Obama so close to Tuesday’s election will help excite Democrats to get out and vote to put Michaud over the top.

Michaud picked up a pre-Obama boost on Wednesday by earning the endorsement of Angus King, Maine’s independent U.S. senator, over Cutler.

Obama is the latest top Demo-crat to campaign for Michaud, following earlier appearances by Obama’s wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and his former secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama’s appearance with Mi-chaud follows the president’s get-out-the-vote exhortation earlier this week in Milwaukee for Democrat Mary Burke. The former business-woman is challenging Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who could ad-vance a possible 2016 presidential bid by getting re-elected.

After the Maine events, Obama was traveling to Rhode Island, where he will spend the night.

Obama’s campaigning will extend into the weekend, the final one before the votes are counted nationwide.

He plans to campaign Saturday in Detroit with Michigan guber-natorial candidate Mark Schauer and Gary Peters, the only Senate candidate Obama plans to appear with before the elections. Two stops are on Sunday’s schedule: Con-necticut for Gov. Dannel Malloy, and Philadelphia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf. Wolf is challenging Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.

The recent surge in cases, now numbering 32 since the start of Oc-tober, has been focused in Riyadh and the western city of Taif, but it remains far less extensive than an outbreak in April and May that infected hundreds.

MERS causes coughing, fever and sometimes pneumonia, killing around 40 percent of its victims. The vast majority of confirmed cases worldwide have been found in Saudi Arabia, where 786 people have been infected, of whom 334 have died.

Two of the new cases announced

by the health ministry were in medi-cal personnel, adding to concerns about the standard of infection con-trol procedures in medical facilities. Three different Taif hospitals have been affected.

Some of the people infected with MERS in Taif this month were be-ing treated in one renal clinic in a hospital in the city, which authori-ties regard as being responsible for some of the transmissions, a senior Health Ministry official said.

“The secret here of success is not to prevent the cases to be intro-duced to the community...the suc-

cess is to control the transmission within health facilities,” Abdulaziz bin Saeed, undersecretary for public health told Reuters.

He added that medical personnel may have relaxed their infection control standards after the king-dom’s last outbreak before the sum-mer ebbed, but that the ministry had intervened to improve procedures in Taif hospitals.

The six new cases confirmed on Wednesday included three in Taif, where five others have fallen ill this month, two in Riyadh, where six others have been diagnosed with MERS since the start of October, and one in Hafr al-Batin, near Kuwait.

Cases of MERS have been found in other countries since the virus was identified in 2012, including in the United States,

Europe, the Middle East and Asia, but most of them were in people who had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia.

Scientists are not sure of the ori-gin of the virus, but several studies have linked it to camels and some experts think it is being passed to humans through close physical con-

tact or through the consumption of camel meat or camel milk.

The disease can then spread between people, and the largest previous outbreaks, including one in Jeddah in April and May that infected hundreds, have been linked to poor infection control procedures in hospitals.

Agence France-Presse

SEOUL - A South Korean soldier was sentenced to 45 years in military prison on Thursday for beating a con-script to death in a highly publicised case of barrack-room bullying.

At a court martial in Yongin City, south of Seoul, the defendant, a ser-geant surnamed Lee, was convicted of instigating repeated beatings of a young private named Yoon.

“The accused committed a crime that amounts to outright murder,” Yonhap news agency quoted the tribunal as saying.

Four other soldiers received jail terms of between 15 and 30 years and a sixth soldier was given a suspended prison sentence.

Private Yoon died on April 6 and investigators concluded death was caused by “crush syndrome” -- major trauma to the skeletal muscle -- and secondary shock from prolonged violence.

Prosecutors had sought the death sentence against Lee who led the others in subjecting Yoon to regular bullying and assaults, including ses-sions of crude water-boarding.

He was also humiliated by be-

ing forced to lick the spit of other soldiers from the ground.

Barrack-room bullying has long tainted South Korea’s military service, which is mandatory for all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 35.

Conscripts, most of them in their early twenties, account for the lion’s share of the military’s 690,000 ac-tive personnel.

Experts say the pressures facing young servicemen can be daunting when, after what is often quite a cosseted childhood and teenaged youth, they are suddenly plunged into a world of harsh military disci-pline, especially for those posted to the border with North Korea.

Bullying has been blamed for numerous suicides and incidents where conscripts have turned their weapons on their comrades.

In June, a 22-year-old sergeant opened fire on members of his unit in the 22nd Infantry Division, kill-ing five and wounding seven.

The sergeant, who was listed as a soldier requiring special observa-tion, later told investigators he had been humiliated and constantly mocked.

South Korea jails soldier for 45 years over bullying death

Saudi Arabia finds six new MERS cases as outbreak growsReuters

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said late on Wednesday it had detected six new cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 24 hours, the biggest daily jump for months with officials blaming lax hospital procedures.

Obama’s next campaign stop: Maine

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File

Obama made his first campaign trail appearances of the year in mid-October with the guber-natorial candidates in Maryland and Illinois.

The anti-graft body put forth the request after reports emerged that former Bekasi mayor Mochtar Muhammad, who is being jailed at Sukamiskin Penitentiary of Bandung, West Java, was spot-ted in Jakarta, on Monday night (October 27).

“It is the first homework for the new minister to evaluate the rank and file of the country’s peniten-tiaries. He should go all out to do that. Otherwise, he would be defamed by his subordinates who would abuse their authorities,” KPK Deputy Busyro Muqoddas

stated here on Wednesday night.Mochtar is serving a jail sen-

tence in connection with his involvement in four corruption cases: the Adipura Cup bribery case, the Bekasi regional budget financial fraud, the financial audi-tor bribery case, and the abuse of

food and beverage consumption case.

The Supreme Court (MA) has meted out a six-year jail term and a fine of Rp300 million plus Rp639 million in lieu of a jail confinement.

The punishment was handed down by the MA in 2012.

“Now, is it also the time for the minister to evaluate criminals convicted of corruption at the Sukamiskin Penitentiary? They can formulate a solid strategy and

have experience sharing with each other. It is not impossible for them to design a new modus operandi to get in and out of the jail easily and carry out corruption from within the jail premises,” he noted.

Mochtar, who has yet to com-plete his jail term, was seen in a restaurant in South Jakarta with his former lawyer.

Director General of Peniten-tiaries Handoyo Sudrajat said he would set up an investigation team to look into the case.

Antara

JAKARTA - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will conduct a three-day visit to Indonesia to hold meetings with several Indonesian businessmen, maritime experts, and German alumni.

“The visit of our minister to Indonesia can, after all, enhance partnership and also showcase our willingness to further improve the

already sound bilateral partner-ship,” German Ambassador to Indonesia Georg Witschel remarked here on Thursday.

According to Georg, the foreign minister will be accompanied by several officials from parliament, business delegates, cultural experts, and academicians.

The ambassador said Steinmeier planned to attend the Car Free Day event on Sunday at the Hotel Indo-nesia Square to closely interact with

the Indonesian people.After visiting Hotel Indonesia

Square, the minister is also sched-uled to visit the Goethe Institute to participate in the “School: Partners for the Future” (Pasch) Festival, which was launched during his first visit to Indonesia in 2008 in Jakarta.

The school aims to expand Ger-man teaching, particularly in the growing economies of Asia.

“In this trip, the minister plans to

visit Goethe Institute and celebrate with the 28 students who are learn-ing German language. Currently, thousands of students are studying the language in 1.5 thousand such schools worldwide,” Georg re-marked, adding that Steinmeier will also meet the alumni of Germany such as the Chief of Astra Priyono Sugiarto and Ilham Habibie.

Minister Steinmeier will also visit Tanjung Priok and Sunda Kelapa Seaport on Sunday to get

a firsthand glimpse of Indonesia’s maritime life.

The ambassador noted that the delegation is interested in evaluating Indonesia’s maritime sector that Presi-dent Joko Widodo is focusing on.

“We will board the ship from Marina to Tanjung Priok, so that the minister gets an insight into the need for improving or expanding the port for developing the maritime infrastructure in Indonesia,” Georg revealed.

KPK urges minister to evaluate penitentiariesAntara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)has asked newly installed Min-ister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly to evaluate the rank and file of the country’s penitentiaries.

German foreign minister to visit Indonesia

From duck eggs to fiscal deficit, the journey by economics minister

REUTERS/Beawiharta/Files

Coordinating Minister for Economics Sofyan Djalil

The return of Rose and the addi-tion of Spanish veteran Pau Gasol have branded the Bulls as Eastern Conference contenders in 2014-15, and they looked the part at Madison Square Garden.

“I wouldn’t say my rust is knocked off, but it’s getting there,” said Rose, who missed the final 71 games of last season with a torn meniscus after missing all of the previous campaign recovering from a torn knee ligament.

“I can’t be content with how I’m performing,” he added. “I have to put it behind me whether it’s good or bad and make sure I stay consis-tent with my workouts. Physically, I feel good.”

Both Rose and Gasol made key contributions. Rose -- the 2011 NBA MVP -- scored 13 points with five assists in his long awaited reg-ular-season return and off-season acquisition Gasol putting up 21 points with 11 rebounds.

Taj Gibson scored 22 points in 28 minutes off the bench for the Bulls, who connected on better than 50 percent of their shots from the field and effectively smothered the Knicks offense.

In all the Bulls received 55 points from their reserves, with Aaron Brooks netting 13 and 2014 first-round draft pick Doug McDermott scoring 12 in his NBA debut.

For New York, it was a disap-pointing start to the head coaching tenure of Derek Fisher, the former player drafted to implement the Phil

Jackson triangle offense.Carmelo Anthony was held to 14

points on 5-of-13 shooting and the Knicks finished a lackluster 3-for-17 from three-point range.

Amare Stoudemire was New York’s only other player to score in double figures, with 12 points to go with his eight rebounds.

Rose acknowledged he was eager to get back on an NBA court for the first time since surgery last November, but said he wasn’t har-boring any unrealistic expectations for himself.

“It’s still going to take some time,” he said. “I’m not worried about that. I might have some bad games here and there. But that’s not going to stop me from trying to be aggressive.”

Heat sizzle without James The second night of the season

saw Miami open their post-LeBron James era with a bang as Chris Bosh scored 26 points and 15 rebounds in the Heat’s 107-95 victory over Washington.

Bosh, who saw his numbers dwindle in each of the four seasons that superstar James played for the Heat, inked a five-year $118 mil-lion deal in the offseason to stay in Miami, while James opted to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in his home state of Ohio.

Turns out the Heat, who won two titles in four trips to the NBA finals in James’ four years in Miami, didn’t need “King James” to put on

a show.Dwyane Wade scored 12 of

his 21 points in the fourth quarter while Norris Cole added 23 and off-season acquisition Luol Deng of Britain scored 12 in his Miami debut.

James, meanwhile, will launch his second stint in Cleveland on Thursday, when the Cavaliers open their season hosting the Knicks.

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Penatahan Hot Spring IBP

TABANAN - This hot spring is located at Penatahan Village, Penebel Subdistrict, approximately 13 km from the town of Tabanan and 34 km north of Denpasar. It offers beautiful natural scenery on the right and left side with the backdrop of amazing terraced rice fields. The hot spring is perched right on the banks of Yeh Ho River. Local people call the hot spring by Yeh Panes. Based on the results of research in the laboratory of the Department of Health, the hot spring is very good for bathing because it contains sulfur and other minerals. It is excellent for curing light skin diseases.

IBP/File Photo

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Wozniacki started having nightmares of being rolled off the New York City Marathon course in a wheelchair.

As first-time marathoners are supposed to, she had planned one long training run of close to the 26.2-mile distance. The only problem: The tennis star started winning too much in her day job.

That meant less time off and more fatigue. So

going into Sunday’s race, Wozniacki has never covered more than about 13 miles.

“I know that normally you should be doing more, but I’ve been playing so many long matches, and I think most people don’t work out or play tennis for three, four or five hours a day,” she said Wednesday.

“When I did half and I felt great, I thought, ‘You know what? This is OK. I can finish this,’” she added.

Plenty of retired athletes have run marathons. The 24-year-old Dane knows of nobody who tried it in the prime of his or her career — and just a week after a grueling season ended.

On Saturday, Wozniacki lost in a third-set tie-breaker to top-ranked Serena Williams in Singapore in the semis of the WTA Finals. She then flew home to Copenhagen for a day before arriving in New York late Tuesday night.

“I think you need to be a little crazy, but in a good way, I hope,” she said.

With Rose blooming, Bulls open season with emphatic winAgence France-Presse

New York - The Chicago Bulls welcomed former NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose back from injury Wednesday with a convincing 104-80 win over the New York Knicks.

CHARLOTTE 108 Milwaukee 106 (OT) INDIANA 103 Philadelphia 91 BOSTON 121 Brooklyn 105 MIAMI 107 Washington 95 TORONTO 109 Atlanta 102 MEMPHIS 105 Minnesota 101 Chicago 104 NY KNICKS 80 DENVER 89 Detroit 79 Houston 104 UTAH 93 PHOENIX 119 LA Lakers 99 Golden State 95 SACRAMENTO 77 PORTLAND 106 Oklahoma City 89

(home team in CAPS)

Results from the NBA gamesAdam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark poses for photographers as she holds her race bib at a news conference to promote running in the New York City Marathon as an ambassador for the Team For Kids charity in New York, October 29, 2014. Wozniacki will join more than 50,000 runners when she com-petes in her first New York City Marathon on Sunday November 2.

Wozniacki confident she can finish NYC Marathon

REUTERS/Mike Segar

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Berlin - Holders Bayern Munich eased into the last 16 of the German Cup on Wednesday with a 3-1 second-round win away to Hamburg.

Robert Lewandowski put Pep Guardiola’s side ahead following some desperate defending before Austrian international David Alaba doubled their advantage from long range late in the first half.

Franck Ribery marked his first start of the season after injury by finding the net with a deflected shot early in the second period, and the Frenchman was then struck in the face with the scarf of a spectator who invaded the pitch, before Pierre-Michel Lasogga got a late consolation for the hosts.

Elsewhere, Freiburg, Hoffenheim

and Wolfsburg all beat lower-league opposition, while Borussia Mo-enchengladbach, who are second in the Bundesliga, won 2-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt.

Bayer Leverkusen needed penalties to win at regional league side Magde-burg, but it could have been worse for Roger Schmidt’s side.

They took an early lead through Hakan Calhanoglu but were pegged back and fell behind after having South Korean star Heung-Min Son sent off.

However, Kyriakos Papadopoulos equalised before the top-flight side eventually progressed in a shoot-out.

Hertha Berlin and Hanover suc-cumbed to lower-league opponents on Tuesday, but Borussia Dortmund advanced to the last 16 along with Werder Bremen and Cologne.

With World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo among a host of star names given the night off, it was centre-back Raphael Varane who produced the finishing touch in the first half as his bullet header put the visitors in front after just 10 minutes.

Cornella, from the outskirts of Barcelona, had their mag-ic moment 10 minutes later, though, as Oscar Munoz saw off challenges from Varane and Alvaro Arbeloa before fir-ing high past Keylor Navas to

equalise.However, in a game played at

the home of top-flight side Es-panyol, Varane restored Real’s lead from another corner nine minutes before half-time and Javier Hernandez put the tie beyond the Catalans with a fine angled finish eight minutes into the second period.

Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti then withdrew James Rodri-guez, one of only four players to retain his place from Satur-day’s 3-1 Clasico victory over Barcelona, for Marcelo.

And the Brazilian rounded off the scoring when he smashed home from a narrow angle after Jose Manuel Segovia had par-ried Isco’s initial effort.

With the second leg still to come at the Santiago Bernabeu in early December, Real remain very much on course for a last 16 meeting with La Liga cham-pions Atletico Madrid.

Sevilla are also well on their way to a place in the last 16 as on-loan Liverpool striker Iago Aspas scored a hat-trick in their 6-1 thrashing of Sabadell.

Associated Press

Tokyo — FIFA, international players’ union FIFPro and Inter-pol have launched a campaign to combat match-fixing.

The aim of the campaign, launched at the FIFPro Congress in Tokyo, is to raise awareness

of the dangers of match-fixing, to provide positive role models for players and to educate them on how to recognize, resist and report attempts to fix matches.

To start the campaign, the three organizations are releasing a DVD produced by Interpol that provides players with information they need

to help fight match-fixing.The DVD features soccer

players like Frank Lampard, Sone Aluko and Kolo Toure.

In April, a Malaysian man who organized an international match-fixing syndicate involving Australian games in 2013 was jailed for at least a year.

Associated Press

San Jose, Costa Rica — Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Depart-ment says 24 of its own agents are being investigated after a database was wrongly used to access personal information about Real Madrid and Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas.

Francisco Segura, head of the department, said Wednesday there was no justification for their actions as his agents only have authority to access the “information platform” during an investigation. Navas is not under any investigation.

Segura said it wasn’t clear what exactly the agents were looking for. He said that one of them had wanted “to check out” information on Navas’ sisters.

Navas guided Costa Rica to the quarterfinals of this year’s World Cup, the first time the tiny Central American country had advanced that far. He later signed a six-year contract with Madrid.

Associated Press

London - Queens Park Rang-ers defender Rio Ferdinand was banned for three games on Wednesday over a tweet contain-ing a derogatory reference to women.

The English Football Asso-ciation found that Ferdinand’s comment was “abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper” that included a “refer-ence to gender.”

An independent FA commis-sion imposed the ban and also fined Ferdinand 25,000 pounds ($40,300).

Ferdinand was also warned as to his future conduct and ordered to attend an education program within four months.

Ferdinand, who joined QPR in the summer after being released by Manchester United, is a mem-ber of a high-profile FA commis-sion looking at how to improve English football.

In 2012, Ferdinand was fined 45,000 pounds (then $71,000) over a tweet about Chelsea rival Ashley Cole. Ferdinand endorsed a user’s comment that referred to Cole as a “choc ice,” a slang term perceived as meaning black on the outside and white on the inside.

He will miss QPR’s upcoming games against Chelsea, Man-chester City and Newcastle — although he has been a substitute for the Premier League struggler in recent weeks.

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Costa Rica’s goalkeeper Keylor Navas waves to supporters after Costa Rica defeated Greece 5-3 in penalty shootouts after a 1-1 tie during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Costa Rica and Greece at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, Sunday, June 29, 2014.

Judicial agents spied on Navas’ personal records

FIFA launches campaign to combat match-fixing

AP Photo/John Walton, PA Wire

Queens Park Rangers’ Rio Ferdinand gestures during their English Premier League soccer match against West Ham at Upton Park, London, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014.

FA bans Rio Ferdinand for 3 matches over tweet

AP Photo/Michael Sohn

Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski from Poland celebrates after scor-ing his side’s first goal during the German soccer cup second

round match between Hamburger SV and FC Bayern Munich at the Imtech Arena Stadium in Hamburg, Germany, Wednesday,

Oct. 29, 2014.

Bayern ease through in German Cup

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane, third right, scores against Cornella during a Copa del Rey soccer match in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014.

Real Madrid cruise to victory in Cup openerAgence France-Presse

Madrid - An understrength Real Madrid began their defence of the Copa del Rey with a comfortable 4-1 win over third-tier UD Cornella in the first leg of their fourth-round tie on Wednesday.

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Berlin - Holders Bayern Munich eased into the last 16 of the German Cup on Wednesday with a 3-1 second-round win away to Hamburg.

Robert Lewandowski put Pep Guardiola’s side ahead following some desperate defending before Austrian international David Alaba doubled their advantage from long range late in the first half.

Franck Ribery marked his first start of the season after injury by finding the net with a deflected shot early in the second period, and the Frenchman was then struck in the face with the scarf of a spectator who invaded the pitch, before Pierre-Michel Lasogga got a late consolation for the hosts.

Elsewhere, Freiburg, Hoffenheim

and Wolfsburg all beat lower-league opposition, while Borussia Mo-enchengladbach, who are second in the Bundesliga, won 2-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt.

Bayer Leverkusen needed penalties to win at regional league side Magde-burg, but it could have been worse for Roger Schmidt’s side.

They took an early lead through Hakan Calhanoglu but were pegged back and fell behind after having South Korean star Heung-Min Son sent off.

However, Kyriakos Papadopoulos equalised before the top-flight side eventually progressed in a shoot-out.

Hertha Berlin and Hanover suc-cumbed to lower-league opponents on Tuesday, but Borussia Dortmund advanced to the last 16 along with Werder Bremen and Cologne.

With World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo among a host of star names given the night off, it was centre-back Raphael Varane who produced the finishing touch in the first half as his bullet header put the visitors in front after just 10 minutes.

Cornella, from the outskirts of Barcelona, had their mag-ic moment 10 minutes later, though, as Oscar Munoz saw off challenges from Varane and Alvaro Arbeloa before fir-ing high past Keylor Navas to

equalise.However, in a game played at

the home of top-flight side Es-panyol, Varane restored Real’s lead from another corner nine minutes before half-time and Javier Hernandez put the tie beyond the Catalans with a fine angled finish eight minutes into the second period.

Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti then withdrew James Rodri-guez, one of only four players to retain his place from Satur-day’s 3-1 Clasico victory over Barcelona, for Marcelo.

And the Brazilian rounded off the scoring when he smashed home from a narrow angle after Jose Manuel Segovia had par-ried Isco’s initial effort.

With the second leg still to come at the Santiago Bernabeu in early December, Real remain very much on course for a last 16 meeting with La Liga cham-pions Atletico Madrid.

Sevilla are also well on their way to a place in the last 16 as on-loan Liverpool striker Iago Aspas scored a hat-trick in their 6-1 thrashing of Sabadell.

Associated Press

Tokyo — FIFA, international players’ union FIFPro and Inter-pol have launched a campaign to combat match-fixing.

The aim of the campaign, launched at the FIFPro Congress in Tokyo, is to raise awareness

of the dangers of match-fixing, to provide positive role models for players and to educate them on how to recognize, resist and report attempts to fix matches.

To start the campaign, the three organizations are releasing a DVD produced by Interpol that provides players with information they need

to help fight match-fixing.The DVD features soccer

players like Frank Lampard, Sone Aluko and Kolo Toure.

In April, a Malaysian man who organized an international match-fixing syndicate involving Australian games in 2013 was jailed for at least a year.

Associated Press

San Jose, Costa Rica — Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Depart-ment says 24 of its own agents are being investigated after a database was wrongly used to access personal information about Real Madrid and Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas.

Francisco Segura, head of the department, said Wednesday there was no justification for their actions as his agents only have authority to access the “information platform” during an investigation. Navas is not under any investigation.

Segura said it wasn’t clear what exactly the agents were looking for. He said that one of them had wanted “to check out” information on Navas’ sisters.

Navas guided Costa Rica to the quarterfinals of this year’s World Cup, the first time the tiny Central American country had advanced that far. He later signed a six-year contract with Madrid.

Associated Press

London - Queens Park Rang-ers defender Rio Ferdinand was banned for three games on Wednesday over a tweet contain-ing a derogatory reference to women.

The English Football Asso-ciation found that Ferdinand’s comment was “abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper” that included a “refer-ence to gender.”

An independent FA commis-sion imposed the ban and also fined Ferdinand 25,000 pounds ($40,300).

Ferdinand was also warned as to his future conduct and ordered to attend an education program within four months.

Ferdinand, who joined QPR in the summer after being released by Manchester United, is a mem-ber of a high-profile FA commis-sion looking at how to improve English football.

In 2012, Ferdinand was fined 45,000 pounds (then $71,000) over a tweet about Chelsea rival Ashley Cole. Ferdinand endorsed a user’s comment that referred to Cole as a “choc ice,” a slang term perceived as meaning black on the outside and white on the inside.

He will miss QPR’s upcoming games against Chelsea, Man-chester City and Newcastle — although he has been a substitute for the Premier League struggler in recent weeks.

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Costa Rica’s goalkeeper Keylor Navas waves to supporters after Costa Rica defeated Greece 5-3 in penalty shootouts after a 1-1 tie during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Costa Rica and Greece at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, Sunday, June 29, 2014.

Judicial agents spied on Navas’ personal records

FIFA launches campaign to combat match-fixing

AP Photo/John Walton, PA Wire

Queens Park Rangers’ Rio Ferdinand gestures during their English Premier League soccer match against West Ham at Upton Park, London, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014.

FA bans Rio Ferdinand for 3 matches over tweet

AP Photo/Michael Sohn

Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski from Poland celebrates after scor-ing his side’s first goal during the German soccer cup second

round match between Hamburger SV and FC Bayern Munich at the Imtech Arena Stadium in Hamburg, Germany, Wednesday,

Oct. 29, 2014.

Bayern ease through in German Cup

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane, third right, scores against Cornella during a Copa del Rey soccer match in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014.

Real Madrid cruise to victory in Cup openerAgence France-Presse

Madrid - An understrength Real Madrid began their defence of the Copa del Rey with a comfortable 4-1 win over third-tier UD Cornella in the first leg of their fourth-round tie on Wednesday.

The return of Rose and the addi-tion of Spanish veteran Pau Gasol have branded the Bulls as Eastern Conference contenders in 2014-15, and they looked the part at Madison Square Garden.

“I wouldn’t say my rust is knocked off, but it’s getting there,” said Rose, who missed the final 71 games of last season with a torn meniscus after missing all of the previous campaign recovering from a torn knee ligament.

“I can’t be content with how I’m performing,” he added. “I have to put it behind me whether it’s good or bad and make sure I stay consis-tent with my workouts. Physically, I feel good.”

Both Rose and Gasol made key contributions. Rose -- the 2011 NBA MVP -- scored 13 points with five assists in his long awaited reg-ular-season return and off-season acquisition Gasol putting up 21 points with 11 rebounds.

Taj Gibson scored 22 points in 28 minutes off the bench for the Bulls, who connected on better than 50 percent of their shots from the field and effectively smothered the Knicks offense.

In all the Bulls received 55 points from their reserves, with Aaron Brooks netting 13 and 2014 first-round draft pick Doug McDermott scoring 12 in his NBA debut.

For New York, it was a disap-pointing start to the head coaching tenure of Derek Fisher, the former player drafted to implement the Phil

Jackson triangle offense.Carmelo Anthony was held to 14

points on 5-of-13 shooting and the Knicks finished a lackluster 3-for-17 from three-point range.

Amare Stoudemire was New York’s only other player to score in double figures, with 12 points to go with his eight rebounds.

Rose acknowledged he was eager to get back on an NBA court for the first time since surgery last November, but said he wasn’t har-boring any unrealistic expectations for himself.

“It’s still going to take some time,” he said. “I’m not worried about that. I might have some bad games here and there. But that’s not going to stop me from trying to be aggressive.”

Heat sizzle without James The second night of the season

saw Miami open their post-LeBron James era with a bang as Chris Bosh scored 26 points and 15 rebounds in the Heat’s 107-95 victory over Washington.

Bosh, who saw his numbers dwindle in each of the four seasons that superstar James played for the Heat, inked a five-year $118 mil-lion deal in the offseason to stay in Miami, while James opted to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in his home state of Ohio.

Turns out the Heat, who won two titles in four trips to the NBA finals in James’ four years in Miami, didn’t need “King James” to put on

a show.Dwyane Wade scored 12 of

his 21 points in the fourth quarter while Norris Cole added 23 and off-season acquisition Luol Deng of Britain scored 12 in his Miami debut.

James, meanwhile, will launch his second stint in Cleveland on Thursday, when the Cavaliers open their season hosting the Knicks.

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Penatahan Hot Spring IBP

TABANAN - This hot spring is located at Penatahan Village, Penebel Subdistrict, approximately 13 km from the town of Tabanan and 34 km north of Denpasar. It offers beautiful natural scenery on the right and left side with the backdrop of amazing terraced rice fields. The hot spring is perched right on the banks of Yeh Ho River. Local people call the hot spring by Yeh Panes. Based on the results of research in the laboratory of the Department of Health, the hot spring is very good for bathing because it contains sulfur and other minerals. It is excellent for curing light skin diseases.

IBP/File Photo

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Wozniacki started having nightmares of being rolled off the New York City Marathon course in a wheelchair.

As first-time marathoners are supposed to, she had planned one long training run of close to the 26.2-mile distance. The only problem: The tennis star started winning too much in her day job.

That meant less time off and more fatigue. So

going into Sunday’s race, Wozniacki has never covered more than about 13 miles.

“I know that normally you should be doing more, but I’ve been playing so many long matches, and I think most people don’t work out or play tennis for three, four or five hours a day,” she said Wednesday.

“When I did half and I felt great, I thought, ‘You know what? This is OK. I can finish this,’” she added.

Plenty of retired athletes have run marathons. The 24-year-old Dane knows of nobody who tried it in the prime of his or her career — and just a week after a grueling season ended.

On Saturday, Wozniacki lost in a third-set tie-breaker to top-ranked Serena Williams in Singapore in the semis of the WTA Finals. She then flew home to Copenhagen for a day before arriving in New York late Tuesday night.

“I think you need to be a little crazy, but in a good way, I hope,” she said.

With Rose blooming, Bulls open season with emphatic winAgence France-Presse

New York - The Chicago Bulls welcomed former NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose back from injury Wednesday with a convincing 104-80 win over the New York Knicks.

CHARLOTTE 108 Milwaukee 106 (OT) INDIANA 103 Philadelphia 91 BOSTON 121 Brooklyn 105 MIAMI 107 Washington 95 TORONTO 109 Atlanta 102 MEMPHIS 105 Minnesota 101 Chicago 104 NY KNICKS 80 DENVER 89 Detroit 79 Houston 104 UTAH 93 PHOENIX 119 LA Lakers 99 Golden State 95 SACRAMENTO 77 PORTLAND 106 Oklahoma City 89

(home team in CAPS)

Results from the NBA gamesAdam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark poses for photographers as she holds her race bib at a news conference to promote running in the New York City Marathon as an ambassador for the Team For Kids charity in New York, October 29, 2014. Wozniacki will join more than 50,000 runners when she com-petes in her first New York City Marathon on Sunday November 2.

Wozniacki confident she can finish NYC Marathon

REUTERS/Mike Segar

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From page 1“The main problem in accessing banking services is trust. Banks will

look at the prospects for the proposed business to see whether it is likely to be profitable in the future or not, to be sure that the SMEs can repay the debt and avoide busineeses deffering on their loans” he said.

Prof. Darma arguea that many SMEs do not run their businesses seri-ously. By and large, they are run without innovation or breakthroughs that could increase the confidence of banks towards the SME sector.

“Many SMEs are doing slow business, but only a few of them promote their businesses with uniqueness with value added,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Bali Cooperatives and SMEs Agency noted that the number of small and medium enterprises on the Island of the Gods up til 2013 reached 262,037. These numbers were spread across all the coun-ties and municipalities and were predominantly running businesses in trade, agriculture, non-agricultural industries and miscellaneous services. (kmb27)

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Reuters

JAKARTA - Born in poverty in a rebel stronghold, Indonesia’s new chief economics minister once sold duck eggs on the street to pay his school fees.

Sofyan Djalil later studied law in Indonesia and then went to Tufts University in the United States where he received two masters’ degrees and a doctorate. A decade ago, he became a minister in the cabinet.

He will need all that ability to overcome disadvantages as he takes on the uphill battle to revive South-east Asia’s biggest economy from its worst slowdown in five years.

When President Joko Widodo announced on Sunday the little known 61-year-old technocrat would be his economic “captain at the helm,” markets were unim-pressed and reacted little the fol-lowing day.

Investors were hoping an ex-perienced economist would take the reins, such as World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati or central bank Governor Agus Martowardojo.

“(Djalil) is reportedly close to Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and

might have to work doubly hard to prove that his appointment is not purely on that basis alone,” said Wellian Wiranto, an economist at Singapore’s OCBC Bank.

Kalla and Djalil were both in the first administration of former Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, but neither figured in his second 2009-2014 cabinet.

When Kalla was elected as Widodo’s running mate, many expected Djalil would make it to the cabinet, but his wife said the appointment came as a surprise.

“He found out he was going to be appointed chief economics minister three or four days before the announcement,” said Ratna Megawangi, Djalil’s wife for 32 years. “It was last minute.”

Djalil is known for achieving results from people and getting rid of those who perform poorly, col-leagues said. As minister, he placed newly hired company directors on one-year probationary periods, and worked to remove political ap-pointees from the boardrooms of state-owned firms.

“He is a person who doesn’t have any hesitation to replace people because he is very hon-est, his integrity is high and he

doesn’t compromise. That is one of his greatest strengths,” said Tanri Abeng, a former state-owned enter-prises minister who Djalil assisted in 1998-99.

In his current job, Djalil has his work cut out for him, with a potential fiscal disaster fast ap-proaching.

A huge shortfall in tax revenue threatens to bust a legal limit that could place his new boss into a po-litical crisis in his first two months in office.

The quickest solution is to cut ballooning fuel subsidies, a po-litically difficult move that in the past has led to violent protests and contributed to the downfall of long-time autocrat Suharto in 1998.

As economics supremo, Djalil will have to deal with the fallout of a potential fuel price hike and ensure the 10 ministries that he oversees, from finance and trade to agriculture and state-owned enterprises, keep to the president’s vision.

While slashing the deficit, he also has to revive economic growth and crank up Indonesia’s creaky infrastructure.

Gross domestic product grew by 5.1 percent on an annual basis in the

second quarter, the slowest pace for five years.

Indonesia’s inadequate roads, ports, electricity and other basic ser-vices, along with its corruption and daunting bureaucracy, have begun to disenchant foreign investors, who are essential for the resource-based economy to grow.

“The configuration of the cabinet

suggests that President (Widodo) plans to lean on Sofyan very heav-ily,” said John Kurtz, head of Asia Pacific for the consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

“He is a skilled and diplomatic operator, who listens, chooses his own inner circle well, and shows support and loyalty to those he respects.”

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is heading to Maine to rally votes for the Democratic candidate for governor, the latest in a burst of campaign appear-ances Obama is making before next week’s midterm elections after months of sitting on the sidelines because of his low approval ratings and unpopularity in some states.

Obama is headlining a rally Thursday in Portland for Mike Mi-chaud, a six-term congressman who hopes to unseat Republican Gov. Paul LePage in their neck-and-neck race. Independent candidate Eliot Cutler is running a distant third.

The president largely has avoided appearing in public with Democratic candidates. Many of them have not wanted to be seen with him because of his poor standing in the polls. Obama is also unpopular in a hand-ful of states where competitive Sen-ate races will help determine which

party controls Congress’ upper chamber for the two years Obama has left in office. Democrats have the majority, but stand to lose control if Republicans gain six seats.

Instead, Obama has spent the time raising money for Democratic candidates. Before the Maine rally, he was attending a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at a private home.

However, Democrats hope a vis-it by Obama so close to Tuesday’s election will help excite Democrats to get out and vote to put Michaud over the top.

Michaud picked up a pre-Obama boost on Wednesday by earning the endorsement of Angus King, Maine’s independent U.S. senator, over Cutler.

Obama is the latest top Demo-crat to campaign for Michaud, following earlier appearances by Obama’s wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and his former secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama’s appearance with Mi-chaud follows the president’s get-out-the-vote exhortation earlier this week in Milwaukee for Democrat Mary Burke. The former business-woman is challenging Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who could ad-vance a possible 2016 presidential bid by getting re-elected.

After the Maine events, Obama was traveling to Rhode Island, where he will spend the night.

Obama’s campaigning will extend into the weekend, the final one before the votes are counted nationwide.

He plans to campaign Saturday in Detroit with Michigan guber-natorial candidate Mark Schauer and Gary Peters, the only Senate candidate Obama plans to appear with before the elections. Two stops are on Sunday’s schedule: Con-necticut for Gov. Dannel Malloy, and Philadelphia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf. Wolf is challenging Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.

The recent surge in cases, now numbering 32 since the start of Oc-tober, has been focused in Riyadh and the western city of Taif, but it remains far less extensive than an outbreak in April and May that infected hundreds.

MERS causes coughing, fever and sometimes pneumonia, killing around 40 percent of its victims. The vast majority of confirmed cases worldwide have been found in Saudi Arabia, where 786 people have been infected, of whom 334 have died.

Two of the new cases announced

by the health ministry were in medi-cal personnel, adding to concerns about the standard of infection con-trol procedures in medical facilities. Three different Taif hospitals have been affected.

Some of the people infected with MERS in Taif this month were be-ing treated in one renal clinic in a hospital in the city, which authori-ties regard as being responsible for some of the transmissions, a senior Health Ministry official said.

“The secret here of success is not to prevent the cases to be intro-duced to the community...the suc-

cess is to control the transmission within health facilities,” Abdulaziz bin Saeed, undersecretary for public health told Reuters.

He added that medical personnel may have relaxed their infection control standards after the king-dom’s last outbreak before the sum-mer ebbed, but that the ministry had intervened to improve procedures in Taif hospitals.

The six new cases confirmed on Wednesday included three in Taif, where five others have fallen ill this month, two in Riyadh, where six others have been diagnosed with MERS since the start of October, and one in Hafr al-Batin, near Kuwait.

Cases of MERS have been found in other countries since the virus was identified in 2012, including in the United States,

Europe, the Middle East and Asia, but most of them were in people who had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia.

Scientists are not sure of the ori-gin of the virus, but several studies have linked it to camels and some experts think it is being passed to humans through close physical con-

tact or through the consumption of camel meat or camel milk.

The disease can then spread between people, and the largest previous outbreaks, including one in Jeddah in April and May that infected hundreds, have been linked to poor infection control procedures in hospitals.

Agence France-Presse

SEOUL - A South Korean soldier was sentenced to 45 years in military prison on Thursday for beating a con-script to death in a highly publicised case of barrack-room bullying.

At a court martial in Yongin City, south of Seoul, the defendant, a ser-geant surnamed Lee, was convicted of instigating repeated beatings of a young private named Yoon.

“The accused committed a crime that amounts to outright murder,” Yonhap news agency quoted the tribunal as saying.

Four other soldiers received jail terms of between 15 and 30 years and a sixth soldier was given a suspended prison sentence.

Private Yoon died on April 6 and investigators concluded death was caused by “crush syndrome” -- major trauma to the skeletal muscle -- and secondary shock from prolonged violence.

Prosecutors had sought the death sentence against Lee who led the others in subjecting Yoon to regular bullying and assaults, including ses-sions of crude water-boarding.

He was also humiliated by be-

ing forced to lick the spit of other soldiers from the ground.

Barrack-room bullying has long tainted South Korea’s military service, which is mandatory for all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 35.

Conscripts, most of them in their early twenties, account for the lion’s share of the military’s 690,000 ac-tive personnel.

Experts say the pressures facing young servicemen can be daunting when, after what is often quite a cosseted childhood and teenaged youth, they are suddenly plunged into a world of harsh military disci-pline, especially for those posted to the border with North Korea.

Bullying has been blamed for numerous suicides and incidents where conscripts have turned their weapons on their comrades.

In June, a 22-year-old sergeant opened fire on members of his unit in the 22nd Infantry Division, kill-ing five and wounding seven.

The sergeant, who was listed as a soldier requiring special observa-tion, later told investigators he had been humiliated and constantly mocked.

South Korea jails soldier for 45 years over bullying death

Saudi Arabia finds six new MERS cases as outbreak growsReuters

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said late on Wednesday it had detected six new cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 24 hours, the biggest daily jump for months with officials blaming lax hospital procedures.

Obama’s next campaign stop: Maine

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File

Obama made his first campaign trail appearances of the year in mid-October with the guber-natorial candidates in Maryland and Illinois.

The anti-graft body put forth the request after reports emerged that former Bekasi mayor Mochtar Muhammad, who is being jailed at Sukamiskin Penitentiary of Bandung, West Java, was spot-ted in Jakarta, on Monday night (October 27).

“It is the first homework for the new minister to evaluate the rank and file of the country’s peniten-tiaries. He should go all out to do that. Otherwise, he would be defamed by his subordinates who would abuse their authorities,” KPK Deputy Busyro Muqoddas

stated here on Wednesday night.Mochtar is serving a jail sen-

tence in connection with his involvement in four corruption cases: the Adipura Cup bribery case, the Bekasi regional budget financial fraud, the financial audi-tor bribery case, and the abuse of

food and beverage consumption case.

The Supreme Court (MA) has meted out a six-year jail term and a fine of Rp300 million plus Rp639 million in lieu of a jail confinement.

The punishment was handed down by the MA in 2012.

“Now, is it also the time for the minister to evaluate criminals convicted of corruption at the Sukamiskin Penitentiary? They can formulate a solid strategy and

have experience sharing with each other. It is not impossible for them to design a new modus operandi to get in and out of the jail easily and carry out corruption from within the jail premises,” he noted.

Mochtar, who has yet to com-plete his jail term, was seen in a restaurant in South Jakarta with his former lawyer.

Director General of Peniten-tiaries Handoyo Sudrajat said he would set up an investigation team to look into the case.

Antara

JAKARTA - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will conduct a three-day visit to Indonesia to hold meetings with several Indonesian businessmen, maritime experts, and German alumni.

“The visit of our minister to Indonesia can, after all, enhance partnership and also showcase our willingness to further improve the

already sound bilateral partner-ship,” German Ambassador to Indonesia Georg Witschel remarked here on Thursday.

According to Georg, the foreign minister will be accompanied by several officials from parliament, business delegates, cultural experts, and academicians.

The ambassador said Steinmeier planned to attend the Car Free Day event on Sunday at the Hotel Indo-nesia Square to closely interact with

the Indonesian people.After visiting Hotel Indonesia

Square, the minister is also sched-uled to visit the Goethe Institute to participate in the “School: Partners for the Future” (Pasch) Festival, which was launched during his first visit to Indonesia in 2008 in Jakarta.

The school aims to expand Ger-man teaching, particularly in the growing economies of Asia.

“In this trip, the minister plans to

visit Goethe Institute and celebrate with the 28 students who are learn-ing German language. Currently, thousands of students are studying the language in 1.5 thousand such schools worldwide,” Georg re-marked, adding that Steinmeier will also meet the alumni of Germany such as the Chief of Astra Priyono Sugiarto and Ilham Habibie.

Minister Steinmeier will also visit Tanjung Priok and Sunda Kelapa Seaport on Sunday to get

a firsthand glimpse of Indonesia’s maritime life.

The ambassador noted that the delegation is interested in evaluating Indonesia’s maritime sector that Presi-dent Joko Widodo is focusing on.

“We will board the ship from Marina to Tanjung Priok, so that the minister gets an insight into the need for improving or expanding the port for developing the maritime infrastructure in Indonesia,” Georg revealed.

KPK urges minister to evaluate penitentiariesAntara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)has asked newly installed Min-ister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly to evaluate the rank and file of the country’s penitentiaries.

German foreign minister to visit Indonesia

From duck eggs to fiscal deficit, the journey by economics minister

REUTERS/Beawiharta/Files

Coordinating Minister for Economics Sofyan Djalil

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Reuters

SEOUL - As South Korea’s population rapidly ages, makers of consumer goods from washing

machines to packaged foods and pet products are increasingly targeting people like Lee Dong-soo, who is 34 and lives alone with his cat.

Spending by so-called “golden

singles” - young unmarrieds living alone - who splash out more on food and other goods, is a bright spot for an economy plagued by sluggish consumer demand that has lagged overall growth for most of the past two years.

“Compared with married friends, I spend considerable money on food, shopping and dabbling in new hobbies,” said Lee, a professional singer living in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district.

The South Korean population is the world’s fastest-aging, and younger people are getting married later or not at all. The average age of first-time marriages last year was 32.2 for men and 29.6 for women, up from 27.8 and 24.8 in 1990.

Similar demographic trends have been taking place in many devel-oped nations, but they have been particularly rapid in Asia’s fourth largest economy, whose companies are proving to be creative in their response.

To woo consumers like Lee, Samsung Electronics in August launched a “Slim Style” refrigera-tor that is narrower and taller than ordinary fridges and is “optimised for the lifestyle of single-person households”, said Koo-yeun Choi, a Samsung senior vice president.

CJ Cheiljedang Corp, South Korea’s largest food manufacturer, is expanding a singles-focused mar-keting strategy launched last year for its prepared foods business.

“We hold promotion events and open cooking classes for singletons, especially to office workers and col-lege students,” said Kim Tai-joon, CJ Cheiljedang’s executive vice president.

One-person households in South Korea made up 25.3 percent of the total in 2012, a share that is on track to grow to 34.3 percent in 2035, ac-cording to Statistics Korea.

South Korea is undergoing a demographic shift similar to that experienced in recent years by Ja-pan, where the share of one-person households reached 31.5 percent in 2011, up from 27.9 percent 10 years earlier, according to Euromonitor.

The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade expects the spending power of single-person households to reach $113 billion by 2020, doubling from 2010.

LG Electronics and Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corp have been actively targeting single-person households since last year, with solo-friendly home appliances such as small-load washing machines, robot vacuum cleaners and portable TVs.

The market for packaged, ready-made and predominantly single-portion meals was valued at about 3 trillion won ($2.9 billion) in 2013 and is expected to grow 15 percent this year, said Baek Woon-mok, a retail sector analyst at Daewoo Securities.

The monthly average consumer expenditure of one-person house-holds stood at 973,700 won in 2012, compared to 847,300 won per person for two-person households, in the latest available official figure from Statistics Korea.

“While the consumer goods market in South Korea is in a slump, the uncharted market for minimised electronics, packaged premium foods and handy distribution stores has only begun to respond,” said Nam Ok-jin, consumer sector ana-lyst at Samsung Securities.

Consumer spending accounts for just over half of South Korea’s $1.3 trillion economy.

Makers of mid-priced cosmet-ics, such as Amorepacific Corp and Cosmax Inc, are poised to gain as the share of women living alone grows, while the leisure, travel and beauty industries are also beneficia-ries of the growing share of young people living in solo households, Nam said.

In provisional estimates re-leased Thursday, the National Statistics Institute said the econ-omy grew by 1.6 percent over the past 12 months, up from the 1.3 percent year-on-year increase registered in the second quarter.

The July-September growth figure was slightly below the

0.6 percent quarterly rate posted in the previous three-month period.

Spain fell into the first of two severe recessions in the second half of 2008 after its real estate sector collapsed. It emerged from the second slump in the latter half of 2013.

Spanish economy grows for 5th quarter in a rowAssociated Press

MADRID — Spain’s economy grew by 0.5 percent in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, its fifth consecutive quarterly growth.

REUTERS/Sergio PerezPeople walk past the Bank of Spain in central Madrid October 23, 2014. The Bank of Spain on Thursday said it expected the Spanish economy to have expanded by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months between July and September after 0.6 percent growth in the second quarter.

Korea Inc targets “golden singles” amid consumer slump

REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiA woman shops at a store selling small-sized products for a single-person household, at a department store in Seoul October 28, 2014. Spending by so-called “golden singles” - young unmarrieds living alone - who splash out more on food and other goods, is a bright spot for an economy plagued by sluggish consumer demand that has lagged overall growth for most of the past two years. Picture taken October 28, 2014.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Developing an ideal Bali must pay attention to many aspects and certain rules spe-cifically such as the customs, culture and religion. It should not be let go up against the principles of harmony known as the Tri Hita Karana be-coming the benchmark to do various things including the development in Bali. Synergy among the pawongan (social aspect), palemahan (envi-ronmental aspect) and parhyangan (spiritual aspect) must be guarded harmoniously.

Essentially, developing Bali should not be equated to Hawaii. Bali should be developed with comprehensive and holistic approach by consider-ing various aspects. It is a personal opinion of Ida Pandita Mpu Nabe Shiva Putra Perama Daksa Manu-aba when giving feedback about the reclamation in the area of 838 hectares at Benoa Bay at the Geria Agung Bongkasa, Bongkasa village, Abiansemal. This high priest having educated and passed 160 high priests (sulinggih) spreading across numer-ous hermitages (geriya) as well as 14 priests said the leader’s role was very important in order to maintain Bali to become good.

When people needed a help, the leaders should maintain the commit-ment of their leadership by giving attention and appreciation to the community. At least, the leaders should keep their promise. What they had said was really done and so did the matter of reclamation. If more people disagreed and the project feasibility study carried out by the Udayana University did not support, then why the leaders did not support the community.

Responding to the field facts, the leaders should dare not to support the reclamation. “Moreover, Benoa is a sea becoming the sacred abode of Lord Varuna. When the sea denoting the center of happiness is explored and intervened artificially or unnatu-rally, then the implication will be cer-tainly not good,” said Ida Mpu Nabe Shiva Putra Perama Daksa Manuaba. He personally did not matter as long as the project did not harm Balinese customs and culture and the com-munity interests. However, if it was not in accordance with the interests the tradition and culture as well as people did not accommodate, then how was the logic of the government allowing the investors to commit the development?

“Instead of hoarding the sea to hundreds of hectares highly purified in Bali, hoarding the land on main-land needs to comply with the pro-cedures, including the proper ritual procession,” he concluded. (ram)

“We are waiting for the clarity from the government. As a state-owned enterprise, we will review the feasibility study because it is inseparable from the study we are developing whether it can provide benefits for the Angkasa Pura I, the community and provincial govern-ment. This must be studied together not only in terms of the Angkasa Pura’s interest,” said Corporate Secretary of Angkasa Pura I, Farid Indra Nugraha, in Nusa Dua.

According to him, the Angkasa Pura had communicated to central government related to the airport development that had not been realized so far. “We’ve been doing communi-cation, but until now there has been no deci-sion. Probably, Buleleng still has particular values to be considered by central government, and we do not know what they are,” he said.

Farid declined to comment when asked whether the investors were not interested in the airport development in Singaraja. “If in Bule-leng, we cannot answer. However, the investors are very interested in the existing small airports. Even, right now the Asia Pacific is regarded as a place having a great business potential due to passenger growth rate is quite high,” he said.

Besides, the development of airlines and the increase of middle class people in Indonesia were quite high. Ambon, for instance, was very attractive to investors. “However, they

ask the involvement of local partner. I heard if central government, namely the Transporta-tion Department, was reviewing the rules on the airport operators, especially beyond the state-owned enterprise,” he explained.

He argued that in realizing the airport was required the supporting facilities, such as road infrastructure, accommodation, transportation and others. “Many things must be considered when building an airport. So, the concept of feasibility study or the environmental impact assessment must be comprehensive and does not only consider in terms of the airport alone. Hopefully, our new government will have a breakthrough. For instance, the concept of de-velopment is not only carried out by the airport. In principle, the infrastructural development is not the responsibility of the state-owned enter-prise, but that of the government. However, the implementation can be done by the state-owned enterprise. When we talk in terms of the state-owned enterprises, there must be calculation to generate profit,” he explained.

Previously, the Regent of Buleleng, Agus Suradnyana, stated to have received the results of the feasibility study from central govern-ment determining the location in Kubutam-bahan. “The coordinate point of the airport development has been issued by central gov-ernment. As the central government does not

want to spend money, now we are still waiting for investors,” said Agus Suradnyana during a visit to the K Nadha Press Building.

Even, he argued, the development of the new airport should be realized with zero cost by exploiting the land in the vicinity of the airport, but without marginalizing the local communities. “Conceptually, it is by involv-ing the surrounding community. Customary village has enough land for the airport, pro-vided that it must involve the Kubutambahan communities whether they will be given to occupy the existing tenants. Hopefully, this calculation works,” he said.

Nevertheless, Agus Suradnyana was still con-fused to look for investors for the development of the new airport aiming to improve the welfare of communities in the North and the East. “The land for the airport is already available, namely the unproductive land owned by customary village in Kubutambahan, so that it will not harm. But, who will build it?” he said while asserting that the development was meant to reduce the burden of the Ngurah Rai Airport. The government especially the Angkasa Pura should intervene because it was the most feasible.

As previous news, the discourse on the new airport development in Northern Bali resulted in two alternative locations. The location consisted of Sumberkima village in Gerokgak subdistrict and Kubutambahan vil-lage in Kubutambahan subdistrict. Meanwhile, central government attempted to balance the development in Bali with the construction of a new airport by selecting the location in Northern Bali. (kmb27)

Bali, do not be equated to Hawaii

To realize airport in Buleleng

AP I awaits clarity from local government

IBP/Dewa KusumaAngkasa Pura I (Persero) is still waiting for the continuation of local government related to airport development plan in Buleleng, as so far there has been no clarity. The international airport development plan is located in Kubutambahan.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Angkasa Pura I (Persero) is still waiting for the continuation of local government related to airport development plan in Buleleng, as so far there has been no clarity. The international airport development plan is located in Kubutambahan.

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Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Lake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdis-trict has experienced silting for the last few years. Aside from silting, the water puddle is now filled with the progressively flourishing water hyacinths. To overcome this condi-tion, the Buleleng government along with the Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS) has planned a dredging of the silting for 2015. The funds used to clean up the water hyacinths in Lake Buyan will be fully covered by the Bali-Penida River Agency. This was revealed by the Head of Buleleng Environment Agency, Nyoman Surya Temaja, after at-tending a meeting at the Buleleng House, Wednesday (Oct 29).

Furthermore, he added that based on the study of some experts, the lake located at Pancasari village is beginning to become polluted. Results of the research indicate that the pollution is caused by the excessive use of chemical fertilizers in the agriculture around the lake. The fertilizers fused with the soil and were then washed away to the lake when it rained. Such conditions triggered the water hyacinths to overgrow and other wild shrubs to grow luxuriantly, covering the water puddles in the lake.

“Results of the research made by the lake experts indicate that the pol-lution is caused by farming activi-ties around the lake and buffer zones which use chemical fertilizers. So, the water hyacinths and wild shrubs grow flourishingly, completly cov-ering the lake,” he said.

Aside from this, added Surya Temaja, the lake also experienced severe silting. It is estimated, that the current silting reaches about two meters.

It has been occurring for the last few years and had not been handled well. “The silting has been occur-ring for a few years and though

we do not have the exact numbers regarding the silting, it probably reaches about two meters down,” he said.

To address the two issues hitting the Lake Buyan, said Surya Tem-aja, the Buleleng government had submitted a proposal to the Bali-Penida River Agency. The proposal requests help for cleaning out the water hyacinths and dredging up the sedimentation. This proposed pan of action has been approved and will be implemented starting in 2015.

All the funds required for clean-ing and dredging of the sedimenta-tion in Lake Buyan will be borne by the Bali-Penida River Agency.

Meanwhile, the local govern-ment will transport the dredged sedimentation materials and the water hyacinths once cleared. The water hyacinths and wild shrubs will be processed into compost. “All this has been approved and will surely be done next year. Ac-cording to the agreement, we are only transporting the sedimentation materials and the water hyacinth will be processed into compost by the Buleleng Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency,” he added.

Then, the subsequent handling is intended to prevent pollution due to chemical fertilizers in the area around the lake and buffer zones. In an integrated manner, it will involve technical

agencies in Buleleng County to make the farmers aware of the harm of such fetilizers so that they will willingly switch to us-ing organic fertilizers. In addition, another attempt was made to curb the growth of water hyacinth and wild shrubs; digging wells in order to accommodate the infiltration of the agricultural land around the lake so that the water would not all reach the lake. Thus, the lake would not get covered by water hyacinth and wild shrubs. (kmb38)

“At the moment, we just only their nicknamesn and their photo-graphs has not been madeavailable,” said the Spokesman, Wednesday (Oct 29). Hery was reluctant to reveal the direction of the search against the four executors. Obvi-ously, said Hery, the team was still tracking their hideout.

“They were taken by the suspect Aril to murder the victim. They are the executors,” he said.

Hery said that searching for liv-ing persons was not easy because they could move. Evertheless, the personnel of General Criminal In-vestigator were still working hard on the chase. “I hope they will be arrested quickly. It is only a matter

of time. They will surely be ar-rested,” he said.

Related to the payment of a fee, Hery could not ascertain such facts because the four perpetrators had not been arrested. “The suspect Aril, for instance, received IDR 39 million. Maybe the distribution is uneven. We know that they were paid IDR 150 million for murdering the victim,” said Hery.

Meanwhile, the team tracking the executors are checking exit strategies from Bali. On Wednes-day, police already checked the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban. “Who knows, they could run away by plane after having been paid,” said the police officer.

When asked about the direction of the search, the officer was reluctant to answer. He argued the tracking was still under progress and that their exact position could not be known. “We have checked everywhere, in-cluding the harbor,” he said.

As reported, the Chief of Bali Po-lice, Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu, affirmed that so far,

the case qualified as premedi-tated, so that the accused would be charged under Article 340 of the Criminal Code with the subsidiary of Article 338 of the Criminal Code with a maximum of lifetime imprisonment.

Related to the four executors that have not been arrested yet, the two-star general, said the

authorities had put them on the most wanted list which has been disseminated. The Police

chief affirmed that if the suspect felt guilty about getting involved in the murder case, they should surren-der as gentlemen. (kmb36)

IBP/Yudi KarnaediPolice conducted crime scene investigation on Robert Kevin Ellis case recently. The four executors of Robert Kevin Ellis have the initials MT, 25, EJ, 28, DN, 24, UR, 24. All of them are from East Nusa Teng-gara (NTT).

Incomplete identity

Most wanted list of Robert’s executors not yet disseminatedBali Post

DENPASAR - The four executors of Robert Kevin Ellis have the initials MT, 25, EJ, 28, DN, 24, UR, 24. All of them are from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). According to Spokesman of the Bali Police, Hery Wi-yanto, the perpetrators on the most wanted list could not be disseminated yet because their identity and photographs were incomplete.

Filled with water hyacinth Lake Buyan goes through natural silting

IBP/Eka AdhiyasaLake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdistrict has experienced silting since the past few years. Aside from silting, the water puddle is now filled with the progressively flourishing water hyacinth.

Agence France-Presse

STOCKHOLM - Sweden on Thursday officially recognised the state of Palestine, Stockholm’s foreign minister said, less than a month after the government announced its intention to make the controversial move.

“Today the government takes the decision to recognise the state of Palestine,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement published in the Dagens Nyheter daily.

“It is an important step that confirms the Palestin-ians’ right to self-determination,” she said, adding that “we hope that this will show the way for others.”

Sweden’s new Prime Minister Stefan Loefven announced in his inaugural address to parliament in early October that his country would become the first EU member in western Europe to recognise a Palestinian state.

While the Palestinians cheered the move, Israel summoned Sweden’s ambassador to protest and ex-press disappointment.

Israel has long insisted that the Palestinians can only receive their promised state through direct nego-tiations and not through other diplomatic channels.

Seven EU members in eastern European and the Mediterranean have already recognised a Palestinian state -- Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hun-gary, Malta, Poland and Romania. Non-EU member Iceland is the only other western European nation to have done so.

The United States cautioned Sweden against recognition, calling it “premature” and saying the Palestinian state could only come through a negotiated solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

In Thursday’s announcement, Sweden’s foreign minister said that “the government considers that in-ternational law criteria for recognition of a Palestinian state have been fulfilled.”

Hundreds of troops were clawing through tonnes of mud that buried tin-roofed homes at the plantation on Wednes-day, and reinforcements have been de-ployed, but there was little hope of finding survivors.

“We are also bringing in an additional 200 troops to add to the 500 already here to carry out the search,” the region’s top military officer, Major General Mano Perera, told reporters.

Rescue efforts were being hampered by persistent monsoon rains, blamed for the initial mudslide, that have also made the surrounding hills unstable, he said.

“There were no concrete structures which could have acted as air traps for victims to survive,” he added.

Shop keeper Vevaratnam Marathamuttu said he ran when tonnes of earth came crashing down the hill on Wednesday morning, fearing there had been an ex-plosion.

“I thought it was some sort of a bomb blast and fled from my shop,” Maratha-muttu said. “I saved my life because I ran away.”

Truck driver Sinniah Yogarajan, 48, said there was “no point in my living” after five members of his family along with his friends were buried in the disaster.

“The entire neighbourhood has van-ished. Now there is a river of mud where our houses once stood,” Yogarajan told AFP at a nearby school where survivors were sheltering.

“The soldiers are trying their best but every time they scoop out some of the mud the hole then just gets filled up again with more mud,” he said. Top officials have warned the chances of finding survivors are slim, while a government minister voiced fears the death toll could hit 100.

“What I gathered is that about 100 people have been buried alive,” Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Ama-raweera told AFP after visiting the site on Wednesday afternoon.

There had been fears of an even higher toll when officials initially said that up to 300 people were unaccounted for, but the minister said most of those who were classified as missing were later found to be at work or in schools.

President Mahinda Rajapakse spoke with survivors during a visit Thursday to one of the two schools turned into tem-porary shelters. More than 300 survivors camped overnight in the schools near the Meeriyabedda tea plantation which bore the full brunt of the mudslide.

But hundreds more workers and their families from neighbouring plantations were flocking to the schools, fearing land-slides would also strike their homes.

Sri Lanka’s picturesque hill region is famed for producing Ceylon tea and has become a major tourist attraction with visi-tors able to stay on the plantations.

General Perera, who is overseeing the clearing operation, said an area less than one square kilometre was affected.

“(But) The area is flooded with muddy water, so we don’t hold out much hope of finding survivors,” Perera added.

The number of homes destroyed was revised down to 63 on Thursday from 150 given earlier by the national Disaster Management Centre(DMC).

“We had difficulty communicating with our officers and sometimes rumours were reported to us as facts,” the Colombo-based DMC spokesman Sarath Kumara told AFP. An office where village records were main-tained was also destroyed in the disaster, causing problems for the authorities in compiling reliable casualty figures.

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TAIPEI - Taiwan police arrested a 79-year-old man after he sliced off his girlfriend’s nose, ears and lips and flushed them down the toilet, suspect-ing that she was cheating on him, officials said Thursday.

The man, identified only by his family name Huang, tied the 47-year-old woman to a bed in his home in central Changhua city and attacked her with a knife. He later flushed the body parts down the toilet before calling for an ambulance.

Police found a note written by Huang that said: “The thing I can’t have I will never allow others to easily obtain. I will end it in the bloodiest way.”

News of the brutal crime was splashed across front pages of several local dailies.

Huang, a wealthy landlord whose wife passed away last month, began dating the woman, a yoga instructor, six months ago but the relationship soured after she revealed having another suitor, police said.

Taiwan man mutilates girl-friend’s face in jealous rage

Sweden recognises Palestinian state

REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteRescue team members conduct a search at the site of a landslide at the Koslanda tea plantation near Haldummulla October 30, 2014. Hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light on Thursday, though a government minister cut the estimated death toll to more than 100 from 300 the previous night.

Soldiers in desperate search for Sri Lanka landslide victimsAgence France-Presse

KOSLANDA - Soldiers using heavy diggers stepped up their desperate search Thursday for victims of a landslide in central Sri Lanka, feared to have buried alive 100 people on a picturesque tea plantation.

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LONDON - Former pop star and model turned fashion impresario Victoria Beckham has come top in a yearly ranking of Britain’s 100 best managers for her “finely tuned business acumen”.

“The entrepreneur formerly known as Posh Spice is queen of the catwalk now,” Management Today magazine said of the 40-year-old mother of four, who is married to football icon David Beckham.

Beckham has grown her business

over the past five years from a £1 million (1.3 million euro, $1.6 mil-lion) a year turnover to £30 million and from three employees to 100.

She launched her label in 2008 and opened a large boutique in the upmarket Mayfair area in central London last month.

The list, which came out on Sunday and was reported in Brit-ish media on Monday, included 15 women -- up from 11 identified in the 2011 edition.

There are also nine names from Britain’s South Asian community,

including in the number two spot brother-and-sister team Amit and Meeta Patel, who own a pharma-ceutical business.

Mahmud Kamani of the online fashion site Boohoo.com came third.

The magazine said the 100 managers named had proved to be “real job creators”, adding 61,556 employees over the past five years for a total of 158,189 people -- far outstripping the rate of employment growth in the Brit-ish economy.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - For most people, the scattered twigs or branches on the beach area are just considered as waste littering the beach. But who will think that at the skilled hands of craftsman this kind of waste can be processed into a variety of handicraft products hav-ing high value.

In Badung, the craft works made from junk branches can be found in Abiansemal. Gusti Putu Widya is one of the craftsmen getting in-volved in the creative works. Since 2008, he has conjured up many junk timbers found on the beach into a variety of craft products

such as tables, chairs, decorative lamps, picture frames, windows and statues.

Widya said the handicraft from junk woods had its own distinction. The tree branches sorted and arranged in such a way could result in products with attractive motif and antique im-pression. Moreover, the finished goods were not colored or left natural.

Besides, the twigs of wood used were also not arbitrary. Not all junk branches could be used. “We just use the junk woods found on the beaches or estuaries. However, the best was the marine debris,” said Widya accompanied by his wife, Ni Made Dewi Astuti.

Coastal junk woods had light,

strong, easily processed and du-rable characteristics. According to Widya, this happened due to natural process as the influence of sea water. Junk wood materials used by Widya were brought in mainly from Jembrana County. A truck of coastal junk wood was bought at the price of IDR 4.5 million. Then, such a truck of raw materials could produce maximally 15 tables.

According to him, during dry season as today, the junk wood was very hard to find. Unlike dur-ing the monsoon season, the junk wood was very easy to find on the beach. “Only during rainy season, especially floods, we can order a lot of raw materials. But, it is now hard

to get them. Therefore, when there is an order from guest it will take a little longer,” he said.

Price of his junk wood craft product highly varied, depending on the size and complexity. The cheap-est one was candle holder sold for IDR 60,000 per piece. Meanwhile, a table was sold at the price of around IDR 1.1 million. His junk timber craft was quite dominantly demanded by foreigners. So, the products of Widya were widely purchased for villas in Bali. As for exports, so far his products were mostly exported to France. What about the turnover? Widya had no definite count. He just mentioned that he got a net gain per year of

about IDR 30 million.Junk wood handicraft product

had a promising potential. The Division Head of Cooperatives and SMEs Business Development, the Badung Cooperative, Industry and Trade Agency, Ida Ayu Istri Yanti Agustini, said that the Badung gov-ernment continued to develop the potential of the SMEs in the com-munity. Her party also mentioned that the government was trying to facilitate crafters to participate in a variety of prestigious exhibitions including building a partnership with relevant parties. (kmb25)

With the advantage of having coastal areas, Buleleng has the opportunity to exploit the under-sea natural resources through the integrated fisherman empower-ment system. With the coastal length spreading along 157.05 kilometers and marine area of 319,680 hectares, the potential of marine fish and pearls in Buleleng could still be developed to the maximum in the future.

To that end, the role of govern-ment and private companies in empowering the marine potential and fishing management should be done sustainably.

An owner of snapper farm named Abdul cultivated snapper in the waters of Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, West Buleleng. He said that during the production pro-cess of snapper, he could harvest snapper every week. With such

condition, he could produce four tons of snapper each month to be marketed to Japan and Australia. “We cultivate snapper and export it once a month,” he said.

Meanwhile, the potential other than fish is pearl at Gondol vil-lage, Gerokgak. Such quite prom-ising oyster breeding is capable of producing hundreds of beauti-ful pearls denoting the result of pearl oyster cultivation.

Generally, the high quality pearls are carefully reprocessed and prepared for the use in jewelry and exported to foreign countries. “Here, the pearls are very well cultivated. Visitors wishing to learn about the pearl cultivation can watch the stage-by-stage cultivation. Even, they can also see from the planting of nucleus into the oyster until the harvest process,” said one of the local workers, Ayu Kadek.

Meanwhile, the development of marine potential in Buleleng is inseparable from the consis-tency of Buleleng government through the Fisheries and Marine Resources. The Head of Buleleng

Fisheries and Marine Resources, Nyoman Sutrisna, recently said that some cooperation with pri-vate companies also helped market the marine cultivation products in Buleleng. With the cooperation, all the marine poten-tials were the results of hard work with the community in preserving the marine life and reaching the target of overseas markets. “The management of marine areas applies the eco-friendly pattern. By implementing the return-to-nature pattern, the snapper and pearl farming is able to produce valuable products and improve the welfare of the local commu-nity,” he said. (kmb34)

Pearl, snapper potential to export to Japan, Australia

Bali Post

BULELENG - Buleleng has a wide range of natural resources in abundant number with dif-ferent types of marine life. Communities of Buleleng living in coastal areas utilize the existing potential by exporting tons of seafood, ranging from snapper to pearls. Currently, the main target of the export market consists of Japan and Australia.

Coastal junk wood craft in Badung exported to France

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For most people, the scattered twigs or branches on the beach area are just considered as waste littering the beach. But who will think that at the skilled hands of craftsman this kind of waste can be processed into a variety of handicraft products hav-ing high value.

“Women Fashion Power” at the Design Museum traces key moments in the development of women’s clothing since 1850, cul-minating in a collection of modern outfits contributed by some of the most influential women of the 21st century.

The exhibition comprises items from underwear to red carpet gowns, interspersed with photo-

graphs, memorabilia and a pair of Reebok Freestyle Hi Tops trainers, revealing how women adopt fash-ion trends to create a style that suits their lives.

“It’s about clothes and how women can use them to empower themselves to intimidate people and to make themselves feel sexy,” said co-curator Colin McDowell.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

opened the exhibition as one of 26 powerful women from around the world who contributed an outfit -- in her case, slim-fitting black trousers, a black jacket, a silk blouse and a wool scarf.

“The clothes you wear, par-ticularly as a woman in politics, are inevitably the first statement you make to people who come to meet you, before they even hear

you speak,” she told AFP.Wearing a black dress and black

leather jacket, Hidalgo said she dresses primarily “for comfort, something in which I feel good”.

A Prada cape worn by architect Zaha Hadid -- who designed the exhibition -- a red Dior crocodile jacket worn by Hong-Kong-born gallery owner Pearl Lam and an Akris Dove evening dress from Princess Charlene of Monaco are also on display.

Going back 150 years, the exhi-bition traces how women’s outfits have evolved from the constraints of the corset through to flapper

dresses, mini-skirts, female tux-edos, power-dresses, sportswear, grunge and eco fashion.

The exhibition includes the blue Mansfield skirt suit worn by former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher when she was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1975.

The black Jacques Azagury dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales on her 36th birthday also features, as does a striking Zandra Rhodes-designed wedding dress from 1977.

“Women Fashion Power” runs from October 29 to April 26, 2015.

Female power dressing on show in LondonAgence France-Presse

LONDON - Jettisoning the corset, donning a designer gown, wearing a punk wedding dress or even trainers -- the various ways women take control of their lives through fashion are the subject of a new exhibition opening in London on Wednesday.

Agence France-Presse

LONDON - US singer Beyonce and British high-street retailer TopShop said Monday they were launching a fashion brand for “athletic streetwear” that will be available this time next year.

The joint venture, Parkwood TopShop Athletic, will include “clothing, footwear and accessories across dance, fitness and sports categories,” the chain said in a statement.

Philip Green, head of Arcadia Group, which owns TopShop, said the project was a way of developing “fashion-inspired fitness”.

“Creating a partnership with Beyonce... who spends many hours of her life dancing, rehearsing and training is a unique opportunity to develop this category,” he said.

TopShop was founded in a de-partment store basement in north-ern England in 1964 and has been praised for the variety of clothes it offers and the sharp eye of its designers.

It launched the high-end Unique label in 2001 and has expanded internationally, opening 80 stores and retail outlets in 13 countries in 2013, including in Australia and France.

Beyonce shot to fame in the 1990s with the R’n’B girl group Destiny’s Child and was named by Forbes magazine this year as the most influential celebrity in the world.

The 33-year-old advertises a variety of fashion labels and man-ages her own ready-to-wear brand, House of Dereon, with her mother Tina Knowles, a fashion designer.

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Beyonce allies with TopShop for new fashion brand

Victoria Beckham tops British managers list

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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UBUD - Alam Ubud is not only a resort but a new place for the Indonesian culture in the surrounding of Ubud area.

Located at the amazing river valley and tropical forest, only minutes away from the centre of Ubud Bali, Alam Ubud spa-ciously set within a 4 hectare river villa and garden landscape. The scenery along the road from center of Ubud the Alam ubud area is an observation and culture environment. So, you can imagine the location is very unique and special in Ubud. In every terrace and garden area you also can find old culture from Java island and some of culture that date back to the 15th century until the 19th century we found in area of Villas.

Alam Ubud features a freshwater swimming pool with swim-up bar. A range of spa treatments are also offered and so are an outdoor picnic / barbeque area, restaurant and library. With art and nature being the key themes to this resort, artworks from many Indonesian Islands hang in the resort buildings, villas and the on-site art museum.

Maximizing the natural setting, the villas of Alam Ubud is set high on gravity defining wooden pillar (adopted from traditional house in java), blench modern finishing touch décor and interior, end suite marble bathroom.

Luxury Balinese private villas are set in the hillsides and stand-ing each unit which hug the curves of hillsides and surrounding by rice terraces, offering an uninterrupted peaceful view, quietness and relax.Get inspired by the rich culture and history of Ubud, enjoy culinary delights with spectacular views and discover secrets of Balinese well-being at the spa. Alam Ubud is the tradition of Ubud as the perfect place to escape, relax and unwind.

Calendar Event for October 28 through November 6, 2014

October28th Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan/Anggara Kasih Kulantir :Temple Festival at :- Pr. Penataran Tangkas-Tebuwana, Sukawati- Pr. Dalem Langan-Bebalang, Bangli- Pr. Peseh, Lembeng Ketewel, Sukawati- Pr. Pasek Gelgel Penulisan. Kerambitan, Tabanan- Pr. Gaduh-Sading- Pr. Dalem Gandamayu-Klungkung- Pr. Sanghyang Tegal-Taro Kaja, Tegalalang- Pr. Penataran Agung/Odalan Ida

Ratu Mas Magelung-Besakih- Mr. Dadia Dalem Tarukan-Kubu, Bangli

November2nd Buda Kliwon Tolu, Temple Festival at: Pr. Alas Harum-Tegal Kepuh,Kaba-Kaba, Kediri,Tabanan3rd Coma Umanis ToluTemple Festival at:- Pr. Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang- Panebel,Tabanan,- Pr. Kawitan Sekula Gotra Pasung Gerigih- Kaba-Kaba,Kediri,Tabanan

- Pr. Bhujangga Resi- Tumbak Banyuh,- Pr. Batu Madeg- Besakih- Pr. Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung- Ceningan Kanginan,Nusa Penida- Pr. Penataran Agung Penatih- Br. Sabha, Penatih- Pr . Penataran Sanggem- Sidemen, Karangasem5th Buda Pon Tolu, Temple Festival at: Pr. Catur Bhuwana-Sanding, Tampaksiring.6th Wraspati Wage ToluTemple Festival at:- Pr. Paninjoan-Besakih- Pr. Dalem Tenggaling- Ds. Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

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Bali Post

NEGARA - Dozens of hectares of paddy fields in Subak Tamblang, Dangin Tukadaya and Sangkara-gung, have turned dormant. At least 50 hectares of paddy field of Subak Tamblang were not planted and looked barren. The irrigation chan-nel also looked dry without a single drop of water.

One of the farmers of the Subak Tamblang, Ketut Nawa, said this

year was the longest dry season in a long time.

Due to prolonged periods of dryness, the land, usually cultivated with paddy plants or other crops changed into a cattle pasture. According to Ketut, the dry season startedlast May. Usually by September, the rains have come. How-ever, so far we are at the end of October and there has been no sign of rain.

Except for Tamblang, approxi-mately 100 hectares of agricul-tural land at Subak Sangkar Agung,

Sangkar Agung village also turned dormant. Although farmers could use artesian wells to irrigate their fileds, they worried that this water would not suffice causing worse problems. As a result, the overlay of paddy field spreading from Sangkar Agung village to the frontier of Budeng looked barren. Not a single plot was planted as the land was totally dry. On the overlay of the dry paddy field was the sight of many cattle grazing. (kmb26)

The waiting list for electri-cal connections in Nusa Penida has now reached

a demand for 1.8 mega-watts. It is mostly requested by hotel operations and other businesses, for the operation of the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) and the needs of local residents. The condition has been recognized by the former Head of PLN Nusa Penida, I Nyoman Sudiatmika.

Sudiatmika who now occu-pies the position as the supervi-sor and controller of the PLN construction for East Bali area said that the arrival of a new power plant for PLN Nusa Penida could not guarantee that the supply of electricity in Nusa Penida would be secure.

The new engine attempted by the Klungkung Regent, Ny-oman Suwirta, has the capacity of 4.8 megawatts. The assis-tance of new machines initially became a glimmer of hope for the people of Nusa Penida. Previously when reaching the peak load, there were regular blackouts which greatly dis-trubed their activitiies.

With the assistance of teh new engine, the electrical energy to Nusa Penida could be adequately assisted. After regular operations, there was still an energy reserve of 1.3 megawatts. However, on the other hand, he affirmed that the waiting list of residents for power connection in Nusa Penida was also quite high, reaching a demand for 1.8 more megawatts. He admit-ted that such needs could not be met given that the energy needed during peak load was very high. Usage is dominated by the needs of the community which reaches 0.8 megawatts,

Municipal Waterworks (0.5 megawatts) and hotel opera-tions in Lembongan and Jun-gut Batu tourist area (0.5s megawatt).

Meanwhile, the eco-friendly energy sources at Pucak Mundi such as the wind power station and solar power station could benefit local residents. When first initiated, they were capa-ble of supplying 2.7 megawatts of electricity.

Thus providing a surplus of electrical energy for the needs in Nusa Penida. However, they only ran for one year because the eco-friendly power station was damaged.

The wind power and solar power station built in 2007 gradually wore out and were totally out of order by 2013.

Suwirta hoped that after he stpped serving as Regent that the breakthrough project of using submarine cables to Nusa Penida would be refocused. Af-ter four months of testing, the submarine power cables from Saba Beach, Gianyar broke down about nine kilometers from the

shoreline.Currently, his party was

conducting a feasability study of implementation and opera-tion, to see whether the sub-marine cable could be recon-nected or alternatly a new one installed. It is believed that, if the power supply from Java could be channeled to Nusa Penida, the electrical needs of local residents, would be met. (kmb31)

Bali Post

BANGLI - Environmental sanitation remains an obstacle for the develop-ment of Trunyan tourism.

On the other hand, the number of tourist visits to the village, famous for its unique burial

system, continues to experience a significant though intermittent in-crease.

“We still need time to change peo-ple’s mindset about environmental sanitation,” said I

Wayan Bona, a resident of Trunyan doubling as the Division Head of the Tourist Destination Development in the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency.

Bona argued that the unresolved sanitation problems, particularly the waste management at Trunyan, is

in part caused by the behavior of residents, but is also affected by the geographical conditions of Trunyan which lies in a very narrow area at the foot of a hill.

“People are still have a hard time disposing of waste. Trash cans have even been provided, but the transpor-tation to landfill remains an obstacle,” said Bona.

Verily, added Bona, resident’s awareness about keeping the environ-ment clean had risen.

Local leaders were involved in changing people’s mindset. “To that end, we have been working

with the village authority both in rela-tion to the efforts to change the people’s behavior and the possibility for the provision of supporting facilities such as garbage truck,” said Bona. (kmb)

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Environmental sanitation remains an obstacle for the development of Trunyan tourism. On the other hand, the number of tourist visits to the village, famous for its unique burial system, continues to ex-perience a significant though intermittent increase.

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Dozens of hectares of paddy fields at Subak Tamblang, Dangin Tukadaya and Sangkaragung, have turned dor-mant. At least 50 hectares of paddy fields in Subak Tam-blang were not planted and looked barren.

Prolonged dry season, agricultural land turns dormant

Garbage, a classic problem in Trunyan

Nusa Penida lacks 1.8 MW of electricity powerBali Post

SEMArAPUrA - The demand for electricity on the islands of Nusa Penida has begun to rise recently. Despite having brought in a new power plant, The demands for electricity in Nusa Penida remain unmet.

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Keanu Reeves will star in science-fiction thriller “Repli-cas” for Lotus Entertainment and di Bonaventura Pictures. The announcement comes on the heels of a solid reception of Reeves’ “John Wick,” which opened in second place at the U.S. box office.

“Hysteria” di-rector Tanya Wexler will helm “Rep-licas” from a screenplay by Chad St. John, based on a treatment de-veloped by S te -

pehen Hamel and Reeves. Pro-ducers are Lorenzo di Bonaven-tura, Stephen Hamel, Reeves, and Fundamental Films.

Lotus will introduce the film to foreign buyers starting at the upcoming American Film Market. CAA is handling domestic rights. Shooting will start in the spring.

Reeves will portray a neuro-scientist whose family is killed in a traffic accident and will stop at nothing to bring them back — pitting himself against a government-controlled labora-tory, a police task force and the physical laws of science. Di Bo-naventura noted that he’s eager to work with Reeves again.

“From my experience work-ing with Keanu on ‘The

Matrix’ franchise through our collaboration on ‘Constantine,’ I have always been impressed by Keanu’s ability to bring a genuine level of humanity to the sci-fi genre through his performance. I am looking forward to collaborating with Keanu once again on this unique take on what lengths a person will go to alter the past, and the implications of those actions.”

Ben Affleck, who plays Batman in the movie; Amy Adams, who plays Lois Lane; and Zack Snyder, the film’s director, appear in an Organization for

Bat Conservation video posted online Monday to coincide with National Bat Week. Some of the movie is being filmed in Detroit.

The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/1tLH9Ka ) that the inspiration for the public service announcement was a National Public Radio story that Snyder heard on white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that’s devastating U.S. bat populations.

Materials from the movie’s sets are being repurposed to build bat houses.

Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - They spend their nights like famished coyotes, hunting fresh meat. “If it bleeds, it leads,” as one character in “Nightcrawler” says, summarizing the link between gore and breaking TV news.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the film’s title comes from the nickname given to the kind of freelance video journalists who shoot bloody traffic accidents to sell to local TV sta-tions.

The Oscar-nominated star plays Lou Bloom, a jobless and hungry Angeleno who turns to nocturnal body-chasing across Los Angeles to survive. He lost 10 kilos for the film, released on Friday in the United States.

Gyllenhaal said he and director

Dan Gilroy “talked a lot about coy-otes .. in Los Angeles particularly at night, the wild animals that come down (from the hills) and are kind of surviving, even though the metropolis has taken over.”

“He’s a coyote. He’s hungry,” said the actor, nominated for an Acad-emy Award for 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain.”

One cut scene had Bloom ordering a cheeseburger to eat in a fast-food restaurant, then deciding to take it out because it was 99 cents cheaper.

“This is a guy who doesn’t eat much,” said the 33-year-old blue-eyed actor, who is more used to being on the other side of the paparazzi cam-era’s lens.

The thriller, which sometimes comically satirizes our voyeuristic society, sees Gyllenhaal’s character

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Not creative nor innovative, Bali SMEs grow

wheezily

But in reality, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bali have not been able to survive in face of the competition. This sector tends to grow sporatically or seasonally. For example, before religious holidays such as Eid, Nyepi and Galungan, SMEs increase theri profits.

However, when there are no religious holydays, their numbers decrease. Such conditions, along with lack of human resources and capital makes it even harder for them to compete. Despite this, the existence of SMEs on the Island of

the Gods, provides a real contribu-tion to reducing unemployment.

An academician from Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjana Yasa, stated that SMEs including cooperatives have a huge potential, an daccount for 99 per-cent of the existing businesses.

However, the growth of this sec-tor is very volatile and businesses appear and disappear quickly. “There needs to be a study that maps them out, so that the obstacles and barriers hampering the advance of the SMEs can be overcome,” said

Murjana Yasa in Denpasar.According to Yasa, one of the

barriers to SME development is the availability of human resources.

This weakness poses a funda-mental challenge to the develop-ment of SMEs, especailly when first setting up the business but also for the creative and innovative aspects of implementation.

Human resources issues can be addressed through education, improving conditions from elem-netary school all the way up to university. Secondly, people needed capital. Many cheap loans were rolled out by the government, but they could rarely be accessed by the SMEs because they were unable to meet the requirements established

by the banking institution. This issue requires a clear solu-

tion so that conceptually, the SMEs and microfinance institutions are contiguous. In other words, mi-crofinance institutions develope around people with low incomes, so that the informal relationships between banks and the SMEs had to run synergetically.

He said the difficulty in accessing official financial services, has nour-ished moneylender businesses with high interest rates. Alonside these, there has also develloped coopera-tives which could be empowered.

For example, commercial banks appointed by the government to channel cheap credit, appoint a third party, namely the cooperative as a

partner to run the loan program.“The institutions which channel

cheap loans should have other arms, such as cooperative providing loans to artisans for example or alternatly artisans or other goups can set up their own coops. Extending such loans should not have inflated inter-est rates” he said.

Meanwhile, the Rector of Un-diknas University, Prof. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, also considered that the difficulties faced by the SMEs in accessing bank services was not only felt in Bali. This classic prob-lem is also experienced by SMEs thoughout Indonesia because banks are still in doubt about the track record of the average SME.

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The photo shows a woman woven Balinese traditional cloth called endek. SMEs are claimed to be the economic anchor and immune to the onslaught of financial crisis. But in reality, the existence of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bali has not been able to survive in the face of competition.

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DENPASAR - SMEs are said to be an economic anchor and provide immunity to the onslaught of the financial crisis.

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