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Roads, power and telecommu-nications were severed when themud tore through Puladi townshipin Yunnan province, the official

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DEHRADUN - At least 18 chil-dren died Wednesday when aschool collapsed after heavy rainsin northern India as the region’smonsoon wreaked more havoc. Anunknown number of others weremissing after the single-storeyschool toppled in mountainousUttarakhand state’s Bageshwardistrict, one of several populatedareas near the Indian border withTibet, a minister told AFP.

“Eighteen bodies of children

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A man walks through a water lodged street as it rains inMumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010.Continued on page 6

18 children killed inIndian school collapse

have been brought out so far fromthe debris and a search is on formore and we fear the toll could goup further,” state Disaster Manage-ment Minister Khajan Dass toldAFP in Dehradun.

The victims were aged betweenfive and 12 years, rescuers said.Heavy rains have caused devasta-tion in parts of Asia over the lastmonth, with thousands dead inChina and neighbouring Pakistan,where floods have caused thenation’s worst natural disaster.

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People use wood logs and boards to pave a path into a village submerged by landslides in search for people buried in mudin Puladi township, in southwest China’s Yunnan province, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Fresh landslides rocked another areaof China on Wednesday, sweeping through a mountain town in the southwest of the country after days of heavy rains.

Latest China landslideleaves at least 67 missing

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Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – Fresh landslides rocked another area of China on Wednesday, sweeping througha mountain town in the southwest of the country after days of heavy rains and leaving at least67 people missing and cutting off access to the area.

Xinhua News Agency said. Rescueworkers have been sent to the town-ship, which is in the mountains bor-dering Myanmar. Xinhua said 25

people were hurt in the landslide,nine seriously.

“I suddenly heard rumbling latelast night and then rushed to a safe

place with fellow villagers,” itquoted local resident Yu Zhizhongas saying. Xinhua said the mudslideswere spread about 300 meters(yards) across, and that at least 10trucks and 21 houses were buried.Mudslides and floods have killed atleast 1,500 people around the coun-try in the last several months.

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DENPASAR – Work vacancy exhi-bition which consists of 32 private com-panies will be able to employee approxi-mately 935 people. AA Putra Adi, thehead of workforce development andplacement division on Bali Work, Citi-zen and Transmigration Department,said “the job seekers who are interestedwith the job vacancies are 1,400people.”

He also said that currently, the com-panies are in the process of selecting thequalified person after they entered theirjob application on the work vacancy ex-hibition which was held on August 7th

and 8th 2010.The recruiting process by the com-

panies will take few weeks and there isgreat hope that all the job vacancies will

From such presentation was discern-ible that local government had not touchedall artists including the development of thearts today. In its development, many art-ists produced the art works in photogra-phy, architecture et cetera that indeed werethe result of their genuine creation. Pre-sentation of Wija Kusuma was consideredmonotonous because there were no newcriteria in the determining the award re-cipients in accordance with its develop-ment.

Based on the data obtained, it was toldthat six artists of gamelan players receivedthe Wija Kusuma Awards. Then, they werefollowed by other artists such as threedancers, two puppeteers, as well as respec-tively one craft artist (mask maker) andundagi or traditional architecture. For thepainters, there was no recipient in thisyear’s Wija Kusuma Awards. Presentationof the awards was conducted at the Cul-

New Delhi (Bali Post)—For the first time in history, the anniversary of the

RI’s Independence in the Indonesian Embassy in NewDelhi was attended by cultural envoy from Bali. Itmade the 65th anniversary of the Indonesian Indepen-dence in the Embassy in New Delhi, India, turnedmore special, last Tuesday (Aug 17).

It was not only attended by the Indonesian citizensin India and staff of the Indonesian Embassy, but also70 artists from the Island of the Gods, namely theartist of the Denpasar Institute of Hindu Dharma(IHDN) and Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi)Denpasar. The presence of such cultural envoy initi-ated by Director General of Hindu Religious Guid-ance Affairs, Ministry of Religious Affairs of the RIhad a strategic significance for further efforts to es-tablish close relationship of Indonesia to India.

As a result, the heirloom red-white flag waved atthe Indonesian Embassy to India in a solemn proces-sion. A total of 200 residents of Indonesia, includingcultural envoy from Bali celebrated the 65th anniver-sary of the RI’s Independence. In relation to celebra-tion the cultural envoy from Bali performed some artcompositions before the Indian society in the form ofRamayana ballet show, last Wednesday (Aug 18)evening, in the reception of the 65th Anniversary ofthe RI’s Independence that was also attended by Min-ister of Coal of India Mr. Shriprakash Jaiswal as thechief guest.

Indonesian Ambassador to India Andi M. Ghalibserving as the inspector of the ceremony said whatundertaken by the art envoy of Bali posed one of theforms of soft power diplomacy. In this 21st century,soft power diplomacy was the most effective and stra-tegic. According to him, what performed by the art-ists of Bali under the initiative of Directorate Generalof Hindu Guidance Affairs denoted one of the softpower diplomacies. Diplomacy by such cultural andeducational approach was very effective because itdirectly touched the hearts of the community.

“By undertaking such an approach, I do expect the

AFP PHOTO / Sonny TUMBELAKA

This photograph taken on August 17, 2010 shows Balinese men participating in agame of tug-of-war in Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali duringcelebrations to mark the country’s 65th Independence Day.

Wija KusumaWija KusumaWija KusumaWija KusumaWija Kusuma Awards Awards Awards Awards Awardsdominated by artists ofdominated by artists ofdominated by artists ofdominated by artists ofdominated by artists ofgamelan playersgamelan playersgamelan playersgamelan playersgamelan playersGianyar (Bali Post)—

Having drawn some criticisms against the policy of regency govern-ment negating the presentation of Wija Kusuma Awards to the artists inGianyar Regency, last Tuesday (Aug 17), coincided with the celebration ofIndependence Anniversary, was delivered the Wija Kusuma Awards to 13artists. Presentation of the Wija Kusuma Awards this year was more domi-nated by artists of gamelan players.

tural Hall following the raising flag cer-emony and celebration of the proclama-tion minutes at the Astina Gianyar Squaresimultaneously with the delivery of a giftto veterans, and preservation assistance oftraditional arts to 25 art troupes through-out Gianyar Regency. It was also resumedwith the prize presentation to the winnersof some competitions held in the series ofthe Independence Celebration by the Re-gent of Gianyar, Tjokorda Oka ArthaArdhana Sukawati.

Related to the Wija Kusuma Awards,the regent said those awards denoted themanifestation of appreciation towarddedication of the artists in Gianyar in de-veloping and promoting earnestly thearts in Gianyar Regency. It was expectedsuch an award could further spur the art-ists in Gianyar to more develop the artpotential and art creativity life inGianyar Regency. (kmb16)

Job vacancies for 935people is available

be filled by the unemployment. PutraAdi said that the companies which aretaking part in the job vacancy exhibitionmust give full report to the departmentregarding the recruitment process.

The companies are opening variousvacancies starting from staff level throughmanager with the education qualificationstarted from senior high school throughfresh university graduates.

The similar activity was done in 2009where 1,235 job seekers took part in theexhibition and 270 of them are nowworking in the companies. Many vacan-cies were not filled because the appli-cants were not qualified.

Currently, the number of unemploy-ment in Bali is 75,635 people or 3% fromthe total workforce which is 2,116,972people. The number increase comparedto last year which was 66,470 people.

RI’s Independence at Embassy in New DelhiAmbassador Andi M. Ghalib: Softpower diplomacy most effective

friendly relations between the two countries, namelyIndia and Indonesia, could firmer in the future in vari-ous fields, including in the field of culture,” said AndiM. Ghalib while adding, moreover if presented in theform of cultural mission as the Ramayana Ballet thathad been already very familiar in the heart of Indiansociety. In the history of celebration of the RI’s Inde-pendence in the Embassy of Indonesia in New Delhi,India, added the Ambassador, was first attended by anart troupe from Bali in the framework of the culturalmission. “It is a historical moment. Hopefully, thisgood cooperation could continue to several countries,”said the Ambassador Andi Ghalib.

Meanwhile, Director General of Hindu ReligiousGuidance Affairs, Prof. Dr. IBG Yudha Triguna,strongly supported the idea of President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono that the soft power diplomacywas necessary to carry out. Therefore, the DirectorGeneral of Hindu Religious Guidance Affairs inter-preted it into a relationship of cooperation in the fieldof religion and religious education between Indonesia(IHDN and Unhi Bali) and the Indian government. Towarm up the cooperation the Directorate Generalbrought along with the artist entourage from Bali per-forming a number of religious art where one of themwas Ramayana ballet while attending the flag raisingceremony of the 65th Anniversary of RI’s Indepen-dence in the Indonesia Embassy to India. By the pre-sentation of Ramayana ballet the neighborhood rela-tionship of Indonesia to India was expected to be in-creasingly intimate. Similarly, the brotherhood of theIndonesian Hindu relations to India would be gettingtighter and closer.

On the other hand, Mr. Andi M. Ghalib said thechallenge of diplomat in years to come was not easy.On that account, he expected the diplomats continuedto learn more and enhance themselves by science andtechnology. “Let establish cooperative relationship toIndia having a population of 1.2 billion in every field.Thus, the success of the two countries in all fields couldbe achieved,” expected Mr. Andi M. Ghalib. (08)

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A unique tradition always did by theveteran and heroes families in Bulelengevery Independence Day celebration.All the elderly and their kids came toCurastana Heroes Garden Tomb atSingaraja to give offerings just like anyreligious ceremonies.

What’s more, after those wereprayed over the graves, they then takeit to be eaten in the garden tomb whichmade it seen crowded just like a touristplace from morning until afternoon.

The remission given by the coun-try was given by the Gianyar Regentin celebrating Indonesian 65th Inde-pendence Day. Five convicts classIIB in this jailhouse got themselvespublic remission. Two of them wereIda Bagus Gede Adi Kusmira andWayan Sudiarsa who were straightaway freed. This agreement wasgiven out in Law Minister Agreementand Indonesian Republic HumanRights Number 16.545.PK.01.01.02Year 2010 on Public REMISSIONGiving Year 2010.

Bali Post learnt that there are 56prisoners in this jailhouse. From that11 are convicts while 45 are prison-

Tabanan (Bali Post)A number of prisoners from

Class IIB Tabanan Public Prisongot remission on the Indepen-dence Day 65th Birthday last Tues-day (17/8). From 129 convicts, 30of them got lessen jail times from1 month to 6 months. One of them,Wayan Winasa, got a remission tobe freed on that day.

Head of Tabanan Public Prison,Kristiyanto Wiwoho, mentionedthat they got these remissions asthey have completed the rules asstated, “There was a clear rule forthat. We asked those who obeyedto get remission through Bali Lawand Human Rights DepartmentOffice and continue it to the Lawand Human Rights Ministry inJakarta. The result is seen today.”

Meanwhile, Tabanan RegentNi Putu Eka Wiryastuti in this op-portunity explained, every Inde-pendence Day birthday, the coun-try gives their interest to theguided residents in a form of re-mission, “The remission given,besides to celebrate IndependenceDay, it is also to give an honor tothose convicts who showed their

Jakarta (Bali Post) –Culture and Tourism Agency

(Kemenbudpar) formed tour patternto develop alternative destination sothere are more new tourism destina-tions. “We are creating routes patronsin hoping we can spread or breaktourism destinations so it’s not onlyfocusing in Bali or Yogyakarta,”Kemenbudpar Tourism DestinationGenereal Director, FirmansyahRahim, in Jakarta explained lastTuesday (17/7).

According to Firmansyah, thetour pattern is also formed to increasetourism competition in Indonesia.The patron formed is to map and ar-range sources, potentials, diversifi-cation and differentiation on tourismproducts that can became good tour-ist package either for foreign tour-ists or local tourists, “We start to ar-range tour pattern this year and tar-geted there are ready patrons end ofthis year to be given to tourism busi-nesses as a guide to make touristpackages.”

He clarified, this routes arrange-ments are needed to accommodatethose capacity who couldn’t get to

Gianyar PrisonGianyar PrisonGianyar PrisonGianyar PrisonGianyar PrisonOvercapacityOvercapacityOvercapacityOvercapacityOvercapacityGianyar (Bali Post) –

Gianyar National Jailhouse is overcapacity. The number of prisoners is more than the numberof cells there are. This caused prisoners to overcrowd each cells. This was revealed during aceremony on giving remission to some convicts in the jailhouse last Tuesday (17/8).

ers. From this total, the capacity ofGianyar Jailhouse is only accommo-dating 30 people so it is overcapac-ity.

Head of the Jailhouse, MadeSuwendra, Bc. IP, S.IP, SH whenmet didn’t deny about the condition.That overcapacity was based on anagreement by World OrganizationBoard like the United Nations. Eventhough, this overcapacity didn’tcause difficulties for prisoners tosleep. Now from the total 56, twoare freed as they got remission.

Met separately, the convict whogot remission, IB Gede Adi Kusmirastated his happiness to breathe fresh

air again after jailed 2 years on acover up case. This remission washis second and that morning theBangli convict had his family pickedhim up.

He admitted his guidance processin the jailhouse gave him happinessas he got motivation and a familylike guidance. This Rent Car busi-nessman doesn’t want to go backafter being freed.

Suwenda added, this remissionwas given based on some rules thathas to be completed by convicts suchas administration rules and kind atti-tudes during guidance in that jail-house. (kmb16)

Be Thankful of Independence

Patriot Family Dine Togetherat Curastana Garden

While the officials did a flag cer-emony at the Taman Kota (City’s Gar-den), the sheroes’ families and veterancame from allover Buleleng. Besidesas appreciation for the ancestors whodied in the wars, this simple ritual isalso to be thankful of Indonesian inde-pendence that has to be seriously de-fended. “We have a ritual to celebratethis Indonesian Independence Day,” aresident from Banjar Tegal, Singarajaexplained.

Dewa Ketut Anom, a family fromPanji Village, after praying mentioned,this ritual is done every year. His pur-pose is to give an offering to hismother’s soul as a fighter. This prayingis also as his form of love and devotionof service and dedication of those fight-ers who win over this independence,“Yes every year I brought father to prayhere and as the continuing generationalso gives offerings as a form of love tothose veteran fighters.” (ole)

Thirty ConvictGet RemissionOne ReleaseStraight Away

positive attitude and a motivationto those who are still goingthrough their jail times.”

The Regent also hoped the con-vict who was freed straight awaycan continue his daily lives whilefor those who got remission or notyet stayed in the prison make thisIndependence Day birthday a mo-mentum to always have an attitudenot going out from the rules.

She also gave a message to gothrough these jail times patientlyand truthfully so with these posi-tive attitudes guidance will givepositive results later on also for thecountry itself.

The remission giving ceremonywas also attended by Vice RegentKomang Gede Sanjaya, source ofMuspida Tabanan and also officialfor the environment in TabananRegion Government.

Meanwhile the Indonesian In-dependence Day flag ceremony(Proclamation Seconds) was heldat Alit Saputra Field in Tabananwith the Regent as the CeremonyInspector. In the afternoon it wascontinued by taking down the flagto be saved. (gap)

Develop Alternative DestinationCulture AndTourism MinistryForms Tour Pattern

their destination. He gave an ex-ample, in the midyear holiday, almostall hotels in Bali are full and to ac-commodate those who didn’t getBali’s quota needs an alternative des-tination needs to be developed,“Through tour pattern, those tourismbusinesses can make tourist packagesto other destinations to move thosetourists to not only focus in oneplace.”

Besides that tourist will be moreadvantaged as they get new alterna-tive destination outside Bali andYogyakarta and so his side are facili-tating meetings with the people informing this routes, “To create thistour pattern we need famtrip to ex-amine it.”

The development involved cir-cuits, route pattern, tour itinerary, cor-ridors, etape, tracks, routes, safari anddevelopment pattern for new touristattraction (diversification). If it’s alldone, then the result will be given totourism businesses for tourist pack-ages guidance, “This was our programthis past 5 years, we will evaluate itroutinely and if it’s not selling thenwe have to make a new one.” (010)

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A health officer gives vaccine to the dog. The government is trying their best to prevent the spreadof rabies in Bali and one of them is by giving vaccination to the dogs throughout the island.

International4 Thursday, August 19, 2010 News

“The aircraft crashed into a ci-vilian makeshift house, leaving noChinese dead or injured. The pilotdied on the spot,” the report said,adding that Beijing was “commu-nicating” with Pyongyang on theincident.

South Korea’s Yonhap newsagency, citing intelligence sources,said the aircraft appeared to be aNorth Korean fighter jet and that thepilot had been killed. It had earlieridentified the aircraft as a helicopter.

Yonhap quoted a source as say-ing the pilot of the plane — possi-

Agence France Presse

BAGUIO, Philippines - Fortypeople were killed when apacked bus plunged into a deepravine in the northern Philippineson Wednesday, authorities said.The bus carrying 49 Filipinos hadjust left the mountain resort cityof Baguio when its brakes failed,local fire chief Senior Superin-tendent Richard Villanueva toldAFP.

Provincial police chief WilbenMayor told reporters 40 peoplewere killed instantly. He saidnine people were injured, includ-

Reuters

CANBERRA – AustralianPrime Minister Julia Gillard’s La-bor government will narrowly winSaturday’s election, a Reuters PollTrend showed on Wednesday, pav-ing the way for a controversialmining tax and a possible carbontrading scheme. Australia’s smallGreens party, on course to gain thebalance of power in the Senateupper house, said it would seek totoughen the mining tax if Laborwins.

The proposed 30 percent tax oniron ore and coal, forecast to raiseA$10.5 billion ($9.5 billion) overtwo years starting 2012, has beensigned off by mining giants BHPBilliton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata, butis opposed by much of the rest ofAustralia’s key mining sector.

The Greens’ stance could forcethe government to negotiate somechanges. The Greens want to raisean extra A$2 billion a year, butparty leader Bob Brown said theywould not block the tax if it didnot secure its changes.

“All I can do is say we will ne-gotiate strongly, inject better ideasinto the mining tax proposals La-bor has, and I think we will get adividend,” Brown told the National

AFP PHOTO / YONHAP

This image released by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency on August 18, 2010 and reportedly taken froma Chinese website shows people looking at a crashed unidentified small aircraft in northeastern China’sLiaoning province’s Fushun county, which reportedly killed the pilot, according to unnamed Chinese gov-ernment sources.

Aircraft crash in China couldAircraft crash in China couldAircraft crash in China couldAircraft crash in China couldAircraft crash in China couldbe N.Korea fighter jet: reportbe N.Korea fighter jet: reportbe N.Korea fighter jet: reportbe N.Korea fighter jet: reportbe N.Korea fighter jet: reportAgence France Presse

BEIJING - Investigators are probing a crash involving an unidentified small aircraft in northeast China,state media said, amid reports on Wednesday that it could have been a North Korean fighter plane. China’sXinhua news agency said the plane which crashed in Liaoning province’s Fushun county “might be” aNorth Korean jet, citing unnamed Chinese government sources.

bly a Soviet-era MiG-15 — mayhave lost his way while attemptingto fly to Russia to escape from NorthKorea. China, an ally of Pyongyang,has a repatriation pact with NorthKorea, which could have been whythe pilot decided to choose Russiaas a destination, the report added.

Photos that appeared to show thecrash site, posted on the Internet,showed what looked like a fighterplane with the North Korean flagpainted on the body of the jet.

South Korea’s military said theplane was more likely a MiG-21, cit-

ing radar detection by its air force ofthe aircraft leaving a military airbasein the North Korean city of Sinuiju,near the border with China.

“Radar images show the NorthKorean aircraft took off from the airbase in Sinuiju,” said an official inSeoul, who asked not to be named.“According to the images, it appearsto be a MiG-21,” the official said.

The number of North Korean sol-diers defecting from the impover-ished, reclusive state has increasedin recent months as food shortagesdeepen, Yonhap said.

40 dead in Philippine bus accidenting the conductor who survived byjumping out of the door before thevehicle flew off the cliff.

“The driver tried to ram the businto a mango tree to prevent it fromfalling, but failed,” the conductor,John Patrick Flores, who escapedwith only bruises, told reporters.

Police Senior Inspector LeoGuay, who led the search and re-trieval operations, said the destroyedvehicle had come to a rest on its sideon shrub-covered ground. He saidthe steep slope made it difficult forrescuers to retrieve the mangledbodies from inside the wreckage.

Guay said police were in the pro-

cess of informing relatives of allthe victims, but said no one fromthe company that owned the bushad so far come forward to help.Baguio is about 200 kilometres(120 miles) north of Manila, andis a popular tourist destination be-cause of its rich tribal culture andcool weather.

Road accidents, often involving

old buses and careless drivers, arecommon in the Philippines. Fif-teen people were killed last monthwhen a bus slammed into a con-crete wall in Cebu, the Philippines’second biggest city.

Twenty-one people, amongthem Iranian medical students,were killed a month earlier, alsoin Cebu, when a bus fell off a cliff.

Rescuers try to remove bodies of bus passengers from the wreck-age after it plunged into a deep ravine in the village Bangaan,Sablan town, province of Benguet in northern Philippines on

August 18, 2010 killing 35 people. AFP PHOTO/JJ LANDINGIN

Australia’s Labor toscrape back into power

Press Club. “Given that option, youdon’t have to be Einstein to knowthat the Greens will be going withthe Labor Party alternative.”

A Labor victory would also seea possible carbon trading schemeto combat climate change from2012 and ensure construction of a$38 billion fiber-optic nationalbroadband network. The Liberal-National opposition opposes allthree policies.

CLOSE ELECTION

With two days of campaigningleft and economic management akey issue, the opposition onWednesday promised a budget sur-plus of A$6.2 billion by 2012-13,almost double the government’sforecast surplus of A$3.5 billion.Australians are historically wary ofgovernment borrowing due to highlevels of personal debt and homeownership, so the opposition alsopromised to cut the country’s A$90billion ($81.5 billion) debt by athird within four years.

“The coalition has the courageand commitment to draw a line inthe sand and stop Labor’s recklessspending and waste,” oppositiontreasury spokesman Joe Hockeysaid.

AP Photo/Tertius Pickard

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks to members of thepublic during the peoples’ forum held in Brisbane, Australia, Wednes-day, August 18, 2010.

Hotel Activities Thursday, August 19, 2010 5International

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

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TAXIS

IMIGRATION

Denpasar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IBP

KUTA - Hard Rock Hotel BaliManagement and Security Teamwere honored by the Force Protec-tion Detachment of US EmbassyJakarta, Indonesia for their out-standing support. The certificatewas presented by Mr. Scott M.

IBPMANGUPURA—A total of 65

participants from the members of KutaExecutive Club (KEC) and Bali Vil-las Association (BVA) attended thetechnical guidance workshop on theHuman Rights Handling, last Friday(Aug 6) at Puri Saron Hotel,Seminyak. The workshop entitled“Conflict Transformation: AlternativeSolutions in Handling Human RightsProblems” presented some speakers

Certificate of CommendationBernat, Chief of US Military Secu-rity of the Force Protection Detach-ment of US Embassy Jakarta onWednesday (21/7) in the presenceof the hotel’s General Manager -Andrew Khoo, Mhcima, band mem-bers and Capt. Fahmi Attamimi, thenew Chief of Tourist Police ofDenpasar City Police. “We are

proud for being recognized for ouroutstanding support. This will be-come our motivator to improve onthe quality of our security servicesand maintain close coordinationwith the Police and local govern-ment security,” says Putu Sukertya,the Security Manager of Hard RockHotel Bali.

Workshop on humanrights handling

such Prof. Dr. Hafid Abbas and Dr.Adhi Santika, Ph.D. from the Minis-try of Justice & Human Rights. Suchone-day workshop was opened by theHead of Badung Government TourismOffice, I Made Subawa. The workshopitself was organized by Research andDevelopment Agency of Ministry ofJustice and Human Rights in coopera-tion with Dharma Sthapanam Foun-dation and supported by KEC, BVAand Puri Saron Hotel.

SEMINYAK, Bali – Celebrat-ing Indonesia’s 65th Independence,guests of bvilla enjoyed playingfolk games on Tuesday, August 17.There was no reason to hold back.Indonesians and foreigners had theultimate fun in bvilla.

Guests, including from the neigh-boring villa complex, bvilla+pool andbvilla+seaside, gathered at the +spalounge of the bvilla+spa to participatewith villa staff on this celebration offreedom. Guests from England, Aus-tralia, and France were snacking onIndonesian traditional snack “jajananpasar”, while listening to the Indone-

bvilla went folk, celebratingIndonesia’s Independence Day

sian independence history being told.Various Indonesian folk games

such as running with spoon andmarbles, plugging a nail in a bottleand many more were played by theforeign guests teamed up with bvillaemployees. Sixteen guests and tensof staff shared good laughs through-out the day. “I can’t believe you guyshave such fun traditions for celebrat-ing national day!” said one guestbefore she bit the spoon and ran fromthe lobby down to the +spa.

Prizes to win included a roman-tic dinner in the villa, couple’s mas-sage, and bottle of wine.

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Russia, still haunted by the SovietUnion’s war in Afghanistan which costover 13,000 Soviet lives and ended ina humiliating pullout in 1989, has kepta wary distance from the troubles ofNATO forces in the country.

President Dmitry Medvedev washolding bilateral meetings with bothKarzai and Zardari before the full sum-mit gets underway in the Black Searesort of Sochi at 1000 GMT, Russianofficials said. Also taking part will beTajikistan President EmomaliRakhmon, whose country borders Af-ghanistan.

“Let me once again thank you foryour concern for Afghanistan,” Karzaitold Medvedev in their bilateral meet-ing. “Afghanistan will need the sup-port of friends and great countries likeRussia.”

Medvedev said Russia backed theAfghan government’s fight againstTaliban insurgents and also emphasisedthat Russia was prepared to developeconomic relations with Afghanistan.“We live in the same region — this cre-ates common problems and commonprospects,” he said.

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LONDON – A passenger is ina critical condition in hospital af-ter a train collided with a sewagetanker at a railway crossing inSuffolk, emergency services said.Twenty people were injured whenthe front carriage of the two-cartrain came off the tracks late Tues-day after smashing into the lorryin the village of Little Cornard,near Sudbury.

Witnesses said they heard asound like a bomb explodingwhen the train and truck collidedat 5.35 pm (1635 GMT) and thensaw dazed passengers covered inblood wandering around near thescene of the accident. The lorryburst open on impact, spillingsewage across the tracks but thetrain carriage did not tip over.

“There was a very, very loudbang. I’ve never heard anythinglike i t . I thought i t was anaeroplane crash or a bomb goingoff,” said Jack Barnett, 65, a re-tired lorry driver who lives closeto the scene of the crash.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) welcomes Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari duringtheir meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on August 18, 2010.

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SOCHI - Russia on Wednesday hosted Pakistan’s embattled President Asif Ali Zardari andAfghan leader Hamid Karzai for a rare summit aimed at coordinating efforts to improve securityin Afghanistan. The three countries all have a troubled history of relations but Russia will wantthe meeting to show it is playing a constructive role in improving security in a region where his-torically it has had a major influence.

But the key aspect of the meeting israre bilateral encounter between Zardariand Karzai, whose country has consis-tently accused Pakistan’s powerful in-telligence agency of supporting Talibaninsurgents. Pakistan has reacted furi-ously to the allegations, particularly af-ter Karzai declared in July that “this waris in the sanctuaries, funding centres andtraining places of terrorism which areoutside Afghanistan.”

Karzai’s spokesman Sediq Sediqqitold AFP that Karzai and Zardari metearlier in the day, saying more detailswould be given later.

Moscow had made clear it has noplans to send troops to Afghanistan butlike several other ex-Soviet states hasallowed NATO states to use its airspacefor the transit of equipment.

The meeting is the second such four-way meeting of the heads of state, thefirst taking place in the Tajik capitalDushanbe in July 2009. Medvedev’sforeign policy advisor Sergei Prikhodkosaid ahead of the meeting that Russiawould be interested in delivering heli-copters to Afghanistan.

“The question of the delivery of Rus-

sian helicopters will be discussed, if itis raised by the Afghan side,” he added,the Interfax news agency said, addingthat Afghanistan required 100 addi-tional choppers.

Kremlin sources told the agencythat such a move could put Russia indirect competition with NATO statesalso interested in the contract, but thewhole issue of financing also had tobe addressed. The Pakistan leader’svisit that has been cut to only a fewhours after he was heavily criticisedat home for his handling of the devas-tating floods that have caused a hu-manitarian crisis.

Zardari had originally been plan-ning a two-day visit to Russia but thesituation with the floods means hisvisit has been cut to a few hours andhe will not even attend lunch, officialsin Islamabad have said.

Moscow is not a traditional ally ofIslamabad, not least because of its his-torically close ties to Pakistan’s tradi-tional foe India. Tensions also still lin-ger over the Pakistani secret service’sbacking of mujahedeen insurgentsagainst Soviet forces in the 1980s.

Train collides withlorry, 21 injured

way safety offences. Driverswanting to use the unmannedcrossing have to phone railwayauthorities from the site to obtainpermission.

A 58-year-old man trapped onthe train sustained life-threateninginjuries and is in intensive care,said British Transport Police(BTP). Twenty other people werehurt but their injuries were notlife-threatening. Five of themwere taken to Colchester Generalhospital with injuries includingbroken ribs, back pain and heavybruising.

The recovery operation and in-vestigation into the collision con-tinued Wednesday, when a 130-tonne crane was to be taken to thesite.

Following yesterday’s rescueoperation, our main task todaywill be to gather physical andtechnical evidence,? said DeputyChief Constable Paul Crowther.“We were unable to access thetrain cab last night, but once thetrain has been secured today, wewill be able to do that.”

Moving the train would pose “asignificant challenge”, BTP said.

A cloudburst 12 days ago in thenorthern Indian region of Ladakhkilled 189 people, with another 400missing. Six foreign trekkers alsodied in the popular high-altitudetourist destination.

Local people at the site of the di-saster reached by telephone fromDehradun said that at least 35 stu-dents and up to six teachers andstaff were in the building when itcollapsed.

“A massive rescue operation isunder way,” Dass added, as hun-dreds of paramilitary troopers wererushed to the disaster site inSumgarh town, some 450kilometres (279 miles) from statecapital of Dehradun. PiyushRautela, who heads Uttarakhand’sdisaster management agency, saidsix children had been plucked alivefrom the debris. Other houses in thearea have also collapsed, causing an

The provincial civil affairs officesent tents and clothing to the area, butit is not known when the aid and res-cue workers will get there. Xinhua saidthe mudslides tore away a bridge onthe Nujiang river, which saw its waterlevel surge by 6 meters (19 feet).

China regularly suffers devastat-ing summer floods, but this year hasbeen the worst in a decade, with cit-ies washed away in the northeast andnorthwest of the country. The stormshave caused tens of billions of dol-lars in damage.

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The worst recent landslides havebeen in Zhouqu in Gansu province,where at least 1,287 people were killedas a mudslide crashed through the cityon Aug. 8. The government says an-other 457 people are still missing fromthat disaster. On Wednesday, Vice Pre-mier Hui Liangyu urged authorities tofocus on resettlement of survivors inZhouqu. He said more shelter and medi-cal services were needed, according toXinhua.

Hui said schools should resumeclasses when the fall semester starts ina few weeks.

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added.Elsewhere in Uttarakhand, troops

rushed to help thousands of Hinduswho were stranded near a pilgrim-age site after torrential rains Sundaywashed away a key bridge on a high-way, Indo-Tibetan Border Policespokesman Deepak Pandey said.

“The situation improved todayafter the bridge was repaired forlight vehicles and more than 2,000people who were stranded in theopen for the past three days can nowreach their destinations,” Pandeytold AFP in New Delhi.

In Pakistan, foreign aid beganflowing Wednesday to the 20 mil-lion victims of catastrophic floodsthere, but many remained withoutfood or shelter as Islamabad re-sponded slowly to their needs.

Weather forecasts have signalledthat some respite was due after threeweeks of torrential rains killed atleast 1,400 people.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia and Ma-laysia need to solve their commonborder problems soon and set clearborderlines in order to avoid furtherintrusions and other border conflictsthat often cause tensions betweenthe two countries.

Indonesia should proactivelyseek agreements on its borders withneighboring countries like Malay-sia and Singapore.

“We have always talked aboutthe problem of outlaying islandswith neighboring countries but un-til now we have not yet been able tosolve it so that conflicts often oc-cur,” former president MegawatiSoekarnoputri said. She made thestatement in response to last week‘sincident when Indonesian patrolofficers nabbed seven Malaysianfishermen for allegedly poaching inthe waters of the Indonesian prov-ince of Riau Islands, aroundBintang Island in particular.

In a ‘reciprocal‘ action, the Ma-laysian water police came up to ar-rest three Indonesian patrol officers.

Megawati, who is IndonesianDemocratic Party of Struggle(PDIP) leader, said the governmentshould not merely always want todiscuss geopolitical border prob-lems but should also seek ways howto settle the border problems con-clusively.

“Unfortunately, however, ourborder problems were not touchedin the state-of-the nation address ofPresident Susilo BambangYudhoyono on Monday, Aug 16,2010,” the former president said re-ferring to the president`s address inconnection with the 65th anniver-sary of Indonesia`s IndependenceDay. According to Foreign Minis-ter Marty Natalegawa, the sea bor-der problem with Malaysia nearBintan Island has remained un-solved until now because the neigh-boring country has kept on defer-ring negotiations to settle it.

Frederic Jean Salvi — alsoknown as Ali — came to the at-tention of Indonesian anti-terrorpolice earlier this month after araid on a bomb factory in WestJava, during which they seized acar owned by him.

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PANGKALPINANG - A navypatrol ship has seized a Vietnameseboat for illegally fishing in BangkaBelitung (Babel) waters.

The chief of the Bangka-Belitungnaval base, Col Umar Arief, saidhere on Tuesday the skipper and 10crews of the Vietnamese boat as wellas the boat and fishing equipmenthad been taken into custody for le-gal processing.

He said the navy patrol caught theVietnamese boat while fishing in theBangka waters. “The fishermen car-ried no documents for fishing in theBangka-Belitung waters,” he said.

He said the navy base kept inten-sifying its patrol to prevent illegalfishing by foreign fishermen who

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JAKARTA - Indonesia has con-ducted a survey on the number andnaming of its islands, a senior offi-cial said. The survey shows that In-donesia only has about 13,000 is-lands that scatter from Sabang in thewest to Marauke in the east.

“The total number of our islandsis only about 13,000. This figure isbased on data of our latest survey,”Director General for Coastal areasand Small Islands, Sudirman Saad,said here on Tuesday.

He said that the decreasing num-ber of Indonesian islands had noth-ing to do with the surge of sea waterdue to global warming or with que-rying of sea sand.

“This is only a matter of data ac-curacy. So far, no surveys on thenumber of islands in Indonesia havebeen conducted,” he said.

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JAKARTA - A French national wanted in Indonesia over allegedties with Al-Qaeda-linked militants is also on the run from authoritiesin France, police in Jakarta said Wednesday.

Police also confiscated explo-sives and suspected that the vehiclewould be used as a car bomb.

“He was involved in a radicalorganisation in France and is alsoon a wanted list there,” Indonesianpolice chief detective Ito Sumardi

said.“So we’ll have coordination

with the French Interpol,” he said.Sumardi said the French na-

tional, who is believed to still beat large in Indonesia, is a memberof Salafi Jihadi, although he did notgive further details on the group.

Police have arrested 102 terrorsuspects, detaining 66 of them, ina series of nationwide raids afterdiscovering an extremist trainingcamp in Aceh, northern Sumatra

island, in February.Top radical Islamist preacher

Abu Bakar Bashir was arrested lastweek for allegedly setting-up andfunding the camp which involvedAl-Qaeda-linked extremists whowere plotting a wave of attacks inJakarta.

In a press conference today, po-lice confirmed reports that Bashirhad received tens of thousands ofdollars in several installments from“a number of supporters” to fund

the terror plots.National police spokesman

Iskandar Hasan said Bashir man-aged to collect more than one bil-lion rupiah (over 100,000 US dol-lars) and gave the money toDulmatin, one of the mastermindsof 2002 Bali bombing who waskilled in March.

A police source told AFP thisweek that Bashir raised the moneyby distributing videos of the mili-tary-style training exercise.

Indonesia hascompleted surveys onits 13,000 islands

He said that accurate data on thenumber of Indonesian islands wereobtained after the Maritime andFisheries Ministry finalized the va-lidity of its surveys on the namingof islands in the country.

“The validation work has beencompleted. It was finished this year,”he said. He said that in 2012 allnames of islands in Indonesia whichtotal about 13,000 would have beenregistered with the United Nations.

The government will also in thenear future issue government regu-lation which among others includethe names of islands in Indonesia,he said.

“We hope that the governmentregulation would have been issuedbefore the end of this year,” the di-rector general said. It was earlierknown that Indonesia, which had thelongest coastal lines in the world,had 13,480 islands.

Vietnamese fishing boatseized for poaching

used equipment which is more so-phisticated than that used by localfishermen.

“In general the foreign fishingboats use fishing equipment with acapacity of 1.500 tons of catch andtherefore damaged bio-diversity in-cluding coral reefs,” he said.

He said what was concerning wasthat foreign fishermen also usedbombs in their illegal fishing activ-ity. To minimize illegal fishing ac-tivity by foreing fisherment he calledon local fishermen to increase theirmonitoring on the operations of for-eign fishing boats.

“If they see foreign fishing boatsoperating there they should reportthe naval base so that an immediateaction could be taken against them,”he said.

RI, Malaysia need to solvecommon border soon

He said that because an agreementon the common maritime borders hadnot yet been reached, incidents involv-ing the two nations always occurred.Therefore, Indonesia is willing to dis-cuss the matter with Malaysia soon.

“We have not begun negotiationsyet and have not yet reached an agree-ment on the borders of several sectionsof our common land and sea territo-ries,” he said. However, Indonesiawould soon discuss the border prob-lem with Malaysia.

“Indonesia is ready any time, but itis Malaysia that is not ready to dis-cuss the problem,” said the ministerafter attending a flag-raising ceremonycommemorating the 65th anniversaryof Indonesian Independence at thepresidential palace on Tuesday.

The minister said Malaysia was notyet able to discuss the sea border is-sue with Indonesia since it had to settlea similar problem with Singapore first.However, Marty stated, the Indonesiangovernment would always defend thecountry‘s sovereignty at any cost.

“Our job is to secure national sov-ereignty. There can be no compromisein this regard,” he added.

Natalegawa said Indonesian repre-sentatives at meetings with the Ma-laysian side on border affairs had of-ten raised the question of Malaysianintrusions into Indonesian waters.

“We always state our objectionsand concern to the Malaysian authori-ties. We have also urged them not torepeat the same mistakes in the future,”said the minister.

In the meantime, Maritime andFisheries Affairs Minister FadelMuhammad said the governmentwould soon make clear the borderlinesbetween Indonesia and Malaysia fol-lowing the arrest of Indonesian patrolofficers by Malaysian police on Fri-day.

“Following the incident we will ar-range and make clear the borderlinesbetween Indonesia and Malaysia,” theminister said.

Fadel said that so far the border-lines between Indonesia and Malay-

sia were not yet clear, particularlyin their water areas. For this case,he will make intensive coordinationwith the office of the minister forpolitical, legal and security affairsand the ministry of transportation todiscuss the border problem withMalaysia.

Three Indonesian patrol officers,Asriadi (40), Erwan (37) and SeivoGrevo Wewengkang (26), were ar-rested when they intercepted a Ma-laysian fishing vessel which was al-legedly poaching in the Indonesianwaters of Riau Islands province.

Indonesia on Tuesday morningrepatriated the seven Malaysian fish-ermen who were arrested by Indo-nesian patrol officers last Friday.“The seven fishermen have been re-patriated this morning,” NettyHerawati, mediator of the Indone-sian Consulate General for Malay-sia, said.

The seven fishermen were repa-triated using the Samudera Tigaship, which left Batam at 8.30 a.mIndonesian Standard Time forSitulang Laut port of Johor Bahru.They were accompanied by Malay-sian embassy staffers and DewanPriyo Kusumo, a staffer of the In-donesian Consulate General inJohor Bahru.

In the meantime, Malaysia hasalso released three Indonesian seapatrol officers who were arrested byMalaysian police. Netty said thethree Indonesian officers were nowreturned to the Indonesian Consu-late General in Johor Bahru.

“The three are now in the officeof the Indonesia Consulate Gen-eral,” she said.

The three marine officers, in fact,were already at the Indonesian con-sulate general in Johor Baru, Ma-laysia, Tuesday morning, to join anIndependence Day flag hoisting cer-emony.

“So, our diplomatic efforts dur-ing the whole day yesterday haveborn fruit,” Minister MartyNatalegawa said meanwhile.

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Bali Today

“Infrastructure of roads totourist objects in Bali remains ap-prehensive. We also see the pro-motion and reality in the field stillin a lack of balance,” said NgurahWijaya, last Monday (Aug 16).

He hoped the House couldimmediately address the issue. Ac-cording to him, the problems couldaffect the tourist visit to the Islandof the Gods. Moreover, competi-tion in tourism industry againstour neighboring countries turnedquite strict.

Nevertheless, NgurahWijaya affirmed that promotion ofBali tourism overseas was aggres-sive enough, even through the filmstarred by Hollywood actress JuliaRoberts entitled “Eat, Pray, Love(EPL)” resulted in a positive im-aging impact to the Island of Bali.“EPL film had a tremendous im-pact, even though the film has notbeen screened in theaters aroundthe world. However, its impact isbeginning to be felt, namely thereis an increasing number of tourist

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DENPASAR - The number ofMalaysian tourists vacationing toBali reached 69,251 during thefirst semester of 2010, a 6.23 per-cent decline compared to lastyear’s 73,853.

“While the number of Ma-laysians to Bali have declined,they were still fourth on the listof top ten countries supplyingforeign visitors to Bali,” IdaKomang Wisnu, head of BaliCentral Statistics Office, said inDenpasar.

He said that the Malaysiantourists coming to Bali to enjoythe scenery and Balinese culturaluniqueness arrived at Ngurah RaiAirport straight from Malaysia.

“Only two of them came byboat,” Ida Komang Wisnu said.

Malaysians to Bali last yearreached 120,199, up by 5.99 per-cent compared to those in 2008.

Ida Komang Wisnu addedthe Malaysians contributed 5.87percent of the total number of1,180,118 foreign tourists to Baliin the first six months of 2010.

Their number in the first se-mester of 2010 was 10.23 percenthigher than those is a 10.23 per-cent in 2009 or 170,595 foreign

Road to Bali touristobjects apprehensive

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Balinese people walking in the side of the small road that usually use by travelers to get totourism destination in Bali. Infrastructure of roads leading to tourist object stays to become ahighlight of tourism stakeholders.

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DENPASAR - More than59,380 South Korean touristsvisited Bali in the first half of2010, putting the country in thesixth place as a source of for-eign tourists to the resort island.

Compared to the same pe-riod last year, the number ofSouth Korean tourists visitingBali in the first semester of2010 fell 5.81 percent, head ofthe Bali Provincial StatisticsOffice Ida Komang Wisnu said.

South Korean touristswere made up of 5.03 percentof the overall tourist arrivals inBali in the first half of 2010reaching 1,180,118, a 10.23percent increase compared tothe same period last year.

Ida Komang said six outof top ten source countries offoreign tourists saw an increase

Bali Post

DENPASAR — Infrastructure of roads leading to tourist object stays to become a highlight oftourism stakeholders. Chairman of the Bali Tourism Board (BTB), Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya,when committed face-to-face meeting with the Bali House stated that condition of several tour-ism supporting facilities in Bali were still apprehensive.

arrivals to Bali,” he said. It was also added that the

impact of tourism in Bali did notonly become the responsibility fortourism stakeholders, but also allresidents of the Island of the Gods.“On that account, we expect allstakeholders to think about thesustainability of tourism in Bali inorder it could be better and in-crease the tourist arrivals,” he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Headof Bali House, Ketut Suwandhi,said that his party would seek tocoordinate with the executive, sothat facilities and infrastructure totourist objects, such as roads andother facilities could be improvedproperly.

According to him, tourismwas one of the mainstays of Baliin improving the economic incomeof local residents. Because, thesector was potentially able to ab-sorb the handicraft industry carriedout by rural communities.

“We will follow up the mat-ter as what presented by the tour-

ism components so that tourism in-frastructure could be more im-proved,” said the people’s repre-sentative originating in the factionof Functional Group (Golkar)Party. Afterward, he also affirmedthat Bali tourism sector had to beimproved. Of course, it should bereally poised with the infrastructurerequired by tourists.

In the meantime, Chief ofBadung Tourism Labor Union(FSP-Par) Putu SatyawiraMarhaendra said the screening ofEPL film would bring the tourismsector of Bali to a positive direc-tion.

“With the screening of thefilm, foreign tourists will not onlyknow about the tourist attraction inKuta and Nusa Dua. Even, they willalso get information about someother interesting destinations. Ul-timately, the imbalance of touristvisit rate felt by the operators oftourist attractions in Bali all thistime, at least, could be resolved,”he explained. (par)

Over 59,380 SouthKoreans visit Bali

in the number of their citizensvisiting Bali in the January-June2010 period, while the numberof tourist arrivals from the otherfour declined.

The number of tourist ar-rivals from Australia rose 53.89percent to 278,049 from180,686, The Netherlands 40.53percent to 36,082 from 25,676,Taiwan 13.10 percent to 65,589from 57,994, Singapore 55.36percent to 41,483 from 26,702,Britain 2.19 percent to 38,526from 37,701, and China 0.33percent to 98,258 from 97,930.

Meanwhile, the numberof tourist arrivals from Japanfell 22.29 percent to 119,772from 154,071, Malaysia 6.23percent to 69,251 from 73,853,South Korea 5.81 percent to59,384 from 63,045, andFrance 7.67 percent to 42,211from 45,716.

Malaysian touriststo Bali down by6.23 percent

tourists. Six of the top ten countries

supplying the largest numbers offoreign tourists to Bali, had an in-crease in number, and four down.

The six countries whosepeople have increased in visitingBali were the Netherlands with anincrease of 30.53 percent from25,876 to 36,082 visitors, Austra-lia 53.89 percent from 180,686 to278,049.

In the meantime, there werealso increases in the number ofvisit from China with 0.33 per-cent from 57,994 to 98,257, fol-lowed by Taiwan by 13.10 per-cent from 57,994 to 65,589,Singapore 55.36 percent from26,702 to 41,483, and the UnitedKingdom 2.19 percent from37,701 to 38,526 tourists.

The four countries, whosetourists visiting Bali have de-creased, apart from Malaysia, areJapan down by 22.29 percentfrom 154,071 in the first semes-ter of 2009 to 119,772 in the sameperiod of 2010.

Likewise South Korea saw adrop of 5.81 percent in the num-ber of visits to Bali from 63,045to 59,384, and France 7.67 per-cent from 45,716 to 42,211, IdaKomang Wisnu said.

Balinese Culture

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Tuna poses one of the versatile fishes. Its taste

consequently can be enjoyed in different delectable

servings. One of them is through shredded flesh served

in the flavor of lemongrass in combination with some

other spices. Try to enjoy every single shred of this

delicacy as side dish accompanying your regular

steamed rice.

Ingredients: 250g fresh tuna flesh

Ground spices: 8 cloves shallot, 3 cloves garlic, 1

slice aromatic ginger, 1 slice turmeric, 1 slice ginger, ½

tsp coriander, 2 pcs small chili, and ½ tsp salt

Others: 200ml palm oil, 2 tbsp fried shallot, 1 tbsp

fried garlic, 1 tbsp palm sugar, 3 stalks lemongrass

(select its white part and finely sliced), 2 pcs kaffir lime

leaf (finely sliced), 1 pc large chili and small chili (finely

sliced) and 1 pc salam leaf.

Method:

· Boil the tuna flesh until cooked. Add 1 tsp salt

and salam leaf into the boiling water. Having been

cooked, take out and cool it. The next step is shredding

the flesh finely.

· Fry the shredded tuna until rather dry and take

out. Leave a small quantity of oil on the frying pan for

stir-frying the spices.

· Stir-fry the spices until turning fragrant. Add

some salt, palm sugar and shredded tuna into the

spices. Stir them evenly and add the sliced lemongrass,

red and green chili. Stir again and wait until they run dry

and spices can mix evenly.

· Take out and it is ready to serve. Do not forget

to sprinkle fried chili, garlic and sliced kaffir lime leaf as

garnish. (BTN/punia)

Aside from sightseeing to nature,leisure experience can also be obtainedby enjoying some intriguing local tra-ditions. There are light daily activities,hobbies, traditional sports and so forth.Many people do this just for gettingthe experience, not for the end result.

Balinese community has sev-eral traditional sports and games. Prob-ably, the only one display of thosesports and games can be found in theannual implementation of Bali ArtsFestival (BAF). It poses one of themedia used to preserve and promotethe treasure of cultural heritages to-gether with other cultural elements.

Such an endeavor is required tobe introduced to modern generation.If they never know about those sportsthey will never appreciate theirs.Moreover, they now tend to be at-tracted by modern games that some-times make their parents worried onaccount of characters played in thevideo games or the like. They may turnless patient or when having no money

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Balinese children playing traditional game.

Traditional Sports:Get the Experience as the Locals Do

to play the games it kindles them tocommit crime. No matter small it is, itremains hazardous. However, it doesnot necessarily mean that moderngames must be rejected. The key is thatchildren should be persistently underparental control to minimize the nega-tive impact because it also contains edu-cational value.

Meanwhile, traditional gameswill teach them how to get in touch withnature, prepare the tools, cooperate withothers and tolerate friends. Here, theirpatience is required until the toys canbe completed. In addition, their rela-tionship will establish togetherness inthe level of their understanding. Sincemost traditional games are played out-side the house, so they can know bettertheir surrounding environment andfriends. These values enable them toenrich their outlook.

There are a variety of traditionalsports and games such as stilts, sackrace, coconut-shell clog, tug-of-war,pulling areca-sheath and many others.

When managed well, these traditionalcan create a good business. Craftsmen,for instance, can make the tools andtheir replica that may be taken advan-tage for souvenir by tourists. Moreover,if they are designed with the touch ofBalinese ornamental styles they aregoing to give added value.

In addition, the games like stilts(tajog) can become an optional attrac-tion for tourists. Getting involved in thegames of course will drive a pleasureof its own. Try change the orientation.If the games or sports usually playedby the locals, let’s share them with ourguests. Then, if the games usuallyplayed at smooth or even land can beplayed with a slight challenge such asby crossing shallow-watered river oreven on the beach, near the edges ofwaves. With different condition andbackground along this challenge, it cer-tainly becomes an attractive and uniqueadventure.

Without doubt, there are moretraditional games and sports that needexploring and discovering. These tra-ditions actually are potential productsbecoming attractive games offered tovisitors. While preserving, we can alsooffer something different from moderngames offered by other destinations. IfBali will ‘go green’ with its organic ag-riculture, its tradition can also offer ‘eco-friendly’ attraction where it is unneces-sary to exploit the nature excessivelybut it even can go hand in hand withthe preservation of local tradition. Oneday, the treasures of traditional gamesand sports could be coalesced into a ‘tra-ditional games park.’ Ultimately, let’sshare the fun of our traditions by in-volving visitors in the experience as thelocals do. (BTN/punia)

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Ubud Traditional Art Market where the existence is notfar different from other markets available in the tourism area.This market as a society economics center of Ubud and it isapposite to the existence of Ubud Empire that is called PuriSaren. The market is unfolding from west to easterly dividedbecome two group with different purpose. There are twomarkets available at the same area those are one block at theWestside is for a traditional artistic market and another blocklocated in the east as an everyday traditional fundamentalmarket requirement. This market is opened every day aboutat 08:00 until 18:00, even some from them still open untilnighttime. While the traditional market for the fundamentalrequirement is opened everyday at 06:00 - even before thatthere is morning market started at 04:00 morning.

The art crafting are sold in this art market consisted ofvarious crafting, from traditional until contemporary craft-ing which its price is relatively cheap. You can do the trans-action directly to the merchant which generally can bebargained. All the crafting sold in this place you can bringhome as souvenir like slipper, wood idol, bag, clothes,matting, painting and a lot of more.

It is very simple way and easily to find Ubud Marketsince it is very famous among the Balinese and it is strate-gically located in the center of Ubud Village. This marketis located just in the front of Ubud Palace with crowded ofvisitor who purchases the items every day.

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Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan’s PrimeMinister Naoto Kan plans to fleshout new stimulus measures asearly as September in a bid to safe-guard a recovery threatened by astrong yen, a report said Wednes-day.

Additional employmentprogrammes for young people, ex-tra financing assistance for smalland medium-sized businesses andmeasures to boost consumptionhave been proposed, the Nikkeidaily said without citing sources.

Officials are also discussingextending ongoing consumer in-centive programmes for energy-saving electronics, which expire atyear-end, it said.

The Kan administration isexpected to tap unspent govern-ment funds worth up to 1.7 trillionyen (20 billion dollars) for the ad-ditional programmes and willlikely avoid fresh bond issuance,the Nikkei said.

However, the coalition part-ner of the ruling Democratic Partyof Japan has asked for a fresh eco-nomic package worth 11 trillion

The Obama administration in-vited banking executives Tuesdayto offer advice on changing thegovernment’s role in backing themortgage market. While they dis-agreed on the exact level of supportneeded, the group overwhelminglyadvocated for the government tomaintain a large role in the $11 tril-lion market.

If the government pulledout, millions of Americanswouldn’t be able to convince banksto take the risk of giving them homeloans, the executives said. Endinggovernment support could lead toa spike in mortgage rates. Thatcould deter many from buyinghomes, and banks, mortgage lend-ers and Realtors would lose moneyover time.

“It will take on a differentform, but there is a role for govern-ment,” Kevin Chavers, a managingdirector at Morgan Stanley, said inan interview.

Most attendees agreed thetime had come to do away withFannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Res-cuing the two mortgage giants hascost the government nearly $150billion so far.

Bill Gross, the managing di-rector for bond giant Pimco, sug-gested Fannie and Freddie shouldbe formally merged into the gov-ernment. He also called on the ad-ministration to allow millions ofhomeowners to automatically refi-nance their loans to help stimulatethe economy.

A more widely held view atthe conference is for the govern-ment to do away with Fannie andFreddie, and instead provide a guar-antee that mortgage investors getpaid even if borrowers default indroves.

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Associated Press Writer

BEIJING - China plans to invest$3 billion in the next 10 years to de-velop alternative energy fuels, com-bat desertification and prevent land-slides.

Wu Jian, a senior engineer with

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The call from business for less government has a notable exception: themortgage market.

Figuring out a plan forFannie and Freddie is also a politi-cal challenge for President BarackObama and his party. Republicanshave seized on the administration’smanagement of Fannie and Freddieto illustrate Democrats’ push forgrowing the reach of the federalgovernment.

While the banking industryhas joined Republicans in criticiz-ing the administration for institut-ing stronger regulations of WallStreet, they support the governmentplaying a large role in the mortgagemarket.

“There would be a lot ofhomeowners who wouldn’t be ableto afford homes because we’d bedealing with higher interest rates.”said S.A. Ibrahim, chief executiveof mortgage insurer Radian GroupInc.

Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner pledged on Tuesday “fun-damental change” to the structureof Fannie and Freddie. The mort-gage giants profited tremendouslyduring good times but burdened tax-payers with losses when the hous-ing market went bust. He said thetwo companies weren’t the onlycause of the financial crisis, butmade it worse.

Fannie and Freddie buy mort-gages and package them into securi-ties with a guarantee against default.They have ensured that millions ofAmericans can get home loans — evenafter the housing market collapsed.

The two companies, the Fed-eral Housing Administration and theVeterans Administration togetherbacked about 90 percent of loans madein the first half of the year, accordingto trade publication Inside MortgageFinance.

Geithner did not offer a specific

exit strategy for Fannie and Freddie.But he said “it is our responsibility tomake sure that we create a system thatis not vulnerable to these same fail-ures happening again.” The adminis-tration is expected to offer a plan nextyear.

One option that dominated thediscussion Tuesday is for the govern-ment to collect money from the mort-gage industry and set up an insurancefund that could be used to cover lossesduring a severe downturn.

This would prevent taxpayersfrom having to foot the bill for the in-dustry.

Some want the administrationto take more dramatic actions.

Gross said Fannie andFreddie’s function should be con-solidated into one governmentagency that would issue mortgage-backed securities. Without such asolid guarantee, mortgage rateswould soar, he warned.

He also told the administrationthat the economic recovery requiredmore government stimulus, particu-larly in the housing market. He sug-gested the administration push for theautomatic refinancing of millions ofhome loans backed by Fannie andFreddie.

Refinancing those loans atthe lowest mortgage rates in de-cades would give Americans moremoney each month. That wouldboost consumer spending by $50billion to $60 billion and lift hous-ing prices by as much as 10 percent,he said.

Without such stimulus in thenext six months, Gross said, theeconomy will move at a “snail’s pace.”

Obama officials say they donot plan to enact such a program,which has been the subject of intenserumors on Wall Street in recent weeks.

China to spend $3B onalternative energy, trees

State Forestry Administration, said ata news conference on Wednesday thatthe trees will fight climate change byabsorbing carbon and will producematerial for bio-diesel and ethanol fu-els by 2020.

The plan aims to have 23 percentof the country covered with forests in

10 years, a 3 percent increase from thecurrent level.

China is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and relies on coalto meet two-thirds of its energy needs.It has been under increasing pressureto take more forceful measures to curbreleases of greenhouse gases.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan

Japan’s Kan to outline freshstimulus measures: report

yen, with the Nikkei calling it apotential source of tough negotia-tions.

The report came as Kan isset to meet Bank of Japan Gover-nor Masaaki Shirakawa Mondayto discuss steady appreciation ofthe yen, which recently hit 15-year highs against the dollar,threatening a fragile export-ledrecovery.

Speculation is rife that thecentral bank will face more politi-cal pressure to offer further eas-ing policies.

Fears that Japan’s recoveryfrom recession is fading wereheightened by weaker-than-ex-pected gross domestic productdata Monday, showing that theeconomy grew by an annualised0.4 percent in April-June.

That figure was down froma revised 4.4 percent in the previ-ous three months, missing fore-casts of 2.3 percent growth.

The government hopes tosubmit an extra budget at an ex-traordinary parliament session inthe autumn, aiming to enact it bythe year’s end, the Nikkei news-paper said.

Entertainment InternationalThursday, August 19, 201012

Aniston was joined at the fete by her co-stars JasonBateman, who escorted his wife Amanda Anka, PatrickWilson and a blue-haired Juliette Lewis, along with thefilm’s composer Alex Wurman and actor friends Jon Heder,Kathy Najimy, Ethan Suplee and Richard Portnow.

But all eyes were on Aniston, who looked slim andlovely in a strapless two-tone Lavin minidress, as shewalked the red carpet alone. Her solo status in real lifeis reflected in “The Switch,” but she’s not quite readyto follow her character into being a single mother.

But choice for women is an alternative that Anistoninsists is a viable option in the 21st century, as she toldreporters at an earlier press conference.

“The movie supports what’s sort of currently happen-ing in our world today, that we as women have the choicesand options of when and how to have children. Familyisn’t necessarily the traditional mother, father, two chil-dren and a dog named Spot. It’s like love is love, and fam-ily is what is around you and who’s in your immediatesort of sphere,” she said. “What I love about this movie isthat it’s saying it’s not the traditional sort of stereotype ofwhat family, as a society, we’ve been taught. It’s evolved.”

And as for the question about whether the ex-Mrs.Brad Pitt will ever have children of her own? Well, the41-year-old superstar sticks by her past statements whenit comes to that one. “I’ve said it years before. I’ve saidit. I still say it as of today. Yeah, I would like to be amother someday.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Dr. LauraSchlessinger, the talk show hostwho recently apologized for sayingthe N-word 11 times to a caller onthe air, said Tuesday she plans togive up her radio show when hercontract is up at the end of this year.

The conservative advice mavenmade the announcement on CNN’s“Larry King Live,” saying shewants to “regain her First Amend-ment rights.” Schlessinger saidshe’s not retiring or quitting. In-stead, she said, she feels strongerand freer to say what she believesneeds to be said.

“I want to be able to say what’son my mind and in my heart andwhat I think is helpful and usefulwithout somebody getting angry —some special interest group decid-ing this is a time to silence a voiceof dissent and attack affiliates andsponsors,” she said.

Schlessinger apologized lastweek for saying the N-word sev-eral times in an on-air conversationwith a caller whom she accused ofbeing hypersensitive to racism. She

Agence France Presse

COPENHAGEN - American music legend Bob Dylan,who has turned to painting in his later years, will unveil anew set of works in Copenhagen next month, the NationalGallery of Denmark announced Monday. Some 40 acrylicpaintings and eight drawings from Dylan’s “Brazil Se-ries” created especially for Denmark’s largest museum,also known as the Statens Museum for Kunst, will go ondisplay from September 4 to January 30.

“It was an honor to be asked and a thrilling chal-lenge,” said the 68-year-old folk music icon betterknown for his songs such as “Mr Tambourine Man”and “Blowin’ in the Wind”.

“I chose Brazil as a subject because I have been theremany times and I like the atmosphere,” Dylan said in astatement published by the museum.

His new paintings “show the scenes from daily lifein the cities, the slums and the countryside in Brazilwhere Bob Dylan has been several times,” the museum’scurator and director, Kaspar Monrad told AFP.

The collection includes depictions of wine growers,gypsies, politicians, gamblers and gangsters, “under-lying the artist’s fascination for the diversity of thiscountry,” Monrad added.

Dylan’s style was “inspired by American realismfrom the start of the 20th century and deep affinity withpainters... such as Matisse in the 1920s,” the curatorsaid. It was the Danish museum that contacted Dylan’s

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Los Angeles – Motherhood was on everyone’s mind on Monday, Aug. 17, at the Arclight Theatre in Holly-wood, where Jennifer Aniston introduced her latest romantic comedy “The Switch” to the world. The film isall about a single, 40-year-old woman who decides to use artificial insemination in order to have a child.

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Monday, August 16, 2010.

Dylan to unveil new paintings in Denmark

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Court recordsshow a management firm andCourtney Love have settled a $1million lawsuit over the profits of thesale of Nirvana’s publishing catalog.

Love is the widow of formerNirvana singer Kurt Cobain. Lon-don & Co. sued Love two yearsago, claiming she failed to sharethe earnings of a deal in whichsold a portion of Nirvana’s cata-log for nearly $20 million.

Court records show attorneysfor London & Co. and Love told ajudge last Wednesday that they hadsettled and the case was dismissed.The Hole frontwoman has con-trolled many of the rights to Cobainand Nirvana’s work since his sui-cide in Seattle in 1994. Love’s at-torney, James Janowitz, confirmedthe settlement but said he could notprovide any further details.

agent at the end of 2008 to invite him to paint a newset of works for the gallery, which Dylan worked onbetween 2009 and the first half of this year.

“I’ve been to the National Gallery of Denmark andit definitely is an impressive art museum. It was morethan a little surprising when I was asked to create worksspecifically for this museum,” Dylan said. Dylan dis-played his last canvas collection “Drawn Blank Se-ries” in Germany in 2007 and in Britain in 2008.

FILE -This Feb.17, 1998file photoshows Dr.LauraSchlessingerposingduringhermorningtalk showin her LosAngelesstudio.

Dr. Laura plans to end radioshow at end of year

said on her website that she waswrong in using the word for whatshe said was an attempt to make aphilosophical point.

“To imagine that there arepeople who refuse to accept anapology because they have anagenda and would like me silenced— I’m done with that,” she said.

During the on-air exchange,Schlessinger said the caller, whosaid she was black and married toa white man, was too sensitive forcomplaining that her husband’sfriends made racist commentsabout her in their home.Schlessinger told King she “nevercalled anybody a bad word” and“wasn’t dissing anybody.”

Corinne Baldassano, an execu-tive with Schlessinger’s produc-tion company, Take on the DayLLC, said the talk show host plansto pursue opportunities throughher website, books, podcasts anda YouTube channel.

At least two national sponsorsof her radio program, GeneralMotors Co., and Motel 6, ownedby Accor SA, have pulled out,Baldassano said.

Lawsuit over Nirvanacatalog sale settled

AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file

FILE - In this June 1, 2010 filephoto, Courtney Love attendsMarina Abramovic’s ‘The Artist isPresent’ exhibition closing partyhosted by Givenchy at the Mu-seum of Modern Art in New York.

AP Photo/Susan Sterner, File

International Thursday, August 19, 2010 13Life Style

Some experts are urging teenag-ers to turn down the volume on theirdigital music players, suggestingloud music through earbuds may beto blame — although hard evidenceis lacking. They warn that slighthearing loss can cause problems inschool and set the stage for hearingaids in later life.

“Our hope is we can encouragepeople to be careful,” said the study’ssenior author, Dr. Gary Curhan ofHarvard-affiliated Brigham andWomen’s Hospital in Boston.

The researchers analyzed data on12- to 19-year-olds from a nation-wide health survey. They comparedhearing loss in nearly 3,000 kidstested from 1988-94 to nearly 1,800kids tested over 2005-06. The preva-lence of hearing loss increased fromabout 15 percent to 19.5 percent.

Most of the hearing loss was“slight,” defined as inability to hearat 16 to 24 decibels — or sounds suchas a whisper or rustling leaves. A teen-ager with slight hearing loss might not

Agence France Presse

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysiabumps along the bottom of interna-tional rankings for press freedom,but the explosion of social medialike Twitter and Facebook isrevolutionising how journalistswork. Dissenting views, which fordecades were screened out of thegovernment-linked mainstream me-dia, are now everywhere, includingthe blogosphere and mobile SMSmessages, making repression ex-tremely difficult.

One veteran reporter with one ofthe country’s leading newspaperssaid that for most of his career it wasvirtually impossible to write aboutthe opposition or any issues deemedoff-limits by authorities. “But today,government MPs are forced to en-gage and debate their counterpartsacross the aisle in social media likeTwitter and Facebook, allowing usto report on the opposition and avoidmuch censorship,” he says.

“Where previously we had to ac-cept at face value a minister’s ver-sion of events or policies, today theirdisgruntled aides and opponents arealready tweeting or leaking detailson Facebook, giving us uncensoredaccess.”

“Although the restrictions andcontrols are still in place, it’s becomemuch harder to censor what the op-position or rights groups say in themedia,” says the journalist who, dueto the sensitivity of the issue, de-

Agence France Presse

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsofton Tuesday unveiled a slew ofvideogames for play onsmartphones running its new Win-dows 7 mobile software and said thedevices will link to its Xbox 360videogame consoles.

“We’re really approaching this aswe would a console, so we have todeliver the breadth of games and thequality people expect from Xbox,”Microsoft senior director of mobilegaming Kevin Unangst said.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Michal Czerwonka

The XBox 360 console. Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a slew of videogamesfor play on smartphones running its new Windows 7 mobile software andsaid the devices will link to its Xbox 360 videogame consoles.

Windows 7 mobile phones willlink to Xbox 360 consoles

“We’re going to bring a set ofhigh-quality games and experiences,all using Xbox Live, to bear at thelaunch of the Windows Phone 7.”

Xbox Live is an online commu-nity where people can play or getdownloadable content using theInternet-linked Microsoftvideogame consoles.

Microsoft used a majorGamescom conference in Germanyas a stage to introduce 50 titles rang-ing from virtual board games to ex-tensions of popular Xbox 360 actiongames.

Malaysians use social mediato bypass censorship

clined to be named. Malaysia wasranked 131st out of 175 countries in the2009 Reporters Without Borders (RSF)press freedom index, because of its tightcontrols on print and broadcast media.

The watchdog says Malaysia pre-vents journalists from properly cover-ing sensitive subjects such as corrup-tion or human rights abuses, using apublishing permit system which allowsit to shut down media outlets at will.

After decades of such policies, self-censorship became rife and politicalleaders hardly even needed to make themuch-feared phone call to the news

room. But the seeds of change weresown in 1996 when the govern-ment pledged not to censor onlinecontent as part of a campaign topromote its information technol-ogy sector. Despite occasionalraids, bans and government criti-cism, the web and online mediaremain relatively free.

Today, Facebook fan pageshighlighting political rallies andcivil society forums, as well asTwitter exchanges with lawmakers,have reshaped the reporting land-scape.

AFP PHOTO/Saeed KHAN

In a picture taken on August 15, 2010 a reader points to news onlocal news portals on the Internet in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia bumpsalong the bottom of international rankings for press freedom, butthe explosion of social media like Twitter and Facebook isrevolutionising how journalists work.

Study: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing lossStudy: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing lossStudy: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing lossStudy: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing lossStudy: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing lossAssociated Press Writer

CHICAGO – A stunning one in five teens has lost a little bit of hear-ing, and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, anew national study has found.

be able to hear water dripping or hismother whispering “good night.”

Extrapolating to the nation’steens, that would mean about 6.5million with at least slight hearingloss. Those with slight hearing loss“will hear all of the vowel soundsclearly, but might miss some of theconsonant sounds” such as t, k ands, Curhan said.

“Although speech will be detect-able, it might not be fully intelligible,”he said. While the researchers didn’tsingle out iPods or any other devicefor blame, they found a significantincrease in high-frequency hearingloss, which they said may indicatethat noise caused the problems. Andthey cited a 2010 Australian study thatlinked use of personal listening de-vices with a 70 percent increased riskof hearing loss in children.

“I think the evidence is out therethat prolonged exposure to loudnoise is likely to be harmful to hear-ing, but that doesn’t mean kids can’tlisten to MP3 players,” Curhan said.

The study is based on data fromthe National Health and NutritionExamination Survey conducted by abranch of the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention. The findingsappear in Wednesday’s Journal of theAmerican Medical Association.

Loud music isn’t new, of course.Each new generation of teenagershas found a new technology to blastmusic — from the bulky headphonesof the 1960s to the handheld SonyWalkmans of the 1980s.

Today’s young people are listen-ing longer, more than twice as longas previous generations, said BrianFligor, an audiologist at Children’sHospital Boston. The older technolo-gies had limited battery life and lim-ited music storage, he said.

Apple iPod users can set theirown volume limits. Parents can usethe feature to set a maximum vol-ume on their child’s iPod and lock itwith a code.

One of Fligor’s patients, 17-year-old Matthew Brady of Foxborough,Mass., recently was diagnosed withmild hearing loss. He has troublehearing his friends in the school caf-eteria. He ends up faking compre-hension. “I laugh when they laugh,”he said.

AP Photo/Steven Senne

In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo, Matthew Brady, 17, of Foxborough, Mass.,poses for a portrait in his home while wearing ear phones and display-ing an iPod, Friday.

Thursday, August 19, 201014 InternationalSport

Agence France Presse

PARIS - Liverpool, Juventus andbig-spending Manchester City are threeof the top-rank teams hoping to avoidan early curtailment to their Europeanambitions in the Europa League onThursday. A welter of high-profile clubsfrom across the continent will competein the first-leg matches of thetournament’s play-off round, all gun-ning for one of 37 slots in the groupphase alongside defending championsAtletico Madrid.

Roy Hodgson was on the losing sidein last year’s final after leading Fulhamto a surprise appearance in the decider,but the experienced English coach hassince jumped ship to Liverpool.

His new employers continue theirassault on this season’s competitionagainst Trabzonspor, and Hodgson sayshe will select holding midfielder JavierMascherano to face the Turkish sidedespite his desire to leave the club.

“Of course I would play him onThursday,” said Hodgson, whose sidedrew 1-1 at home to Arsenal in theirPremier League opener on Sunday.

“He is a Liverpool player and I hopehe will continue to be a Liverpoolplayer. For me, he will always be avail-able for selection until the day comeswhen he’s no longer here.”

Liverpool and fellow giantsJuventus had to come through theEuropa League third qualifying roundafter both sides finished seventh in theirrespective domestic leagues last term.

Juve saw off Irish side ShamrockRovers to reach the play-off round andnow face a meeting with AustriansSturm Graz. “The draw turned out tobe a tricky one for us,” said Juventuscoach Luigi Delneri, who took overfrom Alberto Zaccheroni earlier in thesummer.

Agence France Presse

PARIS - France international strikerNicolas Anelka has poured scorn on the18-match ban he received for swear-ing at coach Raymond Domenech dur-ing the World Cup, saying it made himlaugh. “As far as I am concerned, thiscommission and all that is a joke, asham aimed at saving face,” the Chelseaplayer told France-Soir after learningthat he would bear the brunt of the sanc-tions for the debacle in South Africa.

“I have already said that my inter-national career ended on June 19 whenI was expelled from (the French train-ing camp of) Knysna. “They are justplaying up to the gallery. They are realclowns these people. I’m dying withlaughter.”

The unprecedented sanction of an18-match ban effectively meant that the31-year-old firebrand would not playfor his country again, but any lingeringdoubt has been removed by his dispar-aging comments.

The French Football Federation’sdisciplinary commission also handedout a five-match ban to World Cup cap-tain Patrice Evra, three matches to vice-

Liverpool, Man City,Juve target Europa progress

AFP PHOTO/ Andrew Yates

Liverpool’s Spanish forwardFernando Torres (L) chats toManager Roy Hodgson duringa training session at theirMelwood training ground inLiverpool, northwest England,on August 18, 2010, on the eveof their UEFA Europa LeaguePlay-Off Round - First Legagainst Trabzonspor.

“We can’t underestimate the task; Iwill field the best possible XI. I don’tknow how far we can go, but we don’twant to set ourselves a limit.”

Attention on City is likely to be in-tense, after they took their summerspending beyond 100 million pounds(120m euros) by completing the pro-tracted signing of striker Mario Balotellifrom Inter Milan last week. Balotellicould make his debut against Roma-nians FC Timisoara at the City ofManchester Stadium on Thursday.

Anelka scornful of France bancaptain Franck Ribery and one matchto Lyon midfielder Jeremy Toulalan.

Eric Abidal, the fifth player calledbefore the commission - Ribery was notpresent as his club Bayern Munich re-fused to release him and Anelka, asexpected, did not show up - convincedthe commission that he was an inno-cent party and was absolved.

The five players had been called toappear before the disciplinary commis-sion over the strike that shamed theWorld Cup finals squad as they pro-tested the expulsion from the squad ofAnelka over his outburst at then coachDomenech. That happened at half-timein the team’s second game at the WorldCup finals against Mexico with thegame goalless, but with France’s hopeshanging by a thread. France went on tolose the match 2-0.

Anelka’s verbal tirade against theembattled and unpopular Domenechwas subsequently splashed across thefront page of sports daily L’Equipe’sJune 19 edition.

However Anelka, who won 69 capsfor his country, disputes that he usedthe same words and is suing the paperfor defamation.

The Premier League side laterpulled two back through SebastienBassong and RomanPavyluchenko and stifled theYoung Boys’ ardour, easing thetask for return leg on grass atWhite Hart Lane and leaving theSwiss underdogs to rue missedopportunities.

Two minutes after the kick-off,Young Boys’ midfielder SenadLulic set the tone, with a shot thatbounced off the Londoners’ postwith Heurelho Gomes beaten.

The Bosnian took advantage ofa kind bounce off another Berneseplayer’s back moments later to slotthe loose ball past Gomes.

But it swiftly became clear thatthe Swiss did not need a stroke ofluck to get the better of Spurs’s un-settled defence. Young Boys HenriBienvenu made it 2-0 in the 13thminute, after the Londoners lostthe ball in midfield. A pass fromthe Swiss half split Tottenham’s

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GENEVA - Tottenham Hotspur suffered a huge fright in their historic bid for a ChampionsLeague berth on Tuesday, losing 3-2 to Swiss side Young Boys in Berne in the first leg of theirplay off. Spurs got off to a nightmare start, going three down within the first half hour as theBernese side took full advantage of their artificial pitch.

defence through the middle, allow-ing the Cameroon international tooutpace Michael Dawson andwrong-foot Gomes with a deft fin-ish.

The Bernese seized a third aquarter of an hour later as XavierHochstrasser sneaked behind theSpurs left back to pick up a su-perbly weighted pass by Swiss in-ternational hope MorenoCostanzo.

Tottenham nonetheless seized avital away goal from a corner twominutes before half time. Bassongoutleapt the Swiss defence andplaced a sizzling header aboveWoelffli’s head.

Playing with Pavlyuchenko in-stead of the lanky Peter Crouchupfront, Tottenham ultimatelycapitalised on the Russian’s pre-vious experience of the speedy ar-tificial pitch in the second half.

Harry Redknapp brought onNiko Kranjcar for his largely in-

effective fellow Croat LukaModric in midfield, allowingSpurs to dampen the Young Boysgrowing confidence, whileRobbie Keane displaced JermainDefoe. Pavyluchenko was both atthe origin and finish of the flow-ing move with Keane that pro-duced the Premier League side’ssecond goal in the 82nd minute.

But the hungrier looking Swissalmost volleyed in two more onthe break, adding to the warningsignals for the return leg in Lon-don.

“It might be easier for us to gothere and attack rather than sitback and defend,” saidHochstrasser. “The first half hourwasn’t good enough, but we stucktogether and sorted it out at half-time,” said Spurs centre-backDawson.

Both Tottenham and YoungBoys are aiming for a historic firststep into the Champions’ League.

AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI

Young Boys’ Moreno Costanzo (C) vies for the ball with Tottenham Hotspur’s Wilson Palacios(R) during their Champions League Group Play-off first leg football match against Tottenhamon August 17, 2010, at the Stade de Suisse, in Bern.

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But Benesova had been 4-8 sincethen until ousting third-rankedJankovic from the last major US Opentuneup event. “It was almost a per-fect match for me,” Benesova said. “Iwas in the zone and focused on mygame.”

Just one week ago, Jankovic wasousted by a qualifier at Cincinnati inthe third round of the other majortuneup for the year’s final Grand Slamevent, which starts a week from Mon-day at New York. Benesova booked adate against the winner of a Wednes-

Associated Press Writer

LONDON – How London’s Olympic Stadiumwill be used after the 2012 Games is expected tobe determined by the end of the year, with the for-mal process to find a tenant beginning Wednes-day. The company in charge of ensuring the post-games success of the Olympic venues has giveninterested parties until Sept. 30 to lodge proposalsand it wants to establish key terms for a long-termlease by Dec. 31.

The 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, which willhost the opening and closing ceremonies and ath-letics events, was due to be downscaled after thegames to a 25,000-capacity venue mainly for trackand field.

But as interest grew in more widespread usesfor the $840 million east London venue, the Olym-pic Park Legacy Company began a feasibility studywhich attracted more than 100 expressions of in-terest in three months. The two main potential in-vestors to emerge so far are Premier League clubWest Ham, which wants to leave Upton Park, andAmerican sports and entertainment giant AEG,which runs the former Millennium Dome site nearthe Olympic Park.

“The stadium is at the heart of the OlympicPark and securing the most appropriate solution iscrucial to our long-term aspirations for the area,”said Margaret Ford, who is chair of the OlympicPark Legacy Company.

The legacy company wants the winning bid-der to sign a long-term lease by March 31, 2011,and start revamping the stadium in November2012. The aim is for events to resume on the siteduring 2014.

Bidders have been told they must have “thefinancial capability to meet the costs of (the) trans-formation of the stadium ... and be able to demon-strate ongoing financial strength.” Research con-ducted by the legacy company showed that a ca-pacity ranging between 25,000 and 60,000 seats

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MIAMI - Miami Heat superstar LeBronJames has told GQ magazine that he will carryextra inspiration into his games against hisformer club, the Cleveland Cavaliers, after be-ing called a quitter by the team owner. “I dohave motivation, a lot of motivation,” Jamessaid in an article made public on Tuesday.

James departed the Cavalaiers last monthto sign a blockbuster six-year deal with theMiami Heat, joining friends Dwyane Wadeand Chris Bosh and prompting anger fromCavaliers’ fans, some of whom burned rep-lica James jerseys.

Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert called James“selfish”, “a quitter”, “narcissistic” and “self-promotional” and said he felt betrayed by “theself-titled former king” leaving the team, vow-ing the Cavaliers would win their first titlebefore James won his first NBA crown.

The remarks brought Gilbert a 100,000-dollar fine from the NBA and a tough responsefrom James in the magazine article. “I don’tthink he ever cared about LeBron,” James saidof Gilbert to GQ. “My mother always toldme: ‘You will see the light of people whenthey hit adversity. You’ll get a good sense oftheir character.’

“Me and my family have seen the charac-ter of that man.” The two-time reigning NBAMost Valuable Player also rejected the quit-ter label Gilbert hung upon him for playofffailures.

“Every night on the court I give my all,and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticizemyself,” James said. James said he would stillmake his decision in a television special be-cause the program raised 2.5 million dollarsfor a youth charity. It lured 10 million view-ers but drew widespread criticism as beingtoo far over the top.

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Iveta Benesova, of the Czech Republic, celebrates her victoryover the top seed, Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, during the firstround of the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Tuesday, Aug. 17,2010, in Montreal.

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MONTREAL - Czech qualifier Iveta Benesova stunned Serbian top seed Jelena Jankovic 7-6(7/3), 6-3 on Tuesday to reach the third round of the two million-dollar WTA Montreal Cup. The27-year-old left-hander, who is ranked 75th in the world, began the year 2-9 before winning hersecond career WTA singles crown in May at Morocco.

day match between Japan’s KimikoDate Krumm, who beat Romania’sMonica Niculescu 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 6-2,and France’s Marion Bartoli, who beatCanada’s Valerie Tetreault 6-1, 6-0.

Benesova’s highest-ranked priorvictim had been fifth-ranked MaryPierce of France in the second roundof the 2006 Australian Open.

Jankovic broke for s 5-3 lead butBenesova broke back in the next gameand won the last three points in the tie-breaker, then traded early breaks withthe Serbian star. Benesova broke in the

eighth game and held in the last to win.Also reaching the third round was Rus-sian eighth seed Vera Zvonareva, whoousted Kazakhstan’s YaroslavaShvedova 6-2, 6-1.

China’s Zheng Jie breezed pastSlovenia’s Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 6-2 to book a second-round matchagainst France’s Aravane Rezai.

Reigning US Open champion KimClijsters, who had a first-round bye,will open against Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who ousted fellow AmericanMelanie Oudin 6-1, 6-4.

Bidding begins for LondonOlympic Stadium tenants

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FILE - In this March 22, 2010 file photoreleased on Friday, March 26, 2010 bythe London 2012 Olympic Delivery Au-thority shows an aerial view of theOlympic Stadium, in Stratford, eastLondon.

would be the most feasible.A warmup track must also be built, with UK

Athletics wanting to stage top-level internationalmeets at the stadium, including the world champi-onships in 2015. World Cup soccer matches couldalso be staged there if England’s bid to host thetournament in 2018 or 2022 is successful.

West Ham is bidding jointly with Newham —one of the four local boroughs encompassing theOlympic Park — to maintain a 60,000-seat venuewith a running track. Discussions have also begunwith crickets officials and UK Athletics.

The Olympic stadium is being built on a 560-acre site in a once-rundown industrial swath of eastLondon, which is now witnessing one of Britain’sbiggest regeneration projects in decades.

The capital budget for the Olympics stands at$14.5 billion, nearly three times the original fig-ure, and the additional cost of converting the parkto its post-games look is estimated to be in thehundreds of millions of dollars. The legacy com-pany is taking possession of the site without anydebt burden.

Heated LeBron has “a lot ofmotivation” to beat Cavs

James, who grew up in Akron near Cleve-land, also noted how the larger city was notas beloved by the playmaker as was his home-town.

“Clevelanders, because they were the big-ger-city kids when we were growing up,looked down on us,” James said. “So wedidn’t actually like Cleveland. We hatedCleveland growing up. There’s a lot of peoplein Cleveland we still hate to this day.”

The Cavaliers announced Tuesday theywould make another break from the James eraby changing their uniform logo and colors,darkening the “wine” color and brighteningthe “gold” hue compared to last year. “Cleve-land” will also be displayed in block lettersrather than script on the front of the jersey.

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LeBron James, left, chats with ChrisPaul during a basketball scrimmageby the U.S. national team at Radio CityMusic Hall, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 inNew York.

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“Yamaha will do its maximum tobeat him; more speed and enginepower will be needed but we willwork harder than ever,” saidLorenzo. “Next season will be avery interesting championship.”

The Spaniard has shared a diffi-cult relationship with Rossi as team-mates, with a wall separating theriders in the Yamaha garage.

“I didn’t like the wall,” Lorenzosaid. “I would have expected moreof Rossi from the human side, ratherthan a bigger exchange of technicalinformation. He unintentionally

THE Mercedes GP team has confirmed that it hasreleased Nick Heidfeld from his contract in order forthe German to become Pirelli’s official test driver.

Heidfeld was the team’s reserve driver for this sea-son, but will start driving for Pirelli at the start of today’stest at the Mugello circuit, where the German will beat the wheel of a 2009 Toyota F1 car.

“We can confirm that the team is pleased to allowNick Heidfeld the opportunity to join Pirelli and con-tribute to their development work for the company’simminent return to Formula 1,” said Mercedes GP bossRoss Brawn.

“Nick is an extremely experienced driver and weare confident that his racing knowledge and technicalfeedback will prove extremely useful to Pirelli andtherefore of benefit to the sport as a whole. “Nick hasbeen a real asset to Mercedes GP Petronas since join-ing our team this year and we are pleased to see hiscareer progressing.”

Heidfeld was left without a racing seat followinglast season, when he raced for BMW Sauber before theGerman car maker withdrew from the sport. He joinedMercedes this season as third and reserve driver buthas not driven the car.

“First of all I would like to thank Ross Brawn,Norbert Haug and Nick Fry for allowing me the oppor-tunity to become Pirelli’s official test driver,” he said.“The team has always said that they would not stand inmy way if such a chance arose and they have kindlyallowed me to take up this exciting new role.

“I would like to thank everyone at Mercedes GP

Lorenzo:Yamaha eagerto beat Rossi

Jorge Lorenzo says Valentino Rossi’s move to Ducati giveshim and Yamaha “great motivation” to beat his current team-mate in 2011. Rossi has signed a two-year deal with the Italianmanufacturer and Lorenzo is eager to show that he can defeatthe seven-time MotoGP world champion.

made me a favour, however, becausehe has made my team even closertogether, and I now go even bettersince I don’t have access to his te-lemetry.

“I’ve never felt nervous about theidea of fighting against Rossi. I knewI had to learn, improve and workhard. I’ve watched the races on TVsince I was 10 and have learnt some-thing from riders in every class.From Valentino I’ve learnt how tomanage the race on and off the trackmuch better.”

Rossi will be replaced at the fac-tory Yamaha team by current Tech 3rider Ben Spies next year, and Lorenzopredicts that his relationship with theAmerican will be less volatile.

“I can feel we will have a good re-lationship with Ben,” he said. “Perhapswe won’t be best friends, but therewon’t be a wall in the garage and wewon’t keep our telemetries secret.”

Yamaha MotoGP rider JorgeLorenzo from Spain cel-ebrates with champagneafter winning the Grand Prixof Czech Republic at thecircuit in Brno, Czech Repub-lic, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010.

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Heidfeld released by Mercedes GPPetronas for the great cooperation that we have had thisyear. I have greatly enjoyed supporting the team in myposition as Reserve Driver and have felt welcome rightfrom the outset.

“It was impressive to have the opportunity to workwith the current World Champions and I wish the teamall the best for the remainder of the season and beyond.”

Mercedes said it was in no hurry to find a replace-ment for Heidfeld. “We have no plans at the moment toappoint a new reserve driver,” said a spokesperson.

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